My little granddaughter Holly has moved to Lubbock to enroll at Texas Tech. She will major in Agriculture Communications. Holly has been my editor for the past few years and has become a knowledgeable historian of local history. Holly’s activities have been the highlight of this past week.

I am anxious to hear from some of my friends and their comments on local history.

I am going to go back and continue with some of the events that Hazel Shelton documented a few years ago while she was the City of Aubrey Secretary.

They are as follows:

Saturday, October 18, 1890 – Grocery owned by Pola Cadell and W.H. Tatum. About 2006 bales of cotton have been weighed to date on the Aubrey scales. Also a Sunday School was organized at the Methodist Church.

Saturday, March 1, 1890 – W.P. Wilks of Little Elm bought some Aubrey city lots from L.N. Edwards.

Saturday, December 20, 1890 – J.L. Parker is building a blacksmith shop on his lot in Aubrey.

Saturday, January 31, 1890 – There is now a photo gallery in Aubrey. They have built a new parsonage (Didn’t say which church).

Friday, March 17, 1893 – The Aubrey beef market has opened again. J.G. Powledge and Wm. Ratchford purchased 2/3 of the Crawford and Graham Business. Crawford retained 1/3 interest. W.P. Crawford went to Bonham to go into business with A.E. Graham. His mother, Donna Crawford and her son Luther will also make their home in Bonham.

Friday, April 7, 1893 – Appointed Notary Publics for the term in Aubrey are W.L. Rector, James B. Nelson, and J.G. Powledge. J.A. Mullins and family of Collinsville have moved back to Aubrey where he will put in a blacksmith shop. Dora Ratchford is proprietress of a millinery shop.

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