GEORGE MOORE, EX-W.C. MAYOR, DIES IN WEST
George W. Moore, 82-year-old former Webb Citian who as an early-day mayor here is credited with "lifting Webb City out of the mud" and otherwise modernizing what was then a rough mining community, passed away at 11 o'clock last night in Lamar, Colo., in an automobile as he was enroute to Colorado Springs for a vacation.
An ore buyer for many years in the Tri-State district, Mr. Moore moved to Joplin from Webb City a number of years ago but maintained a lively interest in Webb City all of his life.
Born September 29, 1861*, in Dallas County, Missouri, Mr. Moore came to Webb City before 1900, and for many years resided here while he engaged in business as an ore buyer and hauler. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Moore.
Webb City at that time had no paved streets, few sidewalks and no general sewer system. Mr. Moore, a life-long Republican, was elected mayor in 1904 and immediately got under way several projects of civic improvements. The streets in the main business district, which had been muddy quagmires during the rainy season, were paved with brick. Allen (now Main), East Main (now East Broadway) Webb and Daugherty Street as far west as Webb Streets were among the streets paved. Later Daugherty, from Webb west, was paved by the old Southwest Missouri Railroad Company.
He continued in office for four years and although the council was predominately Democratic, the entire city administration worked together harmoniously under his leadership for the civic welfare.
The deceased was a former member of the old First Methodist Church here. When the congegation built the new building he furnished a boys' classroom in lavish fashion. The work, done in honor of his son, was known as the "Clyde Moore Memorial Room."
As important or more important than the street work, for which he is better known, was the big task of bringing the city a modern sewer system. Until that time cesspools and outdoor toilets were the only sanitary system here. His administration planned and built the sewer system now in use, including the North Vine Street and West Fourth Street outlets. Many sidewalks, curbs and gutters were also built as Mayor Moore pulled the town up out of the mud by its bootstraps.
For a good part of his residence here, Mr. Moore and his family resided at 903 South Madison in the large brick residence now owned by James V. Reynolds. The house was purchased by the Moores from the builder, W. W. Howard. Upon leaving Webb City the property was sold to W. J. Cochrane. During their residence here, their life was saddened by the loss of their only son, Clyde Moore, who was a boy of 11 at the time of his death. Clyde died while the family was on a vacation at Colorado Springs, where Mr. Moore was going yesterday when he was fatally stricken.
His wife, Ida Moore, passed away at their home in Joplin on August 27, 1946.
Also preceding Mr. Moore in death was a daughter, Mrs. Nan Murrell**, who died in 1926 at the age of 31. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, who had been married more than 50 years at the time of his wife's death, came to Webb City in 1897 from Aurora. The family first lived here at First and Washington Streets.
Mr. Moore was a charter member of the Webb City Elks Lodge, No. 861; and last December was present at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the lodge. His death leaves John C. Veatch as the lodge's only surviving charter member. Incidentally, Mr. Moore and Mr. Veatch were life-long friends, with the latter serving on the city council and assisting the mayor in the early-day improvement works. The two men were members of the first Elks class of twenty-five men who were initiated into the order at rites held in the old Blake theater building on Daugherty Street in 1903.
He was also a 50-year member of Webb City Masonic Lodge No. 512, and was a 50-year member of the Joplin Scottish Rite bodies and the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine at Springfield.
Mr. Moore was chairman of the board of the Republic National Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas.
Four nephews survive, Orville Rutledge of Hillsboro, Ill., George Rutledge, Joplin, Virgil Sherman of Los Angeles and John Sherman of New York City.
The body is being returned to Webb City and will be received by the Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home tonight.
* should be 1871
** should be Merrill
(Webb City Sentinel, August 5, 1954, Volume 76)
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[History of Jasper County and its people, by Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]. This biography of George was shared by contributor Roy Fredrick, May 2016:
BIO: Mr. George W. Moore is a native of Dallas county, Missouri, where he was born on September 29, 1871. He is a son of Alexander A. and Louisa (Richey) Moore, the former born and reared in Knoxville, and the latter in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The father came to Missouri in 1873 and located in Joplin, where he remained nine years engaged in mining. He next lived for some time in Dallas county, then moved to Aurora in Lawrence county, and there again engaged in mining. He remained at Aurora until 1897, when he moved to a farm north of Carthage on which he passed the remainder of his days and died in 1907, at the age of sixty-seven years.
George W. Moore obtained a limited common-school education in the public schools of Joplin and Dallas county, attending them until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he was forced by circumstances to go to work and earn his living. In 1$96 he entered upon his present line of business as ore purchaser at Aurora for W. J. Lanyon, and soon afterward began work in the same capacity for the Lanyon Zinc Company, which he served faithfully as ore purchaser for ten years. In 1908, however, he became connected with the American Metal Company, which owns the Lanyon Starr Smelting Company's zinc plant at Bartlesville, and the Bartlesville Zinc Company, and he is also president of the Webb City Smelting and Manufacturing Company's lead plant. Mr. Moore has entire charge of the ore buying for these plants, and the company finds his services in this work highly satisfactory and beneficial to it.
During his tenure of the mayoralty many improvements were made in the city. Twenty-one blocks in business streets and a number in residence sections were paved with vitrified brick. The Alba street car franchise and the gas franchise were granted, but only for valuable returns to the city, By the terms of its franchise the street car company was obliged to remove its tracks from Main to Daugherty street and build a viaduct. between Webb City and Carterville, at a coat of one hundred thousand dollars. As an additional compensation for the concession granted it the company put down seven thousand dollars worth of paving on Main street and appropriated two thousand, five hundred dollars toward building a sidewalk to Carterville and other improvements. It also double-tracked West Daugherty street and paved five blocks of it at a considerable expense.
Another valuable improvement made in the city during Mr. Moores administration was the installation of the first street lights in the residence district, as well as arc lights in the business street. Everything was prosperous at the time and business was booming. With characteristic public spirit and enterprise, Mr. Moore took advantage of the conditions to start improvements which have been kept up ever since, and all classes of the people cheerfully acknowledge their obligation to him for the new era of advancement which he inaugurated.
George W. Moore, 82-year-old former Webb Citian who as an early-day mayor here is credited with "lifting Webb City out of the mud" and otherwise modernizing what was then a rough mining community, passed away at 11 o'clock last night in Lamar, Colo., in an automobile as he was enroute to Colorado Springs for a vacation.
An ore buyer for many years in the Tri-State district, Mr. Moore moved to Joplin from Webb City a number of years ago but maintained a lively interest in Webb City all of his life.
Born September 29, 1861*, in Dallas County, Missouri, Mr. Moore came to Webb City before 1900, and for many years resided here while he engaged in business as an ore buyer and hauler. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Moore.
Webb City at that time had no paved streets, few sidewalks and no general sewer system. Mr. Moore, a life-long Republican, was elected mayor in 1904 and immediately got under way several projects of civic improvements. The streets in the main business district, which had been muddy quagmires during the rainy season, were paved with brick. Allen (now Main), East Main (now East Broadway) Webb and Daugherty Street as far west as Webb Streets were among the streets paved. Later Daugherty, from Webb west, was paved by the old Southwest Missouri Railroad Company.
He continued in office for four years and although the council was predominately Democratic, the entire city administration worked together harmoniously under his leadership for the civic welfare.
The deceased was a former member of the old First Methodist Church here. When the congegation built the new building he furnished a boys' classroom in lavish fashion. The work, done in honor of his son, was known as the "Clyde Moore Memorial Room."
As important or more important than the street work, for which he is better known, was the big task of bringing the city a modern sewer system. Until that time cesspools and outdoor toilets were the only sanitary system here. His administration planned and built the sewer system now in use, including the North Vine Street and West Fourth Street outlets. Many sidewalks, curbs and gutters were also built as Mayor Moore pulled the town up out of the mud by its bootstraps.
For a good part of his residence here, Mr. Moore and his family resided at 903 South Madison in the large brick residence now owned by James V. Reynolds. The house was purchased by the Moores from the builder, W. W. Howard. Upon leaving Webb City the property was sold to W. J. Cochrane. During their residence here, their life was saddened by the loss of their only son, Clyde Moore, who was a boy of 11 at the time of his death. Clyde died while the family was on a vacation at Colorado Springs, where Mr. Moore was going yesterday when he was fatally stricken.
His wife, Ida Moore, passed away at their home in Joplin on August 27, 1946.
Also preceding Mr. Moore in death was a daughter, Mrs. Nan Murrell**, who died in 1926 at the age of 31. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, who had been married more than 50 years at the time of his wife's death, came to Webb City in 1897 from Aurora. The family first lived here at First and Washington Streets.
Mr. Moore was a charter member of the Webb City Elks Lodge, No. 861; and last December was present at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the lodge. His death leaves John C. Veatch as the lodge's only surviving charter member. Incidentally, Mr. Moore and Mr. Veatch were life-long friends, with the latter serving on the city council and assisting the mayor in the early-day improvement works. The two men were members of the first Elks class of twenty-five men who were initiated into the order at rites held in the old Blake theater building on Daugherty Street in 1903.
He was also a 50-year member of Webb City Masonic Lodge No. 512, and was a 50-year member of the Joplin Scottish Rite bodies and the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine at Springfield.
Mr. Moore was chairman of the board of the Republic National Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas.
Four nephews survive, Orville Rutledge of Hillsboro, Ill., George Rutledge, Joplin, Virgil Sherman of Los Angeles and John Sherman of New York City.
The body is being returned to Webb City and will be received by the Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home tonight.
* should be 1871
** should be Merrill
(Webb City Sentinel, August 5, 1954, Volume 76)
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[History of Jasper County and its people, by Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]. This biography of George was shared by contributor Roy Fredrick, May 2016:
BIO: Mr. George W. Moore is a native of Dallas county, Missouri, where he was born on September 29, 1871. He is a son of Alexander A. and Louisa (Richey) Moore, the former born and reared in Knoxville, and the latter in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The father came to Missouri in 1873 and located in Joplin, where he remained nine years engaged in mining. He next lived for some time in Dallas county, then moved to Aurora in Lawrence county, and there again engaged in mining. He remained at Aurora until 1897, when he moved to a farm north of Carthage on which he passed the remainder of his days and died in 1907, at the age of sixty-seven years.
George W. Moore obtained a limited common-school education in the public schools of Joplin and Dallas county, attending them until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he was forced by circumstances to go to work and earn his living. In 1$96 he entered upon his present line of business as ore purchaser at Aurora for W. J. Lanyon, and soon afterward began work in the same capacity for the Lanyon Zinc Company, which he served faithfully as ore purchaser for ten years. In 1908, however, he became connected with the American Metal Company, which owns the Lanyon Starr Smelting Company's zinc plant at Bartlesville, and the Bartlesville Zinc Company, and he is also president of the Webb City Smelting and Manufacturing Company's lead plant. Mr. Moore has entire charge of the ore buying for these plants, and the company finds his services in this work highly satisfactory and beneficial to it.
During his tenure of the mayoralty many improvements were made in the city. Twenty-one blocks in business streets and a number in residence sections were paved with vitrified brick. The Alba street car franchise and the gas franchise were granted, but only for valuable returns to the city, By the terms of its franchise the street car company was obliged to remove its tracks from Main to Daugherty street and build a viaduct. between Webb City and Carterville, at a coat of one hundred thousand dollars. As an additional compensation for the concession granted it the company put down seven thousand dollars worth of paving on Main street and appropriated two thousand, five hundred dollars toward building a sidewalk to Carterville and other improvements. It also double-tracked West Daugherty street and paved five blocks of it at a considerable expense.
Another valuable improvement made in the city during Mr. Moores administration was the installation of the first street lights in the residence district, as well as arc lights in the business street. Everything was prosperous at the time and business was booming. With characteristic public spirit and enterprise, Mr. Moore took advantage of the conditions to start improvements which have been kept up ever since, and all classes of the people cheerfully acknowledge their obligation to him for the new era of advancement which he inaugurated.
GEORGE MOORE, EX-W.C. MAYOR, DIES IN WEST
George W. Moore, 82-year-old former Webb Citian who as an early-day mayor here is credited with "lifting Webb City out of the mud" and otherwise modernizing what was then a rough mining community, passed away at 11 o'clock last night in Lamar, Colo., in an automobile as he was enroute to Colorado Springs for a vacation.
An ore buyer for many years in the Tri-State district, Mr. Moore moved to Joplin from Webb City a number of years ago but maintained a lively interest in Webb City all of his life.
Born September 29, 1861*, in Dallas County, Missouri, Mr. Moore came to Webb City before 1900, and for many years resided here while he engaged in business as an ore buyer and hauler. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Moore.
Webb City at that time had no paved streets, few sidewalks and no general sewer system. Mr. Moore, a life-long Republican, was elected mayor in 1904 and immediately got under way several projects of civic improvements. The streets in the main business district, which had been muddy quagmires during the rainy season, were paved with brick. Allen (now Main), East Main (now East Broadway) Webb and Daugherty Street as far west as Webb Streets were among the streets paved. Later Daugherty, from Webb west, was paved by the old Southwest Missouri Railroad Company.
He continued in office for four years and although the council was predominately Democratic, the entire city administration worked together harmoniously under his leadership for the civic welfare.
The deceased was a former member of the old First Methodist Church here. When the congegation built the new building he furnished a boys' classroom in lavish fashion. The work, done in honor of his son, was known as the "Clyde Moore Memorial Room."
As important or more important than the street work, for which he is better known, was the big task of bringing the city a modern sewer system. Until that time cesspools and outdoor toilets were the only sanitary system here. His administration planned and built the sewer system now in use, including the North Vine Street and West Fourth Street outlets. Many sidewalks, curbs and gutters were also built as Mayor Moore pulled the town up out of the mud by its bootstraps.
For a good part of his residence here, Mr. Moore and his family resided at 903 South Madison in the large brick residence now owned by James V. Reynolds. The house was purchased by the Moores from the builder, W. W. Howard. Upon leaving Webb City the property was sold to W. J. Cochrane. During their residence here, their life was saddened by the loss of their only son, Clyde Moore, who was a boy of 11 at the time of his death. Clyde died while the family was on a vacation at Colorado Springs, where Mr. Moore was going yesterday when he was fatally stricken.
His wife, Ida Moore, passed away at their home in Joplin on August 27, 1946.
Also preceding Mr. Moore in death was a daughter, Mrs. Nan Murrell**, who died in 1926 at the age of 31. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, who had been married more than 50 years at the time of his wife's death, came to Webb City in 1897 from Aurora. The family first lived here at First and Washington Streets.
Mr. Moore was a charter member of the Webb City Elks Lodge, No. 861; and last December was present at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the lodge. His death leaves John C. Veatch as the lodge's only surviving charter member. Incidentally, Mr. Moore and Mr. Veatch were life-long friends, with the latter serving on the city council and assisting the mayor in the early-day improvement works. The two men were members of the first Elks class of twenty-five men who were initiated into the order at rites held in the old Blake theater building on Daugherty Street in 1903.
He was also a 50-year member of Webb City Masonic Lodge No. 512, and was a 50-year member of the Joplin Scottish Rite bodies and the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine at Springfield.
Mr. Moore was chairman of the board of the Republic National Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas.
Four nephews survive, Orville Rutledge of Hillsboro, Ill., George Rutledge, Joplin, Virgil Sherman of Los Angeles and John Sherman of New York City.
The body is being returned to Webb City and will be received by the Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home tonight.
* should be 1871
** should be Merrill
(Webb City Sentinel, August 5, 1954, Volume 76)
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[History of Jasper County and its people, by Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]. This biography of George was shared by contributor Roy Fredrick, May 2016:
BIO: Mr. George W. Moore is a native of Dallas county, Missouri, where he was born on September 29, 1871. He is a son of Alexander A. and Louisa (Richey) Moore, the former born and reared in Knoxville, and the latter in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The father came to Missouri in 1873 and located in Joplin, where he remained nine years engaged in mining. He next lived for some time in Dallas county, then moved to Aurora in Lawrence county, and there again engaged in mining. He remained at Aurora until 1897, when he moved to a farm north of Carthage on which he passed the remainder of his days and died in 1907, at the age of sixty-seven years.
George W. Moore obtained a limited common-school education in the public schools of Joplin and Dallas county, attending them until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he was forced by circumstances to go to work and earn his living. In 1$96 he entered upon his present line of business as ore purchaser at Aurora for W. J. Lanyon, and soon afterward began work in the same capacity for the Lanyon Zinc Company, which he served faithfully as ore purchaser for ten years. In 1908, however, he became connected with the American Metal Company, which owns the Lanyon Starr Smelting Company's zinc plant at Bartlesville, and the Bartlesville Zinc Company, and he is also president of the Webb City Smelting and Manufacturing Company's lead plant. Mr. Moore has entire charge of the ore buying for these plants, and the company finds his services in this work highly satisfactory and beneficial to it.
During his tenure of the mayoralty many improvements were made in the city. Twenty-one blocks in business streets and a number in residence sections were paved with vitrified brick. The Alba street car franchise and the gas franchise were granted, but only for valuable returns to the city, By the terms of its franchise the street car company was obliged to remove its tracks from Main to Daugherty street and build a viaduct. between Webb City and Carterville, at a coat of one hundred thousand dollars. As an additional compensation for the concession granted it the company put down seven thousand dollars worth of paving on Main street and appropriated two thousand, five hundred dollars toward building a sidewalk to Carterville and other improvements. It also double-tracked West Daugherty street and paved five blocks of it at a considerable expense.
Another valuable improvement made in the city during Mr. Moores administration was the installation of the first street lights in the residence district, as well as arc lights in the business street. Everything was prosperous at the time and business was booming. With characteristic public spirit and enterprise, Mr. Moore took advantage of the conditions to start improvements which have been kept up ever since, and all classes of the people cheerfully acknowledge their obligation to him for the new era of advancement which he inaugurated.
George W. Moore, 82-year-old former Webb Citian who as an early-day mayor here is credited with "lifting Webb City out of the mud" and otherwise modernizing what was then a rough mining community, passed away at 11 o'clock last night in Lamar, Colo., in an automobile as he was enroute to Colorado Springs for a vacation.
An ore buyer for many years in the Tri-State district, Mr. Moore moved to Joplin from Webb City a number of years ago but maintained a lively interest in Webb City all of his life.
Born September 29, 1861*, in Dallas County, Missouri, Mr. Moore came to Webb City before 1900, and for many years resided here while he engaged in business as an ore buyer and hauler. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Moore.
Webb City at that time had no paved streets, few sidewalks and no general sewer system. Mr. Moore, a life-long Republican, was elected mayor in 1904 and immediately got under way several projects of civic improvements. The streets in the main business district, which had been muddy quagmires during the rainy season, were paved with brick. Allen (now Main), East Main (now East Broadway) Webb and Daugherty Street as far west as Webb Streets were among the streets paved. Later Daugherty, from Webb west, was paved by the old Southwest Missouri Railroad Company.
He continued in office for four years and although the council was predominately Democratic, the entire city administration worked together harmoniously under his leadership for the civic welfare.
The deceased was a former member of the old First Methodist Church here. When the congegation built the new building he furnished a boys' classroom in lavish fashion. The work, done in honor of his son, was known as the "Clyde Moore Memorial Room."
As important or more important than the street work, for which he is better known, was the big task of bringing the city a modern sewer system. Until that time cesspools and outdoor toilets were the only sanitary system here. His administration planned and built the sewer system now in use, including the North Vine Street and West Fourth Street outlets. Many sidewalks, curbs and gutters were also built as Mayor Moore pulled the town up out of the mud by its bootstraps.
For a good part of his residence here, Mr. Moore and his family resided at 903 South Madison in the large brick residence now owned by James V. Reynolds. The house was purchased by the Moores from the builder, W. W. Howard. Upon leaving Webb City the property was sold to W. J. Cochrane. During their residence here, their life was saddened by the loss of their only son, Clyde Moore, who was a boy of 11 at the time of his death. Clyde died while the family was on a vacation at Colorado Springs, where Mr. Moore was going yesterday when he was fatally stricken.
His wife, Ida Moore, passed away at their home in Joplin on August 27, 1946.
Also preceding Mr. Moore in death was a daughter, Mrs. Nan Murrell**, who died in 1926 at the age of 31. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, who had been married more than 50 years at the time of his wife's death, came to Webb City in 1897 from Aurora. The family first lived here at First and Washington Streets.
Mr. Moore was a charter member of the Webb City Elks Lodge, No. 861; and last December was present at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the lodge. His death leaves John C. Veatch as the lodge's only surviving charter member. Incidentally, Mr. Moore and Mr. Veatch were life-long friends, with the latter serving on the city council and assisting the mayor in the early-day improvement works. The two men were members of the first Elks class of twenty-five men who were initiated into the order at rites held in the old Blake theater building on Daugherty Street in 1903.
He was also a 50-year member of Webb City Masonic Lodge No. 512, and was a 50-year member of the Joplin Scottish Rite bodies and the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine at Springfield.
Mr. Moore was chairman of the board of the Republic National Life Insurance Company of Dallas, Texas.
Four nephews survive, Orville Rutledge of Hillsboro, Ill., George Rutledge, Joplin, Virgil Sherman of Los Angeles and John Sherman of New York City.
The body is being returned to Webb City and will be received by the Hedge-Lewis Funeral Home tonight.
* should be 1871
** should be Merrill
(Webb City Sentinel, August 5, 1954, Volume 76)
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[History of Jasper County and its people, by Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]. This biography of George was shared by contributor Roy Fredrick, May 2016:
BIO: Mr. George W. Moore is a native of Dallas county, Missouri, where he was born on September 29, 1871. He is a son of Alexander A. and Louisa (Richey) Moore, the former born and reared in Knoxville, and the latter in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The father came to Missouri in 1873 and located in Joplin, where he remained nine years engaged in mining. He next lived for some time in Dallas county, then moved to Aurora in Lawrence county, and there again engaged in mining. He remained at Aurora until 1897, when he moved to a farm north of Carthage on which he passed the remainder of his days and died in 1907, at the age of sixty-seven years.
George W. Moore obtained a limited common-school education in the public schools of Joplin and Dallas county, attending them until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he was forced by circumstances to go to work and earn his living. In 1$96 he entered upon his present line of business as ore purchaser at Aurora for W. J. Lanyon, and soon afterward began work in the same capacity for the Lanyon Zinc Company, which he served faithfully as ore purchaser for ten years. In 1908, however, he became connected with the American Metal Company, which owns the Lanyon Starr Smelting Company's zinc plant at Bartlesville, and the Bartlesville Zinc Company, and he is also president of the Webb City Smelting and Manufacturing Company's lead plant. Mr. Moore has entire charge of the ore buying for these plants, and the company finds his services in this work highly satisfactory and beneficial to it.
During his tenure of the mayoralty many improvements were made in the city. Twenty-one blocks in business streets and a number in residence sections were paved with vitrified brick. The Alba street car franchise and the gas franchise were granted, but only for valuable returns to the city, By the terms of its franchise the street car company was obliged to remove its tracks from Main to Daugherty street and build a viaduct. between Webb City and Carterville, at a coat of one hundred thousand dollars. As an additional compensation for the concession granted it the company put down seven thousand dollars worth of paving on Main street and appropriated two thousand, five hundred dollars toward building a sidewalk to Carterville and other improvements. It also double-tracked West Daugherty street and paved five blocks of it at a considerable expense.
Another valuable improvement made in the city during Mr. Moores administration was the installation of the first street lights in the residence district, as well as arc lights in the business street. Everything was prosperous at the time and business was booming. With characteristic public spirit and enterprise, Mr. Moore took advantage of the conditions to start improvements which have been kept up ever since, and all classes of the people cheerfully acknowledge their obligation to him for the new era of advancement which he inaugurated.
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