WEEKLY REGISTER.
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
BY THE
Register Publishing Company
OFFICE:  Stanton-Weekes Block, Dixon Street
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THURSDAY, JAN.29, 1881

The Gainesville Register has a Larger Circulation than any other newspaper in Northwestern Texas.

The Register Job Office is Better Equipped and turns out a Better Class of Work than any other office in Gainesville and competes in style and prices with Galveston and St. Louis.

Presbyterian Church
Services will be held at the Frst Presbyterian church every Sabbath at 11 am. and 7:30 pm.,  The Sabbath school will be held in the afternoon at 3 o'clock.  Prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m.Wednesdays.  The services will be regulated by the bell of the Methodist church until a bell is secured.          W.L. Miller.
                Stated Supply
Rev. W.S. Johnson, Stated Supply.
Services in McClain's Hall every 2nd and 4th Sabbath, morning and evening.  Sabbath school every Sabbath at 3p.m.
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Preaching at the Cumberland Presbyterian church every Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. Sunday school at 9 o'clock a.m. Prayer meeting every Friday night.
         W.C. RUSHING, Pastor.
St. Johns Methodist Episcopal church corner, Dixon and Scott street.  Rev. F.A. Huering, Pastor.  Preaching every Sabbath 15 11a.m. and 7:30p.m.  Class meeting at 9a.m., and Sabbath school at 3 p.m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7;30 p.m.
Baptist Services.
Services held regularly the first and second Sabbaths in each month, morning and evening at the Christian church North Dixon street.  Prayer meeting every Thursday evening.  Sabbath school every Sabbath afternoon at 8 o'clock.
E.B. HARDIE, Pastor

CITY NEWS
The coal famine still continues.
Lunch at Yeidel's Beer Hall Saturday morning and evening.

We are promised some interesting social items next week.

John J. Mulholland wants 1,000,000,00 pounds of hides, and must have them if he has to pay more than the market price for them.

The Knights of Pythias entertainment on the 18th of February, premises to eclipse anything of the kind ever attempted in this country.

The M.E. church South congregation are talking of having gas put in their church.

Waples, Painter & Co. are still supplying lumber at bottom figures.  Their trade is about all they can handle, and by proper treatment of customers is increasing constantly.  Their yard is always heavily supplied, and they can always "fill the bill".

City Attorney Blanton met with quite a serious accident while working at the fire the other night. He got hit on the cheek, just below the left eye, by a pole in the hands of one of the hook and ladder boys.  His face is terribly swollen and very painful.

M.H. Pierce & Bro. have a full line of elegant parlor furniture at their Dixon street house and can compete with anybody in prices.

The streets Wednesday and Thursday were thronged with cotton wagons.

Those who held their cotton are bringing it in now.

Car load of ready Mixed Paints, at all shades and colors, just received at Conson & Co's, Red Drug.

The Missouri Pacific has again changed its time table.  The trains leave Gainesville at 9:05 a.m. and arrive at 5:55 p.m. and are three hours in making the run between Gainesvile and Denison.

Elkin & Ruby have a new and splendid stock of boots and shoes.  They can fit you in the latest styles at the lowest prices.

Two car loads of coal came in yesterday evening.  That will make just a hat full to each customer.

A car load of that splendid Silver Dust flour just received at Les & Simpson.

The county treasurer turned over to the city treasurer, last Saturday, $322,40. the amount of the county school fund due the city.

Call on Rickey and Anderson and examine their splendid stock of groceries before purchasing from others.  If they can't please you no one else need try.

Judge Potter will be disqualified from trying a great many cases now on the docket, and a special judge will have to be appointed to try them.

If you want to spend a pleasant evening go the Cattle Exchange.  The liquors are the purest and best, and the billiard tables are the finest in the city.

John Glenn is preparing to leave Gainesville.  He has concluded to go into the stock business and is building him a ranch on Elm.

Silver Dust is all the go among bakers.  It is the best flour on the market. Plenty of it at Lea & Simpson.

Our compositors are complaining of sore throats.

Will Blanton wants to hire a boy to take his place at the next fire.  He says he won't have any cheek left if he goes to another blaze.

Dantzler, Smith & Co., grocers,

The Register Job Office has just turned out a neat lot of work for the city tax collector.

Rickey & Anderson are new men and have new goods.  Try them and you will never regret it.

A protection lodge of the Knights of Honor was organized Tuesday night in the Castle Hall of the Knights of Pythias.

Macey was reelected senator by a large majority but, Elkin & Ruby have been again chosen by a still larger majority, as the boss boot and shoe men of North Texas.

We have seen the Sun several times this week which seemed like meeting an old acquaintance.

Don't eat bad bread any more when you can get any quantity of Silver Dust flour at Lea & Simpson.

The REGISTER office is the place to get your job work done if you want to get what you order.  Our Mr. Yates knows his business and will attend to your orders in a business like way.

M.H. Pierce & Bro. have one of the best selected stocks of furniture and queensware ever seen in the state at their house on the west side of the square.  They have been here long enough to know just what the people want and they have got it.

J.L. Patrick has just received a car load of fresh apples.  He can sell lower than anybody because he buys in such large lots.  Also a full supply of grain.

PERSONALS

Bob Young is quite sick--confined to his bed.

Mr. Geo. Byers of Sherman, was over Thursday.

Dr. Stone of Sivil's Bend has been in the city this week.

Leo Kone went to see his relatives in Denison Thursday.

Judge Potter is expected home from the Pan Handle to day.

Miss Adele Davis will soon visit her friends in Eastern Texas.

Dr. Thomason is medical examiner for the Knights of Honor.

Mr. Ollie Yates, of St. Louis, was in town the first of the week.

Lieut. Bob Thompson, of Dexter, was in the city Wednesday.

R.P. Dix and lady of Sherman came in Thursday evening.

Mr. D.C. Inglls will probably return to Denison next week.

Rev. W.M. Robbins, of Forestburg, was in the city Wednesday.

James Sacre one of the western stock men was in the city this week.

E.M. Kelly of Era Chapel neighborhood was in the city yesterday.

J.P. Rockwell has returned, after an extended tour to different parts of the state.

Rev. W.C. Rushing returned last Friday, from a trip to Fort Worth and Cleburne.

Dr. Minter, from the B.I.T., has been in the city for several days the past week.

J.W. Jones of Custer City called on us Wednesday and left $2 for the REGISTER one year.

Tom Powers who has been on the wing for some time is again at his post in the Star store.

Mr. Carnoff of Clarksville, Tenn., is in the city prospecting and will less conelude to stay.

E.R. Davis is in Austin on business.  He will visit Sabine Pass and Marshall before returning.

Major R.F. Scott has been sick for several days with neuralgia.  Hope he will be well again soon.

L.C. Hulet, from Clear Creek, called and renewed his subscription for the REGISTER last Tuesday.

Frank Whitsett formerly of Sherman is now with Waterman, Star & Co. at the Mammoth Star store.

Charley Sheehey moved his family to Sherman Thursday.  He is still with the house of H.W. Williams & Co.

A.J. Talley, of Montague, passed through the city Thursday on his way to attend the grand lodge I.O.O.F. , at Austin.

Wes Howeth got home Thursday evening from a tour out west.  Don't know whether he went to Cambridge or not.

Mr. Jno. Vine, traveling for Addler Golilman & Co.  New Orleans, one of the veterans of the road was in the city this week.

Courier:  Mr. Rowland, Frank Cleaves, Ed Morris and Will Bolland, of Gainesville, came over to attend the hop at the Binkley.

Dr. Barnett, of Callisburg was in the city Thursday.  The doctor has been suffering with rheumatism, but is able to walk again.

Deacon Smith has returned from another visit to Honey Grove, and did  not bring her with him.  He will succeed yet if he holds out faithful.

W.L. Fletcher leaves Saturday morning for Abilene, the new El Dorado of Texas, on a prospecting tour.  If he likes it he will move there.

W.O. Davis and C.M. McClain are erecting a brick business house on California street between the Woodside building and the Salmon corner.

D.M. Burton, deputy sheriff of Clay County, came in on the train Monday evening, having in charge D.H. Wilson, who is wanted at Henrietta to answer to the charge of rape.

E.A. Stare has made draught of the new Baptist church which is to be erected on the corner of Denton and California streets.  This will perhaps be the finest church in the city.

Miss Ella Hodges gave a reception to a few of her friends at Mr. Gribble's Monday evening last.   She left next morning for her home in New Orleans.  She will visit Gainesville again in April next.

Frank Witherspoon very quietly left Saturday morning, for his home in Tennessee.  Please bring us a piece of the cake, Frank.  We haven't time to be present, but would like monstrous well to have some of the cake.

W.E. Simpson was in the city Tuesday on his first trip for the dry goods and notion house of H.T. Simon & Moss, of St. Louis.  Will is sure to successful in his new business, as there is not a more reliable and efficient young man in Texas.

Mrs. R.F. Scott leaves for Austin next Monday and will spend the remainder of the winter there.   She goes seeking health, and will be accompanied by Moran who will remain in Austin until February 14th.  After that he will attend the A.M. College at Bryan.  Gainesville has no more estimable lady than Mrs. Scott and we hope she may find as warm friends in Austin as she has here, and that her health may be improved by her stay there.

We acknowledge with pleasure an invitation from Miss Olive Hudson and Miss Nellie Peery, editresses of the one of the society papers, to attend the meeting of their society for this week.  We would be glad to put their paper on our exchange list.

The county court room is being cut up into offices.  The collector and treasurer will be given offices in the new room.

It looks now like there is not much chance for a fight between the old man and the boys during this session of the legislature.

The old man seems willing to let them have their way about the school appropriation, and they will perhaps agree with him in most if not all his measures.

The county school fund amounted to 80 cents for each student.

The farmers will want to be ploughing while district court is in session but many of them will be forced to stay in the city for weeks.

A good many newspaper men are in Austin.  Among them we notice Elliott, of Dallas Herald, and Murray of the Denison News.