The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . the manufacturer, thusenabling him to secure a liigher quality ofgoods and to meet the competition of wholesal-ers and jobbers. This goal has been reached,and the Williams Hardware Company is nowin most instances able to sene its customerswith goods bought directly from the manufac-turers under the most favorable tenns andconditio
The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . the manufacturer, thusenabling him to secure a liigher quality ofgoods and to meet the competition of wholesal-ers and jobbers. This goal has been reached,and the Williams Hardware Company is nowin most instances able to sene its customerswith goods bought directly from the manufac-turers under the most favorable tenns andconditions. General Roofing Company. It is the heaviestdealer and contractor in Streator for tin andsheet metal work, and it is a centre for the dis-tribution of Pennsylvania lubricating oils forthe state of Illinois. The latter promises to become one of thegreatest departments of the firm for the use oflubricating oils for automobiles and other pur-l)oses is greatly on the increase. The rock phos-phate branch had a small beginning, for farm-ers were slow to awaken to the need of artifi-cial fertilizers, Imt now they are thoroughlyroused and carloads of phosphate ai-e sent bythe firm to many states of the union, north andsouth—Texas, Missouri, Virginia, Kentuckv as. The New Store and Ware Rooms. During the quarter century the l)usiness hasgreatly broadened from the simple hardwarestore of 27 years ago. It now includes a phos-phate dei^artment, requiring its own elevator;an independent oil station for the handling ofcar loads of Pennsylvania kerosene and gaso-lene; a magazine for the handling of high ex-plosives; a department devoted espeeially towindow glass, and polished plate; and a storagewarehouse where thosuands of feet of space isrented to patrons. The firm is also the whole-sale distributor of prepared roofings for the well as Illinois and Indiana, Wisconsin, Michi-gan and New York. It is this wide exi^ansion of business thathas necessitated the erection of the new build-ing w
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