Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1904 Page: 1 of 11
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Cherokee County Banner.
Successor to Jacksonville Banner, Cherokee Blade and Alto News. Main Office Jacksonville; Branch Offices at Rusk and Alto.
$1.09 per Arnmin.
Devoted to the Interests of Cherokee County.
J. E, McFARLARD, Editor aid Prop’r.
Volume 17,
Jacksonville, Texas, Friday Morning, April 29, 1904.
Number 42
RUSK PAGE
Mi« May Bloomfield,
Local Editor.
Miss Bloomfield has the entire management of this department, being in chartre of
Louis Tittle was in Jackson-
ville Monday.
W. T. Boyd of Alto came up to
Rusk Saturday.
Will Forrest spent Tuesday
night in Durham.
Prof. J. T. Crook of Alto was
in Rusk Saturday.
C. B. Powell left Monday on a
business trip to Tyler.
Mrs Bettie Francis was a vis-
itor to Jacksonville Sunday.
J. L. Bagley left Sunday for
Tyler to attend Federal court.
Mr. Lee Guinn made a busi-
ness trip to Jacksonville Friday.
A. A. Ellerbee of Forest was
in Rusk several days this week.
A. A. Ellerbee went up to
Jacksonville Tuesday for the
day.
Mr. Stem of Palestine was the
guest of Mr. Jeff Mallard this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Shook and
little son visited Alto the first of
the week.
John M. Claiborne made a bus-
iness trip to Tyler the first of
the week.
Misses Belle Sherman and Ella
Acker of Gent spent Sunday
night here.
Mesdames W. H. Reeves and
S. J. Guinn reached home Tues-
day from a visit to Hughes
Springs and Jacksonville.
Miss Warner of St. Louis is
the guest of Mrs. Baker of New
Birmingham.
Mrs. Alexander of Boynton
arrived Tuesday on a visit to
relatives here.
Miss Willie Kate Allen went
up to Jacksonville Sunday to
visit her parents.
Charley Pierce of Noonday
was here from Sunday until
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. S. P. Willson and daugh-
ter, Vi, returned to Jacksonville
on Friday morning.
Newton Long has returned
from Guffey, where he has been
for several months.
Mrs. Jim Guinn and little son
of Hughes Springs are the
guests of relatives here.
Henry Wilson of Beaumont
spent a few days with relatives
here the first of the week.
Miss Mary Miller went up to
Jacksonville Thursday to visit
her aunt, Mrs. Walter Sloan.
Mrs. Comer Black and son,
Leones, visited relatives in Jack-
sonville the first of the week.
Walter Sloan and wife of
Jacksonville were visitors here
from Saturday until Monday.
Messrs. Joe G. Summers,
Louis Tittle, Jeff Bateman, E.
M. Moseley and Miss Nell Gregg
are at home after attending the
Battle of Flowers at San Antonio.
Searcy Baker, superintendent
of the penitentiaries, made a
business trip to Rusk this week.
Col. T. L. Fairris of Alto, Mr.
Fisher and his son and ;Mr. H. H.
Fisher of Morrill were here Fri-
day.
Eighteen or twenty people
from here attended a singing
convention held at Mt. Zion Sun-
day.
Hon. John B. Peyton of
Trinity, candidate for state
senator, spent Saturday night
here.
Fred Guinn returned Sunday
from Nashville, Tenn., where he
has been taking a course in phar-
macy.
Miss Kate Priest left Sunday
for Jacksonville, where she will
remain several days with
relatives.
Miss Birdie Branham of Grif-
fin left Monday for Gent, to visit
Misses Ella Acker and Belle
Sherman.
Evan Huston returned Satur-
day from Nashville, Tenn., where
he has been attending a school
of pharmacy.
Mrs. Rosa Lee Brittain of Dial-
ville returned home Tuesday
from a visit to her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Lee.
Mrs. W. G. Jameson of Pales-
tine spent from Saturday until
Monday here with her mother,
Mrs. J. J. Mallard.
Mrs. Miller of Urbano, Ohio,
mother of Theo Miller, and Mrs.
Ed Miller of Memphis, Tenn.,
reached here Tuesday, and are
the guests of the family of Theo
Miller.
Mrs. Alice McGill of Palestine
was here several days this week,
making an effort to establish a
circulating library.
Mr. Miller, a state lecturer in
the Masonic order, is here this
week, delivering talks to the
members of the lodge.
By request, the Bachelor
Girls will repeat the play, “Bree-
zy Point,” at a matinee Saturday
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Messrs. Lee Lloyd, James P.
Gibson, George Huston and
Wyatt Norman attended court
in Lone Star Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cleaver of
Lone Star spent several days
here the first of the week with
the family of J. F. Tatham.
Mrs. Wade B. Neeley and son,
Wade, left Wednesday for a trip
to Dallas and Cleburne; they will
be away about four weeks.
Miss Lutie Waller returned
Saturday to her home in Jack-
sonville. She had been the guest
of Mrs. Comer Black for several
days.
Judge M. J. Whitman left Mon-
day for Dalla.s, where he will re-
main until Thursday with his lit-
tle grand-daughter, Wanda Whit-
man.
Mrs. R. M. Skip worth return-
ed Saturday from Emory where
she was called by the death of
her father, Judge Emory, of that
place.
Corry Jones, who has been
here for several months with the
family of Albert Priest, left
Tuesday for Texarkana, Ark.,
on the way to his home in Law-
rence, Kansas.
DIRECTORS:
G. L. NEWTON, W. H. SORY, J. P. GOODSON, V. P. MONKRESS,
W. B. RAGSDALE, J. L. SMITH, A. F. KERR.
In addition to its excellent facilities, this
bank has the advantage of an abundant cap-
ital, a good Board of Directors and a strong
body of stockholders. .'. \ /.
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JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.
Ladies’ Home Mission Society Entertain.
The members of the Home
Mission Society of the Methodist
church entertained Thursday
afternoon and evening at the
home of Mrs. Wade B. Neeley
with a free will offering reception.
The rooms were tastily and
elaborately decorated with potted
plants and cut flowers. The
house party was composed of
the members of the society.
Tables were arranged for games
of pit, panic and flinch, and vocal
and instrumental music were fur-
nished during the time. In the
dining room the color tone was
pink and white; the table was
very pretty with decorations of
flowers, cut glass and ribbon.
Refreshments of ice cream,
sherbet and cake were served.
In the center of the table was a
cut glass dish in which free will
offerings were placed by all the
guests. _
Tom Coleman visited his wife
and little daughter here the first
of the week.
Mrs. J. J. Mallard returned
Saturday from Palestine, where
she had been visiting her daugh-
ters, Mesdames W. G. Jameson
and Leland Douthit.
Breezy Point.
On Tuesday evening the Bach-
elor Girls presented the play,
“A Summer Spent at Breezy
Point,” to a well-pleased audi-
ence. It is one of the catchiest
plays ever presented in Rusk,
and all the actors acquitted them-
selves creditably. Among the
specialties were vocal solos by
Miss Mary Bonner and Messrs.
Oscar Davis and W. W. Welch,
and a skirt dance by Misses El-
sie Bonner and Linda Coleman,
all of which received encores.
The electric lights were on for
the first time in the opera house,
and are quite an addition to it.
Chinese Entertainment.
On Friday evening the ladies’
aid society of the Cumberland
church entertained with a Chi-
nese social at the home of Mrs.
Will King. Ten young ladies
dressed in Chinese costumes re-
ceived the guests and instructed
them in the customs of China,
observing the social customs
themselves, such as making low
bows at frequent intervals, shak-
ing their own hands instead of
the hands of others in greeting,
Continued on last page.
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many bargains which Frank
offers for the end of the
BIG FIRE SALE:
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very newest pattern, just re-
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Good quality of plaids, sell-
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Shoes, sandals, slippers and
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Frank will sell you Scrivens
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Balbriggan undershirts and
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McFarland, J. E. Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1904, newspaper, April 29, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508028/m1/1/: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.