The Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 142, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 29
BRENHAM, WASHINGTON COUNTY. TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1412
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BIRDS OF GREAT
VALUE TO THE
FARMERS
,
and ony person who makes Us intl- UjM ,' D 71? CVU J)|T
mate acquaintance will form a ltfe-j*"^ »'tJ" kAllDll
long friendship." FOR COUNTY FAIR
A fine bee exhibit' at the^ Wash
Meadow Lark Valuable Bird
jy 1 he meadow Jark is an old ac-; jngton bounty fair is to be one
qualntance of every one who is in ,he fea„ires (hat wlll doubtIes8 in]
tout'h witl> rural life, lie makes his (er(,8( many people. "This is a goo.'
Many Specie, Do Much Good I., I)e- hol»e ln fiel,ls aad ,nt'adoW8- aad U ■ bee county." said R. L Parsons.?
Stroj'liiK Inseets Thai Are Ene-
mies to Plants
classed by high authorities as mos1
valuable bird to the farmers. He
has been charged with pulling tip T)]
T«K FARMERS BEST FRIENDS.
k
JVatlve Feathered Tribe of Texas Far
More Than Repay the Dama-
age* Tliey D<i
Galveston, Sept.
a bee expert, and there is big prof-
its in bees, at very small expense.;
is county lias many wild plants;
young stalks ol corn and ot'ler;that the bees thrive on and make
plants, but it is also said *n his de- (.ne j10nt,y 0„t of, therefore they i
fense that generally the woiins havejcouj(j pi^aty of good materiali
already eaten the roots or the plants lfor umklng Imney.
which he pulls, and that he is seek-j ^jr par8Qns had a queei^ bee and J
little cage at |
ined ?
ing the worms. According to the ;seVera, vvorker8 in.
11.— Having ibiolo8lcRl aurve>' of the Unlte<1 States the Banner office
department of agriculture "nearLy a f„„nflrihp
presented the quail as the friend and , ^ f tl , ... , many tedtnres ot^lle
H three-quarters of the meadow lark s
ally of the farmer, It is now in order f00(j for ^e year is composed of in-
s in/a little cage
•e yklay and espial!
of'llie bee culture
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to j
f
to consider other Texas birds that' sects, over 12 per cent is weed seeds,
render an invaluable service to ag- anil 15 per cent is grain.
riculture by destroying injurious .in- "However, an examination of the
sects as well as the seeds of noxi* food by months shows that all of the
otis weeds and troublesome grasses. graln that iB eaten is gleaned from
Even if some of these birds do peck stubblefiolds In the months of Jaau-
a, little fruit and cat a little grain, nrv February. March and April and
•what they save to the producer ijt»coniber. The favorite food is in-
through the insects they destroy will sectB> whell they can be obtained,
exceed in value many times over for gix mot)ths ot Ihe year the
the small tribute they exact foi the amount being over 90 per cent, and
services they render. during August and September over
In order to establish beyond tjues- 1)er Cent.
Won the economic value of birds in ..Bven during the winter months,
their Important relation to agrieul- when inspct llfe ig tiorniant, the mea-
ture the United States department <jow jark finds enough that is h id -
of agriculture has had many inves- (Jen below the surface of the. ground
ligations made by capable experts or sycreted among the grass to fur-
«nd scientific men, which prove the a yery considerable portion of
vfll(ie and usefulness of birds as hjg dle^.i..
the destroyers of injurious Insects, as Insects are Eaten
well as te seeds of troublesome ,n .f8 mvegtigat,on8 of Uje lark's
-weeds and grasses. food the department of agriculture
•The National Audubon Society has had ag njany as g38 ^t,Hnach, of
also done an excelent work along the ,arkg examillud> and it is not only
same economic llne of investigation. bu| interest,flg t0 aaci,rtain
The information which these high
authorities are gathering and tits-
visitors who chanced to come into J
the oflice.
BLINN COLLEGE'S NEW i
WOMEN'S BUILDING
Blinn college The contract for con
struc(.li % the women's building at
Blinn Memorial College will be let
Oct. at -i :lu ofclowK in HuS.aji t-
noon. The building committee' met
lust Might with Architect C. II. Page
ol Austin, and Went over the, plans
in detail and fixed the date for let-'Whit
New Vurk
quest off
tria-liniiga
t'ounjy, N,
ill
t'ept. II,-- Al .til.! re-1 Wus n/^'rwards rehwuMt. The K.n-
''Consul <lem,:ral of A is- -gUsh ROvetitmerit. is also rei'|i;e.<t ing
li e Coroner of Oral, xe
;nd Hi-'tritit Att^ri •>
king rfn ii.v.
ma Rinu
ting thtos contract. *
It is expected that work will be-
gin mi the building" iu" tl'r.'y or four
weeks ai ,'r the contract is let. arid"
that the build in* will be finisliQd
and ready for .occupancy long before
next year's school teni\ Uagi'-'.s, The
[new building i\ to cost ,$18,000 to
el.uiio, \ V..
jtloh -Into the (leaWi of couiit
«a MeuH.hil^^^oba, who war,
HtigU
i Iv
an investigation
it nee of .Iclin Ki'
also a ell nit Of
of the disappear?
• O'Ueill. who was
Gibson's, fiibson.
the various kinds of bugs, beetles,
>worms and insects that make, up the
; semlnatlng at great cost among the ^pk.# djfit UniOT the p-pW class,
furnishes conclnsM-e
and reason why birds should be pro- n.q
COUNTY INSTITUTE
CONTINUES TO AT-
TRACT MANY
< .5 ii: Oct
¥oe, N. Y
her at tori'
tllbsou. it
ear: a; >
Lak^ne;.!-
oi t row i i"
,«y, R\irtoii \V. c,
;n-y v.-rs arf^-'i
■'K
in ccmiiW'tton .Willi
\nurii of anotln.
in':■ M:s. Alice
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ll.is v.one. ,
ii. Ki in !i.
imme.lln!.
<: - rial of th
-; New Vo ?
.ill Kfcurinv, 1.
!>• e:'ut6r. c.f i
siji 118,OtH) in i;
CiM left to uur n
■ ii otlicials dell
Hei^zoba's tn.p'h
after seein.g to the bu-
Cour.ti:s.', rushed i,o her
!">n.e. i{ is ulleged, and
appointing him est-
ate. w hi '• included
\ htch he s 'vi! she
«r. The fluft:;1 trlan
ili.ii t hf
l o
two ye::rs
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TWELVE DIVORCES TERRIFIC SPEED 01'
GRANTED IN DiS- 105 MILES AN
, TRICT COURT HOUR-
tected
The valuable work which the de-
partment
o (
agriculture acconiplis-
hoppers, meadow grasshoppers, oth-
er .grasshoppers, crickets, No.
C'olieqpetra: Weevjl. betbug, cur-
ed ln its efforts to Impress unpon the fu).o (.]over W(?ev|l flrefly farni1j,
minds of the people the true eiono [af]viH)gg scarred snout beetle, leaf- l,oeal
mic value or our feathered friends beeUc, flea bep(R> fl(,& 1)eHtUl
and allies is not performed for the darkliug beet)^ r0V(. beetle. lons.
.Attendance I,urge Despite th<. Hot,
Sulti> Weather—Souie Able
*
and Instructive Talks
twelve More Discontente«l Couples Viator Jules \><lHi.e Makes <ii at
Frei'd i' com Matrimonial Ties,
SUM 10 TOWNS WANT INHTITl'TES
Making 2ii in All
28 DIVORCE CVSWS DISMISSED
l>e<oh! in a Monoplane in
Cup Dace
mere
sake of sentiment, but with the
Institute^ Advocated 15)
Friends oi' Several Towns To-
day's Programme In Fall
AFTEit THI; iiENNi;TT IMU/.I:
I irs( in Complete .\vjntiop t'ourse-
Woubl Not l>e *t,'ilti'(3 tiy
1 lie Vi ill )
purpose
of advancing the cause of.
corn beetle, tiger beetle, May beetle,
ground beetle, click beetle. No. 'A.
agriculture by protecting our fields. Lepjdop^ra. Butterfiies. moths, cut-
orchards , garden and ranges against worme No 4 Hymenoptera: Ants
insect depredations, and the > was[)s stinging ants, ichnumon (lies
Hone and warnings which come from Nq . Illiscellaneous aniniaJ food:
this invaluable department of the T1ckt, Bnails
federal government should be heed- Batrlrichians, nowbugs, B1)iders and
ed before it Is too late. jcoeoons'No.»6, grain; clover, wheat.
Services ol Texas llitils .corn oats. No. 7 seeds of weeds: Pi-
Touching the value of some oi out geon graB8t panic grass, smart weed.
•common Texas birds let us see what ^ Cromwell seed, black
services they daily render in our,^^ afld bayben.y
orchards and gardens, fields and Balenclng accounts with the lark
meadows, and then decide whet he. j( jg apparent that the compensation
.or not their merits or demerits do which hg exaots jn gra,n j8 h)8lgnl.
entitle them to protection or doom^^ Jn col„^rison with the val.
to extinction at the hands of the uaMe 8ervjes hg renderg t0 agricul.
pot-hunter, the sportsman and the
The third day of the Washington
County teachers' institute was well
attended notwithstanding the hot.
sultry weather.
in Section 1, Prof. Notjey discuss-
Chici',,o,
•i't.
11
JUles Ved
Jury < -niiimi .sioiuM's Appointed for
(lie March Term of Distri< t
Coiiit
Twelve more divorces have be. ,i
granted by the district court auu Hues, driving a. Deperdussln mono
twelve more disconted couples have l'lane was te tirst contestant to .-mp
been released from the matrimonial in l':Kt' i"1' ll"' •'ulll,'s 'tordon
Bennett 12,000 franc trophy Ved
thitisandlees small ^ "Thc School ;the Social Center' This luake8 twenty-three di
thausanaugs, sn ai vorces granted this month and th" cine* got away shortly befot
riven 1
tu re'.
; yoke
and was listened to with mar
attention [divorce mill as not. yet stopped grind-
Another feature of special inter- Mo8t of tlle divor('(!S are rolor-
est was the discussion of "Applica ed people who have grown weary
tlon of the Four Fundamental ;of unhappy alliances ad want free-
Rules," by C. A. Torman, of Loup (lom-
Point, 'jand County Superintendent Cruelty, abandonmejit, failure to al ^be (.„,)rg,.
Klaerner, support were among the grounds as-
Local institutes were the subject of signed for divorce in most ot the
a general discussion and such insti- ; cases.
tut.es may hereafter be held at Ce The following divorces were grant-
dar Hill, Latiuni Kurkendall, Har- ed today:
T. A. LOW SONS
McCormick Mowers
and Hay Rakes
WILSOlS v ^
MAY COVER WEST
TWICE
New itinerary Planned for Western
Campaign—Will Organize Pure
Food Workers
TALKS Ol THE PLATFORM
(iiivi'iii11!- Will Make the (^uestioa
Regulation of Foods a Cmii*-
paigll Issue
New York, Sept. 11.- A confer-
ence of advocates of pure food legis-
latlon. attended by Gov Wilson, re*
suited today in a plan to organlzs
workers for pure food laws through-
out the eountrj and an association
to work for Democratic success next
November.
Gov. Wilson after ie couf(;.i'RB^&
.discussing his attitude on this sab-
ject,dictated the following-' state-
ment:
"The Democratic platform is time It
strongest, most direct and explicit,
on the question,of public health and
pure food The conference Which I
attended was to organize the devel-
opment and organization j-f the en-
tire side of the campaign; 1 in- :
.tend to make the question of the
proper regulation of health and pure
food one of the principal features
el' iity campaign."
i After tin- meeting Gov, Wilson
went to Democratic head quartet's
and Hpi'ead out before hiiiisii' a bl^
imap of (lie Viifted. States and with
:several, party leaders sought to plan
a new speaking : tour. Be listened
to mau> suggestions and took nuiny
notes from which he,. probably will
form an itinerary during Lie next
few days. - f
llepresentat live Murrfso'tt of .Texas,
I Ii net: of t^Wwi»oma and
phviH Daniels'of fforfh Carolina dis-
cussed with the governor further
plans for speaking
From the number of requests
u iiich have been coming from the
"middle West asking the presidential
candidate - presence at various meet-
ings, it, in apparent that Gov. WIN
so f rol'i I Ij will do much m..re
speakitic than h.e ortgllially intend-
ed. After the first Western trip,
• v I.feli v ill begin Sep', t.ibei It, and
end September - I the governor will
have two days' rest at his liome in
Seagrit. N .1 ■. but present. plans ftp#
that he »i;t[ start out a'most frame
diately for another Western inva-
sion. It is likely thai on his second
I a
o'Sclock. Although there was con-
siderable wind at the time Vedriiie.-
refused to delay his start. He soon .(-Hit Lip he will go to .M..'s>ur.
r'ached- u ipeed of 192 miles aa Nebraska and Illinois. The govern-
lour ;. 'cording to pre ;,'d n/ aidg1 s or probably vv 11 lineet William J\
Bryan the letter part of the month
Jules Vedrlne, driving his Deper in Nebraska.
dus-sln monoplairt without a stop The governor planned today to op-
flnishedthe course of 124.8 miles in en a tariff exhibit conducted by the
the James Gordon Bennett race in ' Democratic headquarters and was to
70 minutes 56.85 seconds. Vedrines visit National Chairman Willium F.
boy with the "nigger shooter." i
Among our Texas birds, the cardi- 1MM fAI I CfC TA
tial or, as he is comonly known, the iSLlNN v/ULLuut 1U
red bird of gay plumage and beautl- Jj^yg g|g ATTENDANCE
nion and Chappell Hill. ; Iledvlz Petlawany vs. Wozlaw average speed was 105.5 miles an McCoinbs at his home in Flushing,
''The Verb" was exhaustively dis- Petla#any; Kettle Sargent vs. Scott h>ur, riot <qual to pt :/ mii rcc .1 L. 1 returning for a speech in th«
cussed by Prof. Kopp, of Blinn Col- i Sargent, Susie liogan vs. Rufus Ho- jje completed iiis flight before noon, evening at the New York Press club,
lege, Hon. Thos. H. Shannon, Prof, gan, Bessie Hubert vs. Johnle Hu-1 'tiopesteat America t i:i» s'ill have
ful song, is one of the most useful, j
says William Dutcher,;
president of the National Association
of Audubon Societies, "are residents |
-"Cardinals,'
The present season promises to be
one of unusual prosperity and ae-
Flscher, of Blinn. College and Miss , bert. Nettie Fehler, Rufus Adams vs. a chance o freaalning for another^ JCWI^H NEW YEAR
Josephine Shannon. ; Patsy Adams, Elsie Potter vs. Hub- ¥»Sif the .'a tuff. Gordo a II -u t tro
BEGINS THIS EVENING
Several visitors attended the insti- bard Potter, Bina Newsome vs. Is- 'pjjy, which was won by Charles T
wherever they are found, and their
tlvity and larger In attendance than i
itute this week. Prominent among aac Newsomej Artur Brooks vs. Lu- Weymann at the Isle of Sheppy, Kng-
| center of abundance is in the south- j
ern portion of the United States, j
: the college has had for several years
the visitors were Win. Wendt, coun-jla Brooks, Warren Bouldin vs. El- land meet last year, and which is the Rosh Hashana, or the Jewish New
Already 85 boarders have announced
ty assessor; H .C. Hodde, manager
1 The northern limit of Its range is ap-
their coming and inasmuch as there >
1 of the Brenham creamery; Superin-
nora Bouldin, Andrew Banks vs. gymbol of world supremecy are cett- Year, begins at sunset today and will
Laura Banks, Emma Walton vs. God- jtered In DeLloyd Thompson this af > (je observed In Brenham and other
Sfefe: proximately a line drawn from a j
point in the vicinity of New York |
l<Clty westward to Southerwestern Ne-
braska, then southward to Texas,
liffi: where it is found in the greater part
|lpy<of the state.
"In addition to its great esthetic
ralue of song and plumage .the car-
dinal has another Important charac-
ter which should endeavor it to the
lusbandman. v Its food is varied.
fruits, such as
| are always 20 to 30 who come un-
announced it is safe to assume that
Itendent Wm. Boemer, of the Maxwell frey Walton.
ternoon will atttempt ii flight in &:c|tte8''and towns,
public schools.
boarding students this year, besides
the many who come in from the
country and return home at night,
and those who live in Brenham.
The next term opens at Blinn Col- j
lege September 17, and continues,
until about te middle of June. j
Will Attend Columbia University
R. C. Stuckert, son of Mrs.
consisting of wild
'•"^kfrapes, berries, mulberries, cedar j stuckert, left last evening for New ography and World Whoie. Sections March, 1913.
>errles, seeds of grasses and of many York City, were he will become a j II and III: Apllcation of the Four
pedes of weeds, also numbers of j student of Columbia University. He j Fundamental Rules. A meal at a reasonable price
luU beetles, grasshoppers, crick- has been a student of the University 2:30-2:45—Heeess. At the Chinese Restaurant.
where there are
Of the twelve suits disposed of Nieuport monoplane. It is general- Hebrew citizens. According to the
9:00-9:15—Opening Exercises. thi8 week eight were brought by ly believed, however, his machine Jewl8h calendar this is the begin-
i 9:15-9:45—The School A Social women and four by men. Twenty- wlll be unable to exceed 70 an hour. n|ng 0f t),e year 5673. It begins at
; Center. eight old divorce cases yere'dismiss- Uncertainty existed whether any of sunset today and the holiday con-
9:45-10:30—School Concert*.- ed for want of prosecution. the other American contestants tlnues until sunset Thursday for
10:30-10:45—Recess. Te court appointed W. D. Crock- j be able to start. :Thursday is the real holiday and in
10:45-12:00—Section I: The De- ett of Chappell Hill, A. S. Whitener Major Reber of New York, chair- souu, places only Thursday is observ-
ductivo Development Lesson. 6cc-, 0f Burton and Otto Baumgardt of man of the contest committee of the e(! bet all Jewish holidays have
tions II and III Loca> Institutes, j Brenham, jury commissioners to Aero Club of America, conceded the their beginning at sunset and con-
Tfc***'r:>. Sch> h<>;»«». draw grand and petit jurors for the race to France. ' tlnues until the next day at sunset.
12:00-1:00—Noo.i Intermission, next term o fthe district court which '"We have not a ghost of a show.'
C. | 1:00-2:30-—Section I: Homo Go will convene on the first Monday in he said. "The only question is what
Frenchman will carry off the honors.
Firemen to Meet Thursday
of Texas for several years and after
a course at Columbia he will go to
Itts, flies, ants and their larvae; it
especially fond of rosebugs. The
Ordinal Is, from every point of yiew, j Europe to finish the theological
bird of great Interest and value, studies.
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The Brenham fire department will
None ot our machines could come hftve an )un)01.tant meeting at the
within forty minutes of Vedrines (,Uy haU xhur8day night at 8:30
time" / o'clock. Matters of special business,
2:46-4:00—Section I: History In — ——•-
Elementary Scoofl. Sections II: At- < WANTED— -Clean white rags at The LOST—Between Hohlt's store
tentlon and Interest. Section III: | Banner office. Send them in at , Santa Fe Depot, a pattern, r
Assigning the Lesso«,
once.
til 1 to Banner office and receive ref-ard. Matchett's stable.
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and
turn
FOR SALE—Some second hand bug-
gies and stanhopes, apply at
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