Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 112, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1887 Page: 4 of 4
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WM. FORSTER.
Editor & Proprietor.
OxE Dollar a Year.
you vote let me beg that you hear and
consider the word of the Lord: Woe unto
him that giveth his neighbor drink, that
putteth the bottle to him and maketh him
drunken also, thou art tilled with shame
for glory, drink thou also and let thy fore-
kin be uncovered. The cup of the Lord's
right hand shall be turned unto thee and
shameful, spewing shall be thy glry.
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover
thee, and the spoil of beasts which made
them afraid because of men’s blood and
, • for the violence of the land of the city
There is a considerable Washington
Territory excitement pervading our por-
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Feb. 14, 1887.
material wav assist their country cousins
in procuring the seed necessary to plant
cannot be divested merchsan
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MESSENGER.
—See that your ticket is
printed on plain white paper
and reads “For Prohibition.”
Some of our citizens have been so fort-
Much corn isalredy plauted, and many I
of our best farmers have their cotton laud :
prepared. All are working to plant as '
early as practicable, in anticipation of the '
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who, as a matter of fact, are dependent |
upon the farmers of the county for their
prosperity, come forward and in some
[Entered at the postoffice in Decatur,
that, .prohibi-
hands of the legislvhen I die.
regard such an ol______
their land. Not by way of a gift or do- .
nation. but furnishing necessaries on fu-
—N, M. Peters, fate of this city, is now ;
in the employ of Lyon & Gribble, lumber
dealers at Henrietta. He has charge of
their lumber yard at that place.
trivial. Why can
churches of Michig.
fermented grape
ive name?
Feb. 14th, 1887.
Hight This Way.
—Boots worth $3.50 sell now at $3
Boots worth $2.25 sell now at $1.75,
— And other Heavy Goods cut down-
-FGAKDLEss OF cosr!
R. T.
The Union Labor partv—
I great State of Texas, let us put down this
evit. You moral man, claiming a great
degree of excellency above some others
and perhaps putting your trust in your
morality for the saving of your soul, let
Alvord, March 15, 1887
Don’t vote for a horrible dram shop or
establish a devil’s synagogue in our coun-
try. Please don’t impose such a thing
on us. For when we take our women aud
children into the number we can truly sav
we don’t want a saloon. But our women
and children are helpless, having no voice
except their sufferings and the disgrace
brought on them by these iniquitous
places. And they compose about two-
thirds of our people, who suffer from the
disgraceful dens. Oh man, who is living
for eternity, stop and think, look well to
the future. Will you by your vote elect
an agency of evil which in a few years may
destroy the peace of your family? Don’t
do it. Do not their sufferings, like the
blood of Abel, cry unto God for revenge?
Most surely they will. Father is it a
son? God forbid such may be. Before
The United Labor party,
of Chicago, has passed a res-
olution against fusion with
either of the old parties.
The people of this section are all dili-,
gently preparing to plant early and un- 1
usually la ge crops of corn and cotton .
pective counties. These thoughts are
{ him s
wn Pilot
Gainesville is rapidly
not be rectified, yhenI’mbns coming to the front as one of
the resolution is
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May. They are going to make the jour-
ney overland across the barren, arid waste ’
unate, or unfortunate? as to receive some. - A
nourishment for the man physical from T- a
-on the North Side of the Square in Decatur—
and subscription price
evil, vote against such a curse in our
disease and death, that any land. Then let me beg you in the name
1 of God and in behalf of the youths of the
man, not actuated by
Rum, this poisoned fount
K. Elmore was in town
yesterday soliciting aid for
the family of Jesse Neeley
whose residence in Willow
Point was burned with all the
household furniture, clothing
and provisions last Sunday
evening.—Jacksboro Gazette.
ture payment, at reasonable prices
* - WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS.
A ery Low Price to make room for_
810,000 worth of heavv
m GOODS $j '
-to be sold at Hatchers’-
narrowest and most selfish
motives, should vote for the
continuance of the traffic?
The citizens of Wise coun.
. ty.need. So all wanting
suits come and examine
my Stock of Goods before
buying.
from the effects of the cursed dens, thou
l art the man. Thou hast aided to place
the poison in their baud, to give out to
the generoushand ofthegoverinent, how-
ever, the percentage of the people of this
section who are in the condit’on entitling
governmental aid is small. It is to be i
hoped that those persons who are actually
destitute of the mneahs to live will all be
supplied with food and other aid as they
may need. Seed is the one thing import- i
ant now, for without seed to plant the
Ea- >
5 On the 1st of March I will open up a Nice
Line of Men’s. Boys’ and Youths’ Cloth-
ing Every Suit just brought from the-
Factory and is Nice and of the Latest 15
Styles. No old Goods. No Shoddy—,
(roods. But good solid Goods, just such S
for sacramental,. .
and some of the ,
prohibition are mm hungry,
about it. The oh Fin dry,
United Lhistory of the city. Her pop
Texas. Such a boom was
to add to the Gazette’s army -
of readers.
your fellow man lo cause death and mis-
ery in our land. Although we hear good
Official newspaper of the Wise men say, let them have the whiskev? for
County Farmers' Alliance.__. they wiu have w hiskey any how, but’does
A A I 12 100- that justify you in the sight of God? I
VIA k. 1 2, loo 6 . i say not, no u ever. For every man’s work
_____________________________ I shall be manifested for the day shall de-
farmers can not provide against the ne- !
cessityof thedgre, give them seed and I
next year the"r‘be independent of aid
Why don’t Decatur’s business men, . ——— —
-DECATUR MA RBLE WORKS -
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—Atalian & American—
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Austin, Tex., March 3.—
The governor has signed
twelve bills up to to-day. The
only improtant ones are the
prohibition amendment, the
bucket-shop bill, and the
appropriation for drouth
sufferers. The impression is
strong that the session will
be prolonged beyond the 1st
of April.
A vote for rigi -t
from sight, althats of Ec
is weak to-day ; ‘minated E,
strong if helped yattore
pray, and vote th “
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j well is there not a great deal
THE prohibsan youn start to the Territory about the 1st. of |
stituvional amendi’Let 1,8 ke
is to be submittedd and thereof the plains and the ble:
the people of Mig them. of the mountains.
and all that dwell there in,” Hab., 2:15,
16,17 verses.
And every vote is accesory to this in-
iquitous business. And on him more than
on the dram-seller rest the above terrible
word of God, since by his vote he creates
this business for the destruction of his
fellow man. Brethren and friends, will
you consider well. Is it possible that
there is one professing to be a Christian
will by his vote bring such a disgraceful
curse in our midst? Did our Savior set
up a saloon? May verily, but he says ne
drunkard shall enter the kingdom of
heaven. But again, let us pause and see,
for this is of vast importance. We say
that every voter is guilty of all the blood
shed, misery and pauperism created by
these dens of vice as David was of the
bood of Uriah the Hittite, the way of
On last Tuesday
DAVIS, the live grocery
man of Decatur, started a
train of prairie schooners
tion election of the 15th to Denton for another car-
Narch Ft w t c . goof The Celebrated Alli-
rhe Ft. Worth GazettesanoA Lnir
gentlemanly representative,-, ® LVULL•
W.A.Callaway, kindly call-fVeis sole agent, inDecatur, for the Alliance-g
our sanctum on last Sai- shE,i \ p our- 1 e also keeps a Full Line of Stapleep~
J . —-g4ndFaneyGrocezies, which he sells at Prices-^
that Defy, Competition. A. S. MCMOKRIES, an-p-g
O ia S=ac commodating salesman, will be found leady.,s5
--- --trand anxious to wait upon all customers. ‘ -s
The Prohibitionists of Tex-
as are attempting to begin
and wage the approaching
great prohibition struggle on
W e ought to have a dele-
gate or delegates in the non
political prohibition conven-
tion at W aco on next Tues-
day. The object of this con-
vention will be to devise and
put in operation a plan for
canvassing the entire state
prior to the prohibition elec-
tion in next August.
me ask you, if you think your vote is ac-
ceptable to God whose mercy you seem to
buy with your good deeds. Would such
be a good deed? But one and all let us
put down the dram-shop and saloon.
Alvord Reasoner.
whose death he had prepared by his signa-
ture, though an Amorite soldier dealt the
fatal blow. Yet God sent Nathan to
David to say to him “Thou art the man,
thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the
sword, with the sword of the children of
Ammon." So when murder D committed
not exclusively the writers, but they con- ( • e W. C J SAT W' 4ry
.....also agent for McCornieks Rea--
coi respondent gives them as part of the 8 ators and J. I. Case Threshers.
current news of the day. j _
dare, because it shall be revealed by tire
What is there in the infernal andthe fire shall try everyman’s work of
what sort they are. Know ye not that ye
are the temple of God and that the spirit
of God dwelleth in you? Again we are
commanded to shun every appearance of
—---------eyrpmmpmum
The TE TIME IS FasT APPROACHING!--'
Come One ! Come All !!
a strictly non-partisan line,
outside of the pale of politics.
We shall not be surprised in
a few months to hear politico,
pop-in-jay partisan papers
dwelling with great stress on
A ticket reading “For local
option” is not legal and will
not be counted.
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