The McKinney Gazette. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1886 Page: 4 of 4
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LOW PRICES WIN.
STANDARD QUALITY.
We are just in receipt of a large and well selected stock of Fan-
cy Groceries, such as
Cranberry Sauce,
Jelly in Pails and Buckets,
French Mustard,
L. & P's Sauce,
Heno Tea,
Call Early and save money.
Standard Royal Patent Flour,
B. F. &*B's Silver Drip Coffee,
200 lbs Genuine Moynne Tea,
Best Cigar in City for 5c.
Chipped and Corned Beef.
C. S. BATTLE & BRO!
WEST SIDE SQUARE M'KINNEY TEXAS.
J. P, CROUCH & CO.
Are selling a great deal of
their Furniture at COST.
You will do well to call on
them the first opportunity
and see their stock of Fine
Furniture, Shades, Carpets,
Paintings, Und'takers' goods
They wish to reduce their
m mense stock of goods, as they are greatly overstocked
Among the Old Virginians.
A Glance at the Mode of Life of the Lead-
ing Families of Old Virginia.
OBENSHAIN BROS. & COMPANY,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
FIOUR, MEAL, BRAN and SHIPSTUFF
ALSO MILL FEED, PATENT ROLLER PROCESS-
M'KINNEY .... TEXAS.
Jj®"'Correspondence Solicited.
LAWRENCE'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
Corner Elm and Sycamore Streets,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
In its 13th year without any vacation. Refers to several thousand graduates ami ]>atrons.
Graduates from this institution may he found as accountants, cashiers, etc., in nearly every
large business house in this city, which is the highest endorsement of ttie sphere anil uselulness
of this College; also that the result of the practical methods here employed have stood the test
of an intelligent and discriminating public for 13 ylars aud are pronounced good. Arrange-
ments have been made since January '80 to accommodate students with good board and
lodging as cheap as at any other place, from $10 to $|s per month. Life scholarships are now
issued on bankable notes, pavable by installments in twelve months.
53= Refers the people of McKinney and vicinity to Clint Thompson, who was a student in
good standing at this College in 1885. For Catalogue call on or address,
K. 15. LAWRENCE, Dallas, Texas.
J. P. DO WELL
DEALER IN
HARDWARE!
TINWARE, GLASSWARE and
QUEENSWARE.
Agent for American Powder Co.
East Louisiana Street.
F. EMKBSOX, T. T. Embrson, T. II. KMKRSOX
President, Vice President, Cashier
FIRST NATIONAL BANK!
McKINNEY, TEXAS.
How Parson Downs Can Do Good.
Parson Downs is either a most
unfortunate victim of malicious
persecution, or one of the veriest
scoundrels extant. In either case
his usefulness as a minister of the
gospel is gone, and, whether he be
a hypocrite or a sincere Christian
he would do the Christian cause
more good by retiring from the
pulpit than by remapping in it.
Married in Prison.
A marriage between two pris-
oners took place in the jail on
Wednesday. The contracting
parties were George Barkman and
Jennie Lawrence. Justice Kendall
officiated, and the prisoners in the
jail were the witnesses. There
seems to be no condition in life
devoid of any spark of joy.—
[Dallas Mercury.
During the Cholera in London.
Buys and sells exchange on the prin-
cipal cities ol Europe.
J&*First class paper discounted.
f Francis Emerson,
! T. H. Emerson,
DIRECTORS -{ Jno. L. Loyejoy,
T. T. Emerson,
LC. H. Welch,
J^Busioess Hours—9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
ltl
R. C. WHITE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McKINNEY, TEXAS.
Dr. T. W. WILEY,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
M'KINNEY, TEXAS.
During the visitation of cholera
in London, one side of a street
was ravaged, while the other side,
supplied with water from a differ-
ent source, escaped. An eminent
hygenist says that the always
floating product of the decompo-
sition of leaves, wood, etc., and all
forms of vegetable matter, are the
most frequent causes assigned for
epidemics of typhoid fever.
Working Convicts on Roads.
There is a good deal said about
"working convicts on public
roads," and the idea seems to
take. But when there is an at-
tempt to carry it into execution
difficulties are likely to arise.
What roads to work them on will
be the question. If each county
is to keep its own convicts and
work them on its own roads, in
many counties it will cost more
than it will come to.—[Houston
Age.
A correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Times, writing from Rich-
land, Stafford county, Va., says:
Virginia's "first families" can be
found all over the state, but no-
where in such purity and antiquity
as in Stafford county, the home of
Governor Lee. The county is not
very large and by no means pros-
perous, but it stands first as the
exponent of all that is conveyed
by the expression "F. F. V."
Nearly every family here can trace
its origin by lineal descent to the
first English settlers, while not a
few can speak of their greatgreat
grandfathers and grandmothers as
Lord and Lady So and So. The
county is named after the famous
earl of Stafford, and not a few of
its people are descendants from
that nobleman. Before the war
these people lived in the style of
nobility, if without its name, and
now that the course of events has
reduced their means, they preserve
English customs in all things ex-
cept the splendor, which only
wealth can afford. In the first
place, each family has its little do-
main, and, however small, it has
an imposing English name just as
if it were an earldom. Somerset,
Richland, Aberdeen, Lennox and
Wayside are a few of the names
of small farm-houses nestling in
the Stafford pines and surrounded
by thousands of acres of partially
cultivated lands. These houses are
all frame, generally two-stories
high, and the poorest of them is
surrounded by a lawn, through
which runs one or more carriage
drives. One would expect to see
castles when coming in view of the
beautiful lawns and the tenturied
oaks, and would feel disappointed
at the little white house at the
end of the drives ; but there is a
sort of rustic harmony in the pic-
ture after all. Seated in the ve-
randas at evening and looking out
on the oak-canopied sward, you
would forget the absence of the
castle, and, if you were an Eng-
lishman, fancy yourself amidst the
lime trees on one of the grand old
estates across the water.
The former home of Gov. Lee
is called Richland. It is like all
the estates in the county—a two-
story frame house, a large lawn
and several hundred acres of any-
thing but rich land. Here the
governor's ancestors have lived for
hundreds of years. Of course, the
Lees can trace their descent to ti-
tled Englishmen; at least all books
of heraldry make it out so. At a
distance of a few miles is Somerset,
the home of the Moncure family.
The present Mrs. Moncure is a
grand-daughter of the famous
Lady Spotswood, whose portrait
hangs in the capitol at Richmond.
The family has lived in Stafford
county for nearly two hundred
years. All its deceased members
are buried in the graveyard at
Aquia church, and a tablet near
the pulpit contains the rather royal
inscription : "Sacred to the Mem-
ory of the Race of Moncure."
There are about 150 members of
the family in the county. The
women, taken all in all, are the
most beautiful the writer has ever
seen within the same area. They
seem to have inherited in a re-
markable degree the queenly beau-
ty of Lady Spotswood, and some
of them bear a strong resemblance
to her portrait.
The Waller family, a little fur-
ther up, at Wayside, are related to
the Lees, and trace their origin to
the same source. The first of the
Scotts came to Stafford from Eng-
land to take charge of Aquia
church. He was one of the unfor-
tunate class known as noblemen's
younger sons, and was assigned,
as is usually the case, to the min-
istry. One of his descendants is
Congressman W. L. Scott, who
passed his boyhood on the Staf-
ford hills. Mr. Scott has not for-
gotten his old home amidst his
Pennsylvania millions. A few
months ago he sent $1200 to the
pastor of the Aquia church for the
purpose of repairing the old build-
ing, and is now contemplating a
trip to the home of his distinguish-
ed ancestors.
The names of all the families
who have lived in the county since
ante-revolutionary days would fill
half a column of the Times, and
although they cannot all claim
titled progenitors, they are the
very first of the "F. F. V."
A great deal of nonsense has
been written about these "first
families." They are usually rep-
resented as thriftless, vain and
scornful to all outside the magic
circle of their society. They lack
it is true, much of the energy and
goaheadativeness of Northern
men, but it must be remembered
that most of those yet living were
brought up under conditions that
paralyzed energy. With large es-
tates and hundreds of slaves they
had no motive for exertion, and
now that the war has swept away
all their wealth, they must change
their very nature before they can
become the pushing business men
who build up communities. The
new generation is growing up
quite different, and it is more than
likely that when they conic to the
fore the Virginia fanner will 110
longer let his acres lie useless or
half cultivated. The fact is the
landowners in Stafford county are
yet in a dazed state over the re-
sults of the war. They can hard-
ly realize the change, or if they
have they think it is too late in
life to start out afresh.
As to the "proud, scornful wo-
men" of the "F. F. V.," it is a pity
to strike a blow at the pictures
which have been drawn by imag-
inative writers, and which have
long been regarded as genuine in
the north; still the fact remains
that the pictures have no proto-
types in real life. Everyone has
read those fanciful stories about
rich Northerners suing for the
hand of poor Virginia girls and
being refused, solely because they
did not belong to the "F. F. V.''
These are veriest bosh. Here
among the very oldest Virginia
families there are many marriages
every year between Northern men
and Stafford women, and vice ver-
sa. The society line differs from
that in the north only in this par-
ticular : that here wealth without
Love for Newspapers.
"A Dead, Neglected Wife.''
The following extract from some
paper so well expresses our ideas
that we think the space it occupies
will be well filled. In it may be
seen something of that intangible
thing called good will, which so
many have often tried to define :
The strong attachment of sub-
scribers to a well conducted news-
paper is fully confirmed by all
publishers. "Stop my paper,"
words of dread to new beginners,
lose their terror after a paper has
been established a few years. So
long as a paper pursues a
honorable and judicious course
meeting the wants of its customers
in all respects, the ties of friend-
ship between the subscribers and
the paper is as hard to break by
an outside third party as the link
which binds old friends in business
or social life. Occasional defects
and errors in a newspaper are
overlooked by those who have
become attached to it through its
perusal for years. They sometimes
become dissatisfied with it on ac-
count of something that has slipped
into its columns, and stop taking it;
but the absence of the familiar
sheet at their homes and offices for
a few weeks becomes an insupport-
"Fold the hands gently o'er the
calm, still breast: there is no more
work for them to do. Close the
dim eyes tenderly; there are no
more tears for them to shed.
Brush the thick, brown curls from
the marble brow, and let them fall
undisturbed over the white robe
of death. Don't say they look too
lifelike for the grave, for she lived
a living death and walked through
a living grave, long before the
heart now so still, stopped beating.
l)o not strew flowers promiscuous-
just, ly around her, but twine the choic-
est and fairest in a beautiful cross,
and lay it 011 the breast where a
sorrow deeper than the darkest
grave lay buried long before the
loving spirit of the still sleeper
passed away. Let the cross be of
sweet, bright flowers, emblematic
of her holy life, from which irradi-
ated the brightness and sweetness
of the Great Father's love. Then
put the palm of Christ's love in
one hand, and the green acacia in
the other. Close the coffin lid,
and lay the quiet far away to the
rest of the tomb. But shed no
tears for the mourning spirit, that
the Father in pity and tender love
took home, for it is well with the
able privation, and they hasten to
take it again, and probably apolo-
gize for having stopped it. No
friendship on earth is more constant
| than that contracted by the reader
: of a journal which makes an honest
i and earnest effort to merit its con-
tinued support. Hence, a con-
scientiously conducted paper be-
comes a favcrite in the family.—
culture is insufficient to gain en- .
.... Chicago Specimen
trance into society, while in other iL
. I
places it is sometimes quite suffi-
cient. On the other hand, culture,
even if unaccompanied with a dol-
lar, will open to a man the best
houses in the county, providing,
of course, that he has the usual
recommendation of respectability.
An Outburst of Oratory.
Old Col. Zell, at the time when
Grant was up for the presidency,
and when the Democratic watch-
word was "Anything to beat
Grant," was addressing an enthu-
siastic meeting of Comstock Re-
publicans, when a Democrat, who
was 'iianging on to the verge of
the crowd," sang out: "It's easy
talkin,' colonel, but we'll show you
something next fall." The
colonel was a Southern Union
man of the ultra school, and a
great admirer of Grant. He at
Mice wheeled about, and >vith up-
lifted hands, hair bristling and
eyes flashing fire, cried out:
"Build a worm fence round a win-
ter supply of summer weather;
skim the clouds from the sky with
a teaspoon; catch a thunderbolt
in a bladder; break a hurricane to
harness; ground-sluice an earth-
quake; bake hell in an ice-house;
lasso an avalanche; fix a clout on
the crater of an active volcano;
hive all the stars in a nail keg;
hang out the ocean on a grapevine
to dry; put the sky to soak in a
gourd; unbuckle the belly-band
of eternity, and paste 'To let' on
the sun and moon, but never, sir
—never for a moment delude
yourself with the idea that you
can beat Grant! "—[Salt Lake
Tribune.
A Big Meteor.
A private letter published in
the Kansas City Times tells of a
party of hunters and geologists
who were camped in Southwest
Kansas one night when a meteor
fell near them. In the morning
they found a huge mass buried in
the ground, and still quite warm.
They managed to break off a
chunk of about a pound and a
half in weight, carried it to Den-
ver and had it assayed. It panned
out 20 per cent, of gold, 64 per
cent, of iron, and 11 per cent,
nickel, with copper and other
metals. The party are going back
with dynamite and tools to get the
rest of the meteor, which they
calculate weighs five tons. If the
assay holds out they will get a ton
of gold.
The society for the suppression
of vice in New York city has made
war on the objectionable pictures
displayed by cigarette dealers and
manufacturers, * and compelled
their withdrawal from the public
gaze.
A Maine man, whose wood pile
was unaccountably being gradually
reduced in size, set a watch, and
found that a neighbor's New-
foundland dog made nightly visits
to it and dragged away big sticks
to his master's door.
Twelve o'clock, midnight, June
30, the big clock in the court
house tower of Atlanta, Ga., tolled
the death knell of the remaining
saloons, sixty-nine in all.
Suspicion Attaches to Them.
No article entering so generally
into the food of every family has
been found more villainously
adulterated than baking powder.
For the purpose of underselling
those powders of absolute purity
and wholesomeness which alone
are safe for use in food, hundreds
of dealers are putting up baking
powders with cheap and adulter-
ated cream of tartar, which con-
tains lime, earth, etc., adding
strength by the free use of alum.
These adulterated powders are
"shoved" upon the public with the
greatest persistency. Many are
given away—left in samples at
private residences with circulars
containing bogus analysis and cer-
tificates and false representations
as to their value, etc. The worst
of them are introduced to the
house-keeper's attention by fraud-
ulent tricks or by bogus samples,
the articles when purchased being
found to be entirely different from
the sample shown. The fact that
a powder is sampled from door to
door is sufficient to condemn it. A
first-class article will sell on its
merits. No manufacturer whose
goods are of value can afford to
give them away, or to test them j
from door to door, and none but
the cheapest make and most in-
ferior or unmarketable goods re-
quire to be distributed free in or-
der to get the public to use them,
and this method is adopted only
by parties who have failed to dis-
pose of their wares through ordi-
nary and legitimate channels.
Free samples of articles of food
left at the house should be re-
garded with suspicion. There is
110 guarantee of their wholesome-
ness, while there is real danger
that they contain a fatally poison-
ous compound. Many instances
of poisoning from the use of such
samples are recorded.
The only safe way is to consign
all such samples immediately to
the ash barrel, and to turn a deaf
ear to the statements made by
their venders. It is not worth while
to trifle with life and health to the
extent of testing every doubtful
baking powder that comes along.
Better to rely upon an old and re-
liable brand, like the Royal, which
has by a quarter of a century's
constant use proved its perfect
wholesomeness and efficiency, or
some other brand that is not so
worthless and cheap that its pro-
prietors can afford to give it away
by the cart-load or waste it in
making innumerable tests. It is
in its favor that the Royal Baking
Powder is never given away, sold
by means of lotteries, nor accom-
panied by chromos, spoons, crock-
ery or other gifts, except the gifts
of absolute purity, wholesomeness,
full weight, and superlative leav-
ening power. Its own merits have
been its chief advertisement, and
they have secured for it the con-
stant patronage of the American
people to an extent beyond the
combined sale of all other baking
powders. The Royal Baking Pow-
der is certified by all the Govern-
ment chemists as absolutely pure
and perfect.
soul now. Write 'not dead, but
sleeping,' on the white marble if
you place a stone at the grave.
Hush! Don't whisper, don't
breathe it—she died of a broken
heart—she was a neglected wife.
Hut she passed away before the
world knew it, and God will wipe
the tears from her eyes, and the
heavenly bridegroom shall be hers
forever.
Golly. What a Whopper !
in Alaska the salmon jam the
estuaries and inlets so that the
fish cannot move at all. A recent
visitor says the outlet to Lake
Loring, which is a rivulet two
miles long and two rods wide,
connecting the salt water with the
fresh, is so choked with living
salmon that if a plank was laid
across their protruding backs a
man could walk across dry shod.
One could lift them out with his
hands until he is tired. It is al-
most impossible to thrust a spear
or a boat hook in the mass, and,
of course, fish must come out
whenever it is withdrawn. Bears
take their opportunity to scoop
them out with their great paws,
and when they have regaled them-
selves to satiety they retire to the
adjacent thicket for a dessert of
berries, which grow in great
abundance and variety. Of course
a great many salmon get into the
lakes at every tide, but after each
recession multitudes are stranded
of which the lustiest flap back to
the ocean, while the maimed and
hapless remain dead and stranded
on the denuded rocks."
Beecher On Temperance.
comparative worth of baking powders.
ROYAL (Absolutely Pu,e).. ^ ££ m&Z&mgmSBmaBBteB
GRANT'S (Aluiu Po.vtk':;""' . A: ■!' .■!-,• - J
RI M FORD'S, when ~T~~" *wT"TiilTlTnWiB
HAXFORD'S, when fresh...
REDHEADS
CHARM (Alum Pcm<!■: '. iv ... J
AMAZON (Alum Powder) * .
CLE VELAN IVS;-!*- i t4cj3SHRSaSSg^ 103*383
PIONEER (SdU I".-UlCiStO) . . . i raB
CZAR
DR. PRICE'S
SNOW FLA'it (-.iron's)...
lewis' K^gasaeK&aas
PEARL (Andrews & Co.).
BECKER'S
GILLET'S
ANDREWS&CO."RegaPi
Milwaukee, (Contains Alum.)
BULK (Powder sold loose).... ESS
BUMFORD'S , when not fresh m
REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS
As to Parity ami Wholosomrnoo; ofthe floral I uk ing; Powder.
"I have tested a package of K'.v.il il ikia.: Powder, which I purchased in the
open market, and And it composed ' ;•«:••• and w .:ne itcredieiits. It Is a cream
or tartar powder of a high ik-iw «• i:«--r.t, and Jo, s uot contain either alum or
phosphates, or other injuri ju- i. tare E Love, Ph.D."
" It is ;i scientific fact that til.- il >vJ. j:..:..;:],- I'owa; r is a I'so! ut civ pure.
"il. A. Morr, Ph.D."
" I have examined a p.u kagv of iloya! Powder, purchased by myself in
the market. I Hud it ei.tir iv : , . • ai terra /.!!>... r any other injurious sub-
stance. IIbnky Mouton, I'i.U., Pr. rid. t.t o: Stevens institute of Technology."
"I have analyzed a p.u ki^c of Koy.d Ilakiiur Powder. The materials of which
it is composed are pure and wholesome. jj. Dana Have#, State Assayer, Mass."
The Roval Baking Powder r. eived t':e libit' ^t award over all competitors at
the Vienna World's Exposition, ICS; at the Ontesini.il, Philadelphia, 1878; at the
American Institute, New York, .md a: state Ka ,, thio.ijhout the country.
No other article of human food lias ever reeeivi d ,-ucii high, emphatic, and nn|
versal endorsement from eminent chemists, pli\ ji. ians, scientists, and Boards ol
Health all over the worhi.
Note—The above Diaoiiam illustrates th comparative worth of various Baiting
Powders, as shown by Cliemicail Analysis ..ml experiments made by Prof. Schedler.
A pound can of each powder was tak> n, t'. total leavening power or volume in
each can calculated, the result being as ,: 1. This practical test for worth by
Prof. Schedler only proves what every ' - v ui consumer of the Royal Baking
Powder knows by practical experience, that, while it cutts a few cents per pound
more than ordinary kinds, it is far more teuton;):ar.d. besides, affords the advan-
tage of better work. A single trial of t. It >y..l Baking Powder will couviuce any
fair-minded person of these t-ci:.
* While the diagram slew*.. ime • f 0. .'um p ■ 1 t be of a higher degree
of strength than oth r p-n-ders r.-nk-i b •: ••••' them, ;t i- i.-.t to be taken as iudicat-
lngthat they have any \. All - um ... ;.;-ttci'iiow high their strength,
are to be avoided ao e,.!.-. raw
F R 3MC SI
UNIMPROVED LANDS.
HOUSES AND LOT
In a recent sermon, Henry
Ward Beecher said : "I feel sore
at heart now. One of the noblest
natures that used to sit in these
seats, one I loved and who loved
me; whose hand was as large in
its generosity as a prairie; who
had all the prospects of a noble
and useful life ; who could restrain
himself and stop when he'd a
mind to. But he has gone down
to such a degree of intemperance
that his friends have given him up
in despair. How many of that
kind have I seen; and the time
past did not suffice for him or for
them. They say? To be sure I
smoke, but only seven to ten
cigars a day ; but it is not a neces-
sity for me—I can give it up.
Or, I know I drink a little, but it
is not a necessity for me; I can give
it up to-day." But they don't
next year, or the year after, and
when they hear the roar of the
tide of perdition, over the verge of
which thty will plunge finally they
can't stop. The time when men
ought to stop is when they first see
their peril; when there is time
enough for judgment, enough to
bring the higher qualities of the
man to sit in judgment over the
lower."
Digging for Human Bones.
The people of Metz, Ohio, have
been digging up an old well in a
hunt for the remains of a man who
mysteriously disappeared several
years ago. During the digging
some cruel person, who probably
thought that the scene lacked
the natural excitement that be-
longs to such an occasion, threw
some sheep bones into the half
dug well and covered them over.
The discovery of the bones threw
the whole community into a terri-
ble state of excitement, but a phy-
sician cooled them down by stat-
ing that it was all a scare, as sheep
bones had been purposely thrown
in. They are on the hunt for the
perpetrators of the joke.
FOR SALE BY
F, M* THOMPSOXT I
OFFICE, Johnson Block, Room 3, Up Stairs.
FARMS.
Ii2. A spleudid residence place In the town of Melissa, consisting <it' a dwelling:of 10 rooms,
porches, mil-houses, etc., well, shade trees, orchard aid about I acres of land, situated near
the business part of town ami now useil as a boarding house. Will sell at very I • w lifrurcs or
swap for a jrooil farm of equal value. An excellent place to locate fi r educational purposes
111. North 01 Piano f miles is 100 acres of tine tanning lai.tl anil In acres ol timber, about tin
acr< s in tine slate of eultiuetion, house of two rooms, with good well, stable and 1 ts, with
a good spring, for sale or exchange for good city property
105. l-.'i acres line land and splendid timber, i 1-2 miles west of McKinuey, at $12 per acre.
A good chance for some live worker of limited means.
10:t. One of the best farms in Collin county, about 1-' miles southwest of McKinney, and :i
miles north of Lebanon; :>lo acres prairie, 25 of timber, 150 acres in cultivation, bin acres in
pastures. An excellent two story house of 5 rooms, out building, line barn 50x«i2 feet,
grainerv, cribs, cow sheds, lots, cisterns tanks, and a tine everlasting spring il. the pasture.
Orchard of pears, peaches, plums, grapes, etc. >oil lirst-class throughout tor lurlhur
information call at my otlice, ltoon. No. :i, .Johnson lllock, McKinney, Texas.
!).". 115 acres, 35 in cultivation, balance in pasture; the lb est range outside for hogs ami
cattle; a good house with good outbuildings, fruit, water, etc. I he place to make money
and live easy. Offered at $15 per acre, one third or one half cash, balance on liberal
time.
91. A good farm of 117 acres, one half mile from Verona, 05 in cultivation, inclose! by a good
picket fence, lots, crib, splendid orchard, good water, etc., close to church, school, store,
postotlice, etc.. Price $2,(100, with good terms, and a little better for all cash.
7t>. 35 acres timbered land two miles southeast of McKinney, line land for a little farm anil
timber to pay for it, at $lo per acre.
71. A line farm of 200 acres, 100 in cultivation, 20 in pasture, and so in prairie and timber. A
good two story farm house ami outbuildings, with excellent water, etc. Altogether a llrst-
class place in the immediate vicinity of church and school. Price as 17 .' i per acre.
70. A 73 acre farm, 2 1-2 miles northeast or St. Paul and 2 miles east of Willow Springs
acres in cultivation, 45 under fence; house, good water, good range, line land and low price,
at $looo.
50. 108 acres, 11 miles little northeast from McKinney; 50 acres in cultivation, the very best of
laud—frame notise of good size with stack chininej ; cistern, tank, etc. In good neighbor-
hood, convenient to store, postotlice, school, church, etc. Terms, $15 per acre, one third
cash, balance on one and two years, at 10 per cent, interest.
58. A 200 acre farm, 5 miles west ot McKinney, 150 acres under fence, 12U in cultivation, 10 of
timber. Price $3,250, one half cash, balance on long time.
52. 1152 acres grazing and farming lands in Callahan county, at $1.50 per acre.
28. 80 acres <11-2 miles northeast from McKinney, 45 acres in cultivation, 35 in pasture, mostly
in prairie; well fenced, well watered, good improvements, gooil neighborhood, near church
and school; lirst-class place for a lirst-class family Price $1,500.
27. 0 acres of laud in the west part of McKinney, not far from the college. Price, $700.
38, 140 2-3 acres, on which is Sniders Lake; good land anil much line timbe.^uii'.er good new
wire fence; price $1,600.
II. A farm of 150 acres: 100 in cultivation, 4 miles from town: a lirst-class place. Price $2,500.
HOUSES AND LOTS.
A house of 5 rooms on a small lot, immediately south of the I hristaiu Church, neatly
fixed and offered at very low figures, in fact a bargain for so good a home. •
A 4 room house on a 1-2 acre lot on Bradley street, a short distance north ot the college,
with cisteru, fruit trees, stable, walks, etc. Well located, anil at the low rale ot $looo.
A new house on Chestnut street, in the south part of town, w ith 3 rooms and porch, a
cistern, smoke-house, crib, some young fruit trees. Lot 200x2Wi. Property good and price
very low.
97. Two business lots near the depot at a very reasonable price.
90. An excellent village home in the town of Allen, 1 1-2 acre lot. 0 room house, new and
nice. Such property at the price is seldom found. A bargain for any man desiring a good
home and business location. Price $1,400
89. One of the handsomest and best houses of live rooms in McKinney. New and complete,
0 blocks from the square, near the Kaptist Church. The beautiful place is for sale owing to
intended change o business location. Price $1,50'J.
81. A two acre lot well improved, with house, orchard, crib, well, etc., 3-4 mile from the
square. Very cheap at $800.
49. Some va uable unimproved property, adjoining the railroad and depi I grounds.
47. Four lots in T. T. Bradley Addition, north of the college.
10. A 1 residence property, well improved, located on the highest hill in tile town, about 4
acres attached; will suit some substiutial man who would locate here to educate bis lainily.
Price $2,500.
17. A good lot and house in Short's Addition, 5 rooms, a high, nice location. Price $1
33° I have some other tracts for sale not described here.
Buyers and Sellers are invited to call and sec us.
Respectfully,
P. M. Thompson.
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