Watertown Re-Union -  Saturday, September 24, 1910 (pdf. 0057 fultonhistory.com)

Plessis, Sept. 23.�To resume and, go back (as Josiah Allen's wife says) told that some time (ago) Edwin Tanner run business in the Stone Store.  This must have been in the forties, Whether he was succeeded immediately by Sanford Suts or not, I cannot tell, but Sanford Suts was doing business there later. During his residence here he built a handsome house. This, with his stock, he traded with Eli Phelps, for the fine farm near this village now owned by Adam Snell, of Lafargeville, and conducted by George Hartman. Mr. Suts went to Davenport, Iowa, where to embarked in business. He has been for several years a resident of Syracuse.Eli Phelps sold (we are told) to Comstock & Biddleman, going to Brownville, where he died. Later the firm of Biddleman & Sterling did business there for several years. The firm was dissolved. James Sterling returning to Sterlingville and Jonas Biddleman going to Theresa where for years he was a merchant tailor. The store was then conducted for a time by Joseph Fayel of Theresa as a branch store. Makepeace & McAllister were in business a few years, when McAllister sold to George W. Augsbury. This firm continued in business a few years, when S. J. Makepeace sold out and started a business where his sons now are in business. M. R. Wilcox entered into partnership and they were in business 12 or more years. M. R. Wilcox selling to Augsbury in 1900, going west. He is in business in Toledo, O. Augsbury has since run the business alone. On the lot where William V. Hoard's store and house stand, a small well-lighted shop was built by M. J. Storms and used by him as a shoe shop. This must have been built in the early forties. To whom he sold, I do not know, but Daniel Roof owned it and with Charles Comstock built the store, running a shoe and grocery store. Comstock died in a short time. Roof carried on business there, selling, we think about 1870, to Frizzell & Phelps. Phelps sold to B. Ostrander, who conducted a grocery store ten or more years, selling in 1886 to James A. Wiswell, who built a house adjoining the store. He was in the grocery and drug business until about 1900, or it may be a year later, he buying the Corlis farm, near this village, where he lived two or three years, selling that to A. Hunter, who occupies the same. Wiswell bought in Potsdam, where he still resides. The store he sold to Gilbert Shannon, who run the grocery business two years, selling to William V. Hoard, who still occupies it.