"In 1929, the J. E. Stevens
Company was located at 111 West Live Oak Street and 114
West Pecan Street (south and north sides
of the same block.). It was owned by W. J., T. L. and F. E.
Stevens, and offered complete home furnishers, Fada Radios, phonographs,
General Electric Refrigerators, hardware, farm implements, sheet metal
workers, plumbing, undertakers, ambulance service. Their telephone
number was 21. One of their employees was Robert Adkinson, a tinner,
with no residence address. David Kenley was a salesman at J. E. Stevens
Company. He, and his wife Dora, resided 2 miles south of Coleman."
(Coleman City Directory, 1929 - Hudspeth.) |