The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1900 Page: 2 of 8
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The Lampasas Leader^
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. E. Yeenor, Proprietor.
CITY OniCTOlY.
Railroad Kacket.
The Stephenville Appeal is-
sued an extra on the 19th instant
for the purpose of spreading the
welcome news as early as pos-
sible that Stephenville citizens
have raised the required bonus
to insure the building to their city
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.
Galbraith.
Judge—John Nichols.
County 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.
“ “ 4—J. W. Trussell.
Methodist Church—Rev. J. H. JBras-
well, pastor. Services both morning
and evening. Sunday school every Sun-
day morning at 9:45. Superintendent,
R. D. McHenry. Epworth League every
Sunday evening at 5 o’clock.
Presbyterian Church—Rev J. A. Cahill,
pastor.
Sunday school every Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock, L. R. Blair, Supt.
Junior Endeavor every Sunday even-
ing at 3 o’clock,
Christian Church—C. W. Worden, pas-
tor. Preaching every second and fourth
Sundays, morning and evening. Sun-
day school every Sunday at 9:40 a. m.;
J. P. Word, superintendent. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday night at 8
o’clock sharp. Ladies’ Aid meets every
Tuesday at 4:30 p. m.
Baptist Church—Rev. W. H. McGee
pastor. Services morning and evening.
Sunday school every Sunday. M. A.
Crawford, Supt.
Yonng Peoples Union at 4 o’clock.
Holiness meeting, M. E. Church.—
Regular services will be held at the
Green church, near depot, each 4th Sun-
day and Saturday before.
W. L. A. Self, Pastor.
Christian Science church.—Services
are held Sunday morning and Wednes-
day night at the old Aten college, up
stairs. Sunday school for the children
from 10 to 10:30 a. m. Service for all
at 10:30 a. m. Experience meeting
Wednesday evening at 8:30 o’clock.
Public invited to attend.
LAMPASAS
Has well graded streets, an electric
light plant, a telephone system with
long distance connections, a system of
water works with eight miles 1 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 and stock
country, and owing to the advance in
the latter, we are fairly prosperous.
The Leader is headquarters for
printing of all kinds, and we will
appreciate your orders, be they
Ir.rge or small. The Leader
spends its time, money and energy
in trying to do all it can for the
section of county where it is pub-
j lished, and thinks it is entitled to
consideration when there is a job
of work in the printing line to be
done for any one who lives in
this section. Bring or send your
'■ orders, and they will have prompt
and proper attention.
Always Ready.
Tnat’s Brown, the Hackman,
He will convey you to any point,
and always makes connection.
Call him with voice or hand and
be will answer, tf.
of the Gulf and Brazos Valley
railroad. The deal was consu-
mated on Saturday the 18th.
President Squires has closed a
contract with the construction
company having Jas. J. Hill of
the Great Northern at its head,
who proposes to build 400 miles
of the Gulf & Brazos Valley road
and accept in payment the bonds
of the road at 82 cents on the
dollar. It is to be a part of the
great system connecting Kansas
City and Chilhuahua, Mexico.
The bank in Stephenville has
agreed to make an advance loan
asked for by Col. Squires, and
surveyors will be put to work at
once. As soon as the survey is
completed construction will begin
and the enthuisastic citizens of
Stephenville expect to hear the
shrill locomotive whistle on the
great north and south thorough-
fare inside of eighteen months.
It is in order now for Hamilton to
take us the refrain and send it
ringing down the meridian to-
wards Lampasas and Llano. It
is time for us to effect an organi-
zation and get about the work of
securing right of way through
this county and as large a bonus
as the people may think the im-
portance of the enterprise de-
mands and the financial ability
will justify.—Hamilton Herald.
The new road grader came in
one day last week and on Friday
it was tested in the presence of
the commissioners and work pro-
nounced satisfactory. It is ex-
pected the commissioners will
purchase it and a team of six or
eight mules to operate it, and it
will be on hand ready for use
whenever and wherever needed.
After seeing its operation on our
streets and the principal roads
leading to the county seat we are
satisfied that the investment will
be a good one, provided some
one will be held responsible for
the careful preservation of the
grader when not in use, and also
for the team. One hundred dol-
lars expended in the use of this
grader at $10 per day, which is a
good price, will, in our opinion,
do more work and better work on
our highways than 200 expended
in hiring hands, teams and the
old fashioned scrapers. The
commissioners are doing the
right thing in this matter, and
deserve commendation for their
enterprise.—Hamilton Herald.
At a recent editorial conven-
tion a minister arose and offered
the following toast: “To save
an editor from starvation, take
his paper and pay for it ppompt-
ly; to save him from bankpuptcy
advertise liberally in his paper;
to save him from despair, send
him every item of news you can
get; to save him from profanity,
write your communications
plainly; to save him from mis-
takes, bury him, as dead people
are the only ones that never
make mistakes. But to save, him
from the next world, give him the
gospel, but it must be carefully
sugar-coated, or he will not take
it.”
A compress at Sulphur Springs
has just finished pressing a ship-
ment of 2000 bales of cotton for
export to Kobe, Japan. Texas is
shipping cotton to Japan, China
and other countries of the far
east, but what mil pay Texas
better is to ship the cotton al-
ready 'converted into cloth to
those same countries. If indi-
cations count for anything it will
be only a comparatively short
time until ships will leave the
ports of Texas laden with the pro-
ducts of Texas cotton mills for
all parts os the world.—Dallas
News.
Evolution of an Egg.
“Little drops of water, little
grains of sand, makes the mighty
ocean and the wonderous land.”
And it happened according to a
similar law of accumulation that
a common egg laid by a common
hen became by the process of
industrial evolution a herd of fine,
sleek cattle.
The editor was lying, (that is
he was reclining,) out-stretched
in a barber’s chair meekly sub-
missine to the assault and battery
being made on him with brush
and razor. One can hear all
kinds of gossip and wonderful
tales in a barber shop but this
one from a customer who was
waiting his turn, has a suspi-
cion of probability about it that
showswhat a little business system
and tact will do.
“I know a boy,” said the
speaker, “who got his start in
life from a single egg, and he is
worth more than a thousand dol-
lars now, nearly half of it came
from that one egg. His name is
and he lives down on South
Leon. Eleven years ago when
he was a tot, his mother gave him
an egg. He marked it and put it
under an old hen to hatch out.
As luck would have it, it hatched
out a pullet—Plymoth Rock
stock. In the course of time that
pullet commenced laying. He
sold enough of her eggs to buy
him a pig and enough of her
chickens to buy him a yearling
heifer. In a short time he was
the owner of a litter of pigs and
two head of cattle. He sold $30
worth of hogs and bought three
more heifers. It was just about
eleven years ago that boy com-
menced business on an egg. He
is now twenty-one years old, and
last week sold 17 head of cattle
for $250 cash and has ten left—
all come right from that little egg.
I just believe that every man
ought to learn his boys to do
business on their own hook when
they are little fellows. That boy
learned a lesson in business from
that egg that will be worth thou-
sands of dollars to him.”
“Next,” says the barber, and
the ex parte conversation closed.
The Chief scribe went out cogita-
ting and ruminating about the
egg story. It had philosophy
and common sense in it, and
there is a lesson in it for all of us.
Take care of the little things and
the big ones will take care of
themselves.—Comanche Chief.
Please remember that the
Leader has one of the best job
printing establishments in the
west, and that we are always
ready to give you the best work
at the lowest possible prices.
Patronize this office and it will
help you in every legitimate en-
terprise.
Hoav to Save Doctor’s Bills.
We have saved many doctor bills
since we began using Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy in our home, We keep
a bottle open all the time and when any
of my family or myself begin to catch
cold we begin to use the Cough Remedy
and as a result we never have to send
away for a doctor and incur a large
doctor’s bill, for _ Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy never fails to cure. It is cer-
tainly a medicine of great merit and
worth.—D. S. Mearkle, General Mer-
chant and farmer, Mattie, Bedford Co.,
Pa.
The Appetite of Goat
Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose
stomach and liver are out of order. All
such should know that Dr. King’s New
Life Pills, the wonderful stomach and
Liver remedy, gives a splendid appetite,
sound digestion and a regular body
habit that insures perfect health and
great energy. Only 25c, at Key Bros.’
Drug store.
The Printer’s Burden.
“Take up the printer’s burden—
It is an awful hard load,
And gathers weight the further
He travels down the road;
Bills payable m plenty,
Subscribers in arears—
The troubles that beset him
Would drive a bust to tears.
“Take up the printer’s burden—
A form knocked into pi,
The editor arrested
For publishing a lie;
A typo full of bugjuice,
The foreman far away,
Upon some big excursion—
The devil is to pay.
*‘Take up the printer’s burden—
At last the paper’s out :—
John Smith’s wife had a baby,
Two rowdies had a bout;
Brown’s children have the measles,
Miss Phillipy’s dog is dead,
Miss Tattles had a quilting—
And not a word was said.
“Take up the printer’s burden—■
He puffs his old dead town;
He calls the women beauties,
And lies just like a clown;
He lauds the city fathers
And prints their pedigrees;
They pay him back by cutting
His publication fees.
“Take up the printer’s burden—
Give him a little rest;
With all his imperfections
He doubtless does his best;
About his knowish neighbors
He tells not half that’s true.
Believing that the devil
Will sometimes get his due.”
We reproduce the following
fron J. O. Terrell, of San Anto-
nio: “The cotton farmer is the
only farmer in the world who
realizes more money when his
crop is a failure than he does
when his yield is abundant.”
And this from the Stock and
Farm Journal: “It would be
better for everybody if the farm-
ers of the south should fish and
hunt half their time than that
they should devote all of their
time to cotton growing. Their
actual cash receipts would be
larger than they have been, and
life would certainly seem to them
to be better worth the living. Be-
ware of false hopes ^and improvi-
dent plans based on speculative
terms in the price of cotton. For
fifteen years this staple has been
leading the people of the south
on to misfortune and poverty. It
is high time they should learn to
distrust all its promises.”
Glorious News.
Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile of
Washita, I. T. He writes: “Four bot-
tles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs.
Brewer of Scrofula, which had caused
her great suffering for years. Terrible
sore^ would break out on her head and
face, and the best doctors could give
her no help; but her cure is complete
and her health is excellent.” This
shows what thousands have proved,—
that Electric bitters is the best blood
purifier known. It’s the supreme rem-
edy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers
boils and running sores. It stimulates
liver, kidneys and bowels, expels poi-
sons, helps digestion, builds up the
strength. Only 50 cents. Sold by Key
Bros. Every bottle guaranted.
Livery Stable.
I am now running the old livery
stable on the square, west of the
courthouse, where I will be pleased
to serve my friends and the pub-
lic Conveyance furnished to any
point. Good teams, safe drivers
and sure connections. I will ap-
preciate your patronage.
J. W. EARNEST.
This office has for sale a supply
of warrantee deeds, vendor’s lien
notes, and plain promissory notes,
all of which can be had at prices
less that yon will pay abroad. We
also take pleasure in making any
blank form needed, and will also
fix the price on these lower than
the same can be had elsewhere,
provided they are ordered in
quantities which will justify it.
Bring all your orders for job
printing tb the Leader, and you
will get the best work, and at the
same time help to make the paper
what it should be.
A nickle saved is a nickle made
Get a good shave for ten cents.
Felix Garrett will serve you well.
$ioo.
Dr. E. Detchon’s Anti Diuretic
May be worth to you more thau $100
if you have a child who soils bedding
from incontenence of water during
sleep. Cures old and young alike. It
arrests the trouble at once. $1. Sold
by Key & Ratliff, Druggists, Lampasas,
Texas.
“Close Call” Tobacco is mild
and sweet.
“Close Call” Tobacco is the
best.
Darby & Cauthen sell Close
Call Tobacco.
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1900, newspaper, March 9, 1900; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874915/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.