The Examiner-Review. (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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ever, neither the tax to maintain a
water works system nor the quarter-
chorister beats time, the
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He’d just
of his vivid
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vention having no particular charms
for them at this time.
One ft our <
other day with
carried
homo
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The ismsiratie convention nt Hone-
tan teat Saturday was i
joUificatton meeting for the oM let
town who wore temporarily unstated
upon the occasion of the recent eon-
Speaking at the pom sat draine bo-
las put to atone the north side at
Waahisgtoa avenue, did you notin
tow aptoadidly the atom water wan
Congress will ad
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Mr. B.
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Lets keep
NAVASOTA EXAMINER-REVIEW
ED F. BLACKSHEAR.
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drouth and hot ea
asms •
The Homestead News prints a Ms
two oohunn cut to Vhto tonne beneath
which to the foUowtag wording:
-Hoe. Joe H. Baste of Usuries, who
was nominated by a targe majority
to aneeood Hon. Jan. M. Brooks of
Bae in bars, aa U. B. CongratafogB M
the Eighth Congnarioanl Dtotritt."
The News to rather mixed on whom
Mr. BUte win onaoead, ft botes Hon.
Joo. M. Moore nod not Mr. Brisks.
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L Suppose wo had tto
either side of the afreet.
• people would have to see them and
As a city beautifler ad-
shine with any
Most anybody
dozen pots <
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came around hi
bottom aant riC
a pteb w Steaod spoa
CriSi •—teorabty botei
the Rasraey boys wont bo to at the
steam roper exhibition, the oop-
‘‘ day now
ISMBian route thro
fooljsh for anyone to say they are not Proposed, sad make
aMe to put down the drains. ■ 1 *
city has boon powerteas to help the
citizens very much in this trouble,
and the leeaaoa claim that they can-
not fkrn^b water for drinking and
“ 1 poaaa when so sraay
endeavoring th Irrigate
For the benefit of
the unfortunates, we win aay that
the committee having this matter
• charge to endeavoring to bo pre-
pared before the tiara eomoo to make
< new deal next year.
Brenham’s business organized
boasts a membership of 460. 1
wonder they are building sidewall
over there at the rate of half a mi
a day. ■ ’
unavoidable and practical* i
curable causes, within the gnat yea
This to a record to be proud of m
to aimpat-tttroquy traceable to tl
splendid water wo drink.
The Ipng
caused the cotton to
busily engage
Union Grt
blcCBCtl ny f jj
summer. Go
servant Bro.
many and his
upon alL TJ
tor baptism
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for it is a universally acknowledged
fact that we have the West water on
earth. It to quantity. Many homes
throughout the city do not get suf-
ficient water during the day to fill
an ordinary two gallon bucket How- haggard and worn out; M watch keeps
'X-M
Mr. W
returned
noon, aft
IL Mason
autos are not a bed
.Mbm tetartote'to-'
it
; the ftoeman toys ail rfoht Cotton wfll come out
aa astonishing rate, but a vtoN
the Mg fteMs win eonvteco ewm
amateur that^the crop to not\z
it should bo. '
We notice that the Santa Fe water
lank still overflows with due regular-
ity notwithstanding the city council
has tinje and time again resoluted
to run the railroad out of town if
this ^nuisance was not abated. All
of which goes to prove our conten-
tion, that the railroads, as a general
proposition, are not going to get
busy unless actually made to. There
are some folks about here who are
about as bad as the railroads in this
respect, too.
The democratic executive
inittee meets tomorrow at Andei
at which time we expect to fii
connect with,.the full returns of
Saturday’s primary.
We wonder why it is tljat the H. Johnson thinks
ft T. C. railway can put in a gong
alarm along its tracks in the busi-
ness portion of Bryan and here at
Navasota, where the dagger is a
hundred times greater, they take no
such precaution. Looks like some-
body connected with the city had
colored billboard enhancesj^^ed them up a little. Can’t we
get a move on down here, along
that line? . •
A BREAK MUST COME.
The “BuH Moooe** puriy to grifo
put the kfooto. to Priridrat. Ti
asptenttoM for a sisral term. 1
MW puny Win make it cate for
dsmscrata to Meet Gov. WBeefo
reaBy this to about what Boone
If twenty of Navasota's business
men wopld form an organization
and solemnly, swear to give to the
venture their best thought, the
material interests of the city would
be developed more rapidly . -in the
next two years than has been the
case in the past ten years. In the
meantime absolutely nothing of this
sort is being done and the town’s
interests are simply taking care of
themselves with what little help the
City council ip *ble to give to such
matters. It is not the province of
l he etty council to look after outside
matters. This must be attended to
by an organization especially design-
ed for the purpose.
screaming paint and do a better Job ;the oo<^ 18 80 8ma'11 11 really
of city beautifying.
test at Houston in the presidential
race. A solid Colquitt delegation
was selected to go to San Antonio
next' week and resolutions were un-
animously adopted in eulogy of
Senator Joseph Welden Bailey. We
note that the delegation to the Spite
convention is headed by Col. R. M.
Johnson of The Post, whose 'goat was
“took” ‘‘by the other crowd, also.
This must have been a bitter pill
for some of them.
Izens remarked the
good deal of pride,
“that he. had saved tobaeoo tags
enough to get a fine rocking chair." <
Hto wife, whs has'M sense of econ-
omy anyway, has figured it out that
.» w w.w Wim me bvm/ which hk has spent
is ths cause ter worry at Navasotg. tor tobacco, he could hale purchased
a now bedroom suite, a range for the
kitchen, a parlor table, a rag for the
living room aad the halt—Exchange.
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Though we searched dilligently, we
failed to find inz this week’s Com-
monwealth anything about why Nu-
gent was successful over Brownlee,the
Madison county candidate for the
State Senate. Inasmuch as The
Commonwealth was a staunch sup-
porter of Mr. Brownlee’s we think
Bro. Webb should nuke some sort
of explanation, more
we are informed
neither the county
town.
We predict the Board of Equaliza-
tion will have fewer callers this year
than ever before, notwithstanding
notices of the raise to full rendilton
was sent out to every taxpayer in
the city and out of IL Even the rail-
roads are not making any complaint
after it is understood that the tax
rate is to be reduced. Some few
pieces of property is going to show
raises but it will be because the
board was forced to place the
rendition higher than it was handed
In by t^e property owners, rather
than anything the full rendition idea Hiram W.
will have to do with it- There to
not going to be bmy great difference
in the final amount of taxes paid.
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vogvi wwwa. wwm wi vu . ’
with a cement sidewalk and also “®r,®
a five foot drain in front. is . y1* ,
to do
the lessees tbehtings if they got time; soldters merit
tiara; ertanteato serve tiara; tew
spare time; everybody now aad then
tries to kill tin>% aad porhape your
Mboertpttow to behiad time. Press.
is a
thing of which the town can afford
to boast, and when tie reservoir is
completed it is hoped that the quality
of the water win be that to to
’ Brownwood Bulletin. UUI, w
quality M water which with the money
Judge Ramsey is said to be con-
templating “something" at the Gan
Antonio -.convention next week. Col-
quitt’s Overwhelming election en-
titles him ra have all the say tn (the
platform-building and Judge Ramsey
ought to be content to remain at
home and take hto medicine. If the
Colquitt folks do anything very fool-
ish over at San Antonio they will gqt
sat upon soon enough. We do net
anticipate that they will act with-
out due regard for all patties, how-
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and which experiment has
From Mineral Wells Index. v
Tryon, N. C., has absolutely
bidden the posting of a bill any-
where within its borders, thus doing
away with one ugly feature which
disgraces so many towns and de-
tracts from all attempts to beautify
a city.
From Galveston News.
There is little of the artistic or
attractive in the decoration of the
city with pictures of glorified beer
bottles and exaggerated reproduction!
of a waxwork shoe clerk fitting a
shoe like a freight car upon the foot
of a simpering lady who Is proud of
her hosiery. R does not rest the
eye or sooths' the tired brain to see
on great billboards that Wug-Wug,
the great Indian remedy for all ills,
has come to us, and to be advised-in
letters three feet^ tall that Lungine
is the only known specie for pul-
monary troubles. The Wil board ad-
vertiser may have a perverted idea
that a <_______ _______________
the beauty of a city, but he’s been
voted down in many progressive
municipalities. In most cases, though,
ordinary hoes sense can’t credit him
with a desire to beautify. —
as soon nail on<
on the handsomi
be could he’d place th,em across
streets and roads so the automobile
the majority Md'make of'ft one ion-!Have Gov. Colquitt will sign It and
, tinuous improvement It wUl be too «*at h wiu • tendency, to stop
I bad to have the looks of the street 80 prohibition agitation. Strikes
of marred by one or two breaks. And 08 th* «*loon men would do the feal-
■ seems '-v mnsible thing to have such a law
.'"J “ soms-
thing around eight o’clock. / It to
going to be that or something much
wone for them sooner or later. j
Im
The Waco Times-Herald, comment-
ing on the movement of the Ramsey
forces to capture tfre state conven-
tion, write the platform, elect the
state chairman, etc., says:
“In the recent primary election Mr.
Colquitt won over his opponent,
Judge Ramsey, by something like
40,000 majonlty.
“But it te quite evident, from
the temper and spirit of a number
of county conventions, including our
own McLennan, that a fight for con-
trol of the state convention is to
mark the initial proceedings at San
Antonio. . >
“In other words, Mr. Colquitt, al-
though leading the ticket. Is not to
make the platform nor name the
state chairman, provided the Ramsey
men can assemble s sufficient vote
to prevent such a result.
“What does this teach?
“Manifestly that It Is farce comedy
for these antagonistic elements to
continue .ihenibership in the same
party.
“A break must come; that much is
written in the book of , fate."
There fo.M question but what ths
cotton crop has bssn ■■tirtony cut
within ths past two wssks, Mtwtth-
’ at I
go around.
vertising doesn’t
particular luster.
cculd take half a
j To Our Correspondents and Readers
For something more than twelve months The Examiner-Review
published a letter from nearly every postofflce in the county, pdyjng
each correspondent fifty cents for each and every letter. yVe
cd to do tlftp as a matter of experiment, hoping that our
would be pleased to have something of directly local importance
them appearing in the columns of their home paper, also that it would
be appreciated in a substantial manner by securing new subscribers
for the paper.
After a trial of more than a year now,
eset the office considerably in excess of two hundred dollars, we are of
the opinion that our effort was not appreciated, at least to the extent of
emriteuing the heavy expense. In some instances we have spent a good nfciny
Move dollars in the community than we took dut of it in subscriptions. This,
of course, cannot be continued. We dislike to lose our many faithful
Mnvspondents and their letters, but beginning with September lit we
•Bell discontinue the correspondent feature of-' the weekly except in
CUUM where correspondence is sent to us free of cost to ourselves We
-fcri that tbostf readers who really care for the paper will thoroughly
Mritorstand the necessity for this step, since it is obviously very poor
bsriteOM management to spend more than one takes in.
Ttor Weekly Examiner-Review to one of the best papers of the country
Mr ably type coming to our desk. We say this without fear of being
dbUSBod with self flattery, bfirente there is no reason WHY this paper
dbuuM not n good one beyond the possibility of ninety per cent of
woeklin The matter u^ed in the daily is saved for the weekly,
tournee the weekly readers get the advantage of considerable matter it.
unsold be otherwise Impossible to give them. It is also the only weekly
•■Ber of a local nature, save thc-tyiro Advertiser, which by the way,
to a splendid little paper, which circulates tn Grimes county .Therefore
we should have a circulation of at toast three thousand copies, whereas
Biraithtag Uke fourteen hundred to about all we have been able to
Master. And after constant study of the subject for over twenty years,
«a are no nearer the solution why the people of Grimes county do not
•Mtfcularly care for a home paper tb^n we we^e in the beginning.
test end of getting up voting contests and dragging the people into
Upaading money with nothing visible in return for it, this office has
aeattaned to put out the paper each week with due regularity, and no
subscriber can ray he ever lost one cent through unfair dealing ac-
credited to this office. Since 18M the weekly has been a steady and con-
stant visitor into the neighborhoods of Grimes ^county. It has been
Its policy to permit each neighbornood to run its own affairs without
oug«eotion or interference, though we have turned down hundreds of
communications from busybodies who have sought to stir up ^trife and
' Mckertng through publication of matter in the newspaper which they
dM not have the moral courage to "daddy in the open." For this we
should have received more substantial appreciation. A newspaper is
a business proposition and no paper can succeed without its mariage-
given the same attention an the storekeeper does to his busi*.
a banker does to thj bank’s affairs. That this is an nncon-
»le fact, we sight our readers to the newspaper graveyard ' in
county. Many papers have started since the advtmt of the old
in ItM, but none of them have survived the prec-
ess. Had this paper not had the most loyal friends
wests of Navasota it would, in all
lialJ toes to the daisies long, long ago.
of many splendid people in the
fow to anything like maintain any
neeeary to aay anything, about the
treat of ths county, nor how hard tt
i||pbuiHtag of the county at large. That to known
t wo . want to know to WHY the people pf the county
telly subscribe had pay for such a paper as wo send
week. There moot bo a reason and wo want to know
iro bo fonlt of our own ft to our deoiro to correct ft.
The hundreds or~tofo passin;
through today has a tendency L
make a poor editor hungry to be abb
to follow suit. - ’
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Johnson, governor of
California, has been chosen as run- :
nlng mate to CoL “BuU Moose”
Teddy Roosevelt in his spectacular
race for the presidency. If Gov. 1
uf hto pro- 1
eent Job he will do ^ren to remain '
at home and attend to it The "Bull
Moose” business won’t buy him any
particular prestige.
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The Cregor block to to be set Off
with a cement sldewgjk aad also
the beginning of this sort of Work
on the south side of Washington
avenue and we confidently look for
others to follow suit In a few days. 4
Letahe good work go forward; f" *
Is t»i way all civic I
k!are begun.
. . 4---ra-y-g.
National politics seem to be i
ng up pretty much to the 11
of the democrats, each week b
ing forth new reasons for confidence
in the result of the November
struggle.
With one or two exceptions the
property* owners on the north fide
of Washington avenue have decided,
to continue thef. cement drain wprk '
"th, : to' the railroad. We hope tjiose who j
- - 'have not seen fit to do this work M ths next legislature will pass a
before will finally conclude to Join ronalbleearly closing hour we be-
. , * I If —* -■— fa _J
tinuous improvement It will be too «*at *t W1U • tendency, to
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Blackshear, Ed F. The Examiner-Review. (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1912, newspaper, August 8, 1912; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1327660/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.