Woods, Harry E. (born 1871)

WOODS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 12/5/2016 at 01:51:50

The Advocate Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, Feb 1, 1906, front page
History of Warren County, by Geo. A. Epps

HARRY E. WOODS
H. E. Woods was born in Clark county, Missouri, on the 18th day of December, 1871, where he grew to manhood, working on the farm in the summer, attending the district school in the winter. He graduated from the Kahoka business college at the age of twenty. He then engaged in the grocery business in Kahoka. September 27th, 1894, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Felker; their home has been blessed with one child. In 1903 Mr. Woods traded his stock of groceries in Kahoka for a farm near Kellerton, Iowa, and moved his family to Fort Madison, Iowa. On the 25th day of April, 1904, he traded his farm at Kellerton to James Bartholomew for the stock of general merchandise at Palmyra, where he is now doing business at the old stand where the Bartholomew family had carried on business for fifty years. Mr. Woods, carries a good stock of dry goods, groceries, hardware and farm implements. His stock invoices about $5,000. He sold the first year he was in business here about $10,000 worth of goods. His business this year will amount to #13,000 or $14,000. Mr. Woods is now the postmaster at Palmyra and is a very pleasant gentleman to do business with; Mrs. Woods assists her husband when she is needed in the store. Mr. Woods was elected justice of the peace at the general election in 1900 on the republican ticket and it is pretty generally understood that it does not take him long to make up his mind as the guilt or innocence of the accused when brought before him. He attends church when he can but does not belong to any church; he is not a member of any fraternal society. Give him a call when in need of anything in his fine business and he will treat you right. If you want a wife, furnish lady, and the license and he will officiate for two dollars and a piece of the wedding cake.