Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1926 Page: 3 of 8
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WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
Friday, Fbiuary 12, 1926
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A number of good used oil
and gas cook stoves to go at
special prices —$7.50 to $25.
Six (irafanolas in A-1 con-
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$225, selling at $15 to $150.
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of the route which they had passed,
which begun in Wise county beyond
and west of Bridgeport and terminat-
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We repair and re-finish all used furniture and stoves—to give
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ened by the tramping of herses feet,
and springing up, found herself sur-
rounded by another band of Indians
Her flight had ended in her second
cautture, this time by Comanches.
If you are in the market for anything for the home, see these
close-out pieces and our complete stock of furniture and floor
coverings.
known as the father of Wise county. ,
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an eye on the self made man
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slide for the school children of the
county to express themselves to the
public through the Wise oCunty Mes-
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; Mrs Roberts' teauty kept the Indians
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The Babb children remained with
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Lage. Again she Was doomed to marry
5 ” the northwe~t < orncr 01 [he* M'are.
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passed out after the masacre. There • The chief justice and two county com-
were only a few Indians in the band, missioners selected several places with- i
a chief, but this time the murrinze
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nomes. churches and villiazt:
The pre-nt curt house of Wise
cunt yis built of red granite, the
building costing one hundred and forty
he came in sight of the house, he saw
Wiley leaving to warn the neighbors «
and, if possible, to rescue his bnither.
Alfred called to him, but could not
make him hear. When he was about
one hundred and fifty yards from the
house he was seen by Mrs. Gibson, hi:
sister ,of Decatur. They at first took
him to be a girl dressed in red whom
the Indians had turned loose or who
had made her escape, he was so cov-
ered with blood. When they really saw
it was Alfred, they ran to him. He
was carried into the house and laid
on the bed. He was still bleeding pro-
fusely.
Wiley soon returned, and finding his
brother at home and wounded, startel
to Decatur for Dr. William Renshaw.
He met Robert Parsons, who consented
to go in his stead. They arrived about
two p. m. Aftes dressing the wounds,
the doctor left the family alone.
Alfred lingered for several days be-
tween life and death, but finally recov-
ered. Mrs. McDaniel's sons, John and
Grandvill, were absent when Alfred
was captured. They had taken a por-
tion of her horses to Grapevine prairie
for safety, because the Indians had
never gone that far down the country.
On hearing the sad news from home
they returned immediately.
The Indians on this raid carried out
the largest and best band of horses
ever stolen from this section.
The trials and discomforts of fron
tier life are known only to those who
have passed thru the trying ordeals.
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home, but could scareoly walk. When
for her children, during which the gap-
ing death wound in her throat was in-
flicted. At the striking of this blow.
Mrs. Roberts screamed, thus revealing
here whereabouts to the Indians, who
immediately took her. After sacking
the house Mrs. Roberts and the two
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(‘olonel Absalom Bishop
was held, and the county need a ocurt
house, a little buildinb about sixteen
feet square was placed on the northeast
corner of the square and was the first
house on the hill as well as the first
court house.
Houses soon began to spring up and
there came to be quite a village on top
of the hill, which could be seru for
illes from the surrounding territory.
Colonel Bishop abandoned his farm and
moved his family to Taylorsville.
* where he went into business. A post
office was built, ami an overlund mail
route was establishe t-tween Tailors
ville and Fort Worth
The first cunty ~at wa- lulled
the Indians about a yer, then Britt,
a negro, purchased them by giving the
Indians a large number of h- rses.
Mrs Roberts experiences ami escup*
from the Indians were thrilling. The
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"Tbe Capture and Masacre of the
Babb Family."
By Ilene Henton, Red Willow School.
The capture and murder of the Babb
family was one of the greatest events
in the period of Indian attack. The
details surorunding the massacre an-
as follows: In September, 1866, John
Babb was living with his family on a
ranch about twelve miles west of De-
catur. Besides the parents, there were
four children — Margie, Dot, Cassabian
ca and oCurt. Making her home with
the family was also a Mrs Itberts, a
youthful widow of very fair features,
on the day of the fateful oecurener,
all of the family was at home but th"
father and C’ourt, the oldest boy
Before reaching the Babb home in
the afternoon, the Indians had spent
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age! She was a remarkable woman,
whe, though far away from her Texas
home and friends, never lost hop or
courage, unbearable as was her cap-
tivity. Another opportunity to escape
came at last. Again at night. on the
same horse, she made her ♦xapf. For-
tunate wass he this time, for at For:
Supply she became aeqaintel with a
Kansas family whom she act ompunied
to their home. She was afterward
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but the fatal accomplishments were to j in five mniles of the center of the coun- ,
- wa a trrito1}
N OU could, conceivably, drive an airplane at four miles a
Y minute. It has been done! Yet this great speed is like
standing still -compared to the 186,000 miles per second at
which electricity drives through the wires to your home.
Your controlof electric light and power is practically instant-
aneous in response to the snap of a switch.
But the natural speed of electricity is not enough to work this
wonder. That’s where we come in with men and equipment
to see that you get continued service. The Texas Power and
Light Company is constantly alert to satisfy your demands—
the more alert because these demands come without a second’s
warning.
So snap your switches all you please. That’s the signal at our
plants to ‘'make it snappy."
Soon after enterini j to be run Lor county seut. Some
Taylorsville in honor of Vachary Tay- i
lor, and this name was kept until Jan- i —
nary, 18-8. when it was changed to=
I»tar, in honor of Commodore B
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ear; the blood had streamed ut over
the body, and the infant child, in its
effort to imbibe nourishment, had dyed
iself in the erimson stain The other
members of the family were nowhere
to be seen and the conclusion was that
they had been taken captive.
The men were beside themselves
with anger and the desire of revenge.
The child was transferred to the home
r a neighbor, the Andersons, and the
trail of the Indians again taken up.
The details of that which occurred
when the Indians bore down on the
Babb home were learned later from
Mrs. Roberts, who was taken into cap-
tivity. Two of the children were found
in the yard and immediately taken
into cautivity. At the sight of the
Indians, Mrs. Roberts had sought saf-
ely in the loft of the house; Mrs. Babb
had remnaine to make a heroic fight
marrie t a prosperou- stockman. She • little girl," says Mrs. Lena
reared a large family, and was loved I ©) Stand’, of R F. D. 2, Mat- (@)
and respected by a large cirele ol I K thews, Mo., *I was so weak (
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the forenoon in terrorizing the pcopl he cnle to organize the county. This
Thousands of weak. Buf-
fering women have taken
another la for Colonel T© Cardut, knowing that it had (§
I helped their mothers or their <
K friends, and soon gained 2
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"" hill "W th" I"illi K Cardul should do you a lot K|
uurol Iatur @ of good.
Fullowing this tli.- nai Bozinnine •f 5 Al Druggists’
•I- town of Taylorsville, as it was X,
, then called 'I'll,, public uile of lots •
IIe • ived his life by retichine the house
before his pursuers.
ilulsell, Blanton and others took a
trail that ler straight to the Babb
home, and three miles of travelin.
brought the party to this place AB
was silent about the house, but the
evidences of pillnue and plunder w»j”
everywhere visible. The feathers of
the beds scattered about the yard re
senblec snow . The household effect
had he pil'd in a heap and buirned.
The men looked into the house and a
pitiful scene met their gaze. Mrs. Babb .
lay with her throat cut from ear to •
Stephen Deatur, the American admi-
ray tf the revolutionary pe-riod
in about 1860 the county was grant-
ed authority t vote a special tax with
which to build a court hou-e. A square
fiveroom building was erected, in the
middle of the public square at Decatur
This building was forty feet each way,
with halls eutting the lower floor into
four rooms. The to floor was ar-
ranged for one large roomn. The hi in*
ber for this building cost seventy dol-
lars per thousand feet.
The first photograph gallery and
newspaper office were opened up in
this court house. This court house was
burned in November, 1881.
The -vond court house of Wise
rounty was built in 1883, at the cost
IT DRIVES OUT WORMS
"lhe surest- sign of worms in childre i is
paleness, lack of interest in play, fretul-
ness, variable appetite, picking at the
nose ami sudden starting in sleep. When
these symptoms appwar it is time lo give
White’s Cream Vermifuge. A few doses
drivos out the worms and puts the little
one on the rond to health again. While’s
Cream Vermifuge has a record of fifty
years of successful us. I’ri'”5c. bold by
CARDUI
For Female Troubles
bo I sent to get it, I im-
proved after my first bottle.
Cardul is certainly a great
help for nervousness and
weak back. I took six bot-
tles of Cardul and by then I
was well and strong, just
did fine from then on, Cardul
helped me so much."
their victom. Further on the came 1)-aturnow stands Therwasacon-c
aero--- a man by the name •1 Arm t,-- i-twe,n Hlalsii Va’bn and Dleca-
-trong. and gave him a wile tha-* for tur site, but the Iratur site won. I
his life on reurhinz the heme of one : Hen- w: _________ . .................
ot the Wowward brothers they ha! Ri-hop. who at onee began making'
an -ncounter with (iorKe liickann . plans .1 locating and laying out thu
ano speare I a uiri, l.onn I'm-kauan. ! towt
whi. -he was drawing water frvn a i part
teamnster and procerded to make hin i Halxoil Valley and rhe hill on which S
The man who runs your Rexall Drug Store
is the man chosen from your community to
enter the greatest druggists partnership in
the world.
He is one of ten thousand Rexall druggists
united to manufacture, buy and sell that
you may “save with safety.”
Your Rexall Druggist is a man you can
trust. Otherwise he could not secure the
valuable Rexall franchise. Before he be-
came a Rexall Druggist he had to make
good “on his own.” He had to prove that
he is financially sound — that he thoroly
understands pharmacy — that he is a live,
progressive merchant — that above all else
his integrity can not be questioned.
Your Rexall Druggist has established him-
self in the life of your community. He
runs a local enterprise and runs it well. He
merits your patronage on his own account
alone.
But back of your Rexall Druggist are the
brains and the stability, not only of an
individual, but of the greatest drug store
organization on earth.
EAGLE DRUG HOUSE
“A DRUG STORE FOR FORTY-NINE YEARS"
weak to stand up or do any 5 ■
work. I felt like my back K m
was coming in two. I lost ( _
weight I didn't eat any- @) ■
thing much and was so rest- X _
less I couldn’t sleep nights, g —
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thousand dollars. It stands in the
center of the public square of Deca i ur,
and is on eof the most beautiful nr
chitectura! edifices in the state
Decatur is now a thriving littie
town. It contains several busine-s con
cerns, a flour mill, a fine public -chou!.
a junior Baptist elleze of • A rank,
an editor and secretary of the clmm-
wel! .though she was not
it-ehing Mr Hleye‛- home, tic}
near capturinu a boy while h was
about some 4 rrand ot the corn crib.
i he population grew. a nd a desire for
1eral government beune mnaniitsi. At
this time there came a man who took
chary cof the situation and hel*d all j
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bauty of this young woman had. no
doubt, saved her life. At the massacre
the Indians had stolen one of Babb’s
fine race hor-s and the widow was
placed upon him ami he 1ed away to
the Indian Territory. Twenty miles
beyond Red river they stopped and ar-
ranged f- r this woman to marry their
chife two moons later. One night, ra
ther than marry the chief, she escaped
on the Babb horse and reached the
other side of the river in safety. out
they sped thru the river bottom and
up across the hills to a large prairie.
Fatigued by the ride and excitement,
she stopped, tied her horse to a tree,
and lay down to take a much needed
rest just as day was beginning to
dawn Near mid-day she was awak
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avazes met .i teK‛" ; of it,., plae
Used and re-finished rocker
values, all kinds $2.45 up
to $17.50. For $32.50 rock-
ers duo folds to match.
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