W H NEFFLEN
PROPRIETOR OF A COMPREHENSIVE NEWS DEPOT AND VARIETY STORE.
A thoroughly well-equipped store of this description is not
only a necessity, but a positive benefaction to the community, and so
varied a stock as carried by W H Nefflen, is not often seen gathered
under one roof.
Subscriptions are taken for any magazine or periodical
published in the United States, as well as for the Baltimore,
Washington, Philadelphia and New York papers. A fine line of society
stationery is handled and other articles dealt in include school and
stationery supplies, cutlery, sporting goods, toys, plush goods, fine
chinaware, cigars, tobacco smoking articles.
Choice confectionery is sold, and a handsome sodawater
fountain is a feature. Cooling drinks of all kinds are dispensed.
Probably good her business numbers among its regular
patrons so large a proportion of Keyser citizens, and fills so
satisfactorily all demands of its trade.
Mr W H Nefflen is a Piedmont boy, a son of the oldest
living pioneer merchant of the "Twin-Towns". Mr Emil
Nefflen, and has resided in Keyser for the past 18 years.
Until 1886, he was in the employ of his brother, Mr P H
Nefflen, the jeweler, afterward establishing his present business. He
possesses to the fullest extent those sterling qualities of integrity
and application, naturally to be expected from the son of Emil
Nefflin, and has transacted business along modern lines. Unusual
aptitude in, purchasing those articles which the public desires, is a
necessary attribute to success in a novelty store, and Mr Nefflen has
been eminently successful.
TRANSCRIBED OCTOBER 28, 2001 BY PATTI MCDONALD
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