Freestone County, Texas News The Teague Chronicle - Friday, Dec. 6, 1907 A NEW BUSINESS H. C. Harder who is now conducting a Gents Furnishing store in Mart has rented a brick building on Main Street, and about the 15th he will open up a first-class stock of Gents Furnishings, with F. F. Harder manager. Their store now in Mart would be a credit to any city in Texas and they promise to conduct a similar one here. This is the kind of business men that Teague throws her doors wide open to, and bids them enter. ======================================================================== The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1908 Page: 6 of 12 ANNOUNCEMENT The two Gent's Furnishings Houses of H. C. Harder and Wood & Blackmon desire to announce to their friends and the public generally that they have consolidated their firms and will continue the same business in the Harder building on Main street, under the name of The Harder-Wood Co. In this connection they wish to state that both Mr. Harder and Mr. Wood are men who have spent years in the business and understand every detail of the Gent's Furnishing Line. By consolidating they have each others' business experience, as well as ample facilities for being better able to care for their trade than ever before. They will welcome the visits of their friends and acquaintances and promise to continue to give them the same liberal treatment in the futurs that has distinguished them in the past. THE HARDER-WOOD COMPANY [Same page, further down to right] CONSOLIDATED This week the gent's furnishings houses of H. C. Harder and Wood & Blackmon have been consolidated and have moved the Wood & Blackmon stock into the Harder building on Main street. The consolidation of these two houses assures Teague one of the most up-to-date Gent's Furnishings Houses in all Central Texas.