Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-10

/ Mrs. Rosine Ryan Of Austin. Mrs. Ida I.
! Turner OF Fort Worth and Mrs. Arrhelus
! Cochran Of Dallas are the three World : fan
| lady commissioners ior Texas. appointed BY
the nrtional board Of lady managers. Mrs
/ Cochran ana Mrs. Ryan viii attend the
/ meeting OF the national board of lady man
/ ayers on September ,. at Chicago
j. Il. Johnson OF Dallas Is being strongly
| recommended for appointment as chief of
! the agricultural department for the Texas
| World fair exhibit association.
| out of the lO6 counties in Kansas eighty
! i've have organized in the World fair
| movement. and twenty-five have already
| contributed their quota of 500 600 that
| Kansas has started out 10 raise for World :
| fair purposes. Out of the POS organized
/ counties in Texas, IA have organized for
| Worlds fair purposes and of these not one
| has Yet contributed its quota Of the $500 coo
| that Texas has started out 10 raise But
Kansas more than doubled her population
| b. the exhibit she made at Philadelphia.
and mas full appreciation of the import
ance OF being represented at Chicago.
DirectOr-General Davis, Of the Worlds
Columbian commission at Chicago, says he
has confidence in Texas coming up to her
promise OF being well represented at the
Columbian exposition" The people of
Texas should see TO ii that his expectations
are fully realized.
The Texas Worlds fair building at Chi
cago cannot be built with wind. What is
needed IS money, and the people of Texas
should respond literally TO the cause.
For 81 each subscriber TO the Texas
Worlds fair stock is furnished with a beau
tlful certificate of stock finely engraved on
copper plate, with the pictures of President
Harrison and Governor Hogg on either side
of beautiful engraving of the Texas state
capitol building. They are intended to be
framed and hung upon the walls of every
parlor Us an evidence of love and devotion
to such 4 country and to the great explorer
who made for Us such a mighty inheritance
The possibilities of Texas are unknown to
the world. We must make them known
The most fertile country of the great South
west should be well represented at the
World fair.
In Indiana, Alabama and Colorado the
ladies' are working like heroines for the
World fair. Let the lady managers OF
this state DC equally as vigilant, as active
and as determined TO succeed.
Tie Texas building N Chicago must be
completed by October, 1892 Remem Der
that our great state IS thrown on her own
resources. Have you done your part
towards the construction of her building!
How many boys and girls in this county
are working for the four-years' scholarship,
in any university in the United States, nowS
being offered by the Worlds Fair assocfas
ton,
Mrs. Willie D. House is the president OF
the first Teachers Worlds Fair club or
gained in Texas.
Six thousand and ninety letters have been
sent out 10 the teachers Of Texas from the
educational department of the Worlds Fair
association. viii those county judges and
superintendent vino have not done SO send
n their lists Of teachers TO the Worlds fair
Office q; Fort Worth.
What county III Texas will be the first to
raise its full quota for the Texas exhibit at
The World fair. Fifteen cents per capita
$ but small amount. and the amount
should be readily raised by each county de-
string 20 be represented So far Tom
Green county IS the best organized in the
state and gives promise of being the first TO
SEM in the full amount of its assessment