San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-04-01
Personal.
JEFF. Travis is occupying the Gullett place

jeff. Travis is occupying the Gullett place
Mrs. Pullam and son have been spending
som time nj Mrs. Killough's,
Mr. Wootton of Kentucky, brother o.
DIR. w. of Austin, is visiting ut this place
@. b. CHllan left this morning for Brown
wood, May success attend him.
Mr.. Williams and wife, of Barry, Illinois
are here ON visit. Mr.. w. is an o!d-tim'
friond of Maj, Donaldson.
Our friends Mark Rogers and Jim Storey
have bought ont Guinn's meat market. See
their announcement in our local columns.
Mr.. Robinson, travelling agent of the Fort
Worth Gazette, made us pleasant call the
fore part of the week.
We notice on our streets again Mis- Nora
Franklin, who has for long time been re-
siding ut San Antonio. Glad to see her
looking remarkably well.
Mr.. J. p. Kellam has bought the Love
place, and expects to remove to 1t soon.
We suppose his present location, the s,
j. Thomas place, will be for rent.
Only last week we noticed q call from Mr..
G. T.. Johnson-a few days later and he was
no more Another illustration of the trans
itory character of this present life.
Misses Mollie Cotton, Annie Haynes and
Nellie Julian left this morning for Austin to
hear Clara Louise Kellogg. They Will be
the guests of DR.. and Mrs Mathis
BY our local columns it will be seen that
Mr.. d. A. Barbee, late of Kyle. has started
q new dairy at this place. He has had OK
perience in the business, and will doubtless
give satisfaction to his patrons.
Our friend and "oficial" neighbor, DIR.
Combs, we suppose concluded summer had
come, and took out his stove on Saturday.
The ''cold wave" of the next day and since
must have given him unpleasant evidence
of his mistake.
Much has been said pro and con rs to the
merits of Johnson grass as hay. Mr.
Rayburn, of Sledge's ranch and others
who are competent judges, assert that Col.
Sledge's crop saved last season cannot be
excelled by the best timothy or clover.
We learn the county commissioners in
special session last week appointed Mr..
Neighbors, of Kyle, to fill the office OF
county attorney made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Ford. The appointment is
probably as good as they could have made.
In noticing the call of Capt. s. j. Thom-
rs not long since we meant to have stated
that, rs he informed us, Misses Sallie and
Ella Horn reside with him at Centre Point,
and that their brother Jim resides at Kerr
vile, is married and doing well.
Charley Steele has been catching some
fine trout and catfish the past week below
the dam. We learn this is the best time of
year for "luck", as they are swimming up
stream. The fish are now also at their best
for the table. A market for the trout may
always be found at the FREE PRESS office.
Notwithstanding the warning of the FREE
PRESS last season to our young men, they
have allowed another young Lochinvar to
come out of the west and carry of another
of our fair maidens in the person of Miss j.
A. Cooke. Dr. j. B. Treon is the gentle
man who thus distnnced our home-guard
matrimonial. Can such things be?
Professor Alexander's class in book-keep-
ing is progressing. Last Tuesday the SEN
Tor class, Messrs Storey, Cunningham and
BiOunL competed luSlE COuISS .tui arc nv"
competent to handle my of the usual mer'
camille or banking accounts. They all ex-
press themselves as emipently gratified with
the result and speak in the highest terms OF
their instructor.
Messrs. II. S. Harvey and G. B. Ezell
have been citizens of San Marcos for near.
ly 40 years, during all OF which time they
have been, MS they are to-day, warm friends
We learn they continue to visit each othel
about three times a week on III average, af-
tor supper, and talk over old times. Such n
long and close conpanonship must be very
pleasant.
We are informed that Hon. J. M. Jolly, O
leading farmer of Caldwell county, has q
somewhat peculiar system Of selling his
cotton. He holds his crop infect to the
close of the season, and then sells it Ill to-
gether. He contracts for its sale, delivers
it himself, getting pay for the hauling, and
seldom if ever fails of getting fair price
He buys his groceries, ETC., at wholesale
prices, at large saving. His plan would
seem to be worthy of attention and imita
ton.