Footsteps of Approaching Thousands

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1. Preface vi · introduction
2. CHAPTER 1 - BEFORE 1911 1
3. CHAPTER 2 - CITY ON THE HILL 3
4. Cross Plains Townsite Company 5
5. First Sale of Lots in Cross Plains 5
6. The Creation of the City Government 8
7. Public Utilities 14
8. Fire Department 17
9. CHAPTER 3 - SCHOOLS 19
10. CHAPTER 4 - DOCTORS AND HEALTCARE 25
11. Hospital 27
12. CHAPTER 5 - CROSS PLAINS CEMETARY 28
13. CHAPTER 6 - CHURCHES 31
14. First Baptist Church 31
15. Methodist Church 33
16. United Presbyterian Church 36
17. Church of Christ 37
18. CHAPTER 7 - TRANSPORTATION 39
19. Railroad 40
20. Streets and Highways 43
21. Airplane Travel 45
22. CHAPTER 8 - WORLD WAR I 47
23. CHAPTER 9 - WORLD WAR II 49
24. CHAPTER 10 - AGRICULTURE 53
25. CHAPTER 11 - BUSINESSES 57
26. Coffman's Gin & Store 58
27. Post Office 59
28. Banks 60
29. Cafes 63
30. Flower Shops 63
31. Cross Plains Review 64 · review
32. Higginbotham Bros. & Co. 66
33. Boydstun's Store 66
34. Adair Dry Goods 68
35. 36 Motel 69
36. D. P. Carter's Store 69
37. McAdams Ford Dealership 70
38. Grocery Stores 72
39. Hotels 74
40. Theaters 75
41. Lumber Yards 76
42. Drug Stores 76
43. Gas Stations 77
44. Ice House 79
45. Locker Plant 80
46. Cannery & Sewing Room 82
47. W. B. Williams Planing Mill 84
48. Pool Halls 85
49. Hub Freeman's Blacksmith Shop 86
50. CHAPTER 12 - ORGANIZATIONS 87
51. Wednesday Club of Cross Plains 87
52. Cross Plains Junior Study Club 87
53. Just Us 88
54. Masonic Lodge 88
55. Order of the Eastern Star 91
56. Lions Club 91
57. Philpeco Country Club 92
58. Project Pride 93
59. Chamber Of Commerce 96
60. Ku Klux Klan 99
61. American Legion 100
62. Women's Legion Auxilary 101
63. V.F.W. Post 102
64. The Garden Club 102
65. Knights Of Pythias 102
66. Confederate Heritage 103
67. Cross Plains Public Library 103
68. Cross Plains Area Genealogy Society 107
69. CHAPTER 13 - EVENTS & LANDMARKS 109
70. Annual Picnic 109
71. Corpse at the Picnic 111
72. Roadside Park 111
73. First Radio Installed 112
74. Third Monday 112
75. McDonough Lake 113
76. Discovery of Oil 113
77. King Alphonso XIII of Spain 114
78. Cross Plains' Version of Ol' Rip 114
79. 1948 Old Settler's Reunion 115
80. Flying Saucer 115
81. Cross Plains Soldiers Guard the President 115
82. First Television Set in Cross Plains 115
83. Firestorm 116
84. CHAPTER 14 - FAMILIES 117
85. Coffman 117
86. Artwood 118
87. Austin 119
88. Harpole 120
89. McDonald 120
90. Baum 120
91. Bond 122
92. Tom Bryant 124
93. Rumph Brothers 126
94. Dr. John Tyson 127
95. Dr. I. M. Howard 128
96. M. E. Wakefield 130
97. Dr. Eli Powell 131
98. C. H. Sharman 133
99. W. R. Wagner 135
100. Rufus J. Lackland 135
101. Barr Family 136
102. Harlow Family 137
103. Just Us Club Biographies 138
104. INDEX 144 · reference

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