Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 10 No. 37, Sunday, September 16, 1900

              VOL. X. WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1900, No. 37
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KID GLOVES $1.00
TRADE
Every Pair Fitted and Warranted
Sole Agents in Waco
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Advance Display This Week
of new and stylish Dress Goods, Silks and Trimmings in latest styles, patterns and
shadings. We believe that we will show this season
The Handsomest Goods in Texas
without any exception whatever. We have expert buyers in the market making
choice selections of latest fashionable novelties both of Domestic make and Imported
materials, with Trimmings to match. We also flatter ourselves that we can and will
name the lowest prices ever asked for this class of fine and stylish stuffs. We suggest
to our customers that early buyers have best choice, and it costs no more to get the
prettiest patterns now than to wait and have second choice later.
Monday
Only
One Thousand Yards of Blue
and Brown, Apron Check Ginghams
for Monday only, at
4 cents a yard
Good Heavy Twill Back Cotton
Flannel, 30 inches wide unbleached,
worth 8 to 10 cents a
yard. Monday only, at
1\ cents a yard
Splendid assortment of Medium
and Heavy Flannelettes in short
lengths from 5 to 10 yards each,
worth 10 cents a yard, on sale,
Monday and Tuesday,
1\ cents a yard
Fine New Zephyr Ginghams,
pretty Fall Effects, wortn 20 to
25 cents a yard, at only
15 cents a yard
Veilings
Ladies should wear the newest
things in Veilings and we are
showing the “Uptodate” styles.
One of the most popular of these
is the “Rainage” and another is
the London Mesh with Velvet
dots. We show all the new ones
and will be glad to show them
to you.
WARM WEATHER
SALE OF BLANKETS To protect our customers against any sudden change of weather,
we make a special early sale of Blankets and Comforts this week. Although
the manufacturers have advanced prices fully 25 per cent since
the placing' of our orders, yet we will continue our low prices close to
cost Any old numbers will be sold at about onethird, less than
value today.
Q At this low price we
^y offer 50 pairs of white
* Blankets in good $2.00
quality. You save onethird if
you buy this week.
2 A Q White Wool Mixed
.^fy Blankets worth $3.25 a
* pair, at only $2 49.
These are extra good values.
3 A Q A small lot of 10 pairs
nice white wool Blankets,
good size and
good appearance, at $3.49 a pair.
We will show the finest
assortment of all
wool white and gray
Blankets in this sale ever sold before
at $5.00 a pair.
5.00
14.85 Fine Lamb’s wool
soft as Down. Just
such a blanket as
will sell at $20 a pair You cannot
make money easier than to
buy a pair of these this week.
14 Q/r Large size and large
I y j value. Full elevenquarter,
as soft as
down and the purest Lamb’s wool
at only $11.95 a pair this week.
This is one of our excellent
values at a
moderate price. It is
all wool in whits or fancy Scotch
Plaid, well worth $10.00 a pair.
Teey go in this sale at only $7.39
a pair.
7.39
COMFORTS
To make this sale additionally interesting we offer some extra
good things in Comfortables.
About twentyfive nice Two extra fine Eider 1L85
Comforts in good size at.. . / DC
An extra good value well Q£T
worth $1.25 each, at............. /DC
Silkaline covered Comforts,
medium weight, at 1.25
down Comforts,silk top
Silkaline covered Comf’s 1 QCZ
good size, of white cotton r ♦ /
Ex’ra size Comforts In 1 ACZ
this sale at special price r * rD
Ladies Dress
Skirts
Wool Serge Separate Skirts in
Black, Navy and Cadet Blue,
well worth $5.00, see O
them this week, at only J* JU
A pretty line of Black Crepon
Skirts, nicely made in O *1
good style at ...................w*/
Misses Lined Skirts in good
material at only, $2.50, 1 'JC
$1.75 and........................... r .ZD
We are showing advanced styles
in Ladies Suits, Light Wraps
and Silk and Lace Capes.
Ladies
' Underwear
The Melba Union Suit for
Ladies is one of the most popular
styles of Ladies Underwear.
We show them in White, Blue
and Pink, Lisle thread and
Cotton, well made, French finished
seams, at
50c and $L00
These are just right weight for
early Fall wear.
Infants and Childrens Cotton
and Lisle Thread Vests, long
sleeves and high neck or short
sleeves and low neck, in Pink,
Blue or White, nicely made,
silk tape nece, at only
\ 5 and 25 cents
Boys’ Clothing
We have enlarged this department and now
show a magnificent stock of Children’s Clothing.
Waists add Shoes.
Little Boys’ Vestee Suits, stylishly
made, ages 3 to 8, at....................................
These are equal to any ordinary $2.00 suit
in the market.
Little Boys and Big Boys Fine Nobby ^ rn
Suits in all ages 3 to 16 years, at........... Z.DU
Little Boys’ Vestee Suits, made up
elegant style at $3.50 and...................
1.50
4.00
Young Men’s, Big Boys’ and
Youth’s Suits for ages 8 ^ £"/"\
to 16 years, at..................... Z.DU
Very handsome Suits in O DD
8 to 16 years, at................. O.UU
Boys’ Nobby All Wool Suits,
very dressy and made in perfect
gut, s'yle and finish,
$4.00, $5.00, $7.50
Knee Pants
You should not fail to see our
specially made Knee Pants, the
kind that will not rip, tear or let
the buttons come off Guar £7/"!
antee all through................. DVJC
Boys’ extra fine Knee Pants in
all sizes, handsome new patterns,
stylishly made, at 75c and$l a pr.
Store Notes
We are showing all the New
Shades, also black and white in
Fosters Kid Gloves.
The newest things in Ladies
Neckwear now being shown in
Ribbon Department.
The Mother’s Delight, The
“Nazareth” Seamless Waist for
boys and girls from 4 to 8 years
at 25 cents. A eew one free for
anyone that does not give perfeet
satisfaciion.
Many New Shapes in Ladies
and Misses Felt Hats, some that
are extra handsome.
Miss Poyntz has returned from
New York and wishes the Ladies
to visit her Dressmaking Parlors,
upstairs in our store.
Some people are buying Blankets
and Comforts now because special
prices save them money.
Silks and Dress Goods
See our advance display of extreme novelties
special values this week.
Fancy Colored Stripe Raye, Taf Tailor
feta, self colored raised cords, crepe
raised cords in dark rich shades for
street wear; also light shades and
creams for evening wear at
75 cents a yard
New Fall Silks in raised cord
Raye Taffeta, black, white and colors,
fancy Jacquard Silks, illuminated
colored stripe Taf 1 /Y/~\
fetas at, per yard, only.. . r .vJVj
High Novelties in Fancy Self
Colored Silk Crepes, Satin Stripes,
Embroidered Figured Silk Crepe
de Chine at
$1.25, $1.50, $1.75
We name a few
Suitings in patterns are
very popular now, and we show
many handsome styles.
Pebbled Homespun,
$7.50 a Pattern
Scotch Tweeds,
$6.50 a Pattern
Diagonal Cheviot*.
$7.50 a Pattern
Stripes and Checks,
$8.75 a Suit
These are very choice in mixtures,
blues, browns and grays, and look
very much like goods worn by the
gentlemen.
School Outfits
Pencil, Penholder, Rule, Slate
Pencil, all in a nice box, with
key for............................................. 5c
Penholder, Slate Pencil, Lead
Pencil, Colored Crayon, Pen,
Rule and a nice box, with lock
and key for................................| Oc
Special value large size School
bags worth 25 cents, at....|5c
Very fine School Bags, at 25c,
50c, 75c and................................I OO
Splendid Values in Baskets and
School Bags at only...........I Oc
Lead Peneils, at per dozen. .Sc
Fine Lead Pencils, each at 2c,
3c and ............. 5c
Lunch Boxes and Baskets at 10
cents to............... 50c
Composition Books, Fine Tablets.
Ink Erasers and Slates,
each................................5 and IOC
Pencil Sharpeners FREE to
each customer.
HOSIERY
for Ladies and Children.
This season we have given particular
care to the selection of Hosiery that
is fast color, elastic texture, firmly
woven and warranted to wear well.
The lines for children are reinforced
at knees, heels and toes, and the
ladies’ hose are also extra carefully
made at heel aud toes to resist the
usual strain.
[T We guarrntee perfect satisfaction
to the user of every
pair of our children’s and
ladies’ hose at 25 cents a pair. They
are our special leader line and equal to any of the ordinary 35cent
kinds. They are really fine hose and our price is a surprise.
4 We make a specialty, too, of children’s good ribbed black
I II £ hose, in all sizes, at 10 cents a pair. They are seamless,
' double heel and toe, fast color warranted, splendid wearers.
4 ^ Some people want a good pair ladies’ or children’s hose at 15
I cents a pair. We show this week some of the kinds you have
' paid 25c for. Our price is only 15c a pair. See them.
<§)ocial and ©urrent £vent^..
Happening of WeeK—lV]ov>ement5
of f@eople Volt f^noW.
(All items of social and personal nature will please be sent to 924 Columbus street,
independent and Southwestern Telephone No. 167. No items received later than 9 o’clock
Saturday morning, and to insure attention should be received Friday.)
THE JOY OF COMING HOME.
There’s joy in sailing outward,
Though we leave upon the pier,
With faces grieved and wistful,
Our very dearest dear ;
And the sea shall roll between us.
For perhaps a whole round year.
There’s joy in climbing mountains,
In fording rushing brooks,
In poking into places
We've read about in books.
In meeting stranger people
With unfamiliar looks.
But the joy of joys is ours
Untouched by any pain,
When we take the home bound steamer
And catch the home bound train;
There’s nothing half so pleasant
As coming home again.
—Margaret E. Sangster in Harper’s
Bazaar.
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1V/I ARGARET Sangster touches a sympathetic
chord in the hearts of many
when she indulges the sentiment of the
above little poem. Indeed, we are glad
to cease our wanderings arid to live again
among loved scenes: to greet familiar
voice,s and to feel once more that some
one who feels a genuine interest in us
is at every turn. The inconvenience of
adapting ourselves to the habits and life
of distant lands is no more—our home
comforts are, hailed as blessings, and
we hum with feeling John Howard
Payne’s ever sweet refrain. The traveling
trunks are sent with gladness to the
attic, the little home touches are, put
here .and there, and life becomes fraught
with a new interest. There is some body
who cares for us, some body who is rest
| ful .after the hurly iburiv of summer
j hotels and tourist cars. We are mistress
of our own homes, free to surround
| ourseleves with those near and dear to
i us; in fact, we are at home.
A home though with many changes,
some gay, some grave, for the merciless
time is ever restless and craves the ex
citement of death and marriage, of removal
and other evidences that the present
becomes a dead past and that the future
holds a never ending secret. One
finds friends in new abiding places, familiar
faces passed away forever: unfamiliar
faces on the streets, all within
the space of a few short months. Of
these Waco has more than her usual
share within the season just gone. One
scarcely knows where to locate her
friends, so general has been the movement
among Vanity Fair households.
After many years of residence as one
of Waco’s most cultured families, the
W. L. Prathers have gone to form a new
circle of friends in Austin. Instead. Mr.
and Mrs. H. H. Shear extend the greeting
into the Prather home.
And this takes Mr. and Mrs. Benton
into the Shear home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weil have sold
their attractive North Twelfth street
horn which is now matronized hy Mrs.
B. H. Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Jones have taken
up their residence in Nashville, and Mrs.
J. P. Anderson is Mi's. .Tones’ successor.
The P. H. Dean home which has ever
been the synonym for hospitality is closed
and Mr. and Mrs. Dean are now ineluded
as Dallasites.
Mr. R. M. Russell has preceded Mrs.
Russell in the occupancy of tiheir cottage
and Mr. and Mrs. Lackland resume their
connection with the R. M. Bain houser
hold.
The A. B. Weslow place is taken by
the C. F. Glovers while Mrs. Cohn and
Mrs. Maurice Txempner winter in New
York City.
Mrs. William McGregor returned from
Little Rock, Mr. and Mrs. McGregor
having abandoned the idea of removing
to Seattle.
Mrs. George McLendon returns from
Chicago to occupy her pretty little new
Austin street cottage.
Mrs. Norman Shumate presides over
the Gribble cottage on Austin street.
Mrs. M. A. Trice has abandoned her
suburban residence to occupy her new
home on North Fifteenth street.
Mrs. J. M. Carroll has opened the
Ker place. Ninth and Columbus street, j
Mr. and Mrs. Otis David have gone to
make Colorado Springs their home.
Mr. iand Mrs. Lee Davis are residents’
of San Antonio.
There are friends missed and mourned
for dearth has entered several family
circles and there now live in retirement
Mrs. E. .T, Ashburn, Mr. D. A. Kelly.
Mrs. Clarence Hubby, Judge and Mrs.
Gerald with tiheir daughters and the famly
of Col. E. A. Joneis, Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Allison—all 'bereaved in an incredibly
short space of time.
The E. H. Dickson ne,w home is one
of the ornaments to West Columbus
street.
* *
The new court house, the new bridge
the new race track, the Citizens Hotel—
Waco has by no means taken a siesta
during the warm weather. These be
cool business ventures to be sure, but
they react upon the social life in beautifying
the town and stimulating the
pride of the women of fashion as
well as of the men of toil. But, no
park! The heat and dust must be enduved
and the fresh air seek the man
rather than the man seek the freisih air.
* * *
As diverse in movement as the town
seemed to be, it is since Sunday one
unanimous Whole in its interest over
the great Galveston flood and in its effort
to aid the sufferers. There were many
in Waco who had friends or relatives
on the island who were haturally much
alarmed and excited as the hours passed
with the ominous silence which pervaded
the island. As by one impulse the various
organizations headed by the City Council
started out upon the work of gathering
food, clothes and money with Waco’s
usual generosity. In the mean time
anxiety increased until communication
quieted some and filled others with consternation.
Hie first to hear directly from a loved
one was Mr. C. H. Cox whose son Mr.
Robert Cox lives with his wife whom so.
many in Waco know. Fortunately Mrs.
Cox tarried in England until cooler
weather. Mr. Cox writes very modestly
of his act, but his friends feel that he
is nothing short of a hero. As he remarked.
“Rome one had to escape totell
tlhe awful news,” so lie with fiveothers
at the peril of their lives boarded
a small boat, rode the waves amidst
death dealing wreckage and landed at
Texas Point, going hy hand car into
Houston from where the thoughtful man
instantly quieted the fears of his father
when he was too exhausted to hold his
pen.
The charming little woman, Miss Mae
Sawyer, who was so popular upon one
of die Camps Conger, her brother, Master
Tom Sawyer, also their father were
swallowed by the merciless waves.
Mrs. Jay Womack who^e girlhood
home was in Galveston is greatly distressed
that many' of her life long friends
are no more, and that others remain
bereft of all that was dear to them.
Mrs. R. H. Garroll and Mrs. D. C.
Bolingcr have relatives among Galveston’s
most prominent people. They
were considerably exercised at first, hut
rejoiced to find that all in whom they
felt an interest were away at their
summer home.
Mrs. James Baker and Mrs. G. 0.
McGregor feared the worst for two days,
but found that the Mensings and Fordtrans
were all safe except the wife of
their cousin, Mrs. Claude Fordtran.
Mrs. Quitman Finley who will ever be
claimed as a Waco girl has not been
heard from, though her aunt, Mrs. John
Marshall thinks she was not in the worst
and most unfortunate district.
Perhaps the saddest ease directly con.
nected with Waco is that of a young lady
pupil at the Baylor University who has
just entered. Her entire family lives
several miles down the island. She cannot
hear one word and is almost crazed
with the belief that her entire home and
family is swept out of existence.
Mr. W. B. Morrison is just returned
from Alvin bringing with him the four
homeless little children of his sister.
Great anxiety is felt over the condition
of Miss Mary Van Dyne and her
sister Mrs. McCaleb. Mr. Sam Van Dyne
was in Waco all of Sunday in fruitless
endeavor to get some word.
(Continued on page 3.)