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W. O. ALLEN is the proprietor of Allen’s Drug- Store, which has been successfully established two years, although this stand has been a drug store for upwards of thirty years, it was formerly Evans’ Old Place. Uue to conscientious attention to his business and an effort to please all of his patrons, Mr. Allen has developed a very fine trade; he has on hand a full line of drugs, druggists’ sundries, high grade candies, toilet articles, rubber goods, sporting goods; he also enjoys a very fine soda and ice cream trade, making his own
INTERIOR OF DRUG STORE OF W. O ALLEN.
syrups of pure fruit juices. Mr. Allen moved to Bay St. Louis from Selma. Ala , where he followed the drug business for a number of years; he is a prominent member of the Mississippi Pharmaceutical Association. Masons, Woodmen, Knights of Macabees. Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Mr. Allen is a stockholder in the Gulf Coast Life Insurance Co., of Mississippi; he takes a keen interest in the future outlook for Bay St. Louis.
JOSEPH V. BONTEMPS is conducting one of the popular and well patronized groceries at the Bay, carrying an extensive stock of fancy and staple groceries, crockery and glassware, and making a specialty of Libby’s Canned Meats and Dunleith’s Creamery Butter. Mr. Bontemps devotes his entire attention to the Bay St. Louis trade, in connection with which he operates special and general delivery wagons; he has been established one and a half years as a merchant, and was born and reared at Bay St. Louis; he was in the employ
INTERIOR VIEW OF GROCERY ESTABLISHMENT OF JOSEPH V BONTEMPS.
of the L. & N. Railroad for twelve years as a member of the bridge force, and at various times timber inspector and stenographer. Mr. Bontemps is prominent in fraternal circles, as a Woodman and Knight of Maccabees, and a member of the Bay St. Louis Benevolent Association; he contemplates enlarging his store building in the near future; his store is 14 located Cor. Main and Toulme Sts. his telephone No. is 73.