Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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HONEY GROVE SIGNAL.
OL. 3
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, January 26, 1894,
NO. 48
Storm Echoes.
Last Friday night the entire
North Texas country was visited
by a terrible gale that did ranch
damage to property and created con
sideable alarm.In this citv the dam-
age was light but many paced the
floors expecting every minute to be
dashed into eternity by the mad
winds.
The photograph gallery of J. T.
Nichols presented a bunged-up ap-
pearance • Satnrda}7 morning and
looked very much like it had been
•attacked by a battering ram. The
'bill boards of the opera house had
been dashed against the bail ling
by the winds, breaking in the front
and doing considerable damage.
Mr. Nichols, who sleeps in the
building, says he thought it was all
up with him, andjbegan making
preparations to plunge into the
great unseen and unknown.
Williamson, Blocker & Go's,
chicken coop was standing upon its
head in the middle of the street
and the poultry, alarmed at the
change,were raising quite a racket.
J. H. Dry den'a house in West
End, was blown from the blocks
but no serious damage done. The
house was undergoing repairs at
the time.
1 P. King's house met a sim-
ilar fate, but with no damage to
speak of. Out in the country sev-
eral chimneys were amputated and
we noticed Mr J. E. Ford's stove-
flue lowered to halt mast
Down at Petty the «tore recently
vacated by T. W. Leverett, was
blown froi. its foundation and
damaged considerably. All the
towns and cities in tnis section
were visited by the winds, and all
sustained more or less damage.
The only death reported is from
Dallas, where a little boy was kill-
ed by tne collapse of the building
in which he was sleeping.
~~Ttre • to v» u oi Gober, " west 'Of
Ladonia, suffered greater damage
than anv point in this county.
No less than a. dozen houses were
blown from their foundations and
some were completely demolished.
The new Methodist church is a
total wreck.
"Still Alive."
The Signal reeeived by mail
this week the communication
which appears below. It seems
that the writer was robbed at Tem
pie some time ago while on a pros;
pecling tour, and was mourned as
dead or "vamoosed" by his neigh-
bors. We publish the letter ver-
batim et literatim 'earing to make
any changes lest the writer's mean -
Ing be destroyed: «
Bagwells, Red River eo., Tex Ian. 22, 94
Mr. Edter Signai the Paper of Honey Grove
Dear Sir Ef you Plesir State in your njxt Pa-
per that the man that got Robbed at temple is
alive and doing Well But the Man that Reported
him Missing has deid on cornBred and Pcenuts
In Honey Groove he Starved out about dial and
■cud not sta any lenger he lived on Peenuts for
about three month and dideut do well, tell the
Peple that he is a. Exqusquse Bad writting
and Spelling
truely Yours
\dr.
s; - . married.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church was packed with people
Tuesday evening to witness the
marriage of Mr. John L. Brown
and Miss Lee McFarland. The
church had been beautifully dec-
orated for the occasion and the
wedding was as pretfy a one as
the eye could desire to gaze upon.
A horse-shoe of mistletoe was
suspended just in front of the pul-
pit, an emblem of the good luck
which the entire audience wished
the contracting parties.
At the appointed hour the bridal
party entered the church and
while a joyous wedding march
was rendered by Miss Winnie
Trout,marched slowly up the aisle
to the altar, where the Rev. A* L.
Barr repeated the cermony that
made them one, and invoked di-
vine blessing. On leaving the
church the new and happy conple
were showered with rice. The
attendants were Mr. Charles
Fiquet and Miss Kay, ushers,
Messrs. C. J. Scherer and T H.
Fiquet
As the happy couple wended
their way to Hymen's holy altar,
their path was profusely strewn
with flowers by sweet little girls,
and so we trust their path through
life may lead through ways of
pleasantness and peace, and that
the halo of love's sweet light may
ever hang over them as did the
synfbol of good luck on that event-
ful day of their lives.
After the cermony the new
couple left for their home near
Ladonia aecomanied by the best
wishes of a legion of friends for
a life of happiness and bliss un-
alloyed.
§100,000 Fire at Sherman.
Sherman, Tex., Jan. 24.—At 2:45
this afternoon an alarm was turned
in/tYom the -old mill «f the Sher
man oil and cotton comspany. The
fire companies answered" promptly
and found he the third story of
the immense wooden structure in a
blaze. The eomplete system of
extinguishers did good work, but
the timbers were saturated with oil
and the fire surely made headway.
The fire engines and fire plug con-
nections poured water into the
building from a dozon nozzles, but
the main mill building and the
oil warehouse immediately west
burned. Several hundred barrels
of nil were saved.
No one can give a definite ex
planation oi the origin of the fire
other than that it caught in the
roof
Plant ar:d building fully covered
bv insurance.
HONEY GROVE POSTOFFCE.
Lowell Circle C. E, S. C
"Rome and the Making of Mod
ern Europe." From page 247 to
260.—Mrs. W. N. Sadler
"Roman and Medieval Art "—
Part 1.—Chapthes 1 and 2.—Mrs.
Thomas.
Paper—"The Catacombs."—
Mrs. W. R. Burnitt.
"Education In Italy."—miss
Mary Yarbrough.
"Social Artistic and Literary
Holland."—Mrs. Joseph Meyer.
Short Biography of J. G. Whit-
tier.—Misses Bailey and Liv-
ingston
Quotations fro m W'hittier.
Class meets Monday, Jan. 29, '94
•with Mrs. W. W. Wood, at 7:30
p. m.
Notice.
Prof. D. B. Morgan, the noted
Veterinary Surgeon will remain in
Honey Grove until Monday at
noon. All persons desiring his
services should come at once. He
goes to Bonham Monday.
To Arrive This Week.
All the late novelties in wash
fabrics, white goods, laces, etc.
Don't fail to see them.
Price, Provine & Gray.
Statement of Business Transacted
During 1893.
1.793 boxes rented $ 874 94
29,515 1 cent stamps sold 295 15
122,614 2 cent " " 2.452 28
100 3 cent " " 3 00
100 4 cent " " 4 00
622 5 cent " " 3110
100 6 cent " " 6 00
200 8 cent " " 16 00
685 10 cent " " 68 50
15410 ct special delivery stamps sold 15 40
512 newspaper stamps sold 38 50
890 postage due stamps sold 13 20
22,043 postal cards sold 220 43
4581 cent envelopes sold 5 30
39,491 2 cent envelopes sold 866 96
706 newspaper wrappers sold 7 77
$4,418 53
2,019 Money orders issued 517,224 87
Fees on same 160 18
1,249 Postal notes issued 1,939 28
Fees on same 37 47
699 Money orders paid 8,728 97
275 Postal notes paid 577 45
27 Money orders repaid 309 32
828,977 54
Remitted to Sherman $ 9,825 00
Remitted to New Orleans 2,267 17
$12,092 17
Total $45,488 24
E. W. Walder, P. M.
Honey Grove. Tex., January 23, 1894.
4"
The JDalton's Raid a Bank.
Guthrie, Ok., Jan. 24—At
Pawnee, fifteen miles north of
here to-day three members of the
Dalton gang rode into town and
entered the bank but found the
safe locked with time lock. They
took $100 from the cash drawer
and rode away, carrying the cash-
ies on a horse three miles into the
country and compelled him to
walk back.
We take this method
Of returning our sincere thanks and best wishes to our many friends and custom-
ers who have patronized us in the past and beg to assure you that it will always
be our aim ana pleasure to give you the best possible treatment and sell you
goods on a very small margin. Our sales for the past year were large—-this j'ear
we expect to increase our business over last year. The volume of business we
do on less expense than other houses who have a much smaller amount of busi-
ness, places us in a position to sell goods on small margin. If you will give us
your business we will appreciate it by treating you nicely and by saving you
money on your purchases
* & ■¥
Our Stock is Fresh and New.
No old shoddy stock that can't be sold at cost, but
clean new goods bought low which is decidedly cheaper
at a profit than old out ot style goods bought years ago on
a high market
We are receiving daily spring goods, consisting of
Dress Goods, Fine Shoes, lippers, Clothing, Hats, etc.
All ofwhicii we place in competition to any house in North
Texas.
Our stock of Groceries is always complete and prices
the lowest. Just received a car of the celebrated Triumph
Seed? Potato, the earliest, largest yield, and best keeping
Potato grown, also early Rose, Burbank arid Mammoutli
Peatj^eed Potatoes, Onion Sets, Garden Seeds, etc.
Be sure and call on us.
North Side Square.
Williamson, Blocker & Co.
Off For Enrope.
Dr. J. G. Baldwin, of Windom,
leaves to-day for Europe to further
prosecute his studies in medicine
and medical science. This is only
the carrying out of an ambition
that our highly esteemed friend
has treasured for many years,, and
we are really glad that the fiuition
of his loug-cherished desires is
about to be realized.
Dr. Baldwin was among the
first gentlemen that this writer
met after setting foot upon Texas
soil, and the acquaintance thus
formed soon ripened into a friend-
ship that has grown stronger and
dearer with each succeeding year
He was then but a youth and was
constantly burning *he midnight
oil in pondering over the volumes
which held the great tiuths
he so much desired. In 1887 he
graduated in the Louisville Col-
lege of Medicine and no ambitious
youth wras ever more elated over
receiving a diploma than he. Im-
mediately his life work was begun,
hie first location being Wolfe t!ity,
but soon he settled at Windom
where he resides at the present
and entertains no idea of changing
locations. He has been eminently
succebsfnl, both in building up a
large practice and as a practitioner.
The good people of Windom will
bear us out when we say that no
young physician in the state—and
but few old ones—enjoy a more
lucrative or successful practice.
For a long time it has been his
one and great desire to drink
deeper of the fountain of medical
lore, that he might be the better
qualified to serve his patrons, as
well as satisfy the desires of his
own ambition, and to-day he is, on
the eve of his departure, the hap-
piest man in all the land. He
will no straight to England and
take a post- graduate course in the
Universities of London and Edin-
burgh, the m<»st noted institutions
of learning in the world. He
intends upon his return to make a
specialty of diseases peculiar to
females and believes tliat the
Universities mentioned offer ad-
vantages that cannot be had on
this side ot the briny deep. We
wish the doctor bon voyage and
trust that he may have a pleasant
stay and that his highest anticipa-
tions may be more than realized.
HiltMOXY
Exists Once Mom in The JIcKiimcy
Household. Husband and Wife
Are Reconciled and Will
Dwell Together.
Ardmore, I. T., Jan. 20.—Mrs.
James W. McKinney of Van Al-
styne, arrived in this city a da}r
or two since and joined her hus-
band, the hero of the recent sen-
sation at Van Alstvne, Harmony
now exists in the McKinney house-
hole and husband, wife and chil-
dren are living together at the
house of a friend.
Mr. McKinney states that they
will remain until matteis have
quieted down when they will re-
turn to Van Alstyne to live. Mr.
McKinney talks "out little, and will
say nothing of thr sensation in
which he was such a prominent
figure.—Sherman Register.
•>, Mitchell Done Up.
.Tust as we went to press last
evening a message was received
stating that Corbett knocked
| Mitchell out in the third round,
j Whether the reports are reliable
; or not we do not know. The
; dispatches were not received in
! this citv.
BOX HAM ITEMS.
Signal and Dallas News, $1.75.
From the Favorite.
Mr. M. B. Lovlace and Mrs. R.
E otimpson were married Tues-
day morning, Justic Bragg offi-
ciating.
Mr. S. R. Oliphint and Miss
Jennie M. Waite, of Smith Paul's
Valley, I, T., were married yester-
day. Sam was raised in this city
and is wt 11 known.
Mr. Hanson, owner of the Unifct ..
stock farm situated at the fair
grounds, visited Gainesville last,
week and had the misfortune 4o
get his leg broken in a runaway
accident.
J. G. McGrady's new residence
on North Main street is fast get-
ting ready for occupancy. Rumor
has it that Gid will be ready by
the time the house is and that he
wont keep bach, either.
Captain S. J. Biyan formerly a
citizen of Bonham but for several
years residing at Vernon, Texas,
died of pneumonia last Saturday.
Captain Bryan was one of the best
men \vho ever lived in this
country.
There is a report from the west
part ot town that a highwayman
is plying his vocation up that way.
He seems to be an inexperienced
man at the business, else he is a
crank, for his victims get away
without a scratch or being roblfed.
Friday night last a most volum-
inous fire alarm brought out the
bucket brigade and a great lot of
Bonham's citzens, who found that
the bakery in the rear of M. A.
Nichols' residence was burning.
It didn't take long for the stiff
south breeze to * ian the house in
flames.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1894, newspaper, January 26, 1894; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth409885/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.