Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-12-17
ALL OVER TEXAS.
Colds are prevalent.

snow.
Ervay street, DALAI. is to be paved
with asphalt.
The Texas and Pacific is building
new depot at Merkel.
A small strike among coal miners
at Bridgeport was soon settled.
1t is said that the recent cold snap
has not injured the sugar cane
Four rural free delivery routes were
inaugurated in Cook county Dec. 1.
Christmas stocks are unusually
heavy and trading Is unusually lively.
Miss Matte Beck of Mckinney slip
ped on the snow and dlslocated her
knee cap.
The city council Of Corsicana ordered
a special census of the city taken with
a view to making application to the
legislature for a special charter.
The Rock Island railroad will COM
mence letting contracts in few days
for its extension from Dallas to the
gulf.
Mrs. Mary Cullen, born in Limerick,
Ireland 80 years ago, died in Dallas,
Thursday, where she had resided thirty
years.
Dave Wilson, COL, was sent to the
pen for five years from Burleson coun-
ty, for assault with intent to kill upon
his wife.
1t is reported that the International
& Great Northern will begin work on
$4,000 passenger depot in San An
tonic early in 1908.
Receipts at Dallas postoffice for No
vember, 1902, were SCI ,SS0.94, gain
of $2.09O.41, or 10 per cent. over the
corresponding month last year.
Two Delta county farmers have In
vested over $500 in lawsuit over
bunch of hogs not worth $25, and are
still plugging away at the case.
Texas, with sixteen members In
congress, begins to cut some ice in
matters. This ties Texas and. Mis-
souri, on the numbsNe of meRhRIA .
The prohibitionists of Johnson coun-
ty are taking steps to employ eminent
counsel to assist in fighting the local
option case in the higher court.
The cornerstone of the Girls Indus
trial school, Denton, will be laid about
January with appropriate ceremonies,
under the auspices of the Masonic or
der.
The right of way for the Bolton 6
Temple air line road has been secured
at a cost of $1353 and will be two
miles shorter than the present crooked
one.
The Roby schoolhouse, to cost $4,000,
IA rapidly approaching completion and
will be ready to use at latest by the
new year. 1t will be quite an orna-
ment to the town.
There were only three or four sun
shiny days during the month of No
vember, and II December holds on like
1t has started out 1t will be equally as
void of sunshine.
1t will require more drastic meas
ures than commercial club revsolu-
lions to rid Texas of the boil weeyiL
The gist of the matter is that Texas
doesn't have to haise cotton.
The turkeys that Thanksgiving did
not get have gone the way Of Wards
ducks. The butchers In Dallas hold
turkey meat at 20 cents a pound. and
eggs so cents dozen.
Ohio's eight hour labor law is found
to be unconstitutional.
Newspaper correspondents at Shang-
hal and Hong Kong say trade is at a
standstill and that the depreciation of
oliver, the current money of China, is
the beginning OF panic in the Orient
New bids for squipping the state
eplIeptic asylum at Abilene with
waterworks, electric lights and power
plant will be opened Jan. l, 1903. the
bids opened Dec. being unsatisfac-
tory.
VIM. e. Larne, druggist, formerly of
Athens. shielded in Galveston with
,nornhine