Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-01
TEXAS NEWS AND NOTES.

| With the cotton compress, the grain ele-
| vator, the ice factory, the planning mills, the
| three Touring mills. the cotton mills and
| manufacturing company and five cotton
| gins all running at once this fall will make
| the suburbs of Mckinney fairly hum.
| Prospectors have been plentiful in Nc
Kinney the past week. a real business
| town will always come to the front.
The scholastic census has exceeded 600
pupils in Terrell. This list will probably
| be increased.
The ladies of Vernon are arranging a
| trade carnival at the opera house, June 49,
The well at the Gay hotel, Brentwood.
has reached a depth of 300 feet and still
goes down.
The scholastic school enumerator for
Balllnger district has now enlisted $50
! names of children in the district within the
scholastic age. which shows quite an in
crease overlast years repor,.
There will be a barbecue in Cameron on
the 4th Of July Senator Horace Chiffon
will be present and will address the people
on that day.
The Marlin artesian well is now down 500
feet. The drill is still going through blue
mari 1t has gone through over 700 feet of
this strata
HAROLD, TEX, May 3e.-A company has
for the putting in of a water system. The
plan is to dig gang wells and force water by
wind power to the center OF the town. where
a $50 barrel tank is to be erected and the wa
ter conducted therefrom through pipes to
all parts of the town and hydrants erected
upon the principal streets. With this SyS-
TEN fire department will be organized and
great benefit in every sense derived there
from. New buildings are going up on every
side, and improvements are the order of the
day.
TERRELL, May 3O-Terrell wants 10000
steady small farm men who have the dispo-
sition to work Small lots of land can be
obtained on reasonable terms.
4 move is on foot to secure raw land in
quantities sufficient TO locate from ten to
forty families with from fifteen to eighty
acres each on the same tract and on terms
that will allow the soil TO pay for itself.
Barbour city ordinances now are in
force and the law-breakers must be careful
Several parties have been to see the water
works committee, but as yet no contract has
been let
Our court has just adjourned, after the
disposition of several cases.
HILLsBoRo, May 30.-The iron stairways
and vaults are being placed in the new court
house.
An artesian well is being bored by pri-
vate individual Ham Carter on his farm
two miles east of town. 1t is over four
hundred feet deep and so far has every in
dication Of proving a success.
The twenty-eight suits of uniform re-
Gently rdered for the Uniform Ranks of
knights o. Pythias have been received and
are pronounced perfect in every particular.
RoCkDALE. May 29.-The Rockdale Rifles
gave lawn party and calico hop at their
armory last night which was handsomely
decorated. The grounds were handsomely
illuminated and music was discoursed by
the local brass band. Rev. ". E Copeland,
delivered Il good address to the Young peo.
pie and citizens generally. after which, as
had been announced the election of a spon-
sor for the company was held. Several
young ladies' were placed in nomination.
each at first receiving good vote at 10 cents
a vote. all being permitted to vote early
and often At the close of the polls the
two leadlng factions rushed in heavy vote.
in the money for one of which due bill for
IS was included; objections was at once
urged against the due bill which was at
once cashed but technical objection TO its
being counted after the polls were finally
closed led % high and angry words. The
judges finally poured oil on the troubled
waters by declaring both young ladies
elected and presented them to the COM