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State Bcchange Bank, now the Eaton Drug Corner. BEER DEPOT! If you can read the slgn on the front of this building you can see that the Anheuser Busch Beer company got here early. Standing near what is now the armory, this saloon was one of the many which appeared on Broadway soon after the town began. The house is the Carl Stettler residence. ivfqg if I' developed, came along this trail to stop at the Weatherford home for refreshments . She also remembers a cloudburst which occurred on May 5, 1892--washing away many of their belongings . Weatherford had four pretty daughters and his place was the social center of the region, where roughly clad homesteaders, spurred and booted cowboys came to dances . Peace officers frequently called at the Weatherford home for advice and assistance in chasing outlaws and in getting along with the Indians . Bill Weatherford started Baptist church services and his daughters taught school. His wife was the first postmistress, and the girls would put the postoffice receipts Qthey were rather small,sometimes amounting to only S15 a quartery under their mattresses for safe keeping. During the first years, the homesteaders had to convey their crops to E1 Reno by horse and wagon, to bring back most of their supplies from that railroad terminus. This trip meant fording the South Canadian River, often a dangerous task. One old timer remembers a man trying to bring a steam engine and threshing machine across the river only to lose both in the quicksand. In the summer of 1898, when the Choctaw railroad began laying its tracks westward from Geary, the present Weatherford was created. The rails would miss the old site by about a mile and a half to the south, it was found, and so the official town was platted where it now lies. iv ' E H fijiiit 2 K . , 1 gg.,-iq, - - 7.9 gg, ' sails'-gwf , -
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Ji.. PLENTY OF HORSEPOWER-'Horses were numerous in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country when the picture above was taken on Weatherford's main street ln 1904. The crop going to the market here is broomcom. the run, to establish a home for himself and for his family. Mr. Weatherford was a Southerner and a long time peace officer. He started the first town of Weatherford on his land which was located a mile east and a mile north of the outskirts of the present town. The first Weatherford was never very large. At its peak it was composed only of the Weatherford buildings, the postoffice, a general store built by T. P. Press Keen, the Cottonwood Saw Mill, so named because this tree provided most of its lumber, and a blacksmith shop which stood near the trail leading from El Reno to Arapaho, then G county's biggest and most active town. Traces of this trail still remain in the vicinity. Mrs. Mary Rainey, daughter of Bill Weatherford, remembers vividly the day the troopers from Fort Reno on their way to Arapaho, where trouble with the Indians had EARLY STORE--The Harness Shop pictured below was doing business just south of the present site of Wright's Station in 1906. Miss Nannle Sm1th's father was the proprietor. ! - 1 BUILDINGS GOING UP on North Broadway. 1898-1899. A VIEW OF BROADWAY, 1906--Paved streets were unheard of and if you walked down this hill flocking southy you would probably find yourself knee--deep in mud and slush! v- -, l - 4. 1704
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