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Kelsay Lumber Co. Denison and Sherman Lumber, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Builders Hardware, Doors, Sash, Glass, Screen Wire and Coal  The
Sherman Courier
Wednesday, August 15, 1917 pg. 28 Fiftieth Anniversary Edition One of the most progressive, modern methods, newer business enterprises of Sherman is the Kelsay Lumber Company, located on East Houston street, at crossing of H. & T.C. Railroad. The business is capitalized at $100,000 and is owned by Kelsay Brothers, the general office being in Fort Worth. The Kelsay brothers have their own saw mill facilities, and the lumber sold through their yards comes direct from their mills instead of going through some broker, thus giving them and their customers the best of stock direct from tree to consumer without any middleman profits. The Kelsay Lumber Company has a yard in Denison and one in Sherman, the yard at Denison being under the management of one of the brothers, and the one at Sherman is managed by Roger Barton, a general experienced lumberman who has made friends since coming to this city. The Kelsay yard in Sherman was established something over a year ago, and the business has steadily grown since it establishment, and at this time enlargement of sheds is being made which will extend them from Houston through to Lamar, with frontage on both streets, and the stock will be enlarged accordingly as soon as the shed are completed. The Kelsay Lumber Company carried everything in the Sherman yard belonging to the builders trade and public wants, including lumber, shingles, paints, screen wire, nails, linseed oil, glass, sash doors and builders hardward of all kinds. They handle paints and doors by the car load and do business on the basis of quick sales and small profits for cash, and they attribute their success in Sherman to the saving they have been able to effect for the people who have patronized them, each of whom has become a satisfied customer and passed the word on to his neighbor. The assistant to Mr. Barton, the manager, is Frank Cook, an experienced, obliging Sherman citizen who has many friends, and both these gentlemen solicit and ask the people of Sherman and Grayson county to give the "Kelsay yard" a chance to "figure on the bill" when they start to build, no matter how large or how small the improvement. Sherman History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |