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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1899
Page
2
A miscellany discusses cotton futures risks for holders and speculators, urging caution amid market volatility. It notes a decline in local newspaper presence and recalls a grand town crier who announced auctions and public notices, reflecting on civic life in Bedford and nearby towns.
The note cites J J Beckham on Sunday reform and urges stopping work at saloons and oil mills. Dallas Fair runs Sept 28 to Oct 22 with Central’s special fares from Sept 26 to Oct 22, includes round trips at 8.80 and partial day limits, aiming to attract crowds from Mexia on event days.
Bright sorghum hay and finest straw baled in any quantity at 6 dollars per ton offered by Bonner and Wortham on Lee Lane the shoe man. Walter Carter and Bill Price in a late yesterday afternoon fist fight. Bill appeared bruised before the marshal intervened. A black pig, three months old, lost. finder to notify F Hernandez. Jesse Vancy from Tehuacana this day.
Presbyterian Rev J F Mc Kenzie pastor Prof J W Reid superintendent Sunday school Every Sunday preaching morning and night Cumberland Presbyterian Rev A L Barr pastor M 8 Clark superintendent Sunday school Preaching and Sunday school every Sunday prayer meeting Wednesday Baptist Rev W C Frile pastor B J Miller superintendent Sunday school Services every Sunday prayer meeting Wednesday B Y P A meets 4 pm Sunday Methodist Rev T J Duncan pastor H H K Jackson superintendent Sunday school Services every Sunday Epworth league meets 4 pm Sunday Episcopal Rev W L Smith pastor Services every 3rd Sunday morning and night
Cloudcroft, in the newly organized Oters County New Mexico, sits 9000 feet up the Sacramento Mountains at the Alamogordo and Sacramento Railway terminus. The region offers snow capped White Mountain views, vast White Sands to the west, spruce forests to the south and east, and a superb climate free of impurities. The government selected Fort Stanton as a sanitarium site, and S P Turner of the Texas & Pacific Railway can provide rates and schedules.
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