Jones Co. TX - Newspapers - The Stamford News: October 21, 1909 *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 28 December 2019 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford News Friday, Oct. 21, 1904 Vol. 5, No. 34 Anson Allsorts The Baptist meeting closed last Monday night and the baptizing will take place next Sunday, evening at 3 o’clock sharp at the river, Phone road crossing, eight miles south of town. There was quite a crowd gathered at the Cumberland Presbyterian church to witness the marriage of Mr. Guy Rosser and Miss Cleo G. Lackey. Fred Cockrell of Abilene came down and brought the chief engineer of the rail road surveying. They came on the west side of town, running through Mr. Hudson’s gin yard. Ernest E. Lee, one of the state managers of the North Western Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wis., is here this week. Wright Arnold, an enterprising land man from your city, is here tonight with Messrs. Hopkins and Hendricks of Dallas County. Anson came near having another serious fire. Last night about 12 o’clock some parties discovered that the interior of Jack Grace’s grocery store was on fire, and they busted in at the window and threw water on the flames until they got them under control. Had their efforts proved in vain, the whole block containing the First National bank and the south side would have been consumed. Married Licenses were issued to the following couples: ______ to Miss Zella Jones, R.L. Milstead to Miss Pearl Davis, Sam Coffey to Miss Odelia Smith, Will Sharpley to Miss Jessie Wilson and Guy Rosser to Miss Cleo Lackey. Marcy News Dr. St. Jolin is spending this week here. Mr. Barnett of this community sold 200 acres of land at $12.50 per acre. Mr. Johnson sold 400 acres here at $12.50 per acre. He will move to the plains. W.W. Edge, who has been running the blacksmith shop for a long time will move to the southwestern portion of the state. Bro. Mansell preached Sunday to a large congregation, and delegates to the state convention. Cols. Farmer and McDaniel last week made an extended trip through the Stamford country. They headed first to Haskell, the county seat of the famous Haskell county. From Haskell they went to Pinkerton, and found this place in a thriving condition. Pinkerton has a gin, store, blacksmith shop, church and school house. From there they moved on to Marcy. At Marcy they met C.M. Chapman. This town is in the center of a thickly settled and a very fertile section of country. There are two stores, gin, school house and church at this place. The next place to receive their attention was Cliff, a small town in the center of the famous Wild Horse prairie. Knox City, the Orient of Knox County, was next. Here they found R.W. Warren, the monarch of all he surveyed. Munday, the coming city of the section, opened wide her gates. Here they found stores, gin, school house. Mr. Frank P. Pool, its cashier, gave the gentlemen a hearty welcome. Moving farther out they visited Rhineland and Goree and found them a successful development. The gentlemen were all places north of the Brazos. Campbell Brothers - Great Consolidated Shows A Gigantic Collection 100 Cages - Dens - Lairs are necessary to house the $1,000,000 worth of rare wild animals. This season five times larger than ever. No other show ever added so many attractions in one season, as the Campbell brothers have for this year making our show now the largest in the entire world. You can never afford to miss the Grand Street Pageant. In the Forenoon. Well worth a journey of 100 miles to inspect. Two shows daily at 1 and 7 p.m. Stamford, Thursday, Oct. 27th Stamford Oil Mill is now running on full time. We were over there Tuesday and Mr. Binning took us through the works and everything was said to be running satisfactory. Mr. Berthelot, the manager, has given a great deal of attention to the best results of the products of the mill. Thursday evening of last week, John Pettit of Olney, Young Co., was with Mr. Keene looking at some cattle on Keene’s ranch near Aspermont with a view of trading for them. There came up suddenly a heavy rain and they took shelter under a bank in a ravine. This soon caved in, covering both men. Mr. Keene being near the surface, succeeded in digging out. The ravine was filled with water in a short time, as the rain was a water-spout. Mr. Keene was enable d to extricate himself just as the water was rising over his head, but the body of Mr. Pettit was not gotten out until the next day. His brother, Charles, and brother-in-law, J.H. Whorton, were called by telegram from Eastland. They placed the corpse in a metallic box and shipped it to Olney for interment. They reached Stamford fifteen minutes after the train left Saturday, though the train left Saturday, though the train had waited for them some time, and had to remain until Sunday. Mr. Pettit was 19 years of age and was a man of fine business ability. Local and Personal J.E. Rames was up from Albany last Wednesday. Mrs. B.G. Wallace is on the sick list this week. C.L. Mistrot left for Comanche Monday. L.H. Mayfield renewed subscription. W.M. Waller representing A.G. Elliott & Co. called at the New office Wednesday. P.E. Morgan and J.H. Kelley left Tuesday morning for Central Texas for cotton pickers J..M. Self requests the man who took his grubbing hoe last Saturday night to please bring it back. G.W. Hamblet has been quite sick this week. He fears he is taking slow fever. Mrs. W.O. Kelly left Saturday to visit her daughter at Wills Point. Mrs. H.J. Young, who has been visiting her relative, G.W. Giles and family left Thursday for her home at Grandview. Col. A.J. Bateman, and his grand daughter, Miss Lucy Bateman, came over, from Abilene last Saturday. Mr. Bateman will remain for some time, but Miss Lucy will return after a short visit to friends in the city. Mr. E.P. Swenson came on his semi-annual visit last Saturday. There have been a number of sales of Stamford property in the last week. C.L. Mistrot bought the Power property on the north side. Mr. Smith sold his drug store to Dr. Robertson and Mr. Harrell, and it is reported that the Hanna corner has been purchased by C.M. Pattillo. We met Tuesday, Mr. J.E. Dickenson, father of R.M. Dickenson. He, with his daughter, Miss Lucretea, had been to the Fair at St. Louis and also visited the old home in Illinois. Mr. Dickenson lives near Marcy. Clifford Wallace returned from St. Louis. Mrs. Wright returned Monday evening from a visit to the Street Carnival at Dallas. Mrs. Iola Murphy of Chicago, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. F. Lemmon. Elder R.T. Hanks returned on Wednesday and says he will hold his regular services Sunday. The street prices for the Cotton Market in Stamford have ranged from 9 to 9-1/2 cents. Shipments have been 4400 bales. Rev. Willie Byron, the noted converted clown preacher stopped in Stamford last night. He had been a series of successful meetings in Aspermont. Mrs. A.D. McReynolds, the wife of Dr. A.D. McReynolds, died on Oct. 6 at 4 p.m. at her home. Her name was Miss Bettie Showers and that had married last January. She was a devout member of the Christian church, and as a young lady, she was a leader of society in her home town as well as the light of the home and the idol of her father’s heart. Mrs. McReynodls had no relatives in Stamford, but she had many friends who were ready to render her every service within their power. When Mrs. McReynolds’ condition continue to grow worse, telegrams were sent to her parents at Elkton, [Todd county], Ky., and to Dr. Smoot, of Dallas. Dr. Smoot who had attended her in a previous illness, came in answer to the call. Mrs. McReynolds’ father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Showers, of Elkton, Ky., had, after receiving the telegram, started to see their daughter; but when they arrived at Memphis, Tenn., they received another message stating that their daughter was dead, and that her remains would be taken back to her old home for burial, so they turned back to await the sad homecoming of their daughter. Mrs. Halsell, who had remained so close to her friend, made all of the arrangements. The watchers were four young ladies and they were helped by the men of the K. of P. lodge of Stamford. The pall-bearers were Messrs. Colbert, Griffin, Martin, Penick, Adams, White and Flournoy - all members of the K. of P. The grief-stricken husband, parents, brother, and sisters have in their sorrow, the deepest sympathy of the good people of our town and vicinity.