FIRST GENERAL STORE
C.D. PRUET - MERCHANT
DECEMBER 24 , 1909
THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
THE FIRST GENERAL STORE WAS ESTABLISHED BY C.D. PRUET IN A TWO STORY FRAME BUILDING AT THE CORNER OF MAIN AND PRUET ON THE LOT WHERE THE POOL ROOM STANDS .
MR. PRUET HAD FORMERLY BEEN A MERCHANT IN THE COUNTRY NEAR THE SITE OF THE NEW TOWN AND AS SOON AS THE TOWN STARTED HE MOVED HERE FOR SHIPPING ADVANTAGES .
PRUET STREET WAS NAMED FOR THE PRUET BROTHERS , OF WHOM THERE WERE THREE AND ALL OF THEM WERE CONSPICIOUS IN PROMOTING THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN IN ITS EARLY HISTORY.