HAUPT BROS.
The leading jewelers of Peabody, "on the Corner"

AN ARTICLE EXTRACTED FROM THE PEABODY NEWS 1901
Contributed by Charmaine Keith (charmain@southwind.net) 13 October 1998

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Peabody News
1901

	C. G. Haupt moved to Marion County from Illinois two years before "grasshopperyear." 
The lived on a farm near town for a number of years, but the boys, W. H.
and James, developed a desire for a mercantile life, so moved to town and began the jewelry
business in an humble way in the Kollock building, one door north of the postoffice. Their 
business grew and the boys mastered the trade in all its details, becoming expert in all 
the branches of jewelry work, and in 1899 found better quarters were necessary, so moved 
into the building "on the corner," which they now occupy.

	They have fitted it up in magnificent style with handsome show windows, counters 
and other conveniences appropriate to their business, and stocked it up with one of the 
finest lines of jewelry to be seen between Kansas City and Wichita. The store is spoken of 
by traveling men as one of the handsomest and most neatly arranged of any in the state. 

	They have paid especial attention to handling only the best quality of goods on the 
market and their guarantee that  "if it comes from Haupt's it is good" is no idle boast.

	Besides their line of fine jewelry, watches, clocks, diamonds, and silverware, they 
are both competent watchmakers. To these lines they have added on of the most complete 
lines of wallpaper ever shown in Marion County, and are enjoying an excellent trade.

	Both are married, and are model citizens of our town. James married the daughter of 
Councilman Wallace Johnson two years ago, and W. H. married a Marion girl, Miss Beulah 
Miller, and has two bright children who like to come down and watch papa fix "tick ticks"