Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-25

growth to speak OF occurred until after
1864; but when the national sky began
clearing, Ladonia began to grow. She
has kept on In a quiet, massuming
way aud now numbers all of 600 peo.
pie. Until comparatively of late she
has not dreamed Of greatness, but like
that once little village where the pan.
ther laid down, Ladonia has caug, 4
the railroad fever, and budding ambi.
ton Is gnawing ut her breast. But
she has good cause TO be ambitious.
| She IL on the direct airline of the prc
posed extension OF the Gulf, Colorado
u Santa Fe road from Dallas TO Paris.
| not only has she an advantage of loca-
ton, but she fortunately possesses a
a number of that class Of citizens who
are capable with but little help TO
make any place of reasonably good
natural advantages II town of inn
portance. These people are In good
financial circumstances; they are
wide-awake; are up to the require
mehts OF the times, and such men at
any point would make their influence
felt. 1t Is not flattery to so speak of
them 1t is simple justice. At an in
formal meeting recently, when num-
Der of the large property-owners were
absent, over ten thousand dollars
were subscribed toward getting the
Santa Fe road to touch at Ladonia,
and l am assured that as much more
can be readily raised. In this
matter they are phssessed. off a
aeeu'ar Fort Worth spirit
enterprise. Greenville is
contestant for the Santa Fe road and
meeting will be held at Dallas on the
lotIi INST, at which a delegation will
ne present from Greenville, Paris and
very probably from Ladonia as the
,atter has been asked by interested
raris parties to have representatives
there. or course THE GAZETTE has
10 desire to express any preference as
between Greenville and Ladonia; but
This can be said, that if the road does
pass through Ladonia it will open W
10 the prospector one of the best little
towns in the state of Texas.
There are some twelve business
houses here. carving excellent stocks
for country trade and possibly more
|, select and of a higher grade than IL
usual for such sized towns. Tn,
amount of cotton handled here in tn,
season approXimates 1900 bales. ant
; with increased acreage and aedirec
railroad outlet those figures would b,
greatly increased. The amount of bus
! mess done here the past year, exclusiv,
!. of the cotton handled. is reliably est
mated at over Sl25, 600. Within IA
! dius of five miles from town there ar
: thirteen cotton gins, mostly run b.
steam; in town there Is an excellen
: steam Touring mill owned by j. i
Jackson, who has upwards of fou
!. hundred acres of wheat and SINAI
y grain, and has three or four gins scat
e tered about here
II b. Cobb has four hundred acre
in cotton wheat; w. II. Cob
has five hundred acres nea
y here in cotton; John Payne ha
four hundred acres in corn and cotton
J. S. Donaldson has five hundre
d acres in cotton, corn and whea
e and very many have from seventy
y five to one hundred acres variousl
l. planted. Dennis Pollard, a colore
% man, has three hundred acres in co
$ ton, and Lige Pyles, another negr
q has three hundred and fifty acres
II cotton. This mention will convey a
'e idea of how much farming is going q
y in this immediate vicinity, and as
Is good town is only the outgrowth of
u good surrounding country, so IN
n shows what goes to make Ladonia
70 good town.
TO There is first-class school her
ct under the care of Messrs. Jones d Fo
l. ter, with an attendance of 100 pupl
'E now and $50 during the free'scho
" term, now closed.
The Methodists, Baptists and Pre-
III. | A. l.x ,t,,,rahna nf the
OF own, and the Cumberland Presb
es terians are also organized here. b
to with no building of their own.
b. AS to health, the place is situate
er high, the water is gathered in cister
IN and is pure and wholesome, ana u
he several good doctors of the town hs
OF little to employ them. and only the
TO willingness to go out into the count
IN roundabout produces them iivin
OF else they might have to change tht
er occupation.
st The lands in this part of Fannin 81
for soto S25 per acre. Inquiry mig
IN he made of Mr.. C. w. r. Weldon w
" resides here, and is also president
es the First National bank OF hon
OF Grove.
nd had the pleasure of being SHOW
We Quoted by Sam Marshall here. Thirl
ms three acres are filled with the choice
he of fruit and flowers, and not a part
the earth can be named that has mo- m
a representative on these grounds. i
tia extent of the peach. plumb ana eve
he other variety of fruit trees being s.
ad by Mr. Marshall would surprise "
,ly II stated; and that he most thorough
as understands his business and keeps,
is with IL you may be assured. lie
lty ninety varieties of apple; eighty
me peach; seventy of pears twenty
he plumbs, and in any quantity as 10 .
are tinps or seedlings for sale. AS Tor no
are ers. he has them all.
AN The social character OF TINS PEG
ms can highly he spoken of and IN al u
to goes to adorn life they abound
sat
ne,
70 GenteeI Slavery ut the HUB
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