The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 9, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 47.
BASTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER !>, 189!>.
NUMBER 28.
W. J. MTXiEY,. .
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DRUGGIST.
Bastrop
Texas. .
Special and oareful attention
given to the Prescription l>e-
.partment. and patrons waited
M AJt L'FAOTl'KKD BY
SAN ANTONIO
BREWING
ASSOCIATION
on either day or ulght,.. A full
ttne of l'ATKNTl mkiucinks,
Pkhki mkhv. Toii.kt Aktio-
lkb, Statiohkkv, Etc., Etc.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Lawyers.
H. D. okoain
W. K. MAYNAltl).
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0RGAIN & MAYNARD,
Attorneys at-Law.
B* tri>p, Tv'Xa*.
Wilt prvllre' In all tho ti Ik tier and In*
ferlor court*
PAUL I). PAGE
County Attorney and
Attorney -at-Lazv,
Itaatrop, Texas
OrricE—Court H> u*o.
J . brows JONATHAN I.AKK. H M. OAltWOOII
BROWN, LANK & (JAR WOOL),...
Lawyers.
I.a< > range and Houston
Houston USlce — Kooini '-h, ' •*«:>|> Ui<l. ^
Practice In (ill (Statu ami Kedwm'
Hiih taken the Lead In Texas on account of
Its Nourishing qualities. Once Tried Always
lined. For bale in itaHtrop by
V. SCHILL, Manager.
1866. |>:
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.... EST A BUM! RD 186(5
♦* | 1898. |
E. Bastian, Sr*.,
:DEALER IS:
stoves, hardware & tinware.
All kinds of
TIXT « WORK
A SPECIALTY.
REPAIRS
Promptly and
Neatly Done.
UNOLE BILLY'S LETTER.
j JKNK1NS.
J H.M11.KY
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.JENKINS iV MILKY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
.t . . TKX.VS.
Atx'rai t Book* in the
CO hoi*
complete t t
' I'O MAKK I<• >C)M for New Orders, I will sell my present stock ut
Greatly Reduced Prices. It shy" He.study, in tbe future, as iu
past., to please my friends and cua' both in quality antl price.
Thankin" oae anil all for their very lib patronage during the 32 years
1 have tlo.ie business here, I ask a contiuance of same at the "old stand."
E. BASTIAN, Sr.
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1893.
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*NKS & JONKS,
j. 8. JONKS.
Attorney s-at- Law.
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Oir)A!rK I"ntair^ in Krharl BnlUliuK
FUWLKK
Attorney at Law,
1899.
COTTON SEED
\A/E will pay the Highest Price, in
Cash, give Honest Weights, and
buy at any time, winter or summer,
all Cotton Seed offered to us at our
mill.
Bagging and Ties
To exchange
for Seed only
&
We buy and sell
everything for
cash.
KutTOIt Al>VKItTISKIt:
Well you haint been hearin from
me for a good spell, aud 1 reccou the
readers of the AovKitTiBK.it have been
a thinken 1 war dead. I haint been
though, but J*v been a saven up
money to visit old Alabamy agin.
My savin on terbaccer was from a
dollar to two a week antl so 1 finally
got enuf to go.
Fact is I'v been a wantin to visit
the laud of my uativity a good long
while, to see my folks what I left
thar thirl) odd year ago, nnd to see
the old chum* of my boyhood, aud
then I had a special hankerin to see
the old sweet heart what I left be-
hind.
It war this way; I had courted her
a loug time, antl had been haven
good success antl mighty pleasant
times also. We begin a courten
when we war yit children, antl we
likctl each other powerful while we
war goin to school, antl as we got
older the courten got butter and
better.
Her name was AnnaOmna Meris,
and her oltl father war mighty well
off, aud owned a powerful purty
farm.
But I war'nt liken her fur that,
but just fur herself, fur she was
powerful sweet, and just the puniest
girl 1 ever seed.
And 1 guess slit liked me as well
fur when I axed her to be my wife
she only wanted three weeks fur con-
sitlerin of it and then said yes. !
war powerful happy then anil we had
lots of good times together fur a
year or so, and then a lot of the boys
war goin to Texas and I concluded I
would like to go too.
She war powerful set agniri my
goin, but I told her I would not stay
long, but would get some land antl
get ready fur uiakin us a home, antl
then I'd come back aud git her, bill
she cried a good deal.
At last the day cum fur the star-
tin and I spent all the forenoon with
Iter settin on some mose-covered
nearly so, aud got mu Bome
clothes.
As the folks bed never hearin of
me since 1 left, 1 concluded it would
be mighty nice to pass myself as if I
war somedody, and so the tlrst thing
I got war a tine and mighty tall stove
pipe hai made of the finest silk. Hut
when 1 lied paid fur it 1 found 1 only
lied seven dollars left to buy my
clothes so 1 went to a chcap clothing
house antl got mu the heat I could
git fur that money iocludln a pair of
shoes what cost two dollars antl a
half.
1 didn't think they matched very
well, but it war the best I could do
and so 1 got on the cars agin, and
yisterday afternoon I got to Florence
in the north ot Alabainy, antl then 1
walked out, 18 miles, to Marion to
my brothers who war all powerful
glad to see me.
I'm a goin to visit all the folks
here around the old home and then
I'm a goin to the home of Anna
Meris whose now married I liev
learned, antl when 1 liev visited her
I'll write you again.
Crops is good here and they hcv
lots of fruit L.itl 1 am well.
I'nit.k Billy.
THE COLUMBIA IMPERIAL GRAPE.
floe arjxrinr•«=e «rx .i-u dO1 t
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C. Erhard & Son-...
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DRUGGISTS
fUSTKOP,
Tkxai. ..
Ila*trop, Tcvak
Will praeUiw in all the Higher aud lu
forlor t 'oiirt*
OKKltK —Over Klr«t National Hank.
Pouuell Oil JVIill Co.
llAflTUOP, TKXAS, Aug. 2H, '!)! ,
Kiutok Aovkiutskk:
During tbe last spring and this
summer, a fruit-tree agent "worked"
this county with sample jars of fruit,
Including specimens of the Columbia
or Columbia Imperial Grape, the
vines of which he sold to parties re-
siding in the towns of Bastrop, Mc-
Dade, Klgin, Hill's Prairie, Upton,
Smithville, Ked Rock antl vicinity,
and doubtless in other neighborhoods
in this county, at the sum of $2.50
per vine. This agent claimed that
this vine was one bearing an excel-
lent quality of fruit and that the
company represented by him gave
81.'1000.00 for the original vine antl
that no one had it for sale or could
legally sell it except the company
represented by him. This agent was
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R, F. Tl RNKR
Attorney-at-Law.
SinlthvllU'. U«*iro|> County. Texas.
Votary In Oltlee.
prompt ami painstaking attention given u> ml
slllllUNI placed iii iii, llltud*.
C. c. HI'JHSMI I'll,
Attorney at-Law.
BAHTROP, .... TKXAS
Will urwtlf" In all the lll«li«'r nmt Inferior
Oiiurm iu the State
Abstract* of title furnl.iliwl l.oan* ne«otla
and CollwtlouA promptly utteudeil to
<)Id I .and Clalim tuvctlKate'l in all pari- ol
"he State
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J. B. 1'RICK
County Jit age and
Attorney-at-Laiv.
Ilaatrop, Texa*.
Will practice In all the higher court*.
T. fl. Hasler&Co.
WANTS YOU TO PRICE THEIR
Furniture, Carpets,
.... and HXEa-tting,
Befot'o y< u l uy plHowliPi't'. Tlu'V will savt* you
Fifteen to Twenty Five Per Cent.
rocks down by the oltl spring. It I a man advanced in years with gray
war fall and the leaves war a fallin | hair ami honest-looking face, and a
nil around us and the blue smoke of j smooth talker. If he succeeds in
tlie Injun summer lay mighty lone- | working the other counties of this
some like on the far off bills, and state as successfully a> he has work-
ed old Bastrop his fortune will be
made before the beginning of the
the black birds war singin their last
songs and fixin to start away too.
1 felt awful sad aud Anna seemed year 1900.
to, but finally I hearin the hack a | B.it the purpose of this communi-
cotnin away down the roatl and then I cation is to direct tbe attention of all
I told her 1 would hcv to say good parties who have met or who may
by. But she said "wait a uiinit | meet with this agent to the follow-
Billy," and she took a little pair of jing facts:
siscrs what she had and cut ourj In the Texas Farm and Ranch of
Initials in the old beech tree antl just the l'.Oh instant, appears a letter
tinder them she put the date, "Oct. from Mr. \V. L. Bailey, of La(irange,
21st, 18t5o." "This is a sign," she us which he refers to a write-up of
said "that we'll alius be true to this grape two or three years since
each other." And I said "well" and j in the Farm and Ranch, in which
then I embraced her several times this grape is classed as of second or
and kissed her, and tellin her I would , inferior quality, and that its chief or
Prescriptions carefully eom-
pounded at all hours pAT-
KM MKDICIKKg oi all klnil*
*aNflMEiNKi^b
and that during this time it has
shown weakness in foliage and vine,
and has never fruited with either of
them. Prof. Munson says he has
fruited it two seasons, and finds it
unsuitable to this climate, and unfit
for market or eating. That it will
make a fair but not high flavored
jelly, with plenty of sugar, antl that
this is about the only use that can
be made otit, but that there are
numerous grapes that make a better
jelly antl are useful in other ways.
That for over three years he could
buy vines of this variety at 25 to 50
cents each, but considers them dear
as a present. That this is greatly
to be deplored, as it discourages
many who will fie sorely disappoint-
ed, when their extraordinarily ex-
pensive vines come into fruitage.
That there is no law preventing any
one from propagating and selling
this vine, but that it would be a
blessing to thu country if there were
a law preventing the propagation
and sale of such worthless varieties-
That the sale of this vine at 82 50
per vine illustrates the "advantages"
of ordering novelties through travel-
ing peddlers with llamiug pictures
aud grand sample jars.
Fount! among the purchasers of
this vine from this agent at 82.50
per vine in this county, are farmers,
merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors,
dentists, druggists, railroad ollicials
and others. If they pay their money
for this vine, it is quite certain that,
they will receive iu return something
'worth less than nothing" for their
money, and which they could have
wholly avoided, or have purchased
these vines for almost nothing if like
this writer they had been a reader of
the Farm and Ranch the last two or
three years.
Hoping that this little personal ex-
perience will serve to protect the
aforesaid farmers, merchants, bank-
ers, lawyers, doctors, dentists, drug-
gists, tailroad officials, etc., from a
like fate in the future, and that this
letter may save others from the same
fate, 1 am Yours Truly,
J. P. Fowi.kk.
Physicians and Surgeons.
H. V LUCKKTT, M. 1)
Physician 6" Surgeon.
Uantrop, Tc*a*
OKRIiJK At W. J Mlloy * Drug Store.
H. R- COMBS, M. I)
County Physician
and Surgeon.
3,4 HT HOP, . TKXAt.
OWCH—C. K.rhard A Son'* l>ru« SUiru.
Ukniiikmck- Uantlan Cottago.
Dentists.
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THE PALACE MARKET,
J. H. FITZW1LLIAM, Prop!
The deservedly popular ~
Palace Market
(j, .T. II. Fit/.williain, Proprietor, is now prepared to
" serve the public with the I>ost and fattest of
EEFand
soon come back, I tore myself away
and walketl up to the road to meet
the stage, and I see her goin on to
the house a crying and a
handkerchef to her eyes.
only recommendation was the large
size of its berries. Mr. Bailey fur-
ther says that he linds the description
holdin a : of this grape as given in the cata
log tie of the Texas State Ilorticul
i Well, I never saw Anna again. 1 j tural Society, tallies with the descrip
got to Texas antl war always a spend-
f,j {in about all I made fur terbaccer antl
I'i frolicin around ami a tlrinkin and
l| war never able to go back again. Fur
a long time 1 wanted to go back ami
kept a thinkiu I would but I never.
After I got married I didn't want
to go back, but I never fergot Anna
Hoi Sausaok and Bauhkitki) Mkats, a Specialty.
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J)K. N. G. FOWLER.
Dentist.
OFFICK—OT«r Flrat National Rank.
SAMUEL C. LUCKKTT
D. D. S., {Dentist.)
•ItrriCB—II ay n > Building Masonic Floor.
\\V Will
respect-
August Miller will remain with us ant
give you the best to be had in the market. 1
fully solicit your patronage.
j. h. fitzwilliam.
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A recent special tells of a man
who, after being sentenced to the
penitentiary, was converted, antl his
friends then secured his pardon. It
is to be hoped, says the Johnsou
County lieview, his conversion was
sincere aud that he has quit for all
time the paths of wickedness. Some
years ago au Iowa legislator offered
a bill which provided that a man
sentenced to be hung should be given
twelve months in which to repent
ami be baptised. A brother legisla-
tor moved to amend, that if the con-
demned should profess religiou iu a
shorter time than twelve months he
should be executed at oute, for fear
he might backslide.
To preserve eggs for winter use,
pour six quarts of boiling water on
to three pounds of lime, one ounce of
cream of tarter, and half a pound of
salt. Leave until cold, antl then
pour it over the fresh eggs, which
are carefully arranged in jars and see
that there are none uncovered, lie
the jars over with thick paper, and
stsutl on a shelf in a c«>ol larder or
storeroom.
The State Farmers Alliance "tie-
j mantis" that the schoi&aUc age he
come on the Katy to j In the replies a> published, Messrs. fixed at from 7 to 21 years aud that
on the Cotton Belt to Price and Ramsey say they have had education be mail mip.i'.sor,.—
tioti above mentioned, and say# this
grape has been pushed down there
(l.a(Irange) this spriug, and a great
many sold at 82.50 per vine, antl he
then calls upon tbe Farm aud Ranch
for more light upon the subject.
In reply the Farm and Ranch says
"not having tested it personally we
Meris and thousands of times I hev | could not give our answer from per
Been in magination the date "Oct. ittonal experience. The inquiry
21at, 1865," what she cut in the old | was referred to Prof. R. H. Price
tree by the spring, antl con Id see (Agricultural and Mechanical Col
how purty antl how sweet and how lege) who has it on the station
sad she looked as she stood cuttin grounds; to Prof. I. \ . Munson
them letters and figures. the best American authority on
Well, as 1 war sayin I bed saved grapes, antl to President Ramsey
up my money antl so last Munday. (Texas State Hqrtlcultural Society)
(this is now Sunday.) 1 got on the who lias the genuine, blown-in-the-
train at Klgin and rolled out fur tin; bottle, with seal on. W e give their
$ old home land. reply to Mr. Bailey's inquiry, autl
1 left all my folks well antl hev hope that he will find in them just
h had no accidents or any trouble on what he desires to know.
ft the way. I
|j Waco and
Metnfls whar I stopped two days, or two years experience with this vine t Johnson CViut\ Review.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 9, 1899, newspaper, September 9, 1899; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205463/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.