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CLAUD MONTI is operating' the principal blacksmith, wheelwright, horse-shoeing and machine shops at Bay St. Louis, which is equipped with all of the latest improved tools, lathes, band saws and turning machinery, and which is driven by a 6 h. p. gas engine. Mr. Monti is the sole agent for the Eagle Gas Engines and the Gray Gas Engines. His shops cover fully a quarter of a block. He has been successfully established eleven years, and has built up an extensive
INTERIOR VIEW OF CLAUD MONTl’s SHOPS AND PLANT.
trade throughout Hancock County. His paint shop is thoroughly equipped for all kinds of automobile painting, carriage and wagon painting. In this connection, he makes a specialty of high grade finishing. He has a well stocked hardware and ship chandlery store, besides carrying gas engine supplies, harness, buggies, carriages, paints; being the sole agent for Harrison Bros. Paints and Varnishes. He has splendid facilities for the repairing of gasoline boats. Mr.
Monti is a large property holder and a stockholder in the Merchants Bank. He will shortly erect a new building with increased facilities for handling his constantly growing trade. His telephone number is 156.
M. E. ANSLEY is one of the successful real estate agents on the Gulf Coast; he handles all kinds of improved and unimproved town and country property, including timber lands,
HOME OF A. L. STOKOK. farm lands, and lands suitable for truck farming, dairying and poultry raising. Mr. Ansley has been identified with the real estate business at New Orleans and at Bay St Louis for the past twenty years; he is the organizer of the Ansley Land Company, which founded the town of Ansley, Miss , in this County. Mr. Ansley is also conducting a life and casualty insurance company; his office is located on Front street opposite the Hancock County Bank.