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Welcome To Greene County, Indiana
Circa 1890's Photo Enhanced by: Robert Manson |
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E. & M. Stein, Merchants;, LyonsIn the fore ranks of the most widley known, influential and prosperous firms of Greene county, in gilded letters, appears the firm name of E. & M. Stein, merchants of Lyons, Indiana. This establishment is one of the oldest in the county, having been founded with W. S. Kauffman (now retired from business) soon after the close of the Civil War. On December 1st, 1876, Mr. E. Stein came into control of the business, and in 1892 Max Stein, a brother, became a partner in the concern, forming not only one of the strongest in the county, financially speaking, but one of the most popular, enegetic and progressive. In the year 1898 the Stein Block, the finest commercial house in Lyons, and among the finest in th county, was erected. The mercantile representation takes up the entire ground floor room of this building which is 40X100 feet in area. Studded throughout the room are a number of iron columns supporting the second story floors. The arrangement of the establishment is in department order, every department being connected with the general office by the automatic trolly cash-carrier system. In this establishment the consumer can be supplied, practically speaking, with anything catalogued as a domestic neccessity. Especially is this so of dry oggods, shoes, clothing, ladies' and gents' furnishings, gorceries, millinery, house furnishings, etc. The reputation of the store does not conclude with magnitude, but for low prioces and fair dealing its prestige goes unchallenged. The firm is also recongnized as the financial bulwark of Lyons, and to accomdate the community and further general business, they engage in local banking. The bank department being also the genral office of the establishment. The mechanical protection for the funds of the institution are the very best. The safe is enclosed in a steel vault, being one of the class designated as absulutely burglar proof. The store is connected with the trade of the community and the county at large by local and long distance telephone. Progressive, liberal and popular the firm members occupy a place in our commercial sphere that radiates luster to the equipment entire. Each are prominent in lodge circles, being members of the K. of P. order; and Mr. E. Stein a member of the I.O.O.F. and encampment. See cut of the Stein Block elsewhere in this issue. [not available]. - 21 May 1901 Bloomfield News |
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