The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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one year shall never exceed a cer-
tain specified amount. The pro-
posed pension %mendnpe»l ia a
very worthy oue, and wbde our
apace will not permit thia week a
further notice of it, we
t* All tkeae ladehted to the fewrihr.
Having bought the Fairfield
Rzcokdsk’s books and nccowota,
iu connection with the office, 1 am
compelled to call on all those ow-
ing the paper to come in and settle
Jbeir iadebtedneas aa aeon aa pos-
sible. In my absence from the
office, settlements may be made
with Mr. Kirgan or Mr. Lillard,
All accowuta not paid by Novem-
ber 1st will be placed in the bands
of a collector.
W. 0. Feery,'
Publisher
THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER.
ireii at the Poatofflce at Fairfield
Tex., as 8eoond-elaas Matter.
The Recorder will give its
readers tbia week'an explanation
oflthe two constitutional amend-
ments to be voted on in November
next. It will first explain what
/©aoh one is for, and what would be
the result of their adoption; nod
then will tell how it bappeued that
one of them, called the Confeder-
ate Pension Amendment, will have
to bp voted on a week before the
general election.
The first amendment explained
is the one that will read, on the
election ticket, "For (of* against)
Amendment to Section 24, of Arti-
cle 3, of the Constitution of the
iAfete of Texas, relating to com-
pensation of members of the Leg.
islature." The present pay for
members of the Legislature is $5
a day^or the first sixty days that
the body is iu session, and after
that time only $2 a day. The pro-
posed amendment is the submis-
sion of a proposition to increase
the pay of members of the Legis-
lature, by giving them $5 for the
first one hundred days of a session,
ami $3 a day after that time.
To illustrate the difference be-
tween the compensation of the
present law and the proposed one,
th« following statement is made:.
The average length of a session
of the Legislature is say 100 days.
Some times it is a little over that,
sometimes under it But at 100
days, for easier calculations, under
the present law members would re-
ceive $300 for the first sixty days,
and $80 for the other forty days,
making a total of $380 for the one
hundred days. Under the pro-
posed amendment (if adopted) the
compensation for the average ses-
sion of the Legislature would be
$300, or $120 more than under the
present law, or an average of $1.20
a day more than is now paid mem-
bers.
There aie those who believe that
if members of the Legislature were
better paid, there wo^ld be, as a
whole, an abler class of men will-
ing to leave their homes and pri-
vate business to serve the State as
legislators. None of them can
live at Austin at a less expense
than from $25 to $40 a month, as
boarding expenses, to say nothing
of often unavoidable incidental ex-
and as little as it may be
9. 0. PEERY, Editor A Proprietor.
Realising the very low prices of cotton and with the large stock
of Hardware, Queensware, Glassware, etc., that we,have on hand, - we
will have to radooe prices td sell the stock -We have been is1 business
a long time and we have often heard that there was a “whoih lot of
glory” ya “rat throat” prices, so we thought we wonld try it ttiia fa If.
If we don’t make any money we will have-a lot of the “glory” for profit.
8o now don’t forget us. Come snd price before yon purchase else-
where. We have got the prices aDd goods*
_ -«■ „ • f ' »W
We carry in stock ten makes* of Axes, at &om
60c to $1.25 each.
Pocket Cutlery from 6c e&efi to $1.25.
COOK STOVES,_____$7JO to $35.00.
We eannot enumerate all of our goods and prices as
it wonld be too lengthy.
All We ask of You is to. <
Come and Examinefor Yourself..
Remember we carry In Stock a full line of the Famous
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
3«opy oue year.....„. . . ........81.00
Jaopy six mouths . . . *............ 65
He subscriptions sent oji credit at
Auve figures. They are spobu^th.
All subscriptions not renewedJn one
■ruth sfter expiration will be 81.50 a
ymr. You csnjwiiew your subscription
with your postmaster at suy time.
will only
say it ought to be adopted by a
hearty, emphatic majority. Texas
can we+1 afford to take oare of the
indigent, helpless old soldiers no-w
in the State. The amendment,
adopted! tbia long after the civil
war, will probably never require
the maximum amonnt of the apt
pfopriation allowed to pension the
soldiers.
Now a few words as to why thia
amendment has tojbe voted on a*
week before the general election.
The Recorder in April last ex-
plained bow it occurred, but will
state it again for the information
of its readers. When first offered
iu the House it was intended to
have this amendment voted on in
August of last year, but the author
of it, Judge W. B. Wall, of Hous-
ton county, amended it, ^so as to
have the vote "Bt the next general
election.” The Chief Clerk ol4fie
Houpe, who has charge of all bills
pending their passage and trans-
mission from the House to the
Satiate, failed to note the amend-
ment or place it on the bill before
taking it to the Sehate. The de-
sired amendment not being found
ou it, after getting into the Senate,
it was there amended by Senator
Rogers, of Anderson county, who
unfortunately made the amend-
ment fix the day of voting “on the
first Tuesday iu November 1898,”
thinking that was the regular day
for the general election. The
amendment did not get back to
the House from the Senate until
the day before the Legislature ad-
journed, when there is always
haste and confusion, in the dis-
patch of business, by members
FRIDAY. SEPT 23, 1898.
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Hhr Governor:
josepu i). Layers.
fcr Lieutenant-Governor: «if
J. N. BROWNING.
Stor Attorney General:
TIIOS. S. SMITH,
fur Land Commissioner:
GEO. W. FINGER.
Tw Treasurer:
J. W. ROBBINS.
A>r Comptroller:
K. W. FINLEY.
Mm Snpt. Public Instruction:
J. H. KENDALL,
for Railway Commissioner:
ALLISON MAYFIELD,
for Associate Justice Supreme Court:
T. J. BROWN.
Mot Associate Jus. Crim. Ct. of Appeals
M. M. BROOKS.
-^<r Congress, 1st District, v
THOMAS H. BALL,
fur District Attorney, ldtb District,
O. C. Kilt YEN.
SPECIAL LUMBER NOTICE.
We will deliver in
Fairfield all bills of
lumber bought of us
amounting to 600 feet
or more at 40 cents; per
hundred feet. ’Phone
ns your order at’ oui
expense and it will
go out at once by oui
wagons.
BUFFALO TRADING C0.7
CARTER KIRVEN, JR., ITg’t
AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
Below we give you a few Prices on Different Articles
75cts BUYS 10 PIECES TINWARE.
1 12 qt dish pant . ............ 26o
1 2-qt coffee put................. 15o
I tiu oup............ 10o
1 pudding pan..................... 10o
1 potato grater.,................... 15o
1 large wash pane.................. 15c
1 wood handle d ipper.............. 10o
1 covered bucket.......... 10o
1 10- qt milk bucket................20o
( Actually worth..........81.30
81.00 BUYS :
1 cream pitcher.................... 15c
1 sugar bowl.................... 20c
1 butter dish........... 15o
1 spoon holder.................... 10c
1 preserve dish................... 15c
1 ^-gallon glass pitcher........... 25c
1 glass molasses pitcher............ I5c
6 large tumblers................... 15o
1 glass lamp burner and chimney... 25c
i Actually worth........ 81.55
Furniture and Coffins.
I desire to inform my friends
and the public that I am still deal-
ing in furniture and coffins, and
solicit a part of tbeir patronage.
I wish also to contradict a report
givpn out that I had goDB out of
the business, for such is not true,
There has not begb a time this
year that I have not had coffins
for sale, and I expect to continue
to keep them, and will sell them
as cheap as anybody.
J J. Cullison,
Fairfield, Tet
jrEMOt'RATH COUNTY TICKET
Stu Representative:
L. 1). LILLARD.
9ot County Judge:
H. I!. DAVtSS.
9m County Attorney:
R. M. ED WARDS.
•lor County C!ei k:
C. B. pUNAGAN.
■hr District Clerk:
J. B. ROBERTSON.
Jer Sheritf:
H. H POWELL.
T<-r Tax Assessor:
A. p. carter.
flu Tax Collector:
W. R. T. DRUM WRIGHT.
Yur County Treasurer:
T. J. STMS.
tvr County Surveyor:
T. G. BLACKMON.
Very' best 6-inch stovepipe at 15c per
joint.
6-inch rain-proofs from 30c to 40c.
Very best 6-inch stovepipe elbows 15a
Best stove shovel worth 10c for 5c.
Lamps complete with burner/and
chimney f rona-tSOfrto-83.50. J'
Axle grease, large 10c boxes for 5c, or
six for 25c.
Buggy whips from. 10c to 81.25. Old
Glory whips 30o.
—Jf yon want a Lamp examine ours,
we have 300 to select from, you can cer-
tainly find one to suit yon.
We carry the largest and beet assorted stock of Crockery and
Glassware to be seen in the couuty. We carry a full lioe
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
<ck. Call and examine our stock wheu you want anything in the
If the military system has done
all the barm, we have some al-
leged bright, up-to-date military
experts who Deed an over hauling
—Dallas News.
Gibbs Then and Now.
Tbe Leading and Largest
Hardware Store in Freestone County.
The Democratic.ticket is in no
i»Bger in Texas this year.
The second Texas regiment will
^ Blustered out at Dallas.
The Texas State Fair promisee
Iw* another grand success this
J net after mudsiller Gibbs was
defeated for Congress in 1896, he
said to Round About iu tbe Dallas
News: “I am done now; I only
intended to dance one set with the
pops anyway.” Ou March 17,
1838 he said to the Dallas corres-
pondent of the Houston Post: “I
am a maverick. I do not belong
to the populist part any more than
to any other parjtyT'xBof the pops
have converted\him to populism
and have seduced him into mac-
ing another set with them by giv-
ing him their nomination for gov-
ernor.—Clebunie Review.
Why, didfirt you know that
Barney is a funnyufallow? Funny
fellows do fanny things. For in-*
staqce/fe yon suggest: Gibbs did
not always affect the sympathy he
now claims for the “vine and fig
tree" fellows. When he was State
Senator he wanted to make tbe
murder of fence cutters justifiable
homicide. He was then trying to
stand in with the cattle ba-
rons who were trying to freeze out
the nesters, the little home makers
of tbe west, by fencing them in
with barbed wire.”—Houston Poet.
To paralyze, antagonise, put to sleep and hypnotize all competition
in thia style of fashion, but tbe people well remember that we always
lead and others follow—if they can.
The United States is yet suspi-
raoub of Germany in tbe Philip-
lynes.
Barney Gibbs seems to have a
kJ for writing letters to Gov. Cul-
ls mou.
penses
regarded by some hs true, it is a in that body, nor afterwards in tbe
well known fact that counting a House, under the circnmstanceB
man'6 loss of time from his busi- attending its final passage. Tbe
ness at home, when his expenses are fact is, nearly everybody thought
taken from hie receipts, there that the general election day is the
is not much money made in gSiUg"'firsUTuesday in November, wheu
to the Legislature. sometimes (as in this year) it is on
Now, on the other hand, there the Becond Tuesday. TheGovern-
are those who hold different ideas or himself did not Dotice the error
of economy, and believe that the when signing the bill, and thus it
State ought to pay just as small happened that two elections will
wages as possible to all men work- have to be held in November, ex-
ing for it, regardless of the work BCt|y one week apart,
to be performed. All such, of , m __
course, will be inclined to vote prjze money fot the destruction
against the proposition to increase q{ tfae 8pani(jh fl^ j# M dip.
the compensation of members of Admiral Dewey getg
the Legislature; and, as it le an ten thoQBand dollftr8 for bia |o.
open question and this a Free . . . . «w ... A ,
F 1 tl ... _ A rioue victory at Manila, while Ad-
country, all are privileged to vote ^ gamp80n Rfthj thirteen thon.
as his judgment or bias of opinion eand dollarB for 8chley.e glorioOB
may influence him. The amend- vjcto t 8antiBgo. There is lot.
ment is to be voted on at the gen- , . .. - ...
, , . . „ . * of justice (?) in this war.
eral election in November, and is _/ _
the only one that will be printed ’*
on the tickets containing tbe The President of Stanford -Uoi-
names of the State and county ven[t^ at 8rd ****** «
nominees. a lectore on the war Alger
We will next discuss the Con- » not responsible for tbe many
federate Pension amendment, as crimes committed by the war de-
it ia called, which, on account of a partment, and gives as his reasons
mistake made in a date, will have that Alger doesn’t know enough.
to be voted ou odo week before tbe -—--
general election, that is on Novem- A war is being waged amoDg
ber 1st, while the geueral election tbe ootton yards at Waxahaobie
takes place on November 8th. Tbe which is proving beneficial to tbe
object of this amendment is to al- farmers. Last Saturday ootton
low the State to grant to certain was weighed free and tbe owner
indigent and disabled Confederate was presented 26 oents for each
soldiers a pension of not exoeed- bale brought him.
ing $8 a month. The amendment —-*— -
One Price to all and that the Lowest
If yon doubt it we invite you to go anywhere, everywhere, and get
auy price and every prioc you can, and see if we are not fixed to knook
the props from under any firm who attempts-to start to meet pnr
shamefully low prices. *
The final death blow will be
jfivRD to populism in Freestone
sonnty at the polls in November.
President McKinley is not bav
i)g an easy time in finding compe
tent men who are willing to accept
Dos appointment on tbe committee
to investigate the conduct of the
mar department.
Tbe prospect of the revision of
She celebrated Dreyfus case seems
Sd be creating quite a flurry iu
French political and military eir-
(des. Two of France’s ministers
fiave tendered tbeir resignation.
Col. D. McNanghton, who, until
secRntly published the Oakwood
35mes, has moved bis plant to
Marqnez, and resumed publication
•f the Times at that place. We
wish Bro. McN&ugbton much suc-
cess in his new venture.
Alger says that be wants all sol-
dTers who have a grievance to tell
Ibem. He denies that any blame
nests on the War Department
There is one fact that Alger cannot
deny and that is, a great many of
«w brave soldiers have died of
starvation and other criminal neg-
lect, and that these sins rest upon
Ike bead of somebody.
Tbe first day of the State Fair,
Hot. let, will be “Democrat Day,”
and many prominent State and
National leaders will be preeent
sad address the people. Hon. Joe.
D. Sayers will be one of tbe prin-
cipal orators of the oooasion.
Bound trip rates of fl.00 for all
points within 100 miles of Dallas
•eill be given by all railror. ln.
this liae with Hamilton-Brown’e
best make of shoee. It is no ex-
periment to buy these shoes—they
all wear well.
Ladies Kid Shoes.......... 69
Other grades $1.00, $1.26,
$1.50, $2:00 and..........$2 60
I pr “Old Ladies Comforts”.. 1 00
200 pr women's Glove Grain
Button Shoes, bradded
around vamp, all solid.... 1 00
1 lot w&men's glove grain
button Shoes............ 95-
Men’s Fine Shoes.......... 1 16
Other lines $1.26, $1.75, $2 00 2 50
6LOTHIKO DEPARTMENT.
1 lot men’s Wool Suite.....$3 50*
1 “ Clay Worsted Suits.... 4 00*
1 " Cheviot “ ,... 4 50*
MISCELLANEOUS.
1 paper Brass Pius........... 4
1gold-eyed Needles.... 3
1 spool six cord Cotton, 200 yd 3
1 “ 3 cord “ 200 yd 2
1 ladies Vest................ 5
1 M Corset...............24
1 laundried Percale Shirt.....24
1 pr seamless socks........... 6
1 “ ladies Hose............. 5
STAPLE GOODS. '
All the best brands of Prints.. 44
Yard wide Sea Island.........44
“ “ Bleaching, no starch o
27-in. Cotton Plaids.......... 3
Heavy Drilling.............. 6 f
Bonnet Chambray...........8 i
Lining Cambrics............. 4
1 piece 64-in. Table Linen, ex-
tra value............... 36
Table Oil Cloth..............12*
HATS! HATS! HATS!
We Bell more Hats than all the
rest of tbe town, and why so Is just
because we sell them cheap like
other goods. We prioe them all
tbe way from 20 cents to $2 45.
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
We are loaded to tbe brim in
Boys Jeans Pants........
Men's “ " ........
“ Doe Skin Pants.....
« Mole Skin “ .....
Dress Pants $1.00, (1.!
$1.65, $2.00............
1 pair men's Overalls.....
FAIR
of Cdd-liver OU, with Hypo-
phosphites of Lime and Soda,
contains just the remedies to
meet these wants. The cod-
liver oil gives the needed
strength, enriches the blood,
feeds the nerves, and the hy-
pophosphhes give them tone
and vigor. Be sure you get
SCOTT'S Emulsion.
All drucfbu | joc. »nd $i.oo.
HOVEY’S REST
SCOTT a BO WMF., ChcmUU. N.w York.
For sale by all druggists.
Nicest P
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Peery, W. O. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1898, newspaper, September 23, 1898; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1126552/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.