The Alice Echo. (Alice, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 14, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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Insurance,
Life, Fire and Accident.
Thos. H. Clark,
Represents the
Mutual Life Insurance Oo. N. Y
and only the best old line fire
Insurance Companies.
Ube Hltce Echo.
' ADAMS & CO S.
CUSTOMERS Huy they
deliver goods QUICK.
Established, December 13, 1894.
D. S. Booth, Publisher
Vol 11 ALICE, NUECE8 COUNTY, TEXAS: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1905.
Report to the Comptroller of the Currency of the condition of
Woods National Bank,
8an Antonio Texas,
At the close of business, August 26th, 1906.
RESOURCES ' LIABILITIES
Loans and Discounts .......$062,046 39 Capital and Surplus $208, 90L44
U. S. Bonds and Premulm* 51,325.00 Circulation................... 60,000.00
Fixtures and Furniture........ 2,732,21 Deposits, Individual.. 579.498.58
Cash and Sight Exchange 213,677.07 Deposits, Banks............... 91,980.65
$930,380.67
•930,380.67
Presnall & Mosser,
+ ^r=r A 1
Sir. V ~"y>TECy^^r-
AT£±
BANKERS, &
• UNINCORPORATED.
A General Banking Business Transacted. Ex-
change Drawn on Principal cities in the United
States. Mexican Money bought and sold.
ALICE, TEXAS.
TJTJTJXrinJTJ-LT TJTJTJTJTJT-TUTJ
S. Jtdams <5c Co.
Wholesale and Retail-
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t NO I’ IN A POSITION
To buy real estate, says the man
who pays out a large sum monthly
for rent. Leas than this sum would
pay the Interest and principal on
almost any of the pieces of
REAL ESTATE
t $ ,/• i e T. J T> *» » I , l *
we have for sal«.
Almost all olasea of property is
listed on our hooka—Houses, Lots,
Unimproved Lots, elc.,. and the
prices are as attractive as the pro
perty.
THE HATH ELLIS CO.,
Alice, Texas.
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mmn hood to m.
ALICE, TEXAS.
AT OUR BRANCH STORE AT
Falfurrias
ITS A PROBLEM. * *
has to be worked out when you rig •
ure on the cost of a new house.„
WE FURNISH LUMBER
” - • ■■ •..... • • .
for every kind of work where lum-
ber is required.'
Call around with your proposition
and we will help yu oo y<>ur es.'i
male.
One thing is sure, and that is tha'
by figuring with us youv job will
cost less ihau any rigurea you can
get elsewhere. 1
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We carry a complete line of
tjtjtjtjijtjtjtjurnm 1x0x01
A SWINDLING TRAMP.
ivTClf7i( IT r ji. JT n N u &
Kansas City Star.
James B. Dill, whose recant
speech at Oberlin College on
“Graft” has been widely quo-
ted, r$cQ4tly told a story about'
a.swindling tramp.
“This tramp,” said Mr. Pill,
“bad the alert, unscrupulous,
bold mind that makes grafting
successful. He was walking
down a city street one day when
be saW a little boy stoop and
pickup something. He ctoss-
*d over to the boy and quietly
said; ‘You huve made a 6nd,
my lad,’ I see. ‘Yps, sir/
said the innocent boy, ‘I have
found a silver ring.’ ‘I thought
so^ said the hump. ‘It is the
ojyei I just dropped. Now ain’t
it lucky 1 had my name cut in
itt* ‘ What is ydUr name?’ said
the boy. suspiciously. ‘Ster-
ling, my lad.’ ‘TakeIt, then;
it is yours,’ said the boy with a
disappointed air. ft ,*
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Those special sales of Geo. Hobba
& Sous cause many people from a
distance to trade here. Its singular tfoAbekt.
that all the merchants don't agree oO
a Special Hales Day lor say twice or
even noce a piouth. It would oer-i
tainly attract a great many |ieople td
Alice who now divide therr Iradd
with other place*.
Luckins & Lux,
Varda at Alice and Falfurrias, Texas.
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REPAIRS FOR .
WINDMILLS
Guitars $3 26 to $10 00. airings and
maudoliua. J. D. fiahar DrugCo.
ELCIPSE
LEADER -
WOOD STAR
IDKAU>*»«i
SAMSON > IJ5
A KHMOTOR w- 1
s, n c? ;• fwio ,g%j
MOWER REPAIRS,
Deering, MoCormick, Stand'
ard, aud will order any other
make from Houston.
McCormick kuifd grinders
* i * i*vat 1 • • %r * r *♦
I JDff >U /
If you buy a pair of
S4.0Q
PACKARD
SHOES
You can walk 15 miles an
hour and not be fatigued.
These $4.00 shoes are as
* * i >» ! t \i *‘ i \ *
good as any other kind of
$6.00 shoes.
GUGENHEIM & COHN
-LKADKRSIM—
DRY GOODS 2 FURNITURE.
Try one of our Corbortin-
dnm stoiieB, it makes work
easy.
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PHIL HOBBS.
School auppliea, diclionariea com-
plete line of labials, ale. J. D. Fish-
•r Drug 0o.
- FROM REALM09. »
Rcftlitus, Texas, 9ept. 10, 190o.—
W. K. Thldwell, who is interested
in the Realties gin and real estate
agent for Lasater’s Falfurrias, land^
visited Ai*oe ^Saturday. < i, nt
Mr. Wiq. Allan in forma ut<f that
Mr. Lasate^ is preparing ip, out ig>
1000 avffs tin. cpliqtv at Falfurrias
the coming ►eason.
ft might be of interest to your
readers* to know that there are 76
wVH* ihehidrrig 8 'artesrai. wells on
the Lasater possession near Realitos
and Falfurr-.aa: ■ t
Mrs. llayes, ,the charming wife
of Mr. Hayes, superintendent of the
Dr. Jameson raneb returned Satur
day front a shopping tour to Han
>
Jack Vining, our leading uier-
oliant, reports business io splendid
erudition. * ... *
Miss Lida Dougherty, a successful
teacher, with six years experience,
has been engaged Id teach our town
school. There are about 123 chil-
dren \v it lit n scholastic age in the
district. The dally attendance how
ever is only about 8(1 to 35 owing to
the remote distance at which .many
of the pupils live. Then again itycpj
is an iudtsptisiliou. on the of
parents to make adequate sacrifice
Hi’# • 1 ’»
lu piirtble ihe el)ilclreii lu obtain ev« u
a common schofifT education, though
the advantages are brought almost
to the ranch gate.
If the Slate has a right to levy
taxes for educational purposes (and
it certainly has) th«nl»ie legislature
should.en$ct,a,vp.mpuls,oiy, 4
is uoMb* Ml VblM t'ribtbe
parent ,trial it failp iq gvt au aduca-
tion. t
The Reali.tos gin has made a spleh
did record this year. It has turned
out 600 bales of cotton. There is
enough cotton in the bins for 40
more bales and about enough ooltotf
in sight in the fields for a hundred1!
bale* The gin has only two gin'
■JAiid*, The gtu . oiew is composed
of praptijslly *ne»periyno«d men
save Mr. W. P. Allan, jf , the man
AllVn'
ei|fpr,eni,e *° PU>bl hy- “r> Allan,
ia the gmner, engineer anJ in reality
lha whole push shout the gio. Due
lime this season the gin run three
weeks nighi arid day without stop-
ping. Mr. Allan remained on duty
continuously for 48 hours as there
wps no ope to lake his place.-'
Milion Dubose is uropui tor of our
leading hotel. He is also one f the
head . managers on the ’ Lasater
ranches which employs 106 men all
the year round.
ATTACKED BY A MOB.
and beaten, fn a labor rfol, until cov-
ered with aores, a Chicago' street car
conductor applied BuekWa Arnica
Halve, and was soon sound and well.
•I use it in my family,” writes G J.
Welch, of Tekuiieha, Mioh “and Hnd
it perfei^t ” Bimply great for cuts
and burns Ooly 25o at N. A. Hoff-
man’a drug store.
MARRIED IN MONTEREY.
a * 4 .***•■• i • •
Bruuo Rios,, the San Diego
druggist, was married last Sun-
day, in Monterey, to Miss Otiliu
Garcia, well known in San I)i-
PJW-. -(There is a pretty little ro-
tn a nee, go u nested with this wed-
diug, the contracting parties
having been sweetheartp^everal
years ago, before Mr. Rios’
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Houston Chronicle* . m* t
, A map ueeds sjrppatky as
much as a^re? needs watetv -
,He who broods over the past
will have additional mischances
and mishaps to brood over iu
lb? future. ,, , ., ,
He who sings his own praises
always smgj off key.
If history were the t^pbiqg-
raphy of nations some srrapge
secrets might be reveale<i.
. A mau who has a large vo-
cabulary. has many ideas;' the
reverse is not always hue.
A foolish inau is always »urt
be ia iu the right.
him.
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