Weekly Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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WEEKLY
VOL. Ill
MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS, FRIDAY. JANUARY 3#. 1903.
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Fort Worth had bettor atop
working on her packing houaea
and hang a few murderers and
thieves. ,v
The prohibition election in
Hardeman oounty resulted in a
victory for the aaloone by a ma-
jority of fifty vote*.
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An Bn£ll»h jury has deoided ^
that Colonel Lynoh must have 1
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The fruit growers’ association
at Grand Junction, Colorado,
last year shipped nearly five
hundred oars of fruit. Wa via-
ited that town just twenty years
ago and there waa very little
prospect of fruit there at that
time—only one huge bed of sand.
But a few years has added a
thrifty people who have utilised
waters of the Grand and
»n rivers and have made the
1 beds blossom as the rose.
Dallas county will vote on pro
hibition February 17th. The
fight is already a warm one and
a great deal of hard feelings are
being engendered.
The proposed law to subjeot a
peace officer to a heavy fine for
failure to arrest a man who he
knows to have a revolver in his
possession is a good une.
It is getting so that a cattle
man is not “much pumklns” at
a convention unless he wears a
claw-hammer coat and parts his
hair in the middle. As the etook
of oattle is improved so does the
society of the oattle man expand.
The allied powers have raised
the blockade of the Venesuelan
ports and the little republio has
been ooeroed into taking her
medioine just as the powers pro-
pane to fix it up. Had Venezue-
la been a powerful nation like
Uhole Sam the blockade would
not have ooourred.
Since prohibition has gone in-
to effect at Vernon the Quanah
Tribune-Chief says rents have
been out down. But the Index
does not think it was oaused by
prohibition—not so soon. The
elimination of the Greer oounty
trade by the building of railroads
has done more to out down rents
than anything else.
Onoe there were two beautiful
white eggs laid aids by side in a
nioe new nest. A great big man
gathered them up with his rough
hands and sold them to a grocer.
And one little egg was a good
little egg and went into an angel
oake; but the other little egg waa
a very, very bad little egg, and
got mashed on an actress.
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Sam Jones got mad st his
treatment at Dallas Friday night
and returned 8unday evening to
wipe up the town. The manager
of the opera bouse, upon wit
nessing the hungry mobs that
scrambled for entranoe, refused
to open the doors. Sam mount*
ed a wagon and poored out his
voice to some five thousand peo
pie, but when it got cold and
hoarse he folded it up and took
it back to the hotel. Then the
manager of the opera house re-
lented and invited Sam to come
in, bot he got mad again and
< said he was having plenty of fun
on the out side. He told the
crowd H it would move up the
prohibition election a few notches
he and brother Stuart would
been turned on by artificial flood
gates Some of the Grand Junc-
tion fruit has been sold in Min-
eral Wells and we know what it
is.
Andrew Carnegie told a story
of himself reoently. He said
some years ago he wanted to
oross a mountain in Pennsylva-
nia, and a youngster of rather
hardy appearanoe offered to take
him over for 60 oents. Carnegie
thought the prioe too great, and
told the boy he would pay him
only 26 oents. After a long ar-
gument in whioh eaoh stuok to
his prioe, the youngster won out
and Mr. Carnegie says he allow
ed the lad to collect the Ik) oents,
not beoause the trip was worth
it, but beoause he had to get on
the other side of the mountain.
(*I predioted that the boy would
some day make a fortune, *' and
he has. His name is Charles M.
Schwab, and Sohwab is the
president of the steel trust with
an annual inoome of more than
a million dollars.
A canny Sootohman on the
slopes of Wyoming is going to
experiment with a small herd of
iheep to produoe what is com-
monly known as * ‘wool fat, ’’ or
oelio aoid. Sheep, when left
alone without a provision of food
mads, will eat their own wool to
keep them from starving. The
wool when taken into the system
will furnish a small amount of
nourishment and will generate
a large amount of heat whioh will
produoe the quality of fat desir-
ed. With this idea in view the
Sootohman will isolate a herd
and so expose them to. starvation
and oold that they will be com-
pelled to eat their own wool in
order to sustain life. Carrying
this idea to the extreme, he is in
hopes that a new breed oan be
produoed whioh will produoe the
wool fat in the largest possibls
quantity and of the best quality.
Wool fat is used for medioal pur-
poses and is now worth 76o per
pound, which the herder hopes
to raise to $2 a pound 'owing to
its pure quality.
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It was a sad misfortune to this
government when the old-fash-
ioned mother, who wielded the
shingle and slipper, ceased to do
business at the old stand. Young
Amerioa is becoming more reok-
ss and of less aooount with eaoh
suooeedinggeneration. No boy
ever amounted to anything who
wasn’t blessed with an old-fash
ionsd mother. While the moth-
ers of today are, perhaps just as
good as the mothers of thirty or
forty years ago, they haven’t the
same control over the ohildren
tbs old time mothers had. Peo
pie live faster now than they used
to, and the ohildren wear better
clothes, work less, attend more
parties and entertainments and
keep later hours than the boys of
old did. The mother of today
uses the gad less and says '’I’ll
tell your pa on you” more than
her grandmother did. More’s
the pity. The old saw, *'Spare
the rod and spoil the child, ” is
not so muoh of a byword as it
used to be, and the oonsequenoes
are readily seen.
When a man puts his money in
something and keeps following it
up with more it is svident he
finds he has a paving invest-
ment. John L Spurlin, of Ham-
ilton, carried a page Ad in all
the Hamilton papers every issue
last year and is keeping it up.
Here, is what he has to say:
"There is an idea being dissemi-
nated among some of our mer-
chants that when I advertise I
do so to draw trade from them.
This is a mistaken idea. Ad-
vertising orectes business. I do
not oonsi<$er that it takes from
one and gives to another. I
advertise to attraot and oreate
new trade, and when an indi-
vidual is attracted to our town
by my advertising do not all the
trades in our town in a measure
reap some benefit? They have
the wrong idea when they think
am trying to omsh any one
out; not a bit of it. My neigh-
bor’s sucoessis my suooess, both
of us making new business.
Every business man ehtfuld put
his best foot foremost. Pub-
licity, provided it Is of the right
kind, oomes before all else.
What is the best method? Why
the newspaper. They are the
greatest trade prombters known
and the quickest methodic reaoh
the public. ” . r
From the Daily Twdty, Jma. if.
J L Crawford, of Palo Pinto,
was in town yesterday.
Carl M Brown, of Cleveland,
Ohio, is a late visitor.
The best Is the oheapest there-
fore buy *' Amerioan Beauty ’ *
flour.
W L 8hirley and H F Holmes,
two farmers of Graford, were in
town yesterday.
L L Williams, of Burleson,
Johnson oounty, is a visitor 1b
the valley of health.
Howard A Derry hays a rare
bargain in wool blankets whioh
they are closing out. Speoiat
prioes on lap robes.
Dr A B Kennedy, A J Clen-
denen, and the two Misses Clen-
denen, arrived Saturday from
Bonham and are at the Pied-
mont.
The new store and new firm
wishes to show their goods and
prioes. We are here for busi-
ness.—Howard A Berry.
County Judge MoConnell oame
over from the oounty seat yes-
terday and he and G W Ho
went out serenading last nig!
Both are alive.
The last word reoeived from
Minnie Howard Carr was to the
effect that she was not so well,
8he was taken with typhoid fever
whioh was developed into slow
fever.
Sam A Beckham, the jolly
hotel man of Greenville, oame in
yesterday and is stopping at the
’iedmont. He says business is
little dull in Greenville the
same as in Mineral Wells, but
the prospeot for orops is quite
enoouraging.
“'On Feb 1st the Famous store
will open, All up-to-date gents
furnishing goods, ladies fine
shoes, slippers, eto, Goods are
arriving daily from the eastern
markets. This store will be
one prioe, spot oash.
Another good horse was stolen
from his stable in Mineral Wells
ast Saturday night. Again the
loss fell on a poor man who is
not well able to stand it. Mr B
G Martin shut his horse up in the
stable and fastened the door and
then shut and fastened the lot
gate. Sunday morning the horse
was gone and not a traoe of him
has been found. How long will
the people of this oountry have
to suffer suoh outrages at the
hands of an element that does
not respeot human rights or the
laws of the oountry? Many good
honest industrious men struggle
along in the world and manage
to get hold of a good horse or
two and then when the midnight
thief takes them away he is left
crippled and perhaps to suffer.
If UawsU.
Try a 60c bottle of Herbine,
notioe the improvement speedily
effected in your appetite, energy,
strength and vigor. Watoh how
it brightens the spirite, gives
freedom from indigestion and
debility! Isaao Story, A v a, Mo.,
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town so dry that nobody could
The peculiar oough whioh in-
dicates croup Is usually well
known to the mothers of oroupy
ohildren. No time should be lost
in the treatment of it and for this
purpose no medioine has received
more universal approval than
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
Do not waste valuable time in ex
perimenting with untried reme-
dies, no matter how highly they
may be recommended, but give
this medioine as directed and all
symptoms of croup trill quickly
disappear. C E Turner.
An aged preacher. will oross
the Atlantic in a fifty foot boat.
writes, Sept. 10th, 1900:
was in bad health, I had stomach
trouble for 12 months,also dumb
ohills. Dr J W Mory prescribed
Herbine,it cured me in two weeks
I oannot recommend it too high
ly, it will do all you olaim for
it.** Sold by C. E. Turner.
New goods are being placed in
the building vaoated by the
Pearson saloon and the firm of
Howard, Berry A Sister hopes
to be ready for business by the
first of February.
New Century Cent fort.
Millions are daily finding a
world of comfort in Buoklen’s
Arnica Salve. It kills pain from
burns, scalds, cuts bruises; oon
quere ulcers and fever sores;
cures eruptions, salt rheum,
boils and folons; removes oorns
warts. Best pile cure on Aarth.
Latest meroerised goods for
shirtwaists in white and colors at
Howard A Berry’s.
Arch Bossell Is going on a
crutch and a stiok. He is suf-
fering with rheumatism. Aroh
is one of the good old boys of the
river oountry west of town, and
we hope to see him all right
again soon. The oountry will
never know how muoh it Is in-
debted to Aroh Bossell. He was
one of the boys that cams here
when this was disputed territory
between the white people and
the reds and braved the dangers
inoident to the early settlement of
the ouuntry; he is one of the boys
that made this oountry what it is
and without him and his kind it
would yet be a howling wilder-
ness, a desert waste a fit habita-
tion for wild beasts.
C Riohardson, father of Dr W
C and J 8 Riohardson, died yes-
terday at 6 p m. Deceased was
88 years of age last November.
He waa born In Murrey county,
Tennessee, and in 1848 moved to
Texas and settled in. Harrison
county. In 1870 he moved to
Hill oounty near Wood berry,
where he lived until about two
years ago when he oame to live
with his sons in Mineral Wells.
He has been a consistent mem-
ber of the Christian church for
60 years. His wifb died ten
years ago. He had good health
until reoently he oommenoed
having nervous spells. Less
than a week ago he waa able to
walk about the plaoe. Old age
was the principal oauee of bis
death. The funeral service was
held this afternoon at 3 o’olook,
conducted by Rev Drummet,
pastor of the Central Christian
ohuroh. The burial took plaoe
at 2:80 in the oity cemetery.
Attention gardners, farmers
and stockmen.-—I have on hand
all kinds of garden seed onions
sets, seed corn, seed oats, amber
and army oane seed, lust the
kind of seed adapted for this
olimate. Seed potatoes, Tri-
umph, Early Rose and Peerless.
Will make special low prices to
parties wanting to buy in quan-
tities. Come and see me.
D M Howard.
Every Bottle Warranted.
We guarantee every bottle of
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
and will refund the money to
anyone who is not satisfied after
using two-thirds of the oontents.
This ip the best remedy in the
world for la grippe, ooughs,
colds, oroup and whooping
oough and is pleasant and safe
to take. It prevents any ten-
dency of a oold to result in
pneumonia. C E Turner, drug-
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for sale and the latest works of fiotion for rent.
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Newton, W. B. Weekly Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1903, newspaper, January 30, 1903; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038839/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.