The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 24, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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PILOT POUT, TEXAS, SATl -OAV, MARCH
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—REAI.tR IN—
Staple and Fancy Grecsries,
North Bid© Square.
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Sam Gainer,
SPOT CASH GROCER.
PILOT rOIKT; TEXAS.
SPRING.
Dr. A C. DkBow,
PHYSICIAN k SUBGN
Office: At Star Drug Store.
Owen Ellis,
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BOOTS AM) SHOES,
PILOT POIST. TEXAS.
W. J. Pearce
Proprietor City
IRA’, FEED STABLE
Bibos Hoe will carry pasnen-
gers to any part of tbe city
Pilot Point, Texan.
D. S. Mays,
BLACKSMITH.
-Work of all kinds done to order,
and guaranteed tobefirstclass.
Shop on Main street, in the old
Domain shop. Pilot Point, Texas.
music School.
Pilo; Point Institute,
N. A. BABBE.TRIFPAL
MKN1IKR M.T. X. A.
MISS LINXA HAISI.IP, AS8ISTAK1
A. H. OEE,
Caakiei
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PILOT POINT BANK
Do a General Banking and Col-
lecting Business. _ , _
Pilot Point. Tex.
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Now kind friendsdnn’t think I'm g0.\otF*by.t2*h, ffotten up I sup-
ing to write,
Of beautiful spring very much to-
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pose by ibe immigration Assoc ia
tion setting forth tho .advantages, interviewed a number of our farmer
Because: with the mud, the rain and ot D(‘atn,‘ «0NntjJts productions ' «•- •'
the hail • i etc., in which tkeir .on. many et- thm i.
Should fear that 1 should utterly fall, Tors and mfslukCS t ile dated to I b* " ;it
To interest you for my subject don’tj mislead and deceive homo eeekers IwshJ <
Dr. J. H. Johnson
Resident Dentist.
The Natural Tooth Preserved.
Teeth Extracted Without Pain.
ArtiReial Teeth also Inserted
* from one lok Full Set.
Charge* reasonable.
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TTOE SIGHT
^/LeoNLy BY
Jxo. A. Maurer.
From 25 cents up. Warranted
Pebbles at $3 50.
Wilson’s comer.
DR. L E. JENKINS.
W DENTIST.
PILttT PQIRT, TEXAS.
OJke in Commercial Hotel, lioom
Ho. 7.
•NLYIR8TCLASS WORK DO
CHARGES REASONABLE.
The Preservation of the Natural
Teeth a 8|>eciality.
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M* A.* DALE,
Manafscturor of
TlH AND GALVANIZED WARS,
air Job work a specialty. Tin
Aon on eonth side square, at old
Stand, .Pilot Point, Texas.
Hag,
Of theeo wintry cold days in beautiful
spring,
The budaare all out, yes, out in tbo
cold,
With ice on their noses to maks them
look old;
And frost,in his night cap is hanging
around,
To nip off tho corn, right close to
the ground.
So why do you ask me to write of a
thing,
That looks more like wintor, I feel so
by jing.
But spring s on the road; but when
’twill bo here,
Is more than 1 can tell yon, f very
much fear,
But sometime in June, ’twill come with
short meter,
You can tell when its coming by the
bun of the skeeter,
That olairns us for kinfolks, and lights
on our nose,
And aticks in his bill, to disturb our
repose,
Yes, then is the time when beautiful
spring
Comes skipping along on warm breer-
e’s wing,
thul If you will allow mo space in
your excellent #aper I will
point out some of the moat prom-
inent errors aud mistakes.
Error 1st. It. is stated by the ar-
ticle in question, that the yield
wheat is from 10 to .TO bushels per
acre. The truth is, from 0 to 30.
I suppose that the average would
not be more than 10 bushels per
acre. Error 2nd, The yield of
corn is from 30 to 50 bushels per
acre, the truth is, from about 10
to 50. Average about 15 or 20.
.Error 3d. The yifld of onto is
from 15 to 100 bushels per acre,
the truth is, from abou t 20 to 60,
in a few cases it may have readi-
ed 100 bushels. Error 4th.
Sweet potatoes yield from 200 to
300 bushels per acre. The truth
is, from about 30 to 200 bushels.
Average perhaps about 50. Er-
ror 5th. Good living water is ob-
tained from natural springs in
many places. The truth is,
springs are fow aud far between,
And bine bottlo flies, are never too; ... . _ __„
. I and the water generally of poor
late
To fall iu our ’lasses, and dry on
plate,
And mocking birds in each evergreen
sing,
Then you may say howdy; to old lazy
apring.
[The above was composed and read
by Dr. Jenkina at the literary
society last Friday night.]
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BABIES FOR BAIT.
Little Brown Infante Tempting
the Crocodile From ite Lair.
((Babies wanted for crocodile
baits. Will be returned alive.”
If newspapers abounded iu Cey-
lon as much as crocodiles do, ad-
vertisements worded like the fore-
going would be common in their
want columns. As it is, the En-
glish hunter has to secure biB
baby by personal solicitation. He
Is often successful, for Ceylon pa-
rents, as a rule, have unbounded
confidence in tho hnnters, and
will rent their babies out to be
used as crocodile bait for a small
consideration.
Ceylon crocodiles suffer greatly
from enm& They prefer to lie
quite still, soothed by the sun’s
glittering rays, aud while away
their lives in meditation. But
when a dark brown infant with
cnrley toes sits on a bank and
blinks his eyes at them they \hrow
off their eloak of laziuess and
make their preparations for a del-
icate morsal of baby humanity.
When the crooodile gets half way
np tho bank tbe hunter, conceal-
ed behind soma reeds, opens up
flro*, and tbe hungry crooodile has
his appetite and life taken Away
at tbe same time. The sports-
man seenres the bead and skin
of the crocodile, and the
reat of tbe carcass the natives
make u*e of.
* The average Ceylon infant dis-
plays a passive indifference to his
advances, and the only thing
which frightens him is the report
of the gun, at least so the hunters
assert.
like hold of the knob and shut
•very door without slumping it.
tlj0 j quality. It is true that there is
not much difficulty in obtaining
well water. Error 6th. The cli-
mate is mild aud regular, the ther-
mometer rarely ever rising as
high as 90degrees. The truth is,
at some time during nearly every
summe r it rises to 95 frequent-
ly goes over 100. K;-W>r 7th. The
rain fall is well distributed
through the year and. amply suf-
ficient for the growth ami matur-
ity of ail crops. The truth, is the
weather is very changeable and
sometimes it rains a great deal
and a long time as It has been do-
ing for some time aud then again
it ta dry so long that crops are
cat short aud stock water be-
comes au object. 1 am an old
man, have a good little farm and
have farmed in Denton county for
eleven years and regard it us a
very good farming country, bnt
then it is not a paradise. Now
1 do not object to good emigrants
coiniug from tho East, West North
or South, and settliug iu Denton
county or any place they may de-
sire; bnt I do object to the
puffs that are being circulated
through the pnbltc prints, calcu-
lated to mislead and deceive the
home seeker, enusiug him to break
up and sacrifice what little be has
and then find to his sorrovr that
he has been humbugged aud then
never realize bis expectations.
Consequently there ie much dis-
satisfaction among (migrants. Ky
designing men tho pictures are
drawn too high. Lest I t respaNS
upon your valuable space 1 will
close, leaving the matter to the
judgement of every honest far-
mer that has been here for the last
eleven years.
Please publish the above aud
abilge, A. H. Drets,
J. T. Fitch,
N. O. Baldwin,
J. A. Vandkrslior,
J. M. Knight,
D. C. MoGkk,
N. H. Stanley.
N. J. Debts,
Thos» Paine.
and a host of others.
civrtiA'u to the fimnigra-l
. , :••• \ .\i especially i
i- io tin? communication
where signed by A. If.|
Dcct.s amt oilier-.. Mr. .1. 1 it. Robin-
sou, although a farmer iu Collin
comity, says: The statements made
in tho circular of tho Immigration
Committee are not overdrawn in hie
county. He never failed to produce
fully a« much per acre and in same
instance exceeding the figures giv«u.
His experience has been, that Texas
produces more abundantly with less
labor than any country he ever lived
in. lie never failed to raise a sar-
j ,
J Mr. J. 13. Key, whose farm is ad-
jacent to the .city, say *: lf« has re-
sided here 18 years and never failed
to make a surplus crop; regards the
statements of Mr. Ducts aud others
too extreme.
Mr. B. li. Ncnuian lias farmed in
Denton county seven year*. When
ho arrived here ho had to borrow
seven dollars; he is now well-to-do,
has three horses, wagon, farming
tools and seventeen heacLof cattle,
lie has always raised plenty, witli a
surplus; thinks the statements of
Mr. Doeti; aud others exage rated.
R. A. Domiel has farmed bare
four years and the worst years of all,
on account of protracted drouth, in
the experience of the oldest inhabi-
tant, he lias been successful iu grow
ing good crops; regards statements
of Mr. Docts and others too extrava-
gant ~
S. 13. Tabor, of Spring Ilill neigh-
borhood, endorses fully the state-
ments and others, lie is heartily iu
favor of Immigration, providing
paupers and criminals are kept back.
J. M. Sullivan has farmed iu Tex-
as 16 years, came here with a strong
prejudice agAinst the country, lie
now regards it the best of all states.
He has lived in Tennessee and Mis-
souri, has been more successful in
growinggood crops; the yield far in
cess than that iu the old states, re-
gards the statements altogether too
extreme.
J. M. McClendon, a farmer of 17
years in Texas, is an anti emigration
but wants it to go* on record, ami
says emphatiely that tho statements
given by Mr. Deets and others arc
estimated very much too low.
Mr. D. G. Menasco, a farmer of
30 years, says his average corn crop
will reach 25 bushels per acre, oats
40 bushels per acre ami sweet pota-
toes 100 bushels per aero.
O. H. Bonner, who lives four
miles southwest of town, lias boon
here fifteen years and ho gives these
figures according to the best of his
knowledge and abilitv; tlw> --
per acre 30 bus’
per acre, swe
per acre,
been eiup*
C. Co;
settlers 1
this conn
bis expo,
com crop
acre, whoa
oats 45 but
water r
fcTAl E AHD CEtlERAL i\
Clarendon claims to have > >ew
dairy containing 25 cows.
Greer county h;ta twelve var-
iupv’s Alliances in working < k-r.
I fly,-gins organized a literal ■ so-
ciety last Thun day night.
A new posLoflieo has be- n es-
tablished at Appleton iu Ilm- ford
country.
A ucw post-office named ‘iills-
ilcu lias been established in Hips-
comb county.
A new Methodist church t< cost
$1,200 is planned to be bui at
Clarendon soon.
Donley county trustees advt lisa-
for bids to construct anew t vme
school house at Clareuilon.
Mobeetie bus removed fro i th®
shadows and now bus tbe ti 'e to
the town site seourobeyond uos-
tion.
Greer county has sspplic her
jail with iron cages, stairway and
other things to keep prlsonc v se.-
enro.
Bpriug oreek district in Greer
Greer has just completed a »ew
school houss accomodating 5 pu-
pils.—Pan Handle notes fu- tha
Canadian Orescent.
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IIDLE3 OF CO CRTS hi
Don’t disagree with tho
father in p&iities, oi her n.
in religion.
If you have a rival, keep u
on \Inj; if he is a widower,
two ®ye» on him.
Don’t put too much swee
on paper. If you do you
hear it read in after years.
Go home at n reasonable
m the evening.
If on tho occasion of your irst
call she looks like an iceberg 'ind-
ucts like a cold wave, take ■ our
lenve early, aud stay away a »me
time.
In cold weathor finish s ing
good night in the house. 1 m’t
stretch it all tbe way to the ont
gate, and thus lay tho found), ion
for future asthma, bronchitis ou-
ralgia and chronic catarrh, to help
you worry the girl to death after
she has married you.
If a farmer owns ten thousand
dollars worth of real or per< mal
property aud, finding that It an-
uot use it to prodneo n cron ith-
out help, goes and borrow the
money—say four thousand <!• lars
gives a mortgage oil his fare and '
and agreos to |>*y ten pee eot,
while his past experience p> via
that he cannot make on his l out-
raent more than two per eem. iow
long before ho will lose his ten.
thousand! Some one figure It
out.—Dallas Mercury.
An exchange puts it i
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Cadwell, H. D. & Moffitt, D. J. The Post-Mirror. (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 24, 1888, newspaper, March 24, 1888; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982671/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .