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Moberly Wholesale
Grocery Company is one of the important com-
mercial institutions of the
city of Moberly. This company is composed
of S. W. Creson, E. M.
Allen and T. M. Bartee. Mr. Creson is president
of the company; Mr.
Allen, the manager, and Mr. Bartee, treasurer. The
business is the outgrowth
of the general mercantile business which was
conducted by Creson and
Allen at Yate, Mo., from 1899 to 1912. Prior
to that time Mr. Creson
had conducted a store at Yates since 1884. The
wholesale grocery
business was started at Moberly in 1912 and since
that time the volume of
business has gradually increased from year to
year and in 1919 the
business of this concern amounted to shout three-
fourths of a million
dollars.
The business of the
Moberly Wholesale Grocery Company extends
over a radius of 75 miles
from Moberly and the trade is looked after by
four traveling salesmen,
The business is located on the corner of Coates
and Clark streets,
Moberly, and occupies a building which has a frontagE
of 120 feet on Coates
street and 130 feet on Clark street, and occupies two
floors, This is one of the
business enterprises of which moberly is justly
proud and which adds no
small amount of prestige to Moberly as a whole-
sale center.
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