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W. K. Rose left Sunday for Midfield to take charge of the ranch on which he and Alfred Ward have their cattle which they recently bought from Al McFaddin of Victoria. They have a large number of cattle at Midfield and Mr. Rose will give them his attention.—Edna Herald
Daily Advocate,
Victoria, May 6, 1910 |
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T. V. Haynes informs us that he will probably enter a small herd of his Brahmin cattle in the stock department of the Cuero fair, which will be held in November. The imported sacred bull will head the herd and he is able to select some powerful fine specimens from among his cows, yearling and calves. In case he does enter these cattle it should be a very strong drawing card for the fair, as it is not a common sight to see such handsome cattle in Texas, and a genuine sacred bull is a rare sight alone.—Edna Herald
Weekly Herald, September 17, 1910 |
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The census of Jackson County has been announced and it proved to be a case where no argument was necesary to convince every one that anticipation furnishes more pleasure than realization. The population given Jackson County is 6471, an increase of only 377 in the last ten years. The showing was certainly a sore disappointment to our people, and almost te the man they are of the opinion that there has been a great mistake made somewhere some time. To say that the county has not gained 400 in the past ten years is a statement that no one can believe who has been a resident of this section during that time. If the 1910 census is correct there is no doubt in our minds but that the 1900 census was padded, and we don't believe it was. Within the past five years there has been between 75 and 100 new homes erected in Edna, and we know of none that have been removed from the town. If there is a vacant house in town we would like to know of it, as we have callers at this office almost daily from men who wish to rent one. It is not only residences that are occupied by families, but many of the two-story business houses are thus occupied. No argument can be advaned that Edna has ever had within at least 200 or 300 people of what it now has. Then look at Ganado. This town has over doubled its population in the last ten years, and the country surrounding it has done still better. The Vanderbilt section, with several hundred people, has all been settled since 1900, and we might mention every section of the county has made some increase in population. We honestly believe that Edna alone has made a larger increase than the entire county. We believe the Booster Club should take a hand in this matter and make some arrangements toward havIng another census taken. It is a matter that is of vital interest to everyone, and we see no reason why this great wrong should not be rectified at once. We do not mean to throw any slurs at the government census takers, as we know they were conscientious and did the best they could under the circumstances, but we also know that we have a larger population than the census gives us, and we owe it to ourselves to get the correct figures and have them published. Some have said that the reason the population of the whole state fell far below what was expected was because the republican party did not want Texas to increase its representation in Congress.
Daily Advocate, December 17, 1910 |
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Rev. Father P. J. Crane of New York, is the new rector of the Edna Catholic Church. He will reside in Inez and will conduct services in this city twice a month. The Herald joins the people of this section in extending the gentleman a cordial welcome to our midst. Rev. Father W. E. Heffernan, who has been rector of the church here for the past year or so, will devote his entire time to the El Campo church.
Weekly Advocate, Victoria, January 28,
1911 |
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Boon Whittington and Buck Kleas have engaged in a brand new industry. They are gathering the native moss and will cure it and sell to manufacturing concerns who use it in making mattresses, etc. The moss supply in this county is something immense, and if the young men can properly prepare it for sale they should find it a lucrative undertaking, as the price per pound is something like 3 cents. We also learned, last week, that another gentleman would deal in moss, but in an entirely different manner. This man expects to ship the green moss to the north for decoration purposes, especially during the Easter and Christmas seasons there was nothing green in the north for decoration would look very green and attractive. The same gentleman, whose name we do not remember, informed us that he would also grow celery in this county. He is an old hand at the business and expects the vegetable to do exceedingly well here.
Daily Advocate, Victoria, February 6,
1911 |
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Wednesday evening at the home of George F. Simons, the bride's uncle, J. S.? Montgomery of Brazoria and Miss Lola Louie Logan were united in marriage, the ceremony being performed by Rev. M. K. Fred in his usual solemn and impressive style. The Simons home was charmingly decorated suitable to the occasion, an arch being arranged from which suspended the wedding bell. Mr. Montgomery is depot agent at Brazoria and is very popular. The bride was reared in Edna, and is a charming young lady. They left on the 8:45 train amid a shower of rice and congratulations for New Orleans and other points, after which they will be at home to their friends at Brazoria. Miss Ada Stoner of Victoria attended the Montgomery-Logan wedding. Miss Louise Bergebrede, who is attending school at Houston, is at home for a few days. Mrs. Fred Martin of Bakersfield, Colo., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Rogers.
The Houston Post, Sunday, April 23, 1911 |
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J. E. Billups has in his possession a relic of by-gone days that might have played an important part in Texas history. It perhaps did service when this republic went through the great struggle of freeing itself from the offensive Mexican government. It is a badly decayed five shooter cap and ball pistol, and it was found on the Navidad River below town by Fred Westhoff. When it was picked up the barrel crumbled into dust and only the cylinder fully loaded with cap and balls, and the brass frame work of the handle remained intact. The fact that the steel barrel corroded into dust is evidence that the pistol had laid out in the weather for many years, and also the particular style of the make stamps it as an ancient weapon. Mr. Billups and Mr. Hawkins are of the opinion that the gun was the property of Gen. Sam Houston and they back up their judgment by saying that when Santa Anna was captured that a member of the Houston staff handed the general a pistol fully loaded with which to slay the cruel Mexican general and that Houston never fired a shot. But some important epoch in Texas history never occurred on the Navidad River below Edna, and naturally the weapon's history was again confused. W. M. Manly says that it's as clear as mud to him; that the gun belonged to Stephen F. Austin, and that he probably lost it when he surveyed out the league of land in this county under that name. Mr. Manly is positive that he has advanced the correct solution to the mystery and no amount of argument could shake him loose from his opinion. Someone else remarked it was lost by LaSalle when he came up the Navidad in search of the Mississippi. With all the ideas advanced there is yet room for argument, and probably it will be some time before all are settled on the original owner of the pistol and the part it has played in history.
Daily Advocate, Victoria, August 25,
1911 |
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Daily Advocate, Victoria, September 9,
1911 |
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Monday night there was a meeting of a large number of the citizens of Edna at the Court House which was called by Messrs. Hawkins and Sheckell for the purpose of launching a campaign to organize a stock company to the amount of $20,000 for the purpose of erecting a three-story modern hotel in Edna. The gentlemen, it seems, have had the matter under consideration for sometime, and have pretty well sounded the business men of this section on the project. The meeting Monday night was not intended for any other purpose than to put the proposition before the public that it might be thoroughly weighed before any one was approached in a real business way.
Weekly Advocate, Victoria, December 23,
1911 |
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A big crowd witnessed the "farming with dynamite" demonstration last Saturday up on the Houston ranch. Several big trees were uprooted, stumps pulled and ditches dug by the dynamite route, which was a sight never seen before by many of the crowd. D. Jamerson & Company are agents for the dynamite and doubtless a great deal of it will be used in Jackson County this year, as there are several big tracts of bottom land to be cleared.
Daily Advocate, December 30, 1911 |
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Edna, Texas, Sept. 16.—While at Navidad about ten miles north of here, H. K. Staples, editor of the Edna Herald, was bitten yesterday by a stray dog showing symptoms of hydrophobia. The bite was on the leg and the wound made was slight. The dog was killed and today Mr. Staples will take its head to the Pasteur Institute at Austin. If it is found that the dog had hydrophobia Mr. Staples will take the treatment.
Daily Advocate, September 18, 1912 |
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Monday, while en route to Galveston from Edna, the auto containing Mr. and Mrs. George S. Gayle, Mrs. S. J. Lesesne, Miss Jennie Gaye and Hughie White skidded off a high road dump on the East Bernard, near Hungerford, and turned over. Mrs. Gayle’s arm was broken near the shoulder, but no one else was seriously injured. Mrs. Gayle was taken to Houston, where she received medical treatment. Just how the accident occurred is not yet exactly known, but it seems that a recent rain had made the roads very slippery and in some way the auto got off the center of the dump and skidded down the embankment. Mrs. Gayle’s numerous friends trust that she will soon recover from her injury.
Daily Advocate, August 4, 1913 |
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The recital and musical given Tuesday night at the LaBauve Opera House by Misses Maida Davis of San Antonio and Grace Goldman of Victoria under the auspices of the Mothers Club, was one of the best attractions our people have witnessed in many a day There was present large crowd and each one returned home feeling doubly repaid for their trouble and investment. Miss Davis is a graduate of the Lealand Powers School of Expression Boston, and is an elocutionist of marked ability. The numbers were highly entertaining and received liberal applause, Miss Goldman is a gifted violinist and her renditions are not mere mechanical work, but full of expression and sentiment She was forced to answer many encores Miss Enid Laughter played the accompaniment for Miss Goldman on the piano, in her usual easy and graceful manner. These young ladies are artists in their respective lines and the people of Edna are ready to again witness an entertainment given by them.
Daily Advocate, September 9, 1913 |
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Sheriff A. C. Egg shipped nine bales of long staple cotton to the New Orleans market some time ago, and this week received word that it had been sold-one bale for 17c; 5 bales for 16c, and 3 bales for 15 1/2, or about $20 per bale more than the short staple would have brought. This is gratifying news to the long staple men, and clearly demonstrates the fact that Jackson County soil is capable of producing a high grade staple. The long staple was, introduced into Jackson County at a trying time for cotton. The season was not at all favorable; the continued dry weather stunted the growth of the plant to some extent, but viewed from all standpoints, long staple cotton has held its own. After our people thoroughly understand the species we believe a still better result will be had. Sheriff Egg has a little over 100 acres in long staple and he expects to get upwards of 40 bales from it. This cotton is here to stay and we believe that it will in time be the feature cotton crop of Jackson County. The Coast Country always produces a superior grade of the short staple, and it demands a better price than cotton produced in the interior, so why should It not produce a higher grade of long staple? The climatic, condition gives us this advantage and we should use it to advantage in raising the very best long staple.
Daily Advocate, September 22, 1913 |
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H. K. Staples, editor of the Edna Herald, who has numerous friends in Victoria, was taken to Cuero yesterday to undergo an operation for appendicitis.
Daily Advocate, March 30, 1914 |
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A Faithful Officer At the expiration of his present term of office Sheriff Albert Egg will, of his own volition step from under the responsibilities of the office of sheriff and tax collector and become a private citizen, notwithstanding the fact that this move was made against the earnest wishes of a great many of the law-abiding citizens of Jackson County. They realize that he has made Jackson County a peace officer unexcelled in the State of Texas, and the Herald is sincere in stating that he has few if any equals. He took up the reins of office when a mere boy and there were many good citizens at that time who trembled with fear at the task confronting him. As time wore on and tests and trying circumstances arose he met them fairly and squarely and with that ability and efficiency that stamped him as a true man; a peace officer of wonderful skill and determination and it soon developed to the gratification of his best friends that no better selection could have been made even if the whole state had been searched for a sheriff for Jackson County. Mr. Egg is an exception to the general rule in that holding office for many years, he lays aside the toga and becomes a private citizen in the ranks of his own choosing. Political Announcements
For Representative, 73rd District: W.
A. McCrory The Herald was not issued last week and we assure our readers that this situation was a source of much regret to the publisher. However, circumstances were such that they were beyond our control. At the time the paper should have been issued, Hardeman Staples, the editor’s brother and right hand man in the office, was a very sick patient at the Burns Hospital in Cuero and the writer was at his bedside. An acute attack of appendicitis threw business to the four winds so far as the Herald was concerned, but we are again on the job this week. With the exception of Christmas this was the first time the Herald has missed an issue since November 22, 1906. Hardeman is well on the road to recovery from the operation and expects to return home some time next week. Stock Law Beautifies Edna. Since the stock law has gone into effect in Edna, many hundreds of dollars have been spent in civic improvement, in concrete walks, beautifying and grading the yards around many homes in Edna. Hundreds, maybe thousands of trees, shrubbery, flowers and other plants have been planted this spring, in the yards, along the street and around the house. Several yards are being adorned with beautiful palm trees. If this pace keeps up for two more years, with more trees, shrubbery and flowers planted, concrete walks built, yards beautified and landscaped, Edna will soon be known and called “The City Beautiful.” Product Marker Quotations
Guineas, Geese, Geese and Pigeons in good demand and prices good.
The Faires Drug Company store does not look like
the same old place and there’s a powerful good reason for it. He has
installed handsome new fixtures throughout the store and it looms up
in good fashion. It is now one of the prettiest drug stores to be
found in South Texas, and Mr. Faires has a right to be proud of it. |
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The largest tombstone ever seen in Jackson county arrived last week from Austin to be erected at the old Brackenridge burying ground, which is located near the Brackenridge crossing on the Navidad river in the Westhoff pasture. It is solid Texas granite, the same material that was used in building the State capitol and the base, which measures something like 7x8 feet and 3 feet thick, is said to be the largest piece of solid granite ever polished. The stone proper is a massive affair and will last forever and a day. It is being erected by Col. Geo. Brackenridge of San Antonio, over the graves of his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brackenridge, who resided near the crossing on the Navidad that bears their name. They owned at that time the land that is now known as the Westhoff ranch. The old Eemerel Hotel, which was Edna's leading hotel for many years and which burned about 19 years ago, was formerly the Brackenridge home on the Navidad and was at that time one of the finest residences in this entire section.--Edna Herald.
Daily Advocate, May 9, 1914 |
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Saturday evening at Vanderbilt a Mexican in the employ of the extra
railroad gang killed a fellow laborer by stabbing him through and
through with a large butcher knife. The killing was apparently done
without provocation as there were no words passed and the murderer
claims that his victim was his friend. He claims that he was drunk
and after sobering up in the Edna jail says he does not remember of
having killed his "friend." The officers found the murderer in his
bunk asleep a short while after the killing, and he made no attempt
to evade them. The dead Mexican was stabbed near the heart and the
long knife penetrated the chest. Others who saw the crime say that a
bunch of them were standing around talking when the fellow whipped
out a knife and did the stabbing before any one realized what was
going on. The other Mexican fell dead in his tracks. Both hombres
are strangers in this county. --Edna Herald. |
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D. E. Lowre, of this city, has sold his 278-acre farm in the old Haynes ranch community to R. B. Roos, of Victoria. The land sold for a consideration of $15,000.—Edna Herald.
Daily Advocate, Victoria, Texas, August
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M. Cleveland, one of the stirring Lolita citizens, was in the city last Thursday and informs the Herald that they have made all arrangement for a bonded warehouse at that place. Sufficient stock has been subscribed and they expect to be in a position to handle cotton of that neighborhood in a short time. Mr. Cleveland believes that all other places should install the bonded warehouse system.—Edna Herald.
Daily Advocate, August 28, 1914 |
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One of the prettiest sights to be seen in Edna is the lemon orchard, on M. T. Simons’ Jr., place. He has several trees that are literally loaded with the golden fruit. One small tree alone having several dozen on it. They are not the little scanty variety either. One plucked from Simmons orchard is in our possession and it measures 17 in ones around one way and 18 around another, and weighing several pounds. A dozen lemons of this kind would be a load for any ordinary man to tote. His orange orchard also bore well this year.—Edna Herald.
Daily Advocate, December 11, 1914 |
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Last week Mack Hutcheson, proprietor of the City Meat market, sold 35 head of Hereford and Durham calves to H. S. White for $40.00 per head-- the highest price in the history of the county for calves. Some of them were raised in Refugio and some in Jackson county. Since early winter they have been on feed, and every one was a beauty. The smallest weighed 585 pounds and the largest 750 pounds or about as much as an average cow would weigh. Mr. White shipped them to the Ft. Worth market last week and went along with them. For the past several years Mr. Hutcheson has made a specialty of high grade cattle, and last year he made a record high price sale on his calves, however, the market price then was not what it is now. He says a bunch of calves form the common strain with the same attention as received by his $40 calves would probably bring no more than $25 per head. The fellow who owns a bunch of good cattle in this day and time has a small fortune and there is no indication that points to a decline in price. Edna Herald.
Daily Advocate, January 23, 1915 |
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Edna, Texas, July 17.--Francitas persons spending the day Sunday on a creek near here found the headless body of a man floating in the water. It was identified as A. Nelson, who came here from Mexico two weeks ago.
The Houston Post, Tuesday, July 18, 1916 |
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