SPLCo Commissary Group

Some of Southern Pine Lumber Company's employees pose along the tracks of the Houston East & West Texas Railway in front of the company store at Diboll on 4 November 1907. The company store was the geographic and social center of the community. The general store was on the ground floor, a size of 36x66 feet. An adjacent room of the same size was used for storage. The second floor, 66x72 feet, was used for furniture and men's furnishing goods. The drug store was 30x50 feet in size. Manager W. P. Rutland and twelve others employed the store.