Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-29
TEXAS NEWS
HAPPENINGS

school building at Spur is nearing
completion.
Actual construction work was com.
menced on the Panama fertilization
last Monday.
Mayor Davis of TT Worth has is
sued safe and sane" fourth of July
proclamation.
Palestine National bank is select
ing plan for a new banking house
to cost about $4,000.
Waco business men are interesting
themselves in the project of new
hotel to cost 100000 or omre.
The Land & Milling Co, of Nebras-
ka, is building an elevator at Texar-
kama to cost $4,000 when completed.
The new crate and box factory at
Sulphur Springs is working rs hands
and is behind with its orders.
The Moran News plant, property of
VIM. B. Elliott, was burned last week.
The loss is estimated at $500.
Construction of a three-story Elks
lodge building in under way at Tenn
pie. The building will cost about
s35, 900.
San Antonio is in the throes of an
anti-gambling crusade. Numerous
places have been raided and many
are under arrest.
A granite fountain, a gift to the
city Of Georgetown, was shipped from
the quarry in Vermont few days
since.
With good gins, compress going
up and an oil mill practically assured,
Harrington will be able to take care of
the crop this year.
In difficulty between negroes on
the Williams ranch, near Brookston,
Oscar Wood was shot and killed. Two
arrests were made.
The plant of the Arno Cooperative
Irrigation Company of the Pecos Val
ley has been enlarged and recon
structed generally. The present ca
pacity is $1,000 acres.
Lee Taylor was shot and killed at
Mount Vernon Saturday afternoon by
w. II. Moores, millman. Taylor
laauas widow and ten children.
The Socialists OF Texas will hold
their eighth annual Socialist encamp.
ment at Grand Saline this year Aug.
Z, 8. 9, 10. II and ~, six days and
nights =
John Northcutt, we'll known far
mer who resided near Reynolds, six
miles east of Jacksonville, was found
dead in his field Saturday night, hav-
ing been kicked by horse.
The paving of fifteen city blocks
with creosoted wood blocks in the
business district is nearing compile
ton In Wichita Falls, and there is
every likelihood that additional paw
ing of the same material will be laid
at the completion of the present con
tract.
The big gin of the Winfield Scott
Company at Cleburne is being dis
mantled to be shipped to some other
point and new, larger and later
patterned gin will be finished in time
for the falls business.
Considerable damage was done in
Dallas Saturday afternoon by a sud
den wind and rain storm. A number
Of buildings were damaged. wires
were tangled and some plate glass
windows were blown in.
The total abolition of wooden pas
senger cars from the interstate rail-
roads of the United States by Jan
uary, 1915, is proposed in bill in
troduced in the house by Represen-
tative Alcott (Democrat).
The waterworks plant of Gaines
vile having come formally into the
hands of the city government, plans
are being worked out for an entire
overhauling of the system, including
new standpipe, filtration plant and
new wells.
Heavy timber losses are reported
from fire started by lightning in the
Wichita National Forest OF Oklahoma.
Jesse Pierce, aged 81, whose home
was near Burleson, was struck and
killed by lightning Saturday during
rain storm.
A resolution opening the project Of
a summer capital for the United
States, which would provide a sum-
mer home for the president and num-
erous Office buildings. has been in
troduced by representative Taylor of
Colorado.