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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"s." Others followed the example until the custom became gen-
eral of writing and calling the town "Kerrville." Many of the
German settlers are supposed to have called the town "Carrville."
By 1869 Kerrville had grown from a shingle camp to a
very small village. Being the shrewd observer that he was,
Captain Schreiner foresaw the possibilities of the new town
as a place of business. Although he had come from a long line
of physicians, educators, and soldiers, he was soon to demon-
strate that he had been naturally endowed with a keen business
sense which was to pay dividends in no small way. Accordingly,
he induced August Faltin, a well-to-do merchant residing at
Comfort, Texas, to furnish capital to the amount of $5,000 to
be matched by Schreiner's work and energy for the establish-
ment of a small mercantile business. Faltin knew a winner
when he saw one; he did not guess wrong in choosing Charles
Schreiner as a partner; and the firm of Faltin and Schreiner
was consequently established. But Faltin acted as a silent
partner in the firm until his interest was purchased by Schreiner
in 1879. The original $5,000 went to erect a small building
sixteen by eighteen feet and to equip it with a general assort-
ment of merchandise."
Before the establishment of the Faltin and Schreiner general
store, the local settlers no doubt had to journey to Comfort and
Fredericksburg for supplies. Probably some were able oc-
casionally to make the long trip to San Antonio. It is reason-
able to believe that the wagons carrying shingles and lumber
to San Antonio did not always come back to Kerrville empty.
Some of the early settlers of Kerrville reported in later
years that during this time it was not uncommon to see men
and women carrying six-shooters to church with them. Buf-
faloes were occasionally seen in small herds after 1870 around
the town's outskirts. Indians were seldom seen, but signs of
them were often evident. The Apaches of the Hill Country
were never tamed; they were the most common tribe to inhabit
this vicinity; but occasionally the Comanches swept down from
the north for a raid on the surrounding territory.
Very soon after Schreiner moved to Kerrville, the town's
citizens organized a home guard to defend themselves against
12J. E. Grinstead, "The House of Schreiner," Grinstead's Magazine, June,
1920, pp. 1-2.152
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