The Sherman Courier
Wednesday, August 15, 1917
pg. 27
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

SHERMAN IMPROVING
(From the Courier of August 29, 1877)
Never perhaps on history of our beautiful city has she made such brilliant advancements in material improvements as in the present.  Particular in this visible in the many private residences and business edifices just having received their finishing touches, or which are in the course of construction and projected; and to the most stocial of fogies there is a fascination in the throbbing of the hammer, and the stirring panorama of uplifting walls which greet his eye and ear on our avenues.  Nor can the most casual observer fail to discern that in this feature of our progression romanticism has given way to the actual, and "castles of Spain" are dispossed by charming and elegant homes and palaces of trade built on real dollars.

HOW WE IMPROVE
(From the Courier of September 5, 1877)

The following list of buildings is presented to give a little idea of the improvements that are being made throughout our city.  This is but a small part of the many handsome residence and business buildings that are going up.

On North Crockett street, Mr. T.J. Brown of the well known professional firm of Messrs. Throckmorton & Brown, is building a superb private residence at the cost of $6,000.

The German Lutherian parish has just completed a tasty house of worship of frame at the west end of the southwest corner of Crockett and Pecan streets.  Dimensions 26x40.  Cost $1500.  This church is surmounted by a steeple 56 feet high, and has a seating capacity for 150.  Internall the walls are stuccoed, tinted and penciled in squares.  It is supplied with a capaciour organ-loft and a pulpit of neat design.  Contractor, John Lather.  

Messrs. Beiler & Bro. are erecting a fine two-story brick store house, 25 by 109, with basement on North Travis, adjoining Messrs. Beiler & Offield, at a cost of $7,000.  Contractor, Mr. J.C. Southern.

Messrs Schneider & Bro. are building a magnificent business house of three stories with basement on the corner of Travis and Houston.  This splendid structure fronts on both thoroughfares and is 50x100.  When completed, it will cost the princely sum of $20,000, and will be ready for occupancy about the 25th of September.  Contractor for brickwork, Mr. S.B. Cauliflower, of carpentry, Mr. Cooper.

Arrival of Bison Hides
Sherman, Texas
1878

Photographer P. F. Goben, Sherman TX, documented the arrival of Bison Hides, April 25, 1878.
Photo by P. F. Goben. April 25, 1878

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