San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-18
Personals.

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Miss Russell il raising quite q bevy o.
young canaries.
DIR. Crews has gone on his annual trip To
the North,
Rev. Mr.. Kennedy has resigned the charge
of the Presbyterian church OF this place,
but will ill the pulpit temporarily till fall.
Michael O'Connor has returned to this
place rs night telegraph operator at the
depot.
A very pleasant young German lady In.
CURED Of us il the proposed barbecue would
wind up with q ball at night. We have
to refer her to some of the gallant young
gentlemen who have the management.
The remains of William Lindsey, one of
the founders of San Marcos, and who sur
veyed a large portion Of Western Texas, one
of his sons and two children of Mrs. Har-
vey who died young, rest in the in
closure where the remains of A. F. Harvey
were deposited on Monday last
We have been quite remiss Of duty in not
sooner paying deserved tribute to the mer-
its of our colored friend Jack Bittick, as
builder and repairer of cisterns. We had
considerable trouble with ours until we gave
him the job of overhauling it, last fall, since
which time il holds full from top to bottom.
Jack is a good, reliable workman in his line.
Texas Siftings says lone Of the leading
Hays county papers" makes an idiot Of it.
self by defendin Rev. Mr.. Martin the
Baptist minister who officiated so symps-
thetically at the funeral of Jesse james.
Siftings should have stated the name of said
leading" paper-the Kyle Courant.
FEE. Leason, onece of this town, but for
several years in the sheep business near
Eagle Pass, has been spending some time
with his special friends of this place, Mrs.
Gotten and family. Glad to learn that he
is at last making the sheep business pay
we'll He informs us that there is no land
now to be had in his section save at high
prices.
The Texas Siftiugs describes a certain
business man up at Stephenville who, to
save little expense on printing got little
6xS Novelty press second hand-and some
old type. End COW prints his own ''kerds"
and dodgers. He's regular dodger him
self-always lodges spending a nickle in
his owa town, where he gets his support,
out sends ahead for most of what he buys.
Pears to us we nave heard of some such
fellow rs this not so far off as Stephenville-
to say nothing of the rubber stamp frater-
nifty.
The special correspondent from this
place of III. Kyle Nutshell says that Charley
Hutchings is "about to take a wing"-what-
ever that may be If it means, rs some,
suppose, that he is about to be "spliced,"
then we must say thet the said G. H. is play
ing a very ungenerous part by the FREE PRESS
in not giving il the news first, inasmuch as
we did his matrimonial advertising gratis,
by means of which, it seems, he is ut last
about being successful in ''forlorn hope"
We he'd thought better of our friend than
that he could be thus ungrateful.
WE the undersigned have used P. R.
Turner and Co.'S. McDermott, Cultivator,
and recommend it as being the best ever US
ed by us. Its light, simply constructed,
and durable.
GEO. VAN EVERY. j. V. HUToH1Ns.
w w. WILLIAMSON, L. A. CRocKER,
w. R. MCKEE, A. G. BUTLRR,
FELIX KYLE, JEFFM. KYLY,
J. w. Cox, PERRY 7. BosT,
HENRY w. DIXON, JOE N. DIXON,
BEN SEBRING, w. j. AUTRY,
CHARLES ERcK, VIM. ERCK.
A. H. FLEMING, ]. W. HERSDoN.
HENRY BRrEpLovE, CURRAN KYLE,
c. s. RYLANDER, j. G. BosT,