W. (Bill) Willis and Lloyd Harper took over the Northern Hardware & Furniture Co. store and stock here from D. Whitmore and Alex Moffat on Monday, in one of the largest business transfers in some time. The new proprietors plan on carrying on the business, which was established in 1933, along the same lines as formerly.
The store was closed Monday for stocktaking, but open for business again Tuesday morning.
Bill Willis started to work at the Northern in June, 1935, and has remained with the firm ever since. During the past few years he has taken active charge of the store during Mr. Whitmore's frequent absences.
Lloyd Harper came to Quesnel in 1933 from Prince George in May, 1933, when they started the Harper Sheet Metal Works. For some years the business was operated by Lloyd and his brother, Len, who was killed in the fighting in Germany last year. Since that time he has carried on alone. We understand Lloyd plans on disposing of the sheet metal works.
Both Bill and Lloyd are of the younger generation of Quesnel business men, and both are keen sportsmen. Their many friends in the district will wish them success in their new venture.
Frank Whitmore plans on retiring and taking life easy. He says that during the past couple of years he has located all the pools in the country where the "big fellows" lurk, and this year he is going out and round them up.
The Shell Oil Agency, which was held by the Company, has been taken over by Ken Thibaudeau, who has attended to it for the past five years.
From the Quesnel Cariboo Observer