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March 20, 2003 |
 John Morgan's home which was located on the 300 block of North Main Street. The house was demolished about 25 years ago. |
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I haven’t run out of talk from under the tipi, but sometimes, I have to be like an automobile and need to change gears and keep on looking through my old stuff. I still have old boxes of old clippings and other stories from long ago that my grandmother passed on to me. You know sometimes I think that my grandmother didn’t have time to do anything else but collect clippings about events from the past, but I do know she spent a lot of time doing other things as well as raising her family and working her beautiful yard of flowers and taking care of my grandfather. I remember her story about one time when she came into Aubrey to do her weekly shopping, when one of the new fangled four wheel gadgets that made a lot of noise got in her way or vice versa and the automobile ran over her and almost killed her. This was in about the year of 1907. Being a midwife and a person interested in caring for others she managed to get herself home with all of her broken bones including her ribs, and with her own nursing skills was able to recover fully after many months of healing. She never went to town to do her shopping after the accident; she became a so-called recluse and made herself very happy just staying home and saving interesting writeups about local happenings. So today, I am going to include one of the stories that is about a newspaper write up that was about an old newspaper writeup, and this will be the fourth time this writeup has been published in an Aubrey newspaper. The following story first came out on an old press that was in the neighborhood curing the late 1860's and very possibly the 1850's. The Aubrey Banner printed the story again on May 4, 1895. It was Vol.1, No. 31. The headline of the old newspaper reads: An Interestin Old Paper (Note the spelling is as it appeared in the newspaper) Mrs. S.A. Ashley hands in an old paper that is the climax to anything we have published about old papers issued in Aubrey. This one is a copy of the Aubrey Banner and bears the date of May 4, 1895. It is Vol. 1 31. The paper at this time was under the management of Chas. Burch. Mr. Burch is now linotype operator at Pilot Point. The paper contains quite a bit of interesting reading matter, but the advertizing patronage is slim. One ad is from the Central Business College, of Sedalia, Mo. Mullins and Mountain carried an implement ad. Newt Henderson and Co. carried a hardware ad. And at this time were making a special on queensware. They advertised teacups and saucers as low as twenty cents per set. Seven-inch plates were priced as low as 35cents per set. The City Barber shop was conducted by G.D. Culpepper and Mullins Hotel conducted by W. J. Mullins, was the town’s popular hostelry. The rates were $2 per day. Those were the good old days. G.M. Smith was in the stove repairing business. Some of the news items were: "Mr. J.M. Coffey and Miss Leslie Simpson were married at the M.E. Church in Aubrey last Wednesday evening at between seven and eight o’clock. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. C.C. Davis in the presence of a large audience, and was very impressive. The Church had been previously decorated under the supervision of Mrs. McDougal, and was extremely beautiful. The Banner joins with their numerous friends in congratulating the beautiful bride and the handsome groom. May peace, prosperity and happiness be their constant companions in their journey through life are the wishes of the Banner." "Mr. J.A. Rhoads left Wednesday for Hope, Ark., on business to be gone several days." "Mrs. Sam Hodges visited Denton, Thursday and Friday." On account of being crowded we were compelled to omit a short composition by Master Andrew Copeland. It will appear next issue sure. "Aubrey had just suffered a severe windstorm that week and a great amount of damage was done. The residence of J.C. Kemp was torn down and blown open and Mrs. Kemp and baby were in the house at the time. The house caught on fire, but was extinguished by the rain and Mr. Kemp and baby were rescued by W.L. Zumwalt." The baby spoken of is now Mrs. M.C. Millibar. "The house of Mr. Hobson was considerably wrecked. The business houses of J.B. Statler, W.H. Tatum, W.P. Crawford & Co. and Reynolds, Wilkins Co. were all damaged to some extent." The above article was not dated by my grandmother which is unusual, because all of the rest of her clippings have a date written in pencil markings and say "save this." I think it was written about 1910, however the wedding ceremony was performed by Pastor C.C. Davis who was pastor during 1891. Mrs. McDougle was wife of pastor A.C. McDougle, who was pastor during 1889. A reminder to everyone to attend the Cherokee Heritage day celebration that is scheduled for April 26. Many of the questions you may have about the Cherokees of Texas can be answered during this event. The celebration will be held at the Cagle Hill Farm on Black Jack Road which is owned by Cherokee descendant Shawn Cagle. |
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