Local

This photo from the early part of the 1900s shows a number of people standing around outside C.M Mowry Hardware and O. Canaday Mercantile Co. at the corner of Denver Street and Interocean Avenue, currently Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union, Pizza p.a.d. and Los Parra’s Mexican Restaurant. A real estate office can also be seen down the street. Some of the people identified in the photo include Ellis Sheridan, the man in the center with the black hat, talking to Les Slack; O.M. Gillis, Faye Gillis’s father, on left; Gene Decater, fifth from left; and Ol Churning, extreme left. The car is also identified as belonging to Harold Peterson, Fred Peterson’s father. — Source: Phillips County Museum