Jones County Texas Archives - The Stamford News - March 8, 1907 *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 28 December 2019 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford News Friday, March 8, 1907 Vol. 8, No. 2 The Eyes of the World are Turned Toward Texas and Stamford, the City of Destiny, is their Mecca. Stamford, at an elevation of 1,800 feet, in Jones County, at the terminal of the Texas Central and Wichita Valley R.R. was established in 1900, and now has a population 5,00 people. A city of large brick and stone buildings of the most modern type. A city of beautiful homes, of noble churches, and of whose schools and colleges, when those under course of construction are completed, there’ll be none in the West to excel, and of which we devote some space elsewhere. A city of electric lights, paved streets, splendidly equipped fire department and water works. A city whose railway facilities in the near future will excel those of any town West of Fort Worth and possible Fort Worth itself, being on the accepting routing of two or more important railway system. In 1904 there were 104 immigrant cars unloaded in Stamford. The hotels and boarding houses are over flowing. We chronicle the purchase of Messrs. Swenson Bros., of which 500,000 acres of land which will be opened into farms. C.F. Valliant, the best in the confectionery line. Soda and cold drinks. While this business is but 7 months old. Stamford Collegiate Institute An institution of higher education - Authorized by the Abilene and Colorado districts of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. J.E. Duncan Gro. Co. In two years, the J.E. Duncan Gro. Co. have built up a trade that has taxed the handling capacity of the original company. And from time to time they have called in assistance until now they have actively engaged Mr. J.A. McClaren, Mr. W.B. Bizzell and Mrs. C.C. Goldsmith. The Stamford Mill and Elevator Co. Beginning in August with a very small business their mill is now taxed to its utmost in filling the demand of its product. They make a full line of meal and feed stuffs. They also make considerable flour which is shipped to Puerto Rico and Cuba. The affairs of the company are conducted jointly by J. Van Steenwy manager, J.H. Scott who is in charge of the office and R.L. Hillams at the head of the manufacturing office. Western Lumber Co. D.R. Stewart is secretary and treasure of the Western Lumber Co. The Stamford Dry Goods Co. Mr. C. Blanchett is the president of the company. The Stamford Dry Goods Co. have enjoyed 6 prosperous years. Mr. Johnston is the secretary. Miss Jennie Kincannon assisted by Mrs. Green have the dress department. Mr. T.A. Upshaw takes care of the mercantile department. Local and Personal W.C. McCown was in town and is one of the old-timers. J.R. Thornton of the Sandersville community was in town. W.R. Taylor a progressive real estate man of Avoca was in town. Mrs. F.J. Pool and her mother, Mrs. H. Davis left for Anson. Chas. Proctor of Abbie was in town. S.C. Harris, the Nickel store man has been prospecting in New Mexico. Mrs. J.T. Wamack has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. F.I. Green and returned home to Munday. M.J. Olson is one of the successful farmers from Avoca. Jeff Trammell lives on R.F.D. 1. P’Pool-Whittington Co. last week bought the Baker-Bryant store at Hamlin and Rochester. M.H. Harris lives southeast of town. Mr. D.M. Ginn is a farmer 8 miles northwest of Stamford. Penick-Hughes Co. It was a magnificent area, with absolutely nothing except mesquite bushes to break, the monotony of the vast expanse, that met my gaze when 7 years ago, I first looked upon the spot now called Stamford, that is how Mr. R.L. Penick describes his first impressions of Stamford. R.L. Penick assisted in the creation and in the making of the present Stamford. Mr. E.L. McAlpine is the active manager in the furniture department. Mr. C.A. Green who is also a high class registered embalmer. The jobbing end of this business is looked after by Mr. R.L. Haynie in addition to 28 men in their active employ. Martin-Penick & Orr Adcock Bros. It was upon the 1st day of September 1906, the Adcock Bros. opened their doors to the public of Stamford and surrounding county as grocers. Messrs. J.W. and W.T. Adcock, composing the firm known as Adcock Bros. Formerly were Mississippian’s, coming to Texas in 1893, settling at China Spring. And thence finally locating and embarking in business in Stamford. They are assisted by Mr. J.B. Murphy. Green & Hall Mr. L.O. Hall has recently purchased a half interest in the furniture business of F.I. Green and the firm will now be known as Green & Hall. They sell slightly used furniture. T.L. Watson He is the liveryman. Mr. Watson came to Stamford in November 1906, from Elgin, Texas. Stamford Marble Works Mr. J.K. Shipman is the manager. This firm composed of Messrs. F.E. Aycock and J.K. Shipman and also have a firm in Cisco. Mr. Shipman entered the marble business 12 years ago. the Crescent Planing Mill Mr. W.H. Leavitt, the owner of the Crescent Planing Mill. Mr. Leavitt came here from McClellan county and helped build the first camp on the present site of Stamford. Dial’s Barber Shop Jack Dial has been a barber for 22 years. He is one of the founders of Stamford. He also is the proprietor of the most handsomely equipped five chair Barber Shop west of Fort Worth. Associated with Mr. Dial are: Messers. Tom Pope, J.B. Hitt, J.F. Adams, L.E. Brown. Howard & Chambers Mr. E.L. Howard has a general store which carried a special kind of groceries. Rector & Rector Photographers The days of the old tin type are past and in its stead comes the new art of modern photography. Rector & Rector have been in Stamford four years and have had the pleasure of watching a business grow until now the name of “Rector” on a photograph is synonymous of all that is correct in photography. B.E. Sparks, Son & Company Texas is a poor man’s country, the rich man’s country, the young man’s country and the coming country, you will verily believe after a few moments talk with either of the gentlemen composing the above firm. B.E. Sparks, Son & Co., the personal of which company consists of B.E. Sparks, J.A. Sparks and M.L. Bird, are all representative men of the highest type. We will recite a few of their recent accomplishments: They have only a short time ago, planted a German colony in Stonewall county upon about 25,000 acres of land in Knox county, which is being rapidly taken up in from 80 to 160 acre tracts. Having recently bought 4400 acres in Haskell county and are selling it in 40 acre tracts. The senior member of this company, Mr. B.E. Sparks is a director and secretary of the Wichita Valley Townsite Co., which owns all the Townsites along the new Wichita Valley Railroad. D. Egger & Son On the 28th day of the current month the above company will celebrate their first anniversary. Usually the first year of any business is a struggle and concern ordinarily is glad to be passed throughout the first or second experimental year without a scant mention. But after spending 20 years of merchandising at Waxahachie, their first year here was a record for any firm. Samuel Egger, has recently returned from the New York market and is ready to serve your needs. James J. Prude is an excellent goods man assisted by Misses Octavia Manley and Neva Powers. Mr. C.L. Love is willing to help you. A.E. Jaeggli is a thoroughly detailed shoe man. J.W Dean & Co. “We’ll satisfy them.” That’s what M.E. Bizzell manager of the J.W. Dean Company tells us he has for a business in less than a few years. The dress goods is looked after by Mrs. F.T. Johnson, and she spoke most eloquently of the new spring fabrics some of which have begun to arrive. In the clothing department handling exclusively “Kirshbaum clothing.” R.B. Hilton Music Co. T’was just six months ago that the firm of R.B. Hilton Music Co. of Ft. Worth conceived the idea of opening a branch house in Stamford. A man must be endowed with more than ordinary ability to come into a community a total stranger and in the first few months build up a business which is entirely satisfactory. Such is the case however with the R.B. Hilton Music Company under the efficient management of Mr. R.B. Hilton. Stamford Candy & Cream Manufacturing Co. You may not have had the advantage of a higher college course, therefore you probably wound not enjoy a lecture on the most interesting subject if delivered in Greek. However, you don’t have to be a college graduate to understand the value and appreciate the delicious delicacy of our candies, which are made daily by “Chris” a Greek, regularly in our employ, whose knowledge of candies and those deliciously palatable dainties, are vouched by the many who have favored us with their patronage. The Stamford Candy & Cream Mfg. Co. is now entirely under the management of Mr. R.W. Scurry. Kirkpatrick Jewelry Company The Kirkpatrick Jewelry Company have in years, so well anticipated the wants of Stamford’s citizens in cut glass, high grade silver ware, hand painted china, clocks and other fine jewelry that the price and the quality of their lines are never questioned. F.T. Johnson Mr. Johnson is a skilled watchman and jeweler. Mr. Johnson occupies modest quarters in a corner of Cooper’s Drug Store. Mr. Johnson came to Stamford when it was a wide spot in the prairie and is just proud of the fact that he assisted in the making of what promises to be one of the best towns in the entire middle west. The City Grocery Co. That estimable gentlemen Mr. John L. Knight, whose diligent efforts as manager and owner of the above concern has made his first year in business all that the most optimistic could have expected. Mr. Knight has lived in Texas for 30 years an its thoroughly capable of supplying the edibles for people of Texas. The Stamford Inn Now under the efficient management of Captain E.H. Smith. The Captain is a typical Kentucky gentleman of whom we hear so much yet meet so seldom. Under the Captain’s management the Hotel has grown from a loosing to a winning proposition, which of itself speaks volumes for the manner in which the hostelry is conducted. This property belongs to Swenson Bros., and we are informed that plans are now being considered for the erection of an addition of one hundred rooms to be built of solid rock. The White Hardware Company To have taken up the Hardware business in a retail way and then to have represented a house like the Simmons Hardware Co. for many seasons on the road fits a man so that when he again enters retail business he is in a much better position to know just what to take on and just what to eliminate to make the business success. Evidently some of the credit of the wonderfully successful first year enjoyed by the above Company will be accorded, to Mr. James A. White’s thorough knowledge of the various branches of the Hardware and Implement business. Mr. White speaks very flattering of their first years work of which they may justly be proud, and they entertain no other view of the future but a most optimistic one. The company carry in stock “Tebbetts” line of buggies, Standard line of Implements and Keen Cuttler Goods. Stamford Livery Stable Painted above the entrance in letters so that “he who runs, or walks by or drives in” may read this brief inscription “The Road to Matrimony.” In conversation with Mr. B.J. Billington regarding the inspiration of those few words which mean so much or so little just as you choose. He remarked that since he first opened up in the Livery business he made it a practice to study people and their habits that came to patronize his place and through many long years of taking mental notes the result was, from his observation, that the yellow fellow who took his girl a buggy riding the often was the one who invariably married the soonest, and it gradually grew upon him that his horses evidently knew “The Road to Matrimony.” C.L. Rogers Do you own an airship? Do you own an automobile? Do you own a horse? If you own either of the first two named articles you can have no business whatever with the gentleman whose name heads this column. But if you own a horse, you had better drop around and get acquainted with Mr. Rogers. If you have a horse, you are sometime going to buy a bridle or a saddle or a set of buggy harness single or double, and when you buy without consulting “Rogers” you both lose money. Mr. Rogers came to our town when it was in the “formative process,” and as a citizen, as a business man he has won the high esteem of his fellow associates. As an evidence of the progressiveness of this gentleman we mention the new brick building on the corner, two blocks below his present stand which will be filled by a larger line of harness and saddles of the “Rogers make” as soon as completed. Bates the Tailor Mr. G.J. Bates, the proprietor, is a young man of sterling quality and his two years as a resident of Stamford has placed him upon a plane with our city’s capable business men. Stamford Townsite Company The Swenson Bros. the power in the beginning of the Stamford Townsite Company. In an interview with Mr. S.S. Berthelot, the manager of the Stamford Townsite Co., he shared their beliefs: investment, improvement, selling. It will be completed by a beautiful park in which will be made a lake, that college addition will be an exceedingly desirable place for the building of a home. Mr. P.P. Berthelot in representing the Swenson’s interest, in the Stamford Townsite Company is an excellent representative of the exalted character and integrity which has been characteristic of this excellent company’s policy and with its dealings with and its attitude toward the public. Ligon Tailoring Co. Young man, in as much as this concern is only two years old, it is a needed possibility that they never made your fathers clothes, but if they are permitted to make your clothes once, they will make yours, and your fathers clothes, forever afterward. Stamford Ice and Refrigerator Co. We believe if all the citizens could meet Mr. W.E. Baker the President and general manager of the above company and hear him tell of the sanitary methods which are used in the manufacture of their bottled sodas and with how every one (and some more besides,) conditions of the pure food laws were compiled with, and how in the making of their product they have started with the determination to make a soda water of quality. The personnel of the above company compassed of Mr. Baker, Pres., Mr. C.[Charles] W. Zugg, Vice Pres., and Mr. H.T. Penn, Sec., Treas., are gentlemen of the highest type. Morris-Means & Whittington Are you married? Are you thinking of marrying? If you are married and have not been keeping house long, no doubt you will need a few pieces of furniture, or matting, or a table or a chair just to brighten things up for spring. They only started in Jan. 1st, 1907, but they started right. William Monday, the evangelist for the Christian church in this part of Texas, has been preaching for a week in the M.E. church, South, has organized a church which will meet at the Opera House next Sunday. The fine James & Graham wagon that has been on exhibition for some time at Penick-Hughes Co’s. will be sold to the highest bidder on Saturday, March 9,1907. The proceeds of the sale of this wagon will be contributed by Penick-Hughes Co. to the Stamford Collegiate Institute as a nucleus of a scholarship fund to assist those who are not able to pay their tuition. Stamford Post office Advertised Letters - Feb. 24, 1907 Lee Brown, John Champion, W.R. Davison, Ruby Fink, Howard Harlin, R.W. Harris, R.P. Hendricks, Carl Hanson, Mrs. Mattie Headen, Mrs. Lousa M. Holland, Mrs. R.B. Holtsclaw, W.S. House, Will Kaiser, T. Leandra, Fred Lewis, Mrs. Ada Longano, Floyd Long, Luther Millsap, Sr. Sopmac Onaicul, T.A. Pray, S.J. Rhodes, J.R. Reynolds, Lee Stephens, Will Smith, Earn Short, James Self, H.W. Southern, Mrs. R.F. Stevens, W.M. Thomas, J.F. Winter, Tommy Wyott, W.M. Woodall, W.G. York, W.H. Youngblood, Billie Besher, Ruffus Anderson, David Armstrong, Mrs. Bertie McKaugham. By virtue of the authority vested in me under the Constitution and by-laws adopted by the 2nd Regiment 5th Brigade of United Confederate Veterans, composed of the U.C.V. Camps of Jones, Stonewall, King, Knox and Haskell counties, I hereby called a meeting of the 2nd Regiment to take place at the City of Stamford in the City Hall on Thursday the 21 day of March at 8 p.m. -- Aaron Wood, Col. 2nd Regiment 5th Brigade A.H. Buie, Ajt. 2nd Regiment, 5th Brigade. Public Installation of the Officers of the Woman’s Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Thursday, March 7, 1907. President, Mrs. Walter Durrett, 1st Vice-pres. Mrs. Pattillo, 2nd Vice-pres. Mrs. L.W. Helper, 3rd Vice-pres. Mrs. Jessie Clark, Recording Sec. Mrs. S.A. Martin, Cor. Sec. Mrs. Jessie Davis, Treasurer Mrs. Milton Pattillo; Pres. Cor. Mrs. S.A. Riddle; Parliamentarian Mrs. H.S Abbott C.M. Pattillo Hardware Co. The firm of C.M. Pattillo Hardware Co., is representative business house of the most modern type. Their store is large, well lighted, thoroughly modern, and perhaps the most expensive business house in Stamford, being built of the celebrate Stamford flint rock, which is so abundant throughout the eastern portion of this section. Stamford Steam Laundry “The best is none too good” and by an intelligent handling of modern washing B.G. Wallace & Son’s have made the Stamford Steam Laundry one of the most liberally patronized institutions of its kind in the State. One of the new features that will be appreciated by Stamford and her traveling public is the addition of a complete set of baths, in all six each tub to be the highest grade of porcelain. Miss Lillie Dixon who has been in the telephone office for some time left to see her mother in Mason, Ark. who is dangerously ill. D.O. McRimmon Mercantile Co. The D.O. McRimmon Mercantile Co. opened its Stamford house about the end of 1900. Miss Mamie Cullum presides and in the millinery department, Miss Mamie Sheppard will be found. Mr. H. E. McDaniels the assistant manager, gave us a short talk on the Golden Beckman’s line of clothing. Mr. H.P. Maudy handles the grocery department. Although the D.O. McRimmon Mercantile company employ some 12 persons, each department is capably handled. Baker-Bryant Co. The Baker-Bryant Co. was organized about seven years ago, and since that time has been conducted successfully with Mr. J.C. Bryant as Pres., Mr. W.A. Baker, Vice Pres., and Mr. J.F. Pool as Secretary and Treasurer. In conversation with Mr. T.A. Williams and his assistant Miss Mayme Sledge, who together have charge of the dress goods department of the store. The grocery department is managed by Mr. W.L. Fisher. The hardware department is looked after by Mr. H.D. Billingsly. Walter Brewington “He knows his business.” Knowing when to buy and when to sell city property for his patrons has made money for Walter Brewington. Insuring the houses and business houses of Stamford’s citizens for neither too much or too little and with a speedy and equitable deductible settlement. The Stamford Medical Institute The Stamford Medical Institute has opened offices in the Leavitt building. These physicians are graduates of the best Medical colleges in the United States and Europe and treat only chronic and complicated diseases of men, women and children. These offices are in the Leavitt building. Office hours from 8 to 12 a.m., to 5 p.m. 7 to 8 p.m. Special hours for ladies from 2 to 4 p.m. Until April 5th the Stamford Medical Institute will treat you Free This is your chance to be treated by the most noted and successful Physicians in Texas. A staff of Physicians have opened offices in the Leavitt Building and will at a very early date to open a Sanitarium here. Dr. Roberts the chief examining Physician and Surgeon has a reputation that few young men of his age has ever acquired.