The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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^ Correspondence
News of Interest From Ober the
County by Special Correspondents.
Jeff Bell Jr,, who has been in
Terry county since last Spring has
returned bonte.
Jiui Head, Boh Caudle aud Mrs.
Caudle are at De Leon attending
the Primitive Baptist association.
Thurber.
H u it ya it.
August 16—A good rain fell
FridayJ greatly improving ' cotton
and othef growing crops.
/ *
Mi^s Mattie Little has recovered
<from ^protracted spell of sickness.
Mr. Cook has been very low but
is better'now.
The six' year old child of Mr.
Walkertwas kicJced in the face by
a mule a^nd injured quite seriously
but will'recover.
f 4
Frank Kiker of this place is
camped at the Greens Creek
meeting.
We are glad to note that our
friend Sam Chatham has obtained
a second grade state certificate.
Prof. Leifler of Granbury is
visiting Kennith East at present.
* •• ' '*• t, .. ' * ■
Glen Nelson and Chas. Estes
are staying at Amarillo.
I .
Miss Neppie Bishop is teaching
an- expression class at this place.
The Farmers Union of Bunyan
is wide awake and is accomplishing
.something toward the end in view.
W. B. Guthrie is of the opinion
that the watermelon crop is ruined
as they will now grow so large that
it will take two men to carry one
melon, your scribe has already put
in an application to help oarry the
melons.
Ben and Miss Nolya Hicks are
visiting in Waco.
J. • W. Allison is visiting his
brother at Alto, Cherokee comity
this week.
Bluff^ale.
Huckabuy.
"We reported a good rain at this
place last week, but Friday morn
ing about 8 o’clock it began to
rain and lasted until 2 o’clock some
of the time the rain seemed to be
falling in sheets any way we got
the best rain that has fallen here in
16 months which will be a great
benefit to cotton and will make a
large hay crop if the bugs and
worms will let it alone.
Will Copeland, Homer and
Brooks Jones returned Saturday
from an extended visit in Clay,
Haskell and Jones counties they
were well pleased with the country,
Clay county especially.
Albert and Grady Miller of
^Liberty were her Saturday per-
fecting arrangements to attend
school at the Academy again which
begins the 31 of August.
Mr. and Mrs. Kiker and daugh-
ter Effie of Center Grove visited
W. M. Catnble and wife Saturday
and Sunday.
T. R. Allen and wife spent Sun-
day with Mr. Chenanlt and wife
near Bethel.
J. W. Lenox of Hannibal at-
tended the Methodist revival here
Saturdayr-—-- " "
Will Copeland aud wife have
rented their farm to W. L. Thorn-
ton and moved to their fine resi-
dence on Stephenville street we
welcome them in our midst.
Henry Clark and wife of Steph-
enville spent Sunday in this city.
Mrs. Herbert Beardon is on the
sick list this week.
So far as we can see now E. A.
Winn and J. D. Breedlove are the
only damaged, they were the only
ones that had made any hay and it
was still shocked in the field, they
can do like we use to do when we
stumped off our toe nails they can
soon grow some more.
iflder J. C. McMauldin can wit-
ness that Huckabay got a flood
FridAk as he was delayed here
several hours while enroute home
from Pigeon where he had been
holding a meeting.
August 16—Joe Gordon was re-
presenting the interests of this sec-
tion last week before the commis-
sioners court at Stephenville, with
reference to the opening of a public
road from here to Lipan. His
tnisjjon was successful to the extent
of receiving a promise that the
rdad . would be established next
spring. [The Empire is glad the
court has promised this road, which
has long been needed/Ed. |
Tom Hall and family are now
located at Medicine Mound, a new
railroad town uear Quauah, where
he has opened a drug store. Harde-
man county becomes a better coun-
try every time it gets a "newcomer
like Mr. Hall. /
Mrs. Paul Chandler after having
been very elose to death, is im-
proving and bids fair to soon be
well again.
Although the rain reached us too
late to make the big crops for
which the Bluff Dale vicinity is
famous, still it was not too late to
make everyone brighten up aud
feel better. It rained nearly nil
night August 15 and another good
rain Friday.
The farmers are very busy just
now planting rnilo maize and sor-
ghum. ’ There is no corn and they
are trying to raise this for winter
feed.
ALEXANDER
August 16—Y. A. Onstott has
again taken charge of the hotel
here and is going to see to it that
Alexander has as good hotel facili-
ties as can be found in any small
town in the state. He owns the
house but has been renting it out
for the past two years.
Since the fine rains of last week
the country round about Alexander
is beginning to look green again
and hopes are entertained that some
feed stuff being planted now will
be made for winter use. Nothing
but worms can now prevent at least
a fairly good cotton yield, and the
long faces of the people are now
brighter.
William Reece and Miss Annie
May Keith were married August
10 by Rev. G. W. Clingan. The
bride is a daughter of Charles Keith
Quite a number of Alexander
people are attending the meeting
at Rose school house by Rev. W.
T. Atkin and W. R. Allman.
W. C. Stringer was attending
the meeting at Halls Chapel last
week.
Prof. J. C. Perry of Stephenville
has a singing school going on here.
Mrs. Cal Bender has returned
from a visit to relatives at De
Leon.
Hrom The |ourn»l. AukukI IS.
Hon. and Mrs. R. W. Martin of
Gatesville arrived in the city last
night to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Vernon Garrison. Mrs Martin will
leave tomorrow, Saturday afternoon
for St. Louis, while Mr. Martin
will remain here two or three
weeks.
Mrs. Norman L- Vermilya and
little son, Tut, have returned from
New York, where they spent a part
of the summer with relatives, and
Norman is his cheerful, happy old
self once mote.
George Hale and fkmily visited
the home folks in the country last
Sunday, anti George reports that
he ate so much fried young chick-
en he has been wanting to crow
every since.
Miss Anna Powers and brother
Whu*f*are here-from Goldthwaite,
to be with their brother Will Pow-
qjs, who has been and is still quite
sick. They will remain until he
recovers.
Miss Belle Brumley. arrived in
the city Sunday from Gustine and
will spend the balance of the sum-
mer with her sister, Mrs C. I*. Love.
Miss Isabel McGrew is visiting
at the home of her brother, Lee
McGrew in this city for a few days.
Henry Redmon returned to this
city yesterday after an absence of
four years, which time he has serv-
ed in the Navy on the United States
battleship, “Colorado.” Mr. Red-
mon states that he is willing to
once more become a “land lubber”
and remain so permanently.
Mrs. V. A. Garrison and the lit-
tle ones arrived in the city Monday
from Weatherford and the Journal
man is now being taken care of at
home, in his new house on North
Mountain. Mrs. Garrison was also
accompanied by her sister, Mrs.
Addie McMullen and son Bryan.
/T\ell!?apy /teademy
Opens Monday
September 6 th
J. fnallbarjy, fl. B. principal
Stepl?eQuille. Sexas
IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness it
Would Bring to Steph-
enville Homes.
V
Some Saying From Neils Speech.
The bull is a bear and the bear
is a bull aud both are confounded
rascals.
Cotton gambling is a curse to
both the farmer and the'merchant,
yet men will stand on the street
and defend the develish business.
If Brother Hathaway should sell
too acres of land he did not,' own;
or if Brother Jones should sell 100
mules he did not own, they would
be sent to the penitentiary, but
prior to the anti buckef «h»p
in Texas men could sell cotton here
they did not own, with impunity.
You cant get Bath to go into
Anderson territory nor Anderson
into Baths. There may be two or
three buyers around your hotels
during the season but all of 'em
are buying for the same firm.
The little hooked nose Jew that
bought ten thousand bales at nine
and three quarter aud the one that
sold that number of bales at that
same price were each agents of
McFadden. Mack was out nothing,
but cotton owners were.
I saw a map in the New York
exchange with all these Texas
cotton towns on it and wherever a
white mark was run through them;
it indicated that the drouth was on.
I learned that right here in Steph-
enville there is a representative to
wire those rascals the very moment
you have a good rain. Would’nt
you boys make it warm for him if
you only kr?w who he was?
Hard to do housework with an
aching back.
Brings.you hours of misery at
leisure or at work.
If women only knew the cause—
that
Backache pains come from sick
kidneys,
’Twould Save much needless woe.
Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick
kidneys,
Stephenv.i11 e people endorse this:
Mrs. A. Poyle, W. College St.,
in Stephenville, Texas, says:
“Doau’s Kidney Pills proved very
satisfactory in my case. I was
troubled by a dull ache through
the small ol my back and-at times
when stooping, sharp twinges shot
through my kidneys. Being ad-
vised to try Doan’s Kidney Pills,
I procured a box at Perry Bros,
drug store and their use gave me
entire relief. I am very glad to
recommend such an excellent
remedy.”
F'or sale by all dealers. Price
50cents. Foster MilburnCo., Buff-
alo, New York, sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—
and take no other. 49- 2t
Dublin Residence Destroyed
About 12:30 last night Aug. 13
the residence occupied by J. L.
Hall and family on Grafton street
caught fire and was totally de-
stroyed, with nearly all its con-
tents. Mr. Hall and his son, (f)ris
were the only members of the
family at home at the time, Mrs.
Hall and the girls having gone on
a visit to Comanche They had
been down town late and had only
been asleep a short time when Oris
was arousdd by the crackling flames
and falling timbers. He called
to his father, who barely had time
to escape, the bouse then being
filled with smoke and fire falling in
the adjoining room. The fire
caught in the attic, and the space
between the ceiling was a solid
mass of flames before it ■ was dis-
covered. Besides the piano, only,
a few articles of small value were
saved. The house was the prop
erty of Miss Coda Caswell, ami
was insured for 514)0. The, fur-
niture and household goods were
insured for $rooo. It was the first
experience of the new fire team at
a real fire, and they behaved nice-
ly. Though the fire was too far
advanced when the alarm was
turned in to save the burning
building, it was quickly gotten
under control and prevented from
speading to adjacent property.—’
Dublin Telephone.
CashlCash!
Cash!
That’s what we are after and if close prices are
appreciated we will continue to get it.
Anything in
'Dry Goods, Clothing,
or Groceries
That you happen to need we would like you to remember
that a little of your ready
Cash Goes a Long Ways
And we shall be glad to quote you some prices.*3We flsell
~ the Famous Brown Shoe Company's Shoes.2 everymmmm
pair of which is a Bargain.
We deliver all goods anywhere in
Town
Smith & Stephen
Next Door to Postoffice
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The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1909, newspaper, August 20, 1909; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth877863/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stephenville Public Library.