Wharton's closing!

Slowly but surely, Whartons has been has been fading from sight and now it appears that it will shortly become a footnote in the annals of the history of Broad Channel.

First the Pharmacy closed and then the Post Office. 

Now there is a large sign in the window of the establishment stating "Closing...everything must go!"

As the poet Robert Burns wrote, "The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew...",