Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1914 Page: 1 of 16
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
VOLUME XXXV.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17,1914.
NUMBER 27.
CONFERENCE CALLED FOR
EXPLANATION OF HAND
LING PLAN ENDS.
1ST REOUGE IRIS CROP
Committee Expect to Receive
Many Applications for Money
Before January.
Washington,
$135,000,000
be made on the basis of 6c per
pound with a margin of 20 cent
cotton, according to the under-
standing i*eached today. Loans
are to be made only to responsi-
ble borrowers and in only twenty-
bale lots.
Henry 1). Lindsley of Dallas,
chairman for that regional re-
serve district, who attended the
meeting,. said tonight Texas has
about two hundred thousand bales
of cotton in warehouses, but there
was capacity for 500,000. The
State is in better shape for car-
ing for co'fton than it has ever
been, he said, and in emergencies
would be able to take car of all
that is necessary. The Texas sur-
plus is figured at 1,500,000 bales.
FIGHT IN YOUR OWN YARD.
Dec. 14.—The
loanWarrin*
cotton
Countries Will
fund plan to finance the surplus
cotton crop was approved unani-
mously tonight by representa-
tives of committees which will
aid in handling the fund in
Southern States. The represent-
Asked to Take Battleships From
Western Hemisphere.
American Union and other groups
closely in touch with Pan-Ameri-
can interests.
As long as war vessels cruise in
American waters, jnst so long will
irritation and suspicion arise re-
garding questions of the strict ob-
servance of ttye neutrality laws
by the various nations. Chili and
Bolivia declare they already have
had enough of these complica-
tions '
British Claims
Great Britain recently called
into question the good faith <of
Ecuador, Columbia and Peru in
their observance of neutrality.
The United States has not kept
free of these embroilments, for
Great Britain recently asked
this government to use its best of-
fices to prevent a recurrence of
neutrality violations.
Furthermore, neutral shipping
has been interfered with, as is in-
stanced in the case of the mer-
merchantman Sacramento. Thif
vessel, now of American registry,
left San Francisco two weeks ago
bound for Valparaiso, Chili, with
6,000 tons of coal aboard. She
reached her destination, but wdth-
——1 LARGE SHIPMENT OF
These are only a few of many
reasons why Latin American de-
sires her waters to be cleared of
the European war. There are
many prominent officials who be-'
lieve she is right and
may win her case.
that she
Washington, Dec. 11.—To clear
atives held an all-day conference; the western hemisphere of,the last 0ut coaL She declared she had
the cotton loan committee, which | vestige of warlike operations by been boarded by a war
has final suupervision of the fund the European lielligerents, and t<
The conferences, called for an
explanation of the administration
of the fund, ended tonight and
most of the State committeemen
left for the South to begin active
work in putting the fund into the
hands of cotton producers.
Although no definite statements
GASOLINE LOCOMOTIVE.
MADE
THE J. W. KNOX HERD OF
THIS COUNTY.
Interesting Machine Built for Lo-
cal Freight Service and Switch- !
■*'. *
ing at Matador.
have been required to overcome
its effects.’’
By formation of the $100,000,00#
gold pool, the $135,000,000 cotton
loan fimd, issues of emergency
currency and the deposits of <!rop
moving money in national baaka*
WEEK FROM situation was relieved and con
fidence was revived, ’the report
says.
Danger Has0 Been Averted,
“Through the prompt and ef-
fective action of the Treasury'
LARGEST REGISTERED flEROjrP^r™^
-- (the country, the danger ha? been'
Largest Herd of Registered Ab- a7erte<*’ says ^ie r6Port- on-
J fidence has been restored and
The Motley County Railway Co.
of Matador, recently puurchased
a 300-horse power gasoline switch-
ing locomotive, which is used in
erdeen Angus Cattle in the
South and West.
. Mr. Jas. W. Knox, this week,
freight and switching sen-ice be- j made a shipment of Aberdeen An-
twee n that place and Roaring cajye fPoni famous herd
Springs Junction, on the Quan-j^ tWs (,ounty) tQ Mr c w
ah, Acme and Pacific Railway, a of Soutb Carolina,one of the pro-
distance of nine miles. It has a;prietorg of the Kregs fiye ^ .....
traction efffort of 12,000 pounds |ten cent 8topeS) located all the ^ T™?™1 f t
when running six miles per hour. __I011'* country is the best ev**
specie payments have been nuiin-
tained in the face of the world.
At no time since the war broke
out has there been, to the linowL
edge of this department, with the
exception of a few isolated ca*&%
a failure on the part of any solv-
ent national bank to honcr i&i
• — •
checks in currency or money or
to meet its obligations. The
The Denison Cotton Mills Corn-
leading Southern cities.
This shipment consisted of three
were made at the meeting as to
how much cash will he drawn led out Airasrienn publlic opinion,
from the ffund to carrry the sur- with a view to swinging American
, vessel and her cargo taken from
wrrest even the weakest Latm- her The Sacramento, formerly
American ^public frrom suspieioi Germaa owned k under icion
of European’s influence and con-iof having deiiberfttely violated ..........
^ B Ja^clWe ,° °. a brought much needed fuel sup- one thousand horse-power,
group of diplomats in Washing- '
ton.
They already have informally
approached the, state department
on the subject. They have sound-
dnece that confidence has bee*
restored. There is every reason
why the country should look for-
ward to the future with /eonfi-
pany ’g new equipment recently or |registered.
dered will cost about $30,000, in- Mr ^ox has “ade *** .................._ ...
eluding boilers, engine, condenser,;mer s.a rom 18 e*\ 18 dance so far as it» trade, coin-
pump, etc., will replace the old i °ne ls ® a m!^'e 18 b 88 merce and industry are con.cent*
equipment. The capacity will be tanatlon «“■»' ^ generally^,,
plus crop, estimates ranged from
$10,000,000 to $70,000,000 and
members of the cotton loan com-
mittees were confident hundreds it wpulld otherwise have been.
support behind the project, which
will bring a, genuine Pan-Ameri-
canism many decades closer than
The immediate object of the
propagando is to drive the vari-
ous German, British and French
cruisers now in Latin and North
American iiate3-s out of range. It
is true there is no legal warrant
for such a|eampaign, as the war
vessels of the belligerents have a
perfect right to indulge in as
much fightmg as they wish along
American coasts, provided they
CHRISTMAS CHEER
made, and showTs the extent
to which the . fame of this
herd is becoming known for
! In spite of drains from Europe,
where the Nation owed about
.. « . ■■ I $450,000,000 at the outbreak af
its pure strain of blood, and also .. a . ,
, . . , . the war, becretarv McAdoo saw
being known as the largest regis-
. J , , , f . that the Treasury’s gold holdings
tered herd not only in Texas but , A .. ~
m the South and West. Mr. ^ ^
Knox began several years ago ed with hold;ngs of $1,258,213,3117
with a small herd and with the T OA-.nio
, . ... . , . , , on June 30,1913.
businesslike manner for which he
is so well known, has continued
Secretary MeAdoo referred iin
some detail to his action against
of applications for loans would be
forthcoming before Jan. 1.* Most
of those present believed that be-
tween 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 bale
of cotton must be carried over un-
til next year. It was estimated
that about $150,000,000 would be
needed to take care of this cotton
and it was the general opinion
that unless there is a natural ex-
pansion of crediit throughout, the
South the loan fund will be used j are outside the three-mile limit,
to aid cotton producers. ! Nevertheless the diplomats be-
Must Reduce Production.. lieve they can persuade the Euro-
There was evidence that many pean powers it will be best for
of the State committeemen agreed their own interests to take their
with the idea advanced by hfficiallships into other waters and leave
here that cotton producers next all American shores free from the
year must cut their cotton pro- echoes of their broadsides,
ductipn. The cotton loan com- The United States is not expeet-
mittee will use every means possi-, ed to support the movement offi- k
ble to convince growers of the ne-
cessity of curtailment.
The meeting was said tonight to
have been unusually harmonious.
ciallly.
U. S. Favcrs Policy.
It goes without saying that,
purely as* an academic question,
There were some criticisms of de- the Washington government is
tails and H is argued that some:thoroughly in favor of neutraliz-
provisions put hardships,, on ing American seas. But there is
Southern banks and on prospect- no channel defined either in estab
ive borrowers. lished inter nation all law- or in
Harding Defends Plan. The Hague conventions which en-
W. P. G: Harding, member of ablles the state department to
the Federal Reserve Board, chair-
OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS
W. A. Shown,
President
Sil Stark
J. R. Lilly
Vice Pres.
i
James Hayes,
Cashier
W. B. Mann
Asst. G^sh.
Mrs.FrancesDuke
S. Castleberry
J. H. Timberlake
L. T. Richardson
J. W. Kinder
IN WISHING YOU ONE
AND ALL, A MERRY
CHRISTMAS, WE WOULD
ALSO EXTEND A COR-
DIAL INVITATION TO
MAKE OUR NEW AND
COMFORTABLE BANKING
ROOM YOUR HEADQUAR-
TERS WHILE IN TOWN
FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS
SHOPPING.
COME IN TO SEE US
YOU ARE WELCOME
The
Jacksboro National
Bank
to increase his herd until /n^w , * * . K L*
stands without a rival among thei , * , ^
many big herds of Aberdeens in . , , .
a 4.1 j -rwy , ing up reserves and charging
: . _ high mterest rates without i?o°d
The Aberdeen-Angus is from ai .. ,
i. ci A , , , t , ^ cause. It was a disagreeable dn-
stram of Scotch beef cattle, and1, . . , • ... ,,
. , . .-i . . , , ’ . ty, he said, but one which reniHfc-
just at t us time" when there is
is such a great demand for beef
they are among the most valua-
ble of an imals.
ACTIVITIES OF TREASURY
DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL
YEAR REVIEWED.
press ssueh a request effectively Jtoutnknia Seeks War Supplies in pay more attention to the dairy
was
of the cotton loan committee, through ordinary diplomatic
chief defender of the plan. He means. The European belliger-
explained the provisions that caus
ed criticism and met objections of
the committeemen.
ents would point out to the Unit-
ed States, and. to the Latin-
Araeriean states, that they have
The representatives from ten interests to protect in the western
States here today were Moorhead hemisphere, particularly Great
Wright, Arkansas ; R. F. Maddox,
Georgia; Sol Wexler, Louisiana;
Britain, incluuding Canada, Brit-
ish Honduras, Jamaica, Bermu-
£ D. Davis, Mississippi; Joseph da, and many other erchipela-
G. Brown, North Carolina; A. C.jgoes.
Trumbo, Oklahoma ; R. G. Rhett, i However, if it became known in
-South Carolina; Henry D. Linds-! Europe that Hhe bulk of sentiment
ley, Texas; E. L. Rice, Tennessee, in all the American nations wa*
and state Senator Milton, Florida J strongly in favor of the naval
The cotton loan committee, was neutralization above referred to,
represented by W. P. G. Harding it would have its effect, and prob-
and Paul M. Warburg of the Fed-.ablly nullify the prospect of a big
oral Reserve Board, J. P. Forgan engagement between British and
America.
industry in Falls County, and to
develop a sufficient interest in
Chicago, Dec. 15.—Roumamia is the same to justify the installa-
in the field for the purchase of tion of a creamery in the near fu-
American war supplies. That ture.
country, although not a belliger-
TERMS TIFF SUCCESS
Recommends Emergency War
Revenue Law Be Continued in
Effect Till End of Conflict.
ed in a determination on his own
part to withdraw Government de-
posits from banks not using uueh
funds for the benefit of their' eqm- »
munities. C vv
“This action/’ he said, “had a
jsalutarrv influence, because it
was followed by a general looe.*
ening up of credits; and while it
is not for a moment contended
that the improvem ent is attribu-
table wholly to the action of the
d?partment it is, nevertheless, be-
lieved to have had a beneficial
effect upon the situation.’’
Mr. McAdoo's report is devot-
ed largely to a review of the ac-
tivities of his department for tb«
fiscal year ending on June 30, be-
fore the war began, but he in* '
eluded detailed statements of the
Treasurry’s participation in va-
rious post-war problems.
ent in the European war, has sent
a commission here to place orders
for arms, ammunition, cotton and
sanitary supplies to cost $10,000,-
000.
A. A M. Boy Plantation Manager,
From graduate of the agricult-
ural department of the A. & M.
College to general manager of the
Brazos Valley Plantation Compa-
Cream Shipping Station Perfect- ^ one 0j» ^ie plantations
ed by Commercial Club. |in Texas, in less than two years is
‘ _ * ^ , | the record of Meredith James, 23
Marlin, Tex., Dec. lb.-Throug^
the efforts of the Marlin Commer-/*™ “K1', <*f %«“•
eial Chi#, a cream shipping sta-
Washington, Dec. 9.—Secreta-
ry McAddoo in his annual report
to Congress today outlined at
length the steps taken by the
Treasury Department to restore
confidence* and support American
business, shaken and weakened
by the European war.
“A catastrophe of calamitous
proportions,” said the report,
“was nanrowly averted. It is a
tribute to the economic strength
and soundness of the country and
to the patriotism of its people in
every class and walk of life that
the shock has been so admirably
: withstood. A panic of cataclysmic
MASONS TO LAY CORNER- -
STONE OF HOSPITAL
Many Frcm Over the State to be
in Attendance on Friday at
Arlington
of Chicago, Festus J. Wade of St. German ships in American waters tion has been installed in Marlin, The Gazette is always for the proportions might easily have r<
Louis, A. H. Wiggan of New York That, at lease,, is the stand taken and considerable patronage is al-’, interests of the ocodIo 0f suited 811(1 11 tllc in.illOT toP“e
and Lovi Rue of Philadelphia. j by the Latin' American diplomats.' r.-ady Ueing had. Efforts will O'j • * th.> country would havr boon in- j Masonic fjran. lodge
Loans under thy cotton pool will aided and supported by the Pan-'made to induce the farmers to'Jaek County. calculable and many years would cornerstone.
Arlington, Tex., Dec. 14.—Sev-
eral hundr<*d Mamons from all
parts of the State will be here
Friday of this week for the pur-
pose, of laying the cornerstone of
the new hospital of the Masonic
Home for the Aged, which is be-
ing built hero at a cost of $30,-
(X)0. The money for the hospital
was provided by the grand ccro-
mandery, Knights Templar, hut
the 'jommandory has asked the
to lay Ike
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