Taken from a 1901 Supplement to The (Illiopolis) State Center Record
OLAF
SCHIVE, Watchmaker
and Jeweler.
The owners of fine watches give marked preference to the services rendered by
Mr. Olaf Schive for they know him to be reliable and an expert at his trade.
Serving an apprenticeship at the watch maker’s trade in Norway, and acquiring
a proficiency, the result of years of application and training under some of the
best mechanics of the old world, Mr. Schive ought to know every phase and detail
of the business. Leading jewelers in Chicago and Springfield admitted this fact
by their continued demand for his services and by an assurance, constantly held
out and expressed, of the permanency of the positions offered him. Mr. Schive is
a Norwegian by birth and, when old enough to know the nature of the tools
used in watch making, he was apprenticed to the trade and became master of its
requirements. At the age of twenty two years lie came to America settling in
Chicago where he was employed one year. He then located in Springfield and for
eleven years worked for the Illinois Watch Co. where he was ranked among their
expert workmen. Leaving the watch factory he was employed two years in a leading
retail jewelry establishment in the Capital city sud, in 1893, settled
permanently in Illiopolis where he has built up a large, select and increasing
patron age. Mr. Shive carries a complete stock of standard watch cases and watch
movements, a fine line of jewelry which contains a variety of pretty conceits
for personal use and for birthday, wedding and holiday presents. His stock
offers a selection of standard makes in clocks, also silverware and optical
goods. With such expert ability to assist the purchaser in securing his desires,
with a record thoroughly established for unquestioned integrity, with a choice
line of goods and every facility and advantage to supply special orders the
prudent already have learned, and the general public are fast finding out, that
they are consulting their own interests best in directing their patronage to
this establishment.