The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-08-21
L. M. EVANS COMING
TO CHESTERFIELD
CHERAW MERCHANT WILL OPEN
STORE ON MAIN STREET ~
NEXT MONTH.
Ills Grandchildren And Great-Cr.nd.
!. Father Were Pioneers
In This Section.

Inc hnal arrangements having been
! made it is now definately announced
that L. M. Evans will open a depart
ment store in Chesterfield.
Mr.. Evans has been contemplating
this move for several months and a
number of times tried to consummate
the arrangements, but each time some
complication intervened and caused
postponement.
Now, however, it only remains for
the quarters to be prepared and the
stock moved in. Goods have been
bought, some of them are here. 9TH
ers are on the way and it is pretty
safe prophesy that another month will
see the new store under full blast.
The building now occupied by the
Wh'te-Buchanan garage has been
leased; White-Buchanan have secured
another location and have vacated the
premises. The building will be COM
pletely rebuilt inside; fixtures will be
put in and The Big Store will open.
Mr.. e. q. Townsend, of Lumberton.
~ g., vii! be the manager and Mr..
Evans personal representative. Mr.
townsend will come to Chesterfield to
Ilve soon and will superintend the pre-
limlnary arrangements, together with
Mr.. Evans and Mr.. Lindsay, who will
act as general advertising manager
for both the Chesterfield and the Che
raw stores
IL is Mr.. Evans intention to con-
uuct the business on the same plan
that has made his other enterprise so
successful. The big underlying prin-
clple of his success has been keeping
faith with customers "When YOU see
it in Evans ad its so," has been his
slogan and all employees are coached
IN the Importance of making an Evan.
promise come true.
Very few of the present generation
know it is more like a homecoming
for l.. M. Evans to come to Chester
field than like business venture. Yet
such is the fact. The grandfather and
great-grandfather Of Mr. Evans were
pioneers of Chesterfield.
1T was way back in 1925, or some
where abouts when the first Evans
came to this county from Virginia.
With him was his son, j ohm C Evans.
who learned his a-b-cs in the first log
school and meeting house that the
sturdy frontiersmen of those days
built. When John c. Evans married
and moved into house of his own it
was on the site now occupied by the
residence of Mr.. w. D. Craig.
A few years later, after John C.
Evans became County Court Clerk,
he built the house that Mr.. Craig now
occupies, on West Main Street. 1t
was shortly after this that he retired
from politics and decided to go into
the mercantile business. 1t was then
that he established the House of Ev-
ans in Cheraw. That was in 1867.
After the hard times during the
old reconstruction days, Mr.. Evans
was succeeded by his son, Mr.. A. l..
Evans, who ran the business until
1902, when he retired leaving the
business in the hands of his three
sons. The three Evans boys ran the
business until 1916 when Mr.. L. M.
Evans succeeded them.
And that's the way it stands today.
Mr.. Evans has just returned from
New York where he spent the bet
ter part of the month buying goods
! that he knew would meet thc demands
of this-section. Unlike most buyers
who give the orders for goods and re-
turn and wait for the purchases to
be shipped, Mr.. Evans stayed in New
York and personally saw his goods
shipped, so that he knows that he will
get what he bought and also when he
will get it.