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Newspaper
Goshen Weekly Times
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1899
Page
3
A. and N. Wood operate a thriving combined tobacco shop and billiard parlor at 126 North Main Street started about a year ago. The neatly kept premises offer select cigars, tobaccos and candies in front, with four top quality billiard and pool tables in the rear. The establishment is popular, well managed, and widely patronized by cue enthusiasts.
Roose and Lint, a leading Northern Indiana law firm, real estate, and insurance brokers, counsel public trust. Founded by Wilson Roose in 1790 and Geud Lieut, they serve Elkhart County with law, real estate, tax services for non residents, and extensive insurance placements including Philadelphia Underwriters and North British. Offices overlook Fifth Street and Lincoln Avenue.
Dr. E. P. Cunningham, a prominent ex dentist, has practiced ten years at 206 South Main Street. A graduate of Ohio College of Dental Surgery, he specializes in crown and bridge work and offers full dental services with guaranteed satisfaction.
Mr W Knox operates the Post Office News Stand offering current magazines newspapers and periodicals along with candies cigars and tobaccos. He accepts subscriptions for leading publications and provides ready access to seasonal gift items including Christmas offerings.
Chas A Davis is a prominent Elkhart county lumber dealer with a large inventory and extensive premises at Third Street and Lincoln Avenue. He offers liberal cash purchases and prides himself on honest business methods that sustain a growing nationwide trade.
Prominent city figure with council service is highly regarded in social and commercial circles for his sterling character and enterprise.
Goshen residents gain a new millinery and furnishings shop at 134 S Main Street. Mrs J B Pearce offers hats bonnets and Parisian trims plus furishings infant cloaks and goods with an emphasis on up to date styles and reasonable prices.
C W Kerstetter Fine Jewelry at 205 S Main St showcases watches silverware jewelry and diamonds with a full line of optical goods. The store emphasizes skilled repairs and stone setting and plans a grand holiday display to attract local shoppers. Mr Kerstetter enjoys strong community support and solid business.
J P Boyts operates at 119 E Lincoln Ave offering a day and night service with a 30 seat dining room and a lunch counter for extra capacity. The establishment specializes in short orders oysters game seasonally and offers rooms for lodgers along with confectionery and cigars.
Miss Anna Keipp operates a two chair ladies and gents parlor at 120 West Lincoln Avenue. She offers shaving hair dressing shampooing and related services with eight years of experience under her father and nearly two years running the shop.
Dr G B Lowe offers complete eye care including refractions astigmatism and glasses fitting from an office at the corner of Lincoln avenue and Fifth street. Consultation is free. charges are reasonable and a large patronage is reported.
Dr Elwyn Butts is presented as a modern dentist in Elkhart with a note on the growing demand for up to date scientific knowledge. The article emphasizes the need for professionals who keep pace with advancing theories across all science branches.
Dr. Butts, a University of Michigan graduate, studied at Dr. Haskell's post graduate school and practiced six years in South Bend before moving here two years ago. His office at 201 Lincoln Avenue is well equipped and he has earned a strong reputation and large patronage. He is respected as a foremost, worthy citizen.
The Slaughter Granite Company of Goshen, founded in 1856 by J. B. Slaughter and now led by L. B. Slaughter, dominates the region with fine granite monuments. Connected to Barre Vermont and Montello Wisconsin quarries, they excel in material choice and lettering, serving Detroit and Chicago markets and earning strong local regard. Their Lincoln Avenue showroom welcomes visitors.
Crow's Nest Grocery operated by I J Crow on North Main Street boasts a large stock of staple and fancy foods, bakery goods, canned items, confections, tobaccos, and coffees. The store serves Goshen and surrounding areas, seen as a leading, respected local enterprise signaling commercial progress.
J B Andrews of 118 East Lincoln Avenue runs a nine year old harness and saddle shop serving farmers and horse owners. He offers the best goods at fair prices with guaranteed satisfaction, skilled labor, and repair services. The store carries saddles collars whips blankets turf goods trunks valises and gloves with a wide trade across Northern Indiana.
Ulery and Stutsman operate a cigar and billiard parlor noted for high energy when directed rightly. Mr M M Ulery founded the venture five years ago and partnered with Jack Stutsman to run well equipped and handsomely appointed parlors, as described in the article.
The premises at 123 North Main Street feature a well stocked cigar and confectionery shop with front-room display. Four billiard tables, top quality cues and balls attract a broad, refined clientele. Ulery and Stutsman are praised for their success and public regard.
Wehmeyer G. W. Wehmeyer and I. W. Miller, partners in Wehmeyer & Miller, Goshen, report heavy demand for building work. They added lumber last January, stock Second street yard with timber and building supplies, and have completed a foundry building and bicycle works at Elkhart. They are putting up cottages at Lake Wawasee and work on the German Baptist church and other local structures.
Gresso's offers sewing based shoe making and repair in Goshen with emphasis on fitting lame and deformed feet. Owner Mr Gresso, backed by Frank Darnelli, promises up to date work, use of top leather, and low prices. Also sells shoe care products including Vid leather dressing and Viscol.
A Epstein and Co Goshen Installment Co offers loans on valuables at reasonable rates and runs a general installment business in new and second hand goods. Their stock includes sewing machines lamps rugs chenille lace curtains table linen furniture rifles revolvers and musical instruments. Repair services and supplies for sewing machines are provided. The business began two years ago and enjoys a solid reputation.
Otis L Fuller operates a tin shop on East Washington Street offering sheet metal work stove pipes eye trough chimneys skylights steel ceilings and complete jobbing services. He manufactures Peninsular furnaces and maintains a four to five man crew with a reputation for fair prices and reliable results.
A historic note praises the horse as a valuable servant, listing veterinary science and dentistry as key domains of care and utility in traditional man and horse husbandry.
Dr Buzzard with years of experience a graduate of Detroit College of Medicine has earned tributes for conscientious treatment of animals. His office at the Allery feed barn on Clinton street serves a wide rural area and he is regarded among the front rank of his profession.
Goshen Eyelet Co owned by J. Winters at 121 West Washington street manufactures carriage top trimmings with ten skilled workers. The firm designs its own goods and supplies a growing national market, illustrating Goshen’s proud industrial growth and Winters’ prominence in local commerce.
There is an art in the craft and only skilled hands should shoe a horse. Frank Rowell, expert in every detail, has run his West Washington street shop for ten years, handling horseshoeing exclusively with facilities to restore even badly hoofed animals. The News congratulates Rowell and wishes him continued success.
Ladies and children receive cutting shampooing dressing and curling at Miss Sarah Scott's establishment on Main Street Goshen. She handles wigs bangs switches and related hair goods and has served the community with growing patronage since 1883.
Troy Steam Laundry operated by W. J. Quinn at 110 East Clinton street uses labor saving machines and skilled labor to handle about 400 shirts collars and cuffs daily. The business employs a delivery wagon and has run for 10 years with a focus on prompt service and continual upgrades.
L. G. Grady runs a refined barber shop at 115g South Main Street with five to six barbers, five chairs, a boot black stand, and a porcelain tub bathroom. Grady has practiced twelve years, earning a popular status as a trusted local barber in the community.
E R Lacy operates a livery, feed and pale stable offering horse stabling and related services to local riders and farmers.
For residents, a prominent livery offers a large stock of horses including lively goers and gentle mares for ladies. It features upscale carriages, hacks, phaetons, surreys and more with daily or monthly boarding. Mr. Lacy, in business about 30 years, is praised for integrity and earning public patronage.
Wm Twomey and his son run a prominent Goshen boot and shoe store on Main and Lincoln. The business offers men women and children footwear including J E Tilt Co Krippen dorf Dittman brands and farmer rubbers. The shop features a large basement and is a leading Goshen trade center.
Albert Yates offers coal screened free of impurities and delivered citywide. He supplies hard and soft coal lime and cement, with reliable weight and timing, at the 213 South Main street yard managed by J F Poyser while Yates serves as Elkhart township constable.
Yoder and Miller, long established at 218 South Main, offer agricultural implements, Mon aro bicycles, coal, wood and feed. Exclusive agents for Deering harvesters and Studebaker wagons, with a broad stock and prompt delivery reflecting their noted business growth and integrity.
Chas H Bemenderfer at 222 North Main Street Goshen offers advanced bicycles and repairs. The firm markets The Comet bicycle with improved strength and efficiency and has just patented the Comet Parcel Carrier Attachment. Bemenderfer is described as a practical and efficient bicycle mechanic with strong community success.
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