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The Stamford News
Friday, April 19, 1907
Vol. 8, No. 8

Laying the Cornerstone
Stamford’s Red-Letter Day - Laying the Corner Stone of the Stamford Collegiate Institute
The stone was a beautiful Texas granite, a block of about 2-1/2 feet.
Visitors: A. Pyeatt, B.D. Long, Wm. Piercy, G.W. Calloway, L.N. Glass, W.B. Hampton, 
W.F. Flynt, H.A. Ward, James Maxwell, G.B. White, J.W. Stanford, W.K. Johnson, 
F.M. Griggs, J.C. Haskew, W.A. Griffin, Jr., J.W. Rhodes, G.W. Castles, J.F. Huie, 
A.L. Holms, Isaac Hudson, Geo. C. Harris, J.P. Daniel, J.P. Boeverson, W.P. Crane, 
J.G. Mayhew, W.A. Kelley, W.E. Stephens, R.V. Galloway, George H. Brockett, M.M. White,
 J.W. Fowler, A.A. Dunwoody, W.B. Austin, J.W. Petree, John S. Kean, J.W. Rhodes, 
 P.H. Campbell, J.N. Campbell, E.E. Akers, R.S. Rabsdale, G.T. Tompkins, R.E.L. Stutts, 
 W.W. Boon, W.E. Dunnisa, Walter Jones, Jerome Duncan, Joseph Spraberry, C. W. Osburn, 
 W.G. Long, B.F. Huntsman, A.S. Forester, A.B. Skeen, Will Marr, D.D. McCarge, 
 E.W. Basham, N.J. Smith.
	There was about 2,000 people present.

Avoca Horse Association
J.S. Culwell, Manager
Avoca, Texas

Rev. J.H. Shepard will conduct services next Sunday at the Opera House.

Boarders Wanted. $3.50 per week. Fourth door beyond Commercial Hotel.

Stamford Post Office advertised letters - April 14, 1907
	O.O. Adkins, Geo. B. Bantley, H.S. Bale, Hess Baird, T.B. Bosher, Miss Girtie Cooler,
Tinnin Curry, Mrs. Maud Duvall, Mrs. Nannie Davis, Jas. W. Elliott, L.N. Holt, W.A.
Jarrell and wife, R.F. Kruse, Madie Laughlin, Miss Addie Meeks, Master Roger C.
Maxwell, C.C. McGlathery, Phil Nolan, Mrs. Jim Parramore, Jr., W.G. Ruble, Mrs. J.D.
Reed, L.N. Stephens, J.H. Vaughn, Blumer Wilson, Ollie Williams, W.M. Willis, Albert
Williams.

William Thomas Singleton died at his home in Avoca, April 16, 1907, and was buried in
the Spring Creek cemetery April 17. He was a member of the Baptist church and also of
the W.O.W. Rev. Leland Malone, the pastor of the Baptist church at Avoca, preached
the funeral sermon and the burial was by the beautiful and impressive ritual of the
W.O.W. order. The Avoca Camp asked the presence of the Stamford Camp and Chancellor
Commander J.H. Whittington and may of the officers and members attended. Dr. Roebuck
was Marshal and the funeral procession from the church to the grave was nearly a mile
in length, composed of 52 carriages.  Mr. Singleton had recently moved to Avoca from
Central Texas and the large attendance at his burial attested the high estimation in
which he was held by the people. He was born January 7, 1857 and left a wife and
three children, one boy and two girls.

First National Bank has a capitol stock of $100,000 with a surplus of $50,000. Mr.
R.V. Colbert is now president and J.C. Bryant, Cashier with Walter Orr, Assistant.

Local and Personal
	Mr. and Mrs. Joel Smith of Rule will move to Lueders where Mr. Smith will be the 
	cashier of the Bank of Lueders.
	Glasses furnished by Dr. Roberts of the Stamford Medical Institute.
	Mr. Nathan Leavitt was elected Honorary members of the board of trustees of the 
	Stamford Collegiate Institute.
	Major bland from Anson was in Stamford.
	Rev. Robert Brown, pastor of the Albany Methodist church was in town.
	Prof. Cecil Evans and wife were in Stamford. Mrs. Evans is the daughter of 
	Mrs. Maxwell of Stamford. Prof. Evans is superintendent of Abilene High School.
	Cisterns and storm houses built to order. - L.A. Johnson
	The child of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Hill died Saturday morning and was buried Sunday 
	in the Stamford cemetery.
	Thank you to the people of Stamford for kindness in the sickness and death of our baby.
	 - Mr. and Mrs. S. Lundquist
	Dr. B.S. McCurdy of Cleburne has moved to Stamford and will engage in the 
	medical practice.
	
A telegram was received Wednesday evening from Mr. W.O. Wetherbee at Dallas stating
that Mrs. Wetherbee who was accompanying him to Texas had just died in that city and
that he would at once return to New York with the remains. Mrs. Wetherbee was
expected to remain in Stamford for sometime.

Work has stopped on the Public school building on account of the absence of the
contractor. The material that was shipped for the building, we learn has been sold to
individuals in the town.