Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States Coin.;
missioner of Education, en route froru
Washington to Dallas to address Ur*
State Teacher*’ meeting in that city,
made a stop-over in Denton Thursday
and honored the-College of Industrial
Arts with an address in the audjtorltiin
at t p m. before continuing on his
way. The auditorium held a big audi-
en<e, with townspeople interested in
'.locational measures as well as stu-
dents and teachers ■ f the colleges.
Dr. Claxton was introduced by
Presirjept W. B. Bixzell, who spoke of
the work of his guest as Commissioner
of Education, and of his. first coming
into the limelight of. public notice and
approval during the time of his work
at Knoxville Summer school.
In his own introductory remarks Dr.
Claxton said th%t he had heard of the
College of Industrial Arts and had
been for some time anxious to pay the
college a visit; that it was probably
the first time that a United States Com-
missioner of Education had visited
Texas, his duty visits of necessity rang-
ing from Florida on the south to
Alaska on the north; Porto Rico on
the east, to the Philippines on the west,
and that visits anywhere were few and
far between.
After a sketch of the personality and
career of Pestaiozzi, whom he charac-
terized as the greatest man who had
appeared in eighteen hundred years,
the speaker took as his text Pestaiozzi’*
saying: "1 will turn the car of educa-
tion around. I will mak* people under-
stand about the life they live." This,
he said, was the beginning of a great
revolution in education—the making of
education a part of life. There is only
one fundamental problem of states-
manship, of sociology, of industrial
life, of religious life—the right edu-
cation of boys and girls. Every other
problem finds its solution therein, and
as the years go by statesmen will
realize this, and in Texas a man wiD
be called a statesman who knows it;
If not, a pettifogging politician.
Education Inalienable Right.
The one inalienable right of every
child born into the world is an educa-
tion. The Declaration of Independence
declares there are certain inalienable
rights, the right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. The funda-
mental principle of democracy is the
inalienable right to the equality of op-
portunity in education. If Texas gives
an absolute equality of education, an
education to equip every child for a
good, honest living, Texas is a demo-
cratic state. If not. It Is not a demo-
cracy, no matter how loud it is pro-
claimed on the Fourth of July. Demo-
cracy can be measured by that prin-
ciple.
The. speaker than made an applica-
tion of Pestaiozzi'* principle to pres-
ent-day education, making an appeal
for the teaching of things around us.
of our own language rather than dead
languages, of the civil government of
Denton county before that of ancient
Greece. Many apt and amusing illus-
trations were given to enforce his point.
Education, he continued, should be
a living inter-consciousness of the ex-
periences you have had, those things
that are real to you because you do
them at first-hand; an out-sifting of
these, keeping those that are valuable
and letting the others drop out of mem-
ory ; and a re-organization and general-
ization of knowledge. The ancient state
could be symbolized, he said, by -the
headsman's axe; the state of today is
symbolized by the school-house. Gov-
ernment has become Interested in
housekeeping, and all municipal affairs
today have to do with that kind of
thing It is more important to fight
microbes than to figtit Mexioo. Schools
ere wise when they begin to make
some kind of differentiation of educa-
tion for boys and girls. Some people
sneer at what they cal) ’’bread and but-
ter education,”,bk>l they don't sneer at
bread and butter. Culture does not
come out of the school-room; culture
is the deepening and widening and
ripening and relining of the human
soul that comes as a by-product of
good living. There is as much culture
in boiling an egg to give a sick child
that he may live as in digging Greek
"•ols. It is the attitude toward life
that eventually produces culture as a
by-product, and there must be a very
close relationship between the work
done In school and the corresponding
work done out of school.
Commends C. I. A. Work.
The College of Industrial Arts, the
speaker said, Is the first institution to
begin to adapt itself to the young
women of the Slate who are going to
undertake the most important thing
in the State, the making of homes To
keep out the germs of tuberculosis
and typhoid fever Is worth more than
a standing army of a million men. To
keor house elean, to eook good food
so tl.r! health may come and the joy
of vigor In life, to make home beauti-
ful and attractive so that the boys
and girls will like to live in it—there
is nothing more important than that.
In closing, the speaker expressed the
hope that the principle underlying the
College of Industrial Arts, a name
which appealed to him, might become
more generally recognised throughout
the United States.
“1 bring to you,” said be, “the greet-
ings of the Nation which 1 represent
as ila Commissioner of Education.”
MINE WORKERS' OFFICERS INDICTED
PUEBLO, Col., Dec. I —Ab attempt to
secure a monopoly of labor is charged
in indictments returned by the Federal
Grand Jury her- yesterday against Na-
tional officers of the United Mine Work-
ers of America. The men named are J.
P White, president: Frank J. Hayes,
vice-president; and William Green, sec-
retary. The indictments are the out-
growth of the Colorado mine strike.
PREFERS PRISON TO HIS WIFE.
AUSTIN, Deo. 1—Gov. Colqnltl has
revoked a conditional pardon issued to
a Texas convict. The pardon wag con-
ditioned on the man's returning to live
with his wife, and after a short trial of
that, he voluntarily returned to prison
preferring prison life to W’,ing with his
wife
HNK FWtlDDS
HR HMI AWARDS
CHARTH COMMISSION
NEMBERSAMRIMCED
ID MEET THURSDAY
When a member of your family
is nek you consult your physician,
and probably call lum to the bed-
the sick one to health. Where will
you have that prescription com-
pounded ? You will naturally take
BtNnrr kills railroad man.
LOR ANGELES, D-< t—H. E. Mon-
tague, traveling pass urst agent of the
Southern Pad fie, was shot and instant-
ly killed while trying to disarm a ban-
dit who was holding up passengers on
the westbound Overland train. The
robber .lumped off the train and escap-
the patient and prescribes a
■; believing that he can re-
“DECISION”FORCHRIST
ITSGREATIMPORTANCE
TO LITE OF UNSAVED
Robinson Bros., Frisco.
In its report of the awards the Fort
Worth Record said: ’'Robinson Bros.,
of Frisco, have been champion produc-
ers for many years at the Fort Worth
shows. Besides the champion load of
the show they had the first prize load
of light hogs. And, by the way. the
champion load was good enough to
compete in company with the best
hogs the corn belt ever produced and
of the load could be taken to Chicago
it would make the best hogs in the
International hustle themselves to get
the blue ribbon. This load was In a
c'ass by themselves They were un-
like the hogs with which Robbins of
Wichita county won the championship
two years ago. being fat all over,
while the West Texas hogs were deep-
deeper—as well as fat.”
This firm won the following events
in the hog exhibit: Champion car load
of barrows, sows or mixed; car load
of barrows, sows or mixed, 175 pounds
up, first Narrows, sows or
mixed, 225 pounds .up, first; champion
pen of five; pen of five, barrows, sows
or mixed, fourth; pen of five, barrows,
sows or mixed, 225 pounds up, first.
Not satisfied with the cream of the
swine show, this Denton county firm
went into the sheep exhibit and re-
ceived the following: Wethers, mut-
ton class; 1 year and under, third:
wether lamb, first
J. J. MeKnipht, Denton.
In the sheep ring J J. McKnight of
Denton was awarded: Fifty head of
wethers, ewes or mixed, second; sheep
in pens of five, second; wethers, mut-
ton class, second and third.
A. D. Turner, Denton.
In Shropshire* A D. Turner receiv-
ed; Pen of five iambs under one year,
third: ram lamb under one year, first
and second. In registered Oxford
Downs he was awarded first on lamb
under one year and second on ewe un-
der one year.
G. V. Miller, Jr. A Son, Denton.
In standard bred stallions, G. V. Mil-
ler, Jr. 4 Son of Denton topped the
ring vl'ith 'Reckless Joe," taking first
in standard bred trotters, four years
and over, and first for champion Stal-
lion.
BENTON HIGH CLOSES SEASON
HV VICTORY OVER BRYAN!
Denton High closed its football sea-
son Thanksgiving day al Highland park
with a 14-0 victory over Bryant Train-
ing School, whom it had previously
beaten 20 to 0. Denton High scored a
touchdown in the first quarter when
Buckingham on a 20-yard end run
planted the ball behind the goal posts.
If scored again in the fourth quarter
when Potts intercepted a forward pass
and ran twenty yards to a touchdown.
Cobb kicked the first goal and Potts
kicked the second.
Denton High was'minus the brilliant
services of Johnnie Cobb most of the
game. He was hurt in a scrimmage in
the first quarter and on examination
was found to have sustained a broken
eollar-bone To his absence local fans
attributed the low score made by Den-
ton,
eatures of the game were the bril-
liant tackling of Goode., McNew’s <’>0-
yard run on an intecepted foward
pass, Standifer's fast breaking through
and tackling opponents behind the
line and Potts’ terrific line plunging.
Featuring for Bryant was the W-yard
forward pass from Turner to Yates,
one of the most brilliant passes ever
made on a Denton field. It same very
near giving the visitors a score, but
a similar effort a few miniates later
failed and gave McNew the opportun-
ity to recover sixty yards of the -field.
Bryant was never in striking distance
of Denton's goal line again.
Denton confined itself to straight
football throughout. They tried the
forward pass once and failed. They
plunged- through the line regularly, but
it was too slow work to make much
distance and fumbles cost them heav-
ily, besides being penalized once for
interfering with forward pass. Bry-
ant, on the other hand, was unable to
gain consistently at all through Den-
ton’s line of around the ends, and
they tried the forward passes no less
than 17 times. It worked in three, in-
eluding the 40-yard pass. The others
netted about 20 ami seven yards, re-
spectively.
z The line-up:
Denton— Pos. Bryant.
McNew ...........R E . .*...........Nip
Powledge ...........R T...........Fox
Seagraves .........R G..T^.......Bond
McGill .........
... C......
.Hargreaves
Bradley .......
...L G.....
.......Scott
Standifer......
,...R T....
... .Jackson
Goode .........
...,L E....
..... Yales
Cobb (C).......
..■0 B......
...Mitchel)
Buckingham...
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..Ward (C%
Jone*............,L H B.........Turner
Potts\..............F B.,.......Rupley
Substitutes—For Denton, Matth«-vvs.
Omohindro, Witt; for Bryant School.
Douglass, Whittington, Wilcox.
Referee, F. Rayzor; umpire. Dr.
Piner: head linesman, Ray Bishop.
Denton High suffered but .one defen;
of the season, to Central High of Fort
Worth, who won 14 to 0.
"And Elijah came unto all the* peo-
ple, and said, how long halt ye between
two opinions? If the Lord be God, fol-
low him: but if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a
word." Thia twenty-first verts’ of the
eighteenth chapter of fir.A Kings
was taken as a text by Dr. J. W. Cald-
well Sunday evening at the Central
Presbyterian Church for his discourse
under the title of "Decision." The
lesson reading was from the same
chapter from the 17th to the 39th
verses, inclusive, the story of Elijah's
defiance of the prophets of Baal and
his triumphal test on Mount Carmel.
The speaker said that the great truth
he got from the text and the lesson
was an appeal against indecision, that
the condition of the world in this re-
spect is the same today as it was when
Elijah stood alone proclaiming pow-
er of the true God against overwhelm-
ing numbers. At sight the King ac-
cused him of causing all of the trouble
in the land by attacking the estab-
lished customs. It is the same today.
The preacher who has the manhood
to attack unrightousness wherever he
finds it and defends rightousness and
clean living is accused of being a
muckraker. "When 1 was in Fort
Worth,” said Dr. Caldwell, “some of
the people said that if they could send
one Baptist preacher and myself out,
that the town would be all right—that
we were stirring up all the trouble
We were invited to join the 'boosters’
club, 1 preached a ’booster' sermon
but it wasn’t the kind they were look-
ing for. 1 told how some of their
prominent men were debauching the
virtue of the city and selling even
their own manhood for gain."
Elijah made a fair proposition to the
false prophets, said the preacher.
God’s servants can always afford to be
fair. He was one against hundreds,
but he had the truth and God on his
side. One man can stand against an
army if he bss God with him.
The power to weigh evidence is one
of the greatest of God’s gifts to man.
No man has a right to think by proxy
Speaking along this line . Dr. Caldwell
made a strong appeal to parents to be
careful in child-training and said that
the children must learn to dec’de their
own problems or they would not be
properly equipped to meet the prob-
lems of life when they no longer had
parental advice. He cited a striking
^instance which had come under his
observation of a young man raised in
luxury and with the best educational
facilities but under the close care of
a mother. .At her death he was unable
to manage her estate and made a mis-
erable failure merely because he had
never been trained to decide for him-
self In contrast he spoke of the turn-
ing’point in his own life where as a
college boy he was offered a position
■'n a mercantile house and his father
thd mother had refused to offer him
advice, felling him that it Was his
question, that he must face it. take
the matter to God and then decide as
lie thought right.
The world has no respect for inde-
cision. The man goes tottering from
■ ne side of a question to another has
o friends and. when he sinks, a mis-
rable failure, has no sympathy for he
'■.•ils to meet the full measure of a
.nan.
Why," he said, “some of our women
cannot think tor themselves even on
simple a matter as dress. They
'•iindly follow fashions set for them
by the women of the women of the
underworld of Paris. Of all the ridicu-
lous, absurd, horrid things I have seen
the present styles in women’s dress
are the Worst. They are more than
foolishness."
To the unsaved man the important
lecisjon is whether he will accept God
• •r not, and God sends out the same
challenge that he did in the days of
the prophets. It is a decision which
every man must make for himself. It
is a poor thing to shift the responsi-
bility off and take your parent's reli-
gion.* Take God's word an<j study and
then decide for yourself and the im-
portant thing is to malt* the decision
while there is yet opportunity. There
ire thousands who expect to accept
Christ and yet fail when it comes ♦«
the force of character to make the de-
cision. From day to day they go along
under the delusion that they will make
this all-important decision a little later
and go down to their graves, forever
lost and with the cry of "fool” on their
lips.
At the close of his convincing ad-
dress, the preacher invited all who
were ready to make the decision in
their life to accept the Christ to come
forward and make the avowal public.
One accepted the invitation.
MORE mot RLE THREATENED AT
ZABERN. MILITARY IN CLASH
ZABERN, Germany, Dec. 2—Lieuten-
ant Von Fnrestner, who started the
trouble between the Orman soldiers
and civilians here by referring scorn-
fully to the citizens, aroused further
ind'rmttion today by cutting down a
lame shoemaker with a sabre. The in-
cident aroused sueh tension that blood-
shed is feared...
What A Checkin!
Account Will Do.
FORMER NEW YORK POLICE
CAPTAIN UNDER INRICTMENT
to Franchises.
head of "Direct Leg-
ay, nine tRf’
been filled.
to.
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Member* of the '-ominlsslon shall not
be paid. They shall mest once each
month, er on eall of the Mayor. ' No
quirements of the office.)
The Mayor may be removed by the
Commission upon three months' notice,
and after hearing, if he shall demand a
hearing.
He shaimp^oint the directors of all
departments, and all minor dhlcers.
upon recommendation of the directors,
but subject to civil • service regula-
tions.
providing for the is-
and those granting
•'1.077 STUDENTS NOW IN
ALL DENTON SCHOOLS
The woodchoppers armed with their
little hatchets will invade Denton
Thursday morning and will meet with
no resistance on the part of the city,
but will be welcomed by officials and
citizens In making their celebration
Reason for Requirements.
Upon these subjects this statement is
made in one of the notes:
“As a further assurance of respon-
siveness on the part of the Commis-
sioners to the wishes of the electorate,
these weapons of direct control are
provided. But these measures are
emergency measures, and if too easily
employed they do not Insure represen-
tative government, but destroy It.
Hence there should be required a suffi-
ciently large percentage of voters to
put these weapons into operation so
that they will be used only as emer-
gency measures.*’
The foregoing only briefly zynopsfzes
U.S leading features of the model char-
ier. Those citizens interested tn know-
ing more about It should ask the bu-
reau to put their name* n the mailing
list.
The detailed
st records of
lie education alid public finance.
The director who shall be the head
of each department shall be appointed
by the Mayor, and may be removed by
him. Any such appointment may be
disallowed by a four-fifths vote of the
commission. Before removal, a direct-
or may demand that written charges
-hall be filed, in which event he shall
have a hearing before the civil service
hoard. If the board shall recommend
:he re-instatement of the director., the
commission may by a four-fifths vote
nullify the Mayor's order of removal.
These directors are immediately re-
sponsible to 'he Mayor, who shall ask
Iholr advice in writing as to all depart-
menls.
AH positions in the city's service ex-
eqpt those of the Mayor, directors of
departments and members of the civil
service board, shall be filled on the
•nerft system. This board is to consist
■f a salaried secretary and two unpaid
members, and it shall formulate rule*
for the appointment, discipline, promo-
tion and removal of all city officials
and employes, except as above noted.
Among the provisions upon the sub-
ject of finances, it is provided that con-
tracts shall be awarded by the Mayor
only after competitive bidding to the
lowest responsible bidder.
Direct Legislation.
The provisions for the initiative,
referendum and recall are similar to
those in the Wisconsin constitutional
amendment now pending. Use Is made
of the Indirect initiative; that is to say,
if the commission shall fail to pass an
ordinance, after petition has been
made for the same, then the ordinance
shall be brought to a vote of the peo-
ple.
Petition of 30 per cent of the quali-
fied voters shall be necessary to thus
initiate an ordinance, and no ordinance
shall be considered adopted by vote of
the people unless more than 25 per
cent of the registered vote shall have
been cast in favor of the measure.
Likewise a petition of 30 per cent is
necessary for a referendum, and no or-
dinance shall be considered as rejected
nuless the majority of votes cast
against it shall be equal to 25 per cent
6f the total registered vote. Further,
a M per cent petition is required for
a recall election, and no such election
shall b» ordered to recall a commis-
sioner until he shall have served at
least one year, nor until a year after
a previous recall election in which the
right of that member to retain his seat
has been determined.
Preiision* as
Here is what the model ciiarter Con-
tains upon the subject of franchises
and public utilities:
"Franchises shall be granted only for
indeterminate terms, reserving to the
city the right to purchase at a fair
value the franchises and property of
tue corporation at the end of the first
ten years, and at the termination of
every five years thereafter.
"All franchises shall be subject to
the right of the city, whether express-
ly slated or not, to make all reasonable
regulations concerning the service, cap-
italization and rates of the corporation
to which the franchise is granted, and
subject to the city’s power to Inspect
the corporation's book* at all times
and to require accounts to be so kept
as Io show clearly how the finances of
tile corporation are run and whether
the franchise requirements as to sink-
ing fund, depreciation fund, improve-
ments and capitalization are met. The
enforcement of the franchise provis-
ions shall be in 1...mediate charge of
the director of public finance.”
There is this further pertinent pro-
vision urder tue
Islation:”
"All ordinances
-nance of bonds ...........
'ranchise rights in the strwW shall be
submitted to a referendum of the vot-
lers before a majority vote of at least
25 per cent of the qualified voters to
defeat an ordinance passed by the
commission for granting a franchise or
issuing bonds."
Hampered by Constitution.
All of the subject* are thus tersely
treated in the model charter, the in-
strument .containing only some 2,50n
words. The authors manifest and ex-
press preference for long tenure of of-
fice and a short ballot, and they thus
provide in the body of the charter.
But because the Constitution of Texas
imits the terms of all. oflleea to two
<ars, unless otherwise specified, alter-
native suggestions are made, so that
he charter may be conformed to such
institutional requirement so long as
hi* may be permitted tn aland. This
restment of the subjeet subserve* the
double purpose of aiding in the prepa-
ration of charters at this time, and of
forcibly calling attention to the need of
unending the constitution in this re-
gard.
Eleelien of Comml’sioners.
The charter vests th* legal power*
of the corporation in a commission of
five member* to be chosen by the peo-
ple, but the footnote* say that in cities
of more than 30.000 there should be
seven Commissioners; in cities of more
han *50.000 nine, and in cities of more
than 100,000 eleven.
Provision IS made for the election of
only a part of the Commissioner* at
one time, so that their terms shall lap
The charter provides for unpartisan
efcction*. Any citizen may become ?
candidate upon filing hi* name, but to
discourage freak candidacies each can-
didate must deposit 125, which sum will
be returned to him If he shall poll as
many a* 10 per cent of the votes.
To guard against the advantage
which is given to a candidate whose
name shall first appear upon the bal-
lot, provision is made for the printing
of the ballot upon the. rotary plan, so.
that each candidate may enjoy the ad-
vantage of first plaee equally with all
the other*. Under thi* plan Adam
would have no advantage over Zacba-
riah.
Preferential voting is provided for, so
that voter* may express first, second
and third choice. Any candidate re-
ceiving a majority of first ehoioe
vote* shall be declared elected. Then
the first and second choice vote* of
the others shall be added together, and
those having a majority shall be de-
clared elected. Then, if all the com-
missionerehipe have not "
the first, second and third choice votes
of the other candidate* will be added
woow
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Six Administrative Departments.
Provision is made for six adminis-
trative departments as follows: Law,
public works and utilities, public H
health, public safety and welfare, pub-' the greatest which has ever been held
i here by a fraternal organization.
The gathering is a joint meeting with
the program arranged by the represen-
tatives of the different Woodmen
lodges of the county and is for the
purpose of celebrating the tiering ol
the membership campaign which has
been conducted by Deputy Ernest R
Mitchell for the last three months and
receiving the final reports of the lodges
and member* who have taken part in
the contest and the awarding of the
prizes.
The meeting will be called to order
at the District court room at 10:30 and
the addresses of welcome and responses
delivered as heretofore published
The afternoon exercises will com-
mence with the parade at 1 o'clm-k.
with an assembly at the court n < m
again at 2 o’clock, when there will be
more speaking. At four o'clock tim
competitive drill* will take place on
the public square.
At the morning and afternoon exer-
cises the public is cordially invited to
be present, but the evening session at
Fox Bros, garage 1* only for those who
have made the acquaintance of th'
goat.
The lodges and Woodmen that have
taken pari In the <mnt.it which
with the celebration are proud i
results of their offorts and are
ing hard to make It a success
have succeeded ffi getting some
most entertaining orators of the
and feel sure that all who hear them
will be entertained a* well as instruct-
ed in the objects, aims and actual work
of this great benevolent organization
Deputy Mitchell reports that as a
result of the contest over 700 new
members have been reported and he ex-
pects that with those brought in Thurs-
day the total will approach or reach a
thousand.
The long anticipated b’rb mark of
attendance for Denton’s schools and
colleges has now been passed, and
there are enrolled In the Normal. C I
A., High and elty school* an attend-
ance of 3.0T1 scholare-a good margin
of 77 more than the 3,000 waited for-
and an increase of more than IM »•»-
dents over the September enrollment.
It is believed that thi* margin enroll-
ment will pass 100 before New 'Year,
as between Christmas and the school
opening H ere is always a rush of new
pupils from the grammar department*
of county schools here, for the bene
fit of the better Instruction
Th- Normal College enrolled five n<2'
student* Monday, indicating that th*
Christmas enrollment season I*
beginning with th'm, new students in
many esses wishing to get Itraighten-
ed out In their work so as not to waste
time when the regular after-Christmas
term begins. At the College of Indu"
trial Art* the attendance ha* been in-
creased since the first month by fif-
teen or twenty students, *nd at al)
the city
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Mayor Ed F. Bates Saturday announ^-
'<h« personnel of the loiumtai ;< n
to which will be entrusted the impor’-
ant and difficult work vi f emulating
anew city charter, xnd in naming his
commissions to tlie nM'inbere, called
them to meet at the City Hall Thursday
<-.' iung, December 4, for the purpoat
of organization. Mayor Bates will call
the commission to urder and will then
permit them to effect their own or-
ganization and plans for their work.
The couuuiMion, watch is published
in full below, is directed to the fol-
lowing citizens, representing many in-
terest* in Denton:
“Denton, Texas, Nov. 2», J913 To J.
W. Sullivan, R. H Hopkina, Lee Zum-
walt, W. L. McCormick, W. B. Bizzeli,
W. H. Bruce, j. w. Beaty, J C. Colt,
W. B. McClurkan. M. L. Martin, W. C
Edwards, J. M Inge. J. L. Blewett, J.
E. Wilson and P. J. Beyetl: Genjlemen,
In obedience to the order of the City
Council of Denton, Texas, passed Nov.
24th, 1913, and by virtue of authority
vested in me as mayor In Section 2,
Chapter 147, Act* of the Regular Ses-
sion of the 33rd Legislature of Texas
(commonly called the Enabling Aet)’
I do hereby appoint you jointly and
severally a charter committee for the
City of Denton, Texas, to form a
special charter for the City of Denton
and submit the same to the City Coun-
cil at your earliest convenience so they
may submit the same for approval or
rejection to the legal voters of the city
and you are hereby called to meet on
Thursday night, Dec. 4, 1913, at the
City Hall at 7-30 p. m. for organization.
"ED F. BATES, Mayor."
In the list of awards at the Fort
Worth' Fat Stock Show, published
Wednesday, Denton county stands at
the top as usual, making splendid
showings in swine, sheep and stand-
ard bred horses.
Fl LL OBSERVANCE OF DAY OF
THANKSGIVING AT SERVICES
"It is a good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord, and to sing parises
unto thy name, O most high.”—Psalms
92; 1.
“In everything give thanks, for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus con-
cerning you.”—1st Thess.. 5: 18.
Thanksgiving services at the First
Methodist Church, under the auspice*
of the Pastors’ Association, began at
10:30 o'clock Thursday morning, and
the sermon, from the above texts in
Psalms and Thessalonians, bearing on
this day that is set apart by the Presi-
dent and the Governor, was preached
by Rev. Dr. J. W. Caldwell of ih»- Cen-
tral Presbyterian Church, the devotion-
al and thanksgiving service being ob-
served in the First Methodist church.
As a fitting accompaniment to the
idea of giving thanks in the true spirit,
that which is inalienable from a real
spirit of thankfulness—the proving of
oneself—by giving, was Included in the
service by the taking of a pledge col-
lection for the United Charities. S. O.
Beall, treasurer of the Charities, ac-
counted for the 8151.40 disbursed dur-
ing the past year for various items of
expense that came before, the Charities
committee -Included in the items, and
one which is not generally credited to
the Denton committee of helpfulness,
was an item of 872.75 expended when
three childre- who had been bitten
by a cat having hydrophobia, were sent
to Austin t othe Pasteur Institute for
treatment, accompanied by their father.
Also included in the expense was the
payment of a nurse for the mother of
one of the children, who became ill
during the absence of her husband.
This sum was the largest expended;
others included 86.00 given toward pay-
ing for the funeral of an old Confed-
erate ox-soldier, wood and food for a
family in the northeastern portion of
the city; railroad expenses for a man
who went to Ardmore to Join relatives,
and many minor items of wood, coal
and food for families in town tempor-
arily “under the weather.”
ONE KILLED, THREE HURT IN RIOT
OVER INDIANAPOLIS STRIKES
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2—One negro
was killed and three white men wound-
ed. one fatally, today when six special
policemen doing duty during the team-
sters' and chauffeurs' strike, fired into
a crowd. The officer* were riding on
an ice wagon which the strikers at-
tempted to stop. The police made trips
through the business seqjion in a fire
automobile armed with riot guns, pre-
venting meetings of the strikers.
15-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOUND GUILTY
OF KILLING TO-BE HUSBAND
CROWLEY, La., Dec. 2.—Dora Murff,
aged 18, today was found guilty of
manslaughter, her stepfather, J. S. Du-
vall, was found guilty of first degree
murder, and her'stepbrother, Allie Du-
vall, was acquitted in connection with
the murder of J. M. -Delhaye, the Murff
girl's sweethert, here on October 15,
last.
AVIA1OR KILLED
“INALIENABLE WT
New York. Dee. 2.—Dominick Riley,
former police eaptaln, was indicted
today for bribery in connection with
an alleged conspiracy between the po-
lice and wire tappers in a huge swin-
dle. This is the first Indictment in the
sweeping investigation still in progress
A checking account will give
you a standing in a commu-
nity which you cannot hope
to attain otherwise. It come*
nearer to insuring your credit,
position and success than any
other possession. It is yours if
you wish it. There is a bank
book wasting for you here.
” Lard Cann from 5 to 20 gallons.
■ Turkey Roasters in all sizes.
Guns and Ammunition.
Come and see. Prices the lowest;
# - -
G. M. PRUITT
The Hand Made Harness Man
North Side Square, Denton, Texas.
Office Over Long A King
any charters actually
be modeled along these
SELECT YOUR HOLIDAY GOODS.
We can put them away for future delivery if you wish
Our Prescription Department Is Our Pride*
LIPSCOMB'S DRUG STORE
Make It Your Store.
Of EVERY CHILO IS
A GOOD EDUCATION”
RIIQFAII DI AMQ MfihFI If y°u are with°ut insurance it is either carelessness, nee
IMJIiLnil iLnlld I’lul/LL lect or oversight. We are trying here to call your at
OUAHTrn rnh AITiro tent»on to ••most important m.tte.. Show your rpprecia
bHAKILK rUn UHtS ,ionb3"cal,in«,od“y-
. H. DEAVENPORT & CO.
Finty, Jr , in Dallas News.) 1 Both Phones 428
city charter, prepared by f
JTflv Bifre«iijif Municipal Research and
Reference of the University of Texas is
interesting for a number of reasons,
among them the faet that it is the first
big work o' th^ butRau, and because
o. the changes'wfiielr t work* in the'
treatment of .the franchise subject
The bureau, organised in June of the
present.year, has for its chief puprpose
the giving of aid in the solution of
problems of city government. To this
end, it is gathering all possible ma-
terial upon the Subject and stands
ready to answer, so far as its officials
may be able, inquiries made by the
municipalities of Texas, Seeond, it will
from time to time publish for public
use bulletins giving information op
matters of municipal interest.
T« Assist Charter Makers.
Because many Texas cities of 5,000
or more inhabitants are now consid-
ering the matter of revising their
charter* under the home rule act, the
bureau concluded to make known the
latest conclusions of municipal science
on the subject of charter making, and
this is done through the framing of a
model charter. Herman G. James, J.
D., Ph. D., director of the bureau, was
assisted in the work by Prof. C. S.
Potts of the University School'of Gov-
ernment.
“It is not expected," says Dr. James,
"that this charter will be adopted
section by section by any cit/ in the
State, and it does not purport to be a
model charter in the sense that it is
the final word in city government,
even at the present time, incapable of
improvement. Far from that! But it
is believed that the principles herein
adopted are worthy of being given a
trial, and it was felt that it would be
worth while to frame a charter which
could be a model charter in the sense
at least that
framed could
lines."
Taxicab and Auto Livery Senice
AT ALL TIMCB.
DAY AND NIGHT
Both PhonooT
Fox Bro*. ® Company.
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