The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 48.
FRKK HKA11TS, FRISK MINKS, FRKK I'KOPLK. ARK THK MA I'KRI vL, AM' THK ONLY MATIKIU., OUT OF WIIH'H FRKK UOVKRNMKNT8 ARK CONSTRUC.'TKU.—JKFFKRHON.
KASTROP, BASTROP COUNTY, TKX AS. SATURDAY, APRIL <>. P.HH.
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Men's Stylish Footwear
Of tin- very beat makes are sold by us r a
posi ti ve guarantee to he as represents <1. \V
lnii all our Mines in large ipiautitica l r«*et from
tlit- factory, liuiH enabling us to Have you money
on \ our Shoe bill.
1 he Helmed'* lb-', till an & Co black viel
velour and box calf :it>< 1 willow tan balilioral in
all the new to* * and lasts. the kiml ilia' are us
daily sold for 81.00 anil 84.50, go in thin Kaster
sale at §•'! 50 pub
Habnoral mackav, sewed, cap toe. a nice
dress shoe, the 83 a0 kind, ..ur price W 00.
Black vici kids baluiorals, plain toe, always
sold at *2..*>0 now fl.! 0.
Gent's £ urnishing
Goods Department.
This section of our store is grow-
ing in popularity- I Ids is because
•ae keep all the n<-w. up to date
stales at prices that can't be dupli-
cated.
N K \V K A s | K K NKCK W K A It.
Comprising the new tint dtl club ties, four
in ha id and Windsor ties.
(JKN I '.*> IIALK IIOSK.
A big assortment of plain black, full silk
finished, the kind that sells for 2'.lc, now goes al
12 12c.
A very line lisle thread finish, fast black
half hose, 25c.
All the new blue shades, drop stitched and
silk striped, something e'egant and very dressy,
10c pair.
A pretty line lace stripe and open work Idk
lisle thread half hose, •'Lie pair.
MKN'S SI 11KT WAISIS
In all the new Spring styles, ranging in price
from *1 0o to 81.25. These are all nice, pretty
bright patterns, and are the latest addition
to Men's Wearing Apparel Ask t<* see our
elegant line of Balhrigiran and Lisle Thread I n-
dersuits, New Spring Hats and Clothing.
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Hy t he ladies after a * i-it
to our store, naturally
i urus to t he beam it til ere
ations displaced in our
I )1{ KsS t.ODDS bKC
I 11 N. Never before
have \ oil seen mil!' a
pretty array and combi
nation of colors, as are
show u in this department,
yur buyer in New Vcrk
is a I iv a \ s on the alert for
lie new tilings as they appear in the Last. When
you buy a dress from lis theie is an assurance
tiiat you have the right thing, In this depart-
ment we are showing all the new novelty Silks,
Mercerised Foulards, Swisses, 1 >r^ n««lifs. Chif-
fons. Foulardines, Satin Hayes, Dimities. Lawns,
Mergerizeil Zephyrs, Kte All bought in large
q tantities and distriliuteil from our Big Head-
quarters at (ialveston This enables us to sell
th' in at matchless prices. Space will not permit
us giving prices, hut we invite you to call and
see our henu !#id display.
A Tl< KAT—
in store for the ladies see-
ing this line. Narrow val-
entines edges and insert-
inns ranging in price from
;Sc to 5c per yard.
Pretty tonsjhon and thread
laces that you will think a
bargain at !U\ 5c, <Sc and 10c per yard-
Hie new deutelle i* impure lace and bands, for
sheer dress goods, at 35c, 40c and oOc yd.
Also we are displaying some pretty all over
Lace, Cords, Bands and W liile Swiss Shearing,
Kmbroidpries and liser'inas.
Parasols.
Are now in order and we have some
retty black mercerised, with ruf-
iles. at 81.00 and 81-50 each
9 White pique, natural wood han-
dle and a great bargain at 08c
White silk, assorted colored bor
tiers, neat handle and very swell. g'.'.'H.
I0OI. EASTER GREETINGS. I0OI.
Spring is lit re, every I ursting bud and swelling throat heralds its approach. All nature
responds to tin1 sun's warm caresses and to the gentle wooing of Southern zephyr-' and
blusnes into loveliness. Our store has caught the inspiration and has donned its new Spring
dross, with every department teeming with pretty, bright, fresh Merchandise. Beauly, style
and assortment, coupled with I .west prices, has made our store a popular shopping; place.
A Discussion .A, .wjAViu v\ Kaster
Handkerchiefs
In great profusion and
every one a ureal value.
1 lot fancy col w lute
hemstitched and eut
brotderieil edge, .~>e.
1 lot white lace hem-
stitched and embrold
cried edge, very pretty,
each 10c.
1 lot fancy white em-
broidered edge, very elahorote, and the regular
;i; c ami toe value, each 21c
Gloves for Easter.
These no doubt you will need to yo with that
new Kaster outfit, and we can suit you in our
new shades in corn color and white, per pair '.IHc
vi Ladies Belts
and Uuckies-
omprising all the new
Nj. tjfi y novelties, Laiglon and
Spikes, also velvet and
fain v eunosa <i Ribbons, for belt llxiurcs.
Spring Hosiery.
Ladies plain black, all 20 and 25c valves, we
place mi sale, at the low price of 12 1 2c.
Drop s'itch, black seamless, well finished, and
a great bargain at 2">c pair.
Our regiilt.r 50c black lisle, rembroad and rib-
bed. no in the Kaster sale at .'i.>c.
A very fancy lace stripe and open work lisle
thread, fast hiacd, 75c value, go at ">0c pair.
Fast black, lilse thread, silk finished, lace
stripe antl open work, regular '.K)c value, at 6;>c
The A. B Frank San Antonio Fire St ick that
remains on hand must be closed out to make
room for our Spring and Summer (ioods We
still have some choice bargains left, consisting of
Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Handkerchiefs, Prints,
Towels, Laces, Shirts, Notions, Etc.
NOTE —Every boy under II years old mak
inn a purchase of 25c or over, before Easter,
will receive one of our Flvinu Machines FltEE.
-COLNTfR
STEVE[4SOf4 & HOLT,
One Price. Spot Cash.
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New
Easter
Footwear
F or
Ladies
and
Children
In all the New
qiring S t y | e s ,
con slating ol one anil I w o nil up <untla!s, (>x fori Is,
ties, etc., in late sit e lasts antl toes, and the
kind that wears.
I.atlies one strip Sandals, new Astoiia toe,
light and dressy, yo this sale at SI 2.">
|)rew Selhy & Co's one str ip Sandals, plain
toe, the regular 62 n<l kind, S1.•" '>
Drew Selhv & Co's kid oxford lie, neat toe
and last, and a gmd wearer, $1 7
Drew Selby t'o's kit! 2 strap sandals, very
1 light ami suitable for dress wear, S'J .">0
Drew Selby & Co's patent 2 straps, sail
, dais, Fri nch heel, C last at 82.50.
Drew Selby Co's piterit kitl 2 strap
French heel, C last, worth we sell at 8;l
VN e also are displaying a pretty line of
1 Misses and Children's Saa'als that you should
I see before making your purchase.
Ladies Muslin
Underwear
Our sale still continues on these
gootls antl we have received the
second shipment, and you will buy
with vigor when you see this line
antl realize the good values we are
offering. These garments are all
well made and nicely trimmed
Summer Vests.
i lot gauze sleeveless, tap-
ed around neck, small pin
stripes, each 5c.
t lot bleached gauze sleeve-
less vests, taped, each 10c.
1 lot blcofhed gnuze sleeve
less, lack finish and silk taped
each 21c.
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C, Erhard & Son- ■..
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DRUGGISTS
WASH!N< 'T< )N
TTKR. Representative Warner, of 111.,
j brought back the gloomiest sort
of budget from his recent visit to
Bastrop,
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Prescriptions carefully com
.pounded at all hours. •• I'at-
!■ nt Mkimoinks of all kintfH
It is saitl Mr. and Mrs. William
Harrell, of Naeodoches county,
have been married 70 years.
••Karmersville is experiencing
a moral spasm against saloons
and gambling houses," and like-
wise Hast r< >p.
The house has passed to en-
grossment, a bill 'appropriating
$15,000 for the establishment of
an idiot house.
Lock art is now in telephone con-
nection with all the outlying
towns and neighborhoods of the
county, and old l'astrop should
do likewise.
The plains of Western Nebras-
ka and Colorado are reported
strewn with carcasses of dead
cattle, horses and sheep, the re-
sult of the recent blizzard.
The house committee on consti-
tutional amendments reported
favorably the Stett resolution
making the terms <>t state and
county officers four years.
■■■ —
Twenty* eight mills in Fall
liiver, Mass., closed last week,
throwing thousands >f people out
of work. As the News says,
"prosperity seems to be "in
tfpold,''
Cuba. For instance, he said:
" The Cubans will sign anything
or do anything just to get us
away from their property and i
More crookedness in Cuba?
Only a little matter of ? 10,000,
but doubt as to who got il is g v-
:ng some prominent friends of
the administration a bad case of
shivers. A stockholder of the
Havana Gaslight Co. has filed own hands you can expect the
charges saying that a person of | worst. From what I could learn
influence had collected s10,00(i they will assess everybody with
from that company for securing any money and have a division
a 50 per cent reduction in the Iof the spoils. They will drive all
tariff on crude petroleum used j Spaniards and American sympa-
for the manufacture of illuminat- thizers from the Island and for a
Mr. McKinley did. Fx-Repre- China, which is now, in the opin-
sentative W. A. Rodenberg, of ion of those most competent to
Fast St. Louis, 111., who was this judge, in jeopardy.
week appointed Civil Service
Commissioner, on the 17th day of
February, 1900, only a little more
than a year ago. voted, in the
when they have the reins in their! House, against making an ap-
Representative Stevens, of
Minn., who has recently been in
Cuba, has given the annexation'
or-bust men a hard nut to crack
by calling attention to the fact
propriation for the Civil Service that Cuba can produce sugar at a
Commission, with the full knowl- little more than half the cost of
I
edge that the appropriation was 1 producing American beet sugar
W. J. MILEY,. .
^ DRUGGIST.
Bastrop
fKXAS. .
ing g:as. The War Department
is said to be investigating the
charge. There are some sensa-
tional stories going around about
this case, which may or may not
brief period revel in loot. Law
and order will become a mockery j
and a state of anarchy will reign.
(if course, we must turn the
island over, but it is a crime
be true, and there are some known against humanity to withdraw at
facts. About the first of the this time. When our troops leave
present month the President the island you will witness a
issued an or ler reducing the [reign of lawlessness that will
tariff on crude petroleum, to be
used exclusively for making il-
startle the world and compel us
in the name of justice to take
luminuting gas in Cuba,from SI .401 matters in our own hands
per 100 Kilos to 70 cents, and
the order was officially promul-
gated in Havana on the lHtli
inst. That order was issued on
the recommendation of (lov.
again.
There hart been so much hum-
bug about various acts of the
McKinley administration that it
was a little difficult for Mr. Me-
Leonard Wood, endorsed by Sec- ( Fi'dej to do anything in that
retary Root. There the known | line striking enough to cause
facts end. (" en. Wood, of course, more than a passing comment,
should be able in the explanation but the bit of humbuggery attach-
to be refused, if the necessary
votes could be secured, for the
purpose of killing the Civil Ser-
vice Commission and the law un-
der which it acts. Now, Mr.
Rodenberg is a Civil Service
Commissioner and, unless the
Senate should refuse, to confirm
his nomination, which is not like-
ly, will draw $.'1,500 a year sal-
ary and a liberal allowance for
expenses during the remainder of
the McKinley regim°; and he has
had the nerve to say in a pub-
lished interview that he had al-
ways been a friend of civil ser-
vice reform. Such humbug is
disgusting.
While Mr. McKinley is racking
his brains to try to satisfy the
demands of the republican bosses
for patronage, American interests
in China are in a fair way to suf-
fer. According to late advices
Special and careful attention
>ji"/cti to Hit! Prescription I>e-
partment, and patrons waited
on either day or nl^bt.. A full
line of I'ATKNT MKDUMNKS,
I'KHKrMKHV. TOII.KT Autio-
i.KS, STATIONkkv, ETC., Ktc.
The heart is generally heavy
when the pocket's light.
and for a great deal less than
cane sugar can bo produced by
our southern planters, ami that it
can produce enough of it to suit-
ply the market in this country,
which means, in his opinion, that
the annexation of Cuba would at
once kill the entire sugar indus-
try, both cane and beet, of this j |f a man has crow's feet about
country an 1 is opposed to either ^13 eyes there must be some
annexation or an Ame**ican pro- ',.aws,
tectors.
I A ripple of laughter is worth a
(ien. W. T. Sherman is quoted flood of tears at any stage of the
as saying of (ien. Nathan Fed-
ford Forest: "After all, I think
Forest was the most remarkable
man our < ivil War produced on Hand who wins the girl with the
either side." Perhaps it would ,
rocks.
game.
It's always the fellow with the
not be saying too much to say
that Forest was the ablest cavalry
leader ever foaled this side of the
Atlantic < Jcean.—Johnson County
Review.
True, and, though a strict dis-
ciplinarian, was naturally a kind
he has been asked to make by
the War Department to say why
he recommended that reduction,
and the gas company stockholder
eti to filling the vacancy on the
Civil Service Commission caused
by the recent death of Commis-
sioner Brewer was a corker. Of
from Pekin, the other powers are J hearted man, with an eye that
considering the advisability of could look a fellow through, re-
ijuietly pushing the I*. S. out of
quiring no second look to correet-
should be made to tell to whom course, it has long ago been made
the 840,000 was paid. Meanwhile | apparent Uiat the professed ^ail-
there are naturally rtimi>rs as well
as fears that that Neeley's steal-
ing of Cuban postal funds may
be petty largely compared wifh
other crooked financial work over
there by Americans.
What to do with Aguinaldo,
miration for civil service reform
by the administration was cant
and hypocrisy of the worst sort,
but nobody supposed for an in-
stant that Mr. McKinley would
appoint a Civil Service Commis-
sioner wh 1 had a public record
the Chinese question by ignoring ly "size" him up. To know Forest
it in future negoti&'ion :. If the j well was to admire and love him;
'lT. S. should be pushed out of the ^rve underhim was to worship
Chinese diplomatic door, what
would become of the "open door"
A small boy is never so full of
emotion that he has no room for
dinner.
It is given out that Bonham's
cotton mill will be in operation in
a few weeks.
The cotton receipts at Paris,
Texas, by wagon, are •IK.ooo
against 22,000 last year.
Laws, like sausages, often
cease to inspire respect, when we
Alas, too true: "There are too learn how they are made.
Both houses of the Maryland
now that ho has been captured, is showing him to be in favor of
greatly puzzling the administra- ' killing the Civil Service < 'ommis-
tion. Ision. Well, that is precisely what
to American trade in China? Mr. 'many iti this world who will not
McKinley may find the filling of a east the bread upon the water
few offiices a more important | unless they are assured before Mature have passed a bill dis-
question than this is, but when . hand that it will come back in a ^rtint lising Otst>,
he hears from the American peo-' f,.\v day.- a fullgrown sandwich, "Asa general proposition the
pie lie will discover what a mis- all trimmed with ham, buttered man who suspects the most evil
take he hits made, but unfortuu- und rolled up in a warranty deed of others is himself rotte 1 to the
at'dy that discovery will not i*ts- j f«*t* one-half the earth and a core," very truthfully suggests,
store the American trade with mortgage 011 the other half," i the Austin Statesman.
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Cain, Thomas C. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 6, 1901, newspaper, April 6, 1901; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth205539/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.