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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



MR. MILLER AND HIS SON. C. O. MILLER, JR., PLANNING TOGETHER. 



several departments, has charge of the 

 advertising, and assists in the general 

 management of the business. He has 

 inherited the ability and the genial 

 qualities of his father, and every one 

 who recognizes the value of such a 

 store as a community interest, can but 

 feel glad that the father has such ar 

 able cooperator. 



Mr. Frank E. DeCamp has been with 

 the store since 1877, beginning as clerk 

 and is the personification of a devoted 

 and careful business man. He harmon- 

 izes well with the cordial spirit of thr 

 store. He is ever ready to greet a cus- 

 tomer and to see that that customer 

 finds what he wishes to find and if 

 served satisfactorily. In the perfect 

 working of the establishment no little 

 credit is due to Mr. DeCamp. 



Mr. Oliver H. Couch, the fourth 

 member of the corporation, has been 

 with the store since 1893. He is en- 

 titled to liberal credit for faithful work 

 especially in the remarkable growth of 

 the domestic department. 



The editor has tried to make clear 

 by aid of his camera some of the store's 

 principal features. The photographs 

 will be better understood bv the follow- 



ing condensed description of its general 

 plan. We enter into no extensive 

 commendation of the goods, because 

 everybody knows of the high standard 

 maintained bv The C. O. Miller store. 



In September, 1868, G O. Miller at 

 the age of twenty years began business, 

 for himself on Main Street in a small 

 store, opposite the Town Hall. He re- 

 moved in September, 1870, to a new and 

 larger stand on Washington Place, 

 where he continued until the erection 

 of the fine building on Atlantic Square, 

 in 1882, now occupied by The C. O. 

 Miller Company. His increasing busi- 

 ness demanding more room, it was nec- 

 essary to enlarge the building several 

 times prior to the incorporation of the 

 company. The original space was 

 thirty-five by one hundred and twenty 

 feet with the first floor and basement 

 in use. This later was broadened and 

 extended at the rear and the entire 

 building occupied. In February, 1907. 

 Mr. Miller incorporated the business 

 under the name of The C. O. Miller 

 Company, C. O. Miller, President, and 

 C. O. Miller, Jr., Treasurer, who to- 

 gether with F. E. DeCamp and O. H. 

 Couch form the Board of Directors. 



