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VOLUME 31.
BHTfrNTT A M3 TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1897.
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WEEKLY
STATE NEWS.
Watermelons are still on sale
at Denison.
Cotton seed are selling at
nine dollars a ton at Bonham.
Grayson county will hold a
fair and floral show in November.
The wheat area will be great
ly increased in Ellis county next
season.
Governor Culberson formally
opened the State fair at Dallas
last Saturday.
Beaumont has organized an
Irrigation company with a capital
stock of 540,000.
Brownwood will hold a
county stock show on the 4th and
5th of November.
The Dallas Cotton mills are
running night and day, trying to
Iceep up with orders.
Physicians in Navarro coun--fcy
have decided to fight the new
occupation tax Jaw.
A charter has been granted to
the Brownwood Oil Mill company ;
capital stock S50.000.
"Weeping Joe" Harding is
conducting a series of open air
saee tings in Sari Antonio.
Ths apple crop in Grayson
county is very good and the
fruit is bringing fair prices.
A company has been organ
ized at Denison to manufacture
and sell Burnet granite.
Steps are being -taken to
reopen the furnaces and other in
dustries at New Birmingham.
Arrangements are being
made for a large increase of the
tobacco acreage around Willis. .
Hill county negroes are pre
paring to give a fair this fall to
exhibit the progress of their race.
Greenville has under way a
factory for the manufacture of
Q-reraUs, shirts, waists und pants.
An explosion of a locomo
tive near Brookshire seriously
Injured a brakeman and fireman.
Fifteen wagon loads of Ger
man colonists are on their way in
-wagons from Colorado to Harris
eounty.
A Denton county man had
more than one hundred screw
rorms removed from his nostrils
.sml head.
Three of the Baylor students
implicated in the Brann affair
sere filled S25.00 .for unlawfully
carrying arms.
McDade Chambers has dis
posed of his interest in the Waller
Free Press to his partner, C. C.
Waller.
Drs. Stovall, Ritchie and
Sfcodes have been appointed ex
isting surgeons at Terrell for the
pension department.
A heavy hail storm passed
over Denison at 12 o'clock last
SEonday night; stones as large as
lien eggs fell, doing great dam
.sige to roofs, windows and grow
ing vegetation.
' At Wolfe City last Monday
evening Wm. P. Mills was killed
Sy Lee McAfee, who shot him
finree time3. McAfee surrender
ed to the city marshal. Killing
the result of an old fued.
Fort Worth now. has a hand
some market building 200x100
feet in size. The walls are of
Zutrd brick, the floor of cement
and the roof of asphaltum. There
sre 120 stalls ; for night use 120
incandescent and 7 arc lights.
Coloin Jenkins, colored, has
Been convicted on the charge of
aitemntine: to outrage his own
daughter in the district court at
"Waco and given two years in the
penitentiary. Rather light pun
ishment for so grave a charge,
especially so when it is stated
iSat his whole family testified
against him, the evidence of his
feso daughters being very severe.
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HARBISON'S
Two Month's Business in One.
That's just what every department in
our store is going to attempt to do this
month. The low price of cotton last
month, and other inconveniences caused a
falling off in trade, and as the prospect for
Better Prices for Cotton is in sight, and
inconveniences have been removed, we are
workingwith renewed effort, for the in
crease in our business, which must surely
follow.
'To help the occassion along we have
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made noticeable reductions in all depart
ments. A constant streani of new goods,
and a constant exhibition of novelties in
vite you to our store.
There's a Signifieent Something.
About our New Fall Dres Fabrics that throngs the de
partment with ready buyers.
It may be the styles or qualities or prices ; perhaps it's a
combination, of the three ; whatever it is, it's doing the bus
iness, and a most satisfactory business at that.
Hosts of, new wares have arrived during the past few
few days.
We want to introduce them to your notice so that you
can get first pick.
Colored Fabrics First.
Hardly know where to begin; just as hard o tell where
to stop. Such a grand collection, of handsome gownings,
and every item of them pleading for a place in print. Here
are a few lots at random, they'll have, to .talk for a stock full.
'Boucle Dotted Novelties, at. s ,. . . . 75c
Brocade Novelties in Persian Combinations, at '..... 85c
Mohair Figured Granite, at - 85c
Silk and Wool Novelty in Moire effects, the Moire
outlined in colors woven on back ground 1.10
Silk and Wool Matelasse in combination of Gold and
and Napolian Blue, at ' . $1.25
Scotch Novelties, Silk and Wool, a very elegant article $1.40
Escureal Figured Novelties in six different colorings,at $1.40
Brocade Camels Hair, exqusite in appearance and rich .
designs . . $1.50
Mohair Figured Granites at : $1.50
Of course we have a big stock stock of all the cheaper
grades of goods. In Cashmeres, Serges, Henriettas, Cre
pons and Bengalines besides Silk and Trimmings to match.
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Our Shoe Stock has been augmented with
New Arrivals, making it full to overflowing.
"We haye Many Bargains 'in Leather to
which we desire to attract your attention.
One Lot $4 and $5 Shoes at $1.95 each.
Some people wpnder at the Busy, hustling
look of things in our store.
No mystery about it. .It's simply buying
what people want, and selling it for less than
they expect to pay. This is -what has built
this business to its present large proportions.
The best of its kind is none too good for
our patrons.
Our Clothing Room is Fuller than it has,
been for a year. We must sell the goods
and the. price must make the things move.
If a low price 'is what you want be sure
and see what we can do for you or the boys
when it comes to Clothing, or furnishings.
We have made special efforts this season
to put in a supply of Men's shoes, that are
exceptionally good values, and, at prices lower
than the same qualities "have been sold heretofore.
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WHOLESALE AJSTD RETAIL.
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Two Mexicans and a negro
were arrested in Travis county
last week for unlawfully gather
ing pecans.
Mr. J. R. Sewell, of Chries
man, Burleson county, killed a
very large wild cat and caught
two kittens while squirrel hunt
ing last Friday.
Emma Jones, charged with
the murder of Ben Grant at Tyler
has been convicted of man
slaughter and given two years in
the penitentiary.
The county commissioner's
of Bastrop county have decided
to purchase land and establish a
pauper farm.
Will Smalley, the negro who
is charged with raping the 8
year old daughter of Henry
Brantly, colored, on. the night of
October 3rd, from the effects of
which she died, has been arres
tad and jailed at Hempstead. He
denies the charge and says he
can prove an alibi.
When the Associated Press
states that the manufacturing
and agricultural classes of Mexi
co are a unit for the retention of
the silver standard Texas Farmer
presumes the assertion will not
be challenged, as that agency is
not in the habit of booming sil
ver. Of equal interest is the re
port that monied men have under
consideration a proposal to raise
wheat in Mexico for export to the
United States. While we are
begging England to permit this
country to adopt bimetallism,
Mexico is making rapid strides
because of the special advantage
which she derives from a silver
standard in contrast with our
own gold standard. At her pres
entVates of progress, the end of
another decade will plainly show
that Mexico will ultimatelyxlomi
nate the Western World in a
financial sense, unless the United
States should cut loose from the
apron strings of England "antE-
adopt a Western financial system.
Statistics of life insurance
show that in the last 25 years the
average woman's, life has in
creased from about 42 years to
nearly 46, or more than 8 per
cent. In the same neriod man's-
life average has increased from
nearly 42 years to about 44. or 5-
F6r cont.
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