Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-30
SHERMAN.
,,As Old Settlers Reunion :
Y s, \ Of officers
DAVIS Sports

4 Binkley Makes a Speech
pa,t. the Present and the
y future Of Texas
~, ,ax' Aug. ao-At 4 o'clock
=. .t,,rpoon, after the old set
~ a Exhausted the days pro-
50 ~ ]. w. white, who has
Of horses in training on
u, '.son track, had his stable
s,lnr out three handsome
,Srses and gave tie old folks q
l pt's which they enjoyed very
VII M was perhaps the first
he Kind ever wi'nesse" W
81 lne," we're DIR. Merrow's chest
bike Crooks, named In
" ,be sweet singer OF North
d,; i've by ED. Snalley;, MAJ.
da ii,Shn r,ay horse, ID. w. C.
t siu Nv Stanley Keeling, and
' 'ssa,,,:' chestnut mare, Casco'
~ Henry Waters tcoloredl
ey Vas a single heat of one
sce NIKE S won. Time, $50 L..
3D. - r ,y of Denison was pr4s-
:. .sssmed highly pleased that
aa.sak. Of his charming daugh,,
arome out winner in such good
ny. of base bali between the
aa " sherman and the Denison
~ ,esulted in q victory for
Y" nhv a score Of 20 to ..
s. .uoper Rev. J. NJ. Binkley
> dawn on the programme for
\ st that hour delivered a very
,;as talk. He said that after
,;ss he had thought much on
Zion Of u subject whether IL
~ nolilical, religious or social
a mncluded to avoid all this
n n the past, present and fu
iTeyas. He came here with his
family thirty-one years
sasn he was twenty year
md when the way-w0rn emf
a-,,.ad IN the public suuar,
ne cordially welcomed TO tn
Rird Anderson and other oil,
most of whom had long sine
to the spirit land. His fathe
an a farm seven miles from
He afterwards attended schoo
nd house near where the publ
Plumbing now stands, and grad
there with Glenn Fitch, Jess
M and others of like age.
W. boys ate what was offered u
,hose days without askin
questions, except tina
Fitch WAS too religion
| fruit or melors unless he knev
had straight record. We ha
times those days and everybod
pered. No man would own u COY
did no. raise five calves a y ear.
WBHAD FREE GRASS
DO dispute about II. We had be
ben those days than now. tn
btesl names IN Texas history wer
leaders then-sSam Houston
esou, Rusk and others Were I'll
prs Of Texas civiliz alton, and be
ben than they
EVER LIVED IN ANY COUNTRY.
bar people were intelligent. Vhe
posted on what wei
In the world by fir.
|runication with each 9th,
we're more social than this generI
Every latch string hung oil
,sadial welcome was eXtende
sslanger at every cabin in II
hsaired nerve TO come TO Text
h in those days, but nor
ebstay here amid the privatior
hagers surrounding Us. On OF
here We met hundreds who to!
20 back TO Tennessee that "
inot get II good drink or "a squal
In the whole state, but / foun
ferent. The best people had W,
Es yours when you called, eitht
lend or traveller, and then as nov
'anted good cup and solid mel
pt TO the old Texan.
netimes In these latter days Il
nt viii meet us and say the fol-
ot a. home, even when we kno
enuy, II was not so in old'
everything was at home the
= ola people have passed ava
lieir sons add dsughte-s are O
red citizens, and the equal OF al
y iaud. The girls know how
up Their "bsngsn and the DO
10 raise a musmcne al d pt
lialr IN the middle with the b'
w corners. We have the b,
ana women, the best schools al
mes IN the county
best state, in the b'
llment in the whole univer:
new corners don't like it al
Out some of them who col
gst away when they want to,
fslllliony of our sheriff and GO,
Us will show.
VINO came first ough. to be
people. Those cows that rails
alves year are all dead, but
oetier ones now. We raise mt
oats, wheat, hay, cotton, veg
anh 'rnit than any other cot
now, out ii was not so in old
our supplies were !
souhuant then, and I
were only graced W
Mtlcies of diet generously Il
! have made dinner
and sweet milk alone, and sic
aine prairie at night with,
III losing all my worldly p
~ lhe horse and saddle | rode
Aing OF our schools. / tolt
u 70 send his children
)" our Sherman scnos
~ complaint WAS that our ra
nlge rs those in Dauviile, 4
!. vSe, . told him a fact whel
~ 'lat no school in kentuc
aIslior to those of Sherman.
Mways voted for free scho
H. proud OF the benefits confer
0!on the poor children of
,hN mar schools in every town a
~, are so many invltatit
We 70 conue and make hon