The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1899 Page: 4 of 8
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§ OUR ADVICE |
ijjt To our customers is for them to buy their Furniture ^
without delay, as we have received notices from various ^
factories of a rise in prices of from 25 to 50 per cent
{ ON FURNITURE. §
We propose to continue selling our present stock at the ^
SAME LOW PRICES f
X as hitherto, but the prices will be higher on furniture
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Another Railroad Certain.
From issue of May 26, 1899.
News came over the wire Satur-
day that Governor Sayers had
signed the bill, known as the
Houston and Texas Central con-
solidation bill, which authorizes
that company to assume control
of the Austin and Northwestern
railway, and some other short
lines in different parts of the state.
This law is now in effect, and re-
quires the owners of the consoli-
dated property to extend the
Austin and Northwestern railway
from a point in Burnet county to
Lampasas within two years from
this date.
The following is Section 7 of
the bill allowing the consolidation
and requiring the extension to
Lampasas:
Sec. 7. That said Houston and Texas
Central Railroad company be and it is
hereby authorized to construct, own,
operate and maintain, or to amend its
charter or articles of incorporation so
as to authorize it to construct, own,
operate and maintain a railroad from a
connection with the railroad now owned
by the Austin and Northwestern Rail-
road company to the town of Lampasas,
in Lampasas county; and if there shall
be donated to said Houston and Texas
Central Railroad company a right-of-
way 200 feet in width along such new
line, from the intersection of the same
with the boundary line between Burnet
and Lampasas counties, to the town of
Lampasas, and reasonably adequate
right-of-way through and station and
yard grounds within the town of Lam-
pasas, then the said Houston and Texas
Central Railroad company shall con-
struct and putin operation such rail-
road from such connection with the ex-
isting Austin and Northwestern rail-
road to the town of Lampasas within
two years from the taking effect of this
act; otherwise, all the powers, rights
and privileges granted by this act shall
be null and void.
Those in position to know say
that the railroad company is as
anxious to build to Lampasas as
the people of Lampasas are for
them to do the building; and still
others say that the road will be
here in time to assist in moving
the crop of the present year.
Lampasas business men are not
at all excited over this news, for
it is what they have been expect-
ing for some time. The law hung
fire for awhile, but was so re-
modeled that it at last met tha
approval of the governor, and
the additional connection by rail
is now almost an absolute certain-
ty, for it will be completed as
soon as the work can be properly
done.
There are many advantages to
accrue to Lampasas by this new
road being built to a connection
with the Ssnta Fe at this place.
In the first place, it puts Lam-
pasas od one of the most popular
and best equipped” roads of the
state, and in direct connection by
the two lines with the various
business arteries of the state and
the nation. It gives the business
element the benefit of competition
for all the freight they may have
to ship in or out of the place, and
will enable our citizens to reach
south and west Texas points many
hours sooner than they have ever
been able hererofore to do. It will
also bring to our springs a quan-
tity of visitors annually, who
have heretofore gone elsewhere,
for want of direct connection with
this place from the south and
west.
It will do more than all this: It
will revive every character of
business now at this place, and
give vim and energy to all who
are now engaged in business. It
will give a stable value to real es
tate, and in many instances will
enhance its value in a large meas-
ure. It will also bring in many
citizens who will desire to take
advantage of the healthfulness of
the place and enjoy the salubrious
climate which this section affords.
In other words, it will make Lam-
pasas what her natural surround-
ings designed her for—a city of
no mean repute.
Real Estate Transfers.
L. R. Carpenter to Mrs. Lillie
R. Terry, release to undivided
two-fifths interest in lots 3 and 4,
block 7, of Lampasas Springs
company’s first addition to the
city of Lampasas; $135.
Martin W. Moses and wife to
Mrs. M. T. Moore, blocks 36, 37
and a fractional part of block 38,
Centenary College addition to the
city of Lampasas; $650.
A. W. McWhirt to John Hamon,
lot 5, in block 6, of Lampasas
Springs company’s first addition
to the city of Lampasas; $530.
Central Texas Loan and Trust
company, of Lampasas, Texas, to
the Leon & H. Blum Land com-
pany, of Galveston, Texas, three-
elevenths undivided interest in
the property in Lampasas, Texas,
known as the Hanna Springs
property; $1,750.
W. B. Abney to Henry T. Hill,
292 acres of land in Lampasas
county, about 2 3-4 miles west of
the city of Lampasas; $1,500.
There were twenty-two nota-
ries public appointed by Governor
Sayers for Lampasas county, but
only half of them qualified, and of
this number only one, Frank Mc-
Kean, lives out of Lampasas.
The list is as follows: W. B.
Abney, W. H. Browning, W. T.
Campbell, Howard F. Lewis,
Frank McK«an, (Lometa), A. Mc-
Farland, D. G. Price, M. Y. B.
Sparks, D. C. Thomas, John P.
Word and Y. N. Zivley.
Reaper oil for sale at Cassell’s
drug store.
A few lines about our Milk
Coolers—have sold nearly all of
them. If you want one come at
once. Taylor & Poole.
There’s Rightness,
There’s Fitness
And Fashion!
In S. H. Jenkins & Co’s. Shirts.
None better, very few so good.
Patterns exclusively our own.
Madras, Cheviots, Oxfords,
men’s Fancy Linen and French
Percales. A range of beau-
tiful patterns that cannot be
excelled and of special interest to
all who are particular about the
fit of their shirts. Prices on these
high grade shirts are $1, $1.25,
and $1.50.
S. H. JENKINS & CO.
One price plain figure clothiers,
R. D. McHenry, Manager.
Our good friend H. A. Carter
was in early Friday morning and
brought the office force a sample
of the fruit -which he is raising
this year, for which he will accept
the thanks of the entire outfit.
S. H. Jenkins & Co. are head-
quarters for wedding suits and
wedding outfits in all stylish
goods.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moseley
left this week to spend a time at
their ranch at Silverdale, Kansas,
and they will also visit St. Louis
and Kansas city for a time before
returning.
Take your prescriptions to Cas-
sell’e drug store, where they will
be accurately filled with the best
medicines, day or night.
Go to S. H. Jenkins & Co. for
the best plow shoes ever handled
in Lampasas,
Mrs. S. H. Jenkins has been
quite sick for several days since
her return from Cleburne, but is
improving again.
Mr. Arthur F. Noble and Miss
Annie Read are to be married at
the Baptist church in this city
the 28th of the present month,
and the Leader takes the privilege
of congratulating them in advance
of the event. Following is the
form of the invitation, which was
printed at this office;.
You are requested to attend
the Marriage Ceremony
of our Daughter,
Annie,
to
Mr. Arthur F. Noble,
Wednesday evening, June 28, 1899,
at eight thirty o’clock
at the Baptist church. Lampasas, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Read.
H. B. and S. H, Casbeer have
the thanks of this office for some
excellent work and advancement
of their dates on our books.
There are seven brothers in this
family and six of themtwho reside
in this section take the
A good record.
Day light or flash light phot
at Cotten’s.
Behind the Times.
The Boston Transcript says we
are “a generation behind the times
in fact several New England gen-
erations behind it.” How is that?
Why it hasn’t been 200 years since
New England was burning inno-
cent and harmless women for be-
ing witches. It hasn’t been fifty
years since Boston merchants
were shipping rum to Africa to buy
negroes to sell again in slave coun-
tries. Long after Massachusetts
set her slaves free her merchants
carried on the slave trade.
Joseph Story, the great jurist,
charged the grand jury in Boston
and said: “The slave trade is still
carried on among us with impla-
cable ferocity. Avarice has grown
more subtle in its evasions of the
law. Its appetite is quickened
rather than suspended. Our citi-
zens are steeped up to their very
mouths in this iniquity,”
W. W. Story, his gifted son,
says: “The Boston newspapers
denounced my father, and said
that a judge who would deliver
such a charge ought to be hurled
from the bench,” and he says fur-
ther that “the fortunes of many
men of prominence were invested
in this infamous business. When
slavery disappeared in New Eng-
land the African slave trade took
on new life, and was winked at.
A man might have position in so-
ciety and be considered a gentle-
man and a Christian, while his
ships were freighted with a human
cargo and his commerce was in
the blood and pain of his fellow
creatures. Many of the largest
fortunes in Boston were the blood
money of the slave trade and came
from the sale of the wretched car-
goes of negroes that survived the
horrors of their transportation
across the seas.’’
Yes, we are behind that sort o
business several generations.
Cold Drink’s etc.,
Fair.
For views, home
Call on Cotten.
The Massachusetts state board
of charities says in their annual
report: “And now we find that
there is hardly a country in the
civilized world where atrocious
and flagrant crime is so common
as in Massachusetts,” Well, that
settles it. Grorgia has but two
white women in her prisons,
while Massachusetts has 134. In
1890, Georgia had ^14 white con-
victs, while Massachusetts had
4412, and Mr. Stetson says that in
one year there were 65,000 arrests
in the state, and that divorces in-
crease there twice as fast as popu-
lation, and not more than eight
families in ten have preserved the
Leader^JpmRy and honor of the marriage
relation.”
\ How is that for living in glass
houses? Yes, I reckon we are
bfehind them several generations.
II hope so. But I’ve sworn off
lintil they repent and apologize.
BILL ARP.
at World1
groups, et&
Bread, fresh bread, every day
and short order meals at all
hours. A. J. Hahn.
N otice.
Beginning about July ! will
give piano lessons to those who
wish first-clas« instruction. My
fall term begins September 4. I
trust my former patrons will con-
tinue with me another year, and
all others wishing a thorough
musical education.
Mrs. C. H. Montgomery,
Lampasas Conservatory of Music.
Furniture, and a good line o
cook stoves, cots, tents and house-
hold goods of all kinds to sell or
rent at reasonable prices. Furni-
ture repaired. G. W. Poole.
Bee keeper, s supplies of every
character, Screen doors, windows
and wire. See Taylor & Poole.
Go to S. H. Jenkins & Co. for
all the late styles in Stetson hats.
Witcher handles everything in
the line of furniture and will sup-
ply all your necessities, as he will
sell, rent or exchange any goods
he carries.
Miss Kittie Edwards expects to
leave in a day or two for Baird,
Callahan county, where she will
spend some weeks visiting friends.
W. T. Munger and wife are oc-
cupying the residence of H. P.
Edwards, Sr., while he and his
wife are away on a camping ex-
pedition.
F. C. Whitmire, the efficient
agent of the Santa Fe Company
at Lometa, will accept thanks
for a fine specimen of Uncle Sam’s
“free and unlimited”.
Advertised Letter List.
The following is a list of the
uncalled-for letters remaining in
the Lampasas postoffice June
16, 1899:
W. M. Clark, Mrs. Pearl Jack-
son, Mrs. Syntha Lancaster, Miss
Minnie Wester.
W. H. Webber, P. M.
Citation l>y .Publication.
The State of Texas, County of Lam-
pasas.
Whereas, the State of Texas, through
its county attorney, did, on the 26th day
of May, A. D., 1889, file in the district
court of Lampasas county, in the State
of Texas, its petition in suit No. 1970
on the Civil Docket of said Court, be-
ing suit brought by the said the State
of Texas, as plaintiff, against Unknown
Owner, as defendant, and the nature
of the plaintiff’s demand as stated in
the said petition being an action to re-
cover of the defendant as the owner of
the lands returned deliquent (or re-
I ported sold to the State) for ‘the taxes
due thereon for the year 1897; and,
whereas, the
name of said owner is unknown, and
upon the affidavit of M. M. White,
County Attorney, having been made,
setting forth that said owner is un-
known to the affiant, as the Attorney
for the State of Texas, and after in-
quiry not ascertained.
These are, therefore, to cite all inter-
ested parties and to make par-
ties defendant by notice in the name of
the State of Texas, and the County of
Lampasas, directed to all persons own-
ing or being in any way interested in
the lands delinquent to the State and
County for taxes, to be published in a
newspaper in said County, one time a
week for three consecutive weeks, in
the manner and style following:
THE STATE OF TEXAS AND
COUNTY OF LAMPASAS—To Un-
known Owner and to all persons own-
ing or having or claiming any interest
in the following described land de-
linquent to the State of Texas and
County of Lampasas, for taxes to-wit:
Lots 6, 7 and 9, in block No. 43, in
the town of Lometa, Lampasas county,
State of Texas, which said land
is delinquent for taxes for the following
amounts: $2.58,
and you are hereby notified that
suit has been brought by the State for
the collection of said taxes, and you
are commanded to appear and defend
such suit at the November term of the
District Court of Lampasas County,
and State of Texas, being the next reg-
ular term thereof to be held at the
Court House thereof, at Lampasas, on
the first Monday in November, 1899, be-
ing the 6th day of November, A. D.,
1899, and show cause why judgment
shall not be rendered condemning said
land (or lots), and ordering sale and
foreclosure thereof for said taxes and
cost of suit.
Attest: T. U. Sparks, clerk of the Dis -
trict Court in and for Lampasas Coun-
ty, State of Texas.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office in Lampasas, Tex.,
this, the 12th day of June, 1899.
[L. S.] T. U. SPARKS,
Clerk District Court, Lampasas County,
Texas.
Citation by Publication.
The State of Texas, County of Lam-
pasas.
Whereas, the State of Texas, through
fts county attorney, did, on the 10th day
oi June, A. D., 1899, file in the district
court of Lampasas county, in the State
of Texas, its petition in suit No. 1978
on the Civil Docket of said Court, be-
ing suit brought by the said the State
of Texas, as plaintiff, against W.
H. Fountain, T. M. Peeler, John W.
Preston and unknown owners as de-
fendants, and the nature of
the plaintiff’s demand as stated in
the said petition being an action to Re-
cover of the defendants as the owners of
the lands returned deliquent (or re-
ported sold to the State) for the taxes
due thereon for the years 1886, 1887,
1888, 1890, 1-891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895,
1896 and 1897; and, whereas, the
names of said owners are unknown, and
upon the affidavit of M. M. White,
County Attorney, having been made,
setting forth that said owners are un-
known to the affiant, as the Attorney
for the State of Texas, and after in-
quiry not ascertained.
These are, therefore, to cite all inter-
ested parties and to make par-
ties defendant by notice in the name of
the State of Texas, and the County of
Lampasas, directed to all persons own-
ing or being in any way interested in
the lands delinquent to the State and
County for taxes, to be published in a
newspaper in said County, one time a
week for three consecutive weeks, in
the manner and style following:
THE STATE OF TEXAS AND
COUNTY OF LAMPASAS—To Un-
k* jwn Owners and to all persons own-
ing or having or claiming any interest
in the following described land de-
linquent to the State of Texas and
County of Lampasas, for taxes to-wit:
320 acres in Lampasas county, Texas,
original grantee, John Stillwell, (de-
ceased) patented to the heirs of John
Stillwell, May 23, 1855, No. 431. vol. 11,
abstract 610, certificate No. 219, quan-
tity, 320 acres, class, third, old abstract,
No. 153, described by metes and bounds
as follows: Beginning at the S. W.
corner of sur. No. 1, in the name of
Dolly Webster, from which a Spanish
oak bears N. 28 E. 68 varas; thence N.
71 E. 260 varas, a branch 560 varas,
same branch 1505 varas, a stake whence
aL. O. bears S. 64 W. 125 varas; thenc*
S. 19 E. 340 varas a branch, 1200 varas
a stone mound, from which a post oak
bears S. 3 E. 10 varas, a do S. 14 E. 18
varas; thence S. 71 W. 1505 varas a
stone mound for S. W. corner of this
survey; thence N, 19 W. 1200 varas
to the beginning, containing 320
acres of land, more or less, which
said land is delinquent for taxes for
the following amounts: $75.32,
and you are hereby notified that
suit has been brought by the State for
the collection of said taxes, and you
are commanded to appear and defend
such suit at the November term of the
District Court of Lampasas County,
and State of Texas, being the next reg-
ular term thereof to be held at the
Court House thereof, at Lampasas, on
the first Monday in November, 1899, be-
ing the 6th day of November, A. D.,
1899, and show cause why judgment
shall not be rendered condemning said
land (or lots), and ordering sale and
foreclosure thereof for said taxes and
cost of suit.
Attest: T. U. Sparks, Clerk of the Dis-
trict Court in and for Lampasas Coun-
ty, State of Texas.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office in Lampasas, Tex.,
this, the 12th day of June, 1899.
[L. S.] T. U. SPARKS,
Clerk District Court, Lampasas County,
Texas.
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, June 16, 1899, newspaper, June 16, 1899; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876549/m1/4/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.