Eagle Pass News-Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 47, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 11, 1910 Page: 1 of 6
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B. Stanley-Brown, Architect.
Eagle Pass News-Guide.
Being a consolidation of the Rio Grande News and Eagle Pass Guide.
Vol. XXII.
EAGLE PASS, MAVERICK COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1910.
No. 47
SUPERIN TENDENT
IS ELECTED
7 v
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
School Board Has Important
Meeting and Selects
More Teachers.
The trustees of the Eagle Pass
schools met on Wednesday night.
Prof. T, A. Binford, of Benton,
La., has been employed as super-
intendent of the Eagle Pass
schools for the next term. Prof.
Binford comes very highly re-
commended as a disciplinarian
and as on instructor. He can
teach Latin, Greek, French,
German and the higher mathe-
matics. He is a graduate of the
University of Virginia. Prof.
Binford is a married man, 35
years of age. He will be in
Eagle Pass shortly to look over
the ground and also prepare a
course of study for the schools.
The board also elected Miss
Mae Armstrong, of §an Antonio,
Miss Ruth Sheffield, of Uvalde,
and Miss Maude Ragin, of Al-
pine, to teach in the schools.
This makes nine teachers so far
selected. The board expects to
employ one more—a gentleman.
Fish scales at Ladner’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Daly, from the
Esmeralda ranch, spent a day on
the frontier this week and in the
early evening, of Wednesday,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Cheek at the post to an afternoon
tea.
Heed the warning. At the first
sign of distress in your eyes,
come to us for scientific exami-
nation and proper fitting of
glasses. Graduate optician at
Pilgrims.
The Flying Machine.
The aeroplane and woman tra-
peze performer that has been
exhibiting in Eagle Pass the past
week has attracted a good deal
of attention. This is an adver-
tising scheme of the big store of
L. De Bona, and advertises the
big sixth semi-annual sale that
is now taking place there. Many
amusing incidents were occasion-
ed by the no vet feature. One
woman who saw the “woman”
doing stunts hanging on a tra-
peze several hundred feet up in
the air, nearly had a fit over the
great danger of such a perform-
ance. Several parties came to
the DeBona store after the aero-
plane came down and wanted to
meet the lady who performed
such wonderful feats high up in
the air.
The large banner, flying from
the line, on which is painted the
DeBona sign announcing the big
sale, stretches out beautifully
and people can read it a mile
away. It is one of the best ad-
vertising features devised, and
in connection with that other
novel advertising feature (get-
ting out a suret enough news-
paper announcing the sale) is
certainly bringing results. The
big store has been* crowded all
the week, and in spite of the
dull times cry enjoyed by many,
the dollars are coming in. De-
Bona don’t carry his adver-
tising account as an expense—
it is entered as an investment,
and as such it brings returns.
UVALDE AGAINST ARE BUILDING THE WOODMEN
EAGLE PASS AUTO ROADS CELEBRATE
j
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TWO HOT BALL GAMES THE ROLLER AT WORK HAVE A GOOD TIME
Fans and Rooters are Due to
Have a Big Time at
Two Games.
The Uvalde base ball team will
arrive in Eagle Pass this after-
noon and at 4:30 will cross bats
with the Eagle Pass team at the
Post grounds. And tomorrow
afternoon at 4:30 at the samej
place the two teams will play
again. Recently Eagle Pass
played this team in Uvalde and
lost the game by the score of
two to three—good enough game
for anybody. That was the first
game between the two teams.
Eagle Pass proposes to win both
games in this series.
Be sure to come out tomorrow
afternoon and help root for the
home team. You will get ypur
money’s worth at both games.
One of those little family grind-
stones at Ladner’s are useful
about the house.
New Gasolene Roller for Mave-
rick County is Tried
Out.
Mr. Floyd Easterling, of Del
Rio, has been on the border sev-
eral' days engaged in doing
plumbing at the headquarters of
the Commissioner of Agriculture
of the State of Coahuila, in C.
P. Diaz. This is the new office
and residence .of Dr. C. C.
Young, the booster for the Tre-
vino estate in Mexico. Mr. Eas-
terling says things are moving
ively in Del Rio and everyone is
making money. The new rail-
road is not expected for some
years, but the Del Rioites believe
in making hay while the sun
shines—and the sun is shining
brightly in that town at present.
Glasses for near and far; the
celebrated Kryptok Bifocals.
Sold and guaranteed at Pilgrims.
Mr. Harry Dean who, with his
Drother has been engaged in do-
ing roofing and tin work in Eagle
'3ass for some time, left on Mon-
day by wagon route for San An-
tonio. His brother will complete
lis contract here this week and
leave on Tuesday for San Anto-
nio. The Dean brothers are ex-
perts in their line and many
house owners in Eagle Pass
were anxious to -have them do
jobs for them, but they have con-
tracts in San Antonio which
'necessitate their returning to
that city at present.
Ice cream freezers. Twin
freezers—make two kinds of
cream at the same time. Lad-
ner has them all sizes.
Nice Plums,
Mr. J. A. Vann this week pre-
sented this writer with a lot of
fine plums which he raised in his
yard, corner of Ave. C and Sec-
ond streets. They are of the
large, red variety and as good as
any plums shipped in from Cali-
fornia. Mr. Vann also has a lot
of the big purple plums, a world
of nice grapds and other fruits,
which grow in this section with
very little trouble.
Road Builder Sieg. Rohleder is
giving some pretty good demon-
strations of first class road work.
The new gasolene roller for Mav-
erick county arrived last week
and on Monday Mr: Lee Worrell,
representing the Austin Manufac-
turing Co., from whom the roller
was purchased, unloaded the rol-
ler and proceeded to show the
natives what an up-to-now gaso-
lene roller was like. Mr. Joe
Wadsworth is being broken in as
engineer, or “chuffer of the
county automobile,” and he is
proving an apt pupil. On Mon-
day morning consternation was
created by the roller making its
initial trip down Main street.
For the benefit of the base ball
club and the public generally the
first real work done by the roller,
was rolling down the base ball
grounds. Here it showed up
well.
Since then Mr. Rohleder has
had it out on the road south of
town between the bridge and
railroad track. This was the
worst piece of road in the com-
munity. It is rapidly becoming
the best road.
The new roller is doing all that
is claimed for it, ^nd soon the
automobile- roads of Maverick
county will be a reality. ^Vith
characteristic enterprise Mr. Roh-
leder conceived the idea of build-
ing one of the famous King road
drags and with this he rapidly
smoothes the surface of the road,
then with a good wetting, a lay-
er of gravel and passing the rol-
ler over it, a fine road is
produced.
It is the intention of the au-
thorities to build the road to the
mines next. There is more travel
on this road than on all of the
other roads combined.
There are eight teams at work
this week. It takes time and
Tnopey to build roads, and it is
believed that the citizens of Mav-
erick county will agree that both
time and money were well spent,
when Mr. Rohleder shows how it
was spent.
I Memorial Day is Observed and
Members of the Order
Invite Friends.
j Last Monday being June 6th,
' the day appointed by the Wood-
; men of the World as Memorial
| Day in that order, the Woodmen
| of Maguey Camp No. 144, met
! at Odd Fellows hall at 8:30 p. m.
| No effort was made during the
! day to hold services at the ceme-
tery, nor was there any public
! procession such as frequently
j takes place on such occasions,
but the members, about 60
strong, together with some
twenty or thirty friends, met at
the Hall for a public meeting,
and as almost all those present
understood Spanish the proceed-
ings was conducted in that lan-
guage.
The meeting was opened by
Consul Commander G. G. Puls-
ford by a speech upon the objects
of Woodcraft and of mutual
MASS MEETING
TALKS RAILROAD
SOME GOOD ADDRESSES
Visitors from San Antonio and
Elsewhere Tell of Benefits
to Follow.
A goodly number of the citizens
of Eagle Pass turned out to the
mass meeting at the court house
last night, to discuss and hear
discussed a new railroad for
Eagle Pass. A number who
should have been present and
who are vitally interested were
absent, but the meeting was in-
teresting and instructive and will
doubtless prove a help to the
bonus soliciting committee.
John R. Sanford, president of
the Incjustrial League, called the
meeting to order, stated its ob-
j ect, and called for a report from
the bonus soliciting committee.
Judge Douglas, for the committee,
reported that $20,000 had been
raised, with only eighteen signa-
tures. That the big majority of
the people had not been solicited
yet, many had the matter under
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societies generally, after which consideration, and others had
Bread boxes at Ladner’s.
Miss Ida Mae Shipman left on
Wednesday for Austin, where
she will visit friends and also at-
tend the University Ball. Later
she will visit friends in Gal-
veston and other places.
Don’t use glasses unless you
need them, and when you do
need them be sure they fit. Our
^business is to tell you when you
need them. We fit your eyes
and fit your pocket book. No
charge for examination. Gradu-
ate optician at Pilgrims.
Mrs. Charlie McKinney, of Gal-
veston, who has been visiting
relatives in Eagle Pass for the
past month, left Thursday for
her home.
B. G. Barnes of the Indio Cat-
tle Company, reports a good rain
on the ranch in Maverick county
Friday night which covered the
entire pastures, with the possible
exception of a little strip near
the ranch house. He was oitt
there when the rain fell. It will
be remembered that he made a
trip to Oklahoma some two weeks
ago, where he has a string of
steers, on receipt of a letter from
Harry Singer, who has them in
charge, saying that a rain wouid
be a good thing. A regular gul-
lev-washer fell the day he got
there, and the next day he start-
ed back home. Anyone who has
a ranch and needs rain might
entertain Mr. Barnes for a day
or two and find it profitable.—S.
A. Express.
—♦ -«►
Large pop-corn toasters, 25c,
at Ladner’s.
Mrs. McGrail and children are
at the Maverick Hotel for a few ;
weeks before going North to
spend the summer.
Mrs. O. J. Loudon is visiting
her mother in Austin this week.
Clerk Moises Calderon delivered
an eloquent address upon the
deceased Woodmen who have be-
longed to Maguey Camp. Mr.
Calderon said that he did not
desire to indulge in flowery ora-
tory, but to present in the most
concrete form posssible the ad-
vantages of Woodcraft, combin-
ed with an affectionate tribute to
the memory of the departed
Sovereigns. His address elicted
much applause.
Mr. Calderon was followed by
Mr. Jesus Sanchez Herrera, who
in a very sympathetic manner
spoke upon the uses" to be per-
formed by all societies having
the mutualistic idea; upon the
destruction of egotism and the
cultivation of altruism. He in-
vited all present who were not
members, to join at the earliest
opportunity. He was loudly ap-
plauded.
Mr. Julian Morales of Ebano
Camp and Mr. Jesus Gloria then
addressed the meeting in a few
well chosen words upon the
same subject.
The last speech of the evening
was from a 'Visitor, Mr. Issac
Garcia, who spoke feelingly upon
the general subject of the even-
ing, insisting upon the necessity
in our day and time, of making
dear to all men the grand truths
of the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man, using the
words of the Apostle John,
“Little Children, Love One An-
other.’ His discourse brought
out much applause.
The meeting was closed by
Consul Commander Pulsford with
a short address upon the trine
of the Woodmen’s duties, that
is, upon the fraternal, the social
and the financial aspects of
Woodcraft.
to come in for a fair
promised
amount.
Mr. A. R. Byrd, of San Anto-
nio, president of the Byrd Cattle
Co., was called upon and deliver-
ed a very interesting address,
pointing Out the advantages to
accrue to Eagle Pass upon the
building of another railroad. He
cited the fact that the Byrd Cat-
tle Co. had donated many thous-
ands of dollars toward securing
a railroad, and that last week he
was offered for one section of
land more than all the bonus he
gave. He stated that Eagle Pass
had the best opportunities of any
town in the west to become a
great manufacturing center. Ea-
gle Pass has the water, the fuel,
the climate and the cheap labor,
and there is nothing on earth
that can keep it back except lack
of transportation. He explained
that giving a railroad bonus was
not donating a certain sum of
money, but that it was really an
investment, and that every
dollar invested in the move to
bring a new railroad to Eagle
Pass would bring back four and
five dollars in return.
Mr. W. F. McCaleb, of Carrizo
Springs, addressed the meeting
along similar lines. He stated
that Carrizo Springs had a popu-
lation of 600 when they were
asked for a bonus of $50,000 for
a railroad. It was laughed at,
and generally stated that it were
impossible to raise that amount.
He was on the bonus committee,
and, with some others, they got
busy. Lots that were offered for
sale at five and ten dollars were
sold for $100 and $150 when the
railroad got there. From a sleepy
village, Carrizo Springs has
grown into a thriving town of
1500 people in less than two
n iuw peupie m less man two
■ e pi ocee ings were lender- ontbs after tbe raj]roa(j got
ed more delightful by the pres-;there Mr. McCaIeb gave some
ence of a well arranged orches-
tra,1 brought for the purpose by
Sovereigns Santiago Perez and
Jose Maria de los Santos. The
thanks of the Maguey Camp
were extended most gratefully
to those brothers and their
friends who gave such harmoni-
ous service to the meeting. Eve-
rything was very enthusiastic
and breathed the true spirit of
fraternity and Woodcraft.
valuable information on bonus
raising and on the benefits of a
new railroad to a town. Said it
was true that Carrizo Springs
was without a railroad at all, but
that Eagle Pass is probably in a
worse condition—having only the
Southern Pacific.
Mr. Hust, of the hustling firm
of Hust & Brundage, who has
had much experience in railroad
and town building, then spoke at
taring city. It had three-fourths
of the elements necessary to
make a prosperous city. It has
good water, good fuel, good labor
and good people, but it lacked
good transportation. He pointed
to Carrizo Springs with a popu-
lation of 600 raising a bonus of
$50,000.00 and then stated that
it were ridiculous that Eagle
Pass, with a population of 6000
should hesitate with a bonus of
$100,000.00 He knew that Eagle
pass could easily raise the bonus,
and it was only necessary that
the advantages of the investment
be pointed out; to the citizens.
He stated that he could buy lots
in Carrizo Springs at $5 before
the railroad came and now they
sell for $150 and up. That the
increase in the value of the un-
improved real estate in Eagle
Pass would pay the amount sub-
scribed for a bonus three and
four times over. Mr. Hust is a
happy speaker and pleased the
audience greatly.
Judge Vandervoort, of Carrizo
Springs, being called upon, stat-
ed that he could add his experi-
ence. He said he had subscribed
to two railroads. His first bonus
was to the Asherton road. He
did not have any money but he
subscribed $480 to the bonus and
did not know where he was go-
ing to get the money. When the
contract was signed up business
immediately began to increase
and by the time the road got
there and the bonus was due he
had the money to take up his
note—and he had not had that
much money ahead in many
years. When the road asked for
a bonus for Carrizo Springs he
again subscribed to the bonus,
and he again experienced an in-
crease in business and when the
bonus note was due he was able
to pay it and have some ahead.
He said his business and holdings
wouid incaease one hundred per
cent in one year. /
Judge Douglas on behalf of
the committee, appealed to the
citizens to help the committee
by talking railroad and telling
their friends what a new railroad
had done for other places: He
cited several familiar instances
of real estate values at Del Rio,
and asked the people of Mave-
rick county to think the matter
over carefully, and by explain-
ing the benefits to be derived
from another railroad show them
that the committee is not asking
for a donation but that they are
asking that they invest so much
in a paying- proposition. Mr.
Boehmer also made a few re-
marks along the same line from
a poor man’s standpoint, show-
ing where the man who is not
making much money, or who is in
debt, should come across as lib-
erally as he can so as to change
the conditions so he can make
money—increase his opportuni-
ties to make more money.
. With a vote of thanks to the
visitors who so kindly came over
purposely to attend this meeting,
the meeting adjourned.
ing. Watch’em grow! j_ * e stated that Eagle
I Bass was destined to become a
Flower pots at Pilgrims.
great commercial and manufac-
Lessons in Spanish.
Spanish taught. Pupils soli-
cited. Prices reasonable.
Mrs. Fanny Montgomery.
Mrs. E. W.' Herrington and
little daughter, pd Miss Gilli-
land, from Floresville, are visit-
ing here, the guests of Mr. O. C.
Gilliland and family.
Mrs. Archer from San Antonio
was here last week visiting her
brother, Mr. W. W. Taylor.
Mrs. Burns, from the Frio Canon,
another.sister of Mr. Taylor, was
also his guest. The sisters left
this week for their respective
homes.
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