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EIGHT—SECTION C
AMARILLO StTNDAY NEWS AND GLOBE. AMARTLLO. TEXAS
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION. 1933.
'Loblolly Polk'
By FRED POST
Once upon a time—and this is no
fairy tale—Polk Street was a sea of
slime after every rain.
Loblolly, the old-timers called It.
Wooden sidewalks, what few there
were, kept pedestrians out of the
mud. Pedestrians who didn't want
to be splattered dashed into the lit-
tle frame stores along Polk Street
and shut the doors after them when-
ever hack horses passed faster than
a walk.
Sometimes the mire made Polk
Street impassable. Sometimes it took
four horses to pull a hack—the old
horse - and - buggy - day taxicab—
from the Denver Station to the old
Amarillo Hotel.
When the street dried out, mer-
chants washed off their store fronts,
and maybe the street overseer put
you to work. All men between the
ages of 18 and 45 years were re-
quired to work at least five days a
year on the streets at $1 a day. They
Polk to Fillmore, Fourth from Ty-
ler to Grant, Fifth from Tyler to
Taylor and Sixth from Tyler to
Taylor.
The estimated total cost of the
improvement was $185,896.17 and the
average cost to the property own-
er was $4.6687 and $5,395 a front
foot.
Patrolman Pat Bullis, who says he
has been here ever since the sun
was about the site of a dime, re-
members when Taylor Street was
paved with creosoted blocks.
"After a rain these blocks used
to swell up, pop out and go bobbing
along like a fishing floater," he
said.
By August of 1915 the city had
an estimated population of 17,376
and was clamoring for more pave-
ment. Tlie following month prop-
erty owners authorized another
$40,000 paving bond issue by a vote
of 284 to 178.
Paving had been going on and
it continued to go on, sometimes in
Shoes by Mail
Because a young merchant in
Bhreveport, La., liked to spend his
vacations in Colorado and because
of a chance invitation to stop on
the way, Amarillo has Regent's, an
exclusive women's wear and shoe
(tore.
Sid Braunig was working in his
father's store at Shreveport.
In August of 1908 a brother of
the late Louie Kirsch had opeied a
store where The Monogram now is
located. H. D. Kirsch, who had the
exclusive ready-to-wear store in
Amarillo, wrote to his friend in
Bhreveport, inviting him to stop in
Amarillo.
And so it was that Sid Braunig
set foot in Amarillo for the first
time, in November of 1908 He
stayed here two or three days, long
enough to convince him Amarillo
was the pi Ace for a shoe store that
stocked all widths.
"But I couldn't find a location,"
said Mr. Braunig, "and I had to
wait, until the Powell Building was
constructed on the east side of the
300 block of Polk Street."
Regent's was opened there in Feb-
ruary of 1909.
"It was the first shoe store in
West Texas that stocked all widths
and it also was the f!'-st shoe store
in West Texas that began taking
mail orders after samples had been
Shown all over the Panhandle." re-
called Mr. Braunig. who still has a
file, containing 3.000 shoe sizes of
customers to whom footwear still is
sent by mail.
"Polk Street was paved for one
solid block and our store was on
that pavement," said Mr. Braunig.
"Only the west side of the block
south was paved and part of that
400 block was lined with billboards.
"My brother—he was witn me
three years and then I bought him
out^-and I had been to a great deal
of expense in getting started in
business and we hadn't been here
but a few days when Sam and Joe
Isaacs made a call on us. Sam and
Joe Isaacs were big boosters of the
fire department. They were taking
up a collection to equip a gymna-
sium and rest room for the firemen
and they had us on the list for $25.
In those days and right at th-' time
particularly $25 looked like $500, but
we were part of the town and that
was our first donation."
Sid Braunig's brother Is A. C.
Kraum^who ! AFTER RAINS AND BEFORE PAVING Polk Street
Louisiana Paper company. He has | was filled with what the old-timers called loblolly. All
been in Amarillo once since those, men between the ages of 18 and 45 were required to
tolttend"thT'weddTng^f°Mr. and work at least five days a year on the streets at $1 a day.
Mrs Braunig's daughter. reported with ax, hoe, pick or spade. I jumbo Jobs until now Amarillo has
"He was astounded by Amarni. j they didn't want to do their streetl more than 300 miles of paved
streets. There are 500 miles of
streets, paved and unpaved. Fully
one-half of the alleys are paved,
too.
r—h-innm
advancement," said Mr. Braunig, j Rtlnt. thgy had t0 pay somebody
"He couldn t believe his eyes -t Ministers 0j the gospel
Sid Braunig from the first wasj bv
civic-minded. He invested mucu 01 j **
the first money he made in Ama- Aldermen N. Connally and J. P.
rillo real estate and he has taken Floyd were Amarillo's first street,
an active interest in social and re- alley and sidewalks committee, ap-
ligious activities. He has been par- ! pointed July 6. 1899. by Mayor R. L.
ticularly interested in the Amar- j Stringfellow. Alderman Conaally was
rillo High School band, other high the chairman of the committee and
school "activities and during the j the overseer. He took his job serious
"lean" years of Temple B nai Israel
he served the congregation as lay
rabbi.
The president of Regent's not
only served as lay rabbi, but also
helped organize the c mgregation.
He served as the first president of
Temple B'nai Israel and always has
been a member of the board.
It, was during the depression that
he was instrumental in obtaining
new uniforms for the high school
band. Within four months $l/-90
was raised for 70 new uniforms.
• • *
"There was a big cattlemen's con-
vention here the first year I was in
business in Amarillo and the sign
on our store was the talk of the
town," continued Mr. Braunig. "I
have a picture of it some place. We
had Williams Sign Company put up
a big bull sicn with something like
'Come In. but leave your bull out-
side' on it."
"Some place." Mr. Braunig also
has a deed to a town let In Vega,
which he acquired from an c'fici'"
of the Canadian Land Company,
who got a pair of $7.50 shoes in re-
turn for the deed.
ly and on July 25, 1899, introduced
It was in the fall of 1916 when
considerable street paving got un-
der way, that the commission be-
gan ordering pavement for alleys
in the business district. As usual
there were plenty of paving par-
a resolution to set aside certain j leys and protests. Some complained
funds for streets and bridges. The i of the quality of material and want-
city tax, by the way, was 25 cents ! ed tests run.
on the $100 assessed valuation. The city manager. October 3, 1916.
That fall the street and alley j reported work of putting crushed
committee reported streets in bad | rock on North Polk Street to St.
condition and recommended an ap- j Anthony's Hospital would begin
propriation for improvements. Two | not later than October 15. Mem-
days later, September 14, 1899, W. D. bers of the Potter County Medical
Twitchel was appointed city engi- j Society had asked that Polk Street
neer, a post he held until the follow- j be paved as far north at St. An-
ing May when he quit, : thony's Hospital or at least half
City Engineer Twitchel in Oc- way from the Denver tracks, and
tober, 1899, submitted a drawing. Mayor Beasley had stated an ex-
It pictured his idea of how Polk , perimcnt would be tried with gravel
Street should be graded and recom- j from the rock pit northwest of
mended "that the grading and in Amarillo.
fact all work on the s-treet be of In the fall of 1916 the railroads
a permanent nature so as to admit
of rock and pavement afterwards.
Mayor Stringfellow appointed
three committees, whose duties were:
1. To inspect, and report on the
probable cost and quality of gravel
that can be had near the city.
2. To confer with railroad people
concerning the drainage plan as
proposed by the city engineer; al-
Regent's had a three-year lease so as to freight rates on gravel.
on their original location, but in
1910 the store was moved to 412
Polk Street and then to the 500
block on Polk Street, where right
north of Killough fz Davies a new
front was built
It was in that location in 1916
that Regent's expanded to the
ready-to-wear stock.
"In the beginning we made tr'.-s
3. To ascertain the test prices
that can be had on tiling.
Denver railroad officials agreed
to give the city free gravel from
their right-of-way.
The city secretary, on December
16. 1899, recorded in the minutes:
"Alderman Connally made a
spirited talk, urging that work be
All over the Panhandle and orders commenced at once on the streets."
still are filled from a list of cus- Alderman A H. Wood favored ■
tomers we contacted first back in immediate action, too. but he in- 1
1911 and 1912." said Mr. Braunig , listed the city engineer should dc- ;
who also was a member of the first termine the amount of dirt neces-
booster trip made by Amarillo to' sary to fill preparatorv to gravel.
Plainview and Lubbock over the
Santa Fe.
One of Sid Braunig's first real es-
tate hold'rgs in Amarillo was a du-
plex at ilOO Fillmore Street.
"I began buying lots and built
Alderman Connally, recorded the
secretary, "favored using all gravel
and no dirst at. all."
Gravel was to come from pits
west of the stock pens on the
the Jean Apartments at 1200 Jack-j DenvPr tracks and a committee
e AW W t 1 m ft *v« ftvn n ft m r n n
found it was up to standard.
son Street." said the merchant, who
now owns the building a' the north-
west corner of Fifth Avenue and
Taylor eet. It is known as the
Braunig Building.
"There have been some 'tough'
times here," said Mr. Braunig,
"For instance, 1912 was a dry year
nd there was r. terrible winter. I
never have lost faith in the future
of Amarillo and the city now has
attained that size it will con-
tinue to grow."
The
committee also discovered a cubic
yard of gravel weighs 3.000 pounds.
The city couldn't borrow scrap-
ers from the railroad and so or-
dered six. and on January 22, 1900.
Overseer Connally was authorized
to place four-inch gravel on Polk
Street, the first paving by the
city. In May of the same year the
committee was authorized to "fin-
ish up gravel connections with hoard
were doing big business and urged
the city to release cars "tied-up"
with paving material. Incidentally,
city employes were asking for sal-
ary increases.
Still more paving was being pro-
posed and in August of that year—
1916—property owners were given
a hearing on the proposed paving
of Tenth Avenue from Polk to
Hayes.
Notes pickcd at random from
minutes in the vault at, the city
hall tell of Amarillo's paving prog-
ress.
Taxpayers. February 15. 1917. vot-
ed 413 to 346 for issuance of $50,-
000 in paving bonds.
In August of 1917, however, prop-
erty owners were protesting the
paving of Sixteenth between Van
Buren and Harrison Streets.
Later that fall T. W. White of the
Denver was being asked by the city
to relieve the gravel situation by
sending all available cars to the
Tascosa pit.
Comedy creeps into the paving
picture at intervals, but it probably
was serious business in those days.
For instance, McCormick Construc-
tion Company was working over-
time in November of 1917 to finish
a job and had been refused water
from a fire hydrant at Fifteenth
and Taylor. The fire chief had
refused to follow the city manager's
Captain Kidd
By MRS. J. M. WINCHESTER
Capt. W. W. Kidd and his family
moved to Amarillo from East Texas
in 1891. He had been here the year
before, looking for a location for
a grocery store.
He built a small home at the
corner of Tenth and Pierce Streets.
There wera no side-walks here then,
just little angling trails, and a
wagon road that went towards Polk
Street. He had a windmill and for
many years pumped his own water.
There were no telephones either, so
every morning except Sunday the
Captain would drive around to the
homes of his customers and get
their grocery orders, delivering them
later. His little light red wagon and
his old roan horse were a familiar
sight. The grocery store was on
the site of the present Oliver-Eakle
Building.
The grocery business was only a
sideline for Captain Kidd, who by
profession was an architect, edu-
cated in the East under some of the
best draftsmen in the country. He
was fortunate enough, so to say, to
finish his education just at the be-
ginning of the Civil War, and im-
mediately he enlisted in the Con-
federate Army. At the close of the
service he held a captain's com-
mission. The reconstruction period
worked havoc with the family fi-
nances and he took pny job he
could find — selling lumber, time-
keeper on building projects, etc.
After holding many positions, he
finally had an opportunity to trade
for a small grocery store. Due to
failing health, he was obliged to
look for another location, and
chance brought him to Amarillo.
After a few years in the grocery
business, he disposed of it and be-
gan to bid as a building contractor.
At this he was so successful that
nearly all the important structures
erected in the late 90's in Amarillo
and surrounding towns were his
contracts.
Captain Kidd believed that every
section of the country should have
a type of architecture especially
suited to its surroundings and that
such a building should add to and
harmonize perfectly with the nat-
ural surroundings. He worked on
this theory years before it was
taken up by authorities in archi-
tecture. In 1898 he remodeled his
home in the semi-Spanish style.
One cannot consider it old-fash-
ioned, even after 40 years, for its
built-in fixtures and general ar-
rangement are seen in the modern
house.
Captain Kidd took an active in-
terest in civic and fraternal work.
He was the first grand noble of
the I. O. O. F. Lodge in Amarillo.
Of the children who survive him.
Mrs. Delia Crittenden occupies the
j family home In Amarillo.
instructions about turning on the
water for the paving contractors.
So at the next commission meeting
the city manager announced he
would turn on the water. He did.
j but an hour later the fire chief
j came along, turned off the water
and took possession of the hyd-
rant wrench. The fire chief was
"canned" and re-hired during the
week.
By the overwhelming vote of 248
to 9. paving bonds in the amount
of $150,000 were authorized, Septem-
ber 6, 1919. 1
Two different delegation'^ were
I arguing, April 18, 1922, whether
I North Buchanan or North Fillmore
: should be paved first from the Rock
I Island tracks to the city limits to
connect with the Colorado-to-Gulf
Highway.
More street Improvement bonds,
$100,000 worth, were authorized,
May 28, 1927.
Movement for a paved street to
connect with the Canyon Highway
was started in earnest February 28,
1928. when Roy Lindsay, W. P.
Martin. John P. Mathis and others
I asked for designations by the state
highway department. But on March
6. 1928 the same committee reported
there seemed to be no chance of
] getting all the property owners to
sign.
On and on paced paving. Street
improvement bonds were voted, and
i In recent years the city bought an
asphalt plant and much pavement
' nf the penetration type caliche was
laid, especially in the Country Club
district.
Then came a lull with the pessi-
j mistic pall of the depression hang-
ing over projects, including paving.
1 But since the days of WPA much
more pavement has been laid in
i Amarillo and at one-fifth what it
| cost when Polk Street first was
paved.
COW FOR A COW
Bill Gates, Midland: "Every time
a man steals a cow, he will lose one
himself. One time a little stray
two-year old heifer came into my
pasture. I didn't know what to do
with it, so when it got good and
fat I butchered it, went to Shatter
Lake which was on a boom, and sold
the meat. When I got home, the
best two-year-old I had was drowned
in a tank."
Parasol 'No Co' in 1890
By ALMA McGOWEN THOMPSON
Life in Amarillo at the turn of
the century was pretty much a
family affair, according to Mrs. W.
E. Oliver, gracious, white-haired
plainswoman who came here in
1899.
"If there was a wedding, every-
body went," she explained; "if there
was a funeral, everybody wept;
and if there was any gossip, every-
body knew it."
Mrs. Oliver came here to visit her
brothers, J. M. and John S. Callo-
way, in 1890, and among her luggage
was a parasol.
I enjoyed my visit with my
brother," she said, "all but the wind.
I couldn't seem to get used to that,
although I stayed two months. I
had brought my parasol. Everybody
carried one at home. Precious little
need for one here where the wind
blew at gale velocity. Soon my
parasol was 'gone with the wind.'
"But everything was new and
novel to me. The cowboys always
loked wild and rough. You see. we
were not ranch people. Mv brothers
were engaged in the mercantile bus-
iness. Their building was located
i the lot where the Oliver-Eakle
Building stands now.
"I used t- wonder at the cattle
I saw. I've seen the whole south-
ern horizon dark with them thou-
sands and thousands being driven In
to b- shipped. It's strange, but I
never seem to recollect seeing the
cattle come in from any other direc-
tion except from the south. That
may be because my brothers were
in the south part of town.
"I never would go to town when
the cowboys were in. I do not know
why I was afraid, for I never heard
o. any of them doing any harm, ex-
cept drink too much whiskey,
maybe.
* • •
"We made some trips to the can-
yons. That was really one of the
diversions, and it was quite thrilling
"Aside from my amazement at
watching the herds swarming in
from the south, I enjoyed most
hearing my brother. J. S., tell about
his long trips collecting. Amarillo
was a sort, of commercial center for
the entire Plains country then, as
is now, and my brothers had cus-
tomers in all surrounding smaller
towns. J. S. drove long distances in
a buggy across the prairies when
he went collecting. On one such
trip—it was in the w-inter—he told
m" about a blizzard that swept down
fi-e-n the north bringing a blinding
snow that caught him about half-
i way between here and Plainview. He
I got lost. Soon he was so completely
I lost that he had to just give his
j horse his head and let him find his
cwn way.
"It kept getting colder and colder
j rnd there was no sight of persons or
| human habitation, nothing but the
blinding snow and freezing wind.
The hours wore awav and night be-
gan to fall and with the night
shadows a darker shadow appeared
-a pack of hungry wolves after a
kill. My brother was half frozen,
tut to freeze, was preferable to being
to'-n and eaten by savage beasts.
At first the wolves just followed the
horse and buggy at a short distance,
h t soon they were crowding closer
and snapping at the horse's feet.
Finally they began leaping at both
horse and driver. The leader's fangs
barely missed J. S.'s throat as he
reached for his buggy whip.
"Slashing right and left until the
whip was worn to a stock while the
terrified horse lu ged and tried to
run in the fury of the icy blasts,
brother kept up the circulation that
had almost stopped when he had
had to stop walking beside the
horse. He said he never knew
whether it was the whip or the near-
ness of a ranch house that fright-
ened away the fiendish wolf pack.
But a faint light shone ahead, and
the hungry wolves gradually slunk
away in the darkness.
"After a few years my parents de-
cided to move to Amarillo. The boys
had been writing them about the
country, and father had been half
in a notion to come out for some
time. They -ar.ie simply to make their
home here, for they were old and
father was retired. However, in the
r eantime I had married while back
in Mississippi, in 1893, and did not
come when they came. Mr. Oliver
and I moved to Amarillo in 1899.
William, my oldest snn. was 3 years
ol' then. My husband was asso-
ciated with my brothers in the mer-
cantile business.
* * ♦
"William used to go to school to
Miss Laura V. Hamner here in Ama-
rillo. He also had as one of his
teachers Miss Flora McGee. who is
now a faculty member at Texas
Tech.
"Now, all my children are grown
and gone and I am alone. My two
daughters married here. I get. lone-
ly sometimes, but I have my house
and yard to see after, and then the
j children come home once in a while.
And on Mothers Dav there are al-
'• ys messages and gifts. So I get
| along."
T". E Oliver died in 1931 while on
a business trip to Fort Worth.
• * •
J. S. Calloway, Mrs. Oliver's broth-
er, recalls that when he came to
] Amarillo to buy lots for his and his
brother's business and homes, he
heard muffled whispers beneath his
hotel window which disturbed his
1 sleep Investigating, he saw twro
j men talking secretively, but they
I were plotting no more than their
i plans to run for sections of land
each had previously selected, and
on which they intended to file.
"Next morning as 1 was waiving
south on the west side Of Main-
there were only two business blocks
in Amarillo then T met W. H.
Fuqua at this wagon yard. I learned
shortly that. W. H. had established
the reputation of being the best
I horse trader in the country, as well
j as being the first person in the town
' to meet strangers and learn their
pedigree. He got mine.
"There weren't many business
houses in Amarillo then. Mr. Wig-
gins had the only furniture store
here. It was near Fuqua's wagon
yard. The First National Bank
building of that dav was under
construction. W. S. Davis was its
president. His brother, Walter, be-
came cashier, and Charlie J. E.
Io- ndes was assistant cashier. He
is still with the bank.
"At the general merchandise store
of Smith-Walker and Company I
met the late J. L. Smith. He in-
vited me to attend a meeting that
night for the organization of a Bap-
tist Church. I went, but being a
visitor I took no part in the discus-
sion. There were seven or eight
other men there besides Smith and
myself. The meeting was held on
the prairie just north of the Ama-
rillo Hotel. As a result of that
night's discussion the Baptist
Church was built at Pierce at Fifth
Streets.
"The Amarillo Hotel had finished
tt north wing and it was operated
by Mr. Hardwlck. who later went
'o Fort Worth where he continued
in the hotel business.
"I met Tol Ware at the Smith-
Walker Company. That was quite
a store. They carried everything It
seemed that anybody could think of.
Tol Ware was clerking there. I also
met B. C. D. Bynum at the same
place. Fine men those, and they
mac", good.
"There was one drug store in
Amarillo at that time. It was own-
I e by L. O. Thompson and Port-
: wood. I had occasion to remember
"lat quite well, for the drug store
rented a little 16x18 wooden building
I which they had no use for, just to
keep out competition. When my
brother joined me he had been un-
able to sell all his drug store stock,
si he brought it to Amarillo. It be-
ing near Christmas, and having
a ' of holiday goods, he was eager
tft find a location to display ills
stock. We tried to subrent the small
strr .ture from Thompson-Portwood,
but it was no go. We had no time
to build even a shack. But brother
Wis a very resourceful man, so he
proceeded to display his goods at
restaurants. For two weeks he was
Fill Orders
Although the Wagoner brothers,
Art and Ray, have been in the
cattle business in the Panhandle
since 1900, they have never had an
order turned down.
The Wagoners were probably the
first cattle dealers' to make pos-
sible "order buying" of cattle.
"It used to be that buyers from
the Corn Belt and other places
had to travel to Amarillo, pick our,
the cattle, and buy 1.000 or 1,500
at one time," explains Art Wagoner.
"Now they just write or wire us,
giving description of the cattle they
want, and we fill the order."
The Wagoner brothers ship cat-
tle all over the United States, but
most of their cattle go to the Corn
Belt where they would rather have
Panhandle cattle than any other.
Whereas back in the early days
buyers annually made buying trips
in the spring or fall and bought
cattle by the thousands, they now
order at any time and can order
as few as a carload at a time. Art
and Ray Wagoner have filled hun-
dreds of orders from buyers who
have never seen them until after
the cattle have been delivered.
The Wagoners came to Amarillo In
1906. They maintain offices at 528
Amarillo Building.
1 seen anywhere and everywhere car-
| rying his boxes. And he sold the.
j last, piece of merchandise he had.
"Once when I was traveling I
| stopped at Canyon City. There I
} met Mr. Umbarger, who owned a
' cafe. The town of Umbarger was
j named for him."
John Snider, Amarillo: "When the
1 fight at Tascosa was on, Ed Chilton
| stuck his head out of his cafe door
to see what was going on. A shot
hit him between the eyes. Scotty
! Wilson said that Ed stuck his head
' out and never did take it back."
REAL ESTATE and
LOAN SERVICE
SINCE 1905
"More Than $10,000,000.00
Loaned for the Development
of Amarillo."
© REAL ESTATE
LOANS
INSURANCE
ASKEW & BROWN
109 East 9+h REALTORS Phone 8228
Tn 1910 Mr. Braunif returned to \ sidewalks." Later the city had a
Shreveport to wed. The Braur. " full-fledged street commissioner and
have two children. Gene, who is prisoners could be worked on the
rnpraser of the shoe ejroartrrrnt, at s-tr(,ets to pay their fines and court
Regent s, and Mrs. Abe Feferman, , cost_,.
o.™ana*er of the ' Bv'January 25, 1910. resident tax-
Armv and N&vv St,orp. . , .
In 1932 Regent's moved to the ?ay„e5'S.,we5P.,ready_{°_r J™!:
present location, 612 Polk Street,
ment that thev voted 227 to 25 for
where it has continued to expand assessing improvement costs against
J. h T. Cousins Fashion Plate abutting property. And on March
and Selby shoes are stocked ex- 23, 1910 they authorized, 236 to 24.
clusively in Amarillo by Regent's, the issuance of $75,000 in bonds for
where Lettie Lee frocks, Greenbro | the purpose of improving roads,
suits, Manhattan Mode frocks aTid I bridges and streets."
Mojud hose also are exclusive. This issue, Amarillo's first for
One of Amarillo's most agressive street improvement,, has been taken
merchants, Sid Braunig is planning Up, although it was to run for 40
now on a big anniversary celebra- years,
tion.
It will have been 30 years next
February since Regent's began
business In Amarillo.
"Amarillo is capable of weather-
ing the worst and continues to
grow," he said and observed there
■re few if any business failures es-
pecially among the larger and older
firms.
Bd George. Allison: "Tom Mc-
Gee worked for the U Bar U ranch
In 1883, same time I worked there.
McGee was later elected the first
sheriff of Hemphill County, and was
killed defending the express office
M«inst robbers In 1894."
For a town of less than 10,000
Amarillo tackled an ambitious pav-
ing progrpm. There was much dis-
cussion over the street improvement
program. A motion was lost to pave
Polk Street with creosoted blocks.
Ockander Brothers of Waco sub-
mitted the low bid on brick and
got the contract. The council—J.
H. Patton was mayor—accepted the
proposal subject to a deduction of
seven cents for maintenance, which
made the price $2.49 a square yard.
The 28 blocks to be paved were
Polk Street from North Second to
South Tenth, Tsylor from North
Second to South Sixth, Third from
Obtain CASH
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PLAINS CITIES
FINANCE CO.
13 W. Eighth St. Phone 9793
Amarillo, Texas
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With "Service and Quality" our watchword since our beginning four years ago,
we are constantly making new friends and holding the old. At this time we wish
to thank those friends for the patronage which has made our success possible.
We sine erely congratulate those
early pioneers who through their
foresight and courage, made
possible the development of the
Panhandle-Plains Empire.
E. L. SHELTON, Prcs.-Gcn. Mgr
OLIN PRESCOTT, Sales Mgr
R. L. "BOB" ROSEBERRY,
Procurement Mgr.
For Absolute Purity
Phone 2-4155
These and 30 other
members of the Plains
Organization are Con-
stantly Serving You.
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