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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1975
Page
3
The town's oil story starts with a meager 1922 well in the southeast that failed. By 1949 a well on the B A Jacob place four miles northwest of Winters sparked major excitement and subsequent discoveries near Winters boosted production to hundreds.
Winters is described as a Runnels County village 16 miles north of Ballinger the judicial seat and a banking and shipping point. The entry notes a daily stage to Abilene and Ballinger, a population of 163, and lists local officials and businesses including postmaster F. Platte physician N. Rhabottom and firms such as Griffin and Murray for medicine and a general store connected to land agents and farm implements.
Town history recalls early Winters commerce and landmarks beginning 1903 with a marble soda fountain at a confectionery, a small cluster of shops, a white-top hearse, and Ed Stone’s funeral establishment. The Winters Recorder began 1903, later becoming The Winters Enterprise in 1906, with growth through banks, a newspaper plant, and a city water system, schools, and athletic facilities as the town expanded under successive owners and families.
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