Collin County, TX - News: Sept 1, 1895 News Articles
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          The Democrat
(this seems to be dated Sept.1, 1895)

  (no heading)

 Let everyone in the vicinity of
Nevada work for the interest of
the Nevada High School and thus
promote the well fare of our
community.
 Thursday morning, Nevada
sold her first bale of cotton, it
was grown by Mr. Eli Brown of
Lavon.  It was sold to Moore &
Bollow, at 6 1/8 cts. and with the
premium given, Mr. Brown realized
the neat little sum of $56.18
from it.
 Marshall Barnett and his hoe
brigade waged a very destructive
warfare on the weeds and burs on
the streets and alleys of Nevada
yesterday.  That is right Andrew
clean out the town.

   BLUE RIDGE

Blue Ridge, Tex., Sept. 1, '95
Editor Democrat
 Cotton picking has begun.
 J.A. Barnett has ginned about
twenty bales of cotton up to date.
 J.C. Saunders is talking of
moving in the dwelling near the
gin formerly occupied by W.A.
Smith, where he will be employed
as book-keeper.
 W.A. Smith is erecting a nice
dwelling in the north part of town.
 The new school building is
nearing completion.
 Prof. C.F. Trotter arrived on the
Ridge Sunday, back from his
Missouri visit.
 S.P. Kuykendall is erecting a neat
dwelling near the college.
 Methodists are holding a protracted
meeting at this place.
 The Baptists held a series of meetings
with good success, adding about twenty to
their number
(the rest of the column is too dark to read)

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           DEATHS

 Miss Collie Lacy, aged 21 years
died Aug. 28th from consumption.
 Agnes Morris, aged 18 months
died Aug. 28 of fever.
 Ed Kelley, aged 24 years, died
Aug. 29 of consumption.
 Infant of Mr. and Mrs. John
Reynold died Aug. 28.
 Miss Sallie Fielder, aged 19
years, died Aug. 29 of typhoid
fever.
 Infant of Mr. and Mrs. I.A.
Armstrong died Sept. 3.
 Alma Ingram, son of W.D. In-
gram of this city, died in Brown
County Sept. 1.
 Emma Richardson, aged 3
years, died Aug. 30 of typhoid
fever.
 Little Leslie Lee, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Bullock, died
Saturday, Aug. 31 at their resi-
dence on College Hill.  burial at
Pecan Grove cemetery Sunday
morning.
 Mrs. Henry Bush died at the
residence of her husband, 9 miles
east of McKinney, yesterday af=
ter an illness of over 100 days
with fever.  Burial today at
Rowlett, 10 miles southwest of
McKinney.
 William Duncan, aged 23, died
at the residence of his father, Jim
Duncan, in the Bowlly community,
Aug. 29th, after a long illness of
typhoid fever.  Burial next day in
the Scott cemetery.  William, who was
a sober, industrious young man,
professed religion on his death bed
and expressed his entire readiness
and willingness to die to his
parents. ...