Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1898 Page: 3 of 8
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THE MESSENGER: ROCKDALE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBERS, vKlfllWLfUMefcflk,’
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WE GREET THE PUBLIC
M This fall with the LARGEST and BEST selected stock of Dry Goods ever
offered to Rockdale’s trade. The STYLES, QUALITY and WORKMANSHIP can not
be excelled.
... .Ourstpck is filled up EACH WEEK, from the Galveston Wholesale Department, with all the NEW and UP-TO-DATE stvles
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EVERYBODY RECEIVES THE SAME TREATMENT.
Shoes.
48 pair men’s brogan Bhoea 50c
24 pair men.a high top lace veal
calf ahoea 50c
Men’s buckle and lace ahoea at
111 00 and '/ HI 25
Meu’a creole congreaa, good all aol-
id Blioe, at 85o
72 pair men's Batin calf shoes,plain
toe, lace, at 69c
Men’s satin calf shoes, congress
and lace, plain toe, at $1, $1 25 .,
and l 50
Men’s creole congress, spring heel,
shoes at \ 1 25
Children’s dongola button, self Up
shoes, sizes 2 and S, at I2$c per
pair 5c
Children’s light flexible sole, pat-
ent tip shoes, an all right shoe, 37c
Children’s light dongola button,
patent tip shoes, sizes 9 to 11, at 40c
Children’s glove grain shoes, sizes
5 i,o 8, ai 50c
Same as above, sizes 9 to 11, at 65c
Same as above, sizes 9 to 12, at • 75c
Children’s grain leather shoes, but-
ton, bradded vamp, sizes 13$ to 2, 98c
»Ve have a beautiful line of the cele-
brated Star Shoe Co.’s children’s shoes,
all the latest styles. Also Drew, Selby
& Co.’s ladies’ and misses’ fine shoes.
72 pair ladies’ dongola, button, pat-
ent tip shoes, at 75c, 98c, $1 10,
$1 15 and $1 25
Ladies’ good medium weight shoes 60c
Ladies’, glove grain button and
kangaroo calf shoes, at 98 c and 1 25
Gents Furnishings.
...Men-’a waterpreof-colhmrat-...... 1
Men’s waterproof collars at 7£c
Men’s handkercheifs at 2$c
Initial handkercheifs at 10c
Men’s black and tan socks 3c
Men’s grey mixed socks at 4c, 5c, 1-
8$c and 10c
M«-n*s undershirts at 8$c
Men’s heavyweight, derby ribbed
undershirts, would be cheap at
35c, our price 25c
Drawers, same as above, at . 25c
Men’s negligee shirts .without col-
lars at ; ____ 19C
Men’B negligee shirts, collars at-
tached, at 25c, 35c and 50c
Clothing.
12 Men’s cassimere sack suits $1 50
14 Men’s brown cassimere suits,
round cut sacks, at 2 50
14 Men’s blue black cassimere suits 3 50
12 Men’s plaid worsted sack suite 4 96
Men’s black clay worsted suits at
$5 00. $7 50 and $10 00
Youths' brown cassimere suits 2 50
We have a full line of men’s tailor
made Buits, made especially for fine
trade, all cut to fit like made to order
suits. Have them in sack, cutawiay,
blacks, and several different styles of
novelty suitings.
Boys’ knee suits from 48c up.
Domestic.
Yard-wide sea island domestic,
per yard ..... 3c
Yard-wide, L. L., sea island domes-
tic, smooth and free from specks,
worth 4ic our price peryard - Sfc
Good quality bleached domestic,
4c
(not full width) per yard
Nice smooth bleached domestic,
per yard, only
Yard-wide Lonsdale bleach domes-
tic, one of the best brands made,
per yard -t—---—- 5c
Yard-wide O. O. sea island domes-
tic, extra good quality, per yard 4c
Yard-wide sea island domestic,
“the best made”, cannot buy any
better, per yard, only 4Jo
The heaviest yard-wide brown do-
mestic, per yard, only 4Jo
Yard-wide Lonsdale bleach domes-
tic, green ticket, the best, at 5Jc
4-4 bleached, shrunk, Indian head
domestic, for fancy dfawn work,
per yard 10c
8-oz Oeanburgs, per yard, 6fc
Cotton Flannel.
Light weight, unbleached, cotton
dauuei, per yard
cnc ‘
II unbleached cotton flannel, good
quality, per yard 4c
Galveston unbleached cotton flan-
nel, good quality, per yard 5c
II bleached cotton flannel, per yard 5c
FF bleached cotton flannel, per yard 6fc
Extra heavy unbleached cotton
flannel, 8Jc kind, per yard, only fc
Indian Head bleaoqed cotton flan-
nel, THE BEST, at 7$c
Cotton Plaids.
50 Yards good rood thread,, wire
twist cotton checks and plaids
for -*■ $1 00
s« asiBiM 3.0
Extra quality cotton checks and
plaids, per yard 4c
The BEST cotton checks and plaids
per yard, only 4Jo
.. Gingham. -
33$ yards full width gingham for $1 00
5-cent apron check gingham now,
per yard i 4c
6J-.cent apron check gingham now,
per yard ------- ; ^
7-cent dress style gingham, extra
values, now,’ per yard - 5c
Those ginghams,. at 10c per yard
are worth at least 12Jc
Calico and Wash Dress
Goods.
Drees calico, dark fall styles, per
yard * lip
Red figured calico, soft, without
starch, per yard 2$c
Turkey red, indigo blue, fancy fall
stylea and gray calocoa, per
yard, only 3}c
We sell all the best brands of cali-
cos, such as Wm. Simpson’s
American, Hamilton’s, Allen’s
and others lust as good at 4}c
-36-inch percales, extra values, per
yard 4$c
Fancy dress suiting ducks per yard 10c
Dress Goods.
Never was our etock of dress goods
so near complete as this season. The
SKStfffW HSMS or
wollen novelties were bought at auction
Bale at 75 cents on the dollar, hence we
save you 26 per cent. But for want of
spaoq can not quote priced,
Silks from 16c up.* _. — -;i„
Fancy dress goods, 4c up.
Towels from 2Jc up.
Table oil cloth, 10c for the beat.
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Capes.
Full stock qf capes and Jackets for
ladles, misses, children and infanta,
and the price way down.
BLANKETS—A large stock of cotton
and wool blankets, 45c to $5 per pair,
Notions.
This is where we save you 60 per
cent on all your purchases, but can
only mention a few prices this time.
Toilet soap, lo a cake up.
Thread, lc a spool up."
Ladies' handkercheifs, 2c up.
Ladies’ hose, 2c per pair up.
Ladies’ heavy ribbed vests, 16c up.
Ladies' corsets, 35c np.
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Millinery.
Our millinery department is always
the most attractive part of our store,
w hioh will be in charge of Miss Kate
Harkrider, who baa had every advan-
tage as a trimmer with much experi-
ence. We know that Rockdale has
never had a milliner that more thor-
oughly understands the millinery buei-
-«ew.A We expect tbS pleasure of your
presence to examine our millinery.
OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE
LOWEST.
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We pay Express Charges on orders of $5.00 and over, except on mattings and staples. We have ONLY ONE PRICE.
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- v J. Farley’s Reply to Mayfield.
Dallas, Tex., Sept.—26.—Mr.
Allison Mayfield, railroad commis-
sioner, appears in prin.t in the Dal-
las News under date of Sept. 1-2,
and in other daily papers, in an
article in which he uses my name,
#*Vk and this is an answer.
His brief statement of what “in
substance” certain populist speak-
ers “stated”, is in my judgment,
totally unfair. I think he has got
up a “sham battle”, has created a
straw man, and in this article ham-
mers him.
There is just as much fact in his
“substance” as he could not avoid,
and was necessary to look alike.
He not only makes rash, positive
statements, but accuses his neigh-
bors of rascally intentions.
It has not been charged that the
commission raised the 1888 rates,
^but that the roads did so when
sion was bound to come, and that
the roads did this in order that
the conHnission might reduce these
rates and be able to tell the peo-
ple it had reduced them, and the
-\.r/ roacs would lose nothing. As Mr.
Mayfield's rateB and figures given
for_ 1888, 1889 and 1895 clearly
prove this statement. I thank him
for it. See our campaign book on
this matter, page 10.
Mr. Mayfield shows an igno-
rance of his business as to inter-
state rates, which is amazing in
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PIMPLES
^ CURED BY
GUTICURA SOAP
Before using Ccticttra Soap, my face and
hands were just as rough as could be and my
face was all covered with pimples. I was un-
fit to look at, but after using Cun Cuba Soap
three weeks, my face was equal to velvet.
Fob. 6,1898. PAUL DUPRE, Chaler, La.
I suffered with blackheads and pimples for
two or three years until It became chronic. I
tried everything imaginable, hut it did me no
— good. Cuticuba Soap cured me.
Feb. 20, £8. L. V. GILLIAM, Oak P. O., Ya.
1 was troubled for eight yean with pimplea
on the face. I commenced using Cuticuba
. Soap. 'In a very short time the pimples all
disappeared and my skin is now in-a healthy
condition. / JAMES POSTER,
Feb. 17,1888. Dlxmont, Allegheny Co., P*.
Sold throughout the woHd. Prtea.Me. Pottmv Osco
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one who has been railroad com-
missioner as long as he has. Every
clerk in a railroad office knows
better. Southwestern bureau (the
railroad association at St. Louis)
joint freight tariff No. 2-F, now in
force and from which hemuatfiave
taken his statement that classes A,
B, C are a little lower to Galveston
and Houston from interstate
points than to Texas common
points gives 315 commodity rates,
mostly carload rates from said in-
terstate points to ^Galveston and
Houston, a large majority of which
are lower than to Texas common
points, and the difference in favor
of Galveston and Houston on
many commodities is very great.
Such ighorance of the A. B, C
freight conditions is astonishing,
even in a Texas railroad commis-
sioner. He is correct as to very
few shipments of merchandise,
foolly within the state, made to a
distance of 185 miles. He is right
and will be as long as the commis-
sion makes rates so high as at
present. ‘ ^
As to comparison of rates made,
I leave them to public inspection
except to El Paso; as to that, I
will ask him if he does not know
that the El Paso rates were knock-
ed down by other roads getting in
there, and the necessity of meeting
freight rates from Chicago, Saint
Louis, Kansas City, &c.
I will leave my friend Shaw of
the Texas Farmer to answer as to
newspeper comments, as it seems
to be meant for him. In fact, I
believe he has already done so.
As he is a well known democrat
his testimony wall go further, with
democrats, thain mine.
The old chestnut, “equal justice
to all and special priveleges to
none”, iB here paradrd. It reminds
one of Mexican state papers Which
always close with “good and liber-
ty”, &c., and it is generally un-
derstood that” Mexicans know less
of each than any people on earth.
He says Wills Point can do job-
bing business on equal terms as to
freight with Dallas, v Paris, Sher-
man, Greenville and such other
jobbing centers. This is true, and
when Hutchins, and Potlsboro,
Howe, and Italy, Wortham, Leon-
ard, Big Sandy, &c., want to do a
jobbing business, they will have
the rates, too. I do not understand
.what he was trying to get off.
As to the charge that I and the
Dallas jobbers are and have been
trying to get the commission to
raise the rates to nearby places and
reduce them to far off places, at-
tention is called that the commis-
sion made commodity tariff effect-
ive August 15 last on agricultural
implements, harness, saddlery and
hardware, in which it raised the
short line rates and reduced the
far rates; did the very thing he
abuses me of asking, and Mr. May-
field’s name is signed to the tariffs.
He ought to feel ashamed to
force me to state this, as those tar-
iffs helped our people a little. It
IociVb liko demagogue^ Further,
when we have told the commission
we did not object to its raising the
nearby rates,*the railroads have
always said, “confound you, you
know you are safe in that as the
wagons will hold us down and we
cannot put those rates up.” It is
a fact that I get a notice from the
commission every few days of
short line rates reduced on appli-
cation of some railroad “to meet
wagon competition.”
A|s to rates asked by “the people
and exposed by the commission”,
the commission did, in making
these tariffs, effective Aug. 15, the
very thing it abused me for in said
“expose”.
I give an exhibit of two-line
rates. Reader will please com-
pare. Many could be given, mak-
ing muqh worse showing, but the
traffic men will understand this:
First class freight in Texas, two
roads, e'i^cvty miles one road, 40
cents per 100 pounds;, sixty miles
another road, 30 cents per 100
pounds; 140, 70 cents pet 100
pounds; add joint haul rate, 7 cents
per hundred pounds; Texas, 140
miles, 77 cents per 100 pounds.
First class in Georgia, two lines,
eighty miles one road, 39 cents;
sixty miles another road, 33 cents;
total 72 cents, lesri 10 per cent, 7
cents, Georgia 140 miles, 65 cents.
Texas, 140 miles, one line, 70c.
Georgia, 140 miles, one line, 57c
Texas, 185 miles, ope line, 68c.
Texas, 185 miles, one line, 88c.
Georgia, 185 miles, one line, 68c.
Mr. Mayfield also uses short line
rates controled by wagon compe-
tition. This is extremely unfair,
and while I will not be so discourt-
eous as to say I believe it was in-
tended to mislead and deceive, I
Will ask him if Such is the fact.
The misfortune is that “investi-
gation does not disclose sharp re-
ductions over rates of 1888.” I
refer to pages 9, 10, 11 and 12 of
our campaign book. Mr. Mayfield
says nothing of lumber, flour*,
plows, &c., but he may think these
are not important or not much
used by the people.
The average weight pf <*nHnn i
bales in Texas in 1888, as given in
our “remarkable production”, the
campaign book, is 5231 pounds,
and not 5321, as stated by Mr.
Mayfield. If a 520-pound bale was
carried for $2.60 this would be
less than $2.50 per 500-pound bale.
If it was carried for $3.00 this
would be $2.88 per 500-pound
bal>j and Mr. Mayfield c&aaat
No MoreJheiHnatism
It Had Troubled for Years, but
Hood's Cured It
Stronger and Better In Every Way—
'Gained In Weight. _______
“I have been afflicted with a disease of
the Inngs, and my constitution has not
been strong for many years. Several
years ago I was taken with rheumatism In
my left hip. It was not acute, but very
troublesotne, making it difficult for me to
walk. My physicians told me my blood
was in a bad condition and that I needed
a blood purifier. I bought three bottles
of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and when I had
taken the first bottle I was greatly ben-
efited. I took the second and third bot-
tles and found that I had no more rheu-
matism. I,gained five pounds in weight
and was much stronger than before tak-
ing Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” J. E. Boze-
man, Armour, Texas. Remember
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is the best—In fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Bold by all druggist*, fl; six for $5.
Hood’s Pills ZZSZ&CZJSZ
evade this under any proposal to
to take it “literally”. “Literally”
is good, but wont work.
Mr. Mayfield makes a great out-
cry and presents serious charges of
deceit and attempts to deceive
against the populists, charging
that our campaign l^ook stated the
rates from common points, to
Houston in 1888, and he finds dif-
ferent rates op the Cotton Belt.
He reminds one of a hen with a
brood of chickens out feeding.
When she finds a bug or worm she
raises a great fuss. “Run here,
run here; I have found a bug!”
and the chickens all come a-run-
ning.
.Tim-first thing that will strike
all traffic men will be surprise
that the Cotton Belt in those days
had a tariff at all, and then they
tience to fool
out in this thing to use only proof
which was impartial and unbiased,
wilipoo absolutely fair. I
have offered the report of the
run south and run a distance north
it made tariffs to force business
north. As to Cotton Belt rates
being higher at junction points
with the Missouri, Kansas & Tex-
as than rates of the latter, this
bringB up the question ofrebates
and physical division. If Mr.
Mayfield wishes to go into this I
I frankly admit that he got in a
solar plexus blow—knocked us
over the ropes, when he got off
that stuff about the cotton rates
being “based on Galveston”. If
there is a railroad traffic man in
..Texas of the United States who
can explain what this has to do
with the cotton rate, and ho will
do so, I will heartily thank him.
Also, I surrender when he proves
freight rates by Galveston com-
mission merchants’ account sales
of cotton. I know all about that.
Also,* when he promises to pull
this or that ten-year-old railroad
tariff on us. A tariff frequently
has sixty or eighty Supplements or
amendments, all and each chang-
ing the tariff, and I have never
yet known anything a railroad
could not prove when it was to its
interest.^
One thing I do resent, and tliat
is Mr. Mayfield’s sluring remark
about Mr. Waldo, calling him
“one J. Waldo”. Mr. Waldo is
dead; this might have protected
him; but in life he was the ablest
traffic man I ever knew—astaunch
friend and a thorough gentleman.
As to what he says about “our
experts”, I ask, which experts?
Those who use the whitewash
brush and address campaign doc-
uments which have been written
out and mimeographed by the
stenographer and are folded and
mailed by the porter of the com-
mission. Please talk about this
last a little, Mr. Mayfield. Did
the state pay for your oaroptfign
work?
As to all the other stuff called
proof, I have not the time nor pa-
with it. I started
Treasury Department of the United
States. I now call attention to
more .of the Bame kind. I have
[Contlaaed on page 7.]
Arc You m
EasilyTired?
Just remember that all your
strength must come from your
food. Did you ever think of
that P ;*
Perhaps your muscles need
more strength, or your nerves;
or perhaps your stomach Is
weak and cannot digest What
you eat.
If you need more strength
then take
SCOTT'S *
EMULSION
of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo-
phosphites. The oil Is the
easily changed of all foods Into
strength; and the hypophoe-
phitee are the best
1 tonics for the nervee.
SCOTT’S BItUI.
SION is the easiest
and quickest cure tor
w*a\ throats, tor
coughs of every kind*
and for all oasae ofde!
*COTt£ York.
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Ferguson, W. M. Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1898, newspaper, October 27, 1898; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694632/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.