Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1920 — MURPHY STORE SOLD TO GROCETERIA STORES CO. [ARTICLE]

MURPHY STORE SOLD TO GROCETERIA STORES CO.

A* deal was consummated last week whereby the C. L. Murphy grocery store on W. Washington street passed into the hands of the Groceteria Stores Company, of Chi•ago. Mr. Murphy is to continue to manage the store under the new ownership. The lease on the store room was also closed with the store owner, Mrs. E. S. Rhoads, for a period of five years. As announced elsewhere in today * issue, the sale of the present stock will be conducted after which the store will be remodeled on the Pig-gly-Wiggly style. The customers select their own groceries according to this plan. Jame A McDonough and A. D. Jacks, of Chicago, are in the city handling the arrangement of the corporation. The Groceteria corporation have about forty stores in operation or in preparation at various county seats in Indiana. Stores have been established in the following cities: Gary, Hammond, LaPorte, Peru and Plymouth. .