The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1900 Page: 4 of 4
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-DALLAS TEXAS.--
:—I spent one
night with O. J. Thompson on
the way and found his family
with the measletf'. which is a;
common thing in that neighbor-
hood just now.
On my arrival at Thurberl
found everything quiet but mov-
ing on in a business-like way . I
believe all who what to dig coal
** work. Some are wait-
start,
few days.
I was informed by Mr. Gordon,,
superintendent, that the general
company’s office waa being
moved from Ft. Worth to Thur-
hich vviii add considerably
to the already prosperous city,
ir. Gordon is certainly the right
man in the right plaoe. He is
______K, polite, courteous and
all of business, and, so far as I
lave been able to learn, he •
oved by all who have business
with him. (
Not being able to complete my
work in one week, I made ar-
rangements with Robt. McKin-
non to finiah up for me, and
started borne. On the way home
I made a little blunder, but I will
leave that for Dr. George Allison
to tell as be seemed to enjoy it
much better than I.
• John A. Robertson,
Tax Assessor.
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I admire brave women, and
here were three of them ‘ in
Clarksville last Wednesday.
While walking along one of our
streets they saijt a horse drag
sack of bran from a wagon stand-
ing on the street. . They immed-
iately proceeded to the sack,
picked it up and threw it baok in
the wagon. These were com mon
sense women ;tbey will do to tie to.
Many men strong enough to plow
would have watched the horse
devour the bran, and then they
would have laughed at the inci-
dent. I might say,too,that some
men woujd watch a horse slip its
halter and walk out of town, leav-
ing its owner to walk home,adi8-
tance of seven miles. Such a thing
has been done often. A few weeks
ago I saw a horse break its bridle
at the public square and start
homeward. The streets were
thronged with men srong enough
to split rails. I caught the animal
and tied it, and voices were heard
on all sides of the square: “Hello
what offiioe are you runnin * fur?' *
‘None, ’ ’ I replied. ‘ ‘I am doing
for the owner of this horse what
you would like for me to do for
you were the occasion to present
itself.,r
Three cheers for the three brave
women who saved the sack ol!
brant What a contrast between
them and hundreds of men who
would fain receive their hands!
Clarksville (Ark.) Herald.
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MAX BAUMOARTEN, Put. Agent,
JlEflPHIS, TENN.
THE GREAT
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HOUSTON, GALVESTON,
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And other New Mexico, Arizona and
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DUBLIN, TEXAS.
—Undertakers goods at Hig-
ginbotham Company. 5tf.
We returned home last night
(Sunday night) from Double
Mountain where we filled our
regular appointment Saturday,
Saturday night and Sunday not
withstanding the weather was
what might truthfully be called
oold. The congregations Satur-
day night and Sunday were very
large. We found that the Dou-
ble Mountaio people had been
visited last Tuesday night by the
biggest rain that had fallen in
that part of the country in ma
months. We also learned that
our staunch young friend, Jacob
Stavenhagen, and Miss Alice e*
Kinzey had recently married.
This young oouple have our best
wishes. They start out in life
well mated and are of the best ol!
families.
We brought home with us from
the vicinity of Double Mountain
a real remembrance of childhood
it being seven young black locust
trees and planted them out in our
yard to-day. We have but little
hope of living long enough to
see them grown, yet we will al-
ways love them, for when we
look at them they will surely
take our mipds back to Tennes-
see to the home of our boyhood
When our eyes were first per
mitted to behold the beauties of
this world doubtless the black
locust trees were the first th.it
greeted our baby eyes for our
yard was full of them. It was
under the broad spread branches
of the black locust that we spent
many hours of childhood watch
ing the jay birds fly from tree to
tree. It waa in the shade of the
black locust that our venerable
father lectured The in the various
degrees of Masonry. It was
many long years ago sitting in
the shade of the black locust that
I softly whispered the first mes-
sage of love in my wife’s ear.
remember well how she hung her
head and blushed and how ner-
vous I was and how rapidly I
plucked the snowy white blos-
soms from the limbs of the tree.
Yes, dear reader, I love my little
locuet trees for they carry my
mind back to a sacred spot in
Tennessee that I love more than
pen can write or tongue can tell,
and were it possible when life’s
battle is over, like Joseph of old,
I would give commands concern-
ing my bones that they might be
carried back to the home of child -
hood and be buried side by side
of those I once loved and those
that loved me best.
On the first Sunday of this
month Brother Joe Davis of Mor-
gan Mill did some splendid
preaching to a large audience at
th s place.
If not providentially hindered
we will preach at Winn’s Point
next Sunday at 11 a. m. and on
the fourth Sunday at our usual
hour we will preach at Smith
Springs. Also at the poor farm
in the afternoon. Severe cold
weather caused us to fail to fill
our appointment at Smith’s
Springs on the fourth Sunday of
last month. J.D.'J.
—Bill of sales at the Empire.
(Literary Bureau, Sunset Routs,
R.j Houston, Texas.)
... In the industrial expansion of
Texas, the business men, farm-
ers and others of this great 6tate,
should nothing whereby the con-
sumation of their ambitions and
hopes might be prevented. En-
terprise is necessary in all de-
triments of political economy,
and none more than in manufac-
turing industries, which, regu-
ated by demand, in turn exert'a
dominant influence upon the for-
tunes and welfare of communi-
ties and localities. It is a re-
markable fact, but true never-
theless, that the United State;
enjoy but & slight prestige in
commercial circles in South and
Central America. Thie is not
due altogether to apathetic in-
difference upon the part of our
oommercial interests, but in the
main is due to the question of
distance. Few people realize that
if two-ships of equal speed leave
the harbors of Liverpool and
New York at the same time, the
British anchor would be dropped
first, in the harbor of Rio de Ja-
nerio, and the fact that the dis-
tance, say from the mouth of the
Mississippi river to this South
•American port about equals the
distanoe from the European har-
bors to the same point, is one
seldom taken into consideration.
To this important difference in
time is due the supremacy of
France, England and Germany
in the markets of South America,
both on the east and west coast.
The present is an era of quick
sales and small profits, and in
five times out of ten the question
of distanoe will dominate a bar-
gain, hence it may be seen how
difficult it is for our own manu
facturers and producers to com-
pete in the southern markets of
the western continent againt the
combined influences of the Euro
pean manufacturing centers aid
ed by an important ally in the
shape of a lesser distance and a
correspondingly diminished con
sumption of time in reaching the
market.
Texas has never really entered
the field of competition against
the states of the east and the
enterprise of the European coun-
tries, and yet the prize lies at
her very door. Her proximity
to the republics of Central Amer-
ica ought, by virtue of position,
if for no other reason, enable
her producers and manufacturers
to plaoe their commodities on the
counters and shelves of every
merchant in the tropics.
'In the event of the Nicaragua
canal becoming a “fait accom-
pli,” the rich markets of the
South American seaports on the
Pacific coast wouifi at once be-
come tributary to the Texas
manufacturers and farmers by
virtue of proximity.
Then again, we are neglecting
glorious opportunities which sug-
gest themselves even nearer
home. The great Republic of
Mexico, with her millions of con-
sumers, offers a continuous mar-
ket for nearly everything Texas
produces, and yet, what a com-
paratively small proportion of
the Mexican imports Texas con-
tributes, and this proportion ap-
pears doubly insignificant when
one considers the statement that
the exports from the United
states into our sister republic
have increased over four hun-
dred per cent within the p ist
twelve months, and that, too, in
the face of a wonderful develop-
ment of the mineral and agricul-
tural possibilities of Mexico.
Texas should prepare for the
inevitable. With her great cot-
ton fields; her oil fields; her gi-
gantic cattle ranges, and her re-
cently discovered coal and iron
deposits, she should be able to
step into the broad arenas of com-
mercial activity and say to the
world that, being an empire in
herself, Texas can supply em-
pires elsewhere.
There is much room for a de-
velopment and concerted action
on the part of the people gener
ally, which would assist in bring-
ing about the desired end. Her
cotton should be manufactured
where it is grown; her ides
should be converted into leather
and the leather into manufactur-
ed articles at home; her grain
should be ground into flour be-
fore leaving the state, and her
cattle and swine should be con
verted into meat products with-
out the necessity for shipment on
the hoof to other state3. The
possibilities in this direction and
in other directions are unlimited
These things must come to pass,
and what greater incentive can
Texas and her peop'e demand
than the example offered by en-
terprise and energy in the north-
ern and eastern states? Prosper-
ity will follow effort. It merely
behooves our readers to take the
initiative and go to the support
of enterprise for the common
weal.
The south is marching steadily
on to a prosperity which will
leave its mark on the .pages of
history, and Texas, many sided
Texas, must strike, hard and
often, that her advantages and
facilities bring unto her people
the fruits of industry and skill.
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London, Feb. A—A
aoorces that absolutel j no
hu been received by the war
the report that Bailer hae recroeeed tbe
Tngela river and is marching eats
Ladysmith. On the contrary, according
to tbe information of the war oOe* a*
tbe present moment every indication is
that thing* are quiet at tbe front and
no Immediate movement Is anticipated.
Regarding the die patches from Lady-
smith saying Bailer's guns wen beard
there, it is enrmised that some practice
may have been going on with tbe new
batteries which have just reached the
front
13m war office statement that it baa
received no confirmation of tbe report
that General Bidler hae recroeeed the
Tngela river, has failed to shake public
belief that operations of tremendous im-
portance are proceeding at the Tngela
and it is thoughts her a denial promoted
by a desire to keep the military move-
ments as secret as possible until some-
thing is accomplished or that bndcr -a
keeping the home officials in the dark
pendiug results. It ia extremely difficult
to eract the truth from conflicting
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A Night of Terror.
‘ 'Awful anxiety was felt for the
widow of the brave Gener-1 Burnham
of Maehias. Me., when the doctors
said she would die from Pneumonia
before morning” writes Mrs. S. H
Lincoln, who attended ner that fearfnl
night, bnt she begged for Dr. King’s
New Discovery, which had more than
once saved her life, and cured her of
Consumption. After taking she slept
all night.i Further use eotirely cured
her.” Tpis marvelous medicine is
guarantee*? to cure all throat, chest
and lung diseases. Only 50c and $1 00.
Trial bottles free at Perry Bros. ’ 'drug
store.
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statements shrouded in Boiler’s move-
ments, hot most commentators agree
that the items tend to confirm the be-
lief that movements of importance are
in progress. It is true that corresponds,
ents at Bailer’s headquarters convey tbs
impression that hie main force is still
south of the Tngela, bnt it is easily con-
ceivable that dispatches are censored.
LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS.
They Indore* McKinley and Kies and
Nominate n State Tlefcn*.
New Orleans, Feb-.fi.—The regular
Republican state convention, organised
by National Committeeman Wimbsrtey,
met here Monday. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing William McKinley
for president and Cornelius E. Bliss
for vice president, and amid enthusiasm
Collector of th? Port Wimberley was
made the national committeeman for
Louisiana.
The convention was unique in the his-
tory of the state, A majority of the
delegatee were whits men and there
a noticeable absence of that wrangling
and inharmony which has generally
characterized Republican conventions.
The following state ticket was nomi-
nated by acclamation:
For governor—Engene S. Reems.
Lieutenant governor—Ferdinand B.
Earhardt
Treasurer—Benjamin J. Bloomfield.
Auditor—Joseph W. Forsythe.
Attorney general—Judge Robert P.
Hunter.
Superintendent of education—Dr. D.
M. Lines. *
. Mr. Reems is a wholesale grocer and
director in the St Charles Street rail-
way and several banks. Several hundred
delegatee representing all parishee in
the state were present
The Money Forwarded.
Washington, Feh. 5.—Secretary Hay
received $750 collected by the St Louis
Westliche Poet and transmitted to the
state department by Mr. Pretoria! to
he need for the benefit of the widows
and orphans of Boer soldiers. The sec-
retary has forwarded the money by mail
to Adelbert Hay,. United States oosjgnl
at Pretoria, to be turned over to Presi-
dent Kruger for the purpose specified.
Mr. Pretorins’ letter was also sent for-
ward. The action of tlie state depart-
ment, it is explained, applies only to
contributions for charitable objeota
Farmer A**e«*loat*d.
Mansfield, Tex, Feb. 8. — James A
Jarmcn, s farmer, aged abont 40 years,
was called to the front door of his real
dence early Wednesday evening and
shot to death by an unknown person.
The assassin knocked at the front door
of the Jarmon home and the dead, man
responded. He had no more than opened
the door than he was fired on. Three
shots were fired, two of tbe ballets tak-
ing effect in the region of the heart No
clew.
Killing at Beevllle.
Beeville, Tex., Feb. 5.—Asa rssnltof
a shooting, E. E Templeton, a well
known % saloon man, lies dead at his
home and Julio .W. Wilson, a olerk in a
store, is out under $2000 bond charged
with the shooting. The altercation
came up over the payment of a small
bill which had been presented to Tem-
pleton, and which he claimed he had
paid, and was merely the reenlt of a
misunderstanding.
Dtvli nt the Front.
Lorenzo Marquez, Feb. 5,—Webster
Davis, es-assistant secretary of the in
terior,’ accompanied by a party of
friends, is at the head laager of the
Boers at Ladysmith and is closely in-
specting the oampsand positions around
the besieged town. The German consol
at Pretoria, Herr Biermann, is accom-
panyir* Mr. Davis on his trip to the
Boer bead laager,
Killed HI* Brother.
Deming, N. M., Feb. 8.—Joe W. Tay-
lor, a prominent cattle raiser of this
section, shot and instantly killed his
brother, James W., at their ranch 18
miles from Deming. The brothers had
a misunderstanding over business mat-
ters.
Herd’s Election Sore,
San Francisco, Feb. 5. -D. M. Borns
has withdrawn frem the senatorial race,
insuring the election of Thomas B.
Bard, the Republican caucus nominee.
Fatal Sunstroke*.
Buenos Ayres, Feb. 6.—There wew
219 cases of sunstroke here Sunday, of
whi.-h 134 cases were fntal
TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
The Tax Bill Retomed to the Hone# hy
th* Committee.
Austin, Feb. 6.—The committee on
revenue and taxation presented its re-
port on the tax bill in the house yeeter-
day. It was ordered read and took un-
til 4 p. m to complete it
Mr. Powell offered the following ree-
olution which was adopted:
Resolved, That bill No. 1 (tax bill)
b-1 considered as follows: Begin with
chapter 11 and consider each article and
subdivision thereof consecutively all
through the entire bill, considering tbe
caption. enacting clause and first
chapter last ’’
No action was taken on the bill, but
the occupation tax received some atten-
tion
Some other routine work was dis-
posed of.
In the senate Mr. Dibrell introduced
a bill appropriating $165,000
deficiencies in the s^jfl^rt of tfas
government, in line with the go
recommendation
Mr. Turner introduced a bill
tbe MO pcovid-
of tbs pa bite
the school
fund, on third reading and final passage,
was Mid before tbs senate.
There were some eligbt changes made
Md tbe|»n passed by a vote of 20 to Z
The senate next considered a bill by
Mr Morris, fixing the salaries of the
ebperintendentB of the three atatoineane
asylums at $8000 per annnss each, and
I ninlsh at the expense of the state each
fuel light, water, cooking, household
and table furniture and quarters as may
be required
Tbe bill waa still pending when tbe
meats adjourned.
THE TAX BILL.
It I* the Opiate* It Caaaat Ha Paeead la
Thirty Days.
Austin, Feb. SL—From present indi-
cations the special session of the legis-
lature will not accomplish the object of
its call Although the report of tbe tax
oommittee may get imo the house to-
day, there is no change in the sentiment
that the bill cannot be passed before the
aloes of the first special session, nor Is
then aay indication as yet that the gov-
ernor will reconvene the legislature for
a second special session for the purpose
of passing a tax bill.
There may come a change hffiu situ-
ation when the oommittee report is mads
and the boose finds itself direotly
oharged with tbe responsibility for en-
acting a tax Mw, bat so strong and so
widespread is tbe opposition to most of
the principal features of the bill that
there is little hope of harmonious action
with the remaining two weeks of this
session. Then, too, the senate is to have
its inning and no member has yst been
fonnd who will hasard the belief that
the bill Can be got through the house
and into the senate in time to enable
that body to give it due end deliberate
consideration
Farther time wee granted Friday by
the boose to the oommittee on taxation
and revenue for the consideration of the
tax bill and preparation of its report
thereon.
Tbe case of Representative Tarver of
Webb, again occupied the attention of
the bouse Mr. Tarver sent np and
asked to have made part of the rooord a
statement explaining his status whan
he cams, here as a member of the house.
After much discussion, during which
Reptesentati ves Tarver, Wright, Whales,
Savage, Wooten and others spoke, the
matter was postponed until Friday
next
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We are now prepared to fill all orders. We deliver and set out
everything in the city free of charge. All stock strictly guar-
anteed. We will epare no pains In propagating, therefore our
stook will always be graded or hybrid stoek. We have learned
long ago that it requires as much ground for a oommon tree aa it
<Iom for the best. Ws «- give you everything true to name.
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Great Presidential Campaign
1900
Antitrust Law Optelon.
Ansin, Feb 5.— According to a decis-
ion rendered by Attorney General Smith
a contract entered into between em-
ployes and employers fixing a scale of
wages is not a violation of tbe new anti-
trust law.
This decision was called forth by an
inquiry made by W. B. King of Eagle
Lake, assistant chairman of the Order of
Railway Telegraphers in Texas, who
called on the governor in reference to
tbe application of tbe antitrust law to
labor organizations and their contracts
for scales of wages. Tbe governor re-
ferred him to the attorney general and
the decision outlined was the reenlt
Hilled by a Switch Kmgtee.
Galveston, Feb. 8 — Robert Perkins,
aged 24, was ran over and killed by a
twitch engine of the Galveeton, Hone-
ton and Northern railroad. The de-
ceased had been employed in the com-
pany’s freight yards as a freight hand
and when they were short of hands he
noted in the capacity of switchman.
Old People Made Young.
J. C. Sherman, the veteran editor of
the Vermontville (Mich.) Echo, has
di8 sovered the remarkable^ secret of
keeping old people yonng. For years he
has avoided nervousness, sleeplessness
indigestion, heart trouble, constipa
tion and rheumatism, by using Elec-
tric Bitters, and he writes: ‘‘It cant
be praised too highly. It gently stincn-
latee the kidneys, tones the stomach,
aids digestion, and gives a splendid
appetite It has worked wonders for
my wile and me. Its a marvelous rem-
edy for old people’s complaints. Only
50c at Perry Bros, drag store.
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The Semi Weekly News (Galveston
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Fridays. Each issue consists of eight
pages. There are special departments
for the farmers, the ladies and the
boys and girls, besides a world of gen-
eral news matter, illustrated articles,
etc. We offer the Semi- olh itvi
and the Stephenville Empire for twelve
months for the low clubbing price of
$2.g5 cash in advance. This gives you
three papers a week, or 156 papers a
year, for a ridiculously low price.
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Arrangements were perfected
for the inauguration on Nov.
12th of through Pullman service
between St. Louis and San Anto-
nio, via the St. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad to Paris,
thence Gulf, Colorado and Sante
Fe Railway to Milano, and from
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Low Kates to Mardi Gras.
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24 , 25 , 26, sell round trip tickets
to New Orleans at one fare, with
final limit for return Marcb 10th,
1900. For furtner particulars
see nearest ticket agent or write
E. P. Turner, General Passen-
ger and Ticket Agent, Dallas,
Texas.
150 Pound Watermelon I
THINK OF SUCH ▲ MONSTER!
We can ail have them if we plant GIRAR-
DEAU'S Extra Fancy Selected --Triumph”
Seed. From no other seed will such melons
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The first census of the United States
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succeeding ten years, The result of
each census has been a* follows:
Year
1810..
1820.
1830..
1840. .
1850..
Population
,. 7.230,881
9,633,822
12,866,020
17,069 452
Year
1860..
1870..
1880..
23,191,876 i 1890..
Population
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38.558,871
50,155,788
62,622,250
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What will be the population of the
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For Sale.
The following list of property In Erath
county is offered for sale on easy terms at
tbe prices named, to-wit:
No. 2. West *4 of tbe E. M. Gray 702-acre
survey lying: about five miles S. W. of Thur-
ber. About 44 Is good farmiDg land and the
balance grazing land- Price, per acre. 13.(A).
No. S. Sec. No. 10. H. T. * B. R. R Co., 480
acres, lying four miles south of, Tburber.
Fine grass land. Price, per acre, *2 00.
No. 4. E. T. <k X. Eggleston survey of 342
6-10 acres, located three mile* 8. W. of Thur-
ber, *4 farming and Yt grazing laud Price,
per acre. IS 00.
No. 5 Stephen I>onaldson survey near
Duffau. 361 A cut into three blocks. H farm-
ing and Vi grazing land. Price, per A., $5.00
In College Hill Addition to Stephenville.
No. 8. Lot 3, B. 1, 113 feet by 230 feet, tbe
:,C~1 un-occiinicd residence lot in Stephenville,
oetween tbe homes of O 8. Houston and T J
spradling. Price, 4275.00.
No. 9 Lot 1. B. 2. 117 feet by 330 feet, very-
desirable residence lot located between tbe
residence of O 8 Houston and the place I
tormerly occupied by Judge J 8 Slraugbau.
Soxlh front Price. »275.0O.
.No. 10 Lot 2, B 2 136 feet by 330 feel, south
ron.. four room residence. Good cistern,
.rc-baid etc belli.- tbe property formerly
occupied by Judge Stranghan. Price. $750 00
No 11. Lot 3, B 2, 1 1-10 A . soutb from
Price, $200 00. ,
In Shapard te Collins Addition to
Stephenville.
No. 12. Lot 2. B 1, 104x 140 feet. Price. $60
No. 13. Lot 4, B 1, 104x140 feet. Price, $60
No. 14. Lot 1. B. 4, 102x222 feet. Price. $100
No. 16. Lot 1, B 8, % of 1 acre Price, $100.
No. 18. Lot 5. B 7, H of I acre Price. $40.
No. 19. Lot 1, B. 6 87 ft. off N. end. Price $40
Correspondence invited with any one inter-
ested in any of this property.
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750 00
500 00
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$25,000
—New crop garden seed and
onion sets at McD. Reil’s. Plant
early to make good gardens. 24
READERS OF THE
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can avail themselves of this offer
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A Good Meal.
The place to get it i9 at Sam
Long’s Place, north side of the
square, next to Theo. Bauer’s.
Beds are clean and comfortable.
Meals 25c. Beds 25c. 29tf
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Moore, Eugene. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1900, newspaper, February 15, 1900; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth882418/m1/4/?q=land: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.