Bottorff Hardware

1927-03-04 Abe Bottorff's store took over the Hubbard Hardware store and will conduct it as an exclusive hardware business. Bottorff's grocery department known as U.R.M. which was taken over by Hubbards Inc. and became a complete market. C.O. Green then took over management Hubbards grocery from George Swartwood. [CFP] Bottorff brought the hardware department over to Bottorff Hardware 323-325 1st, while Hubbard's Inc. at the 402 1st Street location continued for a few years as a grocery store.

1926-04-06: C.A. Bottorff of Rosalia purchased E.E. Garberg's hardware store on Monday, 6 April 1926. He was in business for several years in Rosalia. He plans to move his family to Cheney as soon as he can find a home [CFP 9 April 1926]

1926-11-19: URM Store advertises new crop nuts, as well as boxes of various apples.

In 1927, Abe Bottorff asked William Bernard to help move some merchandise in the store over a couple of weeks. Bill Bernard stayed for 33 years through the ownership change to Roy Hansen, continuing until Bernard retired when Hansen sold the hardware store to Norval Holmes in June 1959. [CFP 6 Nov 1959]

1927-03-04 Abe Bottorff's store took over the Hubbard Hardware store and will conduct it as an exclusive hardware business. Bottorff's grocery department known as U.R.M. which was taken over by Hubbards Inc. and became a complete market. C.O. Green then took over management Hubbards grocery from George Swartwood. [CFP] Bottorff brought the hardware department over to Bottorff Hardware 323-325 1st, while Hubbard's Inc. at the 402 1st Street location continued for a few years as a grocery store.

C. Abe Bottorff and his wife, Lucretia were members of the IOOF and Rebekahs. Lucretia was elected treasurer of Rebekahs January 1935.

1935 Bottorff was showing off the "modern" Master Frigidaire refrigerator. [CFP]

Bottorff's Hardware. Fuller paints, oils, varnishes, roofing paper, felt, roof coat, hardware, Monarch ranges, Congoleum rugs, Philco radios and tubes.

1935-08-23: The gas pump in front of Bottorff's hardware store apparently enjoyed a hard week-end, in fact it was quite obvious to numerous onlookers last Monday morning that the pump was suffering from a severe "hang-over." It was listing at an angle of about 35 degrees, with the cement in which it was embedded being more or less cracked and torn up. However, the explanation was simple enough. When a truck which had been parked near the pump Sunday evening, started to drive away, the driver, a local man, did not notice that a part of the truck had caught on the pump, with the result that the gas dispenser was pulled into a slanting position before the trouble was noticed.

21 April 1937 C.A. Bottorff was sworn in as city councilman to finish the term of Sam Webb. [CFP 22 Apr 1937]

1938-November: Mr. Bottorff retired, selling the business to Roy S. Hansen.

18 September 1939 C.A. Bottorff, and two other men received 25-year member pins in the IOOF. [CFP]