San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-09
PERSONAL.

W. s. Gray, who now resides on the Bra
EOS, was here day or 30 recently.
Gid j. johnson is at Austin as Juror OF
the Federal Court.
DIR, Richardson left for his field of duty
last week.
Terry Killough has moved into Mrs.
Durhams properly.
j, V. Hutchins is in New York for the
purpose of purchasing his spring and sum
mer stock.
Now that Frank Donaldson has returned,
Tom Code again holds divided empire AZ
tho champion talkist of the town.
John H. Bales has we'll of very strong
sulphur water on his place near Sink
Spring"
Prof Buck, the itinerant ornamental"
school teacher aud would-be newspaper
man, has ''gone west to grow up with the
country"
Mrs. Geo II. McGehee and Miss Mary
Lindsey, the committee long in charge of
the improvement of the Old Cemetery
made the FREE PRESS a call on Tuesday.
We have missed our old friend Major
Donaldson for some time. We learn he is
sojourning at DR.. W. A. McGehee's in
Uvalde.
Our young friend, w. D. Price, of Blanco
is one of the FREE Press typographical force,
He has been quite indisposed since his ar
rival, but we doubt not he will soon be all
right and fully in the harness.
Our friend Alex Wood was in town one
day last week. He has bought farm in
the vicinity of Kyle, and may be regarded
as fixture in Hays county. We wish We
had many more such as he,
Neil Walker, we'll known colored man
of this place, has strangely absented himself
from home during several months past He
does not communicate with his wife and
children and they are at present ignorant of
his whereabouts. 1t rather lisa singular case.
We notice by the Dallas Watchman that
DR.. Carroll Kendrick the well-known able
Christian preacher, is in Dallas. His resi-
dence is in California, but ha will remain at
Dallas for some time. 1t might be we'll to
have him come down and shake up the dry
bones in the church at this place,
Elk. Commissioner Ratlltf being detained
here Con the jury we believe) during the
late term of our county court. expressed
himself pretty strongly against said courts
He said that he did not doubt but ours was
as we'll administered as the average, but it
was the system he considered as an un-
necessary expense TO the people. He said
he could not understand why the legisla-
ture did not try to give some relief.
The stringency of the times made il ey-
pedient for us last week to part with Mr.,
Haskt IT, who had been one of our employ.
ees for nearly two years, He is good
printer and good man, of steady ha-
bits, correct princil les and gentlemanly
manners He left for Clarendon, Donley
county, where he had secured a position.
We hope he and his good wife and little
ones may have smooth sailing aud an OPEN
ing for advancement which they could have
scarcely hoped for here.
"San Marcos favorite son." Frank Don
Alison, reached home from Southern Califor-
mia few days SINCE He said he found
himself out of work and under the circum-
stances he felt like he had rather be at
home. We learn it was in contemplation
by his many friends here to welcome him
on DIS RrriVaI NJ tue oepot Will ProCeSsiou
and brass band. and to call for speech, but
he came in SO Unexpectedly as to prevent
the carrying out of the plan proposed
Mr. D., while doing justice to California, is
somewhat disenchanted with it. He says
Northern people who go there are generally
pleased with the climate, but those from the
South do not like the damp. chilly atmos-
phere, He says the boom still prevails, but
there is q great deal more friction in it aud
likely to be more. He knew but little Of the
others who had gone there, but thought
they had done fairly we'll, but were proba-
bly, also not 80 enchanted as they were at