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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
4
A staff correspondent profiles Ashley as a bustling trade center anchored by progressive business men. The article notes its strategic railroad distributing points, thriving commerce, and the surrounding rich agricultural district supporting sustained growth.
The Ashley Hotel offers rooms at one dollar on the fine shift with Kesling overseeing operations and a capable wife assisting. Rooms are clean and beds comfortable while meals are served in a pleasing dining area with high quality market offerings.
The First State Bank of Ashley Michigan reorganizes under state law as the Ashley Banking Company. It opens with capital stock of 20000.04 dollars and conducts general commercial banking with interest paid on time deposits. Officers include James Anstey ident A G Aldridge vice president and Gertrude A Lewis cashier, all well known.
The Independent Elevator run by H. C. Rose offers grain, beans, seeds, hay, wood, and coal with high market prices and direct-from-mine coal. Ashley meat market by Benj Ziglar emphasizes cleanliness and a wide selection of beef, cured and fresh meats, home-made sausage, lard, hides and pelts, and pays top prices.
CHAS A GREEN notes lumber trade has grown locally over the past decade. He supplies dressed lumber of all dimensions, laths, shingles, sash, doors, mouldings, rings, lime, cement, plaster board, paints, white pine cisterns, and provides close estimates after 17 years in the business.
Among Ashley's five and most grease five merchants, J L Cornwell operates hardware and agricultural implements. He stocks heavy and shelf hardware, Boydell paints, Empire cream separators, auto supplies, John Deere Syracuse and Moore plows, Sterling wagons, Osborne hay loaders, binders, mowers, rakes and twines.
Harry C. Rose proprietor of The Old Reliablement store conducts a long established establishment dating to 1801. A large double storefront offers a full line of general merchandise including dry goods clothing groceries and provisions with butter and eggs. Rose also represents Great Western Tailoring Co with guaranteed fit on all orders.
Kirby's store in Ashley offers a wide range of merchandise including groceries and fruits under the management of L Keith Kirby. L K Kirby Sr. handles Ford and Overland car sales with a showroom and demonstration opportunities at the store or garage.
The Ashley Elevator Co with manager Cleo D. Thomas lists grain hay seeds wool and coal and features Northern Grown beans. The Cash Store run by C. E. Beck promotes cash sales and a full line of groceries and shoes. The Home Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor by G. W. Todd & Son offers Veribest bread ice cream and confections with a sanitary fountain.
G B Turner is the up-to-date furniture dealer and practical undertaker in Ashley. He is the embalmer and prepared to attend to all calls day and night, taking full charge of funerals and burials. He offers a fine line of furniture and undertaking furnishings with competitive prices.
Frank Ballard, the main street blacksmith of Ashley, offers general blacksmithing and repair work with a specialty in practical horse shoeing on a scientific method. He guarantees perfect satisfaction to all customers.
W DeBarr describes himself as fully conversant with iron in all its forms and offers a complete range of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, tinware, enamelware, churns, and washers. He also sells Bradley & Vrooman paints Red Cross gasoline Polarine oils and reports a large, praised trade and first-rate service.
Ed B. Corwin has taken over the blacksmith business from E. W. Randles and reports a well earned success. He offers all kinds of blacksmithing plow disc wood and wagon work general repairing and practical horseshoeing carried out with scientific principles.
The Pompeii State bank reports capital stock of 20000 dollars and ranks as a reliable financial institution in southern Gratiot county. It conducts general banking, offers loans on approved securities, and handles collections with prompt dispatch. It features a special correspondence system and four percent interest on savings. Officers include John C. Hicks president Tr B C Hull vice president and Harry C Reed cashier with Addison Fraker C A ee and Henry BE.
Geo L Jessup is presented as the live and influential grain man of ort, well connected to latest market quotations and high prices for hay wool lumber tile brick fencing cedar posts and the best fertilizer. He offers estimates for building material.
A local advertisement promotes DW. FARD as a progressive harness maker and dealer in horse clothing and Wear-A-Well shoes. It highlights driving and heavy harness, repair services, axle grease, and related hardware. The Ashley drug store runs by R J Farnum offers medicines, perfumes, wallpapers, kodak supplies, and miscellaneous goods.
The commodious up to date post store of Pompeii run by Mr. Wm Markham and Mr Jed Ballard features fancy goods millinery items including Brown's 5 Star products, oxfords, men s work clothes and both basic and fancy groceries in an excellent assortment.
The big hardware store run by H. C. Praker offers a full line of general hardware plus Monarch, Peninsular, and QuickAction ranges. Despelld tanks, chilled plow, road wagons, and G Osborne mowers with binders, rakes, and twine complete the assortment.
The large well arranged furniture and undertaking house of C. A. Wood is filled with a full line of parlor, chamber, and dining room furniture, mattresses, iron bedsteads, pianos, sewing machines, and supplies. Specializes in full funeral and burial services with praised treatment.
L Entrekin promotes a large grocery line and ice cream offerings at Connor's World’s Best. The Record praises Model Drug Store run by J J Gilleo with stocked shelves of medicines, chemicals, patent preparations, stationery, jewelry, watches, clocks, silverware, wallpaper, and Dr Hess goods. Specialty in compounding physician prescriptions.
A skilled general blacksmith and successful horseshoer, Grubaugh operates a shop famed for practical repairs. Despite a chronic foot ailment, he works with his wife to run a thriving business, guaranteed to satisfy most restaurants along the line.
The facility is well patronized by the traveling public, with praise directed at their treatment and accommodation, reflecting high satisfaction from guests and steady patronage.
The Pomit department store led by Isaac and John Seaver offers a wide range of goods including clothing shoes patterns and furnishings while M Barn Co Chicago tailor supplies stylish menswear The Model Meat Market run by Benj Kinney provides canned and fresh meats and buys hides pelts and furs Fritz Bros advertise auto repair vulcanizing and parts with reliable service.
One of the most annoying ailments of childhood is weak kidneys and in ability to control the kidney secretions. Down's Kidney Pills are effective for kidney weakness in children and are safe. Mrs. A. Carmer of Alma says her child recovered after using them, bought at Rhodes Drug store. Price 50c. Doan's Kidney Pills also recommended by Mrs. Carmer. Foster-Milburn Co. Propr. Buffalo, N. Y.
Article reports Mrs A P Brown of Dryden New York recovering use of a burned arm after doctors refused operation and prescribed Han ford's Balaam of Myrrh. The arm became stiff but regained mobility following treatment. The case is presented as evidence of the balm’s efficacy.
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