Reading Black’s home and  store, a two story rock building was built on  this location. After the Civil War, Black was  murdered in the store by his brother-inlaw,  Tom Wall. This building was built in  1891 for the Uvalde National Bank. Harry  Hornby began his newspaper upstairs. The  first radio station was upstairs as well. The first telephone exchange was here and the  post office was in the back of the building  until the current one was built. After the  bank closed in 1922, the men of the town  continued to meet upstairs. While votes  were being counted during a hotly contested  election in 1924, attorney Levy Old was  shot here probably over his involvement  with the Ku Klux Klan party.