The Dublin Progress. (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1899 Page: 1 of 8
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DUBLIN. ERATH COUNTY. TEXA8. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1899.
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New* Notes, Qosslpand other Item* of interest by
Our Regular Correspondents.
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CHALK MOUNTAIN.
•poadence.
3rd.—Still dry and hot.
opening fast; picking
d up fore part oi the week,
ield will be light,
ley Brown will start hia gin
week.
ae Chicken Bristle gin started
st Monday. Don’t know bow
statement was given us by Brother
Walter Green, and Brother Green
asked us to make the report to the
Progress for the benefit of those
concerned. He also states that
tbe church membership here was
62 strong. We hope this will give
satisfaction.
many bales they have ginned.
Three weddings in this vicinity I
it week. Mr. John Reeder |
OLAIRETTE.
Regular Correspondence.
Sept. 6th.—The weather is some
. *z, h“,or
Hr D.vjd m!bb* WHIie A good deal of cotton is being
M rDth d Sh p M W 11 h*uled from *»ere on account of Sal-
and Bt.ll.
Shoffner ..nt to Or.nbury | jJJJm lE
to enter school.
I week oirbusiness.
m
sln»H0Wa r if? I Chas.-Blackman left last Sun
tie F^old start tomorrow for Hil^ d t0iMlter John Tarlefon Gol
boro to enter the Patterson ineti- j ' at 8tephenville.
tute. Prof. Patterson of the above % Fi CoSk Bnd family of Degde.
school, was here Friday m Re mona have been visiting J. R
dentist from Dub- j ^^yj88* Anni^^ishof^ W &
Dr"“ r Lo8ngW6Mt yesterday t0 ftttend 8ch°o1 *
for a few days’ stay in Dublin. | Mr Buddy Cargle has a fine
The mail route from Skipper’s ^ at hig b' *
Gap to this place was discontinued*5 E,der j. w. Stephens is visiting
on the first and the schedule on Lfae Primitive Bap^i6t mM,ing £
the Walnut route changed so as to | galt Brftnch thi8 Feek.
interest.
Dr. Morgan; a
Mr. Danley has bought three
meet tbe mail from the east and
west at Walnut. The change willi 0f jandof Mr. Muldoon and
g!ve us much better mail accomo- wiU b ,w a houae on it and reaide
dations than we formerly had in the dt of ciairette.
Dr Allen abd wife will leave Elder Jack Htephens' uncle of
as. b,“ ’,i,iling
Mao Gr.ob.rry i. ,.r, lo» ..I.h [*‘5, ^’ “ ,' cocmiMio..,,
consumption.
W. F. Carver left Tuesday for
Dublin.
Nearly everybody from this
neighborhood has gone to Pull-
tight today to attend Brother Bent-
ley’s meeting.
was visiting this place this week
looking after the public roads.
DB8DEM0NA.
Regular Correspondence.
Sept. 4th.-—Crops are alarmingly
injured by drought. Cotton pick-
ing baB opened up pretty gener-
ally.
James Cook has moved to our
town.
Jas. Bledsoe is running a cabi-
d
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HEAVENLY BRANCH.
Regular Correspondence.
Sept. 4tb.—W. S. MesBner re-
turned home Saturday from Lin-
coln, Texas. Miss Estelle Duity,...
a charming young lady of Lincoln, net shop in our town,
also Boothe, her brother, came up . October 1st will mark the be-
mStiS'Miw'Myr^Mesener IHogt°wn runb* JoeCook,
will attend the high school at Dub- ?*■ C. Martin, in company
Bn with Wm. McCain, returned on
Mrs. Ida Eargle of Proctor, who the 3rd from a triP out weBt Bnd
has been visiting her grand moth- rePort P^apects very gloomy,
er, Mrs. Rocky Martin, returned to Ont gin has put up two bales of
Proctor Sunday 1,nt th,B 8eMon-
An interesting singing was en-1 T.8. Perkins of Purvis, has been
joyed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. transecting some insurance busi-
W. S. Messner Sunday night. “«« ,n our,t(>w,n P“t week.
Fram Waldrip filed on two thous- . ",f? .°.f f F' R.u"hin« “
Stephenville Monday to serve as a &Uend to budne88 jn stephenville.
U.Bnn w R«„ T W« 1®"“ ^St M. V. HemngtOD
t ^ 4 8 R J, of Falls oounty will move back to
T. R. Riley last week. oar town ^
poMUon wfi J. H“ L»th£n M I oving’^Oku!
I wish to correct a mistake | ^ThV^l.tinu -h<*h
which appeared in the Progress of ™* meeting which has
July 28th in our report of the closed was quite a success
Domu. i
Regular Correapondeuce. ’
Sept. 7th.—Farmers are very
busy gathering crops.
A. A. Ponder of Stephenville
visited Duffau this week to look
after some of his household goods
which he had not moved.
Mrs. Core is visiting her sister
in Young county.
Mr. and Mrs. P. Johnson of Pu-
laski, Tenn., are visiting his broth-
er, W. S. Johnson.
R. Bradfute and J. Creg visited
Alexander this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Vinson are
visiting Mrs. Vinson's parents in
Ellis county.
W. J. Weatherford and son,
Charlie, have gone to Dickens
county. Mr. Weatherford intends
to drill wells.
Desdemona Monday, where they | rabbit bis ears. They seem to act
will spend another month taking
music lessons.
The Baptist meeting closed Sun-
day and the Methodist began Sun*
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Jones left
this week for San Saba county,
where they expect to spend two
weeks visiting relatives.
J. W. Thojntoa started his gin
Wednesday.
Miss Josie Davis of Desdemona
was down last week visitiDg rela-
tives an attending the reunion.
A movement is on foot to buy an
organ for chiirch purposes. This
is a good move, as It would be a
great help to our singing.
Shortage of cotton here has
east in search
HIGHLAND.
Regola r. Correspondence.
Sept. 7th.—Cooper & Sobooler’s
gin will soon be ready for business.
Miss Lizzie Blackstook has been
on the sick list the past two weeks.
Mr. Blackstock does not seem to
improve any yet.
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Stewart
have returned from their visit to
their old home in Alabama, after a
stay of seven weeks.
P. E. Blackstook has returned
from a two week's visit with rela-
tives and friends in Arkansas. He
is now in Baird on business.
Mrs. T. Y. Morrison of Hewitt,
I. T., who has been visiting her
mother here for a few weeks, re-
turned home on the 4th.
massed many to go
of picking.
Mr. and Mrs. '
W. L. Williams
of Lingleville were down this week.
Presiding Elder Boone will be
here today to help in the meeting
and hold quarterly conference Sat-
urday.
••Flowing with nilk and Honey.”
Special Correspondence.
September 2nd__It’s no dryer
in the same manner as a drive
wheel does to a stationary engine.
I am of tbe opinion in a very short
time I can tame my pair as gentle
as cows. ,
Prospectors are Cbming in every
day, while others have sold their
all and are moving here to stsry
There is room for hundreds. ]
am astonished at so many renters
in tbe east, renting and growing
worse every year. There will
probably be no better year than
this to come west. Come on, we
will bid you welcome.
L. J. Evans.
[Our friend Evans, when he re-
sided in Erath, was considered a
man of much truth and veracity,
but we fear that the above contri-
bution will have the effect of his
being classed among the latter day
Munchausens.—Editor:]
Down goes photographs again.
A new picture gallery in town.
The Star Studio, over Harry Gro-
cery Go’s. 16-3t
, Notice to Subscribers.
In the blank space to the
of this notice will be foe *
date to which your subsc
paid. We place
it there as a
less expensive ....
method of no-
Itfyihg you of
the date in or- _____
der that you
may have no
trouble in fig-,189.,
u r i n g the
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ALTMAN.
Regular C orrespondence.
Sept. 2nd.—Cotton picking is
the order of the day, but as the
crop is very short it will not last
long.
The Baptists have almost fin-
ished their church house.
We now have two new dwelling
houses in our little city. Mr.
A Sad Accident.
Last Saturday Walter Louder-
. ., . ... . . |milk, who resides near Downing,
here than other par s of the stated id’ent, hu fai8 ,utle 8l £
apd crops are equal y as good. old daug^ter with a rock, cru8'hiDg
It seems as if all (he wild g®™® ber skuj| and inflicting a terrible
of New Mexico and Arizona bad I ound Mr. Loudermilk threw a
lefttbere and come to this country. Lock at ft chicken which waff
Antelopes, eiks, deer, black deer bed on a Iog crib) and the
of New Mexico wolves, wild-cats, fitUe chiId bei 0* tbe ite
Mexican lions, turkeys and prairie 8ide of the crib *wa8 8truck the
.chickens are coming through this back part of th'e head witfa above
country by the thousands, ^b® result. Medical aid was summoned
most magmficient sight I ever and 8he ig being given every cere
sa* was seventeen elk coming Lnd attention b? the attending
m a canter across the prairie. I nhv8ipiftn«
was dumfounded, in fact, I did|Pl" “r ..
not know what they were. I was
by
The father’s grief
over the sad accident is touching
„ ,. , . , , .... .. . i in the extreme. At last reports
really frightened and hid behind a tbe uule irl wa8 improvingFan£,
bunch of chaparral I hastily u i# now *ho bt 8he re“oyer
“Dd AknSW that.u -DeLeon Free Press,
hid^'old trusty” and Sam with -—fm
me. They passed me in easy Sale at a bargain.—The
range and I shot three dead and Dublin Natatorium..
wounded a fourth one. A cowboy I Stocks on premises
Lowe at office.
Apply to J
or W. E.
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NEW GOODS!
NEW STYLES!
No hard times at our store—cot-
ton is all worth’8 cents and goods
cheaper than you ever saw. Tom
Miller.^
| Suit Against the Express Company.
The man Waites, who was ar-
| rested some time ago on a charge
NEW PRICES! raHhSS£?,i.T3:
No Trouble to Show Goods at
JORDAN'S.
meeting held at thia church, by
Rev. J. A, Stovall, in regard to
Rev. J. B. Vincent being called as
minister here for next year. The
church during the nine days meet-
ing made two calls for a pastor for
next term. The first elsction was
n. (HOBOS.
Regular Correspondence.
Sept. 5th.—Sparks from a pass-
iog engine aet Dr. Lewis’ pasture
abla
on July 19tb, in which Rev. J. A.
ovall received 21 voles and Rev.
i Hicks ten votes. The above
dent was given us by Brother
falden. The second election
bald July 22nd. That day
aeeting dosed end Rev. J. B.
at received 25 votes and
J, R. Riley four votee. This
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A
aze and burned off several hun-
dred scree, including some hey
land. V F
W. D. Hallum has two Mexi-
cans picking cotton and G. W.
Andruss has several grabbing land
on bis ranch here.
Cotton pickers are numerous but
no cotton to'pick, as it will take
near six acres to make a bale.
Steve Daffern' of Dublin spent
Sunday at Mr. Harris.
Mr. Armstrong Vf near Dublin
visited T. A. Kennedy Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Havis at
tended preaching at Oak Grove
Sunday evening.
Mr. Sparkmen and family of
Mt. Airy visited at Mr. Tlmber-
lake’s Sunday evening.
Mr. Ruor, a brother-in-law to
Mrs. Timberiake, arrived here
Saturday from Travis oounty with
hie family and will locate.
Willie Williams and Clarenoe
Neal started south Tueedey to
plok cottoq.' N.
Mrs. Marshall’s mother is still
low. but le,slowly improving,
•s Lillie Kennedy is very
low, bulls resting some eeeier then
Sessnms, who was reoently burned
out, has re-built nearer town, and
om Hall has bought the house
Tormerly owned by M. Pruitt and
moved it to town.
Two of J. J. Rogers’ boys are
sick at present.
The Erath County Baptist As-
sociation will meet with this
church on the third Sunday in
this month.
Mrs. Blanche Jones of Stephen-
ville, is visiting relatives in this
neighborhood.
J, H. Greggs’ family has just
returned from a visit to relatives
in Valley Mills.
Joe Bingham ie picking cotton
for W. H. Cook.
Several of oui young people are
going to teach school this winter.
LOWELL,
Regular Correapondenco.
Sept. 4tb.—Buck Paine of Glen
Rose was here on business last
Friday. »,
Mr. Chnroh of Hamilton coun-
ty ia visiting his parents this week.
Mr. Harris and daughter are
visiting friends at Topaz this
week.
Cotton pioking has opened up.
Tbe crop is very short.
The seribe has had correspond-
ence with parties in Fannin, La-
mar, Johnson, Delta and Baylor
tbe express oompsny in tbe dis-
trict court of Comanche county for
damages to the extent of $10,500.
Waites had been arrested in Hunt
county and had turned states evi-
dence and was being transferred
from Hunt county to Coleman in
charge of tbe late Nick Keith, then
deputy sheriff of Hunt county,
roped the wounded one tbe Bame I R after the train pulled out from
The next strangest looking one I caP® ®nd br°^e leg- He ,
of the wild animals is the black | fnd tfiree dayf _aft®rw*rd8
deer of N. M. He will weigh
amount you are due, if anything,
or what amount it would require
to pay your subscription up to *
certain time ahead. In calculat-
ing tbe amount due count all time
prior to Dec. 1, ’94 at $1.50 a year
and since that at $1.00 a year.
If more than one year in arreare
add IQ per cent intereet to the total
amounLfor tbe average period of
time in arreare. We have some-
thing like $6,000 or $8,000 due on
subscription and the amount
from each is small, generally from
$1 to $10. It is needless to say
that we could very conveniently
use tbe entire amount to advant-
age, but we are in actual need of
a good portion of tbe amount at
once. _’ '
School books are oash. We have
a full supply. Also tablets, paper, '
ink and pens. ,
Dublin Druo & Jewelry Co.
illil
■
Ed Burrow Indicted.
Ed Burrow of Hico, charged
with having killed Constable Con-
ley of Iredell on a Woodmen ex-
cursion was indicted last week
by the Bosque county grand jury
and was re-arrested. His bond
was fixed at $15,000, tbe same
amount under which be was held
to await the action of the grand
jury. Tbe bond was immediately
perfected, apd bears the signatures
of many wealthy Hico citizens.
Incorporation Election at DeLeon.
The county judge of Comanche
county hae ordered an election to
be held next Tuesday, the 12th
instant, to decide whether the
town of DeLeon will be incorpo-
rated. The territory proposed to
be incorporated covers an area of
fonr square miles and all qualified
voters within that territory will
have a right to exercise their suf-
frage. ____
"Best on the market for coogba and cold*
and all bronchial troubles; for cronp It baa
no equal,” writes Henry R. Whltfoid, South
• lanaan, Conn., of One Minute Cough Core.
Flack A Green.
moved to Coleman, where he was
about tWhundred*pounds* a”nd6is I *ried ^ secreting tbe money stolen
very fat. He is a sleepy, l.zylfrom «>• . company and
looking animal and one d(
have to be much of a nimrod to
sentenced to a short term in tbe
penitentiary. He hae returned
get within safe range of him. I ,r0“ bjB enforced confinement and
ascertain whether Teias had any b!m. m°ved frkom P.roctor J?'?"
______ ..... «„jm.i. hie broken limb was in a condition
or not It was decided that
o im‘£v° be":' SK' ‘b“^p“ forTe lT O' Vel
I "aa a witness in tbe case at Com-
8fiii tk m u R.ra tn m nrHifwin/ e00*18 Monday and contributed
to fill their larder, to overflowing. !#ome tor ibe
ex-ray
limb,
.ixvjr amn.uvo, "“j l ,bowin(, the damaged condition of
.v.r, thu. »llh .bout ..Kond | ^ * Tb, th.jor,
Wednesday, but up to tbe present
I . a"„X;m Z an old^nte BOme V‘lQ*ble 'yidoDCe U
. n]‘ r of fifWor in *b® Bb®p® oi ®n «
X 3 Stop ’." j Ph«t»r.»b of tb. broken
oomi$iea and in those oounties oot-
tnil will make from one-fifth to
one-ninth of a crop; oorn from 10
to 25 bushels per acre.
Jamee Chatham has gone to
)enton oounty on a visit.
Gordon Edinburgh has gona to
ranoln oounty to remain until
Obrfstmaa.
Dr, Copeland of Vlotor returned
from New Mexico on Thursday of
last week.
Oasr—pondaaoa.
L 7.—The dry
wsaihsr oon-
interval.
I have not seen any
lujal of prey, as they avuo»«»w >
travel down the rivers and creeks |
and the Colorado river is about
two miles west of me.
The oldest frontiersman can’t
account for such a sudden move of
animals and fowls. Tbe much
hated prairie dog ia leaving this
country and going east.
Turkeys and prairie chicken*
are traveling together; great droves
of them will come through the
yard. They are not fat, therefore
no one bother* them
LATER.
Since I commenced to writ* this
article a neighbor found the re
maining thirteen elk I spoke of
abovs. Several of ue got together,
pressed down s pasture fence and
drove them safety ia the pasture.
We divided them up; I got a pair
of them. They must be of close
kin to the Scape goat mentioned
in Lev. 16:7-8. Their horns are
of MMh en onormoue weight it
leeins they would mash their head
in Mm berth, but not *o; thsy lay
doss a jack-
Private School.
Mies Sallie Danley will begin
her private school on tbe seoond
Monday in September, the 11th,
at the building near her residence
in south-east.Dublin. Patronage
solicited. -_ 15-2t
The Wroag Comanche,
Thursday evening as the west
bound Rio Grande rolled into this
city a young lady alighted and in-
quired of a representative of this
paper if thia was Comanche, I. T.,
and when told it was Comanche,
Texas, the young lady waa some-
what frightened. She had bought
a ticket in Dallas for Comanohe,
but failsd to state which, one and
the agent sent her her*. She was
taken in charge by kind friend*
and her people in the territory
wired tolling thopo to send a ticket.
Sunday morning she waa mads
glad to loam that the valuable
piece of paper had arrived and sh
waa soon on her way to Comanche,
I. T.-Comanche Visitor.
Comanche District Court.
In the Comanche district court
last week U. G. Lovejoy was
granted tbe right to practice in tbe
courts. Ophelia Thomas was
granted a divorce from her hus-
band, Millard Thomaa. Low Steel
plead guilty to robbery tnd bur-
glary in two cases and was sen-
tenced to two years in each case.
Up to Thunday, August 14th, the
grand jury had returned 14 indict-
ments, five against Loss Steel for
burglary and theft, four against
Jesse Boltin and four against Joe
Boltin.
ITexas Pump Co.
a J- W. TACKETT, Pns. A Tier. Act.
f J. L. MAYFIELD, See A Bu. Mgr.
♦nu ii m+,
For XXaoxdL or Fewer.
Wind Mills, (
Pipes and Pipe Ftttlnos ’
Patrick St., Dublin, Tex.
Dew process plating.
Having learned the plating bus-
iness of Prof. Connell, I am pre-
pared to do work of that kind and
to teach the science. Call at my
office over Cagney building or to
my residonoo.
F. C. OLDHAn.
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