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early -day speculators was Colonel James, who cams m
back East. He bought heavily in the Roff area, then iv,,;d
with the tide toward Vanoss, where,he invested aga4.
Among the early crop of: Roff realtors were C. H. 1L,41
S. B. Bennett, B. C. Harbeit, Oscar C. Butler, and I,, W
Hicks.
Stores had sprung up the length of three blocks on j/sin
from Hickory to Broadway. Many of these were mg,,W
by men who had moved from Old Town. Brick wat gng
used to replace the early log and wooden buil%,,,s
Newcomers were building and adding their names ?I, the
store fronts.
One of the old-timers who built his brick store -b in
on the south side of Main Street was � )
V%mr, who had come to Roff, Indian Territory, in 18941 11c
and Will Russell were partners in a dry goods and r„,d-
ware store. After a while, they divided their business „ith
Russell taking the dry goods, and Dr. Sturdevard, the
hardware.
Dr. Sturdevant continued in business in Roff until IfKn
at which time he moved to Vanoss..
NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET 1943
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Like all hardware stores of its time, his had an in-
teresting variety: Schuttler and Laudinghaus wagons, bug-
gies, finest chinaware, sewing machines, stoves, the usual
i line of hammers, saws, and nails, as well as a few
1 groceries.
•. Two of the Sturdevant sons, Frank andq went to
subscription schools; Clint, the youngest son, attended the
new -public school in the south part of town. That was in
1905, and the other Sturdevant children: Myrtle, Ethel,
j and Ruby were too young to attend. Bertha was born after
t the family moved away.
Seven years before the family moved, Dr. Sturdevant
built the large, white, eight -room, two-story house on Pon-
totoc Avenue. It is now owned and occupied by Mrs. Andy
Martin.
)n down -town Roff, the neat, two-story, red -brick
building, constructed on the northeast corner of Main and
Tenth was to house the drugstore of Robert and Lee
Dowdy, father and son. They were in competition with
many, but outlasted all of them.
Mr. Robert Dowdy, a registered pharmacist, came to
Roff in 1900 from Waxahachie, Texas. Lee, his only son,
was also a registered Dharmacist.
DR. STURDEVANT'S HOKE ,
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