City Directory of Abilene, Texas: Comprising a Census and History, 1905 Page: 12
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Drink COCA-COLA 5 Cents
AT SODA FOUNTAINS AND IN BOTTLES
He constructed and lived in a "dug out."
"Hog" Jackson opened a hotel in a tent there.
Before this Ahe Hunter opened a store above Buffalo Gap on
Elm. This place soon becam known as the "dead fall," and the
first man killed in Taylor county met his fate there.
A colony of German Socialists, about 40 in number, came,
mostly, from Nebraska and settled on the places now occupied by
Milner and Clack. They planted a crop of buckwheat and corn,
and harvested a very good lot, but before they had been together
a year they found that so extensive a partnership was good only for
a lazy man, or the financial agent, and the colony disbanded.
Among the members of the colony who are still in Taylor and Cal-
lahan counties are, H. Schultz, the South Side baker, Philip Yost,
August Betcher and Fritz Gardner, of Callahan. John A. Goed-
eke had preceeded this colony about six months, but came inde-
pendent of them. He has remained here ever since and is not
sparing in his enthusiasm for the Great Abilene Country.
The first marriage license issued was to J. B. Wood and So-
phronia Blankenship. They were married by Rev. Wm. Stone,
Aug 26, 1878.
The first District Court was held at Buffalo Gap, April 28,
1879. Judge J. R. Fleming, residing; John M. Moore, District
Attorney, and D. Y. Russell, Clerk. A grand jury was empanel-
ed with Albert Sowell, recently deceased, foreman.
The largest watermelon raised in Taylor county weighed 108
pounds. It was raised on the Corley farm north of Buffalo Gap in
1880. Several of these melons were weighed and averaged 100
pounds. This writer had just come to the county, but when these
melons were brought into the Gap, had returned to Southern Tex-
as on business. However, his associates saw the melons, as did
others now in Abilene, among them was K. K. Legett.
At one State Fair Taylor county was awarded Five Hundred
Dollars, the premium for the best county in the district.
At another State Fair Taylor county was again awarded the
same premium, and, also, the State Banner as the Banner County
of the State. At the Spring Palace in Fort Worth, Taylor county
captured the premium on horticultural exhibits.
The finest fruits, of nearly every kind, melons, vegetables,
and about all that grows on a farm anywhere else, is raised to
perfection in Taylor county.
As this is being written a display, consisting of watermelons,
muskmelons, cantaloupes, tomatoes, beets, okra, cucumbers
sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, onions, corn, pepper, peanuts, milo
maize, kaffir corn, millet, wheat and oats, is on exhibition in Abi-
lene that was raised in North Park, one of the additions to Abi-
lene, that can not be excelled anywhere for size, quality and beau-
ty. One hundred of these melons average eighty pounds each,
Drink COCA-COLA 5 Cents
AT SODA FOUNTAINS AND IN BOTTLES
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Stephenson, John L. City Directory of Abilene, Texas: Comprising a Census and History, 1905, book, 1905; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth160220/m1/14/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.