Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1915 Page: 4 of 16
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
Published every Thursday by
J. N. ROGERS l& COMPANY
jfor the good of the whole coun-
try, which proves the truth of the
proverb, “there is that that with-
holdcth and tendetli to poverty.
The lack of co-operation in build-
the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
by the King’s private secretary,
Lord Stamfordham. The letter
of Lord Stamfordham follows:
“Dear Chancellor of the Ex-
tended to chequer:
Entered at the Postoffice at ing the country
: acksboro, Texas, as second-class make it less prosperous, while the
matter. ' ' individual has worked in his own
interest, the lack of the great
thanks
Busines office on northeast cor-
ner, of Public Square, Jacksboro,
Texas.
Remit cash by Postoffice Money
Order, or Bank Check at our risk,
otherwise at risk of sender.
promptly letting him have
a full report of the proceedings
at yesterday’s meeting of the
m
Subscription: $1.00 a year.
Telephone 71.
The subject more generally un-
der discussion than almost any
other is that of the people of ru-
ral communities drifting to the
cities, and their future after they
get there. In connection with
this pro idem the joint grand ju-
ry charge by Judges Robert B
Seay and W. L. Crawford Jr. of
Dallas becomes a subject for
strength that exists in co-opera-. deputation of employers,
tion has been wanting when and
where most needed—that is in
building up an all round prosper-
ity for the whole country.
In the fire at Olney, which oc-
curred last week the enterprise
lost everything including the mail
list. Mr. Shuffler desires that ev-
ery subscriber send in his name
and date, of subscription as this
is the only way he has of secur-
ing his subscribers’ names.
Majesty has read it with intense
interest, but also with the deep-
est concern. He feels that notli-
Most Popular Ruler. Worked
as Reporter in the West.
KANSAS COWBOY
WHIPS JACK JOHNSON
Paris, April 5.—From a com-
paratively obscure ruler, King
ing but the most vigorous meas-j A1|)ert of Belgium hag become in
a few months the most popular
monarch in the world. All who
ures will successfully cope with
the grave situation now existing
in our armament factories.
“We have before us the state-
ments not merely of the employ-
ers, but of the Admiralty and the
War Office, which are responsi-
ble for munitions of war and for!
At Havana Being Knocked
in Twenty-sixth Round by the
Biggest Man Ever in Ring.
Out
approach him are charmed by his
manner. Those who surround
him idolize him.
He has been called “a king
without a country.” But this
A Strong Statement.
Gov. Charles S. Hamlin of the
federal reserve board makes a
strong statement in a Chicago ad-
dress when he says that the es-
tablishment of the new banking
the
grave consideration. In this
charge Judge Crawford particu- system at its outset rescued
larly urged* investigation of the
“cheap pool Mils’* of Dallas and
said that, in his .opinion, they are j strong a statement?
treed ing places for much crime I We know what the situation
J udge Seay delivered the main was for some weeks after the out- hi the prolongation of the horrors
charge to the grand jury and then break of the war. We know
Judge Crawford, by special re- what it is now or since the open-
quest of Judge Seay,
i wall never be. From the time his
the transport of troops and then land was invaded h(J has never
food and ammunition. From tins: left jts soil and he has giv(Jn a
evidence it is without doubt largo jword that no 0M doubts that he
ly due to drink that we are una- wffl die the tfeaeheg be£ore he
We to obtain the output of war wiu thsc to force
material indispensable to meet him oyer the border £rom the
the reiunements of the army in ny strip of BeIgium that still is
the field and tha tthere lias been
But bravery is common. It is
Havana, April 5.—Jack John-
son, exile from his own country,
today lost his elaim to fistic su-
premacy as the heavy-weight cities a hundred
W. A. Trenckmann, in Dallas
News: The university, through
extension work, is trying to save
the small town in Iowa as a cen-,
ter of culture and industry, ani
the small town, as in many other
States, has been falling behind th<
procession for two reasons:
Reason No. 1. Inaccessibility
on account of had roads. This
leads the farmer living hut a few
miles away to trade in the big
or more miles
I
such serious delay in consequence
champion of the world, the title)away to save horse flesh, worry
being wrested from him by Jess j and time. Mr. Klingaman, whs
Willard, the Kansas cowboy, the has traveled over every dirt road
country from the “most ominous
condition in its history.” Is it too i troops at the front.
“A continuance of such a state
things must inevitably result
and burdens of this terrible war.
“I am instructed to add that if
spoke to;ing of the federal reserve system, it be deemed advisable the King
the grand jury of pool halls and j The war caught us under the old
‘fences,” or buyers and con- j banking system, with gold re-
;
sealers of stolen property. 'The
,-grand jury was instructed to in-
vestigate all reported fences
serves scattered and subject to | quors himself and by issuing or
the hoarding instincts
ads of idividual banks.
of the necessary reinforcements aot bulldog tenacit that
of supplies to aid our gallant endears him tQ a|, It ^ qai.
et, kindly manner in Which he
handles everything. It is his free-
dom from pomp and circumstance
It is beeadse he is the most dem-
ocratic ruler in the world—even
if he is a king. v
Got Democracy in United States.
How much of this democratic
spirit did the hero of the Yser
acquire in his series of advent-
will he prepared to set an exam-
ple by giving up all alcoholic li-
very carefully. It was also stat- ed upon us
wm
ed that a great majority of petty
thefts, and possibly as .many as
four-fifths of them are by boys
and y&ung men under the age of
twenty-five
and young
of thous-, ders against its consumption ^ the United Stateg, Un.
It inflict-j the royal household so that no doubted]yj a great deal He
conditions which difference shall be made so far as
His Majesty is concerned between
great domestic panics had
brought in the past. It imposed the treatment of the rich and the
upon us, besides, an immense liq-jpoor in this question,
uidation of stocks and bonds held | “Lord Stamfordham,
years. These boys! abroad whose immediate settlement; “The King’s Private Secretary.”
men are, evidently in gold was demanded. Our for-' Act of Parliament Necessary.
ad-
among the idle ones who loaf eign exchanges ran up
around the pool halls, and that
means that many of them have no
to un-l The question of drink and its
heard of figures, and a virtual: effect on the work which is con-
and disorderly moratorium on ma- j sidered necessary for the success-
mired the ways of the great West.
He absorbed the do-or-die spirit
of the American frontiersman.
“Prince Albert,” as he was then,
went back to the court of bis un-
biggest man who ever entered
the prize ring and a ‘4 white hope ’ ’
who at last has made good.
The day after tomorrow John-
son, his wife and little group of
friends will sail for Martinique,
there to await passage back to
in Iowa, is striving to secure pa^-
manent and dustless roads by uS
of earth oils. When the wind
blows in Iowa in summer and fall
portions of the State look like tha
Texas Panhandle in springtime,
and the traveling over the black
France, where Johnson proposes land or the sandy land roads and
and lead the life
raising pigs and
to settle down
of a farmer,
chickens. There is no doubt that
he is through with the ring.
Willard, who is being acclaim-
ed tonight as the new champion,
the streets that have been con-
verted into dustbeds calls for the
spirit of martyrdom and good,
lungs. Some forty cities and
towns have used oils to allay the
dust nuisance and make their
is going back to the United States roads more lasting. In most in-
to win the fortune denied him to-
day when Johnson got $30,000 be-
fore hte fight started, Willard
taking only a small share of the
net receipts. Just what his share
was is not known.
Today’s fight probably has no;
parallel in the history of ring bat-
tles. For twenty rounds Johnson
punched and pounded Willard at
cle, the sybaritic King Leopold,! will> but his blows grew percep-
with far different ambitions fromjtibly less powerful as the fight
jobs and have become vitiated by turing. indebtedness to Europe.M prosecution of the war over-
------ ----- ' 1 -11 sprang up as a last effort to save j shadows at the present moment
thrown among bad, idle
There is not employment the gold standard.
for all the people drifting to the
larger towns and if there was, it
is too often the case that they
those of that unlovely despot.
It was the year of the Spanish-
American war, 1898, that Albert
came to America. He spent
much time in New York Wash-
progressed, until at last he seem-
ed unable or unwilling to go on,
Johnson stopped leading and
stances, after a few months., all
beneficial effects had disappear-
ed, and oil-laden dust was even
worse for fabrics than the untreat
ed article.
But there is one small town i*.
Iowa where the streets have bee*,
oiled for seven years, and it has
been found that one application
of heavy asphalt oil, which cost*
but 1.18c per square yard, fur-
nishes a dustless roadbed under
heavy travel. The methods that
have proven successful here and
in a few other towns, by the work
I everything eke in public interest.' and the Bast> but
was
Even this might not have avail-'The press and the public favorimogt impressed with the Wcst
oncoming estab^some drastic measures, a majori-jj. j Hill( the railroad magnate,
ed but for the
lishment of the
for three or four rounds the bat- of university men, are carried to
tie between the two huge men jail. To those who want to know
was little more than a series of!more, I would say:
posings. jMr. Klingaman, or
So it was until the twenty-fifth!him.” I discovered
“Write
go to
that he
lack the training necessary to system so happily provided be-dhe belief that total prohibition, a^b'ough Alb *t’
. _____ . A • J • t* i /I Ta .I* VXrT* i nil vrrrvvil/3 n nnl tt Art #>11 /tTnannci
meet the competition for every
place. Instead of looking at the
dark side of life and discouraging
the boys, causing them to feel
that there is a better life in the
Crowded city than on the farm,
r parents should encourage them
* p remain there and teach them
>me efficient farmers and
citizens. Every
forehand. It came, and with it a , which would apply to all classes, jprotcction
new-bern confidence. Mobiliza- is necessary. The Government,! got bim
of gold reserves took the however, has not yet reached a
of their scattered
Ml
federal reserve jfy °f the newspapers expressing. took 1]T^Pr ]bs protection, round, when Willard got one of posted on every subject that I
rugged six-1 his widely swinging right hand asked him about, and he is so
j smashes to Johnson’s heart. This busy a man that he always has
a job on a news- This was the beginning of the ’time to give information to those
i._t .._______„apolis and later 'end. who really want it.
place of their scattered hoard- j decision on the question, although ;on one jn Paul. He was a When the round closed John-! The second reason for the small
ing, concerted control dislodged^ Mr.Lloyd-George and Lord jregujar rCp0r^er> Bie to ev_ son sent word to his wife that he town’s decline lies in the ineffi-
was all in and told her to start cieney of its merchants. In Kan-
for home. She was on the
tion
He worked incognito and few
,V
good citizens. Every country
boy who remains at home leaves]gold -mport point..
a place for some
less fortunate
a banking and individual scram- Kitchener have their way it is be-jer asecncj a throne
ble without control, goods began 'lieved there mil be total prohibi-
to move out instead of gold, the;tion. To bring this about the
foreign exchanges began to fall' Government must have an act of
until they are now below the j Parliamen passed.
At a meeting of the Glasgow
What the neew system lias done | liquor dealers it was decided to
way
knew that the intelligent, per- out and was passing the ring in
sistent young man who “dug”
for facts was the heir apparent to
fke throne of Belgium and pros-
sas t he mail order business, which
is killing • off the smaller mer-
the twenty-sixth round when a chants, has been almost shut out,
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stinging left to the body and a i and this was accomplished largel^A
XT. „ •___ ________-I kww XTT~*
............ , , . .. . * I , ,, T, ^ peetive ruler of the Congo.
boy who has no home, and idle | w overcoming an unparalleled ask Mr. Lloyd-George to receive It ig gaid gome of the cit
editors in the sister cities of Min-
nesoa did no leam until yeafts la-
...... ‘ * " “cub”
perhaps because he can not ob- j emergency is established beyond a deputation from them which
cyclonic left to the jaw caused
Johnson to crumple on the floor
of the ring, where he lay, partly
K t
work, but was bom there and; dispute. What it may yet do for
will suggest a drastic reduction
i
has no idea of how to get away. J the permanent commercial up-jm the hours for the sale of liq
Every idle boy in th^xclty means, j building of £he nation we get an uor. The same deputation will
in time, one of those who join the, inkling of in the provision of a! confer with the labor leaders.
by the Kansas University. The*
University of Iowa, by lectures
and printed information and by
r-l|
paper j
•army of discontents if not really wide market for business
a criminal. i through bank acceptances.
Mr. Hamlin’s statement was
jnone1 too strong. It was perhaps
The Lubbock Avalanche makes;not strong enough—New York
a good-point in the following par-[World.
in, regard to the coopera-
\ A& r00*® BANISH DMNK
KING GEORGE’S PALACE
PUT IN DRY COLUMN
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FROM ROYAL CASTLE
Wines and Spirits Banished From
Royal Table, Beginning Yes-
terday.
ter that their promsimg
was a scion of royalty.
Besides reporting, Albert trav- ;
eled throughout the Northwest Three
as Hill’s guest. He used the
magnate’s private ear and was
accompanied by Hill himself or
his son Sam. 1 ; ’ ’
Had Nothing to Sell.
outside the ropes, until the ref- arranging meetings in larger cit-
ies, is showing the merchants that
they can not compete successful*
ly with the mail order houses of
Chicago and New York in every
line. In the evening lectures are
j given, while the day is spent look-
ing over well-managed stores, in
eree counted ten and held up
Willard’s hand in token of victo-
ry.
v
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p
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Hundred Million Dollar
Deal to Close.
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town and farm homes. Says the
Avalanche: “Co-operation is a! ________ ! - -
good big word, but the meaning' Bnn/lnn An«i * rr«Q+n.foi;Crv,
of this word applies m so many King George Willing to Set ! WM^“forced
d fferent ways that it would re-
. • men will, on Wednesday at An-
jehorage, Ky., complete the larg-
It is recalled by the Hills with est transaction ever conducted
amusement that as the train was ] successfully in the South. A. K
approaching Anaconda, Mont
Lexington, Ky., April 5.-Two leaflline, how 10 adiv'rtUe elfect-
on Wednesday lTely> how *° make ^ stor»
front work,’* in studying cost ac-
counting and the perpetual in-
voice. That this work is telling,
aue more space than the Ava-[
iaache has available at this time,
to enumerate, but the co-opera-
Enumerate, but the co-operation
the merchant and farmer, th
and
ample to Subjects If Deemed
Advisable.
Van Deventer of New York and1^^ ^ the business house,
they were compelled to make a!Alex P. Humphrey of Louisville,|of Iowa Uty* lh.e merchant®
side excursion and told the prince representing $300,000,000 worth have come 40 aPPreciate that “
he would be well taken care of|0f stock of the Southern Pacific!.beautiful” is not only of
m all the King’s;if he would look up J. H. Duston,'Raihvay Company, will complete]thetlc value« but a businessge
households beginning Wednesday, j editor of the Anaconda Stand-) the purchase of six big railroad i^'
This department is now inv
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London, March 31. — King
the countrymen is!George has added his plea to that1 after today.”
tfec question under discussion at j of the ship owners and, in some
lh s time. No town can survive' cases, to that of the Laborites ‘
An official announcement just is- ard. Duston, who had been at
sued, dated April 6, says: his desk until 4 a. m., was awak-
“By the King’s command, nojened at 8 a. m. by a persistent
wines or spirits will be consumed! ringing at his doorbell. Throw-
in any of His Majesty’s houses,ing on a dressing gown, he went
growling to the door, looked
and steamship companies now op-
erated by the Southern Pacific.
Whooping Cough.
gating public charities in
State, and it has been disclosed
that much money is wasted
lack of proper supervision. Ot
m
To Abolish Overdrafts.
without the support of the farmer ; themselves that some vigorous
snd the farmer is at a veiy great j measures be adopted to cope with Austin, Texas, April 5.—Com- a book agent
Well—everyone knows the ef- Gr lines of work of the extensio
over his caller, and immediately, feet of pine forests on coughs. Dr. | division I will not speak of hei
decided the polite, dapper young Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey si a reme- since I touched upon them else-
man with the good presence was dy which brings quick relief for j where. ' ,
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disadvantage without a good live the question of
town within reach of him, a pM
where there are merchants
which, sit is urged,
(whejeffect of delaying the
am supply the demands on quick of munitions of war.
a t’<Je, hence the importance of the Th
drunkenness, missioner of Insurance and Bank-j “Well, what have yon to sell?’
is having the mg Patterson is determined that he grumbled.
whooping cough, loosens the mu-j
* »
delivery the practice of State banks allow-
The “book agent’
j cous, soothes the lining of the,
throat and lungs, and makes the \ Deafness Cannot Be Cured
immediate- coughing spells less severe. A \ aS,
children ai r*‘Int‘Uies. Deafness is caused by an Inflamed
'-uuul condition of the mucons lining of the Eustachian
■Keep it] WBen this tube h ba^B^^
*erchaat and tho wqrkiay is-considered advisable, personally! sues.hi, official order he will first I itor'for U Ida life~wU eJ-! hindy" for’ Jl "JoughJand eold^i
together to the development o!,lo give up the use of all aleohol-'get the co-operation of the Comp- k—^ ---!ok_ _____r*r rv^rr^l «««*«» lo. normal condition. b«rr
ing overdrafts shall be abolished,: ly appeared embarrassed and family with growing
King has volunteered, if it j.but before the Commissioner is- j produced hi* card. Then the ed- should not be without it.
is i
issue an order troller of the Currency at Wash-
in the royal ington to agree that the national
mutual interests.” In the,ic liquors and to
it has been too often the against their use
every man for himself, with household. Such notification has1 banks in Texas also abolish the
least idea of co-operation be. n sent to David Lloyd-George, overdraft practice
barrassed, too, but they
soon fast friends.
While in America Albert stud-
ied about every industry we have.
On his return he wrote a book
were 25c. at your drugist’s. ELECTRIC] tag ynforerer; Wine casei ’out^ot
BITTERS a Spring Tonic.-(dA.)
of Deafness
ten are eansed be Catarrh, which la nothing bat
i an lnflarncd eondltlon of the mucous surface*.
For First Monday results—try r*”*
We will gire One Hundred Dollars for any com
1 Deafness (canned by catarrh) that cannot 5*
cured by Xlslrs Catarrh Cure. Send for clrea-
an ad in the Gazette.
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f. J. CHENEY a CO.. Toleda. O. _
Sold by Druggists. 75c. /
Taka Hall a 1'imUr Pills for ennotlnatteMe —
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1915, newspaper, April 8, 1915; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729618/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.