Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1915 Page: 2 of 16
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
Thursday February 4, 1915.
^EDISTRiliTING BILL
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J^OULD GIVE WEST TEXAS
, BETTER CONGRESSIONAL
' REPRESENTATION.
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trict is made a “shoestring” run-
Ining to the coast, instead of
north to Coleman and Brown
C6unties, as at present.
The new districts from which
Congressmen are to be elected
are the Abilene and Amarillo Dis-
tricts. Thus, should the bill pass
the new Texas Congressmen will
come from Northwest and West
Texas. ’
“The Representatives and Sen-
ators from west Texas are mak-
ing a solid stand for congression-
al redistricting,” said Mr. Ha-
ney, “and with the general sat-
isfaction this bill gives, I believe
5ouae Spends Afternoon in De- ^ ^ Pass- Only slight changes'
are made in south and cast Tex-
as. The coast is given additional j
I representation, and since -• the !
! pr'neipal changes are in the west j
j and the west has adjusted its dif-1
' Austin, Tex., Jan. 30.—Mr. 1‘er ncfs satisfactorily, I believe j»
Haney of Wichita County and;there will be an almost solid line-
ar. Griggs of Runnels County, up behind the measure.’
Chairman of the House Commit- --- — .-
e on Congressional Districts, THE BOYS AND
have accomplished a feat which
hate and Several Measures
Are Passed Finally.
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GIRLS OF TEXAS.!
Now Is Your Opportunity '1
Make Money By An Honest
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has heretofore seemed impossible
—the preparing of a congression-
al redistricting bill that seepm
to give satisfaction. A remark-
'll le feature is that the committee ^
this morning reported the Haney- (
Griggs substitute favorably by a
.unanimous vote, whereas in the
last Legislature and the one pre-
0 d'ng neither the members of j McKinney, | Tex., Jan. 30.—
t'he committee nor” those appear- There is no easier, more useful,
ing'before it could ever reconcile j honorable or interesting way of
4 aflicting political ambitions and making money open to boys, girls
antagonistic ideas of apportion- °*' men than winning the large
Burnt. Both Mr. Haney and Mr. cash prizes offered by the Texas
G-'iggs worked for congressional Industrial Congress for bettering
f districting in the last session, farming and gardening. You
tut never with the hope of ulti- learn larger and more profitable
mate success that they now enter- crops, finer and more valuable
tain. Mr. Haney, after confer-^, animals, how to. enrich yourself,
e ce with members,, believes that; increase the fertility of the soil,
$0 per cent of the Representa- and in addition to all this you
t es will support the bill. He is have the opportunity of winning
5 ually confident it will pass the the large cash prizes.
Talking by Telephone from New York to San Francisco Is Now
an Accomplished Fact.
/ | VHE latest and greatest triumph in the art of
I f telephony is a transcontinental telephone service,
the equal of which is not even approached in all
the other nations of the world. Within a short time it
will be open for public use.
This splendid scientific achievement is the product
of American brains, American initiative and American
scientific and technical skill. The human voice has
been made to travel as fast as light over a distance of
3,400 miles and is reproduced perfectly and instantly
across the continent.
This work was planned and completed by the
Experimental and Research Department of the Bell
System which consists of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and Associated and Connecting
Companies, giving universal service to 100,000,000
people.
With no traditions to follow and no experience to
guide, this department which is now directed by a staff
of over 550 engineers and scientists, including former
professors, post graduate students, scientific investiga-
tors—the graduates of 140 universities—has created an
entirely new art—the art of telephony, and has given
to the people of this country a telephone service that
has no equal anywhere in the world.
It has required vast expenditure^ of money and
immense concentration of effort, but these have bedn
justified by results of immeasurable benefit to the
public. The transcontinental telephone title, 3,4t)0
miles long, joining the Atlantic and Pacific, is part of
the Bell System of 21,000,000 miles of wire connecting
9,000,000 telephone stations located everywhere through-
out the United States.
The Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company
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Other contests, open only to |has been devastated by the sword,
& nate. A change may be made j Improved methods of farming, boys and girls under twenty j our dear cure is dead, our Bur-
fcere and there, and amendments remove all fear about the prit (years of age, are for the best gomaster, who was doctor and
Tv ill undoubtedly be offered, but i of cotton. A better and more j production of corn, peanuts, baby ga*ve all his time to the poor, has
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t ie extraordinary unanimity of I wholesome living, more independ-
favorable expression so far enee, leisure and pleasure are as-
S own causes the hopes of the j sured, independent of the price of
\7esterners, who lead in the de- cotton. Improved methods mean
mand for redistricting, to soar more time for education, wider
t .{her ttian they ever have be-, knowledge, happier and richer
fire on this subject. j lives as well as richer soils,
Mr. Haney has been working The. future forebodes low pric-
^ lietly cn Fis substitute for some es for cotton and high prices for
d ys. Mr. Griggs, chairman of {Ml food and feed products, so ev-
beef and hogs. While the homejbeeen shot. My father was shot
and school garden contests were and I am now living with nuns
planned primarily for boys and
girls, one class, that for gardens
on vacant city lots, is open to all.
The Henry Exall combination
eating bread sent from America.’
‘ “In the province of Liege alone
nearly 300,000 out of a popula-
tion of 900,000 ace absolutely des-
Full information as to all these
contests, the conditions and priz
tVe committee, offered the first ery family should grow a garden es to be awarded, will be prompt-
Con-ressional redistricting'bill in this year. One tenth of an acre ly furnished by the Texas Indus-
trial Congress, from its office in
Dallas.
E. W. Kirkpatrick, President
Texas Industrial Congress.
prize contest is open to boys and i titute and entirely dependent up-
girls entered in other, contests. j on the commission for food to
State Senatorial District Bill Of-
fered.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 15.—Senator '
Johnson has prepared a bill reap-
portioning the State into thirty-
one senatorial districts. It is said
to be favorable to the prohibi-
tionists, though its author says it
will affect the senatorial repre-
sentation but little. He estimates
that a prohiitionb majority is as-
sured under such a division of the
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The Dallas district is one of the
few under the bill that is in no
wise changed. Rockwall remains
a part of the district, though it
has1 been urged by some that Dal-
las County is large enough in it-
self and lias voting strength as
reuired by the Constitution to
have one Senator.
The districts*proposed in the
bill follow:
District No. 1, Bowie, Cass, Red
River, Morris, Titus and Camp.
2. Marion, Harrison, Upshur,
Gregg, Panola and Rusk.
3. Delta, Hopkins, Franklin,
Wood,* Rains and Smith. \
4. Lamar, Fannin and Hunt.
5. Grayson and Collin.
6. Dallas and Rockwall.
7. Kaufman, Yan Zaqdt, Hen-(
dersen, Andersen and Cherokee.
8. Navarro, Freestone, and El-
lis. , j
9. Shelby, Nacogdoches, Sa-
bine, San Augustine, Angelina,
Houston and Trinity.
10. Jefferson, Grange, Newton,
Jasper, Tyler, Hardin, Polk, Lib-
erty, and Chambers.
11. Leon, Madison,-Walker, San
Jacinto, Montgomery, Grimes,
Brazos and Burleson.
12. Limestone, Falls, Robertson,
and Milam. * ,
13. Harris and Waiker.
14. Galveston, Brazoria, Fort
Jackson.
and soup at twelve canteens es- ^5, Washington, Austin, Lee,
tablished by the cbmmission I11, Fayette, Colorado and Lavaca.
Liege. You see no young men; ^6. Travis, Williamson and Bas*
there are only old women, chil-1^.^
dren and cripples. j 17. Bell, Coryell, Hamilton,
“Rick and poor all have to send Lampasas &nd Burnet,
for brea$ and all get the same ■ lg_ McLennan ^ Hill
supply. 'Rich’ is a term of irony, 19> johnson> Hood, Somerville,
but I use it comparatively to dis
tinguish between the distressed
and the. destitue. Think of steel
Erath, Comanche and Bosque.
20'. Tarrant and Parker.
21. Cooke, Denton, Montague
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\ is session, and although it was properly worked.may easily grow
£ nsrdered an excellent piece of. more than one hundred dollars
>a rk, it did not satisfy certain; worth of wholesome vegetables
Sections. Co-operating, with the | and save -heavy expense in both
OFggs bill as a basis, the substi- grocery and doctor’s bills. Small
t-te was evolved which the edm-^expense need be incurred. A
Eiiltee approved this morning fence, a few dollars for seed and
Without dissent. After that ao-: fertilizer, and a little exercise
t in a unanimous vote of thanks will give ample returns in vege-
T as given by the committee to tables through the sumiper, a
t-r. Haney and Mr. Griggs, fori canned supply for the winter and
barving indicated the approach of something for sale through the lo-
ti^ legislative millennium, \yhen,cal niarket or parcel post,
the congressional redistricting of. A bed six to eight feet wide
Y xaa can be acted upon unani- and twenty to one hundred feet
m usly by any legislative com- long may be used for a small gar-
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WONDER AND AWE AT
BELGIUM’S STOICISM
Her People Are Not Complain-
ing,* Neither Are They
Laughing.
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den. It should be covered with:
‘The impressions I take away
keep them allive. In the prineipa
towns, Liege, Verviers and Spa,
distress is most acute because the
iron mills, gun works, rubber tire
factories, zinc mines and other in-
dustries are closed- Practically
the only exception is found in the
coal mines which are being work-
ed three days a week to obtain
fuel to keep the people from
freezing. -
“During the month I was in
Liegq, it snowed or rained every
day and when I left, the province
was covered with a thick blanket
of snow.
“At.Louvain and other places
Belgian communal authorities are
laying boulevards and carrying
out other municipal improvements
planned long ago, simply to pro-
vide. work for the people. They
Most Changes in West Texas. ' stable manure or other fertiliz-1
The flaney-Griggs bill takes e*’s, plowed or spaded to the!from Liege are of wonder that a'can keep this worrk going only
U 11 and Bosque Counties from depth of eight inches, and seed people can suffer so much in si- three days a week and in pay-
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lenee, and of admiration for the
do it’
menf men are given paper bonds
which are not negotiable outside
This statement was made today fjie community in which they live,
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magnates, university professors j ^
and well-to-do women accustomed! 22 cja^ Jack> Wichita, Arch-
to living luxuriously on invest-
er, Young, Wilbarger, Baylor,
ments which now bring in no in-
come, being obliged to stand in a
bread line. Within a few months ^ palo Pimo? Stephens, East-
there will be no distinctions to ^^ Shackelf0rd, Callahan, Jonei
make because practically every Taylor ' ’ ‘
person in Belgium will be depend- 24. Brown, Coleman, Runnels,
Throckmorton, Foard, Hardeman,
Knox and HaskeLL
San. Saba,
Mason, Llano and Gillespie. .
!- Ipirail
Concho, MeCulloeh,
asen, Llano and G:
25. Blanton, Hays, Comal, Gald-
ent on the canteen. Every one’s
private means will have disap-
peared. ^ J . • ' n-\ ,
“Before the commission' got m-|w~ Goniem
to operation scores of smpU towns; ! Bcxas> Kendalli Kerr ^ BaI1
had no bread at all. No one is ^era
starving now, but the people are1
beginning to show signs of the
strain they are under in being
kept alive on so small a ration.
Their faces look drawn and they
naturally fall easy victims to any
infection. Belgian physicians are
doing splendid work, both in* re-
lieving distress and in attending
prisoners and wounded. The
communal authorities have the
sanitary situation well in hand
and, thanks to them, there has
been no * really serious epidemic.
Wilson, Atascosa, Karnes, De-
Witt, Goliad, Victoria,-. Calhoun,
Refugio, Bee, Live Oak, McMul-
len, Jim Wells, Nueces, Kleberg,
San Patricio and Aransas.
Uvalde, Medinas, Frio, Zavalla,
Maverick,, Dimmit, Webb, Duval,
Zapata, Brooks, Jim Hogg, Wil-
lacy, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr
and La Salle.
El Paso, Culberson, Reeves, Jeff
Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Pecos,
Terrell, Crockett, Val Verde, Me-
nard, Schleicher, Sutton, Kimble,
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In this, as in other matters, , EdwardSj Real and Einney.
Germans do not interfere In StonewaUj Fishcr| Coke> Noian,
this connection I would like to|Tom Qt<x^ Searry_ Mitoh.
say that so far as I know not one sterliDgi lrioUi Garza, Bor-
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t -e Dallas district, putting Hill in planted in rows twelve or fifteen
Hardy district and Bosque in; inches apart. The bed should be
.1 e Henry district. Leon, Madi- leveled and prepared to drain,
•oil and Walker Counties are ta- and a record should be kept of by Dr. P. II. Williams of New although with them they can buy
JL u out of. the Houston district the time of planting and the va- York, who-at the. suggestion of their rations of bread and soup.
&nd added to the Galveston dis- fiCty of seed used. the Rockefeller Foundation volun- “In smaller towns which have
t i *t, which otherwise is unohang- In January and February one teered his services to direct . the. been destroyed men are being em-
4d. Braoria County is added to should plant spinach, lettuce, on- j operations of the American Com- ployed under the same system to ..... . .
I aston district. It is now in Jthe ion, radish, carrots, beets, Irish j mission of Relief in Belgium at pije up bricks which still litter the morsel of the food so generously Howard, Glasscock, Reagan,
4i trict represented by Congress- potatoes, English peas, and ear- Liege and is now retturning to streets and tell of bombardments supplied to Belgiumm is being ta- r *n Dawson, Martin,? Midland,
ofan Burgess. ly corn. Tomato and cabbage1 America. Continuing, he said: the world almost has forgotten, ken by the Germans. It is only Terry, Yoakum, Gaines,
The districts now represented seed should be planted in cold “The people of Belgium never these operations are in the fair to say the Germans have giv- Ward Loving,
by Congressmen Rayburn, Black, frames, or in boxes kept in doors commplain but they never laugh. ^ hands of relief committees. en us every assistance, not only Dallam, Sherman, Hansford,
C llaway and Buchanan are not until the freezes are past. A Their stocism, for that is the on-: “In the country districts of in. the distribution of rations SUP’ Ochiltree, Lipscomb] Hemphill,
Changed in any particular. little later beans, black-eyed peas, ly word which describes their at- Liege province farmers are tilling plies, but in clearijig the canals Roberta, Hutchinson, Moore, Hart
i. ilarrison County Ls transferred melons, cantaloupes, squashes, t tude, would mislead even train- j the soil, but they have no horses j of broken bridges so our barges , Oldham, * Potter, Carden,
tx m the Beaumont district to yam potatoes and other tender jed observers into believing that and they are being compelled to can reach towns and villages Wheeler Collingsworth,
tii'1 district represented by Mr. varieties may be planted. everything was going on as usual, to sell their cattle for slaughter whose people would otherwise DonS’ Armstrong Randail Deaf
young. The Texas Industrial Congress Under the surface, however, they as cattle fodder has been requisi- starve.
j ■ No two of the present Texas is offering a number of prizes feel implacable hatred because o£
Congressmen a-re included in the for gardening. It also offers a t ieir untold misfortunes and suf-
4 me district. $”>00 prize for the best mojlel four; f rings.
Six districts, under the propos- acre ftirm, conducted according “A little girl at Liege, who had
tioned for the cavalry. This has
had two results. The first is that
meat is cheaper in Liege than it
is in New York and the second
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<jd bill, touch on the coast. Aran- to certain rules. It also gives been lucky enough to get a warm ^ supply of milk ^ dkap.
4 s is taken from the Burgess prizes for production of forage p tticoat among the Christmas 1
4 strict and placed in the propos- cr ps, production of beef and presents distributed by the com- ,Peann& rapidly.
Ban Antonio district. grain crops. These contests are mission, wrote to the American At least thirty thousand per-
The present San Antonio dis- op n to all. ichild who sent it: ‘My country sons line up once a day for bread
Notice.
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All parties desiring an appoint-
ment as Notary Public for
the ensuing two years, please no-
tify me at once.
C. R. Risch, Co. Clerk.
Smith Parmer Castro, Swisher,
Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Cottle,
Motley, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Bai-
ley, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock,
Crosby, Dickens and King. *
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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/m1/2/?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.