At 06:57 PM 12/16/2000 EST, you wrote: >Hi all- >In the bottom drawer of the desk that belonged to my grandparents, then my >parents, and now me are two rulers.One says, "Visit Wetherbee Bros. New >Sporting Goods Store 39 N. Prairie St.". On the back it says, "Athletic >Goods, Velocipedes, Wagons, Toys & Electrical Supplies". >The second ruler is for "Peoples Trust & Savings Bank Galesburg Illinois , >We invite the children to open Savings Accounts". On the back, "Save your >Pennies, Nickels and Dimes and open an account with Peoples Trust & Savings >Bank , Interest Paid on Deposits. One Dollar will start you Begin to save >now". >Are these establishments still in Galesburg and does anyone have a guess on >the age of both rulers? And what is a velocipede? Thanks. >Barb Clay Adams > > Wetherbee's had become Gale Ward Sporting Goods by the time I was in high school in the 1960's but old timers still called it Wetherbee's not sure of the year change. Gale Ward went through several sets of owners, "Bucky" Swise had it for several years, can't recall if "Gabby" Boynton owned part of it or not but worked there many years after he left coaching at Knox College. Chuck Wetherbee worked at Knox College when I was a student there and his children attended Knox; they were of that family but they no longer owned the sporting goods store. People's Trust & Savings Bank started in 1900 and was on the NW corner of Main and Cherry Streets. It was still around in 1928, M.O. Williamson, Pres. Not sure if it survived the Great Depression. Reportedly Galesburg hadn't any bank failures in the Great Depression, so I suspect this was acquired by one of the others. It is easier to find the documentation for beginnings of instiutitions and social movements than how they end.