Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-05
McLENSAS COUNTY.
McGregor Itcms--Thc Anniversary Cele-
braiion This Week.

McGregor Itcms--The Anniversary Celc-
brs;ion This Week.
Correspondence 10 the Gazette.
McGregor, September 3--This little
giant IL now fairly boiling with bust
ness aud improvements.
Mr.. II. B. Moore. of Pittsburg, re-
turned home last Friday, having COM
ple,ed his large building 4sxs0 feet.
IL Ia rented to large hardware firm
FROM Jefferson, who will open up one
of the largest stocks in the country in
few days.
lust returned from Galveston
where he has been and purchased II
large stock OF goods for the new firm of
.Acrcc, Sewell & Boyett.
MIS-. +. A. Mcdowell has just re-
ceived stock of millinery goods that
would do credit to u town of five
~enusand population.
1.s~ tittbtdeuicr is certainly doing
much for McGrcgor rs well as for
itself. Mr.. Rnst, the editor, will issue
ten thousand copies as a special edi-
IL will be freely circulated
on the 9TH at the celebration.
The first anniversary of McGregor's
birthday will be appropriately eele-
brated on the 1th A large amount of
advertising has been done, ball tickets
issued, the Galveston brass band en-
gagged, rates on the Texas and ST.
Louis secured, Ex-Governor Hubbar
engaged to deliver an address, and ev-
erybody invited to participate in the
free dinner. Great preparations
have been made. and are now
being made for grand time. A beau
tifully dressed and lettered sample of
rock from the McGregor stone quarries
will be on exhibition. and bread from
the -four of our new Touring mill will
he exhibited on the ground, or perhaps
on the tables. The ground will be in
a beautiful grove on Harris creek that
passes through town. Water of the
best quality will he at hand and every
thing done to render the affair a
pleasant and creditable one.
The new brick block OF four stores
was began last Monday and it will
now be rapidly pushed 10 completion.
Mrs. Chambers, who was hurt in
the wreck on the railroad n week ago,
is now able to sit up little and her
baby that had its thigh broken at the
same time Is also doing well. Miss
Katie Sedwick and her sister Mrs.
Mdtflle NdtuTiSut arc DVti tHtiItiy
well of their injuries. Mr.. VIM.
Oglesby, hurt in the same wreck, |
have not heard from.
The new time-card went into effect
on the Texas and st. Louis railroad
yesterday, thus giving us two trains a
day. This being the end of the divi'
sion, all trains stop over and make
their run from here.
Mr.. f.. III. Hall, our efficient station
agent on the Marrow Gauge, has been
superseded by Mr.. Trainer.
The lumber is now on the ground for
the large hotel to be erected by Con-
ductor LeBosquet.
We have had no rain tohelp us since
July. Cotton is coming in right
briskly.
There is large number of ears here
awaiting repairs aud that is an evil
dence that the repairshops will be
built here soon.
Mr.. Frczell is putting in a large
amount of switch and platform here,
and will bald the round-house with
seven stalls before he leaves.
McGregor has 100 people, and the
Dallas Herott, in its September edi
ton, noticed Twenty-Five towns in ri
parts OF the state that had less number
OF inhabitants than ours. Why is this
thuSs