The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 47~No. 52.
SULPHUR SPRINGS TEXAS, FRIDAY. DECEKRER 24, 1909.
$1.00 a Year
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The largest shipment of
STETSON Hats that ever
came to Sulphur Springs
just received by the . . .
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BIG 4 STORE
We are going to
sell everything in
the way of win-
ter Suits, Over-
coats, Underwear,
etc., at 25 per cent
less than you ever
saw them sold for
in your life before.
Those few of you
who have not been
here, had better
stop and let us
show you. . . . .
We Tell the Truth
Did You Keep Your Resolve to Have a
Bank Account by the End of this Year
If you didn’t, why not make a fiying start for 1910?
Our bank offers you every advantage. You know
our motto, “No account too large for us to handle,
None too small for us to appreciate.” A very few
dollars will make the start. Begin now.....
The City National Bank
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY
GRIFFON,
CLOTHES
GUARANTEED
THE BIG 4 STORE
QUALITY CLOTHIERS
East Side Square
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Dirt Broken.
The first dirt on the Paris and Moant
Pleasant railroad was broken yester-
day in R. F. Scott’s field, just south of
the Lamar oil mill. There are twelve
teams at work at present, bnt others
are expected to arrive a few days
apart as the sub contractors employed
on the Kansas Oity Southern get
[through with their piece-work, and
•soon after the beginning of the new
year over a hundred teams are ex-
pected to be at work making the dirt
fly. The throwing of the first shovel-
ful of dirt was not attended with any
formality, that ceremony usually be-
ing reserved nntil the first rail is put
down and the first spike driven.—
Paris. Morning News.
Squirrels Crossing Texas Plains.
Hiit is said that 10,000 squirrels are
«ro«* the plains of Texas
Such a hegira is unprecedented and
cannot be explained. The little ani-
mals started from the cedar brakes
and woodlands in Stephens county,
crossed Eastland county on the edge
of Brown county, and are now well on
Eilsn’s Predictions.
Thomas A. Edison predicts that
within the next twenty years the art
of moulding concrete will reach a
marvelous degree of perfection in
architecture. This will not be achiev-
ed by great expenditure of money; it
will be accomplished by labor-saving
appliances which will so cheapen the
cost of production that twenty years
hence the poor will have more beau-
tiful homes than the rich can now
aspire to.
Mr. Edison predicts that moving
picture machines will be so protected
that the characters will move and
speak, and other stage accessories
will make the illusive perfect. Such
entertainments, he says, can be pro-
vided for ten cents and will give
millions of working people a chance
to be amused and improved. The re-
salt will be a hard blow to the saloon.
Locomotives will pass oat of exist-
ence and all railroads will be operated
by electricity. The prophecy seems
very evident of fulfillment. An art-
ist searching for a model of a steam
locomotive, found out the other day,
that to see an old-fashioned engine
he wonld have to go to Jersey City,
m electricity operates all roads run-
ning into New York proper.
Ike water power of oor brooks and
rivers will be utilized for electricity
to an extent now not dreamed of.
A new fertilizer will spring into
existence containing nitrogen in
large quantities. Electricity will
draw tbis from the air and will great-
ly increase the arability of oar land.
This is done to a large extent today
in Sweeden.
Aerial navigation will be firmly es-
tablished and will be gn a sound, prac-
tical working basis in twenty years.
Oar bodies will be fortified against
the ravages of disease by the nse of
serums, so that many will live much
longer than now, and suffer far less
pain. The present fight against can-
cer and tnberonlosis will be carried
to a successful finish, and both these
dreadful scourges will be as rare as
smallpox.
Onr coal supply will be much bet-
ter understood and 90 per cent of its
efficiency will not be thrown away as
It Is today. i
A new force in nature will be dis-
sow dabbed
“physic’1 will be well understood.
Mental phenomena will then seem
more wonderful than physical phe-
nomena do now. We now have but
five senses. If we knew more we
wonld have at^least eight.—Success
Magazine. \
Great Is Texas.
The following, from the Hill Connty
Record, gives os some idea of Texas
and her greatness.
It will be observed that acreage
and products are only considered. In
addition, a great sammary might be
shown in mineral resources, lumber
interests, “the cattle on a thousand
hills,” her industrial enterprises and
great and populous cities:
“Texas has one-half of one per cent
of the land area of the world.
The Texas crop acreage for 1909
approximates as follows:
Cotton................9,715,000 aqpes
Corn............. 8,247,000 “
Wheat................ 924,000 “
Oats..................... 615,000 “
Hay........ 018,000 “
Rice.................. 283,500 “
Potatoes.............. 90,000 “
Tobacco............... 3,000 “
Fruit and Vegetables..1,000,000 “
Forage crops and do-
mestic pastures, etc .5,000,000 “
Total.
.......26,490,100 “
A Picture of Eternity.
The negro preacher is noted for his
enthusiasm and his picturesque—al-
most poetic—way of expressing
things. In “Life in Old Virginia,” J.
J. McDonald tells about a new colored
minister who was condooting a revival
without much success. At last, how-
ever, he awakened his congregation
by asking: “Does yo’ know what
eternity is? Well, I tell yo’.
“If one of dem 111 sparrows whatyo’
see ronn’ yo’ garden bashes was to dip
btfbill.inde ’Lantic Ocean an’ take
one hop a day an’ hop across de coun-
try an’ pat dat drop of water into de
’Oiflc Ocean, an’ den he hop back to
de ’Lantic Ocean,—jes’ one hop a day,
—an’ if he keep dat hoppin’ np ’till de
’Lantic Ocean wuz dry as a bone, it
wouldn’t be break o’ day in eternity.”
“Dar, now,” said one of the breth-
ren, “yo’ see for yo’se’f how long
eternity is.”
A Cheerful Giver.
“The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,”
and “it is more blessed to give than
to receive,” are faithful sayings and
worthy of all acceptation. Clive where
yonr gift is needed, where it brings
joy and gladness, and yonr own heart <
will swell with real pleasure. To'
lavish gifts upon the rich, the strong,
the powerful in the hope that you
may receive in tarn, is mean, grovel*
lug and pitiful. Don’t belittle your-
self that way. Give freely only where
love prompts, or better yet, go oat
among God’s poor, hnnt out those
less favored or less fortunate, and do
acts that will brighten human lives,
and 'the brightness will come back
into your heart by reflection.
The great and noble characters of
the world, the men in all ages who
have been admired and loved, have
been the generous men. The shunned
and hated and despised creatures of
the human race have always been the
misers, the stingy, grasping, hoarding,
pinching wretches who value money
above human sonls and hogged their
wealth in the face of misery. The
world shonts and laughs when snob
men die, bat it follows the generous
man to his grave with tears and real
sorrow.—Longview Times Clarion.
their way across Coleman county.
Whither they are going no one can
tell.
The theory baa been advanced that
possibly dry weather in Stephens
county is responsiblefor the squirrels’
expatriating themselves.
‘ No less an authority than President
Londermilk of the Farmors’ Union
has told of the squirrels’ migration.
Prominent ranchmen in Stephens
county, especially those who make
Breckenridge their headquarters, de-
clare that the squirrels are followng
several striped fellows, who lead
them right across the open prairie,
five or ten miles to a tree. How the
squirrels manage to live en route is a
mystery.—Honey Grove Signal.
A. H. Hefner, an old Confederate
veteran who attended the Confederate
reunion here last summer, died at
his home in Greenville last week. He
was once mayor of Greenville and
bad lived in Hunt connty for more
than fifty years. /
Zelaya has sent in his resignation as
president of Nicaranga.
Uncultivated Area.
“There is in Texas 167,865,000 acres
of land. Of this acreage there are
2.118.000 acres of water surface and
165.747.000 acres of land surface. AH
the- land surface is susceptible to a
high degree of cultivation, except a
very small percentage, which is moun-
tainous and is used for grazing 'pur-
poses. We now have less than &),-
000,000 acres of land nnder cultivation,
leaving 137,865,000 acres of nnonlti-
vated land, less the water service.”
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' Somehow I never did place a very
high regard on a man’s claims for
temperance who wouldn’t for the
world take a drop of liqnor and yet
gorges his stomach whenever he has
a chance at a square meal. It wonld
take a very discriminating eye to dis-
cern the difference between one kind
of intemperance and another, from a
moral standpoint. Any kind of in-
temperanoe is detrimental to the soul,
mind and body—all three, and the
glntton, as I see it, is no better man
than he who prefers a liquid instead
of a food. r There may be a. difference
only in results.—Pittsburg Gazette.
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Brains In the Neck.
Ed New, a well known farmer liv-
ing between Forest Hill and Petty,
had a sow that farrowed nine pigs
about a year ago. Some of the pigs
were freaks. Four were normal and
perfectly formed, while four of them
were born without tails or ears and
without orifices or openings at the
ear. The ninth was born with a tail,
bat it did not have any ears or open-
ings at the ear. It lived, however,
and grew into a fine fattening hog,
although it was deaf. When Mr.
New killed bogs last week he ex-
perienced great difficulty in killing it.
The bog was struck in the head sev-
eral times with an ax and was knock-
ed down repeatedly, bnt the blows
did not seem to have any effect on it.
He finally succeeded in killing it and
when the hog was cat ap and the head
cut off the brains were found in the
neck where it joined on to the back-
bone, which accounted for the blows
on the head with the ax not having
any effect,—Paris News.
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CLEAN
ON
Heavy Clothing
Underwear
Now is the time to
get big bargains in
Clothing. Come and
get your choice of the
following number: •
Lot 3150-13 Suits, blue serge,
$15 value, to close
at...
• • • •
Lot 1157-6 Suits, fancy worst-
eds, $13.50 value, to
close at.
Lot 1069-6 Suits, gray cheviots,
$10.00 values, to close
at............
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Lot iios-6 Suits,
$10.00 value, to
close at..
worsted
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flit Clatbes Habers
Bsltlasr* aad Mew Yk$
One job lot of Clothing to go
at 1-3 price. This is all new.
up-to-date Ctothlng. We car-
ry only the best of everything.
CAROTHERS BROS.
Leading Clothiers
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909, newspaper, December 24, 1909; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817057/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.