Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-27
ROANOKE.
Improvements Around TOwn-A Can
didate for the Legislature, etc.

improvements Around T0wn--A Can
didate for the Legislature, etc.
special correspondence of the sazetts.
ROANOKE. Aug. 23.--Roanoke has
again commenced building and, judy
ing from the many loads of lumber
that leave the yards here daily, the
country around is doing likewise.
Prof &C. George has put up near the
seminary neat and substantial build
ing. Mr.. Foster Is building another
stone and brick business house ana
the'lumber and other material Is on
the grounds for the erection of the
Roanoke 4 Collegiate institute. A Mr..
II ouser, from Dallas county, has
bought farm near town, on which
he has nearly completed his dwelling.
a number of other new houses will
soon be built in and near
town, while the spirit of i'm
proving and enlarging dwellings
seems 10 prevail, both in the town and
country.
DR.. Buah has announced his candi-
dacy for the Legislature from this
county, and ~ he IL opposed to the
iniguitous and ruinous LEASE law IL
is to be'hoped he will be elected. The
doctor IN AN able and "a true man who,
" elected, will he "a valuable help
on the right side of the
grass, the school and all other questions
that concern the welfare of the country
and of his constituents.
Business, owing to the long drought
.xr
ntively dull, but IL improving.
MIR. w. l.. Sheriff., one of
our worthy and eDterprising young
men, IL in st. Louis buying IA new
stock of hardware aud other goods.
Mo will open at first in the house
formerly occupied by w. q. Patterson,
but viii take the new stone and brick
IA soon as IL Is completed.
'0ne important move that will
largely tend to the growth and prosper
ity of Roanoke and the country tribu-
tary thereto, is the establishment al
another school, the Collegiate insti-
tute. This school was inaugurated by
| the efforts of some OF the best citizens
of the town and the country arounu,
not IA an opposition to the existing
school, the seminary, but for the
| purpose of having an independent
private school of high grade that
would afford additional facilities for
the instruction of the youth here and
of those who might he induced to
| come to our schools. The citizens are
all justly proud of the seminary build
ings, aud all are grateful to the liberal
minded men who gave their money
for this cause, but the founders of the
new school know that two schools will
do more for the town and country
than one could do, aud that the pres.
ent school will be largely benefited by
the establishment OF the second school.
Both schools will he good ones, and
both will work harder to excel than
IL there were no competition. The
scholars In each school will he taught
more correctly and thoroughly to
"k-ow how ,"and both the town and
the country around present more in
wiling home To those who have child
rem or wards to educate.
The lease or fence law, that has done
80 much 10 retard immigration has not
Injured this section as IL has some
parts of the state, but its bad
effects have been felt even here. The
country tributary to Roanoke can well
support many hundreds more OF small
farmers than IL has, and these small
farmers cannot get homes where land
isall fenced up. The small farmer II
worth as much to the merchant, the
school, the church, and to society ms the
man who owns or leases thousands of
acres aud the more small farnis-well
titled, the homes of good families s.
there are around any town, the more
prosperous that town will be.
Il Roanoke needs Touring mill and
there Ia money In the Investment.
The town needs also score or two
more comfortable dwelling houses
for sale or rent and ss
there is mach capital In III.
hands Of some of the citiZeus of this
part of the country It isa wonder that
, some of our moneyed men have not
already erected halfa hundred hous. /
fcrsale or rent. 1t would pay.
One other thing that tune will cor.
rect Is the high prices asked by both
, the railroad and individuals for build.
ing lots both had better ''yiye
away alternate lots than to hold AT
present prices.
The GAZETTE Is eagerly looked for
, each morning and there WAS u general
expression of satisfaction and relief
when the news came that the publish.
ing company We're again masters of the
situation. We say nothing OF the
work, which the entire land recop-
nizes, that the paper has done to max q
Fort Worth the city II Is The able
persistent and effective opposition of
TIE GAZETTE To the lease law should
endear 4 TO every friend oftrue progress
IN tho stAte. JUNIrs.
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