San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-11-19
PERSONAL.

l. his now quarters. He shayes people.
r. Mrs. T. X. Hutehin's, We learn, ia yer
=. sick with the dengue.
l. Mr.. G. W. Call, OF Staples Store is tn
a City.
y Dave Malone has returned from Memphis
A Tenn, where no shipped several cars o
horses,
A sister of our Mr.. Rose and her chill
arrived Tuesday night, and expect TO re
main during the winter.
Mrs. B. r. Blount was admitted to mem
bership in the Baptist church last Sunda.
= by letter from the church in Palestine.
Col Mcclellan has well on his sheeI
: ranch In this vicinity $50 feet deep will
= thirty feet of water. II has been bored 70
Gently.
i Thanks to our friend John l. Malone. FOL
n persimmon. We presume II In OF thu
Japanese variety. II looks good, but W,
D reserve II for future discussion.
Mr.. d. A. Glover, though one of the
i moneyed men Of San Marcos was unable
I to buy up the dengue. He Is now abou,
0 again.
l F. Z. Rufhni, architect, died at Austin on
? Monday. Az will be remembered, he was
, the architect Of tho court house Of Hays
county.
Mr.. w. A. Bowen, late correspondent Of
the San Antonio Express, Is now travelling
agent for ''Hepatozone". 1.-The right man
I in the right place.. :.
Messrs. Chapman and Howell, the two
| - IA -. II,
! en- with ''it" simultaneously last week and
are just beginning to feel all right again.
Capt. E. b. Martin. the commercial tray
eller, spent three or four days here this
week. His friends wish him success, and
he is sure to succeed ''on the road"
Mr.. Dan. Payne reports killing bear on
the Guadalupe last week. II was very fat
and weighed 400 pounds After chasing Il
two hours it took to tree from which he
shot it.
Walter McGehee is hero from Preside Co.
for the Holidays, this is his first visit home
for two years. He reports cattle fat and
soy the Hays county boys are pleased with
county.
We were sadly remiss of memory in not
acknowledging in our last the gift Of q very
large and excellent pear, from our friend
Mrs. Prescott, a sample Of such as are pro-
duced on the Prescott House grounds.
Our honorable County Commissioners we
presume hardly aspire to be known rs
"bullionaires", but we notice they still oc-
casionally keep few yearlings on pasture
in the court house yard.
Miss Alice Collins commenced teaching at
the McCarty school house, in the northeast
corner of this county ON Monday. We have
no doubt she will prove an acquisition to
the school and neighborhood.
Mr.. w. Fl. Nance who is in charge of the
Kyle branch of j. w. Nance & Bro, the
furniture men, was to be seen on our streets
Sunday. He always spends the Sabbath at
homo, and never misses "singin'".
Peter Woods hauled several loads Of lum-
Der from this place last week to his ranch in
Gillespie county on which he is making nu-
merous improvements. He says stock is
doing well on his range.
Mr.. Vogelsang says that "that a paper
like the Cosmos cannot be edited. when the
atmosphere is impregnated with dengue few
ver." The paper will appear again after
freezing weather has set in.
w. II. Robbins, tho "old reliable" Jewell
er has handed us copy of his Holiday
Messenger. published for him by Santa
Claus & Co. 1t is finely illustrated paper
containing many choice bits of humor.
For sample copy apply to Robbins
We should have mentioned the fact that
Tom H. Glover, the cashier of the s. nj.
National bank, and young Payne, of Pur-
gatory Springs while hunting with dogs
freed and killed bear Tom is having the
skin dressed.
The dengue hasn't got through with
Green & Price yet. Four of the force were
laid up at once the first of the week, includ- |
firm; the others were Mr.. Alexander, the |
book keeper, Mr.. Wills and the cash boy
We see 1t stated in an exchange that Rev.
Jacob Ditzler is enroute for San Marcos.
We doubt not our churches which are
deemed too sacred for the use of Christian
lady lecturers, will be open to him for the
discussion of the Temperance question.
We certainly hope so. ..
Mr.. Sam. H. Dixon wishes us to state that
he expects to reach our town with his book,
''Poetry and Poets Of Texas, about the
25th inst. He hopes then to enlarge his
hope he may be literally patronized by our
! ,
Monroe Hardeman. an experienced "cow-
boy" whose family lives at this place, has
just returned from Wyoming, Colorado and
adjacent regions. He left for Wyoming
last February, driving for Mr.. Half, of
San Antonio, and remained there handling
cattle till short time since.
The San Antonio Express of Tuesday
contains a notice of the death of Rev. W. {
D. Johnson, a well known Baptist preacher
who resided near Pleasanton. Our readers
will recollect our notice of o call he made
On the FREE PRESS Office few weeks since. |
He was then the picture of health. His dis
ease was q combination of dengue and fux. .
W. C. Digger has on exhibition at the v
drugstore specimens Of artichoke grown in f
mis- yard. He received several tubers from i
Arkansav last spring which he planted on
MS place and they fourished amazingly. +,
On a light sandy soil they are said to make !,
over hundred bushels to the acre. and are !,
he best thing to fatten hogs. They are I
urned into the patch and allowed to root =
'or themselves and there is always enough
eft for seed.
In our Martindale notes last week we
made the statement that Stone Il Ellison's d
yin had turned out 9, 700 bales of cotton G
his year. Wehave since met Col. Stone
md he informs us that the true figures are
bout 1000 bales; he says they have turned
ut twenty bales in n single day. Mr.. Stone
Informs MS that his interest (one-hsl) in n
he gin and mill is for sale, and that he will Il
axe IS. 500 for IT, We also were in error Z,
n stating that Charley Cocreham was in the
!rocery business at Martindale, the store is
q charge Of Walter A. his brother. :.
From Mr.. 2. T. Cleft We learn that on b