The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 46, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 20, 1910 Page: 3 of 4
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Stott, hurled the gtale knob, which
*»* to enable hi* to earn a comfort-
xjrsJi x&
ti«n of the letter boxes. Hie band
darted to hie hip pocket and a bullet
aanc through the money-order window
before the mocking laugh had died on
McAdoo’* Upe.
McAdoo fell, hie blood dyeing the
Bear Creek mall sack; women
•creamed, and the young lady clerk of
the general merchandise atom tainted.
Htotu, with the face of a madman,
dashed through the dased crowd and
sprang an his horse. He arrived
breathless at his tar-paper house and
sat down to wait tor the sheriff.
The sheriff's face was grave as he
handcuffed Stotts to the pommel of
Stotts' own saddle and rode abend
leading bis horse. The sheriff said
that, owing to the enormity of his of-
fense, and to the fact that It was sock
an open-and-shut case, Stotts would
be tried by a Jury of his peers be-
fore the Justice of the peace.
Stotts did not protest It made no
difference to him whether be was sen-
tenced by a Judge or a Justice of the
peace, though he did wonder vaguely
which one of the rival lumber yards
would get the contract for betiding
bla gallows, and which oae of hie
rrienda would Jerk the rope.
The night In the calaboose passed
slowly—the longest he had evar
known. No one came near him; so
sagebrush, gated at bis Inflamed
thee th his tScent mirror, and
thought, for something like the thou-
sandth time, what a tine long neck he
had by which to hang. Sandwiched
In between the epithets of opprobrium
which he wee bestowing liberally up
on Mr. McAdoo were disjointed sen-
tences from which one might have
gathered that “the psychological mo-
ment" In his Ilfs arrived.
TB kill him, by ding!'’ said Stotts
through Jits shut teeth. “The mangy
son of a’sheep herder! I've told him
once and I’ve told him twice, and tf
he does it once more, I’ll puncture
him. I’d rather be hung for killin'
McAdoo than any man In the Basin."
McAdoo, the chronic o Bice bolder In
the town on the edge of which Stotts
had taken up his homestead, had
thwarted, antagonised, and enraged
him from the beginning. Aa mayor.
McAdoo had ordered Stotts arrested
for allowing Mts cows to browse In the
main streets. Stotts went to Jell
rather than pay hta fine, saying be
needed a rest, anyhow. As constable.
McAdoo put Stott's dogs In the pound
and enforced the two-dotlar dog tag.
As water commissioner, he shat off
Stott's water supply, saying that
Denison, Tttai
E. B. BIRCH
PHYSICIAN
OfBc* at Hanna A Son’s Di
btops; reeideoc* No. 600
Chestnut street. Telepbn
FIRST STATE BANK
with “Babes la the Wood" second and
“Dick Whittington" third. U the Lon-
don and suburban pantomimes are
takes alone Cinderella'' will again be
11 ret. while “Bebee la the Wood" and
Aladdin' tie for second plana, la
l.ondoa and the prwvtncee “CindersHe"
hes been ehoeea 14 times. “Bebee to
the Wood" it thane end “Dick WkM
flngtoa" tea thaea.
Looking bark over the Iasi It
years wa find that the meat popular
subjects have bees ''Cinderella.'
"Aladdin." "Dlch Whittington." "Boh
Inuon Crusoe.* end 'Bebee la the
Wood." la the order given.
J. T. SUGGS
Attorney it U* and
Notary Pubbr
ini? about $1,000, fully insured Our foreign commerce has J
......Judge A. B. Norton, of Dal- grealy increased and we are pell-1
las, one of the best known repub- mg a tremendous amount of stuff
lican politicians in Texas, was abroad for a less price than we
stumping Indiana and Ohio for sell to our own people at home.
Blaine and Logan. Sewing machines, typewriters,
Mttlt Sftries tf itsisss shoes and even food stuffs ex-
ported from America are sold in
t tofift» .om England, France ami Germany
In 1880 to \m this at, m..n- ,K c<n ^ ^ ht
tnmed U* crack militat, orpum- „ UojKd 8ute<
gations. The Denison Artillery s=====
Company was one. Major L. L. ^
Special to The Dallas News.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 14.—The
----’------J was to-
company. In the early spring day in receipt of several amend-
the company proceeded to the menta to schedules of fire com pa-
|*k , 1 ■ 1 , St* Biot f Inn n vnu ilin wnM Ja a <w
Pawpaw? heights, overlooking
Red river, for target practice. ^
The occasion was always marked amendment provides that policies
t)TAT0tS,|| onions
in r tit! t M l
WKKK XXmXG. JCNS 21. 1884.
Thursday night Joseph Lavne,
one of our pioneers, died at his
home near this city. He was re-
siding here when the towu was
laid out, owning all the land west
of Forest Park, and north of the officer of the Confederate *»Uo«u x ri> J
old gas house. Mr. R. S. Stevens was in command of the artillery state Fire Rating Board
purchased a large slice of this
land a portion of which was taken. —, —..— .-------- — —
into the corporation and the re- Pawpaw heights, overlooking ®,es- fi*es u‘e key rate* in
mainder was platted bv Mr. Layne Red river, for target practice, detrimental gj* while s'* £Lnd
as an addition to the city...... t * he occasion was always marked amendment provides that policies
Judge J. M. Cook, justice of the j by immense crowds, sometimes must be paid for in full by the 16th
peace, removed his office from a* many as 2,000 people swarming of the month following their issu-
over the Grand Southern to a the surrounding hills. A point ®^,:hth“t “ 1??1fyJ^ed,?li#
more airv and tuiy room over *as selected, usually a sandbar,,^ 15th o{ March, otherwise the
Cutter’s saloon—Bailey A How- as the object to fire at, and there p^y is nun and void. These
ard, druggists, were having their was some fine shooting. The, provisions become part of the
you into buying vegetables here.
When you see theta you’ll know
at a glat>«e that they are just what
jron want. If you lived right on
the farm you coaHo’t get any
fresher nr better vegetable# than
ours. Try some today and you'll
want more tomorrow. They taste
as good ss they look. That is May-
ing a whole lot. *
PAT MULLEN’!,.
421 N. Houston Ave.—Both
Phone 213.
JOHN HOLDEN
BLACKSHTTHING
Horae Shoeing a specialty
General repairing
Shop 204 W. Chestnut St.
rabbit-hole. Bverybodjr took a keen
Interest In the mail of everybody else,
and It wms not considered poor taete
to speculate, and comment freely, up-
on the contents and appearance of
each other's letter*, or to erase one’s
neck to look Into one's neighbor's
mall-box.
When Stotts received a postal card
urging him to aead ten cents and
team bow to raise mushrooms la bis
cellar. It was the occasion of some
merriment—chiefly because Stotts bad
no cellar. The next mall brought a
notification of the shipment, accord
.eg to request, of a six-gallon bottle
■f catarrh cure—express chargee.
51-25. The outside of the envelope
. as decorated with the wood cut of a
vulgar person snorting steam like a
•Siegfried dragon. StotU was dls
-inctly annoyed and refused to receive
-he six gallon bottle.
When McAdoo opened the office the
aext morning nt seven o'clock 8totU
was watting for him.
“If you put any more of those
. usaed things In my box.” said StotU.
-baking with excitement, “there'll be
trouble."
“What thing*?” Inquired McAdoo.
noocently.
StotU gave him one lurid look and
turned on bis heeL Tbat night ~be
received a trams and color***
worsteds to enable him to eern pin
money in hie home, also a voluminous
pamphlet and a printed slip for him
to All out describing more fully than
he had In his letter the symptoms of
the paluful disease which afllcted
him.
StotU hurled the embroidery frame
and the pamphlet through the general-
lellvery window at McAdoo's head.
I he veins standing out on hU forehead
with the effort be made to control
himself.
“M — M — McAdoo,
!. Kmr H. O. Homs
KNAUR A HOWE
We Carry the Large;!
W. J. MATHI8
PICTURE FRAMES
Lire is a Brew af rear twa.
The one investment of a file-
time to make is in a “Home of
Your Own." Your savings thus
spent will bring happiness to
yourself and family, why not do
it? Yon can. Our Easy Pay-
ment Plan will enable you. We
have property for sale in all parts
of the city that are real bargains.
If interested see us at once. We
also lend money on real estate at
the lowest rates.
Frans Kohfeldt
122 W. Main Street.
Both Phones 201
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Wh#n Stotts Started for Hia Mall Ha
Oilad HU Own.
he real tied that hU disgrace was deep
indeed He prayed that they would
try, sentence, and hang him all In one
day. His prayer*, be thought grimly,
had a fair chance of being answered,
as tbey did things quick and thorough-
ly In the Basin.
At ten the next morning, the sheriff
led him. handcuffed—an unnecessary
Indignity StotU thought wearily—Into
the cramped quarter* occupied by the
Justice of the peace, who was aleo th*
local real estate and Insurance agent
Peace, a new attorney In town, read
the warrant aloud, but StotU buried
hU head In hi* hand* and did not
listen; he was wondering tf the
young lady clerk would take a holiday
and come to see him hung. He thought
bitterly that probably the public
in Denison. We have
many beautiful designs to
select from. A large and
assorted stock of pictures
suitable for framing. Make
your home more attract-
TIM MURPHY
Proprietor
that score. The proximity of the
risk is to an iuflamable industry
or store house is also an import-
ant consideration. Town councils
and owners of property may re-
duce their rates. Austin will
soon have a building ordinance, a
fire marshal and more paid fire-
men. Its rates will come down
11c. It is understood that the
council here will soon put on
about a dozen paid firemen be-
cause they were needed, and inci-
dentally it will lower the insur-
ance rates. At present only the
drivers of the trucks are paid.
The key rates of several Texas
towns have been furnished to the
Fire Rating Board and they are
as follows: Beaumont 31c, Dal-
las 33c, Oak Cliff 51c, Fort Worth
31c, Texarkana 63c, Wichita Falls
64c and Amarillo 80c. Those for
Galveston, Houston, San Antonio,!
Waco and Austin have not been
furnished as yet.
Undertakers •
BIO Mam •«.
Well Appointed
Fred Sherburne
SHOE REPAIRING
Good work by workmen
who know their business.
Don't throw away your
old shoes.
123 W. Main Street.
Lemonade and refreshment
booths were opened to the public,
but the greatest point of interest
were the fish fries and the Bruns-
wick stew booths.
For a period of about three
years in the spring the artillery
practice was carried on a! the
river heights. It was a great
place for flirting and the young
maids and men used to hie there
for that purpose. One or two
pulpit orators inveighed against
the 8unday desecration, but it
never diminished the size of the
crowd.
The Artillery Company was at
last disbanded and the guns re-
turned to the State capital, and
that was the end of the hegira to
the Red river heights. The lead-
ers of the movement are all dead,
but there are many yet in Denison
who will recall with pleasure the
sunny days on Red river heights.
Capt. B. S. Osborn, Secretary
of the Arctic Club of America, has
a poor opinion of Robert E. Peary,
who claims to have reached the
North Pole. In a letter written
to the subcommittee of the House
Naval Committee approving the
latter’s action in voting down the
proposition to make Peary a Rear
Admiral, Capt. Osborn says:
“The action of the subcommit-
tee on Naval Affairs in the matter
of Civil Engineer Robert E. Perry
—not Peary—for that is an as-
FREE BOOK
Distinctive
Funeral Service
stuttered.
Tm goin' to k—k—kill you If you
don't q—q—quit makin' a fool of me!"
McAdoo smiled at him tolerantly.
The news of Stott*' singular mall
had spread to such an extent that peo-
ple began to drive In from the country
to see what he would draw. But there
was no humot In the situation to
Stotts, who had no humor In hia com-
position. At each reference to “Good
old Ur. Ray” he exploded like a bunch
of firecrackers. He brooded over hi*
□tail by day and dreamt of it by night,
and still sample meat-choppers, liver-
pads. and letters from professor* anx-
ious to teach him, by mail, to alng.
filled his box. His name been
forged to a letter to a matrimonial
\gency, and a lady who was employed
n a hotel at Billings, Mont., threat-
-•ned to come down and Inspect
—“obj. mat.”
At last, when StotU suited for bis
mall, he oiled his gun. His letter box
was fuU, as usual, and so was the
post office, the crowd pushing eagerly
Shields & Short
425 W. Main St.
a crowd, he wash excited, the gun
had not been usbed In any manner-
shape-or-form for some years. G'nel-
men. be done hish best. What more,"
demanded Hob be, wiping his stream-
ing eyes, “what more can any man
do than hish beet?"
StotU, writhing In his chair, could
stand It no tonger. He had listened
dazed at first; sow he sprang to hia
feet, his eyes and face flaming, and.
waving hia handcuffed hands, be
shouted: “Stop him! Hang me If you
want to—I don’t mind that; but dost
torture me first!"
The sheriff pushed StotU Into hia
seat
“Do you find the prisoner guilty or
not guilty?" askod the Judge solemnly
of the Jury.
“Guilty.” replied the foreman, rising
after a brief consultation. "W* recom-
mend that a fine of tlfi be Imposed
upon Samuel StotU for falling to kill
Bill McAdoo at seven paces, aa
charged In th* warrant. Such shootln’
la a disgrace to Wyoming.”
And. although 8amuel StotU had no
more sens* of humor than a chip-
munk. he realised, from th* roar which
went up. that he had been th* victim
of a practical Joke, and be cheerfully
paid th* fin* of 115 for hia bad marks-
tnanshlp.
319 W.Main St
A little down on a big bill.
Start right. Let SCVTT ft
JENNIN6S furnish your
home. It’s money in your
pocket. Storage and pack-
ing in connection. Phones 5.
307 W. Main 8t.
were white, 927 ; colored, 230; to-
tal, 1,157. Average daily attend-
ance 786. There were about 60
pupils assigned to each teacher
—decidedly too many. Miss Walk-
er was in charge of the 1st and
2d grades, Miss Venable the 3d,
Mrs. Maleom and Miss Johnson
the 4tb, Mrs. Brown the 5th, Miss
Sibley the 6tb, Miss Sims the 7tb,
Miss Eppetein the 8th, and Miss
Dafian and Mias Agness Frizzell
the 9th......Dr. J. C. Feild and
his estimable wife celebrated their
tin wedding Wednesday. The list
of guests was a long one includ-
ing nearly every one of the old
pioneers, and many others. The
bride and groom were as gay and
light-hearted as on the memora-
ble occasion just ten years prev-
ious. The presents were numer-
ous. The supper was in harmony
with that true spirit of hospitality
that was manifest throughout the
Ed Perry re-
charged that this organization will
be allied with one side or the
other in the rumored local option
campaign, and
Whereas, The By Laws of the
Live Wires expressly forbid any
such alliance, and
Whereas, It is the purpose and
object of the Live Wires to work
only towards the civic improve"
ment of Denison, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the charges be
publicly denied and a copy of this
resolution be spread on the min-
utes and copies he furnished the
press of the city.
forward to Inspect the contonU of the
former.
With a smile which in Itself would
have been sufficient provocation for
murder, McAdoo handed out a box, a
bottle, and several one-cent letter*.
The box contained a glass ball, not
unlike a glass doorknob, and a note
from a fortune teller in Chicago, apol-
ogizing for the delay In sending same,
A. E. Pellerin
JEWELER
Watch repairing. All
kinds of fine work a
specialty. Carries fine
line of jewelry. Can save
you money on watches.
We have just received a ship-
ment of seeds from
and containing a request for a dollar
for th* Instructions which would en-
able Stotts to tell fortune* by means
of the glass globe and earn a com
fortabie income for himself and fam-
ily-
Stotts had no family, but the young
woman clerk In the general merchan-
dise store, standing at hia elbow at
the time, had an attraction for Stotts
which always took him through th*
dreaa-gooda department on his way to
he groceries.
VON QUINN
DmmonUe, Watches and
Jewelry Bought and SaJd
209 W.Main8t
The statement
Fro aa Forest to Yard
Every atop of the way from the tall tree to the boarding or
flooring of the Smallest dimensions receives vigilant care before it
gets into the hands of our customers. The tree is all right in the first
place, the sawing and planing in the second place, and drying or
‘arenoning” in the third, and the price and promptness of dehvery
joyful occasion
fused an offer of $40,000 for his
place east of town. B, F. Clark,
Mo. Pa. cashier, refused $5,000
for 132 acres near the city limits,
that two years previous cost him
Prohibition was
W Delivered at your
I m doors. A rebate
given when tickets
JL are bought.
Denison Crystal Ice Co.
Money does not always buy
beauty in a home. It is
largely influenced by the in-
terior decoration. Home re-
quires harmony—a blending
with the decorations, the
background, and the furnish-
ings, Our stock of artistic
wall papers, art frieses, bor-
ders and new decorations
arables you to decorate your
home beautifully artistic andly
at a very moderate cost.
only $2,000
defeated at an election in Whites-
boro—at this date the Sherman
Democrat was intensely anti-pro-
hibition, and commended Dr.
Graves of Whitesboro, candidate
for the legislature, for bis stand in
opposition to sumptuary laws
"which are distinctly autocratic
in tendency, and are only used by
demagogues as the best stepping
stones to despotism”...... The
"White Elephant” saloon in
Sherman was destroyed by fire
•bout 2 o’clock Saturday morn-
ing. Loss in stock, $4,000; in-
ter and Arctic fur trader And
story-teller, who for nearly a (quar-
ter of a century has been living off
the people and sailing under a
naval rank to which he has no
legal right, and for which be
should have been severely repri-
manded by the Navy Department
A full line of
New Boggles and Harness,
long ago/’_ i
BAHCAINS.
Ladl •’ Watch**, 88 to HIS.
c*ntl*m*n’s Gold Watch**,
•0 to 880, at O’MALEY’S,
180 —In St. _
Many are at work preparing
spring gardens. What is needed
moat for the soil is a soaking
rain.
COMING IN
Our Spring Suitings. Call and see the new styles
and let us take your order. We always please.
Mowers,
Walfifon Drug Stun
Where Medicine
Is Purity.
A. B. JOHNSON, Merchant Tailor
228 W. Main Street
JEWELER
PATENTS
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The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 46, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 20, 1910, newspaper, February 20, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth570890/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.