The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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See J. Sandford Smith for FIRE, LIFE and TORNADO Insurance, flexfa, Texas.
The Mexia Weekly Herald.
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MEXIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEP! EMBER 10, 1908.
NO 37
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Every day now we are receiving New Goods,—The results of
several weeks spent in New York and other Eastern Markets
by our buyers. We will soon be able to show you the largest
and best assorted stock of Merchandise ever shown in this
section. Our Millinery department is already filled with the
greatest asortment of Hats, Shapes, Trimmings, Veilings,
etc., we have ever shown.
We assure you if you will visit our store before you
will be convinced that it is to vou interest to trade
buy you
with us.
We want your business and know that it takes better mer=
mi*
chandise and lower prices to get it.
Wagner & Company
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COURT HOUSE NOTES. j Sandy King vs Mexia Light &
Groesbeck Journal. ! Water Co. judgment for plaintiff
marriage license. for $1.00.
Maude Griffith to Burrus E B Douglass et al vs H & T C
Thornton. I judgment for plaintiff for $75.00.
Audria Thornton to Joe Ham- VVess Alston vs II & T C R R
judgment for plaintiff
Grace Sterling to John Prewitt. against I & G N Ry Co for $140.-
Lillie Oneal to Herman Evans.! 30, and against H & T C Ry Co
Eula Hayes to Ernest Thomas. J f°r $8.60. __
Elnora Wirdlow to Yankee
Jackson i liquor dealer license.
Dora D Little to J MDrinkard. Judge Kimbell heard the ap-
Annie Thompson to George plications of Dave Johnson of
Parker. I Mexia and J H , Gibson of Groes-
Fleta Sparks to E A McLelland.
A SAD ACCIDENT.
EFFORT TO POISON FAMILY.
Only One "Best"
Joe Greshara Killed by Falling from a Arsenic Is
Horse.
the
Katie Godfrey to J Norris.
Jesse Fife to Willie Cochrum.
Mary Bowens to Frank Green.
Dora Winningham to S G
Cornelius.
Clyde Martin to Clyde Rhodes.
Edna Cook to W T Williams, jr.
LuJa Lucky to Harry Carter.
Laura Tomlin to A Crenshaw.
I beck for liquor dealers license
last week, both being granted.
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A BURGLAR IN TOWN
his name is "bad cough." He
doesn't care for gold or silver but he
will steal your health away. If ho ap-
pears at your house arrest him at once
with Ballard's Horehound Syrup, it
i may mean consuuipt'on if you don't.
! A cure for all coughs, colds and chest
** .«.• pi ii . r<u i Tit troubles. Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 per
Mattie Stegall to Charley Jack-, bott]e For sale by Mexia Drug Co
son.
—"— Club Meeting-Tuesday Night.
COUNTY COURT-PLEAS OF GUILTY ^ Mens Industr;al
Frank, a Mexican, escaped c|uj) met re}rU|ar session Tues-
convict, one day in jail.
Arthur King, escaped convict,
one day in jail. , , , . 0 ., „
Robert Hogan, gaming, fine I A. Murphy to South Carolina
$10.00 investigate a rolling null pro-
Homer Watson, gaming, fine! position, and also to look into
$10.00. I some cotton mill matters while
Jim Keeling, assault, fined over there.
$5.00. Several propositions and in-
Bob Thetford, assault, fined quiries were received concern-
$1.00.
| ing different kinds of enterprises,
Will Mason, theft, fined $1.00. an(j aj| were taken under advise-
John Smith, gaming, fined' nf
0 00 in •
„ .... a A committee was appointed to
Sail* Mad,son. vagrancy, fine ^ , sma„ bonus t0 induce lhe|
Ed. a negro, igaming, fined | Barnum it I'ailey circus to
going
take
day night with a good attendance.
It was decided to send Mr. D.
to
Put in the Food for
Noon Meal.
I Groesbeck, September 4.—
Tuesday night about 10 oclock | Yesterday, at Ben-Hur, about
Joe Gresham was thrown fiom f0Urteen miles west of this place,
his horse in Groesbeck, and who|esale poisoning was at-
striking on the back of his head| temDted on the family of Alfred
McKenzie. At the house were
sustained a fracture of the skull.
He was taken home and medical
aid summoned, but the skill of
physicians was of no avail and
he died last night about 8 oclock.
Mr. Gresham was one of the
best known men in Limestone
county having served two terms
as sheriff and for several years
before that was chief deputy to
his father.
He leaves a wife and several
Mrs. McKenzie, threej'of her
husband's sisters and two chil-
dren. Shortly after the noon
meal they all became very sick
and Dr. Charles Smith was sent
for, who said the poisil was r.rse- I two years. Ho had no control over the
nic. The quick arrival of the action of the kidney secretions, was
physician no' doubt saved several
lives.
Mexia People Give Credit
Where Credit is Due.
People of Mexia who suffer with sick
j kidneys and bad backs want a kidney
! remedy that can be depended upon.
The best is Doan's Kidney Pills, a
! medicine made from pure roots and
herbs, and the only one that is backed
by cures in Mexia. Here's Mexia tes-
timony;
I Mrs.|Netta 'Evans, living on Com-
J mercejst., Mexia. Texas. says: "My
] little boy, seven years of age has been
itfflicted with weak kidneys for nearly
nervous at times and of a delicate con-
stitution. Learning of Doan's Kidney
, ! Pills I began giving them to the child
Deputy Sheriff T. E. Isobles, ! ,n strjct accordance with the directions
j together with Alfred and Bud j and after a week's use could sej a
' McKinzie, arrested Jerome Hall, H'reat change for the better in his con-
d.tion. Doan s Kidney Pills benefited
him in every way, and we consider
them a tine Medicine for such cases.
They can be procured at the Mexia
children to mourn his untimely
death, to whom a large circle of | j0jin Qrav anj will Bawson,
friends will extend sincere sym- ^hree negro cotton pickers from
pathy in their hour of great sor- MarHnf and brought them to
row- t Groesbeck and turned them over
The funeral occurred this after- te the authorities. Mr. Mc-
ternoon and the following from Kenzje jg a prominent farmer
Mexia attended: Judge W ! and is reCeiVing the eongratula-
White, Judge J W Kincheloe, S ^jons 0f hjg friends on his nar-
F Carroll. W B Kendrick, J M row escalie_
Tidwell, Dr J L Metcalf, Will
Notice To Subsribers.
As we are about to enter upon
a prosperous season we wish to
remind our subscribers that the
editor needs money. If you are
indebted to the paper please call
when in town and divide up
with us. We will endeavor to
do a little collecting this fall and
have a few premiums on hand
that we will give to parties pay-
ing up.
We have a limited number of
stereoscopes and views. As long
as they last we will give a scope
to each subsciber who pays as
much as one dollar on subscip-
tion, but only one scope to one
subscriber.
Some other premiums that you
should ask about.
Don't forget us when you sell
your cotton.
Drug Co."
For sale by all dealers. Price
Foster-Milburn Buffalo, New
«ole agents for the United States.
A PAYING INVESTMENT.
Mr. John White, of 38 Highland Ave.
Houlton, Maine, says: "Have been
York trou','ed a cough every winter and
spring. Last winter I tried many ad-
50c
Remember
take no other.
the name-
-Doaiis—and vert'se(^ remedies, but the cough con-
Dominy, II Sorensen, and E II
Richardson, representing the
Knights of Pythias lodge, and
W P Beene.
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IT DOES IT.
The remedy that cured you and your
father of chills twenty years ago is
sure good enough to cure you and your
kids at the present time. Cheatman's
| chill tonic did it and will still do it. Its
guaranteed.
a negro,
$10.00.
Ed Johnson,
$10.00.
come
here instead of going ta Corsi-
cana. It will take a small
amount to secure the circus and
it will nay to get it for it will
otherwise. 3
j tinued until I bough a 50c bottle of Dr.
! Kings New Discovery; before that was
I half gone the cough was all gone. This
| The Mexia District Farmers winter the same happy result followed
MAUDE TYNER, SI. LOUIS. MO X_TIlion will have a called meeting a few doses once more banished the
So manny women suffer from Con- Saturday afternoon at 2 annual cough. I am now convinced
stipii ion and stomach trouble that thev i o'clock It the warehouse jn that Dr. King's New Discovery is the
should pay attention to the statement) . .. , , best of all cough and lung remedies."
of Miss Maude Tyner, S: 8 McLaren "e*'a. All members are Ulgeu gojfjunder guarantee at Mexia Drug
avc., St. Louis Mo. She suffered in j to attend. J. W . Nash, presi- q0 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
that wav manv years, but finally took dent. T . r, r -f - .
Dr. CalwelP. Syrup Pepsin and was J" A" Blirch' -Tr- Was found
permanently cured. She re, commends T0 BE HAt'p^ guilty in the county court this
it to American womankind. She con-, you must have good health. You week of abandoning his wife and
siders it the best laxative and tonic ob- can't have good health if your liver is an(j fine{} $100. This isthe
tainable. It will do all that is claimed: | not doing its duty-slow but sure pois- gecond . hj ar he h b
on all the time under . . J
Ballard's Herbine Convicted of this offense.
healthly
and if you want to try it before you
buy send your name and address for a
. free sample bottle to pepsin Syrup Co.
oning is going
circumstances,
makes a perfectly
For Sale.
150 acres black sandy soil b; Caldwell Bldg.. Monticello, 111. It keep ; the stomach and bowels right
miles northeast of Mexia; $1200 | js sold bv Parlor Drug Store at 50c and and acts as a tonic for the entire sys-
—$300 cash, balance terms. $i a bottle.
Mrs. Mahalah Dillard,
150 Mays Ave. Dallas, Tex. Capt W. D. Lanning left Wed-
- - ! nesday afternoon for Dallas and
tem. For sale by Mexia Drug Co.
gaming
CIVIL DOCKET
H D Adams vs Chas Edwards,
verdict for defendant.
from there he will go to
em Texas to buy cotton.
Cotton was up today
readily for 9 cents.
selling
HAS TO BE CITED.
"Possibly there is something cn
earth that is surerer and quicker cura
for cuts, 1 burns, aches, pains ^nd
A he Cental will run anotheJ j brui*e8' than.Hunt's Lightning Oil. If
TT , , 80,1 would like to be cited. For 20
cheap excursion to Houston and I yoars I have been unable to find any
Galveston next Saturday. Usual thing better|mvself."
fare and limit. i H. H, Ward, Rayville, L*.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1908, newspaper, September 10, 1908; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290182/m1/1/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.