The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-10
A BIG BARBECUE,
HOW THE OATMANVILLE FOLKS
TREATED THE CROWD ON THE
GLORIOUS FOURTH.
Bee Cave Carries Out an Excellent Pro-
gramme and Winds up the Day
With Grand Dance at
Night.

4 Friday being the Fourth of July indi
viduals and societies were celebratin,
the glorious day all over the State and il
order that THE STATEsMAN's reader.
might know how the country folk.
were entertaining themselves repre-
sentative was sent out and instructed
to visit as many of these scenes of fes
tivities as he could possibly reach
Owing to the distance and roughness
the roads he was only able to attend
q 10; one a barbecue at Oatmanville
and the other shooting match and
dance at Bee Cave.
II Bright and early the reporter in
company with Mr.. James Hart, the
present district clerk, and from all
appearances the man who will
be the next one, started out
for Oatmanville to participate in the
barbecue given by the citizens
OF that neighborhooC. A beautiful
country was passed through, the road
on both sides for the greater part of
the way being lined with the finest
kind of cotton fields. Wagon after
wagon crowded with men, women and
children was passed, all vending their
way to the gathering at Oatmanville.
The barbecue grounds, situated a
short distance beyond the village of
Oatmanville, were reached about 10
o'clock where already had assembled
several hundred people which number
was augmented during the day by
later arrivals to about 1900 persons.
Quite an interesting programme
was prepared and rendered through
out In most pleasing manner. The
programme was as follows:
Song, Prof. Warmoth and school.
Prayer, Rev. DR.. Collins of Man
chaca.
Reading the Declaration of indie
pendence, Mr.. Billy Wilson.
Grafton, Mr.. M. G. Cranberry, of
Austin.
Then followed a sumptuous dinner,
prepared under the directions OF
Messrs. Jno. d. Grumbles and Mac
Patton, that was hugely enjoyed by
I'll. Ten beeves, fifteen sheep, twenty
oats and ten hogs were cooked and
/ Eeryone seemed to get enough. No
l intoxicating beverages were sold on
,he grounds and while all had pleas
ant time, perfect order and quiet pre-
allied.
The energetic committee in charge
Pf the affair was composed of Messrs.
~ A. Patton, chairman, w. A. Tanner,
NH. Johnson, Jno. Bargsley and Jas.
fkrgsley and to these gentlemen great
fredit is due for the excellent manner
h kwhich the exercises were carried
a Wugh. Despite the fact that the
Ids were full of candidates the
l ATEsMAN reporter did some canvass
ing on his own hook in order that he
might find out the popular feeling in
regard to the gentlemen now seeking
Office.
!. The result of these observations
showed that Mr.. Calhoun seemed to be
the faworite for the judgeship, while
Messrs. White, Dawson, Hart, Metz,
Walton and Morris seemed to be lead
ng their opponents. Feeling as to
the county clerk seems to be about
evenly divided between Brown and
johnson. Mr.. Ed Anderson seemed
to be having things pretty much his
own way.
The following well known gentle
men of Austin and vicinity were
present: Judge Fillmore, j. P. Kirk,
M. G. CRANBERRY, A. d. Williams, DR..
Bragg, Geo. w. Walton, Chas. J.
Fisher, Ed Anderson, John w. Kelly,
(Frauk Brown, Jas. P. Hart, Judge
Breckenridge, VIM. Won Rosenberg, jr,
Jas. M. Davis, A. j. Gibson, A. r.
Morris, M. Ingram, Jeff Johnson, A.
]. Toalson, John o. johnson, J. b.
Rogers, jr., N. A. Dawson, j. w. Phil
lips, G. NJ. Robinson, Geo. Calhoun,
]. K. Rector and others.
BEE CAVE.
\ About 2 o'clock quite number of
1didates babe reluctant goodbye
e%heir numerous friends and started
across the country for Bee Care, at
which place shooting match and
dance were being given by the Bee
Cave rifle club. The STATESMAN re-
porter sure Of good time chung to
the blessed candidates. About two
hundred persons had assembled at this
beautiful spot in the mountains and
all seemed to be enjoying themselves.
An excellent programme had been ar
ranged, the first item on which was
shooting match among the men.
With possible score of SO the follow
ing score was made: Chas. STERLING
so. James Watson %, Theo. Bohls 27,
VIM. Spellman 20, Tom Moore "a,
Ed Snillman %, /. K. Fucks 81, III.