BUY WINN CAFE 1953

[kfclark]

The Howard Courant-Citizen, April 23, 1953

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold have purchased the cafe in the Willet building on the west side from Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Winn and took possession last week.  They came here from Wichita, formerly living at Eureka, where they were in the restaurant business.  They will do their best to serve the community and traveling public satisfactorily.  They invite you to call and get acquainted and give them a share of your business.

Mr. and Mrs. Winn had conducted the cafe for several months and were popular with the public and gave good service.  Mr. Winn has returned to his sheep shearing work.

From the same paper

OUR APPRECIATION

We have sold the Winn Cafe to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold and wish to thank the public for the fine patronage given us during the time we were in charge.  We appreciate the many courtesies shown us during that time. ---Mr. and Mrs. Lester Winn and The Girls.

More from the same paper - Classified Want Ads

HELP WANTED - Cook and Waitress, good wages - Arnold Cafe, Howard   17c

[Teresa]

I worked there as a waitress when I was in 8th grade.

[patyrn]

If the Winns sold their cafe in 1953, when did they return to the restaurant business on Main Street of Howard?  When I was growing up in the late 50s and 60s, Winn's Cafe was in the building right north of the original Allen's Drug Store and later the original Batson's Drug Store. 

[Teresa]

THAT"S the I worked in .. later on... after they opened back up.
I assumed that you all knew that since I was ...ahhh ...like born in 1953..

But you never know. I was wondering that myself..when they reopened or bought it back.
But then it was called Winns Cafe.

[frawin]

Arnolds operation of the cafe was shortlived, then my parents took it back. My parents sold it again later to Flossie Lockhart and Flossie operated it for a short time and then my parents took it back and kept it for several years and then sold it to Robert and Donna Harvey Miller. Just a little more history, my parents bought the cafe from Dave and Hazel Roberts Knight, Dave was a brother to Babe Morris (ran the theater) and Hazel is a sister to Bill Roberts. The cafe was known as the M & M when my folks bought it from Dave and Hazel, if memory serves me correctly Dave and Hazel acquired it as the M&M from  Mary Wiseman Strange and I think Mary acquired it from Pop (Cecil) and Sue Allen. When I first remember the M&M it was across the street from where it was in the 50s and 60s, in fact it was in the building that was later the North part of Perkins and Green Hardware.