The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LAMPASAS {LEADER,
Published Every Friday.
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J. EL YERNOR, PROPRIETOR.
Entered at the Postofhce at Lampasas
Texas, as second-class mail matter.
Santa Fe Time T*ble.
East Bnund Passenger,......10:20 a.m.
West Bound Passenger,____6:05 p. m.
Local Freight No. 46. West, 13:ll,p. m.
Local Freight No. -±0, East, .13:11, p. in.
CITY BCT1Y.
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—S.. D. Cassell and J. H.
Galbraith.
Judge—John Nichols.
Co^itty Clerk—John E. Morgan.
Diigrict Clerk—Tom Sparks.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—E. N. Wolf.
Assessor—R. Lee Yonng.
Tr«,surer—D. A. Holley.
Atjrorney—Martin M. White.
Surveyor—Y. N. Zivley.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
Precinct No. 1—W. H. Seals.
“ 2—Steve Smith.
“ 3—Frank McKean.
“ “ 4—J. W. Trussell.
CHURCH DIRECTDHY,
Methodist Church.—Rev. W. B. Y/il-
son, pastor. Services both morning
and evening. Sunday school every Sun-
day morning at 9:45. Supt. R. D. Me
Henry. 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.
Yonng Peoples Union at 4 o’clock.
Episcopal Church—Rector Edgar A.
Sherrod holds services the first and sec-
ond Sundays in each month, both morn-
ing and: everting. Sunday School every
Sunday morning at 10 o’clock; Dr.
C. M. Ramsdell, superintendent. Ladies’
Guild meets every Wednesday at 3
p. m. at the residence of Mrs. L. R.
Carpenter, corner of Fifth and Chest-
nut streets.
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 Turrell 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 meets
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 every
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
citv Our ^present population is about
Ji,<ji)0 ahd 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.
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4 They may not like to offend you,S
J^but you may be sure they do not ap-^
preciate it. You can save the sub-<*>
Ascription price many times by pat-A
prizing Leader advertisers. ^
lteep Quiet
Chamberlain’s colic, cholera
I'laoea remedy for all pains of
itch and all unnatural looseness
/els, It always cures. For
F>y & Ratliff,
The New Year is here with its
duties and responsibilities. It
will bring you joy or sorrow, ad-
vancement or retrogression. If
yosi treat the New Year well, you
may expect that it will do the
same for you. There should be
an effort, a combined effort, upon
the part of the business element
to increase the trade territory of
the eity for the coming year, and
this effort could be and
should be made far-reaching
in its effects for the good of the
city. True there is a strong
competition among the business
men of this place for trade, and
that is only right and proper, for
it is competition that draws trade
to any given point, but that com-
petition should be only after
trade is in sight. The man who
would refuse to spend a dollar to
bring trade to his city for fear
that his neighbor would share in
that trade is the man who ought
to do business at the cross-roads
with a country store partly filled
with general merchandise, con-
sisting of a few bolts of calico,
two suits of clothes, one keg of
molasses, two bottles of pickles,
and a few cans of sardines. Cities
are not made in the first place by
men who are stingy, penurious,
or afraid to spend a dollar for the
public good. Neither are they
maintained by that class. To
make a city a success it must be
composed of broad-minded, lib-
eral, open-hearted, brainy busi-
ness men, men who will go out
after the trade of the surrounding
country with a vim and energy
which means that they will get
it. Lampasas has some of that
kind, and many who are now in
business here could improve by
joining that class. True the
trade of their neighbors would
probably increase in proportion
to their own, but this in the end
would only tend to make more
business for all. Let us get a
move on us, as the boys say, and
make Lampasas hump herself
during the good year of 1899. It
can be done by a little united ef-
fort on the part of a few of the
leaders, and the others will fol-
low as naturally as a sheep fol-
lows a trained leader. Try it.
Move out for the business which
which we ought to have and it
will come.
County court next Monday.
Don’t fail to write it 1899.
Opera every night next week.
Taxes must be paid this month
to save costs and penalties.
Lampasas will take several for-
ward strides this good year of
1899.
Some rattan rockers to trade
for second hand furniture at
Poole’s.
There are yet some business
changes to take place, and the
outlook is still very fine for the
future of Lampasas.
The three gins in Lampasas
turned out 2,048 bales up to the
close of the year, as' follows:
Earnest <fc Berry, 550; J. A.
Mealer, 668; Mrs. Barnes, 830.
Joe Garner, one of the success-
ful farmers of this county, was in
last week and set his date forward
with the Leader a year, for which
lie' Nvill accept thanks.
S. F. Stokes is a man after our
own heart. He came in last week
and left enough of the needful to
pay his subscription up to March,
1899, and promised more in the
future.
Some of the readers of the
Leader may be interested in the
fact that Mrs, J. W. Mills, for-
merly Miss Kate Yernor, has a
position in the Orange city
schools, where she will teach the
third grade until the end of the
term.
Is your stationery stock ready
to begin with the new year? If
not, please remember that the
Leader does the nicest work, and
uses only the best material. It
works for the prosperity of your
business in a thousand ways, and
wrould appreciate your orders for
anything in the line of printing.
We have the best forms for stock,
chattel and crop mortgages, and
can print anything you may want
on short notice. Bring or send
your orders for job printing to
this office, and you will not re-
gret it.
The Leader will surely chron-
icle some home weddings this
month.
Always
Tnat’s Brown,
He will convey yol
and always makl
Call him with voice
he will answer, tf
Felix Garrett has
ber shop repainted’ anc
papered, but he has not inc^eals?
his prices, and will still give you
an excellent shave for 10 cents or
a nice hair cut for 20 cents,
J. R. Townsen has the only
pure, snow-white hog’s lard in
town. Warranted to be pure and
give entire satisfaction or money
refunded.
The Killing- of Homer Turner.
Mention was made in last
week’s issue of the killing of
Homer Turner, colored, -who was
raised in Lampasas, near Brady,
in McCulloch county, Christmas
day, and the following account of
the tragedy is copied from the
Brady Sentinel:
Our Christmas day registered
a terrible tragedy on the Savage
ranch. On Saturday night Ho-
mer, the negro cook on the ranch,
and a white man named Ham-
mond, also an employe of the
Savage ranch, got into a dispute
over a game o+‘ cards, which re-
sulted in Hammond striking Ho-
mer over the head with a chair,
and Homer returned the assault
with a pistol shot that failed,
however, to strike his man. The
next morning Hammond returned
to the ranch armed with a Win-
chester rifle and as Homer stepped
out of the door, Hammond shot
him through both thighs cutting
the arteries in both legs from
which he bled to death in fifteen
mintes. On being approached
by another man of the ranch,
Hammond warned him not to
come as he would shoot him.
Hammond came in Monday and
gave up. Homer was buried
Monday beside Uncle Nick whom
he helped bury just two days be-
fore.
Last Saturday was the last day
of the week, the last day of the
month, and the last day of the
year, and our walking encyclo-
poedia of knowledge informs us
that this only occurs every five,
six or eleven years. 1898 was a
remarkable year in many respects.
Shaving, 10 cents; hair cut, 20
cents. Try the new barber at Jo
Ab’s old stand, on Western ave-
nue. Felix Garrett.
Hanna Springs are now open
for the season. Hot baths daily.
Single baths 25 cents, six tickets
for $1.00. Special rates for fam-
ilies. Pool baths, 10 cents, re-
duced iv tes to purchasers of tick-
ets. Free reading room upstairs.
The year 1900, though divisible
by four, is not a leap year, as it is
necessary once in a hundred years
to catch up a day lost by the or-
dinary calculation of 365 1-4
days to the year. However, this
need not prevent any of the young
ladies so disposed from proposing
to the young men, or, at least,
putting themselves in a position
for receiving a proposition.
Say. Tom, have you tried that
celebrated pure hog sausage at
J. R. Townsen’s? No. Well, it
is the finest on earth.
For Sale or Exchange.
484 acres 8 miles S. E. of San
Angelo, in Lipan Flats, all good
farm land. Unimproved. Will
sell or exchange for Lampasas
county real estate.
W. B. Abney,
tf Lampasas, Texas.
There! s,a residence famine in
Lampasas.
The Leader’s subscription list
continues to grow, and we shall
put on the pressure during this
year to run the bona fide sub-
scribers up to 1,500. It will con-
tinue to represent every good in-
terest of the city and surrounding
country, and will welcome you'
and your neighbor among its pat-
rons. Tell your neighbor that
you have a respectable paper and
ask him to send in his subscrip-
tion.
Bring your cotton to Lampasas.
Marriage and Genius.
Mr. John Gilmer Speed warns
girls of a marriageable age to be-
ware of men of exceptional talent,
and if they would seek safety to
choose husbands from the class of
industrious mediocrity. But take
the two most conspicious hterary
lights of our own day. Stevens^h
was an invalid and a nomad, a
man of genius, with every appar-
ent excuse forbeing an indifferent
husband, instead of which he
seems to have been a delightful
man to live with, fairly provident
always kind and industrious be-
yond his strength. So report re-
represents Mr. Kipling as a man
who finds his chief pleasures at
home, and as a kind, sober and
diligent citizen.
Mr. Speed’s impressions to the
contrary notwithstanding, there
does not seem to be sufficient
reason for wise maidens to dis-
criminate against men who have
nothing the matter with them
than that they are exceptionally
clever. Ability won’t make up
for serious defects of character.
Don t marry a brute, however
clever he is, nor a man more sel-
fish than proper in a man, nor
any sort of a bad man whatever;
but don’t discriminate against
intelligence, even when it exceeds
the usual limits. Annan of sense
will make his wife happy if he
can. More women suffer from a
lack of intelligence in husbands
than from an excess of it. In-
telligence helps a man to make a
living, helps him to make himself
agreeable and helps him to, appre-
ciate the importance of doing
both. J
Girls aboi/t to marry should
guard perhaps against choosing
men whqAire so clever that they
won’t ofare for their wives, but
they must take thought also
against choosing men who are so
duel that living with them will be
uninteresting. It is just as bad—
worse perhaps—to marry a man
who does not interest you as to
marry one whose thoughts you
cannot share.
Mrs. M. E. Lincecum, Ob-
stetrician and female diseases.
Answers all calls day or night.
Office at home with telephone
connection.
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LAMPASAS MUSIC SCHOOL.
Mrs. Nellie Dayis, 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.
Te^ms of tuition, $3.50 per
month. All music sold pupils at
wholesale.prices.
For further particulars apply
to
Mrs. Nellie Dayis.
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E. Vernbr, Lampasas, Texas.
Lampasas High School.
Special classes for high grade
pupils and teachers: also a Pri-
mary department, limited to
twenty pupils. Call and see us
before entering school elsewhere
Thomas J. Hooker,
Principal.
Letha Hooker,
Assistant.
Miss A. M. Dowd, Spanish
teacher; method thorough and
practical; class meets at 3 p. m.
on Mondays and Thursdays at
the residence of Mrs. W. H.
Webber. Terms moderate.
Orphans’ Box.
Some of the ladies of the city
and country are getting up a box
of clothing and bedding to send
to the Methodist Orphanage at
Waco, and this item is to give
notice to any who may desire to
contribute to leave their contribu-
Urtions with Mrs. W, B. Abney or J
Mrs. J. E. Yernor, who will see |
that it has the proper attention, i
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1899, newspaper, January 6, 1899; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876854/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.