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Show of moving is over. The agency will be under the management of John T. Brunn, who was assistant manager man-ager of the King agency for several sev-eral years. KING SELLS AGENCY OF MUlIPiY An important 1 transaction of the past week was the purchase by E. D. Smith & Sons of the Wesley King general agency of the Aetna Accident & Liability Lia-bility company and the liability department de-partment of the Aetna Life Insurance company of Hartford, Conn. The offices of-fices have been moved from the "Walker building to No. 17 Exchange place and combined with the general real estate business operated by the Smith company. com-pany. The cashier 'a office, city and country sales and the building department depart-ment have all been moved to the west side of the office, leaving the entire east side to the new insurance business. busi-ness. Fred E. Smith, a partner of the firm who made the deal, is' enthusiastic over the prospects for liability insurance in this field. In speaking of the transfer, he said: We have wanted a general agency for a large liability company com-pany for a long time, and naturally natur-ally we are much pleased that the purchase of the Aetna agency has been consummated. We have aibout finished plans for a strong campaign cam-paign for liability business, which will begin just as soon as the work |