Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-09
TEXAS NEWS AND NOTES.

| Walnut logs are still being shipped from
| Mckinney TO Germany.
The North Texas medical association will
! hold three days session at Mckinney,
| commencing the 10th inst. A large attend
| anre is expected. A number of prominent
state will be present, and the programme
! viii be Of unusual Interest.
The cotton merchants of Tyler have de-
J termined TO publish 5000 copies per week of
| the Weekly Record for at least four months,
| and send them free to the cotton raiSers of
Smith and adjoining counties.
\ new gin win be put up this summer in
| the Shiloh neighborhOod, i'll ColRanche
county, near the residence Of Mr.. Lindsey.
The trustees of the Abilene Baptist COL
lege have decided to have grand, old
fashioned basket picnic on the college
grounds in North park on July a. at which
time the capstone Of the main building Will
he laid. The programme will consist of
music. ADDRESSES dinner. etc. In the after
| noon sale of the sixty lots donated by the
North Park company to the college Will
take place
The county commissioners, with COM
mendable enterprise have agreed that if the
citizens of Greenyille will subscribe $50,
they will donate an equal amount to aid the
experiment of boring for artesian water
L
|. Maody, McLenuan county, has raised a
subscription for an artesian well.
ARCHER CITY, ARCHER COUNTY, TEX,
June commissioners court was in ses-
sion to-day to receive bids for the erection
of a $4,000 courthouse. n The stock
in a national bank has all been raised, and
will be ready to start business as soon as
the building is completed that is now under
construction. This is an enterprise that we
have needed for years. Archer will
have an election in this month to see
whether she viii incorporate or not. The
majority of the people are in favor of in
corporation. &
SPRINGTowN, PARKER COUNTY. June S.
We had a fine season of rain during the
last three days. Corn was never better at
this time of year. Another shower two or
three weeks hence will insure forty bushels
of corn to the acre. Wheat and oats are
good. Cotton is somewhat late, yet it is
growing rapidly and has healthful look
As a general thing farmers are up with their
crops.
NEALs STATION, PARKER COUNTY, June
S-A very hard rain and wind storm
passed through this county yesterday af-
ternoon, which damaged the wheat and
oats to some extent.
JEwErT, LEON COUNTY. June Mr.. A.
G. Mcdaniel, our postmaster and also mer-
Clant. mas gone WIN ms family TO CTllQe
for his health and will spend several months
there in the mountains, he being badly
affected with asthma.
ITALY, ELLIS COUNTY, June 6.-To-day
the election for town officers passed off
quietly and resulted in the election of the
followiug-named parties to fill the offices:
T. NJ Field. mayor; II. j. Hodge. marshal;
DR. Roebuch, DR.. Magee, NJ. l.. Ward, John
Couch and F. A. VIM for aldermen.
KAUFMAN, KAUFMAN COUNTY. June GA
general mass meeting of the people of
kaufman county was held at the court
house in the town of kaufman to-day to
consider tine propriety OF making an exhibit
of our county At the next Texas state
fair and Dallas exposition. The entire
county was represented, and unanimously
agree to have an exhibit of our county at
the next fair. A county organization to
carry out the agreement was per-
fected. Judge John Vesey of Kauf-
man was elected chairman of the
county organization, and an executor was
appointed The people OF Terrell are en-
thusiastic in the work.
SAN ANTONIO, June "A flow Of water
from the artesian well near the Market
street bridge was obt timed last night. The
water came at depth of s64 feet. The
flow was about three hundred thousand gal
Ions an hour, as clear as a. crystal.
, and very good. This is the second well on
this lot. the other having begun TO flow at
depth of SIS feet. II was afterwards run
down twenty feet deeper. The flow is
about 10000 gallons an hour and it has