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First bank opened in a hotel room with a tin can for a safe and H. N. Sholl as vice-president and Charles Duller as cashier. Church Sunday school started in the Mott Store Pavilion opened with dances, bathing, laughter, sports, fun galore, happy night, banquets, for we were a well fed bunch. Stores numbering about ten, brick bank building, lumber, hardware, dry goods, groceries. Watch us grow. Legg and Paine operating a dray line. John Long and Tom Morris driving the town bus from railroad to hotel. Very proud. Choo-choo with its welcome whistle. Sweet music to our ears. Conductor in uniform. George Duckworth as agent, unloading express and freight and wearing his official cap. Mr. Mott sells thread at five per spool. Charley Yeamans clerking for his mother selling calico. Ah there, Charley, some boy! Remember Herbert Adams, postmaster. Genial, kindly, smiling Herbert. The Chronicle with its eagerly read news. EARLY YEARS Burton D. Hurd Land Co Lipsett Pharmacy Mott grocery store - 1st Sunday School held there The Pioneer. Flour, Feed & Groceries, Daniel and Cora Oneth owners, Sophia McKitrick, Cora's mother, helped in store Thoughts About Collegeport from 1910 newspapers by Harry Austin Clapp Hotel Collegeport Launch Dena H Theo Smith & Son, lumber and hardware; Jno. T. Price Lumber Company, lumber and hardware; Thos. M. Clark, groceries and feed; D. H. Morris, groceries and feed; The Collegeport Pharmacy, drugs, etc.; The Ruthven Market, meats; Hotel Collegeport; The Avenue Hotel; Collegeport State Bank; Mrs. Lida Williams, millinery; The Homecrofters, milk, butter and vegetables; G. A. Lake , contractor; Drott Brothers, contractors; J. L. Logan & Son, livery and bus; Payne & Legg, draymen; C. S. Eidman, R. I. Red, eggs; Liggett & Knight, well drillers; Wm. M. Pfeiffer, brick mason; Glenn Calloway, cement walks; J. B. McCain, notary public; J. H. Adams, books and magazines; Earl Ford, plumber; Abbott Kone, boats and engines; Geo. H. Laughter, boat service;
Manuel Glaros, special boat trips. |
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1910 Apr 28 Sterling Quality Store 1910 Apr 28 T. M. Jones, General Contractor 1910 Apr 28 Merchants Ice and Cold Storage, A. E. Woolpert 1910 Apr 28 Abbott Kone, Freight 1910 Apr 28 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor, Plasterer 1910 Apr 28 R. E. Pridgen, M. D., Physician & Surgeon 1910 Apr 28 Theo Smith & Son 1910 Apr 28 Sterling Grocery Store 1910 Apr 28 Geo. A. Lake, Contractor and Builder 1910 Apr 28 J. B. McCain, Notary Public 1910 Apr 28 Collegeport Livery Feed and Sale Stable, John L. Logan and Son 1910 Apr 28 Star Meat Market, John L. Logan and Son 1910 Apr 28 Hotel Collegeport. C. B. Kone, prop. 1910 Apr 28 Buchen Store 1910 Apr 28 Well Drillers, Liggett & Knight 1910 Apr 28 Window or Price Cards, Harrington, GCU 1910 Apr 28 Short Orders, W. A. Wall 1910 Apr 28 Collegeport State Bank 1910 Apr 28 Abbott Kone, Freight Hauling 1910 Apr 28 Homecrofters 1910 Apr 28 S. W. House, Ice 1910 Apr 28 Vernon K. Hurd, peanuts
1910 Apr 28 Collegeport Planing Mill, K. H. Kahnt |
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1910 Jun 03 Jno. T. Price Lumber Co. 1910 Jun 03 Collegeport State Bank 1910 Jun 03 Clark-Sterling Grocery Co. 1910 Jun 03 Theo. Smith & Son 1910 Jun 03 Well Drillers, Liggett & Knight 1910 Jun 03 Commercial hotel is soon to be finished 1910 Jun 03 Wm. Pfeiffer, our cement contractor 1910 Jun 03 Hotel Collegeport, O. B. Kone, prop. 1910 Jun 03 Mr. N. C. Sweet, the genial Master of the launch, “Dena H,” 1010 Jun 03 Hay Maker and Baler, W. L. Platt 1910 Jun 03 Merchants Ice and Cold Storage, A. E. Woolpert, prop. 1910 Jun 03 Geo. A. Lake, Contractor and Builder 1910 Jun 03 Collegeport Planing Mill, K. H. Kahnt 1910 Jun 03 J. B. McCain, Notary Public, bank 1910 Jun 03 GCU, W. H. Travis, president 1910 Jun 03 T. M. Jones, General Contractor 1910 Jun 30 Ice, S. W. House 1910 Jun 03 Buchen Store 1910 Jun 03 Collegeport Livery Feed and Sale Stable, John L. Logan & Son 1910 Jun 03 Star Meat Market, John L. Logan & Son 1910 Jun 03 D. H. Morris Store 1910 Jun 03 Window or Price Cards, Harrington at GCU 1910 Jun 03 Homecrofters, H. A. Clapp 1910 Jun 03 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor and Plasterer 1910 Jun 03 Short Order Cooking, H. A. Wall 1910 Jun 03 Geo. A. Lake, Contractor and Builder 1910 Jun 03 Abbott Kone, Freight Hauling
1910 Jun 03 E. M. Knight has done some special
handiwork in making of some ladies work baskets from native woods in
which the guisache [huisache] is a most prominent feature. They are
works of art and skill and especially attractive as a work of the jack
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1910 Aug 04 Jno. T. Price Lbr. Co. 1910 Aug 04 Hotel Collegeport 1910 Aug 04 Collegeport canal company 1910 Aug 04 Collegeport State Bank, A. B. Pierce, Theo. Smith, J. B. McCain 1910 Aug 04 Mac Jones, Clothing 1910 Aug 04 Well Drillers, Liggett & Knight 1910 Aug 04 Collegeport Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, John L. Logan 1910 Aug 04 D. H. Morris' Cheap Cash Store 1910 Aug 04 General Transfer Business, Payne & Legg, Draymen 1910 Aug 04 Avenue Hotel, A. M. Weborg, prop (opposite postoffice) 1910 Aug 04 Real Estate, Walter W. Wilkinson 1910 Aug 04 Merchants Ice and Cold Storage, A. E. Woolpert, prop.? 1910 Aug 04 Theo. Smith and Son 1910 Aug 04 Ice, S. W. House 1910 Aug 04 Thos. M. Clark, Groceries Phone No. 17 1910 Aug 04 J. B. McCain, Notary Public and Insurance 1910 Aug 04 Collegeport Planing Mill, K. H. Kahnt 1910 Aug 04 Homecrofters 1910 Aug 04 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor and Plasterer 1910 Aug 04 Gulf Coast University, W. H. Travis 1910 Aug 04 R. E. Pridgen, M.D., Physician and Surgeon
1910 Aug 04 M. F. Bonner, laundry, 1st door west of
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1911 Nov 02 Fine line of gents pants. D. H. Morris 1911 Nov 02 cleaned and pressed. E. C. Ives 1911 Nov 02 Hotel Collegeport, O. B. Kone 1911 Nov 02 Come in and see the new Fall and Winter samples. Suitable for suits and overcoats. E. C. Ives. 1911 Nov 02 Burton D. Hurd Land Co 1911 Nov 02 Dr. G. E. Lipsitt and F. D. Everson invoiced the Collegeport pharmacy stock of drugs, etc., on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Everson buying, Dr. Lipsitt will go to Blessing 1911 Nov 02 Weborg and Johnson have their license from the Government to fish in the bays of the country and are now properly in the business 1911 Nov 02 H. F. Buzatt, CP rep for Alvin Japanese Nursery. Co. 1911 Nov 02 Drott Brothers, Building Contractors 1911 Nov 02 China Painting Classes, Dena D. Hurd 1911 Nov 02 Collegeport State Bank, A. B. Pierce, Theo. Smith, J. H. McCain 1911 Nov 02 J. J. Rodebaugh, Carpenter and Builder 1911 Nov 02 Ice, Water, Cold Storage, S. W. House 1911 Nov 02 Jno. T. Price Lumber Co., Robert L. Price, manager 1911 Nov 02 G. A. Lake, general contractor 1911 Nov 02 Collegeport Blacksmith and General Repair Shop, A. W. Lecompte 1911 Nov 02 J. B. McCain, Notary Public, Insurance 1911 Nov 02 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor, Plasterer 1911 Nov 02 George Martin, Collegeport Rep, Stockwell Nursery Co. 1911 Nov 02 Avenue Hotel, A. M. Weborg, proprietor 1911 Nov 02 Gulf Coast University of Industrial Arts, Third Year, W. H. Travis, President 1911 Nov 02 Theo. Smith and Son 1911 Nov 02 Thos. M. Clark, Phone No. 17 1911 Nov 02 Shell, Weborg and Johnson
1911 Nov 02 Weborg and Johnson have their license
from the Government to fish in the bays of the country and are now
properly in the business. They have many yards of net and seine already
ready and it is expected that our market may be well supplied with all
kinds of fish as they are men of great experience in this line. |
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1912 Sep 12 Matagorda Bay Warehouse and Commission Co., F. D. Yott and C. G. Mapes 1912 Sep 12 Burton D. Hurd Land Company, 123 Central Street 1912 Sep 12 telephone is not a luxury but a necessity. See M. A. Nelson 1912 Sep 12 The machinery for Hull Bros. canning factory has arrived and will be put in to place as soon as a building can be built and the machinery installed. The manager expects to be able to handle the later figs and other fall crops and will be in fine shape for a good spring crop. 1912 Sep 12 D. H. Morris 1912 Sep 12 J. H. Adams, Home Insurance 1912 Sep 12 Collegeport State Bank, A. B. Pierce, Theo. Smith, J. H. McCain 1912 Sep 12 Dr. F. V. Bryant 1912 Sep 12 Albin Drott, Building Contractor 1912 Sep 12 J. M. Hughes, Real Estate 1912 Sep 12 Jno. T. Price Lumber Co. 1912 Sep 12 Everson's Collegeport Pharmacy 1912 Sep 12 Avenue Hotel, A. M. Weborg, proprietor 1912 Sep 12 T. M. Clark Store 1912 Sep 12 Bonner's Tonsorial Parlor?? 1912 Sep 12 C. V. Gates, Pressing 1912 Sep 12 Launch Oma B 1912 Sep 12 Theo. Smith and Son 1912 Sep 12 J. B. McCain, Fire and Life Insurance 1912 Sep 12 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor and Plasterer 1912 Sep 12 Launch Ben Hur 1912 Sep 12 today Collegeport is the home of 450 people and has a trading population of more than 1200. The Frisco operates its trains into the new town and supplies splendid service for passengers, freight, and express. Through his belief in the town’s future Theo. Smith provided telephone communication and the local exchange has thirty subscribers with long distance connections to any point. H. N. Sholl became the first postmaster and the office is now held by J. H. Adams. A bank with $40,000 deposits, two lumber years, a hardware stock, several grocery, dry goods, and a drug store have stocks from which supplies may be drawn at reasonable prices. The Collegeport Chronicle has a circulation of several hundred and is the mouthpiece of the community. Hotel Collegeport, located directly overlooking the bay, is a delightful place for rest or recreation.
1912 Sep 12 The machinery for Hull Bros. canning
factory has arrived and will be put in to place as soon as a building
can be built and the machinery installed. |
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1912 Sep 20 Plans have been received for the new
hotel on the bay front. The building will be concrete and steel, modern
in every respect and will cost about $75,000. |
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Mr. H. M Yeamans has a dry good store which has an air of business and neatness, assisted by her sister, Miss E. F. LaBauve. These ladies are daughters of one of the first settlers of Indianola, in 1860. Victor LaBauve who later with his family and ten slaves settled at Texana in Jackson county and till his death engaged in farming. Mrs. Yeamans was in Bay City on business. There is an attractive and well-kept drug store by Mr. F. L. Hoffman, with a good assortment of toilet articles, stationery, and an up-to-dateness about the soft drink fountain. Another grocery store was that of Mr. D. H. Morris who was doubly pleased that day, both at the opportunity of subscribing for so good a county paper (for he had read the sample copies) and the arrival at his home that morning of a fine girl. Everything around seemed bigger and brighter than it had been; even the oldest little girl said she "felt grown now." The town's banking business is done by the Collegeport State Bank, a sound institution in an attractive brick building. Mr. J. B. McCain, the cashier, being an old Matagorda boy, was more than a willing subscriber and, cashing the milkman's check, added $1.50 to it. Mr. McCain is related to the Savages, and we find he has a host of friends here. Two well equipped lumber concerns are conducted by Theo Smith & Sons and Price & Co.
Hotel Collegeport is an elegant and modern hostelry
under the splendid management of Mrs. O. B. Korn, ably assisted by Mr.
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1913 Sep 26 John T. Price Lumber Company is soon to add a stock of hardware to their lumber business and will probably build a store building on Central Avenue at once. 1913 Sep 26 Dr. F. R. Fausett will take up his quarters at the Hotel Collegeport soon and open an office next door to the postoffice in Sholl block.
1913 Sep 26 "Collegeport New Era" is the name
of our new paper, the first copy of which made its appearance on
Saturday last. It is a very credible paper of eight pages. Its editorial
and news columns are filled with good reading. It has a large amount of
advertising and its workmanship is of a high class and its editor and
publisher, J. J. Rodebaugh, has shown ability of much experience and
deserves success. |
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1914 Jan 18 1914 Jan 18 H. N. Scholl finished the foundation for his blacksmith shop Wednesday. 1914 Jan 18 John T. Price Lumber Co. 1914 Jan 18 Guy F. Fausset, Physician and surgeon; phone is now No. 6. 1914 Jan 18 Jno. T. Price Lumber Co. 1914 Jan 18 Launch Oma B 1914 Jan 18 Collegeport Dray Line, Kay 1914 Jan 18 Homecrofters 1914 Jan 18 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor and Plasterer 1914 Jan 18 Theo Smith and Son 1914 Jan 18 Collegeport Barber Shop, Walter Harsh 1914 Jan 18 Collegeport State Bank 1914 Jan 18 W. E. Dennis, Jeweler 1914 Jan 18 J. B. McCain, Fire, Life and Tornado Insurance 1914 Jan 18 _ E. Gates, Tonsorial Artist, Central Street
1914 Jan 18 Collegeport Telephone Company, M. A.
Nelson, manager |
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1914 Jan 23 Mr. Frank DeFren of Chicago has leased
the Avenue Hotel of A. M. Weborg and will take charge in a few days. |
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1914 Feb 13 H. N. Sholl has his new two-story
building opposite the drug store about completed. |
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1914 Oct 15 Collegeport New Era, Phone No. 10 1914 Oct 15 Mr. Yerxa is having his store building painted this week 1914 Oct 15 Mr. James Struthers, the landlord of Hotel Collegeport 1914 Oct 15 Collegeport State Bank 1914 Oct 15 T. M. Clark, Groceries 1914 Oct 15 Guy F. Fausset, Physician and Surgeon, Phone No. 102 1914 Oct 15 Homecrofters 1914 Oct 15 W. E. Dennis, Jeweler? 1914 Oct 15 Wm. Pfeiffer, Contractor 1914 Oct 15 Collegeport Pharmacy, F. L. Hoffman, prop 1914 Oct 15 Theo Smith & Son 1914 Oct 15 A. M. Weborg, Variety Store 1914 Oct 15 Launch Oma B 1914 Oct 15 Collegeport Dray Line, R. K. Legg 1914 Oct 15 Collegeport Pharmacy, F. L. Hoffman 1914 Oct 15 Launch Ben Hur 1914 Oct 15 Collegeport Telephone Company, M. A. Nelson, Manager 1914 Oct 15 J. B. McCain, Tornado and Wind Storm Insurance 1914 Oct 15 Launch Laura E, G. W. Craven, Master 1914 Oct 15 F. D. Yott left last week to return to his home in Chicago Ill. The warehouse and his other business will be in charge of B. __ Cary during his absence.
1914 Oct 15 Mr. James Struthers, the landlord of
Hotel Collegeport, advises us that the hotel will serve “Special Sunday
Dinners” hereafter at 1:30 p.m. |
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1914 Nov 26 Dr. G. F. Fausset, who has been here for sixteen months, during which time he found insufficient practice for a livelihood, shipped his household goods Monday by boat to Freeport , himself and wife leaving Tuesday for that place. 1914 Nov 26 Theo. Smith & Son’s 1914 Nov 26 Collegeport State Bank 1914 Nov 26 Launch Ben Hur 1914 Nov 26 Homecrofters 1914 Nov 26 T. M. Clark, Groceries 1914 Nov 26 Collegeport Barber Shop, Walter Harsh 1914 Nov 26 Hotel Collegeport 1914 Nov 26 Launch Laura E 1914 Nov 26 Collegeport Dray Line, R. K. Legg 1914 Nov 26 J. B. McCain, Storm insurance 1914 Nov 26 Collegeport Pharmacy, F. L. Hoffman, prop 1914 Nov 26 Collegeport Meat Marker, F. Ray Ross, prop 1914 Nov 26 Collegeport Telephone Company, M. A. Nelson, manager 1914 Nov 26 A. M. Weborg, Variety Store
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1914 Dec 3 Collegeport Pharmacy, F. L. Hoffman, prop 1914 Dec 3 F. Ray Ross now has a nice line of cured meats; Mr. Clark and Mr. Yerxa, we have now discontinued handling meats. 1914 Dec 3 A. M. Weborg, Variety Store 1914 Dec 3 D. H. Morris 1914 Dec 3 Jno. T. Price Lumber Co., Phone No. 14 1914 Dec 3 T. M. Clark, Phone No. 17 1914 Dec 3 Albin Drott, Building Contractor, Avenue Hotel 1914 Dec 3 Real Estate, W. W. Wilkinson 1914 Dec 3 J. H. Adams Store 1914 Dec 3 Theo. Smith and Son 1914 Dec 3 Collegeport State Bank 1914 Dec 3 Collegeport Telephone Company, M. A. Nelson, Manager 1914 Dec 3 T. M. Clark, Groceries 1914 Dec 3 Hotel Collegeport 1914 Dec 3 Launch Ben Hur 1914 Dec 3 Launch Laura E 1914 Dec 3 Collegeport Dray Line, R. K. Legg 1914 Dec 3 J. B. McCain, Tornado and Wind Storm Insurance 1914 Dec 3 Homecrofters
1914 Dec 3 Collegeport Meat Market, F. Ray Ross |
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1915 Jan 7 H. C. [B]oyd, who has just moved his business in the room occupied formerly by Mr. Smith, second door west of postoffice, where he is fitted up nicely for his business, and has a nice assortment of his line of goods. He is also well equipped to do all kinds of repair work. 1915 Jan 7 Collegeport State Bank 1915 Jan 7 Homecrofters 1915 Jan 7 Launch Ben Hur 1915 Jan 7 Theo. Smith and Son 1915 Jan 7 Collegeport Telephone Company, M. A Nelson, Manager 1915 Jan 7 Collegeport Barber Shop, Walter Harsh 1915 Jan 7 Collegeport Pharmacy, F L. Hoffman 1915 Jan 7 Collegeport Dray Line, R. K. Legg 1915 Jan 7 A. M. Weborg, Variety Store 1915 Jan 7 J. B. McCain, Tornado and Wind Storm Insurance
1915 Jan 7 Hotel Collegeport |
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1916 Sep 22 The new meat market begin erected by James W. Turner east of the postoffice is about ready for occupancy.
1916 Sep 22 [Hotel reopened] Mr. Charles L. Reeves
and wife arrived at the Hotel Collegeport Tuesday evening for a short
stay. |
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1925 Aug 21 G. A. Hunt, local garage man and
blacksmith |
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Monday morning Rev. H. Paul Janes will go to Houston
with Collegeport Delta Association's first case of guaranteed eggs |
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Mr. Carl Boeker is kept busy going from his
Collegeport store to his Palacios store. |
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The local ice wagon bore the inscription "Watch Us
Grow." It grew as ice melted. |
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