The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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LAGRANGE. FAYETTE COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. JUNE IA 1900.
This paper will net, hereafter,
in any way lend its support to
any :andidate for legislative
honors who will not hind hiaaolf
to work and vots for a dscont li-
bs 1 law.__
COnPRESS IrtPHOVETlENTS.
The Journal is pleased to note
the improvements being made at
the compress. Mr. C. E. Ward,
the superintendent, assisted by his
chief clerk, Mr. W. R. Clark, had
all of the old corrugated iron walls
removed, and in their place has
erected two large galvanized iron
sheds, seventy-five feet square.
This arrangement will make room
for about 500 more bales of cotton
on the platform than formerly and
will afford protection from rain for
1,600 more bales. There will also
be built additional platform 20x250
feet, making about 5,000 square
feet, or room for 500bales. Under
this arrangement the press will be
able to take care of something like
1,000 to 1,500 more bales on its
platform.
The M. K. & X- Railroad has
a force of twenty-five or thirty men
working in their yard for the past
ten days, laying additional tracks
for the accommodation of the in-
creased facilities of the compress.
They have also pnt in a separate
track to the LaGrange Ice and
Cold Storage Company’s plant,
and when this work is completed
the Katy will have qne of the best
equipped yards in this part of the
state. This road seems to be al-
ways ready to meet our people at
least half way in all matters look-
ing to the improvement of the city,
and the “It" feels confident they
will lose nothing by their liberal
policy. LaGrange is certainly en-
joying a season of prosperity, and
with a cotton factory in operation
we would be the envy of our
neighbors.
OOOO ROADS.
Thh Journal is in receipt of a
very lengthy private letter from
the Texas Good Road Association
favoring good roads. Every sensi-
ble man is await that good roads
are the quint essence of prolific
business; that they are the channel
which brings much business to a
town. People may live within ten
miles over poor roads to a town
and will prefer a fifteen mile drive
over a good road to another town.
The latter, among other good
things, has this to say:
“If by reasons of good roads the
farmer can haul three or four
thousand pounds at a load instead
of one thousand or fifteen hundred,
and, if he can make two trips over
a good road in the same time it re-
quires to make one trip over a poor
road, he is able to get his produce
to maiket at one-fourth the former
expense; and, further than this, he
is able to get his produce to mar-
ket quickly and at such time that
may seem to him most advantage-
ous without regard to weather con-
ditions. That is where the farmer
is benefitted. ’'
Under date of “ Bad Harzbnrg,
May 29th,’’ Geo. Lenert writes a
letter in German which, translat-
ed, reads as follows:
My Dear Father: Now the thing
is sure to go, and that, too, without
the assistance of an English-Ger-
man Lexicon; and should now and
then an English word be found in jrecen* date we
of German it should
SCHULENBURC.
platform has
Rmroa Journal :
Inasmuch as all people who have
any field work to attend to are
now very diligent, it follows that
our burg U at present a very dull
place. Occasionally some social
event may cause a temporary Stir.
As a memorable occurrence of
note the marriage
the company of German it should °* Sophie Matula to Mr. H.
be excused. Yes, right here I no-1A- Schafer. Tonight the Pythian
rice how limited my knowledge is brothers of the local lodge will
of my mother’s language. |treat the newly wedded couple to
You will certainly be surprised an ice cr““ S“PP«. combined
that I bob up so suddenly at Harz- W,tAh ot*er del,cacl”
burg inasmuch as I had intended . A«*her event » the regular ar-
to use my wheel on my trip from j™1 °* the *** car’ and “ a «*
Hannover to Clausthal; but it hap-• q“el thcreto the smiHa* counte'
nance of our local railroad em-
pened like this: Yesterday morning
I received a postal card from Mr.
Aelx Meerscheidt, who resides
here and to whom I had written,
that Mr. Schnhmacher and family
were in this city. Quicker than a
Kansas cyclone ever caught a rab-
bit I packed my grip and arrived
|here a third class passenger. The
| fare was four Mark and fifty Pfen-
| nige with fifty Pfennige additional
for my wheel. At three different
The city of St. Louis has just times I was obliged to pack my
emerged from a tremenduous street1 wheel and other belongings from
car strike in which the entire oper- one carriage to another, and it had
ating force took a full hand, and to be done in the “double quick.’’
the result is that the strikers—al- No climbing on after the thing be-
most to a man—are out of a job. to move. At times my wheel
Some of the wives and daughters! causes me considerable snnoyancc
of the men joined in the fight and while shifting about, but neverthe-
lowered themselves materially in 'ess 1 am fflad I have it with me.
the estimation of law abiding peo-. Should I go to Berlin this week I
pie. When women denude a n d j will leave it either here or in Claus-
beatone of their own sex and for thal, and when I return I expect
no other reason than that she rode to remain here a week. After that
upon a street car, as was done in ■ I shall probably go by rail to Koeln
St. Louis, it is proof positive that or Coblentz and travel along the
not all women are angels. beautiful Rhein. It is possible that
... —*--I will go to England from here;
W ERE the world s majority of to- then to Paris,Switzerland,and down
day but half as pure *nd good as th« Rhein. As yet the Paris fever
was Robt. G. Ingersoll while in has not affected me, but it may la-
in memory does not err it was
the Coaster which referred to 200
of its readers as dead-beats—the
class who eternally borrow their
neighbor’s paper. The Journal
enjoys considerable patronage of
that sort itself -besides occasionally
coming in contact with an indidual
who believes, because being a sub-
scriber and paying for his paper he
has the right to dictate its couise.
This office bad a visitor of that sort
last week. He informed the scribe
that he would be a candidate for
the office of-; that if The
Journal didn’t give him a big
“ blow- off ” he’d quit the paper !
He was promptly informed that he
better quit; that all announcements j
must be paid for and in advance at
that. No sensible man objects to
this. The candidate who seeks to
"sponge’’iiif ntyt into office thro’
a print-hop isn’t the sort of materi-
al of which reliable officers are
made, and they generally turn up
missing afterthe votes are counted.
> the flesh such flim-flam production
i of a diseased mind as ‘ ‘ Letter from
Ingersoll,’’ purporting to have been
written by him after death, and in
hell, would not be thrust upon an
indulging public by men dabbling
in that sort o f literature. They
would find delight in something
better than to defame the dead !
The Journal acknowledges an
invitation through A. J. Kaulbach
to attend the * ‘ Seventeenth Com-
mencement o f t h e University of
Texas," which takes place at Au-
stin June 17th to 20th. The early
precept, “If at first you don’t suc-
ceed try, try again,” is still quite
fresh in the writer’s memory, and
be all right. Many things are not
a success the first time and may
have to be done over again; but
when it comes to have a commence-
®ent for the seventeenth time, as
in this case, it isn’t of mncb ac-
count nohow, and the “It” will
not attend.
Postmaster Laos waa notified on
Wednesday that owing to the in-
crease of business his salary has
been raised $*00 per annum, put-
ting his salary at Si ,300.—Flatonia
Argus.
.Colorado county, upon which
the congressional eye of the tenth
district has been centered for weeks,
held its primaries on Saturday.
Columbus instructed for Duff with
Wheless as second choice ; and
Weimar gave Wheless the glad
hand with Burgess to hold his hat.
So far as is now known it is believed
the county has instructed for Duff,1
and that the convention will be a
locked one.
As previously announced The Argus
will, beginning this week, have weekly
letters from the Paris fair.—Flatonia
Argus.
Too slow, neighbor; too slow by
far ! The “ It ” has letters almost
hourly from “ the fair ” of nearly
every town in the state, and you
must know Paris is but a fly-speck
on the map of Texas. ,
To go from Fayette county to Brazo-
ria county and boom a man in that sec-
tion for congress just because a pers-
onal friend could not receive the nom-
ination is certainly not a commendable
act of a good (7) democrat.—Carmine
Enterprise.
Mister, name your man and out
cornea de mawaheen gun to shoo—
shoo—ah—oot his domxied hed off.
Bishop Jambs M. Thoburn,
while at the Central conference in
Chicago recently, stated he desired
to enlist volunteers for an evangel-
ical army whose duty it will be to
save 2,000,000 souls and gather
$20,000,000. How about knocking
off the last part of the proposition?
' New ideas and new styles at The
Journal’s job department.
ter on. It will be- something of a
comfort to be able to say that one
“has been there," and that counts
for considerable according to the
viewp of some of my friends.
I came near forgetting to state
that I was delighted to meet Mr.
Schuhmacher and family. He had
several home papers and a letter
from Henry. In the hotel is a pi-
ano, and I was persuaded to play a
few pieces “Rag-Time” for Miss
Julia; hut the old ” Leierkasten ”
was so badly out of tune that we
soon left the thing to its fate and
exchanged notes of travel. We
dined together at the hotel and at
4 p. m, the family left for Koeln.
On Tuly I2’h Mr. Schuhmacher
and family will embark at Bologna
for New York, and it is likely I-
shall not see them again on this
side of .the big pond.
Late this afternoon, and on foot,
I visited the Rabenklippen. It
proved a delightfully refreshing
trip. The roads are so well labeled
by the Harz club that it is next to
impossible to go astray although
hundreds of cross roads are en-
countered in a day’s travel.
I am writing in the dining room,
and it is so bitterly cold thst I am
compelled to quit. I w i 11 write
again from Clausthal. Early to-
morrow I’ll mount my wheel for
Goslar. Your loving son,
Georgs E.
■ Fob about the tenth time daring
that many months N. W. Ayer &
Son, of Philadelphia, have rubbed
a proposition under The Jour-
nal’s nostrils it doesn’t admire.
The firm publishes a newspaper
directory, and purports to give the
name, location and circulation of
every publication in the United
States and Canada, but many of its
ratings are outrageously incorrect
and no respectable
swear by them,
.ivLOHL .*,J*iJ* ' UtaST-IjtiF,
ployes.
Next, the. visit of the inspecting
officers. Some of the local officials
only found a smile afterthe inspec-
tors had gone further, evidently
well pleased with the good order
and cleanliness of office, warehouse
and depot.
A passenger car full of students
from the Guadalupe college (col.)
passed this station a few days ago.
The Misses Hilma Horner, Min-
nie Senglemann, Lottie McKinnon
and Lola Huebner, students at the
Coronal institute, San Marcos, have
come home to enjoy vacation.
Miss Hnebner, we are informed,
has graduated.
Rockdale was represented here
by the Messrs. Chas. Ruhman and
Ben Lowenstein on a visit to rela-
tives. Chas. R. is a native of out.
city.
Your jovial fellow citizen, Percy
Faison, on last Tuesday exchanged
pleasant greetings_with his friends
in this burg. The writer did not
see him kiss any of the little babies.
Mr. Bush Wilkins was here last
Tuesday to attend lodge and other
business. Bush never fails to meet
the brethren at the lodge room if
he is anywhere within reach of it.
There were quite a number of
visitors here lately, but not having
been introduced to them, I feel
some delicacy in regard to giving
names.
A- children's picnic at the Ber-
muda farm closed the scholastic
term of the Schulenburg graded
school.
Work has begun on the new
school building, to be ready for oc-
cupancy by the first of September
next.
Prof. F. W. Smidth and family
are about to remove from here and
and take up their future residence
in Waelder.
Mr. L- S. Pepper and Mrs. Tbeo.
Silber of Halletsville spent Sunday
with their relatives—the
family. _
FRATERNAL SOCIETY ITEM.
Lyons Lodge 195 A. F. & A- M.
elected officers for the coming Ma-
sonic year last Friday, as follows:
Worshipful Master—M. C. Le-
vey.
Senior Warden—Alex Hirach.
Junior Warden—E. B. Kessler.
Treasurer—J. H. Hildebrandt.
Secretary—Fred Ebeling.
Senior Deacon—R. S. Tanner.
Junior Deacon—W. H. Upton.
Tyler—R. T. Zimmermann.
Chaplain—W. T. Glass.
Western Star Lodge No. 174,
I. O. O- F. held election of officers
with the following result:
Noble Grand—Gas Ebeling.
Vice Grand—B. B. Wilkins.
Secretary—M. T. Everton.
Treasurer—S. T. Schafer.
Prof. W. W. Kirk, of Abilene,
has been here recently on s visit to
his relatives. Prof. Kirk is school
superintendent of Taylor county.
Our colored fellow-citizens are
making grand preparations to cel-
Our compress
considerably enlarged, and a 1
roof is now being pnt over it,
while our electric light
would admit of many and power-
fully needed improvements.
Messrs. Lnceke & Windel have
replaced their burned gin by a very
substantial and commodioift new
mill and gin building; also im-
proved machinery.
Mr. W. F. Matula's new* resi
deuce is now completed, and gen-
erally admired as a thing of beauty
and comfort.
Sometime has passed since my
last communication to the Jour-
nal. I guess, however, yon did
not miss my ramblings. The fact
is the exceeding dullness of the
times has so affected my thoughts
that they would
ciently tor a communication. But
I have about concluded to apply
for a consulship (not to China),
and if appointed will keep you and
your readers well patted. Now
yon watch, when I get to be a con-
gressman, consul, minister pleni-
potentiary and what else, you will
find out what there is in Mike.
[The "It”will keep his “weather
eye” cocked and on the telescope.]
WEST POINT.
Editor Journal:—
Thinking a few items from our
little town and community would
be of interest to your readers is my
excuse for this article. The dry
weather the past week has been of
incalculable benefit to the farmers
and they have utilized it to its full-
est extent. Crops are looking bet-
ter although they are at least three
weeks behind this time last year.
The boll weevils have nude their
appearance on some farms, though
in limited numbers. Corn crop
very inferior. I fear there will not
be enough made to supply the de-
mand.
Mr. J. T. Drisdale and son have
recently purchased a nice bunch of
full-blooded Hereford cattle. They
are beauties. This is a move in
the right direction.- The old long-'
horn is getting, to be s thing of the
past in Texas.
We expect to organize s clab in
the near future for the pnrpose of
getting the constitutional amend-
ments, as advocated by Ex-Gov.
Hogg, prominently before the peo-
ple. We shall call it ’ The anti
iree-pass dub,” and we will vote
for no men for official positions
who are beneficiaries of the rail-
ways of this country by accepting
free transportation over their lines
of road. 'Tts a species of iniquity
Safeguards the food
against alum*
Sunday School Entertainment.
The little folks belonging to the
Sabbath school of the Presbyterian
church were nicely entertained by
Mrs. R. T. Bradshaw, at her home,
on Tuesday evening. Originally it
was the intention to give the little
army a picnic in May, but the
weather being so unpropitious—
hardly a day of sunshine to be
guaranteed twenty-four hours abend
—it was finally concluded to give
the children a good time Tuesday
evening; and, assisted by the Misses
Emma and Bianca Reichardt, Ma-
bel Bradshaw, Bertha and Hattie
Mebus, Dora "and Addye Willen-
berg, Alma Moelleuberndt, Carney
Hollaway and Hannah Moeliew-
bemdt—all members of the hostess’
individual class—the affair was suc-
cessfully terminated. The minia-
ture ladies and gents played games
and enjoyed the hospitality of the
old folks" as if they had hems
used to it ail their lives, and it waa
singing and laughing with a little
more hilarity and another song, in-
terlarded with an abundance of ex-
cellent refreshments, such as ice
cream, cake, lemonade, etc. The
callers" began to drop in at 5:30
p. tn., and from that time until
about 9 it was fun all over the
house, and the children will long
remember the pleasure provided for
them by Mrs. Bradshaw and her
class.
Ah! what would the world be to us
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind sa
Worse than the dark before.
—Longfellow.
Mr. John Schuhmacher, now in Eu-
rope. writes that he is requested by
Hejr von Meerscheidt (cousin of Ales
Meerscheidt),' chief of police of the
city of Berlin, to assist the departmeot
in procuring a brace of blood bounds,
and has instructed his son Henry to
make due inquiry and Ye port.
road" on these propositions, for we
are “going after yon!”
No deaths or marriages to record.
Indications are that there are sev-
eral in town who want to marry,
confined principally to the fair sex.
Mr. V. S. Rabb and wife have
gone to Marlin Wells to test their
curative properties; hope they may
soon return home fully restored to
health.
Mr. Fulton Moore requests me to
say that he is headquarters for
honnd poppies. Should any of
your readers need -anything in his
line they would do well to see his
assortment
where. He says that owing
depression in the dog market,
parties will take e dozen or
he will give cut rates. Tama la
vendors, please take notice) :
Let ns beer from you
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June nth.
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