The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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•.July 20.1917
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back into the edi-
after a two weeks
want to thank
.so kindly for-
■ news notes
missed
Good
1 long ways ahead of
that has s place
; list of this shop.
things occur around a
sanctum. A fellow had
t telling us a highly
story one day on a
it townsman, when the
in to inquire if we
an awful thing on an
Both informants
the story they had
to the scribbler would
' reading in the Empire.
told the last mentioned
i we could not use his story
reason that we in
tended to suppress a similar one
that had been told on him. he
turned red in the face, scratches
his twitching head and thanked
ttes are the results.
Claude Cal Ian who is noted foe
his funny articles, is the author
of the following
Her
angel if
tMs earth.
of anyone being sick she
straight to the house and asks if
is anything she can 4a.
MOpIp do this occasionally,
but she is forever doing it Du-
ring the twenty years that we
hrfve known her we don’t think
she has let a week peae without
going to some home home and
asking if there was anything she
When any of our folks get sick,
she is the first person to reach
the house. She was there a weak
ago when so many of us were
down with the grip* We were
ashamed for her to see the place
so torn up and—yea, dirty,—and
yet we knew she could under
stand. She came through the
kitchen, where we had the sink
piled full of dirty dishes, but we
knew she would say nothing
about it If she had been un-
kind she would have laughed lat
us whan she saw us bending over
the bath tub, washing out > few
T
Converted In
Christian
d In Childhood,
istian Worker fi
Eight tears
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Was Active
for Sixty
*
Whenever a town quietly sub-
tle to just any sort of old treat-
tot at the hands of corpora*
nos, it establishes a rep for be-
lay mark, and the inch
by it so generously in
place is in due course of
lengthened into a mile or
Stephenville has been so
quiet *nd content
ssenger train a day
Cotton Belt, and that one
r car. while Gatesville and
_______on ^have two passenger
trains daily, the company haa de-
cided a mixed train will do for'
us, and we understand that the
program to be inaugurated Sun-
day dispenses with our separate
freight and passenger service
and gives us one meaaley mixed
train a day. So much for a town
that fails to let corporations un-
derstand from the atari that
something is expected of them.
This change not only reduces the
facilities for accomodating the
demands of this city but also
«to*tarially reduces the pay roll!
here and hurts the town in that
way. There are towns in Texas
that would enter a protest to|
treatment. •
-Egg and Baby Chick feed
at Farmers Cash Store, adv. 23tf
Decedent had lived in Dublin
88 years; she was visiting her
daughter Mrs. R. B. Spencer in
Waco when she became very
sick from what was at first
thought to be appendicitis but
proved to be gallstones.
Mrs, Lattimore was one of the
most useful women in the county
and was so regarded by all who
knew the many efforts ahe put
forth for the uplift of humanity
by way of the cross, which she
firmly believed was the only safe
and sure route from earthly to
heavenly realms. eft
In testimony meetings Mrs.
clothes for tbs chap, but she is I Lattimore always dated her eon-
too) good to laugh at anybody. | version back to the time when
the Waco
Many went from hare to Dub-
lin Sunday afternoon to attend
the funeral of Mrs. S. C. latti*
more, who died in Waco last Fri-
day morning following a surgical froiB ^ 0f j
operation the 8onday before in g c L&timore- The Ion*
a sanitarium there.
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“Hundreds of Bay kg students
and alumni over the state have
week by the
ot Mn.
faithful service of this queenly
woman and her Christian hus-
band. who passed to his reward
some years ago, is an influence
which the cause of religion and
education in the state and the
southwest Will feel for genera-
tions to coma. He was a pioneer
Text* minister, faithful, capable,
patient aad untiring, and his
strenuous activity wore out his
body before he reached old age.
He wit long pastor at Marlin,
and at his death was serrig the
Baptist church at _ Dublin, .in
which his wife had been for
many years such a devoted and
faithful worker. - Both gave
their active aid and support in
every possible way to the cause
of Christian education in Texas,
and Baylor has been proud to
number among her alumni sever
al of the children of the family,
as well is a large number of
grandchildren, cousins, nieces
and nephews. All of these and
many more who have come un-
influence testify to the
ideals which were
tatight in the household*and to
the permanence of the power for
good which has been exercised
by this noble wife and mother.
Mrs. Lattimore was a leader
FOR WOMEN
BELTON,i TEXA
With a record of seventy-two yearr ophns i
24th, Same entrance requirements as tne
of Texas and the same recognition from
Department of Education. *Girls finishing
> class may receive first class certificates a:
graduation permanent certificates. Courses in
Music, Art, Expression, Domestic Science,
fit
Stenography, and Type-writing.
Jms
Complete Academy with all high school branches.
Thirteen teachers in music faculty alone,
conditions all that can be desired. Modern dorm
ries with private baths. Ely-Pepper Hall and Eli
'Townsend Loan Fund will open the door of hope
those who otherwise could not come. Terms reason-
able.
For further information, write to
J. C. HARDY, L L. D., President
She talked to Martha, who was she was only eighty years of fige.
sick, for severs) minqtes, and She was therefor^ an active
then prepared to go. As her member of the Baptist church,
gloves were already on, she had which she joined soon after her
only to tighten them down a Ht- conversion, sixty eight years as
tie on her fingers and pull them the was seventy-six at the time
up a.bit at the wrist Right at of her death. Surely none who
that minute we could have spank- know of the noble way in which
ed Woodrow good. Hs got sick those years ware spent will ever
just as we were giving Bert his I raise a question as to the efficacy
medicine, and we were obliged | of conversion in childhood,
to pass rightjin front of Eliza- The funeral sermon was deliv
beth to get to him. We even for- erod by Rev. J. H. Pats to afi
got to ask her to excuse us, but many people as could crowd into
she is so kind and good that we j the spacious meeting house of
are. sure she overlooked it She the First Baptist church of Dub- in the world of affairs through
tongf* ‘ ' her own .personality as well as
through her fltofoyi A graduate
tha, if there is anything I canjsnce from this place tell us that of Judson • Female Institute of
Alabama, one of the best known
of southern colleges for women,
and gifted with unusual literary
ability and executive power, she
was s leader in culture in every
community in which she lived.
Her bodily presence will be -mi
sod by many in Waco, most j
all by those into whose lives she
has entered, either directly or
indirectly, but her memory wil
be cherished and will live.
•T-TTmaa
ure and interest to those not con-
nected with the church as well as
the church members. A ’
crowd was in attendance."
do, don’t fail to let me know." the sermon was one of the most
Then the noble creature left powerful they ever heard at a
This would be s great world if funeral. Rev. E. L. Compere, a
it were filled with people like former Dublin pastor, came dll
Elisabeth-always ready to offer j the way from Oklahoma toat-
to help others." |tend tha funafcl, and by invita-
tion he assisted in the services,
I as did also Rev. Shelby King of
Rotan, a friend to decendeht for
I more than half a century.
The following tribute to the good
I woman appeared in the Baylor
Kodak
Solicited
FOR GOOD PHOTOS
K. N. Baxley,
.
U
.brace the Opportunity
buying your Groceries where
i can get them FRESH every
day in.the week—we don’t le^ ourr
tuck get old or stale.
;d with the i ■
Schn.be!
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Some Things Said
1 «■< JPp, ,y*y
by Sansing Sunday
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[Regards the Red Cross Work as Bein|;
% Very Sacred
A Stephenville pastor told s
[crowded house Sunday that he
deplored the fact ihat a dance
[ had been given in this city tn
Use funds for the Red Cross
In substance he said: "If there
| ever was a causa that should en-
| list the unqualified support dl all
of us aqd that should be regard-
|«d aa too holy to permit of sven
a frivolous thought, it is repre-
by the Red Cross society
just at this time. For this
son I believe that all money for
its heaven born service should
come cheerfully and freely,
prompted by love for God and
Home and suffering humanity
abroad. •
out hope of reward in an amuse
mentway or otherwise, except
the reward which always comes
from the faithful discharge of]
duty."
At the close of the service at
least one man, an unconverted
man at that /who has a son in the
vice, sought out the pastor
and told him he was with him on
his ideas or how money for the
Red Cross should be raised. He
said he would feel better about
his own boy in the army
know that the nurses who
might administer to him if he
should receive s wound, • were
being sustained by money that
had been freely given
money that had
i-' a dance. o
FORMER L1NGEEVILUAN
TEACHING AGRICULTURE
ROUND GROVE CHURCH
CELEBRATED BITRHDAY
One of the oldest churches in'
this part of the state, organized
by the late Rev. Reuben Ross,
who was also an early day pastor
in StephenviHe. is thus, mention-
ed by the Progress correspond-
ent at Highland last week:
’Last Sunday the Round Grove
Missionary Baptist church cele-
bratsd.the forty-sixth anniver-
sary of its organization. The
pastor, Rev. J. L. Gilbreath, de-
ivered an appropriate sermon at
1 o’clock; dinner was served at
12, and the afternoon was given
over to singing. Rev. G. R. Ross
of thiB community, ’ Mrs. ’Coon
-teith, and Aunt Meekv Blklr,
x)th of the Victor community,
three of the four living charter
members, were present. The
eakon of long and faithful and
useful service, the home-coming
of pioneers in the social and re-
igious life of the community,
and the reminiscence of days________^
long past, afforded much plans ' of near Lingievilla.
' R. H. Kirk, better knowrfto
former Tarletonites Qf years
as “Bob,” speqt the past wint
in the University of Chic
Since April 1 he has been con-
nected with the Crane Farm for’
widows and children at Prairie
View, III. Ais principal duty is
to teach the boys Agriculture by
actually doing the work. On the
23 acres of land at his disposal
Mr. Kirk is rallying to the call of
President Wilson,by trying to feed
the people of the institution with
which he is associated and have
a surplus for others. Ag manag-
er of the Buffalo Creek Farm at
Arlington ^eights near Chicago,
the past seven years Mr. Kirk
won for himself quite a reputa-
tion as a successful agriculturist.
He is a son of Mrs. Martha Kirk
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FRISCO
II
Through train Service to
Dallas and Sherman
,
.Trains 5 and
^ow run through from F. VV.
points to Dallas
ough tr
and She
rman.
Pullman Drawing Room Sleepers are handled from
nard and Brownwood to Dallas. I®
Through Coach and Chair .Car on this train Menard
Sherman. Direct connections at Sherman fdfr Ok
points.
The New Schedule effective July 1st as follows:
Station
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Arrive 8:25 o. m.
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4:51 m. m.
6:06 a. m
Sherman
Gunter
mft
ton
^ Dallas
Fortieth ,
Fort Worth
Granbury
Stephenville
Dublin
Comanche
Blanket
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Arrive 12:15 D»
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Hawkins, W. H. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1917, newspaper, July 20, 1917; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015542/m1/4/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stephenville Public Library.