The first newspaper in Johnson County was the Cleburne Chronicle, published and edited by Major Jack Davis. (Information courtesy of Finders Keepers Johnson County Genealogical Society, Volume 32, No. McKemie, Lawrence Crutcher, Clayton Harris, Harold Watson, and Horace King. Patton, Tuffy Layland, Lowell Harris, Jack Bowers Jr., Johnny Caldwell, Floyd Jones. Team members: Seated (L-R) Jack Bowers, manager R.D. The Yellow Jackets won 14 gold baseballs in 1930. Pictured below is the 1930 Schepps Bakery Yellow Jackets baseball team. (information from A walking Tour of Alvarado by Timothy Swenson) In 1935, the hotel was raided for illegal gambling and fined for having two punch boards. Peysen, then Joe Morlat, then Paul Bruhn. It was later bought by the Henningsen brothers, then J. The Alvarado Hotel was built in 1862 at 3995 Smith Street in Alvarado. The Cleburne shops were one of the largest diesel shops of the Santa Fe System with over 2,000 employees and an annual payroll of $7,750,000. The photo below shows an aerial view of the Santa Fe Railway Shops and Yards in 1957. (information from “Burleson, Texas the First 100 years”) Pictured below inside the store are (L-R) Roswell Senter, Wood Haynes, Winston Taylor, Earl Hill, and Mr. The Big Four Company was a prominent business in the early days of Burleson. (information from Clyde Head’s Remember When/Cleburne Eagle News) They were fighting over territory rights to vend their illegal booze and other unsavory activities. Acts of passion, resulting in death or serious injury occurred on an average of one a week for a long time, hence the name Little Chicago, where Al Capone and others like him were killing one another wholesale. In the early days Cleburne was once known as “Little Chicago” due to the many disputes which ended in gun fire. Pictured below is the 1949 Rio Vista Boy’s Basket Ball Team. Election Information and Turnout Data for Past Elections.Election Information and Turnout Data +.Early Voting and Election Day Locations for Contracted Elections.
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