The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1902 Page: 7 of 8
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TEMENT OF FIRE DE-
'ARTMENT SUBMITTED
TO CITY COUNCIL.
;I8 IS RECORD FOR PAST l".VO
-ENTITI.ES M'KINSKV TO
BETTER INSURANCE RATES
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'he fire department submitted
tificent report Tuesday to
city council, giving much fo-
rmation that is of interest to
r readers.
A perusal of it cannot fail to
ouse the pride of every loyal
cKinney citizen in our splendid
department. The gallant
composing its membershi p
fe doing an unselfish labor of
ive,the value of which is obvious
dollars and cents, to say noth-
of the security felt from dan-
life and property by virtue
f their efficient organisation. It
las fitting, that the honorable
,tjy council return them its vote
thanks. Also to determine to
dlow up the suggestion to try
i better insurance rates for
[cKinney. The report follows
1% full:
,kTo the City Council of McKin-
ey. We beg to submit for your
kformation and guidance the
F allowing which we have compiled
ir a report. This is in the form
[If question and reply:
j What is fire area? 20 acres,
iJ What are mercantile buildings
omposed of? Brick and iron.
What is height of buildings?
Vo stories.
Are shingle or wooden roofs
ermitted? No.
Dwellings of what principally
Composed ? W ood.
t What is usual height? lis
lories.
Is there any fire works ordi-
nance? Yes.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Number of steam fire engines.
[3ne.
Number of chemical engines on
vheels. One.
Number of extinguishers, band,
l^our.
Number of hook and ladder
'rucks. One.
'' Number of hose carriages. Two
Number of supply wagons. One
Quantity of rubber hose in good
condition. tJOO feet.
Quantity of rubber hose in poor
' condition. 500 feet.
Quantity' of cotton hose rubber
ined in good condition. 500 feet.
Quantity of cotton hose in poor
condition. 500 feet.
Number of horses
Citation by Publication
in
use.
^even.
Total membership in depart -
nent. 45.
Number of members paid for
"ull time. 2.
Number of members paid for
oart time. 1.
Number of volunteers. 45.
System of fire falarm. Bell.
Have you electric fire alarm?
Are considering.
Total number of fires from May
20. 29 alarms, 23 fires.
Value of buildings and contents
in risk at fires. $547,200.
Total property loss $1500.00.
I Total premiums paid in Mc-
Kinney i estimated by insurance
agents at from $35,000.00 to $40,-
000.00.
We beg to remind you that dur-
ing the year 1900 we had also a
g< od showing. We have paid in
the last two years insurance prem-
iun s to amount to $80,000.00.
Our losses by fire have not been
over $2,500.00. In each year very
aluable property has been at risk
uring the fires. We believe we
entitled to better insurance
p, askine pardon for making
e suggestion, submit that it
ould be well to take the matter
p with the underwriters.
And now thanking the city
nctl for its many courtesies on
f of the department, we are
Wm,
M. Abernatht,
IjErt*. jk . Chief.
W. D. Howell,
Ass't. Chief/'
Maro
THE STATE OF TEXAS. To
the Sheriff or any Constable of
Collin county—(Jreeting.
You are hereby commanded to
summon A. L. Jones by making
publication of this citation once
in each week for four consecutive
weeks previous to the return day
hereof, in some newspaper pub-
lished in your county, if there be
a newspaper published therein,
but if not, then in any newspaper
Sublished in the 40th Judicial
district, but if there be no news-
paper published in said Judicial
district, then in a newspaper pub-
lished in the Judicial District
nearest to said 40th Judicial Dis-
trict, to appear at the next regu-
lar term of the District Court of
Collin county, to be held at the
court house thereof, in McKin-
ney on the 3rd Monday in March,
A. D., 1902, the same being
the 17th day of March A. D. 1902,
then and there to answer a peti-
tion filed in said court on the 17th
day of January, A. D., 1902, in a
suit numbered on the docket of
said court No. 5392, wherein Nan-
nie A. Jones is plaintiff and A. L.
Jones is defendant, and the cause
of action being alleged as follows:
That on or about the 17th day
of February, 1892, plaintiff and
defendant were legally married in
Collin county, Texas, and lived
together as husband and wife un-
til on or about the 11th day of
April, £898, at which time the de-
fendant without cause or provo-
cation abandoned this plaintiff
with the intention of not living
with plaintiff as her husband any
more. Plaintiff prays that the
defendant be cited to appear and
answer herein and on final hear-
ing she have judgment dissolving
the bonds of matrimony existing
between plaintiff and defendant
for the care and custody of the
children of said marriage and for
general and special relief.
Herein fail not, but have before
said court on said first day of the
next term thereof, this writ, with
your return thereon, showing how j kaVe
you have executed the same.
Witness my hand and official
*eal at rr.v office ic McKinney.! tinually
JOHN Y. BOWEN WRITES.
Pyron, Tex , Jan. 16.—Christ-
mas has passed and the new year
is with us. The new year finds
Scurry county in good shape fi-
nancially and otherwise. The
ex-Collin county people here en-
joyed Christmas very much.
Widow Bo wen served a nice tur-
key dinner. Among those pres-
ent were, John Patterson, Dick
Patterson and family and Lee
Patterson and family
On new Tears day Mrs. Wm.
Kimzey gave a turkey dinner
which we attended.
Texas, this
A.IX 1902.
21st day of January,
Clerk District
Texas.
[seal]
W. T. Cox,
Court Collin Co.
2-13
Monroe H. Pearce
We have a fine eight months
school partly supported by a >pe-
cial tax of 20 cts on the hundred
dollars. Scurry county has .l"7,-
712 acres of individual school
land in Hockley county which
leases at 5 cents per acre bringing
in $885.60 annually. It can be
sold at $1.50 per acre but the
county is opposed to selling it at
any reasonable price. Stock here
is doing nicely. The range east
of us from Fisher to Stevens
county has been ruined by grass
hoppers.
We hear a great deal about dry
weather in Old Collin, how the
people there - are hauling water
from the old familliar holes in
Pilot, Sister Grove and East
Fork beds. We followed that
business at intervals for 39 years.
We often say out here we wish
Collin people had some of our
surplus water which gees to waste
when our tanks run over. While
John Patterson was getting his
windmill fixed, I furnished water
for him to water 85 steers and
never missed it. It would have
he«n the same if he had had 1000.
milk trcughs through
which fresh cold water runs con-
and is run into the
bouses through pipes. You Col-
lin county people would call this
a luxury.
I see that politics are looming
up in old Collin. Some of the
old war horses are pulling hard
for the pie counter which have
been in the harness almost ever
since the flood. God bless these
patriotic workers. They must
see that the country don't go
down.
It is real amusing to some of
us to watch the acerobatic per-
formance of some of our demo-
cratic neighbors and friends. We
remember the old times in Collin,
especially do we remember the
time when Joe Bailey spoke at
ambitious Copeville. When he was taunted
well quali- ^he statement that democrats
_.r J He is studying killed free silver eleven times in
the office of Abernathy & s«d tlmt .f the demo-
crats ever got the president and
both houses of congress and did
not give us free silver at the ratio
of lti to 1 and a tariff on a reve-
nue basi-, he would forever hang
his head in shame and spurn a
a democratic nomination. Now
our Senator Bailey comes out and
favors Gorman of Maryland for
president. Now we all know that
Gorman is a gold bug,a high pro-
tectionist and in fact a second
class republican. Those who fav-
ored government ownership were
vilified in the past. How then
can the government construct and
own the isthmian canal? Why
not turn it over to the trusts?
which we fear will be done and
that by democrats who pose as the
enemies of trusts. So much for
politics.
Pyron is looming up. A. D.
Lane of Collin county is conduct-
ing a general merchandise business
here and Dr. M. E. Campbell jv
drug store. Both doing a good
business.
m
1Iff
H ow Truly the
Fame of Lydia E.
V egejable
STANDS BETWEEN MeKIN-
NEY AND FREE CITY
DELIVERY.
lydla Em
It will entirely cure the worst
rian troubles, Inflammation and Ul
of the Womb, and consequent SpL
adapted to the Change of Life.
rustifies Her Orig-
ha|ure.
'able Compound.
female Complaints, all Ova- *
- .Falling and Displacement
W1akness, and is peculiarly
other requibements
plied with—those not num-
bering subject to
i£0
It has cured more cases of Backache aiid Leucorrhoea than any
h
of development, and checks any
We take pleasure in announcing
to our readers the candidacy of
Monroe H. Pearce, of this city,
for the office of Justice of the
Peace precinct No. 1, subject to
the action of the democratic par- j
ty. Mr. Pearce, who is the son
of A. B. Pearce, was born and,
reared in the Whites Grove com-
munity. He is 23 years old, but
a young man who has well im-
proved his time and opportunities.
He is studious, moral,
and hit friends claim
fied for the place.
law in
Beverly and betides needing the
office for its salary he desires it
for the experience and promotion
it will afford him in his chosen
profession of law. Consider hi*
claims.
JUSTICE COURT.
The examining trial of Will
Owens, alias Dynamite Hays, was
held before Esq. Terrell last
Tuesday and resulted n his be-
ing held in a $300 bond which he
failed to make and was remanded
to jail.
Owens is charged with theft of
$29.50 from frotn Henry C. Hug-
gins while the latter was asleep in
a car near the McKinney depot.
The case of the State vs Pink
Strickland, charged with assault,
resulted in a conviction and the
defendant was fined $25.
Mrs. Ida Lasater and little
daughter, Willie, and Mrs. Dr.
Young went to McKinney yester-
day for a week's visit with Mrs.
C. M. Anderson. — Greenville
Herald.
Mrs. John Younger accompan-
ied Miss Celestine Saigling went
to Piano Monday for a few days
visit. Little Miss Ona Sims went
with her.
Otie Buck left for Oklahoma
City Tuesday after a weeks
visit to home folks. He has ao-
cepte} a portion 'with Lion'#
Store there for the year.
We live on the divide between
the Brazos and the Colorado riv-
ers, can travel eighteen miles up
or down the divide and not be
ont of sight of some Collin coun-
ty man's home. We are anxious
for a cotton gin at our town. We
have a reel and windmill which
will furnish water for a family
and all the stock and enough to
run a 40 horse power engine. The
nearest gin is eighteen miles
other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in sue!
cases. It dissolves and expels turn! }>|£rom the TJferus in an early stage
y teluMacy to cancerous humors.
Weakness of the
itration, Head-
ache, General Debility quickly yields to it.
Womb troubles, causing pain, weight, and backache, instantly re-
lieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it
actsln harmony with the laws that govern the female system, and is as
harmless as water.
It quickly removes that Bearing-down Feeling, extreme lassi-
tude, «< lon*t care" and uwant-to-be-left-alonen feeling, excitability,
irritability, nervousness, Dizziness, Faintness, sleeplessness, flatulency,
melancholy Or the " blues," and backache. These are sure indications
of Female Weakness, or some derangement of the Uterus, which this
medicine always cures-
Kidney Complaints and Backache of either sex the Vegetable
Cknnpound always cures.
No other feraafte medicine in the world * as received such
widespread and unqualifled endorsement. > other medicine
has such a record of euros of femAle troubles.y,
Those women win refuse to aeeept areohiug else are re*
maided a hundred thousand times, for they, get what they want
Sold by Druggists everywhere. Refuse all substitutes.
er gin goes up near there it will
gin 4000 this coming season.
Pyron was named after Robert
Boyd Pyron who cauie from
North Mississippi eleven years
ago. He had a wife, two or three
children, two old ponies, some
h-ouud-. and a gun and fiddle.
He would play for the youngsters
at the dance. He went in the
stock business and now he counts
his cattle and acres by the thous-
and and is one of the best and
most obliging citizens in the coun-
ty. Many of the old settlers rec-
cofe&t Bud Prnett, son of Madam
Pruett of Clear Lake. Bud
Prue& is now worth, in land, cat-
tle, horse* and money $4-00,000.
His income is from fifty to seven-
ty-five thousand annually.
I was up at Dick Boone's some
time since. Dick, as everybody
knows, is a Collin county man.
He has one of the finest sections
of land in Scurry countv.
There is a Collin county col-
ony here: Mr. Stewart, Will
Roberson, John Stimpson, John
Crenshaw, Chas. and Bud IJar-
less, Bud Davie, Mr. Irwin. Jim
Crenshaw, Frank Taylor, Miles
Williams, A. C. Shotwell.
Truly,
John Y. Eowen.
FIFTY-NINE FILED MON-
DAY AND FIFTY-ONE
SATURDAY.
11
beginning made indicates this
tear will be record break-
er for mortgages.
Civil Service Examination.
The U. S. Civil Service Com-
mission will hold examinations at
several places in each state during
March and April, to secure young
men and women for the govern-
County Clerk Pat Moulden re-
ports chattle mortgages rolling in
at a rate greater than any previous
vear since he has been in office
and this is his fourth year.
Todate 498 have been filed since
Jan. 1st against 321 for the cor-
responding period last year. This
is an average of about 25 per day.
Yes-terday 57 were filed and Sat-
urday 51.
A Democrat reporter sccured the
following figures from the re-
cord for the past four years of
chattle mortgages filed:
1898.'. 4838
189 9 > 3688
190 0 .* 3448
190 1 3852
At this season of the year the
daily record of mortgages filed is
always greater than at any other
season, but as above stated they
About seventy-five Bouses jtir
remain un-numberexf.
This is now the only obstael*'
in the way of free city deliver*
for McKinney. This lmpediuwnjt
to a modern city convenience will
very likely be eliminated at oo«t?
as the owners of these ho e.&
would not allow a little matter
twenty-five or fifty cents expease^
which is the cost required fen-
numbering, to longer dehy
granting of the service [to the
tire city. No doubt the n<
is mainly due to oversight.
A city ordinance requires
numbering under a penalty ef
fine of any ameunt not ea
$25 to be imposed upon all
ing to comply therewith^
Alderman^Emerson ofttte strevfc~
committee says the conneS is*
ready to place| light* in] at ewsir
box as soon as location of saici
i boxes are designated.
Chairman Bass and lutf co-
workers of the street cob rusted
have abundantly cemplied wiSfe
the sidewalk and street number-
ing requirements. But sit!cwa£%:
construction is still being
up unabated.
Postmaster Smith says tb*T*
will be about[thirty-five boxes and
three city carriers.
A sixteen candle power incan-
descent light will be placed at
every box.
As soon as the bouse nnmbc-rffifg
is completed the postoffieei
or stands ready to come to
Kinney and recommsnd to
department at Washington
free city'delivery be granted i
List of Letters.
ment service. 9,889 persons s - are unusually heavy this year so
cured positions last year through
these examinatioas. Probably
10,000 appointments will be made
this year. All appointments are
for life and for most positions
only a common school eaucation
is required. Salaries at appoint-
ment vary from $660 to $1200 a
year with liberal promotions after
ward. Politics is not considered.
There is less competition in • the
southern states than in any other
parts of the country. This affords
a good opportunity for people be-
tween 16 and 45 years of age.
Those desiring places of this kind
can get full information about
them, free, by waiting to the
Columbian Correspondence Col-
lege, Washington. D. C. and ask-
ing for its Civil Seryice catalogue,
number three.
Arrival In New YorJt.
We note in Tuesdays News that
A. {}. Chandler ,and Joe Arm-
strong of this oity are registered
at the Broadway Central hotel in
Mew York CHy. These gentlemen
The Snyder gin turned are purchasing dry goods for their
oat over 2000 bales and if no oth- new store*
far.
Deaf Mute Boy.
Charles Brown, a deaf mute
boy, was soliciting assistance frpm
our citizens. He was trying
to get means to reach relatives at
Pecos City, Tex. Scarlet fever
was the cause of his affliction.
Remaining in the postofficw
McKinney, Tex., Jan. 23
which, if unclaimed in two
will be sent to the Dead Let iter
office at Washington, D. C-
ladiss,.
Brown Miss J A
Cafferd Miss Erama
Forrest Li Hie
Johnson Mrs O R
Jordan Mis* Annie
McMahan, Mrs J M.
Willis Mrs P M
gentlemen.
Ander-on J S
GrasMng Thomas
Lewis Dave
Lockmiller Joe
Moore C M
Luna J M
Reid Rube
Roberson Flavius
Shaffer J H
Wilson T V -
Persons calling for lettec* m
! above list please say •• Advertis-
ed." H. E. Smithy
Postmaster
Sold by
ft WEBB.
SEED OATS FOR SALE.
1 have about 1,000 busb. of
seed oats for sale at my fun
miles southwest of Wcsteml
will sell any amount desired a* <
per bushel. J. R. Dabujoue
Back Erom El Pfcso~
Paul Harris and Theo.
brough returned Monday
El Paso where they played
the Sherman Woodmen band
the midminter Carnival.
, *
Lost, Jan. 9, mixed woolen
sack coat No. 40, Indian be*&
Woodman pin on left lapel—heal
some letters and pipe witb
cut on it—bowcen Ardath
Verona. Suitable rei
R. Hilton or Demoorat
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George Straugban a
of Ardafii came in
and took Hie train for Dalits mm*
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1902, newspaper, January 23, 1902; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192104/m1/7/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.