The Daily Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 7, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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TIIE DAILY BULLETIN
SAJBte.
Report of the Condition of
THE BBBWWWnnn NAIM!
OF BROWNWOOO, TEXAS,
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At the Close of Business, November 26th, 1912
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WE HAVE PLENTY OF HONEY TO LOAN
TO NEW AND OLD CUSTOMERS
\ , RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts . $321,095.50
Overdrafts (most cotton) - 44,049.21
U. 5. Bonds at Par 102,000.00
Banking House, furniture & fixt. 100,000.00
Heal Estate^ . . 100.00
Redemption Fund , . ' 5,000.00
Cast* onhtndand with
banks . $131,210.07
BIHs of Cxchange 41,824.32 173,034.39
TOTAL ... $745,279.10
LIABILN
Capital
Surplus . . .
Undivided Profits *
Circulation )
•alls • *
new
Dopo
Radis
Bills Payable
TOTAL
1 • Cash.
The above statemenl
MILLARD ROMI
We have the largest working capital and are the oldest bank in Brown cil
licit your business and offer you efficient service. The rules of this'
prohibit loans to active officers.
DRESSIN6 CASES AID
HAND PAINTED CHINA
W« are offering this week tor the
holiday trade a complete line of hand
painted china This enable* a person
to make a suitable gift for an/ friend,
either man or woman, and nothing
pleases a woman more. We are alao
offering some exceptional bargains in
sterling silver dressing case*. This
mean* that you can bur the best mode
here. We want you to see our line
of holiday goods. None more com-
plete or cheaper in price. \Come In
and look tbs stock over and make
your choice before the stock has been
picked over. We will make It worth
your while. ■
ARMSTRONG JEWELRY CO
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THE DULY BULLETIN
BY THE
Mayes Printing Company
SATURDAY, DEC 7, 1*12.
Office of Publication
>09 Brown. Cor. Brown and Lee Sts.
Entered at the Poetotflce at Brown-
wood . Texas, as second class
•- L mail matter.
tured must be an awful place. It cant
be much worse than life on a mud
road In east Texas. A sandy road la
almost aa bad aa a mud road, too.
There la not much being said about
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it. but parties are quietly going down
with an oil well up in the Holloway
mountains and they are confident
that they will secure oil The well
Is now about WO feet deep.
•0 cents
SabeertpUea
per month. $4 00 per year.
South Carolina either needs an im-
peachment or an inquiry Into the san-
ity of Its governor.
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Now Waco * Is trying to be the
cleanest town In Texas. But for the
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present, at least, that distinction rests
between Brown wood and Gainesville
The Hko News-Review must have
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been thinking about Brown wood
when It said that the city that makes
a good Impression on traveling men
gets a lot of free publicity. *
L. E. Skinner, formerly of the Bul-
letin, announces hla ownership and
control of the Blanket Signal. He
will give Blanket a good paper ff the
town will support it. He knows bow
to do his part.
Mrs. ' L. E. Walker, county school
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superintendent, Ms organizing Che
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mothers of the children in the schools
Into clubs. Mrs. Walker will do a
great work If she succeeds In enlisting
all the mothers to the extent that
they will be ready to co-operate with
Chf teachers In their work.
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vice reform, but I think these post-
masters ought to be elected by the
people they serve.
There are difficulties In the way,
1 know, but I think they would be
of easy solution. They could be
elected for four years, and the Pres-
ident could appoint the man who was
elected upon the certificate of the
proper election officers, thus a
purely business administration of af-
fairs would be with the people, where
it ought to be. and the people could
aay who they would have to serve
them. A Democratic community ov-
erwhelming!*- would likely elect a
Democrat postmaster, and a Repub-
lican community the same way. This
would be the correct solution of the
question and In accord with the gen- ’ *or *° much, and with the further
is merely an outgrowth of fbe prevail-
ing aenttment that the man without
money and frtenda cannot hope tor
Justice Is not known to this writer.
He should have liked to have stayed
at the penitentiary long enough to
have studied that proposition by as-
certaining the convict's views. It la
to Gov. Colquitt's credit that where-
ever he heard that statement he |tt
once stated that attorneys and fri.mds
are not necessary, and that merito-
rious cases will be Considered Just as
promptly and as closely without the
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pleadings of lawyers or friends.
Since that time Governor Colquitt
has learned that In a few cases par-
don seeking attorneys have contract*
ed with convicts to secure pardons
lus of our Government
would rule and with all
pointments
Senators would
The people
these ap-
the Congressmen and I c®riain additional fee.
The Coleman Democrat-Voice sug-
gests that President Wilson made a
mistake in going to Bermuda for cli-
mate wheats better climate could
have been found In West Texas. Yes,
but think of the politicians who would
have haunted him here.
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The editor of the Coleman Demo-
crat-Voice notifies all other editors
that be now baa an automobile. Hoi-
Ungaworth must be getting Just a
little stuck up. But the conceit will
be knocked out of him when he has
to pay his gasoline bUl.
Tenant farmers In many sections
of Texas are complaining that they
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have been forced to quit farming be-
cause they cannot rent lands and are
too poor to buy. One reason why
landlords refuse to rent Is that they
find It unprofitable to rent to the
have nothing to do.
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and their attention would not be dis-
tracted from their proper duties and
lead them to build up a machine. I
have always held this view from my
entrance Into public life."
It la hoped that the farmers of Tex-
as have learned a valuable lesson
from the drougths which have pre-
vailed over the state with more or
less damaging results during the past
three years, and cease to frown up-
on the tried and proven scientific
methods of conserving the tnolsture.
In years of liberal precipitation we
bave had seasons of drougth In
which the moisture which had been
allowed to go to waste if conserved
would bave been of great value to
growing crops A' farmer should
proceed with his farm operations as
if a drouth was Inevitable. This Is
good farming, and always pays The
farmer who breaks hts land thorough-
ly and deep during the winter and
harrows it immediately thereafter.
provision that If they get a pardon
within a certain time they get a
The Governor
been jroWbing
says that they have
NO MOTIVE IS KNOWN
FOR COROEIL'S SUICIDE
Entered Vasil, Nat Down la n Chair
and Khot Himself With Small
Bevel* er
From the Chlldreas Index, ^re learn
the following details of the suicide of
Frank H. Cordell, which occurred
there Wednesday morning. Mr. Cor-
dell was tor several years a citizen
of Drown wood, well known and well
liked by all, and bis suicide is a mys-
tery to friends here. The Index says:
"This morning at 10:45 o'clock
Frank H. Cordell shot himself, and
will die from the wound Inflicted.
"Mr Cordell only a few minutes be-,
fore the deed, passed through the In-
dex office, going to his office in the
front portion of the same building.
He wpoke In his usual manner* to the
employees of the Index. After reach-
ing his office he stood beside the
stove tor a tow minutes then went In-
PARDON LAWTEii
DY GOVERN
prisoners of their small earnings and t*xo vRult, slightly closing the In-
ner doors. A shot was then heard.
Taylor county papers explain that ^ large,y compr)M> th, ten. ha. a good moist seed bed in which
the good road work is suspended
there because of the rains and mud.
That lit-itself la a good argument for
good -noada.
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Sweetwater’s dally papfcr has been
forced to suspend for lack of support,
and yet there are some people who
ant cl&as.
If there. is anything more that
Brownwood can do to keep moving
along towards the front in progres-
to plant, and gives continued shal-
low cultivation during dry weather
will find when harvest times roll
around that he has been well paid for
using brains aa well as brawn. In
sayings in the penitentiary and per-:
haps robbing their families of money
they very much needed. There is no-
thing about securing a pardon that
requires any legal knowledge or spec-
ial ability, and the pardon seeking at-
torneys are too often merely selling
their suppoaed Influence with the
pardoning board or the Governor. It
la a practice that should be stopped,
and Governor Colquitt has started on
the right line to stop it He says
that hereafter, the pardon board will
be expected to show who ape pars
before them seeking' pardons, and
where there la an attorney, the attor-
ney's interest must be shown. The
Governor could safely go a step fur-
ther and require an affidavit showing
and Harry Stone, a barber with the
Faulkner shop, in the same building,
rushed into Mr. Cordell's office and
throwing open the vault doors discov-
ered the body of Mr. CordeM.
"He was sitting in a chair, his
right band ciaapmg a small .32 gauge
revolver. The bullet entered the
right temple, coming out at the top
of the beast ■ on the left side.
•‘Physician* were called and the
wound was Immediately dressed but
Mr/ Cordell was unconscious and the
physicians stated that be would only
Ihre a Maori time No motive can be
assigned tor the deed."
DBILLING FOB OIL IN
HOLLOWAY MOUNTAINS.
F B. Smiley, who was in town yes-
terday. from his home near C.rbe-
venor. stated that drilling was be-
wLat fee* or moneys or other things on the Barnes lease near his
think Sweetwater a pretty good sort w0<xj j8 determined to do things dur-
slve movements. Just mention it to i their lecturing tour of the country
the Commercial Club and there will which will start next Monday Messrs,
be something else doing. Brown- j Peel and Neill are going to give out
of a town.
Peel a
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very valuable information
ing the next year or two.
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| line with the above. They will go in-
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to details, and make It so plain that
reports about hard times 1 The Carpenters' l nion Is proposing • th** blind should be able to discern
In West Texas are discredited by the to erect a $150,000.00 building some- the advantage and profit thereby.—
•xcellent bank statements now being ! where in Texas for the care of aged I Abilene Reporter.
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published in the papers In that part j and decrepid carpenters.! *,It Is * ' ' -
of the state.
The City Federation of Wqmen's
Clubs of Fort Worth are going to
give "Sparrow luncheons." After
they have eaten the Fort Worth crop
they will be entirely welcome to all
they can get from .Brownwood.
worthy enterprise
d one that; PARDON PROBLEMS. ’
should appeal to every laboring man ( Clearly the pardon power should
and capitalist as well. Perhops not be let out to attorneys who hap-
Brownwood might decide It wants
that Home after It secures the Odd
Psrhap* ail those
mustaches and chin
fierce looking
whiskers had
something, to do wtth the proceed-
i
ing* that enlivened the
convention at Richmond.
tlovernora'
Ballinger ' papers * complain that
there la much pretty thieving in the
town, the thieves having mostly a
longing for turkeys and country cur-
ed hams Must he epicure* out in
that country.
The Ballinger Leader reporta an
oil well down to a depth of 900 feet
At Millers view, in Concho county. It
Will soon be that we can't take a walk
country without stepping
oil well.
irg Gazette concludes
lower regions as pic-
Fellowa Home Right now. though,
let's center attention on the Odd Fel-
lows Home.
pen to occupy close relations to the
governor of s state. For that mat-
ter neither should the governor be
Influenced.standing of the parties
j representing convicts, but by the mer-.
it of each Individual. While on an
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tfi AGBEE WITH HIM. {inspection trip through the penlten-
After hearing both side, of the u*r* * *»’
tor of the Bulletin heard
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question pretty well threshed out we
sre Inclined to agree with Repr.-sen- j '"W* "»ake statement that
tatlve George Burgess. In an Inter-1 lh*y had nn nion^ wUh whlch to
view given out to the press on the pajr attonM‘^ 10 ~cur* • l**00- »"d
action of President Taft in placing
the fourth-class postmasters under
civil service, he advocate* an elec-
tion of postmasters every four year*
by the people whom they are to
serve.
"I don't know what President Wil-
son will do about It when he la in-
augurated;" nays Mr. Burgess. “I
know what I would do at onc^> as
noon as I. should become president,
and that would be to set this ungod-
ly order aside, at least so far as the
South la concerned. / . j,
“I am a friend of honest civil ser-
prtsoners
i no friends to present their claims,
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The Idea evidently prevailed In the
penitentiary that money and friends
were necessary to get a favorable
bearing on a pardon application.
Whether this Idea haa grown out of
the observations of the prisoners as
to the release of fellow prisoners, or
R. L. McGAUGH
Lawyer i; \
General Cfvi' and Criminal Practice.
Olften, Bro- ij’-(»' d National Bank
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Brownwood Tfv Phone 15
of value are to be paid for securing
pardons, and this would put a stop to
peddllug on personal popularity, n
practice In which It is feared seme
engage. The prisoner should have
his rights safely guarded as hit Im-
prisonment makes him an easy prey
of designing men. /
WOULD HIVE MORE '
CAVALRY i TEXAS
Gen. Steeier Thinks Three Regiments
She aid be Had Near .
the Border.
in the annual reiK>rt of Brlb. Gen.
Edgar Z Steever, commanding the
Department of Texas, the recommen-
dation is made that at least three
regiments of calvary should be sta-
tioned at points near the border In
order to make the troops easily avail-
able In the event It is necessary to
patrol the boundary line. Theae rec-
ommendations the general makes In
view of the prolonged and arduous
duties performed by the Third Cav-
alry. which has been largely engag-
ed In this patrol in the last four or
five years. ,
Cavalry regiments returning from
the Philippines, and which have been
ordered to stations in the Department
of Texas, are not prepared for border
service because of their being with-
out mounts. The horses of these reg-
iments sre left In the Philippines for
the use of such cavalry regiments ns
may be sent there for station.
Concerning Fort 8am Houston
General Hteever believes the Post to
be a strategic point for the building
of large store houses for the housing
of supplies. To facilitate the hand-
ling of the supltea the General rec-
ommends that direct railroad con-
nection be bad, and that the spur
be connected with the rails of sever-
al of the larger roads. The building
of this track has been In contempla-
tion for a long time. In fact it was
■ • °d by the late General Duncan
v it i railroad officials.
home last Saturday, and that satis-
factory progress was being made on
the well, which was drilled about 40
feet the first day.
Mr. 8miley sakl that a good stand-
ard drop drill wss being used and
that the contract called for a 100-
toot well.
This well is being drilled near the
last well.—Santa Anna News.
Got. Colquitt to Stop
Convicts In the
* Itentlary.
Austin, Texas, Dec. if**
Colquitt has placed a ban *•
don lawyer. Information
to him that in some tnst
neys have made contract
vlcta to secure a pardon J
specified fee, and with t'
provision that if they get’
within a certain time an
fee is to be paid. It Is all
these pardon seeking Utvrye. •
been taking convicts’ small t >
and savings In the penitentlar.\
tem. The Governor Intends to p\
stop to the practice. ef
He announced that from now v.
all those who come to the Governor’s* ^
office with pardon matters will b£ re-
ferred to the Board of Pardon Ad-
visors. They will not be given aud-
ience with the Governor, as be needs
all the time in the preparation of his
message to the Legislature.
The Governor has given Instruc-
tions to the Board of Pardon Advis-
ors that where there is an attorney
In the case that attorney’s Interest
tn the pardon is to be ascertained
and reported to him—five Governor.
OLD TIME WEST TEXANS
VISIT SANTA AINA.
Rev H. T. Savage and wife of Di-
da. New Mexico, arrived In ‘Santa
Anna the first of the week and will
spend about three weeks with their
•on, J. B. Savage. Rev. Savage Is
one of the pioneer Baptist preachers
of this section of the state and live!
i for nearly thirty years In and near
Brownwood. He had been living tn
New Mexico for sight years and bet
not been back to Texas sines leaving
Brownwood when he moved uSMex-
tco. He haa many friends In this
part of Texas who will be glad to sss
him.—Santa Anna News. S
Special Sermon* Tomorrow.
Dr. Boggs of the First Methodist
church will preach two special ser-
mons tomorrow, the subject for the
morning hour being “Why Moses was
Afraid to Go to Egypt," and for the
evening “What Haa Become of Hell."
The public has a special invitation to
these services.
Figuratively speeking, a man and
his wife are one, but the figures an
the grocery bill are apt to disprove it
If the family next door wears mire
stylish clothes than her own. a wo-
man can eaally imagine they have
leas to eat.
MBistngtr Service
Phone ltd
CALVIN GILLIAM
CHRISTMAS
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FRUITCAKES
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We furnish all the ingredients.
You do^the Baking.*.
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T^e more insn know ths
believe.
lean they
We are especially prepared for
December business and have
bought' a fresh line of Fancy
Groceries for the Holidays. You’U
get the best and for the least
money it you buy your holiday
Groceries from this store.*.*.*.*.*.*.
Ribbon Cano Syrup 60 Cents Per Gallon
Albright
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