Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-08-16
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been organized at Whitney with $751;
900 capital stock.
A surveying corps Of the Trinity &
Brazos Valley railroad is now running
a line across Navarro county.
For the first time in the history OF
Denison not drop of liquor is procur-
able. All cold storages are closed up
tight. The lid is on to stay.
Charles Diefendeifer died of sym.
toms of hydrophobia at Denison.
pet coon bit hi mseveral weeks ago.
He was from Pamela county, l. T.
A tangle in the city government of
San Antonio has caused the freeing of
nine prisoners in the city Jail, because
no provision was made for feeding
them.
Hettie Killingsworth, an aged ne
gress, living in Paris, claims to be
1O4 years old. She is nearly blind
from old age, but can still hear dis
tinctly.
After eating canned corn and toma.
toes for supper, Clarence Thomas and
wife and little boy of Corsicana be.
came sick. Medical attention gave
them relief.
A crew of thirty men in the employ
of the Federal Government has began
work chopping overhanging. trees and
clearing Instructions from Red River
above Arthur City.
The 9-year-old son of John Goad of
Eden fell from wagon and was in
stantly killed by the wheels passing
voor the body, while the family were
returning from Ell Dorado
A County Odd Fellows Association
will be organized in Mckinney on
Thursday night, August II, at Odd
Fellows Hall, during the big picnic
ana reunion to be held there.
Nearly $4,000 win be spent at once
on the central high school building OF
< 81 oraan 40 prepare for she IN
PRODUCTION Of manual training and to.
enlarge and better the science depart
ment.
II. Culberson, an employe of the de.
partment of agriculture at Washington
is at San Angelo for the purpose of
instructing the stocRmen and farmers
Of Western Texas in the latest methods
Of irrigation.
The G. L. Blanks Tea & Coffee com
pany of Texas, with headquarters in
the city of Dallas, was chartered at
Austin with a capitalization Of $780,
600 Wholesale dealing in teas and
coffees and large roasting plant is
arranged for.
A new bank will be opened at
Gatesville on the 10th inst by o. s.
Houston, capitalist and president Of
the HunterPhelan Banking and Trust
Company of Fort Worth, and D. c..
Stone of the same place. Individual
responsibility, s15OOOO.
Or. N. NJ. Mclaughlin, for fourteen
years a member of the Northwest
Texas Methodist Conference died
Friday night in st. Pauls sanitarium
He was AZ years old and leaves a wild
ow and eight children. At the time
Of his death he was in charge of the
Methodist church at Abbott, Hill coun-
".
A message has been received by
Hunter Woodson, promoter of the Bon
ham Mckinney Interurban railroad, to
the effect that the papers fer the con
struction have been drawn up and
work will begin October /, and perhaps
several weeks earlier.
Beginning August 10 there will be an
Old-fashloned campmeeting at Good
night preaching services by J. 7. Bell,
missionary evangelist; song service by
Rev. ]. L. Barrett Of Louisiana and
Prof. A. II, Thornton Of Goodnight
Rev. J. Sam Barcus, pastor of the
Methodist church at corslcana, having
secured the consent Of the bishop, win
accept the professorship rendered him
In the Southwestern College, George
town, and preached his final sermon
Sunday.
During the hard rainstorm, lightning
struck the switchboard in the cen
trail telephone oifIce at Hlco, doing