Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 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.
$1.00 per Annum.
Devoted to the Interests of Cherokee County.
J. E. McFARLAND, Editor aid Prop
Volume 17,
Jacksonville, Texas, Friday Morning, July 8, 1904.
Number 52
RUSK PAGE
Miss May Bloomfield,
. Local Editor.
Miss Bloomfield has the entire management of this department, being in charsre of
our Husk branch office, She is authorized to solicit subscriptions, advertising and job
printing, and to collect for same. She will give prompt attention to all matters of bus-
iness connected with the paper, and will giye a correct account of the news each week.
Lon Ballew spent Friday nigh
in Alto.
W M. Imboden was in Jack-
sonville Monday.
George B. Terrell of Alto was
in town Tuesday.
Hon. James I. Perkins spent
Tuesday in Lufkin.
Mart Armstrong of Alto was
in Rusk Saturday.
E, B. Ward made a business
trip to ^yler this week.
Mrs. A. R. Odom returned
Saturday from Dialville.
Jamie Perkins is spending sev-
eral days in Nacogdoches.
Sam -Smith made a trip to
Waco the first of the week.
Frank Agnew of Alto was in
Rusk for the day Saturday.
Clint Adkinson spent Saturday
night with relatives in Alto.
Mrs. Farmer returned Satur-
day from a visit to Dialville.
Mr. Stiff of Huntsville spent
Sunday with his family here.
Miss Willie Hough left Mon
day for a few days’ visit in Alto.
H. M. Loving and son, Hugh,
left Saturday for St. Louis, their
future home.
Fred Sloan of Jacksonville
spent Saturday and Sunday with
relatives here.
Mrs. Maggie Carmichael and
children of Omaha are visiting
relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coleman
and little daughter, Linda, and
Bonner have return-
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Miss Robbie Oliphint has re-
turned to Huntsville from a sev-
eral weeks’ stay here.
Miss Mary Elkins of Nacogdo-
ches is here on a visit to her
brother, James Elkins.
Miss Yallie Jackson of Hous-
ton was in Rusk a day or two on
business the first of the week.
F. S. Sewall and Roland Jar-
ratt of Dialville came down Mon-
day for a few days’ stay here.
Searcy Baker of Huntsville
was here this week on business
connected with the penitentiary.
J. W. Roach and wife of Dallas
left for their home Tuesday.
They had been visiting the
Hunts.
Mrs. Levi Freedman returned
Sunday from a visit to Mrs.
Heiman Freedman at Shreve-
port, La.
Miss Corry Dear and George
Septine of Belot spent Saturday
and Sunday with the family of
Frank Sloan.
Misses Emma Martin and Beu-
lah Pryor of Mineola passed
through here Tuesday, en route
to Mt. Selman.
Dick Fuqua and wife, and
Charley Fuqua spent from Sat-
urday until Monday at their
home in Alto.
Miss Willie Mae Newman re-
turned Monday from Jackson-
ville where she had been visiting
Miss Lillie Fry.
Mrs. Jernigan and daughters,
Misses Flake and Ethel, of Oak-
woods arrived Saturday for a
visit to Mrs. Wilkerson.
Mrs. E. G. Douglass of Harlem
is here the guest of her daugh-
ters, Mesdames Charley Eman-
uel and Tom Frazer.
Miss Cathleen Summers re
turned Sunday from Forest
where she spent severaL days
with Mrs. R. Q. McClure. *
Mrs. T. N. Haynes and C. A.
Stern of Palestine reached here
Saturday, and are the guests of
the family of E. C. Dickinson.
Miss Agatha Proctor of St.
Louis reached here Saturday,
and will remain a couple of
months with Mrs. S. B. Barron.
Miss N. L. McElbannon of Mt.
Vernon, who is spending a fort-
night with relatives in Forest,
came up to Rusk Tuesday for
the day.
After spending several days
with Mrs. Jim Barrons, Misses
Lora, Mary aud Delia Hester re-
turned Monday to Chronister>
their home.
One hundred and twenty-five
people from Rusk attended the
barbecue at Dialville on Friday.
They report a fine dinner and a
pleasant day.
Mr. and Mrs. Posey and chil-
dren of Jacksonville left Satur-
day for Jacksonville en route to
Neches where they will spend a
while with relatives.
Among those who attended
the picnic at Summerfield on
Tuesday were G. B. Terrell,
George Huston, Louis Tittle,
Will Shook, Q. C. Looney and J.
P. Gibson.
Mrs. Bob Francis and nephew,
Joe, of Jacksonville, Mrs. Jim
Ramsour and Miss Ella Curtis
left Saturday for St. Louis to at-
tend the fair. Miss Curtis will
then go to Chicago, where she
will remain until September
taking a special course in music.
A large number of Rusk peo-
ple attended the barbecue at
Ponta on Thursday.
After staying here for several
weeks, Mrs. Dick Fuqua has re-
turned to her home in Alto.
Mrs. Ramsey and little daugh-
ter, Lucile, left Thursday for a
visit to Leonard and Dallas.
Miss Wilhite of Mt. Selman,
who has been at Hub Guinn’s for
several weeks, retured home
Thursday.
The examining trial of Will
and Ike Taylor .for the charge of
murder has been changed from
Wednesday and set for Monday,*
July 11.
Mrs. Simmons and daughter,
Miss Ethel, and Dorothy Dickin-
son, left Wednesday for Mineola
to visit the family of Prof. B. A.
Stafford.
John B. Long left Wednesday
for Henderson to attend the
Presbytery of the Cumberland
church, which is in session near
there.
The Rusk Iron Guards march-
ed out to Stafford’s lake Wednes-
day afternoon, and will remain
in camp there until Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. James Hanna and little
son and Miss Alice Coleman ar-
rived Saturday from Alton, 111.,
and are with Miss Marie Cole-
man in New Birmingham.
Several changes were made
this week in the force at the de-
pot. Agent *H. M. Loving re-
signed his place to accept one as
assistant ticket agent on the Van-
dalialineat St. Louis, and the
vacancy has been filled by E. P.
Searcy of Texarkana, who has
been working for the Cotton Belt
road two years. J. J. Burns, the
night operator, resigned to ac-
cept a position as traveling agerft
SPEAKING ABOUT MONEY.
We have a large surplus which is steadily growing larger.
The situation, therefore, compels us to again announce thatWve
are in need of desirable loans and a good many of them. While
good sized loans are desired yet we shall not refuse the smaller
ones—any size from $25.00 to $5000.00 will be acceptable.
m CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK
JACKSONVILLE, TEXAS.
for the Dallas News. The vacan-
cy is at present being filled by J.
E. Tilley from St. Louis, who is
an old train dispatcher, and will
go to Mt. Pleasant on the 15th
inst. to take the place of dis-
patcher there.
Under the chaperonage of N.
B. Hampton and wife, the follow-
ing party of young people from
Ratcliffe spent Monday here in
order to visit the penitentiary:
Misses Maggie and Delia Brash-
er, Gertrude and Bertha Collier,
Annie Ash and Adelle Smith;
Messrs. Zach, Drake and Ju
Collier, Walter Bounds, Lee Ash,
John Hampton, Oscar Brasher,
John Smith, and John Kilgore of
Forest.
A mass meeting of the citi-
zens has been called to meet at
1:30 p. m. Saturday to appoint
committees and decide all de-
tails in regard to the reunion of
the old soldiers which will be
held here sometime between the
first and fifteenth of August,
but owing to the rain storm
which came up about that time
the meeting was postponed until
next Saturday afternoon when
it will be held in the court room
at 1:30 p. m. Let all our citizens,
ladies as well as men, be present,
and let plans be made to enter-
tain the veterans royally; they
deserve more than we can ever
do for them, so let everyone do
heir best to make the reunion an
enjoyable one, and a credit to the
town. The Daughters of the
Confederacy here are doing
a good work that it has been
suggested by some of the men
that the Sons of the Confeder-
ate veterans organize an Order
here. Let all those who are
eligible think it over, and no
better time could be found than
during the reunion. R. N. Tis-
dal, commander-in-chief of the
Sons of the Confederate veterans
will be here at that time and
will gladly assist in effecting the
organization.
Killing of Andrew Taylor.
On Monday morning news was
received here by telephone that
Andrew Taylor had been killed
at Gallatin. Deputy Sheriffs
King and Forrest and Justice of
the Peace Stovall left at once for
the scene of the killing.
It seems that Andrew Taylor
and his two sons, Will, aged 16,
and Ike, aged 19, met, accident-
ally, it is supposed, in John
Chandler’s store at Gallatin
about 9 o’clock Monday morning.
The exact details of what follow-
ed are not known, but no words
were spoken on either side, and
the shooting was done by Will
with a 38 caliber Colt’s pistol. He
fired the first shot while in a
crouching position behind an
open counter, the shot taking ef-
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McFarland, J. E. Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1904, newspaper, July 8, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508106/m1/1/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.