Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 407, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1893 Page: 1 of 8
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stories and picture
and the
Babies
East Mound school.
Grandma Collier has retur-
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for many years.
host of kindred and
to mourn his loss.
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MEAD POST.
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Assessor Wash Davis
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nev of Fort W orth.
The C hristian church
corn and hogs
save if Frog city gets a depot
he is going into the "’muske-
••Yanks” for plover.
Our school is progressing
finely. Prof. Kalin is get-
ting a move on the boys.
Mrs. J. E. Stewart has con-
gented to teach music in con-
Ladies’ Home Magazine,
Peterborough, Canada.
member of the Ma-
pose for the menth.
visit with her two youngest
boys. Grandma says she
A. B. Guynn has returned
from Fort Werth, and hr
says the Eock Island will run
east of Paradise, and the
Mound families will continue
to live a countrv life and raise
girls will find it crowded full
of helpful information. It
aims to be practical rather
progressive, with no ax to
grind or hobby te ride. It is
for the farmer first, last, and
all the time. Send a postal
to Wilmer Atkinson, Phila-
delphia, Pa., for a circular
giving 20 handsome portraits
s on pur-
URN ITU F
ave purchased the.T. 9.
=ar-zimanzmE
za-Olive Branch cures all
Female Complaints. Ten
days sample treatment free
for 2-ct. stamp. Address Dr.
Kilmer & Co., South Bend,
Ind.
and will soon be ready for
meet hereafter in the grand
jury room at the court house,
on each 1st Monday at one
o'clock p. m. It is specially
requested that there be a full
attendance at the next meet-
ing of the Post.
soon be withiu an Hour’s run
. of us and then our mnerchants
can run down thure and buy
cheaper goods and get back
the same day, instead of hav-
ing to go te a little town like
Deatur. We expect to be
. able to sell Decatur her goods
within 5 years, when the coal
shortly be repainted, blind*
placed at the windews and
Otherwise repaired
Our editor, W. M. Feagle,
has accepted a clerkship in
the Senate, and, the proba-
bility is that, he will be de-
tained in Austin for some-
time.
---aemawrer
We have just received the
January issue of the harm
Journal, the well-known and
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Whrn a fellow
his last red cent
looks blue. you
give him a dollar
ned home from Oklahoma
and to the point, in fact, to
be cream not skim-milk. It
ia adapted to all parts of the
country, North, South, East
and West. The very best
people take it because it is
clean, honest, earnest and
tells of a little king and his
little kingdom, and many
other things both pleasing
and instructive. With its
dainty poems, its beautiful
pictures, and its stories and
verse, the bey or girl who re-
ceives this little magazine ev-
ery month is fortunate indeed.
Price $1 a year; lOe a num-
ber. D. LethropCo., Pubs.,
Boston. Mass.
ALVORD BUDGET LOCALS.
Maj. A. J Crawford trans-j
acted ousiness in Decatur on
last Saturday.
W. C. Henton's new resi-
deuce is nearing completion
er. They have lost 3 bridges
in as many years, and the
new one is firing put in to
guard against pessible danger
in the future.
popular monthiy farm paper
published by Wilmer Atkin-
son. Every farmer. garden-
er. stock breeder, orchardist,
dairyman, poultryman, their
wires, and even the boys and
Company, Publishers, Bos-
ton, Mass._____________
One resolution you should
make: Despite all other
creditors, for every paper
that you take to pay the hun-
gry editors !
Do you want good reading?
We sell old Magazines as
good us new at half price.
— We need corn and cot-
ton seed on subscription.
void, Jan. 13, 1893, Dr. H.
R. Thempson in his 73a year.
He was for 50 years an or-
dained minister in the Bap-
tist church and for many
and if vour answers
rect you can receive
the fellowing prizes:
Jailer W ass on says he has
9 boarders now.
A good many strangers in
the city thim week.
Mr.Custisofthe Decatr
gin has ginned 1,165 bales.
" Dr. Randal, ex-postofice
one of
$1000
, n i« gold; $500 in goid; $250
JeffPlvmell in old; 100 in gold; 2500
Elegant Silver Tea Sets; Or-
gans; Pianos, Ac. Every-
thing fair and square. Send
postal cad for list of former
prize winners. Over $10 000
distributed during the past
two years. Address: The
cently purchased a fine tract
----— . . of land on Briar branch and
than theoretieal, to •* rie is now building upon it.
Married at West Academy
MR. EDIrOi:
I write you that •vervbodv
is busv preparing the seil for
another crow. llog Killing 1*
J. Flowers to Miss RosaPo- ta wat sausage at home
teet, Rev. P. W . Byrd oflici- r
ating. i —
Died at his home near Al-
on Sunday, Jan. 15. Mr.J.
tv praise, while Mamma will
be asked to repeat the rhymes
over and over and tell the
pretty stories until, like Ea-
by, she knows them all “by
heart.” Price 50c a year or
5c a number. D. Lothrop
Co., Pubs., Beston, Maas.
sausage. He sa • S he eapretS
has hern attending lectuxes
in New York city, returned
home last week
W. B. Ford, formerly of
% • Decatur, has announced him-
self a candidate for city attor-
over and John Cuiwel is a
month behind vating up the
north and sell them
is going to build a new bridge
over Red river, just above
Childress, the piling for
which is now being received.
The bridge will be 113 pile
bents long, and the piling
will be driven from 18 to 25
feet. The newstiucture will
be 1 feet higher than the one
now in nse, and will cast
$25,000. The piling is from
Arkansas and is 45 feet long.
The Denver people have been
having hard luck with the riv- | Support your home paper.
heard from another county
while ont there. and now she
na- 127 grand children.
I clore with best wishes to
the Messenger.
New & Then.
riculturists, with what they
say about the paper, a sam-
ple copy will also be forwar-
ded, free, to all our readers.
The subscription rate is 50c.
a year, but there are liberal
commissiens to those who will
get up a club.
The
has spen‛
the world
bet I But
and you’ll
Tnere'-
inszector, formerly of Auro-i
ra, is a candidate tor re-ap-
pointment.
Dr. J no. A. Embry, ' who
nection with our literary.
Anyone thirsting after knowl-
edge and musical instruction,
and wishing a healthy loea- -o--0- - mLe, hear-
tion where board is cheap, the mi i.n. w;n
will do well to confer with
Prof. Kalin or the trustees of
fields are opened up, and
there is no doubt about that
being done in the near future.
We have got one new store
and a saloon since the town
began to brighten up, and
several men have been here
prospecting for a place to do
business. We have no houses
to rent them. Men are wait-
in, to see where the depot is
located befo-e they build.
Hickey requests us to an-
nounce that Mead Post will
Y.ur monev * the comfort-
1 or after all. n- matter wnat
ev ice MV. the world will
stiek ro vou when ynu tail, it
it finds ron can pav vour wav •
A Popular Competition.
The Puvlisheis <>f the La-
dies Home Magazine pre-
-entx its great Winter Com-
petition to the puulic wt Amer-
ica. Thi* Competition closes
on April 30 h. 1893.
Questions.—1. W hich is
the longest boek in the New
Testament? 2. Which is the
shortest? 3 The longest
verse? 4. 1 ne -hortes ? .
HowrOCOMPETE. -Write
the questions down, and fol-
low with the answers. Mail
tnis teas, together with $lte
pay for six months subscrip-
tion to the Ladies’ Home
Magazine — ene of the best
Heme Magazines of the dav,
DECATUR. WISECOUNTY, TEXAS. gaTDBDAT. JAM.
MESSE
An enthusiastic Bridge-
vortire sends the following
glowing special to tae daily
pavers :
Bridgeport, Jan. 14.— Ev-
ervrning has began to bright-
en up in Bridgeport, caused
hv the prospects of the Rock
Island railroad soon reaching
us. The road has been loca-
ted several riles beyond here
and we are expecting te hear
of the contract being let from
here to Fort W orth. We
understand that the contract
has been let to within about
ers will want to know.
The Pansy for February is
replete with good things in
story, sketch and verse. The
serials run along ia the even,
natural wav which "Pansy"’
and “Margaret Sidnev” so
well know how to develep,
and the number throughout,
we mav add, has not a dull
line in it. Price $1 a year or
10c a number. D. Lothrop
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Stock of Furniture & W all Paper.
will It Must Go. Terms cash or pneas}
payment. , FAKES &
Kenny’s old stand._________
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Forster, William. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 407, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1893, newspaper, January 28, 1893; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581016/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .