San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-09-12

The rain on Tuesday was sufficient to in
terfere with cotton picking.
Attention to outside matters has agar
interfered with our editorial duties thu
week.
Daley IL Bro. are again in the field "a,
large IA life and twice as natural" Read
what they have to say.
LIST lady to end lady:--"You should have
had Dr. Nye mako your artificial teeth; l
did, and they are perfect fit"
There were three or four shots exchanged
between Deputy Cowan and one Paine,
who was resisting arrest, at Kimberley last
week. We do not know who fired first.
DR.. j. II. Combs, Dentist ". Side Plaza
| There were enrolled last week 100 stu
dents at Coronal Institute, the largest num-
Der since the separation of public schools.
| At the same time there has been q proper
tionate increase of the public school en-
| rollment Coronal now has suitable
building; now let us give the public schools
one equally as good.
Will not our various deliquent subscrib-
ers, now that money is again coming into
circulation, remember and remit what they
severally owe usp As tho time to which
each subscriber has paid is printed on his
paper every week, they need not wait for
bills but can remit understandingly without
DR.. j. ". Combs, Dentist, N. Side Plaza
Those sixty boarders at the Institute are
unquestionably good thing for the town;
but if we had q good public school house,
we might safely count on at least an addi-
ton of sixty families, or 800 persons, prob
ably within year after its completion, fill
ing up all our vacant houses and fostering
trade and business of all kinds. Is not
that something worth striving for9
The editor of the Times did not eight
back" against the combined forces of the
Kyle Star, Lockhart Register and A. B.
Story, Esq, as was to have been expected
of former member of Her Majesty's
Highland division. However. he pluckily
declares his purpose to stand by the Times,
and is ready to exolaim, with bold Roderick
Dhu, of Scottish story:
"Come one, como oil, this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as l."
He feels, no doubt, that he has too good O
thing IN his share of the very lucrative
business of Hays county, to sur
render.
Nothing is so disgusting rs to see people |
coming here AMI getting the worse of
liquor but fortunately that don't belong to
Hays county.
So says the Times. Reader, had you
discovered that all the bad people come
rom outside the county?
A public school house of q handsome
nd substantial description must be erected,
is needed-!et there be no mistake about
his important matter.
We clip the above from the Times. Our
eaders will recollect that during the spring
nd summer our neighbor was ION the
once" on the school house question. His
Hopping over" is encouraging. ''Straws
how which way the wind blows"
1t will be noticed that the size of the cot Ii
IN bale is gradually increasing. few t
ears ago the average was 45O pounds. The {
Iemphis cotton report for the season
1st ended places the the weight of I
ales at 5O4. 03, an increase of 1897. The t
verage for Texas runs higher than in other S
ates 1t is $3.50 for the year just past;
n increase of s 1-3 pounds over the pre-
ious year. The Texas crop for the year v
8Ss o in $50 pound bales would have been s
SIT, 179 bales.-Bastrop Advertiser. t
Mr.. Peters, cotton buyer of this place. !,
,forms us that he has bought several bales ;
,cently which weighed over 700 pounds. '
wo of these were raised by j. W. Horton, S
nd weighed 1415 lbs
Mrs Mary W. Manlove hns received the
ppointmeut as agent for the Alamo Fire f
Insurance Company of San Antonio, which Y
qnite an addition to her rapidly increas- I
lg business. Many wishing to keep n
loney in Western Texas, now have the OPP {
ortunity You will do well to patronize r
[rs Manlove i
Big bargains in fall and winter goods, call t
nd get prices at P. L. Talbots. f
Carload of produce at wholesale rates, at
iiesens. 7
Fine line of Ladies Gents Boys and Girls n
hoes very cheap at T, L. Talbots- L
Fresh lot of crackers of McAllister's.
Don't forget the line of dress goods and ,
at Z. L. Iaibots.
Carload of barbed wire at Giesen's.
If you want fine suit of clothes. call