The Seymour News (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Senator liOtb District, D. F. Qoaa.
Representative 104th District, A. T. Gay.
FIFTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge SOtli District, 8 I. Newton.
Attorney ftOth District Chas. B. Coombes.
District Clerk, Nat. G. Mitchell.
COUNTY.
County Jurige, Carter Taylor.
Sheriff and Tax Collector, A. 1^. Board.
Treasurer E. A. Faucher
Coanty Attorney Jo. Whtwt..
Tax Assessor, W. H. Francis
Coanty Clerk Nat. G. Mitchell.
Surveyor A. D. Korr
Public Weigher A. O. Jones.
1'llECINCT.
OommissionerPrec. No. 1, B. F. Bowman.
Commissioner Proc. No. 3, Chas. Randall.
Commissioner Proc. No. 3, T. W. Parker.
Commissioner Proc. No. 4, Eticn Harrison.
J. P. Precinct No. 1 Tt. 0. Jones.
Constable Precinct No. 1 W. II. Elkins.
SECRET ORDERS.
I. O.O. F.
Soymoui Lodge No. 353. I. O. O, F., meets
very Thursday nigrht.
B. M. Muaser N. G.
Geo. Barkley V. G.
P. N.Taylor Secretary.
Lolly Wt-atherly Troas.
John Rook Rep.
J. W. Davenport Warden.
J. A. Wheat R. S. N. G.
W. A. Bennett, L. S. N. G.
Jo. A. P. Dicksou. ..Conductor.
E. B. Lowry, I. G.
G. P. Barber O. G.
H. Schuster, R. S. S.
J. W. Knox L. S. S.
Wm. Gaidner, R. S. V. G.
S. A. Kill-on, L.S. V. G.
LADIES Ob' HEBEICAH.
Lonanis Lod^e, No. 151. Meets seaond and
fourth Tuesday nights in cuch month.
Mrs. Sam Zillion N. G.
MiaB En la Graves V. G.
Mrs. Ariin L. Luck, Sec.
Mth. P. N. Taylor Treae.
Mrs. Annie Knox Rep.
Misa Allie Elkins Alternate.
WOODMEN OF THE WOULD,
Merrick Davis (lamp No, 488, Woodmen of
the World meets first and third Monday nights
in each month.
E. A. McMath Con. Com.
25. W. Bhkks Adv. L'fc.
Gary Head, Banker.
8. Gorman Clerk.
Supt. Christian Endeavor every Sun-
day evening at 6:80 o'clock
W. L. Morrow, Pastor.
TIMETABLE.
wichita valley railway.
Arrives 5:15 p.m. Loaves,8;40 a. m.
L. P. Davidson, Agt,
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
D. L. Kenan C. C.
D. I. Brauham V. C.
Al. Chisholm Prelate.
W. R. M. at W.
E. A. Fancher M. of E.
W. S. Scruggs M. at A.
C. E. Rupe K. of R. and S.
W. T. Brittou M.of F.
H. J. Kliter... .«... ...... .1. G*
R. E. Fowlkes O. G.
A. F. & A. M.
Seymour Lodge No. 601.
J, S. Shultz W. M.
J. G. Scott S. W.
John Daveuport J. W.
W. H. Francis Tyler.
B. F. Smith Treas.
R. J. Harris Sec'y.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Baptist Chjjeoh.—Seryices evory
Sunday morniug and night. Prayer
meeting Wednesday night. A cor-
dial invitutiou is extended to all.
Sunday school every Sunday
morniug at 10 o'clock.
H. D. Hockersmith, Supt.
Methodist Church.—Pre aching
every Sunday morning and night
usual hours. Sunday Schcol at 9:30
a. m. Epworth League at 4 o'clock
Prayer meetiug Wednesday nights.
J, T. Griswold, Pastor.
Presbyterian Churcii.— Preaching
Sunday morniug and evening at us-
ual hours. Suudav School 8:30 a. m-
Junior Christian Endeavor, 3 p. m.
Intermediate Christian Eudeavor,
4:30 p. in. Prayer mooting and
Christian Endeavor Wednesday
nights at 7:30.
Andrew S. Carver, Stated Supply.
A. P. Willis, Pastor C. P.
Red Springs Baptist Church—
Preaching at Red Springs Baptist
church every first Sunday and Sat-
urday night before. Also third Sun-
day at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. and Sat-
urday night before.
J. W. Harvey.
Sunday school at 10 a. m. every
Sunday. Everybody invited.
W. H. Nichols, Supt.
Christian Church.—Servioes every
Sunday morning and night, except
the fir&t. Sunday School every Sun
Schedule of Arrival and Departure of
Mail.
Postmaster is allowed to close the
offico half hour before the time of de-
pat tures,
wichita valley mail.
Leaves office at 8:10 a. m. prompt-
ly.
Arrives 5:15 p. m. (schedule time.)
dickens mail.
Leaves after arrival of train not la-
ter than 7:30 p. m.
Duo to arrive at 5 p. m.
haskell mail.
Leaves at 6:30 p. m. promptly.
Due to arrive at 8 p. m. (schedule
time)
throckmorton mail.
(Tri-weekly.) Arrives at 6 p. m.
every other clay. Leavos at 8 a. m,
spring creek mail.
Leaves at 7 a. m. Due to arrive at
4 p. m. (schedule time.)
Money orders and registered mail
issued from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. onlv.
E. L. Stevens, Postmaster.
COURT OONVHNKS.
District Court50th Judicial dictrict, May and
,, _ , (November. 11)1)0,
Connty Court third Monday in Jan., March,
,, . (May, July. Sept., Nov,
(.ommistiioners Court 2nd Monday in Fob., May,
. ^ . .. (Aug., and Nov.
J nstice Court Precinct No', 1, last Monday in
(everymonth.
The J4euas.
Issued Every Friday by
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GEO. P. BARBER,
Editoi and Proprietor.
•iKYMOUE; - - TEXAS
Rntered at the postoiKce, at Seymour, Texas
ifloond'classmail matter.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTON.
)ni-copy,one year $1.50
On«copy,six months z 75.
Oneoopy.threemonfchs 40.
Invariably in advance.
If uot paid strictly in advance, $2.00 for one
yaar will be charged.
Memfcor N. W. T. P. and N. E. A. Ex. Com,
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1901
Official Or^ai? of Baylor
<$oui}ty.
The Louisana Oil.
Lyman Bryan has returned from
Lake Charles, La,, to wlfich place
he went last.week in the interest
of himself and his brothers and
sisters who own a large tract of
land near the famous sulphur
wells of Calcasieu Parish.
He tells a very interesting story
of conditions in that section, es
pecially as related to the opera-
tions of the Union Sulphur Com-
pany, on whose property the re
ported gusher was found last
Tuesday. This company is oper
ating for sulphur and a process is
used which is quite unique and
which enables the company to
bring to the surface sulphur which
is over 99 per cent pure.
"I was sorry," said Mr. Bryan
"that there should have been any
mistaken impresssion created with
reference to the results of recent
operations of the Union Sulphur
Company* I was on the grounds
of that company Monday and
preparations were then being
made to resume drilling in one of
the big wells, the work having
the first. Sunday school every aun-1 ,
day at 10 a m. Thos. G. JEasley,1 been temporarily stopped by the
breucing off of the drill bit while
drilling in the rock. I knew that
there was little possibility of the
drill having bad time to get
through the rock before the re-
ports were sent out that a gusher
had just been brought in. It is
but just, however, to say that such
reports as were printed in The
News on Wednesday morning
might have been printed many
times during the past few years,
if the facts had not beeu effectual-
ly suppressed by the company,
for it is true that nearly every
well that has been sunk in that
district has been a gusher and the
one which is said to have had the
greatest power is now covered by
the office building of the company.
"On a few occaeions news of
these strikes has reached the ears
of people living in the neighbor-
hood, but owing to the remote-
ness of the plant, and the haste
with which the flow has been cut
off, the attention of the outside
world has not been attracted to
any marked degree. Not only
this, but it had come to be regard-
ed as a matter of fact that oil ex-
isted under the surface of the
earth at that place and the strik-
ing anew of a vein of oil came to
be regarded as void of any spec-
ial interest, and'then. .too, if we
understood that the oil would be
shut off any way, since "sulphur
was the mineral sought.
"My father, who for twenty
years wps editor aud proprietor of
the old Lake Charles Echo, wrote
up the story of the first strike in
1886 and he wrote from absolute
klowledge. He went on the ground
saw the oil and saw it gushing from
the well. He said that the oil
then came from the casing, a small
er pipe having been put in the
well after the rock bearing the oil
had been drilled through, aud that
this well was then flowing twenty-
five to thirty barrels per clay, and
that when the vein was first struck
it stopped the machinery, and
that when the drill was removed
oil spouted to the top of the thirty
foot derrick.
"A lady living on the grounds,
not one hundred yards from the
well now going down, said that
she saw this new well spout oil
high up into the derrick and that
the men were all covered with the
fluid and had considerable difficul-
ty in shutting off the flow. The indi-
cations on the derrick bear out
these statements.
"No, there is not the least shad-
ow of a doubt about more than
one gusher having been struck at
Sulpher and wells are there now,
notwithstanding the fact that they
have been plugged for years, that
would produce large quantities of
oil. Let any one spend half a
day on the grounds, waiting for
no one to tell him where to look,
but going about from here to there
for himself, watching closely, ant
he will be convinced of two facts
First, that there is plenty of oil
under the ground as well as on top
of it, and second, that the employ
es of the Union Sulpher Company
know better than to tell any thing
that would throw light upon the
operations in which they may have
participated.
"It has frequently been asked
why this field has uot been devel-
oped and to such inquiries I an-
swer that there are several reasons,
not least amoug which is this:
that the Standard bad no need of
another field and that the sulphur,
being worth $35 to $45 per ton,
of which 100 tons per day can be
mined, is more profitable and more
to be desired. There is also this
reason: The Standard has no re-
finery in that section and no other
oil field having beeu developed
nearby it has not been compelled
to develop what they have. Bat
with the opening of the Beaumont
field the Standard is becoming
active as well as the new compan-
ies and I understand that today a
number of their prominent officials
are to be on the ground, and it is
believed that they are to prepare
for oil developments."
Mr. Bryan had with bim sample*
of the oil and sulpher which are
found in Oalcasieu. The oil its
very heavy and black, ha* the con-
sistency of black molasses and is
said to be sold to the street rail-
way company in Lake Charles and
o a number of concerns in that
section for lubricating purposes at
$3.75 per barrel. The sulphur is
ust as it comes from the mines,
and is practically pure, less than 1
per cent of foreign matter beiug
found in it Dullas News.
the forces of progress will be held
and a lost effort made to raise the
amount still lacking—some $10,-
000.—Vernon Sun.
Old Soldier's Experience.
M. M. Austin, a civil war veterau,
of Winchester, Iud., writes: "My wife
was sick a long time iu spite of good
doctor's treatment, but was wholly
cured by Dr. King's new life pills,
which worked wonders for her health.'
They always do. Try them. Only
25c at Forrest Taylor's drug store.
_ 25t-l
Stops the Cough and works oft the
Cold.
Laxative Brotuo-Quiniue Tabletn
cure a cold in one day. No cure, No
pay. price 25 cents.
See Lynch's screen doors,
screen wire, churns and washing
machines, and you will not kick
at the prices. 22tf. ,
<SW&
This signature is on evory box of tho genuine
Laxative Bromo-Quicine Tabi*ta
the remedy that euros a cold £n one day
Beware of a Cough.
A cold is not a disease but a sym-
ptom. Consumption and bronchitis,
which are tho most dangerous and
fatal disease, have for their first indi-
cation a persistent cough, and if prop-
erly treated as soon as this cough (Ap-
pears are easily cured. Chamberlain's
cough remedy has proven wonderful-
ly successful, aud gained its wide
reputation aud extensive sale by iis
success in curing the diseasee which
cause coughing. If it is not benefic-
ial it will uot cost you a cent. For
sale by Forrost Taylor, druggist. 2">tl
Biliousness is a condition character-
ized by a disturbance of tho digestive
organs. The stomach is debilitated,
the liver torpid, the bowels constipat-
ed. There is a loathing of food,
pains in tho bowels, dizziness, coated
tongue and vomiting, 'first of the uu-
digested or partly digested food and
then of bile. Chamberlain's stomach
and liver tablets allay the disturd-
ances of the stomach and create a
healthy appetite. They also tone up
the liver to a healthy action and re-
gulate tho bowels. Try them and
you are certain to be much pleased
with the result. For sale by Forrest
Taylor, druggist. 25t4
The Best Prescription for Malaria.
Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's
Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply
iron and quinine in a tasteless form.
No cure—No pay. price 50c,
What Is a Friend.
An exchange says that some-
one recently asked the question,
"What is a friend?" It an-
School Lands for Home Seekers.
Do you waut a homo in West Texas
at One Dollar per acre aud Forty
Years to pay for it? This is probably
your last chance iu Texas. I have just
published a book which gives you
valuable information. It is worth its
weight in gold to the Home Seekers.
This book givos the new land law
passed by the recent legislature.
This book tells the names of the
Counties placed East of the Lease
Line.
This book gives tho names of the
parties who now have these valuable
lauds leased.
This book names the counties in
which 6hc1i man has School Land
leased.
This book tells when each man's
lease expires. Hundreds of leases
expire this year.
This book tells how many acres of
the school lauds each man has under
lease.
This book is a valuable guide for
the man who wants some of these
lands for a home.
This book tells you that vou can file
on from oue to four sections aud how
to do it.
This book is reliable because it is
compiled from the records in tho
General Land Office.
This book is sold for $1.00 and will
be mailed to auy address for that
money.
John W. Dale, Bowie Tex.
Leave your order with G. P. Bar-
ber, Seymour Tex.
Fought For Hi3 Life.
"My father and sister both died of
consumption," writes J. T. Weather-
wax, of Wyandotte, Mich-, "and I whs
saved from the same frightful fate
only by Dr. King's new discovery.
An attack of pneumouia left an obsti-
nate cough and very severe lung trou-
ble, which an excellent doctor could
not help, but a few mouths' use of
this wonderful medicine made me as
well as ever and I gaiued much iu
weight." Infallible for soughs, colds
and all throat and lung trouble.
Guaranteed bottles 40c and 1.00 at
Forrest Taylor's drug store trial bot-
tles free, 25(4
swers
U
It is the fellow who
will inconviuce himself for you.
It is the man who will sit by
your bedside when your frame
has been touched by disease.
It is the man who will come to
you when the clouds are black,
while the muttering thunder of
misfortune growls along the
sky. It is the man who will
say, "Don't be discouraged.
I see you are iu trouble let me
help you out. It is not the
man who will do you a kind-
ness only when he feels he will
get in return full value for ser-
vice rendered. We would not
give two cents for a man who
would write his name in fancy
letters in our friendship album
if he would not visit us wheji
we are in trouble."
Lost—One Black mare mule
branded 2 on left shoulder, bad
on leather halter. Any informa-
tion leading to her whereabout*
will be rewarded by,
Amos Lee,
Seymour.
f\\\ Jf?e Jteu/sl
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Rational |feu/s,
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information quickly. •
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