Like last week this Painted Gentleman comes form the 18th Street and Mulberry Street area of Harrisburg. This building is adjacent to last weeks E. C. Snyder building. As usual I don't know anything about Hoffer's Flour and Feed but this isn't the first Occidental Flour sign I've seen. Maybe the first I got any pictures of, but I've seen them before.
This is what the 'Net and fellow bloggers tell me. "In 1901 two small mills, built some years before, were operating in Valley City and Jamestown, N.D., From this small beginning, with a daily capacity of 225 barrels, the Russell-Miller Milling Co. now owns twelve flour mills with a combined daily capacity of over 16,000 barrels of flour and 600 tons of feed. In the early 1950s F. H. Peavey & Company, headquartered in Minneapolis, purchased Russell Miller Milling and its 140 country elevators, terminals, and flour mills. The company was renamed as the Peavey Company in 1962. The Peavey Company was acquired by ConAgra, Inc. in 1982. ConAgra is now the largest U.S. flour miller."
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