MarJen
Marjen Department Store was named after Jake's two children, Marvin and Jeanine. Marvin as an adult moved to Fort Valley (about twenty miles North) and changed his name from Marvin Allen Aronowitz to Marvin Aaron Allen and went into the real estate business and has done very well, I hear. Marjen sold a wide variety of clothing and other soft goods to the farming community and had good, low, prices in keeping with the economy of the area. Jake had several friends in Georgia who had similar stores and when they would get overstocked they would have a "going out of business" sale or a "complete liquidation" sale during which great bargains were available. His friends would bring in their extra merchandise to the sale as well and the sale would last for months. And in the end he would decide not to go out of business after all, but no one really minded. He and his wife and kids were one of only two Jewish families in the area. The other, Sanford Cohen, was (of all things) a hog farmer between Montezuma and Marshallville. Jake and his wife were good friends of my mother and father and lived about a block down Dooly Street when I was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.
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