New Firms and Major Farm Sale Reshape Local Business
Powell buys out Darr to run a carpentry and contracting shop at the old stand. Darr teams with C W Haggard to form a cement tile plant after leasing a sidetrack site and purchasing Bauer Brothers tile machinery. Carr joins the new firm as a veteran builder. In a $32,000 sale Harmon sells a 267 acre farm near Drew Myers to Bramhall and Reger Bramhall’s son will move to the farm to supervise.