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Val Verde County Herald
and Del Rio Record-News
VOL. XIX.
DEL RIO. VAL VERDE COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1906.
NO. 28
VAKINA .IKFFKItSON DAVIS.
Wife, Counsellor uml ('oinriul«
of tli«* South’* Immortal
Lender.
Galveston Tribune: With the
death of Varina Jefferson Davis
there was broken another link
that connected the old south with
the south of today. In the hurry
that modern conditions have
brought about we are too prone
to forget the fragrant memories
of the past and to minimize the
teaching of the things gone be-
fore until some calamity, some
shock startles us from our com-
mercial absorption and lifts our
eyes to broader visions.
Where we stand today is be-
cause of the foundation laid for
us in the past. While today’s
generations were yet unborn,
fathers and mothers were pray-
ing and toiling over the heritage
into which we have oome. Among
those engaged in the mighty task
Jefferson Davis was not the least,
and in the days that the south’s
immortal leader was carving out
the character that afterwards
fitted him for the exalted office
to which he was called he had as
comrade, counsellor and friend
a noble woman who glorified his
successes and cheered his des-
pondencies.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis was her-
self no minor character and
apart from the honor we of the
south are glad to pay the name
of Davis, she has nobly earned
the place she holds in the na-
tion’s esteem. During the 17
years from the death of her hus-
band until this sad hour she has
continued to maintain that loft-
iness of character beooming the
daughter of the south, endearing
herself the more as the years
went by to those of the old re-
gime and making many new
friends and dear, in the place
chosen for the home of her last
years. Declining to accept the
aid so gladly tendered by the
people who loved her and whom
she loved, she faced the condi-
tions imposed by providence,
and without murmur, without
halting, bravely met each pro-
blem and mastered each trial
until the Ruler of the Universe
called her to rest.
There are tears of regret today
all over the land she loved;
today will join with yesterday in
doing homage to a noble woman,
and while with her passed away
another memory of the past,
what she has done, the life she
has lived, must take its place
among the inspirations that point
upward to nobility of character
as the one earthly ideal alone
worthly the supreme effort of
man.
The Newspaper Puff.
A Missouri editor says he en-
joys watching a citizen read a
puff of himself in the paper.
“The narrow minded man reads
it over seven or eight times and
then goes around and begs all
the copies he can. The kind
hearted one goes home and reads
it to his wife and then goes
around to the office and pays
what he owes. The successful
business man, who advertises
regularly and makes money by
it, immediately starts out to find
the editor, and then the two walk
silently down the street and the
business man ‘takes sugar in
his’n,’ and both eat a clove or
two, ami life is sweeter, and
peace settles down on their lives
for a moment. Suoh is the ex-
perience* of a mustard seed that
falls on different ground."
Live Stock at the Han An-
tonio International Pair*
It is fitting, that at 8an An-
tonio, the great center of the live-
stock breeding and maturing
ground of Texas, should be held
the greatest live-stook show in
the Lone Star State or in the
South.
The greatest portion of all that
vast extent of territory south and
west of San Antonio for hundreds
of miles, will for years to come
be utilized for large pastures or
stock-farming, and other tens of
thousands of acres in that same
section and to the north and east
of San Antonio, will be utilized
by farmers, most of whom will
raise on the farm, improved live-
stock of one class or another.
Realizing the vast and ever
growing live stock industry of
this section and all Texas, the
management of the San Antonio
International Fair, this year, a.
well as every other year sinoe its
organization, has done every-
thing possible to promote and
enoourage the live-stock indus-
try. Thi9 exposition has offered
to live stock breeders each year,
more money to be competed for
than any fa.;r ever held in the
eouth, while every accommoda-
tion in the way of stables and
pens have been given exhibitors
in this department. It is this
recognition of the paramount in-
dustry in the State that has, each
year, brought exhibitors of all
olasses of live-stock and pros-
pective buyers together by the
thousands. This year, the live-
stock feature of this Fair will be
bigger and better than ever be-
fore.
The Association, this year, has
been compelled to build more pen
and stall room for exhibitors of
horses, cattle, swine, sheep and
goats. Already thou-ands of
dollars have been expended for
new buildings this year in the
live stock department.
Wp have not the space in this
article to give the names of ex-
hibitors and what they will show
at this year’s Fair but it is suf-
ficient to say that this year’s
live-stock exhibit will aggregate
fully twenty-five per cent more
animals in all classes than at any
other year in the history of the
Association. This crowning fea-
ture of the San Antonio Fair this
year should be sufficient in it-
self to bring to the Alamo City,
thousands of visitors. This year’s
live-stock show will not only be
the largest ever held In the State
in the number of animals shown,
but the quality will be there as
well.
ORIENT ENGINEERS
IN CITY WEDNESDAY
Had Just Been Over Del Rio Route—Tells About
Road and its Prospects—Pleased With
San Angelo’s Growth.
i DOUBLE SERVICE
RANGED.
AK-1 There is a quaint election no *
■ going on in New York City and
- . the polls will be kept open until
Galveston, Harrisburg & December 18. The election is to
San Antonio Will not ; decide who shall oontrol the
Walt for Order. Mutual and New York Life In-
Austin, Texas, Oct. 20 —It is surance companies and their
understood that when the Rail-
road Commission meets next
Tuesday to consider the proposi-
tion to require the Galveston,
Harrisburg & San Antonio Rail-
road to put on a double daily
i passenger train servioe west of
San Antonio the announcement
W. W. Colpitts, assistant chief Mine as surveyed from this oity to will oe made by the representa-
engineer of the Kansas City, j Del Rio is 170 miles and
RETURNING OVERLAND.
A Sunday Wedding.
Mr. H. O. Word and Miss
Jennie Kennedy were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony at
the Three Sisters’ Hotel Sunday
afternoon at 1 o’clock. Only a
few friends were present. The
happy oouple left on the evening
train Sunday for Houston,
Galveston, Taylor and other
points on their bridal trip. They
will then go to Del Rio in a few
weeks, where they will make
their future home.—San Angelo
Standard.
Mr. C. M. Linnoy arrived in
tne city Saturday from Victoria (
with 9 cars of oattle, which he lo- 1
oated in the Graf pasture. j
A Badlv Burned Girl
or boy, man or woman, is quickly
out of pain if Buoklen’s Arnica
Salve is applied promptly. G.
j. Welch, of Tekonsha, Mich.,
9ays: “I use it in my family for
outs, sores and all skin injuries,
and find it perfeot.” Quickest
Pile cure known. Best healing
salve made. 25c at all drug-
gists. w _
—Your prestige ia already es-
tablished if you use good printed
stationery. Let us show you
amplea and quote you prioes.
Mexioo A Orient railway, under line it is 100 miles.
M. D. Paret, chief engineer, was
in the city Wednesday. Mr. Col
pitta came up from Del Rio over
the projected route to the border
city. He was for two months in
Mexico in the mountains on por-
tions of the road that is surveyed
and has been completed in that
republic. Mr. Colpitts is a pleas-
ant gentleman and a clever fel-
low. He spent the day with Col.
T. Yates Walsh, one of the Orient
contractors, while here.
Mr. Colpitts stated that he had
air tives of that road that arrange-
ments have been made for the
inauguration of such a service on
W. W. Colpitts, assistant chief Dec. 2. It is stated that the old
engineer of the Orient; C. H.. train will be known as the Sun-
Webster, chief engineer in Texas; set Express, and that it will run
E. H. Collins, a resident engin-j through from New Orleans to
eer on the works between Sweet- | San Franoisoo. It will carry a
water and San Angelo on the full equipment, including a diner,
first division, and Col. T. Yates observation car, Pullman sleep-
Walsh, left Thursday morning,
gaity? overlrnd for Sweetwater
ers, tourist sleeper and chair cars.
The new train will be known as
over the Orient right-of-way.; the California Fast Mail, and will
The four men had met here after carry a diner and tourist car in
addition to the regular equipment
The hour of leaving and arriving
time at San Antonio of the trains ; '^ate or another,
under the new service is not
known here.
inspecting various parts of the
■ survey line for the Orient and
just came up from Del Rio over] now they all journey back to
the route last surveyed and that j Sweetwater,
it ran thru Christoval, Eldorado, All of the men were delighted
and went ten miles east of Son- with the way they had been
ora. He said that this was one treated during their short stay in
line and that another survey San Angelo, and expressed a
took the Orient thru Sonora. J wi'ah that thoy might return some
Which was to be used he could day not so very far off. The men j paint y0Ur town, your road won’t
not tell. Mr. Colpitts said that are a jolly and pleasant lot and httVe HO muoh fpeight to handle,
either line was feasible and that their coming to San Angelo was ; It take8 10 gallon8 to paint a
$900,000,000 assets. Any policy
holder can vote in this eleotion,
regardless of his residence or
poll tax receipt. The voiing will
be done chiefly by mail, as it
will be inconvenient for thous-
ands of polioy holders in remote
parts of the oountry to go all the
way to New York to vote. Each
company is required by law to
send by mail to every policy
holder a ballot containing the
full tiokeU regularly nominated.
The ballot may be returned by
mail, but it must be signed by
the voter and his signature wit-
nessed. There are five candi-
dates in the race, three in the
Mutual and two in the New York
Life. The election is attracting
a good deal of interest among the
policy holders, espepially in the
large cities where they are num-
erous and where there are agents
who are partisan to one oandi-
Letter to E. F. Howard
Del Rio, Texas
Dear Sir: If we sell Devoe
there was not much grading or appreciated by their many friends
bridging to be done except some
twenty miles near Sonora. The
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th whom they oame in contact.
San Angelo Standard.
dust Like 1IU Pa
A young man, Walter Ray-
mond Beauraier, Jr., arrived at
the editor’s home Sunday after-
noon, and being favorably im-
pressed with the {.lace, decided;
fair-size house, and that house
won’t want painting again for 0
or 10 years. That’s true in a
way; but people, you know,
rather like fresh paint, and they
paint for nothing but looks some-
times.
That house would take 12 or 13
Real Tests of a School.
I otrti hardly refrain from re-
minding our patrons once more
that the real tests of a school are,
not what I may say about our gallons of almost any other paint ’•*-
pupils or what you may say | than Devoe, and would have to1^___ J ^ ,___’
to remain permanently. He'about them, how much white-'be painted again in half that
weighed eleven pounds and ■ wash we can give them or how time. Ten years is a very long
within a few minutes after his beautifully the girls can wear time for a paint to wear; and
arrival it was evident that ton while dresse* and pink slippers five isn’t short.
his weight and the hoys read other people’s Which makes the most freight,
and three fourths of
was vested in a pair of leather, essays on graduation day; but a 10 or 20*gallon paint? 5 or 10*
lungs. This conclusion has not
yet been shattered—it has been
strengthened. Now that the
editor has another mouth to feud,
and no dependence can be placed
on Elijah’s ravens these days,
all donations will be thankfully
received. Cord wood, sweet po-
tatoes, pecans, scrap iron, pos-
sums, persimmons, ootton seed
hulls, crawfish, turnips, etc., are
acceptable, and judging from his
bulldog look and physique he
can digest ’em all.—Hallettsville
Herald,
A Young Mother at 70
“My mother has suddenly been
made young at 70. Twenty
years of intense suffering from
dyspepsia had enti ely disabled
her, until six months ago, when
she began taking Electric Bit-
ters, whioh have completely cured
her and restored the strength
and activity she had in the prime
of life,” writes Mrs. W. L. Gil-
patrick, of Danforth, Me. Great-
est restorative medicine on the
globe. Sets Stomach, Liver and
Kidneys right, purifies the blood
and cures Malaria, Biliousness
and Weaknrsses. Wonderful
nerve tonic. Price 50o. Guar-
anteed by all druggists.
Geo. B. Carstarphen, of Jop-
lin, Missouri, has been visiting
his brother-in-law, J. R. Hamil-
ton, of this city, the past week.
Mr. Carstarphen was a pleasant
caller at the Herald office a few
days ago and spoke in most com-
plimentary terms of the impres-
sion he has formed of Del Rio
and the oountry surrounding.
—Best quality manilla rope at
C. W. Keller’s.
they are waat these same pupils year-paint? But the 10-gallon
can do when they come in con- paint ia the 10-year paint;
tact with tlio real facts of life and and the 20-gallon paint is the 5-
moet others in real competition, year paint. Which makes the
the power to do and be, the abil-j most freight?
ity to think and act. Anyone; Ask your paint dealer which
who would not be proud of the, he’d rather sell, and which he
record that our young people are! could sell most of. Ask your
making along these lines would painter which he’d rather paint;
be simply giving evidence of the! whether good or bad paint is
fact that he does not want to be 1 Kood for his business; which is
pleased. We also have other j good paint, the 10 or 15-gallon
The Gorman Progress says:
“Sears, Roebuck ft Co. are pay-
ing 000 for ootton in Gorman;
000 per day for laborers; 000 for
professional services; pay taxes
on 000,000 worth of property;
contribute 000 to schools, charity
and churches, and don’t care f
sou whether you ‘sink or sv
when hard luok strikes you,,
wouldn’t sell you a dollar?#
of goods without the ca *
you from the interna' V
Give a home man youpl bufcs
even if it should cyst a
more.” Take the P^gross’
vioe and epu*- “^x.Tiiing on’
as cheap at
home and from people among
whom yoq are making the
money you are sending to a con-
cern that never spends a dollar
in your community, never sym-
pathizes with you in distress,
1 never visit you in sickness and
will not throw a shovel full of
dirt or place a flower on vour
[grave when you are dead. Stick
1 to your neighbors.
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The all-sufficient answer to
every question at issue between
the Democrats and Independents
is. “go to the records.” The
News says “go to the records
for facts.” The Herald is will-
ing to leave it to the records and
pupils who are just as thoro and I P«<nt; whioh pays most freight, ,eave of£ all further disoussion.
capable as those who have gone j and whioh pays most wages. But it in8igt8 that the records be
out, and almost all could be if, Which will you buy yourself, the taken in totu> arK. not juat BO
they only made the right effort 10-gallon 10-year, or 20-gallon much of them as wiu the
and had the proper encourage- 5-year, paint?
ment.-
News,
-J. H. Naff in Runge
They Make You Feel Good.
The pleasant purgative effeot
experienced by all who use
Chamberlain’s Stomach and
Liver Tablets, and the healthy;
Yours truly
purpose of the News to mislead
the people. The records, if
F W DEVOE & CO j takenin their entirety, will hurt
P. S.-Brauer & Windrow sell nQ Qne but when gRrbled and
handled by unscrupulous per-
sons may be made to serve a
most sinister purpose and do
great injustice to those least de-
our paint.
Barn Burns.
Lfist Saturday night at the
condition of the body and mind hour ot half-past one, the people serving of oritieism or censure,
which they create makes one of Del Rio were awakened by the , Even the Bible is made the tool
feel joyful. Price, 25 cents.
Samples free at all druggists.
What Did The Pig Weigh?
cry of fire and screams of engines i of the infidel. Go to the records,
and other whistles and upon in- but use them honestly,
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Uncle Sam’s army in Cuba
had a rough experience with the
two-story b«*rn of Mr. Lee Woods,
Here’s a poser from an ex- i recently erected, was on fire. All
ohange: A farmer and his wife effort was made to save the barn, hurricane that passed over the
desired to weigh a pig and had 1 but was useless, and it, with sev- [island and visited the lower coast
no scales. The man weighed 100 eral tons of hay, burn’t to the ; of Florida last week. N > lives
pounds and his wife 139 pounds.! ground. The origin of the fire were lost, but things about camp
They put aboard aoross a fence ig supposed to be that it was were badly torn up, and a sudden
so that when they sat upon each caught from the hay, which, be- oharge of all the insurgents in
end of the board it exactly bal-1 ing greon and damp ignited. Cuba could not have demoralized
anced. Then they exchanged ■ Mr. Woods’ loss is estimated to or terrified the soldiers half as
be about $1500. 1 bad as that cyclone.
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places, the wife taking the pig
into her lap, just balancing the
board again. How much did the
pig weigh?
If the San Antonio Fair is not
a success it will not be the fault 8tore.
of the San Antonio newspapers, ibest.
—When you want a prescrip- Tennessee is suing the Stand-
tion filled, you want it done right, ard Oil Company with 1524
and with the best of drugs. This j counU» in the indictment. But
can be done at the City Drug ^at don’t mean that Tennessee
Our pharmacist is the b*s lo-R chances to tho Stai durd
Oil’s oue.
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Val Verde County Herald and Del Rio Record-News (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1906, newspaper, October 26, 1906; Del Rio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1112594/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .