The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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The Deport Times
DEFORT, LAMAR COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JANUARY 29. 1915
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ONE DOLLAR PER'Y&A
Op HIS means that our institution is more closely under the direction of
A government control than ever. It means more security for for
and better satisfaction for us. We thoroughly believe that tKe
new banking system under the direction of the federal reserve board at
Washington will be the best thing for the financial integrity of the conn-
try and for the BENEFIT OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH US TODAY!
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
DEPORT, TEXAS
Rugby Rambles
New Joke on a Congressman
E. J. Lemens was a Paris visi
tor Mond ty.
W. H. Nance was a Paris visi-
tor Saturday.
Miss Donnie WoOley of De
port, is the guest of her sister,
sister, Mrs. J. A. Hancock, this
week.
Mrs. Marion Hobbs of Hales-
boro, took the train here Mon
day morning for Holdenville.
Okla., in response to a message
stating that her sister, Mrs. Bob
Puckett, was not exacted to
live. -
Misses Bernice Hooker, Ruth
Ijancock, Zura Grogan, Dora
and Emma Griftin, Virginia
llowison and the writer spent
Thursday night with friends and
relatives at Bogata and attended
the lyceum course.
Eva Bell.
To Stock Breeders
The Times is in position to
quote you close prices on *u-
lars, folders, road sights a* J dis-
play advertisements in The
Times. We have several cuts
or pictures of stock that we can
place on your work.
Call and see us for prices.
If desired, we can assist you in
.preparing copy for the adver-
tisements. In doingjihifi now,
you will bfe prepared when the
season opens, to get your share
of the business.
Notice!
To the tax payers of the De-
port Independent School Dis-
trict:
Taxes are now due and if not
paid before midnight on Janu-
uary 31, 1915, the law requires
that ten per cent be added to
them. We trust that you will
give this your . immediate atten-
tion. You will and the collect-
or at the First State Bank.
The School Board.
There’s a fine bit of a story out
on a well-known fcongressman,
who has an agricultural bent of
his own, and who dearly loves
to send free seed to his constitu-
ents.
A woman wrote him recently
asking for some garden seed.
He sent back by return mail a
generous supply of what she
asked for, mailed in the regular
official envelope. In a couple
of weeks the seed went back to
the congressman. The woman
had read the card on the corner
of the envelope, which says:
“Three hundred dollars fine for
private use.’’ She wrote the
following note to the congress-
man:
“I am much obliged for the
seeds, but I wanted them-- for
private use and could not possi-
bly afford to run the risk of hav-
ing to pay the $300 fine.,”—Ex-
change. '
Cross Roads Notes
Chas. Pomroy and wife visited
Dick Bennett and wife Sunday
and Monday.
Miss Lillie Smith visited
friends and relatives nearClardy
Saturday and Sunday.
The young folks enjoyed a
singings at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Toddie Young Sunday
Young.
Zeb Williams and wife of Bo-
gata have been visiting their
children, Johnnie, Audie and
other relatives.
Merritt Youngj who is work*
ing for Felk and John Pomroy
visited homefolks at Milton from
Friday until Monday.
Mrs. Minnie Bryant and fam-
ly rpent Saturday night with
her daughter, Mrs. Carmen Ben-
nett. Daisy.
Miss Montie Hutchison was a
week end guest of friends at
Paris and Blossom.
FOR FLOORS, WALLS,
Wainscoating, Dadoes,
etc., no Paint can beat
our ready-mixed
brands in excellence
of finish. It lays
smooth, spreads easi-
ly, covers much sur-
face and covers it well.
We are handling.lt in
all the shaaes most in
demand, and sell it in
large or small quanti-
ties. Various sized
cans for all purposes.
Make a trial of it. You will want it often in the future.
Brazelton, Pryor Lumber Co.
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D. L. Snell, Manager
mmc.
Odd Bits of News
Bellevue, O.—Chas. W. Zeig-
ler, veteran railroad conductor
was never late. He made his
last run recently. His train was
on time, but Zeigler was dead.
Allleutown, Pa.-»Cupid is the
star boarder in the boarding
house run here by Mrs. Celia
Alspatch. Ten couples, ' all
boarders in the house, have wed
within the past three months.
Philadelphia, Pa. — Earl Fratz
was being searched by detec-
tives for two stolen diamond
rings. He had successfully
passed the inspection when he
had started to walk away. He
shewed a slight limp and when
the detectives took off his shoes
they found the diamond rings
on two of his toes-
Ottawa, Kan.—Mrs. Mollie
Stewart, life prisoner here,
makes enough money by doing
fancy work, to support and edu-
cate her two children.
Pasadena, Calif.—Mrs. George
E. Bowman, aged 30, has eleven
children and two grandchildren.
She was married when fourteen
and became a grandmother at
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Tacoma, Wash.—Miss Nelda
Jacgar is now police judge at
^his place.
Chicago, III.—Chicago received
Its supply of Christmas trees
this year on a boat captained by
a woman, Mrs. Barbara Schune-
ijnan. Her two daughters acted
tf.s her crew.
Coswell, N. C.—Mrs^ West
Graves has just presented her
Husband with the eighth consec-
utive set of twins. There are
ejight children living, one of
each set of twins having died.
Kalamazoo, Mich.—Floyd Tray-
er, aged 19, threw his aunt’s
false teeth in the river for a joke.
He has just been sentenced to
from one to five years in prison
for the “joke”.
Meadeville, Pa-—A coasting
party, the youngest member of
which was 84 and the oldest 92,
was held on Terrace Hill, Satur-
day. The members of the party
were John Fox, Halsey Terrill,
John King and Janathan Smack.
Wichita. Kans.—S. T. Jocelyn,
divorce proctor, refused to give
Mrs. Ivy May Warner a divorce
because her present husband is
her ninth. - ,
Hastings, Neb.—Robert T.
Dressier, a merchant,served no-
tices through display advertiser
ments that h§ would sue for
$25,000 damages anyone who
callfi him by his nickname
“Jake.”
Providence, R. I.—So many
people answered a help wanted
advertisement at a surburban
factory recently that extra cars
were run to carry them. Tnree
hundred women and 100 men
were hired.
„ San Francisco, Calif.—A fam-
ily moving here from Nebraska
mailed all of their household
goods. This is the first time on
record that the parcel post has
been put to this use.
s, Mo.—Screech owl
latest addition to many
in first class calcs. It is
said that this breed of owl makes
very good eating.
RUSKIN ON PAINTING.
Pain dug. with all its teebst-
caltaea. Olfflcaltlea and peculiar
enda, la nothing but a noble and
expreaalre language. Invaluable
ea the vehicle of thought, but by
itself nothing.
If It la the leva of that which
your work rtpfaaento—If. being
a landscape painter, U la the
love ef hills ted trees that move
you—If, being a figure painter. It
Is love of human beauty and hu-
man soul that moves you—If, be-
ing a flower er animal painter.
It Is love and wonder end de-
light In petal and In limb that
moves you. then the spirit la
upon yon, and the earth to yours
and the fu I loess thereof.
The Pastors
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Presbyterian Missionary Meeting
The Woman’s Missionary So-
ciety met with Mrs. I. L. Read,
as leader, at the church on
Thursday, the 2lst. There was
a good attendance and the fol-
lowing officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
Presidrnt, Mrs. J. M. Youree;
1st vice-president,. Mrs. V. C.
Oliver; 2nd vice-president Mrs.
Dee Thompson; secretary, Miss
M. A. Fraser; treasurer, Mr*.
Tea Jeffus; see. of
lira. W. P. Evans;organist,Mrs.
JH.M.
Happy is that/community in
which the different bodies con
secrated to religion, morals, and
charity work together in a spirit
of brotherhood for the common
good.
The News feels that some
praise is due the local pastors.
They are a group of good and
able men, above the average of
rural and small town pastors,
each one devoted to his own
charge and strong in his own
convictions, but each one broad
in his attitude toward the others,
and all willing to join hands at
any time in a common work for
the public good.
This is one of the truest tests
of greatness. The ability to ex-
pound or exhort, the energy to
work and build, are often weak-
ened or rendered useless by a
narrowness of mind that pre-
vents one from understanding
or appreciating the viewpoint
of another. Selfishness will pro
duce the same result.
Our Garland pastors have on
more than on< occasion shown
their broad sympathies and
their unselfish purposes. Let us
therefore, the laymen, join
hands with them in their efforts
to do the greatest good, and
prove that love is better than
dogmatism.—Garland News.
You could not have told it bet-
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Foster Predicts Much Rain
If importance is attached by
the farmers of the South to the
weather predictions of Foster,
the well-known weather prophet,
then very little cotton will be
planted this year. He predicts
that beginning February 15 and
continuing until August 15, the
cotton growing region of this
country is to witness an unprec-
dented rainy spell.- Foster ad-
vises, therefore, that the South-
ern farmer plant grains, grass-
es, potatoes, peas, peanuts, and
other crops than cotton. In face
of the war in Europe and Fost-
er’s dire predictions for the
cotton plant, which flourishes
best in hot, dry weather, our
Texas farmers might do well to
heed his advice.
Talks With the Business Man
By Nela Darling—Copyright
No matter what lin* of busi-
ness you are in, what I shall
have to say now applies.
Suppose you are going to
write an ad. for a certain cook
stove. Get off by yourself where
you will not be disturbed, In the
evening aftejr the store is >closed
is the best time.' Put down in
writing all the good points of
the stove. Imagine you are
talking to a customer and pnt
your arguments on paper. Do
not overlook a single strong,
talking feature- Now go over
and over what you have written,
cutout all repetitions and un-
necessary words, and yet leave
the story intact. yYou will soon
learn to say in a few words, all
that formerly used five minutes
to tell. Now give this stove
talk some catehy heading, such
as, “Good News for the House-
wife,” “The Fuel Saving Stove,”
The Stove I Guarantee”. Give
the ad. a heading that will at
tract attention and at the same,
time one that says something.
Be sure to add the price. Have
one price and stick ot it. Have
the price low enough to start
with. Invite folks, through
yobr ad. to come to your store
to see this stove and be ready
for them when they come.
Have the stove set up, blacken-
ed and ready for inspection.
People wish to tynow about
things'they buy ami they want
to buy of a man wlio knows and
can tell what he knows.
For False Imprisonment
Frank Richards, and Jim Alex-
ander, stockmen, were tried in
the county !court at Clarksville
Thursday on the charge of false
imprisonment. The prosecut
ing witness was G. W. Ward of
Halesboro. It was claimed that
Ward impounded some cattle
that were running loose on his
land ftad. that the defendants
forced him u> give them up and
carried him down in Sulphur
bottom and whipped him. The
jury found the defendants guilty
and assessed a fine o* $5 each
while the costs ran up to about
$200. v
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A cotton ginners report issued
last Saturday showed that 14,-
907,942 bales had been ginned
prior to Jan.10th. It is estimat-
ed that the orop of 1914 will
reech 10,000,000 bales. The
literature, next and laat report for the sea-
son will be issued on March.
In Texas 4,120,904 bales have
n glaiied.
A Prayer for Everybody
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Teach me that sixty minutes
make one hour, sixteea ounces
one pound and one hundred
cents one dollar.
Help me to live so that I can
lie down at night with a clear
conscience, without a gun under
my pillow, unhaunted by the
faces of those to whom I have
brought pain.
Grant,I beseech Thee, that 1
may earn my meal ticket on the
square, and in doing thereof I
may not stick the gaff where it
does not belong.
Deafen me to the jingle of un-
tainted money and the rustle of
unholy skirts.
Blind me to the faults of the
other fellow, but reveal to me
mine own.
Guide me so that each night
when I look across the dinner
table at my wife, who has been
a blessing to me, I will have
nothing to conceal.
• Keep my young enough to
laugh with children and to
lose myself in their play.
And when comes the smell of
flowers and the tread of soft
sleps and the crunching of the
Ijearse’s wheels in the gravel
out in front of my place, make
the ceremony short and the epi-
taph simple—"Here Lies a Man.”
—Homer McKee.
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The Best Advertisement!
The bank anywhere can possibly have Is a sat-
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lsfied customer. This bank never falls
ognlze and appreciate the fact that it has
tomers, who if satisfactorily served, can do
more toward furthering its growth and estab-
lishing its reputation than all other publicity
methods combined. It is your privilege to be-
become one of our patrons and It is our privi-
lege to please you once you become one. : : : :
We Cordially Invite Your Consideration
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The First State Bank
of Deport, Texas
Personal Attention, Courteous Treatment, Vigilant Protec-
tion, Sound Security, Modern Facilities, Satisfactory Service.
Burglary Saturday Night
About eleven o’clock Saturday
night after all the business
houses in town were closed sev-
eral boys who were passing A.
C. Nixon's confectionery store
heard some one inside making
a noise like he was ransacking
candy jars.
The boys called Deputy Sher-
iff Cox and Mr. Nixon. With
guns and other weapons of de
fense they made tht.r way to
the store to surprise the burg-
lar. He was at last discovered
crouching behind one of the
counters. Guns were leveled
and the prisoner surrendered.
Upon closer investigation it was
discovered that the prisoner had
one of his feet in a steel trap
that Mr. Nixon had 8et- ,\
'P. 8. After reading what we
had written above, we note that
we failed to state that the pris
onj|r was a large rat. ^
B. A. Craven ha* renfWed the
sQbsQfiption of G.' W
oh Angus, Tezaa. / w *
Married
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At the residence of the bride’s
parents near Pattonville, last
Sunday afternoon, Miss Lizzie
Pettit and Jim Isbell were unit-
ed in marriage, Rev. Kinton of
Pattonville officiating.
The bride has grown to wo-
manhood in the Pattonville
neighborhood and is a woman of
many noble qualities of heart
and mind.
The groom is the son of Mr,
and Mrs. R. Isbell of Deport.
He is a well known farmer and
has scores of friends through-
out this section. The young
people will make their home on
the Isbell farm, eight miles
south of Clarksville. The Times
wishes for Mr. and Mrs. Isbell
all the good fortune that can
come to the happily married.
The Meanest Thief
You remember the proverbial
theif who stole the nickels from
the dead man’s eye, but the fol-
lowing Dallas dispatch tells of
a meaner one than he: Robbing
an aged negro of his burial suit
is a Dallas man’s play for the
“meanest man” class. Uncle
Charlie Reed, an old darky, does
odd jobs for a living. By prac-
ticing the greatest economy he
saved a sufficient number of
nickles and dimes to purchase
a nice new black suit. “You
know Uncle Charlie is not gwyne
to be here long, and he done
bought his suit so that he can
liab a proper burial,” he told his
friends. The meanest burglar
visited his home on Swiss avenue
with his funeral outfit.
Charlie is disconsolate.
Uncle
From 4|ie Bogata News
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Mr. A. H. Rakes was a visitor
to Deport, last Thursday.
- Dr. H. D. Roach was a busi-
ness visitor to Deport last Sat-
urday.
Quite a storm visited Bogata
last Friday night, out no damage
was done other than to make a
few lose sleep to get up and peep
out “just to see.”
Mr. George Ward is having a
house moved from North Main
Street to a location on Hales-
borough Street Bell Bros, are
doing the moving.
The Champion MoAer
W. A. Wallace, a protninen^
farmer of Gough county, owd-
two farms—a black land and if*
sandy. Lately he determined
to move from the black land to
his sandy land place. He load-
ed the w-agons and almost dislo-
cated the gizzards of his mules
pulling through the mud getting
to his other place. Arriving
there, Mr. Wallace looked the
landscape over and decided to
go back to the black land. Ac-
cordingly he turned the teams
and headed from whence he
came. Upon arrival he changed
his mind, and the next morning
early the wagons were enroute s
for the sandbur country. Near
ing his sandy land farm he again
changed his mind, and turned
the teams at a wide place 1:. the
road, and once again moved tow-
ards the blackuaxy. The Cour-
ier is informed by one ot the
Wallace neighbors, that the mat-
ter is getting serious as Mr.
Wallace is now making a round
trip daily, and says that as soon
as the roads improve he will be
able to make possibly two trips • .<
per day, thereby saving much
valuable time.—Delta Courier.
Died of Cance*
Lewis Brown, aged 66 years,
died at the home of his son,
Frank Brown, last Friday morn-
ing of cancer of tne stomach, af-
ter an illness of' long standing.
Mr. Brown came to Texas
from North Carolina in 1877 and
settled in Red River County. . In
the same year he was united in
late yesterday and decamped,,marriage to Miss Fannie £!og-
bill. This union was blessed
with six children—four boys
and two girls. They are Frank,
Edgar, John, and Fred; Mes-
dames J. H. Nicks and T. T.
H lister. The above children
a his wife survive him.
Mr. Brown united with the'
Methodist Church in his early
youth. He was a man of happy
disposition and sunny nature,
and will be keenly missed by all
who knew him.
The funeral services were(
conducted Saturday by the Rev.
J. R. Jordan of Minter, and in*
terment was made at the Hales:
boro cemetery.
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E. W. Crutchfield of Paris, is>
in Deport, to buy cotton for
Scott Bros. i
A Resolution for 1915:
Use the Home Interurban
(TEXAS TRACTION COMPANY)
esclualrely between
denison McKinney
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