Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-13
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Floyd City issto have q handsome and
commodious hotel. The building will be
erected at once.
The Sherman city council has passed
an ordinance to buy the city hall bonds
of 1884 and issue $50, 600 street, road -,
and bridge improvement bonds.
The large irrigating works being put
up by the North Laredo company are re-
ported to be progressing finely.
The business men of Clarksvil!e, Red
River county ARE busy organizing board
of trade, which Is expected to iufuse new
life into the town aud secure several
needed improvements, like su artesiau
well, ice factory and better railroad fa-
ciltiss.
The contract for Halletsville's COM
plete system of water works sheen let
TO Guidion LOGGER for Sl5. 465, in pay
ment of which tifty-year skies have been
issued. The works will be complete by
April |.
DECATUR, Oct. 11.-While many othef
towns in North Texas have been spendIn
thousands of dollars advertising to the
world what they intend to do, the people
of Decatur have been putting their money
into residences and stone business houses,
which they think the best way to adver-
tise and make large profits at the same
time. Within twelve months thirteen
two-story stone business houses aud one
$40 600 hotel have been built, and five
others are in course of construction now.
When these are completed Decatur can
boast OF forty-seven fine business houses
built of stone and brick, of ten miles of
macadnmized streets, of good system of
waterworks, three volunteer fire COM
panies, city hall, electric lights, ice
factory, canning factory, and surrounded
by country of land that produces small
grain, cotton, corn and fruits of every
description IN such quantities and quail
ity that 25, 200 people have made Wise
county their home.
LAMPAsAs, Oct. 11.-Notwithstanding
the fact that the Elks opera house is
not completed in all its parts, yet the
grand opening took place last night.
The interior OF the building was SO nearly
completed that one of the actors pub
licly pronounced it ''This beautiful lit
tie opera house The building is COX
81 feet in size, and the scenery is simply
magnificent. The opening Grafton was
uSllSeTeu Dy jugs W. L. League, 6Iler
which the Lizzie Montgomery troupe
rendered the Two Orphans to delighted
audience.
WACO, Oct. 12.-Tbe Provident life
building to cost 500 900, the Tom Pad
gift building So, 900, the Ed Rotan
residence $50 900, the Sam Sawyer resi-
dence $50, 900 and the c. H. Higginson
residence SIP 600, are few of the most
important buildings now in process of
construction in Waco.
CHILDREss, Oct. 1.-Our lumber mer-
chants this week sold big bills of lumber
to the Panhandle Town company, pro-
prietors of the new town of Wellington,
the recently elected county seat of COL
lingsworth county, to build courthouse,
hotel, stores, livery stable and resi-
deuces at that place.
HENDERSON, Oct. 1.-THE county
vault which Is now being put in the
courthouse, will be when completed one
of the largest in the state, being sixteen
feet square and costing the county $4,000.
FAIRFIELD, Oct. l2.-Fairfield seems
to have awakened from her Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep, and is on u building boom.
There are eight houses in course of erec-
ton. two of them church buildings.
Public opinion is growing strongly in
favor of new courthouse, and it is now
thought that Freestone county Will put
up $50 900 courthouse next year. The
present one has cracked very badly ard
is considered by many unsafe.