The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LLANO NEWS, LLANO, TBXAA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER M, IBM
News From the Granite Section of the Southwest
This Page is Devoted to the Granite Industry of Llano^The Superior Stone of America
MEMORIAL ART
Can be exemplified through skilled workman-
ship and artistic arrangement, but any crafts-
man will agree that these elements must be
backed up with good material.
RUSHING CONSTRUCTION WORK;
AT THE NEW FINISHING PLANT!
TEXAS WEEKLY REVIEW
Additional men have been adfied to
the force working at the Premier
Granite Company during the past
week, and a major portion of the steel
work on the large crane has been
placed in position, while other con*
st ruction work is going on all the
while.
Six carpenters arrived here from
LaGrange during the week and are
Electra—First bale of cotton receiv-
ed here.
Canadian—Two new enterprises
predicted for this city.
Bowie—Construction of Gulf Refin-
ing Company's filling station near-
ing completion.
Georgetown—Two wells now going
down in Fouse-Nelson area,
i Covington—To rebuild burned dls-
Itrict
Cassadav Grey Granite
From quarry No. 1
Cassaday Light Grey
From quarry No. 2
Can be depended upon and dealers who use
these granites are convinced that no better,
more beautiful, or more lasting materials can
be built into their memorials.
Cassaday Grey Granite Ca, ine.
(Quarriers only.)
LLANO, TEXAS
HBMBEn LLANO CHAMBER OF COMMBRCB
LLANO QUARRIERS ASSOCIATION
now on the job. Mr. Baldwin stated j Wolfe City—Work of remodeling
that he was forced to resort to outside jW. P. Maloney building progressing
carpenters as there was not a one in rapidly.
Llano available at this time, owing! Grandview—Drilling to start soon
to the vast amount of building now 0n two oil test wells near here. ,
under way on the Llano program. j Hillsboro—Montgomery Ward &
On the extreme west end, next to company opens large store,
the San Saba road, the foundation Is | Leander—Cotton picking now un-
now being placed for the office build- der way in this vicinity.
I ing and is to be strong enough to Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
I ’bold the heavy granite walls, as the pany plans million-dollar able to link
structure is to be granite veneer, Dallas and Fort Worth.
II built from rough granite blocks that Rosenberg—Seventh street being
will come in from the quarry. graveled.
Already a carload of the machinery Falfurrlas—Local creamery will in-
has arrived on the ground, but can- stall milk drying machinery at once, i
IJ not be installed until the construe- ( Farwell—Farmers’ elevator being
| tion work is further advanced. repaired.
Rapid progress has been made dur- Crockett—Residential and commer-
! ing the past week and Mr. Baldwin Ciaj lighting rate reduced.
11 expects to keep everything on the Graveling completed on Grand-
| j move until ail such work Is finished view-Waxahachie road to Ellis county
and the big plant is ready to be ploc- ]jne
ed in operation.
FALL MONTHS FIND GRANITE
SHIPMENTS ON THE MOVE
At Your Service—
UNIVERSAL GRANITE COMPANY
GRAY, BOWNDS, & TEMPLETON, Props.
GIVE US A TRIAL!
Miles—Rural route No. 2 extended.
Canadian—Stickley Funeral Home
moved Into new building.
Wilson—Roads east to Garza Coun-
' ty line now graded. i
For tlie past two or three weeks Dalhart—More paving and H war
the granite business has been show- extension work authorized by city
ing additional activities and the counc|i.
shipments to various points in this Fabens—100 men at work on in-
end adjoining states are becoming sta]latfon of natural gas line,
more numerous every day. Austin—Press room at State Capi-
Llano dealers are expecting ;.nt j(.j rec0vated.
all tlie business they can well tak • ('aero- Plans underway for build-
SPECIFY
PREMIER RLUE
“The South’s Finest Grey Granite”
For Everlasting Memorials
The Best Granite For
POLISHING, AXING, ROCKFACE
Few Granites Equal It, None Surpass
It For Sandblast Carving
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HlfHAT TEXAS MAKES, MAKES TEXAS
HEREFORRD BULLS FOR SALE
I have bought the Louis Ebeling
stock of Herefords and offer them for
much less money this fail, than they
can be bought for next Spring.
J. MORTON BURNHAM,
52-4t-c Marble Falls, Texas
c;.r* of during the remainder of this
year, with splendid prospects 'or the
coming twelve months to be even
letter than will be the recoid 'or
1929.
Th’s increase is manifested in other
rough and finished stock.
MANY EXTRA COPIES OF NEWS
GO TO MEMORIAL DEALERS
QUARRIERS ONLY
LLANO, - TEXAS
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
1 Will e located at the Granite
City Hotel, and can take any form
of dictation.
MISS UNDERWOOD
TOW VALLEY LOCALS
Sunday, Sept. 22, ’29, Mrs. File Nobles
died at her home here and w-as laid
to rest, Sunday afternoon in the Tow
cemetery by the side of her husband
the late L. V. Nobles Sr. The funeral
st: vices were held at the cemetery ers and others interested in the gran-
with Pro. Silas Howell of Burnet, ite industry here, during ihe past
giving the sketch of her life and words week.
1.200 trees to start papaya industry
Llano granite men and many others here
for that matter mailed out copies of Mouiton—Force of men at work re-
the special edition to memorial deal- modeijnK ]jnes ef Southwestern Tele-
phone Company.
Throckmorton—Rig gasser result of
ing of municipal airport here.
Houston—St. Mary's Hal! dedicated
recently.
Dalhart—Hotel opened in recently
remodeled Trans-Canadian building. p0 traffic.
Ashertcn street paving completed. Brownwood
Thorndale
going repairs and remodeling prepara- Bryan-—Brazos County to vote Sep-
tory to occupancy by Gem Theatre. tember 28 on issuance of *1,100,000 in
Alice—Florida man will set out Joad building bonds.
Chapman getting
Winkler building under- wej] nf p00j jn Brown County.
lie st
PANGBORN 3 16 inch Sand
Blast Nozzles, each
09
P. D.
Q. 1 Gallon
$7.00
P. D.
Q. i/2 Gallon
$4.00
P. D.
Q. 1 Quart
$2.50
F. O. B. LLANO
MAIL ORDERS
Filled Promptly
G. A. HALL
P. O. Box 148, Phone 24(1
Llano, Texas
] of comfort to the friends and rel-
'atives of the deceased. Many friends
1 from Burnet, Bluffton, Llano and
Wither places were here to show their
love and respect for Mrs. Nobles and
her children, the obituary will be
ready tor next issue of the paper,
j Mrs. A. J. Frazier has had her
I mother Mrs. Moilie Willy of Adams-
jville with her for the last two weeks,
| also her brothers W. A. Willy and
! Raymond Willy and their families al-
so her sister Mrs. Lyda Willy all of
Adamsvilie as Sunday guests.
After a few weeks spent in oil
territory of north Texas Dee and
Malcolm Chism have returned.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Fisher plan to
leave this week for Ozona where they
will make their future home, Mr. and
Mrs. Byais Story will live on the
ranch.
Bill Farris has entered Tarleton
College at Stephenville and will be
there for the 1929-30 terms.
This edition carried quite a bit of
information concerning thjp natural
resources of our county, and for that
reason, the publishers are in hopes
this paper will prove interesting to
all of these parties who were on the
extra mailing list.
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LOCAL CONCERN IS SENDING
OUT GRANITE PAPER WEIGHTS
LONE STAR
GRANITE COMP’Y.
WE QUARRY
ROUGH GRANITE
Can Quote Pricer on
Rough, Sawed, Ham-
mered or Polished
-IN-
DARK GREY, LIGHT GREY,
OR ROSE TINT
L. H. Baldwin, manager of the Pre-
mier Granite Company here, has been
mailing out small paper weights, cut ,pd jmmediate]y at Santa Fe oro8slng
of Shelbyville Street near depot.
Jefferson—Contract awarded
construction of exhibit hall for
from the granite at their quarry.
These weights were made especial-
ly tor this company, and will be a
desk reminder to the many dealers Mar,on Coumy FaJr
that Llano granite is superior and
should at all times, be used in their
building and memorial Jobs.
Jefferson—Lyric thearte reopens
with new Duotone equipment.
Dalhart—McCoy Meter Company
opened in new building.
Sny ler—Extensive oil development
and exploration indicated in this vi-
wildcat test encountered by Shappell cjnjfy-
Oil Company on Upshaw County Victoria—Approximately 1,200 feet
school land, about 13 miles north of 0f jg.foot pavement being laid daily
here- on Highway No. 12, which connects
Olton cream making good showing, tDis city with Houston and Eastern
Alpine—Surfacing of local streets worid,
to start soon. i F1 Paso—El Paso Electric Company --------———- — - -—•
Channing —- Zempter Gravel I it, granted permit for construction of nished Spting Lake Hotel cafe and
south of here being enlarged and im- transformer substation in Alexander room held formal opening re-
proved. addition near Sunset swimming poo). cent'y-
Plainview Construction of Way- ^ gi pa8G—Renfro Drug Store opened 0
land Baptist College gymnasium com- for business recently. FOR —South appartment fur-
pleted . Houston—“The Mirror,” newly esla- n*sk®<L Fall 343. bl-tf-c
Center—Danger signals to be instal- b]j8hed paper in this town. | --0-
. FOR SALE—Player Piano and 46
El Paso—Plans completed for erec-
tion of administration building at the
municipal airport, renovation of city
hail and building to house city health 1
department on Compbell street.
PeScK16113'
building progressing rapidly.
’
rolls, also can
for
the
be played by hand.
MRS. K. A. WOLF.
I
Except onaily good piano for’ sale
at a bargain. Terms if desired.
Phone $6 ]{.c
FOR SALE—Good Billies; some
registered. For particulars or price
see, A. L. NOBLES,
53-3t-p. Tow, Texas.
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Just unloaded a car of 3, 4, 5, and
6 foot red fence.
Spencer Sauer Lumber Ce
Fort Davis—Erection of new school . , .
Pasadena—$120,000 bond issue re-
cently approved for construction of
Yorktown Work of topjdng Davy city hall and installation of water and
Highway started. sewerage system.
Corpus C hrist! This section expec-1 Mt. Pleasant—Sidewalk along East
ted to make record In cotton ginning Second Street at east end of First
and exporting.
Fabens—Farm
beautified here.
Highway No. 7 from Roscoe to No-
lan County line completed and opened
I
National Bank being improved,
homes now being san Marcos—Funk moved to com-
i pletely remodeled building.
Yoakum—Bill’s Cafe changed hands
San Marcos—Remodeled and refur-
PLACE YOUR ORDERS WITH
Smith Bros. Granite Works
WHOLESALE GRANITE MANUFACTURERS
LLANO, TEXAS
"WHERE YOU GET THE BEST SERVICE ON TEXAS GRANITE"
MIMBBI LLANO CHAMBJBt OP COMM
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The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1929, newspaper, September 26, 1929; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth766974/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.