Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-24
CORSICANA.
Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans
Home Opened ollcr-Mllls with
More than They Can DO.
Appropriation for City Hall and Market
House-rhe Farmers Out of Debt aud
on Their Feet Again.
Correspondence Of tho eazottc.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
CoRsIcANA, TEX, Jan. 22.--The Odd
Fellows widows and Orphans home,
which is located within two miles OF our
city, has begun already TO take inmates,
and can accommodate all that may now
apply. The house on the farm is good,
substantial, two-story building, which
1 will be occupied until the appropriations
are made at the meeting OF the grand
1 lodge in February, at which time 1t is
thought an appropriation OF $4,000 VIII
be made, and plans will be submitted for
| the erection of the west wing OF hand
| some brick structure, which Will reflect
credit to the order that has shown SO
/ bene0cont a spirit and erected in this a
monument which will stand as an emblem
of the humane principles OF the fraternity.
( The Corsicana roller mills, which have
been in operation scarcely half a year,
are now running almost night and day,
| with more orders than they can I'LL. They
/ have given new impetus to the tliversi1-
cation OF crops. Wheat is being more
/ extensively planted now than ever before,
aud, with a quick cash Market 1t will
/ take from our farmers their entire de-
/ pendence on the cotton crop. The com
| pany IL now putting up an elevator which
will hold enough grain for the en-
tire needs of the mill, besides
storage for outsiders. The Jenney cleo
trio light is being used to illuminate the
building, and the engine of the mill will
/ be used to furnish the power for the
electric light for Illuminating the city,
whlce is now on its way and win be in
position within MONTH
Our city council has purchased n lot in
the center of town for $4,000, and has
made an appropriation OF $4,000 for the
purpose of erecting n city hall, mark,
and englne-house, which win be built
this spring. A system OF sewerage Is
now under consideration, aud as soon as
! II Is found practicable will be taken hold
OF and pushed through.
A new enterprise in our midst is an ICE
factory, which was completed the past
fall, which will obviate the disagree
able necessity of depending on
the railroads for ice during
the summer after leaving us in the
past without this luxury in the heat of
summer. meat-packing establishment
II talked OF in connection with this facto
ry and will probably materialize during
the spring months.
AS an indication of the thrift of our
city we would state that there Is not Il
clearinghouse or store now to be rented
| In Corslcana, and the demand, especially
foI dwellings, is great and rents in conse-
quence are very high.
IL Is with great pride that our citizens
speak of our water-works, especially as
regards fire protection. Whereas the
comment of newspapers heretofore was
"that there hadn't been lire in Corsi-
cana for Il week. We can say that we
have not had n fire of any consequence
for over year.
Although other cities have complained
of dull times during the past fall, our city
has done remarkably we'll, failures be-
| ing unknown and trade in al de-
/ partments is good. With an actual
wagon receipt of over twenty-three thou
sand bales Of cotton our farmers have
generally paid up their Indebtedness, and
are in better shape this year than was ever
known In the history OF our county, and
with one more ordinarily prosperous
year they viii be entirely independent of
all outside help. The principles taught
by the Farmers alliance have brought
I them to learn economy, which, 1t Is be-
lieyed, will greatly benefit them as class