Show the oldest grocer I 1 several months ago thoro there began it n countrywide country wide search for the retail grocers of Ain america erien who havo have been loti longest gest in ili business that search has haa now ended andrew hawes of portland maine steps into the lend lead lie iio has haa been tic nc tive in the retail grocery trade for 74 years this dean of tho the progressive grocers old timers club began his hl career in 1852 as n clerk with ill his father two years later lie ho took ne nc tivo charge of the tha store all these theae years he has haa been doing business bual in in tho the samo same building at the same location lie ho Is believed to bo be the oldest retail grocer tit in tho the country in point of service |