Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — W. J. WRIGHT BUYS WILLIAMS STORE [ARTICLE]

W. J. WRIGHT BUYS WILLIAMS STORE

Ambition of Years is Realized When He Concludes Terms for Purchase of Furniture Store.

Willis J. Wright, furniture dealer and undertaker. That is a familiar name and.business combination to old residents of Rensselaer and Jasper county, and it is to be rejuvinated after an absence of 21 years. It was in 1887 that Willis J. Wright went out of the furniture business, and his son Park succeeded him as an undertaker. Some eight years ago he was succeeded by his son, Jennings Wright, whose correct name is Willis J. Wright, and who has since that time been engaged in the undertaking business, most of the time being the exclusive undertaker in this city. Monday Jennings concluded the arrangements for the purchase of the Jay W. Williams furniture store, and after Wednesday, when it is expected to have the invoice completed, he will take charge .of it, again instituting the name of Willis J. Wright, furniture dealer and undertaker, under which his grandfather did a successful and honorable business for so many years.

Jennings decided some years ago that he would like to engage in the furniture business and he often thought that if Mr. Williams ever got ready to sell out he would try to succeed him. When the sad tragedy brought Mr. Williams* life to such an untimely end Jennings was one of the first to confer with Chas. H. Porter, who is managing the business affairs of his late father-in-law, about the purchase of the store, and although there were several others who figured on the purchase Jennings was successful in closing a deal for the business. He has hired George Colvert and his son Clinton O. Colvert, and will continue the business at its present location, and for the present, at least, will maintain his undertaking business at the location near the river bridge. Mr. Wright is one of the city’s most successful and highly esteemed young business men aq,d his uccess in his new business seems assuerd.