Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1906-10-03

otuSA pdnhlHS INSTITUTION LOT CleDurno.
A good block of the stock is held by
foreign capitalists.
Capt. Jesse A. Bennett, former AS
sistant City Marshal OF San Antonio,
was stricken with paralysis. He Is
In dangerous condition.
Mayor s. c. Kennedy has issued a
proclamation setting aside Oct. 8 as
legal holiday on which the post
poned Labor Day celebration at Deni-
son may be carried out.
The Fulton Bag Co., with headquar.
tiers In Atlanta, Ca, is building an
eight-story warehouse, factory and Of
flee building in Dallas that will cost
about $4,000.
Tn econtract has been let for a $685.
600 auditorium at Paris. 1t will have
front of seventy feet on Lamar aven-
ue and length of 40 feet, with a
stage 30x50 feet in addition.
Curtis P. Smith, Mayor of Dallas,
has announced as a candidate for
President of the Board of Commission.
ers of the new government of that
city.
The interlocting plant at the Katy
and Cotton Belt crossing south Of
Greenville was put in operation a few
days since, so that now trains do not
have to stop at the crossing.
Mr. Joseph Hart and Miss Jeanne
Ferode, members of His Highness the
Bey' company, were married at the
Dallas opera house at the matinee per-
Torrance Thursday afternoon.
w. r. Young, who own a cotton gin
fourteen miles south of Weatherford,
while working at the saws had his
right hand caught and came very near
losing his arm.
The present indications for good
pecan crop are very flatering in Brown
county. The pecans are developing
now and the harvesting of the crop
win soon commence.
a. @. ELLIOTT formerly president of
the Elliot Paper Company, but lately
local manager of the Fidelity Mutual
Insurance Company's business in Dali
las, died in Atlantic City. N. j., last
Friday.
The ordinance passed some time
since by the Marshall city council, re-
stricting saloons to the business sec
ton of the town, has ben sustained
by the courts.
Louis J. Lossow, a city salesman,
of Galveston, was electrocuted by
taking hold of guy wire. which had
by some accident become charged with
2200 volt current
Secretary of State Shannon is not
an applicant for reappointment accept.
i've or otherwise, and so announced
some time ago. He will probably live
in San Antonio or Houston.
The charter for the. Abilene Gas,
Light, Fuel and Power Company has
been received and work on the build
ing of the new company will COM
mence as soon as the architect COM
pletes the plans.
William Thomas, aged 70, while
hauling broom corn near Quinlan, was
bitten by snake and died later in
great agony. He thought 1t was a
wasp's sting and paid but little heed
TO the wound until too late.
A. A. Bail, of Dalhart, Tex, last
week sold to the Wheatland Invest
ment Company of Dalhart. Tex, 6S,-
900 acres of land in New Mexico near
Tucumari, the price being $4,000.
This land is known as the carba
Springs grant.
"All common poultry says F. r.
Staples, of Washington County, de
your boil weevls, and patches of cot
ton close to dwellings, where poultry
is kept in sufficient numbers. are in
yarlably free from the pest.
The annual show the the East Texas
Pet Stock and Poultry Association
that will be held in Marshall on Nov.
20 TO 2s, inclusive, promises to be
the largest poultry show ever held in
East Texas, If not in the Southwest.
Al recent meeting OF the directors
Of the Bolton Cotton MN Company.
dividend OF per cent was declared