Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1909 — G. L. THORNTON BUYS THE WILCOX SURREY STORE. [ARTICLE]

G. L. THORNTON BUYS THE WILCOX SURREY STORE.

Newton Township Merchant of Many Years, Planning to Move to the West, Sells Mercantile Business. Green L. Thornton, who recently sold his farm near Surrey, has purchased the G. M. Wilcox store, stock, building and premises also the 80 acre farm and a 5 acre tract near by at Surrey and has taken possission. Mr. Thornton will be assisted in the management of the store by his son, Earl, who was engaged in the drug business at lowa Falls, lowa, for some time, but who is now In the real estate business at Oskaloosa, lowa. He will be with his father throughout the winter. The Wilcox store at Parr has not yet been sold but we undertand is on the market. Mr. Wilcox has beep engaged in business at Surrey ior a great many years and is an old and prominent citizen of the county. He served Newton township as trustee and has been prominently connected with the politics of the county. His decision to remove to the west is tfye result of the recent trip of prospecting made by his son, Trevor Wilcox, son-in-law of W. H. Beam, who has been associated with his father in business and who will accompany him to the northwest. Their present plan is to locate at Eugene, Oregon, a city of about 10,000 population and about 100 miles from Medford, Oregon, where Geo. E. Marshall and family are located.