Kerrville Mountain Sun from Kerrville, Texas • Page 41

Pago Twelve Kerrville Mountain Sun May 10,,1986 May 10, 1986 Kerrville Mountain Sun Page Thirteen It Happened Looking Backward The following history of the owners of the Kerrville Mountain Sun was written by the late Mrs. W. A. Salter in 1981. We think she be proud to have it included in this issue.

The Salter brothers, C.E. and W.A., were natives of Kansas and their father was a lawyer and newspaperman. When the Cherokee Strip in Northern Oklahoma Territory was for settlement, he made the run and settled in- Alva. A newspaper and a law office followed. All of the family were musical and C.E.

and some fellow musicians came to San Antonio to enlist in some musical organization at Fort Sam Houston Hospital. He failed the physical and was advised to come to the hills. He came, J.E. Grinstead, fell in love with the country and the man. He was a fisherman and was instrumental in the opening of the Fish Hatchery.

He persuad- edCJE. Eddins of the feasibility of running a flume of water from the big spring on the Eddins Hanch, under the highway to the ponds. Just when the project was blossoming, he was stricken with cancer and went everywhere there was even a hint of a cure. He died in 1929 in a cancer hospital in Toronto, Canada. At his request he was buried in the Sunset Cemetery.

He was never married, a member of the Christian Science Church and a charter member of the Kerrville Rotary Club. W.A. Salter left the newspaper to play football at Northwestern University and later moved to Oklahoma City, where he worked at the printing trade and played in the Shrine Band. With a group of fellow musicians they joined the 36th Infantry and formed the "Old Gray Mare Band" which served in France. "We were married the day after he was discharged from the Army and moved to Oklahoma City" and the bride was the former Camilla Atkison.

Mrs. W. A. Salter was born in The entire Second Division came to Kerrville on maneuvers in May of 1926, and were camped along Guadalupe Street. The silo near the center was in the Lewis Dairy Farm, which later became the Westland Addition, and to the far right can be seen the City of Kerrville.

Company of the First Texas Infantry, National Guard, paraded through Kerville in 1916. And we can't figure where the picture was made. the Indian Territory, now the state of Oklahoma, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma at the age of 19. She taught school after graduation, coached the girls' basketball team and, when the principal went to war, she coached the boys' football team as well. Forrest was born in December 1920, and we tame to Kerrville in June the next year.

We were charmed with the beauty of the country and the friendliness of the people. It puzzled us who had come from a farming country how people made a living here. It was not too long before we were able to tell a sheep from a goat, and to recognize live oak and cypress trees. The first winter here was quite mild, we thought, and a rare snow was beautiful. Most people used wood burning stoves and we had come from a coal burning area, where soot soiled the rooftops.

By the next winter we have become acclimatized and we froze with the rest of them. Among the people we met were a number who had boys the same age as ours and it is amazing how many of them have grown up and come back here to live. Jesmyr and Dede Garrett and Earl, Anna Mae and Dick Eastland and Seab, Bella and Otto Schwethelm and Harry, the Earnest Meekers and Franklin. Others who welcomed us were the Dick Holdsworths, the three Schreiner brothers, A. Gus and Louis.

The Walter and Julius Real families, the A. G. Morriss, the John Leavells, the Henry Remschels, the Henry and August Henkes, the Burneys, the Robt. Saenger Sr. family, the W.

P. Dickeys, the J. J. Delaneys. Our office was next door to the Post Office where Mark Mosty "grew And Dr.

Domingues drug store was nearby. Rudolph Stehling had a filling station, the Self Jewelry Store, and Pampell's. Across the street was the St. Charles Hotel, the wool and mohair house where freight cars came from the railroad for the fleeces. Big wagons, with mules teams, that were driven by freighters.

Big news was when the sale of the fleeces was announced. The Schreiner Store was next and across the street was Chaneys Ice Cream Parlor and Taxidermy. The First State Bank, the Rock Drug Store, the Telephone Company, Henkes Market and Nolls Store. When we were hospitalized for a few weeks we got to know Dr. J.

J. Jackson and his lively family. Dr. J. S.

Palmer told us of the fascination that the game and woodlands held for him. And quiet Dr. W. L. Secor taught us much of the birds of the area and their habitat and the beauty of the wildflowers.

We were in the hospital when patients from the Rocksprings toronado were brought here. In 1930 sadness again entered our family when W. A. Salter died. He was an officer in the Presbyterian Church, a Mason and a Rotarian.

This was at the beginning of the great depression and those who lived through it knew it could be depressing. Teachers were paid in script, we had to make do, or do without. The summer camps helped the economy. We never failed to make our payroll, and the bank honored our overdrafts, and we survived. Then came Pearl Harbor and the world came apart overnight.

Boys dropping out of school to enlist. The National Guard unit was mobilized into service. Forrest was in the University and joined the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor. When he was 21 we gave him a half interest in the Mountain Sun. After four years on a destroyer in the South Pacific he came home, and work was ready for him.

Our grandson, James Forrest Salter, went to Texas A to The ENTIRE SECOND DIVISION came to Kerrville on maneuvers in 1926, and our intrepid photographer caught them marching up Water Street, followed by their horse drawn wagons. This was probably the last time any autos were able to parallel park as modern vehicles drag center. In the background can be seen the old Fire Station, Schreiner Bank, Domingues Drug Store, the Post Office, and the Kerrville Mountain Sun. Notice the photographers standing on the awnings. IN 1907 Water Street didn't show many signs of traffic congestion, and the shade trees were enclosed in wooden fences to keep horses from chewing up the bark.

The stone building was Schreiner's Wool and Mohair Warehouse, which is now the site of the annex to the Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital. study marine biology and after a year, decided to follow the family tradition of newspaper- ing. He then attended the University of Texas at Austin, and when he returned home we gave him one half of our interest in the Mountain Sun. He loves it and the people. We have enjoyed and appreciated the people of our area.

We have visited many points of interest, driven over most of the roads, especially the out of the way ones. We have worked with many organizations, helped in all the ways we couid. We enjoyed working with the Service Clubs, the Dietert Claim, the Red Cross and all of the things which help the boys and girls of the country. Our life has been blessed in so many ways, and may the Good Lord take care of us all. St.

Charles Hotel.