The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1905 Page: 3 of 4
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The Fairfield Recorder.
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PM^BTKKS AND AttKNTS.
t«^h *°"-i publication tin's week,
lows:
Vwt'ripti'*na to th~- Rfj *>RDXtt>
pdtoi ;i UTTows'd jHjstmairters and
VOTES IN CONTEST.
Votes have been c;i»t in our
Machine Contest up to time of
as fol-
tiH fill!.. ■> NeV suherrtbera M • Mm. J: W Richard *>n, TurliujcVun.. 353
; rLieoUou* and old subscribers 1 Mr« Lain ltavid, Bre wer..........1<41
"nt- ■ ' Mm. Jennie Wttllmiikn Dew....... 5»
Mien Maud Evans, Lanely........v. 995
j Mr*. M. J. Heciie. rU'Birn. . . .'....... bO
, Mrs. E. .f Brown ............510
FRIDAY, FEB ? WOt
Donle I jjcalo.
Jan. 80
is (|uite sick.
A nice rain feli here Saturday
[fliyhi. arini li was followed by a
brisk norther.
.Hubbard Crawford, 'and Bur-
tun Robertson, of Houston conn
From (diiuqiiapitt
.Jan. 2fi.- We are having some
real had weather.
/il! tin Hum!, bf ChiiiguscUh
l-here Monday.
ptect yourself by wearing a
of Our rubber
Sinbe the first of September
there has beeu shippocb' from
Wortham i'A)* ar-M of corn, a tbtal
Jesse Ezell and Miss Beatrice
J. F. Howell and family visit-HWatt, of Little Star, attended
overshoe®. aKrait Rft yiQ. bu«kmle.
ed at Sam Scott’s Sunday
The young
folks enjoyed a4
j_j____r£„
O, women’s and children’s, i fanners Have realized out of the
f I). McIlvekn. corn cron a total of little mofe
than$20,000. Wortham Journal,
here from i '•.....—*■ v
The children were rerrlhmbered
and wo bought several aeries of
shoes and slippers for them,
and we are pleased to say that
A,Y Gfei-n was
life' Monday.
;o«*l the T^st 25- Years.
IP .-M ut'in-ril tlri*\<•■ ■*-l.istelesti
*11 m Y<'U know what you are
Saturday night.
V' Mi s P.laudio May and .Mio^
Estella Little spent Suuday with
relatives at Farrar.
Prayer meeting here every
Sunday evening.
Jumbo.
llev. Loviu preached ah excel-
lent sermon here last Sunday.
Bradley Harrison, of 0k I alio
tna, visited relatives here last
week. He thinks Oklahoma a
men.
Ao Animat, Story ^For
Littlt Folks
K-
Ihe Discontented Deer
ty, are waking this their homes very nice place for young
now.
akiitjA It i iron and quinine in taste ,we can offer them to our. custo-
foi n. Nqcure, ffc pay. 50c.
V
Was 1
. Dunugan, of
•re Monday.
Wbrtham,
mers at lower prices than here
tofore. T. D. McT^veen.
—
J Cor stable Ed Kennedy, of
.Worth am was here Friday.
bi
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■for to
Typewriter, good
’•"radc. k
Pittsbitrg Visible
as new. A
good rftachinjg,
Ex
son,
Constable •
f WortTuttn was here
Of Special Interest l<> Knud
Overseers.
Commissioners Court met last
Monday, and after passing oh a
few accounts, an order was tu;ul*.
requiring all road overseers to
make their report and return
: ORDiiu. ____... commission by Wednesday," the
lf»th, of the February term of
Hex William- commigsioner’s Court.
Mon- An or^er wa„ aiso made set-
tirtg qiidnight bf February 10, as
' the date for local option to go in
To . ie merchants- let us sup-; pffGCt jQ the Ontton Gin beat.
ply j u with- crop mortgages. 1
Wd p1 nt any form you desire News was received here-Tues-
v tl qh" name printed therein, day morning of the death of Mrs.
-. _ Margeret Selman, wife of W. L.
Lap*: town v. as full of Lane y Selnsan, at the family borne near
p fipl Monday, attending . in- ^ jewe^t, on Monday evening Jan.
t ice ( >nrt. 16th, at the age of 70 years. She
leaves her husband, ten children
all of whom were at thp bedside
Mustang Lopala,
Jan. 29—Mr: Marshall is
building a hog pasture.
Joe Pollard was in Oakwood
this week.
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"W J.Csmpbe!!,. who liss been
sick for sometime, is improving.
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day.
The farmers in and around
here are going to plant a large
potato crop this season.
Mr. Hughes left Thursday for
Lamar county to attend his son’s
funeral.
Marshall was in
Mr. Clinton
Centerville last week.
To Cure a Cold in One Bay.
J
Take Laxative Brorao Quinine Tab
le's, All druggist* refund the money jn Gie |ast moments, and a num
if it fait* to cure. £. W. ijGuves »ign»- , . .... e
tore i« . n each box. av. ber fof grandchildren, among
------------— i whom is J. S, Weakley, of this
C, (?. Wliitt and W. L. Ed-|city te mmmi her 1088. —Centre-
wards. Esq . of Butlor, were j ville Democrat.
Saturday on business mat
Jack Lott, of Faifield, was in
our community to-day.
Mr. Charlie Daniels, of Lane-
ly, has moved in our community.
We are glad to have him.
Marion Johnso*, of Black
Jack, was in our community last
week hunting.
Jack.
Gentlemen, we have received a
*i-----iebraied "F--
church here Sunday.
Jan* Mrs Vaughan, of1'
brewer, visited Mrs. J. A. Hol-
land Saturday and Sunday.
M rs Fletcher Low
ranee visited relatives here last
^ight. #
Bro. Lovin has moved to »a.
falo and will now he coavenient
to his appointments.
Barn to Mr. and Mrs. fc M.
Lee,JDec. 15, a gTrl
Egg buyers are gathering up
the surplus eggs and chickens.
W. E Holland is fn Fairfield
tod~*r OH ^UiBmoaa^
i’A (b vr ouce berimiv dixijatlsflod with
bta lot. His borne w.is on n hlkli pla-
(nu whleli wns well- eoveilNl with
woods Hud lirokuu by bountiful nUvuHiri
which fell hi bubbling raaesdea at the
edge ofrlhff plateau to the valley be-
low «’ . I
‘That Is a boaitjlfyajley/i,Oeelaret!
the deer one day n« he atood and look-
ed at the pretty landscape spread oiA
1 AT THE
racket store
You will find .a nice line
of glassware, tinware,
crockery, and sh^lf hard'
ware, school supplies,
ladies and childrens hose,
iiubons, Tace arid embroi-
dery. The latest books.
On the 5 and io eenh
4 couirters will be foufid
many useful things.
4licc
Miss
Bradley.
£)AVISS <& WILLIFORD
Mrs. M. B. Lee is still on
Keck ‘Building
’Phone in liffiai
.idclte.
Punch a Judy.
Shanks Locals.
Jan. 80.—Mrs. W. fe;
is some better.
Moore
Mrs. S. C. McGraw is on the
sick list. : -
ti: mew and 'Took Ei) at the miktty
—-1 *• DANDSCAI'E.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Oliver
gave the young folks a pound
supper Friday night and it was
enjoyed by a large crowd*
Lee East^ of East Point visit-
ed here Sunday
The singing at J. M: Ford’s
Sunday night was largely at-
tended.
Many prominent citizens frpm
[arious sections of the county
p. ere here Monday and Tuesday,
laying taxes.
SwjIC iu WUV ui.
If jTour stock lia,s strayed and
ari in, Fites tone county an ad in
want column will locate
i. Free to subscribers.
triot” shoe, the best $3.50 shoe
in the world, and with each pair
bought we give you a knife that
is giving satisfaction to our cus
tomers who are wearing the
“Patriots.” T. D. McIlveBN.
TV, Green, of Mustang, had
H hick in the drawing
M. Miller and Son’s recent
jntd received the sewing rna
Inc.
Hi have just received spring
s mimer sample books from
Is Lernat.ional Tailoring Co.
»»i samples are the nobbiest
> iq+. v ■ have ever handled.
T. D. McIlvekn.
t)r: W. M f.riftith" has been
|t, ill \\ 11T congestion -this
k, but is now some better.
|r..n Gt-i bib, of P destine came
Wednesday to remain until
* f tiier improves
i < Aiai e.nl' vd (lure for Pile**
Jit,-', .hi.•; pr trivliDg
IlcK, I>r, . . 1 <-i I I III, if l*AZO
Lit' AT”! ' .’il■ ■ ;ijiy • no
if li’ty, long standing, in fl to 1-1
First application gives* cam* and
iic If your drnggirt hwti’t it
>• ir. i'm,ups and it will Is* for
1 ’.iriH Medicine Co ,
b
- til ion fora local optlbn j
n in ibis Justice Precinct
men circulated, and it is
n,6 over ft hundred signers
•il be presented tolhe Feb-
Term of Commissioner®
irt.
Ranted to xfeil, lease'or
,iy i.jxi!. M\d ranch near
|iy, “JesgW Ridge, pluce,’’
ptrang/\\A “Ingram
AlBOthree dwhwy
ind registered Poll
ly at pace.
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“la Your Name Written Thera.”
The., following named parties
have renewed and paid on sub
scription to the Recorder since
our last issue. If you have re-
mitted since that date and your
name dot1* not appear, please no
fcify us:
Mrs. M. E. Bradley, Stewards
Mill.
Boatner Cain, Fairfield.
Will Nettles, Israel.
O IC Storey, Denton.
G. W. McAdams, Turlington
Mrs Sue MeCormie, Wortham
I*. FI Adkins, Lanely.
J. F. Truhin, Fay
Gus Daniel, Fairfield.
Tom Jordan-,
Mrs. Fannie Barbee, Lehigh,
I. T.
J. C. Easterling.
B. C. DeBmrie* Guus.
Mrs. M. J. Childs, Fairfield.
J. K. Brown, Fairfield.
■ H. M, Co/, Cotton Gin:
G. C. Gunter, Circle.
C. J. Yeldell, Luther.
N. A. Willard, Fairfield.
Mrs. M. A. Riley. ,,
W R. Boyd,
J. E. Oranu, Wortham.
Rev. G. W. White, Dew.
Howell Johnson, Fairfield.
H, R. Shanks, Shanks,
J. A. Holland Buffalv*.
A. L. Daniel, Fairfield.
Rev. W. G. Jackson.
Mills Locals.
Jan. 29—Mrs. J. A. Allison,
who has been sick for some time
is now improving and we hope
will soon be up again.
Isiss Omra 'wiiiiamson iia»
been ill, but is now convales-
cent,
Ben Biggs has moved in his
new house, and says he is glad
to get baek home.
Rue Landers has been suffer-
ing with rheumatism for several
days.
Dav„e Curry has bought a wiad
mill, and will soon be in good
shape to raise hogs as he has a
good pasture already.
We ar*‘having some rough
weather now and farmers can’t
do anything.
Miss Lee Green, of Cross
Roads visited Miss May and Su
sie Landers recently.
Some of our young people en
joyed a pleasent musical enter
taimnent at John Landers’ Sat-
urday night.
Crick i t.
Misse« Anna and Belle Whatr
ley, of Israel, visited relatives
here Sunday,
Lee Oliver, of Robertson
county, is visiting his aunt, Mrs.
Mattie Waldqn, . tad may stay
some time:
Misses Maud and Annie Irwin
and Ila Aaron attended the f»-
neral services, of Mrs. H. D,
Brown, an Aunt of Mrs. M. A.
Irwin.
H..R. Shanks was in Fairfield
Monday on business.
School was dismissed last
week gn account of the stateless
of the teacher but was rekmned
Monday.
Uncle Ned.
Turlington Locals.
Jan. 80—A. J. Emmons is
the sick list.
Ladies, we have the latest
styles in shoe* and slippers,
just received, and we are anxious
J6r yeu to call aria lbSK over mt
different stales. We can please
yon. no matter, what style or
priee. : T. L. McIlveen.
: rl%ere has been 36 cars of hogs
shipped from hetwsinoo«epleta
Black Jack Item*.
Delayed.
Jan. 28.—Mr. Lamp was in
Buffalo, Saturday.
Ed Epps is buying a "ear of
bogs for the Fort Worth market.
During the forest tires Mr. Epps
lost the buildings on one of his
places.
Mrs. Jim Johnson and daugii
ter visited relatives at Mustang
Sunday.
Mr. Thomas, of Little Star,
was here Sunday.
Mrs. Fogleinan has returned
from a two weeks’ visit to her
daughter, Mrs. Thomas, of *Lit-
tie Star.
Billie EUbanks, of FMrflold,
was in our midst last week.
Miss UteHa- Johnson ttttd
brother, are attending school at
Lanely.
"■w l-1 - Button Willow,
Born to Mr. and Mrs .Tim Ivy,
a girl: also to Mr. and Mrs.
Marion Emmons, a girl
But little preparations are be-
ing made for another crop and
some seem to be halting bet ween
two opinions, whether to plant
cotton or not.
J. M. Parker is preparing to
build a now gin at his old stand
here, which will greatly improve
the appearance of our village.
The workmen have nearlycom-
pleted the new church at Anti-
och, which, when completed,
will be a neat structure.
Tliere has been a number of
deaths among hogs of late,
brought about by sotrte disease
supposed to be cholera. 71. W.
Weaver and J. F. James are the
principal losers.
Mi-W* Lois Robertson has re-
turned to school at Fairfield, af
ter having spent the vacation
with homefulks.
"Mr: and Mrs. F. E. Hill spent
last Sunday in our midst.
Mrs. W. Leddbn, of Jackson-
ville'has been visiting here.
before him, hut many hundred feet be-
low. ‘‘How I should like to live there,
and yet It is impossible for me to climb
down the sleep sides of this immense
precipice. Just now I saw a little
sparrow who had been twittering in a
bush at my side spread his wings and
swiftljbsd-ji-d^wn, down, down, to the
mfenriow on' the bank of the valley
stream. Why should not 1 fly'!”
And the foolish deer thought so- long
on this subject ti(ot he. actually be-
came possessed of the " Idea that-bj*
could fly.
“Here I go.” he cried at last; “here I
go to the velvet meadows and. ihe cool
shade of yonder vailey!"
Then he plunged forward into the
air.
Weii, there isn't anything more to
tell about the deer, but it may be said
that on that selfsame day the Jackals
of that beautiful valley hud a feast of
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er enjoyed before.—Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
West side of Square. FairftdW, Tvr
Prohibittofl Proclamation.
of the local option election held
in the Ootton Gin Justice’s pre-
Anirnal Story
Little Folks
THE KING Of
MISTAKE
BEASTS
said the lion
. the king of
‘Tve just been told."
to his wife, “that I’m
tieasts.”
“And so you are,” replied his wife.
“The ouly pity is that you do not con-
duct yourself as a king should.”
“What shall I do?” asked the lordly
lion.
“Well; In the first place, you should
dress like a king," answered his wife.
Thereupon the lion went out and
proceeded U» get what he thought
would lx; the proper clothes for a king.
cinct No, 6 of Freestone county,
Texajf. on the 27th day" of De-
cember, 1904, to determine
whether or not the sale .of intox-
'■ "lOftting liquors shall be prohib-
ited iu said .Justice's Precinct,
and It appearing to the Gonrt
that said election was held in ac-
cordance with the law and the
previous order of this Court,
and that legal notices of said
election were posted in five1 dif-
ferent public places in said pre-
cinct, and that the result of said
election was in favor .of prohibi-
tion; the said vote being; For
prohibition, 111 votes; and
against prohibition 21 votes; and
that-the majority for prohibition
is 90 votes, it is considered, ad-
jiytged and ordered by the Court
tl\t the sale of intoxicating iiq-
uorh shall be absolutely prohi >
ited,' within the limits of Ji s-
tice’s Precinct No. 6, of Free-,
stone county, Texas, until sn h
time ks the qualified vok rs
therein may at a legal- eleefi m
held for that purpose, by a |i a-
jority vote, decide otherwise.
Said Justice’s Prec*nc-t hrrimpf
scribed by metes and bounds! as
follows: Beginning at the w
line of Precinct No. 1, at the n e
cor of Precinct No. 2; thence jx
30 w with the w line of Precinct
No. 1, to the Fairfield and Te-
huacana Hills road; thence w
with said road to the s e cor of
the Jno. F. McGuftin survey;
thence w with the McGuftin s
line to the s e line of the Jas.
Strickland league; thence s w
with the Strickland said line to
the. Cotton Gin and Wortham
road; thence with said road n w
to big Tehuacana creek; thence
up said creek to the w line of
Freestone county; thence s 30 e
with said county line to the n w
cor of Precinct No.- 2; thence
with said n line of Erect No 2 to
the plaoeof beginning. This or-
der is not intended to prohibit
Ahe sale of*wines for sacramental
purposes nor alcoholic stimu-
lants as medicine in onses of ac
tuuii sickness when such stimu-
lants are sold fipder the regula-
tions prescribed in Art. 3385, of
the Revised Statutes of Texas,
of 1895. It'is further ordered
that*this order be published for
four Successive weeks in a news-
paper published in said county.
J. R.t Bell,
County Judge, Pres®tvii6 Coun-
ty, Texas.
To Correspondents.
If all correspondents who are
out of stamps and stationery
willnotify u« we will take pleas-
ure in furnishing them.
Hugar cane and turkey crops
wxw-r our to sttow niMHftia off.
IIo <hvsi*<*(l himself up la the best in?
couhl get and then went *>nt l>» elstw
bimaelf 6ff among the animals
“Hello, T.eo!" cried Mt* Hlphu. "What
does this mean?"
“Why, I'm the king of beasts, iin<i
Adminitrator's Notice.
Notice is hereby given that
letters of administration were
granted to me upon the estate of
bid fair to be imoiensb fehia year, rtoud and long
Uteso arc my royal garoiauta. an ;,, , , ,
aimed the Hon. looking proudly down.) the time required by law1,
at his riot baf,
Tdr. Hippo leaned back and lungh")
j which will ddubthms prove more
Bora, to Mr. and.Mr*. Walter profitable than ootton. It is
pariai.
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SUy, Tuesday night, jtwins -a boy
oil about -and a jrlirl.
1: The weather this ' week
in the
,t»«we-4Md ®wl reto-
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well that our people -are turning
their attention more odch year to
-tp the raising of such crops,
thereby doing away with the hue
pif esywl^i^ard' Vta&m,*' ■
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"lUa xuig <n iuuvvd.'' t>:
claimed he. '‘Well, you tuny have been
bedora jrqu went craay hut now the
you have dressed yourself up in those
things you are no mol-e than a king
foul. You are .neither beast nor man,
MyiMmd, you've made a mistake '
8« the lion went home and thought it
•II mr sen Bnally beet hi* wjfe for
kua suck bm afivirs.—ss* I*eua>
Lem Hart, Jr., deceased, on Oc-
tober, 1904, by the County Court
of Freestone County, Texas. All
persons having claims against
j estate «re hereby required to
I present the same te me within
My
residence apd post office address
is Fairfield, Freestone CottotyJ
Texas H H Dxvtss
Administrator Estate 1 -em Hart,
deceased.
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I« Cbmmiasiunera’ Court, Freestone
Codnty, Texas: "
, Jan. 7th, 1905.—The Court
“HaVing opened the polls and
“CTEnYas&ed.and counted the vote
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1905, newspaper, February 3, 1905; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1110359/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.