Jackson County IL Archives News.....LLOYD SMITH BOOTERY IS HERE TO STAY October 16, 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 20, 2006, 9:39 pm The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL October 16, 1923 Lloyd SMITH Bootery at Walnut and 11th streets has not been here fifty years but it is here to stay. This statement expresses the confidence of Mr. Smith, founder and proprietor of the business, in Murphysboro's future. The gentleman isn't sitting down and depending on Murphysboro to make good, but is out on the jump organizing merchants to make the city continue to grow. Mr. Smith learned the retail shoe business with the Sam SCHULTZ Co. at Pana, Ill., and again with the S. L. BIRD Shoe Company at Detroit, Mich. He came to Murphysboro in 1920 as manager of the WOLF Shoe Co. interests here, and bought into the shoe business here January 28, 1921, marrying Miss Nell WISELY February 18, 1922. Smith's Bootery offers six dress brands of shoes, a splendid line of hosiery, and sundry models in worker's and sport shoes. The Bootery this soon has found itself cramped for room and Mr. Smith is to extend the store rearwards many feet in the near future, when he will boast a display and sales room 90 feet long. Mr. & Mrs. Smith are congenial salespeople and have the knack of making it easy for customers to call again. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/jackson/newspapers/lloydsmi157nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb