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AY JANCJA Y 20, 1927ions last Delate ■nier Sim-Co., with host an irch. ster, one :ipal och-Sield a.j lock pas-vil-I be rai;ADAMS RETIRES IHQHAS SPENT FORTY-THREE YEARS AS MERCHANT IN“OUR MAIN STREET” ^1CCCflCaGiBrHidest den, 3 onort, i 23 !8_Id his was M, was IrbyWaldo Brennan Joins Father—Businesl'Now Known as Bren- inan Hardware Company:: ~ |After forty-three years as a mer- j_ B( chant in our “Main Street” George H.Adams this week severed bis connec-1 tions with the hardware firm of Bren j At i nan Adams and retired from the j UQpn t business in Which he had become’al Soc widely known. in. this section, • j gerton'■In 1-884 Mt, Adams, then -employed an^org by the VanEps Hardware firm, and' Khali t James; Brennan, an employe! of the 1 under Hinman Fowler Hardware Com wouldone two all law, d a pasCon-the.therahInITpany, formed a partnership and open* j fruit s ?d a hardware store in the Bierson j tising lt;fciock where George Carr’s furnace shop is now located. The following year, 1SS5, however, they removed 4^ their present location In what»-was then known as the'Smith block.At file tWe' »T the ■big' MaS6»ie~flre in 19,15^ when Jtha^store was* “ hadiy damaged, Brennan ' Adams pur*•chased the’ block of the Mrs Sara.Smith estate.The sale in the, interest in the business to Mr. Brennan was brought about by ill health which Mr. Adams has suffered for the past tbree years and which has necessitated his absence from the store practically all of this time. During his many years In the hardware business Mr, Adams has won, through his kindly and genial nature,- a host of friends who will deeply regret to learn pf his forcod retirementWaldo Brennan will now enter the business; with his father, and the .-firm, will hereafter -be known as the Bren-nan Hardware Company.. - _DEATH CLAIMS PRISONERndaIfan.nedtwoLouis Nowickl, convicted of shooting at Frank Rosobrdugh of Brockport in February 1924 diod at State's prison; Dannemora, of pulmonary tuberculosis September 22th.It will be recalled Nowlcld was discharged by Mr._ Ttosebrough and ariew' dayB later, flrbd from tho' porch, the shot going through the window^ Just ihad be ,Thro hoped especif pack ti 's o l d i urapos. gradin; solving Wesfei Early organii its disc ganizal part of prograi At tl of Sod? Society lows: of Hilt* W. J. Kenyoi tee, H. F.Cros .Ehetao; retary-1 in reco All h on dlsp Mbits.) Fetter,, in opur m/di fo jrels of storage looked
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Brockport Republic and Brockport Democrat
Brockport, New York, US
Thu, Jan 20, 1927
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