MAN WARING, Real Estate Owner. DOPPLEMAYER & EBERSTADT, Real Estate Owners. NEY & BRO., Real Estate Owners. V. H. CLAIRBORNE, Real Estate Owner. WARD TAYLOR, Real Estate Owner. W. C. BAKER, Real Estate Owner. L. MOODY, Real Estate Owner. R. TOWERS, Property Owner. T. G. ANDERSON, General Insurance Agent. COTTON BROS., General Insurance Agents. FRANK O. SETH, General Agent, Universal Life Insurance Company. GILBERT & CO., Agents for Capitalists and Manufacturers. J. A. H. HOSACK, Auctioneer and Real Estate Broker. W. H. JOHNSON, District Clerk and Notary Public. W. E. KNEELAND, Notary Public. EDWARD GUTHERIDGE, Deputy District Clerk and Notary Public. J. OPPENHEIMER, Recorder and Collector of City of Jefferson. S. A. THOMPSON, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer and Dealer. LAWRENCE & REATON, Crockery, China and Glassware. J. H. CARLIN, Merchant Tailor. HUGO FOX, Manufacturer of Candies. J. B. TULLIS, Surgeon Dentist. ADAM STOLL, Butcher. G. A. KELLY, Proprietor Kelly’s Foundry. MORRIS, McKEOWN & CO., Proprietors of Foundry and Machine Manufactory. E. W. MORTEN, Proprietor “National Cotton Compress.” TRICE STEWART & CO., Proprietors Jefferson Planing Mill. J. B. LIGON, Building Contractor. CRUMP & HUNSUCKER, Builders. C. F. L. SMITY, Civil and Mechanical Engineer. J. M. TUCKER, Alderman. GEO. W. ROBERTS, Supt. Jefferson Chamber of Commerce. CAPT. W. H. COIT, Principal Coit’s Military and Commercial Academy. ROOTS & HYNSON, Railroad Contractors. JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT, Miller, McEachern and Alexander Proprietors, J. B. McEachern Editor. “JEFFERSON TIMES,” R. W. Loughery, Editor and Proprietor. J. C. ROGERS & CO., Printers, Lithographers, Wholesale and Retail Books, Stationery, Blank Books, etc. ARTIFICIAL GAS In making history—the first artificial gas plant in Texas started at Jefferson, the gas being made from rich pine and pine knots, which were cut and placed in iron drums called “retorts.” These retorts were about seven feet long, tapering off at one end like the mouth of a jug. The bottom was opened with a door which securely fastened the pine inside. The retorts were subject to intense heat; the steamlike substance which exuded from the pine during the heating process escaped through an opening in the top and into the iron mains or pipes, through which it was conveyed over the business section of town—to ornamental hollow posts, on top of which were large globes. These were lighted at night and turned off in the mornings. Water often accumulated in the pipes and a negro would remove it with a hand pump—this frequently took most of the day.