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1891
RYLIE RUMBLINGS.
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Numerous Small Thefts--A
Newsy Letter.
Special to the Times-Herald.
RYLIE, Texas, June 12.-- ... A regular correspondent
will, in future, keep the readers of the TIMES-HERALD posted
on the various doings of Rylie and vicinity.
After having left Rylie from where
our correspondent's last letter was directed, the fair little
village of Kleburg was visited in the interest of the people's
papers. The business interests of Kleburg are looked after by
the genial Dick Elam and J. O. Prewitt, the capable editor of
the Pigmy.
Mr. G. T. Prewitt and family are
in Washington. Mr. Prewitt having accepted a position as clerk
in the war department.
Messrs. A. J. Sullivan, A. J. Keith and M. G. Glinn were elected
school trustees for the ensuing year.
Mrs. E. L. Watson, aged 83, who
was visiting relatives at this place, died a few days ago. She
had been a member of the Methodist church 65 years.
Kleburg has in the person of Capt.
H.[?] Soppitt, one of the few followers of the anomalous teachings
of Tolstoi. Born in the great city of London, he came to this
country to escape the---what he terms--disgusting servility of
the lower classes to the aristocracy. Becoming a citizen of the
United States, he joined the ranks of Democracy, of which he
is a staunch supporter. The captain lives in a cosy blue painted
cottage in which is a well stocked library replete with standard
works on political economy. Beside his gate is erected a flag
staff, and when there is a death in the community, the stars
and stripes is fluttered at half mast. There is one day the captain
celebrates, the fourth of July. He says the TIMES-HERALD is
the only exponent of Democracy pure and simple that is published
in the city of Dallas.
This is a great wood centre, and
there is a miniature Wall street on Cottonwood avenue in Kleburg.
Even the small boy speculates in wood.
After having added quite a number
of subscribers to the list of the TIMES-HERALD readers, and receiving a parting injunction
to bring a lot of "fodder seed the next time you come,"
your correspondent boarded the Trunk for Seago, but, as R. Kipling
would say, that is part of another story.
- June 12, 1891, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 6, col. 1-2.
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KLEBURG NEWS.
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Queer Place for
Nest--Personal
Mention.
Special to the Times-Herald.
KLEBURG, Tex., July 24.--Mr. M. P. Dennis of Johnson
county is in Kleburg looking after his farm.
Mr. Frank Mullin of Kansas, who
has purchased the Hoya tract of land, is staying with Mr. S.
H. Cumby.
A wren has built a nest and hatched
a brood of young birds on the bureau of Capt. Soppitt's sitting
room.
Mr. J. R. Cox is digging a well
for the postmaster.
Mrs. Harris, daughter of J. H.
Sullivan, whose husband died near Dallas last week, is moving
to her father's.
- July 24, 1891, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 2.
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Kleburg Locals.
Special to the Times-Herald.
KLEBURG, Nov. 7.--Business was never better in Kleburg.
Mr. J. R. Cox is moving into Mr.
Parks' house to-day.
Farmers are pretty well through
gathering their crops.
Mr. David Witcher has moved to
Kleburg.
Our school, conducted by Prof.
J. M. Hicks, is not as well attended as it should be. Children
within the scholastic age should not be kept in the cotton field
while a teacher is drawing wages for giving them instructions.
Dr. J. E. Baldwin has about recovered
from his late illness.
- November 9, 1891,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 3.
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1893
Real Estate Transfers.
E. M. Forelines
and wife to S. A. Erwin, lot 1, block 11, Kleburg, $60.
J. A. Campbell and wife to E. M.
Forelines, lot 1, block 11, Kleburg, $60.
- March 31, 1893, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 3, col. 3.
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CITY NOTES.
George
F. Prewitt, one of the clerks injured in the wreck of Ford's
old theatre building at Washington, yesterday, is a Dallas county
boy. His home is at Kleburg, where his brother is a well known
merchant. John A. Nevins, who had a miraculous escape from death,
was appointed from Denison a year ago.
- June 10, 1893, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 6.
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1895
Added
March 25, 2004:
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Deeds.
Rosa Kleburg
to W. M. Humphrey, January 10, 1895, part of Robert Kleburg survey,
$350.
- January 24, 1895,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 6, col. 1-2.
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Added
April 17, 2004:
COLLECTING $1
AT KLEBURG.
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IT COSTS $125 IN
CASH.
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And Both Debtor
and Creditor Go to Jail.
A Severe Blow at the Credit
System in That
Section.
Justice
Lauderdale's Court was occupied all day long yesterday with the
case of H. C. Hampton, an old man from Kleburg, charged with
using loud and profane language and chasing W. F. Allison with
an axe.
The testimony developed the facts
that Hampton had a board bill of $1 against Allison, and that
he sent for Allison and asked when he meant to pay it. Allison,
it seems, found some difficulty in finding an answer to the question,
when Hampton flew into a rage and proceeded to apply to him language
that was shockingly profane, and wound up by gathering up an
axe and chasing Allison, who took refuge in a corn crib, and
from this secure retreat, he proceeded to do a little "cussing,"
himself.
Hampton then had Allison before
the Justice of the Peace in that neighborhood, who fined him
$50, and, in default of payment, sent him to the Dallas jail.
But, before he was arrested, Allison
went before the same Justice of the Peace and wished to have
Hampton arrested, but finding that Hampton had got in ahead of
him, he took a change of venue and made his complaint before
Justice Lauderdale, of Dallas.
Nearly all the population of Kleburg
and Riley were here as fact or character witnesses.
Hampton was stuck for $75, and
in default of the cash, went to jail to keep company with Allison.
If it takes all this trouble, expense
and circus to collect a dollar, the credit system will surely
go out of fashion as soon as money gets in circulation again.
Kleburg will lost cast as a summer
resort with such rigid board-bill regulations.
- March 26, 1895, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 7.
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Added
May 6, 2004:
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
J. A. Campbell
and wife to J. O. Pruitt, lots 1, 2 and 3, block 8 of Kleburg,
$50.
Charles Shelton and wife to J.
O. Pruitt, April 21, 1892, lots 4 and 5, block 8 of Kleburg,
$40.
- April 18, 1895, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 6, col. 1-2.
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1911
KLEBURG TO HAVE
NEW SCHOOL HOUSE.
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Frame Work of Structure
is Already
Up--Large Force of Carpenters
at Work.
Kleburg
is to have a new school house within the next few weeks. The
school district there voted a bond issue for the building in
January and the contract was let several weeks later. Professor
A. L. Clyton, principal of the school, who was in the city yesterday,
says that the framework of the structure has been completed and
that a large force of carpenters are at work putting up the walls.
It is hoped to move into the new
building before the close of the present school term.
- March 5, 1911, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 7, col. 2.
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