The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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The Abilene
f Vol. 18.
Abilene Texas Friday August it 1899.
No 3a
Reporter.
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agency for sale conslstlnf; of MaS acres nhcut 20 miles suuih-
ttcktfmin AlilienCf ana 3i 25 per ncic vi)i uv4lie iarjil tvaJJ
( h and balance n lone lime 6 per cent irterctt? A )Uf;ain
C. C. COMPERE S " " "'
A Mail Box.
T. M. WILLIS
Land and Real Estate.
Office in Opera House Block
kbiiene
U?d f fenced good water for wells at a bargain.
brauteeing Satisfaction.
Bethel Notes.
Bethel Jones county Tex
August Sth l&M.
itrtr Reporter:
As we write every tinny is
met and soreutMii this part of
he moral vhioyqrd
IV B. Uoudrix visited rela-
tes at Merkel Saturday and
auuy last. -
Tttosick ureal! getting well
gam.
Levi Cogbon is in Denton qouii-
y. He received a few days
mco ttie sad intelligence of the
sriQtis sickness of his mother
eWi immediately but she was
ead and buried loforo ho could
et dow u thfcre. We sympathize
ah him from the depths of our
carts
ur .friend and neighbor Jim
Huloy fs nil smiles tonigut
a ton pound boy nnnhor and
ti are both doing well.
Tim Rowlands have thoir gin
laclimery about nil located and
iU idn bo ready t6 knock out
io iloecy staple foi' this part of
om county.
llH-.J. II. Edmonds occupied
ip pulpit at Bethel last Sunday.
iv dfhvorod a Hno sormon to a
rge crowd and nttontive audi
ico.
IVur. H 0. xMoxaudor who
is uaQii ondaavoring to got up
nthigTJGlmolivt tho Antulojw
5hol Ho failed tq got. up the
quired numbor of soholars to
aeh.
dwui EJstos'visltod frjonds hero
muiay.
invitation wo attended
untortulnmout at the rosl-
'"of Oiptnml Mrs T. A
$u on thu ovorting of tho Ith
stTIt was. givQti in honor of
fihsos Poarlo and Rosa Korshaw
aIIkI Tolton Norma Ilarkrldor
"HJusilo Rooe and JMr. Jehu
'J'nih of Abliono. 'rhy were
f - on u vs t loTJf Misst'S
''lti 'Tlio ovoulug was por-
ctg hvoly uml by nine o'olook
41- Big Bargains in Land. l-
The Goliad County Sihoul land lins juit been placed in 0Ur'f We have Improved
ur mines
We jdjO Imvc good
b ...... iia uuitj wi tin iiut lunii y
sell oil In 100 acre tracts and at only $5 Pcr acre.'
Again vit lmVc a fine b6dy of hnd near town jvbtch wd can
IT nfi In inn nr Ifirle nml nnl.. P m . .". 4
iU tniceu nuout 11 ur wuc mc v(iuniy jungc 01 uonatv
l untV lust as you like. Move about though if you want the'i In fact. It uill not cost
lmj. sale In REAL CSCAtli
COMPERE BROS.
Real Estate Insurance and Rental Boys.
M. H COMPERE ) Wrtt.Q:Qei -pviHn Abilene Texas.
We have on our seda water counter n mail box and
any letters loft in it will bo sure to go by next muil.
1 Also a stamp selling machine. "Drop-awn'ckel-in the-
slot" and it bands out 4 cents hi stamps and one envel-
ope. Wo wish everyone to fool perfectly .free to use
tbese. That is what they are bere fqr.
BASS IBIEtOSS-.
Texas.
Among other offers tho following oargains-
yCO acres 7 miles northt $3.50 per acre pu good :orms. -lfiO
acres 7 miles north 54.00 pqr acre.
. rsri ; n.itfii'!itinn irfiiid hnusa. barn tank cistern.
:c all good land 7 miles north " 00 per acre cash b.iktice iu 5
-iual pavmonts. a snap.
iwnrf.e rnnd ranch 8 tuiles out GGO acres patented balance
li 10 acres 1 mile north of Trent Hue tuna. ?h.uu per acre easy.
Tfhr.Minsof Ull kinds. I sell ami rent town pioperty
tiie spacious parlor was Qtowded
with young people and spaikhng
with wit humqr and good spirits
Aftnr partaking of all the good
oold driiiks avo could stand we
decided to try and get inside the
house and see if our tongues had
got too rusty to hold sweet con-
verso ilh some pretty gills but
just as we started in wo met one
of our frtentls aud a few" more of
the boys who will not allow their
names U prhitandthey prevailed
on us to go around witlnhem and
peep in at tho window and such
a beautiful ptoturo was present-
ed to our view. The room was
beautifully decorated with ua
turesown llowors and such bo.iu
tif til girls. They made the scene
enchanting and reminded one of
tho days of yore". But enough
wq aro too old ;iov to allow our
minds dwell on such gay and do
lightfal times. Sufllco iM"sy
tins was truly a toast of reason
and jlowof the soul.
Thero was a large crowd present
Abilene. Merkel Truhy.Nugont
Avo Anson Anto'ope aud
Swa tin's Chapel wore all well
roprosentotl. Tho - Anderson
string band was expected to
discourse music but from
somo cause they failed to appear.
About ri o'olocJit tho crowd all
disporsed all wishing tho genial
host and hostess a long and
happy life.
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TUB DELLIS HOME SCHOOL
Corner North 5th and drape
Streets Abilene Texas.
Tho oldest private school of
its class In Wet Texas wlllopon
ItsTonth Annual Session Mon-
day Aug. 8 1B0U In addition
to tho usual bumohes taught in
fir&tJass schools thoro aro spe-
cial Ceuursos for college for
teaching and for businoss. Ouv
assistant Miss Funnto Strothor
wtll glvo instruction in Vtiioo
Cult iro. Oall on or address
Mrs. Rosa (Strother) Dollls
If Prluolpal
and unimproved land to trade for horses
farm to trade for city residence
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you one cent to see what We have for
before you buy.
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Woman. At Home And In The
Club
Conducted By A. L. S.
Mrs. Mary Wiight Sewall who
succeeds Ladjr Aberdeen as pres-
ident of the international council
which met a few. weeks ago in
London was formerly vice Presi-
dent at large of tho same body.
formed inl83S with Mrs.Faucett
at its head at the same time that
the National Council with Miss
Willurd as President was organ-
ized. The Inte. national Council
meets but once in five years and
has held pnly ono meeting before
this since its formation that at
Chicago dnriug the World's Fair
1&U3. The Chicago meeting
aroused so much interest that
many foreign women went away
to form each iu her own country
a national council.
The rules of the International
council do not permit a re-election
so Mrs. Sewall was chosen
months ago to li.ll the coming va-
cancy. Through the instrumeutality
6f the Women's Club of McKe.es-
port Pd Mr CarnegiOlias offer
'odto donato $50000 for a free
library if the city will furnish
the site and maintain thelibraiy.
When will the would-be witty
cease to talk of the now womau?
She has 110 existence. A woman's
instincts lovesandhatesaro those
of her grandmother. Her ambi-
tions nrs not quite the same it is
true for she is hardly content to
sit and kuit stockings during1 her
leisure hours but if she were
where would she find tlioso willt
ing to wear them? Progress is
imperative A mau is not redic-
ulous because he is not satisfied
With things which contented his
grandfather neither is he called
a "now man" therofor.
Tho woman of today has ro-
cetvod a bettor education than
her graud mother and has learn-
ed enough to find how little sho
knows and feols a thirst for
more so sho reads or writes as
well as sews. Ttieroare women
who would be notorious in what
evor way they can but there aro
also men who aro hystoiical
Tho "unquiet sox" is not uecos-
sarily fomluUio.
No womau is less a loving wife
or devoted mothor because sho
koops in touoh with current his
tary nor is sho u loss caroful
housekeeper bocauso sho has
iiowly learned soma things cou -corning
vontilation boating and
cooking. Men should bo proud
and thankful of tho offort made
by thoir own to keep stop with
them.
There has boon such a marked
inoroaso in tho lnxuiias of Hfo In
America tho last fow yours and
the people so pleased with
thoir toys could not now easily
forego tho possession of thorn
lacking tho moral courage. But
It is tho superfluous things
which make Ilfo so difforont for-
lifter thu strain of acquiring
thorn comos tho work aud wor
ry of caring for them. Tho con
stant polishing und rearranging
of articles for which 0110 has 'at
host n vory remote use entails
any amount of nervous wear
but o acquire and yet acquire
until wo are cheated of leisure
and poiceful simplicity seems to
be instinctive with' most of us.
Somo ono remarks that it
must have been an impressive
sight that of the Queen receive
ing tho women of the Inter
national congress in Ihe court
yardof Windsor MissSusanAn-
thony was selected to go forward
with Mrs. Sewall for speciul
presentation. The Queen was
so interested by tne concourse
before her that she offered tea
to them all.
Among tho papers left by the
late Mrs. E D.E N. Soutbwortn.
who died in Washington last
month was a letter from J G.
Whittier thanking her for send-
ing him the incident which ho
afterward embodied in his poem
of Barbara Friptchie. Mrs.
SouthWorth was born in Virgin-
ia in 1818 and was the author of
some sixty volumes Shs kne?r
more sorrows than filled the life
of almost anyone of her heroines
being left an orphan in early
infancy ill treated by those in
whose caro she was left and
finally deserted by liar husband
at the the age of twenty-one.
She began work at once she
was alone with 1two infants to
suppoit and taught for a term in
the schools she then went into
literature and made so great a
final success of ber calling that
she died surrounded by every
comfort.
Those who have watched the
hard struggle made .by the
women of Abilene to establish a
public library a work as unself-
ish as it is important to the
community at large will be
gratified at? the following corres-
pondence which is self-explanatory:
Abilene Texas Aug. 7 1S99.
Mrs. L. H Bradfield
Pres. City Fed. Clubs.
Bear Madam;
In order to show our apprecia-
tion of tho effbrts now being
made by the clubs of Abilene to
establish a library tho Lytle
Wator Company makes' thee
offors.
First; The company will do-
nato 4100.00 to your Library
fund if tho citizens of Abilene
will give $400.00 additional.
Or Second: Tho company
will donate 30.00 if the citizens
of Abilene will give $200.00 addi-
tional. Fred Cock roll
Pres. Lytle Water Co.
Hon. Fred Qockrell
Pro?. Lytlo Wator Co.
City.
My Bear Sir:
I am pleased to acknowledge
your gouorous offer aud assuro
you of hearty appreciation
our Federation will accord you
for tho fctop taken in recognition
of thoir efforts iu establishing a
publie library for Abilene.
Trusting tho intorestcd public
will enable us to seouro your
tlfstrproposltion I am
Most Cordially Yours
v Mrs. L.H Bradfield
Pros. Federation.
Aug 7th 1809.
The Woman's Department in
tho Fair this Fall promisos to bo
of increased dimensions and
more lively interest Tho dis-
play gotten up on such short no
tlco last year was indeed credita-
ble a surprise to many but
tinio to propuro mid cash pre-
miums offered in every lino of
Woman's industry insuro a
larger oxhiblt a greater enthusi-
asm and moro pleasing and
R
A&solvsely
Makes the food more
ROYAl CAKma
profitable results. Lookout for
tho prospectus now in hands of
printers Get to work and see
that those about you do also.
Hon H A. Tillett went to Fort
Worth today to attend (o legal
matters and will go on to Waco
in' a lew days.
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Teachers Alust Register.
To the Teachers of Taylor Coun-
ty: Before the opening of your re
spective schools for tho next
scholastic term' your contracts
with. the trustees must bean-
proved and one copy filed in this
office. This office has been sup-
plied by the state department
with a certificate recorder for
the purpose of entering the cer-
tificates of all teachers who teach'
county. Those teachers who
taught in this county last term
and who will continue ti teach
must have their certificates re-
entered. Teachers contracting to
teach in this county sbould pres-
ent tlieir certificates for regntra
tion when their contracts are
presented for approval.
Respectfuljv !
W. W. Kirk
County Supt.
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PROSPECTORS
. Will do well to call for
one of our maps of Tay-
lor county showing some
of the bargains in land
which we represent. '
Will Stith & Co.
Land Loan &
Abilene
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School Board Resoluions.
"Resolved; That the Super
intendent at tho beginning of
session shall take iuvouiory of
furniture fixtures aud apparat
us the condition of same and
make report written to the Sec.
of Board aud bo it further re
solved that each teacher bo held
responsible for damages done iu
his or her room and that any
pupil who may defaco walls out
or mark desks orln-eak windows
shall pay for satno or bo sus-
peudid from school Until pajd or
damage repaired."
Tho board has also offered a
rowrd of $10 for any informa-
tion leading .to tho doteetion of
"anyouo guilty of drawing on or
writing obsoonq or improper
liimvmurn nn tlin Willi! ffiiifio iu
outtiouses situated on tlq p'oblio I
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school grounds. jf 1
"Any porsou found gp") 01
tho nbovo-ntimod offenses (or any
of them) shall bo ejcpeiled Inpui
school or otherwise severely
puulshed as the Superintendent
j mmd Powder
"Pure
delicious and wholesome
fOwBtB to WtW VOBK.-
P. Jameson a stockfarmor of
Stonewall county has been in
out city a day or two spying
out the land vfor a location for
schooling his children. Ho talks
of building a home for the boys
grandfather and sending them
to" stay w'.th him in school
mouths and then taking them
out home. He says it would
not suit him to have his boys
with others on our ' streets till
away into the night. Mr Jame-
sOn says farmers boys make
town men and town men's boys
make tramps und there is niuch
truth in this simply because
many town men allow their boys
to grow np loafers.
The new arrangement of the
Texas & Pacific Railway for tak-
ing care of passengers to Hot
Springs Arkansas does away
the' Jay-over 'at Malvern. This
makes the best service ever of-
fered those who desire to visit '
the greatest Mineral Springs in
America.
The T. & P. run two fast trains
daily equipped with superb
Pullman Sleepers and handsome
new reclining Chair cars (seats
free.) tf.
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Insurance Agts.
Texas.
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and Board of Trustees may etect.
Any outside party will bo tealfc
with as tho law may direct. '"
Tho Reporter fully ohdefses
this action of our school bmi d
and trusts that all guilty patties
may be punished ' i
A party consisting of Mrs. J. S.
Tarploy Master Lylo Taiploy
Loounrd Coviugton Miss Jfuuie
May Covington Miss Jessie
Kelly and MIsb Dana Harl ridor
Miss Livia Boll Covington havo
iust toturned -from a. vi it
Dickens county being
fifteou days. Thoy repot
lightful visit and a sp"!111110
in overy way. ThoV&nS ladios
shot jack rabbits njrprairio uogs
somo one ldlledv-'oi: and while
this was dp& on a bachelor
receiveduiti from Cupids bow
that reamed tho venter of his
htMjWo nro uot golng'to toll on
uy ono and Miss Jessie may
frol easy on that scoro. But if
somebody comes' riding In from
D.ckens county overy waek or
two hereafter who is to blamov
Not our girls of course.
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Shook, L. B. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1899, newspaper, August 11, 1899; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth331120/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.