The Hereford Brand, Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Deaf Smith County Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I*
Hereford Brand, Friday. June 23,
The Doable Wedding of Twins.
The marriage of Mimes AUjaa and
Alta Moore to Leland and Lorand
Tabler of Adrian, Misaouri, at the
Moore home upon Normal Hill yea
terday morning had a romantic in-
terest and a tender charm.
The brides are twina and the
young huabanis are twina. Both
pair ot twins are inseperable com
panions. They are bound together
with the strongest chains of love and
aympathy and never intend to be
separated.
The Moore twins were made or*
phans at the death of father and
mother within a few weeks. The
loas of their parents bound them
closer together. From childhood
they have dressed alike and looked
alike. As they blossomed into
young womanhood the likeneas grew
as did also their wish to have every
article of dress alike. In type they
border upon the brunette, except
their skin has the fairness of a New
England maid, with more roses upon
the cheek. Their eyes and hair are
a rich and soft shade of brown.
The Tabler twins are equally
alike in appearance and even more
careful about every part of their at-
tire being duplicates. They have
never been separated. When the
KEEP
COOL
Wear Underwear
that will insure com-
fort.
B. V. D. Union Suits.
B. V. D. Shirts and
Drawers.
Porosknit Uif on Suits
either knee fr ankle
lengths.
Porosknit ! rts and
Draw*
FOR
and B
Alao a nle line of
Lisle Union Suits at
$1.00 to $2.50.
Balbriggan Under-
wear, Elastic Seam
Drawers 50c to 75c.
Wear the kind you
see advertised in the
leading magazines.
Yours for comfort,
H.C
Myrick
ILITY
RELIA
We offer special inducement* ip
quarter and half taction track* tflosk
in to actual settlers. We have somb
on easy payments. Hereford.-!* .n
the shallow water belt. Writs II tif
particulars. Address
baskin land compair/
Hereford, - . trxaf
romance, ending so auspiciously yes-
terday, was at its beginning the
Tabler twins were in the Texas Pan-
handle. From there they went to
the Pacific Slope, and then returned
to Adrian. They are now prosper-
ing in the grocery and hardware
trade. They will undertake no busi-
ness venture separately, and all pro-
perty is held in common. The Tab-
ler twins are well known to the
Missouri press, but the twins had,
until the occaaion of their unique
wedding, lived without their peculiar
aimilarity in diaposition, attire and
appearance being known beyond the
wide circle of frienda and relatives.
The Moore-Tabler romance dates
back to February 1908. Then the
Tabler twina were ih the Panhandle.
Among their neighbors was Miss
Bessie Lay of Hereford, Texas, and
among Miss Lay's correspondents
waa Miss Maude Kolhl of this city,
then a student of the Southwest
Texas Normal. Miss Lay wrote to
Miss Kolhl of the interesting Tabler
twins, and in return Miss Kolhl told
all about the pretty Moore twins of
San Marcos, who were just as much
alike and just as inseperable com-
panions as the Tabler twins. As a
result of this correspondence, the
two pair of twins exchanged post
cards. And thus the romance was
started.
The real correspondence only
commenced last April. In Decem-
ber the interest of the Missouri
twins in their fair corerspondents
had grown to where they wished to
come the many hundred miles be-
tween San Marcos, Texas, and Ad-
rian, Mo. They came—and like-
wise saw and conquered, for when
they returned to the colder clime of
their home state they had won the
hearts of two Texas girls. The visit
was at the festal season of Christ-
man, and in that time of good cheer
and giving they received two pre*
sents—the lives of the Texas twins—
to be placed in their keeping in
June, the month of roses and wed-
dings.
But before they returned to claim
their gifts they had first to build a
home to put them in. That home is
a sweet little six room bungalow,
charmingly modern and convenient,
in Adrian. There are duplicate
suites of living and sleeping rooms
in this wonderful bungalow nest.
And these duplicate suites have dup-
licate furnishings. The furniture is
alike, the floor coverings are alike,
the walls are alike, and even the
pictures on the walls are alike. It
took time and loving thought of the
sweet brides soon to be its delighted
occupants to get all this planned and
executed. But now the task is com-
pleted and the bungalow has two
suites as much alike as two peas in
a pod. The kitchen and dining room
will be used in common. The de-
corative scheme of the bungalow is
tastefully expressed in these rooms,
too, and wherever things should be
duplicate pairs they are certain to
be that way.
The wedding yesterday morning,
June 8th, 1911, was a quiet home
affair with only a few friends and
neighbors invited in. There was no
best man or no maid of honor, be-
cause no duplicates were available.
The solemn words of the marriage
ceremony were pronounced by Rev.
Cullum Booth, who confessed that
he heid the marriage licenses before
him to keep the names of the two
pair of twins straight. The Moore
twins wore a soft shade of greyish-
blue serge, made into smart little
traveling suits. The box coats were
(h£ same length, had the same trisft-
arings of black buttons and bra
tnd the same facings of sil^irftdft
match. From under two precisely
similar hats of blue to match peeped
the fair and blushing faces of the
brides. The grooms were dressed
they wore to bold their white tl
and to their signet rings. The Tab-
ler twins have wavy brown hair and
eyes of the same clear grey. They
wear the same sise shoes, clothes,
and hats, and no shopkeeper need
offer any article unless be has a
duplicate. With the two couple
standing side by side it waa a pus-
sling task to decide which couple wss
Lorand Tabler and Alta Moore and
which Leland Tabler and Alma
Moore.
The congratulations were hearty
and tinged with an under current of
raillery. The fortunes of the twina
in the way of matrimony had found
a sure and romantic harbor in the
marriage of twins to twins, but the
similarity of the couples was too un-
usual to pass without joking. The
flight to the train was in fast touring
cars which drew the gase of the
passerby as the twins hurried to take
the way to Adrian and other points
in Missouri, by the way of the Katy
Limited. At the station the twins
were a double attraction, because
there were two sets of them. The
passengers upon tlxe Limited greeted
the twins' arrival with excited inter-
est. Amid the shower of rice and
the wonderment of passengers at the
appearance of two exactly similar
pair of newlyweds, the train bore
them away to their waiting bungalow
with its twin suites of rooms and its
twin closets and chiffoniers to hold
the brides' twin trousseau.
The Tabler twins are the sons of
M. F. Tabler and wife of Adrian.
Coming from Central Missouri to
Bates county in 1863, the father was
a pioneer of that part of the state.
His wife was a member of the Har-
rison family of Central Missouri, an
old and prominent family. Fortune
has smiled broadly upon M. F. Tab-
ler and he is a man of wealth and
influence. In the veins of the Moore
twins runs the best Southern blood,
and their father, Walter Moore,
was one of the most highly esteemed
men ever connected with Hays
County's public life.
Photographs of the two pair of
twins who figured in the double wed-
ding here yesterday, are on display
in Miller's show window.—Hays
County Times.
Black Beauty Kitchen Set is a
household necessity. When you get
one at this office, show it to your
neighbors. No matter whether we
cannot afford to give these
Black Beauty Sets away or not, or
what they cost. We would not sell
you a set for less than $3.00, but
you can subscribe for The Brand and
get $4.00 worth of good stuff includ-
ing a year's subscription for only
$1.50.
Never leave home on i
bottle of Chamberlain's
Diarrhoea Remedy. Il
be needed and caqnot he
board the cars
all dealers.
lournev without a
Cholera and
ilmoet certain to
tained when on
For sale bj
1 * ~ - 4
Plain view Men Honest.
Julian, the sign painter, was in
dire trouble one of the big days of
the carnival. Just when ne needed
it the most he discovered that his old
pocketbook, containing the nice large
sum of $35.00 ir« money, bad dis-
appeared from off his person. To
describe Julian' feelings or repeat
what JuHan said is not our purpose,
but suffice is to say that the loss of
the pocketbook in the midst of the
festivities was a calamity. Julian's
return to happiness is directly trace-
able to Messrs. A. J. Chambers and
E. C. Baker, two of Plainview's
visiting Odd Fellows. Walking
down the street they discovered the
ketbook shortly after it had
bed from its accustomed place in
lian's pocket to the sidewalk
hen these two good fellows got
eir heads together, examined its
contents, found the owner's name
therein, and then making inquiries
located Julian and restored'to him
4V . ' C* 11«/4 nurcA
Have You Seen Our New
Loose Land Uster?
It is a neWhiember
*amous
IE FAMILY
iplements
in and let us
few it to you
Garrison Brothers
Make Our Store Your Headquarters
OLD STORIES
that are facts neveiy wear out.
Among them musfroe listed the
one about "Nigeafrhead" Coal
being best, i Warve been say-
ing this for/ 4 Aears and are
backed up
by our m
will accep]
We have
Grain, Hay
Come to see ul
ie bold assertion
customers who
To other.
ie most complete stock of
id Field Seed in Hereford,
south of Passenger Depot.
WITHERSPOON & HARRISON
TELEPHONE NO. 76
STANDARD
fish
CERIES
are always sold on a very
close margin of profit.
You can always count on
buying your Sugar, Flour,
Butter, Eggs, etc., here at
the lowest market rates.
Our
Fancy
Groceries
are sold on an equally low basis. You can get the finest things
to eat here at prices you usually pay for those of ordinary grade.
CARDWELL BROTHERS
Telephone Number Fifty
The Brand will have
Calendars in a
which the mercha
make their seld s
The prices will
no use to be in
lot of
from
banks may
for 1912.
me.
Fight. There is
'hurry about buy-
tf
Our Altitude^
Hereford 3750 feet
Amarillo ^67 6 feet
Wildorado -T-'if- 3887 feet
Vega J-A- 3986 feet
Alamoosa 4000 feet
Adr an 3998 feet
Cap Rock. 4127 feet
4
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1911, newspaper, June 23, 1911; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253609/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.