Jackson County IL Archives News.....WOLFF BROS. IN BUSINESS HERE PAST 16 YEARS October 16, 1923
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Murphysboro Daily Independent October 16, 1923

    Wolff Bros., jewelers, came to Murphysboro in 1907 and made their farm name
a household word in Jackson county.

    The firm in that year was composed of M. G. WOLFF, senior partner, and Anton
WOLFF, junior firm member, Wm. WOLFF, a young brother, was admitted into the
firm in 1921.  The firm came in May and bought the stocks of Wm. KRONMEYER in
the Herbert building, South 11th Street.  The stock acquired is said to have
invoiced $7200.00

    The firm remained in the Herbert building for five years.  Courtesy and good
goods profited the investors.  The South 11th room became too small.  The Hrabik
building, first floor, Walnut and 12th, was leased for a long term of years. 
Here Wolff Bros. made a greater appeal for business and came to the place where
they carried stocks worth $30,000 to $35,000 prior to the Christmas holiday
seasons, carrying a normal stock quadruple that of their first year in business.

    There are five jewelers in the Wolff family, Martin G., Anton, and William
in Murphysboro, Frank at Chester and John WOLFF at Fort Wayne, Ind.  Every one
of them is an expert watch maker.  The local firm in addition to jewelry has
long been accredited optometrists.  They boast one of the prettiest stores in
this region of "Egypt."

    The partners hail from Evansville, Ill., where their mother resides.  Just
to rest their weary bones between the rushes, Wolff Bros. several years ago
established the "Wolff Den", a fishing club on the banks of the Okaw not far
from their old home.


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