Messrs. Eli Shepard & Son wholesale grocers of this city, do a business of about $100,000 annually. They will have shipped this year about 2500 barrels of eggs, beside an immense amount of butter and other produce. They have three teams constantly on the road, while Mr. W. W. Weeks drums for the establishment. Mr. Frank Shepard, recently taken into the firm as partner, is an active, go ahead business man, reliable and worthy.
McConnelsville Herald, 3 Oct. 1873.