Peru's most popular and successful confectioner in 1886 and for years before that date, was Robert Pelky, whose place of business, a one story frame, located on the southeast corner of Main and Broadway. The building was torn down to make room for the Cole block, where the Morris 5c and 10c store is now.
Robert Pelky boasted of a beard white as snow and that reached to the floor. In cold weather it is said that he used his whiskers for a muffler and kept warm.
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