Front page articles from January 30, 1930 January 30, 1930 issue of The Cabool Enterprise: WHO REMEMBERS WAY BACK WHEN In looking over old papers at the Neiwohner home, George Vaughan recently discovered an old directory of Cabool. From J.P. Moore we learn that the date of the directory was published about 1884, when Cabool was two years old. This date was arrived at because Jacob Garman was postmaster that year. The first passenger train arrived in Cabool, July 2, 1882. From that time development was rapid. Thousands of acres surrounded Cabool and the chief industry was the saw mill business. Probably through an oversight only one saloon was mentioned in the directory, while there were three, that of Hicks and Son, John OHearn, and Cummins and Brown. There were no churches in 1884, and few if any church members according to Mr. Moore. The first church, The South Methodist was not organized until 1886. There had been a church at Cedar Bluff, now a part of the Meeker place for a long number of years. The school house, a 2-room frame building stood between the H. A. Coleman and Dr. Robertson residence. The teachers were Robert Hubbard, now of Simmons and a man by the name of Hardin. The first bank was organized in 1902. We quote from the directory: CABOOL, Formerly known as Cedar Bluffs, is a settlement on the head waters of the Big Piney river, in Burdine township, Texas county, 18 miles southwest of Houston, the county seat, and 40 miles southeast of Marshfield. It is a station on the K.C.S. & M. R.R., and ships ties, lumber, live stock, fruit and farm produce. A public school, with 2 teachers and 150 pupils, is sustained, and a weekly newspaper, the Record, is published. Bank at West Plains. Stages daily to Houston; fare $1. Population 500. Exp., Southern Tel., W.U. Mail, daily, J.W. Garman, postmaster. Anderson and Son, sawmill, 8 miles southeast. Barr and Holiday, sawmill 10 miles southeast. Bartholomew Bros. (R.L. And W.O.) livestock, 3 miles west. Bauch, John, general store. Bean, Daniel J., wagon maker. Bradley. D.B., sawmill, 10 miles south. Brown, Alfred H., livery. Bryson Bros. (John W. and Samuel L.) harness makers. Cabool House, M.C. Frye proprietor. Cabool Weekly Record, Comstock and Moore proprietors. Campbell, Robert A. sawmill, 8 miles southwest. Comstock and Moore (Ledge Comstock and Thomas L. Moore) proprietors Cabool Weekly Record. Conley, W. B. general store. Cronin Bros. (Daniel W. and Wm. W.) hardware and tinware. Cummings, Frank, saloon. Davison, John C., grocer. DSpain, A., sawmill, 10 miles east. Farris and Co., (John R. Farris, George Pettigrew), general store. Fengler, Albert T., grocer. Fisher, Joseph Jr, sawmill, 6 miles south. Frye, M.C., proprietor Cabool House. Gaunt, Maupin and Co., lumber. Hardy, George W., carpenter. Hengel, Henry, grocer. Hubbard, S.M., physician. Husted, Otto U., railroad and express agent. Johnson, Wm. M, grocer. Keene and Son, sawmill, 7 miles southeast. Keicher, Frank, shoemaker. Keller, John, sawmill, 10 miles east. Kendall, Frank, sawmill. Kendall and Sturtevant (Frank Kendall, E.T. Sturtevant) planing mill. Kirkman, Julian A., physician. Kirkman and Co, (Julian A. Kirkman, Jacob W. Garman), druggists Knapp, John R., sawmill, 8 miles southeast. Langston, S.J and Bro. (Samuel J. and Jefferson), general store. McKinney, Caswell G., blacksmith. Miller, Fredrick, harness maker. Mires, James W., physician. Moore, Thomas P., Law and Real Estate. (See adv. p. 197). OHearn, John, Saloon. OHearn, Mrs. J.M., dressmaker. Platt, Abraham, livestock. Rust and Beck (Joseph H. Rust, Christoper C. Beck), blacksmiths. Rutherford, Franklin P., furniture. Simmons, J.R., and Co., (James R. Simmons, John H. Purcell), general store. Simmons, Robert, village marshall. Slaughter, Joseph L., barber. Small, Wm. Jr., livestock, mile west. Turner, A.M., constable. Turner and Denman, (Arthur M. Turner, Zenas Denman), meat market. Van Slack, A.C., carpenter. Wade and Keithley, (C.W. Wade, George L. Keithley), feed and lumber. Yeoman and Harris, carpenters.
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