The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER,
Published Every Friday.
J. E. Vernor, Proprietor.
Entered at the Postoffice at Lampasas
Texas, as second-class mail matter.
Santa Fe Time Table.
East Bound Passenger,...... 9:50 a.m.
West Bound Passenger,----6:10 p. m.
Local Freight No. 46. West, 12:30 p. m.
Local Freight No. *o, Last, 12 :30 p. m.
CITY Dim.
Mayor—J. W. Townsen.
Marshal—J. S. Horrell.
Clerk—E. S. Noble.
Treasurer—J. F. White.
Attorney—C. G-. Bierbower.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
First ward—W. S. Morris and Sam
Dickens
Second ward—N. W. Charles and J.
H. Cauthen.
Third ward—J. D. Cassell and J. H.
Galbraitlu_
COiW DIRECTORY.
Judge—John Nichols.
Couxty Clerk—John E. Morgan.
District Clerk—Tom Sparks.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—E. N. Wolf.
Assessor—R. Lee Young.
Treasurer—D. A. Holley.
Attorney—Martin M. White.
Surveyor—V. N. Zivley.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
Precinct No. 1—W. H. Seals.
“ “ 2—Steve Smith.
“ “ 3—Frank McKean.
Murder in Burnet County.
Last Thursday morning as An-
dy Dorbandt was walking out on
the ranch of his brother, ex-Sher-
iff Chris Dorbandt, not far from
the camp shanty used for some
time by “Bud” McGuire and his
son-in-law, Jim Powers, he no-
ticed a number of buzzards hov-
ering near to the Colorado river.
Approaching the spot he discov-
ered an old cotton sack in the wa-
ter evidently containing a dead
body. Upon opening the sack
he was horrified at the sight that
met hi i gaze. There tied up in
the sack was the lifeless form of
Jim-Powers !
The corpse was badly mangled,
the back of the skull having been
broken in with an ax.
Chris Dorbandt,who is a depu-
ty sheriff, was notified and search
was made for a clue. An exami-
nation of the McGuire shanty re-
vealed signs of the recent wash-
ing away of blood stains from the
floor, and underneath the floor
was found a pool of blood. All
indications pointed to the fact
that the deed had been committed
last Monday.
Bud McGuire was arrested on
suspicion and committed to jail.
The body of Powers was taken
to Burnet and an inquest held.
The verdict is not obtainable at
this writing.—Marble Falls Mes-
senger.
Mrs. Mattie A. Wilkes was
here several days last week, and it
is understood that she is making
her arrangements to come back
and make her home here. She
will be welcomed by a large cir-
cle of friends of other days.
Rev. Piguej one of the travel-
ing misionaries of the Baptist
church, was here Saturday anc
Sunday, and took a part in the
service during the closing hours
of the protracted meeting.
From Unity Schoolliouse.
Editor Leader:
Allow me space in your paper
for a few lines.
I have heard from others, anc
now they will hear from me. I
am writing for Unity. Unity
schoolhouse was established in
1882. Situated in a very beauti-
ful spot, at the foot of a hill, it
can be seen from the roadside.
It is west of^the Lampasas river.
The house has been in use six-
teen years, and several fine views
can be seen from it—tne Belton
and Higgins Gaps—and others I
could mention. On the east is
the very beautiful farm owned by
Uncle Philip Smith, who came
here years ago, and was among
the first settlers in this county,
coming here when the red man
roamed this section. He has
raised several sons, who are
now trusty men, and well known
throughout this county.
It is said that “only fools and
newcomers talk about the weather
in Texas.” If this be true, there
must be a very large proportion
of the former class among the old
r?sidents of Lampasas just at
this time, for nearly'all the citi-
zens are talking about the dry
weather, and some of them have
gotten bad cases of the blues by
their own misgivings, engendered
by their own talk. This is God’s
own country, and He has never
forgotten it yet. Look around
and see if you can not find some-
thing for which you should be
thankful, instead of spending
your time in complaining. It is
better employment, and results
much better to all.
When you come to town go
around to J. R. Townsen’s butcher
shop, next door to the express
office, for hot barbecued meat.
He also keeps fresh bread.
Nervous weakness or palpitation of
the heart indicates disorder in the storn
ach and digestion. Prickly Ash Bitters
is a wonderful remedy in such cases.
It cleanses, strengthens and regulates
the stomach, liver and bowels, removes
the cause of the heart symptoms and
builds up a strong and vigorous body.
For sale by Key & Ratliff.
Buckleu’s Armca Salve.
The best salve in the world for cut -,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chiblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
tion or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Key & Ratliff.
Lost.
A horse collar last Friday near
where the Center City road
crosses the Santa Fe Railroad.
If found please return to this of-
fice.
LAMPASAS MUSIC SCHOOL.
Mrs. Nellie Oayis, Principal.
Situated one block from the
Public School and two blocks
from the High School of Lam-
pasas. The entire Cincinnati
Conservatory course is taught,
and we adhere, in the piano forte
department and in the theory of
music, to the methods of the fore-
most European authorities. Pu-
pils can make arrangements with
principal for use of pianos for
practice.
Terms of tuition, $3,50 per
month. - All music sold pupils at
wholesale prices.
For further particulars apply
to
Mrs. Nellie Davis.
Good Newspapers at a Very Low
Price.
The Semi-Weekly Mews (Galveston
or Dallas) is published Tuesdays' and
Fridays. Each issue contains eight
pages. There are special departments
for the farmers, the ladies nnd the boys
and girls, besiees a world of general
news matter, illustrated articles, etc.
We offer the Semi-Weekly News and
the Leader for twelve months for the
low price of $1.80 cash.
, This gives you three papers a week,
or 156 papers a year, for a ridicuiously
low price.
Hand in your subscriptions at once.
4—J. W. Trussell.
1J
Methodist Church—Rev. W. B. Wil-
son, pastor. Services both morning
and evening. Sunday school every Sun-
day morning at 9:45. Superintendent,
J. E. Vernor. Epworth League every
Sunday evening at 5 o’clock.
Baptist Church—Rev. W. H. McGee
pastor. Services morning and evening.
Sunday school every Sunday. W. H
Browning Supt.
Young Peoples Union at 4 o’clock.
Episcopal Church—Rector Edgar . A.
Sherrod holds services every Sunday;
Morning service, 11 a. m.; afternoon,' fr
p. m. Sunday School every Sunday
morning at 10 o’ clock r Rev.; Edgar
Sherrod, superintendent. Ladies’ Guild
meets every Wednesday at 3 p. m
at the residence of Mrs. Frank R.
Ramsdell.
Presbyterian Church—Rev J. A. Cahill,
pastor.
Sunday school every Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock, J. W. Felbaum, Supt.
Junior Endeavor every Sunday even-
ing at 3 o’clock,
Christian Church—C. W Worden pastor.
Sunday School at 9:30 a. m.; JWRatliff
superintendent. Christian Endeavor
meets every Sunday at 4 p. m.; Miss
Sue Peak, president. Ladies’ Aid mOfefs
every Tuesday at 4 p. m.; Mrs. J. E.
Wiley, president. Teachers’ meeting
every Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night
at 7:30 o’clock. Choir practice everv
Saturday at 7:30 p. m.
LAMPASAS
Has well graded streets, an electric
light plant, a telephone system with
long distance connections, a system of
water works with eight miles of pipe
and a natural supply of water that can
not be excelled either in quantity or
quality. We have six churches that
would be creditable to a much larger
city Our present population is about
3,000 and is steadily increasing with the
natural development of the country at
the rate of one or two hundred annually.
Our business interests are supported by
a diversified agricultural ancl stodk
country, and owing to the advance in
the latter, we are fairly prosperous.
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Keep Quiet
and use Chamberlain’s colic, cholera
and diarrhoea remedy for all pains of
the stomach and allunn itural looseness
of the bowels, It ELways cures. For
sale by Key & Ratliff,
When Does the Century End?
At a glance a person might be
deceived, but a little logical rea-
soning clears the whole question.
A century means 100 years.
Then certainly the 1st century clos
ed with the last moment of the
100th year, and not with the last
of the 99th year; for 99 is not 100.
So on up, we may come. Mid-
night Dec. 31, 200, closed the 2nd
century, and not 12 o’clock, Dec,
31, 199, for that would call 99
years a century. Coming on up,
we see clearly every century must
end with the last moment of a full
hundred years; so this, the 19th
century, ends at midnight, Dec.
31, 1900.
Suppose A owes B $1900. A
pays $1899. Is the debt paid?
Never until the last cent of that
remaining dollar is given over,
$1899 plus $1 (a whole dollar of
100 cents) equal $1900; 1899 years
plus 1 year (a whole year of 365
1-4 days^make 1900 years, the end
of the 19th centurv.
J. W. Mills,
Orange, Texas.
Cure for Meningitis.
To the Editor of the Post :
Lockhart, Texas, March 18.—
Having read so much of the rav-
ages of the meningitis, and also
knowing as much about it as I do,
having lived in Labette county,
Kansas, in 1873, when it raged in
southeast Kansas, and also had it,
I herewith send a recipe for the
cure. You will please publish it
for the good of suffering humanity :
Two ounces saltpeter in one
quart of alcohol. Bathe the
spine full from neck down, feet
and to the knees in hot water.
Mrs. M. b. Rector.
Mortimer Mcllhany, son of
Rev. Marshall Mcllhany, was a
visitor here a few days during the
.past week. He is well remember-
ed by many of the young people
of the city, having lived here for
several years when his father was
president of Centenary College.
Percy Roberts sold to Fergu-
son & Co. this week, 45 two and
three year old heifers at $16.00
around. Ike, Port and Will Polk
will put these stock on their
ranch in Lampasas county.—Kil-
leen Herald.
I must hasten on to other
epochs. I will mention some of
the teachers at Unity, of which
so many changes have been made
in the past few years. The first
teacher that ever opened a schoo'.
at Unity was Mr. John Roper
followed by Mr. Reed, W. W
Wallace, Miss Pattie Hamon,
Miss Emma Forbes, Captain
W. H. Hawkins, Alvin Hawkins,
(now dead) Miss Minnie Green-
wood, Walter Walker and Miss
Annie Baker, (now teacher) and
several others, of whom I have
not time to mention.
The next thing we come in con-
tact with is the lovely and beau
tiful falls of School creek, flowing
over the precipice of a few feet
It can be heard for quite a dis-
tance when the creek is flush
sending forth its roaring echo.
I will mention some of the
former pupils of Unity, many of
whom have moved away and some
are dead. Henry F. Moore and
W. F. Mace, both of whom are in
business in Lampasas, were
among the first pupils of Unity.
Among others may be mentioned
Jacob Smith, Erie Chism, Mrs.
Viola Standard, Prof. J. H.
Stanley, now president of the
Lometa High School, and the list
could be lengthened.
If you should happen to pass
by Unity you would be very
likely to notice a magnificent and
lovely arbor, built on top of a
hill, where we spend some of our
time in summer in protracted
meeting service.
Bro. J. R. Miller served us as
pastor for several years; next
Rev. J. F. Elder, (now a physi-
cian), then Rev. W. H. McGee, of
Lampasas, and now Bro. Kinchen,
of Copperas Cove, is serving us.
Fearing I am worrying the pa-
tience of your readers, I will
bring this epistle to a close.
“UNCLE SIMON,”
Constipation, .of the bowels may be
e a lily cured by a few doses of Dr, M,
A, Simmons LiverMedicine.
Always Keacly.
Tnat’s Brown, the Hackman,
He will convey you to any point,
and alwa3^s makes connection.
Call him with voice or hand and
he will answer, tf.
J. S. Hamilton, Millard, Texas, writes:
J never failed to cure biliousness, consti -
Ration and indigestion in from two to
five days with Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine, and judging from results, I
think it 75 per cent, stronger than the
Thedford’s Black Draught 1 have used
To restore tne clear skin, the bright
eye, the alert gait and sound health, use
Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine.
Teachers’ county Institute will
meet next Friday and Saturday.
City election next Tuesday.
Two prisoners now in jail.
The curative properties, strength and
effect of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine are always the same. It can-
not be equaled.
Chamberlain’s Coush Rerneby.
This remedy is intended especially for
coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough
and influenza. It has become famous
for its cures of these diseases, over a
large part of the civilizrd world. The
most flattering testimonials have been
received, giving accounts of its good
works; of the aggravating and persis -
tent coughs it has cured; of severe
eolds that have yielded promptly to its
soothing effects, and of the dangerous
attacks of croup it has cured, often sav-
ing the life of the child The extensive
use of : t for whooping cough has shown
that it robs that disease of all dangerous
consequences. Sold by Key & Ratliff.
Relief in Six Hours.
Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis-
ease relieved in six hours by “New
Great South American Kidney Cure.”
It is a great surprise on account of its
exceeding promptness in relieving pain
n bladder, kidneys and back, in male
or female. Relieves retsntion of water
almost immediately. If you want quick
relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold
by Key & Ratliff, Druggists, Lampasas,
Texas.
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
Office at Key & Ratliff’s Drug Store. Tele*;
phone at residence. j
Lampasas, ------ Texas,
Dr. J. N. Adkins,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office at J. D. Cassell’s Drug Store.
Lampasas, - - - - ** ■ Texas.
TIME TABLE
NO. III.
EFFECTIVE
W JAN. 9,1898,
On and after the above date, and until other
wise ordered, trains will run as follows:
Subject to change without notice.
STATIONS
Austin.......
Freight Dep’t
Austin Junct.
*Fishers........
Watters.........
McNeill........
♦Rutledge.......
Cedar Park...
Leander.........
Liberty Hill..
♦Grover.........
Bertram........
tSummit........
Wilkie..........
Burnet..........
♦Sudduth.....
Fairland.......
Kingsland......
♦Graphite......
♦Bessemer....
Llano............
Leave
No. 53.
Mail &
Exp’ss
No. 51
Mixed
8.05 am
8.07 “
8.10 “
8.23 “
8.40 “
8.49 “
9.01 “
9.10 “
9.23 “
9.45 “
9.57 “
11.55 am
12.40 pm
1.20 “
10.10 “
1.50 “
10.30 “
2.15 “
10.37 “
2.30 “
10.40 “
3.00 “
ro.58 “
3.25 “
11.07 “
3.43 “
11.27 “
4.25 “
11.42 “
4.45 “
[1.59 “
5.20 “
12.15 pm
5.30 pm
Arrive.
No. 54
Mail &
Exp’ss
No. 52
Mixed
6.40 pn
6.37 “
6.35 “
6.23 “
6.06 “
5.58 “
5.46 “
5.36 “
5.23 “
5.05 “
4.52 “
4.40 “
4.23 “
4.13 “
4.12 “
3.50 “
3.43 “
3.23
3.08 “
2.53 “
2.40 pm
2.30 pm
1.45 “
1.20 “
1.00 “
12.25 “
12.05 “
12.01 “
11.17am
11.07 “
9.55 “
9.35 “
QIC <1
9.00 am
MARBLE FALLS BRANCH.
STATIONS
Leave
Arrive
No. 73
No. 71
No. 74
No. 72
Fairland........
Granite Mt’n.
Marble Falls..
11.10am
11.25 “
11.30 “
3.50 pm
4.05 “
4.10 “
3.35 pm
3.20 “
3.10 “
10.35 am
10.15 “
10.10 “
Trains 53 and 54 make close connections at
Austin with I. & G. N. R. R. to and from San
Antonio and the H. & T. C. R. R. to and from
Houston and Galveston.
t Trains do not stop.
♦Flag station; trains stop on signal only.
Trains 53, 54. 71, 72, 73 aud 74 run daily.
Trains 51 and 52 run daily except Sunday.
A. N. LEITNAKER,
Vioe President.
W. P. Abney,
ATTORNEY-fll-LftW.
Civil Practice Exclusively.
Lampasas,
Texas.
J. C. MATTHEWS.
W. H. BROWNINa.
Matthews & Browning,
rtTTORNEYS flT LrtW
Lampasas,. -
Texas.
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