Dallas Morning News Sept. 20, 1896
Cornersville Club
Waco , Tex , Sept. 19 â€" Col. J.K. Street one of the original organizers of the Cornersville Club, is on a visit to Waco . Col. Street is now a resident of Lampasas Springs. This Club was organized twenty five years ago, its members consisting of former pupils of the log schoolhouse near Cornersville , Tenn. Sixteen of those pupils came to Texas and they all joined the club. After twenty five years the surviving members are J.K. Street of Lampasas Springs, T.C. Ritchie of Georgetown and Messrs. Harvey and J.C. Mitchell of Bryan . When the club was organized sixteen bottles of wine were purchased and the bottles were labeled, each bottle with the name of a member of the club. At the annual meetings of the club the bottle of the member who last died is drunk by the survivors to the memory of the deceased member. There are only four bottles left. The last member who died was the Hon. W.H. Wilkes mayor of Waco and at the next meeting the bottle bearing Mayor Wilkes name will be drunk. When there is only one member left that member is to hold the last session alone and will drink whatever wine is left, including his own bottle.