The Terry County Herald. (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1905 Page: 1 of 4
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FIRST DAY OF CARNIVAL
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Dance Thursday Night.
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have the pleasure
Henrietta Cloth, silk finish per yard
Fine Quality Chevoit per yard
Fine Quality Venetians per yard
Fine Quality Venosa Wool per yard
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We are prepared to furnish you with the Best Goods
at the lowest possible prices for West Texas. We maybe
short lived but rest assured that we will treat you right
while we live. Our grocery line is complete. We have
cut the price of our nice line of dress goods in two on
account of their having arrived too late in the season.
Calicoes, flannels, ginghams, percals, ribbon-’, laces, em-
broidering etc. Ladies’and Cents’gloves, shoes, hats, •
caps, hose and undervear of all kinds Gents’ furnish-
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don how to bust trusts.
Yours For Business,
Big Springs Grocery Co.
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If you cannot buy goods at our store as cheap as you
can elsewhere and receive as kind treatment, it’s not us.
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While driving through the
streets of Moscow fast Friday
Grand Duke Sergius was blown
up by n assassin’s bomb. The
bomb is said to have been tnrown
from a passing sleigh, although
other reports have it that three
students are responsible for the
Governor of the Phi
xact operations of this particu- • *
ar truet down in the Territory.^
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up by R. F. Randal and others
Best Granulated Sugar
Arbuck’e Coffee
Evaporated Peaches
Evaporated Apples
Evaporated 6rapes
Evaporated A pricots
great war.
‘•Personally I had kinsmen
Best Louisian- Ribbon Cane Syrup
He st Losisiana Sorghum
Best Flour in the World
High Patent Flour
DRY GOODS.
Fire Serge V/orsted per yard
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oa‛l. Walter and Will Dixon,
md Hugh Rostiek went over t:
tire Russian dynas y and the
members of the royal family re
a little timid about b ing seen oi
the streets just now.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Welch on Feb. 15, a girF
President Roosevelt wrote:
•‘If I can] arrange the scheduie
The new qur intine regula-
tions place Childress county.
The . President’s
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Brownfield Mercantile Company...
Dry Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Stationery and Hardware.
washal There were not many,
pspl in town on amount of tha
muddy condition of the roads and
the threatening attitude of the
weather.
A few young ladies came in
during the day but most of them
returned home before night. At
, night several of the boys went
over to Gomez to* attend a dance
held there. They report a fine
time. The roping was put of till
the next day.
4 (6/9§89§@ weds 8§0@e@s $sexs gggssese
-nd a helping hand 2
According to -r-ports he has :
derad the Bu eau bf Commerce ' |
-ad the Darment of Jus’ice to' ?
.ct in concoct a id ascertain the ' :
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BROWNFIELD, TERRY COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBBUARY 17, 1905.
; . The Standard Oil is regard- 2
1 as trying to get its hoid on the i $
Kansas and Indian Territory oil
lands in effort to stifle compcti- 2
; on and thus increase its al-
ady enormous power but'<
tooseveit does not propose to ; 3
ttbyandidly watch the pro-i3
in the infected district and cattle
in that county cannot come out
of it except when especially au-
thorizl to do so by a fe laral in-
speetor. Garza county is re-
moved from all restrictions here-
tofore prevailing there. In Ok-
. lahoma, Grier county | is placed
below the quarantine line, and
all restraint is removed fromCus-
er county. The new regulations
are now effective.—Ex.
Lake Arthur is a new town in
N. M., situated four miles north
of Atesia. A month ago the
townsite of Lake Arthur was a
broad prairie but now contains
eighteen houses and. there are
contracts let for thirty-five more.
was but the other day that
# Weather Prevents Roping and
Racing, Also kesps Many
Away. No Dance.
Irvgsists and Jewelers,
Watch Inspectors T & P Ry.
Big Springs, Texas.
Special attention to Re-
paring. Work left in care
of the Voice office will re-
ceive prompt attention.
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heretofore free of the quarantine, Paris Texas, to visit
eedings. Kansas has arrayed I 2
ersalf against the Standard Oil/
m l is preparing to fight to theig
just made Jeb Stuart, Jr., Unitec
States mrshal for tie easter
district of Virginia.”
A Petition.
The following petition, gotte:
6W E SET THE PACE.
Grand Duke’s death.:
‘ The bomb Was thrown directly
under the duke’s carriage, blow-
ing it to fragments and complete-
ly decapitated the duke and
otherwise mangling him horribly.
The driver was badly burned and
died shortly afterwards. Tne
horaas ware nt hurt. S:.
Petersburg is greatly excited
over the event although the new:
of the duka’s death does not
come as a surprise to th em for it
has been universally known
there for some time past that the
terrorists had marked him for a
victim. All Russia is in a tense
state of excitement and it is rum-
ored that the Russian authori-
ties are now more in favor of
peace proposals with Japan than
ever. Reports from Berlin, Ger-
many say that travelers from St.
Petersburg report that the terror-
ists have marked three more of
Russia’s leaders for assassin at ion
—the Czar, Governor General
Trepoff, of St. Petersburg and
Interior Minister B ulegan.
as arranged for no roping
your camp. On that trip I shaP
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Thin stipe smoked bacon ”
Thin striped dry salt bacon ”
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that town
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nd spent the evening hours a
n music and dancing. The J
lancers stayed until after the J
dock had struck th midnight r
10ir. A few of the noys. Jack *
nation of Sergius.
.. The burial of Serg
have been havingnas put The: take place for some „ .
ground ia such bad condition and on account of the unfinished eon-
there being no .tears brought in dition of the new burial ebamb er’. 3
of the Cathedral at St. Peters
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For two years we have lead the profession in Big
Springs and West Texas on Groceries. We thank the
goodpeople of Terry and adjoining counties Lfor the
immence business they have given us. Our efforts have
Leen to please you. Our Motto, Is:
Your Money ack If You,Want It.
Every rrticle guaranteed as represented.
Come and see us when in Big Springs.
We will make you feel welcome.
zi Groves Those pres nt
vere Misses Sina Compton, Myr-
le Nicks. Lavina Brooks from
iomnez; Annie Hamilton and
nez Bess.
Messrs. Walter and Will Dixon,
ack Heal, Lawson Bess, Chrik
{orga i from Petersburg, Mark
:y, Bink Groves, Tom Cris-
Veil and a . number of others
vhos namest we were unable to
both sides. Two of my mother’:
brothers fought in the confedel -
ate service; one by the way set
vedonthe Nlavuna under Ad-
iniral Semmes, the father of the
wife of that gallant ex-Confeder
ale, Luke White, whom I mad
i list of signatures in a short while
i ranging irom the names of th
most infuential citizens of Terr,
county to bardles; youths who’
are just begining to feel the pow-
er of a 1 gal voter.
To the Honorable A. C. Wil-
meth, State Representative o
the 101st District:
We, your constituents desire t<
submit to your honorable boily
the fact that. . lure are in DaWsor
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county at this time as many a
(14) fourteen hel lings as assign -
eesof School Lands of the origins,
lessees of the State of Texas.
Besides other extended interest,
of a like charaeter i.i the most o
oir adjoining counties, consa
quentiy we respectfully ask yo.
to favor us with yowbest effort
in support of the bill now befo-
the House, giving prior right t
purchase as assignees of the saic
original Ls ees of the State o ’
Texas.
designated the only living gran -
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grand duke an extraordinary
Council of the Empire has been
summoned to consider the situa-
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Tanner, F. B. The Terry County Herald. (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1905, newspaper, February 17, 1905; Brownfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1563502/m1/1/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.