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AMARILLO SUNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE, AMARILLO, TEXAS.
First Ranches Hired Hunters College>1897
With Packs of Stag Hounds
By J. M. WINCHESTER
W H. Ingerton came to the Pan-
handle with a surveying crew In
1891 from Grayson County.
Alter the work: of the surveying
crew was finished, he remained
here, working fov the G. M. S.
Ranch. The town of Canyon is lo-
cated on part of the original ranch,
owned by Gunter and Munson. Re-
turning to Grayson County in '80,
he helped drive back a herd of about
3,500 stock cattle. They started out
in February, arriving in Potter
County late In August of that year.
The dls-ance cover in that drive
was between 500 and 600 miles.
There was plenty of grass and no
fences—Mr. Ingertor related—for a
couple of line or drift fences. In the
winter the cattle would wander
■outh before the storms. The
wagons often picked them up
around Lubbock. One severe win-
ter the wagon wpnt as far south
as Carlsbad. When Mr. Ingerton
worked for the LX, they ran about
three wagons, 10 men to the wagon
and each man would have about
etght to 10 horses In his string.
They changed horses about three
times a day. The cattle were
bothered bv lobo wolves and finally
a hunter was employed by the ranch
to thin them out. The hunter had
about six trail hounds and about
eight or 10 stag hounds. The trail
hounds located the wolves by scent
•1 when they came up to them
Uie stag hounds were turned loose
and generally made short work of
them. There were a few panthers
1- the brer k? of the river, and also
some in the canyon.
One time when Ed Baird was
riding along in the canyon he
glanced i at some overhanging
shrubs and saw one crouched on
the rock above him. He killed it
with his shotgun. Later, a hunter
saw a panther dragging a deer to-
wards a cave ir the canyon wall.
Climbing above the cave, he saw
some cubs lying on the rocks in
front of it He threw rocks down
upon tVm and killed them. The
old panther growled and snarled
but made no attempt to defend her
cubs or to attack him.
A number of little black bear
lived in the canyon and occasion-
ally one would be found along the
Canadian. They were nice and fat,
but had eaten so many cedar ber-
ries that, their flesh had a strong
taste. B-'ar steaks, In sections
where their food consists of nuts
and fish, are considered a rare
delicacy.
Durint, 'he winter the cowboys
often added to their earnings by
rounding up and breaking the wild
mustangs. If they wanted to drive
them some distance they walked
them down. They sold these for
S2 to $3, and when they broke them
they were worth $8 or $10 each.
The mustang was too wild to make
a good rcw pony, and in the esti-
mation of a cowboy, was worthless.
At, the ranch headquarters, the
compar maintained a commissary.
Here they handled clothes, tobacco,
candr, drlta fruits, dried vegetables.
flour, sugar, bacon, coffee and
spices. There was always a little
garden at the ranch house and, of
course, always fresh beef for the
tables.
Cattle wore trailed to the end of
the . .ilroads, generally a thousand
in a herd. A larger number was too
cumbersome to handle, and too hard
to obtain water for. Most of the
cattle from this territory were
trailed and shipped to Dodge City
prior to the coming of the Port
Worth & Denver Railroad. Most
of the supplies were freighted from
there also. Two men were employed
by the ranch as freighters. With
five mule teams to the wagon, the
two wagons traveling together would
HIRS. W. H. INGERTON
make the trip in about three weeks.
In addition to the food and other
supplies, they hauled corn for the
horses, about 75,000 to 80,000 pounds
every fall. Corn was worth about a
cent a pound in Dodge City and the
cost of hauling was another cent.
In order not to make the trip with
an empty wagon, the freighters
would often take a load of hides
frot the ranch or stop and pick
up a load of buffalo bones. The
buffalo bones were shipped east for
fertilizer or burned for lamp black,
but the best bones wpre used for
cutlery. When not on the road, the
: ule teams were used to haul wood
and plow fire guards.
There was always lots of work
and any kind of a social function
was almost unknown.
The Ingerton children are. Mrs.
C. B. Marsh, W. H. Ingerton, Jr..
Madeline Ingerton. and Mrs. Carl
Lea, of Amarillo: Gillian Ingerton,
of Jefferson: Mrs. G W. Bradley,
of Conlan; and Sheridan Ingerton
cf Verseilles, Ken.
TWIN CALVES
Bill Gates, Midland: "Hardly ever
see twin calves on a ranch. I once
had a cow in a trap that gave birth
to two calves. One was too weak
to stand, so we had to hold it up
every time dinner came around,
until it got. stronger."
By HERBERT AND CAROLYN
TIMMONS
When W. D. Twitchel! opened a
private school in a small building
on the lot where his home was, he
little thought that he was founding
a college. But from this private
school Amarillo College came to be.
The public school of Amarillo had
an unsuccessful year in 1895-96, and
many of the older pupils withdrew.
To meet the need of these boys and
girls, Mr. Twitchell opened his
school at 710 Pierce Street.
This school was run for two years,
and gained in numbers continually.
Mr. Twitchell was an excellent
teacher. His private laboratory, in
one room of his home, was opened
to chemistry students and for any
school use. In order to care for all
students needing laboratory work,
Mr. Twitchell arranged a schedule
for them at his home laboratory.
One required experiment was the
making of laughing gas. And that
brings up a good story.
Addie Whitcomb and Hugh
Umphres caught a fly in the lab
and tried out the gas. As the fly
went under, the buzz-buzz-BUZZ-
BUZZ got the young scientists to
laughing, and the rest of the period
was taken up with laughs and gig-
gles. Even after the two returned
to the school room the giggles con-
tinued. Finally Mr. Twitchell asked
Addie what was so funny
Between paroxisms of laughter
Addie said. "Hugh—laughing gas—"
"Well, I think you both swallowed
the laughing gas," Mr. Twitchell re-
plied.
To this day the incident is a joke
among a certain group of Amarillo
citizens.
Closing exercises of Mr. Twitch-
ell's school in 1897 embraced weighty
subjects. Addie Whitcomb led with
an essay on "Labor, Its Divisions
and Wages." Following were Belle
Martin, "Black Death:" Florine
Ware, "Illusion of the Senses:"
Hugh Umphres, "Civilization;" Julia
Kidd, "Dawn of History;" Lawrence
Kersey, "Washington Irving;" Mal-
I comb Moore, "Liberty;" Maggie
Trigg. "The Hero;" Mamie Trigg.
"Music:" Mary Potter. "Education:"
Mora Belle Ivy, "Knights and Chiv-
alry;'' Read Potter, "Our Native
Land;" Terry Thompson, "How We
Gained Our Independence;" Verden
Black well, "Moral Sentiments:"
Wilbur Withey, "Literature;" Char-
ley Adkisson, "The Early Colonies:"
and Walter Hamilton, "Origin of
! the Indians."
* « •
During the summer of 1897 the
idea of converting this private
school into Amarillo College took
form.
The board of directors when the
college was chartered were Lieut.
Gov. J. N. Browning, Capt. J. M.
Kindred. Judge W. B. Plemons,
: Mayor R. L. Stringfellow. and
James D. Hamlin, president of the
I college.
Faculty members were A C.
Frank, M. Dan Foreman. R. N. Hol-
bert, R. O. Davis, Miss Maude
Tannehill, Mrs. J. S. Bolton. Rev.
J. N. Briney and J. D. Hamlin.
The campus of Amarillo College
comprised four blocks, beginning
where the Vineyard Manor now
stands at Twelfth and Polk streets,
thence east, two blocks to Fillmore,
south two blocks to Fourteenth and
west two blocks to Polk, and north
Loaf of Bread in the Making Early School
®y HERBERT AND CAROI
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 1938.
When you bought that loaf of
bread this morning, you probably
did so Just like thousands of oth-
ers—scarcely noticed the neat wrap-
per and paid no attention to its
being sliced and all ready to eat.
Then at the table, the bread
probably was just a part of the
meal and none of you gave any
thought to the tremendous amount
of work, investment,'or the human
side of the baking of that one small
loaf.
Let's drop in on the big, modern
Amarillo Baking Company's plant at
801 Buchanan, meet the late J. W.
Houck's sons, Hoyt and Robert, and
learn from them the fascinating
story of that loaf of bread which
you so carelessly take for granted.
From the Houcks we learn first
that the huge plant has equipment
worth thousands of dollars. Then
we are told that 10.000 pounds of
bread are turned out each day by
the Amarillo Baking Company.
The senior Houck, who died last
May, started in the bakery business
28 years ago in Cherryville, Kans.
He was the entire personnel.
Like so many other men who set-
tled in Amarillo, Mr. Houck was
just looking around for a town in
which to locate when he came here
in 1923.
He spent two or three months in
Amarillo. Amarillo and the Pan-
handle fascinated him. He finally
bought the old Pioneer Bakery and
changed the name to Amarillo Bak-
two blocks to point of beginning.
The campus covercd ground that is
today of great value, although then
it was far toward the edge of Ama-
rillo.
During the summer of '97 two
warehouses, originally owned by
Cone and Durand, were moved to
the campus and joined together to
form five classrooms and an audi-
torium. Everyone was sure this was
only a temporary arrangement and
felt that soon stately college build-
ings would rise on the campus.
A very ambitious curriculum was
offered in Amarillo College, but it
was strictly along old fashioned
academic lines. Among courses of-
■ fered were Greek. Latin, history,
| higher mathematics, humanities,
j music. Lecturers were secured from
; time to time for other subjects.
| Gov. Browning was chosen for a
lecture series on "legal phases," and
Dr. David R. Fly lectured on
physiology and hygiene.
In recognition of this work the
school conferred honorary degrees
on Gov. Browning and Dr. Fly.
In 1899. it was decided to dis-
contniue the college and allow the
property to revert to the donor,
Mrs. H. B. Sanborn, due to lack of
facilities.
Thus the first college in thr Pan-
handle ran its course, but in its
short life it opened the doors to
higher learning for many boys and
girls who are now leading citizens
over the Plains area.
Amarillo can justly lay claim to
the first college on the Plains, for
both the Goodnight and Clarendon
Colleges opened in 1898, three years
after the Twitchell School or Ama-
rillo College class was begun, and
one year after Amarillo College was
chartered.
ing Company. His son, Hoyt, was
given an interest in the firm then.
With fewer than a dozen employes
and only three routes in Amarillo
and none out-of-town, at the start,
Mr. Houck's business has kept pace
with Amarillo's steady growth. To-
day a third son, Robert, is a mem-
ber of the firm; 35 persons are on
the payroll, and 14 routes, five in
Amarillo and nine out-of-town,
distribute the products of the Ama-
rillo Baking Company.
• * •
In May, 1934, the firm Introduced
one of the most modern bakeries
in the Southwest. New equipment
was purchased and more persons
added to the payroll to take care
of the demand for Butter-Nut bread.
The Butter-Nut recipe Is a na-
tionally famous one and the right
to use it was bought after about
four years of experimenting with
others.
Now that we know something of
the Houcks, let's peer behind the
scenes and see a loaf of bread made.
A top grade of wheat flour is
mixed with other ingredients in a
huge mixing machine which has a
capacity of 800 pounds of dough.
(Mast, loaves of bread weigh one
pound).
After being thoroughly mixed, the
dough is transferred to vats and then
to a dividing machine which auto-
matically cuts and weighs into prop-
er sizes.
By conveyor belt, the divided
dough is sent through the rounding
machine which properly rolls each
wad into round shapes.
Still untouched by human hands,
the dough balls are conveyed to an
overhead "proofer" in which ma-
chine the bread is allowed to rise.
Then the dough which comes out
of proofer in long rolls, is moulded
by hand, the moulders using the
new twisting nethods. Two of these
long rolls are twisted together and
placed in pans.
Dozens of these pans of dough
are put on decks in racks and
placed in a modern, air-condition-
ed proofing room.
Ready for the oven, the pans are
taken from the proofing room and
placed on shelves in a huge, travel-
ing oven, a gas heated unit con-
trolled with automatic electric con
trol. Even oven temperature is
maintained by thermostat.
CAROLYN
TIMMONS
Lowrey-Phillips School, a private
institution giving courses through
junior college, was opened in Ama-
rillo in 1910 by Dr. Lowrey and F.
F. Phillips. These men, both of
high education and with wide col-
lege experience, came to Amarillo
at the invitation of the Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce, and were
assured of ample financial as-
sistance to build the school.
There were no buildings the first
year, but enrollment, was com-
pleted and classes met September
1, 1910, in temporary quarters at
801 Polk Street. Two small resi-
dences were rented, and a building
that had been used as a cotton
glove factory was moved from its
old location in Glenwood.
Even in these crude buildings and
with no time for promotional work,
the enrollment was decidedly en-
couraging. Not delaying for the
promised help from the Chamber
of Commerce, the ".ollege men se-
cured a beautiful tract of land
overlooking Amarillo on the north
and began preliminary plans for the
erection of a building for the second
year of school. They realized they
must plan for at least 350 students
in the first unit. Already, in
temporary quarters every depart-
ment was growing. The grade
school, taught by Lurline and Es-
telle DeCoursey, had. shown re-
markable growth.
Encouraged by the frequent ef-
forts of the Chamber of Commerce
to secure aid, the two men let the
contract to W. M. Rice for the
first unit of a group of buildings
in early summer of 1911. This brick
structure was to be three stories
high with full basement, and plan-
ned an auditorium, offices and re-
ception halls on the first floor,
classrooms on the second floor, and
a dormitory on the third floor. The
dining hall and kitchen was to be
In the basement.
of music and expression would be
maintained in the Powell Building.
Faculty members listed for 1912-
13 were Dr. Lowrey and Mr. Phil-
lips, Lurline and Estelle DeCoursey,
and Marion Huddleston in primary
grades; Ruth Cary, higher English
and languages; a Mr. Willard,
science and higher mathematics;
Dr. E. G. Stout, history and ele-
mentary work; music, Dr. Meyer
and Agnes Meyer; vocal music and
art (including :hina painting),
Allene Brazleton; and expression,
Francis Humphreys.
After operating through the term
as a co-educational school, Lowrey-
Phillips was changed to a military
school for boys, but they still ad-
mitted girls to the elementary
grades and local girls to the col-
lege courses.
Capt. R. L. Coleman came to
Amarillo to take charge of the
cadets of Lowrey-phillips, and at
once became popular with the boys.
A Mr. Pierce was especially ac-
tive as a faculty member, and will
be recalled for his excellent work
in building a Lowrey-Phillips foot-
ball team. Mrs. Pierce assisted in
the music department.
For several years Lowrey-Phillips
maintained an accredited school. In
A Smart Horse
Bill Gates, Midland: "I had a
horse named Heavy Tall that did a
mighty smart thing. He fought of®
other horses that would bite and
kick a certain colt every time ha
came to water. Then he would let
the colt drink and nose him off to
a place of safety when he had had
his fill.
"I had another horse called Ta-
rantula. The first time he had a
saddle on him—a 2-year-old that
never had been rode—I rode him
up a sandy draw where the taran-
tulas were thick, and that's how ho
got his name."
1917 the school heads announced
they would not open next year.
Dr. Lowrey returned to his former
home where he later ran for Con-
gress, was elected and served 13
years. Mr. Phillips became identi-
fied with other business Interests
in Amarillo and is still a resident
of the city.
After changing hands several
times, the Lowrey-Phillips school
building was procured by the Cen-
tral Presbyterian Church to be used
as a Children's Home.
As the Lowrey-Phillips school
was too far out for students to
walk, an arrangement was made to
run a street car to the school
. grounds.
During the summer and through
the following winter, when enroll-
After traveling slowly through the | ment in Lowrey-Phillips had made
huge oven, the bread comes out ; a very encouraging increase, the
through the same opening in which : Amarillo Chamber of Commerce re
if". TI'O C flref nlnnnrl XT/m. nn/.l. 1 _ r z- z . _ • < ...
it, was first placed. Now each loaf
is properly baked and browned. This
process takes from 20 to 30 minutes.
The hot, steaming bread is then
newed efforts to provide financial
help, but little was accomplished.
A news item dated July 12, 1912,
showed that Frank A. White, D. D.
a ----- "uuncu uiau i idim r\, vviuuc, U. LJ
put. on racks and rolled into an > Dewing, Phil Seewald, J. W. Crudg-
air-conditioned cooling room. I jngton and Mike C. Lemasters were
Correctly cooled, the bread is (hen , chosen by the chamber to raise
, sliced and wrapped in waxed paper. ,hese funris Nothing more is
Slicing and wrapping are done by found Jn latfr concerning
machines, too, which work at a th work howevcMr.
high speed. Soon the bread is
ready for (Iip 15 delivery trucks! Undaunted, the school men
which take the product to the re- Pushed on. An item of August 31,
tail trade. , '912, stated that Lowrey-Phillips
The Amarillo Baking Company school would open on September 1,
has specialized in bread since its in- with several additions to the faculty.
has specialized in bread since Its in-
I ception.
Mrs. Will Hyatt. Spur: "Mr. Hyatt
was up on the Canadian with an
j old when he got back."
Enrollment already indicated that
the building would be crowded, es-
pecially in the dormitory section.
I ...... „.w, Excellent street car service had been
| outfit and the baby was a month arranged, and had been done the
previous year, a downtown studio
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