The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1916 Page: 1 of 2
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JLEMAN COUNTY
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Friday, January 7, 1916.
jtels
iit Boxes
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. at election e^r held In
unman county on the question of
•k eradication, the proposition was
'feated by a decisive plurality. A
/cry light vote was polled,
Ices than one-third of the qualified
idoetorate registering their desires in
the matter.
The vote at sixteen boxes in the
ounty is shown in the following ta-
bla. Seven small boxes in the coun*
have not reported:
72
.86
urkett
oleman West
lolonan East ............................39
,'ovico ...............—................ 28
'sips ............•..................... 34
iauta Anna .......................—78
ilera .................... —.......••••••• 4
oss ...............—....................I7
ilver Valley ........... 7
oldsboro ................................3
am Cove .....................—.....8 8
ouldbusk ...... .13-
jckwood .......— I....—......19
Mt ......................—.......—J®
cho .................- -.......... 7
iwot ........ 1
ublo Ga-es ......... 3
24
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Docket of l
PARAGRAPHS
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Fifty-one dvil suits a.
eight criminal cases made up
docket of the honorable county court
at the beginning of its session Mon-
day.
The jury civil docket will be taken
probably up Monday, January 17th, At Mon-
day’s session of thfi court there wore
many pleas of guilty and a number
of continuances and hold-over cases
that were disposed of. The jury for
the week was dismissed Monday aft
ernoon.
Next week the Commissioner’s
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For Agt- court will convene in regular monthly
session.
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HIS PROPOSITION WILL
INTEREST YOUNG LADIES
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Ninteen Sixteen is Leap Year. To
encourage matrimony and promote
the cause of happiness and peace on
earth, County Clerk Fred Ilendorso.i
of Coleman makes the following bona
fide proposition to unmarried women:
To the first woman who applies for
a license during the year and informs
the clerk that "die has proposed and
was accepted, he will issue free of
charge the marriage license and in
addition has promised to pay the min-
istcris or justice's fee for performing
the ceremony.
Who will get it?
Record of Deaths.
Reported to the county clerk:
. \ Sarah Johnson, widow, age sixty-
two years, eight months; died Janu-
, ary 2nd, 1916; cause of death, organ-
die heart trouble with malaria as con-
tributory; burial Colemfcn cemetery.
Record of Births.
As reported to the County Clerk;
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Web Gillam,
Burkett, a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Bland, near Santa Anna, a girl; to
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Crw, near
Santa Anna, a girl; to Mr. md Mrs.
Henry Bowden, nrar Santa Anna, a
t»oy; to Mr, and Mrs. Pete Sneed,
Novice, a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Grimes, Coleman, Route 3, a bey: to
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Burton, Burkett,
a boy; to. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wil-
liams, Burkett, a giri.
Money to Lean.
Notice to farmers and stockmen of
Coleman county: I can loan you mo-
„ ney, on your farms and ranches from
Jl',000 to $50,000, and can purchase
your vendor’s lien notes. Some good
farms for sale; also have n bargain
v v house and lot in Coleman city.
1). D. KNIGHT,
y at Law, Coleman, Texas,
First Nafional Bank. No-
'••biic in office. ’Phono 208.
on Nueces Street.
■raloW of Mr. and Mrs,
>eing erected on Nueces
iring completion.
When vou cofne to town during the
next few weeks for your nocket book’s
sake and for your sake as well, go in
Fenton Brown’s Gent’s Furnishing
Store, Colefigin, and look over his
sbmples of the famous Edd V. Price
suits. lc
This Man Wants Help
Therefs Money In It
Mr. II. A. Halbert of Coleman re-
ceived the following mysterious let-
ter in his Thursday mail:
Puebla, Mex., Jan, 1, 1916.
Dear Sir:—-I am a prisoner and
wish to beg yon to help mie save $800,-
000 Mexican dollars in bank tails,
winch are hidden in a secure place
near.
As It is Hot-convenient for me to
receive your answer addressed to mo,
please get me a telegram in the fol-
lowing manner:
“ZENON WEYLER.
Culle de las Huertas No », Puebla,
Mexico/
Family arrived very well—Halbert,
—which telegram will be delivered to
me secretly and that, way I shall
know that ytu are willing to help me.
In return for your services which I
ask you to do me, I offer you the
fourth (4th) part of the money -hid
nen, or about $200,000, and as soon as
1 receive your telegram I shall write
giving all the necessary explanation,
and send the documents, signed with
my real name, showing that every-
thing is as stated.
Please guard ail this secretly and
waiting for a prompt reply, I remain
Respectfully Yours,
A. de B.
Loans! Loans!
Mortgage loans and vendor’s lien
notes extended. Write R. E. Hurl-
tut, Brownwood, Texas. Prompt ser-
vice. ’ lc
Rainfall for The Week, .25.
It hasefforted at rain all the week
and done but little, but what has fal-
len will be of immense benefit to
growing grain. At Coleman the pro
cipitation registered .25. In other por-
tions of the county the rain was heav-
ier and in some portions mudh ligh-
ter, but withal the dampness and
warm weather is of material help to
grain.
Death of Mrs. Claude A. Smith.
Mrs. Claude A. Smith, a sister of
fellow townsman J. C. Jones, died
December 24th, 1915, at her home
near Marfa, Texas, following an op
oration for female ailment Deceased
was forty-seven years of age and !s
survived by her husband, two s >n.<
and one daughter.
Many Coleman friends have a kind
remembrance of the decedent, whos-
maiden name was Miss Lou Jones
v.vOspe<*X _
*Miss Maude Ryan u. as one
of sixteen applicants fro, as who
appeared in Texarkana, Ja ary 3rd,
for examinations for license* to prac-
tice law.'.
In a prohibition election, December
31'st, Ban Patricio county voted “dry”
The county was already dry with the
exception of two boxes. The vote was
382 dry. 235 wet.
The city of St. Louis will vote on
race segregation February 29th un-
less the negroes block the game. They
have filed application for injunction
prevent the election.
The New York World delares that
those that use garlic in their food
are least susceptible to tuberculosis
and that a teaspoonful of garlic juice
and sugar will generally ward off an
oncoming cold.
Four negroes were shot and killed,
two burned to ileSth in a negro cabin,
two white possemen were seriously
wounded and several others were
slightly hurt in a scries of battles
near Blakely, Georgia, last Friday,
growing out of the assassination of
Henry Villipigue, an overseer on the
E H. Corchman plantation.'
It is stated that twenty-five thous-
and pints of whirkey. brandy and rum
were poured into a West Virgina riv-
er by the state prohibition department
of the government. The work was done
by men who worked in relays in order
to avoid Icing' overcome 1, the
fumes.
Kitchen after conviction on a writ ot
habeas corpus. The brief contended
that the failure to have negroes on
the grand and petit juries which pass-
ed on Kitchen's case deprived the
trial court of Jurisdiction.
Congressman Frank Buchanan ef
Illinois, former congressman H. Rob-
ert Fowler of Illinois, Frank Moun-
ett, former attorney general of
Ohio; General David Lamar; Jacob
Taylor,. President of the Natoinal
VStantly kill-
•rd, many
,ed and oth-
cted in Mon
“The Old Reliable'
fir^t National Bank
T
Capital Stock . .
Surplus and Profits
—i-r-
$100,000
$170,000
Safety Boxes for Rent
Ve have a lew empty safety boxes in our fire and
burglar proof vault. . .For a small sum you can procure
one of these for a year, and thus keep your valuable
papers where you will be perfectly satisfied about
them. Have your own key which fits no other box but
yours and thus have access to it whenever you like.
Better aee us before they are alfgone.
its bank offers you its services
V .1JNS, Pres- K. H. ALEXANDER, Cash.
Fifteen penn-
ed, a score of v
railroad cars wri
er property damt\
tercy, Mexico, lastT'riday, when box
ears containing dynamite and hand
grenades for the Carranza army wer
exploded. The jar of switching is
thought to have caused the explosion.
J. Z. Miller, Jr., federal reserve
agent and chairman of the board of
directors of the federal reserve ban!
of Kansas City, was elected governor
ot,.the bank at a meeting of the dis-
trict directors January 4th. Charles
M. Sawyer, who was governor, will
succeed Mr. Miller as reserve agent.,
it is said.
An automobile driven by Sidney
Hale of Ballinger turned over on the
Benoit road. The driver and three
young women were injured. Miss
Zula McKay suffered a fracture of the
collar bone. A largo rock in the road
is said to have caused the accident.
In trying to miss the rock, the driver
threw the car onto rough road and
caused it to turn over.
In.California the state government
is planning to monopolism the rout
ing and marketing of tha-*tale's e-
normous perishable fruit crops. It
stated that the Attorney General of
the state will hold that such a monop
oly formed bv a state government
would be looked upon as having p
status, under the Sherman anti-trust
law, materially different from that of
a similar enterprise privately pro
moted.
Congressman Hutton W, Summers
of Texas advises farmers that he
can procure from the Agricultural
i enactment ,i number of quart pack
ages of cotton seed for distribution,
the seed being sent out for the pur-
pose of having them tested, only one.
quart being allowed to the individual
If the farmers who procure the wed
will make a report next fall, as re-
quired by the Agricultural Depart-
ment, they can procure an much as
half a bushel to enable them
to get a start.
The most serious epidemic of influ-
enza ever known to exist in this coun-
try was disclosed in reports submit-
ted January 4th to Surgeon General
Blue of the public health service, at
Washington. The reports, which were
from public health service officers,
show that the disease is spreading at
an alarming rate and is causing ma-
ny deaths. Pellagra has become such
n menace in the South that Secretary
McAdoo has asked congress for a
rush appropriation of $100,006 for
studies and demonstration work in
rural sanitation with a particular
view to checking that disease and ty-
piloid fevei.
The Untied States Supreme Court
has been psked to pass on tho ques-
tion of whether tho failure in South-
ern'states to select negroes for jury
duty is denial to negroes demised of
crime of tho oquri! protection of the
law, Gnu* ret for Robert Kit -ten
negro sentenced to ho hanged in
I Washington county, (Wsrgis ' for the
tnUfdce trf Henry Brantley,- a hi:
man, fd-d n brief declaring that the
{ttfcftd d'.'W.-f court.V Sowllw.-n
Ceorg-a erred in to release-
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Peace Council; Fran* Von Rintelen, a
German agent; and two others were
indicted by the federal grand jury,
in New York, charged with plotting
“rike* in American munitions facto*-
ies.
The British liner Persia was tor-
pedoed and sunk last Thursday in the
Mediterranean Sea, off the Mam! of
Crete, while on her way from London
to Bombay. Most of the passengers
and crew, aggregating more than four
honored persons. Vr - lost, according
to reports. Of those on board, 160
Were passengers Robert McNeely, re-
cently appointed American Consu’ at
Aden, Arabia, on his way to his post,
was one of the passengers. Ite was
accompanied by his brother, Dow Mc-
Neeley, who was to be his secretary.
It is believed that both the McNee'eys
were lost.
Tungsten ore, one of the most val-
uable and coveted ores to be found *n
the United States since the war in
Europe has made such a demand for
lungs'on, is said to have been discov-
ered in quantities in Culberson coun-
ty, thirty miles north of Van Hor-.
The ore is found on the side of u hill'
in tho Diablo Mountains. The vein
runs through the mountain and while
it has not, been fully explored, it is
believed to l>e a valuable deposit and
jdmor.l inexKawstibV. Tom Owen, one
of the discoverers of the ore, has as-
-•ocinted with him Edward Kiam, a
capitalist of Houston, and i? negoti-
ating the purchase of machinery' far
rieveiemnent. A branch ’railroad from
Van Horn f> the ore bed is being pro-
moted. j
1100 Bales Cotton
Sold to Dallas Firm
R. L. Boog-Scott of Coleman last
week sold to the Southern Produce
Company of Dallas, eleven hundred
bales of cotton. The transaction in-
volved in the neighborhood of $76,000.
Delivery of the staple was begun
test Saturday, shipment being made
from the platform of the Colemln
Compress.
• A N.w Comer.
Ben Stovall, recently of Ellis coun-
ty, has moved to Coleman county,
having purchased valuable farm lands
west of the town of Coleman. Me.
Stovall is u brother of our fellow
countryman J. T. Stovall.
Business of Importance.
AH members of Home Benefit As-
sociation No., 1 are hereby urgently
requested to meet at court house on
January 15th at 2:00 p m. " l-2e
J. M. Reed. Temporary Pres.
Rainfall for Year
Show Big Decrease
The rainfall at Coleman station In
‘t
1915 was 23.89 inches,
according to
the official guage at J.
E. Stevpn.P
weather observatory.
This compares with 42.46 inches in
1914, and 29.27 the ten
year average
previous to 1915.
The rainfall by months for year-
1915 and 1914 are shown in the fol-
tewing table:
•
1915 1914
January
.45 .18
February •
1.50 .201
March .........
.90 3.78
/ pril
7.25 1.41
May ..............................
.....1.18 9.10
June .........................
■ .75 2.40
July ...........................
1.15 .18
August
3.09 13.12
September
4.46 .13
October ...................
.65 4.54
November ......................
.16 5.2J
December
1X5 2.01"
Total ......................
23.89 42.46
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tl
the
naU There
recorded durii
to two seta of >
The births 4)
of Coleman dun
j eluded in the abm
1 ty, were; Births,
compared with 5jt i
in 1914.
In the town of $anta
is also included in the i
the deaths numbered IP
20, as compared with $7
17 births in 1914.
There wen 4,790 chait> |
filed during 1915, as cor]
3,817 in 1914. At ths set
clerk’s records show that i,
were released of mortgap
1815 than'-during any yea
jears pan. ,/
f ■ To Delinquent C
Rush of work in
office has prev
list of delinquent ta
paper. This will giv<
time in which to se
fore the cost of ad-
added. Taxes must i.
sooner done the le i*
there will bas-
ic CITY COM
Marriage Permit* for «h-
Randolph Smith and Bci
incite.
Samuel T. Cobb and Bert!
Merely.
Berry Bowen and P -
•\u Robey.
V. B, Sewell am
Clarence Bell e
R. J. Smith ai
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You Won’f Have to
For Your Pass
Book
THE PRESIDENT
“Yes Sir! Sending out depositors’
monthly statements instead ot lull
nnring pass books, is one of the
best moves this bank ever made."
THE BOOKKEEPER
“Thank Goodness! No more bal
aiming pass looks. Bv rending out,
. ,,t>- month)” statements I
can keep things up to date without
night work.
You will no longer need to leave
your pass book (your only receipt
for deposits) with us a day or more
at the last of every month in order
to find out how your account Stands.
With the two Burroughs Bookkeeping* Ma-
chines, operated'by electricity, which we are
putting to work in our Accounting Department,
we will have every depositr V account posted
up to date at all times.
A neatly printed, machine-figured statement
of your checks and deposits, and the balance of
your account, will come to you every month with
your cancelled checks.
Your pass book will show only deposits and
will remain in your possession all the time.
And if you ever want a statement of your
account in a hurry, we can give it to you with
every check and deposit listed right up to date,
inside of five minutes.
This Monthly Statement System is an im-
provement in our service to you that we are sure
will earn your approval. It is less burdensome,
quicker, more accurate, and far more satisfactory
to everyone concerned than the old method of
calling in and balancing pass books.
Your first machine-printed statement will be
ready February 1st. Tell us what you think of it,
THEz
THE DEPOSITOR
•'Ping! ThL 'statemsftt oandM to
me with mi can,■<>!«! checks once
a inmith trite jae-t how rav sereunt
standi., I sav this »» real bank
service It has the pass book boat
milt."
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Coleman National Bank
Coleman, Texas
Capital, Sarplas & Profits $265,1
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The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1916, newspaper, January 7, 1916; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth724509/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Coleman Public Library.