Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
ABOUT TERRELL, TEX.
If You Want TO Gather the Trre Facts
About Terrell Run Your Eye Down
This Column.

TERRELL, TEX, Aug. 29-There are &
great many things about Terrell you won,
! ind elsewhere. There are a great many
things n Terrell you don't tind IN Terrell
/ some OF these we want; some of them We
| would like never to have. Anything in
! humanity that tends to immoraliza and
brutaIlle IS, as d general thing, something
| We DON'T want. But we want the reverse.
! ! here are ali over this country plenty OF
churches and schooltouses, md we arc not
! hdlker!ng for an element that will cripple
/ the church or education, make men worse
| and stop honest labor. You say. that's
! Mhdt everybody says everywhere. Not a
bit Of it, old sore. You gather every bum,
| Ioaltr, popcorn peddler, millionaire. pauper
every one you can make 4 nickel out of,
| bring him to town, get his last mite and
turn him loose with ''gdout. he'er!''
Before takinE.you Outsmile a donkey. and
after taking your one smile will make pint
| Of vinegar. Oh, you sweeI-Scented, Canter-
ing dandy. We know you, for Terrell has
had many a scab OF your kind. You will
pant the shal,oweSt dry branch beautiful
river, banks carpeted with lovely grass and
sweet-smeliiDg flowers growing in surplus
abundance, hOney-dcw dripping from every
leaf; lovely music from every bough; the
sweet sOngster sings its lullaby to the tiny
birds, while the health-giving breczes flush
the cheeE, brighten the eye ana intellect
Stilti4 \ ia dEc reviewed. ten years younger,
hltE pounds latter, and happy as q niger
IN mcloS patch. Get out! Terrell hasn't
anything akin 10 that Your beautiful
river goes dry in the winter time and when
in the rise the tadpJes and frog Gigs have
to wash off before the old gray wolf will
drink, Other things in proportion, and you.
can count it so every time. ,.ssssss
See here, stranger if you are ..oSltffE for
tlat Kind of a layout doasSsssSs This way,
for We a"e not thax. aassts Of folks to stop
with. When tssxs come visiting here they
ometIaassseTng their knitting, the young
3ssssN6y or something else 10 keep from
feeling lonesome and get things ready for
he rainy DAY. No, we don't deal in all
that trash. We are away high I'D in the
attitude, and there are no beautiful running
brOokleis around here for zen or fifteen
niles, i.nd yet we have a res )ectably good
crop OF mosquitoes. We have as good var
leiy OF land rs any of them, as well off in
health, morals, education and general nat
ural advantages, but pigs have tails, men
and women get Did, houses and horses wear
CUt, and all this. here about Terrell And
then we have to work or do worse. We
have something to Drag on in the way of
good country, but II IS no paradise. In the
time it gets bot here ana men have
10 work in the sun, and when the winter
comes our toes are often pinched with cold,
and though our winters are mild, the north
allt i4llI - i'll ltiS SdIllt. j mere are
things you would be taken with but we
have learned long ago that it is best 10 tell
: he truth about Terrell, and then if we get
farmers and others TO locate here they viii
Stay y they come in on d bag of wind
some woOdpecker will soon 'pecl:n the
sottness from Them, aud they then spread
themselves abroad like a poor innocent pau
cake; 10 all such we say, look out for
wOUdpeckers.
We can't say much this time. because il
is near tune 10 Erabble COOLERS and dig
potatoes in the sandy land. out We lust
want ali incolners To look with two eyes be-
fore setting home. and then you are apt
10 stay till the tadpoles learn to sing.
And now about those pumpkins raised on
he asylum farm. We've fixed it, rs old
Uncle John Il. Smith used TO say. We've
spollt the broth by not putting in the sea-
SOnng. Well nave 10 make another not
and put in the ''creedimentsr Here il is.
On those two acres they raised 1900 pump
iins ana seventy bushels of corn The
pumpkins the broth and the corn the sea-
'Oning. We forgot about the corn, and DR.. |
Preston moved to amend and we amended
quickly. Wen, now, you folks who have !
very inch good land for n thousand miles /
II every direction. will say that's nothing,
md viii beat it two to one. That's all right,
)ut we are glad we can do that well There
5 no stuihng m this pumpkin and corn busi-
ness; sure enough ruth.
But, say, you can't Go that well all over
hese parts. There are sorry lands. sorry
nough for any purpose. The average
houEh is excellent. We don't want YOU
o go wild over this. but come ana see for
'oUrseif, and if your ecstacy runs YOU crazy
II just have you put in the asylum, where
GU can work the pumpkin patch to your
iearts desire.
Now. rs our neighbor said, we are Going
q illuminate dis meetin'.n We hang ont |
ur invite to all who are able to take care of
themselves, and now aud then chop a few
oundS for his neighbor, 10 come along and |
&c which way the chips fly. Can't make |
on any promises that will do you any good |
Mess you try to help yourselves. We are
ot going to tell you what to do, either. but
re would Ike TO see you look at the country
With your own eyes and not through some |
Their fellows specs.
There have been a few here and they
mole smiles and wuna winks when they
aw The sights. They find better country
nan they looked for, and they find that the
ruth sticks Ike tack. We want you TO
ONE, provided you are the sort that can do
ne straight business all along Aud, if
lere arr any questions you wish to ask
lst write TO the city secretary, Terrell.
eN., and he viii tell you what little he
lows. But we advise everybody to look
II for woodpeckers, and keep YOUR ewes |
=Aun' when the sharper tackles you.