Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 25, Saturday, January 6, 1900 Page: 5
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TEXAS MINING AND TRADE JOURNAL.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTHS.
Leffler, Fort Worth's leading photographer, will be here
again this year with a new feature. Watch for his agent, Mr.
LeRoy, who will call on you and explain. Date of coming will
be announced in our next issue.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Ladies' Day at the Club house, lake
and grounds.
Dr. Keller and wife are now at home in the house occupied
by Dr. Binney.
Mr. and Mrs. Mart A. Williams were visitors from Fort
Worth the past week.
Mr. Pete Girard came out from Fort Worth Wednesday night
to join the Light Plant crew.
J. E. S. Lee, electrician, has returned from a ten-days' vaca-
tion to his old Tennessee home.
Miss Jennie House visited Misses Wavie Smith and Lee
Marrs in Mineral City this week.
Mr. Robert Best returned Saturday from New Orleans, where
he went to attend the funeral of his brother, James I. Best.
Mr. J. E. S. Lee is now chief electrician at the Light Plant,
succeeding Mr. Ed Vaughan, who left Tuesday for Fort Worth.
Mrs. Bauer and daughter, Miss Bauer, of Salt Lake City,
Utah, are visitors in Thurber, the guests of the family of Mr.
Fowler.
The genial Jim Williams was in from his ranch near Ranger
the first and second days of the new year, and took in the New
Year ball.
A few doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine will do
more for a weak Stomach than a prolonged course of any other
medicine.
Miss Docia Stephens from near Cisco is visiting reiatives in
Thurber, the family of Mr. and^Mrs. Claude Maachman, and her
cousin, Willie Sparks.
If Irritable, Out of Sorts, Depressed in Spirits, have a Dull
Headache, take a few doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medi-
cine for quick relief.
Misses Pearl Rogers and Carrie Tancred of Fort Worth, sis-
ters respectively of Mrs. and Mr. John Tancred, were visitors in
Thurber the past week.
Mr. Back wants to buy all the hogs that are for sale in this
and adjoining counties. He will pay the highest market price in
"long green" or free silver.
A new system of numbering has been inaugurated for the
four or five hundred houses in Thurber, and 'Squire Miller has a
force of men tacking them on.
If Gloomy and Nervous, and looking on the dark side of
things, take a few doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine,
and the gloom will disappear.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rowe and little daughter, from Big
Springs, spent a portion of Christmas week with Mrs. Rowe's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. House, in this city.
The Journal will very much appreciate news notes from the
various shafts every week. If some reader will send them in by
Wednesday noon we will make it to their interest.
Women's Complexions depend for beauty upon Digestion.
Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine Regulates the Stomach, Liv-
er and Kidneys and secures the blessings of good Digestion.
Mr. Reeves requests that all who made purchases during the
holidays and failed to get tickets for the doll and picture to come
in and get same, as he wishes to give the doll and picture to the
rightful owners.
The ladies of the Wednesday Club met with President Wood-
son last Wednesday. They meet again with'Mrs. Woodson next
Wednesday, and a full attendance is urged, as important matters
for the new year are to be arranged.
Wanted—Honest man or woman to travel for large house;
salary $65 monthly and expenses, with increase; position per-
manent; inclose self-addressed stamped envelope. MANAGER,
330 Caxton building, Chicago.
Dr. Charles Binney has returned from Illinois.
Wanted—Honest man or woman to travel for large house;
salary $65 monthly and expenses, with increase; position per-
manent; inclose self-addressed stamped envelope. MANAGER,
330 Caxton building, Chicago.
Storekeeper Britton was besieged by "Angels of Commerce"
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Likewise were the va-
rious mercantile managers. "The boys" are always glad to see
"the boys," and "the boys" like to make Thurber.
Messrs. L. A. McCollister, the Courier man of Gordon, and J.
B. Hereford, Jr., of Dallas, special agent of the Liverpool &
London & Globe Insurance Company, were visitors in Thurber
one day last week, and called at The Journal office.
S. K. Patterson, Montague, Texas, writes: For 20 years have
used Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine for Cramps, Colic and
Sick Headache. In my opinion it is stronger and acts more nat-
urally than either Black Draught or Zeilin's medicine.
A splendid line of Silver Novelties—Tooth and Nail Brushes,
Hair Curlers, Paper Cutters, Letter Openers, Oval Blotting Pads,
Nail Files, Scissors, Match Boxes, Vinaigrettes, Souvenir Bon-
Bon, Cherry, Cream, Olive and Lemonade Spoons—at the Phar-
macy.
Thurber has reason to be proud of her law-abiding people.
The holidays have come and gone, and with them a fifty thous-
and dollar pay-day, and not an unlawful act or a "scrap" worthy
of mention. Can any coal mining camp in the whole country
thus boast ?
'Squire A. H. Miller has returned from a tour of inspection
to the gold and copper mines of Jarrila, New Mexico, in which
he and other Thurber capitalists are interested. He makes an
encouraging report to his colleagues as to conditions existing
and prospects.
Rev. Mr. Wood, Methodist pastor, preaches tomorrow (Sun-
day) at Union church, morning service at 11 o'clock and even-
ing at 7:30. Suppose you start out by attending religious wor-
ship the first Sabbath of the new year. It won't hurt you, and
may do you good.
Rev. J. H. Smith, the new pastor of the African Methodist
Episcopal church here, has arrived, succeeding Rev. Stokes, as-
signed to the Dublin charge. Rev. Smith's last charge was at
Buda, Texas. He preached his initiatory sermon last Sunday
night, and also conducted a watch service.
Mr. Frank Lehan, who resigned his position in Mr. Ed S.
Britton's office on November 1 of last year to accept one with
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fa Railway System at San Marcial,
New Mexico, has returned and assumed the duties of his former
place in Mr. Britton's office. We are all pleased at Frank's re-
turn, for he is a jolly, good fellow.
C. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, opposite the United
States Patent Office, Washington, D. C., who have actual clients
in every city and town of the United States and Canada, report
that never before in their 25 years practice has the work of the
office been so well up to date. They claim that patents can now
be procured in less than half the time formerly rpquired.
Business in the various mercantile departments during the
holidays was in excess of the most sanguine expectations, and
stock-taking was done under many difficulties, but the boys
worked long hours, hard and faithful, and everything was up-
to-now when the whistles blew announcing the New Year. The
various managers find their stocks in good shape, and are satis-
fied with their showing for 1898.
Free Scholarship—You may, by doing a little writing a
your home a few evenings, secure, free, a fifty-dollar ($50.00)
scholarship, in either of Draughon's Practical Business Colleges,
at Fort Worth, Galveston, Texarkana, Texas; St. Louis, Missouri;
Nashville, Tennessee, or Savannah, Georgia. For particulars,
address "The Illustrated Youth and Age," Nashville, Tennessee.
(Mention this offer when writing.)
Mr. Homer Lightfoot of Fort Worth visited the family of his
uncle, Captain William Lightfoot, in Thurber this week, and
was one of the numerous participating guests at the New Year
ball. Homer is president of the Idiewilds at Fort Worth, a so-
cial organization which gives monthly functions at Hotel Worth
but says he takes off his hat to the young people of Tnurber as
entertainers. He remained over from Sunday night until
Wednesday.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 25, Saturday, January 6, 1900, newspaper, January 6, 1900; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200537/m1/5/?rotate=90: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.