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Merchant ExhibitorAtFair 60 YearsRolls Back Time To Cite Early DisplaysBy MILDRED MASONCHANGES in method- employed toK* • ** • * t t ^ I * »exhibit merchandise in the Art Hall at the Greene County Fair over a period of sixty years were recalled Monday by Edwin Galloway, mejm her of the Xenia furniture firm of Galloway and Cherry. W. Main St.Removal of, exhibits of Xenia merchants from the Art Hall thisyear, marks the end of sixty consecutive years Mr. Galloway has been an exhibitor at the fair.The Xenian began his career as an exhibitor at the fair in 1*81 when he was employed by the Hutchison and Gibney Co.“In those days, merchants were allotted no floor space and our dls plays, which consisted entirely of carpets and curtains, were tacked to the walls above the display of canned goods, Mr. Galloway recalls. The late Kdnor Rossiter, Xenia’s first professional carpet-layer, assisted in arranging thedisplays, he said.* • *'loiaied at the southwest corner ofEDWIN GALLOWAYTN addition to the Hutchison andGibney Co.. with which firm Mr.Galloway was associated thirty-two years, other Xenia merchants who exhibited in the Art Hall as earlyas 1881 were the Allison and Tow nsiey dry goods store, formerly located on K. Main St.. now tbe site of the J. C. Penney Co. store, and Vlillen. Jobe and Co, another E. Main St. drygoods store, thenORIGINAL COMEDY ACT BOOKEDMain and Whiteman Sts. In later years Meredith and Co, another Xenia drygoods firm, joined the Art Hall exhibitors.“My earliest reco!!elt;tion of theGreene County Fair. e\en before Iwas an exhibitor, is of riding on a tra n to the fairgrounds.” Mr, Gal lowa said. A special train was run over the Springfield branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad fromthe Pennsylvania station in Xeniato a stop on X. Detroit St justnorth of the present home of Mrs. W. I* Miller, he explained “The fare was fifteen cents from the depot to that stop and we had to walk from Detroit St., to the fairgrounds and enter by a rear gate,he recalls.Mr (iallowav left the Hutchisonand Gibney Co in 1 !13 and withD W. Cherry, Xenia, oreanized the Galloway and Cherry store, which started exhibiting at the fair that same year.t •A CHANGE in the manner of exhibsting merchandise in the Art Hall was effected about fifteenyears ago, Mr, Galloway remembers, when the old octagon shapedbuilding was destroyed by fire and the present Art Hall waserected. With the crertion of thenew- building merchants were allotted floor space, the amount of space depending upon the quantityof merchandise to be shownWith the change in the style of displaying merchandise, Mr Gal loway also has noted h decided change in the type of merchandiseexhibited, for where carpets andcurtains were disployed sixty yearsago. electrical household appliances and stream lined furniture have been exhibited in recent years.'T'HIS 1 thdayRaddGradPercC a 11(Rro stein a 8hee(AmriedaleHampsdown,ShropgRwinPoulFlowGardHarr(3eye2:1* piXeniiNIGHTRadd(ClasXeniGas(JoeRuby F Hippodother aNEVM'omiChurch.the dinduring group sFriendsservedtwelveit
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Mon, Aug 03, 1942
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