Eddie (and all), I just finished re-reading your letter to the editor of the Clarksville Times about Avery. It is very interesting. I don't remember knowing of the fire in 1915 that destroyed most of Avery. However I did know that the drug store building I was in at Avery was built (brick) in 1917, so that timing fits. It was named Gathing's Pharmacy (or was it Drug Store) when I bought it. I changed the name to Avery Pharmacy. I still have a few of the prescriptions that were written in 1918. I remember one is written for the "wife of Brose Medford". I also to with me to Mesquite the old penny weighting scale that I know dated back to when the pharmacy was built in 1917 because the scale has the same tile on the platform as the tile in the floor of the pharmacy. I had the old scale in my pharmacy in Dallas next to the prescription dept. People loved to weigh on the penny scale. It was a great conversation piece. I finally sold it when I sold out my pharmacy in Dallas. I was not sure about selling it, but I decided maybe I had wagged it around long enough. I asked $1700 for it and got it. You probably stood on the blue & white octagon shape tile many times. I still have a metal dolly that was in the old pharmacy. It has the Wrigley name on it. It looks like it was built for carrying large tow sacks of sugar. It has a hook (on the upper side) and a third wheel (on the bottom side) on a adjustable cross bar (it slides up and down the handles). You can lay it down and roll it on the 3 wheels. I also still have two old beer bottles that Greeley Gilliam gave me at Avery. The were made between 1840-1860 in a wooden mold. You can see the wood grain in the glass. The seems only go about half way up the applied long neck of the bottles. Looking forward to reading your part 2 in next week's Clarksville Times. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx