Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-12-17
FATHER, IKE SON
BY SID HOUSTON

pfoulGai son Always comes BACK.
Unlike the father Of Biblical fame,
however, the fathers Of Mexico do not
kin the "fatted calf" but instead
take the prOdigal into business with
them.
Mexico is the center of the Earth
when you consider the Earth as the
home Of beautiful women and fine
saddle horses. That however, is only
one of the distinctions this town has.
Mexico has more sons who have
followed their fathers in business or
are in business with their fathers than
any other city we know of and we
challenge any town our size in this
entire country to equal our record.
Such . record may not seem so
great a thing at onee-one might
even say it shows the sons don't
amount TO much and have to join
hands with father TO live. A glance
at the businesses Of Mexico handed
down from father to son however will
soon put this idea out Of ones mind
for on every occasion that business
establishment is one Of the best in
the city. The sons have been taught
what their fathers knew and have
added to this, knowledge they have
gained from experience and study.
Most Of the sons have added up-to-
date, modern, business methods to the
substantial ideas of their fathers and
are in the front-ranks of business
men Of Mexico.
G. d. Ferris was not only a lead
ing citizen of Mexico, he was a hard
ware merchant who knew his bushes
and had advanced so far in that bus
mess as to publish a newspaper to
advertise it. Mr.. Ferris has departed
this life and gone to his reward, but
the hardware establishment that once
was his now belongs to L. R. Ferris,
bis son, who has enlarged and i'm
proved it.
On the opposite side of the square,
G. w. Robertson is conducting a
large retail hardware store. In addi-
ton to this he has one of the largest
wholesale implement businesses in
the state and is selling plows and
other farm implements to merchants
of Missouri, Kentucky and a number
Of other states. His right-hand-man
is George viii Robertson, the second
son of the family, who is fast becom-
ing the peer of his father and will
take charge of the firm when the
elder Mr.. Robertson is ready to re-
tire. So much for the hardware bust
ness.
In 1868 before many of the present
citizenship of Mexico were living here
or anywhere else for that matter,
Mark Pitcher established a jewelry
store in this city. He was one of the
leading jewellers of the state at that
time and still retains that distinction.
He is the head of the Pitcher Jewelry
Company, but his son, Fred W. Pill
cher, president of the Mexico Com
mercial Club, past Exalted Ruler of
Mexico Lodge No. 919, B. P. o. E.,
and one Of the prominent young
jeweler and optician of the United
States, is now associated with him
and it may be added here that Fred
has a 90 per cent baby daughter who
viii take charge of the business when
her grandfather and father are ready
to quit.
Col. Fred A. Morris one of Mexico's
prominent young business men is a
member of Governor Majors staff,
but as a grocer he doesn't outshine
his father, the late W. A. Morris,
who conducted a grocery store, where
the present establishment stands, for
many years. W. A. Morris built up
an excellent trade during his business
career in Mexico and Col. Fred has
added to this.
R. C. Paul is still at the old stand
on the west side of the square but as
ISOLATED with him now are his sons,
John and Melville and s~on-in-law. Del
Mr.. Paul came to Mexico J
not long after the Civil War, in
which he served as a member of one
Of Virginia's crack companies in the
Confederate army. He established
a grocery business, which through
the close attention of the proprietor,
hourished and still lives, a landmark
Mexico. Several years ago John
Paul Joined hands with his father
and shortly ~afterward, Melville fol-
lowed suit, only to break away that
he might visit little old New York
and train his voice. His travels over
America only convinced him of the
worth of Mexico and he Game back"
and re-entered the firm. In the
meantime, Del Tribe, who married
Miss Nita Paul, took a share in the
business, which is one of the leading
grocery firms in Mexico
In the good old days. as many
IRE wont to call them Buckley and
Moore conducted a grocery store on
he northwest corner of the square.
Bickley's son went into the bank I
ng business and is now assistant
asher Of the Southern Bank, but ,
lewis Y. Moore followed in the foot
tops of his father and is now run !
ing the grocery store at the north Z
rest corner of the square. To whose G
knew the store in the good old G
avs" however, it would hardly ,
eem natural now, for it has been /
astly improved and brought up-to- Z
he-minute as n Of our best stores. s
w. j. Sannebeek's father is and al
'ays was a butcher and a good one. {
'hen Walter first started in bust c
ess, 1T was not as a butcher or n
ROGER, but he hadn't gone far before c
E. S. Wilson is home from Louis
ma.