San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-04
Personals.

Mr.. Etter ia employed as book-keeper at
johnson 4 Johnson's.
Mr.. whisenant, Of Manlove 4 whisenant
Druggists, Of Kyle, was In town last Week.
Ned Kyle ia now with ]. V. Hutchins and
Smith Kellum takes his place at Green q
Prices.
We are right glad to see our young friend,
Master Sterling Fisher, out again after his
long illness.
We are pleased to notice that Mr.. b. Is.
Rose is again about, and recovering nom q
recent illness.
Mr.. Teller has for some time been enga-
ged in making improvements on Landas
mill, New Braunfels.
w. Hutchins has purchased the remain
der Of the stock of Turner a Co., and appears
to be Offering 1t at retail.
What temperance lecture could be so i'm
pressive rs the case Of w. ID. Ward
Young men. old mon, beware.
The Bomar family, relatives Of Mr..
Haynes, who came out here about year
ago, have returned to Tennessee to stay.
We learn that neither Mr.. Horn nor Mr..
Gullett, railroad contractors in Mexico, have
been heard from for some considerable time
We met last week Mrs. Tanner, late Mrs.
Tally, of Kimberley. The cause OF her
change of name is the innocent one OF hav-
ing married again. She seemed TO be very
happy, and We trust her happiness may DO
!! lasting. ANS a
We scarcely ever print large number OF
extra copies of our paper, and hence nearly
,n,l In In, Tor
them. Moral: Come in and subscribe, and
Won will always be sure to get the paper
regularly every week.
The only business firm In our town, CON-
posed of, and conducted exclusively by Ia
dies, is that of Russell d Ellison. of the
San Marcos Bookstore. The store Is "a
thing of beauty" only surpassed in attrac-
tiveness by the members of the firm. We are
glad to know that the popularity and bnsi-
ness of the firm are steadily increasing. In
deed we cannot see how it could well be 9TH
erwise,
Our friend s. r. Walters, of the vicinity
of Dripping Springs, called on us last week
to renew his subscription to the FREE Press.
He said that year or 80 ago he lost up
wards of $17 by failing to take the paper.
The case was this: He left the payment OF
his taxes in charge of friend who solemnly
promised to attend to it, but who neglected
to do SO. The consequence was the land
was advertised and sold before the owner
knew anything of it. and it cost him the
above named sum to redeem it. Since that
time, Mr.. Walters says, he is determined to
keep up his subscription to his county pa
per, as he does not care to pay over vi!
year for not doing 10. This is but one in
stance of many similar. 1t may be set
down as an axiom that no man ever saves
anything by failing to take his county pa
paper; on the contrary, in one way or an
other, he is dead sure to lose many times
the amount of the subscription price.
Our friend Judge Peter Schmitt made us
a pleasant call last week. He spent two
weeks in August in Monterey, where he has
a brother-in-law resident there for over
twenty years-one of the confederate refu-
gees to Mexico who staid. He has brew
ery in Monterey, and has accumulated con-
siderable "pile." Judge Schmitt says ne
never was treated better in his life than da-
ring his stay in the city, Which ne found ex-
ceptionally quiet and orderly. The Jefi
Miller affair occurred during the Judges
stay, and he confirmed the statement that
Miller was entirely to blame. The Judge
saw none Of the evidences of unfriendliness
towards Americans descanted upon by a Ger.
tain class of newspapers; on the contrary nc
said he believed an American who behaved
himself would be safer in Monterey than IL
our best regulated Northern cities. Capt.
Gullett and family boarded at the same
house that the Judge stopped at. The Judge
did not find it any hotter than in Texas.