The Fort Worth Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) – Jan. 26, 1906 – Page: 10
A. N. Weaver of Freestone County, who has a good string of steers in feed lots every year, and is recognized as one of the most successful operators in the state, was a visitor on the yard last Tuesday in charge of a consignment of cattle destined to the National stock yards.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan 29, 1906 – Page: 6
Plans of Brazos Valley
Town of Brewer to
be Triple Division Point and Be Renamed
According to railroad plans, the little town of
Brewer, in
Freestone County,
directly southeast of Mexia, is to shortly become one of more importance, as the Trinity and Brazos Valley divisions will radiate from this
town to Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.
The name of the town is to be changed to
Teague, taking the name of
some old residents.
“We are going to make a town of it,” said General Manager
Sweeney yesterday.
“The town will be a division point on the three divisions.”
A new bank with a capital stock of $50,000 is already in
process of formation in Brewer, in which President Baker and
other gentlemen connected with Brazos Valley
plans are interested.
The town of
Brewer is
on the grade of the Brazos Valley
as it runs from Mexia toward Houston.
Mr. Sweeney said
yesterday that the grading on the line had been practically completed and the
track down eight miles below Mexia.
It has been learned from Mr. Sweeney that the Brazos Valley expects to build into Waxahachie by Sept 1 of this year and from
Waxahachie take the Katy tracks into Dallas.
When here yesterday, in reference to this, Mr. Sweeney said:
“Pray for good weather – just pray for good weather.”
From Waxahachie it is
learned that the Brazos Valley
will almost parallel the Katy through that city, the tracks being about 100
yards apart. Connection will be made
with the Katy at a point north of town and a depot will be erected.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 2, 1906 – Page: 14
State Social Affairs
ENNIS
Mrs. J. J. Hood of Cade visited here.
MEXIA
Miss Eulah Easterling has returned to
Wortham after
a visit here to Mrs. Altus Wilder.
Mrs. E. B. Campbell, who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Bonner, has returned to her home in Greenville.
Miss Mattie Barry of
Wortham and Mrs. J. B. Mathis of Tehuacana attended the Betts-Epperson wedding here
Thursday.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 19, 1906 – Page: 7
Led Long Search
Captured in Kentucky on Charge Pending in Texas
Houston, Tex., Feb. 18 – After a two years’ search that has led through Mexico to South America and back to the United States again, officers from Freestone County, Texas, have apprehended Berry Tillman, a negro, charged with killing a white man. Last night under guard of officers and the father of the victim of the tragedy, the accused was brought to Houston and lodged in the city jail. Early this morning the party proceeded on the way. Tillman was caught in Kentucky.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 24, 1906 – Page: 7
News of Col De Armond's Death
-------------
Was Shock to Citizens of McKinney.
Committee Met Remains Here.
Brief Biography.
McKinney, Tex., Feb. 23 – The city was shocked this morning to learn in
The News of the death of
Col. Russell De Armond, which occurred at Houston at
1 o’clock this morning, he having left here Saturday, apparently in good health.
Col. De Armond was born in Morgan County, Alabama, on
the 4th of May, 1833, his father being of
French-Hugenot parentage. He
obtained his early literary education at Decatur Academy in North Alabama,
and later a classical education under the distinguished Confederate officer,
Gen. John Gregg. He came to Texas in 1856 and located at
Fairfield, in Freestone
County, and was admitted to the bar in 1856.
In 1859 he came to McKinney and for awhile engaged in the
clothing business. Entering the
Confederate army in 1862, as Captain of the commissary department of the
Sixteenth Texas Cavalry, under Col. Fitzhugh, he was promoted to Major in the
Quartermaster’s department in 1863, remaining in the service until the close of
the war. Soon after the war ended he
was appointed County Attorney of Collin County
by Governor Throckmorton, and
afterward entered the law firm of Governor J. W. Throckmorton and T. J. Brown, the latter now a Judge on the Supreme
Court bench of Texas, the style of the firm being Throckmorton, Brown & De
Armond, which was at that time one of the leading law firms of North Texas.
In 1871 Col. De
Armond was
appointed attorney for the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, which
position he held until the time of his death.
The bar of this
city met this morning to arrange for his funeral, and a committee was appointed
from hat body, who went to Dallas this afternoon and accompanied his
remains to this city, arriving at 9:12 o’clock tonight.
The committee was
composed of Messrs. A. M. Abernathy, I. E. Reeves, G. R. Smith, B. T. Estes, J. F. Mangum, T. C. Andrews, M. H. Garnett and J. M. Pearson.
Arrangements for
the funeral have not yet been announced.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 26, 1906 – Page: 5
Interesting to Texans
The postoffices at …Mills, Freestone County; … have been ordered discontinued.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 17, 1906 – Page: 6
New Incorporations
The Parker-Blackmon Hardware Company of Teague, Freestone, capital stock $10,000. Incorporators: J. E. Parker, H. M. Munger and R. A. Parker.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 20, 1906 – Page: 19
John A. Wright's Sudden Death
Mexia, Tex., March 19 – Hon. John A. Wright, candidate for Representative of Freestone County, died very suddenly of heart failure at his home in New Hope Sunday night.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – March 27, 1906 – Page: 3
Postmasters and Rural Routes
Washington, March 16 – Texas postmasters appointed: Blunt, Freestone County, James C. Richardson, vice R. A. resigned; … Luna, Freestone County, Wm. A. Pritchard, vice J. C. Hendrix, resigned; …
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – April 29, 1906 – Page: 21
Texas Postoffices
…Pyburn, Freestone County, George T. Terry, vice O. E. Pyburn, resigned; …
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 6, 1906 – Page: 10
Kills Himself with Shotgun
Mexia, Tex., May 5 – Doughtery Holliday killed himself with a shotgun yesterday. Mr. Holliday lived in the New Hope community, in Freestone County, close to the line of Limestone County.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 10, 1906 – Page: 3
State Brevities
Mexia, Tex., May 9 – G. W. Jones of the Brewer community, in Freestone County, left here today at noon for Austin to place two of his children in the Pasteur Institute. They were bitten by a mad dog last Sunday and Monday.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 16, 1906 – Page: 5
Funeral of J. L. Smith
Mexia, Tex., May 15 – The funeral of J. L. Smith took place this evening from the late residence. The services were conducted by Rev. W. C. Hilburn and were largely attended. Mr. Smith was born in North Carolina Oct. 15, 1840, and came to Texas in 1856, but returned to his native State. He went to Cotton Gin, Freestone County, in 1868, and ten years later came to Mexia. A wife and six children survive him.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 23, 1906 – Page: 10
Closing of Schools
Commencement Exercises are Held at Many Schools
and Colleges
At North Texas
Normal
Denton, Tex., May 22 -
….
First year students to whom second grade certificates were
awarded…C. P. Clark, Freestone; …
Third year students to whom diplomas, having the force of
permanent certificates, were awarded - …. O. K. Storey,
Freestone; …
Session enrollment 584.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 26, 1906 – Page: 3
Campbell Club at
Fairfield
Fairfield,
Tex., May 25 – A Tom Campbell Club has been organized here.
[Same Issue, Page: 6]
Freestone County Crops
Fairfield, Tex., May 25 – The News correspondent has just completed a trip among the farmers and finds everything in a very flourishing condition. The farmers are well up with their work and the crops are very promising. Cotton has been reduced about 10 per cent and the corn, oat and other feedstuff acreage is considerably increased.
[Same Issue, Page: 9]
Surveying Party at
Fairfield
Fairfield,
Tex., May 25 – A surveying party is in the field
surveying a line from Keechi Station, on the International and Great Northern
Railroad, towards Fairfield. They are
reported to be International and Great Northern Railroad surveyers.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 27, 1906 – Page: 6
Buried at Fairfield
Mexia, Tex., May 26 – The remains of Luther Thornton, aged 25 years, arrived Thursday from Indian Territory and were taken to Fairfield for interment yesterday. Mr. Thornton was a former resident of Freestone County, having recently moved to the Territory.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 7, 1906 – Page: 8
Mexia XE "Mexia" Farmers' Union
Mexia, Tex., July 2 – The Mexia District Farmers' Union, which is composed of the counties of Freestone and Limestone, will meet in Mexia next Friday, July 6, to elect officers and to locate a cotton yard and to determine what kind of a warehouse it will build.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 14, 1906 – Page: 11
Fairfield Wants Railroad
Waco, Tex., July 13 – W. H. Miller of Fairfield, Freestone County, referring to an address recently made by Judge John N. Lyle, has written that the town has twelve miles of railroad grade, all timber needed, a liberal bonus and a guarantee of $65,000 worth of business the first year and more the next for a railroad through the county.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 26, 1906 – Page: 8
Both Legs Cut Off
Mexia, Tex., July 25 – Claude Carroll had both legs cut off this evening by at engine at Freestone, Freestone County, thirty miles southeast of here on the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad. Carroll was a stranger in the community.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 27, 1906 – Page: 3
Mortuary
PITTS – Mexia, Tex., July 24 – Henry Pitts, living at Campbell's Branch, Freestone County, east of Mexia, died last night.
[Same Issued, Page: 7]
Boy Dies from Injuries
Mexia, Tex., July 26 – Claude Carroll, the 17-year-old boy who had
both legs cut off by a train yesterday at
Freestone, died at 10 o’clock today.
He claimed that his father lived at Palestine and the authorities are trying to find
him. He will probably be buried
here.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 28, 1906 – Page: 8
State Social Affairs
CORSICANA
Mrs. C. H. Graves visited
in Fairfield.
Mrs. T. W. Boynton visited here from
Wortham.
Mrs. O. C. Kirven and
daughter have returned from a visit to
Freestone County.
MEXIA
Mrs. J. E. Walker is
visiting in Fairfield.
Miss Maggie Stubbs has
returned to Wortham.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 2, 1906 – Page: 3
Joe Johnston Camp
…
A part of this battery finally reached
Fairfield, in Freestone County,
about the time of Lee’s surrender, in charge of Capt. Nettles.
The company disbanded at Fairfield,
but in order to prevent the guns from falling into the hands of the Federals,
they were dismounted and buried in the carriage house of a citizen of
Fairfield.
The guns buried were two brass and two of the Napoleon steel guns.
The participants in the “obsequies” were R. J. Bryant and V. L. Watson, both now members of
this camp; Crawford Lane, who was one of the
captors of the Val Verde Battery and now a resident of
Palestine; Tom and Walter Blackman, now living in
Freestone and Navarro Counties, respectively; William Cotton
and a negro named Sandy Bragg.
As the burial place of the cannon was known to the negroes
of Fairfield, it
was feared that “the grave” might be disclosed to the Federals whenever they
arrived; so it was decided to “exhume and reinter” them; so in a few days they
were taken to a blackjack grove one and a half miles west of
Fairfield by white men only and
reburied and the identity of the burial place carefully concealed.
Here they remained for three years, when they were taken up, the two
brass guns broken up and sold to a brass foundry and the proceeds given to the
former commander of the original Val Verde Battery,
Capt. Nettles. One of the
steel guns was taken to Oakwoods in
Leon County.
R. J. Bryant afterward went to Oakwoods
and secured this gun, bringing it by rail to Mexia.
It was turned over to the Joe Johnson Camp, in whose custody it
has since been. This is the gun
known as the “Old Val Verde”, now doing duty at this camp.
The other Napoleon gun is still at Fairfield in charge of the Camp W. L.
Moody, U. C. V. of that town, and used for reunions and other local celebrations just
as the “Old Val Verde is used here.
The original carriages of the four dismounted guns were
turned over to local sawmill men of
Freestone County
and converted into logging wagons.
“Old Val Verde" was remounted by Joe Johnson Camp some
two years ago. The companion gun at
Fairfield has
never been remounted, but is used without a carriage.
Gov. Joseph D. Sayers (then a Captain in Sibley's Brigade) had a
strenuous task in taking the Val Verde battery from New Mexico to Eastern Texas.
He was greatly hampered by insufficient teams and a lack of harness, but,
under almost as great difficulties as Napoleon encountered when he took his
artillery across the Alps. Capt.
Sayers finally “delivered the goods” to the proper authorities at Marshall, Tex., where for
some months preceding the battle of Mansfield the Val Verde battery was parked.
…
Personal Notes
…
Mrs. H. T. Simmons of
Wortham is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. B.
Reynolds.
…
Mrs. Redus Dodds of
Wortham is the guest of her mother, Mrs. George
Means.
…
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 5, 1906 – Page: 2
Election Returns
Freestone County
Fairfield, Freestone County convention prorated this
county vote in the State convention as follows:
Governor, Bell 198,
Campbell 910, Brooks 183, Colquitt 150.
Lieutenant Governor, Hill 486,
Davidson 972.
Railroad Commissioner, Williams 479, Storey 808
Congress, Henderson 311,
Hardy 687, Mays 450.
Delegates to State convention:
H. B. Davis, W. B. Moses, M. H. Harris.
No instructions were given as to emancipated vote of
candidates for Governor or other State officers.
Delegates to
Congressional convention, Sixth District:
N. L. Lott, N. H. Powell, S. O. Woofovel.
No instructions were given as to emancipated vote.
Hon. Frank Andrews was indorsed for re-election as State
chairman.
[same issue - Page: 6]
Tells of a New Town
Judge W. N. Boyd of
Fairfield Tells of Growth and Advantages of Teague
Judge W. N. Boyd of
Fairfield,
secretary and general manager of the Valley Route Townsite and Loan Company, is
registered at the St. George Hotel.
He said yesterday: “Teague is coming new town of Central East Texas.
It is ninety-eight miles south from Dallas in an undeveloped territory, which is the
fruit belt of Texas, and while Freestone is an old county, is one of
the best counties in the State for diversified farming.
Teague is the logical place
for a good business town, being a division point, located at the junction of the
Dallas branch of the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad with the main line from
Fort Worth to Galveston, and the railroad
company having located its machine shops, offices, roundhouse, etc., at
Teague, besides making all its
improvements first-class in every respect, having a handsome two-story passenger
depot of brick to cost about $20,000.
The monthly pay roll from the railroad company alone will make
Teague a fine business point, to say
nothing of the business coming from agricultural and other products of the
country. Crops are excellent in
Freestone County and it is expected
that 10,000 to 15,000 bales of cotton will be marketed at
Teague the coming season, as the Trinity and Brazos Valley will be
running trains from Teague to Houston next month.
“While the town of
Teague is only 4 months old, it is
growing rapidly and now has thirteen brick buildings under construction.
Over $50,000 worth of town lots were sold before the first passenger
train ran to town.”
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 7, 1906 – Page: 8
Freestone XE "Freestone" County
Wortham,
Tex., Aug. 4 - Freestone County Democratic convention elected
the following delegates to the State convention:
W. B. Moses, Hugh Davis, M. H. Harris. All Campbell men.
Delegates to the Sixth Congressional District convention:
Lloyd Smith, H. H. Powell, S. O. Wofford.
Delegates to the judicial convention:
Thomas Longbottom, J. M. Berends,
Dr. Headley.
A resolution condemning the present Terrell election law and demanding its repeal was
passed unanimously.
Hon. W. B. Moses, member of the State Democratic Executive
Committee of this district, was unanimously indorsed for re-election.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 8, 1906 – Page: 3
Irregularities in Freestone
Fairfield, Texas, Aug. 4 – There seems to be considerable doubt about the election having been held in strict accordance with the Terrell law in Fairfield and Wortham boxes. A number voted for delegates and officers on the same ticket, while others voted for delegates on separate tickets. The matter was referred to the officers of the election, and they decided that they should vote for delegates on separate tickets. For that reason there is a good deal of talk of contesting these boxes.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 18, 1906 – Page: 8
State Social Affairs
COLEMAN
Miss Stubbs of Wortham is here visiting her uncle, Mr. Wooldridge.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Aug. 19, 1906 – Page: 16
The State Press
Teague
Chronicle:
Cotton is opening nicely in every direction around
Teague, and cotton-picking will become quite general by next week.
Everybody welcomes the fleecy staple, and the yield in
Freestone County
will be fairly food this season.
Thanks to the good seasons we have been blessed with.
A trip through the country around
Teague will convince the most skeptical that good corn can be raised in
Freestone County.
There is a splendid crop of it and the ears are large and well filled.
We will need help to consume the super-abundance of bread and meat in
Freestone this year.
Come on and aid us in the good work.
The Chronicle
presents a good write-up of Freestone County.
It sings well the song of prosperity and hopefulness.
The Fort Worth Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) – Aug. 19, 1906 – Page: 7
Teague Growing at Lively Rate
New Freestone County Town Developing Rapidly
TEAGUE, Texas, Aug. 18 – In these days when, though Texas is constantly
assimilating the stranger from afar and adding him to her ever-increasing
population, her towns are, generally speaking, mapped out, built and possessed,
it is refreshing to study a community which is yet in its first flush of growth,
where the builder is yet in active struggle with the primitive, and were the
cotton stalks are scarcely obliterated in the streets.
Your representative during the last week in
Teague, the new town situated
in Freestone County, at the junction of three
divisions of the Trinity and Brazos Valley railway, which is being rapidly
extended to the southwest to give Fort Worth another outlet to the gulf.
Five months ago the site of
Teague was merely a cotton patch,
about one month ago regular passenger train service was extended there, the
freight depot still doing duty as a passenger station, while today a national
bank, the First National, with a capital of $50,000, has just moved into its
handsome new brick building, and a number of other brick business houses are
under rapid construction. The
railway is constructing a $20,000 building of cream-colored brick for a
passenger station and division offices and thoroughly up-to-date shops, with a
twelve stall roundhouse. These to be
operated and lighted by electricity and fitted with the most modern machinery.
In a few months the pay roll of Teague will approximate $20,000 per
month.
From this point one division of the line reaches northwest
to Fort Worth, in connection with the Santa Fe, at Cleburne, a distance of 120
miles, another northeast to Dallas, ninety-eight miles, which will soon be
completed, while another is being pushed southeast to Houston, 150 miles, as
rapidly as men and machinery can do it.
The growth of the town has been almost meteoric, but in no sense
speculative, for behind every dollar of investment there is a solid, concrete
reason, first in the railway situation, making it the hub of the wheel, and
secondly, that it is the logical railway center and shipping point of
Freestone county,
which has been waiting half a century for a railway.
Its trade territory extends eastward
thirty miles to the Trinity, a territory thickly settled with prosperous farmers.
This county produced over thirty thousand bales of cotton annually and
fine fruits of all kinds, especially pears, peaches and apples. Elberta peaches
of the finest quality are grown here and many thousand Elberta peach trees have
been sold here this season for fall delivery.
When these come into bearing the product will carry the name of
Freestone county throughout all the great fruit markets of the
country. The soil of the county is
mostly a sandy loam with clay subsoil, and prices of lands are now very low,
ranging from $5 to $15 per acre.
These lands are perfectly adapted to vegetables as well as to fruit and to
cotton, corn and staple crops.
Lignite coal of good quality is found within a mile and a
half of Teague, in the beds in fact
underlying the town, while shale clay is found of fine quality and ample
quantity near the town limits. This
would be a good place for the location of a brick works, a canning factory, a
steam laundry and a bottling works.
Stores with ample stocks of goods are already established in the principal lines
of trade, and more are coming. There
is a weekly paper, the
Teague Chronicle, ably edited by W. T. Patton and another bank, with a capital of
$25,000, will soon be opened for business.
There are 150 acres in the townsite, $9,000 worth of town
lots were sold before the first passenger train entered the town and a great
barbecue and lot sale is to be held here next Wednesday, Aug. 22.
It will be interesting to be there to study a bustling growing
southwestern town in the making.
THE WANDERER.
The Fort Worth Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas)– Sept. 2, 1906 – Page: 9
244 acres timber land in Freestone county, Texas; good house and barn; good gin; two wells; part in cultivation; about 50 peach trees; value $6,880.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Sept. 7, 1906 – Page: 11
C. H. Graves an
Applicant
Corsicana Man
Would Superintend Confederate Home
Corsicana, Tex., Sept. 6 - C. H. Graves, at one time County Attorney of Freestone County, and for a number of years a resident of Corsicana, will be an applicant for the position of superintendent of the Confederate Home at Austin under Col. Campbell's administration. Mr. Graves is receiving strong endorsements by his home people.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Sept. 16, 1906 – Page: 23
[HUGE GROUP PHOTO OF THE MEN]
The Commercial Club of Teague, Texas
Top row, left to right – J. L. Autry, physician; J. D. Sibley, merchant; J. W. Sims, merchant; Ed Satterwhite, publisher Teague Chronicle; W. B. Humphries, Jr., assistant postmaster; J. H. King, merchant; W. T. Patton, Teague Chronicle; W. R. Boyd, lawyer, manager and secretary Valley Route Townsite and Loan Company. Second row, left to right- E. U. Avery, agent T. & B. V. Ry. Co.; J. T. Carley, farmer and representative Munger Cotton Oil Co.; T. C. Blackmon, hardware; I. B. McFarland, secretary Teague Lumber Co.; L. J. Power, manager Freestone County Lumber Co.; J. E. Parker, hardware; J. A. Buie, commission merchant and cotton buyer; W. B. Moses, lawyer, manager Valley Route Townsite and Loan Co.; D. Goolsby. Seated, left to right – J. C. T. Hendrix, merchant and president Board School Trustees; E. Headlee, physician, merchant, president Commercial Club; E. B. St. Clair, Cashier First National Bank, Teague, Secretary Commercial Club; W. R. Boyd Jr., lawyer, assistant manager Valley Route Townsite and Loan Co., assistant secretary Commercial Club; E. J. Headlee, real estate agent.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Sept. 17, 1906 – Page: 7
Sentence of Ninety-Nine Years
Mexia, Tex., Sept. 16 – In the District Court of Freestone County Claude Childs was found guilty of murder and his punishment assessed at ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Sept. 27, 1906 – Page: 2
Work on Dallas Division
Mexia, Tex., Sept. 26 – Railroad building on the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad north of Teague on the Dallas extension is now under headway. Day laborers are being offered $2 per day.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Nov. 8, 1906 – Page: 9
Orders of Postal Department
Effective Nov. 15, postoffices at … Shanks, Freestone county, … will be discontinued and superseded by rural free delivery.
[Same Issue, Page: 6]
New Incorporations
Freestone Mercantile Company of Teague, Freestone County; capital stock of $25,000. Incorporators, J. A. Buie, J. V. Cole, and W. S. Butler, all of Teague.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Nov. 20, 1906 – Page: 6
Wanted in Freestone County
Waxahachie, Tex., Nov. 19 – Deputy Sheriff McCalpin this afternoon arrested Henry High, colored, who is wanted in Freestone County on an alleged charge of murder. Sheriff Roper of Freestone County was notified of the negro’s arrest. The offense charged against him is alleged to have been committed in that county about a year ago.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Nov. 24, 1906 – Page: 9
County Officers Elected
Freestone County
John Terry, County Judge; J. G. Anderson, County Attorney; W. F. Storey, County Clerk; R. P. Riley, County Collector; T. W. Manahan, County Assessor; Lee Eubank, County Treasurer; L. Vaughan, District Clerk; W. W. Steward, County Surveyor; Jim Roper, County Sheriff.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - January 17, 1907
New Bills in House
Austin, Tex., Jan. 16 - Bills were introduced in the House today as
follows:
By Mr. Bell of
Freestone: To authorize County
commissioners' courts to levy a special tax, not to exceed, 15c on the $100, for
the purpose of paying jury fees.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) - March 24, 1907 – Section: 3, Page: 7
Town of Teague
Growing Rapidly
------
Foundation for Handsome New
Hotel is Laid
TEAGUE, Texas, March 23 – The corner stone of “The Yoakum,” a fine brick hotel
named after the head of the Rock Island-Frisco system, was laid at
Teague yesterday.
B. F. Yoakum has outdone youthful dreams by founding here where he has
christened with his mother’s maiden name.
This modern magic is wrought by his building the new Trinity and Brazos Valley railroad to carry through Texas to
the gulf the immense traffic from the Rock Island – Frisco’s 15,000 miles of
northern lines, and by making Teague,
in Freestone county, the junction, division,
machine shop and operating center of the Texas lines running to Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston and Galveston.
Machine shops, round houses, electric and water plants, thirty-six miles
of siding, great yards, ??? factory and freight and passenger stations are
costing the Rock-Island-Frisco $500,000 and will employ a thousand men.
Seven months ago Teague was a
cotton field; today it has 1,700 people.
Opportunities for work, business and investment abound.
Trains now run from Teague to
Fort Worth and Houston. The greatest
activity will come with the opening in May of the
Dallas line and the employment of hundreds of men required for the completed
shops and yards and to handle the increased guaranteed traffic thru
Teague, which the ballasting of
railroad road bed, now under way, will permit to be hauled.
The “Yoakum" is being built by Messrs. Tait & Co., agents for the
Teague townsite.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) - March 25, 1907
Postal Changes
A new postoffice has been established at Lakeport, Freestone county, 2 1/2 miles east of Butler.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 12, 1907
Proceedings in the House
A verification of the vote was demanded.
No changes were note on verification.
Mr. Bell of
Freestone came
in at this time and sought to claim the right to vote.
This created considerable consternation among the friends of the bill, as
it was ???? that Mr. Bell would have voted ...
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 25, 1907
New Bills in House
Austin, Tex., April 24 - The following bills were introduced at a late
house to-day:
By Mr. Bell of
Freestone: To amend the code relating to
the reduction to writing of the testimony of witnesses in examining trials in
felony cases.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) - April 27, 1907
New Texas Charters
Teague Mercantile and Investment Company of Teague, Freestone county; capital stock, $10,000.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - May 17, 1907 – Page: 14
First State Bank of Teague
Teague, Tex., May 14 - First State Bank of Teague, with a capital stock of $25,000, has been organized by Tait & Co., of Washington. Guy M. Bryan and W. E. Richards of Houston and others. This bank will build a modern structure of brick and stone on the corner of Third and Main streets, opposite the Yoakum Hotel, now under construction.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - June 9, 1907
Victories for Antis
Special to the News
Mexia, Tex., June 8 - Three precincts in
Freestone County
held elections today, as follows:
Cotton Gin, pro 81, anti 109;
Teague pro
62, anti 120 and Fairfield an
anti majority of 11.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - June 22, 1907
State Brevities
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., June 21 - The reunion of Camp W. L. Moody, Confederate Veterans at Fairfield will embrace the 23d, 24th, and 25th of July.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) - July 5, 1907
Farmers at Barbecue
Special to the News
MEXIA, Texas, July 5 - The Farmer's Union of
Freestone county
held a barbecue at New Hope, six miles east of this city, yesterday.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 10, 1907
Under Automatic Tax Law
Austin, Tex., Aug. 8 - The following counties reported today under the
automatic tax law:
County
1907
1906
Freestone...$4,857,680
$3,507,180
Williamson...19,000,000
15,563,690
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 15, 1907
Texas Affairs in Washington
The postoffices at Alverde, Lampasas County, Harp, Freestone County, Vigo, Concho County, Tex., will be discontinued Aug. 31.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 21, 1907
State Charters
The First Presbyterian ??? Teague, Freestone county; no capital.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 23, 1907 – Page: 3
Health of Teague Good
Teague, Tex., Aug. 22 –
There has been a report circulated that an epidemic of typhoid fever existed at
Teague and that there were 200 or
more cases. There has been about
twelve cases of the fever here within the last six months, and no epidemic
exists or has existed, but a few sporatic cases in or about
Teague.
The health of the town and vicinity is as good as any of the cities of
Central Texas.
E. HEADLEE, City Health Officer
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 30, 1907
Killed While Asleep
Special to the News
Oakwoods, Tex., Aug. 29 - Robert Rakestraw, a negro about 28 years old, was shot and instantly killed four miles north of Oakwoods, in Freestone County. He had moved off a little distance from a crowd and went to sleep, and some one shot from a distance of twenty yards and killed him while he slept.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Sept. 14, 1907 – Page: 10
State Social Affairs
MEXIA
Mrs. Fred Klots and
children visited in Wortham.
Miss May Tatum of
Teague is attending school here this
term.
Miss White of
Teague visited her parents, Mrs. And Mrs. G. H.
Stephens.
Mrs. A. G. Betts has
returned to her home in Teague, after a visit of
two weeks here.
Mrs. Willis Wolf has
returned to her home in Teague, after spending a
few days here.
CORSICANA
Mrs. A. L. Brissett of Eureka visited here.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – October 9, 1907 – Page: 11
New Texas Charters
…The First State Bank of Streetman, Freestone County: capital stock $10,000. Directors are W. E. Richards, Houston; S. F. Alford, J. N. Jenkins, B. D. Burleson, J. E. Grayson, Streetman.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Nov. 14, 1907 – Page: 10
Bond Issue of Teague
Austin, Tex., Nov. 13 – The Attorney General’s Department today approved a $15,000 bond issue of Teague, Freestone County, independent school district schoolhouse bonds, they being ten-forties at 5 per cent.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – January 5, 1908 – Page: 20
State Social Affairs
CORSICANA
Miss Ruth Rogers visited
in Streetman.
Miss Jennie Derden visited
in Wortham.
MEXIA
Miss Sadie Thatcher of
Teague was here for the hop Thursday night.
Misses Nettie Lee Parker and
Aggie Drumwright of
Teague have gone to Milford to attend school.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 8, 1908 edition; Page: 7
Personal Mention
John C. Collier of Teague is in the city.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 3, 1908
Texas Postal Changes
Special to the News
Washington, March 29 - Texas postmasters ...
...Driver, Freestone county, W. C. Walthal, vice J. R. Short, resigned; ...
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - April 25, 1908 – Page: 12
State Social Affairs
HILLSBORO
Mr. and Mrs. J. Alspach of Teague are visiting friends in the city.
MEXIA
Miss Sammie Blake is in
Wortham.
Miss Modine Davis of
Teague spent Friday in the city.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 1, 1908 edition; Page: 11
From T. L. Childs of Teague
In The News of April 28 there appeared an article from C.
H. Mills of Corsicana, severely
criticizing the Bailey Club of
Teague and Judge Hardy A. O’Neal for their failure to allow him to divide
time with the latter on the occasion of his speech here last Saturday night.
In justice to our people, I beg to make the following statement:
Hon. Cone Johnson, leader of the anti-Bailey ticket, delivered an address in
Teague one week before Judge O’Neal spoke here.
His audience clearly showed a majority were in favor of Senator Bailey,
but they gave him the most respectful attention and did not interrupt nor
interfere with him in any manner.
The Bailey ticket had had no speaker here, and when they had secured a date with
Judge O’Neal, they desired him to deliver a full speech, detailing the evidence
produced before the legislative investigation committee, of which he was
chairman. Mr. Blake of the Anti-Bailey Club approached me
several days before Judge O’Neal was here and asked for a division of his time
with Mr. Mills, but I declined and informed him of our reason for so doing, which
were in substance as above. Judge
O’Neal spoke at Fairfield the afternoon of the 25th
and Mr. Blake attended the meeting. ….
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - August 6, 1908 edition; Page: 7
Tax Collectors' Annual Meet
... R. P. Riley, Freestone; ...
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – August 23, 1908 – Page: 19
State Social Affairs
MEXIA
Miss Mary Wood is in
Teague.
Mrs. Tom Cox of
Teague was here Sunday.
Miss Altus
Wilder visited in
WorthamMonday.
Miss Lizzie
Myers has returned to her home in
Kirven.
Miss Mattie
Watson entertained the Bridge Club Thursday.
Mrs. J. E.
Parker of
Teague visited relatives here a few
days since.
Mrs. A. G.
Betts and Miss Mabel Sturdivant are visiting in
Teague.
Miss Fannetta
Wortham of Dallas is the guest of her aunt, [Elizabeth
Browning Sessions] Mrs. W[illiam]
E[dward] Bonner.
[Fannetta
Sessions] Mrs. J[ohn] L[ee] Wortham of
Dallas and Miss [Amanda] Louise Bonner of this city went to Rockport Friday
night.
Cards are out announcing the betrothal of Miss Mamie
Stockner of
Teague to Sam Stern of Greenwood, Miss.
Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – December 14, 1908 edition; Page: 4
Personal
W. G. Wood of Teague is at the Oriental.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 10, 1909 – Supplement - Page 6
How a City Grew from a Village
The Story of Teague, Texas
[Photo of “Once a Residence in
Brewer – A Three Story Brick Building Now Occupies the Site”]
[Photo of “His Honor the Mayor of
Teague"]
[Photo of “Comfortable Home”]
[Photo of “New Buildings Are Going Up Everywhere]
Once there was, as the story teller would say, a little
town in Texas known as Brewer. It was located down in
Freestone County,
and while it was a good enough town, it was one of the sort that appear on
railroad maps as a little dot, surrounded by oceans of pink space.
It lay amid the most fertile of fields, and the people who
lived there were a happy and prosperous people, despite the fact that they had
dreamed of railroad connection for years upon years, and up to March, 1906, were
still dreaming.
It was one of the oldest towns in the State, containing
some the finest people in the State, but its nearest railroad was the town of
Wortham,
miles upon miles away, and the entire county had but three miles of railroad in
it.
For years upon years it stood peacefully amid the fertile
of fields, where thrifty people grew cotton and cane and other valuable crops
year after year. Its buildings grew old gracefully; its fences fell from age and
were replaced by newer fences. Its
old residents, having as they did, amidst plenty and in the calmness and peace
of prosperity, lingered longer than most, and when three years ago things began
to happen in Brewer not
only were many old residents amazed, but agreeably astonished.
In the first place, the Trinity and Brazos Railroad sent a corps of surveyors
through the town leaving behind them rumors of things to come and a long row of
brand new stakes.
Then it became known that
Brewer was to have a railroad connection, and
the dreams of years, were to be realized.
As is usual in an inland town, there was nothing very swift
about the town of Brewer. It was a thrifty,
healthy, solid town, but it was not growing like the proverbial beanstalk, but
lived instead, year after year, about the name as in years gone by.
But, as everybody knows when a railroad system takes it
into its head to do things, it don’t waste time.
Accordingly one day it became known that the Trinity and Brazos Valley would not only run through Brewer, but that
the name of the town would be changed to
Teague, and that the town would be not only the division point for the
divisions leading to Dallas, Fort Worth, and Galveston, but the entire shape of the road would be located in the town.
That was three years ago.
The town had two general stores and but one brick building.
In April 1906, it was incorporated as the city of
Teague and proceedings began.
The town was named
Teague in honor of James Teague, an
old resident of the county, and the maternal grandfather of B. F. Yoakum.
Mr. Yoakum himself was born near Springfield, in Limestone county, six miles west of Mexia, and always hoped to
some day put a railroad through his home county.
A grandson of James Teague lives in Dallas bearing the same name.
Looking at the town today one is amazed at its signs of
progress even if ignorant of its history.
Those who three years ago saw it are speechless, for it is another town
altogether.
You alight from the train at a handsome brick depot.
Across the street is a high fence, bearing billboards descriptive of the
coming theatrical shows, for all the world like a city ten times the size of
Teague.
Looking down, the first street encountered you see rows
upon rows of substantial brick business houses, a hotel of brick, built along
the lines of the most modern agricultural construction.
And wherever you turn you see buildings going up.
Piles of brick are in the streets, wagons heavily loaded with lumber, and
builders’ supplies are seen hurrying out of the lumber yards.
In fact, hurry seems a characteristic of the people of
Teague.
And when people get into the middle
of things they are even more astonished.
They learn that the town of Teague is one practically conducted by young
men. Its merchants, its bankers, its
officials are young men.
The Mayor of Teague is 27 years of age.
He is Tilden L. Childs, and though admitting 27 years, looks a year or so older.
One Alderman is 41 years of age.
He is a very old man, considering the fact that all the others are under
35, and two are under 20.
The Town Marshall will
be 40 years of age some day, but haven’t reached that age so far, and all the
other city officials are young.
These young men, however, are young only in the matter of
records carried in family Bibles. In
three years time they have made their city grow so fast that people familiar
with the town of Brewer are still trying to keep up
with it, figuratively speaking, trying to keep from their breath from going out.
Instead of one brick building three years ago there are now
fifty-nine completed and nine more in process of construction.
The population is 4,500 and a Ten Thousand Club is working
overtime to reach the figure that gives it its name.
The city has just sold $42,500 worth of waterworks bonds
and expects to complete a waterworks system within ninety days.
The Trinity and
Brazos Valley shops have a monthly payroll of
$75,000 and their employees spend much of this in the town, creating a
high-pressure retail business.
A proposition is before the City Council to pave ten blocks
of the business streets and the city has just purchased and received in part a
full set of fire department apparatus-hook and ladder, hose cart, fire engine of
late model, fire hose, teams and everything necessary for thorough fire
protection.
A volunteer fire department, consisting of forty active
members, divided into two companies, has been formed.
This feature has the full support of the business interests
of the city, and great interest has been taken in it.
The apparatus is of the latest model, the volunteer firemen selected with
care, and further precautions against fire loss taken in the matter of building
restrictions.
Sidewalks have been built everywhere, and more are to be
built during this year. The
ordinances call for concrete walks.
The ladies, banded together into a civic improvement
league, are working industriously, and have among other things had set out a
great number of shade trees.
The railroad has made an appropriation of $200,000 for
additional shop improvement.
A social club of young men, formed by the Elks, is in a
most prosperous condition, having seventy members and giving full-dress
entertainment at regular intervals.
The cotton shipments last year were over 8,200 bales, and
the truck shipment through the town was three times as great as in the year
before, and is expected to be much larger this year.
The streets present quite a metropolitan appearance.
Everybody seems to have business on his mind.
You see no loungers on the corners.
Ladies pass through the business district clothed in the up-to-date
raiment of Eastern cities.
“Yes,” said the Mayor of
Teague, “it looks good to me.
The banks have doubled their deposits.
Residences are going up everywhere and rents are going down to a normal
basis. More people are coming in and
you don’t find anyone loafing here.
“We have just completed a $10,000 Methodist Church and have
voted $75,000 for a high school building, but the Supreme Court has decided
against us, and we have to wait on the Legislature.
Why, we only had three votes against it.
“Take a look about here.
You can tell easily whether this is a boom town or not.”
He waved a hand toward a group of brick buildings on which men were
working like beavers. The streets
were full of people, all seeming to have something to do.
And when the train pulls out the visitor of today sees on
either side the evidences of that which make for greater things and he remembers
the parting words of the Mayor of Teague.
“Come down and see us in a month or two; we’ll have more to
show you.”
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 27, 1909 edition - Page 4
Death Follows Operation
John C. Rambo of Teague Dies in Dallas
John C. Rambo of Teague, Tex., died Monday night at the corner of Bryan and Hail streets following a surgical operation. The body will be shipped to Belle Center, Ohio, this morning by Undertakers Ed C. Smith & Brother. The deceased, who was 60 years of age and a native of Ohio, leaves a widow, who lives at Teague.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 30, 1909 edition - Page 11
Personal
W. S. Ward of Teague is at the Oriental.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 6, 1909 edition - Page 11
Texas Midland Changes
Terrell, Tex., Feb. 5 – L. A. Moore of Teague has been appointed rate clerk in the Texas Midland auditing department here to succeed C. F. Norton, who has been appointed station agent for the Texas Midland at Commerce.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – April 5, 1909 – Page: 4
Buried with Masonic Honors
Streetman, Tex., April 4 – W. F. Hood, a
well known citizen and member of the Masonic Lodge
of Streetman, died quite suddenly
from heart failure. Mr. Hood was a
Confederate soldier. He was
sixty-eight years old at his death.
Mr. Hood’s funeral was conducted by the Masonic order, several lodges being represented
also.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - June 13, 1909 edition - Page 24
State Social Affairs
PALESTINE
Mrs. J[ames] A[ndrew] Bonner, and children, after a visit to Mrs. W[alter] B[rice] Robinson and family, have returned to their home in Corsicana.
MEXIA
Mrs. Tom Peyton of
Fairfield was here Thursday visiting relatives.
Mrs. H. F. Simmons of
Wortham was the guest of relatives Monday.
Mrs.
W[ickliffe] DeHaven of Kentucky is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W[illiam] E[dward] Bonner [Sr.].
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – August 24, 1909 edition - Page 1
Four Now Held for Assassination of Meredith
Murder Charge Filed Against Ben Cornell, Father of Girl
CORSICANA, Texas, Aug. 24.
Sheriff Lott of
Freestone county
brought here this morning Ben Cornell of
Teague charged with the murder of
Wes Meredith here Saturday night.
Four men are now in jail here in connection with the case.
Cornell is the father of the 12-year-old girl upon whom Meredith was
charged with attempted assault and was out on bond at the time he was killed.
The killing occurred Saturday night on the sidewalk in
front of Miss Florence Day’s residence.
There were five shots fired from a 41-caliber pistol, each of the shots
taking effect in Meredith's back and each of the shots alone would have been fatal.
It seems that there were no eyewitnesses to the killing except a night
watchman near the oil mill, who was about a block and a half away and was unable
to recognize anyone. The shots were
heard by many citizens and Policemen Hedrick and Faulk, who were making their
rounds in about a block of the shooting, hearing the shots, hurried toward the
scene and arrived in time to see the flash of the last shot and saw a man run
across the street toward Tidd’s blacksmith shop.
One of the officers stopped to examine the victim and the other gave
chase to the fleeing man, but lost him in the dark.
A little while before the shooting occurred two men drove
up in a buggy in front of a house several blocks away.
One of them got out and the other stayed in the buggy and shortly after
the shooting, the man came running back and jumped into the buggy, saying to the
other man: “Now drive like hell.”
The killing is thought to be the outcome of recent trouble
at Teague.
About a month ago Miss Helen Connell of
Teague, a girl about 12 years old, is
alleged to have been assaulted and Meredith was
arrested, charged with the offense, and was put out on bail at the time he was
killed.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Nov. 21, 1909 edition - Page 16
State Social Affairs
CLEBURNE
Miss Eula Milner of Streetman is the guest of Miss Leoelna Webb.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Dec. 2, 1909 edition - Page 5
Guaranty Bank Rulings
Capital Stock of Several Institutions Ordered Increased –
Applications Approved
The applications of State banks to participate in the
assessment plan of guaranty were approved for the banks enumerated below. …
First State of Wortham $52.67 and $158.03 …
First State of Streetman $24.90 and $74.72.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 7, 1910 – Page: 9
Fire Record
Fire Damage at Teague
Teague, Freestone County, Tex., Jan. 6 – At 3 o’clock
yesterday morning fire was discovered in a frame addition to the blacksmith shop
in the main shop building of the Texas and Brazos Valley Railroad. The building caught from
a forge in the north end of the frame addition, which was build after the main
buildings to accommodate an expansion of the blacksmith department.
The strong wind from the north soon whipped the flames across to the main
building, which caught on fire and was prevented from complete destruction only
by the prompt action of the fire departments of the city and railroad company.
The power house with the costly machinery, which has just been installed,
seemed to be doomed at one time, but the fire at this point was held in check by
chemical fire extinguishers until the hose could be connected and the pressure
from the city mains turned on. The
fire was extinguished without material damage to this building.
The total loss sustained is estimated by local officials of
the company at $3,500. Workmen are
now clearing away the debris and the shops will be running as usual tomorrow.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Jan. 29, 1910 – Page: 2
Damaged by Wind
Wortham, Freestone County, Tex., Jan. 28 – Wortham was visited last night by one of the strongest and most disastrous winds in several years. The framework of the Methodist Church in course of construction on Main street had just been raised and the entire work was razed to the ground. The damage will be about $200.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Feb. 12, 1910 – Page: 10
State Social Affairs
CORSICANA
Mrs. Joe Magness visited
in Wortham.
Miss May Hatcher visited here while en
route to Teague.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) – Feb. 20, 1910 – Page: 6
There must have been some tolerably fair politics in the
grand old Texas
according to the following reprint from the
San Antonio Express. “forty years
ago.” Get this:
The Fairfield Ledger comments thus on the
election returns from Freestone county: “Bring out and sound the
forty-octave Hewgag. Larrup on the
gong. Toss up your tiles and get on
a general tear. We have met the
enemy and they are our’n. Talk about
Leonidas,
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 26, 1910 – Page: 10
Improved Roads Survey
Teague, Freestone Co., Tex., May 25 – Work was begun Tuesday on the first preliminary survey of improved roads in the Teague Road District. Complete plans will be presented to the Commissioners’ Court within a few weeks, after which permanent surveys will be made and bids will be received for the construction work.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 24, 1910 – Page: 6
High Wind at Fairfield
Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., May 24 – On a Saturday night this place was visited by a heavy wind from the northwest, doing considerable damage, and Sunday night there was a genuine storm from the same direction, blowing down trees and damaging the crops. In many places houses were blown from their blocks. Heavy rains followed.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – May 30, 1910 – Page: 9
Oiling Roadbed
Teague, Freestone Co., Tex., May 29 – The Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad started a crude oil sprinkling train Friday, beginning at Houston, and will sprinkle the entire line.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – June 3, 1910 – Page: 6
Potato Crop in Freestone
Teague, Tex., June 2 – The farmers of Freestone County began digging potatoes for shipment yesterday and loaded the first car today. The acreage this year is by far the largest ever planted in this section, and the potatoes, notwithstanding the setbacks tey have had by the severe cold weather and rain, are very fine, and are expected to market to a good advantage. Just how many cars will be shipped from here can not now be told. Last year there were three, but then there were only a few planters. This year there is about 100 acres in potatoes within a short radius of Teague, and the yield is expected to run about seventy-five bushels per acre, or a car to every five or six acres.
[Same issue; same page]
Freestone County Tomatoes
Teague, Tex., June 2 – Tomatoes around here are beginning to ripen rapidly, and within the next few days car shipments will begin. From the present outlook there will be fifteen or twenty cars of the earliest shipments. While the acreage is not very large, there is a considerable increase over former seasons. This will be the first year car shipments have been made from Teague.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 3, 1910 – Page: 30
Italy 5, Freestone 4
Italy, Ellis Co., July 3 – Marr’s Sluggers defeated Freestone by a score of 5 to 4 at Ward's Park.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 10, 1910 – Page: 31
Teague Baseball Team
Teague,
Freestone County,
Tex., July 9 – At a very enthusiastic meeting of the fans of
Teague it was decided by those loyal
sports of the diamond that Teague should have a fast team for the season of 1910.
The new park is nearing completion, and
Teague will soon have one of the
finest plants in Central East Texas.
The team who are to support this city are hereand are ready to meet all clubs in
Texas. Any club desiring games
should wire, phone or write
JOHN MARTIN, Manager
Teague, Tex.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 17, 1910 – Page: 12
Personal
J. L. Turney of Teague was in Dallas yesterday.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 25, 1910 – Page: 8
Picnic at Streetman
Streetman, Freestone County, Tex., July 24 – The barbecue at Streetman was attended by a crowd of 2,000 or more people. Judge Rufus Hardy spoke, also several others. The ball game between Fairfield and Streetman resulted 18 to 12 in favor of Fairfield.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – July 27, 1910 – Page: 9
Wage Conference
Teague, Freestone Co., Tex., July 26 – A conference between President J. W. Robins of the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway and a committee representing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of that line was held in the office of Superintendent J. Munday and Superintendent Seabrook were also present at the conference. It is understood that the engineers are asking for several changes in their present contract with the company.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – August 19, 1910 – Page: 10
Wortham Defeats
Streetman
Wortham,
Tex., Aug. 18 – Wortham defeated
Streetman this
afternoon by a score of 5 to 1.
Features of the game were Black’s base running and Bedford’s pegging.
Batteries – Wortham,
Anderson and Bedford;
Streetman, Morrow and Leonard.
Umpire – Ross.
The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) – Sept. 3, 1910 – Page: 14
Brakeman Seriously Injured
Teague, Freestone Co., Tex., Sept. 2 – Telegraphic advice of the serious and probably fatal injury of M. T. Cook in a railroad accident at Little Rock, Ark., yesterday was received here today. Cook formerly worked as a brakeman for the Trinity and Brazos Valley out of here and was a member in good standing of the local lodge of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen No. 449.
Fort Worth Star Telegram (of Fort Worth, Texas) – Nov. 18, 1910 – Page: 13
New State Charters
AUSTIN, Nov. 18 – The following charters were filed in the
office of the secretary of state today:
Brazos Valley Investment Company of
Teague, capital $25,000:
incorporators E. J. Headlee, W. F. and R. F. Riley and W.
F. Jeanes.