Show C re A ea r rm rn 13 1 10 ea ea L eeb ea E G V ea 11 1 1 ha H a 0 el E a ea 6 a G a S ee PE 1 n M 11 wll 4 Y E a B E ll 11 S U 6 E BU 0 fa R ore thee FL G P P jr wi f 4 0 F VIS ca f 4 r k Z A L rz r 1 p ja 1 I 1 C 13 af ILA g r r 11 P at no I 1 the J C penney co executive and buying headquarters new york city no 2 mr J C penney founder of the J C penney company no 3 the original counter in mr penneys Pan first store in kemmerer wyoming Vy oming no 4 St oroNo oreNo 1000 at beloit kansas tho home town of the president of the company no 5 mr E C sams president of the company no 6 the new warehouse uso now under construction by tho the company in st louis J C 7 penney co store 1000 opens this month april of this year marks tile the opening of J C penney co store no 1000 at beloit kansas and the same month dialls the completion of 26 years in winch which the name J C penney has been associated with retail department stoic merchandising starting in ill kemmeier wyo when mr penney opened tile the golden rule department stole in 1902 in this period the volume of business aie s lone done by the nationwide nation wide aaion bation of which mr penney was the founder has biown from in the first year to in 1927 with a goal set for this year which will continue tile the remarkable glowth which has been achieved in ill th the c past the opening of store no 1000 in tile the so called spring group of new nev J C penney co organizations indicates a growth materially beyond this num her ber of retail stores bearing the penney ey name before the end of the year in the original kemmerer store mr penney served as a clerk behind a rough board counter the present J C penney co stores are models of efficiency with specially designed show low cases counters and general e equipment all designed by merchandising engineers to facilitate the ease and comfort with which the millions of patrons of the company may be served serve the original ginal store was a rough unpainted building the present stores form a uniform series of model front buildings characterized by the attractive facilities afforded for foi window display with the development of the company mr penney has surrounded himself with wit h a thousand th partners all of whom have biown and profited with the groth and increasing inci inc easing leasing earn ing power of the organization earl C sams president of tile che J C penney co was identified with mr penney as a clerk in his first first store othor other members of the board of directors and of the executive personnel have corne come up through the ranks rank from clerkships clerk ships to store managers to executive authority other activities as distinctive in their field as the J C penney co has hab been in the field of retail merchandising chan dising have since been founded by mr penney among these are penney farms in florida recent developments in the activities of the J C penney co include the completion of plans for a 2500 warehouse in st louis at the present time there are J C penney co stores in every state in the union with the exception of deleware and florida plans which i a are well under way at the time will result in widespread representation in florida before the end of this year |