Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-01

Go to church or 60 fishing but it is
better to 60 to church.
II the churches charge an admisss ON
fee lots more people would 60 than 60
at present.
Cuero's most beautiful daughter
Miss Myrtle Bell, is in the city, the
guest Of Mr.. w. d. Mayfield.
Justice f. NJ. Makeig has removed
his Office to q room OH the second floor
of the Masonic Temple building inn
above Louis Thompson's
saloon.
OF the two children of Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. Lambdln who have been i'll with
scarlet fever the little girl is nearly
we'll again and the little boy though
still not out of danger is in hopeful
way towards recovering.
The county Alliance held an extra
session at Temperance Hall yesterday
to consider special business and ad.
journed in the evening. A member
Of the delegates remained to the mass
meeting at night. The next meeting
takes place in January.
Cranberries and celery are now the
tempting tonics offered at all the
grocery stores. The medical property
Of celery are unexampled. 1t cures
neuralgia insomnia kleptomania,
cocothes scribendi and hundred
other ills arising from diseased nerves.
Church of the Assumption, Rev. A.
Badelon, pastor. Fifth Sunday OF
Advent, Low Mass At 8 a. M; High
Mass at 10 a. m. Sermon, subject:
Advent; Sunday school at 3 p. M,
prayers and benediction at 4 p. m.
Next Saturday, December 9Th, is the
feast of the Emaculate Conception, a
holy day OF obligation in the church
and also the Patronal Feast of the
Catholic church in the United States.
Services as on Sunday.
Never in the history Of the church
have the Catholic ladies taken such a
lively interest in and made such grand
preparations for the Catholic Fair,
which will take place next Monday,
and continue four nights consecutive.
ly at the old McClelland opera house.
on Fourth street. The supper, at 50
cents, will be quite special and recher.
che by the gourmets. There will be,
in addition to the supper, an oyster
table, at IS cents a dozen, in all
styles. Fine music; plenty OF refresh
ments, of a temperance nature, and
dancing. Remember, the great event
of the season.
A mild.eyed sleepy looking gentle.
man who confessed that he had been
looking lovingly on the wine when it
was red dropped in at the News Office
this aft, to mildly protest against fate.
He was a news paper man he said a
correspondent of a great paper and
had been drugged at place where he
staid all night and that, thought he
had honorably and conscientiously
discharged his bill, the boarding house
keeper was OBTAINING his valice which
contained money and valuables.
There might haye been more at.
tention paid to his story if the incon.
gruity between the newspaper and his
valuables had not cast shadow oil
doubt over his story as large as a
barn door. He left in search of a
constable or a coroner.
One Of the few wagons which came
in town today with cotton bore evi.
dence of the terms of the voyage
which one must make to get into
Waco by wagon, the cotton bales be.
ing streaming with mud and water
from the places where they had been
forced to unload to get the wagon
across. In one portage it was neces'
sary to roll the cotton across on planks
and carry the mules over on mems
backs. The owner of the cotton. a
little old gentleman came in chip an
cheerful as cricket. Being asked il
the roads were bad he laughed cheer
fully and said they were not, near as
bad as they were IN Noahs flood, a
rainy spell which he seemed to remem
Der perfectly.