The Van Zandter. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1900 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 1.
WILLS POINT, VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 11)00.
NO 37
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Van Zandt .County .
Lands For Sale.
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Watch Tills ll$t. it will be cluuujed Frequent-
ly. Dont Fail to Gel a Home while jjcu can.
880 acres E. Willingham survey miles N. E. Wills Point in fine
12 miles S. W. from Canton, 3 state of cultivation, two good or-
miles 8. W. of Sam Mayfield’s, chards, two tenant houses, fenced
Very fino timber land. No better and cross fenced, plenty of water,
or farming. Will cut into 40 Price $2,600. One-fifth cash
acre tract*. Choice blocks $4.50 balance 8 annual payments. This
per nw. One-six^i cash balance farm has been cut into 50 and 60
6 yearly payments. acre tracts either of which can bo
960 acres A. Dntchcr survey 8 bought at a bargain, with very
miles N. E. from Cantou 1 1-2 little cash down,
miles south of Bolton, a station 560 acres Clarks Ferry place 5
on the T. & P. R. R. near R. D. miles north of Grand Saline.
Bryant’s. This is fine farm land Very fine' property for stock
all timber and will be sold in ranch. Plenty of water and grass,
tracts, of not less than 50 acres. Also splendid farm land. This is
Choice blocks $3.50 per acre, a bargain. Price $1,600. One-
One-fifth cash balance in 5 yearly fifth cash balance 8 annual pav-
pawi^uts. ments. Will sell a part of this
8|0 acres “Roehtllo place” 7 tract if desired,
miles N. E. from Wills Point ad- 540 acres James Love survey 5
Joining J. G. Board and Charley miles N. E. from Wills Poiutt
, . Brown. Some extra fine timbor; OooiTtimber land, Has been ou
* has been cut into tracts of 40 to into 40 acre tracts. Choice block
50 acres and will be sold low $6 per acre. One-fonrth cash
down and on easy terms. This balance 3 annual payments,
tract must be sold, so come on 100 acres prairie 4 miles N. E
and I will make you terms to suit, from Wills Point. Three sides
628 acres T. J. Church survey fenced, good tillable land, good
6 miles south from Canton, grass, two large tanks that hold
Good sandy land. Will cut in water all the year. Price $850.
tracts of not less than 50 acres. $50 cash balance 8 annual pay*
Choice blocks $3 per acre. One- ments. Will divide this tract and
fifth cash balance 4 annual pay- sell half if desired,
ments. * W. J. Grkkh,
260 acres ‘‘Jackson farm” 4 Wills Point, To
Results are Strong Convincers
OUR ADVERTISEHENTS ARE FACTS
The strongest is their fulfilment in giving values that face recognition
its genuine bargains, that win appreciation nrd install confidence. Facts couut,
^ »WW« notpfomisivi. The substantial test of time has proven our reliability.
SMALL PROFITS, LARGE AMD QUICK SALES.
In all Departments of
Value that Cap the Climax.
our store, you will find Bargains.
Special Sale.
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50 Plocea of figured Scotch Lawn, regular value 8 1-3 cent*, wo put
, > on sale at only 5 cents. 50 Piece* of corded Dimity, regular value
12 1-2 cent*, we put on sale at only 7 cent*.
A,RARE OPPORTUNITY. '
Rose Dry Goods Company.
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Another Interesting Article From
A. P. SnlHvao.
LoNowoon Ranch, May 10,1
1900.—Our return home caused
considerable excitement in the
m"%r old neighborhood. We had been
gone so long the people, having
no tidings of us, had almost comes
to the conclusion that the wild
animals had devoured us, or thatj
the indians Imd killed or captured
n US, But such was not the case.
% jte had returned, were in the
very best of health, had all the
hair on tlfc top of our heads, still
' for many days we were surround-
ed by our friends and neighbors
making inquiry as to where we
went, bow we hud fared uuring
our lonely camp life, and all
about the country. '
»< Will here state that we left the
old farm and family in charge of
William Gibbard, nu Englishman,
- who came to America In 1887.
He was born in Hartfordshire,
England, in 1817. He came over
to New York, made his way
across the country to Illinois and
located at Danville, Vermilion
county. HeTiad two older broth-
ers, Edward and Robert, who had
‘ preceded him the year before,
but Edward died a short time
before William arrived. Robert
and William engaged in the bak-
ery business, run it about two
years in Danville, William had
a great love for adventure, was
full of enterprise and wanted to
go to the Southwest. Robert
was a very pious man and Imd
been studying for the-ministry
for some time. He wanted to re-
turn to England. They sold out
their business in Danville and
Robert returned to England and
•pent the remainder of his life in
the ministry. *
The Lone Star Republic that
leomod ap on the western hori-
kob, the massacre at Goliad, the
fall of the Alamo and the inhu-
man butchery of Travis, Crocket,
Bowie and their brave .comrade ■
by Santa Anna were still in the
minds of the people. Santa An-
na’s defeat at San Jacinto, the
l»cw republic and the thrilling
events connected with it, caused
the lovers of adventure and ex-
citement to turn their eye* to-
wards Texas. Gibbard among
others caught the inspiration and
in the fall of 1839 he, in company
with one Thomas Williamson, an-
other Englishman, and who was
a former neighbor of his in Eng-
land, rigged up a two home wag-
on and came to Texas by way of
St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.,
Ft. Smith, Ark., across the Indian
Territory to Fort Towson, crossed
Red River at Pine Bluff, haulted
at Capt. Giddeon’s, an old cit-
izen of Illinois, six miles east of
Clarksville in Red River county.
The Texas war seemed now to
be over, the Republic established,
and as there seemed no exciting
enterprises to engage in, Gibbard
concluded to settle down and
await future results, Capt. Gid-
deon had a large farm and wfts as
well fixed as a man could well be
in Texas at that time. Gibbard
concluded he would stop with
him. What pleaded him most
Capt. Giddoon had a good libra-
ry. Gibbard was a good English
scholar And a great reader and it
was his delight to pore over tlio
old musty volumes whenever he
bad any apar'e time. He had
been a considerable traveler and
being a close observer, there were
many things came under his ob-
servation-.that were interesting.
His experHiJSfrc and fondness for
relating many of the events that
came under his observation placed
him far in advance of all the
other young men in the commu-
nity in intelligence. There gath-
ered around him a huge circle of
young friends who listened with
delight to his witty sayings and
jokes, 'in fact his company was
sought by the old as well as by
the young. He was in the Tarrant
expedition against the iudiana in
1843. He married into the Sulli-
van family the same year. He
obtained a hcadright certificate
from the Republic of Texas for
320 acres of land which was lo-
cated in this community. The
old SpanIMl trail passed through
his survey ami as the country
opened up there was an immense
travel passed that way. He open-
ed a farm on his laud and settled
ikiwn and his house became a
homo for the wayfarer in passing
to the west as well as to the east.
His open-hearted hospitality and
his well-furnished home made his
house a favorite stopping place
for the traveling public. In a few
years there sprang up a prosper-
ous village at his place. There
was a postoffice established called
Cedar Grove postoffiee and Gib-
bard was appointed postmaster.
He was. also elected magistrate
and held tho office many years.
There was much legal business
transacted before him in which
he always gave satisfaction in all
his decisions. Don’t remember
of any appeals being taken. He
was married twice. His second
wife was a Tennessee woman
named Newton. He raised a
family of eight children and gave
them all a liberal education. He
provided' well for bis household.
He remained on his old home
until his children grew up and
married off. The home then
passed to them. In all his deal-
ings with his fellow' man I never
knew him to have a dispute or
controversy. He lived to a good,
green old age, died and was
buried in the Cedar Grove ceme-
tery on land he deoiled to. the
community for a burying ground.
He was a man loved and respect-
ed by all who knew him, and as a
pioneer and citizen he was as val-
uable a man as ever settled in this
community.
Sullivan helped finish up the
chop, harvqst the wheat, and re-
mained at homo until the tenth of
July, when ho returned to look
after his ranch and found McBcc,
the old hermit, still in camp, the
crops all safe, roasting ears plen-
tiful, and prospect of a good crop
fpr new land. McBcc had been a
liligcnt hunter and had his cook
shod stacked up with jerked meat
until it.would discount most of
the smoke houses. Sullivan and
McBeo stowed away a lot of it
together with other things and
started down the Spanish trail to
look up their land. Forty miles
down the trail they came to a
settlement. Tho hammocks con-
tinuing down tho trail 60 miles.
At the Neelies saline the settle-
ments became more frequent, the
road plainer'. Continuing on
down they came to tjie Angelina
river near the village of Douglas
Sixteen miles from here we came
to the old historic Spanish town
of.Nacogdoches. It was the old-
est town we had ever seen and
had tho oldest appearance.' The
houses and shade trees were cov-
ered \vith moss. In many places
it hung down in long festoons
near the ground.. In some places
the shade and moss were so dense
you could scarcely see the houses.
There was the old red stone
house pointed out to us which
they said hud been the council
house for over 100 years. They
h&d several churches, among
them an old Cat holic cathedral.
There wore then about 300 Mex-
icans still in and around the city.
Most of the people wore well
fixed and Seemed to .enjoy life for
what it was worth.
After looking around viewing
the sights that were convenient,
the place that we were most in-
terested in was tjie land office.
It was pointed out to us and we
went in and introduced ourselves.
It was presided over by S. A.
Nelson, a middle aged gentleman.
We made known our wants. He
was a little shy of us at first, we
were strangers and from a great
distance, but when we informed
him that we had opened up
ranches ou the Sabine river and
had corn growing upon them anti
had five or six thousand acres of
certificates to locate, he became
ail attention. He spread out the
maps of this part of the country
and soon located the place where
wo had opened our fields- To our
surprise both of our fields were
on old surveys. The country
had been surveyed up six years
before. There had been a block
of leagues run out by King for a
colony which fronted on Trinity
river running east 128 in number,
but ho died and the enterprise
was dropped. Most of these
leagims'-wuEfiJakon up by specu-
lators, but as luck would have it,
we had built our camp just over
the .lino ou league 106 which
proved to be vacant. In the
west corner of this league Sulli-
van placed his headright where
Longwood Ranch is situated. On
the southeast of it he located 32<l
acres for Harrison Blevins, on
the southwest he located the
William Gibbard certificate of
320 acres. The balance of the
league, 3,325 acres, was taken up
by Mc^Bee. These lands were
filed and Nelson sent up two dep-
uty surveyors who run out the
land. The field notes of the land
had to be returned to Nacog-
doches and recorded then sent to
Austin, where tho patents were
procured by paying government
dues etc.
After securing his land, Sulli-
vau came home much pleased
over hrs «access in securing his
home, but felt a little sore over
tlie loss of his improvement. But
Unit turned out all right as it was
owned by a non-resident. It was
very near our home -and we con-
tinued to use it. It was six or
sevon years before any owner ap-
peared. When he came we divid-
ed the fence rails. By this time
Sullivan had opened a good farm
and did not feel the loss of it.
This was now the first of Sep-
tember. The crops had matured
and had to be gathered and wo
would be ready to move. When
Father informed Gibbard that he
had located his land in the edge
of a beautiful prairie, with a ten
mile view to the Cast, a fine belt
of timber on the wAst, a nice
little creek on the u<^rth side
skirted with timber interspersed
with cedar trees and tall elms and
other bottorii growth, he seemed
to be exceedingly happy. Ho
said that his fondest dreams had
been realized. Texas in her be-
nevolence bad given him a home
and a w’fe. That his motto in
the future should be, “Texas is
my adopted country., I have
made her interests mine, and
never will I abandon her lonely
star.” A. P. Sullivan.
Facts About the Bible.
1. In the Bible, Old and New
Testaments, .there are .%586,473
letters, 775,683 words, 31,373
verses, 1,189 chapters uud 66
books.
2. The longest book is Psalms,
which has 150 divisions. The
shortest is Second John, which
has one chapter of 13 versos.
3. The longest chapter is the
one hqndred and nineteenth
Psalm, which has 176 verses.
The shortest, the one hundred
and seventeenth Psalm, which
has two verses. , .
I. The longest verse is the
ninth verse of the eighth chapter
of Esther. It Ims 1R) words.
Tho shortest is the thirty-fifth
verso of the eleventh chapter of
John. It has two words..
5. The eighth verse of the one
hundred and eighteenth Psalm is
the middle verse of the Bible.
6. The thirty-seventh chapter
of Isaiah and the nineteenth
chapter of Second Kings arc
ali*.
7. In the one hundred and
seventh Psalm tho eighth, fif-
teenth, twenty-first and thirty-
first verses are alike.
8. Each verso of the hundred
and thirty-sixth Psalm ends
alike.
9. Esther is tho only book in
winch the name of God is not
found.
16. ,The twenty-first verso of
the seventh chapter of Ezra con-
tains all the letters of the alpha-
bet.
II. The Bible, contains no
word of more than six syllables.
“McKinley Prosperity.”
Rev. George Stuart, that wor-
thy divine now conducting a se-
ries of meetings in this city, dur-
ing a recent service unconscious-
ly delivered ono- of the strongest
campaign speeches 3-et made and
and one of the most powerful in
its truth and earnestness that will
bo made throughout the spirited
political battle to be waged from
now until November. It is but
just to the reverend gentleman
to say that he did it unconscious-
ly, for it ifi far from the mission
of tliis paper, to ^intimate for
minute that this very wortli
man, so earnest in the honcstVof
his religion, would prostituteJliis
high calling to the unholy lynnc
of politics. Unconsciously he
dealt a terrible blow to the re-
publican leaders who are con-
stantly prating about McKinley
prosperity. The minister told
nil about tho prosperity. He
told where lie found it. He
found the men in the navy yards
busy making guns. Hi' went to
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the ship yards anil found all Inert
buty fttul the proprietors looking
for help. They were making
warships. He found the wagon
makers busy; they wanted more
men there. The government was
culling for wagons. Ho found
the tent makers all working over
time: the government wanted-
tents for its army in the field,
lie found hundreds of women
making blue and khaki suits; tho
government needed them for the
soldiers. He found the stock
men hurrying their horses and-
cattle to the market where thp
buyers were begging for them.
The horses were wanted for tho
soldiers to ride and the cattle to-
make beef for them, Thus it
was wherever he went. Every
body was busy. Tin* prime cause’
for all this? “McKinley prosper-
ity.” Not a bit of this, but war.
War waged by the United States,
war waged by Great Britain, war
waged by Germany,'by Russia,,
by France', by the republics of.'
the southern portion of this con-
tinent, war everywhere. Unholy
wars, every one of them. A de-
mand for the products of this-
country created all over the-
world, a demand which keeps the*
• toilers of this country employed'
and allows the republican politi-
cians to prate of “McKinley”
prosperity, but which is based!
only on a wrong, on a sin, on a
crime and which cannot continue-
The old saying of living by tho
sword is applicable hero'. The
truth is that “McKinley prosper-
ity” is largely a myth. The peo-
ple have prospered by reason of
good crops in many localities and!
in receiving good prices for them..
There has boon good employment-
of labor, but- while the pay of
employees has in many cases been,
increased, such advance of wages
has not been in keeping with the
increase in I lie price of the neces-
saries of life made possible by
the trusts, trusts created and fos-
tered by republican legislation.
The worthy preacher in his ser-
mon told just exactly what makes
“McKinley prosperity” and all
the prosperity there is about it
for the people of thi^veountry is
ba-cd on poverty, destruction
and death to other people. Christ
does not countenance that kind
of prosperity. Fort
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Yantis, R. E. The Van Zandter. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1900, newspaper, June 1, 1900; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1118489/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.