Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
July 28, 1909
READY FOR CONFEDERATES
Mount Pleasant in Gala Attire for Reunion - Large Crowed Expected
Mount Pleasant, Tex., July 28 - Nearly every business house and many residences in this city are gayly and beautifully decorated today with flags and bunting of red, white and blue, and the city, for the first time in its history, is striking appearance. However, the decorations will not be so extensive as at first planed, owing to the supply of flags and bunting being exhausted.
A number of Confederate flags are floating from the court house, the interior of which is decorated for the veterans, where they met Thursday morning at 9 o'clock to register and secure badges ad homes. An arch has also been erected at the entrance to the business part of town at the foot of Depot street. The veterans will pass through this arch, which represents the gateway to the city. The veterans, their wives, sons and daughters will be accorded a true Southern welcome of genuine hospitality when they visit our city, and the people of Mount Pleasant will care for them lovingly and tenderly and turn over to them the keys which unlock the doors of our homes. A number of military companies arrived today, among them the Fort Worth Grays and the Marshall company, accompanied by their sponsors and maids of honor.
About two hundred veterans and wives arrived this evening to attend the State reunion. They went directly to the court house, secured badges and were assigned homes. Five hundred more are expected tonight and on Thursday early morning trains. Sons of Confederates held a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at K. of P. Hall.
Commander in Chief McAdams of Dallas and his staff were present. The purpose was to meet and get acquainted will all visiting Sons of Confederates.
All Confederates, Sons and Daughters will assemble at 9 a.m. Thursday at the court house and march to Dellwood Park, where Mayor J.V. Moore and S.P. Pounders will deliver addresses of welcome.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
August 2, 1909
Mount Pleasant, Tex., Aug 2. - Owing to the heavy traffic during the opening of the State Confederate reunion here the motor car on Red Springs Street railway broke down and has not yet been repaired. The car has a seating capacity of about twenty persons, but as many as sixty crowded on the car and overtaxed its power. A trailer was built to help carry the passengers, but it was not placed in use owing to the breakdown.
Mt. Pleasant Times Review, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
December 7, 1923
GOLF COURSE IS COMPLETED
WORK IS FINISHED YESTERDAY ON AN EXCELLENT COURSE AT DELLWOOD
Work was completed yesterday on the new sport organization for Mt. Pleasant - a golf course. The course has been built at Dellwood, which is said by experts to be admirably suited for the purpose, it having all the natural advantages.
The work of building the course has been in charge of Judge D.M. Cook, who has had a number of men on the grounds, cutting sprouts, hauling dirt to be put on the putting green, and leveling up various places around the tees and along the fairways. For the winter, the greens will be of four inch clay base, covered with three inches of sand and topped off with fine cinders to insure close packing. They are eighteen feet in diameter.
Four foot bridges have been built across the branch which runs through the Dellwood property, so that the players can cross more easily.
Local golfers who have played on other courses throughout the country say that the course at Dellwood is one of the best in all the country as the distances are right with the proper hazards, and no obstructions between the tees and holes.
The crowd is expected on the course tomorrow and every fair day during the winter and spring. Membership in the club will be confined to fifty, and the quota is almost filled now.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Tuesday, November 13, 1928
DELLWOOD HOTEL BURNED SUNDAY
ONCE FAMOUS RESORT IS ENTIRELY DESTROYED BY FLAMES
The Dellwood Hotel, once a famous hostelry among travelers in this part of the State, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon about 2:30 o'clock.
The hotel, which is located in Dellwood Park, about a mile and a quarter southeast of the courthouse, had not been in use for a number of years, except when partially occupied by a family or two, and it is supposed that someone set it on fire. The fire department hurried to that place as soon as the alarm was turned in, but could do nothing toward saving the structure because of a lack of water. They tried pumping water from a small creek running nearby, but were unable to keep a full supply.
Dellwood Park was developed about twenty years ago, and the hotel was erected of fine materials as part of the plan to make it a pleasure resort. At that time, automobiles were not in general use, and after a few years the property began losing money and it was abandoned, later being used as a dormitory for the Speer School for Boys, which operated for a few years and then moved to Dallas. The proposition is said to have been promoted about fifteen years too soon, and although it is a natural beauty spot, it failed to realize the expectation of the investors.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Friday, February 7, 1930
RIPLEY WANTS DATA ON RED SPRINGS
Secretary Pickett of the Chamber of Commerce received a letter Friday morning from Robert L. Ripley, who conducts the "Believe It or Not" cartoon releases for a large number of papers, inquiring about the red springs at Dellwood. He received the tip from G. M. Orr, a Dallas man, who visited this place several years ago and was given some of the water at dinner at a local hotel. Mr. Pickett will take a photograph of the red and blue springs at Dellwood and will send samples of both colors of water to Mr. Ripley, accompanied by an affidavit that the water is genuine in color and came from the springs. No doubt reference will be made in the cartoon at some future date.
Titus County History Website note: We contacted the Ripley's organization to see if they had a record of Dellwood Park and if we might obtain a copy of the cartoon. Mr. Edward Meyer, Vice President of Exhibits & Archives for Ripley Entertainment Inc., checked their records and found no record of Dellwood or the mineral springs. We don't know if the article was never published, or if by chance it simply isn't indexed or has been lost, but appreciate his checking for us.
