Floyd County Finances Bright Despite Cold Crop Year
Special to The Glove from Lockney Texas reports Floyd county finances sound with farmers debt-free and ample feed. 1925 saw new gins costing 75,000 and a large Lockney auto building at 30,000, plus 210,000 in city permits. 1926 projects include Santa Fe station, streetlights, and a paved main street with 100 foot width.
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Lockney
Floyd County
A. B. Brown
First National Bank of
W. 8. Watson
Watson
Lockney Auto Company
West Texas
The
Santa Fe
Main Street
Texas Utilities Company
Mistletoe of
Amarillo
Fort Worth & Denver
Chamber
Pievele Tires and Local Business Moves Highlight 1926 Notes
The passage recalls 1926 events including W. H. Fuqua buying the first Ford from Cooper-Irwin. It notes furniture and upholstery dealer O. E. Long relocating from 104 East Eighth Street to a store in the Archie Muay building at 506 West Siwash Street, and makes a remark about two kinds of men and dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pievele Tires
West Seventh
W. H. Fuqua
Cooper-Irwin
O. E. Long
East Eighth Street
Archie Muay
West Siacih Street
Claude honors Sunday school leader A V Nelson at banquet
In Claude Texas a banquet celebrated A V Nelson who has led the Claude Baptist Sunday school for twelve years. Clergy and civic figures spoke as Nelson received a fine watch, with music and readings marking the event. The gathering followed the town’s receipt of 926 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Claude
Baptist Celurch
A V. Nelson
Nelson
Claude Baptist Sunday School
C. £. Griswold
Kelly
First Christian Church
Hitchock
The
Gaude Methodist Church
J L. Bagwell
C. O. Kight
L. B. Johnson
Ammond Woodward
Faye Corbin
Corbin
J. T. Jones
Mary E. Thomas
Graham Brothers Truck Sales Jump in 1925
Graham Brothers shipments for eleven months ending November 1925 rose to 21 415 units from 9 484 a year earlier, a gain of over 125 percent. The figure exceeds their total 1924 output by 10 628 trucks, per company data, amid a 25 percent national rise in motor truck production through August 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham _ Brothers
Dodge Brothers, Inc
Graham Brothers
Graham Brothers Raise Production Amid Surge in Exports
Exports for the first 11 months of 1925 reached 3,975 trucks, up from 1,825 in 1924, with vastly increased exports and bus output driving higher production. Jim Gulerie remarks that a four section Panhandle ranch properly managed may be more valuable than a forty section ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham Brothers
Jim Gulerie
Panhandle
Resolution Approving Engineer's Roll For Jackson Street
City of Amarillo adopts the engineer's roll assessing $3 024 68 to abutting property and railways for Jackson Street improvements. A hearing is set for January 12 1926 at 7 30 p m in City Hall to challenge benefits, costs, and allocations with full access for owners, railways, and agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Street
Amarillo
Eighteenth Street
Plemons Addition
John S. McKnight
City Hall
Texas
Amarillo resolution requires notices by publication and mail
The city directs publication of the resolution in Amarillo newspapers at least three times before the hearing date and permits mailing notices to abutting property owners and railways. Mailing is cumulative and publication alone is sufficient. The measure takes effect after passage on December 15, 1925, signed by Mayor See Bivins and City Secretary Jewell Davidson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
Bivins
Jewell Davidson
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Thomas Meighan
Lois Wilson
Paramount
Drs. Puckett & Patton
Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor
East Fifth St
Jack Burgess
A. V. Nelson
Graham Bros
First National Bank
Amarillo, Texas
First Church OF Christ
Scientist
W. Stuart Booth
Denver, Colorado
Mother Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusetts
Mission Theater
Additions
Red-Top Taxi-Cab CO
Pane
Roy Taylor
Taylor St
Ama
Goodaigh
Clarendon
Jericho
Alanreed
McLean
Shamrock
Clarendon-Shamrock Stage Line
Union Stage Line
Polk
West Bound
Goodnight
W. H. McEachern City
T. B. Gallaher
Nunn
R. E. Underwood
Ray C. Johnson
R. H. Hamilton
BEN E. New & Company
Stone and
Galere
W. Forest Dutton
M. D
Notich
Drs. Lumpkin & Marsalis
Smith Building
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