Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1915 — W. J. Wright Buys Out Morocco Furniture Business. [ARTICLE]

W. J. Wright Buys Out Morocco Furniture Business.

W. J. Wright, the furniture dealer and undertaker of this city, has closed a deal for the purchase of the Knickerbocker furniture and undertaking business in Morocco, including the building it occupies, which belonged tb L. F. Porter, formerly of Morocco, who conducted the business Mr. Wright buys for many years prior to its sale about a year ago to Mr. Knickerbocker, who came to Morocco from Michigan.

Mr. Wright will place his brother-in-law, V. H. Hancock, now of Kansas City, in charge of the! business. He will abandon the Morocco end of the undertaking after his new motor funeral car is completed and handle all of the undertaking business from the Rensselaer end of the busness. The Morocco field is quite an extensive one and considerable undertaking business comes from across the line in Illinois and Mr. Wright and some of his assistants will probably be licensed as erabalmers .n Illinois as well aitf' Indiana. Mr. Wright is spending some of his time in Morocco getting the business in shape for the transfer. Mr. Hancock is the husband of Mr. Wright’s sister, formerly Miss Floss Wright. He has been in charge of a department for a large store in Kansas City.