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★ ★ ★C. A. Holcomb Recoils Conditions HeraEarly Resident Had Grocery Store In Middle Of StreetBy OPAL DIXON Journal Staff WriterOne Lubbock resident who has lived in the same house, at 504 Ave. M, since 1911 had the novel experience of moving an early day grocery business out into a I downtown Lubbock street and selling groceries there almost a year.C- /. Holcomb’s grocery store, along with Lubbock’s postoffice at that time, was located where Hilton hotel now stands. When construction of the Merrill hotel was started on that site, the building in which Holcomb sold groceries was moved into the street, on the east side of the construction site, where it stood until the Merrill, was -completed.Horses, wagons and early day cars drove around the store. Holcomb then moved his store into quarters in the Merrill and the building he had used earlier for his grocery store was sold. Holcomb left the grocery business inWas City MarshalHe was Lubbock city marshal in 1915-16 and was sheriff and tax collector of Lubbock, Hockley andCochran counties from 1019 through 1922 After that he was in the real estate business almost a year, then operated a tailor shop 22% years, until his retirement in 1946.Holcomb recalled that folowfng a murder in Lubbock one Monday morning during the time when he was sheriff, three men were arrested and taken to the Jail at Amarillo. They were returned! to Lubbock Thursday, the trial was held Friday, and they were taken to Sweetwater to await transfer to serve penitentiary sentences on Saturday—five days after the murder.When he became tax collector, the tax on a section of land was $64, he recalled.Prices Art RecalledWhen he was in the grocery business from about 1911 to 1913, coffee was about 15 to 20 cents a pound, a 10-pound bucket of lard, 85 cents to $1, and smoked bacon 7% to 10 cents per pound.Mi\. and Mrs. Holcomb moved, into the house in which they still live at 504 Ave. M Aug. 16, 1911, They , have lived there all of the Sh EARLY RESIDENT Page IX
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Evening Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 03, 1951
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