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Extracted by June E. Tuck (Edited)
CUMBY, TEXAS
What Cumby has 12 September 1913
Two Dry Good Stores
One Millinery Store
Three Large General Merchandise Stores
One Furniture Store and Undertakers Establishment
Two Strong and liberal Banks, One National and One State
One Shoe Store
Two Drug Stores
Two Hardware and Implement Stores
Three Blacksmith Shops
Two Barber Shops
One Meat Market
One Restaurant
Two Hotels
One Livery Stable
A Big Feed and Sales Barn
Five Churches
Six Lodges
Two Pressing Parlors
One Airdome
One Lyric Theatre
One of the Best Schools in Hopkins County
One Small Electric Light Plant
A Large Cotton and Seed Oil Mill
Three Good Cotton Gins
A Lively Weekly Newspaper and Good Job Printing Plant
Fourteen Notary Public
One Photography
Five Doctors
One Lawyer
One Jeweler
One Veterinary Surgeon
One General Insurance Office
A $10,000. Company to Establish Water Works System Now Being Organized
A Large Lumber Yard
One Grain House
One Produce House
A Ice House
Cumby, Texas, is located on the McKinney and Shreveport branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, 16 miles west of Sulphur Springs, and one and half miles east of the Hunt County line. It is a live progressive little city with a population of 1000 or more. Many new and modern residences have been built and many old ones re-modeled; nearly all the store houses have been modernized and number of large business buildings erected. A $10,000. school building and several modern churches have been built. Cumby is a great cotton, corn, and grain country. The average yearly cotton receipts at Cumby is about 5000 bales, and 90 car loads of oats were shipped from there this season.
R.W. HARRIS - HARDWARE, WAGONS, BUGGIES, SADDLES, HARNESS, MACHINERY SUPPLIES
R. W. Harris came to Cumby in 1889 with only a few hundred dollars capital. He worked in the hardware store of his cousin, John Harris, for a while and bought the business in 1890. He staked his future success upon upright, fair, and honest dealings, striving at all times to give his customers full value for their money. His business has grown until it is one of the largest and most successful general hardware establishment in Northeast Texas. He now has a modern brick store, 60x100 feet, and two large warehouses full of hardware, wagons, buggies, implements, saddles, harness, machinery, supplies, etc. His bookkeeper recently compared his old books with the new ones, he found that Mr. Harris has 147 customers who have been trading with him for 22 years. Mr. Harris also has a successful business in large land and other interest. He holds bank stock at Cumby, Sulphur Springs, Commerce, Greenville, and Lone Oak, and is an officer nearly in all of them. Mr. Loyd Harbison has been bookkeeper and head clerk for the past 14 years. A. J. Nixon, J. N. Winniford, B. E. Strickland, and Miss Blanche Via are also with this popular store.
J. W. GRAVES - GROCERIES AND FEED
Mr. J. W. Graves has been a resident of Cumby for the past 20 years and has had 15 years experience in the grocery and merchandising business. He has recently purchased the W. B. Junell grocery and feed store and is conducting the business at the same old stand.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
First National Bank has a capital surplus and undivided profits of $103,000. The worthy institution was organized in January and opened its doors for business on March 4, 1901, with J. A. Brewer, President; C. M. Patton, Cashier. The present officers are: S. D. Greaves, President; W. E. Brewer and R. W. Harris, Vice-Presidents; C. M. Patton, Cashier; O. Currin, and R. A. Greaves, Assist. Cashiers. Directors are: S. D. Greaves, J. A. Brewer, R. W. Harris, C. M. Patton, W. F. Hull, T. C. Mars, Dr. W. E. Connor, and Jno. B. Corbet. This is the third oldest and third largest bank in Hopkins County.
CUMBY STATE BANK
Cumby State Bank is one of the fast growing banks in Hopkins County. This bank was organized in 1907, with a capital of $15,000. and now carries a surplus and undivided profits of $30,505. All the surplus and undivided profits having accumulated since 1909. In their statement to the Commissioners of Banking, February 4, 1913, they showed individual deposits of $101,009.50. The officers are: T. C. Mars, President; W. F. Hull, Vice-President; C. A. Bridges, Cashier; J. M. Branom, Assist. Cashier. Directors are: T. C. Mars, W. F. Hull, C. A. Bridges, Will Lewis, R. Carpenter, and A. Branom.
I'VE HOLDERNESS - DRUGS
I've Holderness has been in the drug business in Cumby ever since 1911, having purchased the Dr. W. A. Clark Drug store. He carries a full stock of drugs, patent medicines and drug sundries. He also has a nice cold drink fountain.
BERRY BROTHERS
The Berry Brothers Drug Store in Cumby is composed of G. S. and J. B. Berry, and has been in operation about 8 years. They carry a large line of drugs, wall paper, paints, jewelry, sundries, and give special attention to prescription work. They also have an elegant cold drink fountain and ice cream parlor. They have a modern underground storage tank for gasoline in front of their store, specially arranged for the convenience of the automobile trade.
CITIZENS COTTON OIL COMPANY - CAPITAL STOCK OF $25,000.
The organization of the Citizens Cotton Oil Co. in 1901 marked the advent of a new era of prosperity for Cumby and surrounding country, as it provided a strong home market for all the cotton seed raised within the Cumby trade territory. The mill has capacity of 40 tons daily and usually runs about four months each season. They pay top of the market for seed, and sale meal and hulls at very conservative prices. The officers of the Oil Mill Co. are: G. L. White, President; W. C. Robertson, Vice-President; and W. B. Ellis, Secretary-Treasurer and General manager.
DEMOCRATIC BOB WILLIAMS
Among the personal and prized assets of Hopkins County, is our own Hon. R. R. Williams of Cumby who stands close to the heart of the people. When the wave of dissatisfaction spread over the state against Tom Campbell in 1908, the country looked about for a man to take up his mantle, and friends of R. R. Williams instinctively turned to him. When the campaign came on, Mr. Williams opened up his contest and his theories of state government went forth from his blacksmith shop in Cumby. He received the magnificent vote of 129,600 for the chief magistracy of state. In the last legislature, Mr. Williams was an honored member, was heard from in many ways; he introduced, and it was enacted into law, a demand for a higher compensation for County Commissioners, thus making it possible for a broader and more profitable service to the people and country.
CUMBY MERCANTILE AND LUMBER CO.
This company began business in 1892, with W. F. Hull and Connor Bros. as proprietors. The business was gradually built up until it was decided to enlarge and expand, and 1902, a strong company was formed and the business incorporated for $21,000., with W. F. Hull as president and general manager. This company sells everything in general dry goods, millinery, groceries, wagons, buggies, implements, saddles, harness, furniture, coffin and caskets, and lumber, handles live stock, cotton, grain and produce. There annual sales ran as high as $150,000. Mr. Hull has been citizen of Cumby for 22 years. Others assisting in the business are J. W. Branom, Bookkeeper and Cashier; J. A. Hull and L. R. Campbell, Hardware Department; A. H. Benton and Henry Lewis, Dry Good Department; Miss Mary McGuire and Mrs. Harder, Millinery; J. A. Williamson and J. D. Everett, Furniture; and E. R. Benton, Lumber.
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