sentences:  A post office opened in 1887.Belcherville continued to grow for the next 5 years, claiming 1200 residents and 51 businesses at the 1900 census.Among those claimed were five dry goods, two millinery shops, two of the largest hardware stores in Montague county, one of the west's most complete furniture stores, one bank, two drug stores, two mills and gins, a music store, one weekly newspaper, one large lumber yard, three blacksmith shops, and two beautiful churches.