F.E. Myers & Bro.

Started their machine store in 1875, but did not begin extensive operations until the spring of 1876, when they occupied the old Times building.  Their business grew rapidly and being cramped for room, in 1879 they moved into the Mansfield warerooms opposite their old stand where they now are.  Their rooms now contain 15,000 square feet of space which are always filled.  The warerooms are divided into four parts.  The front room is used for the finer and lighter goods;  the back wareroom for heavy goods;  the upstair room for a wagon and buggy repository and the basement for storing very heavy goods.

They are the exclusive agents for Central Ohio of the "Three Rivers Invincible" thresher and have sold the past year 36 of the large separators;  they also make a specialty of the Mansfield engine and saw mill;  of the Russell traction engine and of Aultman, Miller & Co.'s reapers;  Buckeye Binder;  Walter A. Wood's machinery and the McCormick self binder;  of Bucher, Gibbs & Co.'s plows, and South Bend Iron Works.  They are making a special effort to introduce and sell the best pumps for general purposes.  They sell, the Studebaker wagons and L. & M. Woodhull buggies.  

Their sales so far this year has reached the enormous sum of $100,000.

Frank E. is general agent for the Bucher, Gibbs & Co.'s plows, and will start Dec. 1st., through the United States in the interest of that firm.

Beer & Co.

In connection with their excellent hardware store engage in the agricultural business pretty heavily and have the old stand-by, Wm. Bentz, engaged as a traveling salesman.

They have the exclusive agency of Ashland County, with parts of Richland, Holmes and Knox, for the celebrated Champion mower and reaper, and Champion cord binder;  the Superior grain drill;  the Malta corn cultivator;  the South Bend chilled plow;  the Fish Bro's two-horse farm wagon;  the Bath, N.Y., platform spring wagon, and the "Farmer's Friend" corn planter.  They also sell engines, threshers, Star feed cutter, Eagle corn sheller and keep a general line of implements and repairs.  They have a branch store at Mansfield and are extending their territory yearly.  They sold 108 reapers and mowers and 106 grain drills this year at retail.

B.F. Ridgley

Who also has a store in Jeromesville, occupies the Old Stone Corner in Ashland.  He has been in the trade here two years, with R.H. Ridgley as manager of the Ashland store.

He is the exclusive agent of the D.M. Osborne & Co.'s binder;  the Wheeler No. 6, Combined Machine;  the Kirby Independent reapers and mowers;  the Fairfield and Bryan plows;  repairs for the Osborne machinery and the Excelsior machinery;  the Jarvis wagon;  the Hoosier and Willoughby grain drills.  

He sold during the season of 1880, 26 of the Osborne binders, which binds with either wire or twine;  30 of the Wheeler No. 6, and 12 Independent reapers and mowers.  He expects to enlarge his business and capacity very much next year, and will make an effort to do a driving business.