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My former column about the Davenport Tourist Motor Court in Howe brought several memories from Georgia Howe Caraway Enterprise readers. I learned it was located on what is now Highway 5 (formerly IH75) where Memorial Park now stands. Jean Norman and Carrie Waller looked at the postcards and Jean remembered that the first Howe library was in the small white building next to the service station after the Davenports closed the tourist court.

Beverly Jay Martin wrote: [The Davenport Tourist Court} was owned by Truett and Lorain Davenport. I know it was in business at the time I was in school, 1944-1956 and afterwards. Truett was also the postmaster for several years. I can’t remember seeing her. I worked at the grocery store when I was in high school and knew most everyone. Thinking back on those days I would guess that only business travelers stayed there. It was the end of the Depression and people had no or very little money.

Bennie Stoy: I remember Truett and Lorain [Davenport]. We would sit on the west side under cover (where cars parked to get gas) in lawn chairs and visit. They always let me choose a candy. They sold gas and had a few groceries. This is from Wayne Smith, Carlene and Monte Walker's cousin.

“I would like to offer these comments from the 1940's-50's. I grew up on what is now Branch St, off West Young, one block west of North Denny (then US75). At that time Young did not have a grade crossing at Denny because of a "dip" for an underpass under the Interurban tracks just to the north about where Travis Street now intersects Denny. The Tourist Court (I seem to remember Davenport "Modern" Court) was located on the east side of US-75 at what now is Memorial Park on the northeast corner of East Kosse Street.

On the right of the picture is their little gas station and office which I think was right on the corner. I don't remember ever seeing inside one of the units.

As an aside, Ms. Mame Roberts' rose garden was on the southwest corner of Denny and Young where that red brick building now stands. Somewhere in my "junk" I think I have a picture of my dad standing in the garden during a bad winter ice storm.”

Monte Walker added that Buck Owens came by to see Mrs. Davenport when he was in the area, even when he became famous.

Ted Corbin wrote: {The Davenport] was across the street from my grandpa's gas station. I think they retired in about 1975. [Grub and Dorothy Corbin] Actually, Bill had the garage and he was my uncle. Terry was my dad. My grandpa, Grub, would drive to Sherman to the ice house, which was 5-6 blocks east of the courthouse, and pick up blocks of ice. The blocks were about 4 ft high, 1 ft wide and 2 ft deep. He would get 4-5 at a time. He would pick them up in his pickup and cover them with heavy insulated blankets.

Bennie Stoy: I never went to Corbin's. When daddy attended school in the evening across the street, I stayed with the Davenport's one/two times.

Hi all, this is Wayne [Smith]: Looking at the picture in the Enterprise, you can see a gas pump in front of the building on the right. I didn't remember what they sold in the store. I knew Truett worked at something else in town and thought it was postmaster. Thanks for confirming this, Bev. I've been trying to think of the name of the man who was foreman of the Interurban track maintenance gang that my dad worked on, and was first thinking about Truett. I think my uncle Herb Smith, Betty's dad, also worked on that gang.

Wayne Smith again: How well I remember Grub's little store and gas station! The really old gas pumps with the glass containers at the top with "gallon markers" instead of "metered readouts" like on the later pumps. My dad would run a tab and settle up on payday. I would go in and buy a candy bar (five cents in those days), just say "charge it" and leave. "Goatheads" and sticker burs were death to bicycle tires and you could never put enough patches on the tubes. Every morning I would ride my bike the two blocks to Grub's on flat tires, use his free air to pump them up as hard as I dared and usually could make it through the day. On hot summer days some of us would buy a 12 ½-pound block of ice from his ice house (10 cents) and just sit under a tree and chip it and eat it. Farmers would come each morning to fill their ice water containers and sometimes pick some of us up for field work after we got old enough. Sadly, I also remember the night your dad's garage next to the gas station caught fire and burned to the ground. Everyone in the area brought out their garden hoses, but they were of no use. I don't remember if we had volunteer firemen at the time or if a truck came from Sherman or even if there any fire hydrants available.

More memories to follow.

Dr. Georgia Caraway and her friends operate Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning. Coulter Collectibles has joined the shop with some unique furniture and home decor. The pavilion space behind the shop is open through the end of February with bargains galore. SHOP LOCALLY!! We can show you Howe!!

Howe’s Harmon named to 2nd Team All-District

District 10-3A Superlative Awards

District MVP – Samuel Tormos – Van Alstyne

Offensive Player of the Year –J.J. Boling – Van Alstyne

Co-Defensive Player of the

Year – DJ Brown – Leonard, Cam Montgomery – Van Alstyne

Newcomer of the Year – Tanner Carter – Bells

Sixth Man of the Year – Jake Claborn – Whitewright

Coach of the Year – Russell Best – Van Alstyne.

First Team All-District Bo Baker – Bells, Cade Doggett –Bells, Jonathan Garza – Blue Ridge, Tanner Reaves – Bonham, Jaylen Duncan – Leonard, Jayson Beckett – Van Alstyne, Aaron Pitt – Whitewright, Dylan Cordell – Whitewright. Blue Ridge, Utah Porath – Blue Ridge, Michael Crosby –Bonham, Caden Harmon – Howe, Jace Lacook – Leonard, Drelin Davis – Van Alstyne, Reilly Evans – Whitewright, Kayden Carraway – Whitewright.

Honorable Mentions for Howe were Ayden Norton, Colton Thurman, and Austin Haley.

Academic All-District: Austin Haley, Ayden Norton, Cameron Lankford, Jake Fabacher, Kolby Taylor, Luke Lopez, Ethan Lopez, Colton Thurman, Eli Wilson.

Caiden Harmon

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