The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-04-16
MASON MATTERS.

Mason, Tex, April 12.-(Special.)-
Mr. VIM. Baxter. who has been blind
for some time, has had his eyes greatly
improved and his eyesight partially re.
stored by an operation by DR.. II. j.
Boze. An operation by the same ply
sician has greatly improved the eyes of
Elder Silas Scarborough. who has been
suffering from some defect for several
weeks.
Hon. Walter Tips and Mr.. North of
Austin and Mr.. julius Runge of Gal
weston were in town the past week.
Mr.. Ed Broad of Brentwood was in
town visiting his parents this week.
Mr.. Chas. Leslie has returned from
Stonewall county, where he has been
visiting the past few weeks.
Mr.. Jerry Miller and Miss Salle Le-
Clair were married Sunday afternoon.
MIR. and Mrs. Alfred Rock have been
visiting in Menardville for some days.
An effort is being made to have a
summer normal for this county.
Elder j. Il. Cole of Lampasas will be-
gin a protracted meeting at the Chris
tian church next Thursday evening. He
contemplates permanently locating here.
Messrs. Gocher and Fudge, capital
lists, are here purchasing and leasing
land for the purpose of developing the
mineral thereon.
Mr.. Herman Mebus, one of Mason's
old and highly respected citizens, has
become Il candidate for the office of as
SCISSOR of this county.
Mr.. l.. Ii. King has sold his interest
in the Silver King saloon and has gone
on pleasure trip to the Indian Terri
tory.
Mr. G. B. King has material on the
ground for the erection of a handsome
gallery to the Lemburg & Schmidt
building.
Col. w. B. O'Brien was up from San
Antonio to spend the past several days
Maj. Seth Mabry was here this week
and sold 400 beeves to Mr.. Hume at sd.
Misses Ola Ludbury. Nettie Hill and
Hermenio Mebus are each teaching Sc
lect schools.
Mr. NJ. e. Oatman of Llano spent the
past week here on business.
Mrs. Neil and Mr.. Henry Brown,
mother and nephew of Mrs. G. A. Bell.
are here from San Saba visiting that
lady.
Mr.. Theo. Christians is just home
from the mines at Menardville and re-
ports much interest there over the find.
Mr.. Thos. Ball. who was acquitted here
in several COW stealing cases. was given
two years in the penitentiary in sim
liar case at Junction City.
Miss Audrey is at Mr.. Jacob Schwess-
ler's very sick
Mr. and Mrs. w. NJ. Redman left a
few days since to visit their daughter,
Mrs. ]. r. Virgins. at Rusk.
Mrs. Pate, living fifteen miles north
of here, died Sunday after short ill
ness.
Mr.. j. T. Jordan of Waco was here a
few days since on business.
MIR. Jess Carlton. member of St. Louis
mercantile firm, has been here the past
week visiting Mr.. VIM. Hoffman.
Mr.. Thos. Rainey has removed from
our suburb, Rockville, to his farm west
of town.
Rev. A. L. James of Lano was here
a few days ago and preached at the
Baptist church.
A fishing party composed of Messrs.
Herbert Fork. Will Hoffman,, Ed Rey-
nolds. Ben Schmidt. Morgan Hamilton
and Jess Carlton spent a few days on
the Rio Llano this week with satisfac-
tory results.
Mrs. Herman Alberson and children
of Castell have been visiting friends
here.
Mr.. C. l.. Neese, clerk of Fayette
county, and Mr.. Thos. Lane, prominent
attorney OF La orange, were mere the
past week looking after the property in
terests of Mr.. Neese.
The election for school trustees for
this corporation was changed until June
to conform to the date set for electing
school trustees throughout the county.
The Sons of Herman elected officers
as follows at last meeting: II. Mebus.
president: r. Runge. vice presidents L.
Kettner, treasurer; H. Theirs, secretary;
Louis Schmidt. eX-president: Phi Pfifer.
Ben Schmidt. r. G. Doell, trustees; Theo.
Schmidt. representative.
DR.. w. Y. Fowler of Valley Springs
and DR.. c. f. Darnell of Llano were
here Wednesday to attend a session of
the medical board of the district DR..
Boze of our town was the only other
member present They examined and
gave certificates to J. II. Bynum of Lon
don and j. J. Patterson of Stretter.
Mr.. Adam Rebeck left few days ago
for his home in New Orleans.
Prof II. 2. Tidd of Junction City has
been here for several days.
Mr. r. II. Baird has purchased the
interest of Mr.. Will Bickenbach lin their
merchandise business.
BIG BLAZE AT M'DADE.