TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY

Masthead of the Forney Tribune, 1890

TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY

Advertisements for local saloons in the Forney Tribune, 1889

TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY
TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY
TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY
TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY

Some members of Forney’s first city council, 1884. John M. Lewis (in Masonic lodge garb), Thomas H. Dailey, Alfred J. Walker and George C. Newton.

TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY

Forney Justice of the Peace Isaac Samuel Wood. Wood had also served as the first marshal of Forney and its fourth mayor.

TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY

E. Front Street, about 1890, block between Bois d’Arc and Elm streets.

TROUBLE LOOMING for the CITY

The “town cow,” which many city dwellers kept in their back lot to supply the family’s dairy needs. Photo courtesy of Mick C. Spellman.

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Forney had been incorporated in 1884 and had operated for five or so years without any special “insurmountable” problems! But….during this time period, an “ominous” situation had begun to take shape in FORNEY! Polarizations (divisions into two sharply contrasting groups/sets of opinions or beliefs) began to emerge, and they were ...

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