With a full realization of this fact, and as a signal token of their appreciation of the work of the fire boys during the past year, the J. H. Douglass fire insurance agency of this city yesterday donated a handsome sum in gold. The recent improvement of the street crossings will conduce greatly to the general comfort of pedestrians. Violations of the law are of such rare occurence here that the merest intimation of one awakens more than usual interest. This was plainly manifest today when a good collection of people assembled on one of the public thoroughfares to witness a transient under arrest for carrying a pistol. Benton street is lined with wagons on either side.
Merchants are busy and farmers are jubilant over their past success.
With redoubled energy they are preparing for another season and merchants are kept busy supplying them with implements and provisions. J. F. Reed, a resident of this place and an employe of the Houston and Texas Central railway as brakeman, met with an accident Monday last near McKinney, by being jammed between the cars, which resulted in his death soon thereafter. As a further sign of prosperity, collectors report money more easily gotten at than for several years past. Accidentally Shot Lewisville , Tex., Jan. 2, A very sad accident happened here yesterday. Three of four boys had a seven shooting twenty two caliber pistol near Mr. Ed Wood's house practicing.