The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-25
Holings,Uorth Sells Shop,
Was Famous Ia,,dn,ark !.
During Quarter Century
Holly" Long Neighbor Of
Muscular, Goes Out
Of Business.

Nissoula's famous landmarks on west
Main street. Mr.. Hollipgsworth has
sold the shop 10 Rickert & Talbcrt,
two weil-known BARRIERS who have
1nadc their home in the Garden city
for several YEARS.
It win be % years. this coming sum
nacr, since Charles Hollingsworth and
his wife landed in Missoula, coming
from the little town of Filley. Neb,as-
ka,. where Mr.. Hollingsworth had for
eight years been engaged in the same
business.
Mr.. Hollingsworth. or Holly" as he
is more Familiarity known by his old
time friends and ncighbors. was in
retrospective mood yesterday when
asked about the sale Of the shop that
has stood neighbors with The Missou-
liam for nearly % years. yes l have
sold the shop" he said, Il guess 22
years is about long enough for one
man TO work in one place. anyway.
OF course | kind of hated to sell the
old place but l haven't been feeling
specially brisk for the last few months
and I thought would take it 4 little
easier and rest up for n spell.
Some time this spring Mrs. Hol-
lingsworth and l arc going to take a
little trip back to Iowa for the family
reunion that is scheduled to take place
at my mothers old homestead near
Thornburg. or course. we are coming
back to Missoula. where we have spent
80 many years Of our life and where
our home and friends are"
Came in 1895.
1T was September 1895, when first
landed in Missoula. The old town
wasn't so very much of a city in those
days. There was scarcely Is houses on
the south side Of the river and the bus
mess section of Higgins avenue only
extended as far UP the street as the
present odd Fellows building.
There were just six barber shops
in Missoula at that time. old Man
Allen ran the Florence hotel barber
shop and with HIM then worked Fred
Won Bestenbostcl. Johnny Belisle. jim
Baker and Al Green, all of them ia
nous BARRIERS in their day. Jim. OF
course. Is now the proprietor Of tn,
shop.
Digs. a colorcd man. was runninl
the .. *. shop on West Front street
j. +. Smith had one chair shop wher
Judge Dyson now has his office. Phi
Cagnon. now Judge Gagnon, had ;
two-chair shop where the Greek shoe
shining parlor now is next door to tn
Turf saloon. Lew Mocller was running
a shop where he is still located Oh
Woody street. near the old freight dc
pot. Nose Thomas was running n lit
tic shop in the Beauchainc building. a
the corner of Woody and Spruc
streets.
There first went to work on arriv
ing here and smoothed chns for tn
period of one week. But | didn't wan
to work as a journeyman and locke
around town for a location of my owl
The only place that l could find wa
n. little hole in the wall in the oil
occupied by Jake the Tailor At tina
time the old building was divided int
Two rooms. Major Duncan, now JudG
Duncan. had charge of leasing it,
finally made a trade With the ma jo
Tor the small room. seven by Il fec
at the agreed price of six dollars pc
month
Showers Through Roof.
y will confess that my tonsori;
parlor' was not one of these model
up-to- date marble slab affairs. TT
old roof was leaking and when
rained the water would drip through {
my customers SO that ! would have
swing the chair around to avoid ha'
ing him shampooed through the no
in The roof.
The shop had neither steam heat. h
air furnace, nor even IL heating StOy
At first ! was in Quandary how
get hot water for latherng purpos.
but with the help of Tom Bassler, t
timer, we rugged up Il tin contrapti'
that fastened on to the top of t
chimney Of 4 big kerosene lamp a,
thus managed to get Il pretty fair su
stitute for hot water.
Most OF US charged Is cents for
shave and 50 cents for "A hair cut. :
though the Florence hotel shop got t,
bits for a shave and four bits for
hair Cut. Down at Digs's shop on W.
Front street he charged 20 cents
throW'-shave, hair cut, shampoo, h.
oil or bay rum.
No Hair Tones Then.
There was no hair tOnicS in tn,
days. The only thing in the shape
cosmetics, outside of bay rum. "
perfumed hair oil for which we chare
extra. Notwithstanding the so,neWl
crude aspect OF my little shop. I
Ways kept a sharp razor and soon
gan to pick up a good trade. II v
the days when the lumberjack was
all his glory. That year there W
literally hundreds of them working
the logging camps up the Blackf