The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904 Page: 2 of 4
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The Fairfield Recorder.
THE GREATEST IN ItrSTMY
LEE KIRUAN, Editor.
A Terrible Conflagration* Destroy*
the Main Business Section
of Baltimore.
Baltimore, Mil, Fob. *—
Baltimore is staggerinig tonight
under a tire loss which no <jnoj
has the temerity to put In flguif s.
Entered in the postoflke at Fairfield,
Tex., as second class mail matter.
POSTMASTERS AND AOKNTS.
All Postmasters are authorized to ac-
cept Hiiperriptious to the RECORDER. v,
• ommission allowed postmasters and
agents its follows: New subscribers 25
P*‘r ceut: collections and old subscribers
15 per cent.
Said the Jester
to the King—
I ' * i' •'
church. We extend our condo-
lence to the bereaved family.
Little Maude Compton, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Comp
ton, came near being seriously
hurt last week by a loaded wag-
on running over one of her
Ih was ^rhougtit,/at ,fi/At
that a bone .fras broken, but
ration, Dr. Blount
was .pnly bruised.
I Leo Glazener’s family, of Post
Oak community, spent Saturday
and Sunday here, guests of Mrs.
s Glazener’s sister, Mrs. J. P.
, Ham.
Marshall Meeks’ family visit
ed Mrs. Meeks’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Yerby, last week.
Bro. Russell filled his regular
appointment here last Sunday,
and preached to the largest con-
j gregation we have, had this win-
I ter.
The measles have kept our
people at homo for some time
and we are glad to report no now
cases, and the recovery of all
who have had them.
/ ^
Jim McDonald, who worked
for Riley & Ham last fall, left
Monday for Fairfield to begin
work for T. J. Hall.-/>
Miss Jessie Ogden, of Shanks, uat‘on relieved thii offici Jl
is staying with her sister, Mrs.. any thought other than
B. Stewart, and attending school erty. h
llGTG r
Loss estimated at frotg)
Miss Lelia Graham, of Little 000,000 to *300,000,000. J
FRIDAY, FKU. 1
11104.
Uneeda
Mexia will soon have a new
paper to be published by Cox A j limbs.
Hall
|upon exarni
It is said that the Baltimore found that il
0 names were pn-
They had raged
twenty eight hours irj spite : of if
the almost superhuman •efforts-1
put forth by tin* best fjie
ing forces which more tia
a dozen cities were able to
ter.
The city is overcast with
gloom. The only light in the
burned district are those in the
smoldering ruins. The only
lights in that section which es-
caped destruction are from the
corner gas lamps. The stores
are dosed in every street The
darkened avenues are ’full of
jostling people, talking -.pn one
subject. Apparently there is
but one cause for gladness and
this is that there are no homeless.
The residence portion of the city
' escaped. This phase of Ihe sit-
s from
prop-
11 ous ton had a.$100,000 fire
Sunday night, in which a large
number of livery horses were
destroyed in the flames.
mus
The Mexia Nows of last Mon
day reports the marriage in that
city, of Mr. ('lark Austin and
Miss Belle Land), of Cotton
< dll.
\\m ( . Whitney, Secretary of
the Navy under Grover Cleve-
land, died last week while under-
going an operation for appendi-
citis.
avenues
Little Star Locals.
From Driver.
Feb. 8. With the departure
of 1903, how many fond hopes
have perished and bright dreams
have vanished? How many sad
Tbrewells been spoken? Who
can number the bitter tears that
-were shed? How oft have the
whispering winds listened to the
sigh of anguish, the moan of dis-
pair from some over burthened
heart at the rude awakening says:
Perfect ConfideiT
s Where there used tof a feel-
ing of uneasiness andforry in
the household _when| child
showed symptoms \J croup,
there is now perfectifidence.,).
This is owing to the Vrprm suc-
cess of ChamberiaL Cough
Remedy in the treatnrft of that
disease. Mrs. M. I tford„of
Poolesville, Md., in sjaking of
her experience in theje of that 1
“I ha- a worlc^
of confidence in Chi'lberlain’f
Cough Remedy for I ive used
it with perfect sumss. My
child, Garland, is su, jet to se-
vere attacks of croup'fd it' al-
ways gives him p*tnpi re-
lief. For sale by Jenson &
Mcllveen, Fairfield ;W. Allej-
greo, Wortham.
The Baltimore tire is said to
be the largest in the history of
the world—and thus another
•■ecord breaking catastrophe is
recorded with many others since
the advent of the XXtli cen-
Ui ry.
family.
i- The young people enjoyed a
y Flinch party last Saturday night
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F.
R. Smith.
y
A nice rain fell here last Fri-
a day. It was needed as some of
3 the land was getting too hard to
plow. There are being the ear-
liest preparations made for a
i crop that we have ever had be-
r fore.
r MiS9 Ida Eddings, who has
! b©en teaching at Black Jack, has
suspended her school until sum-
mer, on account of the measles,
and is now at home.
Dr. Blount had the misfortune
' of loosing a line saddle horse
last week, of blind staggers.
Considerable excitement pre-
vails here on account of the dis-
covery of a negro man in the
house of J. B. Clark, on last
Wednesday night. Diligent
search has been made, but no
clue to his identity has yet been
found.
_; Ruth. <
ATTENTION VETERANS. 1
Headquarters Joe Johnson *
Camp, No. 94, U. C. V. 1
Mexia, Feb. #, 1904.
General Orderrs No. 19. ]
All members of Joe Johnston 5
Camp are hereby requested to 8
assemble in Mexia on Saturday, ”
Feb. 27, 1904, at 3 o’clock p. in., J
for the purpose of fixinn- t.ho
OBITUARY . j , '
Mrs. Virgie Sanders, daugh-
ter of O. M. and C. M."l Wood,
died at Dew, last Sunday evening
at 3 o’clock. She was horn in
Mississippi, May 21, lRfR, and
moved to Freestone county, Dec.
13, 1893, and made Dt)w her
home ever since. She 'was a
out at Zion and she has entered future to a dai
school at Buffalo. Miss Jessie our one consola
will be one of Freestone’s best ed and the futu
teachers ere long. bring us?
Thejroung folks had a singing This commun
at T. M. Goodson’s last uight. soil andiipeedit
Tom Hay has a new 11-pound ing for a better
boy, born the fith inst., also has reaped in 1903.
a new farm bell. be a great an
i There is more farming done Panted around
than ever before done this early as Mis8 Boll W<
in this community. The boll a bint last year
weevil have gotten a “Susanna” and energy. J
move on our people. Cheer up)T9nlY °ne around
brother farmer, there are better war on the weei
times ahead. will plant only \
Winter, so far, indicates a fa- hands can ov
v or able and prosperous' year,. s<luare8 °nd bur
though the weevil may damage a croP>
\/Y B. MOSES
Attorney a,
Counsellor ao^y
Fairfield, Text-
Will practice in all (\> ii
mce over W E. Riohar.pan!
stance telephone in oftic
five years old, an aged mother,
four sisters and two brothers,
the future market. There is a
shortage of cotton and the hold-
ers of spot cotton will not turn
loose their holdings at the pres-
ent figures of the future mar-
ket.
OITATIOJI
The State of Texas, j
To the Sheriff or any Coitable of Free-
stone county, Greejng:
Yon are hereby dommnded to sum-
mon w, E. Shockley by making publi-
cation of this citatatio J once in each
week for four sncoessiA neeks previous
to the return day hereof,
paper published in your oouuilj' ' jflE
be a newspaper published
vrranama bhemeld was quite
sick recently, but glad to report „ ,
her Improving now.
Mr. and Mrs. Jo Young have ** no new«P»per published i^G
a new boy at their home. cial district, then in a news^
. Mshed in the nearest Distridof g
I his community is so distress- Judicial District, to appear)- T*
jngly healthy I have no sickness re&ular tenB of the Justicf^-
or deaths to ..write up. All our PrednctNo- 4- Preestone cl^‘
’Xt“Jf‘vrllw,t; SSMBBSki
ing they are all married, so I 1904, then and there to anrf"* fd
have no marriages to report, vMo filed in said Court on
The people are so industrious Mot a. a. I908inasuit sn^l
parch the square and cook the
weevil before it forms the grub.
Tbe old weevil will disappei
a iie oia weevu will disappear
about the first of July, as he did
last year. We will very likely
lose all cotton up to this date.
I look for us to get one bale to
three aficLfour acres. I would
Once there was an old
who losthis voice. As h<
,rmer
JOuld
ent 1 gave some advice on this
line, through the columns of the
Recorder, about one year ago,
and that the weevils would like-
ly ruin our cotton. Now, doii’t
ffot call his hogs he trainee
to run to the food pen whi
tapped on -the trough tAth ja
stick. One day tbe olo. man
turned his hogs out in the’forest
to run at large and every* time
they beard a woodpec1*en tap-
ping on a tree they would run tp
it, and‘this they kept up till they
finally ran themselves to leath.
There is a
Chamerlaitt’s Stomach and Liver
Tablets. Unequalled for
Constipation.
Hr. A. It. Kane, a prominent
druggist of Baxter Springs,
Kans., says: “Chambwlaia’s
Stomach and Liver Tablets are
in my judgment, tbe most su-
perior preparation of anything
financial adviser. I put my ad-
vice into practice last year, and
the result is plenty of corn and
syrup and meat for home us^
and enough to sell to run me
this year, so no credit this year.
Aunt Seely.
by itemized account on
far which amount and i
tiff pray, judgment.
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1904, newspaper, February 12, 1904; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1107383/m1/2/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.