APRIL, 1968 SEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE, SEYMOUR, INDIANA PAGE Now $2-Million-A-Year Business Brown's, Jay's Growing Brown's Grocery, 400 East Second street, and Jay's Market, 501 Ewing street, were founded here by J. H. Brown and his wife, Mildred, in February, 1948, Brown and his wife opened their first grocery store, Brown's, after purchasing the property from Amos Gerth. As the business grew, Brown remodeled his first store during the next few years on a number of occasions and, in 1960, opened a new store ih Madison, which is now owned and operated by his son, Jay, Jr. In April, 1963, Brown and his wife opened a new store at Salem, which was bought out by Mrs.
Brown's brother, Oscar Hughes, in 1967. As Brown's Grocery began outgrowing its facilities here, Brown and his wife opened Jay's Market here in 1964, after purchasing the property from Byron Judd. The store was greatly expanded with the con- AN NUE Seymour Airmotive, provides air service for every need. SEYMOUR AIRMOTIVE. INC.
CHANTER After demolition of a Capt. James Shields, the founder of Seymour, stood after 1814 on the the present old city "SEYMOUR It's Jay's Market provides customers ample parking SERVING SEYMOUR SINCE 1880 CORDES HARDWARE INC. PRIDE PROGRESS A Part of this Fine. In Behalf of the ful for the Wonderful ways Don In The ship With Our Friends ANY OCCASION OCCASION hen Family To The TUES. and 4 SAT.
SUN. 11 (CLOSED A struction of a new addition in 1964. Due to Brown's ill health, he and his wife have sold 60 per cent of their interest in Jay's Markei and Browu's Grocery to six. of their long-time employes. while retaining 40 per cent and the buildings." Since their founding, Jay's Although he had only about three months' formal education, Capt.
Meedy W. Shields, founder of Seymour, had great interest in education, although he had lacked opportunity in the pioneer area in which he lived. He sent his sons to an Academy in Salem and was a patron of schools in this area in his later years. Shields High School, at Sixth and Walnut streets, was termed a monument to his interest in education after it was established. It is now Shields Junior High School.
fort of at Ninth and Ewing streets, described as father of he built a rambling log house room" and which somewhere on the site of the his time on site of present Seymour Country Club and in cemetery grounds. His new house was Market and Brown's Grocery has grown from a business to in excess of a $2- million-a-year business. Of the city's leading grocery stores, Brown's and Jay's are the only two. which provide service meat counters at all times. The stores employ 38 persons.
Airmotive, Provides City's Flying Service Aviation has had a tremendous impact on Seymour's past and will have a constantly expanding influence on its future. Seymour Airmotive, is the only complete flying service at Freeman Field. The poration offers student flying lessons, air-charter, air-freight, air-ambulance, aircraft sales and Federal Aviation Administration certified aircraft repair. Jack Rhodes and Carl Smith, with two employes, opened the business in January of 1965 with 12 aircraft based at the airport. In April of the same year Doug Bryant was added to the managing staff and another employe was added to the payroll.
That same July the corporation purchased its first aircraft, a 1965 Cessna Skyhawk, for rental and instruction. In January of 1967 a new maintenance hangar was built, bringing the total facility to two hangars and an office building. In March of this year another hangar was added bringing the total to. three hangars for aircraft storage and one for maintenance. Twenty new aircraft have been sold by the corporation.
A staff of 12 -time employes and four part-time are presently working there. all dining There are 61 aircraft on the "nearly he spent most of field now. The corporation "Indian Affairs" makes 30 flights a week during friends. normal periods. Trips have been entertaining slated for various points in Really Wonderful To Bel Progressive City!" and The ''COLONEL'S TAKE HOME'' We Are Grate- Received In The Future, As We Have AlTo Try And Improve Our Service and Relation- Phone 522-6400 "The Yummiest Number In Town" DELICIOUS FOR Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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If there is a flying need, Seymour Airmotive offers the service. Five Blocks In Original City Five blocks comprised the original town of Seymour, as it was laid out in 1852 by Meedy White Shields and his wife, the former Eliza P. Ewing. They were the four blocks "cornering at Second street and Indianapolis avenue," still an important part of Seymour's downtown business section which has since expanded, plus the block south of Second street, between Ewing street and Broadway. The town lots sold rapidly and soon an addition was laid out to the original five blocks.
Many other additions followed, being laid out as the town continued to grow. Since that time, additional territory has been divided into lots on all sides of the city and within the last few years, new subdivisions have been platted and developed provide residences for the growing community. Annexation by the city has extended corporation lines to include total area probably far beyond the fondest dreams of Mr. and Mrs. Shields.
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