Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
LOCALETTE&

10 lhO subICCb at IhO CAAIoA AhA Sh0ANh
this morning at II O'Clock.
A marriage license was issued yester-
day to J. W. Smith and Miss Lucy
Gum, and to n. f. Bailey and Miss G.
M. Wilson.
An electric fire alarm has been put in
the Spring Palace, and detail OF fire.
men are constantly on guard to protect
the Palace against damage.
The committees which have the ar
rangements for the Maifest IN hand meet
to-day at 80 in Como hall. The Como
club holds a meeting two hours later.
a Sunday scnool will be organized by
the First Presbyterian church in the
Bacon school house to-day at four
o'clock, and everybody interested are
invited to attend.
Tomorrow, San Jacinto day, is legal
holiday, and the banking houses of the
city will be closed. 1t is also hoped that
all the business houses Will close their
doors at least during the parade.
The Fencibles meet at their armory at
$3.50 O'Clock on Monday morning, to fall
IN for the veterans parade. The Fem
cioles are no insignificant representation
of the craft these veterans knew so well.
Professor Hirshfeld will assist the
Cumberland Presbyterian church choir
at this mornings service. Miss Maud
Peters will sing q fine selection, and Pro-
fessor Hirshfleld will render q violin OBJ
ligato.
Harry T. Curtis, the business man OF
Address circus, has taken the Fort
Worth fever. He is laundry manager
by profession, and proposes to return to
Fort Worth next fall to establish hims elf
in that line of business.
A congregational sooiable will be held
in Broadway church on Tuesday night.
The ladies of the church will furnish re-
freshments, for which there will be no
charge. The members and friends of
the church are cordially invited.
Mr.. ]. R. Wuhrman and Mrs. L. NJ.
Cox were married yesterday morning at
st. John s German Evangelical church,
the Rev. G. F. Bauman performing the
ceremony. Many friends of the couple
were in attendance and babe them God
speed.
The Ladies' aid society of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church will give re-
ceptIon at the church next Friday night.
The enter tainment will be musical and
social, aud the whole congregation and
invited to be present.
The joint committee composed of
teachers from Tarrant, Jack, Parker and
Wise counties met at Decatur yesterday
and decided to hold the summer normal
in Fort Worth. Professor Tomlin was
elected conductor. The programme of
studies and list of the teachers will be
published in few days.
The teachers of grades L, H., III.
". and V. of the public schools are re-
quested to meet the superintendent at
the high school building ops Tuesday at
p. M, to arrange the programme and
work for the promotion examinations at
the close of the schools, which will be
utilized in honoring the guests.
The organization of the ''Sons of the
Veterans e. s. A. - new association
which will be auxiliary to the Parmley
post of the G. A. R., is an assured fact.
Col. o. E. Gully, division commander of
the G. A. r. in the South, has author
lied Capt. L. II. Schubert to proceed
with tue work, and he has already re-
ceived over twenty applications. A
charter will be obtained in a few days.
The congregation of the First Meth
odist church will worship to-day in the
little church on Jones street, between
First and Second streets, r. G. Arme@l
strong P. C.. Preaching at IL a. my
subject ''The Barren Fig Tree. Services
at 1880 p. M; subject, "'Leprosy
Healed. - Sunday school at $3.50 a. N.
The musicale which the Lend-a- Hand
club.of the First Presbyterian church
gave at the residence of Mrs. W. L. Ma
lone, corner of Peach and Harding
tertainment, with a large number in at
tendance. The programme as rendered
was both well executed and appreciated
by the audience.
A box of large red straw berries, ripe
and luscious, made its way to THE
GAZETTE office yesterday, accompanied
by note, dated from Wichita Falls,
Tex, as follows: Strawberries grown
in the open air (not ia a hothouse) by
Downing Bros. nuTserymen, formerly
Wichita Falls, Tex. in Wichita Valley ~
and signed, John Howard.
On the evening of Tuesday, Aprit22- |
there will be an open meeting az the
courthouse under the auspices o4S the |
and Joiners' union No A277,
open to all trades and the public zen,
SuhslOS I 41SoIAdS "a IS4SLb- |
burg, Pa, authorized lecturer of 2the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters add
Joiners of America, will address tfStd
meeting on ''The Burdens of Labor AM
How to Relieve Them rt
Maj. T. Slack yesterday reoeived$fhe 4
sad intelligence OF the death, on the A9th |
inst. of his only brother, MIR. a. Slack, |
of Boone county, Missouri. The de- |
ceased was sixty-nine years of age. and |
was an old pioneer in the early days in |
this state, contributing an article to |
THE GAZETTE about north since of |
'Old Times in Texas He leaves a |
wife and two grown children TO mourn |
bis death.
a meetingR tbess interested in lawn |
tennis will be hesf at the office of Messrs. |
HsAn s. Bury, 405 Main |
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