Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-11

Citizens of Marble Falls are working
lively for the S4G0, 200 cotton and wooden
mills now considered 4 certainty.
A subscription list is in circulation at
Sulphur Springs to raise funds to pay for
the boring of an artesian well The solic-
itors are having marked success.
The board of trustees are advertising for
bids for the building of the Northwest
Texas Baptist college at Decatur.
Contracts are being made with the farm
ers in the neighborhood of Williamsburg to
plant large acreage of vegetables suitable
for picking.
vigorously engaged in raising $4,000 to
build their new church.
The Methodists at Amarillo are arrang-
ing to put q thirty-foot addition to their
house of worship.
Comanche's new courthouse will soon
have fine clock. The dials have arrived
and are five feet in diameter.
A contract has been closed by parties in
this city for the sale of seventy-ive or 100
cars of Walnut creek sandstone TO be used
in the construction of the courthouse at
Bryan. More, it is expected, will be used
for the same purpose at Beaumont.
The Weekly Light IS a new paper in San
Marcos, under the editorial management Of
l.
A five years. lease mas been concluded
for bank building at Alvord, and it is ex-
pected the enterprise will be in operation
within sixty days.
]. B. Cook at Canyon City expected to
issue the initial number of 'The Keystone"
on Friday, February 5.
The Masons of Canyon City are now at
work under charter issued by the grand
lodge of Texas.
The young ladies of Wolfe City have es-
tablshed literary society and the library
has fifty volumes as beginning.
The Brennan compress, oil and manu-
featuring company are contemplating put
ting in a fifteen-ton ice machine and cold
storage plant, the capacity to be six tons q
day.
Waco is soon to have one Of the finest
natatoriums in the state.
The oil mill at Temple is now in full
blast. 1t has capacity of thirty tons per
diem.
Money is being raised at Greenville to
build 1880 parsonage for the presiding
elder.
Efforts are being made for the location of
a Christian college at Sherman.
Parties from Iowa are at Greenville look
ing over the ground with view to putting
The commissioners of Foard county have
ordered that sealed bids be received for the
erection Of a courthouse at Crowen
In the vicinity of St. 10 an excellent quail
ity Of asphalt is to be had. 1t has been
practically tested and an effort is being
made to form stock company.
The citizens Of Santa Anna have organ
lied board of trade and q commercial
club. These bodies comprise the staunch
business men of the town. Since last June
several business houses and fifty resi-
dences have been erected. In one addition
there are sixty new houses and the sur
rounding country is filing up rapidly.
The coal mined at Waldrip is OF fine
quality and finds ready sale, and building
stone from the same point is being shipped
TO various points.
Altus has new school building, which
also serves as place of worship.
A new Presbyterian church has been
dedicated at Haskell
The contract has been let for new Jail
at Roby.
A Presbyterian church is TO be dedicated
al Mobeetie on the second Sunday in Feb
ruary.
A charter has been framed and sub
scription list started for fair association
burg.
proposition to build an oil mill has
been submitted to the board Of trade at
Gainesville.