The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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D. J. KlOFnTT
[in, good well, barn and poulti- * Fine young
J e‘8> ' orchard of abo- W b g' W *. berries etc
ilea northwest No. 124—7.° DRESSING,|(J (i()alh
in < ultivation, west of Pilot fRKJ MA8SAGiv„:,
pasture, two- vatlon balA#«fcnd qUjet and we cordialU
•• two seta Of »e, *<**> barPiiot Point to give ua a trial
and vineyaus treatment and Prices
ilea southwest e*«y- Reasonable.
In cultivation, No. 82. ALEXANDER, PfOD
« bo::te, two Pilot Pointmi . .flV.
> , , _ „ rth of Pilot Point ,
,d ,or Htook- bal*D<;® in t. or, 4-room
rees- frame house, ***,Jre
i miles frotr. 40 acrei one and a half mlie west of
» Pilot Point.
rades from .'iO acres two udlos north of Pilot
Point.
We want your business and will
AII property listed with us w2fl
treat both buyer and
Mller perfectly fair.
Ofllce in rear of F. & M. Bank Building, and at the Post-Signal office.
>und.
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No. 133— 90 acres land one mils of
burns, Texas, 66 acre* iQ cultivation,
balance timber and pasture, all fenced
3-room frame house, good barn and
smokehouse, well with pump, young
orchard. Terms easy
No. 119—78J acres laud 4 miles s.
w. of Pilot Point, fiO acres ipcuitlva-
balance in umber, 3-room houpe,
small barn, good well, small orchard
aod vineyard and all under fence
No, 118—380 acres of flrtt-claw bl-
ack land, 190 acres In cultivation, 20
In meadow, balance in pasture. Good
5. room frame bouse, gralnery bold
6000 bushels barn, cribs, etc., line
artesian water, wind mill. Land all
fenced with Bois’d Arc post and four
wires, School within 800 yards.
Eight miles from Pilot Point and four
miles from Ouster,
No. 88. A farm of 108 uoaos 7
miles north west cf Pilot Point, 76 in
cultivation, balance in timber pasture,
good 8-room honse, good water, deep
well, good barn, 8 acres in flue orch-
ard. ThU place cau be bought for $17
an acfa and on very easy terms.
No. 116.—97 acres saody land 4 ml.
west of Pilot Poiot, about 70 acres In
cultivation, rest timber and pasture,
two-room box house, two cribs, fine
dug well, 2} acres orchard, storm ho-
use, good 8 and 4 wire fence.
No. 113.- 63 acres 2| tnilys north
c*Pilot Point, 40 acres in cultivation,
about 23 acres in bottom
No. HI—120 acres, 6 miles south-
west of Pllpt Point, 80 sores in culti-
vation, balance In timber an^^aetuae,
all under fence. A 3-roomTouse in
g«od condition, fair barn, good well,
4 or 6 acres In orchard. Price $1800,
1 cash and balance easy.
No. 110.—186 acres of black prairie
laud 8 milan northeast of Pilot Point.
100 acres In cultivation, 20 acres in
pasture, 16 acres In meadow; one 4
room house, an underground cistern,
goovi tank and good barn and granary.
Ohe-half mile of good school. One-
fifth cash and balance on easy term*.
No. 90.—68 acres land 2j mile?
north of Pilot Point, on Hlo du Bois;
86 vx.ro>> in cultivation, two small log
bouses.
Mo, 108—GBf acres sandy land, t;
miles north of Pilot Point, 46 acres in
cultivation, balance timber; 8-room
hou*«b *eli **"d crib. School house
near.
No. 107—70$ acres sandy land 6 mi
no-th of Pilot Point !M> In -...iijj
balance In timber, 8-room bouse well
tank and crib.
No,, 106—164 acres black land, five
miles west of Cellna, on Kim, 126 in
cultivation, about 30 acres lr; bottom,
i'wo-etory house, 6 rooms, good well,
barn and stable. Ter mu easy,
No. IPS—62 ueros Is ruiles northwest
ot Pilot Point, 46 acres in 'ultivation,
balance in good timber pasture, two-
room house, smokehouse, two sets of
crib* fTne well of water.
No. Iu2—80 acres ft miles southwest,
of Pilot Point., 60 acres in cultivation,
balance In timber, 4-room ho :se, two
good wells, crib and shed for stock.
30 or 40 bearing pecan trees.
103 acres black land 8 miles frotr.
Pilot. Point,
670 acres black land 8 miles from
Pilot Point.
E.
C. BARTOW
.No. 121 -46 acres 3 miles north of
1 Hot Point, lexas, 40 acres la cultiva-
tion, balance in lots and pasture, one
3-room box and log house. Good well,
smokehouse and crib, .Small orchard.
All land fenced, C$160 worth of hog
wire go place. Price $700. Would
take •* good team In part pay.
No 86 40 a,res good sandy land,
i j m:.e west of Pilot Point on wire
road, 30 acres in cultivation, balance
in good timber, good 3-room house,
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,aii<i9r,>u*' ijsjsife
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,Ut man.
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••Yes 'ic's etiil around the place
so,-neit her . i think-’’
Walnwrtght rang a bell, and the but-
ler appeared.
Plod Mr, Bennett.” said the finan-
Her "and ask hint If he will step here
for a moment”
•”les,” went on Kerrigan reflectively,
$wt to bd Blade to think lie's In the
Sun* far purity of poittb-s and high
jKflmdplee anti iove of civic d. ry 8Uti
•i! that sort of thing. At the aarne
time i'c’s got to be soaie outi we can
haadie to suit mtmlxm. Thar* the
Mas W'bo’il catch ’em coming me g.>
*RS. We've got to And him. J : .y , iK
ffwtlains?”
‘Well, bow about Gibbs 1’’
’‘Won’t do. Broker and money ju;s
glcr. The public wouldn’t stand for
him.”
“Toung 3* wyer” -
"8* rye- whs bora foolish, and he’s
been getting steadily siiUer every year
since, and his face chows It.” I
■'Ten Broeek, tbcu." !
‘•Ten Brocck !< t o fond ot turalcg - 1
jCijjv.rotie lino the connecting iink '»<■- ,
Veen fire and a fool. And, besides, he
’ears s monocle. Wbat’d happen If he
■t.aft to flftflb that monocle in a Fourth
Ward meeting? There’d ne a maro'.a
«fo."
"Well, who, then? Have you any
♦we In mind?”
"Te*,” sesented IXorrignn “I have
Do you happen to know u young fel-
low who epeuds his summers netir here
—a chsp named Bennett -Alwyn Ben-
nett r
"Certainly; I know him well. But"-
“Wcli, how does he strike you?"
'I’d never fenve thought of him In
•och a connection-" '
"Why wouldn’t you? He pretty nen>•
AjjjXjlllC nil our 'iu..i,il. ^ i ii.iix -Besltles,
Af.t' «*!• father used to ho u big man In (lie
-'.^^tetgahhwrtlou. Got some fat contracts
from It in bis time too.”
"But young Bennett hn;i never”
‘‘He’s well oflT, well educated, clever.
•m and all that. I ran across him last fall
, When be came over to help Lorlmer in
his fight in the Fourteenth He made
■oine rattling good speeches, and the
boys all took a liking to him A swell,
but not a snob; good mixer, good fel-
low, popular, dear headed, no past-
yr«. be’a our iota. More I think it over
the surer I am.”
“I jthoujdn’t wonder If you’re right
HotfflE ft id you like to’, talk it over
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nibbiiK his huge plump >.and» togeth-
er, “he's the man to: us that .g,” be
added. M th lean aasurance, “if w/can
handle him.”
"I think vre can,” rnswet^d Wain-
wright, a fragment of hii> converaatiou
wiih Gibbs fleshing across his mem-
ory. "You see, I have fairly good rea-
* m* "or believing he a In lovt with my
niece Miss Dalles Walti wright”
“So? That’#’’—
“And, ss ! control her fortune and
t her brotheir’a until Perry la twenty-
| flve”—
! ' On, it’s a cinch!” chuckled Horn
I gnu. •’lie’'—
“Mi. Bcr.nett is playing tenuis,” :e-
portad the butle*-, coming to the door
“tie will be here at once ”
'Now,’ resumed Horrigan, ‘the only
i’vJug thnt remafea ie to find out if
he’)! consent, j.ud llien’’—
“You warned me, Mr. Wafnwrlght?"
saked Bennett, stepping through the
long window from the veranda. "Oh.
good morning, Mr. Horrlgau,” be added
on seeing tl.s second occupant of the
room.
The young man was costiesa aod coi-
Istlf elK ^hirt Lclng t .rned In at
the neck. Ip or* hand he swung a ten
nla racket. With the other he mopped
hi* flushed face, tor the day was hot
winning you pick me out as (he xietim
instead of some organisenmn?
Good Ides aa far as you’re con.-erned,
but I Iseg to decline, without thnnke."
“No. no!" corracivd Wahuvrlgtit
A.r. Ilorrigan tiuuks that you have a
strong’ chans c ot wiattlug.”
"That’s right.” corroborated the boss.
‘Tt’il t>e a hard fight, but ivltb the right
man we'll win and we believe you’re
tbe right man. Even if you loae. you’ll
■ Bhow the v.-.irld vhat you’re made of
! Folkr admire a flgluer They haven’t
| much use .‘or an Idler."
The coarsely spoke# w.,.,vla brought
j back with a rush Dallas Wkinwright's
j plea md his owa y earning to do eome-
i thing to make her proud of him—to
I win her by great deeds—to prove his
love worth her acceptance. Was this
j the chance- the chance he hr.I tnc.a^er-
! ly longed for? It seemed providential.
His fneo alight with the Joy of battle
and the hope of bio heart’s reward.
Bennett turned upon the waiting boss
”1 aeeept ”
ilorrigan, slapping
on the back. “Good
has put in ten acres. The cotton j ****** * ’-‘■■f-tty n mi itt lain
is domewhst latn lv.lt fr.irr. i mm
| Money to Loan
—on—
Improved Farm
Land
and the k^tflMk ^ad been swift
“Yea" answfgBd Wainwrlgbt.
. _ “I’m
sorry to lnterrtfpsi yOur teunls Bet, but
we want to see .you on a rather lmpor-
tnnt matter. We’ve been talking about
you."
“Thanks!” said Bennett, with a pui-
«led «m!'.o from one to the other of the
two older men. "What about?”
"Want to lie mayor?" queried Ilorri-
gan abruptly
"What’s the answer?” countered the
perplexed youth
"It isn’t a Joke.” Intervened Wain-
wright. “Mr Kerrigan 1- Y. earnest.”
“In earnest? 1 hope the bent hasn’t
gone to hi.’ bead.”
"Ye don't understand.” pot In Hor-
rlgon > i control the party’s nomina-
tions. The nottdnatlou for mayor Is
yours If you’ll like it.”
“Not—not really?” gaaped Aiwyn
aghast
“Yes, really. We”
‘‘But, with a whole organisation full
of good material. wh\ do you come to
me?”
“Because you’re the man we want”
"As an answer that's excellent, but
as an explanation it's mystifying.”
“I'll tell you. We’re looking forward
to a risky fight and**-
"And since yon *#■ no ebanm of
"7
His enrelcsn boyhood
icemcd to have fo.ll-
enaway from him
“Good!” veiled
him resoundingly
boy! Now.
we’ll”-
"But remem-
ber one tiling,
Mr. Hocrlgfln,”
Interrupted Ben-
uett. and hi*
cart-less boy-
hood seemed to
have fallen
a way from him
like n discarded
garni ent. leav-
ing the man-
hood and rug-
ged strength
stripped of all
the follies and idleness that h id hither-
to masked it. "remember one thing, If
I win this fight If I apt elected mayor
— I shall Dover once swerve from my
solemn ontti of office. I”—
Walnwrlght uneasy at the candl-
date's unwonted word* and manner,
atarted tc speak, but Horrlgan deftly
interfere^.
“Of course you'll keep your oath of
office.” he bellowed Jovial! v. “Of
course you will. That’s understood.”
Then In an undertone to Walnwrlght
an Aiwyn moved away the bess whY
pererl:
“Don’t butt ini Leave him to me!
1 hat. silly reform talk don't moan any-
thing. It’s the way all youngsters In
pollt'cs blow off steads. Leave him to
me!”
Is flomewhat late, but from a few
open bolle at the- bottom of the
plant he secured a sample, which
haa lint 1 1-4 to 11-2 inches in
length, and he thinks it will make
ft half bale xo the acre. The!'' Vendors Lien Notes <
plant eeeraa to be very muoh I ;; Bought and Extended
hardier, he saya, than the ordi- 1
nary cotton, standing the hot,
dry weather without drooping a
particle, and is a foot or bo high-
er than other ordinary cotton
planted at the same time and in
the same kind of soil.
They Take the Kinka Out.
; : Accident, Fire, and Tornado
: INSURANCE.
| Raymond C. Gea
8 I Hits'
Fire Insurance.
‘Have used Dr. Ki ig'a New Lite
IWlrtc ftgxinai b. r(RJt anfi TOKNa
PU/S (or mau.v vears. with Inorcaslng !'r< rr«a,11 rtn “5
satisfaction They take the kinks out
of stomach, liver and bowels, without,
fans or friction,” says N. H. Brown, of
Pittsfield, Vt. Guaranteed satlsfae-
tcry at A. id. Ragland’s drug store
25c
nnrtanri- t‘r>li
a Jivn ot
N. WILSON, Agent
PHOT POINT, TKXAS
ChA«. Mays
H. K. VifJftoo
Cured by Hud.
Victoria, Texas, Aug. 27
What seemed to bo an unpleasant
misfortune to the rheumatic crip
pie, Guy Stapleton of Victor ia,
when he was thrown from his
horse into toe pool of
Hays & Wilson
ATTORNEYS- AT- LAW
Pilot Point, Terns
otSro upBUIrn In V. Jt M. Bauli Hnildinir
cured. The curative properties
of the mud do not appear to be
mud at i oonfined to rheumatism, as va-
Miracle, four miles south of here
some months ago, nas proven to
be one of his greatest blessings,
iia was cured of his rheumatism
and passed the glad news on till
several hundred have bathed in 1 i • Y, Y......... ’°‘J'
the magic mud and found relief 1 “1^°° ° '<! °n Whi°h a pe‘
People are coming here from ' cu la^ree.^ ^0W9’ The soil is
Dii \ ... ,ere Ir‘“m : very black and has a smell c*
all parts of the state and being j 8uiphur and oji
nous skin diseases, eczema in
particular, find almost instant
relief. Many troubled with liver
complaints are benefited.
The mud ie found in a very
To be ( on tinned.
Long Staple Cotton.
Denton, Texas, Aug. 30. The
first long staple cotton grown in
«W* country was shown here yes-
twday by a farmer from near
Aubray, who, as aa experiment,
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1908, newspaper, September 4, 1908; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982709/m1/3/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .