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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
Mosty Family History
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... Depot. Mr. Guy Anderson waited on us. We wanted a pair of blue jeans each. Both pair costing less than a dollar. Mr Anderson turned us down at - would not sell us on credit. About 40 years later I met him. He was very friendly & hastened to tell everyone present that he knew Lee & I would make good. Such is life.
The roads into Kerrville & the streets were all dirt & got very muddy when it rained. I drove a wagon up Water St. many times when ...
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... mud was more than knee deep. There was no water works & no electric lites then in Kerrville. Later Capt. Schreiner put in a lite plant where the ice plant is now located. He also had a our & corn mill there; also a cotton gin. He also built a dam on the river for power where the Methodist assembly now is located & put in a pump & ran a pipeline to town. This was the rst water works & it was river water.
