EARLY POST CARD view of Milwaukee Avenue south of Dundee Road. Two buggies stand with tops tilted back, at a hitching rail in front of Schminke and Bollenbach stores on the west side. Laura Neiber and Lucile Schneider are on the sidewalk.
GENERAL STORES filled the basic needs of Wheeling's early settlers. John A. Schminke bought this building from Jacob Hunsinger in 1878. In 1918 Edward J. Welflin took it over.
MASONIC TEMPLE building was raised by members of the Vitruvius Lodge. Cloice Wieder and Ray Lesch, members are at work on the roof while Robert Utpadel, Robert Benson and Edward Welflin watch from below. One of the founders was Joseph Filkins, Wheeling innkeeper. Vetruvius No. 81 was a "Moon Lodge" with meeting dates on the Saturday on or preceding the full moon -- so members could walk or drive home by moonlight. Photo is from the Wheeling Independent for April 9, 1954. A new Masonic Temple was built on the same site.
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