Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 413, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 11, 1893 Page: 4 of 8
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125,000 IN REWARDS
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for seme years
•Whem in St. Lowia, virii the
Big Money iu vours.
A Set of
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guard the line
100 In Gold
lishers, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The 17th Annual
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boomers and
until opening
Bright Literary Matter, Stories,
Illustrated Sketches, etc.
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World's Fai r opens at Chi-
cago May 1, 1893, and closes
. October 31, 1893.
of its present popular
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A Farm Department, with Let-
ters from practical farmers.
A Department for the Little
Folks that will entertain and
instruct them.
All the News—Texas News.
General News, Congressional
News, Foreign News. New -
from the Old States. Market
Reports, etc. —_
ncerld, Mermod a Facoerd's, Braad-
asay and Locutt, tie laivatfried Haase
im America far Jine geade.
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lowing is the prize list:
1st Grand Prize $2,500 in Cold
Published every Saturday at
Decatur, Texas
Entered at the pestetfice at Decatur aa
aecond class mail matter. __________
WM. FORSTER.
Editor a Proprietor.
Osk DOLLAR a YEar._______
MAR. IL 1893.
A
SPLENDID
OFFER.
Kermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co.
Broadway and Locust St.
ST. LOUIS, MO -4
1 000 In Go d
500 in Gold
250 in Goid
MERMOD A JHCCSRD JEWELRY CO.,
M Ioula,Mo.
Please tend youx catalogue U:
It will be
than ever.
Ifasetin or-
dered sent by
mail, add 15 C.4
for postage or J
19 c. for a tin- fl
gle spoon. a ■
Sefedelivery
pusramieed. g
Ininals 8
engraved free.
shouid you 5
want any-
thing etoe inj
our line, wend ■
5 cis. for cat-1
alogue of 200
engravings,
using the fol-
lowing blank.
Gnn2Me
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Ft. Worth
Denver City
Railway Co.
U SION PACIFIC
on Easy Term.
No Black Mud.
A Mild Climate.
Fruit of the Finest.
Small Grain Unexcalled.
Good Schools & Churches.
Tnriving Prosperous People.
se_We send th. Wise CoE»rr MKs-
AENGEK and the New Yerk Weekly Pres*
both one vear for onlv SI .G0 .
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trees bloomed.
—The Rock
come and go.
6
’ Pure Slid
Silver Spoons of
our beautiful new
DUCHESS pattern
for
$6 00
or a single DUCu-
ESS Spoon for I
$1.00
Many Persons
Are broken down from overwork or house -..uUi
cares Brown's Iron Bitters
rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes ex-
cess of bile, and cures malaria. Get the zeuuate:
Wateh This Notice.
The number st marks across this
aotice indicate the uumber .t weeks until
your subscriptieu expires. Please renew
at ence.
Seventh Half-Yearly Literary
Competition of The Canadian
Agricuiturist.
In accordance with their
D E.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
CITY ELECTION.
(TUESDAr, April 4. 1893.)
We are autherized to aa-
neunce that L. W. Means is
a candidate for re-eleetion to
to the ofice of city mavor.
of places and persons barred.
All lists containing ever
100 correct words will receive
a valuable special prize. Send
postal card for list of prize
winners in former cempeti-
Address, The AGRICULTUR-
IST Pub. Co., Peterborough,
Canada.
M,We send the MESSEN-
ger and th* Atlanta Cousti-
tution both 1 year for $1.75.
past, the publishers of that
MEAD POST.
Post Commander Rev. Jas.
Hickey requests us to an-
nounce that Mead Post will
meet hereafter in the grand
The Northwest Texas T-a-
ehers' association will meet
at Uhildress on Apri! 15th.
Meg
Island may Landa, but n School and State,
but Decatur
SYSTEM.
The only line running through
The (REAP Han handle of
Texas.
The Greatest Wheat Pro-
ducing Counry in the W orid.
An Abundance of Good
For tunher information,
maps, descriptive pamphlets,
etc., address D. B. Keeler,
Gen. Frt. & Pass. Agt., Ft.
Worth. Texas.
Guthrie, O. T.. March 6.—
Everybody is jubilant ever
the passage of the Cherokee
Strip bill and already the peo-
ple are coming in in great
crowds to await the opening.
Four companies of cavalry
passed through here to-day
day. The boomers are gath-
• ring along the line in great
numbers, and bv the time of
opening, it is estimated, there
will be over 200,000 to make
the rush tor homes.
vices, Pianos, Organs, Gold
Watches, &c., &c.. making
a total of over 10,000 prizes.
How to Secure a Prize.
agents wanted
everywhere to sell
CRAWFORD’S LIFE OF
BLAINE.
W ritten by Mr. Blaine’s
most intimate Literary Asso-
ciate and Confidential Friend.
W-Only Official Edition.
Endorsed bv U. S. Sena-
tors and Cabinet Officers.
Profusely Illustrated.
Steel Plate Frontispiece.
48 Magnificent Half-tones.
600 Octavo Pages.
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
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The first to send 25c (pest-
Why shouldn’t half of the
Csbinet have been taken from
the South, which furnished
more than half of the Cleve-
land electoral vere?
jAVki
enroute for the Strip to eject
ro«m a-the eourt houne.
on each 1st Monday at one
of the Northwest Texas Cat-
tle Raisers’ Association will
convene in the city of Fort
Worth on the 14th day of
M uch. 1893.
Washington, March 6.—
The present roll call of the
U. S. Senate shows 45 Dem-
ocrats, 38 Republicans, 1
Populist, 1 Independent, 1
Farmers’ Alliance aud 2 va-
caucies. The vacancies are 1
each in Washington and Wy-
emiag. Should the Kepnlli
cans fill both thesevacancien.
which is not probable, it would
give them 40. Should the 3d
party Senators then all vote
with the Republicans, a most
unlikely supposition, the Sen-
ate would still be Democratic
bv 2 majority and with the
V ice President holding the
controling vote on ties.
The composition of the
Lower House as shown by
unoficialreturns is: Demo
crats 217, Republicans 128,
Populists 8, vacancies 2.
1.' ? the Best Paper
for Texas People,
Eecause it publishes more Texas news than
any other paper. With Tub WEEKLY NEWS
II d j our loeal paper you will be provided
with an abundance of reading matter.
Send for free sample copy, either of
The GALVEsrON WEEKLY News or The
Dallas WEKLY News, to
“ A. M. BELO & CO., Publishers,
Galveston, or Dallas, Tex.
KM^The publisher of Tne
Messenger will accept and
forward your subscription to
the publishers for either The
Galveston Weekly News or
The Dallas Weekly News, or
he will accept $1.75 for one
year’s subscriptieu to either
one and his own paper.
FOR SALE
Four Shares in the First
National Bank of Decatur.
Address, S. BROWN,
Decatur, Tex.
May had to speak a verse
in school and asked papa t
teach her one. So her papa
thought of sometning very
easy and repeated it slowiy:
, "The rose is red,
The violet blue,
Honey is sweet
And eo are you.”
This is the way she SiOke
it in school :
"‘Weses is wed,
And violets tee,
Honev’s sweet,
And so am I.”
ARE YOU A WOMAN
WHO HAS NOT A corr • *
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menths I'M if vou take it now. Sample
copy, 10 cents.
The Fort Worth Evening
Mail is said to be gaining
ground in Decatur.
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Needing A tonic, • r cinidren who wunt buua
ing up. should take
EROWN 8 KRON Hi ‘ITERS.
It is pleesant; cures Maaria, Indigestion,
Bilousdiess Liver Unplaina and NenraMiA
age) for outfit gets territory. 4th
E. R. Curtis & Co., Pub- 5ch -u- -u---
5000 Elegant Silver Tea Ser-
HaA*
•• EREBUNE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
TNE NATIONAL TRIRUNM is now entering upon he
seth year of phenomen l - wcnSS.
No other famlly weekly in the country has bae suc,
• growth, and maintai net it so steadily.
It goes into every County in the United Statex,and
hn* cluhe lJ a bacribers at nearly every Pontnfiee
Jt has gained this’prouri position nolely ou its morita
as a highly-interesting family newspaper.
- For the"ar 1393.
If this notice is marked
across with a pencil it is to
remind you that your sub-
acription is yet unpaid. If it
not marked, then. of coarse,
it does not mean you.
$1.00 Outfit.
The only work endorsed by eld and reliable publication,
the leading mon of the nation. ■ Thr Canadian Agriculturist,
I TXUSUAL LAEGE Terms new presents its • th Great
Given to Agents. Half-Yearly Literary Compe-
bon’t wait to write, but tition, for the winter of 1893,
send atonce-.TO-DAY--and to the people of the —nited
States and Canada. The fol-
A Cotton Seed Oil compa-
ny located at Bowie has been
chartered with a capital of
$50,000. The directors are
Dan Wagoner, Tom Wagon-
er, S. A. Lillard, Mrs. Julia
F. Halsell and II. H. Halsall,
all residents of Decatur. A
large manufactory is now be-
ing built at Bowie
— A ground soaking rain
on Tuesday, and many peach
mx r Aft ri<T( HIM, by Tkoe. Naat, the famous
VV artist
met AB HINTORY, by men who actually server
TV and ouzht in the strtiggle.
Gnox:r STORIEN of Romance, Travel, Ex per1
encn ami Auventure, by leadinK writer-
{xr ASiEI NGTON NIWVN. Full necount ot
VV whai is taking place at the seat of Governinent
carefal reporta or all imoportan matiers in Cougres;
and the Executive Departments ; gomnip about public
men
X J OUNF6IN DI PARTMENT. Edited by
11 a lady ef National reputation
At.A.1., w. R. €., AND N. OF ▼. NEWN..
“ I mor- fuli and complete bhan publisird by any ।
other pi 4
A GHti I I TI II AU DEIARTMWNr. care
hh iul . b: practuMi man.
(3 l.MIl A < NEWS arcfully oomplled
The N rIoNal TRIWINE In strictly non partisan
and thorouai l American. It behevesinthe greatest
good te •’ reales I number of our people, and th
hishest d mem of < ur institutlons- ia National
unity an • i ited loyaity.
Rice e.W . . r
yablin Avance
Price $2.00. Send 25c for usual custom
— Sunset, Wise Co., ex.
MESSENGER. .-Wedaenday inern, clear
o’clock p. m it is special!*
requested that there be a full
attendance at the next meet-
ing of the Poet.
will still be found doing busi-
ness at the old stand.
— The real estate holders
at Chico will not advance the
interesta of their town by put-
ting the price of lots out of
the reach of profitable invest-
ment.
—The new town of Para-
dise, on the Rock Island, is
being laid off this week. It
is not expecting to be a fu-
ture state capital nor even a
county seat, hence they have
not begun their town with an
appendage of useless area
called a public square, but it
is very conveniently laid off
with two 80 feet avenues cros-
sing at right angles and in
line with the cardinal points
of the compass. It has the
best country backing it of any
town in Wise county, and it
staada a fair chance to be-
come the second city of the
county in the near future.
and make all the words vou
can out of letters contained
in the words “Columbian
Exposition.” and send them
to us, enclosing one dollar for
six months subscriptieu to the
Agriculturist or the Ladies’
Hom* Magazine — two of the
best home monthlies in the
world.
Rules—1. Foreign words
notallowed. 2. Letters can-
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Forster, William. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 413, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 11, 1893, newspaper, March 11, 1893; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581022/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .