The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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Buy Your Blacklegoids, Applicators and Kreso Dip
AT:
CLEMENTS’ DRUG & JEWELRY STORE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
2 lie Eagle is authorized to make the
following announcements, subject
to the Democratic primary election:
For Representative, 94th district i
DAVIS W. HUCKABEE
For County Judge,
G. H.. DALTON
For Sheriff and Tax Collector,
J. H. BURNETT
For District Clerk,
CLYDE D. LANE
For County Clerk,
W. B, SUMMY
T. K. ' CHERRY
For Tax Assessor,
A. .E, EVANS
D. D, KEMFER i
J, M, GEESLIN
GEO, W, GODAVIN
R, F. SAVINDLE
For County Treasurer,
J. T. PRATER
LEAVIS HUDSON
GEO. W, "JACKSON
G. AV. TEMPLIN
For County Attorney,
F. P, EOAVMAN
For Public Weigher, Pnecmcts 1, 2, 4
AV. L. BURKS
-For Commissioner, Pre. 1,
JAS. RAHL
A. D, KARNES
For Commissioner and Justice of the
Peace, Precinct No. 2
AV. G, WELCH
J, F. HENDERSON
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
D, A, HAMILTON
SMILING BILLIE
Editor Eagle:
Your light, not my light, iis what
should most concern you, Your way,
not my way, should first command
your best efforts and most' serious
tjhiougbjt. If you are teaching and
the little salary at the end of the
■.l.yohthj or term is the largest thing
in your eye, you had better quit
'teaching. If yoiur ideas of life fail
to reach out beyond your own little
selfish .self, you had better seek fur
another vision of life and unfurl your
sails with the hope some br.eeze may|varil0Us voti,ng ,boxes:
POLL TAX PAYMENTS
The number of poll tax receipts
issued by the tax collector up to tie
night of Jan. 31 was somewhat in
excess of thie number issued up to
the same time Hast year, which is en-
couraging, A great toany mor?, how-
ever, would have paid but for the
disagreeable weather, which prevent-
ed them reaching the collector’s1 o.f-
i
fiee during the last days of January.
Following is a list of poll tax and
exemption .'certificates issued for1 the
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Fbr Commissioner Pre. 4,
V E, J. GRIFFIN
For Justice of the Peace, Pre. 1,
I£, H. HIMES
A. D, KARNES
lor Justice of the Peace preempt 5
E. J. GRIFFIN
start you on a useful voyage to a|
life of unselfish usefulness. If you can,’t
Faugh or a.t least hand out a smile
occasionally, you had better get be-
hind the door and tickle yourself
with a thorn bush. Of course I
mean this for men and boys, f;r
women and girl g'glers don’t need
thorn hushes to .start ‘‘hem to chce-
heo-hee-in. Now, I don’t mean
this for those correspondent girls,
for I don’t know them and the edi-
tor won’t tell me who they are. .They
think they know who I am, If they
do I will know before the year is
cone, Since I Come to think, I
don’t know so well about that, for
January ha.s gone and not a nibble
AVo.nder if any of the other boys got
a bite. If something don’t happen
tuis year I am going to the trenches
with Mutt and Jeff and declare war
against-against leap year--
I mean against---'against every-
body-No, I don't mean that. I the boxes up to Feb
mean I will love the girls and old As follows:
Box Polls Ex
Goldthwaite ...... 406......... 26
Nabors Creek ...... 18..........1
Antelope Gap........ 30 ......*
Center City ...... 107..
Payne .............. 55.
Star .. . „.......... 76
Claradan .......... 118..
Mull in ............ 326 ..
Fisher .............. 57
Priddy ............ 120.
Big Valley ........ 62.
Rock Springs' ...... 51.
Ratler ..... 21
Regency ..... 35.
Buffalo ..... 60.
Ridge ....... 31.
Rye Valley ........ 16.
Total ............ 1589.......
Total receipts and exemptions,1652
Last Year
The poll tax payments for each of
1, #915;, were
Hqgs 'wanted. Highest price,—
Luther Rudd,
If its drugs you want or remedies i
of lany kind you can get them at
Miller’s. They have it and you will
be pleased with the results obtained
from them, (adv)
There are enough uncertainties
about life without guessing at the
title to your land—be on the safe
p-de—have an abstract made by E.
B. ANDERSON, and examined by
your attorney, (hdv)
V'J, D. Brito its preparing to move mark|s don'rt brin§' results, I will do
Lis livery stalls to the Roberts bairn j r-D’ level best to try to find out
on Parker street and the building bbe whereabouts of Mother si Dish-
mow occupied by Mr. Brim will be
occupied in part as a storage place
for Ford cars by J, N. Weather by,
owner of the property, 0
maids next year fit to kill and pay
them back for not making use of
leap year, I know a few who want
to, but they don’t know where, when
and, how to begin. Isn’t that a pity"?
Shell down the corn Ye backward
onets, pitch a few grains over this
way and try your luck. Of course I"1'
don’t expect you to notice SniTng
Billie specially, but these other boys
out fhi|s way, who have, iso ahticipat-
lagly waited four years for another
leap year, need some encouragement
Mow if you should start out and
come this way you are perfectly v. el-
come to stop and--and--- et a
drink of water and I will sure tell
Vliei’e and who the other boys are.
I always did like to help people out
of trouble; (wish some one would
think that way iabou£ me'). It’s up
to you, I’ve 'spent the force of my
argument until someone comes to
argue with me',
Goldthwaite ................ 394
Nabors Creek ........ 11
Antelope Gaj? ............. 29
Center City ................ 10S
Payne ........................ 59
Star; ....... 74
Caradan ........ 121
Mullin ........... 320
Fisher .................... . • • • 53 •
Priddy ...................... 125 j
Big Valley ............ 49
Reck Springs- ................ 431
Jones Valley .................. 17 j
Hanna Valley ................ 34 j
Buffalo ........................ 55 j
Ridge ........................ 26;
Rye Valley .................... 15
Total .................. 1533
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LAMPASAS
The land uilon which ■ the
Presbyterian church is, to be
Now, Mr. Editor, If'sitructed ha® been staked eff,
th&se isiolicitating, expectating, hum-
iliating, and most earneotaUng r:e-
washer.
Respectfully,
SMILING BILLIE
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Stock powders, Spavin Cure, Dis-
temper Curie, Coke Remedy, Barb
AA7he Liniment, etc. In fact, any-
thing you may want for the ailments
of yoiur horses, cattls: and poultry, get
it at Miller ’Is .and you get the best
there is. Quality and satisfaction
first at Miller’s (adv)
'Senator Shephard’s -resolution, to
submit a -national prohibition amend- fame than money..’ Afihmativfe
manifc to -Che people -has been unanii- Misses1 Rasehie Smith, Viola Cherry
mously agreed to by the snib-commatte 1 and Lilly Fisher; negative', Miss
of the judiciary -committee of the Willi© McDonald, Mis&sr-s. Fred Hosier
senate, to whom the resolution was and Mack Hancock,
referred.
POMPEY CREEK
Editor Eagle:
AVe had a fine rain and corns!era,b’e
hail here Sunday night, The ground
is in, splendid condition for a crop
but is too wet to work. Everything
is looking rather encouraging, ...
Thy debate last week was decided
is favor of the negative. The sub-
ject this week iis ‘‘Resolved: That
it i® more honorable, to work for
new
co-n-
an ri
dirt will probably :be removed witivn
a short time an making the exc'ava-
Ucn necessary for the foundation
AVork has already begun on’ the
second story of the Townsen build-
ing, which will he extended upon the
walls already dm existence something
1 ke sixty feet in addition to the
two-istory part now in -existence.
Miss Olia Ringer, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs, L, E, Ringer, of the Nix
settlement, was married in the wait-
ing room of '(the H. & T, C, Thurs-
day, January 20, to Clarence Henry,
of McDade, Bastrop county, Judge
John Nichols conducting the marriage
ceremony.
There iarti three cases o-f smallpox
on the Lampasas river, in the neigh-
borhood involving- the Mount Pleasant
school, which ha& been suspended on
accountfi of the -disease. Two chil-
dren of Willi Ellis are afflicted, and
ore case is in the family of L, F.
I Messrs Tom and Dean Hensley, the French, The cases are are all doing
“START SOMETHING”
This NEW YEAR fey start-
ing a Deposit Account with
THE
NATIONAL
BANK
GOLDTHWAITE, TEXAS
Your deposits will be ap-
preciated and they will do
you good.
latter of Mullin-, were guests at the
J, S. Johnson home, the f rst of the
week,
Thy -young people enjoyed a pa-rty
at -the borne of Mr, John Nichols
Friday of last week,
Miss1 Addye Hayes, teacher of the
Fisher school, visited home folks at
Trigger Mountain., from Friday even-
ing to Sunday.
Miss Jesisihl Johnson, who Is attend-
ing school here, Yisted home folks
near Democrat, Saturday and Sunday,
JOAN OF ARC,,
Mrss, J, M. Arnold and children re-
turned yeste-rd'ay morning from a
visit to relatives in. Oklahonm,
v. ell, one of the Ellis children having
about -recovered' and there are no
serious symptoms in the other cases.
A. strict quarantine c® being main-
tained, and -there seems- no danger
of further spread of the disease.—
Leader,
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Phone me when you, want gasoline
g-i lubricating oil and I will be there
with the good® promptly.—Fred Mar-
tin.
Prairie Queen Kitchen Cab'nets
are the -lais-t word in that line. I
have them -jin stock,—J, T, AVeems,
A partial -eclipse of the -sun was
visible here Thursday morning about
S q’-clock,
Floyd M. Spann, whoso likeness adorns the head of this column, is to
be the District Judge of the Twenty-seventh judicial district, composed of
the counties of Bell, Mills and Lampasas. He succeeds Judge Jno. B,
Robinson, whose resignation was recently filed in order that more time
might be given to his candidacy for congress, fy-om this district. •
The appointment comes through Governor Ferguson, and in making his
selection he proffered the place to a man whom he knows will reflect
honor on the position. Moreover, in explanation of the selection, as logical,
it is to be stated that Judge Spann besides being an ardent supporter of the
Governor in his historical campaign, has for a number of years been the
attorney for the bank of which Governor Ferguson was president, and that
in the many business relationships requiring assistance of a competent law-
yer, the Governor entrusted same to this young man whose qualifications
he has such good reasons for understanding.
The appointee is not to be judged alone, in his abilities to “make good’’
as District Judge, by his relationships to Governor Ferguson. For ten
years he has been practicing his profession in Temple, with success from-j
the beginning, and with increasing clientage which covers the entire field
of practice. Many business firms and concerns of magnitude entrust to;
him their legal affairs and his face is familiar in the court rooms of the:
courts of the municipality, the precinct and county, the district and the
higher courts. A large and constantly increasing general practice attests
not only his ability as a lawyer and advocate, but a.lso his- integrity as a man.
, While on this subject it is hut meek to state that Judge Spann is pecul-
iarly fitted for judicial position. He is of that “temperament,” arid while
a man of convictions which he does not attempt to conceal for policy’s •
sake—he possesses-in remarkable degree the disposition to be fair, and to
he open to reason. Pie most admirably is qualified to dispense justice in
broad-minded consideration of the facts in the case, the law governing and
the underlying plain purposes and intents of the statutes.
Free, from all political entanglements and partisan bias, he will' occupy
the highest position in the district without having ever passed through a
campaign- of vote soliciting. He has never been a candidate for office, and
such alignments as he has made in friendships have been based on personal-
worth of those whom he has taken into his closer regard. As a citizen de-
voted to the higher and- nobler aspirations of community life and as a man
of personal cleanliness in habits and thought, the new judge, stands with-
out a superior. He is honored as a man by all who know him, and this
high esteem extends to the Bell county bar, of which he is an honored mem-
ber, and his elevation is received by his fellow-lawyers with warm approval.
Concerning the administration of the office, which is for future revela-
tion, it may yet be assured that the evil-doer will find scant comfort at
Judge Spann’s hands. He is a man who believes in enforcement of law,
and whq holds the judiciary as the chief protection of the people against
the encroachments of anarchy on the one hand and the absorption of power
by financial interests on the other. He is for the law, in interpretation
which shall safeguard the body composite and the individual rights as well.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Floyd M. Spann if of southern ancestry, born 35 years ago of parents
who came from the rock-ribbed states of North Carolina and Alabama.
Left fatherless at an early age he was apprenticed to a carpenter under
whom' he attained to full journeyman skill. Ambitious to study law, he
afterwards taught school which gave him the opportunity to pursue his law
studies. In 19 05 he came to Temple and entered into the practice of his
profession, a studious, painstaking and conscientious disciple of the noble
calling. Prosperity has attended his efforts and in the home, on the streets
or in the court room, he is the affable, pleasant companion always, and of
nature, for he has never had occasion to and would not seek popularity
beyond that which should come from right conduct.
Bell county presents to the sister counties of the district this red-blooded
young judge, in fullest confidence that when the neighbors come to know
him as he is known at home, there will be not only commendation of the
Governor’s choice but congratulation that the position so honorably and
capably filled by a predecessor is to be continued a bulwark of safety of
society—a tribunal from which shall come an added glory to the free
institutions of America.—Temple Telegram.
The mantle of Judge John D. Robinson falls worthily in the above ap-
pointment, and we have no doubt will be quite satisfactory to the bars and
litigants of the courts in the several counties composing the district.
For eleven years he has practiced in the courts of Bell county and has
held a position among her most able and brilliant lawyers.
As a man, it is superfluous in Bell county to dwell on that point; F. M.
Spann measures up to the full requirements of American manhood, has
often been weighed in the balances and was never found wanting.
To play well the part that Judge Jno. D. Robinson has played (non©
better) in the courts of the district, will be no easy task but Judge Spann,
able and efficient, will serve his district well, a credit, as he has always
been, to himself and to Bell county.
The Evening News congratulates Judge Spann and the Twenty-seventh
Judicial District.—Belton Evening News.
The news of Judge Sparin’s appointment was received with satisfaction,
by the bar and numerous friends.
Judge F. M. Spann is one of the best known citizens of Temple and he
has friends all o^er the district, composed of the counties of Bell, Mills and
Lampa'sas. He is 35 years of age and has been a citizen of Bell county for
11 years. In 1905 he was admitted to the bar and has enjoyed a good
practice since that time.
Personally Judge Spann is a clean man, a progressive citizen and he is
worthy of the confidence that has been bestowed upon him by the Governor.
He is well qualified in every way to make the district a splendid judge. Self
educated, having been left fatherless at the age of 12, he worked his way
through school and on up until he has obtained distinction at the bar.
Judge Spann married in Bell county, he has taken an active part in all
the progressive movements of the city and is well liked by the people.
—Temple Mirror. -j
(Political Advertisement)
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Thompson, R. M. The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 5, 1916, newspaper, February 5, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103750/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.