D.D. CAMPBELL-GENERAL STORE

Between 1906 and 1911 D.D. Campbell operated a store near the present location of Stedman’s. Chief items sold were groceries, dry goods, tobacco, fruit and confectionery.

After the store burned, David established a small hardware busi-

ness on the north side of the street in the building he had earlier used as Post Office. Here he sold machine ”extras", car parts, etc. In the late 1930’s he had the store moved across the street to the pre- sent site of the Credit Union, an extension built onto the back, and a new front added. Here he and daughter, Birdie, operated a grocery business until ill health forced him to retire. After her father’s death, October 30, 1944, Birdie carried on the busi- ness alone until she was joined by her husband, Herbert Riley in 1947. Together they carried on the business for the next eight years. The store was rented from 1955 to 1965. The Rileys moved to St. Eleanors in 1959. Birdie sold the business to the Credit Union in June, 1969.

NELSON DENNIS - MEAT MARKET

After being an employee of Jack Pate’s meat market for several years, Nelson Dennis decided to venture into a meat business of his own. In 1942 he opened his market between Jack Matthew’s barber shop and the railroad track. He bought animals - chiefly cows and poultry from local farmers but raised his own pigs to supply his mar- ket.

During the war, Nelson supplied the Mt. Pleasant Airport with meat. When the war was over his son Herbie went into partnership with his father (1946). In Nelson’s early days of business, bologna sold for twenty cents a pound, steak for fifty-nine cents a pound. In 1955 Nelson closed his market, but continued to peddle meat in the West Prince area for several years.

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