Jackson County IL Archives News.....BERT DAVIS SON OF PIONEER HERE FIFTY YEARS AGO October 16, 1923
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Murphysboro Daily Independent October 16, 1923
 

    The Bert DAVIS Dry Goods Store is located in the Twelfth block on Walnut
between what fifty years ago was a livery stable at one end of the block and the
Baptist church building at the other.

    Dr. Davis has been in the Dry Goods business for twenty five years, but
insists that he was not here fifty years ago to remember just how things were,
although his father, Cartwright DAVIS was born at old Brownsville and lived in
and near Murphysboro from the days of Brownsville until his death eight years
ago at the age of eighty-seven.

    Mr. Davis has been honored by his home town, having been president of the
Commercial Association a number of years and Mayor of the city for three terms.

    His store occupied one of the central locations of the city and has a south
entrance on Walnut street and a western entrance on Thirteenth street, and is
one of the many prominent stores of the city.


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Transcribed by Mary Riseling from grandfather C. E. RISELING's collection of old
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