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Show i NOTABLE GROWTH OF J. C. PENNEY COMPANY The' J. C. Penney company, this year, will celebrate its twenty-fifth or silver anniversary, the first store having been opened in 1902, says F. H. Jones, local manager for the company. com-pany. During this quarter of a century, cen-tury, the business has grown to a Nation-wide institution of 773 department de-partment stores, scattered over all but two of the forty-eight states. Twenty - eight additional stores will be opened this coming spring and even a larger number in the fall. The Idaho-Utah chain of the Hood & Van Engelen Co. Golden Rule Stores has recently been purchased and added to the J. C. Penney company system. j The total sales of the combined i stores, in 1926, were $115,682,737.86 I an increase of nearly $25,000,000 j over the business of the previous i year. This all is a rather remark-; remark-; able testimonial to a shopping ser- vice that extends from the Atlantic j to the Pacific. |