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-FRANK H. WATTS.One of the young men of this town who is steadily working himself to the front is Frank H. Watts, who came to Eastern Oregon in 1893 in the interest of the Star Nurseries. In 1895, he became connected with the Woodburn Nursery Company, and the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. He is also general agent for Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam and Crook counties, for the White Bronze Tomb Stones, manufactured by the Monumental Bronze Co., of Bridgeport, Conn. lie makes a specialty of this work, and from the middle of September to November 1, 1897, he placed $5,000 worth of tomb stones. It is hardly necessary to enter into the merits of mese monuments, as they have been endorsed from a scientific standpoint, by the Scientific American itself, than which no better authority could be cited. It possesses a great many advantages over stone, aside from its greater durability, such as the fact that it is free from the discoloring influences of trees or growths of moss or mildew, and is not affected in the least by the elements of the atmosphere, so destructive to stone.
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The Dalles Times Mountaineer
The Dalles, Oregon, US
Sat, Jan 01, 1898
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