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St. Joseph Lead Company has posted official notice that the Bonne Terre Cash and Carry Store will be closed on Saturday, November 15, 1947. The notice applies to the Bonne Terre store, only.
The building in which the store is now located was built in 1911 along with other buildings designed as a group by Dallas McGrew, New York Architect, and built by St. Joseph Lead Company. Among the buildings, besides the Country Club Building, in which the store is located, are the Bonne Terre Library, the main office of St. Joseph Lead Co., the Congregational Church, Bonne Terre Hospital, the Cottage on top the hill east of town, now known as the Directors' Cottage, but when built was the home of the late R. R. S. Parsons, who at the time it was built, was in charge of the lead company operations in this district.
While The News has no official figures as to the cost of the buildings mentioned when built, it is a fair guess that the present day value would run, buildings and grounds included, at least two million dollars.
The building which will be vacated by the Bonne Terre Cash and Carry Store will be occupied by the mechanical engineering department of St. Joseph Lead Co.
