W. F. AND J. F. BARNES LUMBER CO.
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Located in Hamilton on Main Street. Phone 143, with a
Complete line of Building Materials: J. H. Moore is popular manager.
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One of the most outstanding lumber businesses in
Hamilton and of the surrounding territory for that matter is the W. F. and
J. F. Barnes Lumber Company just east of Pecan Creek on Main Street. This
company has a large lumber yard extending through an entire block north
and south and covering two-thirds of the block east and west. They have
comfortable and commodious office quarters, the interior finished in a
manner that suggest excellent taste and high grade material.
J. H. Moore [Jack Houston Moore], who is the genial manager of the Hamilton
yard, is a native Texan and began his business career in a lumber yard,
working the first year with his brother in Gatesville. He then entered the
employment of Wm. Cameron Company. After remaining with this company for
eight years, Mr. Moore accepted the position as manager of The W. F. &
J. F. Barnes Lumber Company in Hamilton and has been with this firm for
the past 16 years. His long connection with these big lumber concerns has
given him skill and training in selecting and selling lumber that is of
great value in pleasing and giving satisfaction in every detail of the
lumber business. If you contemplate building at any time Mr. Moore will
gladly offer you suggestions and give you any other information you
desire.
Mr. Moore is a wide-awake and progressive citizen,
taking an active part in any undertaking which tends for the upbuilding of
this city.
The News received the following historical data from the
Waco office concerning this firm:
"It is gratifying to us to know that we are
citizens of a thriving, wide-awake town like Hamilton--that we have been
able to carry on, enlarge, and improve business founded here 27 years ago,
"It was in the year 1907 that Capt. C. L. Johnson,
the affable patriarch in the realm of lumber, demonstrating his confidence
in the future of Hamilton and is people by an investment which resulted in
the erection of a Modern Lumber Yard stocked with a full line of high
grade lumber and building materials.
"For ten years Captain Johnson served the people of
Hamilton and its trade territory until in 1917, because of his age and
declining health, he decided to retire from active business and looked
around for a successor whom he could depend upon to continue his business
on the same high plane of good quality and courteous service which he had
accorded the people for these ten years.
"After carefully considering several firms, his
choice was W. F. & J. F. Barnes Lumber Co. who
bought not only the Hamilton yard, but also his yards at
Ireland, Gatesville, and Waco.
"Now for these 17 years it has been our pleasure
and privilege to be one of Hamilton’s citizens and servants. We are
happy to have been actively associated with her people, her civic clubs
and committees in many struggles and campaigns which, although not always
attained the results oped for, but which in the majority were highly
successful in boosting Hamilton and making it a better town, extending its
trade territory, enlarging its facilities, and increasing its
assets."
W. F. & J. F. Barnes Lumber Co. has 21 lumber yards
and 6 Furniture and Hardware stores, their general offices are located in
Waco, and they also do a large wholesale business at Waco. Their
purchasing Department at Waco does the buying for all of these yards,
which gives them an advantage, as the Barnes Yards Materials is
"EVERYTHING TO BUILD ANYTHING."
The Hamilton County News, Vol. IV, Number
11--Section Two
Historical and Trading Expansion Issue
W. F. Billingslea, Editor-Publisher
Subscription Price ONE YEAR ..$1.00
June 29, 1934