Jack County, TX - Newspaper - Jacksboro Gazette, May 30, 1912 ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Jacksboro Gazette May 30 1912 Location: Jacksboro Source: Jacksboro Public Library microfilms Description: Earl G. Alkire dies; Ward Risley Cundiff News Bro. King preached Sunday. Bro. Berry preached Sunday night. Prof. R.L. Leftwich is teaching singing school here. Misses Nichols of Beans Prairie. Mr. Stovall of Chico is building a new gin at Cundiff. Mrs. T.J. Moss and daughter On 11 May 1912 Earl G. Alkire was called to his eternal home. Earl was born in London, Ohio 28 November 1887, was the son of Mr. And Mrs. W.H. Alkire, who with their family now reside in Columbus, Ohio. Earl came to Jacksboro in 1909, where he had resided for the past three years. On 14 January 1911, he was united in marriage with Miss Pearle Brummett, who, with one little daughter, Edna Grace, 18 months, mourns his loss. Rocky Point News Mr. And Mrs. Liles, the parents of Mrs. G.W. Mansfield, returned to their home in Hall County. T.S. Pitts Messrs. Elmo McDow, Grover Cleveland, C.E. Raines Brother Arthur Wall preached Sunday. A number of Masons of Jacksboro attended and participated in the ceremonies of the laying of the corner stone of the Federal post office building at Mineral Wells. Those in the party were Rev. J.H. Mallard, C. Isbell, H.E. Thomas, H.T. Daugherty and daughter, Miss Mary. There were 125 Masons to participate and 2,000 people were present for the ceremonies. Jacksboro Personals J.G. Brown of Gibtown David Lindsey of Sand Valley E.A. Gwaltney and daughter, Miss Verne Don Coulton county attorney of Swisher county. Prof. Carroll Key attended State Normal at Denton where his brother graduated. Mrs. Tiff Thomason will leave for Gary, Oklahoma, where Mr. Thomason has bought a store and where they will make their home. Ward Risley, one of the early discoverers of the locality now known as New London, arriving in the early 1870s, was a day or two visitor from Jacksboro. For more than 20 years, Mr. Risley was a respected Clay citizen, and with no exceptions is still hailed as friend by the old-timers. He has always been a thinker, and formerly concerned himself in an effort to bring his neighbors with him to the higher plane; and he now finds that the wholesale crushing of the hard Jack County rocks is on a comparatively dead-easy job. But on rubbing him up a little, it is seen that he is still Ward Risley and then some. Henrietta Review