Wise County Messenger from Decatur, Texas • Page 1

WISE COU NT MESSENGER, VOL. xxm. NO. 40. DECATUR, TEXAS, SEPT.

13 1902. WHOLE NUMBER 1115 The County News Iti ms fiom County BKIDUGPORT. frmm liHlet. Andrew Cumpbell and Miss Ward cel('brated Labor Day Mund ly by driving Decatur, accoDipanipd by Virda Gibbs atid Mrn. May and becoming man and wifo, thnfn forming a matrimonial Their many friends extent hearty congratulations to the young couple.

From Austin comes tHe report that on Thursday the state comptroller registered the bonds of Bridgeport independent school district, the being $4,000. J. E. £. Fate, of the Liles com muuity, showed us a ificj cotton limb, from three auovH the which Im eighteen and forms on i and looked thrifty.

He says tht limb was not an average of his entire crop, by any means, but was a fair sample of about sever acres along a draw which crosses his held. Oattle King Dead. state, where he irrazed tliem on to 5. frno drovn them to Port Wurth, Texas, Sept. City, which Dan Waggoner, a pioneer Texaii point they were to thw Anyhow, they did not niateraliaa this week, but the showers hare put a little new life into some of our business men and wo feel like the time is close at hand when something would turn up.

Keep Ira Fatheree had the misfortune last week of sticking a nail in his foot, laying him up for several days. D. C. Caldwell, of the prairie country north of Rhome, was in our town Friday and reports that the people in his section have their lands ready for seeding to wheat as soon as the season will liimit. He ays thnre is but mall acreage of on hi" farm this year but wliat is good.

CHICO. the Revlevk Wednesday afternoon brought a duM rain and quite a little The wind did no da that we know of except to twist the seed house of the gin pretty badly. Clyde, the little son of A. fell from a horse Monday and broke ime bone of his arm J. Maun and family, of toudale, moved in Tuesday and are now of Married, on Sunday, August 31, Li'Uis Lusk and Miss Minnie Ellis, of West Side.

Mrs. Jas. W'ilson, of Pleasant Valley, was bitten by a spider last Friday while attending the Holiness meeting here, and was made sick for several days. BOYU. Ff 0 li.

A Fergason has purchased kith on Bock Island avenue near the east siide and will in the near future improve them and he and bis family will become citizens of Boyd. Little Georgi i Grten has been quite Mick for several days with appendicitis, but is much improved at this time. Henry Jackson marketed a car Yomi of fat pigs at Fort Worth Thursday of week, tinding a ready market but a shade Vnwer than the week previous. Charles Hardcastle, of Bridge port, was hero Friday last ad- Jesting claims for oats burned, stock killed, etc, for which the C. li T.

Co is charge- ftblo. and probably tiie cattle king of the State, is dead. He expired last night at Colorado Springs, where he had gone for recreation and rest. In his passing away Texas loses a landmark, a most unique character, a man who amassed a fortune within the last thirty years, and who came to the State in very poor circumstances and lived to see his estates grow from small interests to a vast estate, variously estimated as worth from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000. He was a little more than 74 years old.

He had not been in good health for 'Sometime and died from a kidney disease. The news of his death reached the city this morning. The deceased came to Texas in '50s from Tennessee and lo- market. Nearly all his landed interests accumulated 18i2. A friend of Mr Waggoner here said he owned a body of land in Baylor.

Wilbarger and Knox counties eighty mile.s square and that it was stocked with Herefords and short horns, as fine as money could buy. The estate alio owns cottonseed oil mills at Bowie, Montague county, uiul one at Hobart. Okla. Tht' goners also manage at a point known as Electra, on the Denver Road, a general merchandise store, a lumber yard. etc.

and virtually control all of the bus- i iness at that point A second w'ife survives the de- iceased. Her maiden name was I Halsell. He and son, W. T. 1 I Waggoner, married sifters.

The i title to 1 have hcd occasion to use your I Stock ami Poultry ami am plcared to say that I newr ed anything for stock tfiat gave half as $atlsfaction. I heartily mend it all r.ers vf siock. J. 8 BLLSHFR. St.

Mo. Bifk sioi'k or poulirv not ehrap any moro pornorni sljouM to by Wlipii yonr stock 0 Oliti poultry sick pfirp thom mfvl- icinc. Don't stiiil them withwrn-Hi- 1 ptnrk iocflp. Tnlornl tlin bowch and Ft ir torpid the bic to rnrc it. iilnrh-PranchtVitock an min I School opened morn ing with an nice of which was a good commencement at this season.

A freight train killed liiie milch cow belonging to .1. W. Hardy Sunday Miss Mattie I), tiardner, u' postmaster, has been on the sick list this week. Charles Bounds, of Her ford, fore-1 has been visiting friends in the city this week. He goes from here to Georgetown, where he will att 'nd school.

Murry, son of left Sunday morning for Wacn. where he will enter a business college. Rev. G. Foreater and Mattie Mount married at the home of the bride, one mile north of Chico, last Thursday evening.

P. D)wery officiating. Jrthn Young Calhoun, while watching a game of ball betweer Chico and Alvord here last Fi I day, was struck in the by foul ball and brui.sed up erably. ALVORD. the Budget.

The enterprising lirm of Lillard Co. are preparing to add to their immense stock of hard- ware, a ctmiplete line of staple I and fancy groceries. J. H. Hanks is touring the O.

cated in Hopkins county, from title to all of the west Texas whiih I he remov('d in 1855 is in the name of W. T. to county. What is known the son, in Decatur as the Greathouse who has very active in the place of 160 acres his homestead jyre-emption. He was the owner of small mill near Deen tur made a livelinuod fur years running it.

He resided out from Decatur six or miles for several ind finally built the large managment of the estate. The deceased was regarded as a man of foiesiiiht. He purchased ills iirst ranch about per acre aiui lived to see very rapidly years in value until today tliey are es- home- timated to be worth from 10 to bowcb ind the II if it poii-ri- it. V'lnrh-Th-awcht Stock and T'otiltry Modi ri no the bowels and stiff? up the torpid Iitw. It eures every malady of stoci if taken in time.

Bectire a 2 o-cpnt ran of Black-Draupht Stock and Tonltry Medicine and it will pay for itsalf ten times over. Horses work ter. Cows more milk. Hoga erain Hesh. And hens lay more It the problem of making as much Wood, flesh and energy nn out of the smaiU'st amount of f.xvi consumed.

Buy a can from your dealer. Stead in the eastern that at a cost of over $45,000. Just what the estate is is a matter of con.feeture. something A Btj'n Wili Ki 4 Life. With family around expecting: him to die, and a riding for are those here who have close business relations with him wiio say that the estate will run up at the least calculation to 000,000, while others say it will hardly portion of i S12 per acre.

His cattle are lo cated on leased land in the Indian Torrit'iry. He was a 18 miles, to-et Dr. wortli I quent visitor to Fort Wortli. He I Discovery for consumi)tioii, Tlierc I was always modest, did not boast coughs and colds, W. Brown.

of the success he had made in life, but rather underestimateti his ability and more frequently said that he was as prosper- iuis as many thought he was and of endured from hut wonderful medicine gave instant relief and cured him Ho now sleep soundly reach more than half that amount, tl.at he was not as wealthy as he 7 It comi.ri.ses between 7 0 U(J and was reputed to bo. notwithstand-, bronchitis, coughs, colds and 80.000 head of cattle and some-, inji it was said by one in a position prove its matchless morit thing like half a million acres of to that the firm could land located in Wilbarger, row a hundred thousand dollars iita, Baylor, Knox, Ftjard and many times that amount at Wise counties, in addition to any time it saw iit from northern for all throat and lung Guaranteed bottl free at Man druir store. Ill about acres of leased 'and in the Indian Territory. is also included in the estate stock in the First Ba.Ji of Decatur, the National Bank of and in banks at Gainesville, Sherman banks on a straight promissory note. Friends of the deceased in city will go to Decatur tomorrow to attend the funeral Everything Comes 'Po that wait, (n'en novt and then aches and pains, mat ism, catarrh, neuralgia, and everything that hurts.

Hunt's r. country lookin- out a location at $25,000 and that the lo opou up a branch house in the Waggoner Son had Oil keeps otY every- gentleman, young lady, thing except old age and death. and in the First National Bank of do you wish to go to college? Our it. 25 and 50c. tl is I contest w'ill interest you.

tion or money refunded. It was stated by a friend of the deceased here this afternoon, who had known him intimately for over twenty years, that in the the deceased offered to sell all of his cattle and furniture line. We would like to see Front street built back with substantial rock or brick buildings. It would not only beautify the appearance of our to but w'ould A dispatch received ('arls- bo against tire as well. bad.

N. Monday brought the gad intelligence to tiis imdher und other members of tho family that Tommie Wright was ill at that place. are pleased to report Jesse Griggs convalescing from a severe attack of slow' fever. Itev. T.

Ira Pirtle has rented I. corner building tormerly oc- Chas. Allen, of JopUn, Jack 1 cupied by Mr. Griggs and has county, who purchased thw notion goods to the Y. Wilkerson time since, moved in with his family Tuesday evening.

We were so wet with persweat last week when we cautioned imr readers to watch our ing coi urn Dii this week for tho ttuuual deluge of bargain price lists inat we had lorgotten the Ur) weather might uause them tt'MttVe tliis rnmm. pied by moved his same. Jim Davis has rented the building formerly occupied by p. E. Laney and has moved his stock of groceries into the same.

Uines and family left for it, whore they will make their fui uro home. Mr Hme.s will engage in the durli tt been accumulated since that time. He said the estate, if second to any in the state, came in after the King interests in southwest Texas. He also stated that it about 1872 that the lirst stock cattle moveci by the tleceiised into leliita county for grass; that the Indians com mitted many depredations, stealing the horses and cattle, leaving the cowboys to tind their way home on foot. It was then he biicame and offered Ijis behingings, thro igh Loving of tliis city, for but tinding no purchaser continued in the business.

Shortly after he began driving steers east to Little Rock and such other points as offered a market until about wHien he bought I and 2-year-oId steers in south Tejcas ami drovci tJheui tlie pifrtibti flib There are a million little mouths in your ready to absorb w'hatever comes to them. What kind of soap do you feed tln'in? We seldom on with the powers of absorjition exercised by the pores of the skin, and yet it is possible for these little mouths to take in four quarts of water in hours. No w'onder impuie toilet and bath soaps are so apt to produce skin diseases. You trust the st aps we sell you. handle none but worthy brands, and by buying in quantities we are able to make low prices on them.

C. B. GUNN THE.