The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1897 Page: 15 of 16
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December
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THE SOUTHERN MERCURY.
LOCAL MARKET. DEC. 14. 1897.
Cotton $4.50 to $6.20 per hundred.
Wheat 90 cents per bushel.
Hogs $3.00 to $3.10 per hundred.
Chickens, $1.65 to $1.75 per dos.
Eggs 16 cents per dozen.
Steers to 2% gross.
Cows, 2 to 2^4 gross.
Veal, 3 to 3% gross.
Sheep, 3 to 3% groes.
Oats—-23@24c per bu.
Corn—35® 37c per bu.
Brand—$14 per ton.
Hay $6.50@9.00 per ton.
Cbttoh seed meal $17 per ton.
Butter 8@Í2^c pér fe.
Turkeys—40 to 65 cents apiece.
HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS
via the
COTTON BELT.
On December 21 and 22 the Cotton Belt
will sell round-trip tickets
TO THE OLD STATES
At one fare for the round trip. The
tickets will be good to return at any
time within thirty days.
The Cotton Belt has made arrange-
ments to furnish plenty of through
coaches for these ecursions, so that
everybody will have
PLENTY OP ROOM.
These cars will run through from
Texas points to nearly all points on the
principal railways in the old states, so
that passengers will not only have
plenty of room, but will have comfort-
ábíé seats through to their destinations
without change of cars, and will be
Dry flint butcher hides, 16 lbs. and saved all wdPty about missing connec-
over, 12%c per lb.; under 16 lbs., 10c tions.
The Cotton Belt is
ped lb.; cull, all weights, 7 cents per
lb. Dry salted butcher hides, all
weights, 7 cts; green, No. 1, 6c; No.
2, 5c.
Office of Wm. P. Bricker, Secretary-
Treasurer National Farmers' Alli-
ance And Industrial Unian,
Cogan Station, Pa., KoV. do, 189?
By and with the aprpoval of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial
Union Brother R. A. Southworth is
hereby removed from the office of the
National Lecturer.
He, R. A. Southworth is hereby sus-
pended from the position of a member
of the Executive Committee of the Na-
tional Farmers' Alliance and Indus-
trial Union for failing to comply with
instructions sent him by order of the
Executive Committee and for collect'
the only line
making sure and direct double daily
connections with all Texas lines on the
rettirn trip. You should look after the
comfort of your trip back as well as
your going trip.
THROUGH CHAIR CARS (free) and
Pullman Sleepers will be on all trains.
Any railroad agent in Texas will sell
you tickets via the COTTON BüJl/r if
you ask for them that way.
For full information about rates,
time tables, through car arrangements,
see any Cotton Belt agent, or write
S. Ü. WARNER, Gen. Pa Agt,
Tyler, Texas.
A. A. GLISSON, Trav. Pass. Agt,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Rusk, Tex., Nov. 28, 1897.
Mr. J. S. Chapman, Manager for Texas
and Arkansas, Mutual Reserve Fund
Life Association, Denton, Texas:
Dear Sir—I hereby beg to acknowl-
edge the receipt of check for $1000, full
payment of claim under policy No.
188,887, isued by the Mutual Reserve
positive instructions sent to> and ré- Fund Life Association on the life of
ceived by hiin, to páy óvéf tiié fünds my doc^a^ed w¡fe> Frances A. Houston.
collected by him tó the Secretary-
Treasurer of the National Farmers'
Alliance and Industrial Union. Bro.
W. P. Bricker, Secretary-Treasurer, is
directed to furnish a copy of this cir-
cular to Brother Southworth and such
officials of the National Farmers' Al-
liance and Industrial Union, State and
National as is necesary for the prop-
er promulgation of this circular. With
National seal annexed. Fraternally,
Mann Page,
President and Chairman, Executive
Committee, N. F. A. and I. U..
W. P. Bricker,
Sec'y-Treas N. F. A. and I. U.
| N. F. A. and I. U. |
I Seal I
I also desire to express my sincere
thanks for the prompt payment of the
same. I am pleased to commend the
Mutual Reserve to my friends intend-
ing insurance. Thanking you for your
kindness, I am, very truly yours,
G. S. HOUSTON.
P. S.—If the late Frances A. Houston
had taken an ordinary life policy, in
an old system company, and paid the
same amount in premiums that she
paid in the Mutual Reserve, her heirs
would only have received $525, Instead
of $1000. Gain by insuring in the
Mutual Reserve, $475.
The Mercury acknowledges the re-
ceipt of the initial number of the
"Prison Bulletin," a semi-monthly ma-
gazine, edited, printed and published
by the prisoners confined in our state
penitentiary at Huntsville. Only 25c.
per year. The number before us con-
tains an interesting sketch of Gen.
Sam Houston.
Every penny tells—You can get Salvation Oil for
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Galveston
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that boaineae men employ.
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