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HAPPY TEXAS It was August 14, 1925, that Happy, located on the
Swisher-Randall county line 16 miles north of Tulia on Highway 87,
became an incorporated town. On August 19, the same year, the city
commission was organized with P J. Neff, mayor, and Tom Bandy and
William F. Miller, commissioners. First duties of the commission
were to pass appropriate ordinances. The commission was elected
to serve until the following April when the same officials were
elected for their first full term. During its years of history as an incorporated community,
Happy has had only ten mayors: Neff, William F. Miller, John E.
Toles, T. L. Fore, J. R. Markham, Len Fore, Dr. G. L. Robinson,
Dick Railsback, Foster Harman and Bob Pulsipher. |
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Three miles east of the present town of
Happy are to be found signs of the old camp ground and store that
was the forerunner of the present town site of the second largest
town in Swisher County. It was known originally as "Happy Draw."
Prior to the building of the railroad south from Canyon, the towns of Tulia, Plainview, Lubbock and others, did their freighting from Canyon and Amarillo. The Happy station was one of the stopping points on the route, so chosen because there was found a place of shelter. The station was the home of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Currie. The stage line which served the section with mail and carried passengers also maintained an exchange station at this point. Because of its location on the draw, the site also was familiarly known as "Happy Situation". |
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