The Weekly Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1904 Page: 3 of 4
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Alton Brooks Parker.
Fbr Vice President:
Henry Oassswsj Davis
FV>r State Senator:
J. L. Harbison.
For Representative:
W. L. Blanton- ■
For District Judge:
D. E. Barrett.
For District Clerk:
W. C- Nichols.
For County Judge:
J. M- Wright.
For County Clerk:
J. R. Jordan.
For Sheriff:
H. P. Ware.
For County Attorney:
R. E. Thomason.
For Tax Assessor:
John C. Robertson.
For Tax Collector:
Bud Midkiff
For County Treasurer:
W. D. Rowland.
For County Surveyor:
M. M. Yeakley.
For Commiss:oner:
John McClure.
For Justice of the Peace:
C. R. Pear in an.
For Constable:
Sam Johnson.
For Public Weigher:
Rafe Piper.
Austin,
Aug 9.1904.
While the democrats werei ' r | *
sweltering and fretting at Hous- Wasl ,ington, Aug. 9.—The fol-
ton I took a spin through the lowir g s the reportof the United
arid west, and found it more States ;oreau of agriculture on
I pleasant in every way than the the con* litions of the cotton ‘crop
humid regions around the coast, in the ; farious states, as made
There is something about this up fron treport* received from
dry, desert country that makes agents i departmentthroughout
it attractive. , the cott )n belt:0
Take El Paso for a sample. Teem Ssee—Good showers gen
One is surprised when he runs erally, ( icept in some sections of
into it on the Sunset or Texas westerti portion where it is dry,
and Pacific. He wonders whence cotton d jing well, Bpme shedding
came this busy, bustling city of in dry s ctions.
35,000 inhabitadits with block Georg j.—Weather unfavora-
after block of modern business able; r? n excessive last two
houses, its splendid public build- days; co ton getting too weedy;
ings, its miles c£ beautiful red sheddiDj j badly, black root
pressed brick residences, with spreadiri f, fields becoming
lovely lawns an I flowers, its grassy. j •
huge smelters a jid busy foun- AJabai a—Too much rain for
dries, its great w lolesale houses cotton, ^ iich is well fruited, still
snd pretty retaii stores. This promisiq £ but continues to make
place is hardly ’ considered in much s' ;lk, considerable rust
Texas. Its people are different and she< ding, opening slowly,
in many ways, its scenery is dif-j needs d* ^ weather to mature;
ferent, even its time is not like J rain excC isive in some middle
that of the rest of Texas. Situ* and soutl £rn counties; some low
ated midway between New Or lands idu- -dated,
leans and San Francisco, and Arkansr^s—Temperature about
between Omaha and the Cit, of norma>, a ople moisture, cotton
Mexico it seems to be an inde- making jjxid growth, fruiting
pendent place with absolute con- well, somi complaints of injury
trol of the trade over a vast by rust ar t worms.U
H. C. Green was in from Dex region of country. I expressed Florida* t-Rains general and
r yesterday. wonder that so poor a country heavy to i iamaging in weste rn.
North Carolina—Sunshine in*
sufficiont; too much rain, causing
delay in threshing wheat,' work-
ing cotton and mowing hay. Cot-
ton growing rapidly; considera-
ble shedding, but not serious
yet- ITT I if' i ;! jij
Louisiana—Frequent shower*
prevented cultivation of cotton
except in scattered localities;
great deal of crop foul; cotton im-
proved in some localities, detcri
oration in others; plant large, but
fruitting irregularly; much shed-
ding; Mexican boll weevil situa-
tion unchanged.
Texas—Good showers general
on 6th and 7th. Scattered show-
ers rest of the week;rainfall gen-
erally very beneficial to cotton;
plant generally in very good
condition and well fruited; some
shedding; boll weevil doing con-
siderable
Will find it to the r advan
tage to use our ] *ong Dis
tance Lines.
Beginning August 1st and continuing" until
every dollar's worth of our spring and sum-
mer stock is disposed !of. j
Reasonable Rates
Quick Service.
PEOPLES
HOME TELEPHONE CO
ROOM, ROOM, ROOM.—Room we need, room
we must have. Our fall and winter stock is daily
arriving. We are forced to sell every dollar’s worth
of Spring and Summer goods in every department.
Nothing reserved. It is against our business meth-
ods to carry merchandise from one season to an-
other. In this sale we give you first class, desirable
merchandise at the price usually paid for trash. * We
propose to make this the money saving sale of the
season Watch our Fall and Winter stock for 1904,
as it will bo positively the grandest display of de-
sirable merchandise ever shown in a Texas town.
AUTOMOBILE NEWS.—Get tickets for all
automobile stamps immediately. ^To stamps atter
August 20 Meeting of ticket holders for the au-
tomobile to be held August 27. Be on hand with
your tickets to assure representation.
various
counties; boll worm present in
greater proportion of belt, but
damage confined to limited areas;
bolls opening in all sections and
picking quite generally on the
coast and in southwest counties.
Oklahoma and Indian Territo-
ties—Cotton in fine growing con-
dition, full of squares and bolls,
fruiting well, but. some damage
by shedding and boll worms.
City and County
wa ved examining trial before
Judge Wright yesterday. His
tine was liked at $H)0 and costs,
amounting to about $lH). Mad-
>ours Anxious to Please
PATTERSON
Gainesville’s Largest Dry Goods Store. 11, 13,15, 17 North Dixon Street
turned from Tom Green county : around in this maze of wonders
yesterday. until he is almost lost, and then
J. G- Williams of the Tioga suddenly having some one slap
Tribune called on the Hkspekian him on the shoulder in the most
yesterday. j familiar way, and when he looks
Miss Ray Almond Heft yeste • around finding before him the
day morning for St. L >uis* , j »vial, big hearted Florence Hall
L S. Cannon has returned to greet him and ask him out to
from Dallas. his beautiful home, where he
Homer Smythe was in Tioga meets all the family. Mrs. Hall
yesterday. is delighted with the Dew home,
Mr. and Mrs Fay Jones left and the only thing she regrets
yesterday for St. Louis. about Gainesville is the good
George Russell was in Sher- people she knows there. They
man yesterday. are well pleased and are pros-
Bob Hulen left yesterday on a pering. I also met there Wil-
tour of South Texas. nam Edwards and his sister,
” ~T 7T . , Miss Louamma. I found Ben
You meet with no disanpomt- .
, , .. , r’ „ w Edwards doing a prosperous
ment when you attend J. K. M. , . T ,
_ „ .. , .. grocery business. I also ran
St. Louii, Aug. 9.—A; special
ty the Post Dispatch from Sweet
J j
Springs, M )., says:
After lin! ;ering for weeks be-
tween life: and death, former
I i t
Senator G.j Vest passed peace-
fully away oday- He had been
near d?ath’ , door for the past
three days j-snd the end came
without a spuggle.
He was conscious until about 2
a. m- Sunday, when he sank into
a state of coma, from which he
was never aroused.
At his bedside when the end
came were his wife, Dr. Jarvis,
the family physician; Senator
Vest’s son, Alexander; his daugh-
ter, Mrs. George G. Jackson,
and her husband and Mrs.
Thompson, a niece of Mrs. Vest.
The remains will be taken to St.
Louis for interment in the pri-
vate car of A A. Allen, vice pres-
ident of the Missouri. Kansas and
Texas railroad.
LOOKS LIKE DEMOCRATIC YEAR
AND DEMOCRATS WANT A DEMOCRATIC PAPER:
tryNthe
Fifty years ago carries us back
to the year 1654, when Cooke
w as the most western organized
county on the
Red River fron-
tier of Texas, and had a popula-
t:on of possibly 300f including
the few slaves owned by four or
five of the old settlers.
A few had came here as early
as 1845 or 1846, jv, Jen Fitzhugh’s
company of ranjgers established
a station on the east aide of Elm,
about three and a half miles
southeast of the present location
of Gainesville, which afforded
protection to settlers against the
murderous raids of the Kiowa
and Comanche Indians, who re
guided the white man as their
common enemy, and for the pur-
pose of plunder, and to satisfy
their murderous instincts, aud
det?r
SEMI-WEEKLY $i.oo A YEAR. j
In combination with the WEEKLY HESPERIAN $r.7g a year.
Send subscriptions this office.
BESIDES BEING DEHOCRATIC. THE RECORD |S ABOUT
THE NEWEST AND MOST ENTERPRISING GENERAL
NEWSPAPER IN THE SOUTH. MARKET REPORTS SU-
PERIOR TO ANY. | J1
Are improving their
buildings and the popular
firm of
but he was fjot in the city. From
there I wenji to the Pecos Valley
in New Mexico, and at the pretty
little town A»f Artesia found a
whole lot of Texans, among them
several Coo :e county people. I
met a Mr. E art, also the two Al-
len brother** ancka Mr. Cavenor
all from ole r Cooke. They were
all delights 1 with this valley.
The artesiar wejls there beat any-
thing in tb -t line I have ever
seen. Thej gush up with great
force and a ind out a stream of
pure cold wi ter at ithe rate of
three thousl ad gallons per hour.
One of thes« wells will irrigate a
whole secticj'J of land, and makes
a wonderful transformation. The
land alone not woi th ten cents
an acre, buff the moment the well
shoots up itf | beautiful column < f
sparkling wt ter, it leaps up to
one hundred dollars in value and
the owner n )t, anxious to take
that. I'kno k of no place with a
brighter futi -re.
Everythin ? at the capital is ex-
ceedingly dii* J now. Most of the
citizens who; ire able to leave are
spending thi. heatec| term else-
where.
The peopU bave lost all inter-
est in local p ilitics, as the prime
ries have se Jed things. Some
of our peopli * are still cursing
ex-Gov. Hog for his Houston
speech, but I ^always does some-
thing of t| jt kind when he
speaks. Be des in ihe last two
r ices it has ! »en rather common
for men callb j themselves dem-
ocrats to shy t brick at the nom
inee, and Go' -Hogg has as much
right to maki faces at Parker as
Geo. Clark a id others had to
fight Bryan.ji However, it does
,tany kind of dem-
perfects digestion, creates appe-
tite, and makes sleep refreshing,
and that is Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Pupils and teachers generally
will find the chief purpose of the
vacat oi best subserved by this
great
Are meeting the demand for
medicine which, as we
know, "builds up the whole sys-
tem.”
Lumber and Paint
gue), Mrs. Helen Robinson (nee
Van Slyke), Mrs-Henrietta Jack-
Cnee Van Slyke), Mrs. Lou Box-
ley (nee Carpenter), Mrs. Ann
Long (nee B.ack), Mrs- Erskin
Long (nee Black), Mrs. Octavia
Wisdom (neeWhelock), Mrs. Jas.
Mann (nee Musick), Mrs. West
(nee Buckalew), Mrs. Alf Morris
(nee Tichnor), h$rs. Lou Mat-
thews (nee Darwin), Mrs. Dr G.
L. Scott (nee Maqion), Mrs. Le-
titia McCormick j(nee Deister),
Mrs. Margaret
LETTER LIST.
List of letters remaining un
called for in the postofiice at
Gainesville, Tex., for the wejb
ending Aug. 10, 1904:.'
Wm Alexander, B Z W Brown,
Mrs. W C Cooper (2), Bob Col
vin, Ben DeCubam, J M Dur
rett, D E DentoD, W A Davis (2),
G L Flatt, Dr M Fisher, Henri-
etta Grelen, H R Hudson, LOG
Holman, J L Hickman, Mrs Ed
Jones, Mrs Lougine King W?E
Kelly, Olive Lane, F M L«,
L B Mosely, Lester McCana,
Dave W Morton, Mrs Ellen Pow-
er, J W Payton, Mrs. R L Reed,
Mrs M C Riley, Clyde H Smith,
Steve Smith, Martha Sharters,
R E Sadler, Wess Smith, Miss
Dela Scott, J J Tripp, Mr and
Mrs Will Talley (2), Fannie Wat-
son, R G Whitmore.
POSTAL CARDS.
W W Gibson, Miss Mary Kir-
by, Ed King, G J Lindsay, Chas
Mays.
In calling for the above letters
please say advertised.
J. L- Hickson,
Postmaster.
Everybody ought to wear
straw hats now. Zacharias has
cut the price half in two, and
never touched 'ihe quality.
Read McCall’s magazine All
the latest fashion hints. Only
50c a year. J. R. M. Patterson.
Cancer Cured by Blood Balm
All Skin and Blood Diseases
Also Cured.
Mrs. M. L. Adam*. Fredonia, Ala.
took Botanic Blood Balm, which ef-
fectually cured an eat i * cancer of the
The softs healed
further encroachments
upon territory that had been the
home and hunting grounds of
their tribes for centuries, had
waged an incessant war for
it was. They deci led that it was
an infernal machine that beloaf-
ed to the enemy and was to bi
used for the destruction of thair
troops. So Yahola and bis mss
secured a sledge and smashed
the machine into bits- Chief
Porter at that time wore feath-
ers in his hair as an emblem sf
his command, and be sent Yaho-
la a featber to signify bis approv-
al of the deed, the bestows! of s
feather by a chief befcg a greet
distinction among the Indians*
rous settlers as the line of civil-
ization had been extended west-
ward.
The advance * line of settle-
ments along the entire length of
the Texas frontier all these years
had been marked by the blood of
pioneers, on account of the mur
derous depredations of these
savage tribes, and besides the
great loss of life andL? property,
many of the wives aad children
of the murdered husbands and
fathers had been carried -into
condition to be
i more than the
McGee
Clark).
Those on the list that
were
then children, efen of tender
ages, are now far j»ast life’s me-
ridian, with the! frost of age
plainly showing u^on their locks;
while others then of I mature
years; are now tottering upon
the brihk of eteri^ity, and some
of them may not he able to at
tend the reunion on account of
the infirmities of (|ld age.
If the name oil any one has
been omitted fromj the list above
given, it will be added, if aug^
gested to Capt Bean, as it is the
intention to make jthe honor roll
complete and designate it as the
"Roll of Honor of fhe Old Settlers
captivity, a
dreaded ev<
deadly tomahawk and scalping
knife.
Some of the pioneers of those
days still live among us and look
forward to our old settlers’ re-
union on the 18th and 19th of
August with anticipations of the
pleasure it will afford them to
meet and greet old friends and
neighbors of those day9 of dan-
ger and deprivations. -
Captain Bob Bean, whose
father was the first settler and
merchant on the original Dial of
Gainesville, about the year 1850,
has compiled a list of all the
names he can remember of those
now residing in the county who
were residents fifty years ago
and previous thereto, said list
only containing forty seven
names, as follows:
RobtBean, S. D. Brown, Geo.
Y. Bird, W. R Stone, W. W.
Bourland, R. F. Bostick,, W. W.
Howeth, Frank Basch, Jas. Chad-
well, -Jno- Chad well, Harvey
Boggs, Geo. Turner, Sol Tarner,
Jno. Turner, John Scanland, T
J Gorham, Tom Gosset, Lewis
time for many years suggestions
Along this line by the prase end
by prominent leaders of botfe
the great political parties.
Mr. Cleveland, sbont the timo
of his first nomination tnr the
presidency, favored the ead|
term idea, with a longer incum-
bency of the office. It is not rt*
called that he recommended leg-
islation in that behalf while in
office er that any special effort
was made daring either of hie
administrations to extend the
term of office of the chief exec-
utive or to provide against his
succeeding himself. U is a well
known fact, howev< r, that neither
Mr- Cleveland nor either of hie
immediate predecessors in office
eminent to promote his own re*
nomination aa Mr. Roosevelt has
done and is now doing to aasnre
Our summer suits are the famous Kirschbaum kind. They
are cool and comfortable, they are swell and swagger. They
are gracefully moulded and drape the form with a genteel snap.
They are just as swell as they were two or three months ago
and the price has been reduced one-third today. ]
Remember, we sell Kirschbaum suits-the quality kind. We
do not sell cheap clothing, we sell good clothing cheap. Serges,
homespun and flannel summer suits one-third off.
seem to me
ocr&t can ea|4ly support Judge
Parker. He f rows the closer we
examine him<:.
Our towns tan Billie Midkiff
was here yes! ^day. Billie comes
quite often, d I begin to sus-
pect that the ^ Attraction is some
one of the mi f y beautiful young
ladies here wi ,o succeed in be-
witching mos of the young men
who attend a University.
Mayor Leoi prd and his daugh-
here a few
nose and face,
up perfectly. Many do on had giv
en up her case as hopeless. Hun-
dreds of cases of cancer, eating sores,
suppurating swellings, etc., have been
cured by Blood Balm, Among other,
Mrs. B. W. Guemey, Warrior Stand,
Ala. Her nose and lip were raw as
beef, with oflensive discharge from the
eating sore. Doctors advised cutting
but h failed. Blood Balm healed the
sores, and Mrs. Guemey is as well as
ever. Botanic Blood Balm also cures
eczema, itahing humors, scabs and
scales, bone pains, ulcers, offensive
pimples, blood poison, carbuncles,
scrofula, risings and bumps on the
skin and all blood troubles. Ila-
prom es the digestion, strengthens
weak kidneys. Druggists, $i per
large bottle, with complete directions
for home cure. Sample free sad pre-
paid by writing Blood Balm Go., At-
lanta, Ga. Describe trouble and spe-
cial medical advice seat in sealed let-
Muskogee, L T„ Aug. 10.—
Cusseth Yahola, an aged Creek,
who has been a great warrior in
his day, and who |i yet good for
many a campaign, though he ia
over 70 years old, jw*s before the
Dawes commission today to see
about his aHolmeilfcj Yaitula was
in command of the Wewokaa dur-
ing the Green Peabfe war- A spy
ter, Miss Mai
ter, Miss Mai were here a few
days ago. Th s mayor was all the
time taking &ta on matters of
interest to Gi nesville. ,*#
ONL’i A MASK.
Many are t t being benefitted
by the sumdo. * vacation as they
Findley, Ed Findley, Lewis Jor-
dan, Lewis Darwie, John Oz ment,
Brewer Osment, Martin Neeley,
John Estes and wile (nee Find-
ley), J. W. Dobkins and wife (eee
Benton), James Dozier and wife
(nee Bailey), Mire. Mary 8.
Peery (nee Bean), Mrs Wm.
should be.
»w, notwithstand-
ing much ott door life, they are
fry daring the w
banted down in
Is and killed. F
promoted. Sis
GAINESVILLE’S GREATEST STORE.
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The Weekly Hesperian (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1904, newspaper, August 12, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1121806/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.