The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-11

zero at one time / wish to vote for Gen
eral Sam Houston being the greatest man |
Of Texas. | have heard that General I
Houston ordered General Travis to evocu-
ate the Alamo and Join the main army I
under General Houston. Travis had plenty
OF time to leave the Alamo before Santa
Anna got there.
Travis and his company probably kept
the Mexican army back until the main
army had time to select a suitable place
to defeat Santa Anna. send cents to
subscription for little Jimmie Edwards
Zollickoffer cakes
Uvalde. Texas-Dear Mr. Haphammer
and Happyhammers have been reading
the interesting letters in The Post long
time and would like to join your club, !
hope the old waste basket will close It's
yawning mouth for this time am VI
years of age. Am staying in Uvaide now,
but live back In East Texas Jasper county
| see the Haps are having another voting
contest My vote ! most unequivocally
cast for General Houston. l admire him
more than any other old Texas hero. Most
certainly Travis and the Alamo defenG-
ers died a most glorious aud masnanlInous
death. but wouldn't almost any other
Texas soldier have done the same thing
Houston was not only a brave soldier, but
also great statesman He most ably
managed Texas. in her youthful attempts 10
become a nation separate and distinct
from Mexico. Although Texas financial
condition was bad. and added to that her
trouble with the Indians, she came out all
right. When you take Travis and tho
condition of his men. surrounded by Santa
Anna, they just simply had to die, No
other course was left open to them. With
out doubt they would have been massacred
If they had surrendered, and they know
ing 1t concluded it better to die avenged
Houston at the battle OF San Jacnto in
stead of being compelled to fight rign,
then. advanced on the enemy, who heavily
outnumbered him He staked all on that
one battle his country, his reputation,
and perhaps his life II captured. But.
thanks to his brave leadership and the
determination OF his thoroughly aroused
soldiers, the Texans gloriously won the
! battle So my vote goes for Houston
Perhaps some of the Haps never saw 4
wolf roped. So I'll tell you what l saw
some time ago. Several cowboys and |
! were riding along one day, when we saw
wolf standing close by looking at US.
! One fellow loosened his rope and took at
, ter the wolf. Being on a fast pony he
: overlook him after running perhaps 300
yards, Then whirling his lasso. the wolf
was caught, and somersault backwards
: followed Success to YOU, Mr. Hap
q Allen Lanier.
= Keaohie, La--Dear Haphammor: "Hel,
k To- Haps will you please let me com,
in again. ! will promise not to stay yer!
+ long. Isn't this a beautiful, warm da!
e. "wednesday, everything looks so prett,
;, and green and the birds are singing st
sweetly Spring is my fayorite season.
@ think the Haps page gets more interest
r ing every week ] think we have the hes
subject TO write on that we ever had, al
though l have never been a debator be
II fore, but | have read about them. VIII
d was the greatest hero OF the Texas war 70
o independence? think that Sam Housto
y was the greatest hero, Yet ! think tina
e Travis and Austin were brave men.
Il Do any of the H6ps know how Alamo "a
n its name? Perhaps it viii interest some c
a the Haps so l VIII give short sketch {
1t it. It was a Texas mission church tn
is Alamo was not the official designation {
,e the mission and we may he sure that tn
In friars never applied such a non-holy nam
$ 10 il. What then, Is the origin of tn
d. name Alamo? Common report in San An
err tonic replies that once the ground aroun
at the church was covered with cottonwood
p (alamos) and that the name arose from tn
re circumstance This seems to be suffciei
IS. explanation, but there is still another e'
ly PLANTATION which has been suggested /
1t documents in the archives of BeXar relf
ny From 1913 to 1901 "the buildings wei
t. unoccupled in the last years the milital
force In Texas was increased by the add
tion OF la compania volante del Alamo
n Parras.' and this new company was qua
tered in the deserted mission. After Il
revolution the company returned to its o
iy quarters. where 1t remained till at lea
nd in the POS.
c In the reports Of the commander of Il
az
OF referred to as the company OF the Alamo
r.. and no doubt this was the name by whi
ne it was popularity known.
el was it not an easy step. then to a
"l tach the name OF the company TO the aba
ny doned mission where IL was quartere,
i1e If indeed the cottonwood grew on the mi
we sion grounds, this step was rendered :
"a, t the more easy, and very probably q
ne people soon forgot that the "eompai
IN, of the Alamo" brought its name alo
ca with il when II first came 10 san Anton
10 am ever a true friend and Hap
IS Fife Hensley.
2.
,er San Marcos Texas.-Dear Everybod
mi of course most OF us never regie- hayli
I'M spring visit us every year The an
IA sweet and delightful and abun lance {
sTy flowers TO pull aud look al, Ihe b:oa
are green fields. the corn, etc. waving III l.
ia air-'tig a fine ana pleasant 9iS4'N W a.
" one unaccustomed to the country.
p lanes and pastures always have Wi
e1y sweet Williams" growing in them a
r,g huttercups or something of the klnd.
- am no botanist and don't know the nam
~ OF every wild flower ! see. OF course
~. see these every day OF my life ana DO .
is care much for them as a stranger wod
~, ~ In the field we have some Wild flower
va The "tie vine" a species Of mornl
"a glories. is very bad thing for the far
ers. 1t ties and twists and winds its
J. up on corn, cotton, cane. the fences a
anything it can climb. It has root ha
sr: 10 xiii and a bloom like any morni
q glory. All farmers hate them. The 81
not flower. another common flower of Il
county, in lanes and places not cios'
ers cultivated, shows up an ocean OF yell
ten heads. whose seed Is said 10 be very "
'er, liable for making some kind OF oil. Far
the ers hate sunflowers. too the girls son
see times pull the petals of to try their Il
ind times, "Rich man. poor man, etc. FOR
ere petal. Girls are superstltlous anyN
ok about signs and most anything. Yes
rel cotton makes a hne show sometimes WI