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Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 10

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Austin, Texas
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THE AUSTIN DAILY STATESMAN 10 SENDAT M0BXK0, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913. HANCOCK OPERA HOUSE THE COOL THEATER THREE NIGHTS beginning tomorrow. Special matinee Wednesday. Pictures are accompanied with vocal and mechanical effects. Prices: Mfltirpe 25 3.rM! ohilrlren.

Niclit 2ri 3i nfl All Boats MEMORY OF PIONEER PORMYSID AUSTIN' SAMUEL T. STONE RECALLS SCENES AT TRAVIS HEIGHTS. v. 7 7 -0 1 reserved. REVIEWS FIGHT WITH INDIAN i 3 2j1 3 I You Can Lead a Fool to opportunity But You Can't Make Him Think BfBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBI To the man who thinks, who takes advantage of opportunities to save dollars, this Suit sale will be most satisfactory.

The Suits are the same high-class finely tailored clothes of our regular stock. The QuaUJy Has Not Been Cut- Only the Price A Chance to. Dress Well-BIG MEN Can Get Their RIGHT SIZE -1- in Red Skin Paid Death Penalty Near Spot of Labor Day Celebration. Other Incidents Related. rat The Latest Fashions of NevFallandj Winter clothing; Made toj Tour Individual Measure .1 A.

G. Gerjesi til 11 WISE 4 Don', m. This Sale! mat! mW.m 1 JJIillMl LJ While hundreds of persons were gathered at Travis Heights last Xlon-cay for the Labor Day celebration and enjoying the program immensely, little did they realize that leas than a generation ago the very spot where the festivities were neid was a dense wilderness the home of all kinds of wild game and inhabited by Indians. A red skin met his death within a stone's throw of where Representative lieorge Mend ell, Rev. Arthur Bishop and Senator T.

W. McGregor engaged in a three-cornered controversy on woman suffrage, law- enforcement' and HOPI AND Bmia TYPES DANCES it '4 )r NAVAJO I IHVJlPim INDUSTRIES THRILLING RESCUES FROM AN OCEAN GREYHOUND SHIPWRECKED $20.00 SUITS NOW 812.00 SAVE 8.00 $22,50 SUITS NOW S13.5Q SAVE 910 NOW S15.0Q-SA.VE $10.00 $27.50 SUITS NOW. S16.50 SAVE $1L0Q $10.00 SUITS NOW 6.00 SAVE 4.00 $12.50 SUITS NOW 7.5Q SAVE 5.00 $15.00 SUITS NOW 9.0Q SAVE 6.00 $18.00 SUITS NOW S10.80 SAVE 7.20 SPEEDING BY HYDRO-AEROPLANE 1610 Lavaca A MILE HIGH 1 $30.00 SUITS NOW $18. OQ SAVE $12.00 These Suits are medium weight, just right for fall wearing. The space they occupy we must have.

We, buy this space with these extra low prices. The clothes value is so high and the suit prices so low, we will get the space and you will save dollars. Don't neglect to do it. COURT TERMS SOON TO OPEN OVER PARIS YACHTING About Eighty New Cases Filed in District Courts. OFF MONTE CARLO WONDERS OF MARINE LIFE HarrellS Fall and Winter Hats Knox, Stetson, Trimble.

See North Window. New Fall and Winter Suits are here. South Window shows the $15.00 The fall uions of the Fifty-third and Twenty-eixth District Courts will convene soon, the former opening Oct. ant) the latter Sept. 15.

About eighty new cases have been filed in the two courts since the last saasion, and there are many.old cases on the dockets. politics. A. Labor pay gathering was never dreamed of when Samuel T. Stone of 401 East Seventeenth Street was.

a young man. When sent to find a wild Phot by one of his two companions for hunters stayed close together in those days, it being unsafe to be In the wilderness of Travis Heights alone Mr. Stone stumbled onto an Indian hidden in the underbrush and when he started to escape one of Stone's companions shot and killed him. That was in 1849 or 1850, Mr. Stone does not accurately remember the year, but he is still living and healthy.

Sitting in his comfortable phaeton a short distance from where the Labor Day celebration was held, Mr. Stone astonished many with thestory of the Indian escapade and added to the amazement of his spectators with the statement that he had killed buffalo and deer within less than two miles of the center of Austin. Mr. Stone's father, Samuel Stone, came to Texas in 1839 and settled on a large tract of land about a mile east of Travis Heights in 1845. Mr.

Stone was born at Hannibal, in 1827. The boundary of the city limits of Austin at the time Mr. Stone came here was Fifteenth Street on the north. East Avenue on the east and West Avenue on the west and the Colorado River on the south. Since then the 604 congress avenue 'ft 3.

AO We sold more watches Saturday than any day since we have been in business. The prices can't help but sell them. See the bargains in. our windows and you will buy one also. Caswell Smith.

Adv. 1 Oh! Tou Calomel, gret out of the way and let LIV-VER-LAX do the work, purely vegetable. Ask the Van Smith Dm Company. Adv. Stone now stands on Seventeenth Street was a corn field years ago and a log cabin stood where the DriskiU Hotel now stands and the first bakery was opened where the Littlefield building stands in a log cabin by a Mr.

Ziller, father of the ZiHer boys, who still live in Austin. "I well remember the first buggy that was brought to Austin. It was a high wheeled affair and was the sight of the town. Charles Mann was t.ie owner and he soon cultivated the entire enmity of all the younger generation by wearing what we called in those days a 'stud horse' shirt. The collar was very high and he always kept it well laundried.

The young and old men alike played marbles on Congress Avenue," reminiscenced Mr. Stone. "We went to Sunday school in the First Methodist Church, In an old frame structure at Fourth Street and Congress Avenue, long since moved city has expanded wonderfully and South Austin has grown to be a city almost as large as Austin was at that time. The land whers the residence of Mr. A SATISFIED CUSTOMER IS Prs.

Fay Logan Guthrie Teacher Piano Announces fall classes now open 405 W. 39th ST. Opposite Baker School Phone 3188 MY GREATEST ASSET ANNOUNCEMENT MacCOEMACK COMPANY have acquired the theater at 920 Congress Avenue, formerly known as the Unique, and have reehristened it THE CRESCENT. We have contracted for the best picture service manufactured and will give our first high-class program Monday fternoon and night. We can say without fear of contradiction "that the comedy we will show on Monday entitled "A Noise From the Deep," has never been equalled in a laugh producing film in this city.

In addition, we will show a Broncho two-real feature entitled "The Quakers." Contract for regular service has been made with the Mutual Film Corporation. 'Repairs will be made on the theater immediately and it will baijo to please the most refiued.and critical audience. Admissiirj' 5 and 10 cents. 'v Crescent Theater (Formerly the Unique) Kodak Films Developed 10c a Roll 6 or 12 Exposures We Save You Enough on Developing and Printing to Buy Your New Films Mark's Studio Over Burt's Shoe Store 612 Congress Ave. away and probably destroyed.

It was used for a scnoolhouse during the week and the woman who taught got drunk one Friday afternoon and was found I am pleased to announce that my Fall and Winter Woolens have arrived in all the latest patterns and styles. Place your order now for a new Fall Suit, while the assortment is good. It takes time to build good A. Silverman 911 Congress, Upstairs dead in her room. The supposition was that she fell out of bed and broke her neck.

It was a lot different In Austin those days. "Talk about law enforcement Before tha war every man enforced the law himself and it was seldom that justice was not meted out to those who transgressed too" far." Recalls First Graveyard. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the life story told by Mr. Stone so far as the history of Austin is, concerned is in connection with the first graveyard. Along in the early fifties a patriotic citizen offered the city the right to bury Its dead on a tract of I Austin Business University Our business Is to create purpose, vim and ambition, as well as to give unexcelled Instruction and training along business lines.

If you ar seeking the best, phone or call at th A. B. Comgnm mm Tsatb To My Friends and Customers This Is to advise that I have this day turned over my grocery business to Mr. J. J.

liillingsley, who will continue at the same place, and I bespeak for him the patronage you all so kindly ac-corded, ma- i F. M. CHAPIX. I will be pleased to have you continue your business with me and assure you of fair treatment and piompt attention at all times. J.

J. B1LLINGSLET. J. J. Billingsley IMULTSDM land near where the Mount calvary Cemetery Is located.

He made a proposition to the city that he would give the land providing a person was buried in a certain length of time. "The contract lacked only three days 1D DOUALE-HEADER AT RIVERSIDE PARK 7. B.Qdenvs.ftlcHcmiraErcs. Van Smith CITY LEAGUE TEAMS FIRST CAME CALLED AT 3 P.M. Dairy Milk Successor to F.

M. Chapin. 2211 l-mnt Ave. C(M OUT AM SEE TWO G303 GAMES NEW AVENUE HOTEL European Plan COZY AND COMFORTABLE FIRST CLASS CAFE In connection. Open from 6 a.

m. to .9 p. m. The best the market affords, at sensible prices. of being up when a party of persons got several gamblers drunk and before the escapade was over the" gamblers got in a fight among themselves and one was killed.

He was the first man buried in the" city cemetery." 1 The first ferryboat ever in use in Austin was built by Mr. Stone's father. who used it to carry his dairy products to the city when it was impossible to ford the river. For twenty-five years Mr. Stone was in the dairy business and then learned the carpenter trade beneath the large oak tree that stands in the lot adjoining his property on East Seventeenth Street.

He Is a Confederate veteran and started out when the war began with Company B. I SPECIALLY FOR BABIES AND INVALIDS Phone 1479. Deliver to my part of the city on ice. ROY L. THOIV3AS ARCHITECT Ml SCAPtBHOVOH Bl.DO.

OLD PHOJMUMOFrlClilCl RESIDENCE AVTI. TEXAS. Fourth Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, and was injured at the battle of Chkkamauga and transferred to Company Terry Rangers, and was with that company" until the end of the war. I almost found a watch today. Where? At Caswell Smith's.

Adv. PORK TEriDERLOIII Doesn't that sound good? This is pork time now and we have the choicest cuts. PORK PORK CHOPS PORK ROASTS PORK TENDERLOIN Of course, we also have the best in beef, veal, mutton and lamb. Excelsior Harket Old Phones 625, 725 New Phone 625 DYERS SCOURERS FRENCH DRY CLEANERS 17. POWELL Headquarters for Bu.te's Excellence and SELF-RISING WHITE SWAN FLOUR Guaranteed fresh eggs and fine thickens.

EAST FIFTH ST. ladies' and Cents' Garments Renovated Like New Old Phone 323 Free Delivery Congress Ave. 405 If You Want the Best Ve Have It Meadow Gold Butter, pound .40 Yard Eggs, guaranteed .30 Cooking Apples, not storage $1.00 CHAS. S. CUILHEr.1 CO.

COR. 5th AND BRAZOS WE DELIVER PALM BEACH SUITS CLEANED 75c LINGERIE DRESSES CLEANED $1.25 We do It RIGHT BIGGS CO. 1007 CONG. Wit Fo away for medicinal baths, when yon can get the HOT SCLPMIK BATHS at your own door? The Sulphur Well Bath House has recently bB and a private department for ladies installed. Tour patronage will be appreciated and you will receive courteous treatment.

Sulphur Well Bath House 32 EAST FIFTH STREET Saaitsnr talk fcath. Kr pecplc arc Mt slckt SPECIALS FOR T.10IIDAY 2 cans Tomatoes, 15c; doz. 85c 2 cans Corn, 15c; dor 85c 2 cans Hominy, 15c doz 2 cans Kraut, 15c; 85c Small May Peas, doz $1.30 Pork and Beans, 15c kind 10c Oat Meal, per can 10c Potatoes, per peck 35c Sweet Potatoes per peck. Snider's Catsup, 20c; 3 for 50c Prunes, per lb 10c Evap. Peaches, lb 10c Evap.

Apples, Washing Powder, 8 pkgs. 25c Fish Flakes, 3 for 25c Bremond's Coffee, 4-Ib. pail for $1.10 We give green trading stamps. C. H.

Franklin 901 W. 12th St. Old Phone 2627 CUT FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS ARTISTICALLY ARRANGED HYDE PARK FLORAL CO. 822 CcngTeis ATenne. Phone: Old, 954; New, 103 The Test of Style is proven by loig wear.

evtrr looks weil when cw, bat if uj Heat to a suit of Our Tailoring vou will f1r.d the style and good permanent and UDchicjEisg. sftnes aa4 English effects are fvored jast cow. Call and let us our mesji'r and make you a suit af distinctive smartstfs. NICK LINZ 607 Congress Atc. New phone 560.

Old phone 2652 W. T. WROE SONS 417-419 Congress Avenue. Phones 332 Complete Line of Buggies Saddles Trunks Carriages Lap Robes and Harness Whips Suit Cases Rubber Tires Put on Vehicles While You Wait PEERLESS-MAXWELL AUTOMOBILES and Acme Automobile Tires "AM Geo. T.

Simpson Furniture Co. To stake room for oar Lars fall $rark bow in transit, we ar offering our entire present stock at Price. CASH, CREDIT OR INSTALLMENTS lit aad 118 rma Ata Ola phmr S7T I STATESMAN 75 CENTS PER MONTH STATESMAN 75 CENTS PER MONTH.

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