Canvass Notes and Local News From Milam County
A 1902 Milam County update notes C C Kirtley’s peach seed sale terms with cash and nursery stock options, promises a Cameron nursery, and records a long local presence. It also recounts Gabriel Pool and wife’s 68th anniversary, lineage, and church ties, plus crop reports on boll weevils, irrigated farming, and a heavy rain event on the Bickett farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Gaston-Sprinkel’s
Milam County
C.C. Kirtley
Yarrellton Notes Emergence of Boll Worms and Local Reports
Farmers shift from joy over bolls to alarm as boll worm and leaf worm cause damage. Protracted meeting led by Miss Lillian Pool draws crowds with limited spiritual gains. Belton crossing meeting ends with Rev. Rhodes noting effort but few church accesses. Rosco family from Navasota visiting Chapman relatives. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Chapman on the 15th inst.
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Lillian Pool
Miss Pool
Belton Crossing
Rhodes
Rosco
Navasota
Chapman
License To Marry Issued Since Last Tuesday
The county clerk issued licenses to J. H. Hilton and Ida Johnson, Joseph Barker and Samantha Puckett, Ben Hilliard and Caroline Prince, Ollie F. Seuell and Lula Allen, C. B. Newman and Lula Angel, Alvah Jordan and Nancy Avery, Tony Goodwin and Mary Jones, Conrad Witte and Kate Lierman, Henry Taylor and Fannie Nobles.
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J. H. Hilton
Ida Johnson
Joseph Barker
Samantha Puckett
Ben Hilliard
Caroline
Prince
Ollie F. Seuell
Lula Allen
Newman
Lula Angell
Alvah Jordan
Nancy Avery
Tony Goodwin
Mary Jones
Conrad Witte
Kate Lier
Weather shifts boost county forage as rains return
The county saw a dramatic change in thirty days with renewed rain beginning June 25 and Cameron’s shower last Monday. Farmers who planted forage crops in June and early July expect rewards as crops respond to the rain, after January and February were dry.
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Cameron
Local Happenings and Shiner Move for Mr Czichos
The Herald notes Mr Frank Czichos will relocate to Shiner to join a mercantile house after a year with Gaston Sprinkel and earlier D Kemp. He took his family to Ben Arnold last Saturday and will move on from there. The article also covers Belton carnival swimming times and state records, Cameron and Georgetown teams, and a Cameron normal school closing and a social house party hosted by Dr and Mrs N Caas.
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the Herald
Frank Czichos
Shiner
Ben Arnold
Czichos
Gaston-Sprinkel Mercantile Company
D. Kemp
Georgetown
Waco
Belton
Belton No.1, Jr
Cameron
Dublin
Mrs Forest Lay Continues to Improve
A brief health update notes Mrs Forest Lay remains on the mend and shows ongoing improvement.
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Wall Street
Alabama
Cameron, Texas
Dress Goods
Wagner & Stevenson
W. B. Corsets
Wagner
Brandon
Bryan
Tex
Wagner & Patout
Wagner & Rimassa
Mexia
Wagner & Currie
Huntsville
Louisine
Houston Post
Gabriel Pool
Buckholts
Mr. Pool
Edgefield District
South Carolina
Alpha Russell
Perry County
Bunker Hill
Pool
The
Methodist Church
Yarrelston
Black Land Bell
John Eplen
John McLane
San Antonio
Guadaloupe
Mr. McLane
Yarrellton
Henry Taylor and
Fannie Nobles
T. A. Robinson
Vm Pss
Jay
R. F. Pool
RE. D. Brown
Old County Clerk Building
Texas
Belton Journal
Camerons
Mrs. N. Caas
Ethel Leverett
Mary Henderson
Myrtle Arriett
Mary Pool
May Ford
Minnie Reno
Julia Colling
Mary Jeter
Helen Hefley
Sallie Tomkiee
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