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The city hall, prior to 1936, was located on the southwest corner of Short and W. Main St. in 1908 in a frame building. Another one was one at the southeast corner of Front and W. Main St. in 1915, also a frame building.
Some sub-divisions in Elvins were: G. B. Gale, two Layne, Doe Run Lead Co., Cain and Smith and Cowan sub-divisions.
Some names of streets in Elvins according to an insurance map: Garrett, Second, River, Firmin Glore, West Main, Prentiss, Hampton Ave. (church), Large A. St., 7 A (?), Gumbo, George Alley, West Main (show), Camilla, Ethel, Elm, Front, Walnut, Ash and Stephen.
Prior to the concrete bridge over the river there was a foot bridge built before 1908 by a Mr. Williams from Doe Run, Mo.
Before prohibition some say Elvins had 7 to 9 saloons, another says 13 saloons, all on the southwest side of E. Main. The Doe Run Lead Co., which owned land on the northeast side of Main St., would not allow a saloon on their land.
Henry Hulsey, real estate man, came to Gumbo, Mo., and worked in the mines and in 1902 moved to Elvins. In 1903 he operated a livery stable at Flat River at 4 E. Main for one year and then moved to Sullivan, Mo. Later he moved back to Elvins and worked for the Federal Lead Co. Mr. Hulsey was vice-president of the Bank of Elvins and the American State Bank of Flat River for 30 years. He also owned residential properties in Elvins.
The original town of Setz included part of the city of Elvins. All on the east side from Fite St. to 2nd St. and part of Shaw St. to the river, the west side from Hampton about a block above Short St., on Hampton all east of Short St. to Gumbo St., then to the river.
The Schramm Bottling and Ice Mtg. Co., a depot and coal yard in Elvins, was located on the corner of Camilla and Ash Ave. or corner of Gumbo. George Alley and Camilla. Lot No. 12 was built prior to 1915.
Some of the shoe repair shops in Elvins: one at the northwest corner of Short and W. Main, some says owned by Mr. Freeman, also a tinshop in the same building in 1908. Also one in the Crescent Hotel building at 202-206 East Main in 1908, a frame building and one in a stone building at 114 Short St. about 1910 and one at 211 or 209 E. Main about 1915 (?).
All the buildings on East Main prior to 1908 in Elvins, from the river to the railroad of the M.R. & B.T. were frame buildings except the Miller Hotel which was brick and the building at 301 which was artificial stone.
Some in business in Elvins in 1955: Home Beauty Shop, Jack Kahn store, Langdon Furniture Co., Unicity Red-E Gas, Clinton store, Fred Johnson store, Lupkey's IGA, McLane store, Carl Morris store, L. C. Skelton, Tlapek Grocery & Meat Market, Boyer Shell Service, Laird's Service Station, Strickland Phillips service station, Tucker Cab, Baker Electric Shop, Russ TV, G. N. Tire Service, Claywell Gas Station, Moss Upholstery Shop, Boyer Appliances, Lattie Goggins Drilling, Jesse L. Howell Insurance, and A. M. Cain, dentist.
Employed at State Hospital No. 4 at Farmington, Mo., in 1938, from Elvins: Bart Byington, electrician; George DeGrant, Laundryman; and J. T. Rombert, farming.
A bakery shop in Elvins was located on the southwest corner of Short and W. Main in 1915. Kenneth McCord was the owner, or employed. Later Jim Raby was connected with the shop.
Felix Dixon of Elvins organized a union among the miners of the Lead Belt about 1924. Headquarters were at 301 E. Main St. in Elvins.
The Masonic Order, known as Elvins Lodge No. 599, was chartered Oct. 8, 1908, with the following officers: G. R. Perkins, WM; John C. Seelegman, SW; D. L. Rivers, JW; J. L. Lovis, secretary; James A. Thompson, treasurer; W. A. Turnbull, chaplain; Henry Black, SD; J. L. Keshlar, JD; L. B. Bouereois, SS; V. A. Generos, JS; J. R. Gilbert, Tiler. In 1914 the lodge moved from Elvins to Flat River.
The Riverside Hotel was located at E. Main St. on the banks of the river of Flat River. It was opened by George and Esther McPike in 1898. They were from Fredericktown, Mo., and had two children, May and Lula. Lula married A. L. McMullin in 1901 and May was a school teacher. The McMullins had one son, Glenwood, the only child.
In 1947 the Elvins Chamber of Commerce tried to organize a bank for Elvins. A total of $25,000 in capital stock and $12,500 surplus had been subscribed. Those who purchased stock, seven men to serve on the Board of Directors were: Jesse L. Howell, R. C. Claywell, T. J. Buckner, Wm. F. Manson, Roby Gibson, Robert Gann and Carroll B. Funk.
The Journalism Class of Elvins High School who published the Elvins Tomahawk had on the editorial staff in 1951: Pat McFarland, Leona Govero, Tom McGee, Sue Black, Shirley Merritt Semar, Don Fitzgerald, Anna Jean Welch, Don Downing, Christine Johnson and Mrs. Riley, sponsor.
The people are the city. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. If it be a few rugged huts, it is still the greatest city in the world. To Elvins people, it is the greatest city in the world and they have a city to be proud of.
(The End.)
[Note: This article is not really the end. The next week the Lead Belt News published another installment that had been inadvertently omitted. That missing section will be Part Seven.]
[Note: Also, the question marks in the above article were John Sullivan's, not the transcriber's.]
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