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Show Murdock's Kitchen One of the Biggest Industries in this Section. Hut few people in this county realize fully the amount of candy that Is consumed con-sumed here. Tho average person might think a few hundred pounds would supply tho trade, but Instead of that it takes tons. A brief visit to tho candy manufacturing establishment establish-ment of Murdock & Son would prove a revelation to many. They have a capacity of working up llfteen hundred hun-dred pounds per day- The cooking department Is 00x18 feet. A cellar 140x18, with cement bottom and sides, is used as a store room and upstairs where a number of young ladles work a room :t0xl8 Is used. The establish, ment is equipped with the best machinery ma-chinery that money can buy. The re-' ccptlon rooms are elegantly furnished and all equipments are Hist class throughout. Since leaving the postolllco tho senior member of tho llrm has dovoted all of his attention to the business, which lias grown to Immense proportion. propor-tion. Sixteen hands are employed. Robert Murdock .1 r Is a young man of twenty-three and commorclnl men stato that his equal In making candles Is hard to find. Merchants who buy candles for the retail trade should visit this homo Industry In-dustry and its much us possible, give It the best support. It Is worthy. |