Recently we had occasion to visit
Waterford and having some leisure time on our hands devoted it to a ramble
about that enterprising and growing place, which has, from a village of
five hundred inhabitants several years ago grown to be something over
fifteen hundred inhabitants at the present time.
Many handsome brick residences are
in the course of construction as well as numerous frame ones.
One fine three story brick block
of stores has just been completed; another to contain a Bank, is just
about to be begun; an extensive steam flouring mill has also been
completed and is now running.
Green Bros. & Co.'s Foundry
which employs seventy men is too well known to need comment.
Within the past two months a Bank
has been established here, and business generally is looking up among the
merchants of Waterford.
We noticed more particularly the
establishment of E., R. & W. Skelley, Becker's Block, where the
numerous customers thronging their two stores at once proclaimed the fact
that this firm were doing the business of the place.
They occupy the whole block
containing two handsome stores, known as Becker's Block. One store is
devoted to Dry Goods, and Boots and Shoes; the other to Shelf Hardware,
Paints and Oils, Crockery and Groceries.
The upper flat of one store is
devoted to ready-made clothing, of which
E., R. & W. Skelley have
probably the largest stock in the county, carpets and wall paper. The
upper flat of the other store is the tailoring department.
The stock in all these lines
we have mentioned is very large and complete, and the inhabitants of this
vicinity have no need to go further to find a well selected stock.
This firm have already established
a reputation for selling goods at the closest prices going, which is
probably the chief secret of their success.
