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Show CULMERS SELL OUT GLASS BUSINESS Growth of Oil Business Given as Reason; Rea-son; More Floor Space for Culco Oils. Tt has just leaked out that a big glass deal running well up into five figures was closed early in the month, whereby where-by tho Oulmers company disposed of their entire holdings, stock and good will in their big glass department, and will in the future confine themselves entirely to Culco oils and Culco products. prod-ucts. The details of the transactions are being kept secret, but it is known that' a local man signed the check that closed the deal. W. F. Culmer, general manager of the Culmers company, courteously but firmly refused to go into the matter further than to say it was a fact, they had sold, and that the reason was the companv needed the extra floor space of the glass department, covering about 10,000 square feet, for storage purposes for tho ever-increasing oil business done by tho firm. , The three-story building is being overhauled and remodeled to su it the needs of the new purpose lo which it is to ,be put. |