The Terry County Herald. (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1905 Page: 4 of 4
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the Conchos to find again the last came in Tuesday for the Carnival.
order to keep up the connection.
Coreless apples, seedless or-
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left out
are al-
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ed home last Silurday.
here he visited Mr. Pyett
haps in time we shall have the
thornless rose, the rootless pig.
angry waters carrying her away..
And when at last I would dese
off io sleep, I could hear her cal-
walers
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from a Florida orange grove in
blossom.
I was happy, no bird of para-
dise could have been happier.
We talked of love. We planned
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Maggie and I came down for a
boat ride. On the way I gather-
ed some pretty flowers. I never
saw a prettier night. The full
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Let Us Be Your Dealers
In Dry Goods, Notions, Hats,3cots, Shoes.
As Clothiers we
give our costomers
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Prompt attention given to mail orders.
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Capital, . -
Surplus and profits.
Building. Rates: S1.00 Per day.
Everything in First-ClassOrder.
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The tears began rolling from
his pale blue eyes, and I sat
down on the bank of the stream
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Dealers in Drugs, Chemicals, Druggist
1 Sundries, Lamps, Clocks, Jewelry, Win-
in An old man with silvery keks
stood on the banks of the beauti-
ful Concho, where the great pow-
er house is located, which fur-
The abo.e story w9
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The clock over in San
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BigSprings Hotel.9
R. P. HICKS, Proprietor.
Two Blocks West, Ona Block South of School
enough grass in the low places
• First-class Wagon Yard and Feed Stable •
" with all accommodations. Feed for sale •
2 by wholesale or retail
for the future. Our courting be-
gan away back in Indiana, be-
fore her father was transfered to
the department of Texas, but the
longer we were together, the
more l loved her, and while time
may rob’me of my youth and
vigor, while it may to. some ex-
tent destroy my memory, I never
have or never shall forget how
she looked with her eyes cast
Dr. Reynolds of Lubb >c k,
was down last week to set
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And Bemaocrats want a Domocratic Papar.
Try The
FORT WORTH RECORD.
SFMI-WEEKLY $1.00 A YEAR.
SIX MONTHS 50 CENTS.
In combination with the Terry County Voice $1.65 a year
Six months with the terry Couaty Voice .... .81.00
Send subscrip.ion3 to his ffi:e.
Besides being Damocratic. The
Record is about the newsiest and most
enterprising general newspaper in the
South. Market reports superior to any.
not forget the stranger I met that
morning, and I was deeply im-
pressed with hit heroic devotion
known citizen of Hail county,
‘from the vicinity of Petersburg,
came in Tuesday for the Carnival
There was no roping contest on
Tuesday, the first day of the
Carnival,, on account of there be-
ing no steers brought ia as con-
tracted for. The condition of the
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nishes water and light to the city
of San Angelo.
I was waiting for the afternoon
east bound train, and to pass the
time away strolled down to where
he was. The first frost had fal-
len and a few leaves were drifting
along the bosom of the ripling
waters. Now and then a pecan
would fall from the swaying
limb3 overhead, and go plump
into the stream. It was the .pic-
ture of autumn, of those melan-
choly days, which are the sad-
dest of the year.
As I approached, the old gen-
tleman said, "good morning” in
a kindly manner. After saluting
him we drifted into conversation.
He said, “No, I don’t live here,
only in memory. My home is
far away, where the Wabash
winds its blue waters through the
cold soil of the north. Thirty-
three years ago I was a soldier
at Fort Concho. Ah, how time
speeds by, as if on the wings of
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Big Brings.
an Eagle I I was a
then, my life was full of hope.
Now I am old and feeble, and yet
it seems as but yesterday.”
Warpath. wild onions grow, together-wich irg3,00bheadand
scription.- ,
M. V. Browafleld was” in from
his ranch last Tuesday. While
in town he called at The Herald
I ffice and left an order for two i
yearly subscriptions of The er*
aid.
or two on acc unt of the weather.
Mr. T. R. Boone, a prominent
citizen from Gomez, was over
last Tuesday. While in town he
see my darling, her white face
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fill up the intervening space in made The H-ral 1 an appreciated
visit and paid for a year's sub-
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Knsas is on thie wer path an I
! de w Glass, Full stock of School books, or
i anything kept in a first class drug store. !
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Mail orders given special attention. Prescriptions a specialty-.
J. L. BLAKE & SON, Props?
Petroleum shipment by rail and
st opped the transportation of oil
other than by the Standard Oil
pipe lines.
A syste n of discounting pipe-
age, by which the producer los:
3 per cent for impurities that
were not present, and 1-2 to 1
per cent as a charge for "steam-
itg" the oil.
- A belief that the Standard Oil
was try ing to depreciate the val-
ue of oil land holdings so that
it c.'uld secure them cheap and
confiscate them.
Kansvs has $400,000,000 to
nitytosee many of the grand
pictures made by famous artists.
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But Magie, poor lost darling!
i precautions taken by tie ounty.
havenever seen anything half He said that all thos: now sick
are convalescent.
fight with and the pr rie of $
iit silver rays. The mocking tru’y loved.—South West Texan,
birds sang sweet songs to one
Commissioners’ court aeljourn-
ed last Friday afternoon and
Commissioners Gist and , Shep
herd returned home the same
•lay. Commissioners Groves and
down on a little bunch of wild
Howers that she held in her
hands. It has been my opportu -
fight. Kansas has “tvearl causes
thzt she consjd.rs sufficient ex-
and thumped pebbles into theupturnedin
the angry waters of the
her self against the Slandard 0i - a bad Niarch
moon came up out of the east and
sprayed the rippling waters with to the memory of a woman
belorehe serone blizzar.! anic
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that part of the story was
and we have taken the liberty to
wafers rushed upon us. the oat
capsized and we were se
has a
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pole gentleman good-bye and went to
parade my dinner - Three hours later I
, was aboard the train, rushing to-
water, while he talked on.
“Yes,” he continued, “one
We all know what a
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young man ling to me to her from aeross on
the golden shore of paradise.
care of his poor cattle will suffer
are: An increased freight rate
that almost doubled the cost of
, . _ . from a paper other than the
Md the soft zephyrsthat fannec South Westan and it
agin attra’s National atten
lion. This time she ha arra--,
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I cemenccd
gogweetor half so pretty.
the moonlight and Misses Bertha Tow and Lavina
Concho! Brooks from Gomez came in .
reach. 1 Tuesday to attend the Carnival. ♦
I am an old man now ad rich, I Clay McGonnigal, the expert
taken I alongside of another whose loss-
es have been very light.— Dullas •
moonlight night, thirty-three
years ago I was right here, am
she the morning star of my life
was with me. West Texas was
jnt very well civilized then.
opinion is say that you wii! find one man
—yes Seperatod forever,
wild and desperte lon.
wards her, but, my Got
was not granted. Whenever I
sand bar—and she, por precious
larling, was in eternity.
It was many days later when ’
came to myself in that hospital
up yonder. For two months I
wrestled with brain fever, and
the first time I was able to collect
my thoughts I begged God to let
me die. Another world held my
precious Maggie and I wanted to
struck twelve. I bade the old
When I fully recovered I went
b. ck to Indiana and made a for-
tune. I traveled over many
sh‘n-
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but little fromlosse, I am feed- News.
” while the 3aVere Weather i-
tecribie, still we mist nt lvok
upon the ark side of a situation.
There is moisture in the ground
fron the snow and sleet, and
this will make the weeds and
o lije ! Kansas
yet near the abyss of death. 1a
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wealth o the stata is
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good man was left stiff and stark
for the wolves to prey on. But I
was not scared; I loved Maggie
and she loved me, and we
thought but little of danger.
It was in the middle of May.
A severe thunderstorm had
raged in the forenoon and
‘eome rain had fallen. But the
un sank behind the Twin
Mountains in the West without a
cloud to veil it. The evening
cannon sent its echo up and
of rownfied’s si ck foiks Fetirn-
less mule. The millenium wil
get here if we only giva it time.
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an instant there was a , mighty
roar of water up the river, I
enow what it infant and turnec
he boat to the bnnk, I etrng-
gled with superhuman srength-
il Company will hive a har winterrand
4 Queen of Fort Concho.
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wards Saint Louis, thinking of a
good time and the grand sight- ground being considered as
But somehow I could favorable.
Billy Connell, from the south-
west psrt of the county, was in"
town Tuesday.
' Harvey Jones, from the north-
west portion of the county came
in fr the Cai nival last Tuesday.
R. Cunley, Trom the west part
of the county, came in for the
Carnival.
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Virgil Boone, a citizen of the
northeast part of thee unty, was
in Tuesday for the Carnival.
Mr. Chalk Morgan, a well
An Opinion.
. . Fort Worth Fevas Feb 16.—
"‘"he atateinent ma 1 by Col.
siairdiner ?i i a ‘! 3 in co ay ’ s
N-ws surprise me no lirtle.‛‛
d-cired S. B Barneit, the own -
resting place of my darling and
put a monument over it to her
memory. But the ravages of
time have defacd every trace of
her grave, and now, thirty-three
years after I find myself, bn the
banks of the beautiful Concho,
with the frost cf years upon my
brow and nothing left in 1 life to
live for and now my only wish
is to go home. Then I can meet
my darling face to face across
the rolling Jordan, where no
angry waves will upset the gold-
en boat on which we shall sail to-
Stantan, Texas.
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who has
powerful aid outside the state.
Floyd Pyeatt had a slight at-
tack of the La Grippe one day
this week. I
Elzy and Bunk Groves cane
in Tuesday to a’tend the Carni-
val. j .. .
. to start the cattle in good shnpejl have receive1 1t bad resu’te
jin Maren. What I most fear is from either one of my raneheeq
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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/m1/4/: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.