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yts9-toPORTER BUSINESS IS ACQUIRED BY TOM BOWLES JR.end I D. B. Porter Sons, feed and t, seed dealer in Belton for over 45 11 years, has sold its interests to 9- Bowles Farm Supply. D. B. Por-B, ter Sr. announced that formalities I B, of the transaction were completed st I this week.Mr. Porter began his business here on Jan. 1, 1914, in partner-1 ship with Albert Durham, and was located on East Street where y. Puckett Furniture No. 2 now is. I * After seven years of partnership,(j he sold his interest to Mr. Durham d and moved to his present location, i t. 304 East Central, hi From 1921 to shortly after World War II, he operated the business as sole owner. However, after the war, two sons, Henry | Karnes and D. B. Jr., acquired an interest. Henry has been active in |the business, and the other son isa colonel in the Army, now sta-y I tioned at Ft. Benning, Ga. d The building which housed D. | j B. Porter Sons was rebuilt and y modernized about 10 years ago. | o | It has been sold to Victor R.Means Sr. The front 50x55 feet, d I Mr. Means says, will be operated0 as a feed and seed store by Clyde t- Owens. The back part of the J building, 50x85 feet, will be used s for lumber storage by Woodall d | Manufacturing Co.Bowles Farm Supply. Bowles Farm Supply, with Tom ■, a Bowles Jr. as sole owner, is the1 successor to the old Belton Gin y Grain Co., which was formed r here in 1919. Tom Bowles Sr. ac-[. | quired an interest in that company |1in 1922, and in 1933 acquired full ownership, changing the name to | Tom Bowles Gin Grain Co. In I i 11946 Tom Bowles Jr. purchased all the interest of his father, and has since operated the business under the name of Bowles Farm Supply. The Bowles business has a na-11 tional distribution of wholesale | grain. Its retail grain business, absorbing that of Porter, will be expanded and continue to carry |! the Sunglo line, at the same Bow-! les location, 214 N. Wall St. Another departments of Bowles Farm Supply include scrap, Continental j Belton products and farm equipment.t Henry Karnes Porter is retail ) manager, and Jerry Vitek is office t manager.-o-
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Belton Journal and Bell County Democrat
Belton, Texas, US
Thu, Oct 01, 1959
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