Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-14
TEXAS PROGRESS.

The large Meramor hotel at Corpus
Christi is now assured. The plans haye
been accepted and work will begin in
about ten days. 1t will front the bay
and be of three stories in height. The
size is l75xll9 feet, and cost, I'M
furnished, about $50 900.
The citizens of Mineral Wells are agl-
tatiug the question OF sinking an artesian
well for domestic use.
The Iowa Park Texan says: A red
letter week has been ushered In
for Iowa Park between the last two is
sues of the Texan. The cotton GIN IS as
sured and will be ready for business
September / the college contracted for,
TO be finished November Il Col. Murch-
sons fine large residence under way;
Summons two cottages going up; Gio-
son g store about ready TO open; the NJ.
Z. church going up: another large livery
arranged for: Daniel new house going
up; the contract let for the school house
addition; the big well walled and ready
for business; the brick yard opened;
Spencer s stone quarry opened.
The increase in the value OF property
in Lee county Is SPA, $40 over that Of
last year.
The dam at the waterworks in Gaines
vile is about completed and the city will
enjoy as good system of waterworks as
any in the state. ... ......
Wichita Falls Is to have district fair
during the coming fall, $50 900 having
been subscribed for that purpose.
The documents have been received
that constitute the third national bank
for Temple. 1t will be called tue Bell
county national bank.
A stock company has been organized q t
Seymour TO build an opera house of
stone or brick. The stock has ali been
subscribed and work will soon begin.
Luling, Caldwell county, is erecting
| an opera house.
A corps of surveyors are busy now
laying off into lots two railroad sections,
us additions to Seymour, one on the east
| and one on the north.
Corsicana advertises the fact that she
has $50 200 in cash to give to the first
company that will erect q Sl00 900 cotton
mill in their CITY.
The Bell County national bank has
| been organized ut Temple, with C. l..
Mckay, president; A. F. Bentlv, vice.
| president; H. D. Kone, cashier; F.
Mcdowell, assistant cashier, and c. L.
Mckay, H. d. Koue, A. F. Bently, DR..
| Rogers, Jno. jackson, Worth Walton
and +. Paulus as directors.
Seymour wants a daily mail and stage
| line TO Graham, Throck morton. Haskell
| aud Benjamin, and must have them.
The third annual fair of the Alvord
fair association, which opens October 7 ,
| and closes October II will he tho ha.t
entertainment ever given on the grounds
of the association. This enterprise, by
| its success, has earned for itself repu-
tation second TO none of its class in the
state, and the management announce
that II shall be their endeavor 10 make
the entertainment for this sea-
| son excel in every respect
any ever held on the grounds.
Special attention has been given TO the
| revision of the premium list, aud the
| premiums offered will bear comparison
with the most liberal offered by any as-
| suriatlon, and while every facility will
ne offered exhibitors TO make proper dis
ulays. especial attention will be given 10
| awarding committees, and a guarantee
| = gwen every exhibitor that the utmos,
fairness will be observed as TO swartIs
| rbe race department will lie found more
| liberal than ut any previous season, and
| nurses have been arranged especially 10
| suit Texas horses and to encourage home
| stock breeding. The ladies' textile de-
| partment will receive especial attention
| Glass A will be unique, as all the COM
| petitors must be over fifty years of age.
| The department will receive everything
| pertaining TO home life from exquisite