Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-07
KELLER.
New Cotton and Wheat Coming Ina
Farmers Picnic.
Business Improvements The Drought
General Notes.

Special Correspondence Of the Gazette.
KELLER, TEX, Sept. 6.-The dra-
matte entertainment has been post.
poned two weeks. 1t will take place
on the night of the Goth inst, and the
programme will include several other
good things besides the "Social Glass. F"
Postmaster Neace is building barn
and buggy shed. Charley is also stock
ing up his lumber yard, having just
received several cor loads OF stun suit
able for buildings of every description.
No need for farmers and others to go
elsewhere for lumber now.
| said a few weeks ago
in a letter to THE GAZETTE that the
indianapolis Sentinel didn't 90 of
half-cocked in publishing the story OF
Blaine's involuntary marriage. That
papers answer in the libel case, as
given in your issue of Friday, leaves
the knight of the white plume in a
noble and heroic attitude truly. What
a siekening fraud this Jim Blaine is,
looked at from any point of view
whatsoever
The talk is that the cross-timber
farmers are going to have picnic near
Keller on the 18th of this month. 1t
is TO be country affair exclusively,
and the town, as town, is to have
nothing to do with it, nothing save
going there and helping in the noble,
patriotic work of getting away with
grub and perhaps listening TO speeches
by the different county candidates
who are to be in attendance. Keller
has had one picnic this year, and it
was good one, and she now feels that
another is more than she can stand.
1t takes work, and money, and ex-
perlence TO get up picnic worthy of
the name, aud this community is far
too wise TO bite off more than it can
"chaw" of picnic or anything else.
The Davis Bros. and
Nathan-have sold and shipped
TO Galveston two carloads OF
fine wheat. The price rea. lied was
90 and 80 cents per bushel. II seems
to me that man could double his
money by buying wheat at such fig
ures and holding it for six or eight
months for the rise that is sure to
come.
Cotton is coming m. Though not
as freely as in years past. The crop
Is hight and the staple not of the best.
Mr.. Hightower is buying all that
comes, paying outside country fig
ltres.
The candidates still act a little shv
and modest in their wooing of the
Keller voters. Indifference, real or an.
parent, does very well some times, but
IN TINS case | can assure all YOU fell.
lows mat are yearning and painting
Ior once even as the blue grass Demo-
crat panteth for the Bourbon bottle.
that you've got to go it strong. Make
love 10 us fierce and hug us hard, ss
BODY may he excused for saying
we are no spring chickens and are
not TO be "kanoodledn by having "A little
SAT- or chatf put on our aesthetic tails
along near the end of the campaign.
MI Is. Jarvis, son-in.law of : Led
iord, is building himself $1,000 resi-,
dence ON his farm out Henrietta-w way.
Curtis " Shader of Fort Worth are the
architects and builders.
Mr ). Ledf0rd has now stored in his
cellar twenty barrels of mustang wine,
tour varieties of peach cider and hall
dozen barrels of vinegar.
all manufactured by himself
within the past few weeks. The wine
Is good and already giveth its color
beautifully in the goblet. AS a bever.
age II cheers, but does not intoxicate
unless you go pint or so beyond youI
depth, and then, look little out..n a,
old Herodotus used to say.
The ground Is so dry and hard that
unless we get plenty of rain soon there
VIII be no fall blowing and that mean,
little or no fall wheat for next year,
crop. Reliable Information from The
oldest inhabitantn on this drouth
racket is to the effect that II beats All
previous records badly-that is. Mi
reeesds made since the rank thistle
nodded IN the wind and the wild FOX
aug ms mole unseared' in that part 81
ieS''s known as Tarrant county.