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/faRTY--SECTION D AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE. AMARILLO. TEXAS.
\e Cooked for the Soldiers in '74
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION. 1P3B.
/ By LULA MAE FARLEY
/ A fine powdering of snow sifted
/lightly down on the detachment of
soldiers camped on Commission
Creek, not far from the site of Ca-
nadian.
In the early dawn of Christmas
morning the camp cook prepared
breakfast for them. The cook was
Mark Huselby, an English emigrant
boy, who later became one of the
most prominent ranchers in the
eastern section of the Panhanle.
The time was Dec. 25, 1874. The
soldiers were from Kansas and were
en route to the Panhandle to estab-
lish a fort for the protection 6f the
buffalo hunters and to preserve
such *s court week, tournaments,' Seese, who stayed at the Central
etc., business was so good that all
the rooms were full and many of the
cowboys brought their own bedding
and slept on the dining room floor.
In 1878, when L. H. Carhart, Mr.
Allen, and Judge White came to
Mobeetie on their way to establish
a colony on Carrol Creek, they'
found that there was no stage coajh
line in that direction. Mark Huselby
furnisned the founders of Clarendon
with a wagon and team with which
to make the initial trip.
In 1879 the first county convention
in the Panhandle was held in t]je
old Weed Building in Mobeetie. Mark
Huselby, who at that time was not
peace with the Indians. That day, I a nationalized citizen, presided as
the detachment moved on down; chairman of the session. C. C. Drake,
onto Washita Creek and remained ! quartermaster clerk at the fort, acted
there during January and February as secretary. About 75 attended the
of 1875. Then they moved on to I meeting. At the time of the organi-
Cantonment Creek in Grav County, I zation of Wheeler County, the first
r n d remained there about three ; organized in the Panhandle, 26 coun-
months. During that time the site ties were attached to it for judicial
for the fort was selected. Occupa- purposes. Nominations were made
tion of the fort was begun June 6. for the first county officials of the
1875.
hv Mark Huselby was soon made
head of the officers' mess.
Huselby was born Feb. 6, 1854. In
Shropshire County, England, near
the town of Overhampton. With his
family he came to America in 186D,
landing at New York. The little
family brought with them all their
household goods. They left New
York and moved westward, settling
near Jewel City In Kansas. Mark
found Kansas too settled for his
tastes, so he elected to come to the
Panhandle, where adventure beck-
oned. Accordingly, he got a job as
cook for the soldiers.
With him he brought two cows,
the first milch cows brought Into
the Panhandle. One was a brindle
of the Texas Longhorn variety, and
the other was a white cow. The
next year Huselby brought in 30
head of cattle and furnished the
milk supply for the fort. Ambitious,
Huselby went a step further in sup-
plying food for the soldiers and
planted the first garden in the Pan-
handle. He soon found that with
the invasion of the rancher into the
new country, his garden was not
going to thrive as long as the cattle
were allowed to wander at will.
Fences were unknown, and no one
had any wire with which to make
on p. Undaunted, young Huselby
solved Ills problem by digging a
broad, deep ditch around his three
or four-acre garden. The ditch
proved to be a further asset, for it
furnished a means of irrigation for
the garden.
Huselby did not stay with the fort
very long: for he soon found busi-
ness opportunities in the new land.! Panhandle, and they were all elect-
He filed on a section southwest of i ed later. In this grc'.M were: Henry
the fort and laid the foundation for 'Fleming, sheriff; Emanuel Dubbs,
his ranch which today includes j judge: C. C. Locke, clerk; and Mark
fourteen sections. His business in- j Huselby, tax assessor. Huselby held
terest in town was centered in his i that office 13 years. The job was
hotel, the second built In the pion- quite strenuous, as it was necessary
rteer town of Mobeetie. It was an to ride horseback all over the coun-
18-room structure with eight rooms
Hotel which was owned and operated
by the Tom O'Loughlins. She soon
met Mark Huselby, and eighteen
months later they were married at
the Huselby Hotel. Rev. Cooper, a
Methodist minister stationed there
at that time, officiated at the cere-
mony. (Just a few years ago Rev.
pie then were Presbyterian. A
church house was built. Mrs. Mary
Boles spent much, time in raising
contributions for it. The church
was one of the several building*
blown away in the cyclone of 1893.
The social life of the little town
revolved around Johnny Stroker's
dance hall. Sometime later on the
dances were held on the upper
floor of the courthouse.
In those early days there were
very few women in the town, ex-
cept those of doubtful character
who lived in Feather Hill.
A cyclone struck Mobeetie in 1898
and took the lives of four people,
destroyed a large number of houses,
and wrecked the Huselby Hotel. So
the Huselbys moved out to their
ranch, and built a house, using
some of the lumber salvaged from
the hotel. Two years later they
moved back to town. In 1909 they
returned to the ranch to stay.
Today, in a setting of enormous
locust and pine trees, it is one of
the Panhandle, which Mr. Huselby
had built into a bridge across Husel-
by Creek. It was washed out this
spring by the torrential rains which
hit this section.
The Huselbys have two children.
One daughter is Mrs. J. M. Arling-
ton of Miami. Her husband is the
son of Captain Arlington, Texas
CHARLES RATH
The first merchant of the Pan-
handle. In association with others
he owned the first merchantile
concerns in several frontier towns,
including Mobeetie. In his store
he carried every type of merc han-
dise and bought buffalo hides
from the buffalo hunters, who
populated this region in the mid-
dle 70's.
JUDGE FRANK WILLIS
The first district judge of the
Panhandle.
In June. 1881, Gov. O. M. Rob-
erts appointed Willis as the first
judge of the 35th district which,
at that time, included Wheeler
county, the first county organized
in the Panhandle and 26 other
counties, including Greer County
now in Oklahoma, which were
attached to it for judicial pur-
poses.
Judge Willis is the only man
who was judge of the entire Pan-
handle.
HENRY FLEMING
The first sheriff of the Panhan-
dle. Fleming was elertcd sheriff
of Wheeler Counly and the 26
counties attached to it for judicial
purposes at the first election held
in the Panhandle in the year
1879.
A. J. (JACK) MONTGOMERY
The second postmaster of Mo-
beetie.
Cooper was a guest of the Husleby's
at their ranch home.) The bride
wore a cream-colored wool dress
try looking for people who might _
constructed of rock. The front part have settled there. Quite often no J trimmed with lace. They were mar-
of the hotel was two stories high. ; one knew of the settlers until the , ried on May 5, 1888.
Spnt U„ni«Un °f uhe equlp" 'tax assessor found them- ! There was very little church work
ment was the buffalo robes on the 1
beds. The hotel was usually a busy j a new inhabitant of th
place. During the rush
in Mobeetie in its early days. The
e town in I first church established was a tin-
if ,i - * P i
GEORGE A. MONTGOMERY
The first postmaster of Mobee-
tie. The town of Mobeetie was
originally called Sweetwater. Ap-
plication for a post office was
turned down in 1879 because
there was already a post office
by that name in Texas. Desiring
to retain the meaning of the
name—so called because of the
sweet water in the stream below
the town—the name of the town
was changed io Mobeetie, an In-
dian word meaning "sweet water."
The Mobeetie postoffice served
the entire Panhandle until an of-
fice was established at Tascosa.
the loveliest ranch homes in the
eastern Panhandle.
Huselby was one of the organiz-
ers of the first bank in Mobeetie
its president for several years, and
at the time of his death, January
16, 1937, one of the directors.
Up until a short time before his
death Huselby was active on his
ranch, even participating in the
round-up.
A historical article on the Husel-
bv ranch was an iron door of the
after sending it to Dodge City it was
freighted to the old town where it
swung in the belfry tower for II
years, its soft strains calling the peo-
ple to worship. Due to the fact that
so many ministers resided in the
town, It was called by the cowboys
"Saints Roost" or "Christian Col-
ony."
From the town's inception all
legal holidays were celebrated in a
truly western manner. A large tree
at Christmas time was erected, dec-
orated and hung with gifts for rela-
tives and friends, though they lived
miles away. The spirit of patriotism
was also featured. Each Fourth of
July saw the colors of Old Glory from
her flag pole on Eagle Hill west of
town unfurled to the breeze. Songs
were sung and speeches made by
those familiar with the spirit of the
day, while a basket dinner was
served to those in attendance.
Homes of the old town were often
built of rock from the nearby hills
or of lumber hauled from Dodge City
and occasionally of pickets set up-
right in the ground. Fuel was ob-
tained from the canyon.
Morris Rosenfield was proprietor
of the first general supply store. He
shipped his goods to Wichita Falls
and from there to the old town by
the usual mule-team freight line. It
is said that the store's opening went
over with a bang as every man, wom-
an and child attended as well as the
cowboys of the various ranches, ad-
miring the wonderful line of goods
on display. While in town the cow-
boys were required to go unarmed,
so Rosenfield cleared a counter in
the back of his store for their ac-
commodation, giving the place the
appcarance of a miniature armory
for the time being.
There were no banks in the Pan-
handle country and the cowboys of
the many ranches were paid off in
legal lender. Should any of them
run short of funds between pay
days and ask the boss for a loan,
he was told that the surplus funds
were in a flour sack behind the
door and to help himself. The
amount of the Joan was deducted
from his salary the following pay
day.
The period of the early 80's has
often been referred to as 'bone gath-
ering days," when men with teams
scoured the Plains for buffalo bones
then scattered over the entire south-
west, the last sad reminders of those
noble animals that had so recently
roamed the Plains country in count-
less numbers. These bones were
freighted to Wichita Falls and sold
at S20 per ton to buyers of eastern
markets, where they were converted
into fertilizer or made into but-
tons.
By the act of the Fifteenth Leg-
islature the county was organized
and named for Stockton P. Donley,
a judge of the Supreme Court. Clar-
i endon was named for Clara Car-
j hart, wife of the founder, and was
; retained as the county seat.
Upon the organization of Donlev
Ranger and pioneer peace officer county a full set of officers was
of Wheeler County. The other j appointed to serve until the next
daughter, Isabel Huselby, lives with i regular election. B. H. White, clerk;
her mother and assists with the q. A. Brown, judge: W. D. Kimble,
management of the ranch. The Ar- I treasurer; J. D. Wilson, sheriff; J.
A Logical Success
Taking advantage of the fact that
Amarillo is situated in one of the
largest and leading beef cattle pro-
ducing areas in the United States,,
thus making It a logical location
for a modern packing plant, the
Pinkney Packing Company has writ-
ten, in eight years, a success story
that rivals those coming from the
pen of Horatio Alger.
Ray Pinkney, A. G. Miller and
Fred V. Miller came to A narillo
from Colorado In the fall of 1930
and purchased outright the old
Western Packing Company plant,
in the eastern part of the city.
So sold were they on their new
venture that they all quit good posi-
tions with another packing com-
pany.
"We put in every dollar we had,"
said Ray Pinkney in telling of the
meager beginning of his firm in
Amarillo, "and our faith in our vi-
sion has been justified."
Whereas, the Pinkney Packing
Company started with a personnel
totaling eight, including the owners,
it is now employing about 70 persons
at an annual payroll of approxi-
mately $100,000, and pays out in
cash each year some three-quarters
of a million dollars to Panhandle
I livestock producers for beef cattle
! and hogs. Last year, the firm's gross
sales amounted to $1,250,000.
Mr. Pinkney formerly had been
vice president and general manager
of the Nuckolls Packing Company,
Pueblo, Colo., and with him came
Tie two Miller brothers, both de-
partment foremen with Nucfiolls.
No sooner had they opened their
plant here and begun remodeling
and modernizing than they were
met head-on by an economic depres-
sion.
In addKlon to the original cost of
the plant and properties, the com-
pany has spent upward of $100,000
in improving killing, storage and
manufacturing facilities, until now
" ■> plant is considered one of the
most modern in the country.
No only did the Pinkney com-
pany start without a history or
background, but also without es-
tablished brands and were confront-
ed with the puoblem of acquainting
the public with the 'igh quality of
the Sun-Rav beef, bacon, ham and
! sausage items.
* • •
Acceptance of Sun-Ray products
by the housewives in the general
market at the top available price*.*
Pinkney Packing Company, be-
sides being an institution which pro-
vides a livelihood for some 70 fami-
lies, also is one of the larger tax-
payers in Potter County.
Mr. Pinkney voices pride In his or-
ganization of young people, and em-
phasizes that the entire official per-
sonnel has been with the company
virtually since the beginning.
Mr. Pinkney himself is president
r 1 general manager; M. C. Pinkney
is vice president, A. G. Miller, sec-
retary, and Fred V. Miller is treas-
urer. E. C. Dyke is general sales
manager and Miss Bertha Lea Wood
is office manager. Paul Lawson is
1 'ad livestock buyer. Mr. Dyke
formerly was branch house man-
ager for Nuckolls Packing Co., at
Trinidad, Colo,
Mr. Pinkney has spent 27 years In
the packing industry, gaining an
intimate and practical knowledge of
the many activities which must be
c ordlnated skillfully to achieve suc-
cess.
He joined Swift & Co., In Chi-
cago in 1911 and was employed in
the accounting department until
1917, when he became branch house
manager at Cleveland, Ohio, for Wil-
son & Co. The next year lie went
wv'i Jacob E. Decker ft Son as a
general executive, later becoming
their branch house manager at
Duluth. In 1921, he joined Levine
Bros., Duluth, as general manager,
and later was with Allied Packers,
Chicago, as a traveling executive.
In 1926, he bacame vice president
and general manager of Nuckolli
Packing Co., at Pueblo, which posi-
tion he resigned to enter the pack-
ing business in his own right ui
Amarillo.
Fatalistic Mud
The Panhandle, having been srt-
tled and developed by a progressive
race which has always preferred to
make its own "breaks," has never
felt much sympathy for the Oriental
fatalist's creed which says, "What
must be, will be."
However, most of the pioneers,
and especially those who had to do
much traveling over the Plains, had
a fatalistic view of one thing—the
Panhandle mud. This statement is
attested by J. Q. Barnes, district
, , i manager for the Hobart-Dayton
radius of 150 miles of Amarillo is Sa,rs Agencyi m2 Tay,or strce,
LUCIUS DILL
Hr is credited with being (he
first lawyer in the Panhandle. 11c
came to Mobeetie about 1877.
| demonstrated by the operation of
refrigerator trucks in every direc- ]
tion. This company now has in j
v - - ' fleet of such units, deliv- j
ering meats to hundreds of mar-
kets in the High Plains territory.
"Not only have we been able to;
substantiate our belief that Ama-
rillo was a perfect location for a !
ringtons have two children. They
are Mark Arrington, who is a stu-
dent at Texas Tech, and Mrs. Clar-
ence Hayter of Kellerviile. The Hay-
tors have a little two-year-old
sea.'on.s, 1386 was sixteen-year-old Mary L. I ion church, but most of the peo-i oid jail at Mobeetie, the oldest in'daughter, Bevrrly Jean.
Rosy Future
In the success stcry of Zale !
Jewelry Company one of the chief j
chapters is advertising, which has
contributed much to ever increasing j
sales, says the president, Morris B.
Zale.
Sincp the Amarillo store's open- j
inc. June 23. 1934 at Eighth and
Polk, Sale's has expanded its store,
its sales and its number of satis-
fied customers.
At the time the Amarillo store
was opened Zale Jewelry Company
had stores In Wichita Falls, Tulsa
and Oklahoma City. Since then
three more stores have been added
—Austin, Dallas and Springfield,
Mo.
Ben Lipshy, who has been manag-
er of the Amarillo store since its
opening, has been with the or
canization 14 years. He ls an au
tnority on credits.
"Every account a confidential
transaction" is the keynote of the
credit department at ZaJe's, which
carries a complete line of jewelry I
and now is exclusive distributor in j By MRS. SARAH M. STOCKING
Amanl.o for Gruen watches Oth- iWidow of the first doctor in
*r featureo watch lines are Bulova. Clarendon)
Elgin, Hamilton, Waltham and Ban- The history of olf, clarendon „
I unique. The town was established
4.
THE J. B. MILLER LIVERY STABLE and wagon yard in Mobeetie in 1881.
: Old Clarendon Was Center
Church and Educational Life
of
1 Work 'Tiring'
J. M. "Red" Simpson, who owns
and manages the Simpson Hawkin-
son's Tire Tread Service at 1508
Madison Street, has been identified
with the automobile servicing trade
practically all his life.
"Red" Simpson was born in Tulia
in 1908, moved to Amarillo with his
parents in 1923, graduated from
Amarillo High School in 1926, and
then attended the University of
Texas for three years. Early in 1930
Mr. Simpson accepted a position
with the Gulf Refining Company.
He remained with the Gulf organi-
zation for six years, and in 1936 en-
tered business for himself as a serv-
ice station operator.
The Simpson Hawkinson's Tire
Tread Service was established Jan.
15, 1938. and during the ensuing
nine months the firm's business has
increased approximately 50 per cent.
H. Parks, surveyor, and J. T. Otey,
tax collector. County commission-
ers were Charles Goodnight, Lee
Dyer and I. B. Nails. In 1882 a mail
route was established between Clar-
endon, Palo Duro and other points.
Shan Atteberry was the contractor
for the routes.
During the 11 years of its exis-
tence the town enjoyed an unusual
degree of prosperity due to the fact
that it was the day of the open
range. A veritable army of cow-
boyg was required to hold the drift-
ing cattle and make the long drive
up trail. The cowboys received a
nominal sum for their labor, from
$25 to $35 and their keep per month,
while the ranch basses received a
much larger sum yet the multiplicity
of the small amounts made up a
grand total, and on paydays they
came to town and spent their money
for Stetson hats, high heel boots,
flannel shirts, bandanna handker-
chiefs and other things dear to the
old time cowboy's heart. Other busi-
ness men were Bruce and Stanhope
McClelland, realtors, C. J. Lewis,
mercantile and cattle interests;
Ralph Jefferson, postmaster; Dr. J.
D. Stocking, resident physician. At
the removal of the town Albert Gen-
try was .sheriff.
"Getting stuck in - the mud was
an all-night proposition," Mr. Barn-
es, who covered this territory as a
traveling salesman back in 1905,
declares. "There was only one thing
to do—sit there until the mud
dried up.''
Mr. Barnes, n native of Beebc,
Ark., was connected with the Na-
able to provide a local market for
catand hogs produced by farm-
ers and ranchers in this area.
"It doesn't matter whether a
seller arrives here with one animal j
or a carload, he is assured of a ,
modern packing plant, said Mi ,. , „ „ ,
, , u tional Cash Register Company for
Pinkney, "but we have also been ; „„ . , ,. T, , .
22 years before joining the Hobart-
Dayton Company when the Ama-
rillo office was founded in 1933,
The Hobart-Dayton Sales Agency
maintains a sales and service or-
ganization of four persons and distri-
j butes McCray Refrigerators and Ho-
j bart-Dayton mixers, slicers, meat
endon carried on. The Methodist choppers, coffee mills, scales and
; Church was reestablished and the baby scales throughout parts of
| Espiscopal, Baptist and the Catholic t Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
with its convent, were among the j
first. Ijater others were organized j The present city auditorium cc-
and the new town soon bccame an cupies the Sanborn Block. Sanborn
educational and church center. The : kept his horses there, the exercise
salons were later voted out and the j yard. There was a small frame
ethical ideals of life begun in the! building also, which was used as an
old town prevailed in the new. I office.
The store has a complete line of
American and imported china, a
by L. H. Carhart midst the breaks
of the Salt Fork and Red River in
thereafter L. H. Carhart gave much
of his time to the development of
this part of the state. The little
town of Clarendon at once assumed
a place of importance in a land i
fast filling up with large cattle
ranches.
The first families to establish
to put down such notorious charac-
ters as Billy the Kid, and like om-
rades in crime. William Jesse Grant,
who for a short time edited a news-
paper, was a cousin of Ulysses S.
Grant, Civil War militarist and later
President of the United States.
Ralph Jefferson, a near relative of
wide variety of patterns in crystal , 1878. in what is now Donley Coun- i
glass, Towle sterling, plated silver—j ty. At that early period it was mere- j permanent homes at the old town'the noted playwright of the same
1847 Rogers. Community Plate. ^ a great, expanse of distance and *'pre W. A. Allan, wife and two
Holmes & Edwards. space, uninhabited hy any human daughters, and B. H. White and
being save the cowboys of the newiy 1 family. This number was further
Zale Jewelry Company maintains
an optical department and a re-
pair department with three watch-
makers on duty. The firm also has
an engraver.
"The company's faith In Ama-
rillo's future was expressed more
than four years ago when this store
established ranches. The Indians
had been defeated in their last vain
struegle for the supremacy of the
Southwest two years previously at
the battle of Adobe Walls.
L. H. Carhart. a native of the
state of New York and a minister
of the northern branch of the
increased as the news of cheap land
and the abundance of wild animal
life was noised abroad. Many of the
settlers of the old town were college
graduates, while the majority of the
name, was a man of outstanding
ability a.s an impersonator and was
often Instrumental in putting on
amateur theatricals.
The first marriage of the old town
was that of Estelle Brewer and Fd
people possessed more than the Carhart, now living at Panhandle.)
usual educational advantages: and This wedding was followed by that,
the principles of Christian culture 0f Sella Phillips and Albert Gentry
~ I When the railroad built through
adelphia Centennial of 1876, had a the Plains country in 1881 and miss-
most interesting history, having done ! ed the old town by seven or eight
service in calling people to religious miles, it became imperative that
gatherings when that city was only ; the little band of pioneers who had
a Quaker settlement on the west j lived midst the seclusion and peace
banks of the Delaware River and j of the breaks of the Salt Fork for
the surrounding forest was infested j many years should forsake their
with marauding Indians. Arcadian existence and join the
While looking the exhibit over, j more commercial life of the new
Reverend Carhart offered to buy the | town. The business men of the
bell for the house of worship in ] old town were the first to establish
Clarendon. But those in authority { themselves in the new.
fearing the members would be loathe j In the beginning the new town
to part with it because of the sacred took on all the earmarks of a wild
memories clustered around the old western place. Saloons were opened,
relic, refused the request. On further hotels and eating houses sprang up
consideration, however, the mem- on each side of the street, and
bers felt It their religious duty to ! houses of ill fame flourished. But
donate the bell to this missionary j midst the confusion of these new
church of the Plains country, and 1 surroundings the spirit of Old Clar-
was opened." said Mr. Lipshy. Since Methodist Episcopal Church, came wa'l."\e J*'?'111™? inculcated whiie the wedding of Ida Phillips
ii. _ ^ r in (Via tfo nf tVia wowltr ftctoh ichnr - . '
then our business has extended all j south soon after the close of the In ' newly established
over the territory served by Ama- Civil War. After filling a charge at t0ZLn- . , ...
rillo a.s a trade cenier and the fu- ! Dallas he was sent to care for a The social life of the community
ture now looks even rosier than it ,' congregation in Sherman While at.; also was of a most ineahstic nature,
did four years aeo Zale's Is con- the latter place he learned that land Man-V of the flrst families were ac-
etantly increasing'' and ^expanding I cou1^ bought in the Plains coun- I complished musicians,
the steady | 1 Mrs. White, Mrs,
to keep in step with
growth of the territory."
Per Cent Leap
section through the medium of rail
road script. After interesting a
both as vo-
calist and instrumental performers.
Allan and Katie
Lewis, now Mrs. B. W. Chambei-
and J. W. Atteberry was solemnized j
at a. later date.
The five Methodist ministers re- j
siding at Old Clarendon at an early .
date conceived the idea of making it i
the educational center of the Plains :
country, a plot of land was set
aside for the purpose of erecting a !
brother-in-law, Alrfed Suddv of New lain' ,iac1 .brought, their pianos | college thereon at some future date.
The Elmer Brothers Auto Parts
Company, 607-15 North Fillmore
Street, can boast of a 1,000 per
cent increase in business, if there
Ls such a thing, within five years
after the firm was established.
| York City, and other relatives in
securing a large acreage of this land
for ranching purposes, he decided
to make a trip west and look over the
prospect. Accompanied by a broth-
j er-in-law, W. A. Allan, and two in-
terested friends. Dan Sibert and
Jean Mosier. with a team and light
along to this new land, and many j A school was taught by W. A. Allan
were the social gatherings featuri
musical programs.
Many of the citizens were of hieh
social and literary connections in
the state in which they had former-
ly lived. Mrs. Vasha Wallace Parks
was a cousin to Gen. Lew Wallace.
hack he started on the long journey, noted writer, author of the religious I of the church from a belfry tower
Leaving the more settled portion of' novel "Ben Hur " swung the first church bell brought
Die parts company was estab- the state, he entered a country | From 1879 to 1881 he was made to the Panhandle country. The bell,
Iished in May, 1933, as Ferris fc teeming with wild animal life, lux- provisional governor of New Mexico J one of the prize exhibits of the Phil-
Elmer, with a stock of used auto- uriant grass waist high to a man — _
mobile and tractor parts valued at over which great herds of buffalo ——~——~~
exactly $10. E P. and L. T. Elmer, I were grazing. Wild turkeys, prairie
in the first frame building ever
erected In the little town. The lum-
ber for its construction was hauled
from Wichita Falls, a distance of
more than 200 miles. The building |
was used for church purposes and
social gatherings as well. At the side !
brothers who own the firm, esti-
mate their stock today would sell
for 110.000.
E. P. .timer came here from New
Mexico in 1926, but it was seven
years later before he founded the
business, in partnership with Mr.
Ferris, The latter sold his interest
In the firm last year to L. T. Elmer.
Elmer Brothers Auto Parts Com-
pany offers motorists one of the
most complete stocks of used parts
in the Panhandle, featuring Warner
gears, mufflers, and Morse timing
chains.
chickens and quail flew awav in
countless numbers and the black
bears with their young cubs roamed
the canyon depths at will.
The future outlook of the Tlalns
country was so pleasing to the
Reverend Carhart that on his sec-
ond trip west he hired two survey- .
ors, Gunter and Munson of Austin,
to survey the land which he had
located on his former trip. This in-
cluded 343 sections extending north
from the J. A. Ranch to McClelland
Creek, and eight miles west of the
present town of Clarendon to Leila
Lake on the cast. For many years
We wish to congratulate the residents of
Potter County on their fifty years of progress.
J. WIRT ROGERS
The Service Station Where You Get Service and Quality
810 W. 6th—Amarillo—Phone 4866
Air Conditioned
PARAMOUNT
RECREATION CLUB
Basement Oliver-Eakle Bldg.
Where the better class of good fellows
have met since the Oliver-Eakle Building
Opened.
Play Billiards
Recreation.
and Snooker for Your
Baseball Results by Direct Wire.
LUNCH COUNTER IN CONNECTION.
THE
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
ARE HAPPY TO BECOME
ADOPTED SONS OF
AMARILLO
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On this, the Golden Anniversary
of the Panhandle Metropolis
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Sincerest and Warmcst
Qreetings, Congratulations
and Blessings to
AMARILLO
on her
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
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The Christian Brothers
Price Memorial College
Amarillo, Texas
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Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938, newspaper, August 14, 1938; Amarillo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299921/m1/150/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.