Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-22
GAINESVILLE.
Festivities OF the Scason-Thc Grand
Leap-Eear Ball Ben Poole in
Iail-A Robbery,

| Special to the Gazette.
Gainesville, December 2l.--Prepara-
tions for the holidays 90 on lively.
! Our merchants are doing good trade,
though for two or three days past it
has been cloudy and raining some.
| The country people and our neighbors
from the Nation are all laying in suit
able supplies. and some will have pub
| lie entertainments ut their neighbor-
hood school houses and church build
! ines. The Christian and Methodist
Churches of this city will observe the
occasion in the usual style. A meet
ing will be held Wednesday
evening, however, at the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church, lev.
W. A. Hyde, pastor, to receive dona-
tons suitable to the season for the
poor and needy of the city. a com
mittee will hc appointed to visit and
make distribution of the gifts.
The knights of Pythius ball at the
opera house on the night OF January
Sd will be n grand affair. The COM
inittees in charge are made up of ener-
getic, clever gentlemen, and their
work will be well done, while Prof. T..
Hirsch, than whom there IS 10 better,
Will be master of ceremonies. Every
timing will he gotten up in first-ciass
style. On the same night the ladies of
the NJ. II. Church, South, will have
grand supper, and nothing
VIII be spared 10 make itpmeiit the lib
eral support of all. 1t will afford n
table laden with everything these
dear creatures can invent and the
market afford, and the charges will be
liberal. We can sgeak for them.
The fair held last night by the ladies
OF the Episcopal Church was decided
success, though the weather was quite
unpropitious. They Will realize about
SIS for their church furnishing fund.
with such thrifty, energetic ladies as
Mesdames stevens, Sherwood, Bonar.
Collins, and others, and host OF
young ladies too numerous to mem
ton, there could be no chance of fail
ure.
We will have a grand bali at the
Lindsay house, on the night of
January lst. Ii is leap-year ball, the
young ladies taking the lead and re-
their lights for the allotted
season, and they choose to begin at the
beginning. Invitations are being sent
ont in regular style Of the sterner sex.
We don't know that any of the
GAzErrE's corps have made u mash
on any of these gentle ones, but If you
have you will hear from them. for
they intend to 'speak out in meetin'.n
The notorious Ben Poole, am es-
capped outlaw from this section, is now
in Jail at Bolton, aud our officers have
gone after him. over a wear aro
he robbed the hen-roost OF Il poor
working-man, and as the latter heard
the fuss among his fowls he went out
and protested against the theft and
Poole shot him. lie fingered at the
point of death with his family in want
for several months but al last took
a change Tor the better and recovered,
with the ball still in him. After n |
good deal of legal saving and filing
ana chiseling Poole found himselfsui- |
iiciently free to leave the country.
which he did until his arrest.
Mr.. L.. b. Jones of Holly Springs.
Miss, nephew of Col. II. &. Suags and |
cousin of the Suggs boys, was robbed |
or 800 night before last at one Of our |
hotels. No clew.