Miss Fry is one of the best known Sterling women having made her home her about 60 years. Of later her health had become so indifferent that she was obliged to discontinue her profession as a chiropodist and has now gone to Spokane to maker her home with a niece whose husband is a physician and under whose care she has hopes of regaining her health. Her address in Spokane is East 1717 Fourteenth avenue, care of C.H. Stanley. Miss Fry was an active worker in the Fourth Street Methodist church, Sterling, and has many friends in and out of that circle who are interested in her health and well being. July 28, 1930

LONG IN BUSINESS - WILL RETIRE SOON Miss Martha Fry of 701 Avenue B is retiring permanently from practice as a chiropodist, early in September and soon will go to Chicago for residence in the Old Folks Home of the Methodist Church, located at 1415 Foster Avenue.

In her retirement there will have passed out of active public service one who has been in business in Sterling for 59 years, and an active member of the Fourth Street Methodist church for many years. Miss Fry has countless friends who will miss her but will be glad to know that she will pass the sunset of here life in a lovely home for the aged.

Miss Fry was born April 16, 1861, on a farm seven miles northwest of Sterling, in Jordan township, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Joseph Fry. Her parents brought her, at the age of 18 months to Sterling and with the exception of five years in Rock Falls, has lived in this city. The years in Rock Falls wer from 1876 to 1881. As a young girl she learned dressmaking in the shop of Mrs. Belle bye, and after 10 years in her employ succeeded to her dressmaking business. She followed that trade in Sterling 31 years. Due to the nerve wracking strain of sewing Miss Fry found it necessary to give up that trade and she began to cast about for some other means of earning a living. Quite by accident she met with a traveling chiropodist and became interested in that work. She prepared herself for that profession and entered upon it, so that now she has been a chiropodist for 28 years, all the time in Sterling.

Miss Fry's parents lived on West Eighth street, but after her father died she and her mother had an apartment adjoining the dressmaking rooms. One of her early locations was in a two story frame building which stood on the lot now occupied by the J.K. Chester and Co. store, the former bank building. Two years after that occupancy she had dress making rooms over what is now the E and W store, where Miss Fry assumed the business of Mrs. Bye. From there she moved to the suite of rooms over the West THirst street A and P store.

Contributed by Jean Portner

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