Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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HONEY
, M
SIGNAL
VOL. 4.
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday September 14* 1894,
NO. 29
A Lecture Course.
A number of our citizens are
trying to secure a course of lect-
ures for Honey Grove this fall
and winter. The plan is to sell a
sufficient number of season tickets
to guarantee expenses and then
select a number of lecturers of
national reputation, about five or
six, who will visit the city at in-
tervals of about three weeks. The
plan is a good one and the pro-
gramme if carried out will prove
a rare treat as well as a great bene-
fit to those who avail themselves
of the splendid opportunity.
J. L. Ware's immense stock of
millinery goods are coming in and
the taste and style his milliners
are displaying in trimming cannot
be surpassed in North Texas. If
you want the latest style see his
milliners.
Diphtheria In Ladonia.
News comes from Ladoniaofthe
appearance of that terrible malady
among children, diptheria, in that
city. The little babe of Mr. Crews
of that city had been very sick for
several days but not until Mon-
day was the cause of its sickness
made known, when the* local
physicians in consultation with a
prominent M. D. of Paris, pro-
nounced it a very severe case of
diphtheria. At last reports the
disease had not spread, and it is
to be sincerely hoped that it will
not.
"We still carry, in connection
with our Hardware stock, a good
line of Coffins, Burial Caskets, and
Undertaker's goods and are pre-
pared to serve the public in that
line as heretofore.
Wm. H. Fiquet & Son.
Senator Roger Q,. Mills.
This distinguished orator and
statesman is now in our city and
will address the people this after-
noon at 2 o'clock. . Speaking will
take place either at the city hall
or opera house. Senator Mills is
to-day the leading statesman ofthe
country and no doubt a large crowd
will be present to hear him discuss
the issues before the people.
Dress-Making.
Mrs. Foshee and Miss Lee Pirtle
will occupy the room north ot the
Arcade on Monday next. Thank-
ing the ladies for former favors we
solicit a continuance of same.
, How to Obtain Credit.
This reporter has during the
past few days observed how many
people whose credit is not the best
often secure what they want "on
tick" whether it is agreeable to
the man who does the crediting or
\ not. Of course its an old trick to
i force credit on the bar-keeper by
quaffing the draught before men-
tioning crcdit; its true that the
debtor sometimes goes out the
door on the toe of the unwilling
creditor's boot, but while boot-toes
hurt a little they are not danger-
ous weapons. But we've recently
seen others imposed upon in3this
way, the druggist being among the
number. A iellow hurries in with
a prescription he wants filled and
the pharmacist soon mixes the
medicines and pastes^ the label
with full directions on the bottle.
Then the customer will say "I
forgot to tell you I didn't have the
money to-day, but I'll bring it
Saturday." The druggist informs
him that books are closed for the
year and that everything is cash
now, but suddenly remembers that
the medicines mixed are of no
value to the house and succumbs.
The barber cannot stick beard
r back upon a fellow's face after he
ha3 bhaved the same ofl and
hence he sometimes is also an
/- unwilling creditor. We saw one
v- the other day who would willingly
have spent half aday hunting the
beard cells and sticking a fellow's
detached beard in them if the job
J could have been done in that
-time.
Don't forget that J. L. Ware
carries the biggest, best and cheap-
est stock of clothing and can fit all
shapes aud sizes.
The Signal this week discards
the patent inside and hopes to be
able to go it alone hereafter. Our
merchants are begining to realize
that an advertisement planted in
the Signal brings forth fruit a
hundred fold, hence we needed
more space.
Dowlen &Walder have been ap-
pointed to receive the Ozier cotton
seed. You will find them on
South sixth street.
The band boys donned their
handsome uniforms Tuesday morn-
ing, gathered their horns and mu-
sic and struck out for the tair at
Bonham, where they have been
ever since regaling the crowds
with the kind of music that soothes
the savage breast.
W. D. Wilkins has returned
from St Louis where he purchased
quite a lot of fall and winter goods.
See them before you buy your
supplies for winter.
Rev. A. A. Whitman, the color-
ed evangelist announcas that he
will remain in the city until Mon-
day. The inclement weather has
interfered much with the meeting
this week.
Misses Annie Oliphant and Ad-
die Ramsey are in charge of the
millinery department of William-
son Blocker & Co. Miss Oliphant
is in the market now, and will re-
turn this week with the most ele-
gant stock of millinery shown
Honey Grove.
in
Mr. Dud King, of San Angelo,
has been visiting relatives in Hon-
ey Grove and vicinity this week.
Mr. King and his twin brother,
Mr. John King, resemble each
other as much as did the Corsian
brothers and it is almost impossi-
ble to tell which is John and
which is Dud. Mr. John King
tells us that during a visit to his
brother a few years since his
brother's children were puzzled to
tell which was their lather, and
that one of the little girls after
trying in vain to decide the matter
gave it up and said she had two
fathers.
We honestly believe that "The
Leader" Ranges and Stoves both
cook and heating have more good
features than any stoves in this
market arid that we can save you
money when you want to buy a
stove. We have a full line and
ask an inspection. Keep this in
mind. Wm. H. Fiquet & Son.
It is to be regretted that bad
weather interfered so materially
with the Fannin County Fair. The
officers of the Fair Association are
as wide-awake and energetic a set
of men as ever lived and they had
put forth great efforts for the suc-
cess of the fair this year. Last
year they went into their own
pockets and paid premiums, the
gate receipts not being sufficient,
and we fear they will not succeed
financially this year. To-morrow
is the last day and we trust the at-
tendance from Honey Grove to-
day and to-morrow will be large.
Are times hard? Well, really
its altogether owing to how you
take 'em. We saw a negro girl
pay $1.50 the other day for a pock-
et book. Surely times are not
hard with her. On the day before
a fellow forked over about ten dol-
lars of good money for the privi-
lege of "hollering" on the street.
The stringency of the times surely
is not affecting that fellow.
Williamson Blocker & Co. are
constructing a wagon yard just
west of their place of business,
joining the Walcott property.
They are putting in 75 stalls, good
house, plenty of wood and water,
all of which they will furnish their
friends and customers without
charge. The location is first class,
the land being well drained and
dry! This is an enterprising move
and a laudable undertaking and
should be appreciated by all par-
ties staying over night in Honey
Grove. The entrance will be next
to the Ragsdale photo gallery.
We learn that Rev. R. H. H.
Burnett, the noted evangelist, will
be in Honey Grove on the first
Sunday in October to assist in a
protracted meeting. Rev. Burnett
is one of the most powerful
preachers that ever visited Honey
Grove.
Beautiful stociof Boys and Miss
es yachting caps just received at
Williamson Blocl er & Co's.
ASID THE TUG OF WAR FOLLOW-
ED. BKOWDER HAD THE; CUTI-
CLE REMOVED AND PEPPER
AND SALT APPLIED.
Han-
Presiding Elder'Wages and Rev.
J. F, Alderson agisted the breth-
ren of Wolfe City iast week in a
meeting,with splendid results.
Miss Campbell purchased while
in St. Louis one of the largest and
most stylish stocks ov millinery in
North Texas, complete in every
department. A call kt her store
will tell you better than we are
able to describe. She: invites her
friends and patrons to call in a few
days and see the beautiful display.
The Cheeky Pop Candidate
died Without ©loves. *
The Bailey-Browder discussion
took place as advertised at the city
hall Wednesday night. The con-
gressional candidates arrived from
Monkstown late in the evening,
where the\ spoke in the afternoon,
considerably worried but still
eager for the fray.
The city hall was packed with
people like sardines in a box, in
fact the hall would not begin to
hold all who came, and many who
desired to hear the discussion
were unable to gain admittance
Mr. Bailey opened the discussion
in an hour and twentv minutes,
followed bv Mr. Browder in an
J. F. Cornelius has accepted a {hour and thirty-five minutes, Bai-
position with the Denison Oil
Mill and is now buying cotton
seed In this city.
If you want a suit of clothes or
anything in the clothing line, call
at W. Underwood's.
Mrs. D. W. Yarbrough, of Pet-
ty, died last Thursday evening
and was laid to rest in Oakwood
Cemeter}', this city, Friday.
Please remember that J. L.
Ware carries the biggest stock, is
the only cash house in town and
sells more goods and for less
money than any other house in
North Texas.
One of the largest crowds ever
seen at Honey Grove, gathered at
the tent where Rev. Whitman is
preaching Sunday ' inght,
came from town and cop-vi
and white, male and
the tent and lot were
flowing. We are inforn
many were here from
Territory.
Fritz Messerer's
now shows
tPeo
bldck
|.e, until
to oVer-
fed that
Indian
confectionery
no sign of the fire.
The house has been re-paired, re-
painted and everything is now as
neat as a pin. He is ready to sup-
ply his customers and public with
everything in the confectionery
line.
The High School opening was
quite encouraging this year con-
sidering the unsettled condition of
the country at the time, caused by
boll worm scares and other causes.
The attendance from a distance is
very good, with several others to
come in, and the local attendance
will be much better a little later
on.
Miss Ida Dial and Miss Ada
Wilkins are now with the popular
house of W. D. Wilkins where
they will show their many friends
the finest line of; dress goods in the
city.
Mr. Bridge, who lives near
McCraw's Chapel, happened to a
painful accident at Dodd City last
Saturday. He was sitting in his
cart when a run away team ran
over his vehicle. Mr. Bridge was
painfully wounded but no serious
results are apprehended.
It will be impossible for us to
have any customary display of
dress goods and millinery this sea-
son on account of our store being
so crowded we will be pleased to
have the ladies call, and we will
take much pleasure in showing
them the nicest stock of Dress
Goods and Millinery ever shown
in the town.
Williamson, Blocker & Co .
The new buildings are all near-
ing completion and will soon be
ready for occupancy. The four
buildings in the burned district
will be occupied as follows: First
room south, Price Provine & Gray,
general merchandise; second Don-
aldson Bros., groceries; third
Silas Kirby saloon; fourth, S. W.
Gose, saloon. S. L. Erwin's new
addition will be completed in a
few days.
ley closing in a rejoinder of fifteen
minutes.
Congressman Bailey was intro-
duced by J. H. Lowry, and after
a few introductory remarks launch-
ed out into a dicussion of the is-
sues before the people. "Some
people," said he, "are going over
the country declaring the present
congress has done nothing, but I
stand before you to-night and state
without fear of contradiction that
the present congress has done as
much work as any previous session.
Some of this work does not meet
my approval, and many laws were
enacted over my protest but the
man who says the body did noth-
ing is either ignorant or untruth-
ful."
Discussing the tariff bill, he
said that it was not all that he
'jy^.£°uld have wished for; that it was
ck pithing like as wholesome a
measure a^ljiel bill passed by tfte
house and sent to the
though it was infinitely better than
any tariff bill proposed for the
last thirty years. He claimed the
new tariff law raised a burden of
$500,000,000 from the people; this
was but a small sum to be sure to
the populists who want to make
money by the wagon loads simply
by running printing presses, but
it was a great saving viewed from
a democratic standpoint- The
speaker said that his opponent,
Dr. Browder, had attempted to
ridicule the bill by speaking of
the articles the democrats had
placed on the free list and had
grown facetious when mentioning
such articles as bugs, indigo, cut
diamonds, but that the doctor only
displayed his. ignorance in so do-
ing. That cut diamonds and indi-
go weranot on the free list at all
and that the other articles men-
tioned were already on the free
list under the provisions of the
McKinley bill.
The doctor had also tried to be
witty when speaking of cattle that
wandered out of the Uuited States
being allowed driven back free of
duty. The doctor had claimed
that a man must drive his cows
across the Atlantic Ocean and back
in order to derive any benefit from
the bill, while every sensible man
knew that thousands of cattle
strayed across the Rio Grande in-
to Mexico every year, and that the
bill thus proved a great blessing to
the people living along the border.
The speaker also declared that the
bill was worth more to the South
than any other section of the
country because the South was an
agricultural country, and that cot-
ton bagging and ties, plows, mow-
ers, gin machinery, etc., were
placed on the free list, while the
tariff on cotton goods was reduced
over 21 per cent, and ovei\ 50 per
cent on woolen goods. The wool-
en schedule alone saved the peo-
$140,000,000 per annum. He
then said the Democratic plan of
raising money for governmental
expenses was to place heavy taxes
on whiskey, beer, etc., levy an in-
come tax, and then a tariff for rev-
enue only. Did not believe in
forcing southern people to trade
with New England if Old England
could give them better bargains.
One feature of the tariff bill was
especially odious to the speaker—
the sugar schedule, and more es-
pecially the feature of the sched-
ule levying a tax of 1-8 of 1 per
cent on refined sugar, which was
tantamount to a bounty; he also
stated that the populists senators
who were present voted for this
feature. When the bill left the
house all sugars were on the free
list but in the senate where the
democratic majority was small
concessions had to be made to the'
Louisiana senators and others be-
foie they would support the bill.
In this connection Mr. Bailey said
that there were a few mighty bad
democrats, some of them so bad
that Dr. Browder would find them
in hell when he got there.
But we have not time to follow
the speaker further in his discus-
sion of public questions.
browders pension.
The speaker then turned his at-
tion to his opponent. Said that
he was drawing a pension, having
s vorn that he was unable to earn
a living on account of having con-
tracted the diseases of dyspepsia,
neuralgia and liver complaint dur-
ing his service in the army.- But
later this terribly diseased man
concluded to take out a life insur-
ance policy, and in his application
swore that he had never been
troubled with any of the above
diseases but that he was drawing
a pension on account of tender feet!
Bailey had the original application,
and squirm as he might, there was
no escape for the reverend gentle-
man from the terrible dilemma.
browder replies.
Mr Browder was then introduced
by S J. Hampton, of Bonham.
He fii st took up the pension ques-
tion and said that he had made a
mistake in dates but was guilty of
no intentional wrong, that he
would as S009 a man would doubt
the virtue of his wife as to doubt
his wor.d wlien ire said he wag suf-
fering from disease* he en-
tered the army as a musician
when a small boy weighing only
87 pounds, and that his pension
was none of Bailey's business.
To get even with Bailey he read
two certificates from Gainesville
people. One man, a carpenter, cer-
tified that Bailey had been owing^
him $37.50 two years for making
window frames. Another said a
banker had told him that he
loaned Bailey money to go to
Washington, Bailey promising
to pay same out his first month's
salary, but had not done so.
The populist orator then dis-
cussed the tariff, denying the great
saving to the people claimed by
Bailey, denounced the Democratic
party for selling out to the sugar
trust, spoke in favor of the eight
hour law, and charged Bailey with
being a populist who would not ad-
mit it because the populists were
not strong enough to send him to
congress. He read many extracts
from Democratic newspapers and
magazines declaring the tariff bill
a cowardly make-shift, and closed
with a few remarks concerning
himself. Said he only quit the
pulpit because hundreds of people
all over the district requested him
to make the race. He made a very
fair speech, but it was evident that
the pension an«i life insurance
racket had rattied him wonder-
fully.
In his rejoinder Bailey literally
made the fur fly. Denounced
nearly every statement made by
Browder as false and poured shot
into the populist candidate from
every side. Concerning the cer-
tificates he declared them "lies of
the whole cloth. Said that he had
not had a window frame made in
four years and that if the man who
signed the certificate would swear
to it that he (the carpenter) would
go to the penetentiary for perjury.
As to the'other fellow who certi-
fied that Bailey borrowed money
to go to Washington he said
that not a man in Gainesville would
believe him on oath.
The democratic champion cer-
tainly gained a great victory and
we do not believe that a populist
in the audience will dispute the
assertion.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1894, newspaper, September 14, 1894; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth409893/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.