Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1916 — WILSON MEISER SUCCEEDING AT MONTICELLO [ARTICLE]

WILSON MEISER SUCCEEDING AT MONTICELLO

Former Jasper Boy One of White County’s Leading Citizens and Prosperous Business- Men. It is a source of joy‘ and satisfaction to meet again a person who has been your pupil in public school and* find them a useful and respected place in the community in which they, live. Such was our experience in visiting Wilson Meiser Wednesday in his umto-dqte place of business at Monticel|p. He has one of the best equipped and neatly kept drug stores to be found any where. Wilson was a pupil in the Kniman school when we were the teacher back in 1893. Later he was a teacher in the public school when we were county superintendent. After a few years as a successful pedagogue, he decided to be a druggist. He took the pharmacy course at Purdue and then located at Monticello. About this time he was married to Birdie DeArmond, of Tefft, Ind., who was also a very successful teacher in the schools of this county. Wilson has bqen industrious and saving. His effort# have been re-, warded. He owns his store and large business building and also one of the Very best residences in Monticello. His father and his younger brother, Charles, are successful farmers near Leiter’s Ford, Fulton'county, Indiana. His sister, Nellie, married a banker and lives at Cannelton, Ind. His sister, Jessie, married a railroad agent and she lives at Campbell, Ind. Florence, his youngest sister, married a rural mail carrier and lives at Rochester, Ind.