Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1915 Page: 1 of 16
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
VOLUME XXXV.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1915.
NUMBER 34.
A WORD OF APPRECIATION
OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS
W. A. Shown,
President
Sil Stark
J. R. Lilly
Vice Pres.
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James Hayes,
Cashier
W. B. Mann
Asst. Cash.
Mrs.FraneesDuke
S. Castleberry
J. H. Timberlake
L. T. Richardson
J. W. Kinder
To the friends
who have entrusted their busi-
ness to us, we would remind
you, again, that, we appreciate
your business, and we are con-
tinually striving to make every
phase of the service more pleas-
ant and convenient for you.
WE WANT TO PLEASE YOU
To the friends
who have not seen fit to entrust
their business to this bank we
would remind you, that we ap-
preciate your friendship, and
hope somo/day to count you as
our GOOD CUSTOMERS.
MAY THE YEAR 1918 BE A
BANNER YEAR FOR YOU--
Jacksboro National Bank
WILSON FORECASTS
ERA Of PROSPERITY
PRESIDENT REVIEWS CONDI-
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TIONS BEFORE ELECTRIC
RAILWAY CONVENTION.
Says Time is Here for Full Un-
derstanding and Nothing Should
Be Done Under Cover.
THIS IS THE BEST FLOUR.
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FLOUR
flour on earth than my mother.
She uses the Jacksboro flour.
Merit commands recognition.
Consumers of this flour are
steadily growing in number. All
are pleased and none dissatis-
fied with the result of its ust.
Be sure to always ask for 4
sack of .Jacksboro Flour.
JACKSBORO MILL A
Washington, Van. 22.—Another
confident prediction that the
country soon will enter upon a
new era of enterprise and pros-
perity was voiced today by Pres-
ident Wilson in a speech before
the convention of the American
Electric Railway Association.
Speaking to business men and
through them to the world of bus-
iness generally, the President out-
lined what the. Democratic Con-
gress has tried to accomplish
There isn’t a better judge of thrOUSh its t™8* legislation, and
. a period of
whether they
defined them
"fast.
CHOSEN AS
ENVOY TQ
DB. RANKIN, EDITOR
AND PROflSBmo*
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Duval Wert of S&n
Tendered Detail by
Leader Dies in
Administration.
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n, Jan. 31.-j-Duval
<ua attorney of San Anto-
ls been tendered the detail
Administration to go to
special envoy of the
and in the absence
ial announcement, it is
that he will succeed
inch to the same duties that de-
volved upon John Lind of Mirme
iota, who was sent to the war
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torn country last year.
The administration is anxious
obtain first-hand; information
> will assist it in helping Mex
Dallas, Feb. 2.—Dr. George C.
'Rankin, editor of the Texas Chris-
tian Advocate, died here today.
Dr. Rankin was frequently refer-
red to as “the fighting Method-
ist of Texas.” He had been for
years a leader in the fight for with a good
statewide prohibition in the State
His death was unexpected, due
directly to the effects of an at-
tack of acute indigestion two
weeks ago.
Dr. Rankin was 65 years old,
born in Bahderidge, Term. He
was educated at Haiwasse Col-
ward a peaceful settlement lege, becoming a Methodist cir-
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difficulties and desires to
the task to some one well held pastorates in
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with the country and fa-
with the temperament of
people.
i viewed by Texans here, no
is more ably fitted than is
fudge West to carry out a com
of this character. Judge
■ active Texan arid
a family if jurists,
id father was a Texas Su-
preme Court justice.
County Prepares
Diversification.
Wichita Falls, Tex., Jan. 31.—
The organization of the Wichita
BS’1* County Marketing and Diversifi-
cation Association has been com
pleted here with the
additional officers and the
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election
adop-
tion of constitution and bylaws.
The officers are L. M. Thompson
president; Lee Prescott and Mike
JSmmert, vice presidents; George
Simmons, secretary-treasurer.
declared that while a test peri-
od would be required to deter-
mine whether the correct remedy
had been applied, be believed the
“maze of interrogation points”
which h&d checked enterprise for
tweny yeatrs had. been cleared
away.
With a common understanding
regarding business reached, he
jalA- Jbeneelorth nobody is going
be suspicions of any business
'just because it is big. He gave
some.of the “rides of the game”
which he thought out to be fol-
lowed, heading the list with pub-
licity—“not doing anything un-
der cover.”
Tuesday.
method, the method of control by
law against the small minority
that was recalcitrant against
these principles was a thing that
it wras difficult to determine up-
upon. And it was a very great
burden, let me say, to fall upon
a particular administration of
this Government to hav3 to un-
dertake practically the whole bus-
iness of final definition. That is
what has been attempted by the
Congress now about to come to
a close. It has attempted the
definitions for which the country
had been getting ready or trying
to get ready for nearly half a
generation.
“It will require
test to determine
have successfully
or not, hut no one needs to have
it proved to him that it was nec-
essary to define them and remove
the uncertainties and that the
uncertainties being removed, com-
mon understandings are possible
and a universal co-operation.
“In the first place, I feel that
the mists and miasmic airs of sus-
picion that have filled the busi-
ness world have now been blown
away. I believe that we have
passed the era of suspicion and
have come now' into the era of
confidence. Knowing the ele-
ments we have to deal with, we
can deal with them; and with
that confidence of knowledge we
can have confidence of enterprise.
And that enterprise is going to
mean this: Nobody is henceforth
going to be afraid of or suspi-
cious of any business merely be-
cause it is big.
Instinctively Watch Men.
“If my judgment is correct, no-
body has bep# of any
business merely because it was
big, but they have been suspi-
cious whenever they thought that
the bigness was being used, to
take an unfair advantage. We
all have to admit that it is easier
for a big fellow to take advan-
tage of you than fear a little fel-
TEXAS FEED ITSELF
ONTO BEGIN
SEVENTEEN GROUPS OF BUS-
INESS MEN GO ON THREE
DAY TOUR
SPEECHES
Conferences Will Be Held and
Merchants and Bankers Ask-
ed to Co-operate.
The “Texas Feed Itself” cam-
paign will begin in earnest this
momng when seventeen groups
of business men from Fort Worth
and Dallas-begin three-day tours,
which will include 102 towns, con-
ferring with bankers, merchants
and land owners, in an effort to
induce the farmers of Texas to
grow their own food and feed for
1915.
Final arrangements were per-
fected at a luncheon at the South-
land Hotel yesterday, when the
Dallas men were given copies of
their itineraries, the names of Fort
ing conferences for visitor*
Guests at the luncheon were oT
the opinion, thet great audience*
were not defcired, and that nil
speech making will be undertak-
en by the visitors. Telegram*
were sent explaining that the vis-
itors desire a quiet conference
with the business men, and mak-
ing plain the intention of, thoa*
engaged to adhere strictly to tho
program of asking merchants anE
bankers to use their influence fi*
induce their farmer customers to
raise what food and feed the$
may need.
Urges Taking Stock of Needs.
“This campaign is undertake*
in the right spirit, and with tbfc
proper conception of the farmers7
needs and limitations,” said W.
M. Beattie, agricultural commis-
sioner of the Cotton Belt, at tife
luncheon yesterday. “What y.o*
men should do in addition to
what you have already done is to
urge the farmer to take stock ol
what he buys for both bis family
and his stock.”
William G. Breg explained is
detail the plan for handling re-
ports of the visiting business mek
All the squadurons are expected
to complete their work and reach
Dallas by Thursday night.
Among those present at thf
luncheon were William G. Bregj
H. M. Cottrell, Alex Sanger, Dr.
M. M. Smith, J. P. Kelley, C. H.
Buddy, M. E. Martin, O. L. 01<i-
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Worth colleagues, the names of ham, J. C. Duke, G. A. TrumbulA
and pledging assistance in arrang- 30 a. m. at Jacksboro.
“I have always maintained that. Hi
the only way in wUch men could jIow to take adTanto«e ot
understand one another was byither*Eore we matonctIvely wat<!h
meeting one another,- said th. !tke ^ow a (doscr
President. • “If I believed all that a»™‘!ny than we wateh the little
cuit rider in 1870.
He afterward
North Caroli-
na, Georgia, Missouri, arid Tex-
as. His wife and six children
survive.
Farmer* Ship Oarload Chickens.
Cross Plains, Tex., Jan. 31. —
The first poultry car of the sea-
son was loaded here Friday, net-
ting the farmers about 1,000. This
car was loa$ded by the Neeb Pro-
duce Company and was shipped
direct to Ned York. There are
about two more cars to be ship
ped. The farmers of this section
are devoting more of their time
to chickens and hogs and less to
cotton.
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Picture Show Opens Again.
The Opera House Picture Show
opened last Friday to a full house
after four weeks -of darkness
caused by repairs at the light
plant. • |
I read in the newspapers I would
not understand anybody. I have
met many men Whose hdms drop-
ped away the moment I was per-
mitted to examine their charac-
ters.
“It seems to me that I can say
deal of confidence
that we are upon the eve of a
new era of enterprise arid pros-
perity. Enterprise has been
checked in this country for
most twenty years,, because men
were movirig amongst a maze of
interrogation points. They did
not know what was going to hap-
pen to them. i ; .
* Business Not to Blame.
“All torts of regulations were
proposed and it was a matter of
uncertainty what sort of regula-
tions was going to be adopted.
All sorts of charges were made
against business, as if business
were at fault, when most men
knew "that the great majority of
business men were honest, were
public-spirited, were intending
the right thing and the many
were made afraid because the few
did not do what was right.
“The most necessary tiling,
therefore, was for us to agree, as
we did by slow stages agree, up-
on the main particulars of what
ought not to be done and then to
put our laws in such shape as to
correspond with that general
judgment.
“I, for one, have never doubt-
ed that all America was one o1
principle. I have never doubted
that All America believed in do-
ing what was fail* and honorable
and of gOod report. But the
the business men in the cities and
towns to be visited who have ar-
ranged for the local conferences,
and final conclusions were reach-
ed as to what the visitors shall
say while on the trip.
Chairman William G. Breg had
received many letters arid tele-
grams approving the campaign,
R. B. Stichter, B. N. Cain, W. W.
Evans, John McCue, R. R. Clav
idge, T. C. Abbey, P. T.. Cole and
W. R. Beattie.—Dallas News.
The squadron which.will visit
Jacksboro is made up of the fol-
lowing business. mem: Georg*
Clayton, Fort Worth-A. W. €
trell; railroads, Thursd*y,atlO>
its
creamery that could
up. This is a good
fellow. But bond having been
given for the big fellow,, we can
^tep o’ nights.
“The era of private business in
the sense of business conducted
with the money of the partners—
I mean of the managing partners
—is practically passed, not only
in this country, but almqst every-
where. Therefore, almost all
business has this direct responsi-
aj bility to the public in general.
We owe a consstant report to the
public, whose money we are con-
stantly asking for in order to con-
duct the buusiness itself. There-
fore, we have got to trade not on-
ly on our efficiency, not only on-
ly oh the service that we render,
but on the confidence that we
cultivate. There is a new atmos-
phere for business. The oxygen
that the lungs of modern busi-
ness takes in is the oxygen of the
public confidence, and if you havt gaje ^jie
not got that your business is es-
sentially paralyzed and asphyxi-
ated.
Come to Understanding.
“I take it that we are in a po-
sition now to come to a common
understanding, knowing that on-
ly a common understanding will
be the stable basis of business and
that what we want for business
hereafter is the same kind of lib-
erty that we want for the indi-
vidual.”
Creamery for the People of Jack
County. Good Proposition for
Our Farmers.
It is now an established fact
that Jacksboro has a creamery.
That is we have a shipping sta-
tion here for the Nissley Cream-
ery Company of Fort Worth.
We understand that this cream-
ery company will pay the farm-
ers of Jack County as much or
more per pound, for butter fat,
taken advantage of help make
greater prosperity. Farmers cafit
make this a valuable asset if they
will take hold of it in earnest.
PROHIBITION ONE ISSUE
IN BROOKS’
Candidate for Senate But Has
Not Formally Announced.
Washington, Feb. 1.—Dr. S. PI
Brooks of Waco, president ' of
Baylor University, who is here en
route to New York, confirmed
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as could be paid by any local the statement that he would be
be started
a candidate for the United States
for the people of Jack County
as most of them have cows and
could, by milking a few cows pay
their living expenses and more.
They can separate the cream or
butter fat from the milk and feed
proposition Senate to succeed Senator Cul-
berson. He said that he did not
know when the formal announce-
mentj would be made, but that it
was his present intention to get
into the race. * .
“I amm entirely new in the
the skim milk to the calves, hogs business of politics, but when I
and chickens, which will, or will get into the race I want to be in
almost, make them a living and all the way,” said Dr. Brooks,
still have the savings from the “Th^re is nothing I can say at
butter fat, besides
their crops.
We say that Jack County far-
mers can do this, because other
farmers have and are doing it,
and we know that Jack County
has a good class of farmers as
any other county in Texas, and
better than the average—tihey are
not too indifferent to their best
interests to spend a few minutes
or an hour each day milking
this time regarding policies, or
what will be the main features of
my platform. W en the formal
announcement comes, it will con-
tain all of these, so the people of
Texas may know just Where I
stand.”
“It is assumed that you will es-
pouse the cause of prohibition,’*
the doctor was told.
“That will be one of my issues/
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L. A. C. Orchestra, Opera House
Wednesday, Feb. 17th. The fin-
est concert ever given in Jacks-
Sud&n Grass in New
' Mexico.
Roswell, N. M., Jan. 31.
We are not telling the farmer Planting
what to do, but are merely let-
ting hitn know that such a, mark el
is here. We feel confident that * estimated that more
he knows what he can do. What
we are pleased about, is the fact
that we have a creamery market
boro. Get reserved * seats at
Spears’ three days in advanee.jand which, as stated above, means
of the Opera House.
good times for all. This
It is
than 1,000
acres will be planted in Sudan
grass in the Roswell section of
the Pecos Valley this spring. Last
year about 250 acres of the grass
was grown hero*
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1915, newspaper, February 4, 1915; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729520/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.