Arlington Journal (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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We have all new goods, just from the mills and you
can’t get an old garment that has been on the shelves
for years.
Our prices are right anti goods ail new.
Ladies’ and Men’s tailoring, Cleaning, Gent's Fur-
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PRXSgVTERIAN AUXILIARY.
A largo number of members of the
Lad es* Auxiliary, met at the Presby-
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W. M. DIJOAN. Cashier.
C. B. BERRT, Assistant Cashier.
H. T. LOCKETT. Asst. Cashier.
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These plugs “Now out” whenever an excessive
current tries to enter the circuit. This, of course,
cuts off the lights on that circuit. Sometimes
one, and sometimes both, of them, blow out. Mou
can detect which by the blotch that appears on
the izenglass cover.
CAIN COMMUNITY.
Our community is quiet, everything
moving along smoothly, with peace and
plenty in the land. Our’s is a very
busy people, with huundreds of bales
of cotton to pick, with few pickers.
The time for sowing oats is at hand,
but no season in the land.
The health in this community is
very good at this writing.
Mrs. Nash and her daughter, Mrs
Lee, spent Sunday with the latter’s
mother, Mrs. Robins.
A few of the young people of
Bethel community spent a very pleasant
afternoon with Miss Ollie Brumley
ere protective devices designed to prevent exces-
sive current, lightning, etc., from entering your
house. * They are small, screw-like instruments,
with izenglass covers, screwed into the main
main switch block on each circuit.
All that you have t» do is to screw out the
blotched plug and screw in a fresh one. There
is absolutely no danger attached to the operation.
If you will keep a few of these plugs on hand,
it will often save you the inconvenience of having
to do without your lights.
THE ARLINGTON LIGHT, POWER, ICE AND
WATER COMPANY.
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Hall, Tuesday afternoon, a goodly num-
ber being present. The missionary les-
son, led by the pastor, Rev. B. A
Owen, was very interesting.
The Union will meet next Tuesday
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Tills promises to be one
The Southern Baptist Convention •
Invites you to worship and work with them.
A Church with’a Purpose and a Future 5
Services Every Sunday at 11 a m. and 8 p. m. A
Sunday School at 9:15 am A
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday 8 p. in B. A. OWEN. PlStOf a
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THE MIBBIONARY BULLETIN.
The Woman's Missionary Society df
the Methodist Church met la regular
business meeting Tuesday afternoon
at the ohuroh, wiUi a vary large at-
tendance. Much enthuslaam waa man-
ifested and a daaire to take on new
life and a greater dealre to ba more
faithful la our work.
„ Next Tuesday, Octobor
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Report on Sunday School Attendance.
The Journal Ims planned and de-
vised the following system of - report-
ing the Sunday Schools, so as to meet
the requirements of the secretaries
and give, exact status of the Sunday
Schools.
Following are the reports for last (
Sunday, September 29th:
MeUiodlst—
Officers and teachers present.... 21
Officers and teachers absent 6
Scholars present 143
Scholars absent 82
Collection 36.03
First Baptist—
Officers and teachers present. ... 13
Officers and teachtrs absent 1
Scholars present 72
Scholars absent ....78
Collection 81.45
Central Baptist—
Officers and teachers present ' 8
Officers and teachers absent .... 0
Scholars present 54
Scholars absent 5
Collection ....1150
Presbyterian—
Officers and teachers jresent .... 11
Officers and teachers absent 1
Scholars present ...7 64
Scholars absent gg
Collection ; 82.30
Christian—
Officers and teachers present .... g
Officers dnd teachers absent 2
Scholars ppresent 5g
Scholars absent 47
Collection t 31.93
All Churches combined—
Total enrolled
Total present last Sunday
Total collection
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Globe Democrat during a
years
I will inform the Graptlic and the
good ppople of Pine Bluff that it is a
habit of leading citizens m Texas, far
mers as well as newspaper men and
other professional and business men
WOMAN’S UNION.
The Woman’s Union of the Central
Baptist Church met at the Assembly
HOW DO YOU DO?
Come into our store and get
acquainted. We’ll both appre-
ciate the acpuamtance.
Our SATISFIED CUSTOM-
ERS are introducing ua to NEW
CUSTOMERS every day. DONT
WAIT to be introduced—IN-
TRODUCE YOURSELF.
WE WANT TO MEET YOU.
Palace Drug Stan
W. B. Stith .. W. O. Middleton
Comer Hutcheson Building
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Sunday School al 9:45 a m., C. A
Humphreys, superintendent
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.
in . by lhe pastqr
The regular monthly conference will
be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
A full attendance <)f the membership is
desired.
Prayer meeting .
at 7:30 I
We extend a cordial invitation to
the public to worship with us. Stran- I
gers and visitors in the city always
find a welcome P C. SCOTT.
Pastor.
terian Cl
the monthly business meeting,
were made for the auxiliary to
dinner downtown, on general election
day, November 5th. Other subjects
were dismissed
OINIirnAN AIM.
Ths regular baMBsas tneettog ef tbs
Christian AM Bistoty wu held st the
last Sunday.
No community in the State, per-
haps, has more reasons to be thank-
ful than ours, for the Lord has
abundantly blessed this countrry with
a good wheat dPop. a splendid oat
crop, a home supply of corn and a
bumper crop of cotton, and a good
price for the above mentioned pro-
ducts.
Mrs Sim Rogers of Arlington Is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Kate Martin.
Mr. Tom Parker and Miss Annie
Wommack were united in marriage
last Saturday night. The bride Is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Isaac Wom-
mack. The groom is from the Flor-
ence Hill community. We wish for
this happy young couple a long and
prosperous life. ABLE.
ofX the
I best meetings held this year, as the
work will he presented by lhe officers,
each one trying to prove to the Jury
her usefulness to the society ami to
'jhe work in general.
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! The Home Field calls are numerous,
hut more so are the calls from our
the foreign fields, for they have never
heard the gospel and we as Chris-
tians must help to send this message
of love to a dying world.
"The churches opportunity.” Now
is the time of the churches opportuni-
ty for the men an) wwmen of China
mean to have the kindergartens. They
realize the Importance of them and
are going to have them They realize
the need of beginning with the child
and want our supervision erf this
woA. So it is in every field; men are
awakening to their needs. Will we
meet these needs?
We should keep up our pledges, for
every department and where Gnd has
prosperous, increase these offerings.
Remember, we are going forward to-
ward the mark for the prizes qf the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
The Home department will observe
during the great National Home Mis-
sion week November 17-24.
| Miss Katie Kell, one of our dea-
jeonesses. just graduated and ready
I for work, passed to tier reward on
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Mrs S Trueheart. for many 11 *
I vears corresponding secretary* of our, , ,
Woman’s BoaYd, foreign department. ip44B4444444U**»1.
went to her heavenly home July 26th |
Miss Sophia Marms, formerly oL
Mexico, died in China, September 12th |
Miss Marms sailed for China, her sec- [
-nnd trip. September. 1912. She was |
supported by our own Texas Central1
Conference. Woman’s Work.
God calls his workers,
work must go on.
There is no royal road to wealth The get-richr
quick schemes are all planned on the theory that
a new sucker is born every minute.
Think of the money that leaves this town
every year to pay for stock in fake mining deals,
oil speculation, wireless stock, patent right ter-
ritory and other “blue sky” investments that
eventually leave a “blue” investor. All because
home securities were considered too slow. You
can’t make a fortune in a minute. Keep your
funds in a reliable bank like ours and don’t be
afraid of home investments simply because they
are slow but SURE.
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Farmers - Misrepresent - Excited Editor.
to be found at hotels or other sleeping
places at night and they attend to
their business and walk about the
streets or ride in their automobiles or' as women must live up to our motto,
carriages in Hie day time Now.' 'r,‘“ u""‘” K‘‘“IH
these good citizens outlie Great Ar-
. , J well known, re-
liable, highly esteemed and success-
fill farmers) were not aware that such
conduct as staying in the hotels at
night and roaming around in the day
lime, would attract such notorious at-
tention in the capital of Jefferson coun-
ty, Arkansas, as to lay them under
suspicion in the minds of the average
citizens there and cause such a sensa-
tion as to lead the Graphic to apply
approbrlous epithets to them and even
utter the following threat:
“It is rumored tliat some drastic
action js to be taken by a number of
cotton growers against the ‘abor agents
should they continue their operations
here ”
Now. the real facts, as have
ascertained them by talking witti the
| farmers who went up to Arkansas to|
' bring back unemployed negroes
I Messrs. Geo Griffin, J. M Cooper, J
I anlin. F. V Budd and M. It Martin
went to Pine Bluff to get what idle la-
borers they could to pick cotton for
them and the neighbors they were Au-
thorized to represent. They refused to
• inploy lhe town bully and the political
boss among Pine Bluff s overwhelming
negro population—which probably was
their tlrst offense in that town. For be
it known that the tlrst impression that
strikes' a stranger in Pine Bluff is that
there is at> unannounced eclipse of
lhe sun when tie arrives there, and
which later hp ascertains is only the
shadow cast against the horizon and
bending skies by the overwhelming
majority of its colored population.
These gentlemen also insisted that the
negroes who applied must satisfy them
that they were farm hands, or had been
farm hands, and were either unemploy-
ed or were going to make a change and
leave their employers clear of obliga-
tion. If any of the negroes they em-
ployed violated any of the above con-
ditions, these gentlemen did not know
it and were made to believe that no
such violation was committed. They
brought down 'twenty-eight such ne-
groes on the first trip, and went back
on the night of the 24th of September
- this writer accompanying them as far
as Texarkana, en route to the great
Farmers’ Union convention in the lat-
ter city, and talked freely with them
about this matter. They brought down
about forty negroes. Being free Amer-
ican citizens, we feel certain that the
above named geijtlemPn have not lain
themselves open either to suspicion or
condemnation or the harsh criticism
of well Informed and Just minded cit-
izens, nor do they deserve the contempt
heaped upon them by the Graphic.
I know the leading citizenship of
Pine Bluff and they are a splendid peo-
ple. I also know about the condition
of the average, ignorant farm hand in
all of that section from Pine Bluff to
the Mississippi and ovTr to Camden
and up the Arkansas Valley and the
lower Ouachita Valley, and the real
truth about the almost (if not quite)
enforced retention of some of these
ignorant hands from year to year,
would not bear even as good an appear-
ance in print as the slurs, insinuations,
mis-statements and untruths, of this
article in the Graphic. 1 will assure
the good people of Pine Bluff and vi-
cinity that the -negroes brought down
here seem to be working well, and are
satisfied, and the above named gen-
tlemen will endeavor tq see that they
are profitably and happily placed In
permanent positions when the cotton
picking rush Is ovef, and in which
this writer will heartily Join.
i’suaf services Sunday at It
and 7:30 p. m. Miss Bernice Thomp-
son will sing Sunday night
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\ sensational article appeared i,u
the first page of the Pine Bluff Vrk)
• ■raphic of Sunday, September 29th,
1912, regarding some well known and
reputable citizens and farmers of Ar-
lington, who were up there securing
Afnemployed negroes fli pick the Sig
cotton crop in the Great Arlington
Country. The article calls them “La-
bor Agents,” and speaks in great con-
tempt of them and intimates that they
are telling falsehoods to the negroes
regarding the cotton crop in this sec-
tion; one of such instances being, as
the Graphic states, “such a large crop
in Texas that they can pick from 100
to 500 pounds a day ’’
I will state that this probably seems
an exaggeration to the half-baked
youth who wrote the above, if applied
to the “black bell” (referring to pop-
ulation and not soil) around Pine Bluff
But in the great Arlington Country this
is very common, especially with th*
big cotton crop this year From 450
to 600 pounds a day are being picked
by many negroes in this section; this
writer had a negro youth to leave his
wort of doing chores around the place
who hied him away to the cotton-
patehes—naturally preferring the big
pay he receives from picking cotton to
the ordinary pay of working in a yard
or garden, since he is picking from
500 to 700 pounds a day.
- If you are not a regular attendant, o
lie sure yon don’t miss-this meeting. <►
Our motto for the year has been, J J
“Speak Unto the People, That They-xn
Go Forward." There is no stand still ' (
in a Christian life and to attain Chris- ‘
tion ^perfection for the next life it < >
must be “Go Forward."
Our work lias grown and to main- L ,
tain the ground we now possess, we < ►
JI evidently attracted the atten-
tion of this youtii who wrote the
above “roast," that the Arlington cit-
izens’ stayed at the iiotel every night,
but did not loaf around the hotel nor
in it during the day, which evidently „
was the reverse of what the Graphic ’lington Country (all
was accustomed amongst its chief and
leading citizens, for it says, "Accord-
ing to those who are protesting against
their work here, the men stay at the
Hotel Jefferson each night, but do not
appear there during the day"
This writer is probably as well ac-
quainted with Jefferson county and all
of the secAon around Pine Bluff as
tiie writer in the Graphic is, and
the above sentence was the cause of
amusement as it called up reminiscen-
ces of the time that Colonel Newman,
Editor Murray and other choice spirits
of Pine Bluff Commercial Club and
editorial fraternity would insist upon
my Joining them in Pine Bluff’s usual
nocturnal festivities ou some of my
visits there, in days of yore, what time
I was up there gathering'rich data aslbrinK back unemployed negroes to
l.ouis their cotton are about as follows :> June 21st
series of Messrs. Geo Griffin, J. M Cooper, J I’ Mrs. S.
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FIRST BAPTIST AID SOCIETY.
The Ladies’ Aid Society met at the
First Baptist Church for a business
j meeting Tuesday afternoon Attend-
I ance was very good, and an interest-
I in# lesson was discussed before the
1 tu^nsaction of business.
The society decided and made ar-
rangements to serve lunch in town
Saturday, October, 12th, the entire
day After other important business
the society adjourned to meet Tues-
day. October 15th, at the phurch at
p. m Every member is urged to
attend REPORTER
METHODIST CHURCH.
Services at 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p m
Sunday School at 9:30 a m . W J
Pulley, superintendent
Junior League at 4 p. m and In-
termediate League at 5 p.m.
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at
the morning session. Good music al I
all the services. Strangers knd visit
ors in the city are cordially invited
DANIEL L COLLIE
Pastor
Christian Church Monday at 4 p. m
The ladies completed arrangments for
the Irish Stew, to be given in town,
Saturday (tomorrow) at the noon hour.
The next meeting will be held Mon-
day. October 7th, at the church.
but the|
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Bowen, William A. Arlington Journal (Arlington, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 4, 1912, newspaper, October 4, 1912; Arlington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1302813/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Arlington Public Library.