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Newspaper
Goshen Weekly Times
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1899
Page
2
The East Washington street premises house an extensive stock of bath tubs sanitary supplies and steam gas and hot water fittings. Mr Leibole pledges superior work at reasonable prices and has completed many important projects in the area. He is described as a satisfactory honorable and esteemed citizen.
In Goshen, L. E. Perry operates at 122 South Main Street as a leading tailor and draper with two years in business. Five export tailors work among a vast stock from German, French, English, Scotch, and domestic looms, offering up to date gentlemen garments, repairs, pressing, and cleaning with liberal prices and solid reputation.
Drs. M. K. Kreider and W. B. Kreider are prominent Goshen physicians with long, successful practices. M. K. Kreider is a general surgeon specializing in gynecological and rectal surgery. W. B. Kreider is an oculist and aurist trained abroad, fitting glasses and treating eye ear and throat conditions. Their Lincoln Avenue offices at 202 provide modern facilities.
GEO. W. RULE, Drugs and Druggists Sundries. This house has served the community for 19 years. The 112 North Main street store is handsome and well equipped with pure drugs, chemicals, medicines, and a fine assortment of toilet articles. The prescription department is trusted by physicians and the public. Mr Rule is an experienced drug man, keeping up with times, offering low prices and prompt service to sustain growing patronage.
J W Stage D D S Dentist offers crown and bridge work and difficult operations. Located at 120 South Main Street he showcases modern facilities and a reputation for thorough care. A graduate of Indiana Centers College he cites prior experience and published asepsis article in Indiana Dental Journal November 799 issue.
Local notice highlights J H Jacobs Second Hand Store and mentions reliable service within the community.
The proprietor started this business nearly two years ago at 216 South Main with a store room full of furniture stoves bedding and other home articles. All goods are in good condition and sold at very low prices. Mr Jacobs is cited as an enterprising local merchant building a large trade through hard work and customer satisfaction.
Shoup and Kohler at 108 North Main street stand as Goshen’s fashionable center. The store, formerly Elson and Becker, has flourished under Chas Miller Shoup and Chas Kohler for six months, offering ready to wear clothing, furnishings, hats, caps, woolens, and tailor services. They promise fair prices and courteous service, while Monarh Dye Works under Mr Root delivers superior dry cleaning and restoration, rivaling Chicago quality.
H J Culp and Son of Goshen advertise their nine year old exclusive funeral service at 213 South Main. The firm emphasizes scientific embalming, well arranged facilities, two new funeral cars, a casket lowering device, experienced son Ephraim, and a reputation for propriety and executive skill.
Mr Fink, veteran meat man of Lincoln avenue, runs a large, well stocked market offering fresh, salt and smoked meats lard sausages poultry and game in season. He butchers his own meat and has 30 years in business with a reputation for prompt service and customer satisfaction.
The notice highlights Monarch Dye Works run by J B Root as a key contributor to the city’s industrial prowess. It notes the business began about two months ago and emphasizes its role alongside other local industries in boosting economic strength.
Ida and Ada Berryman operate a premier millinery at 124 Lincoln Avenue Goshen Indiana. The shop showcases Parisian novelties bonnets hats trimmings flowers and mourning goods with expert staff and imported trimmings. Since 12 years they have built a strong local patronage and are praised as the Bon Marche of Goshen.
Stoutenour and Tiedeman offer fresh high quality groceries and related goods at 118 East Lincoln Avenue. Sam J. Stoutenour and Edward E. Tiedeman lead the firm with four years together in business and strong city standing. They aim to build steady customer loyalty through value and reliable service.
Hawks Hardware Co. established 1855 by Cephas Eleazer and Joel Hawks remains a leading Northern Indiana hardware firm. Under H. H. Gortner with expanded wholesale, the operation at 114 116 East Lincoln Ave includes plumbing, steam and hot water heating, metal roofing and tin work using Prince Royal furnaces, with a strong local patronage and a long standing reputation.
The Excelsior Meat Market in Goshen operated by A. P. Daub at 223 South Main Street offers superior fresh, salt and smoked meats and sausages with courteous service. The shop is well kept with elegant refrigerators and a large stock.
A fragment highlights a meat business praised as a worthy citizen, noting it is patronized by an appreciative public. The brief emphasizes community support and the establishment’s civic role.
Parfitt’s Gallery in Goshen showcases a two floor studio and a basement engraving plant under Wm. Parfitt with John W. Parfitt as manager. The business offers photography, enlarging, commercial work, half tones, zinc etching, and fadeless paper prints. Kodaks and supplies are sold and holiday visits are encouraged.
The long established J A Riley & Son at 123 South Main Goshen Indiana continues to be a leading hardware implements and seed supplier. Known for a complete stock heavy hardware stoves farm tools seeds tinware oils paints and agents for Milwaukee binders and mowers Oliver plows cultivators rakes and more they are the largest guns and ammunition dealer in the city with a policy of good goods small profits and quick sales.
A historical notice extols the Metropolitan Loan and Savings Association as a mutual institution offering safety and profit for small savers and a path to home ownership. It notes organized in 1898 with $1,000,000 capital and a $25,000,000 loan fund, naming Perry Purl as president, Chas. Wehmeyer secretary, George W. Rich treasurer, with L. W. Vail as director.
Q W Cunningham has served the city for 81 years from 180 South Main Street. The drugstore stocks medicines, patent remedies, physician supplies, books, stationery, wall paper, paints, oils, window shades, lamps, and personal items. The shop is praised as reliable and substantial with a reputation for courteous, profitable business and Christmas shopping appeal.
Goshen Pharmacal Company with offices at 417 419 East Lincoln Avenue leads local industry expanding nine years since founding by E D Chipman and A H E Davis. The firm makes elixirs syrups tinctures and more serving Indiana Ohio Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and a mail order U S trade. Chipman and Davis are noted civic leaders and reliable business figures.
The article highlights Sol Meyer a Goshen cigar maker at 122 East Lincoln founded 1835. It notes high grade goods, moderate prices, a nine-person workforce, and brands The After Dinner and Khorassan with broad demand across northeastern Indiana. It portrays Meyer as energetic, reliable and widely trusted in the community.
Mrs. P. A. Cobaugh operates a prominent millinery store at Lincoln avenue and Fifth street, Elkhart, offering hats bonnets trimmings feathers and mourning goods. The store is praised for up to date goods fair dealing and extensive trade across Elkhart county.
The Evans stable has operated for four centuries in succession from father to sons and now to Geo H Evans the present proprietor. The brick barn houses many horses with attentive stablemen and the best stock feed. Turnouts include fine roadsters and nobbiest vehicles on reasonable terms. Special attention serves traveling salesmen weddings parties and funerals with dependable service. Evans is a trusted city council member with wide patronage in the region.
The Goshen Gas Co announces reorganization and incorporation led by Jas T Lynn of Detroit as president, O J Garvin of Goshen as vice president, F H Shelton of Philadelphia as secretary and treasurer, and G G Atkinson as manager. The firm provides gas lighting and heating appliances and prides itself on integrity and reliable service.
Perry A Hulwick operates a first class grocery at 110 East Washington Goshen offering fresh country sausage tender loin spare ribs lard and daily baked bread doughnuts cookies pies and cakes. The store is a well stocked base of supply with liberal prices and Hulwick is described as popular and responsible.
Holtzinger and Heefner own the On the Way grocery at 304 East Lincoln Avenue Goshen. The store offers pure food and a full range of staple and fancy groceries with fresh provisions and vegetables. It is clean up to date and widely patronized as a popular local shop.
Dr. W. R. McGarvey, whose offices are over Beeson’s Drug Store, is a graduate of the Illinois School of Dentistry in Chicago. He has practiced in Goshen for several years and maintains a high reputation for skill and personal character.
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