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Moulton's Main Street in the 90'sL Let’s start at the south end• of Main street at the Wabash tracks and proceed north—On the corner in the first block was the Moulton Roller• Mill (Flour) owned by Henry, Corey, owned later by Jerry. Buckley and the last owner; known to this writer was DexterPayne. Later Bolton’s Electric Plant and Moulton Produce were’ in this block. Next on the north was a hotel “Moore House”,• owner by Ith Moore. It was a, long, two story wood buildingwith “free bus to all trains”. His children were Bert, Clarence Paul, and Richard, Anna, (Mrs, W. F. Berry) and Bess (Kneds).Across the street north was the old Union Block, also a wooden building,' which later burned. A.1 Peck ran a restaurant here and it was a greatplace for the railroad boys tohave. Montgomery Bros.. West and Charley, had a grocery store in this block. West’s children were Nellie, Victor and Ruth. Charlie’s were all boys, Ward, Arthur, Chet and Lafe.Nando Davis had a restaurant later between Montgomery’s and a furniture store owned by a Mr. Alexander. He lived at the place described in the issue of Oct 14, by a writer who referred to the Broombaughs, I also remember them. Alexander passed away in that home. I. F. Snare the noperated the store in the same location. Geo. Carson always remembers the two black horses he drove. Their home was the place that Jack Garrett fixed up for his home in later years. Harry and Fred were the two boys.1 called Harry while in Oklahoma City. He came to the hotel and had dinner with me. We talked ’way past midnight.The next store was the Pirtle and Willett Gener alStore, run by Denny Pirtle and Bill Willett. An opera house was above their : building and I recall the curtain that rolled on a round roller. It had been painted by a traveling artist, who would call on business men and for a certain fee, paint an ad on the edge of the curtain. In the center he painted a nice scenery picture.I remember on adv., (W. F. Berry’s Drug and Jewelry Store, that was also in ths block) which read “Wedding Rings and Cas-toria”. Now across the street north was the Woolridge and Pulliam Clothing Store. My first store-bought suit came from there. Years afterward I was on a train between Wichita, Kans., and Newton, when a gentleman 'came and sat down by me, he shook my hand and said his name was Woolridge. I said I once knew of a clothing firm 'by the name of Woolridge and Pulliam • in Moulton. He said that Woolridge . was his father. “Small world”. He owned a farm down by the Henry Wend-land place and said he had not received any pay for over a (Continued on back page)
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Moulton Weekly Tribune
Moulton, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 04, 1965
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