Morrison Hardware & Industrial Supplies

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard

James Elam, left, and employee Tim McPeak handle the checkout center in the new expansion of Morrison Hardware & Industrial Supply. The store carries a wide range of tools, farm implements, garden supplies, and new and used ATVs.

If you’re looking for tools, knives, garden supplies, bearings, electrical conduit, or pretty much anything in the way of hardware and supplies for industry, then look no further than Morrison Hardware & Industrial Supplies, a traditional family-owned and operated store located in the heart of downtown Morrison.

According to James Elam, his father and his grandfather, David and Rayford Elam, bought the store in 1983 and the family has operated it for over two decades now. Rayford has since retired and left the running of the business to David and James.

The store recently added a modern and roomy expansion to the original building, which James thinks has been around since the 1940s.

“We got moved over here around March of this year,” James said. The move allowed them to add some major items, including all terrain vehicles.

“After we got the expansion we got into the ATV business,” James said, “used ATVs and some new, and basically just expanded our existing inventory.

That inventory includes a wide variety of merchandise to cover almost any customer’s hardware needs.

“We carry everything just about,” James said. “We’ve got bearings, sprockets, anything you need for a farm. Then we’ve got general hardware, PVC pipe, conduit, anything contractors might need. You name it, we’ve got a little bit of everything. We’ve got industrial lines too. You don’t find that in a hardware store much.”

The store carries a good variety of name brand tools from companies like Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita and Bosch, among others.

In addition to James and his father, the business has three other employees, Tim McPeak, Debbie Gann and Marcelo Ibarra, and the store prides itself on going the extra mile for its customers.

“We do a lot of special order,” James said. “If people can’t find something, we can usually have it in one or two days. A lot of stores don’t do that. If they don’t have it on hand, they don’t want to bother with it, but on special orders we do, I’d say, seven to 10 a day.”

James says what he likes most about the business is the customers.

“We have a great relationship with them,” James said. “Most everybody that comes in we know them and we’re always going on about something in here. It’s a nice little town here.”

James said the family values their customer’s loyalty over the years.

“We appreciate their continuing business,” he said. “That’s why we’re still here today.

Morrison Hardware & Industrial Supplies is located at 141 Maple St. in Morrison, and store hours are 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 7 a.m. – 12 p.m. Saturday. They can be reached by phone at 931-635-2265.