Hawks Super Market, 1906

"The interior of the second of four rooms of the J. M. Hawks General Merchandise Store is depicted in this photograph.  This room housed the grocery department along the South wall, the shoe department along the North wall and overhead a miscellany of domestic utensils, harness or any item that could be suspended.  Dry goods and clothing filled the room to the North and everything else that a Clay county [sic] resident coudl [sic] wish for could be found in the wo [sic] rooms to the South.

"J. M. Hawks is the young man with the derby hat and handle bar mustache, wearing two horse collars at the right.  Behind the oilcloth covered grocery counter is his brother Jeff Hawks and brother-in-law C. D. Anderson, known to later generation as "Uncle Fud."

"Having reached the limit of facilities on First Street, Hawks Mercantile moved to the corner of West Second and Vine when the Oddfellow Hall was built in 1907, occupying the site until hit by bankruptcy in the cotton price debacle of 1910."

Submitted by Danny Moore