Workers replace a business' stolen downspout
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Ronnie Howell fastens an aluminum downspout next to the Corner Grocery Store at 439 Broadway, assisted by his son, Brandon, on Tuesday. Store owner Robert Gentry said he noticed the original copper downspout was stolen the week before Thanksgiving. “We’ve been here 10 years, and I just knew something was missing,” Gentry said, as he opened the store that day. Thieves did not steal the copper basin above it. “That might have been too hard,” he said.
Subscribe below or log in with your password here.
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.
Join today
Note: Special discounts available to new subscribers only. Print subscriptions may include up to 13 Premium Issues per year, which include special magazines. For each Premium Issue, your account balance will be charged an additional fee in the billing period when the section publishes. This will result in shortening the length of your billing period.