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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

that the Daily Advocate was twenty-four
hours ahead of the Galveston News and the
president read his speech in print eight
hours before any other published it, at
Galveston at S p. M, Saturday night.
The Cedar Hill Mail is a new candidate
for journalistic honors. It is published at
the town from which it derives its name, in
Dallas county.
The Austin Globe under the present man
agement is making its mark as an all-wool-
and-a-yard-wide Democratic paper. Mr.. O..
Z. ID. Garrett Is the managing editor with
Mr.. S: r. Whitley as business manager and
city editor
The West Texas press association will
hold its next regular session at Baird, July
H. The people of Baird will make them
welcome.
The Nolan County Record has donned a
new dress and is now an eight column folio,
all home print. Its patrons should appre-
ciate the change and sustain 1t.
The Monthly Visitor, published in the in
terest of Christianity. morality, and the
Methodist church, has made its appearance
Revs. E. A Bailey and G. F. Boyd are its
editors.
The Waxahachie Democrat under the
management Of Mr.. p. II. Pardue, its re-
cent purchaser, is making long strides
toward the top.
The Brownwood Bulletin announces that
next it will print twelve-page paper and
will follow it each month for twelve months
with a twelve-page paper.
WEATHEEFoRD, april A.-Weatherford
IS to have two new newspapers right away.
Mr.. :. B. Wickens, formerly with the
Globe-Democrat and other papers, VINO is
generally known in the Southwest as a
thorough newspaper man, will on April
% issue, as editor and proprietor, the
Wcatherford Star to be issued on Wed
ncsday OF each week, i seyen-colunn, four
page paper, Democratic in politics The
other new paper is the Weatherford Re
public, an eight-page weekly published by
y. B. johnson & Co, and edited by J. w.
Putnam, to appear Saturday, May ., Demo
cratic in politics.
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TEXAS MINES AND MINERALS.

Comanche Exponent: Contractor P.
Moody has leased for five years the sand
stone quarry 1T the Leon river. where he
viii procure the material for the new court
house walls being erected here. We are of
The opinion that he has a bonanza, and that
ere long he Will be shipping this stone 10
many Texas cities. Had the railroad com
pany put in the switch TO the quarry sooner
he could have secured a contract for 100
carloads of this stone TO be sent to the city
of Austin.
The coal mines of Alba are on a boom
They can scarcely supply the demand.
TERRELL, April 24-Professor Cummings
returned home yesterday, after examining
all the data attainable in the coal find
NOthin" definite could be obtained, as the
depth and small size OF the hole were detri-
mental TO secure correct analysis. 1t is
believed, however, that the matter will be
fully tested and the facts aScertaincd
There are old miners who think there is q
cyclone of wealth in the coal underlying
Terrell, though it may be 1000 feet. Pro
fessor Cummings thinks there is a good
chance for water from the asylum artesian
well, though now over two thousand feet
deep.
VEAL STATION, April cat is reported
that silver mine has been discovered
about three miles south OF this place, on
the Widow Woody's plantation. 1t is said
70 be about three feet thick and
about three hundred and fifty yards
i'll length II was discovered by
well diggers two years ago, but was
given no attention. Being recently discOv-
cred in new place the parties are deter
mined to try H. The ore has been sent to
New Orleans for inspection, and was re-
turned rs bearing big per cent of silver
They are thinking of going to work as soon
as the ground gets sufficiently dry.
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some aerial jumping. A few more advances
viii put them in position 10 firt with the
stars
Galveston News: Mr.. Felix Fremery,
the superintendent of the Galveston rar1ie
company, was very much pleased aud graf
flied yesterday at receiving q very hand
some diploma from the directors of the late
Paris exposition awarded to TeXas-grown
ramie. The ramie which won this diStiuc-
ton was raised at Georgetown, Tex, and
sent TO France By Mr.. Fremery to be placed
on exhibition there among the specimens OF
fbrous plants.
Hamilton is agitating the boring of an
artesian well. The Herald of that place
says: Many of our wealthiest citizens are
beginning TO think seriously about the
matter and are ready to invest. 1t Is estl-
mated that an eight-inch flow would cost IN
the neighbOrhood of $1,000.
The brick work on the new opera house
at Bowie, Montague county, is completed
and the carpenters are now in possession.
HENRIETTA. April 25-Since the Red
River and Southwestern railroad has
commenced work on the grade, many
sales OF real estate have been made and
many permanent improvements will be
made. Col. J. II. Bcecher has purchased r
lot in the western portion of the city
and will commence soon to erect Sl2UOO
residence. Mr.. Crenshaw of Waco will
soon commence work on his new residence.
II is estimated 10 cost, when completed,
$4,000. Our contractors and mechanics
ere all busy. and there will be more
houses erected in Henrietta this year
than ever before in any one Eear.
RAYNER. April 21.-Two years ago there
was but one ranch house in five miles of the
then located county site out on the bald
prairie while now the prairieS arc dotted
with nice farmer cottages, good schools and
churches, and Rayner has 2 hundred dwell
ing and business houses, with population
near 500 Also a Jail costing $4,000, and
the prettiest and best arranged courthouse
for only $4,000 west OF Fort Worth.
RoCKDALE, April 25-An authorized COM
Iniltee of the city council closed an agree
mcut Today with Mr.. Z. Kelly, repre-
sentative of Eastern parties, for a 81 600
system Of waterworlls. Work is to begin
within sixty days and be completed before
January next. Ice and electric light works
are 10 follow.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26
TEXAS PROGRESS.

The contract for building the Sutton
county courthouse al Sonora has been
let FOR $27.71 10 q san Angelo architect
aud builder
Work has been resumed on the Abilene
arteSiau well Il IS now down 10 4 depth
C. about 1900 feeJ, aud water rises up 10
within fifty feet of the top
Lots of new dwellings are going up in
WcathcrfOrd: but her mechanics are COM
planning o, dull times.
\ committee has been appointed By the
citizens OF Ladonia to receive bids and esti-
mates Tor sinking an arteSian well.
Valley Mills will soon have another ar
tes.au well, which will make six of these
artificial spoutS within her limits.
The commissioners court of Mason
county has ordered S5325 vault put in the
eiOOO courthouse in that county.
Cleburne continues to improve. New
houses are going up, yet there is not enough
TO supply the demand.
The courthouse at LAGRANGE is being
built Of the beautiful Muldoon stone and is
now going up handsomely, having reached
the SeCrr" 50 V
Wa works lsj electric lights have been
or4e. e =, IL. city council OF La Grange
Contractor Gus Warnecke, who under
took The sinking OF an artesian well in the
Volksfesi park, Houston, has finished it,
having dug TO a depth of 425 feet and OBJ
tanned flow OF 1900 gallons of water as
clear as crystal.
Waxahachie Democrat: Texas is a great
corn and wheat growing state. but the
1ricos OF those two articles are now doing
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TEXAS JOURNALISM.

The Day publishing company OF Waco has
FLED an amended charter authorizing il 70
reorganize and increase its capital stock to
$4,000. 1t is intended 10 apply the increased
capital 10 the betterment Of the plant and
general improvement of the paper The
Day has done yeomans work for its city in
the past and if properly supported will con-
tinUe TO do so in the future. 1t is only those
upon the outside, as it were, who appreciate
the services and sacrifices of home paper
in its work for the city in which it is pub
ished.
The Palestine Advocate has received q
dainty note OF thanks from Mrs.
Harrison for flowers and papers
presented her at that place by the
management of that paper 1t was about
two and half inches square, on white
linen paper, with sil;er embossed head,
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. c."
and read as follows: ION board the train.
April is, 1891. Editors of Palestine Advo-
cate: Please accept our thanks for the
kind attention you gave US and the beauti-
ful flowers you SO kindly sent
CARoL4SE S. HARRISON.
Palestine Advocate: Please note the sscs
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A. o. u. w.

Organization of the Grnud Lodge of ,I.s
tana-O,her Items.
The grand lodge of the Ancient Order o,
United WorkInen of the state of Monts1,
was recently organized at Helena, Mon
by D. Sup. NJ. w. J. W. Kinsiey, and va,
set apart twelve days later as a separat.
jurisdiction by the supreme master WORK.
man. The new jurisdiction had over "a
members at the time the grand lodge "a.
organized, and has certainly passed lie
1900 marx ere this.
On the 1st day OF January, 1891, the grand
jurisdiction of Missouri had %, 107 mem
bers in good standing, the gain during Dc
cember being 1893.
New York and Illinois each had two Il.
sessments for January. The former d-c-
on the relief fund. much to the satisJaci.yu
OF the members.
The a. Q. U. w. makes an average aa.
disbursement of about $4,000, iuci.d ~
Sundays, which makes grand total ~
the year OF $i,745,oco.
Only one assessment in Missouri in jan.
airy.
Amount of beneficiary fund paid on, 3:
November, 1890, $3.50, 1865.
Net gain in membership for twe.v.
months. 1900.
The largest gain of any jurisdiction dne.
ing November WAS A.. made by Ma,,,
chusetts; the second, $40. was in Ontag1
Missouri gained only 1a2.
Illinois is determined to have some ensr.
getic deputies placed in the field at once =
that resDect following th. s-3n,nIe 5f ~
souri,. Biennial sessions of the grand ,l:-,
are also Under discussion.
The membership of the order in ,hs
Massachusetts, jurisdiction, Jan. !, exceed.
ed 20, 500.
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SECRET SOCIETY NEWS.
GOSSIP FROM LODGE ROOM AND
CASTLE HALL.
Fraternal Career of William Sherer, Grand
Commander of the American Legion
of Honor In New York State.

The following sketch of Grand Com
mander William Sherer, 81 the New York
State jurisdiction American Legion of
Honor, is reproduced from The American
Legion OF Honor Journal:
Companion William Sherer has been the
grand commander of the jurisdiction of
New York for nearly four years. was born
in Brandenburg, Meade county. Ky. 1887
and settled in Brooklyn, y. Y, in 1850 He
was employed in the Metropolitan bank
eight years, and was connected with the
United States sub-treasury, New York, for
over twenty-five years. Here he was pro
NOTED from time To time until ne reached
the highest place. that of cashier and act
ing assistant treasurer, which he resigned
in 1885 to take the position of assistant
manager of the New York Clearing house
Companion Sherer has been a member Of
the Masonic fraternity for twenty
years, served two terms as grand high
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|. o. o. r.
Interesting Statistics from the sovereign
Grand LOdse-yarious Notes.

Interesting Statistics from tho Sovereign
Grand Lodge-yarious Notes.
The statistics of the sovereign grand
lodge show Independent grand lodges, 90
grand lodges, 9,0S3 subordinate lodges, an
increase during the year of go; 40 grand
encampments, an increase of l; 2,l33 sub
ordinate encampmentS, an increase of AZ;
Gl,5T0 lodge limitations, an increase of ), 1853;
63i ,335 lodge members, an increase of 3d.
798 aggregate relief by lodges and en-
carnpments, 81, ~, 26S, an increase of $780,
26S; aggregate revenue of lodges and en-
campments, S. 79S, e25, an increase of $751;
749; SOP cantons of patriarchs militant,
with 25. 900 members, revenue of $16S. IA,
and property valued at q ,O51.5 04.
The Cid Fellows have one coliege-How-
ard female college-in Tennessee with an
attendance of 100 girls.
At the recent session of the grand lodge
Of Illinois the grand masters report
showed that there were IS, 500 members of
the order in the state, gain of z, 900 in the
year. The number of brothers relieved
during the year was 4, 1925; the number Of
widows with their families, 267. Weeks
benefits 70 the number of Il, $50 were paid.
The Odd Fellows orphans home was To-
cateO al LancOin, the people OF CnaG Guy
donating forty acres of land and $4,000 in
money to secure it. The grand master
found that there were about 20 orphans in
the state, forty of whom were eligible to
the home.
The Maryland grand lodge of Odd Eel
lows has decided that its proposed new
building at the corner Of Saratoga and
Cathedral streets, Baltimore, shall be built
of brick, with stone trimming. 1t will be
five stories in height above the ground, and
will contain ali the rooms necessary for the
order, with every modern convenience.
The cost of the building is estimated at
100000, exclusive of the $4,000 paid for
the site.
Charles D. Cole. grand secretary of the
grand lodge of Massachusetts,, is the oldest
living grand secretary in the order.
The present governor of Vermont is an
Odd Fellow.
The Odd Fellows home at Unionport,
n. j., has recently come into possession Of
property valued at sIs, 900, through a be-
quest of brother in New York city, re-
Gently deceased.
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TEXAS SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.


The Presbyterian church At Jacksboro
has sold its church property at Lost Valley
20 thC Christian church represented by Mr..
Ford.
TIE alumni of the Terrell high school
viii give = magnificent banquet at the pub-
liz school building on Tuesday evening,
NAV ..
The meeting 1T the Christian church,
kaufman continues with increasing inter
Ost. Fifteen have been added to the con-
creGation SO far.
The Texas state Sunday school associa-
zion will meet al Paris, Tex, May L. Is
ant II, 1871.
PeaStrr. Parker county. has 4 furnishing
literary sorI"ty and library asso citation.
The average daily attendance of Weather
ford Wh.t" schools has been 3S2. Number
OF seals for pupils ~. The school is run
rinc months Teachers nave been paid
moro promptly shiS year than ever before.
The Lecture as-ociai :oE is stiil behind S2l.
Wcatherfori college closes June II.
Milford, Ellis county, is discussing the
question Of erecting u $4,000 school build
Ing
The Abilene Baptist Family will send
their pastor 10 the southern Baptist con
veniicu at Birmingham. and pay all his
expenses. putting enough III his purse be
sides 10 send min. ~ sec his parents Ut
Atlanta, Ga
4 choir OF between twenty and thirty Ia
dies has been organized AZ the Taylor Bap-
Isl church for :hc purpose of practicing
songs 20 b. SUM- in the Burnett-NIulkey
meeting in MAY. Rev. ". {. Friley was
elected leader.
The pastors Of Taylor will organize pas
Tors ConferyuC. ~ an early day to meet
weekly ..Ed discuss ways ana means of DO
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What Has Been Done by the Order since
Its Birth-Sotes-

" hhh AAaS ptrh D'io ~ INV DEufE 1tuCa
Its Birth-Sotes-
Since Odd Fellowship was established.
says The Companion. 1856. 3SI Iuef1os.s
have beeu initiated: l, 400. 391 have received
relief: is, sol widowed families relieved.
and l43, 504 members have died. Ffty a1o
million, TWO hundred and iifty-eight hon.
sand, three hundred and ninety one do..1ns
and twenty-oue cents have been pad cut
for relief. The total receipts during these
years was slS4, 679, 909 %.
A new lodge has been instituted at Pr.
cell, Chickasaw Nation.
The representatives in congress from New
Hampshire are members of the order.
Illinois contributed about $50 toward
establishing home il Jacksonville Fla
Seven new lodges were instituted IA
North Carolina during the last six weeks
of 1890.
A new canton of the Patriarchs Militant.
is to be established at Jefferson City. In9
A brother in Albany, n Y, has been
treasurer of his lodge forty-three years
Past Grand Peter Putnam, of Beaver
wyck, n. Y, has been q member of the
order for fiftytwo years, and during that
time has sat rs representative in the grand
lodge over twenty five years.
A marriage of q brother and sister o.
Grace lodge, D. of r, at Germantown. o
recently took place in the hall OF that lodge
and was largely attended by members and
friends.
Since 1861 no lodge in New Hampshire
has given up its charter or given Up its or.
ganization, and none is likely to for many
years to come.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-26

Mr.. W. A Overca.h- near Purmelis,
April 10.
Miss Eliza NIcLane. Cameron. April l9.
Mrs John Devareaux, near Rosebud,
April 20
Mr.. Tom Huntingdon, Abner, April IS.
Mr. George Lindsey. Abner, April IL.
Mr. David Niche. Elmo, April p.
Mr.. Bob Wright, Daingerfield. April 20.
Miss Eliza Mclean, Cameron. April TO-
Mr. Paul Fain, Palestine, April %.
Mrs. Hassie Backstrom, near Bolton,
April 10.
Mr.. John Rhodes, near Indian Gap, April
Il.
Mir. Charles West, near Hamilton, April
10.
Mr.. W. A. Youngblood, Halle Dell, April
Is.
SHERMAN. April Thames Myers, an old
citizen, at 623 East Houston street, died
suddenly last night when the family was
about to retire.
Mrs Sarah Mountcastle, mother Of ". D.
Mountcastle, the presiding elder of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died last night
very suddenly of heart failure. The re-
mains We're taken TO Allen, Collin county,
for burial.
LEwIsvr.LE, April 22-J. R. Law, ed
itor of the Lewisville Times, died this
morning at 8 o'clock. MIR. Law was q
young man OIL PUCK ana energy anu
though only here a few months, he had
endeared himself to the entire city and sur
rounding country, and among the business
men and citizens of the town prevails the
one universal feeling and sentiment, d loss
grievOus and irreparable. Mr.. Law leaves
q wife and some small children.
ALBA, April 24-An infant of DR.. Scar
borough died suddenly on yesterday. 1t
had lately had the measles and relapsed.
PARIS, April 25-Mrs. Martha Wood died
at her home on North Wall street yester-
day morning, after long and painful i'll
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RED MEN.
Rapid Growth of the Order in Atlanta,
Ga.-yarious Notes.

Rapid Growth of the Order in Atlanta.
Gs.-various Notes.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says: The
Red Men are fiourisning all over the state,
and letters come daily from all over the
south to Mr.. ". 81. Hafer, great organizer,
whose headquarters are in Atlanta, inquir-
ing how to proceed to institute tribes of
Fed Men. Here in the city great acces-
ranks of the braves, and the order was
never IN more prosperous condition. The
total membership of the tribes amount TO
about l, 100 active members, making it the
second largest society in the city. The
council fires of Powhatan tribe were re-
Hndlsd only q few moons ago, with John
T. Lawshe as sachenn. and it Is now one of
the leading tribes.
The membership of the order in Indiana
is now nearly 8, 900. During the past six
moons nearly every tribe has made gain
In membership.
Past Sachem Kalakaua, king of Homo
lula, visited, before his death, several tribes
IN San Francisco, and it was thought tina.
possibly steps would be taken to reorganize
tribes at Honolulu
Nine lodges were burned out in Penn
sylvania during the year 1880.
The recently instituted Chieftains'
league, of Providence, R l., is doing e1-
oeedingly well.
A new tribe Is 10 be organized in Jersey
City, N. J.
A tribe ia shortly to be instituted at
Wakefield, Mass.
It Is stated that a new tribe Is to be IN
stisNsed q BriASst0a. \. J.
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TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

Bosaue county's fruit crop is al right,
and her wheat and oat crops are very prom
Using.
The heavy rains that have fallen all
over West Texas make q big wheat yield a
certainty, and splendid prospects for every
other kind Of crop.
johnson county farmers are happy over
the splendid season. Corn looks fine ard
some cotton Is up and looks healthy. Over
half Of the cotton crop for this year has
been planted, and the farmers are well up
with their work
In Somerven county cotton planting is
backward on account of the big rains, but a
few days Of clear weather viii put the
ground IN good shape. The rains have been
very beneficial % corn. wheat and oats,
which are making 4 splendid showing.
II IS said that the strawberry fields in
and about Alvin. Highland and Hitchcock,
Galveston county, now present 4 beautiful
appearing. The acreage Is immense. and
there is good market Tor all That can be
raised.
Terrell Times-Star: TIE continued rains
have no doubt done some damage to farms
but farming Operations had progressed
well and the ground was ia good hE when
The rams commenced.
5 good many farmers tell Us that the
rains washed ,hCir farms pretty badly, and
that some cotton w!u likely die and have TO
b. replanjed because the dirt WAS washed
away from IT,
Chil!icothe Ciipner. Wheat and oats are
or . boom and promise au abundant har-
vest. Farmers are very hopeful that the
promise viii be fulfilled. Corn is very
backward-nuch OF it not yet up-But as
only u small acreag" IS planted no one has
The ''Dlues' ABOUT K.
Fisher county farmers are well up with
their work. bat want more rain. Late rain
lIts Il enc season Ia 'Ec ground and iusureS
good crops. Corn ana grain are doing well
ard hundreds of acres Of cotton are being
planted. This is going 10 De . Very prosper
ou5 Year for Fisher county" say the Gail.
The fruit oat and corn crops Of Baylor
county look very tiattcring.
A practical fruit man says infhc Sherman
Courier: Il don't think ever saw fruit
prospects auy finer than they are now.
Pears. apples, ylr.!ni ana berries OF al
ElnGf are looking exceptionally well. The
breaches are Is li.-." hin. bat IN this l can
not see great deal 10 fer"
IIESRIETra April !5-All the farmers in
cur count} arc Happy. for since the late
rains aHc an assured fact there viii be Il
larger wheat crop than ever before. All
parties say that here viii he. if nothing
happens, q yiric If over twenty bushels Of
wheat per acre, an', there IS q large acre
age than ever Eu0.vu before. The farmers
from various parts Of the county state that
oats Ira lcoisiHg well, and corn i doing
well There IS 4 large acreage Of cotton
being put -, more than ever before.
AitNsGLa, April 2:,-TEe rains Of the past
week haze retarded farming operations to Z
certain extent, but we are again having
tilr worm weather, and everything is grow
Ing RAPIDLY.
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ident of Lafayette Council, n. P. o., for
two years and q member of the first CON
gress of the Union.
Companion Sherer was initiated IN the
American Legion OF Honor nine years ago.
WIS commander of Winons Council, No.
S05, for two years, was elected representa-
tive TO the grand council, and admitted as
such in 1854, was appointed chairman Of
the committee on laws and supervision the
same year, was elected grand vice com
mander in 1855, grand commander in 1887,
and reelected in 1889 for the term which
he is now serving.
Companion Sherer is of slight build, but
active He is an able parliamentarian, i'm
partial and quick in his decisions, con-
servative, Independent, sanguine, cool but
magnetic, and as grand commander has
given most general satisfaction. During
his term of office the order in the state has
grown from l6 ,2i4 members, which it had
on its roll June 3d. 1857, to Is, 400, Dec. 81,
1890