The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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For Merchandise of Unquestionable Quality
For Goods With a Reliable Reputation!
It is ever our aim to have the goods you want. Every day is bringing New Goods to us and a visit to
store will be of interest to you. Goods will be cheerfully shown whether you wish to buy or not. Sit ~
and think over what you need and you wil) find it here properly priced. Everything needed by Men,
men or children can be found here. c
SEE OUR NEW COAT SUITS AND DRESS GOODS—Selected with great care from the choicest stocks
of New York City. If you want the latest and best of up-to-the-minute styles be sure and see the grand
array of seasonable goods which have just arrived at this store.
Our Millinery Department jaSTJBfefiS £ £.f&WStS
recent enlargement of same has given us one of the most up to date Millinery Departments in Texas. Miss
Sumners, who is in charge of this department, is now daily suiting the great variation of tastesv both in
price and quality and she will be glad to attend to the wants of all the ladies and girls in search of suitable
millinery at suitable prices.
MIKINBOTHMICOMPAn
STEPHENVILLE'S GREATEST STORE
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OLD PAPER TELLS
OF SABINE PASS FIGHT
Many valuable records, bits of
early Texas history, old newspa-
pers, etc., are safely stored away
in the archives and vaults of th£
Masonic building, which belongs
to all the Masons of Texas, this
building being located in Waco
lit Sixth and Franklin streets,
and these documents are careful-
ly looked after. Attention to
this fact was called by John Ward
grand secretary of the Masonic
Grand Lodge.
Grand Secretary W. B. Pear-
son of the Masonic grand lodge
of Texas showed a representa-
tive of the Times-Herald yester-
day some of the old papers, these
being of much interest. There
is a file of the old Texas Sentinel
for example, published at Aus-
tin in 1840, and in this paper can
be seen the names of Sam Hous-
ton, Mirabeau B. Lamar, David
Burnet and many others of im-
mortal fame, and who were mak-
ing the history of that day and
time.
Another paper, the Tri-Weekly
Telegraph of Houston, also most
interesting. It was edited by E.
H. Cushing, and contained many
things of interest, the type used
being very small in order that it
would not bo necessary to use
much paper, the price of paper
at that period being very high.
A copy of the Tri-Weekly Tele-
graph of September 11, 1863,
THE MERCHANT PREFERS
A BANK CHECK
If you have a checking account with this bank
and settle your store bills with checks, your mer-
chant will seldom fail to give you proper credit
In case of any error in amount or. otherwise ydur
cancelled check, returned to us, will furnish in-
e
disputable evidence as to date, endorsers and
amount No reason for argument, no chance for
dispute, no loss of friendship.
We invite you to open an
Account Now
W-iSii
T»e F'r8t l*ati
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contained an account of the
thrilling attempt of the federal
to force their way in at Sabine
Pass and the brilliant victory
won by the gallant defenders of
the fort there, which had only
one battery of guns. The ac-
count was published the day af-
ter the battle and showed the
havoc wrought with the federal
gunboats, the loss of life, the
wounded and the complete dis-
comfiture of the invading feder-
ate. The account taken from
the Telegraph was written from
the scene of action or near there
and was as follows:
“The ball is again opened m
Texas. We have met the enemy
and again they are ours. Yes-
terday the Yankee fleet commenc-
ed showing themselves off the
bar, and by night it numbered
some fiteen vessels. This morn-
ing it had increased to twenty-
three vessels of all sizes, sixteen
of them inside the bar. About 7
o’clock' in the morning five of
them advanced and commenced
shelling the fort, but got ‘.no re-
ply. After continuing about an
hour and getting the range of
some 50 prisoners and 18 killed
and wounded. The Davis Guards
under the command of Lieuten-
ant Dowling and Lieutenant
Smith of the engineer corps, who
volunteered to assist, have won
lasting honors for themselves
and their country. Not a man
hurt ora gun dismounted—all
ready for another fight The
prisoners say there is ten thous-
lows. Another slide shows us
where despondency had the up-
per hand, and the awful tempt-
ings to tragedy under its terrible
influence. We see where we
failed when we should have suc-
ceeded; where right principles
were overridden by selfish de-
sire and as the picture continues
we turn away sickened by the
sight and there is within us a
and men on board their vessels strong desire and a yearning for
and will come again, but we are
now better prepared and await
their pleasure.”—Waco Times-
Herald. '
HOW WOULD YOU
SPEND YOUR LAST YEAR?
If we had only one more year
to live how would we spend it?
If we could know that only one
year more of life and then the
end, would there not come sud-
denly to us a full realization of
life, its privileges and its mean-
ing? Only a year! How power-
ful and startling the' thought
The possibility of suck perhaps
had not occurred to us before.
We think hurriedly of the past—
the' fort” they hauled ofTuntU of childhood inno^nt and care
the power to wipe from the can-
vas these life paintings and work
them all over again. But we
know this can not be. We had
our opportunity and misused it
We must now bear the punish-
’ment of an accusing conscience.
There can be no escape. Neith-
er wealth, influence nor accomp-
lishment can purchase our free-
dom from the penalty which it
inflicts upon us. In the mid-
night hours we awake to feel
and suffer; in the gayest mo-
ments the “Still small voice” re-
minds that we are serving sen-
tence. * ‘
Just a year more of life. The
time is short. We have review*
ed the past and have reached a
decision. From this time until
the year is up we will live a real
life as nearly as possible-live to
give pleasure instead of pain;
live to help instead of hinder;
live to bless instead of
live now that we may live
wards in the memory
with whom we now walk,
whose burdens we may help fa \
lighten. We will live in the
gladdening sunshine of life pro-
vided by the Eternal Law of
Nature,_ and make_
worth'more than all ~~
have passed. Let <
toward life in,this last
year be such as will enable us
hope that upon the last
this year, when the ei
have come, that we “Go
the quarry slavaat night,
ed to his dungeon, ** *
and sustained by an
trust, approach the
who wraps the
couch about him and
to pleasant dreams.”—I
ger in Waco Times ]
about 3 o’clock p.m., when two
steamboats hove in sight up the
lake. Then three of the Yankee
gunboats advanced and com-
menced with, shot and shell at
the fort, one coming up one chan-
nel and two the other. As soon
as they came within close range
of all our guns, the fort opened
on them, and within half an hour
a cloud of steam was seen • to
arise from two of them, and
then the white flag was run up
on. the two. The third weft off
badly crippled. The fleet inside
then put out. We have the fun-
Clifton of ten gui
free; of youth, when habits were
being formed; of manhood or
womanhood with attendant cares
and responsibilities. Vivid pic-
tujres of our shortcomings are
passed quickly before us upon
the mental screen of retrospec-
tion, and never before have we
been bo filled with dislike for
ourselves; never before have we
beheld the vanity, the self-love
and the egotism which now pas-
ses before our spell-bound
as the slide is constantly shifted.
We see the spots in life where!
Empire and
Bring it to
To Sell!
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Hawkins, W. H. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1915, newspaper, September 10, 1915; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth882398/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.