Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 1902 Page: 1 of 6
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WISE COUNT Y MESSENGER
WHOLE NUMBER 1094
DECATUR, TEXAS, APRIL 4, 1902.
The County Press.
Lulu • and - Bradls
Armstrong 1
kdet
Collingsworth 1 Cottle
Deaf Sm’th 1
Hardeman 2
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Montague 10
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Champion
Throckmorton 1 Wheeler
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CULTIVATIBS
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Decatur, Rhgme and Slidell.
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from boasting a huge bank ac-
There
Anthony had his voice and ges-
Parents, do not neglect your
William Shakespeare!
old
• coid la om•
ing but thirteen per cent of i
ures, the parties were satis
and closed the transaction. ’
proceedings of the investigat
committee and the clinical
ports of the test were publis
and will be mailed free on
shattered idol!
A Wise county
Motley
Oldham
Potter
Roberts
Swisher
Baylor
Carson
Childress
Cooke
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
11
1
Hemphill
Jack
Lamb
Dickens
Floyd
Gray
Hall
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The 13th Congressional District.
Following a re the names of the
counties composing the 13th con
gressional district, together with
the vote each will have in the
nominating convention:
3"e4
Al
FROM
D. J. Poninger & Comp’ny
Rogers & Clark
' Fire, Life and Accident
- - - INSURANCE - -
Represent the oldest and most responsible in-
surance companies in Americo.
1
growing daily, both in populari-
ty and membership. Help them
along in the good work, for it is
the leading enterprise of <—
were either well or p
shy
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was
Poor
huge calamities is possible in
that land of swarming life, bare-
ly maintained under normal con-
ditions and doomed to perish
when anything goes worse than
usual.
England has done much for
India. Helping the sufferers of
India has been a special mission
! Wm. was
I
viewed the scores of cured and
tried it out on its merits by put-
ting over three dozen cases on
the treatment and watching
them. They also got physicians
to name chronic, incurable cases,
and administered it with physi-
cians for judges. Up to Aug. 25
eighty-seven per cent of the te
ber of persons, all express them-
selves as being benefited by it.
I now walk without crutches. | cases
able to perform a great deal_of grossing favorably,
light work on the farm.” 25c, 50c
and $1.00 at J. P. Hayter's.
23tmli,
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count but measured up to the
standard of a gentleman. Mrs.
A. and her ilk run too much to
gold.
Diablo has a gilt edge mort-
gage on the soul of the office
seeker who villifies his opponent.
Steal a man's character and pov-
erty-sticken you leave him in-
deed. Men argue; calumny is
the weapon of fools.
For the ’steen hundred thou-
sandth time Bacon is openly ac-
cused of writing Shakespeare.
Heretofore a brutal majority of
the people were doubtful as to
truthfulness of this charge, but
all doubts have been removed;
there was no “Bard of Avon.”
stealing watermelons when M. to do. The task is growing even
Anthony had his voice and ges- greater. The body of death is
tures in training for speech over almost unbearable.-Dallas News.
the body of Caesar. Bacon
the instigator of all these.
if success results.
----1 Now comes one Mrs. Astor,
our | most mighty and beloved leader
town. of Gotham’s 400, and says noth-
Ben Williams, of Sunset. anding but millionaire college grad-
Miss Irene Webb, of near Al-uates are gentlemen. Mark
vord, were unitedin marriage Twain begs to differ with Mrs.
Sunday at the home of the bride, A. and says Abe Lincoln was far
Rev. John Stanfield officiating. from boasting a huge bank ac-
Bright’s Disease.
The largest sum ever paid for
a prescription changed hands in
San Francisco. Aug. 30, 1901.
eases. They commenced the
serious investigation of the spe-
cific Nov. 15, 1900. They inter-
Walks Without Crutches.
I was much afflicted with
sciatica, writes Ed C. Nud, Iowa-
ville. Sedgewick county, Kan.,
“going about on crutches and
suffering a deal of pain. I was
induced to try Ballard’s Snow
Liniment, which relieved me. I
used three 50c bottles. It is the
greatest liniment I ever used;
have recommended it to a num-
I school, then work will probably
be commenced on the new school
house.
After tomorrow week some of
the candidates will disappear un-
til about next fall. They will
stay at home trying to figure out
what hit ’em.
Decatur was well represented
at the speaking here Monday
night.
A large crowd of Mexicans and
several car loads of stock and
machinery passed through our
town this week enroute to Jacks
boro to work on the extension of
the Rock Island road to Graham. 1
Why- Suffer With Backache?
I have suffered several years
with backache, and after taking
one bottle of Smith’s Sure Kid-
ney Cure, I have been cured.
Since then I have not been
troubled with my back. Too
much cannot be said in its praise.
—Capt. Wm. Forest, Memphis,
Tenn. Price 50c and $1.00 at Man
& Simmons’ drug store.
Same Sad Story From India.
India is still in a very bad way.
It is even set down by some as
England’s body of death. There
is no other part of the earth over
which famine and pestilence
have done a more deadly work.
It is said that when the census
of 1901 showed thav the popula-
tion of British India had in
creased only about 2} per cent
in ten years there was much sur-
prise in England, because of the
sharp contrast made by such
gains with the very large growth
of the decade preceding. An in-
crease of 20,000,000 or more had
been expected.
Missionaries appealing for con-
tributions to save from starva-
tion millions of victims are num-
erous and persistent in all por-
tions of the British empire. The
same has been going on continu-
ously for many long and weary
years. The famine and the
plague accounted, in great part,
for the slow expansion of the
population, and it seems proba-
ble that such destroyers will
continue to keep down the num
ber of inhabitants of a poverty-1
stricken and distressed land. (
Recent dispatches from Lahore,
the capital of the fine province
known as the Punjaub, state that
the plague is killing 2,000 per-
sons a day in that part of India. 1
The pestilence spreads rapidly I
and is very virulent. ,
If the mortality from one
disease should continue long at
that rate in a province contain-
ing not more than 25,000,000 peo-
ple, it would effectually prevent
any increase in the number of
inhabitants of the Punjaub, and
other parts of India are poorer,
less salubrious and more crowd-
ed. Anything in the way of
Lannie Carloss, John Mershon
and Bruce Rogers went out a
few days ago in search of game—
they report splendid luck, hav-
ing killed 45 rabbits, and not a
good day for them either.
The residence building of J.
L. Norris in West Alvord in near-
ing completion. It adds mater-
' ially to that part of town.
J. L. Norris informs us that
the recent wind storm in Knox
couaty damaged his gin proper-
ty considerably.
A Budget reporter was in-
formed a few days ago that the
two stone buildings on Market
street belonging to L. E. Pillers,
would, in the not very distant
future, be completed. These
buildings are situated in a beau-
tiful location and with but a lit-
tle cost would be made two of
the lovliest buildings in town.
***
BRIDGEPORT.
From the Reporter.
We look for a good crop this
year.
There seems to be very little
sickness in the community now.
Peach trees are in full bloom
and the outlook is bright for a
good crop of fruit.
7 few more weeks oH our
BUY===
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- Planters
BOYD.
From the Index.
Two of our young Springtown
friends, Mr. Ransom Denny and
and Miss Maggie Gregory, have
recently married. The Index
wishes them a “world” of happi-
ness.
One of our esteemed county
contemporaries left out of its
prohibition election report the
vote of Briar. 26 pro to 16 anti,
and reported Jim Ned, which
had no election at all, as voting
17 pro to 13 anti, and yet gave
the totals correctly. A case of
"figgerin’ to git an answer,” evi-
dently.
' Dr. J. R. Floyd and family left
Sunday for Chicago, where the
Doctor will take a post graduate
course of lectures, and the fami-
ly will also visit relatives in Ark
ansas before returning to Boyd.
Messrs. Lane and Brown, of
J. S. Lane & Co., have moved
their families here from Decatur
and are occupying the Ed Wil-
kerson cottage.
Rev. R. F. Bryant informs us
that he had new onions for din
ner Wednesday. If you raise
any onions or chickens earlier
than a Methodist preacher, you
will have to plant them mighty
soon after “conference.” But
R. J. Crow beat the preacher on
the onions, as he had new onions
for dinner Tuesday.
***
CHICO.
‘From the Review.
Mr. W. E. Stockton. who lived
four miles east of Chico, died
Sunday morning from pneumo-
nia and was buried in the Pleas-
ant Grove cemetery Monday.
The candidates for the various
county offices filled their appoint-
ment here Friday afternoon.
The time consumed was about
four hours and there was a “hot
time" in the old time.
So far the fruit crop promises
to be the largest for many years.
Corn is coming up and the
farmers report a very good stand
We are glad to report the re-
covery of Oscar Gideon, who has 1
been confined to his bed several
weeks with fever.
***
ALVORD.
From the Budget.
The Alvord High school is ,
Female Weakness Cured.
I was troubled with severe fe-
male weakness for over six
months. I was treated by six
very prominent physicians with-
out any marked benefit. My last
doctor was a skilled specialist,
and he told me that the only
hope lay in an operation. I heard
of Smit h’s Sure Kidney Cure and
after usi 1g it for one month I
find mysell cured, and even the
doctor who 1 st treated me now
pronounces me well—Mrs. J. R.
Fa ver, Atlana, Gi. Price 50c
and $1.00. For sale by Man &
Simmons.
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Collins’ Comments.
Without fear of criticism or
congestion I make assertion that
Decatur can produce more
smooth courthouse railing poli-
ticians on election day than any
town twice the proportions east
of Haw river. Poor, miserable
and pity-needing is the man not
capable of making his own selec-
tion of officers. The man who
will sell or trade his vote is no
better than the man who buys
or trades in votes, and the feet
of better men than either are
sticking out the windows of h—.
Saturday the ballot battle will
be pulled off. This has been an
interesting campaign, and to-
morrow will be the wind-up.
The spellbinders who have
traveled the county over—and
they are all the aforesaid spell-
binders—urging the voters to
lend assistance, promising in re-
turn all things in the make-up
of a first-class officer, will doubt-
less be glad when the struggle
is ended.
Faith, hope and charity, and
the greatest of these is the lat-
ter; but Paul had never come in
contact with the modern politi-
cian when he said this. All
three must be worked overtime
Aacher 2
Bailey 1
Brisco 1
Castro 1
Clay 4
Shakespeare was an over-grown
chump running loose in the wilds
of Brittany when “Hamlet” was
given ear-ache remedy, which, of thousands of the charitable
by the way, has never become people of King Edward's empire
popular in alleviating ear pains, at home and beyond the seas,
and was under the charge of Still there appears to be no less
DECATUR,
VOL. XXIII. NO. 12.
opoar.. A children’s coughs, sore throats. The transfer involved in coin
The impostor! colds, etc., they often lead to fa-land stock $112,500 and was paid
man finds that! tal results. Try Simmons’Cough i by a party of business men lor a cat D A>D/E
a Fraldi Water1' Syrup. Pleasant, safe and sure. | specific for Bright s Disease and ton Compr
DIQUE. Guaranteed. Price 25c and 50c. 1 Diabetes, hitherto incurable dis-1 St , Sun
TEX AS.
Dallam 1
Denton 11
Donley 1
Foard 1
Hale 1
Hansford 1
Hartley , 1
Huchison 1
Knox 1
Lipscombl
Moore 1
Ochiltree 1
Parmer 1
Randall 1
Sherman 1
Wichita 3 Wilbarger 2
Wise 10 Young 3
Total 99.
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Halcomb, N. W. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 1902, newspaper, April 4, 1902; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581698/m1/1/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .