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AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE, AMARILLO, TEXAS.
001J3EN ANNIVERSARY EDITION. 1938.
COURTIN' ON THE RANGE
(Continued From Page 28)
Juat .one big 'set' together. Some
of those dances were gala affairs;
the ladles were gracious and the
men were gallant—very. Those so-
cials were few and far between.
Maybe that's why everybody enjoy-
et: thorn so much. The men worked
hard, and the women Just as hard,
a d everybody played as hard as
they worked, when they did play.
. . . You bet the girls were pretty,
and It was the real kind, not the
drugstore variety. Take the Jowell
girls for Instance." Here the Jolly
old man laughed outright as he
continued: "Did I ever tell you
about the first time I ever saw the
Jowell girls? It was one time
when the T-Anchor sent Sam Wis-e
and me down to Spring Lake—that
was one of the XIT divisions—and
it being such a trip we had to stop
a' some houses on the way. The
first night, we stayed at Jowell's,
•Rat' Jowell's father's place, now
called Sulphur Park because of a
little sulphur spring down there.
No, no, 'Rat' isn't a nickname;
it's Just short, for 'Ratliff which was
1- dad's name, and Rat was called
that to distinguish him from his
dad. Stray cowboys were welcomed
by people In that day and time.
T'-us we met the fair Empress and
her sister Laura.
"However, we had to paw or. at
daybreak, hoping but not expecting
some stroke of luck that might
further the brief acquaintance. We
pot to Carter's place in Castro
County, where we spent the next
night. Next afternoon early, we
cot. to the XIT outfit, where we
wirked through the cattle, cutting
out T-Anchor stuff. When the cut-
ting out was finished we started
hack with our cattle, stopping at
Carter's again. The next night we
la 1 out on the Frio because we
couldn't go on to Jowell's that night
since we knew he was to be away.
But. early next morning we rode
over for breakfast. We weren't
In any hurry, for the outfit at head-
quarters was Just fooling round
doing nothing.
"When we went in for breakfast,
the girls asked if we were going to
the dance. We said 'Yes. where is
it?' They began telling us they want-
ed to go, but their horses were out
and they had no way of catching
them. We lit In on the old lady to
let us get their horses and take the
girls. Here was the opportunity old
Sam and I had been hoping for.
We Just turned our cattle loose in
Jowell's pasture, rounded in the
girls' horses and got back in time
for dinner. We'd never seen the
girls but the one time before.
"The girls got ready and we went
to the dance, wearing the clothes
we'd been working in six weeks. The
o 1 lady said for us to bring the
girls back by midnight, but we Just
laughed and said, 'Nothing doing.
We'll get back sometime tomorrow.'
S^e knew we couldn't even ride
L.ere and bark by midnight.
"The dance was at Fris bee's, near
Cox's place. Joe Beckman now
owns the old Frisbee place. When
we arrived, we found two of the
bovs—one was F.mmet, Powers—from
our camp. I dismounted and took
my roll of bedding off the pack
horse and started to pitch It In the
bunk house, when I saw a Prince
Albert coat lying on one of the
bunks. One of the boys had laid it
out to wear for the dance, but that
old boy danced that night in hLs
s -t sleeves, for I donned that
Prince Albert and wore it myself
over my dirty shirt and with my
work pants.
"When I stepped from the bunk-
house, one of the boys shouted,
'Hello, Parson." I regretted my act
r j end, for that name 'Parson' stuck
with me for years.
• •
"The Jowell girls didn't dance,
for their mother never allowed them
to, but we had a big time. We
danced square dance- altogether
then. We had supper with the
Frisbees, and breakfast also. We
got the girls back home late next j
evening. We spent the night, and j
next day gathered our cattle up—
then went on our way back to the
T-Anchor, already planning an- j
other such occasion.
"To this same dance Emmet Pow
ers and . -e other boy brought the
Dean girls from down on the Palo.i
Duro. They were newcomers from
Kansas who had never seen or
heard of the two boys until they j
rode up early that morning, intro-
duced themselves, and asked to take
the girls to the dance. The old
man was away when the boys ar-
rived, and the old lady didn't know
what to say. Of course, the girls !
wished to go—there were only eight
girls, counting the Deans, in the
whole country, and naturally they j
were lonesome for young people.
But presently the old man returned
and began talking with the boys, j
It was some time before Mrs. Dean
finally got Mr. Dean out into the
other roorr so she could ask him
about letting the girls go.
"We heard her say, 'If you've got
anything to say. say it.'
"To which he replied, 'I hadn't
thought anything about it. Let the
gals go if they want to,'
" 'But what will people think
when we don't even know the boys?'
" 'Wal, the boys may be gentle-
jr"n, and maybe not. but they us-
i ,/lly are. If the gals want to go,
why, let 'em.'
"They went.
"Like Mrs. Jowell, Mrs. Dean said,
'Get baJ: by midnight.' But the
boys shouted as their horses broke
•-ff in a gallop, 'Can't!—Bring 'em
back tomorrow.' And off the four
went to the dance.
"Now, when new girls came into
the country, one or two of the nicest
boys were appointed to make their
acquaintance and to see that they
met everybody and had a good
time, and to take care of them in
general. This, old Emmet and the
other boy did for the Dean girls.
It was late when they reached
Frisbee's pls.ee, and the crowd was
just heading for the chuck wagon.
. . . Yes, the cook had prepared
for the crowd. . . . No, he didn't
mind, he enjoyed it, and probably
had more fun than anybody.
"After the dance, all the girls went
home with the Cox girls t.o sleep
most of the morning before start-
ing the long ride back. The boys
bunked at Frisbee's. The Dean girls
had met everybody and now they
were one of us. Mr. Dean had ex-
plained the custom of the country,
s> Mrs. Dean wasn't very much put
out when her girls came at dusk
next day.
"The women of those pioneer days
had no snap," declares Walk Bradly.
'Often their men had to be gone
several weeks at a time, and the
women had to s'ee about the stock
there at home. They had so much
to do they said they had no time to
be lonesome. But they did get lone-
some, though, sometimes, I bet—I
know that Mrs. Jowell and Mrs.
Cox lived several miles apart and
the; could not visit very often. Just
sat at home with the children five
or six weeks at a time, never seeing
anybody but a chance passerby.
"The Jowells and Coxes were
among the first settlers in what Is
now Deaf "mith County, Mr. Jowell
bjilt the first house in the county
—let's see. yes, I believe his was the
first house—ard J. C. Cox built the
second. Mr. Cox Is Mrs. Walker's
father, you know.
"Many people say that Alice Mc-
Cord was the first child born in
Deaf Smith, but she wasn't. The
P'-t child was her brother Henry.
r? was bom July 10, 1889. I remem-
ber, for it was like this: The T-
Anchor boys wanted to celebrate
the Fourth, 'cause it was the first
o ° that the newly-formed county
had had—you see, the cowboys con-
stituted most of the county's inhab-
itant.*. It happened that we were
terribly busy on the Fourth. Our
boss was an Englishman, mind, that any. Moore had told the
Hudson, who cared nothing at a.l bovs that I had the key, so they
about the Fourth, and he wouldn t were laying for me when I returned
let us knocl; off to celebrate. We ; next mornjng. j told them I didn't
were pretty sore, but he told us to have lt( so we Rot, by oltl chj,rlie
finish the roundup we were on, then ^ad jj. jn ^is pocket all the time,
we might knock olf and celebrate but j^e was already gone when I
as long as we wanted to. That's 1 an.ived. We spent the day, the
how we happened to be celebrating ntnthj getting ready for the blow-
on the tenth, which also happened ou^
THE TABERNACLE BAPTISTS
LOOK ONCE, AND THEN LOOK AGAIN. Now you see the Oliver-Eakle Build-
ing, for that's precisely the spot on which these drays and teams and men stand.
The structure in the background was the warehouse and office of the Adams
& McAlister Drayage Co., the first organization of its kind in Amarillo. Before it,
many individuals engaged in freighting but no firms.
The company was organized in 189 6, when Amarillo's population was ap-
proximately 700. The picture was made in 1897, and the barrels on the wagons
contain lime, consigned to the M. T. Jones Lumber Co. Reading from the left,
the men in the photo are J. R. McAlister, E. E. Adams and Carl Larsen. The name
of the fourth man is not known.
Adams came to Amarillo from Hickory, Mo., In 1895, and now is a; well-
known Hereford breeder residing south of the city. He sold his interest in the
drayage company in 1898.
Appearing in the anniversary edition are other stories in which this particu-
lar lot, now a valuable corner, is mentioned. See if you can find them.
to be the day that young Henry, :
Deaf Smith County's first baby,
chose to make his entrance upon the
i pages of the county's history. We j
! h d finished this side of the range !
on the seventh, then o
"We were having the picnic at
Big Spring, which was our ranch
and Is about seven miles east of
Hereford. And we had the whiskey
i Hudson n;
We had built a platform for danc-
told me to go to Amarillo and get
refreshments for the blowout, and if
j that wasn't enough he'd give more.
"So Charlie Moore and I borrowed
| VJowell's buggy and we lit out.
| We got lemons for lemonade. Well,
J the boys gave us money to get other
refreshments—a bottle for each
! man. Besides the refreshments, ev-
ery man in the outfit sent for a new
| shirt, which was a fair-sized order;
j but, then, people weren't so parti-
| cular, the size was all that mat-
tered.
ing. Mr. Jowell happened to have
t t • •, AT i ness world. He holds a degree from
University IN OW ' the University of Oklahoma
' The college remained at 912 Polk
The Fleming Business College, as
it was then called, was opened in
Amarillo Dec. 1, 1926, by M. F.
Fleming. First home of the school
was at 912 Polk Street, where the
Baker Inn is now.
Mr. Fleming was well qualified
Street for two years, when crowded
quarters compelled Mr. Fleming to
secure a larger building.
For the next two years the school
was housed at 411' * Polk Street, and
then for six years at 806'.a Polk.
From Its opening t h e Fleming
Business College enjoyed steady
for founding a business " college, j growth.
having had experience in both the It is now located at 508 Taylor
teaching profession and the busi- j Street, in t h e Western Building,
— — ! where 10 classrooms and a large
. , . reception room are required to care
lor theie were eight or ten boys for
(Continued Prom Page 88)
For the P*st seven years Deacon
Nunn has been In charge of Mexican
work. Rev. Manuel de La Cruz has
also been active at the mission.
From Its earliest days, the Taber-
nacle Baptist Church has been active
In missionary work. It now helps
support missions in Japan, China,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and Mexico.
Sixteen preachers have gone out
from it, and eight preachers' wives.
The church now conducts a Sun-
day school every Sunday morning
at the Preventorium, where six
classes are taught. A portable hand
organ Is used in the song service.
Among Sunday school superintents
who have served are Mr. Stanford,
W. Wilson Hamilton, W. Watts
Here in Boom
Borger's boom and Sapulpa's
shops, which were closed, combined
to bring Amarillo an Army <te Navy
store about 12 years ago.
Louis Feferman, owner, and his
s'n, Abe Feferman, now general
manager, were in Sapulpa, Okla.
They had heard of Borger's boom
and headed there by way of Ama-
rillo. And here they stayed.
The Army fiz Navy store was es-
tablished with a 25-foot front ad-
joining the alley on the south side of
Fourth Avenue between Taylor and
Fillmore Streets. From the begin-
ning the store began to grow. Ex-
pansion extended until it took in
the entire space from the alley west
to the corner.
Purchased from George Glass, the
store soon outgrew its location and
the stock was moved across the
street north to larger quarters.
The Army & Navy store caters
to working trade and to ranch trade
in particular.
Abe Feferman, for the last year
has been financial secretary of Tem-
ple B'nai Lsrael.
Hamilton, Mr. Savage, H. O. Oood-
man and Mrs. McGinnis.
J. T. Sisemore Is the present edu-
cational director. Baptist Training
Union has replaced the Baptist
Young People's Union of the earlier
days. All ages meet for regular
study In these groups. The changs
has broadened the undertaking con-
siderably.
32 YEARS
of
SERVICE and SATISFACTION
CLEANING
BLOCKING
•
BOSTON
HAT WORKS
EXPERT HATTERS
Moil or Express Your Hots
to Us - - - We Do the Rest.
419 POLK ST.
Amarillo, Tex.
Phone 2-1029
Established 1906
pa h girl, I was about to forget
Orelia Metcalf was there, too, She
was my girl, I thought, from the
load of lumber for something i f^st moment I laid eyes on her. She
and he let us use it for our plat
form. He alsi had a boat, and I
took it along, too. I'll say we used
the boat.
"The oouples had it sloshing
around in the creek all day. Some
danced while some went boat riding.
We rowed and danced and courted
and drank lemonade to our hearts'
I oeit-u. The louder the color, the I content. And right into the middle
; better. Charlie and I bought our- of our celebration came a messenger
I selves a new suit—we were gonna ! saying that Henry was born.
, step out!
i for the student body. All furnlsh-
; ings and equipment of the school
: are new and adequate,
A recent Installation of equip-
| ment for teaching both the Morse
was Jowells niece, here from Palo and International Telegraph codes
Pinto County visiting them. Why I j has met a need long felt by Mr.
tnought that, little pal was so nice Fleming. The new course of radio
that I nearly starved my horses to engineering, with its branches of
death keeping them tied to Jowell's ( physics and electricity, has raised
the business college to university
gate.
Walk glanced covertly at Mrs.
Bradly, whose black eyes shed a
spark as she began to rock fu-
riously.
"I wasn't sitting around doing
nothing, Walk Bradly, while your
Then
the crowd went wild. Little old j horses were starving," she retorted.
Henry shore got a send off. That's ■ Unperturbedly, but with a twinkle
"Well, we got. everything- the 1 why I remember his birthday so ! (n his eyes, Walk finished, "But
shirts included, but, when we go' well. Orelia went back to Palo rinto and
: back to camp we locked the whiskev "But to go on with my picnic: We married another guy, and 1 went
* ' ' back to Grayson to get 'Willie,'
j up In a trunk, and didn't let the ! had quite a bunch of girls that, day,
I boys have it till aficr the celebra- the Cox girls, the Jowells, the Deans
| tion. We knew better I went on and the Harlan girls from Randal
| out to Jowell's to take the buggy, j County. That was the most we d
'rhe horse was given out when I ever had together at one time,
got there, so I couldn't, go back till I guess the girls had a good time. At
I next, morning. Of course, T didn't; least, they never Sacked attention,
♦ ♦
A New Institution .
.... but OLD in the Furniture Business
Believing in the future of Amarillo and the High Plains region, a new busi-
ness institution was founded in May of last year by Lowell Munday, for
years connected with the long-Bell Lumber Company, and I. W. Hill,
formerly of the Palo Duro Furniture Company and with 13 years experience
in the furniture business.
&
1,0WELL MUNDAY
3. W. HILL
Our Policy
It will be our decided policy to build for the future ... by carrying In
stock at all times a good line of merchandise, giving attention to style
and durability . , . passing this merchandise along to our customer at the
lowest possible price consistent with good merchandising.
J. W. HILL FURNITURE CO.
600 TAYLOR ST.
AMARILLO, TEXAS
standing, hence the change in name
to Fleming Business University.
Teachers in the university are
M. L. Fleming, bookkeeping and
English; Sam White, bookkeeping
and auditing; Miss Edith Picker-
ing, comptometry; W. G. Ijouthan,
M. S., B- S., head of the radio engi-
neering department; and Mi:#
Elaine Fleming, shorthand.
Fleming Business University now
has an enrollment of 100, but
reached 139 students at one time
during the past term.
John Humans, Washburn:
whom I'd been begging for years to
come west with me.
Mrs. Bradly's chair regained its John R.umans, Washburn: "I'd
poise, and the end of Walk's eternal love to he young again an' go over
cigarette gleamed redly between his the same old trail. It was hard
bearded lips. j work, but f loved it."
DEA CALDWELL
• AUTOMOBILE BATTERY
STARTER
GENERATOR and
IGNITION SERVICE
SINCE
1916
YOUR BUSINESS !S APPRECIATED AND OLE
WORK IS GUARANTEED TO FLEASE
JACKSON' AT TWELFTH
AMARILLO, TEXAS
r II ONE
2-1103
M fes M >■ i f |
m ■6 a
Has Always Been Good Bread!
;3A'
At Y our Grocer's!
Back in the days when the old delivery wagon pictured above
was something to be proud of, the bakers of Butter-Nut provided
Amarillo and the Panhandle with fresh, wholesome bread, daily.
The quality and flavor of Butter-Nut have been safeguarded
throuqhout the years. Our plant and facilities have been im-
proved and modernised constantly in order to supply you with
the very finest bread possible.
AMARILLO BAKING COMPANY
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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/m1/54/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.