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New Hope 1, Jack Co, TX
Newhope.
For the Citizen: Oct. 1883
The town map of New Hope City, a new town in the south east corner of Jack County, was recorded yesterday in Book E3 page 31. * * * This place will go by the name of “New Hope City,” now, henceforth, and forever.
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New Hope 18, Polk Co, TX
BEING a strip of land, including the existing county road commonly known as the Goodrich - New Hope road, 100 feet wide, 50 on either side of the proposed FM Highway 2969 centerline, extending from Engineer’s centerline station 82/11 to Engineer’s centerline station 88/27; said proposed centerline being described as follows: * * * “long,”
New Hope 10, Wood Co, TX
PROPHECY.
New Hope 6, Dallas Co, TX
I was living at Garland at the time Mr. Ellis began business at New Hope, having established the Garland News in April, 1887, two years earlier. * * * It has everything you need to get in pumpkin-pie order. * * * Farmer Brown shops there with satisfaction. * * * It has kept pace with the times; a 50 x 70 brick building brimming with merchandise despite war-time rationing. It grinds custom sausages: let Ellis grind your fresh sausage for you. * * * It is ROBBED 3 TIMES IN 60 DAYS. * * * Dear Santa Claus: I do my work. I am a good girl. I want a watch and ring. * * * Dear Santa Claus: I am a good girl in school. Please bring me a sleepy doll, a pair of skates, some fruit, and firecrackers. * * * 50 Years Is A Long Time. * * * Frank Ellis had a good name. Nothing more need be written.
New Hope 2, Cass Co, TX
New Hope News
This week end is our regular
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This is the first time I have attempted to write New Hope news in a long time, I wish if you want your friends and loved one that lives away from you and you want them to hear about you through the Citizens Journal will you please hand me your news items by Monday morning real early, I will appreciate it very much for I can’t get all of the news of the community without your help.
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New Hope 19, Liberty Co, TX
I just have a couple comments about all of this. * * * The church bldg seems fairly well kept, new paint... but the graveyard is so overgrown that when you first look you don’t see any markers. * * * * * * This old Negro man was Ninety years old when he told me this story, * * * A Brief Review of Colonial Graveyards.
New Hope 5, Franklin Co, TX
I have 336 acres of good pasture land, several springs, three large pools, south of Mt Vernon, three miles from New Hope oil field. Not leased. Stocked with cattle. Will sell both or pasture separate on easy terms. * * * Incised. * * * Punctuated. * * * Incised-punctuated. * * * Grog. * * * Grog-bone. * * * Grog-bone-sandy paste.
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New Hope 10, Delta Co, TX
Wanted: Ten cotton pickers to pick cotton. * * * We have the best of any country moraly speaking but we lack the sociability that New Hope has. They are the visitingest people I ever read of. I don’t know how they pick so much cotton and do all that visiting, too. * * * Our people have to work night and day now; they pick cotton in the day time and at night they scratch chiggers.
New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
That Spelling Match.
New Hope, March 11, 1907
New Hope, March 11, 1907
“Mexia Graduates” and “Shiloh Crack Shots.”
We were glad to see Prof. Caine and his crowd at New Hope Friday night for the purpose of spelling the school down, but am proud to say you were very unsuccesful. Some of your eight or nine year old pupils were still on the floor when you took your demise.
A drowning man will grab at a straw; your various excuses are unfounded. Our teacher had never drilled us for any such occasion, but his general instruction is up-to-date; therefore the inevitable result Friday night. Eleven New Hope school children remained on the floor when all opposition had been obliged to take their seats.
School Boy.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
From Shiloh.
Well, New Hope has got some good spellers but they live in the sticks and the sand, and us Shiloh folks call them “backwoods.”
The New Hope folks think they are the hot stuff because they have a good speller, but they take good care to stay at home. Some one put in the paper that the Mexia graduates and the Shiloh crack shots came over to spell them down, but wasn’t in it at all. You New Hope folks can make your brags about your spelling, but I can come over there and spell the last one of you down if you put up enough money. I don’t do everything for nothing, so you write what you can about Shiloh, but you can’t hurt us, for we are better known than you backwoods.
I am one of the Shiloh crack shots, as the New Hope folks call us.
Clerk.
New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 4
From New Hope.
There’s a few geece and long neck Cranes around New Hope, I guess that is the reason Shiloh people are afraid to come to see us. I will try to save up a dozen eggs before you come up to spell us down, Mr Cerk. I think that will cover your pile. I don’t think you would go to any extra trouble for nothing, I’m sure I wouldn’t ride twelve miles in a wagon on a dark night for tnohing. I guess you are better known than us Newhopers, but I’ll try to get some one to rop you and drag you out of Plummers creek bottom, up on the hill, where you can see that New Hope is not so far back in the woods.
A bird with a broken wing can only flutter.
We notice the Shiloh Osprey fell in the gutter.
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Sorry to say Chesley fell in too.
School Boy.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 11
From Shiloh.
I notice that a New Hope correspondten and a correspondent from Shiloh who gives his name as Clerk also one who gives his name as W.O.W. have been trying to see who could write the best or rather the worst local on the other. Well Mr. School Boy as you well know old Shiloh is on the open prairie and as for you coming down here to drag any of us out of Plummers creek bottom you needn’t come unless you bring along a pocket full of corn for if you do the geese is good for you, mind out now. And be sure you have dozen eggs fried you spoke of also you better have a couple of dozen well rotten to use on your self to clear up your breath. Oh, my, I smell you now.
Shiloh never come to your community without an invitation. Your school teacher challenged any school in the county for a spelling match and Shiloh accepted the challenge and went to your community and and if that wasn’t an invitation what do you moss backs call an invitation? What you need is shearing; order you a machine and try shearing some of those moss backs. Well I believe you could rent one at almost any livery stable.
Shiloh is here with the goods and when you New Hopers feel like coming down we’ll see that the geese is all penned if you only drop us a card.
Peter Plug Ugly.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 11
From Shiloh.
I sorter sympathize with you New Hope people because I live in the woods myself but not so far back as you do. We work down here and don’t have time to study our spelling like you all do. If I were to learn my spelling by heart I would be just as a good speller as you are.
You New Hope people never did work and if you will come down here during cotton chopping time I will beat any one of you chopping. I practiee chopping cotton like you do on your spelling. I know one thing, Mr. School Boy, if I had that long neck crane down here I wouldn’t let him starve to death like you all are doing. You New Hope people are so stingy up there, this is the way you treat your children, you will give them five cents a piece not to eat their supper and when they go to bed you slip it out of their pockets and the next morning whip them for losing it.
You New Hope people are invited to come down when you can.
New Hope in the back woods as you all can see. A long neck crane stood by a tree (just about to starve to death) for wanting something to eat.
Young Duck.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 11
Point Enterprise.
Clerk, the writer urges a peace conference between you and Schoolboy. Get “Teddy” and meet at Pt. Enterprise and agree upon an armistice if nothing else; your malcomplements are attracting notice.
Success to the Herald.
Grafter.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 18.
Shiloh Vs. New Hope.
We have on hand two communications from the regular correspondents at Shiloh and New Hope this week that had to be left over because we did not have room for them, as they got in after other communications from the same places had been received and put in type, and really too late to be set this week.
While on the subject, we wish to ask that the spelling bee controversy between these two communities be called off.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 18.
From New Hope.
Well, Mr. Editor, as Shiloh has doubled up on New Hope in your last issue I thought it time to explain the true situation and then it will be time to ring off this kind of news. This kind of stuff may suit the correspondents of Shiloh, as they all seem to enjoy it and brag on your paper and say it is growing better each week. I for one would think it much better without all the rot these correspondents use in their locals.
Shiloh used to be my old stomping ground and there are some good Christian people living there, but if we were to judge from the locals it would be like the boy that was asked what occupation his father followed, and he said he was a preacher but you could hardly tell it.
He first departed from the path of truthfulness by saying our teacher challenged the county to spell, and Shiloh considered that an invitation, and we needed our backs sheared for not knowing what an invitation was. Now if he had challenged the county, as Ugly Plug said, that would not have taken in Shiloh, for Shiloh is in Limestone and New Hope is in Freestone. Please somebody tell Mr. Plug Ugly where he lives.
That reminds me. Mr. Clerk and Young Duck were talking about immigration. They didn’t know what it means. So they went to Ugly Plug Pete and asked him. He said he didn’t know exactly, but thought it a cross between a pole-cat and a skunk.
I will ring off for this time, and hope New Hope will be left in peace for a time.
One of the Mossbacks.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
April 18
From Shiloh.
Have you used those eggs as Peter Plug told you yet? Well, your intentions are good but your expectations are a failure; in fact you are a failure from Arkansaw, only fuss and feathers; that’s all. Come again, and you better be sure old Dan is at home so you can see what some of those words mean which you use writing like you do and not knowing no more than you do; you are liable to be cursing the editor, and the first thing you know he will be on you. And quit advertising the New Hope seat of education and institution of knowledge on the sly as you have been doing. If you want an ad in the paper come up like a man and buy space and pay for it like a man. But remember that rotten eggs and goat butter isn’t no go with the newspaper men.
So come again, School Boy and also Peter Plug Ugly.
Sophilithia Bootleg.
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New Hope 5, Freestone Co, TX
May 9
From New Hope.
Well, as a see School Boy has quit writing I’ll try my luck. I guess he got tired writing or is dead. I saw him going down the road last week looking sorter sick at the stomach.
Luck to the Herald.
Nancy Ann.
I was born in New Hope in 1897, January 31st. * * * [Photograph of the interior of the Frank Ellis and Son General Store in the New Hope community of Sunnyvale, TX. Every wall is covered in shelves] * * * What was the town like at that time? * * * [Postcard of the Earle White home in the New Hope community of what is now Sunnyvale, TX. A large tree is blocking most of the house. A large, covered porch is around the entire structure. A woman holding an infant in her arms is seated on the porch, facing the camera] * * *
Your father bought that store from Mr. T. P. Tinsley. About when did he buy it? * * * [Photograph of the interior of the Frank Ellis and Son General Store in the New Hope community of Sunnyvale, TX. Every wall is covered in shelves] * * * And was that New Hope at the time? * * * [Photograph of the exterior of the Frank Ellis General Merchandise Store the New Hope community of Sunnyvale, Texas. A large number of people and wagons are outside the store] * * * Now, you lived right there in New Hope, did you?
And when did the business start fading out, the town?
Dallas Co.
I was living at Garland at the time Mr. Ellis began business at New Hope, having established the Garland News in April, 1887, two years previous. * * * For years after New Hope lost its postoffice, the address of many New Hopers was Mesquite, RFD, Care of Ellis’ store. * * * Dear Santa Claus: I do my work. I am a good girl. I want a watch and ring. Dear Santa Claus: I am a good girl in school. Please bring me a sleepy doll, a pair of skates, some fruit, and firecrackers. * * * Frank Ellis had a good name. Nothing more need be written.
[Photograph of the interior of the Frank Ellis and Son General Store in the New Hope community of Sunnyvale, TX. Every wall is covered in shelves] * * * I was what * * *
I believe he bought it from a fellow named T. P. Tinsley. * * * And what was New Hope at the time? It was a thriving town. * * *
* * * [Photograph of four brothers in Mesquite, TX. All are wearing suits and ties] * * *
* * * For years after New Hope lost its postoffice, the address of many New Hopers was Mesquite, RFD, Care of Ellis’ store. * * * Dear Santa Claus: I do my work. I am a good girl. I want a watch and ring. Dear Santa Claus: I am a good girl in school. Please bring me a sleepy doll, a pair of skates, some fruit, and firecrackers. * * * [Postcard of the Earle White home in the New Hope community of what is now Sunnyvale, TX. A large tree is blocking most of the house. A large, covered porch is around the entire structure. A woman holding an infant in her arms is seated on the porch, facing the camera] * * * Frank Ellis had a good name. Nothing more need be written.
MOPS and BROOMS! PAILS and PANS! SOAPS and SCRAPERS!
A tabloid section of the Texas Mesquiter, devoted exclusively to Ellis, will be published next week.
* * * We, too, send greetings to Mr. Frank Ellis. * * *
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* * * It has everything you need to get in pumpkin-pie order. * * * *
50 Years Is A Long Time.
Porter Drugs Salutes Mr. Frank Ellis on the occasion of His Golden Anniversary. * * * Buck Frank and His Employees of District 2 Send Congratulations and Best Wishes to Mr. Frank Ellis, and Ernest on the occasion of your Golden Anniversary.
New Hope 19, Liberty Co, TX
I just have a couple comments about all of this. * * * The church bldg seems fairly well kept, new paint... but the graveyard is so overgrown that when you first look you don’t see any markers. * * * * * * This old Negro man was Ninety years old when he told me this story, * * * A Brief Review of Colonial Graveyards.