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Swift Justice Of Early Doys RecoiledPioneer Operated Store InMiddle Of Lubbock StreetOne Lubbock resident who has Jived in the same house, at 504 •Ave. M, since 1911 had the novel experience of moving an early day grocery business out into a downtown Lubbock street and selling groceries there almost aC A. Holcomb’s grocery store, Hong with Lubbock’s postoffice at that time, was located where Hilton hotel now stands. When con-atruction of the Merrill hotel was darted on that site, the building in which Holcomb sold groceries Jras moved into the street, on the .east side of the construction site, where it stood until the Merrill -was completed.C Horses, wagons and early day cars drove around the store. Holcomb then moved his store into Quarters in the Merrill and the jfriiidfrig he had used earlier for Jus grocery store was sold. Holcomb left the grocery business in4913.Was City Marshal t He was Lubbock city marshal in 1915-16 and was sheriff and tax collector of Lubbock, Hockley and ochran counties from 1919 1922 After that he was teal estate business almost • year* then operated a tailor shopgVi years, until his retirement 1946.^ Holcomb recalled that folowing murder in Lubbock one Monday during the time when was sheriff three men werearrested 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 themurder.When he became tax collector, the tax on a section of land was $64, he recalled.Prices Are Recalled When 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 7Vfc to 10 cents per pound.Mr. 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 time since, except when living In quarters at the jail while Holcombwas sheriff Their 11 children grew up in that home. Their sons and daughters are Rev C A. Holcomb, jr, pastor of Tahoka Methodist church; Mrs. W. E. Pate, nine miles south of Lubbock; Mrs. L. C. Boyd, jr., nine miles south of Lubbock; Lum Holcomb, Charlotte, N. C; Mrs. Weldon Heim, Los Angeles; Mrs. J L. Peck, 2407 Seventh; Mrs Bud Myers, 2618 Thirty-second; Mrs Bob McDonald, El Paso; Mrs W. E. Creel, 3603 Twenty-sixth; Nett Holcomb, 504 Ave. M, and Mrs. C. W. Neefe, Big Spring. Mr. and Mrs. Hoi-Superintendent At Brewnfietd Resigns For Temple PositionBROWNFIELD, Jan. 3 (Spe-cial) — S. P Cowan, superintendent of the Brownfield public schools since 1947, has resigned, effective Feb. 1, to become superintendent of the Temple, Tex., public schools and president of Temple Junior college.His resignation has been accepted by the school board, which released him from a recent three-year contract. Cowan said the position at Temple pays a salary of $10,000 a year, almost $4,000 more than the salary he is receiving here.comb have 20 grandchildren.Holcomb has been a member of the Odd Fellows more than 44 years, having joined the North Worth lodge No. 103, Dec. 1, 1906. He has been active in the Lubbock lodge since about 1913 and is a former noble grand.At the time they bought the house on Ave M,. then a three-room house to which they added roonw Aere ware oniy a few betw^n their hope ted town. T.stand. The^old whtesehoolhouse,** a grade *riioo^fci3r^5T 3*** «* ' «**■chad to high school; was situated ____^house. There are now only a lew vacant lots in that secrtite of Lubbock. Holcomb owned still owns four.Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb moved to Lubbock county fromf Mitchell county in 1910, making the trip by covered wagon. They lived near Shallowater several months before coining to Lubbock.
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 04, 1951
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