The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 14, April 21, 1894 Page: 8
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THE TEXAS MINER.
LOCAL NOTES.,
Sixteen pages !
Phil N. Hunt has taken a position in the drugstore to assist
our Mr. Reeves.
It is said that Mr. Britton, at the saloon, is trying some Hous-
ton made bottled beer.
The grocery store boys are trying to keep even ends with the
dry goods counter in style.
S. M. FURMAN.
BEN O. SMITH.
lately from Missouri, will take
St-eph-
^unnan Sc Smitfy
r*I 01^ INSURANCE
r I AGENTS . . .
No. 500 Houston Street, Fort Woith, Texas.
J. A. HAF5TEK, President.
C. FOSTER, Vice-President
Wm. LOTHMAN, Treasurer.
T. B. WATERS, Secretary.
Mrs. Putnam and her son,
charge of the new hotel.
The county Democratic Executive committee meets in
enville Monday, the 30th.
Engineer Sneebalt is throttling No. 153 in the Thurber yards
during Mr. Gilfoyl's lay-off.
We hear that it is probable that Mr. H. Lohmueller will take
charge of the new crockery store.
Mr. Cammack, the boys say you let the team get away and
tried swimming the creek—and it was wet.
Mr. R. C. Lee's arm was sprained one day this week by the
horses getting scared. It occurred at the granary.
The furniture and fixtures of the hotel are coming in. They
say it will be the best $ 2 a day house in the country.
Miller's up-to-date photograph gallery is a new acquisition in
camp. Give him a call. Gallery near the town hall.
It is reported that the furniture department will occupy the
whole of the upper portion of the dry goods and grocery store.
Our abattoir killed six beeves for our market recently that av-
eraged 1400 pounds gross, and netted 56 3"4 P^r cent.
Charley Wilson can't make much of a showing until his new
store is done for his hardware and crockery departments.
The little one and one-half year old child ot Jasper Viesovosky
fell in a kettle of boiling lye last Saturday, resulting in death.
Allen Gilbert had the misfortune to get a leg broken this week.
He fell from his water wagon, a wheel passing over his ankle.
Capt. Walter Ready, in that quiet, gentlemanly way of his, is
making it "mighty hot" for his opponents in the race for sheriff.
Our market is drawing eggs from Weatherford and other points
to keep this town going. They are great egg eaters in this
town.
A. F. Shapleigh & Co.'s new spring catalogue is out, with ap-
propriate cover." It is like our own beautiful valley—green in
color.
Mr. Cammack's store counter is blooming with fancy flowers
for"ladies' bonnets, and he says he never has seen them so good
and cheap.
Mr. McCooey is just "a dandy" in fixing up a grocery store.
The grocery department looks like a first-class metropolitan es-
tablishment.
Mr. Bass and his good wife are well pleased with Thurber. By
the by, if there is any prettier baby than Baby Bass in this town
we don't know it.
Strawberries from Galveston were received on our market last
week, and the company's garden is furnishing lettuce, onions and
other garden products daily.
Mr Simpson of Fort Worth has taken a position in the mining
office," assisting "Our Ed," and Wad Mancill is going into the
postoffice with Capt. Ready.
A sample buggy and two sulkys from the Parry Manufacturing
company of Indianapolis will be on exhibition in a few days, and
will be sold at manufacturers' prices.
They say around the country that they cannot afford to pay
dealers 55 to 60 cents for corn, when they can come to Thurber
and buy the best quality of Kansas corn at 46 cents.
The drugstore will soon have a new $1200 soda fountain. Mr.
Sturges of the Soda Fountain Trnst said no one else should get
into this town with a soda fountain if he could help it.
Our Bob Ward (and a better fellow never lived), who brags on
his Percheron mares, has gone to the ranch to pick out several
teams to work on the company's farms. They are going to im-
prove.
The Houston & Texas Central railroad sent a telegram into
the Texas & Pacific Coal company's office for ten carloads, of the
celebrated steam coal Irom our mines, and in fifteen minutes the
Hafner-Lotliman Manufacturing Co.
Wholesale Manufacturers
Doors, Blinds, Glazed Windows, mouldings, Etc.
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Factories at
, St. Louis, Mo.,
1 and Oshkosh, Wis.
Main Office
Dock Street, ST. LOUIS.
PARLIN & ORENDORFF
, /illlWill' occupy this spaceljlk^.
•"•"tliiwith an "ad" for theiri'J? -
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS.
Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-J
ent business conducted for Moderate Fees. i
SSTgSS IeVs„?/p^E¡nu¡«f¿aT.EKS',ffi?¡
ieSend£m^eUadrá"v7ngnór photo., with descr'P;j
tion We advise, if patentable or not, free of5
charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. i
i píhph let " How to Obtain Patents," with j
icoft of same in the U. S. and foreign countries
¿sent free. Address,
¡C.A.SNOW&CO.;
opp. patent office. washington^ p. c.
order was executed and started for its destination. The rail-
roads are beginning to find out where good coal is and wheie
orders to any amount can be executed promptly.
Mrs. J. D. Cowden and Miss Earle Harwood request The
Miner to extend their thanks to the serenaders who discoursed
such delightfully sweet music on last Wednesday night, and to
assure them it was highly appreciated.
The kitchen range and kitchen turniture for the new hotel will
be furnished by the J. S. Vann company oí Cincinnati, Ohio, the
room furniture will come from Indiana, the bedding from New
York and the glassware from Pittsburg.
The Texas & Pacific dry goods store is blooming like the rose.
Mr Cammack, Mr. Allen and Mr. Dally are behind the counter,
and it just makes them smile at the handsome goods they are
selling, at unheard of low prices in this section.
The newT gin will be built by the Munger Cotton Gin Manu-
facturing company, and will be as complete a plant as money
and experience can construct. We understand that it will be
operated by experienced men, and on the liberal scale that the
Texas & Pacific company conducts all its business.
Mr R. T. Long, more familiarly known as "Dick, an-
nounced as a candidate for assessor. Mr. Long is too well
known to need an introduction at our hands, having served the
people in various capácities, and with credit to himselt and to
the entire satisfaction of his constituents. He is on the Demo-
cratic track.
Don't overlook the fact that Mr. A. H. Miller of this camp is
a candidate for county • commissioner, and on the Democratic
ticket. Mr. Miller ordered his announcement in this issue, but
our "make-up" overlooked it, remembering to think ot it atter the
page had been printed. His name will appear in the procession
hereafter.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 14, April 21, 1894, newspaper, April 21, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200461/m1/8/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.