Jack County, TX - Newspaper - Jacksboro Gazette, March 8, 1917 ************************************************************************************* 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 March 8 1917 Location: Jacksboro Source: Jacksboro Public Library microfilms Description: Personals; Warren Slater dies; Rev. Randolph Clark's health is failing; Rev. S.B. Knowles, E.B. Coe bought the residence owned by Ed L. Merriman. Henry Curtis of Jacksboro has accepted a position with W. Gorman as salesman for the overland car. He and his wife and baby will moved to Seymour and take rooms at Mrs. Georgia Lasaters. Mr. Curtis has been raised at Jacksboro, but has decided to make Seymour his home. Baylor County banner The record regrets to note the failing health of Rev. Randolph Clark, pastor of Central Christian church, and a man of powerful influence for good. Dr. Clark lives in Stephenville, and comes to Hamilton twice each month and his enforced discontinuance of these visits for a time will cause universal regret. He will preach next Sunday and some time next week if his health permits. Hamilton record Warren Slater, answered the summons of the death angel last Wednesday at his home near Jacksboro, and was laid to rest in the Wesley Chapel cemetery, under the auspices of the order of Masons. He was a fine character. Those who knew him most loved him best. [no stone found in cemetery] Methodists of Stephenville waited just 24 years for S.B. Knowles to built them a new church. They waited while he grew from a barefooted boy into a church janitor and finally to a successful pastor. Hes building the church now building it in the literal sense of the word, too. Rev. Knowles spent much of his boyhood right here in Stephenville. He attended the old Methodist meeting house in the early days and at one time acted as janitor. Then he went away to engage in ministerial work. He held charges and built churches at Bruseville and Eddy. So his assignment here meant the start of an agitation for a new building. Last October the old structure was ordered torn down and the erection of a new was put in the hands of the energetic pastor. Roberts Prairie News The school closes last week. R.L. Graves of the Cundiff community was the teacher. New babies arrives at the homes of J.H. Henderson, E.R. Williams, T.B. Anglin, Trice Epps.