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GROCERY SOLD
The Perry Jones grocery in East Rochester has been sold by Cecil Snapp to Sam Powell,
better known as Sam Kime. Mr. Powell will operate the store under the name of the “Perry Jones
Grocery.”
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Monday, March 8, 1926]
SAM POWELL OPENS NEW MEAT MARKET TUESDAY
Sam “Kime” Powell has opened a new meat market in the room at 525 North Main street.
The room for many years has been the site of meat markets and the fixtures in the same were
purchased by Mr. Powell at receivers sale after the failure of the Hoesel Meat Market. Mr.
Powell, who has named his new store the Rochester Meat Market, will handle all kinds of fresh
and smoked meats, pastries and groceries. Mr. Powell is well qualified to conduct a meat market
through many years of experience gained in other establishments of the kind.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, February 8, 1928]
MOVES MEAT MARKET
Sam Powell has consolidated his two meat markets at the Jones Grocery Store in East
Rochester. Mr. Powell is moving the stock of goods which he carried in the North Main Street
market to the Jones Grocery.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, July 21, 1932]
POWELL, WILLIAM [Macy/Rochester, Indiana]
[Adv] MONEY picked out of the air by the peck. POWELL - The Magician. WILLIAM
POWELL, Artistic Master of Coin Manipulation. Performs this and other feats to the thorough
satisfaction of the audience at the CHAR-BELL THEATRE, Thurs & Fri, Oct. 18-19 - Night
Only. On the screen Buck Jones in “The Big Hop” Regular Prices. 10¢-30¢.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, October 15, 1928]
POWELL & LOVE [Macy, Miami Co]
Lemuel Powell had a butcher shop, then a restaurant and then a general store in Macy.
The store became Powell & Love general store when he took his son-in-law as a partner.
[Thomas Powell Family, Maxine Heckathorn et al, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
POWELL BUS LINE [Rochester, Indiana]
POWELL BUS LINE SALE APPROVED BY P.S.C.
Sale of the bus line of Charles Powell, between Rochester and Logansport, to the Hiner
Red Ball Lines, Inc., was approved Friday by the public service commission.
The Inter-City Coach company’s application for operation of a passenger line between
Peru and Indianapolis was approved.
[The News-Sentinel, Rochester, Indiana, Saturday, July 25, 1925]
POWELL-MYERS SAW MILL [Rochester, Indiana]
MILL SHUTS DOWN
The Powell-Myers saw mill on E. 9th St., Tuesday afternoon finished work on logs in the
yard and temporarily shut down for repairs, as the condition of the roads will not permit hauling of
logs in from the country.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, April 16, 1919]
ANOTHER LOCAL INDUSTRY WILL CLOSE ITS DOORS