Hunt Co., TX - News: Hudson Tailor Shop Closes
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Old Celeste Business Closes
    Celeste--One of the oldest businesses in Celeste is closing with a record
of over fifty years in the same building.
    It is the Hudson Tailor Shop, owned and operated by Mrs. Cleatis Hudson
since the death of her husband, Pete Hudson, eight years ago.
    Mrs. Hudson has been associated with the business since her marriage in
1938, adding sportswear to the men's and boys' apparel.
    Pete Hudson returned from Service in WWI in 1919 and purchased the shop
from Charlie Lewis.  Mrs. Hudson remembers that Pete told of the early days
when he used a heavy flatiron heated on a charcoal bucket for pressing.  One,
and then two, steam presses and other equipment were added and the tailor shop
enjoyed a thriving business.
    For many years measurements made by the tailor and orders sent for tailored
suits.  In later years, Norge appliances were sold and installed by Hudson.  A
clipping and picture of the Celeste tailor taken from a Greenville Herald shows
Hudson in his shop, terming him the "oldest tailor in point of service in Hunt
County, thirty-six years in one location."
    The lease on the shop expires at the end of this year.  Mrs. Hudson,
reluctant to equip a larger building, has taken a position in the western wear
department of Narramore's at Greenville.  In the meantime, her mother, Mrs.
Will Green, manages the store during the quitting business sale now in
progress.  (Undated clipping)
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