The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 7, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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THE
VOL. 15.
GOLDTHWAITE. MILLS COUNTY. TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907.
NO. 1.
I “PAYS TO PAY CASH”
Goldthwaite Mercantile Company 1
g 0«*r buyer fiaus spent several weeks in New York and St. Louis selecting Fall and Winter
Goods and tKe new stock is beginning to arrive. We believe we are making the best show-
ing in this line ever made in this city and we know that we have never excelled the show-
ing we now make. These are new goods bought from the manufacturer for this season and
our customers can be sure that they get no shelf worn or out of date goods here and the
styles are right At a later date we will be able to enumerate and give prices of goods, but
we will be glad to have a visit from the people of this and surrounding counties at any time.
We are especially well pleased with our line of Ladies Wearables and w e believe the ladies
will be pleased when they inspect the new goods. Everything pretty in Dress Goods and
irimmings ean be found in this house. : : ; : ; ; . ||
Come to see us for anything and everything in Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Etc., Etc., and 1
jj we will show you a mighty nice line from which to make your selections. : : : 1
PROFESSIONAL
NEIGHBORING NEWS.
Leonard Doughty
ATTORNEY COUNSELOR.
Land Xaw and probate proceedings
••villi special attention.
Notary in office,
E. B. ANDERSON
LAWYER. LAND AGENT AND
ABSTRACTOR.
Will practice in all courts. Special
attention given to land and coinmer-
3lal litigation.
Notary publlo Jn office.
Items Called From the Leading Local
Papers.
Jko, J, Cox
¥4
D. W. Pbuokett
COX (Si PUCKETT
Attorneys at Law.
TEMPLE, TEXAS.
Will praotioe in all State and Fed-
eral Courts. Special attention given
to Mills county litigation. Notary in
office.
R. L. H. WILLIAMS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
and LAND AGENT
Special attention given to all classes
of litigation; investigation of land
titles, abstracting, eto.
3oldthwalt8, Texas.
ROBERT RICE
—Lawyer—
Land and Collecting Agent
Will practice in all courts, State
and Federal.
M.L.BROWN M. D.
Phone 132,
E.E.BEOTOM.D.
Phone 33.
Drs. Brown O. Brown
OFFICE PHONE 121.
Do general practice. Special atten-
tion given to chronic diseases. At
office consultation free.
Office In the rear of the Country
Drug Store.
J, D. CALAWAY
J. B. TOWNSEN
Calawayf®. Townsen
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS.
Special attention to diseases
of women and rectal diseases.
Office R. E. Clement's drug score.
Calls answered promptly day or night
B'Mldenc'jf i’hone
Office Phk'ne 33
WHIT SMITH
Land, Loan and Life Stock Insurance
AGENT
Large list of town and
country property, ::
Hdtary Public for Mills County.
ton, reports having buried four
during the month of July and
three in August.
J. T. Tunneil’a friends will be
glad to know that he was hap
pily married to Mrs. 8. C, Fol
wers of Dublin last Sunday
evening at Proctor.
Gould H. Boykin died in Fort
Worth Saturday night and his
remains arrived in, Comanche
Sunday and were interred in
Oak wood cemetery Monday.
George Hjll of Demoorat has
recently returned from South-
west Texas, where he went with
a view of buying more land. Not
finding what he wished he re-
turned without buying.
A little girl by the name of
Bluoher from Palo Pinfca county,
fell from her father’s wagon
Wednesday and broke her hip.
They were three or four miles
out on the Brownwood road when
the accident happened and the
child was brought to Comanche
for treatment.
Elmer Cunningham, son of J.
J. Cunningham, died Wednesday
night at Topeka, Kansas, of
typhoid fever. His remains were
expected to reach Comanche
Friday night and to be interred
in the Albin cemetery south of
Comanche Saturday morning.
This is the third gDwn member
of this large family that has ever
died.—Chief.
SAN SABA.
The infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. Wild died last
Friday night at their home a few
miles from San Saba.
Jack Lochaby and family,
of Brady, came in last week
on a visit to Mrs. Loohabv’s
sister, Mrs. Wallace Williams.
Dr. S. H. White died at bis
home in the western part of town
Monday night, Aug. 27ch. at the
advanced age of 76 years.
ipCOWJAMCKE
Mr. Wsbb, the cemetery „ex- 0(ll,t ohuI.en in" 87n~ SebVsuD
Jack Towerton and Jim Chown-
ing have leased the Lewis Hicks
pasture on the Colorado river
from B. Huibert for three years.
Revs. Goodpasture and White
closed their meeting at the Meth-
day night. The services were
well attended and considerable
interest was manifested through
out the meeting and a great
deal of good accomplished.
> Rev. Strickland of Richland
Springs recently closed one of
the most successful Baptist
meetings ever held in this county,
at Harkeyville. A great deal of
interest was manifest during the
entire meeting and much good
was accomplished.. More than a
half hundred souls were con
verted and large numbers were
added to the church.—News
Hamilton:
The Baptist meeting now in
progress, held by Rev. McNatt,
is proving a great success.
Mrs. W. S. Graves and family
left Monday for Oohiltree, where
they will join Mr, Graves, who
has been there several months.
We regret to chroniole the
death of Wm. Harris, which oc-
curred after several months ill-
ness at his home in south Ham-
ilton last Sunday night,
Raymond, son of Mr, and Mrs.
B. A. Richardson, is getting
along only tolerably well after a
serious .accident last week. The
little fellow was in the hardware
store and out his wrist badly on
a harvester knife
The •’choo-choo" is expected
to reach Hamilton by Nov. l,and
a big celebration is already being
planned for that day. Mr, Spur-
lin spent one day last week in
Fort Worth making arrange-
ments for a business men’s ex-
cursion from that city to Hamil-
ton, leaving Fort Worth on the
night of Oct. 31, and spending
the day Nov. 1 in Hamilton re-
turning tnat night.—Herald. •.
LAMPASAS.
The Lampasas Baptist associa-
tion is in session at Naruna,
P. H. Gallagher is dead. He
died Wednesday m^hfc about 8
o’clock. He had been a resident
of this section for many years.
Noah Smith haa let the con-
tract for a new bouse to be built
in the near future on his farm of
130 acres, located southeast of
Lampasas just beyond his pres-
ent home.
Mrs. C. C. Vernor, who haa
been spending the summer here,
left Saturday for Houston to
•pend a week with her nephew,
T. J. Arndale, after which she
will return to her home in Gon-
zales county. She was accom-
panied by her son, J. E, Vernor,
who will return Monday.
W. P., Irvine of the Long Cove
community was among the pleas-
ant callers at this office. He
states that the cotton crop in his
immediate section is the poorest
he has ever seen here in a period
of 31 years. He also reports that
practically no corn was raised.
Thursday between one and two
o'clock the residenoe of Mrs. H.
W. Yates was completely de-
stroyed by fire, only a part of
the house furnishings being
saved. By heroic work other
residences which were near were
saved. Loss about $3000. In-
surance $800. Practically nothing
saved.—Leader.
BROWNWOOD.
H. C. Dyer of San Antonio
and Miss Bess Roseborough of
this oity were married on£Tues-
day of this week at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, where Mr. Dyer has
been for several weeks for his
health.
Miss Bertha Churohill of this
oity and Miss Meera of San
Angelo returned last night from
a very pleasant months stay at
Potl&nd, Oregon, and a trip
through California.
The Frisco has changed the
schedule of the outgoing night
train. Instead of leaving at
11 o’clock this train will in the
future leave at ^11:45 and will
make the regular connection at
Fort Worth.
The commissioners court in ses-
sion this morning opened the bids-
of she different caiika of the city
for the county depository and the
contract was awarded to the Cit-
izens National Bank on a bid of
two and three eight per cent,
The local officials of the
Santa Fe railroad have received
instructions to the eff aot that the
freight building and offices will
be moved from its present loca--
tion to a point between the tide
tracks of the Brownwood Mill &
Elevator Co. and the main line.
Engineer Davis in his report
to the connoil says that at pres-
ent rate of consumption Brown-
wood has not more that twenty
days Supply of water in the
city reservoir. Mr,Davis’,record
shows that almost a million gal-
lons of water haye beon cop- ,
aumed each day during August
and that the supply is all but ex-,
hausted.—Bulletin.
■ - • •> <
The Standard Milling oom- ,
pany’s building in Houston and;
a large number of smaller build- ,
ings were distroyed by fire Mon- t
day night. The loss will reaoh ,
$200,000 or more.
Judge Alton Parker announces ,
that he does not desire to hold
office of any kind. This state-
ment was made in denial of a
statement that he desired the
Democratic nomination for pres-
ident,
Reports from a number of cit-
ies in Texas where saloons are
in operation say that the new
liquor law is not being obeyed
as well as the old law was ob-
served. The new law was drawn
by the attorney for the liquor
men and the result was to be
expected,
Two passenger trains on the
Galveston division of the G. H,
& 8. A. railroad collided a£
Strang, a small station near
Houston, Monday night. A
great many people were injured
and some perhaps fatally. The
collision waa caused by the
wrong order being given to one
of the train’s crew.
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Thompson, R. M. The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 7, 1907, newspaper, September 7, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097837/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.