The Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1886 Page: 1 of 4
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EDWARDS
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Groceries
THE WILLS POINT CHRONICLE.
EDWARDS
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VOLUME IX.
WILLS POINT. VAN ZAN1IT COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY. JUNE 3. 1S8C.
NUMBER
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BIW
T. T. SZCHABB di CO.,
The only exclusive Dry Goods
Establishment in Van Zandt
County, is now
COMPLETE !
In nil of its branches, ami our nu-
merous Friends and Customers
are cordially invited to call and
examine our,Lanre and Well Se
lected Stock of SUMMER DRESS
GOODS—such as
Poplins, Molmir,
Nun’s .Veiling,
Japanese, and
Summer Silks, -
Striped, and
Plaid Ginghams,
White Goods, such as '**
Lace Pique,
Lace Jaqunett,
Lace Nansook,
gild many other New Varielies
too numerous to mention. Our
BOOT and SHOE Department is
complete with
NONE BUT TO&-BEST!
Qur Mens' «aiul Vouths'.Clotli
ing Department is Unsurpassed
Having bought largely we areen
abled fo sell Clothing
35 Per Cent. Cheaper
than any of our competitors. La-
ces, Ribbobs, Velvets and Satins
for the'millions. •>
BP^»CaIl and be convinced, at the popular
Dry Goods Bazarr of
J. J. DICKARD 8s CO.
Railroad Time Table.
Trains leave Wills Point as follow*:
oojno’ BAST.*
Vn. ."04, Xlall anil Express, -11:11 a. m.
Vo. 30<i. Mail snil Express, , 5:147 r. m.
.004X0 wkst. •
.Vo. 301, Mail and Express. , ■ Jr.'IXj*. M.
So. 305. Mail ar.ii Express, - !>:21 A. M.
Tbronjfli trains nmv run to New Or-
lean. 5vor tire T. ,t.P.. and N, o. 1*.
EiiRt bound 304 makes close connections
for Shreveport nffd New Orleans!
DIRECTORY.
LODGES.
Wife Point Eodse. No. 245. I. 0.0. F..
uvetq cv.ry Friday evening, In their
sail, on [Fourth street. E. N. Nesbitt,
V. O. ; fl A.<3nttcnhelm, Scc’y.
Wills Point lanlife, No. 578, K. of Il„
meets every id and 4th Monday evening.
T. J. McKinney. Dictator; T. <4, Tbomp-
fon. It.porter; G. II. Bruce, Fin, Hep.
Wills Point Lodge, No.422. F. and
A.I.,
J.
^_
— .CHURCHES.
ltaptlst—Services every 4th Sunday.
J. U.ALjngo, Pastor.
CuMbei'Innd Presbyterian — Services
•very ad Sunday. J.A.Burgess, Pastor.
O. S. ProsByterlsn—Services every 1st
«nd 34 Sunday. W.lt. McCtiilougli, l’us-
tor. ' -
Methodist—Preaching and Sunday-
school every Sunday. T. XV, Morton,
Pastor.
It. M. LIVELY,
Cantqit.
C. R. KILGORE,
. AY J 11a Point.
- ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
WILLS 4*01 NT ASD CANTON, - TKXA8.
M., meets every ad Saturday evening.
F. Mutitcr, W. M.; J. 1* Don glam*
cr^haty.'- '
T. L. WYNNE,
Dental Surgeon,
Wills Point, - - - Texas.
JQTl.lbernl charges, and satisfaction
gu a rub l bed. --———:------—.—-—
tJKTiCK— Over Kasterwooil’s.
J. C. Kkariiy. V. T. McCiibsnt.
KEAltBV & MeCHESHEV,
ATTORNEYS at LAW,
AMiRENEKALLAXD AUESTS,
r | jwllte Point, Toxaa.
Miril.i/practlue In afl the court* of stir-
VY roundingcounties *nd attend prompt-
ly to any business entrusted to their care
We have u complete abstract of titles
to all lands In Van Zandt county and arc
prepared ta furnish abstracts nil sboit
notice. We buy mid •eff'YoYpI* (toner-
■as 1 ly, render lands for taxation and pay
trxes for other parties, and do a general
laud bnslncss. Persons desiring titles
investigated and perfected will be
proiurdtyr And faithfully served.
We tiiakc lands and land matters a
specialty. We have associated with ns
MrTWYK “Day, formerly of Cersicnna.
■u experienced land man, who will ut all
times be ready to show purchasers lands
and aid them in making good invest-
ments. Kkahiiy & McCuksnky.
'JXEXAS AND PACIFIC,
RAILWAY,
'The Great Popular ltoute Between
The East and the West
iHffiT l.fHH iu Nta hinssss
— AND ALL POINTS IN-
Louisiana, New Mexico,
S Arizona and Calilornln
' ' VAVORITR LINK TO TUB
NORTH, EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
• -- PULLMAN ——
PALACE SLEEPING CARS
— DAILY BKTWBKN-w
St, Louis and Dallas,
Fort Worth, El Paso.
and.San Francisuo, Cal.
— ALSO-
MARKHALL AND NEW ORLEANS
, Without Chanye.
■•114 Trains from El Paso to Nt. Louis.
c^astTimu, FiBbt-Class Equipment
Sure Connections.
gee that your ticket* road via Texae
4 Tael tic Hallway
' FoT Map*, Time Tablet, Tickets, Rates
tnd all requiring lalormatlon, call on ui
address any of the Ticket Agents, or -.
H. P. IIUOHBB,
Pass. Ag’t, Houston, Tex.
B. w. McCullough,
•ea’I Pass, k T’k’t Ag’t Galveston, Tex.
\V. II. Nkwmak,
Traffic Manager. GalvOstor. Texas.
<f unl
Irt/mit Amurbun
nper lo* f o a*!
,______-M. Don't w-iHD*
__‘AST
ms. R»niMc*n«s for i«rii<'U'»'s
cunt vo., raiiwaa.. ft*.
R. E. YANTIS, —
ATTORNEY AT LAW
«-AXI>——
not ary purl l
Collection a Specialty,
Office at the Cbrdoicle office,
WILLS POINT, - TEXAS.
AI.KX RUUGK. , T. It. VANTIS.
Notary Public,
BURGE & YANTIS,
LAWYERS
CANTON, - - - TEXAS.
Will practice in the District nml In-
ferior Courts of Van Zandt and sur-
rounding counties, and in tho Supreme
and Appellate Courts of the State, anil
all tho United States Courts.
W.J-. -^OTJDsra-,
NURSERYMAN
-ANl)-
FRUIT GROWER.
All stalk home-grown cod tried, nod war-
ranted to be true to name.
pTN’nnmfy on Wills Point and Canton
road; 41 ,j miles from Canton.
tSTNo agents employed. Agents’ com-
mission saved to my patrons.
WILLS POINT CHRONICLE.
YANTIS k STRONG, - Publishers.
OtHcb in the Jones Building, opposite
T.A P. passenger depot.
SVBSCKI l*TtO|i. - - -......$1 P«Llt VKAU.
Our Authorized Agents.
sign tlie treaty We were then
ordered to pursue them. We fol-
lowed them a few miles when our
scouts came up with them and
they opened fire onus. .In this
EDITING A PAPER. a column the proof of which he
Most people think it easy to would fear to have sen lined by
write for the paper; to get up a 1 be eye ot (rod.
paper each weoJc that will prove .is Hot bis only audience.
insjri.ictiye and entertaining toipage shines brighter . the nearer
Tho multitude
' - Ilia
fight, we had ten men wounded Jail They find no difficulty in it approaches the standard of ab*
‘•dashing oir a long article that solute right. And when the last
The following named persons are duly
niltTwrizSd agents for Tuk Cltnox-
Ifil.K, at their 'home*. Their receipts
will be duly recognized at this office:
Wolfe City
Henderson
- w Canton
Owlet Green
- - Edom
Stone Point
- ‘ Towles
MUs Mnrv Wingo, - -
XV. O. Harrison, - .
T. H. Vantis, ....
J?. P. Lv brand, - - - -
.S. W. Murphy, - - -
XI. M. Norman, -• - -
Xf. G. Curtis, - -
JgT’Wo want agents all over the coun-
ty and State.
ItjfCopy must be iu by 12 o’clock,
Wednesday.
irTTAdvertisIng will be charged for
until ordered out.
Elf* It ejected X1SS. will not be returned
unless stamps accompany snmo.
and two killed.’ One of the kill-
ed wa9 Dr. Rogers, our army sur-
geon, a most excellent man. This
fight wa(s over about sunset, the
Indians retreating. We camped
on the ground all night without
water. As the Indians carried off
most of their dead we could not
tefl how many were killed, but
it was said some 12 or 15 were
left on tilt ground. On the morn-
ing of the 16, we pursued them
sQmo six miles or eight miles and
came up withThem near the l iv-
er, when they'again opened fire
Ion our scouTs" and drove them
they confidently expect will set I
the world on lire, Rut the news-
paper man who has been in the
harness—who lias learned by act- i
ual contact with .journalism its;
duties, its trials its responsibili-1
column has been written, and tlie
last proof read, there should bo
no line in all he wrote lie would
wish to erase.—Ex.'
gd.jhat. I can call to imtill are
AN INDIAN FIGHT.
Tecumseh, Tex., April 26, *S<>.
Mvv-Wont.vvorth XIuniting, Egqr.;
Dear Silt :—I send you the ac
count of the Indian fight, accord
ing to protpisc. In doing so I
must- request you to make the
necessary allowance. I feel con-
fident that there are Tnen living
in your country who could give
you a mortj accurate account than
.my*alb liqwtjver, •rwith\wliat , >va8 8ll()t me mourn
they can'give and WhafI aih able fffl wftS taken out the
What Kills Qur Statesmen*.
.. They have started a bad air
ties-does not tell a gilded tale., Bcnre 0V{,r iu „,e treasury build
The work of journalism has its inf,( ,ul(l an ef|-1)rt jg m.„ie t'0show
trials, and those trials are greater that Secretary Manning’s sickness
to the country editor who is nat- ^yUS brought on bv inhaling poi-
urally--associated with and held ^g(yug from the sewer pipes. It is
pe'^nally responsible for tho ut-j very j)robuble that tipd nir had
terJnces of his paper, lhc task something to do with it, but that
of Iurnisliing tho same people j js j|ie ppjinary cause,
with intellectual food every week I
, .. , , , • Tho breaking down.of our cab
back. Hero the main tight be- ■ lol. yejJrs is a hard one. The ora-j inet officers, congressmen and
gan. Here two men were killed-. j tor who llag 0lie brilliant speech, I pre8idenis, is due more to their
The killed both belonged tjL.Ooi. | can „0 from place to place and faj]„w to take proper exercise
Burleson's command. thirty ; say lli8 1)iece with success; huL.than In anv. other cause. Secre-
threo were wounded One ol the j th(} ejitor htt always the same turv Manning rode in a carriage
wounded men died ue^fc _ d^y, audience. His paper goes week! to his office ji) the morning, sat
which vvas tha only one ol the 3d af|el. week, year after year, to the
that failed to recover. Most ot sanie homes, and is read and re-
the wounded belonged to Rusk s I rea(j ground the saniQ firesides^...
men. Tito MWmes of the wound
Is it any .wonder, then, , that
for ten solid houri-at bis desk in
a close room, not even going out
fW fre?h air at luncheon time,
rode home in his carriage at din-
these: M,|. Augustine, from St. I HlowK vV.»
Augustine county who was shot 'ome im(l go! We have
in the leg, which he had amputa- wrj{ inBrriagtf-fcKice..nd an
ted. Dave Oautman was shot in obitqnr of the same person with-
ih0.....^ cU®e c’ J in a year. We have recordecLlhe
wi's shot in the hip, and was a
cripple for life. Dave Rusk, the !
brother ot the genera,!, was shot |
sometimes his paragraphs seem i ner time, aiuT spent tlie evening
in the calf of tho leg. George T,
Martin received a flesh wound on
the head. John Brenberry* was
shot through both‘thighs. Jim
Gilliland "Was shot iu the right
j was shot in the mouth
B. WARE,
SHAVING, SHAMPOOING
--AND-
HAIRDRESSING.
Satisfaction vfiiarantccd! Xly fricml*,
and the public generally, are In-
v’lleil to '(Bill HIIU ISC lilt) nv - —
—My Shop on Fourth Street,—
.11 all Jlottrs.
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to supply, maybe you “can get
most of the particulars. 1 am tin
old man, have kept no memoran-
da, and therefore my account
must be very imperfect.
About the 1st of June, 1839,
there was a call made £nr men to
light the Indians. At that time
1 was living in Nacatoches coun
ty with mV father. The call for
volunteers was made by President
Lamar. A meeting was held in
the town of Nacitoches and a com-
pany was raised, of which Jack
Todd was elected captain,-Islram
•Ohism was elected first lieuten-
ant, John Walling, second lieut-
enant,- Russell * Ohism orderly
sergeant. Our company went
from Nacatoches to a place call-
ed liickapoo, and there we or-
ganized a regiment and elected
Tom Ijtusk. colonel, and I am sor-
ry to say I do not remember the
name of the man whom we elect-
ed lieutenant-colonel, though I
j remember the man very distinct-
| ly. Jim Smith was elected major.
! After we organized we crossed
over the Naclies river to the east,
or as it was called, the Cherokee
side, and began to try to treat
with the Indians, and the Presi-
TTefit seiit Albeil Sidney Juhneon
for the same purpose. Boles was
Chief of the Cherokee tribe at
this time. Soon after we crossed
the river and camped on the east
side, Col. Ed.* Burleson came
from about Austin to aid us.
When we crossed to the east, the
Indians moved over and camped
on the west side of the river. On
the 1-ttli Qf July,.1839, a treaty
was agroed upon between the
whites and Boles, the Indian
ohiet, stipulating that the Indians
were to be moved to the .Chero
kee Nation north of the Red riv
er—the whites paying them for
all the property they could not
carry. The treaty further stipu-
lated that the Indians were tb
give up their gun locks while be
back'of mv neck. I can not re
member the names of all the
wounded, but there were thirty-,
three in all. The whites were
victorious. . Boles, the Indian
Chief was.killed soon after the
Indians retreated, but they car
ried off most of their dead, „
Yours truly, .
Geo. W. Martin.
indoors. Is it any wonder his
blood became sluggish and, re-
fused to perform its functions?
The president works an even
greater number of hours. He
takes what, he calls exercise—i.
e., a drive, usually in a close car
riage, for an hour or two On four
or five days of the week. Once
in a whiT&she strolls through tho
White House grounds. 'He stead
lly gains in flesh, and one. of
these days .no will be in the doc-
___ — - tor’s hands. Then we shall-hear
Ills hopes and fears, Mil-days of a >;reat idea about the clogged
in a year,
blessing vouchsafed to happy pa-
rents* in the gift of a precious
child,and-in a few short months
have woven garlands of tender
words to wreathb its brow, placid
and pale in death.
The columns of tho country
journal are a mirror of tho person
who labors to fill those columns.
IMPOLITE THINGS.
Loud and boisterous laughing.
sunshine and days of pain, all are
lettered between the lines he
writes. Tho casual* reader sees
them hot, but those who read
with care can find in the writings
qf a man a true index to his chnr-
| acter and a history of Ins life,
j Charles Dickens, in his immortal
j “David Copperfield,” opened ins
own heart, and presented its
I pains, its hunger atid sadness, to
Ijhe world. Edgpr A- Roe told in.
Reading when otiiers are talk- j"lhe Raven ’ too truly ot the hm-
rid bird of prey that had jts beak
in his heart.
And so it is. The editor “writes
company
ing.
Reading aloud in
without being asked.
Talking when others qre read and writes, and all tho time lie is
jng. writing—sometimes in indistinct
Cutting fingernails in compa- lines, and sometimes in charac-
nv iters easy to be read-v-the pain,
• Leaving a church beforo pub- J the sin, tho joy, and the sadness
lie worship js closed. ; that’goes to make up the sum ot
Whispering or laughing in the a human life,
house of God. j The world is*so exacting that it
* Gazing rudely at strangers. demands something fresh from
A want of respect and rever-; the paper each week. It demands
enoe for seniors. * >|iat the pditor shall piiint all his
Correcting persons older that! pictures fa finest array, and that
yourself, especially parents. 1 none of the intellectual food he
sewer pipes and bad ventilation
of the White House. It will be
lack of exercise.
Every few days a senator op
representative gLvps out and has
a long siege of sickness, and we
have alarming reports about the
poisonous air of the capitol. In-
quire into tho habits of the sick
man, and ten to one you will find
ho rides to tho capitol in a cab
or horse-car, spends the day in
activity, anil rides back to his
boarding place again.
There are men in Washington
Who have beenin public, with all
its cares and responsibilities, and
vexations, for a generation, and
huve-never been sick a day. But
they have been fffen who took
regular ^exercise in the open air
and paid attention to the laws of
health.
, Not overworked brains but un-
derworked bodies cause all the
trouble.—-New York Sun.
Good Men Needed.
The Bonham News is a staunch
Receiving a present without an j presents shall have tho taste of j IfaS
expression of gratitude. I insipidity,
Making yourself the hero
expresses its opinions with force
of! If the prims donna has a bad Iaftd «nrtnes8.‘ It now thinks our
*—a- t_ - !T:i,;r‘rfr y r:,r,v»n z
other," “
Joki..« of others in company. j*|ltor I. nover excused from ed- • -h» 'J
To commence ulUng before lUo*. "IjV™! ' “/''“'T In rise above self and selflsl. mo-
others.have finished speak,ng. : brmg, hlmsell homo and reads ^ ^ ^ (|„ ^ ca„
Answering^ucsnons that liave Jind tolls stones to ^ j f„r ,ooi „r ,|ielr c0„„t,y._
heen given to others. I ?.1“'“t'.t [Greeny.'l. Herald.
Cotmneticinp to eat as soon as j At night time the laborei lij.es | ________■'jii 1.».______
j him home to rest; at night time
you get to the table.
In not listening to xvliat one is
saying. __
The Marshal of McKinney
found his father’s cow running
loose on the streets., and* he ini
pounded her and made the old
man pay for her release, just the
same as the father of a common
individual. Marshal Warden
the editor edits.
And so the story goes. We do
not expect praise ns an editor.
People who do their duty seldom
receive thanks. Rut sometimes
we .have wished that, t hose who
criticise us ip°st could get behind
the sceqps for even one week and
see thp labor, tho decision of
character, the discernment, the
knowledge of men und things,and
should have been a Roman ; his
fug* re moved, excep7every ^"tenth 8,yl0 of virtn® is tco ™re in “,e°° Itll(J filcl,lt-v ot' doin« *ll.fu“ »U9'
man, who was to rltuin his gun-
|look for the purpose of killing
meat for tho ^party.. Boles re-
| quested a few days to consult
with his men before signing the
treaty, which was granted.
About poon on the 15th, we
found that the Indians were njov-
ing, which w.e considered an evi-
1 deuce that tho Chief would uot
degenerate days to be properly
appreciated.
Cot|Htry Edtttfr (to spring poet)
—“As youv say, the poem is full
of fire and genius, no doubt, hut I
would be afraid to publish it." S.
p.—“Why?” 0. E.—“Because J
don’t own a controlling interest
in the paper, and I might lose my c.aieu uevouo.rw 4
•.Dilution" ‘ 1 ho editor should
tico, and no one an injustice, it
takes to makeup a just minded
editor. (
But they never will, and it will
always be the same old story of
dissatisfied subscribers, carping
enemies, unthanked and poorly
paid labor, faithful, but unappre-
ciated devotlbirio duty
never
write
“You say the trout weighed 10
pounds?” “Yes, sir; it was the big
geilt trout I ever saw.” “And lie
got away from you?” “Yes.”
“Will you take an oath to that?”
“I’ll take no more oats; I swore
enough when he got away.”—
Yonkers Statesman.
Arrested for Stealing a House.
A man in Wild Goose Valley,
Nevada, was arrested latelyr tof
Mealing a house. He haaj by
mistake, built it on another mini’s
land, and discovering the fact he
wept and yanked it off in the
night, llehce the arrest.
A panic was caused in the Cen-
tral Church Mission school at
Chicago by a fire breaking out
while about four hundred little
girls wore in tho building. All
escaped.
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Yantis, R. E. The Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1886, newspaper, June 3, 1886; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142616/m1/1/: accessed June 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.