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GLEN ROSE-Somervell County seat; pop., 1,000. 171/2 miles south of Granbury, its shipping point. Bank, First Natl. Two newspapers. Tele- phone connection.
GODLEY-Johnson County; pop., 600. 12 miles northwest of Cleburne, the county seat, on the G.
C. & S. Fe Ry. Bank, Citizens Nat'l. Newspaper. Tel., W. U. Express.
GOLDEN-Wood County; pop., 400. 10 miles southwest of Quitman, the county seat, on the M. K. & T. Ry. Bank, Guaranty State. Newspaper. Tel., W. U. Express.
GOLDTHWAITE-Mills County seat; pop., 1,214; alt., 1,581 ft. 98 miles northwest of Temple, on the G. C. & S. Fe Ry. Banks, Goldthwaite Natl., Trent State. Hotels, Commercial, Saylor. Two weekly newspapers, The Goldthwaite Eagle and the Rustler. Shipments, cotton, grain, cattle. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
GOLIAD-Goliad County seat; pop., 2,500; alt., 230 ft. About 150 miles west of Houston, and 150 miles southeast of San Antonio, on the S. P. Ry. Banks, Commercial Bank, First Natl., Goliad Bank & Trust Co. Hotel, Denham. Was settled by the Spanish over 200 years ago, by Americans, in 1836. Has cotton gins, broom factory, laundry, bottling works. Two weekly newspapers, The Advance, and The Guard. Principal shipments, cotton, corn, broom corn and livestock. Tel., W. U. Express.
GONZALES-Gonzales County seat; pop., 3,128; alt., 300 ft. On the Guadalupe River and the Gon- zales branch of the S. P. and the Lockhart branch of the S. A. & A. P. Rys. Banks, Dilworth Bank, Farmers' Natl., Gonzales State Bank & Trust Co. Hotels, Arlington, Plaza, and Richter. Here oc- curred many battles for Texas Independence from Mexico. Daily newspaper, The Inquirer; two week- lies, The Inquirer and The Reformer. A number of factories. Ships cotton, live stock and dairy pro- ducts. Tel., W. U. Express.
GOODLET-Hardeman County; pop., 100. Nine miles northwest of Quanah, the county seat, on the Ft. W. & D. C. Ry. Bank, First State Bank. Ex- press.
GOODNIGHT-Armstrong County; pop., 300. 12 miles east of Claude, the county seat, on the Ft. W. & D. Ry. Bank, Goodnight State. Weekly news- paper, The Free Press. Express.
GOOSE CREEK-Harris County; pop., 2,000. 27 miles east of Houston, the county seat, on Dayton and Goose Creek Railway. Banks, Guaranty State, Citizens State and Goose Creek State. Telephone connection. Is on Galveston Bay.
GORDON-Palo Pinto County; pop., 1,000; alt., 955 ft. 19 miles north of Palo Pinto, the county seat, and 73 miles west of Ft. Worth, on the T. & P. Ry. Banks, First Natl., Gordon Banking & Mer- cantile Co., the Guaranty State Bank. Hotel, Kelly- Ray, McDonald. Weekly newspaper. Shipments cotton and livestock. Tel., W. U. Express.
GORDONVILLE-Grayson County; pop., 300. 12 miles from Whitesboro, the nearest shipping point, and 25 miles northwest of Sherman, the county seat. Bank, Guaranty State. Telephone connec- tion.
GOREE-Knox County; pop., 614. 23 miles from Benjamin, the county seat, on the W. V. Ry. Bank, First Natl. Express.
GORMAN-Eastland County; pop., 3,200; alt., 1,420 ft. 22 miles northwest of Eastland, the county seat, on the T. C. Ry. Banks, Continental State, First National. Hotels, Commercial, Gorman, Palace. Weekly newspaper, The Progress. Indus- try, cotton. Tel., W. U. Express.
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GRAFORD-Palo Pinto County; pop., 63; alt., 1,049 ft. 15 miles from Palo Pinto, the county seat, on the W. M. W. & N. W. Ry. Bank, First Natl. Hotel, Bond. Newspaper, The Herald. Express.
GRAHAM-Young County seat; pop., 2,544; alt., 1,040 ft. 26 miles west of Jacksboro, on the C. R. I. & G. and W. S. Rys. Banks, First Natl., Gra- ham National. Hotels, Belmont, Commercial, Dal- man, Henderson, Robown, Walker. Has flour mill, oil mill, gins, weekly newspaper, The Leader. Tel., W. U. Express.
GRANBURY-Hood County; pop., 1,364; alt., 698 ft., 41 miles southwest of Ft. Worth on the Ft. W. & R. G. Ry. Banks, City Natl., First Natl. Hotel, Colonial. Has oil mill, flour mill, five cotton gins, two weekly newspapers, The Graphic-Democrat, and The News. Tel., W. U. Express.
GRAND PRAIRIE-Dallas County; pop., 1,263; alt., 519 ft. 13 miles west of Dallas, the county seat, on the T. & P. Ry. and on the Ft. Worth-Dal- las Interurban, and the Dallas-Ft. Worth Concrete Pike. Banks, First State, Guaranty State. Has furniture factory, planing mill, gins, ships cotton, grain and live stock. Weekly newspaper, The Grand Prairie Texan. Tel., W. U. Express.
GRAND SALINE-Van Zandt County; pop., 1,528, alt., 399 ft. 12 miles south of Emory, 63 miles east of Dallas on the Texas & Pacific and Texas Short Line Rys. Banks, First State, National Bank of Grand Saline. Hotels, Berry, Commercial. Has salt works, foundry and two weekly newspapers. Tel., W. U. Express.
GRAND VIEW-Johnson County; pop., 1,084; 16 miles southeast of Cleburne, the county seat, and 36 miles south of Ft. Worth, on the M. K. & T. Ry. Banks, Farmers & Merchants Natl., First Natl. Hotel, Commercial. Weekly newspaper, The Tribune. Shipments, cotton and grain. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
GRANGER-Williamson County; pop., 1,944; alt., 539 ft. 15 miles north of Georgetown, the county seat, and 47 miles north of Austin, on the M. K. & T. Ry. Banks, Farmers' State, First Natl., Granger Natl. Hotel, Commercial. Industry, cotton. Weekly newspaper, The Granger News. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
GRAPELAND-Houston County; pop., 1,200; 12 miles from Crockett, the county seat, on the I. & G. N. Ry. Banks, Farmers & Merchants State, Guaranty State. Weekly newspaper, The Grape- land Messenger. Tel., W. U. Express.
GRAPEVINE-Tarrant County; pop., 821. 21 miles east of Ft. Worth, the county seat, on the St. L. S. W. Ry. Banks, Farmers' Natl., Grape- vine Home, Tarrant County State. Newspaper, The Grapevine Sun. Shipments, cotton and grain. Tel., W. U. Express.
GRAYBURG-Hardin County; pop., 1,406. 18 miles northeast of Kountze, the county seat, and 1 mile from Sour Lake, on the S. P. & F. Ry. Tel., W. U. Express.
GREENVILLE-Hunt County seat; pop., 12,384; alt., 549 ft. 54 miles northeast of Dallas, on the M. K. & T., the St. L. S. W. and T. M. R. Rys., and on the Eastern Texas and Greenville & Whitewright Traction Co.'s Lines. Banks, Citizens' State, Com- mercial Natl., First Natl., Greenville Natl. Ex- change, the Hunt Co. State Bank & Trust Company.
Hotel, Beckham. Has nine railway outlets, 33 pas- senger trains daily. Has municipal owned electric light plant and water works, a splendid street rail- way system, 65 acres of parks and playgrounds. Is the seat of Wesley, Peniel and Burleson Colleges. Has a Carnegie Library, 4 cotton gins, the largest cotton compress in the world, the largest cotton seed oil refinery in the south, a beehive factory, sheet metal factory, brick works, mattress factory, broom factory, four machine shops. Newspapers, Greenville Banner, (daily and weekly), The Green- ville Herald, (daily and weekly) The Greenville Messenger, weekly. Tel., W. U. and Postal. Ex -. press.
GREGORY-San Patricio County; pop., 26; alt., 36 ft. 16 miles southeast of Sinton, the county seat, on the S. A. & A. P. Ry. Bank, First Natl. Hotel, Green. Tel., W. U. Express.
GROESBECK-Limestone County seat; pop., 1920 census, 1,522; alt., 480 ft. 96 miles south of Dallas, on the H. & T. C. Ry. Banks, Citizens Nat'l, Con- tinental State, Farmers' Guaranty State. Hotel, Brown. Weekly newspaper, The Groesbeck Jour- nal. Tel., W. U. Express. In the development of the oil fields in Limestone County in 1921, Groes- beck became a prosperous and progressive oil city. Much production has been developed in the imme- diate vicinity of Groesbeck, and the population as well as the industries of the city, has increased many-fold. Groesbeck is destined to be one of the prosperous and progressive oil centers of Texas.
GROOM-Carson County; pop., 100. 20 miles from Panhandle, the county seat, on the C. R. I. & G. Ry. Banks, First Natl. and the State Bank of Groom. Tel., W. U. Express.
GROVETON-Trinity County seat; pop., 1,103; alt., 331 ft. 100 miles north of Houston, 265 miles from Austin, on the G. L. & N. and M. K. & T. Rys. Banks, First Nat'l, Guaranty State. Hotel, City, Locke and Swinney. Two newspapers. Tel., W. U. Express.
GUFFEY-Jefferson County; pop., 1,200. 5 miles from Beaumont, the county seat, on the T. & N. O. Ry. Express and telephone connection.
GUNTER-Grayson County; pop., 575. 20 miles south of Sherman, the county seat, on the St. L. S. F. & T. Ry. Banks, Continental State, Gunter State. Weekly newspaper, The Grayson County Advocate. Express.
GUSTINE-Comanche County; pop., 750. 12 miles from Comanche, the county seat, on the St. L. S. W. Ry. Bank, Guaranty State. Newspaper, The Gustine Gazette. Tel., W. U. Express.
HAGERMAN-Grayson County; pop., 150. 16 miles northwest of Sherman, the county seat, on the M. K. & T. Ry. Bank, Hagerman State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HALE CENTER-Hale County; pop., 250. 16 miles southwest of Plainview, the county seat, on the P. & N. T, Ry. Bank, First State. Has a news- paper. Tel., W. U. Express.
HALLETTSVILLE-Lavaca County seat; pop., 1,444; alt., 2,235 ft. 101 miles west of Houston, 137 miles southeast of San Antonio, on the main line of the S. A. & A. P. Ry. Banks, First Natl., First State, Rosenberg Bros. Bank. Hotels, Brick, Finks, Sokol. Lavaca County is noted as the best watered county in the state, with ten living running
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streams of water in its boundary, all well bridged and timbered along the streams. Hallettsville has more newspapers than has any other town its size in the state-there being eight publications with circulation of 25,000. Prominent for turkey raising and shipping large quantities of produce. Cotton is the staple crop, considerable live stock is raised, and dairying is carried on. Tel., W. U. Express.
HAMILTON-Judicial seat of Hamilton County; pop., 2,018; alt., 1,200 ft. 130 miles southwest of Dallas, on the St. L. S. W. Ry. Banks, Hamilton Bank & Trust Co., Hamilton Natl. and Perry Natl, Cotton compress, ice plant, flour mill and weekly newspapers, The Herald and The Record. Tel., W. U. Express.
HAMLIN-Jones County; pop., 1,633; alt., 1,800 ft. 17 miles northwest of Anson, the county seat, on the K. C. M. & O., and the T. C., and the A. & S. R. Rys. Banks, First Nat'l, First State. Hotels, Hamlin, Morgan. Has cotton gins, cotton oil mill, cotton compress, ice plant, flour mill and weekly newspaper, The Herald. Tel., W. U. Express.
HANDLEY-Tarrant County; pop., 1,000; alt., 581 ft. 7 miles east of Ft. Worth, the county seat, on the T. & P. Ry., and the Dallas-Ft. Worth Inter- urban; is also on the Dallas-Fort Worth concrete highway. Bank, First State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HANSFORD Judicial seat of Hansford County; pop., 41. 35 miles southeast of Texhoma, Okla., the nearest shipping point. Banks, First Nat'l, Guar- anty State. Weekly newspaper, and telephone con- nection.
HAPPY-Swisher County; pop., 250. 17 miles from Tulia, the county seat, on the P. & N. T. Ry. Bank, First State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HARLETON-Harrison County; pop., 360. 18 miles northwest of Marshall, on the M. & E. T. Ry. Bank, First State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HARLINGEN-Cameron County; pop., 1,784; alt., 36 ft. 25 miles north of Brownsville, the county seat, on the St. L. B. & M. Ry. Banks, Valley State and the First National. Hotel, Moreland. Weekly newspaper, The Star. Produces good crops of corn, cotton, sugar cane, dairy products and for- age crops. Great irrigation district. Tel., W. U. Express.
HARPER-Gillespie County; pop., 300. 211/2 miles from Kerrville, its shipping point, and 25 miles west of Fredericksburg, the county seat. Bank, First State. Mail daily.
HARRISBURG-Harris County; pop., 1,461. 51/2 miles from Houston, the county seat, on the G. H. & S. A., the I. & G. N., the G. H. & H., and the M. K. & T. Rys., and on the Houston Ship Canal. Bank, Harrisburg Natl. Tel., W. U. Express.
HARROLD-Wilbarger County; pop., 250. 16 miles from Vernon, the county seat, on the Ft. W. & D. C. Ry. Bank, First State. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
HARWOOD-Gonzales County; pop., 200. 9 miles from Luling on the G. H. & S. A. Ry. Bank, First State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HASKELL-Judicial seat of Haskell County; pop., 2,300; alt., 4,010 ft. 16 miles north of Stamford, on the W. V. Ry. Banks, Farmers State, Haskell Nat'l. Hotels, Commercial, Haskell, Hunt. Weekly newspapers, The Free Press. Principal shipment, cotton. Tel., W. U. Express.
HASLET-Tarrant County; pop., 100. 16 miles from Ft. Worth, the county seat, on the G. C. & S. Fe Ry. Bank, Haslet State. Express.
HASSE-Comanche County; pop., 350. 8 miles from Comanche, the county seat, on the Ft. W. & R. G. Ry. Bank, Merchants' & Planters' Bank. Tel., W. U. Express.
HAWKINS-Wood County; pop., 300. 27 miles southeast of Quitman, the county seat, on the T. & P. Ry. Bank, First Natl. In the east Texas fruit district. Tel., W. U. Express.
HAWLEY-Jones County; pop., 100. 11 miles from Anson, the county seat, on the W. V. Ry. Bank, First State. Tel., W. U., Express.
HEARNE-Robertson County; pop., 2,741; alt., 303 ft. 13 miles west of Franklin, the county seat, and 119 miles north of Houston, on the H. & T. C., the I. - G. N. and the H. & B. V. Rys. Bank, Planters & Merchants State Bank. Hotels, Junc- tion, Oriental, Oxford. A weekly newspaper, The Hearne Democrat. Is division headquarters for the H. & T. C. Ry. and repair shops are located here. Tel., W. U. Express.
HEATH-Rockwall County; P. O., Rockwall. Pop., 98. Bank, Farmers' Guaranty State.
HEBBRONVILLE-Judicial seat of Jim Hogg County; pop., 600; alt., 440 ft. 47 miles southwest of San Diego. Bank, Hebbronville State. On the T. M. Ry. Hotel, Veggo.
HEBRON-Denton County; pop., 150. 25 miles from Denton, the county seat, on the Frisco Lines. Bank, Hebron State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HEDLEY-Donley County; pop., 594; alt., 2,170 ft. 14 miles from Clarendon, the county seat, on the Ft. W. & D. C. Ry. Banks, First State, Guar- anty State. Hotels, Hedley, Neppert. Has a news- paper. Tel., W. U. Express.
HEIDENHEIMER-Bell County; pop., 249. Ten miles from Rogers, on the G. C. & S. F. Ry. Bank, Heidenheimer State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HEMPHILL-Sabine County; pop., 2,000; alt., 340 ft. 20 miles southeast of San Augustine, on the L. H. & G. Ry. Banks, First Nat'l, State Guaranty Bank. Hotel, Williams. Two newspapers. Tele- phone connection.
HEMPSTEAD-Waller County; pop., 2,000; alt., 254 ft. 51 miles northwest of Houston at the junc- tion of the Austin branch and main line of the H. & T. C. Railway. Bank, Citizens' State. Hotels. Arlington, Crescent, Parks and Royal. Famous as a watermelon center in the United States, 1,000 carloads are shipped annually from this point to northern markets. Truck farming, berries, small fruits do exceptionally well. Weekly newspaper, The News. Tel., W. U. Express.
HENDERSON-Rusk County seat; pop., 2,373; alt., 380 ft. 45 miles southeast of Tyler, on the I. & G. N. Ry. Banks, Farmers' & Merchants' Nat'l, First Natl., Guaranty State. Hotels, Southwestern Whitson. Two weekly newspapers, Henderson Times, Rusk County News. Tel., W. U. Express.
HENRIETTA-Clay County seat; pop., 2,563; alt., 880 ft. 96 miles northwest of Ft. Worth, on the Ft. W. & D. C., the M. K. & T. and the H. & S. W. Rys. Banks, Dale Bros. & Co., Merchants' & Plant- ers' Bank, W. B. Worsham & Co. Hotels, Elm- wood, Imperial, St. Elmo. Two weekly newspapers,
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The Henrietta Independent and The Peoples Re- view. Tel., W. U. Express.
HEREFORD-Judicial seat of Deaf Smith Coun- ty; pop., 1,696; alt., 3,400 ft. 47 miles southwest of Amarillo, on the main line of the A. T. & S. Fe Ry. Banks, First Nat'l, First State Bank & Trust Co., Western Nat'l. Hotel, Cordova. Is the center of the famous irrigated plains section. For many miles in every direction, the city is surrounded by a plain sloping to the southeast, as if built by nature for irrigation. There underlies an inexhaustible sup- ply of purest water, with many wells pumping daily 1,000 to 2,000 gals. a minute. Soil is fertile as the Nile, fields level as a table, climate unsurpassed for plant growth. Produces wheat, oats, rye, barley, alfalfa, kaffir, maize and other forage crops, melons, fruits, celery and highly adapted to intensive farm- ing. Weekly newspaper. Tel., W. U. Express.
HICO-Hamilton County; pop., 1,635; alt., 790 ft. 23 miles northeast of Hamilton, 83 miles west of Waco, on the T. C. Ry. Banks, First Nat'l., Hico Nat'l. Hotels, Commercial, Midland. Principal in- dustries, flour mills, oil mills, cotton gins, ice plant. Weekly newspaper, The News-Review. Tel., W. U. Express.
HIGGINS-Lipscomb County; pop., 688; alt., 2,568 ft. 20 miles southeast of Lipscomb, the county seat, on the Santa Fe Railway. Banks, Citizens' Natl., First Nat'l. Hotels, Commercial, Higgins, Roberts. Weekly newspaper, The Times. Is the center of fine farming district, producing wheat, corn, alfalfa, broom corn, cattle, horses, mules, cream and pro- duce. Tel., W. U. Express.
HIGHLAND PARK-Pop., 2,321, an incorporated town surrounded by the city of Dallas, Dallas Coun- ty. See Dallas.
HILLSBORO-Hill County seat; pop., 6,952; alt., 634 ft. 35 miles north of Waco, 55 miles south of Ft. Worth, 65 miles southeast of Dallas, on the M. K. & T., T. & B. V., St. L. S. W. Rys., and the Dallas-Waco Interurban, in the midst of the black land district. Banks, Citizens' Nat'l, Colonial Trust, Farmers' Nat'l, First State. Hotels, the J. K. House, the Wear. Industries, cotton, cotton mill, oil mill, ice factory, planing mill. Is the home of Texas Novelty Company, founded 1898, which has grown to be the largest house of its kind in the Southwest. Three newspapers, The Daily Mirror, the Hillsboro Mirror, weekly, and The Hillsboro Dispatch, weekly. Shipments, cotton, grain, live stock. Tel., W. U. Express.
HITCHCOCK-Galveston County; pop., 350. 14 miles west of Galveston, the county seat, on the G. C. & S. Fe Ry. Bank, H. L. Roberts & Co. Tel., W. U. Express.
HOLDER-Brown County; pop., 500. 16 miles north of Brownwood, the county seat, four from Hutson, the nearest shipping point, and 8 miles from May, the nearest banking point. Telephone connection.
HOLLAND-Bell County; pop., 690. 26 miles south of Belton, the county seat, on the M. K. & T. Ry. Banks, First Nat'l, First State. Weekly newspaper, The Holland Progress. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
HONDO-Medina County seat; pop., 3,000; alt., 901 ft. 50 miles west of San Antonio, on the S. P. P.y. Banks, First Nat'l, Hondo State. Hotels, Arm-
strong, Richter. Two weekly newspapers, The Hondo Times and The Anvil-Herald. Has foundry and bolt works. Tel., W. U. Express.
HONEY GROVE-Fannin County; pop., 3,000; alt., 656 ft. 16 miles east of Bonham, the county seat, 86 miles northeast of Dallas, on the T. & P., the G. C. & S. Fe Rys. Banks, First Nat'l, Planters' Nat'l, State Nat'l. Hotels, Vaughn, Yeager. Two newspapers, The Honey Grove Weekly, the Weekly Texas Citizen. Industry, cotton. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
HOOKS-Bowie County; pop., 100. Eight miles from Boston, the county seat, on the T. & P. Ry. Bank, Guaranty State. Tel., W. U. Express. News- paper.
HOUSTON-Harris County seat; pop., 250,000; alt., 53 ft. Founded by the Allen family and Gen- eral Sam Houston, one of the first products of the Republic of Texas, and the first capital of the New Republic, at the head of the Buffalo Bayou waters, an arm of the gulf. This bayou, now Houston Ship Channel, with a depth of 30 feet and a width at the bottom of 200 feet is Houston's greatest commercial asset, traffic over its waters amounting to over $350,000,000 annually. It has given Houston the water rate and made it a port of entry. Free wharf facilities are guaranteed by the city and the gov- ernment forever. Here seventeen railroads meet the sea-over 100 passenger trains operate in and out daily. Here are the headquarters for the Sunset- Central Lines, the I. - G. N. R. R., the Gulf Coast Lines, and the T. & B. V. Ry. The only general of- fice building of the Southern Pacific is at Houston, the nine-story half-million dollar general offices of the Sunset-Central Lines; the Southern Pacific here has a modern half-million dollar hospital.
Houston is the financial center of the Southwest, with more banking capital, greater clearings, greater deposits than any city in Texas. Banks, Bankers Mortgage Co., Channel State, Citizens State, Federal Int. Credit Bank, Federal Land Bank, Federal Re- serve Bank of Dallas (branch), Fidelity Trust Co., First National, First Texas Joint Stock & Land Bank, Guaranty National, Guardian Trust Co., Guar- anty Trust Co., Gulf State, Houston Land & Trust Co., Houston National, Marine Bank & Trust Co., National Bank of Commerce, Public National, Sam Houston Trust Co., San Jacinto Trust Co., Seaport National, Second National, South Texas Commercial National, State National, Varner Trust Co., Blanton Banking Co., H. C. Burt & Co., Carter Investment Co., Dunn & Co., Fenner & Beane, M. L. Goldman Co., Gray & Wilmerding, Interstate Trust Co., Link- Ford Co., Neuhaus & Co., Public Trust Co., Sherwood & Co., Houston Clearing House Association. Hotels, The Bender, Brazos, Bristol, Cotton, De George, Field, Macatee, Milby, Rice, Rusk, Sam Houston, San Jacinto, Stratford, Tennison and Wm. Penn.
Houston is the largest inland port cotton market in the world, handling the bulk of the cotton crop of Texas and Oklahoma. Houston is a chief oil center in the Lone Star State with 23 oil corpora- tions with combined capital of $70,000,000 in the city. It is the lumber center of the Southwest, with 49 lumber corporations with capital of $40,000,000. The city is a great industrial and manufacturing center. It is the heart of the sugar and rice ter- ritory for Texas. It has a Municipal Auditorium with seating capacity for 7,000. Houston is called
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an all-the-year-round city, a pleasant winter resort and cool in the summer. The Rice Institute, with $14,000,000 endowment, is located here. Houston is one of the wonderful new cities of the South. Tel., Mackay, Postal, W. U. Express.
HOUSTON HEIGHTS-Pop., 6,984. An incor- porated suburb of Houston, a part of which it is. See Houston.
HOWE-Grayson County; pop., 583. 54 miles north of Dallas, 8 miles south of Sherman, the county seat, on the H. T. C. and on the Texas Trac- tion Company. Banks, Farmers' Nat'l, Home Guar- anty State. Weekly newspaper, The Howe Herald. Tel., W. U. Express.
HOWLAND-Lamar County; pop., 525. Ten miles from Paris, the county seat, on the T. M. Ry. Bank, Howland State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HUBBARD-Hill County; pop., 2,072; alt., 638 ft. 25 miles southeast of Hillsboro, the county seat, 28 miles northeast of Waco, on the St. L. S. W. and T. & B. V. Rys. Banks, First Nat'l, First State. Hotels, Alford, Bounds, Carroll, City, Magnolia. Daily newspapers, The Pantograph, and a weekly newspaper, The Hubbard City News. Has hot wells spring for the treatment of nervous and stomach dis- eases. Industry, cotton and grain. Tel., W. U. Express.
HUGHES SPRINGS-Cass County; pop., 831. 20 miles west of Linden, the county seat, 150 miles east of Dallas, on the M. K. & T. Ry. Bank, First Nat'l Weekly newspaper, saw, shingle and flour mills, cotton gins, etc. Tel., W. U. Express.
HULL-Liberty County; pop., 1,000. 14 miles from Liberty, the county seat, 8 miles from Batson. Bank, Hull State. Tel., W. U. Express.
HUMBLE-Harris County; pop., 3,000; alt., 93 ft. 18 miles northeast of Houston, the county seat, on the H. E. & W. T. Ry. Bank, Humble State. Hotels, Arlington, Lone Star, Matthews. Weekly newspaper. Tel., W. U. Express.
HUNTINGTON-Angelina County; pop., 400. Ten miles southeast of Lufkin, the county seat, on the T. & N. O. and the T. & L. Rys. Banks, Guaranty State. Weekly newspaper, Tel., W. U. Express.
HUNTSVILLE-Walker County seat; pop., 4,689; alt., 400 ft. 134 miles north of Houston, on the I. - G. N. R. R. Banks, First Natl., Huntsville State. Hotels, Keep, Lindley. Two weekly news- papers, The Herald and The Post-Item. Site of the State Penitentiary. State normal. Tel., W. U. Ex- press.
HUTCHINS-Dallas County; pop., 500. 11 miles from Dallas, the county seat, on the H. & T. C. Ry., and the Southern Traction Co. Banks, Citizens' Guaranty State and Bank of Hutchins. Tel., W. U. Express.
HUTTO-Williamson County; pop., 571. 15 miles north of Georgetown, the county seat, on the I. & G. N. Ry. Banks, Farmers' & Merchants' State, Hutto Nat'l. Hotel, Higgins. Express.
HYATT-In Tyler County; pop., 3,500.
INDEPENDENCE-Washington County; pop., 715. About 15 miles north of Brenham, the county . seat, usual shipping point and banking center.
INDIAN GAP-Hamilton County; pop., 150. Bank, German-American State.
INDUSTRY-Austin County; pop., 600. 16 miles from Bellville, the county seat, and 7 miles from New Ulm, the nearest shipping point. Bank, First Guaranty. Telephone connection.
INEZ-Victoria County; pop., 200. 15 miles east of Victoria, the county seat, on the G. H. & S. A. Ry. Bank, Inez State. Telephone and express.
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