Submitted by Norma Jean Huss
A lumber yard and a furniture store with the usual undertaking establishment that is found in connection with furniture stores in Southern Illinois are operated under the name of A.J. Gibbons.
The business is most conveniently located in a square by itself adjoining the Court House square and the arrangements are easy for the loading and unloading of lumber, lime and cement. Connected with the lumber yard is the manufacture of cast stone where sills, lintels, watertables and stone trimmings as fine as any natural cut stone are made at about half the price of material stone.
He is now installing electrical machinery for this class of work and may later on extend it into a woodworking machine shop.
He also maintains under the management of Fred Aikens a branch Lumber Yard and Undertaking Establishment at Joppa which has proven a great convenience to the people in that part of this county.
Mr. Gibbons experience in building interests and material has been life long. If you are going to build a cottage or bungalow or if you are going to do any concrete work around the home or on the farm he will furnish you plans and books for ordinary work for the asking. If you have anything special he will get it for you at a minimum cost.
As a result of his experience and close reading he has a fund of valuable information in regard to building barns, silos, machine sheds, poultry houses and plans for the same.
If there is anything you want to know along these lines call on him or write him and he will be glad to impart to you valuable information that will save you dollars or disappointment where hap-hazard work ensues.
A.J. Gibbons seeing a railroad working through Massac County cast his lot in Metropolis in the fall of 1888. He was Mayor in 1903, in politics he had not been other than a Republican but went with the Progressive Party in 1912.
He is well known throughout the eleven counties of the 24th Congressional District in which he campaigned in the interests of that party in 1912 and 1916.
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