The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 30, Saturday, April 10, 1897 Page: 4 of 8
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buccIlssoj;t iO THE F]RI{IS y'SXriTiiIL
$1.oo A Year.
Published every Calmdav and enteiad
at the postofdce at Fcirib, c'ea, s
second-clas
mall mai'l,C
Il R^.IIG ATE'S.
Locals ,C per l',-e and display ads
2/,.c pe2r Inch pt i inScibiofi I bo I ]al
cuts on ads for 1eo:i pace o. long time
H county family
so0ighu safety from a storm in a'
storm house, which caved in, resultlng
in one child benig taken
out dead and another with a
broken leg and shoulder dislocated.;rr -aaisrsEsEI-C;Llsrieas an*r
r*an?rmi7lmnrmcnl rasrnnaaa
Your P0atronge Solicited.
Hfere is the kind of an obituary
a Tennessee edito. recently gave
a delinquent: "Crock Floods
(ied last night, owing this paper
for ten years subscripting. It is
reported that he said just before
he pegged out that lie fel like he
was floatin. upward. No doubt
of it. Crock had got so low
down that he had to slide up-hilJ
to get in to perdiLionc"F1REE-Three mouths subscnption
oven to one of sex\n stbandaid news)apres
with a 30)( cent purchase el Cheatams
Chill Tonic, Dr Snmnons Sac,paiilla,
Simiion~ Col-IlI Syyi p, Simnons
Liver P]riihei, tiunts C(ue or
[ints Lightening Oid At W A., Band
nd Crum ,tripod
" We hope to see the first issue
out soon. As yet ve have not
learned the name of the paper.
Bio. Cole, of Gailand, preaches
at Red Oak Friday and Saturday
nights before 1st Sunday in each
month, on his way to Rocket on
Sunday, another good thing for Red
Oak.
Mrs. S. W. Biown is visiting her
brother, Dr. R. E. Frestoe, of Waxahachie
Grid Patterson, of Ferris, was up
Sunday. The attraction is getting
stronger.
Grandma Burkhead is visiting her
son "D" at Floyd in Hunt county.
There were fiftv-seven bales of
cotton sold here on the 3rd inst
Prices rangrig from 6c to 6:c, which
makes 707 bales for Red Oak this
season. Think we will do much
better next season. The price of the
fleecy staple at present, does not
seem to be very encouraging for an
increase of acreage, but the farmers,
on account of heavy rains and nOG
faetting a good stand of corn, will
plant more cotton we fear, and we
will have to buy Kansas corn another
year. We had hoped such would
not be the case. 2x4.
A Sad Mistake.A Mammoth Combine.
Rumor comes from Toledo
Ohio, of a gigantic combine
among the farmers of the coun.
try, which first saw the light al
Lancaster, Pa., some months age
and has since been mcorporatec
under the laws of New Jersey a;
the Agricultural National Protective
association. It is said to b(
a secret organization, the supreme
sody of which is composed of on(
representative from each state
with subordinate state,district an,
county boards. The plan of thc
organization, which an exchangE
suggests is probably an April fooe
prank, but if seriously undertaken
cold not for apparent
reasons succeed, is as follows:
It is the purpose to do nothing
this year in the way of controlling
the markets, because the
organization is not yet complete.
Next year, however, the crops wil!
be limited to the actual living
needs of the members of the
organization. If the plan is carried
out, not a dollar's "orth of
farm produce of any kind will be
sold for general consumption, it
being the purpose to compel the
people to inmqport all of their food
products. It is believed that by
this means the power of the association
can best make itself felt.
After 1898 the idea is that there
will be erected or rented in each
county, in such numbers and so
located as may seem best and most
convenient, storehouses in which
all products for the market
will be placed These will be in
control of the county board of
directors. From these warehouses
these products will be
shipped as the state and national
directors may order, and the
quantities of goods sold in the
immediate neighborhood will be
regulated somewhat after the
plan of the anthracite coal combine.
But it is in the raising of
crops that the organization intends
to show its strength; instead,
as now, of every farmer
raising whieac, corn, oats, potatoes,
fruits, etc., on one farm,
the land wvil be apportioned on a
larger scale, one farmer pioducing
nothing but wheat, another
nothing but oats, and so on. The
scheme so far has not taken into
account anything but that departnent
of the organization which
relates to the raising of grain and
therer products of the soil. There
s, however, a proeesion for stock
farming along the same general
ines, the central idea being the
imitation of the product and its
control t)y the organization for
the sake of keeping prices up to
;he highest possible point. It is
declared by those who claim to
know that almost every state in
he union has been organized or
n process of oigan/zation, and
hat the farmers have taken read!y
to this wonderful plan.
An Italy cor-res-pondent sayskbe Mulkey's meeting at that
Palace recently resulted in 134
onversions, 39 of whom joined
he Methodist church, 9 the Bapist,
5 the Christian and G the C.
'. church.
BARNE5 HOUSE
located on No0 t heat corn el o public
square
Under new mantagemenl
Roons and Beds thor=
gh'ly renovated. The only
rick hotel iP lhe city.
W aroprieter . M iiajc r.
WVaxah~achie, Texas.LINES.
For TH{E -W'JIEEL
Suggested by hearing a widowed
, friend say. "it does not seom naturalto hae stian-erb to cultivate the flai
since my hu,,band died."
-VWtould you have hilm turn from that
country where toil
Wvrrings no sweat Loin the laborer's
s bi owTo be here a farmer upturning the soil
Laboriously following the plowo
3 Is lIt not in the land of !)errennial rest
3 The companion of prophets and kings.
-k,Voi,ld you check the iejoicing that
abides in his bMeast
And silence the song that he sl]s9
No, a thoamend tines no, 3ou loved
him while here,
l He was your companion and friend
And your heart can not wish that
t earth's gnif-stncken tear
VWith his holy iejoicing might blend.
Then let str'an-ers till the fa rm wheie
he wrought
A far nobler lot he has found
His heritage now is a county bloodbought
WI.hele sorrowless pleasures abound
And some day thy )ouiaey will come to
its end,
And thy lite on the earth be complete
And the Loid will say come. thy cornpanion
and tiend
Is waiting tllO spuitfto greet.
Fe'~ us, 4-8 '97. % II. I.
County Court.
Speci-! Coii(spondanco
The regular Apiil term of the
county court convened here Monday
mo-nimg with Judge J. C.
Smith presiding, Chief Deputy
Clerk R W. Beale and the regular
corps of officers and assistants in
attendance.
There was a large number of the
bar present.
Quite a Lhge docket of business
is on hand and the court immediately
plunged into the work of disposing
of same
The following pleas of guilty
were entered and penalties assessed
by the court:
WV. Littleton, shooting craps,
fined '{. 10.
Carrie Sams, agravoted assault
and battery, fined $5.
Matt Wattle, agravated assault
and battery, fined "5.
F E. Johnson, unlawfully carrying
armis, fined $,25
Stanley Wray, unlawfully carrylig
armisi, fined "~25
John Lawrence, unlawfully caryi~np,
arms, fined $25
NV H. Saterfield, selling liquor
to minor, fined $25.
2fatt Mosely, shooting craps,
fined $10.
John Rtoberts, shooting craps,
fined $10.
1valter Willn, Cshooting craps,
fined '"10 iBuys, Soils and
Razors. Agent for Dallas
Laundry -and Dye Works.">*
T1rE Texas state senate has
unaninously accepted an invitation
from the daughters of the
confederacy to attend the unveiling
of the confederate monument
at Dallas on [he 28th and
29th inst.
THE weeks municipal elections
in the north and northeastern
states show immense democratic
gains, the democratic ticket being
elected in Chicago, Detroit,
Cincinnati, Canton and other
cities. These results are taken
as an indication of the effects of
Dineley's radical tariff measure.
To
CATANA,-UCII, a participant
ir a prize fight at FL. Wor-th in
February, 1896, was recenty arrested
in St Lotus and brought
back and will be tried for violat....
-ng the prize fight law passed b3
the special session of the Texas
legislature called by Gov. Culberson
in 1895. The trial will be
watched with in'ere t being the
first test of the law.
TiE present ribe of the AlisSissippi
river breaks all previous
records The water has leached
a higher stage and worked greater
disaster than ever known before.
The river is from five to 45 ailes
wide for a distance of 300 miles
flooding about fifty towns and
cities and submerging the homes
of 50,000 or 60,000 people. But
with all this, the beginning of the
end is not in sight Heavy rains
continue in parts of the great
Mlisissippi basin and on many
of its feeders and the waters are
still rising at many points along
the father of waters. (['his condition
still prevailing, the worst
may not be over, and the probability
is that the waters may not
recede from the submerged districts
till too late to plant crops,
which would greatly increase the '
distress of the situation. Congress
has appropriated $200,000
to be distrnbuted among the flood
sufferers, besides making other l
provisions for their releif t
I~~~~~~~~~
A drummer passed himself off ,
for Bryan along a Georgia railroad
the other day, making
speeches, shaking hands, etc. I
The rumor got abroad that Bryan
was really on board the train, and
when the train pulled in at a
station the crowd would yell for ]
Bryan, out stepped a gallant
knight of the grip and made them
a speech. All went well until
the tram got to Cartersville where '
the crowd caught on and greeted g
the festive commercial traveler i
with a salvo of rotten eggs. Then sa
he got mad and wanted to lick m
somebody.-Ex a-.0'r
P
-.4Are receiving their
We wish to call special attention
to our beautiful line ofI
IIIt is a mistake that the country
printer was ever born.
He is a useless cumberer of the
earth
He ought to be called upon
To give an excuse for living
He publishes resolutions of ccndolence,
Obituary poetry,
Gives 0;7 worth of local notices
For two twenty-five cent festival
tickets,
And in return is considered a
dead beat
He takes abuse by the cord
and seldom talks back.
He writes feeling tribates to the
dead,
Elevates men to office,
Booms everything that booms
in town,
Is pall bearer at funerals,
is a groomsman at weddings,
Whites the marriage notice tree
While the preacher is paid,
Vrites the birth notice free
AR hile the doctor is paid,
Works for his party late and
early.
When he wants a postoffice they
put a head on hint.
He publishes city council proceedings
flee.
When the cry of economy is raisand
invite the ladies especially to
call and examine them. We have in
this line Lappet, Chatillon and
Mhmora Mulls, Gaze Cordonet, Organcdi's,
Dimlttes, Ducks, Suitings,
Calicoes, etc.
Also a fall assortment of the
Prettiest Laces
and Embroideries
ever brought to Fends.
Oar elegant line of
NELfiGEE, S'a3RTS
and HATS
of the latest styles will in
.
telc~st the gentlemen.
In short. our stock is complete
and our prices can't be beat.Pete Clarke, ihoohing craps, fined
$10.
Steve Hooks, shooting craps,
fined $10.
Frank Allen, playing cards in
public place, fined $10.
Frank Dalton, playing cards in
public place, fieed $10,
Will Runnels, assault and battery,
fined $5.
Green Flanagan, assault and
battery, fined ~5.
J. A. Atterbury, disturbing the
peace, fined $5.
Frank hilham, disturbing the
peace, fined $5.
A. McFarland, assault and battery,
fined $5.
Jack Hurlock, assault and battely,
fined %5.
Doc Peacock, drunkeness in public
place, fined $5.
Geo. Suttle, abu
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Ezzell, Frank. The Ferris Wheel, Volume 4, Number 30, Saturday, April 10, 1897, newspaper, April 10, 1897; Ferris, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18846/m1/4/?q=%221897~%22: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ferris Public Library.