San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-06-27


DR.. j. II. Combs Dentist, ", Side Plaza.
The decision in the wren.Davis case, it
is thought, will be made public tomorrow.
DR.. Nye is still we'll to the fore in the
practice of Dentistry.
Members Of the Kyle brass band held
practice meeting with some of our local
horn-blowers in the court house yard Sat-
urday night.
|. We are pleased to hear from our VIM
berly correspondent after his long silence
and to have his promise to let US hear from
him again.
The question now agitating the minds of
some young men about here seems to be
SIS marriage a failure ?" The only way to
find out, beloved, is to try 1t and see.
The Methodist church will be closed dur
ing Chautauqua. Sunday school and church
services will be held on the hill. No gate
fees will be collected at the Sunday service.
The FREE PRESS runs no dead or nom
paying advertisements. AS soon as the
time for which they were ordered in ex-
pires they are taken out and their place fill
ed with interesting reading matter.
We never before saw tho Chautauqua
grounds looking so we'll. The moist sea-
son has been favorable and the greenery,
vines and flowers add much to its attrac |
tiveness,
The victorious Belknaps, of San Antonio
are to be the grand attraction on Alamo
day at the San Marcos Chautauqua, They
will give one of their grand drills ct that
time.-Seguin Record.
A special election has been ordered In
ward No. 2, for the election of an alderman
to fill the unexpired term of Ed. J. L. |
Green, resigned. The election comes OF |
July 2.
The Glorious Fourth.
The I. & G.. N. Railroad will sell excur-
sion tickets one fare for the round trip be-
tween all points not over 200 miles distant,
tickets going July Sd aud ath, limited to
the 9Th.
A bolt of lightning struck in the field of
Mr.. Callie Watkins during recent thunder
storm and blasted nearly half an acre of
cotton. 1t made several smallholes where it
struck, ono of which was sounded with a
three foot rod without reaching bottom.
Fishing on the Guadalupe river is ex-
,eptionally good this year. Catfish is the
staple and they are usually caught by set
lines at night. The scenery along the
is pleasing and picturesque,
and an outing of few days on its banks is
an enjoyable experience-and then you ale
80 glad to get back home again.
The University nine of Austin, played
the San Marcos boys, on Mikes fiat Tues
day, score San Marcos G. Austin 2. The
game was interfered with somewhat by the
rain. Spectators were not lacking. No
game was played yesterday on account of
the rain. The score this morning was six
to three in favor of Austin.
At the Gem etery on Sunday we noticed
that great deal of work had been done
since our last visit in the way of preparing
the walks and drives for future use. Also
new monuments, fixing up lots, etc. The
of Mrs. Geo. T. McGehee
and her prime ministers, starts out pro-
and bid fair to distance all prey
ious ones
The cotton fields south and southeast Of
town are Respondent at night by the twink
ling lamps of the miller-catchers. Some
say that each lamp destroys sever
al hundred of the boll-worm millers every
night, and as each miller is estimated to de-
cost hundreds of eggs, II would seem that
the lamps cannot fail to be Of signal beneit
10 the crop,
The only game fish in the San Marcos is
the large-mouthed, black bass commonly but
enormously called ''trout" He Is reason
ably plentiful and is q worthy object OF the
sportsman's skill, and whether ''yanked"
from his native element with clothes line
and pothooks or deity persuaded therefrom
with siIken flament and gaudy hY, when
properly served he makes dish Ger which
an epicure would weep for joy.
Nayor Hardy and his minions have
been warming up some the gamblers re-
Gently. Some six or eight MeIieans and
negroes and one or two white men contrib
uted their mites TO the city Golfers. Two
Mexican women bearing the euPonious
eocnomens JuAna and CArita, dispensers OF
,bila oon earne and other Mexican refresh
meuts we're fined, one for keeping a disor-
derry house on the public square. tie other
for allowing gaming on her premises
The importance Of Publishing dissolu-
ton notice in Any case Of q hrm is shown
bva case recently decided. A note vas
Given for g. 500 b. former member OF .
sru ps-s signed 70 II This uas disooani-
.5s.. ba,k. Asd the maker Of the note
s,r,rorriaiss the proceeds 70 his oSn use-
r. vu,lls TO collect uhsn d1e. The ba7f
"a ne Sra for TIE kD0uut They sllo1-