Rusk County Texas Archives News.....Overton, April 3, 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gina Heffernan http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006585 January 1, 2015, 6:57 pm The Henderson Times April 3, 1884: Overton ED. TIMES: -- I am almost afraid to acknowledge that spring has come, but it really looks as if it is so, and you may expect the usual amount of spring poetry. If the usual number of candidates announce through the papers, I expect to get a rest, as you will not have any room for my communications. I will, however, venture to give you a few items. Mr. John A. Beall has purchased the brick store house of Mr. J. O. Wood. Messrs. Jeff Wheelis and Johnny Goforth have opened a new saloon in the house belonging to A. M. Saunders. Yesterday was Saturday, and there was the usual amount of poison imbibed, and of course some cussedness displayed. Some of the boys are complaining of having a new kind of chills and fever, or rather, it is fever and chills, as the fever is said to come first and last some 10 or 12 hours, then the chill comes on with a terrible headache. The doctors have not been able to make a diagnosis of any of the cases yet, as they occur mostly at night. It is my opinion that the best remedy for it would be a dose of Local Option, taken regularly, say for about 12 months. Let us try it and see how it will operate. It has been reported, for some time the fruit was pretty much all killed. I have been examining, and I find it not so, so far as I have examined. I should like very much if your readers would make examination all over the country and report the same as early as possible, as it is the intention of some parties here to ship extensively the coming summer, and it will take little time to make arrangements about shipping. This fruit business, if properly looked after, will bring into our county several thousand dollars that we have heretofore neglected to avail ourselves of. Please stir the people up on it, and you will be doing them valuable service. It is about settled that the narrow gauge road will be built from Tyler to Henderson, and will come by Overton. It will cross the I. & G. N., in the northern part of town near the Baptist church, in which case the passenger depot will be moved up to the crossing. The business of the town is fast working up in that direction. I understand that the railroad company have doubled the price of their unsold lots in that portion of town. The hands on the H. & O., road have commenced putting down iron again, and are to continue until they get all the road laid with good iron. Gorley will then be ready to kill the cow, if he can catch one and tie her on the track. The H. & O., train is doing much of late-- she goes through and only has to stop twice to rest; this beats walking mighty bad. The steel gang on the main line have passed Overton some three miles, and will get to Kilgore by the 15th of April, and to Longview by the 15th of May. More anon. ARKANSAW. Additional Comments: "Tolerant in All Things, Neutral in Nothing" Milner, R. T., editor. The Henderson Times. (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. [14], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1884, Newspaper, April 3, 1884; (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235282/ : accessed January 01, 2015), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/rusk/newspapers/overton18840403.txt File size: 3.8 Kb