The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 5, 1892 – Page: 5
Personal
Dr. J. B. Gordon of Fairfield is registered at the St. George.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 7, 1892 – Page: 3
Southern Christian Advance
CORSICANA, Tex., Jan. 6 – The stockholders of the Southern Christian Advance Publishing company concluded a two days’ session last night. A new board of directors was elected for the ensuing year and the following officers appointed by the new directory: President Rev. E. L. Wood of New York; secretary, W. T. Hemphill of Wortham, Tex.; treasurer, C. M. B. Cox of Rector, Ark.; general actuary, Rev. J. E. Bounds of Corsicana. The company intends to add largely to its plant and greatly improve its publication. [This paper would later move to Wortham a year later under Rev. J. E. Bounds.]
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 11, 1892 – Page: 2
A Round of Pleasure
Waco
Miss Electra Peck left Wednesday for Fairfield.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 24, 1892 – Page: 8
J. S. Kimbrough has disposed of the Wortham Banner, and Lee Satterwhite starts the Wortham Signal in its stead.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 27, 1892 – Page: 6
And All with One Voice
Wortham Signal: Some of our farmers have commenced plowing and intend to plant cotton just the same as if it was 10 cents. Everyone we have seen aims to plant more cotton this year than they did last year. Better plant more corn, raise more hogs and live more at home.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 11, 1892 – Page: 5
State Capital Notes
Austin, Tex., Feb. 10 - …
Representatives White of
Freestone and
Goodman of Roberson were here to-day and visited the governor.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 13, 1892 – Page: 4
The State Press
Says the
Fairfield Recorder:
The now Senator Hill seems
to be well up in the presidential saddle.
Well, if he must come from New York again, let it be so; but, good Lord,
give us a democratic senate to help hold up his hands.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 17, 1892 – Page: 6
Big Hogs
Fairfield Banner: J. R. Gibson of Brewer stands at the head of the list in the way of the largest hog, it weighing 402 pounds, while Mr. Chumney had one which weighed 401, and last but not least our friend, A. R. Senter, had six ranging in weight from 290 to 335. Mr. Simon Wills killed four which were fattened in the woods (one-year-old), and they averaged 170 pounds each.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 22, 1892 – Page: 2
Society
Shreveport, La.
A quiet marriage took place at Judge R. J. Looney’s residence in Fairfield on Saturday, when his only daughter Miss Lettie Looney, was married to Mr. C. G. Kolster of Los Angeles, Cal., Rev. W. S. Penick of the First Baptist church performing the ceremony. The couple left immediately for Jefferson to visit Mrs. Lyon, a sister of the groom, before going to California.
[Same Issue; Page: 7]
Driver and Team Missing
RICHLAND, Tex., Feb. 21 – W. J. Guthrie, who owns a livery stable in Corsicana, was here to-day looking for his team and driver, who left this stable Feb. 9 with some traveling man, whose name Mr. Guthrie did not learn, to be gone only a few days, but up to this date nothing has been heard of the team or driver. They had a runaway near here and broke the tongue out of the buggy on the 10th and came here and wired for a tongue, which was sent here by express. They left here going in the direction of Cade. They were driving two dun ponies, one with one eye out. Mr. Guthrie is very uneasy, fearing foul play. The traveling man shipped a trunk from here to J. L. Tracy, Groesbeck.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 28, 1892 – Page: 10
Southeastern Division
Of the Texas
Order of United Confederate Veterans
General Orders from Commander W. G. Blain,
with Statement of the Objects and Purposes of the Union
Headquarters S. E. Division of Texas, United Confederate Veterans, General
Order No. 1.
FAIRFIELD, Tex., Feb. 16 – In compliance with general
order No. 4, issued from headquarters at New Orleans of date December 29, 1891, by order of
General John B. Gordon, commander, I hereby assume command of the southeastern division of
the State of Texas, composed of the following counties: ….Freestone...
Until further ordered the headquarters of this department
will be at Fairfield.
By order of W. G. Blain, major general commanding.
O. C. KIRVIN, Adjutant General.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 3, 1892 – Page: 4
The State Press
The Madisonville Messenger
remarks:
George Clark of
Waco, one of the brainiest men in Texas, is in the gubernatorial race.
He will give Hogg a close race, but in the
finish Hogg will be the winner. The
Wortham Signal
is the latest adventure in journalism.
Jas. T. Denton, formerly a resident of this county, is at the helm.
Success to him and his paper.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 5, 1892 – Page: 6
Farm Gossip
Wortham Signal: The farmers hereabouts are diversifying their crops to a considerable extent. Two farmers seven miles west of Tehuacana have planted 600 acres in oats.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 9, 1892 – Page: 4
The State Press
The
Wortham Signal, after tossing eighty
weeks on the rough sea of journalism raises the sign of distress:
Ever since last Tuesday we have experienced a feeling
something akin to the thrilling inspiration in the breast of the lone missionary
to cannibal Africa. We collected $4,
exactly and only, on the 1st.
This is rolling up wealth for old age with a vengeance.
Oh, there’s lots of glory in publishing a newspaper.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - March 14, 1892 – Page: 2
In Society's Domain
Corsicana
Miss Electra Peck of Fairfield is visiting friends in the city.
Hillsboro
Mrs. A. M. Walker has returned from a visit to Fairfield.
[Same issue; Page: 5]
Sheriffs' Department
Freestone County
Fairfield, Tex., March 11 – Arrest J. R. Bullock, about 5 feet 9 inches high, weight 140 or 150 pounds, blue eyes, light hair and mustache, a horse tamer by profession, left Wortham in fall or winter of 1891 driving bald face stocking leg mare to a gig. I hold capias against for theft of a mule. Arrest and wire me. H. J. Childs, sheriff Limestone county, Tex.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 21, 1892 – Page: 2
In Society's Domain
Hillsboro
Mrs. A. S. Johnson is on a visit to friends in Mexia and Fairfield this week.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 14, 1892 – Page: 7
Freestone County Singing Convention
Fairfield, Tex., April 11 – The
Freestone county
singing convention with Capt. Bass Gilbert of
Cade as
president and Major Townsend Longbotham of
Wortham as secretary has been in a
semi-annual session here for three days.
About a hundred delegates are in attendance besides a host
of visitors. The singing has been
perfectly grand at times, holding the vast audience spell-bound.
At the closing the rendition of “God be with us till we meet again” was
almost sublime. The convention
adjourned to meet at Dew in October next. The
hospitality of the town was tendered the delegates and visitors.
All enjoyed the occasion nicely.
Our county courthouse is now nearing completion and is in
every respect an elegant structure.
Situated in the center of a large square it presents quite an imposing
appearance.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 18, 1892 – Page: 6
The New Apportionment
Population of the New Congressional Districts
FIRST DISTRICT
Freestone.………..15,887
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 4 , 1892 – Page: 2
Society's Summer Days
Mexia
Misses Carrie Johnson and
Mary DeBorde of Fairfield are
the guests of Mrs. H. M. Johnson.
Miss Jewell Harris of
Bonner is visiting the city.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 1, 1892 – Page: 2
Doings of Dallas Society
Mexia
Miss Julia Roller of
Fairfield was the guest of Mrs. John Griffith last week.
Miss Carrie Knight of
Wortham visited friends in the city last week.
Corsicana
Miss Laura Belle Burleson and Miss Mamie Botham of Birdston are visiting friends here.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 8, 1892 – Page: 8
The Craft
Lee Satterwhite has taken Editor Denton's place temporarily on the Wortham Signal.
[Same Issue; Page: 8]
Sheriffs' Department
Freestone County
Fairfield, Tex., Aug. 6 – Stolen, on night of the 3d instant, one bay mare…H. J. Childs, sheriff Freestone county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 11, 1892 – Page 8
Charged with Moving Mortgaged Property
Thornton, Tex., Aug. 10 – G. C. Hellin of Wortham, Freestone county, was arrested here by Constable Harless on a charge of moving mortgaged property from that county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 14, 1892 – Page: 2
The Colored Meeting
…President
Hawkins announced the following county
superintendents:
Freestone county – O. Bell
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 18, 1892 – Page 1
The Second Day
The Night Convention
Houston, Tex., Aug. 17 - …
Brown of Grayson moved to seat James I. Moore as one of the permanent vice presidents;
seconded by Steele of
Freestone and
adopted.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – August 20, 1892 – Page: 6
State School Census
Community Counties
Freestone 2,062 total whites; 2,124 total colored; 4,186 scholastic population; $20,930 apportionment
Cities and Towns
Fairfield 114 whites; 0 coloreds; 114 scholastic population; $570 apportionment
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – August 22, 1892 – Page: 2
In the Realm of Society
Shreveport
On Wednesday last Mr. and Mrs. Edward Herndon entertained at their home in Fairfield. The occasion was a debut party given their daughter, Miss Mai Herndon, a graduate of the Judson institute.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – August 29, 1892 – Page: 2
Doings in Dallas Society
Mexia
Miss Lettie Talley of Fairfield visited friends in the city last week.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 13, 1892 – Page: 6
The Town Lot Boomerang
The Town Lot Valuations
Freestone
Value 1891
$96,400;
Value 1892 $109,258;
Increase
$12,858
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 15, 1892 – Page: 4
Sheriffs' Department
Freestone County
Fairfield, Tex., Sept. 12 – Stolen; one black mare…H. J. Childs, sheriff Freestone county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 25, 1892 – Page: 8
The Craft
The many papers established recently in Texas in the interest of the people’s part are remarkable for the journalistic ability which they, with few exceptions, evince. One of the last to appear is the Freestone Vindicator, which was born at Wortham, Freestone county, on the 17th. It is a well gotten up six column quarto, edited by J. T. Spelman. There are no flies on either the editor or the paper.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 26, 1892 – Page: 2
Last Week in Society
Mexia
Misses Georgia Hunt and Prudie Herring of this city, and Zuma Steel of Cotton Gin and Maggie Ingram of Shiloh left Sunday night to attend at Huntsville.
Hillsboro
Arrivals - .. and Mesdames Higginbotham and Mollord, from Wortham, visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bounds;
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 29, 1892 – Page: 1
An Awful Fate
A Young Man’s Head Crushed by
Colliding Cars
BEAUMONT, Tex., Sept. 28 – On the 21st instant a young man named Tom Mays Bell commenced work for the Southern Pacific at this point. He had been braking on a local train and switching in the yard as his services were required. Last evening while coupling cars a drawhead gave away, allowing a car of heavy lumber to run into a coal car. The unfortunate man’s head was caught between the projecting ends of the lumber and the end of the opposite car and was so badly crushed that when the cars were separated he fell limp and gasping for breath. In ten minutes he was dead. Coroner Broussard was notified and immediately repaired to the spot where the remains lay and implementing a jury proceeded to hold an inquest. A verdict was rendered in accordance with the above facts. His personal record on file with the railroad company shows that he was Freestone county, this state, and has a sister and parents residing in Huntsville. Superintendent Hoskins wired them the sad fate of the son and brother.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - November 19, 1892 – Page: 5
Mortuary
Col. B. A. Philpott
Mexia, Limestone Co., Tex., Nov. 18 – Col. B. A. Philpott, one of the most prominent men in this section of the state, died suddenly yesterday at his home at Dew, Freestone county, aged 81 years. He had lived in Freestone county for more than forty years, and represented the county for two terms in the legislature from 1878 to 1882.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - November 21, 1892 – Page: 2
Society and Personals
Forney
Miss Nannie Ely of Fairfield is visiting in the city.
Wortham
The I. O. G. T. gave an entertainment at their hall under
the auspices of the young ladies of the order.
Miss Norah Calhoun of Dallas is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
H. Calhoun.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - November 25, 1892 – Page: 5
Sheriffs' Department
Freestone County
Fairfield, Tex., Nov. 22 – Stolen Saturday night Nov. 19, one bay pony, saddle and bridle. …H. J. Childs, sheriff Freestone county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Dec. 7, 1892 – Page: 5
Master Watson's Report
---------
What the Masonic Record
for the Year Shows
----------
Leading Features of the Annual Report
Submitted to the Grand Loge, for its Action at Houston
October 3 – To T. H. Beaves, J. M. Tacker, W. L. Nichols and seventeen other master Masons, to form a new lodge to be called Boggy at Boggy Prairie, Freestone county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Dec. 22, 1892 – Page: 8
Personal
Judge O. C. Krewin [Kirvin], J. A. Tucker and Wash Tatum of Freestone county are visiting Dallas.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Dec. 25, 1892 – Page: 4
Texas Industrial Items
Freestone [V]Indicator: And the buildings continue to spring up on every side. Some five or six now in course of construction. Wortham is awake.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - January 6, 1893 – Page: 5
Burned to Death
WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., Jan 4 -
[To The News] - Last night at the residence of Mr. J. C. Oliver, having about four
miles from this place, after all the inmates of the house had retired, Mr.
Oliver's mother got out of bed, went out in the yard, saturated her clothing
with kerosene oil and set fire to them.
She was terribly burned from the effects of which she died to-day.
C. J. TURNER
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - January 20, 1893 – Page: 4
The State Press
The
Fairfield Recorder says:
Mr. Lee Satterwhite, formerly editor of the
Wortham XE "Wortham" Signal, has accepted a
position on the Recorder for this year, and will assist in the editorial as well
as the mechanical work.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - January 22, 1893 – Page: 9
LARGE BLACK JACK FOR SALE – 15 ½ hands high, 7 years old, brought out from Kentucky two years ago. Sure foal getter and well bred, Price $600. Watson Bros., Fairfield, Tex.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - January 30, 1893 – Page: 2
Miss Fanny Anderson of Fairfield, who ???ated her cousin, Miss Della Walker, has returned home.
[This is William Hemphill McCreary.]
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - February 7, 1893 – Page: 3
Mortuary
W. H. McCreary
MEXIA, Tex., Feb. 6 - W. H. McCreary of Steward's mill, Freestone county, died suddenly Saturday while on his way home from Fairfield.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - February 11, 1893 – Page: 6
The State Press
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are Talking About
The
Fairfield Reporter says:
It is said that Texas now
has the best batch of church-going legislature that ever assembled in Austin.
[This is William Archibald Huckaby Jr.]
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - February 13, 1893 – Page: 5
CEDAR FOR SALE
- A fine body of cedar to be sold by March 15, 1893.
For particulars apply to
W. A. HUCKABY
Fairfield, Tex.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - February 27, 1893 - Page: 4
MORTUARY
Jas. Dunn
WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., Feb. 26 - Mr. Jas. Dunn, aged 79 years, died to-day.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - March 5, 1893 - Page: 3
Convictions at Fairfield
Fairfield, Freestone Co.,
Tex., March 3
- The February term of the district court, after being in session four weeks,
adjourned yesterday. The criminal
docket was light. Levi Dames,
colored, charged with arson, was given ten years in the penitentiary.
John Austin, charged with stealing a bale of cotton, was given three years in
the penitentiary. Will Moore, charged with
stealing a bale of cotton was given two years in the penitentiary.
District Judge Hardy left
this morning for his home in Corsicana.
District Attorney Kimball left this morning for his home in
Groesbeck.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - March 16, 1893 – Page: 1
State Brevities
Fairfield, Freestone county - J. S. Smith, wanted in Titus county, arrested and jailed.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 6, 1893 – Page: 9
State Brevities
Fairfield, Freestone county – No decrease in cotton acreage. It any change acreage will be larger. Grain doing well.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 2, 1893 – Page: 6
The "Twin Sisters"
Texas Soil is Rich in Buried Confederate Artillery
..The evening of the day when that news reached
Fairfield, Freestone county, Tex., the writer greeted old
soldier friends belonging to the famous Val Verde battery: Captain Nettles and First
Lieutenant Smith were in command.
The battery, comprising six brass guns, was parked on the east side of
the courthouse square. The boys had
given them an extra polish and they glimmered like gold.
Four guns of this battery were captured from the federals at the battle
of Val Verde, New Mexico, in 1861 by Colonel Tom Green's command and two pieces
of Nim’s federal battery (Napoleans) were captured at Mansfield battle in 1864,
the former had names engraved in large letters of favorite officers who had been
killed in battle, viz: Raguet,
Shropshire. The other names are not
remembered now. This battery opened
the battle of Mansfield and was in the forty day’s campaign chasing General
Banks in his retreat during the Red river campaign in the spring of 1864.
Hon. Joseph D. Sayers, now member of congress from the Austin district, was its first captain.
The battery was manned by volunteers from Green’s command the next
morning after the battles of Val Verde and Glorietta.
At Fairfield at dark the six pieces of artillery with
their caissons were packed in regulation
style. The artillery boys all
looked sad. They cooked their supper
and they fed their well trained horses as unusual.
At daybreak the next morning the guns had disappeared from
their carriages and nobody seemed to know where they had gone.
Several of the boys leading horses branded
C. S. A. had left for home and soon the camp was deserted.
Where were the six fine battery guns?
That questions was asked by the few citizens, but only those who buried
them probably to this day know the spot, and although there are a number of old
boys surviving, probably only two or three know the secret where they are
buried. One report in late years
that were buried in an old well needs confirmation now.
As soon as the federals garrisoned Galveston and Houston in June, 1865.
General Gordon Granger, commander in chief,
sent a detail of soldiers to Fairfield to discover the hiding place of the
famous battery, but they returned with the empty gun carriages, caissons,
harness, etc.
The soil of Texas is rich in buried artillery, and if many
water courses could be explored, brass and iron artillery would certainly be
fished out. As the “twin sisters”
would certainly have comprised a portion of one of the four or six-gun brass
field batteries, will some of the surviving members give the Daughters of the
Republic a clue to the battery had been turned over to and where last seen? …
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 3, 1893 – Page: 6
On the Trinity River
Bell & Moses of Fairfield have written Messrs. Murphy & Bolanz signifying appreciation of the efforts they are making in behalf of the navigation of the Trinity and stating that they have large bodies of hardwood timber along the river, for which they are anxious to make Dallas a market.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - June 2, 1893 – Page: 7
N. C. Irwin turned the Commercial hotel over to Mr. Anderson of Fairfield to-day. Mr. Irwin will go to Denison.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 6, 1893 – Page: 4
Confederate Veterans
The Reunion at Birmingham, Ala., Postponed to Sept. 15 and 16.
Headquarters Southeast Texas
Division of the United Confederate Veterans,
Fairfield, Tex., July 3 - Special order No. 15: The
confederate veterans of this division are notified that owing to the distressed
financial conditions and for other reasons deemed sufficient, Gen. John B.
Gordon, commanding, has issued an order postponing to Sept. 15 and 16 the
Birmingham
general reunion that was to have been held July 19 and 20.
All committees and all arrangements as to transportation,
including Gen. Underwood's excursion to
Chicago, stand as heretofore, the only change being as to
date of meeting.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 8, 1893 – Page: 4
Hood's Brigade Reunion
… T. S. Carroll, Fairfield, company A, third Arkansas…
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 19, 1893 – Page: 2
Principal Selected
EASTLAND, Eastland Co., Tex., July 18 – Prof. D. A. McAckell of Fairfield was selected by the board of trustees as principal of the Eastland high school for the ensuing scholastic year.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 20, 1893 – Page: 1; Special Edition
Resources of Texas
FREESTONE – Soil: Sandy and chocolate, bottom land alluvial. Land mostly covered with timber-oak, elm, walnut, cottonwood. Cereals yield abundantly. Improved lands, $5 to $12; other lands $2 to $6. Principal productions corn, cotton, sugar cane, apples, peaches and melons. Railroads: The Houston and Texas Central and International and Great Northern. County seat, Fairfield.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 22, 1893 – Page: 1
Weather and Crops
Fairfield, Freestone Co. - Good rain, crops greatly improved.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 23, 1893 – Page: 2
Weather and Crops
Fairfield, Freestone Co. - Good general rain, greatly benefiting crops.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - July 24, 1893 - Page: 4
Down In Freestone
Fine Lands, Water
and Health –
Wortham a Shipping Point
WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., July 22
-- [Special correspondence] --
Traveling south over the Houston and Texas Central railway from Dallas, one train reaches
Wortham at 12:32 p.m., and the other a 10:06 p.m.
Wortham is seventy-six miles below Dallas, in the northwest
corner of Freestone county, Col. L.R. Wortham, deceased,
who was the first merchant here, some twenty-one years ago, was the man in whose
honor the town was named. The
present population numbers about 650.
There are ten general merchandise stores, besides a dozen or more other
lines of business represented here, including two good hotels.
The scholastic population numbers 185, and as the town is incorporated
for school purposes, an eight months public school is taught.
A private school is taught two months.
There is a large, well-arranged public school building and good teachers
are in charge. There are two
churches here. In point of morality
and good order, Wortham is unexcelled
by any town in Texas.
It is also unexcelled for good health.
This is largely attributable to pure water and the open character of the
surrounding country.
True to its name,
Freestone county
abounds in good freestone water, obtainable at a moderate depth.
Here, around Wortham, the
country is diversified, there being both black sandy prairie and black waxy
land. The agricultural production in
cotton, corn, oats and beef cattle is quite large.
Wortham has shipped since last
September 3500 bales of cotton, over 100 cars of cotton seed and 150 cars of
beef cattle. A great many farmers in
this vicinity feed cattle during the winter and ship them to St. Louis and
Chicago
in the spring and find the business remunerative.
Consequently, general trade at
Wortham is good-much better than in most towns of its size where this
diversity of agricultural interests is not found.
While Wortham has never had a boom since it was a town
it seems always to have enjoyed a gradual, steady and healthy growth.
An elegant new hotel has recently been opened and a half dozen or more
handsome residences are now in process of building.
There are two weekly papers, namely, the
Christian Advance and the
Freestone Vindicator.
The former is a Methodist Protestant paper in its seventh volume and is
edited by Rev. J.E. Bounds. The
Vindicator is a people's party paper
not quite a year old, with J. E. Sanders as
editor and manager. Among other
incisive things the Vindicator
observes:
Grandfather Reagan (the
power behind the throne at Austin) is again waving his flag in the public prints.
Big salary as a railroad commissioner and nothing else to do but work up
party thunder, while little girls work in the field to make 6 cent cotton to pay
taxes.
Wortham has a newly organized brass band, which
is making rapid progress in the divine art of music.
The people here are not only a cool set of human beings mentally, but
they believe in keeping cool physically.
They do so on Dallas ice, many carloads of which
are sold here during the heated term.
As Wortham is the only railroad town in
Freestone, it may properly be regarded as the commercial center of the county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 6, 1893 – Page 4
The News Special Edition
Freestone Vindicator: The special edition of the News, a model of typographical neatness, came to our office last week. While we differ with it politically, we are compelled to admit that it is one of the best newspapers in the state and has the enterprise essential to make a first class paper.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 8, 1893 – Page: 3
Weather and Crops
Fairfield, Freestone Co. - The gathering of the cotton crop has sufficiently advanced to show that the yield will fall far short of last year. Some estimate the crop at 50 per-cent and some at 50, but it may go a little above that with a late fall.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 14, 1893 – Page: 5
Weather and Crops
Fairfield, Freestone Co. - The cotton crop is unusually short in this county. Most of those who are able to do so will hold their cotton, hoping for better prices. The corn crop is also very light.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 27, 1893 - Page: 7
Taken to Fairfield
CORSICANA, Navarro Co., Tex., Sept 26 - Frank Ross, the negro brought here from Wortham yesterday charged with assaulting a young white woman, was taken through the country this morning to Fairfield, where he will be tried.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 29, 1893 – Page: 5
Fairfield, Freestone Co. - Good six hours rain Monday. Cotton was injured but little. It was the first rain for nearly two months.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - October 29, 1893 – Page: 12
Personal
The following were yesterday’s arrivals at the Oriental hotel: … Wm. White, Fairfield, Tex.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - November 7, 1893 – Page: 7
Shot by a Negro
WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., Nov. 6 - This afternoon Oscar Golden, a white man, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by a negro.
[The original is heavily faded on the right side of the column]
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - November 8, 1893 - Page: 4
Fairfield Full of Life
A County Where Land Is Cheap and First-class
FAIRFIELD, Freestone Co.,
Tex., Nov. 4 -
The town, though off the railroad, aims to be a boom just now.
We have had three new business houses opened up within the last week
prospects for more in the near future not a vacant dwelling home in town with
contracts let for some new ones and others in demand.
Freestone county has the best average crops
this year of any county in this section of the state.
It has thousands of acres of farming lands, that can be bought so cheap
one would feel like he had stolen it, were known to those who desire to buy good
homes the lands would soon be populated.
What immigration comes here now is a reflux of that gone west.
One gentleman left
here about three years ago, and went to Utah,
stayed there until a few months since, returned
to the Indian
territory and after spending about $300 in the last two
months looking over
Texas
for a location, finally came back here to settle down, and has gone into
business. Such has been the
experience of three-fourths of those who have gone west from here.
They soon realize that old Freestone is hard to beat.
She welcomes all honest homeseekers and insures them a good living and a
home of their own in a short time if they work.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Nov. 24, 1893 - Page: 1
Political
MEETING POSTPONED
Wortham, Freestone Co., Tex., Nov. 22 – The meeting of populists called to convene at Fairfield yesterday for the purpose of organization was continued until January on account of the absence of the chairman, A. J. Red.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Nov. 25, 1893 - Page: 1
Central Texas Conference
Of the Methodist Protestant Church in Session at
Wortham
Wortham, Freestone Co., Tex., Nov. 24 – The Central
Texas annual conference of the Methodist Protestant church met in the sixteenth
session at the Methodist Protestant church in this place at 10 o’clock this
morning. The conference was called
to order by Rev. J. S. York, president, and Rev. G. P. Miller, secretary.
The president offered a feeling invocation for the divine blessing, to
which many hearty Amens were heard all over the body.
The roll was then called and the following ministers
responded to their names: G. W.
Bounds, R. M. Baker, Howell Bryant, M. A. Bryan, J. S. Bays, John W. Carson, J. L. Craig, J. W. Guthrie, W. J.
Hemphill, J. K. P. Hindman, P. L. Jordan, J. W. Millburn, G. P. Miller, H. S. Neville, D.
P. Owen, L. W. Pace, D. J. Smith, A. White, M. D., L. M. White, J.
W. Way, J. S. York, W. G. McGowan, J. T. Lovin, J. B. Lewis, G. G. Ellis, A. S. Hendry, N. A.
Wood, W. H. Nix, W. R. McElvany, H. M. Timmons, M. Gladson, L. Penington, J. M.
Scott, J. T. Patterson, J. G. Milburn, J. C. Grisham, J. A. Willis, J. S.
Howell, John Farmer; lay delegates, W. P. Suton, S. B. Morris, G. S. Guiles, P. M.
Bounds, L. M. Seitz, B. S. Caswell, M. Elder, J. C. Cowart, O. L. Sweet, F. G.
Copeland, J. L. Williamson, Joe McCoy, John Roberts, J. C. Baldwin, L. C. Snowden and John A. Wright.
Every train brings in new accessions to the body.
The first sermon of the occasion was preached last night, but it was not
on the programme. Rev. J. W. Carson
was the speaker.
Howell Bryant, the “Sam Jones" of the conference,
followed the sermon with a rousing exhortation.
The body of ministers and laity all deliberate in the same house and
serve together on committees.
Ten applications were referred to the committee on
itinerary and orders at the morning session, and there are several more to come
in, which will be referred to this committee.
The members are full of work, push and progress, and the
business is not allowed to lay or become at all monotonous.
The secretary is a good reader, and with
full voice is heard in all parts of the house.
The president is an old veteran in the ministry, but this is the first
term he has served as executive of a conference.
Yet he holds the boys in line and keeps a ripple of good humor flowing
through the audience.
This conference met in
Wortham about
six years ago, when Wortham was a
village, and then this conference was in its infancy, but both have grown since.
The conference then numbered about sixteen ministers, but now there are
more than sixty on the roll.
There are several visitors here already and others to come.
Rev. G. P. Miller, secretary of the conference , is
accompanied by Mrs. Miller. Both are
at home here, as he was for several times pastor of this station.
One sister is an accredited delegate, and will be here to
claim her seat on to-morrow, which seems to be a new departure in Methodism in
this country. Another item of
interest which will claim the attention of the conference is the overture coming
from the general conference of May 1892 on the woman question.
The decision will be made as to the right of women to be licensed to
preach. The question is much talked
of as a side issue. The advocates of
the women’s side of the question say the women are to the front and cannot
longer be held down. One of them
says there is already a woman in this field of labor who holds a license to
preach.
The election of officers will be made a special order for
to-morrow.
The pulpit will be filled each night while the conference
is in session, which will be until about next Wednesday.
The passage on ministerial character was taken up a the
evening session and went forward with regularity.
Some of the preachers reported gracious revivals.
Rev. J. H. Bounds, an old veteran in the Methodist Protestant
church, is in attendance on the conference.
He was an active member of this body for many years.
Rev. J. E. Bounds, editor of the
Southern Christian Advance, is
present. Rev. R. M. Baker, editor of the
Vindicator is present.
The Dallas XE "Dallas" Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - December 6, 1893 – Page: 6
Two Conferences
Methodist Episcopals South, at Navasota, Make Annual
Appointments
----
The A. M. E. Conference, at Brenham Makes Its Annual Appointments and Then
Adjourns – Church Statistics
THE BRENHAM CONFERENCE
Palestine district:
William Wesley, presiding elder
Fairfield:
J. S. Ferguson
Stewart's Mill: G. W. Love
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Dec. 7, 1893 - Page: 3
[A huge annual report on the Masonic XE "Masonic" Lodge activities in Texas for the year.]
The Grand Lodge
....
SECRETARY AND TREASURER
Grand Secretary W. F. Swain read his annual report, from
which the following information is taken:
The grand lodge at its last session granted charters to sixteen new
lodges, as follows:
DeKalb, No. 9,
Bowie
county.
Italy, No. 647, Ellis county.
Burleson, No. 649, Johnson county.
Flaher, No. 703, Fisher county.
Amarillo, No. 731, Potter county.
Shelby, No. 722,
Shelby
county.
Tolla, No. 733, Swisher county.
Roddy, No. 734, Van Zandt county.
Rainbow, No. 735, Newton county.
Boggy, No. 739,
Freestone county.
Madisonville, No. 740, Madison county.
Prairie Hill, No. 741, Limestone county.
Evant, No. 742, Coryell county.
Winters, No. 743, Runnels county.
Harrold, No. 744, Wilbarger county.
....
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - December 16, 1893 – Page: 9
Political
DAVIS
AT FARIFIELD
FAIRFIELD, Freestone Co., Tex., Dec. 13 - Cyclone Davis spoke to about twenty populists, the same number of democrats and a few negroes at the courthouse here today. In his speech he used eight or ten ancient volumes of the Congressional Record in an attempt to prove that the populists' theory of government concerning national banks, alien ownership of land, etc., is identical with that of Thomas Jefferson.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 17, 1894 – Page: 6
Mortuary
T. D. BOUNDS
Corsicana, Tex., Jan. 16 – T. D. Bounds, an old citizen of Wortham, twenty-seven miles south of here, died yesterday.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 25, 1894 – Page: 4
DOWN BELOW ZERO
SIX ABOVE IN WORTHAM
Wortham, Freestone Co., Jan. 24 – A heavy rain fell here yesterday evening. About 6 o’clock the wind shifted to the northwest. Sleet began about 9 o’clock, continuing nearly all night. This morning at sunup the mercury registered 6 degrees about zero.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 12, 1894 – Page: 3
Society over the State
CORSICANA
Miss Fannie Miller of
Wortham visited Mr. and Mrs. G. Phillor.
Mrs. T. A. Hayes and daughter, Miss Merle, are visiting in
Freestone county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 13, 1894 – Page: 1
TEXAS WEATHER
Wortham, Freestone Co. – Heavy rain on the 11th. Sleet and snow at night.
The Dallas XE "Dallas" Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – April 18, 1894 – Page: 10
Sheriffs' Department
NAVARRO COUNTY
…Strayed from his home in Freestone county, Thursday night, April 12, one dark chestnut sorrel horse, about 12 years old, may be a dim brand on the left shoulder, heavy red mane and tail, carries tall on the left, tongue nearly cut off with the bridle bits, barb wire scars on hind legs, white hairs around scars, had on when last seen, five miles south from Corsicana, a large bell, tied on with a rope. James Jones will pay $5 for the return of horse to him or J. M. Weaver, sheriff of Navarro county.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – April 28, 1894 – Page: 3
Doctors at Austin
.. J. L. Autry, Freestone; …
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 1, 1894 – Page: 1
Work of the Winds
Wortham, Freestone Co., Tex., April 29
– A heavy rain and wind storm came up from the southwest this evening.
The residence of Prof. Thomas was
damaged by wind and several small houses were blown down.
It is reported from Tehuacana that several houses there
were unroofed and the residence of Mr. Bush was demolished.
Some damage is reported from the country surrounding this
place, but no one was hurt.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 2, 1894 – Page: 3
Storm Notes
Additional Damage
Wortham, Freestone Co.,
Tex., May -.
Further reports from the country show a great deal more damage by
Sunday’s storm than at first supposed.
In the country near this place the residence of T. F.
Castles was blown down, and a wagon was blown several hundred yards.
T. F. Meadors’ residence was blown from the blocks.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 7, 1894 – Page 4
The State Press
M. W. Moody has succeeded J. E. Saunders on the Wortham Vindicator. J. B. Hicks is associated with the new management.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 17, 1894 – Page 6
COURT RECORDS
Dismissed for want of prosecution: M. J. Childs et al. vs. Wm. Cortes?, from Freestone.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 26, 1894 – Page 3
Mortuary
MRS. W. N. SNEED
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex.,
May 23
–Mrs. Lena Sneed, wife of Dr. W. N. Sneed and sister of L. D. Lillard of
Fairfield Recorder, died here last night.
MRS. G. T. BRADLEY
Fairfield, Freestone Co.,
Tex., May 23
– Mrs. Bradley, wife of George T. Bradley
of Stewards Mill, died to-day.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – June 11, 1894 – Page 7
Railroad News
Fairfield and Corsicana
Fairfield, Freestone Co.,
Tex., June 8 – The committee representing the
citizens of Fairfield ceased negotiations yesterday with the
representative of the proposed railroad from Corsicana to
Fairfield and on east, who accepted the subscription list of $19,200 and the
road is procure its own depot grounds within certain limits.
As the county is barely touched by the Central on the west
and the International on the southeast the outside world generally does not know
the varied resources of this county.
Fairfield, the
county seat, now has a
population of about 800, and with this road will have a town of near 3000 in a year or so, as there is a fine territory all
around it.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – June 30, 1894 – Page 6
Ran into a Buggy
Three Men Badly Hurt and the Horse Killed Outright
Corsicana, Tex., June 29 – The yard engine of Houston and Texas Central railroad, while
returning to the city from Carl this afternoon, ran into a buggy containing
three men. It killed the horse,
smashed the buggy and seriously injured the men.
James Rodgers’ left leg was broken.
George Ricker received severe scalp wounds and was hurt in
his legs and shoulders.
Ross O’Neal of
Cade was
badly bruised, but not seriously injured.
The accident occurred about four miles from the city.
No blame is attached to Engineer Jackson, who was running
the engine. The crossing was near a
curve and the men thought they had time enough to rush across after the signal
whistle blew.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 8, 1894 – Page 14
Killed at Drew [should be Dew]
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., July 7 – Lee Jones was shot and killed at Brewer yesterday evening. Jones was one of the two parties who were charged with entering Prof. Wilford’s home at night some time ago at Brewer, in this county. No one was at home except his wife and a lady friend. Mrs. Wilford ran to a neighbor’s house and procured a pistol and both parties were arrested. After their arrest they broke jail and Jones had just returned.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 15, 1894 – Page 14
Parker's Voice
FREESTONE FOR
REAGAN
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., July 14 – In yesterday’s primaries Reagan and Jester carried this county. No other state candidates were on the ticket. Candidates for nearly all county offices will have to go into the second primary.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 24, 1894 – Page 3
Camp Joe Johnston Reunion
Three Day’s Meeting – Interesting Relics of the War on
Exhibition
Jack’s Creek,
Limestone Co., Tex., July 22 – Six years
ago Joe Johnston camp was organized with less
than 100 members and to-day it numbers over 200 and is growing in membership
rapidly. Capt. Richardson was its first commander, Col. C. L.
Watson was its next and Capt. J. W. Simmons is its present commander. ….
The collection of war relics at the pavilion attracted
attention and was the center of many recollections.
Among the articles exhibited was a portfolio, taken from a yankee; a
minnie ball from Chickamauga; a war cap with a bullet hole, belonging to Mr.
Skillern; Mr. Cap’s spy glass from Manassas’ battlefield; confederate stamps; a
hymn book with breastpin carried through the war by George Archer; a book
containing the names of soldiers who died in northern prisons; stones from
Bloody Pond and the monuments where Gen. Deshler fell; Buckner’s sword captured
from a yankee; a needle case taken from a yankee’s knapsack, and many others.
The Val Verde battery
of which the gun now on exhibition at first consisted of seven pieces and was
captured from the Yankees at Val Verde, N. M. in a fight during the war.
It was moved from one place to another, and finally when the war was over
the battery was left at Fairfield and R. J.
Bryant with other confederate
soldiers for fear the Yankees would again demand it after the war was over
buried the seven cannon and there they lay for years.
Finally an ex-confederate officer who then lived in
Freestone county,
being unfortunate and in great the cannon were all dug up and one of them, which
was solid brass and weighed over 1000 pounds, was shipped to Houston and sold for a handsome sum, which
relived the old and needy confederate.
One of the cannon is used at the reunion at
Fairfield, and Mr. Bryant last week
brought this one now on the grounds from Oakwoods, Leon county, and it will henceforth be used by
Joe Johnston camp.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 25, 1894 – Page 8
Judicial Convention
Of the Fifth Supreme District Ends
Its Labors – Judges Lightfoot, Rainey and Finley
The credentials showed the following counties represented, the vote of each being furnished to the convention in a type-written slip: …. Freestone 4, ….
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 25, 1894 – Page 1
County Judges-Afternoon
They Discuss Roads and Bridges, and Several Other Subjects
Promptly at 2 p.m. the county judges’ convention was rapped to order by Judge D. S. Chessher. …. A. G. Anderson, Freestone; …
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 27, 1894 – Page 2
CORSICANA AND SOUTHEASTERN
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., July 24 – Bids for the construction of the Corsicana and Southeastern were opened a week ago and the contract awarded to a Fort Worth firm. The attorney of the company left last night for Fort Worth to draw up and sign the contract. The surveying corps now in the field is locating the line.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 5, 1894 – Page 6
Texas Progress
Freestone Vindicator: Hiram Stubbs elegant new residence is nearing completion. Henry Bounds is preparing to erect a handsome residence in Wortham real soon.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 14, 1894 – Page 8
Conventions of 1894
Freestone
Cleveland Vote, 1893: 1,391
Vote in Convention: 4
Hogg Vote, 1893: 1,415
Vote in Convention: 5
Clark Vote, 1892: 632
Vote in Convention: 2
[Change in numbers of representatives at convention compared with last year.]
LOSSES
Freestone 2
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 15, 1894 – Page 1
They Can't Agree
On Planks of the State Platform Concerning
CLEVELAND’S POLICY
…
ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
12. L. D. Lillard of Freestone.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 23, 1894 – Page 2
The Cotton Crop
FREESTONE
Wortham – Partial showers since August 1 have benefited the cotton in some localities, while in others there has been no rain and in consequence the crop will be cut very short. Taken as a whole, though, this year’s crop will be at least 30 per cent short of last year. Considerable complaint of both the boll worm and caterpillar.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 2, 1894 – Page 7
Freestone Assessed Values
Fairfield, Freestone Co.,
Tex., Aug. 30
– The taxable values of this county for this year are $2,780,814 as against
$2,718,448 for 1893, a gain this year of $62,366.
The total rate of taxation per $100 for this year is only 74 ½ cents.
The drouth in the
western counties brought a great many new settlers into this county, where
drouths are never known.
[same issue] – Page 19
The County Clerks
Of Texas to Meet in Convention in Galveston on the First Tuesday in September
At the coming
session of the convention, which will last three days, the following subjects
will be discussed:
“On Finance
Ledger:” John P. King of
Tarrant.
P. C. McKee of Grimes, R[obert] N[eville] Compton
of Freestone.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 5, 1894 – Page 6
MORTUARY
J. T. STEWARD
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., Sept. 2 – J. T. Steward of Steward’s Mill, eight miles west of here, died this morning.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 14, 1894 – Page 4
Texas' School Fund
Freestone:
Students: 4,535;
Net amount Apportioned: $15,716.45
Fairfield:
Students: 144; Net amount
Apportioned: $496.80
Wortham:
Students: 179; Net amount Apportioned: $617.55
[same issue] – Page 2
POSTAL CHANGES
The following postoffices have had special service discontinued: …Couchman, Freestone county, from Marathon; …
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 15, 1894 – Page 1
The Weather
Wortham, Freestone Co. – It has been raining nearly every day for the last ten days, doing considerable damage to open cotton and it is rotting the boils near the ground.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - October 8, 1894 – Page 4
Banker in Trouble
Indicted
for Theft and Embezzlement.
Now in Tennessee.
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., Oct. 5 – J. L. Stark, a banker who established himself last year, has been indicted on nine counts of embezzlement and theft. He has been located in Tennessee and a requisition has been applied for of Gov. Hogg for his return to Texas.
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[same issue]
Negro Lynched
He Assaulted a White Woman,
Was Arrested and Killed by Unknown Parties.
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., Oct. 5 – News reached here to-day of an attempted outrage on a white young lady by a negro near Mills, ten miles south of here, yesterday evening and the killing of the negro. It seems that the negro met Miss Mitchell in the road, and after passing her turned and caught her with criminal intent, but she fought him, thwarting his purpose. The young lady was very seriously injured, being cut on the throat on both sides and in the back and her head badly bruised. In some way she managed to escape from him and he was caught. While under guard last night he was shot and killed by unknown parties. The negro was well known by the young lady and parties in the neighborhood.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - October 21, 1894 – Page 10
Fatally Burned
Wortham, Freestone Co., Tex., Oct. 20 – Mrs. Chas. Wolf was dangerously burned to-day while kindling a fire with coal oil. The can exploded and threw the oil on her clothing, which caught fire and her garments burned off before the flames were extinguished. She will probably die.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Nov. 11, 1894 – Page 14
MOUNTED ROBBERS
Waco, Tex., Nov. 3 – Three mounted robbers have been holding citizens up in McLennan, Hill, and Limestone counties. They met Robert Primrose of Freestone county who was riding horseback to Hubbard City and took his watch and purse containing $17.60. …
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Nov. 15, 1894 – Page 2
Stack of Figures
They Show a Democratic Loss of 80,851 on
AN INCREASED VOTE
Populists Get the Worst of it in the Throwing Out of Boxes
COMPOSITION OF THE 24TH
….
Freestone: Culberson – 1161;
Nugent – 280; Makemson - 788
Cleveland, 1892 – 1301; Weaver, 1892 – 597; Harrison, 1892 – 774
DEMOCRATIC PLURALITIES
Freestone
Plurality: 181
Net Gain: …;
Net Loss: 523
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Nov. 16, 1894 – Page 2
The Official Figures
DEMOCRATIC PLURALITIES
County: Freestone Plur.: 181 Net Loss: 523
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Dec. 9, 1894 – Page 6
The State Press
---
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are Talking About
Lee Satterwhite will start a new paper, the Signal, at Fairfield.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Dec. 10, 1894 – Page 6
Prohibition Victory
Wortham, Freestone Co., Tex., Dec. 8 – The local option election held at this place to-day resulted in 116 for prohibition and 68 anti-prohibition.
Fort Worth Gazette (of Fort Worth, Texas) - Dec. 11, 1894 edition
"Shot and Robbed
Waco, Tex., Dec. 10, Dick Hardin of Fairfield, Freestone county, who came here to buy goods, was shot and robbed at 3 o'clock this morning, while in the reservation. Two unknown men attacked him and shot him in the neck and then robbed him of $145. His wound is not dangerous. There is no clew [clue] to his assailants."
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Dec. 12, 1894 – Page 3
Society over the State
CORSICANA
The Misses Bonner of Steward Mill visited here recently.