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When Hazel Shelton gave the historic artifacts to me some several years earlier and while she was City Secretary and Lewis George was mayor, little did she realize that I would be able to use the information in my guest column in the The Town Charter. I must say that I have enjoyed sending these early day tidbits of information and I just hope others will come forward with old clippings out of that family trunk so we will be able to piece information together to share with the current and future generations. A little more than fifty years ago the building that was demolished this past week was built on an old slab foundation that was used as the Olen Burk Garage around 90 or 100 years ago. It seems so ironic that the building was demolished this week while I have been relaying some of Hazel Shelton’s clippings. It seems to me that J. B. Shelton, Hazel’s husband, built the little small block building and sold Gulf and then later Shell products. Beck Quesenberry and his wife ran the business back in the early fifties. I am going to continue with where I left off last week as it is timed to coincide with the local construction developments on Main Street. Frday, April 28,1893 – Edison’s Phonograph was exhibited on the nights of the 21st . and 22nd at the Aubrey Academy. The program was of choice selections. There was a good attendance. Friday, July 7, 1893 – The Aubrey Post office changed hands from Joel Rhodes to Jim Slaton (this is Holly Hunnicutt’s great-great-great-great Uncle and author of letter on battlefront from Vicksburg, /Virginia) and has been removed to the east side of Main street. January15, 1909 – A fire occurred at Aubrey Tuesday night, Jan. l2, 1909, which destroyed the Price building, a 2 storybrick on the east side of Main Street occupied by the Herald Office, the Post Office and the Telephone Exchange. The fire started in the printing office in the upper part of the building. As there were poor facilities for fighting the fire, the building and most of the contents were consumed. |
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