Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — J. J. Montgomery Buys the Business Owned by F. W. Tobias. [ARTICLE]

J. J. Montgomery Buys the Business Owned by F. W. Tobias.

A business deal has betsr closed by which J. J. Montgomery, for many years the superintendent of the Jasper County Telephone Co., has bought of Frank W. Tobias, the laltte/s newsstand and cigar and confectionery business. Possession is to be given the first of May. Mr. Tobias has conducted this business for several years, giving it the most punctilious attention and having proven himself one of the city’s able young business men. He retires because he desires to engage in some occupation that will permit him to be out of doors more. It is probable that he will engage in farming in a small way. It will be good news to Mr. Montgomery’s friends to learn that he will continue to reside in this city, where ‘he has proven a great hustler and one of our most public spirited citizens. As chief of the fire department be has performed important service, having placed that department on a plane equal to any city where a single engine constitutes the equipment. Mr. Montgomery has always worked for other people and welcomes this opportunity to engage in business for himself and he will doubtless be able to retain all of the large trade Which Mr. Tobias has built up. He had some flattering offers in the telephone business, superintendency jobs being offered him 'n plants mudh larger than the one here, but he wished to keep his residence here and to be in business for himself, and the purchase of the Tobias store resulted.