V. L. Curtis Store - on Broad St in the current bank parking lot

Image courtesy of Rene Elliott

V. L. Curtis Store - on Broad St in or close to the current bank parking lot

I will try to get a better photograph later this year, but this color photograph shows the that sign was multi-color.

If you look at The Morris Chronicle from September 21, 1898 that is linked below in the second column next to SUPPLIES in column one you can see that the sign was painted by A. Avery and hung in September, 1898.

The grave of V. L. Curtis is in Hillington Cemetery in Morris.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93691001/vinton-l-curtis