Caldwell News-Chronicle. (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1900 Page: 1 of 12
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OUR AIM 18 THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO THE FARMERS AND WORKING PEOPLE OF BURLESON COUNTY.
XX.
CALDWELL, BURLESON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1900.
NO. 44.
S'rom Our fflurai Staff. %
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YCLIOW PR 4IRU. , .... ....
(food and it is hoped ihat we arc
Chkikhman. Tex., March 27. to enjoy a period of health and
Emtok Nhwm hkonki.k: contentment.
On account of rain all farm Corn i up a good stand and
work han been suspended the I looks well. Oats is good and is
past five or six days. The «round doing well since the rai.i. Cockle
it thoroughly saturated; the rains burrs are coming up a good stand
have been «low in falling and was and promise to do well.
absorbed when it fell except on The church has dorte nothing
bard rolling land; but little if towards calling another pastor
any plowing can be done this and as a consequence we are still
week provided it does not rain without a preacher.
any more. The bulk «if the col- S. H. Thomas while fishing in
ton crop is vet to be planted. the river one day last week had!
Misi Willie H• lt. who has been the good luck to catch a fish
quite ill with measles and pneu- weighing nearly fifty pounds,
rnonia. we are glad to report is Better go agair, Sid
now improving.
Little Pinkie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gid Wood, we learn is
quite sick with pneumonia.
The school here has been sus-
pended several days on account
of bad weather and measles.
Bro. Smith of Rockdale preach-
ed here Sunday morning hut bad
weather prevented night ser-
vice.
On account of measles and in-
clement weather there has been
no Sunday «. hoof the past two
Sundays.
Kufus Price of Caldwell -pent
last week here .idministering to
the sick.
Kd. Banks who is tea hinjtf the
Haskin Spring •-> h...hi-,
second term Friday night with
a minstrel.
Several parties from here
bought corn on the
George Mickens, a negro man,
while fishing on the bayou Sat-
urday fell unconscious and died
in a few minutes after being
picked up. We have not learned
all the particulars. He was
buried at Mound Prairie Bun-
day.
Miss Sallie Hodges and Mrs.
Mattie Gregg spent Thursday
shopping in Bryan.
Dr. J. B. Jackson was sum-
moned and left Saturday to at-
tend the bedside of his sister at
Rita.
Our town has added one more
family to its list. Mr. Kirkland
and family from Somerville are
occupying the Davidson resi-!
dence.
The wedding bell has appar-
ently lost its clapper, as we have
| not heard its clang for some
time, but spring is advancing
when young man's fancy turn
I to thoughts of love i, so we may
hear it unexpectedly in the near!
future.
Miss Lillie Hodges, who is
i teaching ¡it Harmony, was in our
town list week visiting relatives
so manv pupils i , , ,
' 1 and friends. 1 scoon.
Fagan s MiUinery has come and it is charming. There
are many fresh creations in millinery that differ from all
former efforts. This spring promises to lie a great flower
season, so say the milliners of Paris and London. The
colorings known as Pastel shades are beautiful and ef-
fective. Pastel green str; w, Pastel pink taffeta silk
shirred on wires, Horseshoe crown of Tuscan braid cov-
ered with clusters of J.:ne roses and Chiffon Pompons, are
some of the chaste, elegant, cultured and musical phrases
now daily heard in the ultra-fashionable millinery depart-
FAGAN'S.
ment at
Industrial Texas.
The Houston Post of Satur-
day contained an article with the
the above title that fairly ani-
mated the heart with its opti-
mistic fervor and great hopeful-
ness. After calling attention to
enterprises throughout the state
that show Texas to be striding
to the front along all industrial
lines, the Post says:
I'm. i i Bi v.
HOOkl HYHI I.
Hookhkvu.l.w, T« * . March 2"
Khlto* NliU vI'MKUMC I.K
Rain scared
away Monday that there was no
school at Midwav. SOMERVIILC.
Mr-, Win. Rodger* and Mrs.
* SOMKRVII.I.K, Tex.. March
\N . W. Arnold have been quite r(,¡toh Nkvvs-c'iiromci.r:
George Young had the misfor-
tune to get his foot badly burned
one day last week.
Health of our community is
very good.
Yours for the Houston, Brazos
and Northern railroad.
Ivanhok.
Not What We Want.
Our Providence correspon-
dent has furnished us with a com-, . .. . „
. ; In the same issue of I he Post ap-
plete list of all the farmers in his peare(j an item from Burleson county
community and the number of I relating to the purchase of handsome
acres each has in corn and in cot- new iron bridges for use in that county.
ton. This would certainlv be val- This * bllt another branch of the new
, , , " awakening which is directing effort to
uable if we were census enumera-1. ... . ,
internal improvement, with the fac-
toi s, but in our picsent position tories designed to furnish a home mar-
it is no value to us whatever, ket for home raw material must nec-
What we want is an accurate essarily come good coot try roads and
estimate of the per cent, of in-' ,)rid*e*- Tho £uc,,ue to the co,tnty
town, or t" the site of the mill, must
be open and modern. The good road
will operate as no less a factor in
crease or decrease in acreage of
both cotton and corn of this year's
sick thin week, several cases of.
chilis and fever in the neighbor-'
hood, but no measles or small
pox.
1 ¡art s an grow ing line.
The Harvey eating house fed
its lirst train at this place Sun-
day noon. It is a pretty building
and when our new depot, which
lis now under consideration, has
N
< in
i i - propo-
Miunt. So
to find but
acreage ol
station will ■
been built, our new
look nice.
Dr. Iktwen has left Somerville
for a position in San Antonio.
at V cents per bushel.
m\.
San («a brie i
Y.
Tin
sition is under .ui\s'
far I have been able
little differ. IK e in til
« orn and cotton this year from We regret to lose such good peo-
!ast. ¡>le. but fortunately for us. it was
Brother .1. 1 . Rankin (rom Mi- •' d«vs until Dr. Burns
lam count) Idled ¡us son's a]
crop as compared to last year's cheapening the transportation of the
crop. If there is more cotton this j ra,V product to the factory than the
. . .. . „ proximity itself "f the factory to the
\eai than last, then state the pei ticlc]. Thus it is that progress, when
cent, of increase in figures, and ! once it becomes a matter of practical
... . , i concern to the public, proceeds neces-
l vice \ ei sa. We appieciate tile *arily and in the very nature of thing
interest the Providence corres- along a variety of line#.
.... i * , . It has taken a long time to impress
pondent takes, but he has the upon our people that each and every
locality had within itself the means
for a new and large development and
the opportunity t« grow in wealth and
power and independence, but happily
the lesson is being ¡earned at last, and
wrong hog 1-y the ear.
If you want a hat try James.
I ruck Growing at Lexington.
}H,
1.1-
March
H t x. If
Khitoh Nswh-Cmi
The non-departure of the mail
from here last Tuesday accounts
for I'nclr Ben's al>s. n e from the
columns of th< Nru-•< mhmmi ; i
last week.
Ah a result ot the heavy rains
that have fallen during the past
four or five days, all farm work
is suspended and the ground is
thoroughly wet.
Sunday evening about three
o'clock, the heaviest hail storm
since the memorable one of June
iiitmciH at Liberty Saturday
t. •Jnite interesting services
yvere hclil there Sunday.
P¡ y ¡ o.
PROVIOI M l.
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Work has been stopped a
day son at count of the rains
splendid season is m the ground toi
and all are agreed that the rain
yy.ts truly a blessing.
The health ot the community,
I believe, i very good.
Thomas l'oleman of Travis
county is visiting his parents in
this community.
ot Oklahoma Citv came here to.
I
locate with us. We yyish both
doctors success in their new'
work.
I It . Moses of I 'aid well is in our
city today.
John Harkin is improving after
i|tiite a severe spell of pneu-1
monia.
Mr. Bean of Millicati has ac-
cepted a po>ition as night opera-.
I K I . !
even the census of P'Oo will tell a tale
of wonderful expansion within the
past few years, upon iumistrial lines,
in "grand old Texas!"
(iloves of every kind at James.
,>8-tf
Hurtik will call on you about Mon-
day to get your • rder for Photo Nov-
elties.
Joubcrt Is Dead.
Pkitokia. March 2s.- General
Joubcrt the famous Boer com-
Tlic Lexington Progress says
that J. M. Roberts and L. K.
Michelet of that place are plant-
ing three acres of beans this
week. The Lexington Truck
company is also planting about
twelve acres el beans and sev-
eral acres in melons. The five
acres of peas ow ned by this com-
pany are now in full bloom and
promise an abundant yield. In
all there will be about one hun-
dred acres planted in potatoes mauder died last night at 11:30
and as manv acres in melons o'clock. He had been suffering
and vegetables this year in that from stomach complaint.
immediate neighborhood, and all The town
is
plunged into
the truck is intended for ship- mourning for the true patriot,
VOI NIA.
Yoi.Ni \ , Tkn \n. March 27.
KI'ITOK NI W S C'IIKOSK 1,1.
Caldwell is a great ways off
when the question of hauling
vegetables anil other produce to
market is considered. This is a
James Duckworth, who cairn
1st, 18' #, visited this section, here recently \\ 11h his charming j great fruit and truck farming j
Uniting about twenty minutes. ; young wife from Caldwell, has district and the opportunity of
The stones ranging from the already prepared about liftv or | having a new road should be
stae of a partridge egg down and more acres of land for cotton. 'seized while it is yet time,
covering the ground to about a Our school, under the super-1 We learn that J. N. Browning
depth of one inch. As far as we vision of Prof. Will Newcomb, j and (•. C. Ivy intend to leave in a
have been able to ascertain the j is and has been progressing in a few days for the Indian Tern-
damage was slight; gardens and nice manner. The present term ! torv to occupv lands there which
fruits being the principal things y v i 11 last another month,
damaged. Corn and oats were We learn this morning that
not hurt. One peculiar feature the family of Mr. Bass arc all
of this storm wiffs that it covered down with measles.
the same tejprttorv as the one! Well. 1 yvill close, as my tank
three years/ago, and where that lias just broken loose and I am
one was tbf heaviest this one was mad as a wet hornet.
the heavi/st also.
Karmc/s are well up with their j
work; n/>st aliare through break- j
ing lamyf Some cotton has been
?lv have i
Pi I Nki i
IUNIS.
Tims. Texas. March 2",
Kiutok Ni;y\ s-Ciikonici.k :
were recently inherited.
Ouite a crowd from here in-
tends to attend the speaking at
Caldwell next Saturday by Hon.
J. W. Bailey.
Thomas Sexton of the Lone
Oak community was the guest of
J. R. (1 oce Sunday.
Wm. Bowers visited relatives
at Lone (>ak last week.
Samuel Gaines of Tunis vis-
ited his sister, Mrs. Atwood, of i
ment to distant markets.
TO CURE I.A ORIMPK IX TWO DAYS
T.,lo I.WMIVr IIIIOMO IIIIMM' t'AHI.KTS,
y i I iirii.'tf i-i I lie tiuiln > if It fulls to
ritr ' K y\' iltioviv sluiiui him' Is mi cvi'i'y
iH I \ ti"*'.
J. W. Bailey will speak in
Caldwell on Saturday,
March 31.
Advertised Letters.
Letters remain uncalled for at
the Caldwell postoftice addressed
as follows. (Please say «adver-
tised when calling for same):
Burton, Kairrilla
Caution, J. C.
Davis, Kdgar
Knslev. Mrs. Annie
Glenn, Miss Narcissus
Lcnard, Fronie
Odell, Chas. I).
Richards, Miss Odessa
Stafford, Win.
Willson, Miss Dollie
Wilkerson, Hally
J. S. Snook, P. M.
He Pooled the Surgeons.
All doctors told h'eiiit k Hamilton, of
gallant general and upright and
honorable gentleman.
A. K. De Kluent. editor of the Jour-
nal, Doylestown, Ohio, suffered for a
number of vear.s from rheumatism in
his right shoulder and side. He says:
My right arm at time.- was entirely
useless. 1 tried v'munbcrlai '* Pain
Halm, and was surprised to receive re-
lief almost immediately. The Pain
Halm has been a constant companion
of mine ever since and it never fails."
For sale by Stone Hitchcock.
The Smallpo*.
The smallpox situation is
getting into a very sj^Hnactory
condition. Thejj^fiave been no
new casesia^Tseveral days and
all th^fffscs now in pest camp
are Convalescent. All that yvere
detention have been released
—in fact there is really no reason
tofearany further serious trouble
with it.
Ten Dollar* Reward.
Strayed or stolen from near Cald-
well. Texas, about three weeks ago,
one brown mare mule, about 12 rears
planted^ but will very like .
tobe DKinted over. Planting will1 We have had a splendid rain, (this place Sunday.
tfcmeral as soon as the ground ( which came when needed. The Miss Vick Heslep of your city
a half eircle through center on
shonliler. Ten dollars reward
left
for
drie«
Will
weather now, however, is bright
the exception of a few and cheerful.
eütticlf measles and some other
minor V< inplaints the health of
HitGOlwinunity, we think, is pretty I last week, is out again
Little Lillie Carrington, who
was sick with chills and fever
visited friends here a fcyv days
the past week.
J. L. Atwood has had a rather
severe attack of sore throat for
some time past.
West Jcllerson, Ohio, after suffering ¡ of age, 14 hands Itigh branded l'with
eighteen months from rectal fistula, he
would «lie unless a costly operation
was performed ; but he cured himself j information leading to recovery of
with Hucklen'* Arnica Salve, the best
in the world. Surest pile cure on earth.
Only 2.sc <i box at Stone «V Hitchcock's |
drtiK store.
Bettor Be Vaccinated.
t*et the best vneeim virus. Fresh at
STOMi tk Hitchcock's.
animal. When last .eeii was ooitung
toward Milam eoautv.
DK. M. 1,. I, \M.ioKH,
Hailyville, Tex.
tiet your Photo ltuttons mailt while
Hurtik is in town: he will remain only
tí fteen day .
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German, S. Houston. Caldwell News-Chronicle. (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1900, newspaper, March 30, 1900; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth169281/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.