MILAM COUNTY TEXAS - Newspapers: The Texas Broncho Published: Cameron, Milam Co., TX ************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynna Kay Shuffield USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************** Newspapers have played an important role through the years by not only bringing us local happenings in the community but also news from across the country and around the world. Over the years many records related to our ancestors were lost or destroyed in fires, floods and other natural disasters. Newspapers contain much information that may not be found elsewhere such as births, marriages, deaths, court notices, land sales, tax notices, businesses, etc. They also hold many glimpses of information in their community news and provide us with fascinating details about the lives of our ancestors. We can all learn a great deal from reading about our past and in turn we shall have a greater understanding and appreciation for the hardships and triumphs our ancestors endured while building a new life in a new land. Many newspapers managed to survive the test of time and can now be found at most state libraries on microfilm and most are available through inter-library loan for viewing at your local library. There are well over 100 million pages of newspapers preserved on microfilm in the United States alone. This is NOT an every name index to the newspapers. Only articles related to births, deaths, marriages, lynchings, murders, etc., for Milam County and the State of Texas are found in this newspaper abstract. The items included in the book are not verbatim recitations of the newspaper articles, they are abstracts or condensed versions. Always refer back to the original source, the actual newspaper. This book is comprised of newspaper abstracts from the The Texas Broncho newspaper published in Cameron, Milam County, Texas: Caddo Mills News - Carrollton Chronicle - Reel # 1320034683, found at the Texas Newspaper Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas-Austin These are the only copies of this newspaper known to exist. = = = = = = = Center for American History SRH 2.101 University of Texas-Austin Austin, Texas 78712 = = = = = = I & GN = International & Great Northern Railroad I.O.O.F. = International Order of Odd Fellows I.T. = Indian Territory sic = error in original S.A.&A.P. = San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad = = = = = = = = J. M. Pipes, Editor & Proprietor - published every Saturday = = = = = = = = = The Texas Broncho - Sat., 22 Jan 1898 - Vol. III, No. 3 Marriage - "Tied in a Buggy" - Elder J. T. Rogers was called to the street last Sunday by a party of young people in the Minerva vicinity. He walked boldly out and tied a couple of them hard and fast as they sat in the buggy. Their names: S. B. McKnight of Minerva and Miss Martha P. Williams of Sandy Creek, Mr. Rogers tied them so tight it will take nothing short of a divorce court to part them. Rockdale Reporter Church - Members of the M.E. Church, South, at Davilla are contemplating building a new house of worship as the old house has been condemned and is being torn away. For the present, the Methodist will worship at the house of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Fire - The Cornell gin, a few miles below San Gabriel was destroyed by fire on Friday night by an incendiary device. After one fire was extinguished another was set later the same night. Mr. Cornell was absent in Lee county. Administrator Notice - Settlement of Final Accounting by John Love, administrator of the estate of J. A. Love, deceased. Railroad - The Santa Fe has had a telephone and electric lights put in the depot at this place. Article - The little boy of Mr. & Mrs. R. C. Faulkner, who was very seriously and accidently burned last Friday is reported improving. Article - Dr. T. A. Pope has sold his interest in the Milam Hospital to Dr. E. S. Ferguson Article - Dr. D. C. Jones, an up-to-date physician was, previous to the war, an assistant surgeon in the regular U.S. Army and during the war, he was a member of the medical staff in the armies of Virginia and Tennessee of the Confederate States. He is an old citizen of Milam county, by early residence and marriage. [lengthy article] Fire - The home of S. W. Wybrant, on north Depot street, occupied by Elder J. W. Haywood, pastor of the Christian church was burned to the ground last Monday afternoon. The fire originated from a defective flue. All of his years of study and laboriously wirtten manuscripts were burned. [lengthy article] Article - Cameron has a telephone exchange [lengthy article] Death - Poem dedicated to J. P. Atkeisson of Galveston in loving memory of his mother [no name given] who died Friday, Jan. 14, 1898. Death - Mrs. Berta Ward, wife of F. E. Ward died at the family hone in this city on Saturday last. Burial was in the old cemetery at 4 p.m. that afternoon. She was the sister of Mrs. E. Todd of near Maysfield. The Texas Broncho - Sat., 29 Jan 1898 - Vol. III, No. 4 Article - Commissioner Ruby is having a better sewerage system placed in the county closet in the courthouse yard. Newspaper - The Davilla Tribune has passed into its 4th year. Article - Meeting of the Bar of Milam County held in the District Court Room [lengthy article] Article - Jim Turney of Prairie Point, while clearing land last week had a serious accident when a tree fell upon him. Birth - William J. Bryan Poteet is in the city. Friends may call and pay their respects at the home of Mr. & Mrs. J. S. Poteet - well, there is nothing like a boy, you know, unless it is a girl.