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JIM: In summer of 1928, looming depression scarcely noticed Sales of Model A's continued strong. And in Columbia, at Miss Lula Jones', high quality soisettes, cretonnes & underwear, and high quality, were presented in the building now owned by Ben Arnold in the Southwest Corner of the Square (JIM follows the occupants of the building from Miss Lula Jones, through it's S.E. Kelsay bowling alley days to its days as Wooten's Department Store. Up at Knifley, L.R. Chelf was enticing Adair Countians to buy the Pride of the Household McCormick-Deering Cream Separators, offeredas splendid investments. They were "beautiful to the eye - glossy black japanning with gold pin-striping" and had graceful lines. The population was oblivious, it seems to the bad days just around the corner. Click on headline for story with photo(s) By JIM By the early summer of 1928, microfissures, unknown to many and ignored by others, had started creeping into the United States economy. Still, Henry Ford's recently introduced Model A was taking the country by storm, the stock market continued its dizzying ascent, and from speakeasies to Wall Street, America partied like it was 1925. The advertisements linked to this article appeared in the News ninety years ago this week (July 3, 1928), almost exactly a year before what began as minor downturn in the market accelerated to Black Tuesday and cascaded into the Great Depression. The (Albin) Murray building, "next door to the News office," housed Miss Lula Jones' business establishment. Miss Jones had clerked for Dohoney & Dohoney for a number of years when she and Mr. Murray purchased the firm in 1925. They operated it under the name Murray & Jones until Mr. Murray sold his interest in the concern to Miss Jones in early 1928, and she ran the establishment solo for about thirteen years. The August 13, 1941 carried a "closing out sale to give possession of the building" advertisement from Miss Jones, with mention of same on the front page, stating she "has been in business here for many years and has always been one of the city's popular merchants." (Mr. Murray had passed almost exactly a year earlier and possibly the building had been or was going to be sold as part of the estate settlement. A note in mid-October 1941 informed readers the S.E. Kelsay had rented the Murray building "formerly occupied by Miss Lula Jones" and was having "the interior renovated preparatory to operating a bowling alley." Come March 1946, a front page article reported the building was again being remodeled (Mr. Mont Willis in charge), this time for Mr. W.R. Wooten who planned to open a dry goods business. The article stated Mr. Wooten intended to carry "an attractive line of ready-to-wear and shoes for men and women and other desired items." This story was posted on 2018-07-02 11:36:52
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