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[Page 10] BENJAMIN P.
SCOTT [Residence
of B. P. Scott, New Philadelphia
RALPH T. HORNING
[Residence of Ralph T. Horning, New Philadelphia
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[Picture of Stone Pipes and a MOre Modern Tmahawk Pipe]
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SAMUEL S. URFER
[Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Urfer]
[Front of S. S. Urfer's Store, New Philadelphia]
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Front View of S. S. Urfer's Store, New Philadelphia
[PICTURE of A Corner of the Carpet Department
[PICTURE of A Section of the Milinery Department
[PICTURE of A Section of the Piano Department
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THE HOFFMAN COMPANY
In the spring of 1898, the
Smith-Denison Company opened a retail dry goods and
millinary store in the Mitchener Block, East High
Street, New Philadelphia. In the fall of 1899, Mr.
Smith retired from the firm and the business was
conducted by The Denison Company until the Spring of 1902,
when The Denison-Dodd-Bowers Company
was incorporated rated and purchased the Denison Company's
store, and also began the manufacture of ladies' dress
skirts for the trade. This business attained such
proportions that in the Spring of 1905, upon the retirement
of Mr. Bowers, a new company was incorporated under
the name of The Hoffman Company, which purchased the retail
dry goods interests of the Denison-Dodd-Bowers
Company, who, continuing the manufacturing business, have
extended their trade to a number of adjacent States, and
have thus added materially to the manufacturing interests of
New Philadelphia, employing thirty people in that branch
alone. From the opening of their store up to the
present they have carried a stock of merchandise which is
above the average and they have enjoyed an excellent
patronage which has increased from year to year in both dry
goods and millinery. Some reflection and no little
comparison is needed to appreciate the difference between
present plans and former custom. Within living memory
each "Store" attempted to provide all the needs and most of
the wants of the family in both ornament and utility,
whether for health, food or raiment. Multiplication of
demand has brought a division of the provision and at least
we have a "Strictly Dry Goods and Millinery Store" which is
the peculiar province of the Hoffman Company, than whom no
other firm has a finer share of public confidence.
An Interior View of the Hoffman Company's
Store, New Philadelphia ----------
EDWARD W. BADD and
SCHUYLER C. KLINE
George Baad, of Coshocton County, born 1844, in
October 1867, married Fredericka Spahlinger who was
born in Germany, Dec. 23, 1848, and came to Tuscarawas
County in 1855. They first lived in Bolivar, and then
two miles north of Canal Dover. They raised five sons
and two daughters. Edward, the eldest, attended
the neighborhood school till 1885, when the family removed
to Sherwood, Michigan. In 1890, Edward returned
to New Philadelphia and was engaged as a grocery clerk until
1894, when he was employed in J. E. Helwick's general
store at Bolivar until the fall of 1904. On June 6,
1900, he was married to Miss Mathilde, daughter of
Frederick and Susanna Buehler Weber of Bolivar.
John Kline, a soldier of the War of '12, came
from Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and located on a
fine tract ofl and near Fort Laurens. His son,
Daniel, married Anna Elizabeth Stair and raised
five sons and one daughter, partly on the old homestead and
partly in a beautiful farm home north of Bolivar.
Schuyler C., the youngest of the family, born Aug. 13,
1869, received a high school education at Mendon, Michigan,
to which the family had moved in 1884. HE then learned
telegraphy and served as a telegraph operator and station
agent for several railroads at various stations, until
January, 1905. On June 2, 1897, he married Emily
Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah and Caroline Dorsey
who died Nov. 23, 1906, leaving two daughters, Florence
Isabel and Dorothy Elizabeth.
In January, 1905, these two gentlemen formed a
partnership under the firm name of Baad & Kline, for
handling a complete line of groceries for family orders at
139 West High Street, New Philadelphia. With Mr.
Baad's special preparation and Mr. Klines general
experience, they had fine patronage from the beginning.
With careful and courteous attention they have much
increased the volume of their business for which it has
become necessary recently to add nearly a thousand dollars
worth of fixtures consisting of computing scales, counting
registers, refrigerators, electric coffee mill and other
conveniences. While purveying for the household, they
also supply baled hay and straw, wheat, corn, oats and
general mill feed for those who have the care of a stable.
Through such typical examples, we propose to contrast the
present with the ways of long ago, and also present the
plentiful comfort and elegant profusion of our own time to
the future with a photographic accuracy that exceeds the
power of lengthy description.
Interior View of Baad & Kline's Grocery, New Philadelphia |
