Showing posts with label Foster Bros. Hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foster Bros. Hardware. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2018

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FLORA & NEWMAN
ANDERSON & KENWARD
FOSTER BROS. HARDWARE
RISSER & ANDERSON
R. B. CHAMBERS
CHRIS ANDERSON
ROBERTS CREAMERY
JOHN BOYLE

"I've come across some advertising on TISSUE PAPER of local businesses--two pieces of such advertising were torn off and placed between photos in the Foster/Ruedger album I have, which looks to be about 120 years old."

--Photos and comments from Ayesha H. LeRoy.  Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page.  July 2018.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Foster Bros.


--Roberts Herald.  9 October 1918.

Sunday, May 07, 2017

Joseph Whorrall

 



LYMAN TOWNSHIP CEMETERY WALK
Joseph Whorrall
--Roberts Area Centennial. 100 Years of Plowing Planting Progressing. 1872-1972.


This references Foster Bros. Hardware and Wright Hardware.  Joseph's daughter, Sarah, married Sela Foster.  Sela Foster's daughter, Blanche, married Charles Wright.  "The Wright's carried on the hardware business of Sela Foster . . ."  So which building was the Wright Hardware business located?