B.B. Fowler — It’s a girl!

There was celebrating at the B.B. Fowler store at the corner of Glen and Exchange streets.

“Isaac Goodson, the popular chief salesman at B.B. Fowler’s, Glen Street, was all smiles yesterday and distributed fragrant Havanas with a lavish band,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on May 30, 1885. “It is a bouncing girl, and Isaac’s heart is glad.”

It is not clear if these two other fun-loving clerks worked for B.B. Fowler or a competitor.

“Two young men employed in a Glen Street clothing store engaged in a banana eating contest yesterday, the one who ate the least to pay for the feast,” The Morning Star reported on May 9, 1885. “One of the young men disposed of fourteen and the other of sixteen bananas. “

Fowler, that month, made a capital improvement.

“B.B. Fowler, the enterprising dry goods dealer, with an eye to the improvement of his store, has just put up a handsome new awning,” The Morning Star reported on May 22, 1885.

On Dec. 3, 1886, The Granville Sentinel had lavish praise for Fowler after he increased his routine advertising buy.

“Mr. Fowler is one of the leading merchants of the interior of the state. He is enterprising and progressive. He has built up a great business and has one of the finest and best equipped houses in this section. We personally know that he has a large patronage, not only from this village but from the entire section.”

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