WEST END

     The Coulee Union Grain Company is rather difficult to miss.  In the 50's and 60's the office was in a rock building at the right of the gap where now stands a fairly new silo in this linked view:
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     Carol Hipperson:  "Harold H. "Shorty" Higgins was the owner of Coulee Union Grain Growers, which was just one of his many business interests in the area, I think.  My mother, Mildred Edgemon, was his bookkeeper from about 1959 to mid-60s. Shorty's daughter was Rose Marie, who married Tom Price. The Prices lived in Hartline for several years in the early 60s before they moved to Spokane."  Conor Jorgensen: "There were actually two grain elevators in Coulee City at one time. Ray Fisher had Centennial Mills across the railroad tracks, and Joe Strunts (sp?) worked for Ray. Shorty Higgins had the Farmers' Union Grain Company and Ray Goodall was the manager. Hugh Black also worked there too. Eventually, Shorty bought Fisher out and formed one grain elevator."
    The office and scale is now on the west side of the elevators.

     Just beyond that, next to the last siding, was Jerry & Ta Letta Allen's Feed & Seed, which they sold to Mr. & Mrs. Earl Carpenter of the Builders Supply in August of 1970.  Ta Letta was the organist at the Presbyterian Church for many years.
     Ad from  News-Standard - March 5, 1970 (C.J.: album): http://www.facebook.com/groups/236214836416960/270997512938692/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150302305935143&set=oa.260175237354253&type=1&theater
     Ad from News-Standard - August 13, 1970 (C.J.: album): http://www.facebook.com/groups/236214836416960/270997512938692/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150302305990143&set=oa.260175237354253&type=1&theater
     Ta Letta Allen also was an agent for Grange Insurance.
     Ad from News-Standard - August 13, 1970 (C.J.: album):
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      From the August 13, 1970 issue of the News-Standard:

      View a copy of the clipping: http://www.facebook.com/notes/big-bend-railroad-history/coulee-city-depot-takes-journey-to-new-homesite/322225981125536#!/photo.php?fbid=10150348274155143&set=o.236214836416960&type=1&theater     In the early 1950's, it was Lakoduk and Schreiner Motors, the Kaiser-Frazer dealership, owned by Jack Lakoduk.  For a photograph from that time, go to: http://www.facebook.com/index.php#!/photo.php?fbid=10150263483160143&set=o.236214836416960&type=1&theater

Allens Sell Feed Store

      Negotiations were completed this week for the sale of Allen's Feed and Seed to Mr. & Mrs. Earl Carpenter,owners of the Coulee City Builders Supply.
      Mr. Carpenter says they plan to carry the entire line of feed, seeds and sundries carried by the Allen's during their 17 years of serving the area.  They plan to give the area farmers the same type of good service they have become accustomed to from the Allen's.
      The business will be moved to the builders Supply location some time this week.
      Mr. Allen is retiring from the feed business because of ill health but Mrs. Allen will continue to sell Grange Insurance and Rocky Mountain Fire and Casualty Insurance at their present location for the time being.

     After the Allens sold the business to the Builders supply, this location was used by Jim Killingsworth's Farm Chemical business until he relocated out by the Highway past the Ala Cozy.  I remember one evening someone had left a valve open on a tank car of  ammonia.  My mother called to advise Jim of the aroma.  It could have been a lot worse.

     Crossing the street, the last house on the corner of  locust was the home of Deputy Sheriff Boyd Jenkins.

     Now following the north and east sides of the streets, the first business was Banks Lake Sales and Service.  Among the owners were Tom Price, and later Sel Trexler and his son Terry.
     Ad from News-Standard - January 1, 1970 when it was owned by Trexlers (C.J.: album): http://www.facebook.com/groups/236214836416960/270997512938692/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150302306135143&set=oa.260175237354253&type=1&theater