Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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temperance
other ingredients are not given.
it' to fear, from such a course.trT.e
seek this and nothing more.
Abont hie Weather.
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finds additional confirmation .thrisj Wills Point Meat •
and Ice Markets
R. SIMMONDS, Proprietor.
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Nothing bat the choice^..
■ FED MEAT -
Offered to the public.
OYSTERS ALWAYS. KEPT IN THElR SEASONr
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in passing
body upped
through.
Whatever maybe said of Het-
ty Green's eccentricities she is to
be congratulated on her determi-
nate on'tiiot to\ 1llpw h.er. jdaughtsrj
to marry a titled foreigner. tri.:
this, as in her financial matters,
she shows, good, hard' American
sense. .- ..... i---
I law and
ij Completed Hansome Line and our
Stock is-^-UP TQ DATE. . *
J Since the.deptiuetiMi'-of'onr store by fife
We 1 have endeavored
to put in a - r-.L.
-BETTER^STOCK
Siu is continuerl it .would be n< :th- t|lein
~elr a sii'prtijtwg noriregretfii 1 occur-
rence if- a lot c. ________ __________
liond holders were exterminated
■ quite as i
■ as the rape .fiend is
the i
- south.
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' • Commodore Perry. Japan is a
Y , does realize Jh.it a war with, the ring debate between
„ ‘ United States must inevitably
■ result in her qvprwhelming^dm
feat... It is'all well enough fdr
- V. Japan to, point Ao her victory
:.?■ »' ’.aver poor old China, but if she
- give offense to the United States
aad.provoked a war. it would be
, but a fcV months till our navy
would wipe-hers off the face of
the seasi ,ind our soldiers would
■-be. investing hep palace^ and the
stars and stripes wotild be float-
ing pver her forts and towers.
TRI; Miners ID Tehnsylvama
and otjier mining states left their from the strike before October turned into hibernating animals
work. Saturday on a c^- u.....----->,i r-.i.- ----- .
, highyr wages. It is estimated
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and rc
pleasing to note.' however, that
charges of .dishonesty are
met by denial^ instead of pistols
and proof' of the allegation is
promised
in the coat mines
comes In a very opportune time
for the consumers. Nobody when the whole face ofrnatbre
wants coal just at present, and no L *'’* ‘ *' " '
one in tJiis section of the country
will suffer the least deprivation
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■.result in her t^prwhelming
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rJ7£ MlNKRIf STRIKE.
.2 The coal. miners’ strike is
suining sariaus proportions in th.
Eastern-states. Many thou:
itoorkmen, upon whom are
/ more thousarpL mg up apd the prospect is bright
women and children, ar? ", out of
work"and say they will not resume
work until they are given higher
’’wages. The majority of them
•were getting about three dollars
per week, and in view of how
*■ arduous the work is, it Joes seem
as if they were paid tt»o little.
The coal*mh*«» owners aJe~ now
• protected by a tariff of forty cen^s
.per ton and the new tariff bill
i . jtiakes the duty MxtV-scven cfrhts?
Just here is a tirfiT leison. The
. . Republicans insist uponrthis.fariff
= "d’ for the-reason tbit it v. f 11 permit
, American coal mine owners -to
continue business and insure bet-
• ■< ter wages to employees'. They
cry out-th'^t if ,there IS no -tariff
they Will’Ve forced to close the
mines dr pay the laborers, "pau-
g ■ ' per wages?" To us down here in
r BP ’ "■ thffe South it seems that -they are
noW paying pauper wages in the
, face of their tariff protection, al-
• ■ ready large and soon *to be in-
creased. The miners have- ex
pressed a-.wHlingncss to arbitrate
the matter, but the jminc .owners
have rcluscd.« The same selfish-,
ness that prompts .them to de-
mand higher tariff actuate.-, th rn
- -in - their y reftjsat t<- SrEifr ite the
question cSr'trTtrcceth—to any of.
the demands of the mine worker
The faait is now v. ith the capital-
K.-/ , ist. and- :f their sy ’.Cntdf oppres- j ,|owlj
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a very „
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wisely br otherwisely. Comeat once to 4
MASON’S' CASH .HOUSE andT
see how wisely you can spend your money. 1"
It.is worth your time to get our prices.
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.Hv ^ bear f Wills Point. - - Texas. ' :
the; big . t
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j Mrs. Lease says Bryan ‘must I and their Striking operatives, but i f
1 as~jmake socialism the paramount' at present, with the thermometer J
™-he lissye if he expects her support.’ I up in the nineties, no one.U pat - 1
spadJ-x^r- ■ . 1 . Itjcularly concerned about the L
de- 'CORSJCIANASO.1 wells are loom-istrike- o’,tside thc mpatl 1
trinri ’ inp UD anti the nrosnert i«j hriorht hi r t’r ti • . .... I
.• •. • they feel for the wiyes-and cluld
for b.gyenterpnses m- the, little Lren the strikers,
ndth Texas city. ’
— _j- ----—■— --- . | Gen. John B. Gordon . has’ quit j
Kansas City - consumed 15' car-, politics, and will devote the rest
loads of lemons on the Fourth, [of'his life to teaching the people ! k
For the sake of its relation ISzTbf' -the - nt>rth and south to love T ' ■'
the quantities of' each other.This if a laudable | ■■
| undertaking. Therf isnoreaspnj
TH6 chief concern^hibited by ! wh>' ^eljngs of long; >
the American press over thc snub a8° sho“,d ^fiy ! ' k y
Iov.£a . lo .fact;
QtTeen Victorix^it he =mav,’th,s fee‘,nS payn.gd
pmk up his doll rags and cornel^ ; Commerce and common,
i.o ;schools have done morel to inntex
.1—7.TL-7—Tthem than^ the ptfl-itici.nis-. Let ■
Just a» the’ press .was turning jriie truth be tauglx, both north
itself for a ’ „ ’ d, ..u *------
scolding Of the senate for delay Lalo‘ie can true affection based' >
the tariff bill, that We of the.south have nothing! f
and whipped
ern sections’ of the country is
^something serious; reaching al-
most the proportions of an r epi-
demic in some localities ..where
I from ten to twenty people, a day T
■ arc dying from this caqse alorle, I |
Denisom and Sherman are' What makes this fearfully hot [ ■
scrapping-"over - the question of -Weather so peculiarly trying isi'-
which town has the most weeds the fact that it burst upon the,
in the streets. The simplest-w.ay North suddenly following an un-; j
to settle such a dispute is r for-usually cool June
each town*to (turn out and chopG expoct ordinarily
i the weed, aiftl measure many prostrations in t
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,—,.l----2 in the present! instance agricul-
pf these bloated .Chairman Blake of the Demo-itural labor in the op’en fields has I’’
critic state executive cnminittei- iti many section-; been siispen<ip<|.,
: ir- Thb cdntinuancc pf such a spell j
rejieveii of Ligation amendment. Nothing (of w/cathc'r for a week longer will
: can do will, so help jeppqrdize crops "TiTI-such great j
J the agricultural development of i states as Illinois and Indiana and I—
“jTbxaspSrwtll this amendment ip necessarily increase the HeaJh
conjunction with the lately irate day by day in the citiesvGBut
adopted drainage law. ! it is one of-those visitations un-
...........______ider whieg. 4»an is ..hdpfeLefeI
1’he sultanagain eh'ows s>gnse ;U1 onLy wait and’llopc v
oLyieldmg to the powers m their I Last ye3r the sudden change
demands for the restoration ‘T fro7n winter to summer’was com-'
the Greman frontier. \\ henever i nicntcd on in ^hese? cblumns.
the sultan-shows signs of weak- Spring seemed to haveteen flim-.
ening it is time to look -out for, - - -' •
isorpe fresh devilment^A possum - 3iunmcr burst -upon the country
nc^ver is to be feared except when )Wlth,cycionic furv„ Attention was
Jic is grinning or pretends to beaten called -to the fact that the
dcad’ 7 I change in fffe physical conditions J
lot* Suface of thc country was un-
Mrs. BraoitEY Margin was not*
... . . ’ , . j questionably enwstng changes in
..... cd u, (be morf exeles,^ d Thj. de«mci®'O1
of the jubilee-m London, .and .7-
William Waldorf Astor’s paper,
the Pali Mall Gazette,, was slight-
• occasion. The
English have a profound ryspect
for ^mmcans/ bu^ like all sensi- ■
ble $eople a contempt for snobs [
and 'Pp’ddycrats.
TtiEjScnaiorial fight has begun
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I f money only grew'on trees and ev- '•
4 ery+iody owned' an orchard it wouldn’t;. •
r Xnake much difference iiow it was spent.,
Being as--it,is, however, it makes
1 L great difference whether4 you spend it
[. wisely or otherwisely. Come at
tration in thc Northern aiuLEast-'1
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Which,we will scl] as
iiijj luj;—whiw—nofWTF—mtn—me- \ •■’ .
r THOMPSON & MOW,
~ ° - time intermediate tern* | X1 C ,. --«t»- 'p -sr
Mcl n irin L-perattire^of spring and autumn—d_JL_ ------.-WILLS—fed NT. TEX-Afr-----
The duty oe
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, both north;
long and vigorous md south to our youth. L-pon it
limited from the season's and the
ndver is to be feared except when lwlthlCyClonic fury.-Attention
j'of suface of the country
■< , . -iquiLstionabiy' <
-invited to ttic most exclusive' - — r- -
forests, the belting ' ®f . the -link
with great lines of steel and iron,*
the erection of . immense struct-
ures, are all supposed to be ac-
countable for . remarkable and
sudden changes of feather, mak-
: ing. the—w inter—eoftfeF—and—the-
of thc Demo- tural labor in
1 many sections been
rudely find effectually advocates the adoptionjofjhe ir-
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necessity of- living in the that the state
h. ' . ’ *” 1 the amicultur
./A PAN'8 ulUFi'' T“
. ,j^apan is apparently much ex-
- ' ercised over the probability <5t
’ :■ ithlt '.United S^aiies. ' anm-xing
? - Hawaii, and it is reported that
’ one of,the leading papers of the
..Oriental country -declares that
before annexation will be allow-
ed Japan‘will swoop down upon
--- the island “with her warships' amb
•forcibly take it eveii- unto herself
■ -The assertion of that paper is
hardly, however, a reflection .of,
the opinion'of the Jitpaabv siatcs-
men. - For Japan to thus- take
fdrij’iblc possession • of Hawaii
worflil be a gross interference
, witli the rights and privilege^’of
the American citizenTover,, there.
R; who already own the.grcater part ed upon another
IE, - ‘of the island, and such assujnp-
E. * 'tion on tire part of Japan would
; ’justify thoT^mted States in send-
P •-■; a fdt of_its—ironclads—
and repeating. the greeting .of I .
■ Cofnmodore Perry. Japan is a The senatorial fight has bbgun
I E brave little nation but it certainly' in-South Carolina; and the open-
” ----- - _ LliM-i TTJ,
and Irby chows, that Tillman. has|
lr-acr on violence of temper;
aMrowdyism of manner. «It
of .dishonesty
J -ift
one to succeed thc other-without ■ ay
the old time intermediate tern-, /
- * vz a., a U|1M - I ‘ML
This view has been expressed |» W
by manv
and scientists aid_Jjie theory |
year again. In t,he early part*off
June snow was falling inr-Ncw
Yqrk.’where in the latter part oH-
the month scofcs^werc dying from j
thc heat. • If this theory bu cor-
rect it is frightful to contemplate
the conditions a rtw years hence
will be still further changed
Science will hayd to find sdHift ,J
means by which the race can bej
into salaman-
ders fdr the suffntr.—Houston
'A»‘G 9(0-4 - .ry;;
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Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1897, newspaper, July 15, 1897; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1302549/m1/1/?q=music: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.