The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1904 Page: 2 of 4
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Fairfield wants your cotton and our Buyers will pay the highest market price.
The Fairfield Recorder.
Entered in the postoffice at Fairfield,
Tex., as second class mail matter.
Postmasters and Agents.
All Postmasters are authorized to ac-
cept supscriptions to the Recorder.
Commission allowed postmasters and
agents as follows: New subscribers 35
per cent: collections and old subscribers
15 per cent.
FRIDAY, AUG. 26, 1904.
The corn crop of Texas this
your is estimated at 150,000,000
bushels.
A scientist says there are
from H,000 to 10,000 species of
weevil in existence.
The Democrats will concen-
trate a great deal of strength in
Indiana in their attempt to land
the State.
It is reported that Judge
Darker will make three speeches
during the Presidential cam-
paign in New York, Indianapo-
lis and Chicago.
It has been decided that wo-
men can serve as mail carriers
in the cities the only require
merit being that they must wear
tin' regulation uniform—gray
trousers and caps.
The death of a young lady in
New York Monday was caused
from swallowing a pin. In dress-
ing a few days ago, she was us-
ing her mouth as a pin recepta
do, as most women do, and
sneezing suddenly, the pin went
down into her lung.
A man from Gilmer, East
Texas, recently lost a $250 dia-
mond ring while seining for
min i(>ws in a creek. East Tex-
as people are really too careless
witi their valuables since truck
and fruit growing has devel-
oped.
The famous liydianola post-
office, where so much opposi-
tion developed toward the negro
woman postmistress is again be-
fore the public. This time, the
Postoffice Department has re-
duced its grade—from the Pres-
idential class to the fourth class.
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OVER ™ COUNTY
NEWSY ,!TI
CONOID'*
MS FROM
HUSTLING
WRITSMS
From Hlpnt.
Aug. 24.—No sickness to re-
port.
Tom Miles went to ^airfield
yesterday.
Joe and Jim Casey, of Young,
were in our town Sunday.
Dick Keaton, of Ward Prairie,
was here Sunday.
Carrol Whitt, of Butler, was
here on business Tuesday.
Several of the boys of this
neighborhood have left to hunt
work.
Miss Bessie Chappell, of Ward
Prairie, visited Miss Bertha
Bee, Friday, Saturday and Sun-
day.
Sweetheart.
A man at Reserve, Kan.,
coughed up two live toad frogs
Saturday. They are supposed
to have gotten in his stomach by
swallowing tadpoles while drink-
ing water. Kansas is a prohibi-
tion State and we suppose the
anti’s will use this incident to
show the evil of prohibition.
Some efforts should be put
forward by the Democrats of
Freestone county to increase the
vote for Governor in November,
in order to increase our strength
in the Democratic Conventions.
It would be well for the County
Executive Committee to endeav-
or to devise ways and means to
do this.
The Recorder would call the
attention of every farmer to the
article on “Onion Growing in
Texas,” which appears on anoth-
er page in this issue. The re-
sult of the cotton crop this sea-
son proves beyond a doubt that
diversification is absolutely ne-
cessary, and that cotton can on-
ly be planted as a side crop.
Onions can be grown success-
fully in Freestone county, and
there wiM be no trouble in find-
ing a market for all that can be
raised. Give this matter your
From Hopewell.
Aug. 22.—Roy Wilson is real
sick with malaria.
Tucker Young and family are
on the sick list.
John Wilson has returned to
the black land to pick cotton.
C. H. Connell has made 5(X or
600 gallons of syrup.
Madam Rumor says there will
be a wedding in our midst soon
Charley Picket has made up
several hundred gallons of
syrup.
Mr. Baggett and daughter, of
Oakwood, worshipped here Sat-
urday and Sunday.
G. W. Jones was real sick the
first part of last week, but is
able to be up at this Writing..
J. M. Meredith, son and
daughter, spent a few days with
old friends here last week.
A. H. Hardin has made two
trips to Mexia with sweet pota
toes, which netted 25 cents per
bushel.
Eldon Ramsey and wife, of
Campbell’s Branch, spent Satur-
day and Sunday with his uncle,
F. Hr Groover.
Yonr scribe has been visiting
and attending protracted meet-
ings, and has neglected to keep
up with the Recorder, but will
now endeavor to keep your read-
ers informed as to the happen-
ings in this section.
Rhoda.
From Lanely.
Aug. 20.—Will Smith made a
flying trip to Buffalo Thursday.
A. L. Daniel and W. E. Rich-
ards were in Lanely this week.
•lohn L. Johnson and Will Par
ish are building some new barns
for R. M. Edwards.
Several of our young men and
boys are at Harrison’s Lake fish-
ing this week.
L. A. Adkins moved his cane
mill from here to Mustang, on
Jules Trahin’s place, this week.
Elbert Goodwin and Liibum
Smith have gone to Palestine
this week with a load of chick-
ens.
A party at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gray,
Wednesday, was greatly enjoyed
by all present.
S. H. Parish, wife and" two
youngest daughters, are at
Keechi visiting their married
daughter, Mrs. Pollard.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, an
aged couple from Buffalo, are
here visiting their daughter,
Mrs. Tom Gray.
Syrup making is going on here
now; everybody busy, and as the
cane this year is unusually fine,
an abundance of syrup has been
made, “and still they keep
grinding on.”
Plenty of corn, prospects for
an enormous yield of potatoes,
lots of peas, goobers, etc., plen-
ty of hogs to make our meat;
and, notwithstanding, the little
weevil, there will be some cotton
made. So, with all that before
us, we see nothing to grumble
about, bat so much to be thank-
ful for. We will yet see old
Freestone rise up from the hard-
ships and trials of the past year
and again blossom as the
From Winkler.
Aug. 22.—Rain is very much
needed here now.
We are glad to have Prof. Jas.
K. Folk in our midst this week.
Ernest McNeill, of Oklahoma,
is here visiting friends and rela-
tives. ^
The Christians began their
protracted meeting at St. Elmo
on the 20th.
Messrs. Wiley Newman and
son have ginned four bales of
cotton uptodate.
A great many boys have gone
from here to Ellis county to pick
cotton.
Georgie Phipps, daughter of
Dr. Phipps, aged 12, is very sick
with fever.
Miss Alma Grayson has re-
turned home from Corsicana,
where she has been visiting rel-
atives and friends.
A*
Messrs J. R. Manning and J.
C. Pillans, both thriving mer-
chants of this place, have gone
to Corsicana on business.
Lish Roberts, Jr., is seriously
ill with typhoid malarial fe-
ver, but Dr. Phipps say he is
some better today.
A great many people intend
leaving this section of the coun-
try, in scaredi of “the fountain of
perpetual youth.”
Messrs. A. J. Slade and J. V.
Keel have returned from the riv-
er, and report having caught one
20 pound cat, and received a bil-
lion mosquito bites.
B. C. Lee and family have
gone to Ellis county to visit
friends. While there they had
the misfortune of a serious acci-
dent. While hitching up his
team, one of the mules became
stubborn, and in the conflict
which followed, Mr. Lee was
jerked against a wire fence, re-
ceiving some cuts and dislocat-
ing his right knee. The doctors
say it will be some time before
he will be up again.
Be it resolved: That we stand
by the Recorder and its jiub
lisher.
Huckleberry.
Young Locals.
Aug. 28*—Joe Traylor has
been very ill with fever, but is
some better.
John Brewer, who has been
sick for some time, with slow
fever, is some better. *
Rev. Hancock and family are
visiting Dr. R. J. Green this
week.
We learn that Mr Goode, who
lives one mile north of Young,
was very sick Monday night.
The W. O. W. of this place is
on a boom. Two new applicants,
and more expected soon.
Mrs. Mattie Loper and Miss
Young, of Israel, were in our
midst Saturday and Sunday.
Jim Henderson, who has been
traveling for his health, return-
ed home last week.
Misses Jewel Powell, Mattie
Keaton and Bamma Grant, of
Ward Prairie, were with us Sun-
day night.
Messrs. Buss Grant, Henry
Palmer and Alex. J. Powell, of
Ward Prairie, were at church
Saturday and Sunday.
Harold Burleson, who has
been prospecting in and around
East Texas saw mills, returned
home Saturday.
Miss Ruby Greer, of Eureka,
who has been visiting friends
and relatives, „ returned home
Shanks Locals.
Aug. 22.—Harmon Goulding,
of Anderson county, is visiting
here. s
W. A. Frazier, of Leon coun-
ty, is visiting R. M. Baker.
Commissioner Williams was
looking over the roads of this
section last week.
W. T. Killgore and his sister
attended religious services at
Hopewell Sunday.
C. W. Wolf, Jno. Quarles and lose them
J. T. Shumate report a catch of
150 pounds of fish at the mouth
of Tehuachna last week.
G. L. Wolf and wife and Joe
Bell and family were visiting
Walter Bell, near Wortham, Sat-
urday and Sunday. *
The Methodists are holding a
protracted meeting at Camp-
bell’s Branch.
Correspondent.
Pyburn Locals.
Aug. 23.—Mrs. H. H. Peevy
has returned from a visit to El-
lis county.
Rumor has it that a wedding
will be soon.
A. Maurice Pyburn has re-
turned from Bynum, Hill county.
Rev. D. K. Compton, of Dew,
is attending the meeting h
this week.
Dan Terry and wife have re
turned from the holiness camp
meeting near Waco.
J. C. Henderson has installed
on his farm a $250 sugar cane
mill. Mr. Henderson is a man
that believes in “doing things.”
S. J. Garland is moving beck
to Ellis county, from whence he
last week.
Silas Newsom, of Leon coun-
ty, came in Friday morning to
the burial of his father-in-law, J.
P. Davis.
We have a protracted meeting
going on at'Round Prairie, con-
ducted by Rev. J. W. Richard-
son. He has as helpers, Revs,
Rooney, Jackson and Hancock.
Misses Ruby Corley, Bertha
Smith, Elma and Lura Lee,
Messrs. Edgar and Jim Miles,
Jim Richardson and Wiley Day,
of Blunt, are attending our meet-
ing.
' Messrs.- Jim Richardson, Ster-
ling and Earnest Newman, Will
Myles, Dennis and Bylor Pascal
leave this morning for Wichita
Falls, to get rich picking cotton
at $1.00 per hundred.
Our crop prospects are^very
good. Cotton will make half an
average crop. Corn is good.
We will have plenty of corn
bread and bacon for another
year.
Messrs. T. H. Mosteller and
J. H. McEachern have just re-
turned from a visit and a pros-
pecting tour of the Indian Terri-
tory, and report everything
favorable. We fear we will
From Little Star.
Aug. 22.—As I have been in
North Texas for sometime and
have returned^ I will pen a few
lines for-the ‘ dear old Record-
er.” It affords me much pleas-
ure to hear from all parts of the
county each week.
Health very good for this sea-
son of the year.
Mrs. 8. G. Graham had been
right sick, but is up now.
Clinton Ezell has returned
from Jacksonville, and will
WILLIS B. NEWMAN
Painter and Paper Hanger
Agent fq| H. Bosch Co., cel*
ebrated storm proof paint
and artistic wall papers.
Headquarters at Johnson &
Mcllveen’s drugstore. 22jy4t
gr-s
Jim Gunter has sold out and
will leave for Indian Territory
next Monday. It seems as if
that Territory fever waa con-
tageous. most all of our people
are taking it, but they will come
back to Freestone “some sweet
day.”
Mr. J. P. Davis, who lived
just one-half mile east of Young,
fell from his front porch Thurs-
day evening and broke his neck,
dying in about two hours. Mr.
Davis was 80 years old, and
leaves a wife and three sons and
two daughters to mourn bis
loss. He was buried at the Re-
hoboth cemetery Friday eve-
ning. Hoe Boy.
Violent Attack of Diarrhoea Cured
by Chamberlain’s Colie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy
and Perhaps a Life
Saved.
north to pick cotton soon.
Miss Cellie Watts has returned
from Mills county. Her cousin,
Miss Goeings, camd home with
her to spend a few weeks.
Miss Susie Curry left here
some time ago for Lampasas.
She liked out there so well that
she married a Mr. Brooks, and
will make that her future home
Crockett Ezell and Mrs. Sopha
Pickens were married at Cor-
inth, in Leon county, last night.
We congratulate Mr. Ezell in
winning the affection of such a
nice young widow. Mr. Ezell is
one of Freestone’s most prosper-
ous farmers and a good neighbor
and citizen, and is worthy of his
prize.
There was a party and water-
melon eating at H. A. Farns-
worth’s last Friday night. All
had a nice time, and about 11
o’clock, just as we had finished
devouring a fine lot of melons,
we heard two heavy explosions
in the direction of Buffalo, and
on looking in that direction we
saw the light of a considerable
fire. We knew at once that the
town was on fire. All the crowd
that had horses and buggies
pulled out for Buffalo, adistanee
of three and ode-half miles. On
arriva1, we found th > large dou-
ble two-story Oliver building
and J. A. Newsom’s law office
burned down. N. Bloom occu-
pied one side of this large build-
ing with dry goods and grocer-
ies. Mrs. Mattie Olivei* occu-
pied the other side with a nice
lot of drugs. This is a heavy
loss on Mrs. Oliver and also on
Mr. Bloom. We learn they had
some insurance, but nothing to
compare with the loss.
Aunt Seeley.
Notice of Sheriff Sale of Real
Estate.
By virtue of an opler of sale issued
out of the Honorable District. Court of
Limestone county, on* the 4th day of
August, A. D. 1904, in the case of The
First National Bank of Mexia (A oorpo
ration) versus C. J. Turner and T. F
Bryan Trustee In Bankruptoy of C. J.
Turner, No. 3905, and to the, as Sheriff,
directed and delivered, I have levied up
on this the 3th day of August, A. D.
1904, and will, between the hoar* of 10
o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. ]0 on the
first Tuesday in September, V *P. 19t
it being the 0th day of said month, at
the court house door of said Freestone
county, in the town of Fairfield,-proceed
to sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, for casn in hand, all the right,
title and interest which the said C. J.
Turner had on the 31st day of Jnne, A.
D. 1904, or at any time thereafter, of, in
and to the following described property,
to wit; A certain lot or parcel of land
in the town of Wortham, conveyed to
defendant Turner by plaintiff and being
ypli _____„
a part of Block 0 in Wortham, Tex. more
fully described in a trust deed executed
by C. J. Turner to D. A. Muruhv. tms-
X Turner to D. A. Murphy, trns-
ink of Mex-
tee of The First National Bank__
ia, dated Dec. 10, 1900, and recorded in
Vol. H Page 283 trust deed records of
Freestone county, Texas, to which trust
deed and its record reference is here for
more fully description
Also the brick building and all the
mill and corn sheller machinery situa
ted on said land at the date of execution
of said deed of trust or placed thereon
at any time prior to May 30th, 1902, an-1
seventy-saw doable M artsy
on two _______
gins, four seventy saw Murray cleaning
tfeedors, one four seventy Murray gal-
vanized lint flue system, one 380 saw
Murray double drum condensor, one
four seventy Murray elevator system
and shutes complete with automatic
trip telescope pipe, pipe and valves, two
galvanized dost flues, one D box. Mur-
ray hydraulic press, March Hydraulic
f
pump complete, A. B. C fan post hang
ers shafting belting, pulleys, seed hop-
pers, Vacum box and all the other
chmery used in connection of said gin
in deed of frnst said property being lev-
ied on as the property or C. J. Turner to
satisfy a judgment amounting to
#8479.30, in favor of The First National
Bank of Mexia, Texas, and costs of suit.
S
Mills Locals.
Aug. 23.—Sam Baty, of Luna,
was here Sunday.
Jobn’White, of Cross Roads,
was at this place Sunday.
Mr. Picket and lady, of Brew-
er, were here Sunday.
Miss Georgia Glen Green, of
Cross Roads, was at this place
Sunday.
Mrs. Newsom and two daugh-
ters were here Sunday attending
the meeting.
Jim Roper and mother, of
Brewer, was atteiyling the meet-
ing Sunday.
Esq. Webb and Prof. Mande-
ville were at preaching Sunday
night, at this place.
Miss Georgia Day, of Fair-
field, came down Friday and
went back Sunday evening.
Mr. Lane and family, of Brew-
er, were disappointed Monday.
They came to attend the meeting
which had just closed.
A X Y Z.
To Our Friends of Luna.
We tender our sincere and
heartfelt thanks for your sym-
pathy, love and respect shown
us in our great sorrow and be-
reavement in the loss of our lit-
tle daughter, Vernah. May God
in his infinite mercy, grant you
all the love and respect you have
so generously showered on your
sorrowing friends, should a like
sorrow befall you.
Eureka, Texas.
exia, Texas, and costs of suit
With 8 per cent interest Troin 31st day
6f Jnne 1904.
S
Given under my band this 8th day of
August, A. D. 1904.
Watt Walker, Sheriff,
„ _ _ Freestone oo., Texas.
By R. P. Riley, Deputy.
Notice of Sheriff’s Sale Under Or-
dcrof Sale.
Bv virtue of a certain order of sale is-
sued out of the Hon. District pourt of
Freestone oo., Tex., on the 30th day of
July 1904, in favor of Mattie McAdams.
W. A. MoAdams, John, Clary, Annie
Clary, J. H, Lancaster and wife, Minnie,
Ed Poteet and wife, Callie. Dave
•, Callie, Dave
BUck And wife, Bennie, J. D. Jones
and Willie Jones, and against T. c. Par
rish ttir the sum of #386.87, with interest
from 18th day ut Sept. 1903 at ten per
cent per annum and all costs of suit.
This is to give notice that I as sheriff
and will sell
give notice
have this day levied upon
to the highest bidder for cash within le-
gal hours before the court house door in-
the town of Fairfield on the 1st Tuesday,
the 0th day of Sept 1904, the following
described tract or parcel of land, situ-
ated and lying near the village of Dew
in Freestone oounty, Tex., 30 acres of
land a part of the R H Porter 040 acre
survey. Beginning at a stake in the e
line of said Porter snr. at the s e cor. of
J C Harrison’s 80 acre tfact a doable
b j 10 in. brj n80w3J vrs; thence s53w
321 vre a stake in Fairfield and Buffalo
road; thence s38e with said road Hit vrs
a stake in same a p o 8 in. brs n 72 w 4
vrs; thence n 33 e 349 vrs a stake in e
line of said Porter snr a b j 8 in. brs sl8
w li vrs a b j 0 in brs n 72 e If; thence
n 37 w 328 vrs to the beginning, proper-
ty of T C Parish.
T-his the 16th day of Aug. 1904.
Wait Walker, Sheriff.
Freestone oounty, Tex.
By R. P. Riley, Deputy.
is
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II
Notice d| Sheriff Sale of Real
Estate.
By virtue of an order of sale issued
out of the Honorable District Court of
Limestone county, on the 4th day of
August, A. D. 1904, in the case of W. O.
Caldwell versus John Barnes and 8im-
son Jesse No. 4020, and to me, as Sher
iff, directed and delivered, I have levied
Mr. AND Mrs. J. G. Hendrix, “JS? and w^betweea ttehon! ^ D*
ours
o’clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M., on the
first Tnesilay in September, A. D. 1904,
it being the 0th day of said month, at
the court house door of Freestone ooun
ty, in the town of Fairfield, proceed to
sell at public auction to the highest bid-
der, for oash in hand, all the nglit, title
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