Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
LOC4LETTES.

No sociables at Singers dancing school
this week. Adult class Saturday night
Singers dancing school is open. Get
terms at Singer hail over Pendery's.
The new lodge of Knights of Pythias
recently instituted in this city has been
named the Ruby.
1t begins to Look as if the grand odd
Fellows temple viii be built, and that it
viii not be very long until work begins
There is talk, which counts, of a mag
nificent club building to be erected in
this city. Plans for it have been pre-
pared
Some twelve postal clerks recently
came to Fort Worth to live are and looking
for neat cottage residences. All of the
forty-one clerks are heartily welcomed to
the city.
If the new buildings now mentioned are
erected in Fort Worth this year, the
building record win show over So 900 1000
planted in brick, iron and stone before
January, 1890.
"A pillow and sulky factory, a clothing
factory a cotton mill, a jute bagging
factory a boot and shoe factory and an
other tannery are among the things
spoken of for Fort Worth for the year
1889.
Rev. E. T. Anderson of Richmond !,
Va. who has been delivering lectures to
the colored people at the Mt. Gilead
Baptist church, has been requested and
has consented to repeat his lecture on
''Travels in Europe Tonight.
The city council would do good thing
by enforcing the building permit ordi-
nance. City Engineer King is ready to
do bis part of the work. With a system
of building permits it would be an easy
matter to keep up with Fort Worth s i'm
proyements.
The proposed charter has been printed
in pamphlet form and copies have been
given Mayor Broiles and the alderman /.
The mayor said last night that he would
call the council together next Tuesday
night to consider the charter and transact
any other business on hand.
The suggestion made by Alderman
Mes at the last council meeting that the
city might be able to put in an electric
light plant at the waterwerks and light
the streets at less cost than any one else
could do it, is being discussed by the peo-
pie, and meets with approval.
THE GAZETTE has received from Messrs !.
P. ]. Willis & Bro of Galveston a very
nice calendar IN monthly parts, attached
to handsomely autographed card sheet
showing some of the public buildings
built and to be built in the Island city /.
The everfowing artesian fountain is not
omitted.
There Is a general sentiment in Fort
Worth that the city should, during the
year 1889, erect a high school building
commensurate to the needs of this great
city, and one Of which any city in the
country might feel proud. 1t is proba-
bic that something will be done by the
council in regard to it.
The representatives of the cities which
propose to have base ball clubs in the
field this year and who came to Fort
Worth to organize Texas league, did
not meet last night as expected, owing to
the non-arrival of one or two delegates,
but meeting will besheld at 10 o'cIock
this morning, when the league will
probably be formed.
The theater goers are promised treat
tonight, at the matinee tomorrow and
tomorrow night. The Webster Brady
Company one of the best troupes on the
road, viii present After Dark tonight
and at the matinee Saturday, and Rider
Haggard IS She Saturday night The
scenery will be magnificent. The finest
real water scene ever presented in Fort
Worth is that IN After Dark