The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898 Page: 1 of 6
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Dublin Progress
DUBLIN. ERATH COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1898
">•' CHALK MOUNTAIN.
0 Mt'Kular < 'orm>|MH>d«-nc«'
? Feb. 21st—Your scribe attend-
9 ed the meeting of the executive
a committee of the populist party
2 »t Stephenvilie on Saturday the
>o# 14th, inst., Returning the follow.
H mg k$?:»
H Healt
Farmers are biny sowing oats
and preparing to plant corn.
The weather is dry and cool.
X. J. Shands will speak at this
place next Saturday night. We
will organize a populist club at the
"indications denoted but speak at this place on the iMh of £"* **“•_“! Rdourselyei ready
lin and good crops was (next .month, in the interest of the
ilk years, and very little . people’s party. Everybody ic-
in the two years of IKHo-ti. j vited to attend, regardless of poli-
I to see a good rain in each 1 tics
ip to July and with the We have preaching at this place
IMaon in the ground, we every Sunday,
wet very fair crops this j The correspondent from Liberty
have come to the parting el the
ways. Which one shall we takaf
The one leads to suooees, victory
and sverything that is dew to ft
liberty loving people. And the
other to the overthrow of ell in-
stitutions, sod to e system ef
peonage, to a system of lord and
■lave, master sod servant. Which
wsy shall we take?_
HUOKaftAT.
Regular»ormpoudeuct
Feb. 22.—Consider able oorn
will be planted here, and there is ft
larg sr acreage of oate than ever be-
fore. I have not seen as busy a
set of people in my life before aa
the farmers hereabouts.
Mr. John Fondren and Mia*
Delia Fincher were married laet
Sunday. We wish them maeh
happiness.
We needs good speaker here tft
give os e talk and re-organiss our
populist club. Populists are num-
erous here sod are growing more
m ©vet: tfoe Country
t News Notes. Gossip and other Items of Interest by
I Our Regular Correspondents.
Feb. list.—Dr. Lewis of this
place, and Drs. Tull, Barham and
Pilot of Carlton, performed an op-
eration on “Pat'' Edwards last
Friday for abaeas of the liver. We
are very glad to report him doing
i well. .
Mr. Fancber and family of Gua-
tine, visited J. W. Oustot and
family Sunday.
J. B. Mason of Gustine, was
j visiting relatives in this neighbor-
hood Sundsy.
Miss Ids Clarks, who is teach-
ing at Farner’s Chapel, was visit-
ing borne folks last Saturday and
Sunday.
Dr. Taylor is being spoken of as
a candidate for county treasurer,
subject to the action of the demo-
cratic party
Three members of Arcb Jones’
family have been very sick with
erysipelas, but are much improved
calls “arithmetic made easy,
gave good satisfaction.
The good men of this community
met at this plats last Friday night
and organized a Peopled party
ALIXAIDKR.
U.—Wheat looks well and
h lor a good yield,
ug)cations of the twelve
It C— ------—------- r. -
ii months ending in June, *nd Mr. Cecil Fast secretary
I wish to say, in 1884 and f......
denoted hut little rain club, with J. K. Morton president'
_ - t-l Lu an #4 mil I It .III VI ft te #1 Al — / ' — 1 I A.' — —. a a ^
Mr. Shands of Stephenville, will
for the coming light.
1 The meeting at Stephenville was
very harmonious and the outlook
for a complete “Waterloo’’ in No-
vember is very bright. It seems,
from looking over the announce-
ment columns, that we will not be
j short on material from which to
select our oflicers.
Our teachers. Miss Mary Kinard,
i Tit Howard and Earl Stigler, at-
tended the Teachers' Institute at the Live Oak school house every Dr. Lewis moved from this
ISelden on Saturday, the l‘-Kb. Friday night, which h&9 just start- place to Gustine Saturday, where
They report a very interesting ed and is progressing nicely with a he will continue the practice of his
meeting. large membership and an eager- profession.
Ed Tancil, oue of our old ac- ness to succeed. The members j The Maine affair is exciting con-
• luaintances. came in from Martin, prepare with songs, recitations and siderable comment here and every-
Tenn., last w eek and spent a lew declamations, closing with a spell- body seems to be of one accord in
days with us, but left for Hillsboro log match. the opinion that I'ncle Sara should
to try to get a position as salesman Health in this neighborhood whip the “stuffing” out of Spain
I in a drv goods house there rather poor, there being several and make her confess fi«r *in, »ud
cases of la grippe in the commu- teach her how to respect her supe-
LOWELL nity. riors. The American people are
K.K'iitr i<rrn»po«<ietic* j Corn planting has begun lively: divided into many factions on
Feb. 22.— ‘Uncle’ Ira Millican oats all sowed; wheat looks well, political and religious subjects,
Miss Freddie Fulkerson was and W. H. 'Nells visited Desde- Grass is beginning to show up a but when our honor and dignity
nte sick a few days with neural- mona yesterday. little. A few more warm days as a nation is insulted they will be
;1 Your scribe in company with and then a rain, all outside stock a unit in chastising the offender, as
The talk is the destructon of the Dan Bowen, the popular candidate can get plenty of grass. they have ever been.
'“-izi. for Justice of the I’eace, precinct -------
Charlie Hill was found with the number eight, visited Victor Sat- ST. OBORUE LIBERTY-
"r CmqMdmt. tagwisr ConwinlwnM.
Feb. ilrd.-hverytbing is mov- Feb 20th._We would not be
ing on smoothly. surprised to see some of our peo-
C;; B. Williams is stumping some p|e 9cratcli up their seed oats in
of his farm. . , search of information concerning
O. Y Striplin of Cow creek, and s ■ and Caba u i9 the ulk
late of Alabama, is working for | Misses Nora and i’earl Wolfe of
Fitzgerald, were pleasant callers at
this domicile today.
Mr. Bib visited friends in Palo
Pinto county to-day. Jim Davis
followed suit.
Charlie Gilbert will leave in a
few days for the Indian Territory.
A number of young people from
Hcckabay swooped down on our
community to-day in surprise to
some, but all was explained when
J. G. Fondren inarched in bearing
|fsera to bold enough to run the bible. 1 don’t know how
|Htl year, and not to sell it often ft appears in the bible, but
pglittle of nothing. Plant it appears in the first chapter and
gtf sarly varieties early so as twenty-ninth verse of Romans, and
gprstbem 'ii June. it classes with murder, deceit, envy
| understand a line eleven and such like,
if boy was born to Prof. Cof- yyp
m& Udy of Alexander, last Kr((,lllir ,
L "Feb. 23. Most o
pr correspondent had quite a jam! ready
igwmk hunting for a lost We have been I
b which be found in the Ber- w indy went
pjgbborhood after four days There is some
if riding. While in our ram- ptl( mostly
•estopped in at our daughter's from tht, ro|d w n
• near Huckabsy, and found M,„ Freddie
low bom babes, a boy and a sick a lew i
both born the LIHf A girl to ^|a
Pock and a son to Mrs. Ahby
b, one being a grand-child and battlewliip Maine
other a great-grand-child, ^______ _
pas feel some older than check lines of John Met arty’s and urday and took dinner at the has-,
L the collar «»f Mr. Bradfute s. / He I pitable home of “Cncle” Joe
A. Hancock informs us W|H placed under a hundred dollar i Smith. Dan is a young man of
bo will organize a club at |n each case. ITT cut the about twenty-nine years, and will
poly branch school house in |„p ai(,| bottom oil the collar and make the people a good Justice of
ftarfatue. 1 long to see a club dijiiig'ired the lines some. the Pesce. He wants the office
feed at everv school house, Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Col- for the knowledge of law it will
bear our candidates say how j r a g,rl weigl ing three pounds, give him and not simply for th^ „ ,
fend on the Omaha platform The mother and child ale both money there is in it. * hde J M• “
rant capable and good men , wH| ! Stock water is getting scarce out his way to St George Monday his
C. and no fusion* Sink or ‘‘"m* 7r* Davis ,s expected to here ^ team ^ f»«hten*d near Mr
Hlet every true populist rH(irn this week from Scurry B. Hlengburg is working .for • “ tearing the wagon
lee principles -me or no p e. county, where he lias been for the > Geo. Brown. ... , _n(i hurtinir bis son
fapect to seethe names of |ast three months protocoling. A H. Graham is chairinan of P aerioualv
the announcement col- - the populist party at this place. Thomas, though seriously,
lbs coming week Vote for HARBIN- I Mrs. Price and Mrs. Lewis and Our ever smiling and jolly young
pa coming week. iw..i„r. ,^r™,«,.,.i.-..«-.- MiaaeaJ R Hunt Pearl Hilliard friend G. T. Curtis, was in our
Pfora third term, as two K„h. 22.-Since our laat writing l!'''*VHob«rts’Mudy S' midst Sunday eve and spent the
liaenough for any one man wf> hftVe enj(,yed a nice ram. H«d l!tor^s Watson and night with C B. Williams,
ws his hand in the public farmers are preparing to_ p'ani: * Messrs Jack Wilkes and F. L. Kennedy made a business
Pj way. and I shall *dvoc.tr corn the ,„t ,,f the week. “d J ^iVy were oleiismt and tnp to Cow creek Monday evening.
Pt term system after this gomg on all around. ^ap^Ld vUitora “t school <»ur school closed Friday on ac
t k , ...... . A public working on the church , yj>‘PPrei count of small attendance.
bad many solicitations «> at tbl„ place, is announced for | J Roaers candidate for sheriff There has been some corn and
IS and St,“rd‘y' KVeryb°dy Ka otber.rtic.es “borrowed” at night
STSL.n.SL£-1 .ill not v,,:d t0. S™,d- ....bin- the! community. He h.s m.ny friend. n> our^communPv ofUto-
SCARBOROUGH SCHOOL HODS*.
Kr|Ul>r CofTmtHMHlracr
Feb. 23.—We are having fine
weather and farm work programing
rapidly. ^
Oat sowing is about over and
some are talking of planting corn
this week.
Mr. Powers, wife and child who
were quite sick for several days,
are now able to be up.
Born, to Mr. mod Mrs. Harrison
Smith, a line boy recently.
Our school is programing nicely.
Washington’s birthday waa cele-
brated at Union yesterday and
last night by speeches, dialogues,
music, etc.
A tine girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Pack last week.
The campaign opens at Scarbor-
ough to-night with speeches from
several candidates.
The populists will organise a
club soon and b« ready for the bat-
tle. Let every community in the
county do likewise.
Every reformer be sure and be
on hand at the primary, and show
the democrats that the populist
party is not dead nor sick, bat is
really in better health than ever
before _
Teachers’ laatMate Pretram.
Tbs following is tbs Teachers*
Institute program to be bald in
Dublin, March 12. 1898:
A typical lesson on the parti-
cipal—G. A. Coffee, K. C. Sprat-
len.
Professional pride—B. F. Cook,
C. M Hilliard, Miss Loula Parry.
Common errors in reading—Miss
Ethel Lattimore, Mim Loola
Ridgeway.
Recitations on current events—
J. D. Straude, 8. L. Reeve, F. R.
Wakefield.
“Put Yourself «n His Pinos’’—
M. J. McDonald, Mim Winnie
Webb.
Does modern education educate?
—W. L. Terry, J. B. Jones, G. C.
Wyley.
Teachers will answer roll 0.11
with quotations
( J. C. Harpko,
Com. \ Mrs. 8 C. LAmsROii,
(Miss Winnir Winn.
CLAIRETTE
lOWTNiMnilffirr.
kSS.—Farmers have gotten
•U their land turned,
hwgh the weather has been
•sol for several days, and
* predict that winter is not
pot, some are planting corn.
I notice that tne democrats
jtyjabilant over their “»srge"
: which was orgmised here
tamocrats say that the pop-
es dead, but by and by a
■ dub will be organited and
I Unexpected hour, while
» napping, will swoop down
Nmb lies a hawk upon duck-
Iftd wipe ’em op.”
(•ported that an interesting
M wm carried out at the so-
today night.
fcong people seem to en-
(■melved exceedingly well
llft|ing at Mr. Powers’ Son-
The residence of Jamm Hum-
phreys near Oak Dale church M
the 8tepbeovile and Gordoft rood, J
was entered Thursday night of
laet week by an unknown thief
who obtained ten dollars in
and three ot four in allear.
thief was a youcg bom i
twenty on# year* of aga, wt
black suit, a black slonah ha
carried a small bundle. Bft
not as yet bean apprehended.
D. D. H. Moore, father o! the There will be a great lot of corn
groom, gave a dinner Monday to planted in this community the
5T& £ To* Ttu ..d j. «. u*.
of the young conple in wishing of Hannibal, ware welcome visit-
iir * %toD"!^"siajr£nL
J. E. Mobley is almost tickled in oar neighborhood several days,
to death; It’s a girl this Urns. Roe. Bwrrms preached ft good
R. L. Mobley has moved his sermon through the columns
ml draft near the public road. the Tribune Iasi weak.
I. B. McAllister is again on the What has bmoM ofaU our old
rood selling enltieators and sulky speakers? It is Mms they warn
plows for Crooso- Leonard * Co. making tbs school bouses ring with
Will Mobley has the Arizona their oratory
m____ - Va hdiUff the Didpli an afik*
Charlie Johnooo. who moved to ennlg to their inUrost, and mw ii
Oklahoma two or thiso months tbs urns to work,
rinse, will return in ft few days. There is nothing to prevent as
C. J. Devls wUl likely he ft can- sleeting a fWI reform tiekst fo this
every day, they have never canted
bard times, they bees never rob-
bed ns of oar money that we made
with honaet toil. Bat, neveytbe-
Ism old mother democracy is now
making her final stand for the laat
combat, and wo are going to pot
a forked stick on bar tail and pin
thorn down beneath the wreck and
tha pavm. The poor old wretch
did not grow old graeefally and
make friends as she should, hence
she bm got W die the ingnomiooe
death on the erom.
Long may the Progress live to
l Mollie Garner attended tha
Ii at Bel den Saturday-
I Martha Roberta, of Carbon.
Rslftg with Mr. and Mrs. J.
i Rose McClure, of Duffas.
Mg her sister, Mrs. C. C.
1 8idm visited rslatlvm
triton Saturday.
bt for liberty and the great
laborers.
is very good in this com
Fob. 24.—The frmthor has horn
clear and pliamnt for the pail
W*ott sowing ic about ftvlr ftftd
gardening ia the main thing now
Some spring wheat bss been
a dub at this place.
The populists sxpsst to
im a dab hors soon.
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Daley, James S. The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898, newspaper, February 25, 1898; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth530174/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.