The Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 283, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1924 Page: 7 of 12
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THE ABILENE REPORTER, ABILENE, TEXAS
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The growth of a city depends largely upon the loyalty of the people who make up the city, to it and to its institutions. There are two ways of "knock
. ing. One way is to patronize out-of-town concerns. The business houses of Abilene are its institutions, and, as such, are entitled to the prefer-
ence when purchases are-to be made. As these business houses grow and expand, through your patronage, they will be better able to serve you.
Unless you are loyal to them they cannot grow, and their ability to serve you is limited. -
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and now another $2500 will be expended right away en-
larging the quarters of the Western Union, which occupies
a part of the ground floor of the building. This space
will be extended back and considerable new equipment
installed by the telegraph company.
5 Until the fourth floor was added to the building, Hotel
Grace had 70 guest rooms. The hotel now has 104 guest
rooms and of the 34 new rooms, 30 of them have bath-
Over half of all the rooms in the hotel are equipped with
bath.
All the new rooms are furnished with Simmons All-
Steel Furniture and each room has a bed, dresser, rocker,
straight chair, baggage rack, costumer, writing desk and
a small table for a water pitcher. The furniture is all
steel, there being ho wood about it, and it is finished in
mahogany. All floors in the new rooms are covered with
Magee velvet carpets, the carpets and furniture having
been purchased from the Barrow Furniture Company of
this city. Mr. Singleton states that eventually all the
old rooms will be equipped with Simmons Steel Furniture,
Each room is equipped with a wall electric socket so
that vacuum cleaner connection for cleaning the rooms
can be made easily. The hotel uses a number of Hoover
Vacuum Cleaners, purchased from the West Texas Utili-
ties Company, to keep the building clean and sanitary.
In remodeling the' building no expense or pains were
, spared to provide the very best and latest devices for
W. E. JONES, Owner.
*
The addition of the fourth floor and the remodeling of
the Grace Hotel, to the extent of approximately $125,000-
has been completed and the traveling public can now find
a class of service and accommodations at this magnificent
hostelry second to none in the entire state.
The history of the Hotel Grace, under the present own-
ership, dates back to November 1st, 1919, when W. E.
Jones became owner and Floyd Singleton manager. Mr.
Jones is well known throughout this section of Texas and
■ in Oklahoma.- He was born and reared near Birmingham,
Ala', and came to Texas in 1914, when he became inter-
ested in the oil business, in which business he, is still ac-
tive, operating at present in Oklahoma.
Though Mr. Jones has just spent $125,000 in providing
34 new rooms, elevator service, a larger lobby and other
accoutrements for the Grace Hotel, he is still considering
spending more money to provide more rooms when the
occasion demands. He stated yesterday that when the
present equipment fails to take care of the traveling pub-
lic, he will extend the building to the west on the adjacent
lot-and by making the west wing of the building four
stories higher, the hotel will have 65 additional rooms.
Work on this portion of the building will likely begin the
latter part of this, year, Mr. Jones said. Plans for the
addition have been drawn and virtually accepted.
Not only has the recent improvements increased the
number of rooms, but also the number of sample rooms.
a hotel. The-bath room facilities are the peer of those in
any hotel in the state. The wash rooms and toilets that
serve the first floor have been moved from the basement
to the first floor and are now more acceptible and much
roomier. The walls of the wash room are of Vermont
gray marble eight feet high, and all wash room and bath be open to the public.
room floors are of tile.
INCREASED LOBBY SPACE.
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. The lobby of the hotel has been doubled in size, making
* the hotel suitable as headquarters for a large convention.
The hotel writing room has been greatly enlarged and is
now one of the best equipped writing rooms in the state.
The office has undergone a complete overhauling and a
new marble counter and office fixtures installed. A new
key rack and mail case has been added and a "P. B, X”
telephone board, said to be the latest improved on, the
market. The entire hotel, old, rooms and new, was re-
wired with the private telephone exchange, and new
phone boxes and equipment installed. The Grace now
- - has its own private telephone operator.
The Grace Cafe, one of the most spacious dining rooms
in all West Texas, has been redecorated throughout and
“A la carte service” is now featured. Many of the local
people, as well as hundreds of traveling people, make use
of the Grace Cafe, which also is the regular luncheon
place for the Lions and Kiwanis Clubs of Abilene.
FLOYD SINGLETON, Manager.
ELEVATOR SERVICE.
An Otis Elevator now serves all five floors at the
Grace, the fifth floor being the roof garden, announce-
ment of which will be made at a later date, when it will
The elevator service is second to none, the equipment
being very modern and quiet of operation.
The Grace Hotel also, boasts of a complete new steam
heating system, the old one having made way for the
new, which is a Dunham return system, recognized as
one of the best on the market. The heating plant is capa-
ble of heating 300 rooms. Steam is derived from latest
model Kewanee boiler.
In speaking of the improvements Messrs. Jones and
Singleton stated yesterday: "We have been handicapped
considerably during the months that this, work has been
in progress and we could not show our guests the very
best attention and give them that class of service that is
demanded of good hotels. However.«now. we are through
with the dust and inconveniences that accompany build-
ing jobs, and we want to see the faces of all our old
patrons back in our lobby as well as the new ones. We
assure the public we are in position now to give you the
class of service that will make you a booster for the best
hotel in this section of Texas.”
HOTEL GRACE, Absolut
Fire Proof
GRACE HOTEL
Absolutely Fire Proof.
ABILENE TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE
Grace Hotel Building-West Texas Distributor!
CLARK’S LAUNDRY
Telephone N umber 228.
EXCEL-SURE DYE WORKS
Cleaning and Pressing—Phone 58, Use It—142 Cypress Street -
DRYDEN-BRATTON MARBLE WORKS
North Fifth and Walnut Streets
ED. S. HUGHES CO. HARDWARE
Studebaker Cars—White Trucks—Telephone 42.
FIRST STATE BANK '
. Guaranty Fund Bank
JENNINGS LUMBER COMPANY
"Everything to Build Your Home"—542 Pine St.—Phone 150
MUSSER LUMBER COMPANY
Corner 5th-and Walnut—Telephone No. 104.
MEAD BAKING COMPANY
803 South 4th Street—Telephone No. 28.
LIST OF MEMBERS OF THIS CAMPAIGN -
PIGGLY WIGGLY, GROCERY
1050 North Second St.—Telephone No. 176.
ELLIOT AUDIT COMPANY
Rooms 5 and 6. Park Office Building.—Phone 318.
KENNER MOTOR COMPANY
268 Chestnut Street—Telephone 651.
TILLETT MACHINE COMPANY
Fifth and Walnut Streets—Telephone 386.
PERRY PAXTON MOTOR COMPANY
Dodge Bros. Motor Cars, 3rd and Walnut—Phone 738
ABILENE PRESS BRICK COMPANY
North Abilene.—Telephone Number 716.
THE PHILPOTT FLORISTS
Growers of Plants & Cut Flowers—"Flowers Telegraphed Anywhere" -
- Telephone Number 1091,
ABILENE CANDY MFG. COMPANY
Makers of "Jo Boy,” "Oh Daddy” and "Bacon’s Cherry Bar”
T. A. RUSSELL AND SON, REAL ESTATE
1024 North 2nd Street—Telephone Number 1147.
YAGER SHOE COMPANY
Exclusive Shoes and Hosiery—201 Pine St.—Phone 1129
SAVAGE MOTOR COMPANY
Star and Durant Cars—1160 North 2nd.—Telephone 1691
TOURIST FILLING STATION _
Second and Oak Sts.—Telephone 502.
THE HILL-PENDER COMPANY
Printing and Stationery—946 North 1st.—Telephone 57.
MINGUS-PRICE COMPANY
/ Gents Furnishings—146 Pine St.—Phone 414.
/ WITT CHEVROLET COMPANY
345 Cypress Street—Telephone 231.
TECH SERVICE COMPANY
Garage—LWe Never Close—3rd at Cypress—Phone 321.
WEST TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY
Telephone Number 136.
ABIT ENE BROOM COMPANY
e 435 Sycamore Street—Telephone No. 565.
FRANKLIN PLUMBING SUPPLY CO
Fifth and Plum Sts.—Telephone No. 5.
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The Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 283, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1924, newspaper, April 2, 1924; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1697527/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.