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VOL. X. WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1900, No. 37 fc**A*£**£**4>|!*#***##*|l*##***4|i*A*##*#**#£***#**AA#*##**#£#*£***##£#A##*#A*A*#*#A##*#AA*S'##*AA#'S***#***#£#|j KID GLOVES $1.00 TRADE Every Pair Fitted and Warranted Sole Agents in Waco C^\^\xv?v\\\^\. 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. * 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.)
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ID | tx-waco-nwp-art_1900-09-16 |
Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 10 No. 37, Sunday, September 16, 1900 |
Date | 1900-09-16 |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 37 |
Number of Pages | 6 |
Publisher | Artesia Publishing Company |
Language | English |
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Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 6 pages |
Uniform Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-art_1900-09-16_01 |
OCR - Transcript | VOL. X. WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1900, No. 37 fc**A*£**£**4>|!*#***##*|l*##***4|i*A*##*#**#£***#**AA#*##**#£#*£***##£#A##*#A*A*#*#A##*#AA*S'##*AA#'S***#***#£#|j KID GLOVES $1.00 TRADE Every Pair Fitted and Warranted Sole Agents in Waco C^\^\xv?v\\\^\. 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. * 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.) |
Uniform Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) |