Ellis County Texas Archives Photo Place.....Alma Business Street 
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Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 July 14, 2022, 4:38 pm

Source:             Photo 1909 Mary Zerwer
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Shows Business Street (Facing Railroad & Interurban) in Block 3 .

Right to Left:
In 1909 Mary Zerwer photo
1) there is a small wood frame commercial building with a false front having a sign
J.H. Kendricks.  [Dr. Kendricks]    On the post to the right of the sign has a bell
outline on it, so it must have been the phone exchange. Probably built ca 1900-1910.
Operators: 1)Charles Hall 2) Nora Boggs 3)Mae Willis (wife of Will Willis)

2)A wooden frame building with roof over sidewalk and large sign :GW Collard 
General Merchandise Post Master . Purchase by HJ & wife WV Ruffin from E.N. Fears
1900 Jun 26. Sold to GW Collard (the husband of Sally Ruffin their daughter)Oct 19,
1905. Collard Post Master April 20, 1905 to Leo Mitchell, June 8, 1914.

4)ALMA STATE BANK. Crashed in 1929. three clerestory windows above identifies in
1931 photo.  Sold by EN Fears to HJ Ruffin 1900 Jun 26. 1905. 1906 Sept 9- Ruffin HJ
& W.V. to W.F. Beaver (one of early bankers). 1919 Alma State Bank report: We, B.B.
Munsey, President, W.A. Stockard, Cashier.  Sworn to P.D. Williams,
Notary Public.  Attest.  A.E. Wright, G.C. Dunn, Mrs. E.W. Munsey, Directors.

5) William Willis Store.  a gas pump and an ice house in back.  Victorian soda
fountain  (Might also have been Tom Kelly Meat Market later)

6)J.L. Stewart Store. from 1920-1945. 

 


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