San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-07-26
PERSONAL.

Major Hutchinson has gone ON his annual
visit to Virginia,
Miss Minnie Daley is still Frightening
our town by her presence.
Mrs. Mathis. Of Austin, visited the Hill
and friends in town ON Sunday.
l.. ID. Porter Is carrying on q successful
dairy business nj San Antonio.
Mrs. Mott has gone to her old home in
New Jersey In consequence of The recent
death of her parents.
majority Of the teachers of the Normal
School as boarders,
Mr.. Tate, a solid business man, formerly
Of Alabama, we are glad to hear has de-
cided to cast his lot with ne.
S. p Bozarth, OF the Eureka nurseries,
near Wimbsrly, made us pleasant call q
few days since. Sec his new advertisement.
We noticed number of the leading citi-
zens and politicians of Kyle In town yester-
day. Wonder il it meant anything in par
ticular?
The Normal School teachers were favored
on yesterday with n delightful ride about
our suburbs in carriages provided for tho
occasion.
Our old friend O. p. Daley, now of Ken
needy, Texas, made MS an agreeable call one
day last week, renewing his subscription TO
the FREE Pass,
Miss Cappie Kellam returned home from
her sojourn at Kerrvillo the first of the
week We are not advised as to whether
she will return.
The readings by Miss Harrison on
Wednesday night from Miss Murfreos
representations of scenes in East Tennessee
life were very good.
Our venerable friend, Mr. Piper, of Oys-
ter creek, like Mr.. Wm. Thomas, ST., has
derived great benefit from the treatment of
Madame Duke, of Austin.
1.-THE name of the butcher who started the
barbecued meat business here is Mr.. Sit
man. Credit to whom credit" 1t will be
hard to do without these meats any more.
We only noticed recently the return of
Billy Covington, who is again with j. r.
Porter. Mr.. @. was absent some time from
San Marcos, but somehow felt 'movcd" to
return. "Ihey all do it,"
Our neighbor, Mrs. Durham, informs us
that her father and Gen. w. II. Harrison
"Old Tippecanoe"-were first cousins. A
fair ground for some family pride. And
yet Mrs. d, is not for "the grandson"
Mrs. Littlepage, wife of Rev. S. @. Little
page, venerable Methodist minister who
lectured ore night last week at the Hill,
made hasty visit to this place. Mrs. L.
is better known here as Mrs. Deloney, for q
number of years resident and well known
teacher of this place. She scarcely did her
old friends justice by SO hasty CALL J
1t must by no means be supposed that
Chautauqua engrosses all the summer WIS.,
itors to San Marcos and environs. There
are several other favorite camping places,
of which the McGehee picnic grounds and
Cheatham Ford stand pre-emlnent Un-
questionably the finest view of the river
below the head is there to be found, and
the only perfectly shaded grounds we know
of in this country. Apropos of all this,
the FREE PRESS was favored Monday morn
ing by party of young lady and gentle
men campers from Austin with very
pleasant call. The mines of the campers
as given US are as follows: MIR. and Mrs.
Il. O. Shelley, Misses Edwards, Hale, lay
lor, Shelley, Howard, Perry Driskill, G..
Grow. Jr,, Master Shelley l and 2, Messrs.
Hill, King. Griffith, Of Kentucky, Joe
Martin, Henry Marks, Jim Johnson,
Melasky, Oatlett, Matt Smith, Paul Miilett,
and others of whom we failed to make
legib!e entry All seemed delighted, spend
ing their time, as they stated, fishing, hunt
ing, reading, etc. They sad they enter
tanned twenty five guests for dinner the day
before which must have involved consid-
cradle labor on some of the fair damsels, 10
say nothing of the good boys Of the
company. We thank them for cordial
invitation to come and dine with them,
which, circumstances fayoring, we should
be very happy to accept.