Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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Halletsville, Lavaca County, Texas, November ii, 1897.
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Entered atthe Postoffice at HalletarflUiM |
Class Mail Uatter.
No. 42.
W. G. LEE WOODS,
John Woods § Sons,
bankers,
w: F. WOODS.
few days.
Wm. Chamber*,, of the Ezzell
| flteighI>or hood% is visiting the fam-
SAJI ANTONIO, TEXAS,-Hicks Building Houston St,; dCTtbsTi^iV!^to«mtv.'eP<>,t'' '
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doe Garner left on their lone trip.| ing her illness T. .(/. -CiU pepped I What do you do with :yur
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for Brown county on Thursday. 4 filled her ‘position as teacher.
John Plummer will follow .in. a pyfPrbf. Peterson. Miss SfnRli anc
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Miss Lida Goodson paid Hal lets
yille a visit ,Friday to attend the
Teachers' Institute
J. G. Cnrnngton, Bobt..Manld
.in. John Helms and C. C. Bessen
A General Banking business transacted. Foreign and Domestic Ex-
change Bought and Sold. Collections receive Prompt and
Social Attention.
I^eal Estate for .Lease or Sale.
BANK OPEN FROM 9 A. M. to 6 P: M.
Thos. Judd visited his mother, will leave here for booth - Dakota
>er tbe CouQty
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SUBLIME.
Only a few bales of cotton were
eted last week- The people
nning to think that prices
go lower and many eav they
going to sell. 1 .
t !*&tur<iay was our busy day
to Justice Chandler’s court
m session. The Halletsville
represented hr County
r. Biakeslee, J. W. Rags-
Schwartz and Jno. H-
Only a few cases were
of.
y night was the occasion
of the most pleasant an en-
,ble balls ever given by the
Club. The crowd in sizo
boast of being for once that
R«y«l makes tbe food para,
wbolesome and delidooa.
POWDER
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medium, where there were + . nfltpnt ^ates at the citv cross-
ifiK.s.’sa ™ srw's
i -is swrrssrw
QP were Muis May' Ea2‘e Lakef'1 fly'.gy,sit Saturday
Wood..., Bnchapek^
us
near Sublime last week. Tom.
said it made him feel bad to see so
many fat hoirs and other things so
plentiful and to think of his razor
backs at home, although that dul
not keep him from haying a good
time. A dance was given at his
mother’s in honor of Mr: and Mrs.
Armstrong, of Bastrop. Had a
nice supper and danced all nie-bt.
Mr.’ Henry R. Ju<ld, of the Gol-
denrod country, visited his broth
er, Thos. Judd, last Tuesday. He
killed a nice deer on Monday ; be-,
fore and said.’ wild tiirkeys, were
plentiful in. his parts now.
D. M. Williams, of Ezzell, will
tnove to the ‘Pnirg.’* Wednesday tp.
fake charge of the mill and gin.
Thos. Gardiner, of Columbus, is
' visiting in the neighborhood. His
visits ate frequent and becoming
ratner suspicious.
I Steve Garner will move into the
house vacated by his brother Joe
to-day.
F. A. Autry's baby is still sick.
The fever has never left it, though i
in a few davs. Columbus ant
John will go from there to Klon
dyke next sprirg. (nit.) Gooc
hick to em!
An entertainment was given a
the home of Mr. Tom Humphreys
Friday night wdilch was* enjoyec
yei*y much by all present. . ,
Miss Melna Galloway . returnee
Monday from a visit tb relatives
nea r Yorktown. V- > ;v;
\\\ G. Hislop of Cheapside pait:
Sweet Home a t visit Sunday re-
turning Monday.
\ Dr. - Clav Niehols of Yoakum
Was hero Monday.
John Richardson now has charge
of the T. 'A. Hi.il &. Son' lumber
vard and is doing a thriving busi
ness. \
John Koerth of Yoakum was
t ere Monday on business^'
Wi 11 is-' McCfitcheon. -.Sr,,' has
been here for some time selling his
larid.
• J. J. Judd is just recovering
from a ease of the dengue..
Dan
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OLD SCHOOL BOOKS?
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Try to save them for vour Grand Children ? Don’t you do it; they w
l>o out of date! Bring the old books to the NEW BOOK STdBE
and he will exchange them for new ones!
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STTTlGr’'PTTKrTrATVC taken for all Newspaper? and Magazines at
ers’rates. Promptness guarantee br'‘«-
rectly with all Publishers. Yours Very Uruly,
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Albert Saft,
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Cotton Seed!
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rosie
15*^ mm
4^ltestyreok. Zftxm
r ’find ml here at train time
- l^raticd^k°lv ’of *N>W honsy ap cc.nstant 1 v 20ing
- - J up in our city> qe^ptte tbe failures.
$1.25.
sir
>y©r fr<
from Halletsville Satur- ^ nbsh^ it.
intr for the com of the , l' r* ' i ^ »i i <-
Mkir w* a* aver, kb
self, though he was not , • ^ , . , ,, E
’ ^ the street and sidewalk ordinanc-
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A Barrel Show.
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his best owing te:; a . two
siege of the dengue,
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es enforced^ :.irad we get oyhr the
of tbe arrtsf of Henrv I de^"e- lick saltt
J with us and we will show yon a
part of old, Lhvaea to-be proud of. C
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C. W. Cook is on an extended !
£friD to Bord*-.n county.
Mr. and Mrs. John Atkinson
visited Cuero on the 7th and 8th.
•• Col/ Lum Ferry, of the Lavaca:
wa» up on the ;hth and said* he
was in for enforcing the hog law.
No school on Friday. Our Prof,
had to visit Halletsville. VC/C.C/C
Sid Hamlin visited Yoakum on
legal business. , : . . ■
j) * Henry Atkinson has been, ab*
1 sent for several days (I guess to
toakcm. see his best girl.)
. our muddy sidewalks ! John Harwood parsed through [
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in Halletsville, charged
instrnmental in the
,which oedured there some
j, was received here with
It is not possible • to
people here ever belieye
a charge, as they . know
well as his father, R. Mil*
who has always been an
truth and uprightness,
hr trost that Henry
himself innocent. AV e
cannot be guilty of such
■ is good, the dengue only
os Tightly, X
On next Monday we want
you to notice the
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Get High Cash
Thq Lavaca Oil Company has better facilities than
ever before to handle the cotton seed of the farm-
ers of Lavaca county. We have pup in ...
New Machinery,
and built new storage rooms and will pay you
the highest market Price for your seed.
FERD HILLJE,' Mana<
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Y'oakum last week hunting quails.1 Then after this event, before
They reported having tine luqk.
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THAT CORNER STONE.
persing, tbe several lodges
meet, and appoint a central
mittee to liegin preparations
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i tion to l>e given on the coal
AYhen.the corner stone laying of I(d the new court house next year.*
the new court house Was first men- The suggestion seeips reasonably
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. tinned several months a*, it was, shouU not adopled- ^ ^
the intention of a number of orur
/citizens to have a grand county
celebration. No interest was tak
en in
the laying of that much talked of
rock is,too close to admit of eyen
a hint at an elaborate effort in the
wav of a celebration. However,
SHOE STORE SHOW WINDOW therue must 1 e ami iSom ws* 36
t in this connection wq would like to! same.
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Arid will surprise you to see what
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—Did you eyer look thi
the picture albums of yourfi
ft " 'T* [and neighbors? If so, didn’t
the matter and the time for:wcllrto Vnu that those
made by Fey & Braunig
ways among the beet? No t
discoloring, etc.; good for a
time. Have your picture
there now. Many people
•.Thumber died Saturday of our burg on the 7th from Jackson This sale will continue for only two weeks an(|l through the corner sitone laying
He was buried Sunday j county to Shiner,
the W. of W. lodge. Dr. D. A. Pressley is improv-
ers of the city school, ing hy adding ivork , to his/ resi-
regular monthly ihsti- dence.
day morning. It were j Renters are changing places.
wilt be especially for ladies’ and children’s shoes.
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offer-as good the following sug-
gestion^ made to us by Eugene
Biakeslee. C. W. Arnim and Win.
Engleking, a committee ot three
appointed hy the Halletsville brass
band for the purpose of further-
ing the affarr: uLet the commis-
, nussioners as a court lay the cor-
I ner stone. Then let the new brass
band be employed to make the
music. We need new uniforms
—The editor of this great
ions weekly spent Sat
Sublime: He found the old
quite lively, court being ini
We met all of our old olil
there, among them D.
b ernau & KXoppenburg,
Weller, R. Miller, Sr. ;i
Mrs. Emma Miller, who
the best country hotel in tbe <
ty, Operator Freer
Kreutzer, A: C. Schui
; m if , *? ca" raise «50 to $75 I joh^PeS; Jh D “~bf“
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r|>e there.
Thompson, of the,**vep"-(
Chas. Riggs and Tom Fitch are
___ up from near Nursery, where they
went to lifont to see “the have been in the weli-.boring busi-
Saturday and returned Sun- ness. They say that the rock in
' that country is harder than the '.
Annie Donnelly and Ma- times.
.joe, Messrs. Will Rabb Dr..; T. Pressley.- fibril Sweet
. F. Adams, went to your Home, is among us again.
Friday to attend the Teachers’
S. J. Wagner,
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Mr. and Mrs. Anthony have the •
Ask Wil! about the sympathy of the coinmunity in j,
[the loss of their little child. ; .
Laugh.
$1.25
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$1.25.
we can easily raise the balance.
[Let the several lodges, Masons.
I Ottd Fellows, Catholic Knights,
! Hermann Sons, Woodmen, Work-
nien, etc., come in, any of them
that choose to do so, and partici-
k pate in a street parade, and let
each Jpdge so. participating bring
| | along f5 to help pay for the band.
Let tire affair be entirely informal.
ter. Aug. Ziegler and a
others. We received a
welcome and as usual
loaded with substantiali
the Herald. Sublime
ant place. The mere!
strictly business but they
have time to treat tbe Hi
few pleasant remarks
business. The merchants
business fair, considering
markable season of depree
have just passed through,
Capt Thomas Show gave
jrformance Friday night
to Shiner. ' They were*
it is doing as well as couhl l>e ex-
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pected.
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.patronized here.
■rbe V WfliiunsbiHX ' Smuluv ^
Scbool unite in extcmlftf. /i,,,,/. ■ T
thv to Mrs, Lizzie Gbtthar<lt :. and ^ ^^ougmy wet, and i]
chiliii-en7n tb/tbeir Mtd Imui- bf -l-n , .Iry m.t itnjl
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The \\ llliamsburg literaiy so-
Tumer and Hill, the cioty met by special announcement
men, have made some on Saturday night. Only a* tew | ^,,H‘ireu tu 111
> during the ;mst week, responded to their names yhen ,erea' emeu ,
lobe” dry g<N)ds store called on. All the debaters were
ioorsThurwlay morning. r>n hand except C. Autry.-' Ed-
n, the proprietor, and Tarkington was appointed in hi- As our town has not teen rep-,; After a inonth’s stay in.Refugi j [
iartner were arrestecHm place. [Thedebate was both in- relented in your colitnm- for some ;liid other places, Mis.s Lilly Kai-
r—u w_:.i— struct!ve and entertaining. The timet w'iH.'drop Vou a few notes. " nev returned homo.
sWelT NOME;.
remain clear, the sweet potatoes
will all decay in the ground.
; Mrs- Dr. Ilill spent Saturda f
ylsi tihg Adakuin f riends.
SEE THE BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF.
WINTER LAP-ROBES
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In my window, and see inside the finest
lowest price saddles, harness, collars and -
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1 orris, -of your city, affirmative sidt) won. One thing [ - Mr* WilliiiiPs.and Mrs. Morgan -. Misse?j;M,ary and [Carrie A\:il-
vl$it last week, y ,wa7 noticeable in tiie debate, all attended .the conference at Cuero r liain>/of HVcebtll-bme^ ’Were vi.-it-
riiat makes the horse laugh to pull against.
i : steered clear ep persoiRdities, and, report a nice-tiine' i ing .friends here last • wi‘elc.'; ;- *.
.... party at [ which was test, as. tTu*^ subject i> [ Ivey.; Napier i> to dtiedit'd, Bp». Mr; Hyrnian Miller, of • Wieti,
Friday night, ted a cdmracter .that teelin-x i>vasiU- Sims a- pad Or of tiieAI. j;: Chureh 1 \v{i>^^ visitmg^ friehds.bere Saturda ;
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Feed your hogs with the stock food
how they gain flesh with the same fry
profit on a small in vestment for the feeder.
* to stake five “claims’'
excitedt
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council met in e*xtia
«y morning and- in-
marshal to en-
| sidewalk ordinance.
•a we have a canoe for
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mpany is patting
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I’mVthVnev't y-*Bro. Siins ha- and/Mindu}/
Wm. Sutton wa> dt»wn tiie -hit- ;manv 'tru-hG hen- regret;' Guv Bumgarteuer, :tif aiea;'
ter part of J«>U W(HL‘k with dengue j very much to >ee him h-avc. . Sweet Home, pinsetl thiough hei *
fqver. ; : N ; ^ Nlv --.'..On tie (-bunt of >ickiiess Bro. [ Sunday en-route for 1 telletsville.
Mrs. Y’oiing. mother of Mrs.d Lloyd faile<l to till \hte last ap^ ‘ AV under what'*, up? ;
Sutton, after a Tortnight visit b) porntuient heiov / Wtf,r !| 'iv«, -u-'<uvL».
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. ... PPVpHHHPIPHI ^ ( Vfter a e. weeks’ sta>* ; witli
her daughter, left lor home Satur,- Miss Smith; the assistant teach-; the home folk,s. Charlie., Karneyy
day. er, has recovered from a very J r., left for IlearnqMonday. '
Messrs. Wm. Shaw, Sr., and severe attack of the dengue. Dur- .several, parties were out from
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J. HEYE,
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Mair, W. A. Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1897, newspaper, November 12, 1897; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth995844/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.