The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN, TEXAS.
H. B. WILSON
C F. RAHN
Coleman Grain & Mercantile Co.
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We can save you money on your binder twine. Get our prices and
be convinced. Can save you money on FLOUR. Every sack guaran-
tees Satisfaction or money back. Fresh arrival of Flour. Neal,
Chops and Feed. We handle only the best Alfalfa........ .
PHONE 75
ON THE SQUARE
News From
Nearby Counties
j Lampasas Leaded:
Friends' of'lif/n Geo. C t‘or.,lie-
ton, of Belton, will be puisi t i >
L .<-w that h< ha.-- •, la- rn ivemh
as to be able : i leu v, ine .-unttarium
and return to his home. Prospects
are (rood for his recovery.
♦ ♦
PRESS .PICKINGS.
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arson or murder. We have seen
both men and women ruined "by the
tongue of scandal mongers and when
once assailed never survive without
blight.
He—My father weighed only foul-
pounds at his birth.
She—Good gracious! Did he live.
The white man's burden nowadays, it
easily is seen,
Is paying for repairing tires and
buying gasoline.
Wig: Your wife is not as pen-
sive as she was before you married
her.
W'ag: No; she’s ex-pensive now.
Patient—But do you think the op-
eration will save my life, doctor?”
Doctor—That I can’t say. But if it
doesn't you will at least have the
satisfaction of knowing that every-
thing possible was done for you.
A Chicago banker was dictating a
letter to his stenographer. “Tell
Mr. Soandso,” lie ordered, “that I
will meet him in Schenectady.”
“How do you spell Schenectady?”
asked the stenographer. “Sc. C-c-er-
er-er. Tell him I'll meet him in Al-
bany.”
Seven little governors swore they’d
see him through, and Teddy, like an
easy mark, believed them to be true;
] but one found that his fences were
in an awful fix, so straightway he
deserted, and then there were but
; six. Six little governors watched
his great high dive, when one of
| them got frightened and then there
j were but five. Five little governors,
| but one got very sore and quit the
\ Ttddyistas, and there were but four.
Pour little governors, but one could
not agree to lose his job by stick-
ing, and so there were but three.
Three little governors, but one grew
very blue and hiked into the other
camp, and then there were but two.
Two little governors don’t see much
chance for fun, so they will shortly
tumble and then there’ll be but one.
—San Antonio Express.
Animals and ThQigs.
Paris News: “Man is the only
animal that smokes,” says a Paris
man. Yes, simply becausd man is
the only animal that knows how to
whittle a pipe out of a corn cob. He
is also the only animal that wears
pants, except when his better half
dons them.
European Train Speed.
Scientific American:
Express speed in Great Britain and
on the continent is high. In Great
Britain there are eleven daily ex-
press trains making runs of from
fifty to 118 3-8 miles without a stop
whose average speed is from 51 to
59.2 miles an hour. The fastest and
longest non-stop run is 225 3-4 miles
from Paddington to Plymouth, made
at 54.8 miles an hour. France has
seven daily expresses that run from
77 3-4 to 147 1-2 miles without a
stop, at speeds of from 51.1 to 61.8
miles an hour, and there are nine
French train? that,run from 102 to
147 3-4 miles without a stop, at
speeds of from 50.4 to 59.3 miles
ar, hour.
The Curse of All Curses.
Against slander there is no defense
It starts with a word—with a shrug
—with a nod—with a quizzical ex-
pression, even with a smile. It is a
pestilence walking in dardness,
spreading cantagion far and wide
which thh most weary traveler can-
not avoid; it is a heart searching
dagger of the assassin; it is the
mortal sting of the deadly adder;
murder ip its employment, innocence
its prey, ruin its sport. A man who
at the midnight hour fires the dwel-
ling of another does an injury that
can be repaired. But the man who
circulates reports concerning anoth-
er’s character, who exposes every act
of his which may be presented to
his disadvantage, who goes to this
and that person and breathes into
his ears hearsays and rumors, is
worse by fag than he who commits
High Living and Low.
George Robinson, editor of the
Waco Times-Herald, complains be-
cause he found cantaloupes selling
at ten cents a dozen in Galveston,
while they were priced at forty
cents each at the hotel, where he
stopped. George should have taken
his meals at the market house.—
Brownwood Bulletin.
The cost of living, after all, de-
pends largely upon where one lives.
If he makes his home at a hotel,
where the waiters wear dress suits
and hand-polished shirts, and where
the, table cutlery seems to come fresh
every day from jewelry stores, his
living expenses will be a good deal
more than four dollars a week, par-
ticularly if he has a suite of rooms
with southern exposure and a bath
tub ruched with blue marble embro-
idery. On the other hand, if he rooms
upstairs over a livery stable and
dines at a place where the waiter
tidjes the dinner plates and his fev-
ered brow with the same napkin and
swats flies with the bread knife—if
the experimenter in cost-of-livings
lives cheaply he will find the cost of
living low; if he lives extravagantly
he will find the living (high. Luxury
has attacked the American people,
and that in part accounts for the in-
creased jjrice of things. We are no
longer content to buy ten-cent water-
melons and eat them on the sidewalk
wetting oUr ears in the process of
devastation and' drying our dripping
elbows on our shirts. Editor Robin-
son was not willing to get himself a
couple of cantaloupes for two cop-
pers, burst them with his fist and
bore into them with his whistle while
he perambulated the beach at Gal-
veston. Instead, he, like most of us,
preferred to pay four thousand per
cent more for his cantaloupe and eat
it in a large cool room where other
elegant gentlemen were leisurely
compassing the same sort of fruit.
In other words, Editor Robinson pre-
ferred to pay and complain.—Dallas
News.
Sun Angelo Record:
Joe Funk, the genial ranchman of
the Arden country was mingling with
friends in the city this week. He
says that since the Hatfields have
failed to make connection with Jupi-
ter Pluvius he has thinned his lords
by selling to Oscar Cain 100 cows
and calves. The price paid was 335
around.
San Angelo, July 29.—The wife of
Jeffersqn Davis Baker was severely
burned here Saturday night in the
explosion of a coal oil lamp at the
Baker residence, south of the city.
The injured woman’s life is despair-
ed of.
It will pay you to visit our store
and see our enormous stock. We can
save you some money, why not ac-
cept this opportunity, it won’t last
long. J. M. SEWELL & CO.
THE
Heat Fatal to De Leon Man.
De Leon, Texas, July 28.—De Le-
on’s first heat prostration occurred
here when H. W. Carbell, who has
been running a float here for several
years, was unloading a car of lum-
ber at a lumber yard, was stricken.
He never rallied and died a few
hours later. The body was buried in
the City cemetery at 4 o’clock this
afternoon. He was 40 years old and
leaves a widow and six children.
Attempted Suicide in Unusual Way.
San Saba News:
R. A. Halliburton of Cherokee was
brought to San Saba Saturday in a
mentally deranged condition. He was
adjudged a lunatic Friday and held
to await an opening in one of the
state institutions. Saturday night at
about 2 o’clock a Mr. Barber in the
jail gave the alarm. Deputy Sheriff
and Jailer, Berry Nalls, went up to
the cells and found that Halliburton
had deliberately driven a large rusty
nail into his body just below the nip-
ple. He had used an old snuff bottle
to drive the nail. Dr. G. H. Sander
.‘.on, county health officer, wj„ sum-
moned, and administered to the pa-
tient. The nail penetrated above the
heart, and no serious results have
followed.
Fire Bonds Turned Down.
Abilene Reporter:
Mayor Kirby has received official
notification from the Attorney Gen-
eral’s Department at Austin in which
permission to issue the bonds of the
city in the sum of $10,000, which was
recently voted, for the purpose of
buying new fire apparatus, is refus-
ed. The bonds for building a crema-
tory are also refused unless Corpo-
ration Counsel Hickman can furnish
authority for same. Mr. Caldwell
stated in reference to the creama-
tory bonds that he knew of no law
authorizing them as subject matter
now appears. This put a new phase
on the fire fighting situation in Abi
lene and brings us face to face with
meeting the demand in some other
way. So far as The Reporter is con-
cerned the refusal of the Attorney
General to permit the issuance of the
fire bonds is not a disappointment,
as we have always feared that such
bonds would not fall within the char-
ter rights.
have thrown up the sponge and have
folded their little tent, and the cir-
cumscribed precinct around Carlsbad
that knew them once will know them
no more forever. They have depart-
ed, gone glimmering into the whence-
ness of the whereofness, the vague
outline of whose realm yet remains
to be explored by i' newly risen Mun-
chausen or—the Hatfields. No one
laments the departure of these wcath
er gamesters unless it be those whoso
revenues from publicity have been
abbreviated by their retirement from
this (to them) unfruitful field. No
one was deceived by their coming;
we have heard of no one who is lo-
ser by their going; but collectively,
Concholand has received a blow that
will require a united effort to over-
come. Ours has been advertised to
the world as an arid region of such
intense and prolonged aridity that
as a last resort, the people in their
desperation had to call in the rain-
maker. And this impression is in-
tensified and doubly, not to say
malignantly, strengthened by Hat-
field’s‘puny excuse offered for his ig-
noble failure. He tells it to the
Standard and the Standard tells it
to the world that:
“The whole matter resolves itself
into the fact that the humidity in
the air in this section only runs from
ten to thirty per cent. In California,
where we have worked before, the
humidity runs from sixty-five to as
high as ninety-five per cent.”
It is the easiest matter in the world
for an ignoramus to pose as a savant
and philosopher when his auditors
are mose densely ignorant than he
himself. There is not a school girl
in San Angelo who has sat under the
tutelage of any of our High School
instructors, that could not put to
shame such a silly, un-warranted
statement as that made by Hatfield
with reference to the low humidity
of this Concholand atmosphere, and
any man who has ever studied the
science of meteorology knows that
when a humidity as low as ten per
cent prevails for^ any, length of time
over any portion of the earth’s sur-
face, animal and vegetable life would
soon perish and the land would be-
come a howling waste.
Yes I moved my office last week and am now located in the Kinney
Building, on the same floor with the Telephone Co., over Henderson i&
Candler’s grocery store. Call and see me. You will always find nfe
...MOVING...
in the direction of something good for my customers.. Yours truly,
D. W. WATSON
Fire, Tornado and Hail Insurance, also Rental Agent.
SNEEDS RECONCILED
RETURN TO THEIR HOME
SANTA ANNA ITEMS.
Brownwood Bulletin:
Brownwood and Brown county are
to be represented by an exhibit at
the State Fair in Dallas this fall.
Secretary D. F. Johnson of the Com-
mercial Club has reserved space in
the exhibit hall for the Brown county
exhibit and will probably spend
Coleman National Bank
The Progressive Bank
Safe, Strong
and Conservative.
Your Business Appreciated
considerable part of the time with
the exhibit during the fair this fall.
The crops have been splendid here
this year and by careful selection Mr.
Johnson has been able to gather to-
gether some very beautiful speci-
mens of the various crops.
It has become necessary for the
National Packing Co., to dissolve and
go out of business in Texas, and in
the course of the dissolution ths
Brownwood distributing house goes
over to the Armour Packing Co., of
Ft. Worth. It is stated that there
will be installed a large and com-
plete branch house of the Armour
Company, with cold storage appara-
tus and a full line of the packing
house goods and all by-products.
J. A. Austin received a message
informing him of the death of hie
brother, Judge M. A. Austin, which
occurred very suddenly at Jackson
vllle, Fla.
Gone, But Not Forgotten.
San Angelo Record:
Alas and alack! The rainmakers!.
■■■■<•■ m.
(Clipped from The News.)
A crate containing five female
hound dogs came to the express of-
fice in Santa Anna last week. The
hounds were shipped from Truscott,
Texas, and were consigned to Aleck
Phillips. Aleck says he knows noth-
ing about the shipment and as he
already has six dogs of his own 'he
doesn’t need any more. They are yet
at the depot with $2.45 express char-
ges against them, and E. L. Brown
finds himself running a dog show as
well as looking after his usual dut-
ies about the depot. They look to
be full blood English hounds.
Charlie Rendleman left Thursday
for Chicago.
C. E. Welch, an experienced sad-
dle and harness man, of Abilene, will
open, a saddle and harness shop in
the new Shield building about Aug.
15 th,
Welton Winn is in Menard and
other counties, organizing for the
Southern States Cotton Corporation.
Horace Turner and wife, of Voss,
returning from the old settlers re-
union at Georgetown, their old home,
spent Tuesday night in Santa Anna.
On Thursday, July 18th, at five
o'clock in the afternoon at the First
Presbyterian church, occurred the
marriage of Miss Constance Erwin
to Mr. William DeWitt Notely of
Branham. Mr. Notely is superin-
tendent of the schools of Branham.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Curry are in
Marlin.
Pitzer Hays left Saturday to at-
tend the normal at Denton.
The Santa Anna fire team is train-
ing to defend the trophy cup at Bal-
linger August 2nd. Cecil Freeman,
Boss Me Anally, Charlie Woodruff
and Roger Hunter compose the Santa
Anna team.
Indian Killed On Track.
Near Rochelle, 111. ,an Indian went
to sleep on a railroad track and was
killed by the fast express. He paid
for his carelessness with his life.
Often its that way when people neg-
lect coughs and colds. Don’t risk
your life when prompt use of Dr.
King’s New Discovery will cure them
and so prevent a dangerous throat
or lung trouble. “It completely cur-
ed-me,, in a short time, of a terrible
cough that followed a severe attack
of grip,” writes J. R. Watts, Floyda-
da, Texas, “and I regained 15 pounds
in weight that I had lost.” Quick,
safe, reliable and guaranteed. 50c
and $1.00. Trial bottle free at Ma-
haffey ft Coulson.
Ft. Worth, Texas, July 26.—Mrs.
Lena Sneed and her husband, John
Beal Sneed, slayer of Capt. A. G.
Boyce, have become reconciled and
will return to their childhood home
at Georgetown, Texas, to live, ac-
cording to a dispatch received Thurs-
day from Plano.
There in the little Texas city where
the two played together as children,
and where they became college sweet
hearts at Southwestern University,
Sneed and his wife will take up again
the broken threads of their domestic
life. The past forgotten, these prin-
cipals in the most sensational mur-
der case in the history of Tarrant
county, will live for the future of
their two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Sneed are said now
to be in Dallas and Mrs. Sneed’s
mother, Mrs. T. S. Snyder of Clay-
ton, N. M., visiting relatives.
Last week, it is said, Mrs. Sneed
came to Fort Worth. She met her
husband at a local hotel, it is said,
and went with him to Dallas.
It was given out at the hotel that
Mr. Sneed, accompanied by John
Blanton, a personal friend, called ar
the hotel a few days ago. The hotel
management refused to deny or af-
firm that Mrs. Sneed also had been
there.
Sneed and his wife have been sep-
arated, since November. When (placj
ed by her husband in the Arlington
Heights sanitarium last November,
Mrs. Sneed eloped with A1 Boyce, Jr.
After being trailed to Winnipeg, Can
ada, she was brought back to Fort
Worth. The killing of the elder Boyce
by Sneed in the lobby of the Metro-
politan hotel followed soon, after.
A hung jury resulted in the trial
that followed. The county attorney's
office said Thursday morning the
cattleman’s second trial will ne held
this fall.
I)etr°it Grafters Caught with Goods.
Detroit, Mich., July 26.—Eight al
dermen and the secretary of the
common council committees were ar-
rested this afternoon on charges of
accepting bribes and conspiracy to
accept a bribe for their votes and in-
fluence in the passing of a measure
affecting city property recently trans
ferred to the Wabash railroad.
At least six other arrests of al-
dermen are expected at any moment
and it is believed that $3,700 passed
hands in sums of from $100 to one
thousand dollars. The bribery was
consummated and the arrests accom-
plished under the personal supervis-
ion of Detective William J. Burns.
The detectives say they have
caught their men not only with
marked money, but by telephone tes-
timony and phonographic records.
The investigation, which culminat-
ed in the arrests today, has been go-
ing on since February, when rumors
of graft in the council began to i
sume serious proportions.
Harry K. Thaw Will Remain.
White Plains, N. Y„ July 26.—Har-
ry K. Thaw, in the eyes of the law,
is still insane, and must remain in
the asylum where he was placed Feb.
1, 1908, after he had killed Stanford
White. Justice Martin J. Keogh of
the supreme court denied Thaw’s ap-
plication for freedom. The court took
the sjydund that Thaw’s release would
be dangerous to public safety.
You will be surprised to see the
great bargains we are offering in
furniture for spot cash. J. M. SEW-
ELL ft CO.
When the baby is suffering the
double affliction of hot weather and
bowel disorders, the remedy needed
is McGee’s BABY ELIXIR. It re-
duces the feverish condition, corrects
the stomach and checks looseness of
the bowels. Price 25c and 50c per
bottle. Sold by Mahaffey ft Coulson.
Farm for Sale.
176 acres, 7 miles from Coleman,
100 acres in fine state of cultivation,
cistern on porch, fine tank in past-
ure, good young orchard of 50 trees.
For price and terms write or see D.
T. Gillis, Box 451, Coleman, Texas.
LOST.
• • Belt pin, iJcture on either aide,
(family relic), party finding same
will be suitably rewarded by return-
ing to Jno. O. White.
Joe Tatum of Goldsboro was a vis-
itor in the city Monday.
DISCUSSED SOUTHERN
COTTON CORPORATION
Santa Anna News:
Messrs. Welton Winn and L. L.
Shield discussed the Southern States
Cotton Corporation at the W. O. W.
hall last Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Winn speaking in favor of the Cor-
poration and Mr. Shield opposing it.
In his address Mr. Winn set forth
the Corporation’s plan of organiza-
tion and expressed the conviction
that it would bring the price of cot-
ton to 15 cents and keep it there if
the farmers would only join in the
movement. He earnestly called on
Mr. Shield to join in this effort to
better the condition of the farming
people of the South.
Mr. Shield, in his reply, stated
that no man in Texas was more will-
ing to help the farmers get a good
price for their cotton than he was,
and that he had shown his good will
in a practical way by paying in many
instances, more than the market
price for their cotton. He express-
ed the belief the Corporation was a
gigantic scheme of the speculators to
graft on the farmers of the South.
t
TIMELY WARNING
TO CALOMEL USERS
Calomel is a Form of Mercury, and if
it Slays in the Human System,
Its Effect is Terrible. Ask
Your Doctor.
o
Any physician will tell you that Kj
mercury, if it remains in the body) V
will soften and rot the bones! a dis-
ease doctors call necrosis ff' the
bones. Calomel is a form of mer-
cury, and to keep clear of danger it’*
a safe plan to take no calomel at
all, especially as there is a better
remedy.
Both children and grown people
will find a perfect substitute for cal-
omel in Dodson’s Liver Tone, a
pleasant, vegetable tonic that indu-
ces the liv4r to act and which never
has any bad after-effects. In fact
Dodson’s Liver Tone will do every
thing that calomel does without anM0
of the dangers of calomel. A largw
bottle costs only fifty rents, and Ma-
haffey ft Coulson drug store will re-
fund your money if you are not sat-
isfied.
Patriotism and
Love of Country
can scarcely be expected of chil-
dren reared by homeless parents
with no more serious thought
than the present. “Just as the
twig is bent, the tree’s inclin-
ed," and as more recent writers
have said, "The home is the
backbone of our nations,” it be-
hooves all lovers of life, liberty
and happiness, and particularly
those directing the footsteps of
the youth of our country to set
a good example. To do this it
is not necessary to build a pal-
ace and go into debt for life.
Wood construction will just meet
your requirements. With it you
can plan a home of any size you
may ultimately desire and then
start with a few rooms and build
on as your demands require.
iWe have helped many people
solve, their building problems
and would like to help you.
Come in and let’s talk it over.
\
“There’s No Place Uke Home.”
Burton-Lingo Co.
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