Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1901 Page: 10 of 10
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E. Main St., DECATUR, TEX.
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Constance.
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Feb. 3, 1901.
Peter Styx
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Kidd.
D. Howard's
Greenwood.
Pat MuRPHY.
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Wolfe’s Old Stand,
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DECATUR, TEXAS.
Patronize our advertisers.
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and lot in Greenwood to Mr. Capling
for $250, and bought E. L. Warren’s
for $300. Mr. Warren will move back
to the farm.
S. Laval, a
Tex., writes:
years of suffering from general de-
bility brought on by overwork and
long hours, but four bottles of Elec-
faith will preach for us next Sunday.
Say, Messrs. Eds., I forgot to tell
you that New South has a parsonage.
Mr. Leonard Fox, while assisting
E G Sellars to brand cattle, was nook
ed in the foot and is now on crutches.
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We have no severe sickness or seri.
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Rev. Fields Morrison preached for
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Have you seen J.
spanking team?
Pat Murphy will plant
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a brother of the Baptist
Drugs,Medicines,
Stationery, Tablets,
Pens, Ins,
Pencils, Toilet Articles,
Fancy Candies, Etc.
There is probably no disease or con.
ditton of the human system that causes
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ITALIAN QUEEN BEES,
NOLAND CHINA PICS.
WMITEAKER A CO..
MAUK, (Milim Co.,) TEXAS.
PLEASANT VALLEY.
We had a shower in our community
ous accidents to report this week
a sugar cane
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BRUMLOW.
The splendid prospect for rain has
ended in promise here, but as we have
very little wheat rain is not so badly
PHONE 26.
East Sids Squart.
them.
Our neighbor, Mr.Pearce, has had a
child seriously sick with pneumonia, but
it is better now.
Mrs. J. W. Cearley, whom we re.
C. B. GUNN,
You can help anyone whom you
find suffering from inflamed throat.
HEAT MARKET.
The very best of
A" Kinds of DELICIOUS MEATS.
Try me lor a nice, fat, tender steak.
I will continue to trade, buy and
sell all kinds of cettle.
J. M. TANNAHILL,
, , . J. P. Hayter’s
Mr. Rayborn has purcased the Au- ____ w r w_______
dubon gin and will move there with his Read the Messenger for the news.
the best medicine on earth.” It’s
a wonderful tonic and health builder
for tired, weak, sickly and run-down
people. Try it. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. Only 50c at Man & Simmons'
drug store.
J Correspondence.
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Isaac Newton’s Courtship. C. B. GUNN.
Sir Isaac Newton was urged by one
of his friends to marry; he excused
himself by saying that he had no
5 laryngeal trouble, bronchitis, coughs,
J colds, etc., by advising the use of Bal-
lard’s Horehound Syrup, the great
remedy for coughs and colds. Price,
25 and 50 cents. For sale at J. P.
Hayter’s.
last night, but not enough, we fear, to
cause the ground to plow any better; us today, and
sold his gin property to Mr. Rayborn, and drive poisons and impurities out
of the system. C. B. GUNN
non from business. Price, 50 cents in
bottles. Tubes 75 cents. For sale at
crop this year. Ye editors will re.
member the time he planted one in
Bright's Disease is more dreaded
by physicians than any of the serious
disorders with which they have to
deal because of its insidious and
malignant character. If prompt ac-
tion were taken when headaches,
urinary disorders, digestive troubles
first appear, much suffering and sor-
row would be averted. Prickly Ash
Bitters will quickly stop the spread
of the disease, quiet the inflamma-
tion, heal the kidneys and bladder,
strengthen and regulate the liver,
Keeps just what you,
want in pure
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low girls "do letch 'em.’’
The social events of the past week
have been j l»’ ful and pleasant. On
Wednesday night Miss Ebbie Ray.
born gave a birthday party, which was
highly enjoyed by all present. This
was followed by a party at Mr Mote’s
on Thursday night; a musical at Mrs.
Corbin’s on Saturday night, and a
singing at Mr. Moore’s on Sunday
night. All were well attended, nice
and enjoyable.
Did you know that Brumlow has the
best string band in the county? Well,
we have. Who is going to dispute the
1 act?
Thanks, "Old Maid.” Your expia.
nation was nice, generous and per.
tectly satisfactory. Here is our h ind.
We bear no malice. In fact we love
you when you talk that way Won’t
> ou come up to our literary now and
see how nice we have fixed onr house
with that ■ cake money?” We’ll try to
make it pleasant for you if you will
Our society, with Mr Tom Moore
as president and Miss Mattie Clement
as secretary, meets every two weeks
The next meeting will be Friday night,
commodious residence.
Several persons have asked wnat
has become of our new town? It is
just resting in the embryo state and
we hope it will not hatch out until it
ean be a good healthly town. We do
not want to be pestered with a little
thing. We want to unite all the little
towns around here in one.
All that I can see that is the matter
with Wise county now is that she has
too many little towns and no patron,
age, too many churches and no work,
ing Christians, too many schools for so
little money,too many public roads not
kept up. Who will dare dispute this?
Green Horn.
I have built a new shop on East Main Street,
adjoining the stone stable, and am prepared to
do general blacksmithing and wood work. I
will make Plow Shares to fit any plow. Car-
riage and Buggy work neatly done. Horse
Shoeing a Specialty. All work guaranteed.
Yours for business,
All goods new and up-
to-date. Give us a call.
Are you nervous, run down, weak
and dispirited? Take a few doses of
Herbine. It will infuse new energy,
new life into the exhausted nerves,
the overworked brain or muscular sys.
tem, and put a new face on life and
business. Price, 50 cents. For sale
at J, P. Hayter’s.
of Brumlow, and will move to Alvord
tumor, ow.
/The Baptist house of worship, at
, Audubon, will be completed in a few
' days.
Mr. G. T. Smith is building a very
Nervous children are almost always
thin children. The "out.door-boy» is
seldom nervous. White’s Cream Ver.
mifuge is ihe best preventive of nerv.
ousness It strengthens the system
and assists to that sort of flesh, which
creates strength and power of endur.
ance. Price 25 cents. For sale at
J. P. Hayter’s.
try to give description.
Mr O’Shields, of Forney, Kauf.
man county, has moved among us and
is living down on the old Lester
place.
Mr J T Holt killed hogs last week.
Parson Terry, of the Black creek
country, was in New South today and
stopped with brotner Morrison.
Watch E G Sellers; he passes by a
certain place very wishful; don’t know
I thought
more suffering and distress than piles
ded here as in other parts of the Tablet’s Bnckeye Pile Ointmeut cures
them quickly, without pain or deten.
Polk Holt has not erected the gate
| yet. but will soon, and then we will
trie Bitters gave me new life. I
can now eat anything, sleep well and I Sam Houston school has outgrown
feel like working all the time. It's ; the house. Mr. Arnett is giving un-
ter of r. commendation, he received it
politely. filled and fired his pipe, and
sat down by her side, took hold of
her h ind, and conversed on the sub.
ject. Before they had brought the
point to a close, some question about
the magnitude of the heavenly bodies
struck his mind with such force that
he forgot what he was about—he
turned his eyes up to heaven, took
■ his pipe out of his mouth with his left
hand and being lost in study, with,
out design took the lady’s left hand
which he held in his own, and with
one of her fingers crowded the tobacco
in the bowl of his pipe, and held it so
long that her heart as well as her
fingers took fire, and she in a huff
sprang up an 1 went off, leaving the
philosopher to finish his study alone
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ported sick in our last, is getting well. I
The general health of our people is
assuming about normal conditions
again.
We had preaching at the Valley to.
day by Rev. Dr. Johnson, of Bridge-
port. There is Sunday school at the
Valley every Sunday at 10 a. m.
Mrs. E R. Bowlen visited Mrs. H.
F. Anderson last Sunday.
school house Saturday and Sunday
There were lour or five umih»i rs pres
ent and interesting and profitable ser.
Vices wue held. ihe auendat ce being
large.
Mr. Yager, Sr , has moved into his
new house and his wife has joined him
having arrived from Dailas.
Mrs. Waters, of Dallas, and her
daughter. Miss Rubye Waters, of
Chicago, are visiting the former’s par.
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Yager.
Our literary is in a flourishing con.
dition, the attendance being large,
and the interest fine. The community
extend special invitation to Mr J S
Gilliland, of Decatur, to attend. Tne
subject for debate next Saturday night
is, Resolved, that the United States
should acknowledge the independence
of the South Atrican Boers.
Mr. Harry Hart has gone to Mus-
cogee, I. I', to make his fu ure home,
and his best girl is almost heart broken.
Mrs. Dave Potts and children, of
Durant, I. T.. are visiting the former’s
family soon. We shall be sorry to
hate them leave Brumlow.
Missis. Oscar Helm and Prune
Gage, of Sycamore, and Mr. Jim Allen,
of Greenwood, were visiting in our
community Sunday Verily, the Bruni
NEW SOUTH,
Fine rain last night, which was much
needed by farmers who had land to
break.
Our Sunday school is progressing
nicely. L. K. Pounds had the best
lesson today. Lewis is anaptschol-
but it will revive the drooping wheat
crop. The drought is quite a serious
matter with many, the land being so
hard in some places it cannot be bro.
ken. The disc plow is the only solu-
tion of the dry land problem, but they
RUSH BRANCH.
After some delay we come again
with happenings of this and surround-
ing country.
Mrs. Bud Leeth has the so caller
smallpox.
Grandma Scott is very sick.
Some cotton to pick on Denton creek
yet.
A good rain is needed here at pres
ent.
Mr J. H. O’Neal and family, or
Audubon, were visiting his brother
Mr. G. H. O’Neal, today. He has
are quite costly and but a small per
cent of the farmers are supplied with ' next time.
AS Badger and wife visited Mrs.
Badger’s father. Uncle Sam Woody,
on Deep creek yesterday.
time to court a wife. His friends said
they would assist bv sending to his
apartment a woman of worth. He
thanked them for their offer, and
promised to receive a visit from her.
His friends applied to the woman, and
requested her to dispense with the
usual ceremonies of courtship and
wait on the philosopher, which she
consented to do When she came to
his apartment and produced her let.
Headquarters for. J.
...Students' Supplies
160 MUCH
Excrcis is as bad as too little for the
growing girl. It is very easy for her to
overdo, and this is especi fy dangerous
at that critical periol t a jor '•zir‘s
life when she crosses the line of*
hood. It iskan
uncommon thing to
lay the foundation
for years of after
misery by neglect of
necessary precau-
tions at the first
"change of life."
The use of Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription not only
establishes regular-
ity, but it gives
health to the entire
womanly organism.
It is the best medi-
cine for diseases
peculiar to women
because it cures the
causes of disease
completely and per-
manently.
" Favorite Prescrip-
tion ” contains no
alcohol, neither
opium, cocaine nor
any other narcotic.
It cannot disagree
with the most deli-
cate constitution.
"For a number of
VALLEY VIEW
Tne Protestant Methodists
their quartery couter uce ।
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parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cundiff.
The health of the community is
fairly good at present, though Mrs. W.
M. Kearney was quite ill Sunday and
Mrs. W. E. Mooney and Mr. Mack
Mooney have been quite ill, but are
improving.
Bro. Burrows and family spent Sat-
urday in the community.
Mr. Henry Ratcliff is still in the
community, and looking after his in.
terests here, and is always a welcome
visitor aiong us.
Mrs. B. F. Banta spent Sunday
and Monday with her sister in Decatur.
Morgan Ivy is improving rapidly
in health since his return from the
Philippines.
W. E. Mooney is adding a cistern to
the improvements of his place.
LEO.
We had a nice little rain yesterday
evening,
Mr. A. F. Hudson has been on the
sick list this week.
Mr. George Splawn is on the sick
list.
Mr, D. H. Hicks and family, of
Brumlow, was visiting at H. S. Fen.
wick’s Sunday.
Mrs. Rammage, who has been visit,
ing her parents and brothers and sis.
ters, returned to her home yester-
day.
Farmers are busy sowing oats and
preparing land for the 1901 corn
crop.
We see in the Courier that the Sli-
dell representative-got a seat under
the drippings of the sanctuary. Wonder
where the Wise county representatives
were seated?
B. S. Moser marketed hay in
Alvord this week.
Mr. John McDaniel sold his house
I will try and write the community
facts.
Health of the community is not as
good as I would like to report.
Mrs. Wilson, who has been suffer-
ing with her arm, caused irom vaccina-
tion, is some better
Mr. Mid Ashlock and Mrs. Bill
Brown are very ill with pneumonia.
Anneville church has organized a
Sunday school, which meets every
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
There will be singing at the church
every Sunday evening at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Robert Holt has a severe case
of the measles.
Mr. R G Roach and wife were
visiting at Mr. Hillery Newberry’s Sun.
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Neilson and
little daughter, Ella, and also Mr.
John Motsenbarger and family, of
Bridgeport, were the guests of Mr.
Joe Wilson and family Saturday
night.
Misses Eva and Alice Wakeman,
Ella Roach and Mr. Emmett May
took dinner at Mr. Dili’s Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Gibbs is very sick with
]a grippe.
The school, under the management
of Prof. Austin, is progressing very
nicely.
Misses Claudie and Laura and Mr.
George Armstrong have gone to Dal-
las to visit their aunt.
Mr Oscar Waters was the guest of
Mr. R O. Coleman Saturday night
months I suffered with
female trouble," writes Miss Agnes McGowne,
of 1212 Mauk Street Washington. D C. ’’I tried
various remedies, but none seemed to do me any
permanent good. The doctors said it was the
worst case of internal trouble they ever had I
decided tn write to you for help I received a
very encouraging reply awl commenced treat-
ment at once. I had not used your ‘Favorite
Prescription’ a week before I began to feel
better, and. as I continued, my health gradually
improved. and is improving every day”
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on
receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Halcomb, N. W. & Crabb, C. J. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1901, newspaper, February 8, 1901; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581642/m1/10/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .