Wilson County Texas Archives News.....Our Floresville Letter September 18, 1883
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San Antonio (TX) Light September 18, 1883
Our Floresville Letter
Prohibition Carried -- Schools Opened -- Socials and Dances the Order of the Day

     Floresville, September 13, 1883, -- According to the best information to be
obtained up to the present time from the election held in this county, on last
Saturday, prohibition was carried by a majority of 500 votes.  Only about 100
votes were polled against prohibition in the entire county.
     At last our long drouth is at an end, good rains having fallen here and
west and north of us.  We learn of only light rains south of here.
     We learn the fence cutting and pasture burning epidemic as reached this
county.
     All the schools opened here on the 3rd with an increased attendance.  Mrs.
Lou Warren having resigned her position as teacher of the intermediate
department, at the academy, the Trustees secured the services of a lady teacher
from San Antonio.  The free school will open on Monday, October 1, 1883.  Mrs.
Worsham's school has increased to such extent that she has been compelled to
employ an assistant in the person of Miss Jennie Abney.
     We are to have a camp meeting, to begin next week.  Rev. Mr. Manning will
be at the helm.
     Rev. Ditrel, and Rev. Dibbrel, Methodist ministers, will hold a protracted
meeting here the last of the month.
     Socials and dances are the order of the day with the young folks.  A dance
came off at the Thomas house, on Wednesday night, and another will follow at the
residence of Mr. Walter Polley, on Friday night.  While the old folks enjoy
religious services, the young ones enjoy basking in each other's smiles and the
merry dance.
     Two of our young attorneys had some unpleasant words, and in order to
settle the trouble brought into requisition two little pocket knives.  No damage
was done.
     Among the prominent events in social circles this week was the wedding of
Mr. B. F. Ballard, a prominent attorney, to Miss Lizzie Houston, both of this
city.  The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride's uncle, Mr. R. C.
Houston, on the Cibolo near Lavernia, on Wednesday morning.  They left for a
tour of the Eastern cities on the same day.  Your correspondent wishes them a
bright future.
     We notice with pleasure the enterprise our citizens display in opening up
the streets, grubbing the mesquite, repairing street crossings, etc.
     Business is dull and the outlook is not flattering on account of the
failure of farm products.
     Our mails from San Antonio have been coming very irregular lately, causing
much comment.
     The County Commissioners were in session Tuesday, when Mr. Giles, architect
of San Antonio, presented plans and specifications for the new court house for
Wilson county, to be built at Floresville, which plans were adopted by the
Commissioners.  The contract is to be let to the lowest bidder, bids to be
opened on October 12, 1883.
     There is a person in our city who has recently invented an instrument on
scientific principles that will attract gold or silver the distance of one-half
mile.  He hopes soon to be able to "draw" from long distances.  Your moneyed men
had best be on the alert or else some fine morning they will wake up to find
their wealth gone to Floresville to build railroads, telephones, churches, etc.
     Adios.


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