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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

 

 
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