FRISCO
ON THE WING
August 29, 1912
Personal Mention of People You
Know by Our Field Man.
With Buckskin
feeling his oats and more than anxious to get busy, we tumbled over the rough
roads until Frisco was reached late last Monday evening.
As it is a difficult
matter to teach an old dog new tricks, we had to keep up the old habit acquired
several years ago and scalp "Uncle Johnny" Branch, of the Bowlby community. We
dislike to remove the pate from these old veterans of the cross, but our habit
is a set principle and we can no more resist the temptation than a pretty girl
to look sweetly. "Uncle Johnny" can grow more hair and the dollar well, it began
to circulate by the time it touched our fingers but there is also another mighty
good paper going to circulate to keep that moving dollar company and "Uncle
Johnny" will learn each week, by reading the columns of the Democrat-Gazette
where they go.
Passing through Rock
Hill we added the name of B. R. Ford to our big list there. He came to Texas in
1876, has a large and industrious family and with the aid of his children
cultivates seventy acres of land sixty-five of which are in cotton. We feel
assured Mr. Ford will like and appreciate the Democrat-Gazette.
Frisco.
Mrs. R. C. Fisher
who was formerly Miss Eliza Carter, daughter of Ben and Mrs. Nancy Carter and
born on her father's farm near Foncine and where she grew to womanhood. In July
1895, she became the wife of R. C. Fisher and today is the proud mother of six
children, three boys and an equal number of pretty girls. A consistent member of
the Baptist church and active in demonstrational work. Her oldest daughter, Miss
Dorothy, is a sweet little girl of only eleven summers, intelligent, well
advanced in her studies and ambitious to acquire knowledge. With a desire to
place good literature in the hands of her children, Mrs. Fisher subscribed for
the very best weekly paper published in Collin county, the Democrat-Gazette.
Acker brothers,
Charles and Ernest, are among the most enterprising young farmers of whom Collin
county is justly proud. In September 1906, Charley and Miss Ethel Rodgers,
daughter of Clayton Rodgers, became husband and wife, and Ernest and Miss Ethel
Cole, daughter of T. A. Cole, became one November 29, 1908. With their mother's
big three hundred and fifty acre farm they have ample opportunities for
demonstrating their abilities as farmers of no ordinary degree. Diversifiers of
the first water they sow and plant seeds to produce a variety of crops.
Realising that it was time to begin raising a greater variety of feedstuff and
to properly prepare same for feeding to insure best results they ordered a silo
and it's full of silage and going through preserving process after which it will
be ready for use. They furnish nearly al of the animals slaughtered for the
Frisco market and offer nothing below first-class stuff. Anticipating a heavy
demand in the near future for their beef animals, they recently purchased a
Durham bull to head their herd of cows. This particular breed is noted for its
large size, fine grain and highly flavored meat. It is not at all surprising
that such enterprising and progressive men should want to keep fully abreast of
the times by subscribing for a live and up-to-the-minute newspaper, the
Democrat-Gazette. We thank each for a big round dollar to pay cost of Collin's
biggest and best paper.
Mitchell Cato, an
intelligent colored man who is a blacksmith and woodworkman for the Acker
brothers. In addition to his mechanical work he also cultivates a crop and this
year has one of sixty-six acres and he thinks his cotton will average
three-fourths of a bale per acre. He was really looking for a good county paper
and when the merits of the Democrat-Gazette were fully explained he went down
into his jeans for a dollar and told us he wanted that paper. Both of us
satisfied; he will get a good paper and we have a big dollar for the picnic.
A. J. Darnell was
out in the field plowing but Mrs. Darnell was quick to inform us that the
Democrat-Gazette was the paper in their home and no other paper could replace
it. She was nursing a sick son, namesake of William Jennings Bryan, who is in
bed with typhoid fever.
Mrs. J. J. Clement
and her husband have been reading the Democrat-Gazette for six years and it gets
better all the time. Such remarks are music to ours.
W. E. Newman was
born in Tennessee but raised in Texas, and has lived around Frisco for about ten
years. Owns a splendid black land farm and to keep fully abreast of the times,
subscribes for the best all-round paper published in Collin county, the
Democrat-Gazette.
R. M. Chambers, born
and raised in Chambersville, seven miles northwest of McKinney, but who for the
last four years has been living in Frisco and proprietor of the only feed stable
in the town, dug up the wherewith for the best paper published in Texas, The
Democrat-Gazette.
D. B. (Booker)
Shrader owns one of the prettiest farms around the town and three years ago had
the misfortune to lose his companion and he was left with four motherless
children and three of them boys and his little girl now just seven years of age.
Until quite recently he didn't live upon the farm but resides there now part of
the time. The best paper published in Collin county (The Democrat-Gazette)
appealed to him and a dollar (just enough to pay for our time writing the
receipt) places him on our big and growing list of weekly readers and we
appreciate such tokens of friendship and confidence.
Halting briefly in
front of the large and comfortable farm home of J. H. Higginbotham, neither he
nor Mrs. Higginbotham were at home but their two lovely daughters, Misses Minnie
and Gene, entertained us for a few minutes and during the conversation had
nothing but words of praise for The Democrat-Gazette. Said they would be at the
picnic and most assuredly pay their respects to the editors of the paper they
like so well.
R. H. Talley first
saw the light in Middle Tennessee and at the age of twenty-five was married to
Miss Annie Patton and eleven children rise up and call them blessed. All are
married and away from the old roof. In 1882 he came to Texas and purchased a
small farm and from time to time since then has added to the original tract
until today he pays taxes on nearly three hundred acres of black land. The many
features of the Democrat-Gazette appealed to him and we were only too glad to
place him on our big list of weekly readers and feel quite sure he'll know how
to appreciate the weekly visits of Collin's biggest and brightest weekly.
J. R. Howard, born
in Kentucky fifty-nine years ago and ever since 1886 has been a loyal citizen of
Texas and two years afterward purchased a farm of two hundred acres and now has
it well improved and in a high state of cultivation. An orchard with a great
variety of fruit threes in full bearing. Part owner of the big gin plant at
McKamy Switch south of Frisco. Is a prominent man of his community and for a
number of years was a trustee of his school; has been a member of the Baptist
church for twenty-four years; Mason of good standing eighteen years; an Odd
Fellow seven years and a prohibitionist of the first water ever since there was
a party by that name. Quite naturally a man of such broad views and
progressiveness would want to keep in touch with events as chronicled from day
to day by a wide-awake and progressive paper - the Daily Courier- Gazette and
St. Louis Globe-Democrat at our clubbing rate.
Glen Bishop is a
young married man whom we have known many years and who, by the way, in 1902 led
to the marriage altar Miss Rebecca, daughter of our old time friend, T. G. and
Mrs. Lou Knight of Parker, eleven miles south of McKinney. Glen and Mrs. Bishop
are now the proud parents of five children and all the boys will vote a straight
Republican ticket when they get older as their father is a stalwart. We agreed
to send him the Democrat-Gazette for one year in exchange for a small slip of
paper upon which he drew a few hieroglyphics and Mr. Brooks of the First
National of Frisco gave us a dollar for it.
By appointment we
called at the mammoth mill and elevator of R. C. Fisher. In a lot surrounding
this enterprise of Frisco we saw evidences of "big business." One hundred head
of Poland China now under feed and with a view of being shipped to Fort Worth
soon as they have attained that degree of fatness where further development is
rendered impossible. They are certainly a fine bunch of porkers, and their
weight now would probably approximate from 250 to 350 pounds each. Owing to
concentrated feeds and improved feeding methods, stockmen are enabled to realize
better results now than under the old conditions. In addition to his ill and
elevator interests Mr. Fisher operates a big gin, owns two and has a half
interest in two other threshing machines, four in all and during the present
season threshed one hundred and seventy-five thousand bushels of grain. To any
ordinary person that would be business enough but not for this man of pluck,
ambition and enterprise. He farms on the largest scale of any man in the county
perhaps, 2,200 acres under control and owns nearly fifteen hundred acres and
operates the farm with hired labor. With such interests it pays to read the best
county paper and from now on will read the Democrat-Gazette that his good wife
subscribed and paid for.
J. C. (Cope) Mayes
whose farm lies under the northeast wing of the town is erecting a silo. With
dimensions of 14 feet in diameter and 30 feet in height, it has a tonnage
capacity of one hundred. The bottom is of brick overlaid with concrete. The
silage will consist principally of milo maize with a little sorghum added to
form the syrup for preserving. For the benefit of farmers who doubtless are
anxious to know something about the cost of these receptacles for storing winter
feed for stock will give the cost as furnished by Mr. Mayes: Cost of Silo laid
down at Frisco, $235; material and cost of laying foundation, $50.00; roofing,
chute, painting and carpenter's wages, $100.00, aggregating $385.00 or say
$400.00. The saving in feed and convenience in handling will pay the cost of one
the first year, and they will last a life time.
S. W. Dawson and
Miss Mary Shelley were united in marriage in 1900 and five children are to
provide for. He is a Yellow Hammer but like most young men of the eastern states
hiked to Texas in order to find the girl he wanted. His crop consisting of one
hundred and fifty acres of wheat, oats, cotton and corn. His grain crop was far
above the average and several ears of his yellow corn are now on display in the
Democrat-Gazette office and has excited many favorable comments. Only a dollar
takes him the best paper in Collin county for one year, the Democrat-Gazette a
year.
ON THE WING
Daily Courier Gazette, September 13, 1913
Personal Mention of People You
Know by Our Field Man.
With the fly situation improved Buckskin
resumed travel and as usual, got busy.
Frisco.
J. H. Allen was in
Kansas on a pleasure trip leaving Mrs. Allen and the little ones at home. The
latter stated that their farm of hundred acres is part of the old Huffman
homestead, she being a granddaughter. Her maiden name was Johnnie Huffman and
has been married forty-four years, and four children bless this happy home. The
Democrat-Gazette has been their family paper for many years and will continue to
be such for many more.
In 1882 W. R. Wilson
and Miss Ellen Brookshier were united in marriage and only two children are the
fruits of that happy union. The oldest, Lawson (?), is married and owns a good
home at Red Oak, Ellis county. The youngest child is a young lade in her teens
and making art a special study. Her samples of china painting and work done on
water colors are above the average for an amateur, and would be creditable for
one of broader claims. She will enter the Kidd-Key College at Sherman in a few
weeks for another course. We will be surprised if Miss Stella doesn't develop
into a real artist for her talents run in artistic channels.
The Wilson came from
Ellis county one year ago and purchased the old homestead of Claude Quisenberry
with an acreage of three hundred and fifty-two, two and one half miles southeast
from town and all, with the exception of twenty-five acres reserved for
pasturage and meadow, in a high state of cultivation with a neat and substantial
farm house and other buildings. We enjoyed the hospitality of this good
Methodist family, proud to class each member among our friends and to enroll
them as readers of the best paper published in Collin county, the
Democrat-Gazette.
J. F. Timmons is
another good man and highly respected citizen that Collin county has stolen from
good old Ellis. Four years ago he purchased the Fielding Quisenberry farm of one
hundred and twenty-nine acres. Mrs. Timmons in the absence of her husband was
loud in praise of the Democrat-Gazette and took occasion to inform the field man
that she was raising two strains of Indian Runner ducks, Pencil Runners and
White Fawn. having more drakes than needed, a limited number are for sale. They
have been readers of the Democrat-Gazette ever since their advent to Collin
county, and Mrs. Timmons says its the very best of country weeklies.
contd
Bethel Cemetery
Frisco Baptist Church
Frisco Methodist Church
Communities Index
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"Frisco- Collin County Communities,"
Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of
Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
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