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September 1938: A glimmer of light By JIM As summer began its September segue into autumn, 1938, America for the most part stayed in the clutches of the Great Depression, nine wearying years after the crash on Black Tuesday. In Adair County, however, came faint glimmers of light in the form of two new discretionary income enterprises in Columbia. The September 14 edition of the News carried a brief article about each. The first week of September saw the completion of a modestly sized greenhouse, "the first plant of the kind ever built in Adair County," at the Frazier Avenue home of Mrs. Nat (Ella) Walker, well known for her skill as a flower gardener. Mrs. Walker immediately engaged in the floral business, and the News predicted, quite accurately, that her new venture would "prosper and grow." On September 15th, Kathryn E. Hurt opened a beauty shop on Greensburg Street "in the yard of the old Winfrey residence," with Allyne Shreve Long as her assistant. The article noted the new venture was "up-to-date and complete as to appointments." Toward the end of 1939, Mrs. Hurt sold the establishment to Miss Jerry Moss and Mrs. Elizabeth Judd, who took over management on January 1, 1940, and changed the name to the Adair Beauty Shop. The real estate firm of Phelps & Hawkins handled the transaction. (Mrs. Hurt was the wife of Adair native Young E. Hurt, the son of Col. L.B. and Cora Johnson Hurt. Young E. joined the Army in the summer of 1903, and other than a brief stint in the late 1930s through part of 1940, he never again lived in Adair County. He married Miss Kathryn E. Ryan of San Francisco in the spring of 1916, and at the time, the News mentioned he had resided in California for five or six years. In the spring of 1940, Young E. and Kathryn domiciled with his widower father in Columbia. By September of that year, the couple again lived in California.) The advertisement for Mrs. Hurt's beauty establishment imaged below appeared in the September 14, 1938 edition of the paper. The Walker Florist ad, the earliest one found, appeared in the October 12 edition. This story was posted on 2018-09-20 19:13:05
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