The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-26
TAYLOR TOPICS.
Items Of General and Local Interest From
the Prairie CITY,
health.

the Prairie City.
Special to The Statesman.
TAYLOR, Tex, Nov. PA large
force of laborers are at work overhaul
ing and repairing the International
and Great Northern track between
this place and San Antonio. Roud-
master Thomas has just finished SUI
perintending the distribution of 10, 900
new ties along the road south of this
place.
President e. w. Pike, of the Taylor
Electric Light company, has gone to
New York and Philadelphia to hurry
the shipment of the necessary ma
chinery for the plant. The building
has been completed and is ready for
occupancy.
Mr.. J. b. Humphrey, one of Taylor's
prominent stockmen, has bought and
shipped large number of beeves
from Quanah, which he will pasture
and feed on his ranch, near Granger.
Gen. r. M. GanO of Dallas is here
upon visit to his brother, Col. John
Allen GanO, secretary of the Taylor,
Bryan and Trinity railway.
Mr.. Oscar Smith and his winsome
bride, nee Nash, of Bastrop, were in
the city yesterday upon their return
from honeymoon trip to Dallas and
Fort Worth.
Will Avery, well known and pop.
ular fireman on the International and
Great Northern, is laying quite low
at the home of his uncle, in this city,
with typhoid fever.
j. &. Eskridge, business man of
Smith county, in East Texas, is here
looking for an opening in mercantile
business.
Mr., Howard Brown, district clerk
of the FL Paso district, was in the city
yesterday to meet his father, Frank
Brown and brother, Jeff Brown, OF
Austin, on import mt business.
The fair name of Taylor, as a thrifty,
prosperous and growing little city OF
an enterprising and wide-awake citi-
zenship, it seems has 90 e abroad, fol
every day now a number Of new COM
ers and prospectors seeking new bust.
ness opening are to be seen upon oul
streets. For thrift and enterprise
Taylor stands away up in &C." with
no vacant houses to let or no business
failures TO record.
Will Jones, the International and
Great Northern fireman who has Oh
two different occasions submitted tC
the amputation of portions of his right
lnnr IN hirl, Or,cInI in, hn
at Guadalupe bridge, is again up anC
hopping around just as lively as
though he was accustomed to such or
deals all his life. He is looking well
and says the crippled member is mo-
: now giving him any trouble since thu
e second surgical operation.
e MI. V. Cavitt, of Holland, and G. w
o oulton, of HillsborO, are prospecting
r in Taylor today.
t Nearly coach load of German i'm
e migrants arrived in Taylor last Tues
day to tackle the black land of thi
portion of Williamson county mex
year.
The ladies of the Presby terial
church at this place purchased th'
: premium organ at the recent Dallas
ldlI. Ills SACclltHb lDSIIuHleuJ ud'
arrived and will be used for the frs
time in that church next Sunday.
Rev. w. G. Friley, having beer
elected superintendent of the Sunday
school and cplportage work in Texas
last Sunday resigned the pastorate o
the First Baptist church of this city
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen have secured transportation
over the International and Grea
Northern and the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas roads for all employees o
these lines and their families or sweet
hearts to attend the CRANE
Thanksgiving ball that is to b.
given at this place on the night Of thu
Goth inst. The roads are generous t,
the boys in encouraging their fiesta
occasion as shown in thus literally al
fording their friends free passage her
and a return home. This is but an
other indication that their Thanks
giving ball will be grand success.
, Young quail are numerous on tn
: prairies surrounding Taylor.