Marion Co., TX - News: 1883 Marion County News ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the historical files of June E. Tuck The Jefferson Weekly Wide-Awake Saturday, August 25, 1883 CHURCHES Christ Church (Espiscopal) - Rev. E. G. Benners, Rector (The name was first typed Bonners, then typed overBenners - Services ever Sunday Presbyterian Church - Services every frist and third Sabbath morning and evening. Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev. T. E. Sherwood, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday. Of The Immaculate Conception (Catholic) - Father Dument. NEWS IN CITY AND COUNTY Capt. T. J. Rogers and lady express themselves highly pleased with their recent brief summer tour in Arkansas. The continued drought has materially cut short the crop of this section, and the result is a little unpleasant to contemplate. The little boy of Mrs. W. J. Sedberry has been quite sick this week, but we are pleased to record the fact that he is recovering. We regret to learn that our county attorney, B. W. Camp, is at Pittsburg ill with bilious congestive fever, and are golad to write that he is now convalescent and will soon be among his friends in Jefferson. A base ball club has but recently been organized in Jefferson. Twenty-six ladies and gentleman, selected with a particular view to their abilities on the stage, will give Jefferson a splendid entertainment at the first appearance of the Stuttz Mammoth Star Co. - opening next Monday evening. A fish fry and barbecue near the house of Jordan Pettaway (col) superintended by that good citizen and successful farmer, was attended by many of our town folks, and by all white and black, it was pronounced a pleasant and successful affair. Mr. E. M. Patrick, a prominent grocer of Sulphur Springs, had bought this season up to last Wednesday six bales of new cotton, for which he had paid from 8 ½ to 9 3/4 (cents.) He shipped his cotton to the reliable f irm of Gilkeson and Sloss, Commission Co., St. Louis. ---