Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938 Page: 65 of 264
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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 1938.
AMARU .LP SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE, AMARILLO. TEXAS.
SECTION BPAGE NINE
Gun-Toting
Long Illegal
Gun-toting in Amarillo, where colorful cowboys once
fired six-shooters into the air as a signal for hearlin' back
to the range, has been illegal since .July 15, 1809.
It was on that date that the city council passed an
ordinance providing for disarmament.
For a time every man was a law unto himself. There
was no organized municipal government prior to 1892
and from 1893 to 1899.
Serum I o All the World
Academy Amarillo From 28 in 1880 to 55,000 Now
Few Amarilloans arc aware that
this city is the home of a livestock
serum plant manufacturing and
shipping more blackleg bacterin
than any other such industry in
the world.
The O. M. Franklin Serum Com-
pany came into existence and was
located here because of the needs
of the livestock business. It was
established by men engaged in the
cattle industry.
Dr. O. M. Franklin, a vice presi-
dent of the company and in charge
of the biological laboratory here,
was the discoverer of liquid black-
leg aggressin in 1915, while he was
in charge of blackleg research work
with the Kansas Agricultural Col-
lege at Manhattan, Kan.
The next forward step In black-
leg control was the introduction of
blackleg bacterin in 1023. Dr.
Franklin was responsible for de-
veloping both of these products.
With the development of the
blackleg agaressin in 1915. Charles
E. Collins, then a banker and cat-
tleman of Wichita. Kan. interested
other southwestern cattlemen in
the organization of a company to
manufacture the aggressin. The
first plant was located at Wichita,
of the company were many widely
known ranchmen and stock raisers,
including W. H. Fuqua, R. B.
Masterson, Lee Bivins, and Fat and
John Landcrgin, all of whom re-
sided here.
In the last score of years, the
company has grown until it now
maintains sales offices in Amarillo,
Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City,
Salt Lake City, Wichita, El Paso,
Los Angeles, Marfa, Texas; Al-
liance, Neb., and Calgary, Canada,
and ships bacterin to every country
in tlie world where livestock is pro-
duced.
By HERBERT AND CAROLYN
TIMMONS.
Amarillo Academy, a private
boarding and day school, was opened
by Dr. George J. Nunn in 1904. An-
nouncing his plan to develop the
south section of Amarillo as a college
addition, Dr. Nunn purchased a
large tract in what Is now Edge-
field and began plans to develop
the site.
Pending the improvement of the
addition, Dr. Nunn opened his
school in temporary quarters at 701
Jackson Street, in the building that J
had been erected as the first chuicn
in Amarillo. This structure, known
as "Parker's Chapel," had been con-
verted into a rooming house when a
larger church was built. Dr. Nunn
tore out partitions, rearranged rooms
to provide classrooms and an as-
sembly room on the south side of
the building, while he made his
home on the north side.
The school first opened for classes
on January 1, 1904, and although it
was mid-year, Amarillo Academy
had full classes. The first year, Dr.
Nunn taught all classes with the
assistance of Mrs. Nunn, but alter
this first term Mrs. Nunn devoted
her entire time to the music de-
partment.
For the academy's second year, a
stairway was run to the upper story
of the building, windows built in for
a boys dormitory to care for board-
ing students. An old paint shop was
m ■< #
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MANY A BOOT was mired in this stretch before it was gravelled in 1899, Now it
is paved with brick—the beautiful thoroughfare you trod today, Polk Street.
purchased and moved to the lot just :
Nunn organized a debating and open
forum club that became the meeting
place for the young folks of Ama-
rillo on Friday evenings.
As the time did not seem right for
Twenty salesmen are employed In _
the various sales offices; 13 per- [iouth of the school site, 703~Jacks<in" the development of the proposed ad
sons ire employed at the plant anrj classrooms were built into this i dition to Amarillo, the academy
here, and 20 are employed in the building. The assembly room was opened its third year at the same
general offices at Denver. ! also changed from the older build- location, but a building at 705
Hall Medford, manager of the 1 jng. Monroe was purchased for use of
Amarillo territory, has been with ! Early in the summer advance in- ;the school. The boys dormitory was
the company almost since its in- qulries convinced Dr. Nunn that fall \ transferred to this building, thus
ception. enrollment would be heavy Mr. and
It is a matter of scientific record Mrs. W. B. Quigley were employed
that the present blackleg aggressin, i as teachers. Paul Nunn, son of Dr.
which was worked out by Dr. j Nunn, was in charge of the business
Franklin in 1920 and patented at department. Enrollment became so
that time, was developed in ex- I heavy that the services of another
actly the same form four years j teacher became necessary. George
later by the Pasteur Institute. Ogden came to teach the business
Mr. Collins, who now makes his school.
home at Kit Carson. Colo, has been ; To better care for this section
It
but a year later was moved to Ama- president of the company con- was moved to rooms In the Eakle
rillo.
Among the original incorporators
Find Amarillo
Amarillo was a rousing adventure]
for Eli Ralfkind in the early 1900's.
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tlnuously since Its organization. Dr. ; Building, where both day and night
Franklin is vice president, and J. classes were held. Many voung pcc-
Wlllard Cobb, Denver, is secretary- , pie of Amarillo took advantage of
treasurer. William Leu i s a.s- i this business school.
si.stant treasurer. Besides these of- Laura Buchanan headed the art
fleers, James L. C. Painter and Dr. I department of Amarillo Academy.
R V. Christian are directors. Miss Buchanan has since won fame
The company now manufactures by her realistic paintings of flowers;
bacterin and serums for all diseases Holland's magazine carried a series
Fresh from Europe and unable to1 of cattle, horses, hogs, sheep and;of her flower panels as cover de-
Fpeak English, tile immigrant was poultry, and is known to livestock [ signs several years ago. These covers
in New York. men in every country on the , were highly praised by art critics.
Somebody repeated Horace Gree- Klobf"- ' The second year of the school, Dr. j
ley's "Go west, young man, go west" 1
and somebody else, a distant rela-
tive, suggested Amarillo as "a good
country In which to get a start."
But others were not so optimistic.
"It's wild and wooly."
"You may get scalped by the In-
dians."
"The cowboys will shoot you."
Undaunted and with a friend who
could speak English, young Raft-
kind went to the railroad station.
"I had to wait 30 minutes while
they scanned maps and searched
books to locate Amarillo and then
learn the fare," recalled Mr. Raff-
kind, who is owner and operator of
The Monogram, which has been in
the same location, 504 Taylor Street,
since 1916.
"It was in 1910 that I arrived
in Amarillo," lie said. "I went to
work—manual labor — and in 1912
I was in business on the Bowery.
There were many Mexicans here at
that, time, working for the Santa
Fe, and I learned to speak Spanish
as soon as I learned to speak Eng-
lish.
"'The Bowery was the main part
of town then and Amarillo had a
union depot in the business district,"
he continued. "People were friend-
ly. It really wasn't what I expected
In view of what I had been told.
I've been back East several times,
but I'm always glad to get back
to Amarillo. The city has gone a
long ways in (he last quarter of a
century and what with the resources
and the energy of its people it is
bound to grow more."
Three years aftz-r Mr. Raffkind
went into business fin The Bowery
he married. Mrs. Raffkind had
come to Amarillo from Liverpool,
England.
And in the next year—1916—'The
Monogram was moved to its present
location. The Monogram stocks
shoes and men's wearing apparel.
Mr. Raffkind is a member of
Amarlllo's early Jewry.
"There were only about nine or
10 Jews here at that time and I
was among those who started re-
ligious services," he said.
Mr. Raffkind now is first vice-
president of Temple B'nai Israel.
He helped purchase the lot on which
the Temple stands and served as a
member of the building committee.
Mr. and Mrs. Raffkind have six
children, Reba at the University
of Oklahoma; Sidney, who was grad-
uated here and has a year at the
University of Texas; J. b., who has
Just finished at Amarillo College;
Lsahelle, a high schpol student;
Maurice and Daniel, grade school
pupils.
providing space for girls'
701 Jackson.
It was in the newer building, 705
Monroe, that Annie McDonald
taught her first school In Amarillo,
succeeding Mrs. Quigley in charge
of the primary section of the acad-
emy.
S. E. Fish and R. E. Coverdale
were new members of the faculty
the third year.
Increased enrollment In the busi-
ness department forced Its removal
to rooms at 111-113 Fifth Street. R.
By FRED POST
Amarillo is a population paradox
Frequently it has been the fastest
growing city in Texas.
And with the corporate limits lap-
ping over into an adjoining county,
A. Coverdale was in charge of the
enlarged section.
Sports were given their proper
place in the life of the academy; a
football team was organized, and
the girls had both basketball and
tennis clubs.
After three years devoted to ex-
tensive work with his students, Dr
Nunn announced that he was going
to carry out a life-long desire and
devote the next several years to
travel and study, and consequently
Amarillo Academy would not open
again. Thus, after only three years
the school closed, but there are
many citizens of Amarillo today,
men and women of high culture
and ideals, who owe much to the
training they received in Amarillo
.Academy.
rillo il890i revealed there were 4R2
tvoole here. But J. F. Walters,
who arrived here In February of
1890. said Amarillo had "14 saloons.
11 gambling houses and 600 per-
sons" He made that estimate when
he returned to Amarillo for the first
time in 1933 from Huntington
Tenn.
In 1900 Amarillo was credited with
a population of 1.442.
The city was growing by the pro-
verbial leaps and bounds
The city fathers —mayor and
timated on a basis furnished by the board of aldermen—were eager to
Federal Bureau of Census, is ap- reach the 10,000 mark, so on Jan-
census for that year stands at
9,957.
Five years later the Board of
Citv Development, in making appli-
cation for a Carnegie-supported li-
brary, shot high and estimated
Amarlllo's population at 17,378, but
the federal census of 1920 gave Ama-
rillo only 15.494.
Then came the boom decade.
Amarlllo's population again was al-
most tripled.
In March of 1«28 another city
census was taken It resulted In a
count of 38,303, certified to the gov-
ernment. although there was a dis-
pute between the supervisors and
Airerillo officials over a difference
of 136. The high count was 38,-
439.
Stimulated by money derived from
1 oil, ga~ wheat and cattle. Amarillo
grew rapidly in 1925 and 1926, the
boom time, and by 1927 the News-
paper Feature Bureau ranked Ama-
rillo tenth in population among
The first federal census in Ama- Texas cities.
designated bv the
crease of 114.4 per cent, the 1900
population being 1,820.
The population percentage In-
crease from 1900 to 1910 was 582.6
or a total census of 12.424 persons
In 1920 the population had in-
creased to 16 710, and in 1930, the
last federal census, it had almost
tripled, being 46,080.
At the time the federal census
was taken in 1890, Amarillo was only I
three years old, having been settled j
first in the spring of 1887.
Tuck Cornelius, his wife and three
children Carroll, Berl and Fern
formed Amarlllo's first family. A i
later child. Maryvi Amarillo Corne-
lious, was Amarlllo's first born. The
Corneliuses came here, June 1, 1887 ;
Some 50 or 60 cowboys from the
I X ranch became freeholders, own-
ing lots in Amarillo's first townsite I
and so began the city which today
is In the center of the nation's last
commercial frontier.
the population of Amarillo Is prac- 1
tically equal to the population of all
of Potter Ccu::'- for which It is the
scat of government.
Amarlllo's present population,
proximately 55,000.
Amarillo and Potter County are
proud of the high percentage of
native white population fit is ap-
proximately 98 per cent) and of the
low percentage of illiteracy, which
is less than 1 per cent.
When Uncle Sam first counted
noses in Potter County the total
was 28. That was in 1880. At the
next federal census, 1890, the count
in Potter County was 849. and with-
in the next decade there was an in-
uary 19, 1909 the council appointed
J. H. Avery to take a census. The
final report of that census was not
made until September 8. that year
and it was disappointing. Harve
Avery, who supervised the census
recalled not long ago:
"We wanted to make it 10.000, but
the best we could do by taking a
second check, which added some
10 or 12 names, was 9,954 "
Uncle Sam gave Amarillo only
three more in 1910, and the federal I baw'.. '
Amarillo was
Federal Bureau of Census as the
fastest growing city in Texas, and
three • ears after the last census
estimated the population at 49,700.
The 1930 federal census was 43.132,
which was- only 25 more than re-
ported after the preliminary survey
made May 3 of that year under the
supervision of G. Ray Smith.
Two years ago it was estimated
Amarillo's population was 47.000.
Within the last two years Amarillo
has continued to grow at an even
more phenomenal rate, but the in-
crease in population has not been
the result of booms. The census
has been boosted through the natural
ratio of vital statistics, the location
here of several governmental
agencies to serve regional territory,
and immigration due to the city s
strategic location as a distributing
point for a vast area.
John Rumans, Washburn: "If X
had a mean horse I marie :t pack
my bedding. They'd buck and
SAN JACINTO REALTY CO.
"LARGEST SALES AND RENT LIST IN AMARILLO'
3.112 WEST SIXTH AVE. PHONE 6371
GEO. W. kercher, Owner Amarillo, Texas
Rocking Chair Food
Jess Jenkins: "Amos Chapman, a
government scout, piloted a herd
for the Rocking Chair once when
I was horse rustler for them . . .
Conkle and Lytle of San Antonio
bought that ranch, They had good
eat In'—canned goods an' everything,
lots o' the ranches made the boys
take a sack o' hard biscuits and
aonie coffee and cat beef and sleep
on the ground. That's what r done
Until I came to the Rocking Chairs."
A SNAKE STORY
Mrs. Will Hyatt, Spur: "One day
a big bull snake got In the dugout.
I vacated in a hurry. My bulldog
couldn't get the snak/> out, so I
went over two miles to where a
Matador outfit was working and
got one of the boys to come and
help me get rid of that snake."
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WELVE years ago we were fortunate to have
selected Amarillo as the testing ground for a ven-
ture in the retail jewelry business. The -following years
have strongly attested the correctness of our judgment
by br inging us a wealth of customer confidence.
WO years ago, in
order to further accommodate
our customers, we added a complete credit Jewelry
and Luggage store service. Popular from the first, it
has been the means of bringing hundreds of new cus-
tomers to our store and has been gratifying in its scope.
■HOLLYWOOD
Amarillo's Store
of
STYLE
has kept pace
with progress
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For 12 years — almost
half the time Amarillo
has achieved real growth
and development — the
Hollywood has kept pace
and achieved leadership in
Style Quality and Value.
Not carelessly bestowed"
this leadership was earned . . .
by more than just satisfactory
rendition of a wanted service, by
individuals of judgment, experi-
ence and integrity. The Hollywood s
service and apparel has won the
wholehearted approval of thrifty and
discriminating women . . . now recog-
nized as Amarillo's Store of Style pre-
senting nationally advertised merchan-
dise to fit the Lady from Head to Foot.
1926
one
department . ,
two employes.
in
1938
twelve departments
eighteen employes.
Ill')'
ART L. WAGONER
RAY WAGONER
General Cattle Business
Wire, phone or write your wants
Bldg.
OFFICE: 528 Amarillo
Phone 2-2722
Res. Phones 2-3789 - 4536
Amarillo, Texas
RING o'ROMANCE
PERSONNEL
WL PRIZE highly the reputation we have built for
fair
deling, correct representation and a willing-
ness to stand back of the famous lines we represent.
Our pledge is to grow with growing Amarillo.
Manager— BEN F
Assistant Manager—- PAUL
Accessories—Gloves-Hose-Rags—
MRS. WAYNE TOMLINSON.
i ,5- foundation Garment
MRS. JETT FULLINGIM
Sports Togs fz Blouses
MRS CLARA GOODALI,
MRS. MAF. DANIEIS.
MRS. GRACE HODGE
MRS. MYRTLE KINCATD.
MRS. C. E. FYFE
MRS. SAM WHEELER.
Alteration Department
MRS. RUTH GRUNDY, Mgr.
MRS ETHEL AMES.
Shoe Department—
ANSEL SHUPACK, Mgr.
JULTEN DORFMAN
JACK DUKE.
Office— MISS EDITH CLAYTON
Porter— MELVIN LOWE.
SOLNICK
*LESKIN
WHEARY
Millinery—
Coats and Suit:
Under $10 Dresses
Better Dresses—
Junior Dresso
VALAPAK
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JEWELRY
LUGGAGE
I 847 Rogers Bros.
417 POLK
DRESS SHOPPE
New
Fftll Style|
Now
On D Lip lay
715
POLK
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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/m1/65/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hutchinson County Library, Borger Branch.