Waco Tribune-Herald from Waco, Texas • 4

I THE MOST SENSATIONAL PURCHASE EVER SAVE 50 SAMPLES ONE A KIND ORIGINALS OVER 50 STYLES OUR BIG PRICE GROUPS NEVER BEORE A SELECTION LIKE THIS REG $J298 REG $1098 abrics: 50 Voiles Kto Set heeutked much bout those days deep itsend" Obvious) that REG $1698 REG $1498 850 SIZES 12 TO 18 ONLY PART WOOL TERRIIC VALUE COMORTS SIZES USUALLY at 998 Color CRISP COTTON 9 GIRLS' PLAY rAm 9 AIS 9 LEVINE GREAT BLANKET LAY LEVINE'S GREAT BLANKET LAY AWAY i Com has been replaced by but some of the old River on the south the river from China TERRY CXOTR 798 EACH 23 TO 36 INCH Chrome Pun PANELS ull Bed Size Reversible Colors Plump ull Length PIONEER ISAAC BROCK Confounds the Rsalmist 10 Gorge ous Colors New Mod ALL STEEL MADE ULL 64" LENGTH 13 SIZES TO CHOOSE ROM MEN'S REG 19c SHIRTS I CHILDREN'S TABLE Boya Glrii' Slaeto Nylon Salite Sob Suita Jimmy Alls Bib Alls Dresses Jackets Crawlers tteepers Many Others Yow Choice GIRLS' EVERY DRESS A NEW 1954 SUMMER STYLE trade as blacksmith shod the horses of the Confederacy and says Mrs Ballard when the war was over the man whose place he took chiseled on his bargain wouldn't pay him as much as he promised Brock practiced his horse shoe ing until he was around 100 utilizing the blacksmith shops on the various farms where he lived (Every good sized farm had such a shop in the old days) The house Mrs Ballard recalls best on the site of which some of the Brocks still live was on the Bill Davis farm now the Bass ranch a few hundred yards from the Bosque side across Spring The house a new one timbers are still in the new house Mrs Ballard recalls that while the original house was being built they lived across the river in a place that was about to tumble down "It had big holes in the floor I used to fall into them There were bob cats and foxes all around I still don't like (She says two of her brothers treed a fox climbed the tree after it stunned it with a rock brought it home and kept it few days) "We carried all our water from the spring over Mrs Bal lard says pointing "Maybe half a mile away After we moved away the people who lived here started digging a well and they hit a fine supply of water at about 20 feet right in the back A wind mill now brings up the water from that well The Brocks always had a gar den "We planted potatoes by the bushel three or four bushels at a time There were a lot of us to she says "My mother used to make sauerkraut in barrels from cabbages we raised Same way with pickles We raised the Lived In Waco Too The Brocks lived in Waco for a while Mrs Ballard doesn't re call much about that except that "there were a couple of stores on each side of the street and wood en sidewalks and when you stepped off the sidewalk you were MEN'S 100 NYLON SPORT I CRUNCHY NYLON PUCKER SIZES Linens Squaw Cloth Cham bries Broadcloths Seersuckers Air born Acetate Nylon 10 NEW COLORS Jt5 NON SKID LATEX BACK TIGHT SHORT LOOPS settled later near Tyler married had four children one of whom died in infancy His' first wife died young He was 64 years old when in 1RS1 Sparks an 18 year old girl from Alabama They had 12 children Mrs Ballard was born in 1863 Mrs Drahn the youngest in 1867 The other children are dead but there are dozens of grandchildren and great grandchildren around Isaac Brock was turned down when he tried to join the Confed erate army in 1861 The Army brass bethoughtfhemselves of the 90th Psalm noted his years and said that O' as just too old Eater another man hired Brock as his substitute in the army and he was accepted He plied his was a dry year They lived on a number of farms including the Davis and Watt Caufield farm near South Bosque They moved to Hood Coun ty and up into the Indian terri tory for a few years but came back to McLennan and China Spring where Brock died His end was swift he did not have any lin gering illness and was active un til he died His daughters in scribed on his tombstone "He died as 'he lived a The amazing date of his birth is based on records in North Caro lina wasn't sure about when he was bom Mrs naiiary recans "so he had us write to North Carolina to find out They said it was March 1 LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S MOCCASINS Beaded White Blade Grew Blue SteM 4 lG' Sins 8K 18 reT A ril I A Lie EATURING A BRILLIANT CAii Ufr iiyiaki rniuH) AMOUS ARTCRAT VENETIAN BLINDS SAVE 90x105 SIZE LADIES' DENIM PLAY SHORTS A An NAVY GREEN JK BROWN RED SIZES 10 TO 18 Tennis Shoes $4 79 REGULAR $249 VALUE I To Stem Stripes Solids Prints Dots 44 SIZE RIEZE RUGS CURLED CHICKEN EATHER 7'oateaa Atasae KILLUW9 MMlBAkiTiee I EATHER PROO VW I ES CTIBEn TICV WW $i4S VALUI CORDUROY WALE WEDDING RII CHENILLES SMALL BOYS' NYLON SHIRTS SIZES 1 TO 16 PASTELS WHITES Styles: Syn Backs 2 Piece Sun I With Jackets Stitch Pleated 5ANDAL5 Aa leather uppers two strap style I PAIR 1214 TO BIG 2 SALE! LADIES' SUMMER BLOUSES A A RAYONS gg LINENS SIZES 32 TO 38 MEN'S 100 NYLON boxer SHORTS 1CC SOLIDS AMOUS DALLAS MANUACTURES 6 SMART ASHIONS OR WOMEN MAKES RIG PRICE CONCESSIONS OR THIS OAWLY rjK these low low prices on to a tbuufk opportunity to complete YOUR WARDROBES AT SENSATIONAL MWWAT Alw iuduah on ahead and make arrangements When they got to town there he would Mrs Ballard walked to school miles walked to church when a church was avilable She says that is why she is as spry as she is today: that and the fact her father always got plenty for them to "He was a poor man and he couldn't write his own name never went to school a day in his she comments "but he always had enough for us to daughter Sallie took to school liks a duck to water "Some times I get to go more than three months in the she savs "and we have many books But I knew those books from cover to cover and she says emphatically "I can out spell any of these modem chil Cows Ate Up Books Once the cows got into the school house while the children were gone and ate up all the books Did that stop school? Not a bit it held school anyway she said "We just cleaned the place up and went Conger who is collecting facts about old times in this county (he will shortly have' some stories about log dug up the story a bout the ancient black smith Brock and a 'mass of infor mation about him along with a photograph of his grave Aston onished at the inscription on the gravestone: Brock bom March 1 17S7 died Sept 3 1909 aged 122 years 6 months and 2 he looked up the family' and verified it North Carolina Native Brock was bom in the North Carolina mountains in 1787 the year the constitutional convention assembled to lay the foundations of the United States of America was two years bld George Washington was elected president He learned coal mining became a competent blacksmith was a mighty hunter He told his chil dren he used to provide deer and other wild meat for an efttire Heel community of 14 families His rm as a 1 carried a huge powder horn on his shoulder hunted mostly at night using his miner's lantern as a to blind the game Mrs Ballard says she heard him toil of killing wild hogs after she was bom but she re member eating any of the meat al though she is sure she did She doesn't remember seeing any buf falo either but her brothers told her they saw some (The only buf falo near the old Brock home now are those on the Swigert ranch and they were She used to find buffalo bones though Brock still a bachelor at 33 Came to Texas in 1820 which was 16 years before the Texas Revo lution What part he had in the Teams fight for independence his daughters don't know he never GARMENT BAG HOLDS GARMENTS KU KK MOTH PROO WILL NOT CRACK HEAVY VINYL I PLASTIC MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS NO IRON COTTONS COOL SKIP DENTS BLUE GREEN JU TAN BLUE WHITE VALUES TO ltt CHILDREN'S RED AND BLUE TENNIS OXORDS SIZES 5 TO BIG 3 aR THICK SOLES PASTEL COLORED SHEETS 77 ULL DOUBLE BED SIZE LADIES' EXTRA SIZE BRIES sizes xx xxx lK RK Rayon Knit Colon White er Pink LADIES' NYLON TRIM NO IRON COTTON SLIPS NYLON TRIM WW TOP BOTTOM JT 100 NYLON CURTAINS 42x90 PANELS CANNON BATH TOWELS SUPER SIZE ABSORBENT A BLUE MAIZE 0 LAMINGO GREEN GOLD LADIES' AST COLOR SIZES 10 TO 20 14V2 TO 24 LADIES' 51 GAUGE 15 DENIER NYLONS WOULD BE $165 Ji 81 I PERECT LIGHT SHADES PAIR TT IT AND NO IRON COTTON PLAY OC SHORTS AST COLOR SIZES ITO 8 PAIR WEDGE CASUALS RED AND TAN lb 7 COMBINATIONS Jk XX 'ARCHED OR ww COMORT I SIZES TO IB Page 4 SecI WacoTexM Sunday 23 1954 Relatives Recall Brock Walked 35 Miles at 120 CONTINUED ROM PAGE ONE young he married Miss Sarah ip i I i 1 AS aMflL 4 gg 1 1gg gf 0 gg gf ggg Bggg gg ggggK gggg i I 1 A MBi 17 A I 1 0 I vjLst Bk II WM XV 1 1 '1 9 1 1 I v'vv' rt iW 'I mb MB'V gK Him 1 1 kt i mt i A ME Bib uq 3 77 LUAWrV i 11 VTcrigy 1 RM A vhkTirt sbb EjL If a aVeEcw '7 I i i yJlRBtWnW 1 LB i EiHTainTTIitKHftjvITBXriH 11 if 1 3 i I I BBalHMBi I I 8 H1 1 Hi $1 PriaciUaa $100 $129 $078 I I 'j' irx I i a ar zx tei HI A 1 6 i t1 1 4 4 I I 1 5 7 A A A as kw 7 te rrjtrT iMf" 1 lT rIii 'r tyfri irm HTOTrirlCTb irTlln iWa ih KArVia wh LflA a jm 8 2 $77 $1 SI I I 4i VI 5 i.