The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1902 Page: 1 of 4
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McKINNEV. COLLIN COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY. MAY 22, 1902.
VOL. 19, NO. 16.
CON8TIPATION
It U surprising how many people there are who
allow themselves to become and remain consti-
pated. They apparently do not know that this
condition poisons the entire system. Not imme-
diately of course, but after a little time as the poi-
sonous impurities accumulate they attack the vital
otxuua and undermine the constitution. As a re-
sult, the victim becomes pale, hollow-eyed and
callow, the breath is foul, the head aches fre-
quently, the strength slowly decliues and the once
strong, active body becomes weak and nervous.
Prickly Ash Bitters
is a cleansing tonic and restorative just suited to
such conditions. It is a genial stimulant for the
stomach, liver and bowels, purifies the system thor-
oughly and invigorates tne kidneys, conveying
streugth and new life to the whole internal organ-
ism. Under its marvelous reviving influence there
is at once a brightening up in body and brain, re-
newed energy, strength, vim and cheerfulness.
Our printers are out. Kindly
bear with us until we get help.
See circular elsewhere.
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tntertained.
SOLD AT DRUG STORES.
PRICE, $ 1.00.
TO VOTE ON PROHIBITION.
|lection Ordered In Coryell Coun-
ty for June 7.
iatesville, Texas,May 16—The
Commissioners' Court of this
mntv ordered a local option el-
ection for this county yesterday
Son a petition filed signed by
out 500 property holders. The
(ate fixed by the court for the
lection is June 7th.
'All kinds
[ouston's.
of spires at Cebe
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homer Wilson's New Church.
San Antonio, May 17.—A con-
tract has been let for the building
of a Christian church on Camden
street, the contract price being
$24,000.
Rev- Homer T. Wilson is pas-
tor of the church and the money
to erect the building has been
raised by him since betook charge
of this congregation,a few months
ago.
It will he one of the handsom-
est churches in San Antonio.
Miss Tennie Frost entertained
Wednesday evening at the home
| of her lather, C. C. Frost, on Ea*t
Standi fur street in honor of L. J.
Merntt who had been attending
the McKinney Businc. s College
for some tune. He leceived hi*
diploma and bid his many friend*
goodbye Wednesday night and
left for his future home in Sher-
man.
Those present were as follows:
Homer Coffey. Miss Lela Holder,
Wallace Wilson, Miss K at tie Hol-
der, Marshall Padgett, Miss Pearl
Westmoreland, Green llabun,
Miss Minnie Chambers, George
Milligan, Miss Elmer of tort
Worth, Mr. Cooner, Miss Ida
Glenn, .lack Chambers, Miss
Myrtle Shipley, L. .1. Merritt,
Tom Dorsev, Mr. Smith, Misses
Mamie Wilson, Emma Yerger,
Bell Matthews, Pearl Rice and
Miss Perry, Mrs. J. N. Grisham,
Mrs. T. M. Hinsley.
— — —
During the wind and rain storm
Thursday lightning struck the
long distance telephone wires
burning the lightning arrester and
forty fuse on test board. Parts
of the cast iron braces and other
hard metal on the board were
melted, and had it not been for
the quick work of Manager Jim
McLemore more damage would
have been done. All the long
distance wires are burned out but
will be ready for use late this af-
ternoon.
JUNE 1
We Will a Feast of Bargains Unfold,
The least of which will put the blush of shame to the cheeks of those
whom we have long since outstripped in the dry goods business.
All our ♦> and 7c standard calicos and y|
Scotch lawns only "to
All our men's and boys' clothing and odd
pants are being marked down especially
for this sale.
All our 20 and 25c gingham tissues,
batistes and lawns will be stacked 1 f%
Big line men's and boys' fine madras and
percale shirts—collars attached, or 2 col-
lars separate, that was bought to
sell at 75c, going this sale at OUc
All our (>5 and /5c, 27-inch Japanese
wash silks, China silks and taffeta, y|f
your choice, yard. 49c
Our $1.25 men's union made California
Sweet Orr overalls until June 1st | qq
1000 yards of Fruit of the Loom and
\
Hope Lonsdale muslin will go in this £|
sale at yard Q2
Embroideries, laces allovers, galoons and
all trimmings will go at 20 per cent reduc-
tion |-5 OFF
BIG STOCK MILLINERY.
Including many new novelties for mid-
summer will be sold during the sale re-
gardless of former prices.
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Men's fine $2.50 Elk Brand hats, every
hat guaranteed, go on sale at $2.00, nr
$2.00 hats for $1.65, $1.25 hats.. t/Oc
Big line men's and boys' sample straw
hats bought by us at 50c on the dollar art
now on sale at HALF PRICE
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Our $4000 stock of Men's, women and
children's shoes and slippers go during
the sale at SLAUGHTERED PRICES
20 PER CENT
Reduction on "Ladies' Muslin Underwear.
Shirtwaists and Taffeta Silk Skirts.
W. S. KNIGHT
SOUTH SIDE SQUARE. McKINNEV. TEXAS.
D0INB ALL THE TIME.
£ «]£ Art &• h .*W'. v fjujst ."will? *j&£ mi **\ iv. fe-'-'Vi
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To Our Patrons and the Public
Generally.
1st, we now having a struggle to
meet current expeuses, hence
the crisis being forced on us we
preferred to sus|>end our busi-
ness at once until we ure able
to reorganize our working for-
ces.
We doplore this condition for
we well know the struggles of
The newspapers of the city are both proprietors and employes
now having some trouble with in this and other towns. The!
their employes, and us a conse- machine has displaced laborers!
quence the Daily Courier and everywhere and positions are
, .. r, ' ... . . hard to tind. We prefer to
the Daily Gazette will not be is-; W()rk ..homu- printers and no'
sued as usual until further ur- j one is barred from our office who j
rangements We will issue the j belongs to the "union" and nev-1
weekly papers, however. ior 'IUS been.
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The City Editor and WKe Heard
From.
The printers are'out and our >,u dee,n 11 unnecessary to
We deem it
,, , dwell further on this matter, be-1
side of the question is as follows; |lu,ving that tt juslice lovil,K
A few days since the printers j public will sustain us in every
of McKinuey organized a"union" particular in the course we have |
and having secured the signa-! Hoping that the reading;
ture of every printer (exceptjl)U^''c will pmdon us for not
.... . . preparing for th«m our ii.-niv
one) 111 the city, a committee was ! ,,rj, (\ 0f local
appointed to wait upon us and
request us to "put on" the union
or "unionize" our offices.
The requirements of this
"union" are briefly as follows:
1. That we employ none but
members of the McKiuney priu
tars' union.
2. That we delegate the em-
ployment of the priuters of the
various newpapers offices to this
union or to the "foreman" of the
mechanical department.
3. That we allow the union to
make their own scale of wages.
The above three articles give
the matter in a "nut shell."
The first we declined to graut,
because,—
(a) There is one priuter in the
city who did not desire to join
the union. He chose to stand on
bis own merits, and deal directly
with his employers. Under the
conditions of the union his dis-
charge would have been neces-
sary.
(b) The proposition that we
turn the manner of employing
our printers over to some one
not directly and financially in-
terested in our business is un-
fair to us, impracticable, and
we think unwise.
(c) The proposition that we al-
low these men and boys to set a
scale of wages for themselves is
simply "out of harmony with lo-
cal conditions." No matter how
well it works in other and larger
cities, in this town our business
is so limited that we necessari-
ly have to get. ihe best wort; we
can at lowest wages at which a
man is willing to work. One
may be able aud glad to get this
work, because of his surround-
ings, at a lower figure than some
other printer who has to pay
house rent or board.
Every office in town is paying
the highest wages possible and
several of the printers have
been steadily advanced since
they began work.
move dictated by the
employers' appreciation of
their merits and also by our
feeling of ability, at the time, to
do so. A number of the leaders
in the trouble in McKinuey have
during the past year drawn
higher salaries and got their
them our daily
items, and that
the business men and
merchants will reserve their
orders for us until we can
re-organize our business, we are
Very truly ifec.,
Thompson & Ekwin,
Propr's Examiner.
Tom W. Pekkins,
Prop. Daily aud Weekly Gazette.
Walter B. Wilson,
Business Mgr. Daily Courier.
P. C. Thompson,
Editor Democrat.
ROWLETT CREEK
CEMETERY
The Annual Decoration Exercises
Held There Yesterday—Big
Crowds Attended—Some (iood
I .peaking.
The annual decoration exercis-
es took place yesterday at the
Kowlet Creek cemetery in the
presence of over 1000 people.
Hon. Geo. P. Brown, Hon. ,). K.
Gough, Dr. E. E. King, .1. M.
Wilcox ot McKinney, and Capt.<
W. N. Bush of Allen delivered
excellent addresses.
The Kowlett creek cemetery is
one of the oldest and most beau-
tiful in the county. Today rela-
tives and friends laid garlands of
flowers on the graves of loved
ones departed. The Cemetery as-
sociation is in splendid condition.
At present it has over $400 in the
treasury. The old officers were
re-elected, the following being a
partial list:
C. M. Christie, Pr«s.; R. W.
Yeager, V. Pres.; ,1. W. Witt,
See'y.; Abe Smith, Treas.—Cour-
ier.
The picnic held at the old ford
on Wilson's Creek yesterday un-
der the auspices of the Epworth
League was a success in every re-
spect. The lowering clouds and
mutterings of distant thunder
kept several of the members from
venturing out. But just before
the noon hour the clouds broke
away and the sun burst fourth in
all his glory, fioodiug hill ami
a dale with a sheen of gold. The
gentle breezes ladened with the
perfumes of wild flowers, blended
with the melodies of the song birds
floating out from the deep dark
woods made it a typical May day.
The merry picnicers reached the
place selected about 10 a. 111. For-
mality was discarded and every-
one partook of the happy freedom
of the merry school boy. Many
money more promptly than for1 innocent game* were participated
in aud many "snap shots" from
the camera were indulged in and
many of the young ladies proved
(iood Crop Prospects in Brazos
Bottom—Effects of Flood
Still Felt.
Mumford, Tex., May 13.—We
left Dallas at 8:30 Friday night.
The Conference only held morn-
ing sessions from ! to 1 p. 111., and
as there was no service at nig^t
that we cared to attend, we took
in the city that afternoon, and
caught the next train for Hearne,
reaching there at 2 a. m.
We arrived at Muiuford Satur-
day morning at 8:30, and took the
folks on surprise as they were not
looking for us until in the after-
noon.
The crop prospects here and all
along down the road are good. I
never saw them finer in Brazos
bottom. Corn is about made;
will require only one more work-
ing. It is in tassel and will soon
be in silk. Oats and alfalfa are
good There seems to be a feel-
ing of confidence among the farm-
ers and merchants, and they have
more hopes of making something
than at any time since the flood,
though the boll weavil is reported
to have already made its appear-
ance. Dry weather is what they
need, with just enough riiu for
seasons. It will take several years
yet for the country to recover
from the effects of the flood.
We spent yesterday morning on
the river; the scenery is fine.
The Hearne and Brazos Valley
railroad has been surveyed south
to Brenham in Washington coun-
ty, and a large force of workmen
are camped at Stone City, on tha
banks ( f the Brazos, the present
terminus, and the work of exten-
sion will be rapidly pushed. The
Calvert, Waco and Brazos Vallev
road also runs through Mumford.
It is now owned by the I. & G. N.
and was recently extended to
Houston, paralleling the II. &. I .
C. almost the entire distance
from Bryan. The first trains
from Waco to Houston were run
the first of this month. This
road has a superior roadbed and
equipments and makes fast time,
it has sapped the H.& B. Y\, par-
alleling it from Hearne to Mum-
ford. until the latter has been
forced to extension. The C. W.
cSc B. V. is being extended to
Fort Worth from Waco.
A handsome new union depot
uow stands where the old Junction
house was burned in Hearne.
Mumford, a little village of o9h
three or four stores, has an ele-
gant depot, that McKinney would
be proud to have.
We will stay here this week and
go to Waco the first part of next.
•J. Frank Smith.
many months before.
Up to the time of the organi-
zation of the union, everything
! was working smoothly, and if
j there was any complaint at the
1 wages paid or the mode of em-
ploying printers, we had not
heard it. No printer came to us
and asked that his wages
raised on his merits.
When we declined to accede
to their demands of raising the
scale of wages and shorter hours
and other requirements, they in-
formed us that they would put
same in full force and effect on
June 1st, 1902, We knew that
our business would not justify
this iucrease of expense on June
themselves marksmen with the
target before the day was over.
At noon a sumptuous dinner
was spread, showing conclusively
that the young ladies could effi-
ciently perform in the kitchen,
preparing cakes, as well as eoter-
'>e taiu. At l>:30 supper was served.
Then all the girls in their big hats
and League colors were assembled
and carefully loaded into the wag-
ons and were driven home as the
stars came out, all very much fa-
tigued but highly gratified by their
day'* outing.
Buy your groceries from Cebe
Houston. tf
Dogs made a raid Thursday on
Armp Hill's chickens at his home
iu West McKinney and killed
several. As a result Armp wishes
to give fair warning to all, that
he has vowed vengeance on the
entire canine breed when, here-
after, they wander around his
premises. He is "loaded" and
"laying" for them. In this he is
endorsed bv his neighbors and
town at large. Jas. Herndon also
brought his gun into play on a
festive gang prowling around his
place last night. Much coinplaiut
is heard from every part of town
recently from the same cause.
(hvners should keep their dogs
on their own premises or have
them killed. The nuisance must
stop and Marshal Burks will help
stop it. Strange dogs wandering
through city or country are a men-
ace to public safety. Hydropho-
bia is too horrible a thing te risk
aud is nearly always caused, when
it does occur, from the bite of a
wandering dog.
Our coffee, sugar and syrups
are the best. Calf and see.
tf Ctbe Houston-
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1902, newspaper, May 22, 1902; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192121/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.