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VISE, Clyde H., 89, died Sept. 20, 1982 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro.
Mr. VISE was a Franklin County-Hamilton County merchant for 70 years and a member of the family which helped found Macedonia.
He was born in Macedonia on July 15, 1893, to Harvey and Eller McGUYER VISE, and was an owner and operator of a Vise Brothers store there most of his life. "The village of Macedonia became a trading center for its area on the Franklin-Hamilton county line when the VISE family built two stores on the main street of the village. Like the town itself, the street placed one of the stores in Franklin County and the other in Hamilton County. according to the 'This is Franklin County' publication of the Evening News, the settlement, where Franklin County's first water-powered mill was built in the 1830s, 'did not come into existence as a town until VISE (Harvey) established his two stores there'. The earlier stores were described as 'reminiscent of the trading posts of pioneer days'. The two stores were described as the largest frame commercial buildings in the county." Mr. VISE's brother, Evan VISE, is retired and lives in Benton. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Delmar (June) CARLTON, McLeansboro; and two sisters, Mrs. Ava SPARKS, Flint, MI., and Mrs. Wilma DILLON, Stuart, FL. His wife was the late Gertie MOSS, whom he married Sept 11, 1911. Mrs. VISE was a member of the Macedonia Masonic Lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America. Funeral services at Gholson Funeral Home, McLeansboro, Rev. Richard HART officiating. Interment in Macedonia Cemetery. On June 1, 1968, Mr. Clyde H. VISE received his 50 year pin from Masonic Lodge #1128. It was presented by his brother, Evan H. VISE, also a member of the Macedonia Lodge. An "Odds and Ends" column honored Mr. VISE. It reads in part, "When Clyde VISE stared waiting on customers at his store in Macedonia, for instance, not one of them came by car. Instead they came by buggy, for nearby residents not buying much, or by horse-and-wagon, used by those who may not have lived so far from the town as we think of distance today, but who might spend a full day or more in traveling to and from the village, selling his own products and buying the staples which would have to last until the next time the journey could be repeated. This was an era in Southern Illinois when there were few cities as we know them now, or at least ones reachable as quickly as they are now. Instead there were communities which had their own names - most of them have disappeared by now - because a few people live close together, but which was the center of commerce for farms from miles around. The VISE stores, the WEBB's Hill store - many similar enterprises - sprang up to meet the demand, and some were of a size and with a variety of merchandise which would astound us now. In a sense there were some similarities. Many people now, for instance, go to shopping malls on Sundays, not necessarily to buy because most don't, but simply because it provides a convenient gathering place to see other people and look at and converse with them. The VISE stores, and the others in that era, provided the same sort of facility, though doubtless not on Sunday, and not in such numbers, and strangers were comparatively few. But stores like that of the VISE brothers had a stove to provide heat in the winter, or an open screen door or a front porch to make the summers bearable. And there were benches and chairs aplenty for socialibilty purposes. I remember that at the VISE stores from my first visit there, long years ago as the companion of my grandfather, described before on an occasion in these columns as a horse trader and a 'swapper' of anything in general. He gloried in sitting, talking and swapping at establishments like that. And, in looking back, it is amazing how there was more time for things like that then than are now, even though now we can get there ever so much quicker than then. I can't quite understand how all these modern devices which are supposed to save us so much time have, instead, also resulted in advances which have deprived us of the time to appreciate them. Macedonia is Franklin County's prettiest area, an example of the gentler times which provides the woods and water which provide the fictional setting in those books describing the idyllic ways of life or rural youth".
VISE, Clyde H., 89, died Sept. 20, 1982 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro.
Mr. VISE was a Franklin County-Hamilton County merchant for 70 years and a member of the family which helped found Macedonia.
He was born in Macedonia on July 15, 1893, to Harvey and Eller McGUYER VISE, and was an owner and operator of a Vise Brothers store there most of his life. "The village of Macedonia became a trading center for its area on the Franklin-Hamilton county line when the VISE family built two stores on the main street of the village. Like the town itself, the street placed one of the stores in Franklin County and the other in Hamilton County. according to the 'This is Franklin County' publication of the Evening News, the settlement, where Franklin County's first water-powered mill was built in the 1830s, 'did not come into existence as a town until VISE (Harvey) established his two stores there'. The earlier stores were described as 'reminiscent of the trading posts of pioneer days'. The two stores were described as the largest frame commercial buildings in the county." Mr. VISE's brother, Evan VISE, is retired and lives in Benton. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Delmar (June) CARLTON, McLeansboro; and two sisters, Mrs. Ava SPARKS, Flint, MI., and Mrs. Wilma DILLON, Stuart, FL. His wife was the late Gertie MOSS, whom he married Sept 11, 1911. Mrs. VISE was a member of the Macedonia Masonic Lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America. Funeral services at Gholson Funeral Home, McLeansboro, Rev. Richard HART officiating. Interment in Macedonia Cemetery. On June 1, 1968, Mr. Clyde H. VISE received his 50 year pin from Masonic Lodge #1128. It was presented by his brother, Evan H. VISE, also a member of the Macedonia Lodge. An "Odds and Ends" column honored Mr. VISE. It reads in part, "When Clyde VISE stared waiting on customers at his store in Macedonia, for instance, not one of them came by car. Instead they came by buggy, for nearby residents not buying much, or by horse-and-wagon, used by those who may not have lived so far from the town as we think of distance today, but who might spend a full day or more in traveling to and from the village, selling his own products and buying the staples which would have to last until the next time the journey could be repeated. This was an era in Southern Illinois when there were few cities as we know them now, or at least ones reachable as quickly as they are now. Instead there were communities which had their own names - most of them have disappeared by now - because a few people live close together, but which was the center of commerce for farms from miles around. The VISE stores, the WEBB's Hill store - many similar enterprises - sprang up to meet the demand, and some were of a size and with a variety of merchandise which would astound us now. In a sense there were some similarities. Many people now, for instance, go to shopping malls on Sundays, not necessarily to buy because most don't, but simply because it provides a convenient gathering place to see other people and look at and converse with them. The VISE stores, and the others in that era, provided the same sort of facility, though doubtless not on Sunday, and not in such numbers, and strangers were comparatively few. But stores like that of the VISE brothers had a stove to provide heat in the winter, or an open screen door or a front porch to make the summers bearable. And there were benches and chairs aplenty for socialibilty purposes. I remember that at the VISE stores from my first visit there, long years ago as the companion of my grandfather, described before on an occasion in these columns as a horse trader and a 'swapper' of anything in general. He gloried in sitting, talking and swapping at establishments like that. And, in looking back, it is amazing how there was more time for things like that then than are now, even though now we can get there ever so much quicker than then. I can't quite understand how all these modern devices which are supposed to save us so much time have, instead, also resulted in advances which have deprived us of the time to appreciate them. Macedonia is Franklin County's prettiest area, an example of the gentler times which provides the woods and water which provide the fictional setting in those books describing the idyllic ways of life or rural youth".
Undated/Unsourced Obituary -
VISE, Clyde H., 89, died Sept. 20, 1982 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro.
Mr. VISE was a Franklin County-Hamilton County merchant for 70 years and a member of the family which helped found Macedonia.
He was born in Macedonia on July 15, 1893, to Harvey and Eller McGUYER VISE, and was an owner and operator of a Vise Brothers store there most of his life. "The village of Macedonia became a trading center for its area on the Franklin-Hamilton county line when the VISE family built two stores on the main street of the village. Like the town itself, the street placed one of the stores in Franklin County and the other in Hamilton County. according to the 'This is Franklin County' publication of the Evening News, the settlement, where Franklin County's first water-powered mill was built in the 1830s, 'did not come into existence as a town until VISE (Harvey) established his two stores there'. The earlier stores were described as 'reminiscent of the trading posts of pioneer days'. The two stores were described as the largest frame commercial buildings in the county." Mr. VISE's brother, Evan VISE, is retired and lives in Benton. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Delmar (June) CARLTON, McLeansboro; and two sisters, Mrs. Ava SPARKS, Flint, MI., and Mrs. Wilma DILLON, Stuart, FL. His wife was the late Gertie MOSS, whom he married Sept 11, 1911. Mrs. VISE was a member of the Macedonia Masonic Lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America. Funeral services at Gholson Funeral Home, McLeansboro, Rev. Richard HART officiating. Interment in Macedonia Cemetery. On June 1, 1968, Mr. Clyde H. VISE received his 50 year pin from Masonic Lodge #1128. It was presented by his brother, Evan H. VISE, also a member of the Macedonia Lodge. An "Odds and Ends" column honored Mr. VISE. It reads in part, "When Clyde VISE stared waiting on customers at his store in Macedonia, for instance, not one of them came by car. Instead they came by buggy, for nearby residents not buying much, or by horse-and-wagon, used by those who may not have lived so far from the town as we think of distance today, but who might spend a full day or more in traveling to and from the village, selling his own products and buying the staples which would have to last until the next time the journey could be repeated. This was an era in Southern Illinois when there were few cities as we know them now, or at least ones reachable as quickly as they are now. Instead there were communities which had their own names - most of them have disappeared by now - because a few people live close together, but which was the center of commerce for farms from miles around. The VISE stores, the WEBB's Hill store - many similar enterprises - sprang up to meet the demand, and some were of a size and with a variety of merchandise which would astound us now. In a sense there were some similarities. Many people now, for instance, go to shopping malls on Sundays, not necessarily to buy because most don't, but simply because it provides a convenient gathering place to see other people and look at and converse with them. The VISE stores, and the others in that era, provided the same sort of facility, though doubtless not on Sunday, and not in such numbers, and strangers were comparatively few. But stores like that of the VISE brothers had a stove to provide heat in the winter, or an open screen door or a front porch to make the summers bearable. And there were benches and chairs aplenty for socialibilty purposes. I remember that at the VISE stores from my first visit there, long years ago as the companion of my grandfather, described before on an occasion in these columns as a horse trader and a 'swapper' of anything in general. He gloried in sitting, talking and swapping at establishments like that. And, in looking back, it is amazing how there was more time for things like that then than are now, even though now we can get there ever so much quicker than then. I can't quite understand how all these modern devices which are supposed to save us so much time have, instead, also resulted in advances which have deprived us of the time to appreciate them. Macedonia is Franklin County's prettiest area, an example of the gentler times which provides the woods and water which provide the fictional setting in those books describing the idyllic ways of life or rural youth".
VISE, Clyde H., 89, died Sept. 20, 1982 at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro.
Mr. VISE was a Franklin County-Hamilton County merchant for 70 years and a member of the family which helped found Macedonia.
He was born in Macedonia on July 15, 1893, to Harvey and Eller McGUYER VISE, and was an owner and operator of a Vise Brothers store there most of his life. "The village of Macedonia became a trading center for its area on the Franklin-Hamilton county line when the VISE family built two stores on the main street of the village. Like the town itself, the street placed one of the stores in Franklin County and the other in Hamilton County. according to the 'This is Franklin County' publication of the Evening News, the settlement, where Franklin County's first water-powered mill was built in the 1830s, 'did not come into existence as a town until VISE (Harvey) established his two stores there'. The earlier stores were described as 'reminiscent of the trading posts of pioneer days'. The two stores were described as the largest frame commercial buildings in the county." Mr. VISE's brother, Evan VISE, is retired and lives in Benton. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Delmar (June) CARLTON, McLeansboro; and two sisters, Mrs. Ava SPARKS, Flint, MI., and Mrs. Wilma DILLON, Stuart, FL. His wife was the late Gertie MOSS, whom he married Sept 11, 1911. Mrs. VISE was a member of the Macedonia Masonic Lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America. Funeral services at Gholson Funeral Home, McLeansboro, Rev. Richard HART officiating. Interment in Macedonia Cemetery. On June 1, 1968, Mr. Clyde H. VISE received his 50 year pin from Masonic Lodge #1128. It was presented by his brother, Evan H. VISE, also a member of the Macedonia Lodge. An "Odds and Ends" column honored Mr. VISE. It reads in part, "When Clyde VISE stared waiting on customers at his store in Macedonia, for instance, not one of them came by car. Instead they came by buggy, for nearby residents not buying much, or by horse-and-wagon, used by those who may not have lived so far from the town as we think of distance today, but who might spend a full day or more in traveling to and from the village, selling his own products and buying the staples which would have to last until the next time the journey could be repeated. This was an era in Southern Illinois when there were few cities as we know them now, or at least ones reachable as quickly as they are now. Instead there were communities which had their own names - most of them have disappeared by now - because a few people live close together, but which was the center of commerce for farms from miles around. The VISE stores, the WEBB's Hill store - many similar enterprises - sprang up to meet the demand, and some were of a size and with a variety of merchandise which would astound us now. In a sense there were some similarities. Many people now, for instance, go to shopping malls on Sundays, not necessarily to buy because most don't, but simply because it provides a convenient gathering place to see other people and look at and converse with them. The VISE stores, and the others in that era, provided the same sort of facility, though doubtless not on Sunday, and not in such numbers, and strangers were comparatively few. But stores like that of the VISE brothers had a stove to provide heat in the winter, or an open screen door or a front porch to make the summers bearable. And there were benches and chairs aplenty for socialibilty purposes. I remember that at the VISE stores from my first visit there, long years ago as the companion of my grandfather, described before on an occasion in these columns as a horse trader and a 'swapper' of anything in general. He gloried in sitting, talking and swapping at establishments like that. And, in looking back, it is amazing how there was more time for things like that then than are now, even though now we can get there ever so much quicker than then. I can't quite understand how all these modern devices which are supposed to save us so much time have, instead, also resulted in advances which have deprived us of the time to appreciate them. Macedonia is Franklin County's prettiest area, an example of the gentler times which provides the woods and water which provide the fictional setting in those books describing the idyllic ways of life or rural youth".
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