Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-22

| Clarendon are making preparations for a
3; grand entertainment to be held in the new
f; court house in the near future. They have
| secured the services of Miss Peters of
| Fort Worth to sing for them.
The Catholics of Colorado City will build
a handsome church building this summer
Work has commenced on fine public
| school building at F'armersville.
CORPUS CHRISTI, May 19.-The new
| bishop of the diocese will arrive here to-
| morrow night, and as this is his first visit
| it will be celebrated by the Catholics OF
| this city. The address of welcome will be
delivered by Hon. James B. Wells of
Brownsville.
CARRoILToN, May 1.-THE Seven-day
Adventists are holding protracted meet
ing at this place.
DENIsoS, May 2O-Denison has taken
quite revival in church work in the past
few weeks. The Roman Catholics are hay
ing plans drawn for magnificent new
$4,000 cathedral to be erected at once on
their premises on Sears street The ST.
Luke's Episcopal church is putting a large
addition to their church house at a cost Of
$1,000, which will more than double the ca
pacity of the present house. The Conere-
gationalists are now erecting handsome
rock church house at cost of $1,000, on the
corner of Woodland street and Tone avenue,
which VIII be ready for occupancy about
July l. a Cumberland Presbyterian organ
izatiOn has also been effected here, and they
will soon begin the erection OF a church
house. This will make the fourteenth
church in the city and each of these en-
joy large and growing membership.
PILor POINT, May 2l-The protracted
services at the Methodist church are still in
progress. Considerable interest is being
manifested.
SHERMAN, May 2l.-Joseph Adamson,
county superintendent of public schools,
received his official appointment as conduc-
tor of the summer normal for the Eight
zenith senatorial district, to be held in
Sherman, and he requests all conductors to
meet the superintendent of public instruc-
ton at Austin Curing the teachers state
association.
SPRISGTowN, May 21-The Male and fe
male institute, which has an enrolment of
about three hundred pupils closes its an
nual session tomorrow.
There has been about $4,000 subscribed in
the last three weeks to build Baptist col
lege here.
BELToH, May 19-Dr 3. p. Barnum is
conducting a revival meeting at the Baptist
church, There have been seventeen bap-
tismS up TO date.
CLEBURNE, May 19-The Methodists had
Iltlf ttnlluIl lO-Udy Oh NOiduu. ~
big crowd was in attendance.
NEVADA, May lit becomes matter Of
interest to the state generally to know the
reference to what may be called the covers
and ''unders." 1t seems that our state
superintendent of public instruction has
made ruling that the scholastic enumera-
ton and apportionment has nothing TO do
with the exact time at which pupils free
tuition begins or ends. This construction
of the meaning of the law was challenged
in our justice court here yesterday as fol-
lows: The son of Mn. Jack Cook was duly
enrolled in the enumeration OF school dis
trict No. &c of Collin county at the begin
ming of the present scholastic year.
Later, Professor Hogue was employed TO
teach said school, but during the term
Cooks son reached his sixteenth birthday,
and hereupOn HOgue declared the sons free
tuition had ceased and presented to Mr..
Cook a bill for his sons tuition the remain
der of the term. which bill Cook refused to
pay on the ground that his son was en-
rolled Us q scholastic pupil for present
scholastic year. Whereupon Hogue brought
suit for the bill but failed to recover it, the
jury deciding in favor of defendant
SAVOY, May 1S.-A fine writing school is
in progress now at this place with about
twenty-five students.
The Squmum club, of this place, have
had two entertainments here for the benefit
of the college They think now Of raising
money to build city hall.
TERRELL, May 1S.-The Free Methodists
are holding meetings on the streets daily.
At present two preachers are conducting
the services. The congregations are small.
ATHENS, May 1S-Granville Jones,
evangelist, is conducting series of meet
ings here with great success so far.
MESQUITE, May III. c. Rugel will
leave tomorrow for Owensboro KY, where
he goes as commissioner to the general
assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church from the Dallas Presbytery a
good delegation win go from Texas. They
Will come together at Denison.