The Comanche Vanguard (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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the Financia
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. SOLE OWNER. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
B. KLSSELL-
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Office of Publication Opposite Court House, Eart Bide of Square
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SlBBCRilUON PRICE
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4®,786.35
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law.
4.779.02
$81,383.20
Yea,
NONE
Christmas is
until he has paid for it.
redis-
NONE
of
rate
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efficient f>«ist mas ter.
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Comanche, Texas
Jim D. Slack, Manager
this year.
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A STATEMENT
hanksgiving
Specials
Thanksgiving is here,
coming fast!
The Comanche Vanguard
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
R. W. H. HAMILTON,
OPTOM ETRI ST
Comanche, Texxaa
Send in your comments, stating
hat you believe is the best advei
THE HOMESTE \D LAW WONT BE
REPEALED
A story that is true,
An incident that’s new,
We want to heat from you!
Send it in.
Will your story make us laugh?
Send it in.
Send along a photograph.
Send it in.
58,539.55
NONE
NONE
1,200.00
723.10
NONE
Bring your BUTTER and EGGS to
Slider & Lacy.
_____ _______y,_________.. w
nr reason why we are not eligible. 1
believe wo are all tight on this point.
Xiul whoever gets it will receive my
cordial congratulations ami support in
,b.e discharge of its duties.
NONE
271.33
It
no
a
NONE
NONE
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b
ft
to re t beneath Texas soil when the
finality conies. I believe 1 am compe-
tent to discharge the duties of the of-
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Those German counties, DeWitt and 1 mastership at Comanche.
ft lei si ng my homestead laws to suit the notion
” et 'or , I don’t want the office, the federal government,
other government.
Hon. Clarence Ousley b> reported to
have expressed his belief tie fore the
Federal Farm Loan Bank Comr pion
last Wednesday at bort Wortarthat
not fi
as
I ex-
and
mid
tock njarket Tues- I
got
Pro-
A Dutchman tried pik-
If vou are interested in a Child’s or
Misses SUIT, see Slider & l acy.
as compared with self ag.-andizement
at the expense of principle!
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The Gatesville .Messenger announces
that it will raise its subscription price
to $1.50 January 1, 1817. Every six-
■ olumn quarto in the country will have
» decide within the next 12 months
whether they will raise the
subscription or go under.
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SEND IT IN
• I Stock of bran now jewelry. R. W. H.
21-25 I Hamilton. Better buy early. 22tf
$ 15.000.(Ml
4,000.00
3,572.32
"Were
Oh. then yon j
"Well, how
“1 vas a
this 22nd day of Nov., 1916.
(Seal)
D. S. Jennings.
Notary Public, Comanche County, Tex-
as.
Correct—Attest:
D. S. JENNINGS,
C. B. GUY GER,
C. F. LUKER.
Directors.
\K’W.TPK
You should get these spex now. We
mav not have time Christmas week.
—R. W. H. Hamilton. 22tf
•' V. , > i : i'i. V ■ K —
IV<!I ’
Ji* ■
■ permitted.
ing. but stating the
, against the ada. as _
These Written criticisms will be oih- •
Mercer’s Gap. in Comanche county.
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Two cannot walk together unless
they are agreed. They wi .
fail altogether if one of them is
greedy.
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Sorry , hut turkeys are rooflCing
high for us this Thanksgiving.
822,496.75
560.10
37.8b
NONE
1,800.00
Real estate (banking house)
Other real estate
Furniture and fixtures
Due from approved Reserve
agents, net $46,091.05
Due frvin other banks and
bankers, subject to check,
net 3,695.30
Cash items 107.14
Currency 3,985.00
Specie 086.88
Interest in depositors guar-
anty fund
Other Resources as follows
mg.
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Our line of Thanksgiving Specials in Men’s wear
are arriving everyday. Something new and right
up to the minute in style and taste.
3ff gpanta Claus
were really' familiar with
KRYPTOKS, he would
leave a pair in every home
where double vision
glasses are needed.
VRYPTOK
XI. GLASSES Ik
TMt OKU INVISI0U BIFOCAL
And if vn were ns familiar
w ith their advantagi s as we
could make you, you would
kn<>w’ what a worth-while gift
KRYPTOKS are.
With two visions invisibly
combined in one pair of
K R V I* T O K S
(>»/-/<* Z'i >, the wearer can
enjov the com!< rtsof natural
eyesight. KRYPTONSh we
no line or seam t<> blur the
vision like old -tyle bifocals.
When you pass our store,
step in and let us tell you about
our K R Y 1’ TO K Chr.sOnas
Gift Certificate.
We have a high ri
eral intelligence ufiri culture of
Ousley, but we think his judgtnen
what the voters would do to ant
fort to repeal or modify the ’1
homestead law is terribly awry.
What has been one of the stranger
argue*’•nts to cultivate sentiment i
favor of this rural credit legi. latio
reputation. If axy person should feel that injj»iir» nw uewi uuur was that it would enable the fat
respect, and will notify the management, every possible etlurt will be made (jf eountry to buy homes.
Entered as s^Mrt-clasa matter July 1, 1913, at the portofflee at Coman
■ kt Texas, under ths Act of March 3, lb.8.
Looneys Men’s Store
“EVERYTHING FOR MEN WHO CARE”
No. 246
Official Statement
Condition of
THE M ATE BANK OF PRO< TU!.’
at Proctor, State of Texas,
At the elose of business on the 17th
day ««f November, 1916. published in
the Vanguard, a newspaper printed and
published at Comanche, Slate of r« x-
as, on the 24th day of November, 1916.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts, per-
sonal or collateral
Loan?-. real
Overdrafts.
• , Bonds and stocks
-(Real < -tat«- (banking hou.-e)
Surplus fund
Undivided profits, net
Due to banks and bankers
„ subject to check, net
Christian determined”’for the ‘right’ Individual deposits, subject ,
to check
Time certificates of deposit
Demand certificates of de-
posit
Cashiers (’hecks
Bills payable and
counts
Certificates of deposit, is-
sued for money borrow-
er! ________
Other Liabilities as follows
. Total
Yes' . , LIABILITIES
Senator Sheppard is u politician, but *,**’*, ^o,'k paid in —
the gulf between him ami many of
those we sometimes wonder at is wide
as God’s love and deep as His mercies.
The distinction is that of a staupch
" t ink 1 ai fully warranted in saying
that we are all gentlemen, all Demo-
crat - and ail Yn avmpathy with Presi-
.icr* Wilscn’s administration. I don’t
relieve any one of us claims the of-
fice by right of political service or
p al loyalty to President Wilson
W. have been loyal to him from prin-
ciple and not from personal self-in-
»Hiin x vnir * -
Fort WortiKthst
l»er rent of the voters of Tex-
Hwill oppose a reformation of the
homcstea I law to ii.tri the req
ments of the .Federal Farn Loan .(■
spect for the ge
Col.
t on
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The Republicans vary in
for how it was clone. The Vanguard
thinks Hughes did the most of it with
his little hammer.
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For the first time in history, a wo-
man has been elected to congress.
Don’t you suppose the 434 men in the ,
A re port that Norway is preparing I
to enter the war against Germany]
helped to upset tl o -1
and the public, as 'u-
sbaken out by the professionals,
pie will pike.
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A YEAR AND VHALF I R $1.50.
The Vangtiaru rate of sat tion '
• : his
.revi-
"UWI-
Tbat
at Sidney Sunday was
Uncle Dick Frazier says he didn't on- I hax
joy the latter end of it. because his appointment,
p.luifiirn Ka vs n - htl I f* l u t*«> vni’tiinllv
through.
“P. W. Chaudoin, of San Antonio, is
visiting at the home of B. R. Larpance.
Jack Stinnett and other relatives he><
The old gentleman is in his 73rd year,
and is a native Texan. He is none the
worst for age. as he has the appear-
ance of an average 50-year-old man.
He travel.- for a honey company near
San Antonio.” Gorman Progress. It
sounds funny to hear “Chad” spoken
of as an “old gentleman,” though we
guess he is getting along in years
now. We haven*t seen him probably
in 25 yeai -. and didn't k’ <>w w hat had
become of h’m. P. W. Chaudoin
lived a number of years over beyond
Merrer Gap and in the Zephyr com-
munity. his name being pronounced
“Chadowen." He was always a gent-
leman. all right!
i his little w nd. On bemoaning his lo«s |
to a friend, the latter asked:
, vou a hull?" "Naw!"
ware a bear." "Naw!'
did you happen to lose?
yackaM!"
It la net tbe Intention of thia paper to reflect upoa private character <>i
ghouid fee. that H justne has been dune in this
al provision of the Texas homestead
-----— aw. Anx on<- and all <> 'hem
We are compelled to adopt thia rule to save unreason- |fjn<| their name written Ichuimd in
box-car letters.
And more, any national Democ rat
who squints at this policy will find
that Texas has given him the slip,
when it comes to a showdown.
Texas is the mother of the hor> <
I stead law. Every other state in the 48
has followed Texas in whatever home
i stead law it has.
If one oi the main purposes of the
land bank law' is to enable people to
buy homes, what has the Texas horn*
stead law got to do with it?
No man in Texas can own a home
It is bomal
for the purchase money and for tax* s.
bound for improvement-
Total $>1,383.20
STATE OF TEXAS, County of Co-
mai rhe.
We, R. W. Gray, as president, and
R. R. Evans as cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that
the above statemei t is true to the
best of our knowledge and belief.
R. W. GRAY, President.
R. R. Evans, Cashier. I
Subscribed and -worn to before mo ml(] along with them a sweet
i play and common sense. Have It in
| by Wednesday noon of each w eek. It
will Im* passed on by a committee of
judges, whose names will he announc-
ed with each decision. The winner
gets one year’s subscription to the
Vanguard and also a premium man
Of course we mwt exclude the adver-
tisers themselves and those directly
interested in the business advertised
Rut they will be admitted for < r.ti- ^g h/th/Ttocl.'mnrt.-t" once and lost
cisms of any advert irenvnta in which
they are not interested.
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It is estimated that Texas will ship
out one and a quarter million turkeys
Last week we opened the door *’y W,*'ln' <ln>
through the Vanguard for criticism 1
of the advertisements. We offered a
year’s subscription for the best criti-
cism. We did not expect a rush of
answer®, for the notice was in an o^
scure part o fthe paper, not empha
■ sized and the idea is a new on<^
I is an educational one. There is
humbug to it. We merely began
_ , campaign that we expect to keep go-
when the controversy first arose j
between Gen Funston and J. B. Gam- L .
brell about preaching -o the -ol.Hers > tis/Tnent fr.'.'m the x’mw’of artist'edis
the Vanguard said Gen. runaton had
started something. It was also ap
parent that he had no idea of the msg
nitude of the thing he started. Re
cently Gen. Funston made a threat to
start a libel suit growing out of the
Gen. Funston will ulti-
mately find out that a libel suit is
small potatoes compared to the origin-
al starting. Gen. Funston's present
altitude is that the people don’t un-
derstand the army. His future atti-
tude will 1»e that the army does not un-
derstand the people. Gen. Dunston is an
expert in military matters, hut he yet
has a few things to learn about the
principles of civil government as un-
derstood in the United States.
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Ever since the paper started the
Vanguard editor has been vainly ti.<
ing to find time and apace for a col-
umn of exchange clippings and com-
ment*, but things happen so fast here
in ('omam he county, and there is so
much good dope never written about it
that we have apparently been neglect
ful of courtesies to our exchanges. It
is only apparent, however. We scan
our neighbors pretty closely every
week, anil there are lots of good things
in them, but as they themselves know
better than anybody outside the guild,
we all have to leave out many more
good things than we put in. for want
of time to put them in type and space
to print them in the paper.
I have decided to apply for the poat-
‘ I know of
Washington, went Republican. So did I several applicants and there may be
• ” ' ”-------‘------J others that I have not heard of. It
I would not ordinarily l>e considereil
1 necessary to make this announcement ;
ill perhaps through a public print, as the office I
ails appointive instead of elective.
there are some things I think the pub- I
, lie should know, because, first, the i
accounting ; !,uWic a direct interest in the post-1
v„.service;
ness to myself demands it.
I am informed that three other
gentlemen arc aspirants. With respect
to them I wish to say that any one
of them will, in my judgment make I
an efficient postmaster. All four of
us are well known to the people, hav-
ing resided among you from 1’’ to 40 i
years. As a rule, the friends of one |
are also the mutual friends of all the I
1 do not know of any reason hgislatic
! .. .......
i the Vanguard some winesap apples
- ) potato
I in the figure of a saurian reptile curl-
ed up like a dog. Imagine an alle-
gator with a sharp bill and without
legs curled uj> like a rat-terrier asleep
before the open fire and you have a
pretty accurate idea of its shape. We
shall try to digest the apples and the
potato shortly. Meantime, many
| thanks.
NEW PRODUCE HOUSE i
Opened up in the old Ford garage, i
next to photo gallery. Bring us all
your country produce.—Comanche I
Produce Co. 1
It can be
made on it.
Why should this homestead exemp
tion law interfere with the working of
But, | a land bank ?
If the federal land bank system pro-
poses to put a mortgage on a home in
. Texas THAT IS ALREADY PAID
and, setoml, because fair- FOR Texas does not want any of it
Moreover, Texas is not going to have
any of it for that purpose.
It makes the Vanguard exceeding
| tired to hear such talk, because the
Vanguard is in touch with the very
mudoill. <>f our social fabric, and
KNOWS what it is talking about!
The federal land banks can do a
great work in Texas in helping ti r
ant farmers to buy homes. The
n creating the system has
already reduced the interest rate in
Texas at least two per cent on lin<
loan debts. Hut the system will have
• Texas home-
stead law. If the system expects to
i help a man buv a home, and then. A!
■TER HE HAS PAID FOR IT, use t ■
same property as collateral securit
for any other loan the husband and
i wife might think they need, the sys-
tem will find itself very much
If I | taken.
Texas is not going to repeal he
Senator Morris Sheppard of whom
the Vanguard has often spoken, and
for shorn this edito” has for years en-
tertained high reg; rd. liecausc of his
.-.tor ing Christian manhood, amply
demonstrated that our faith in him
was well founded Tuenday of thi.-
week, at the First .Methodist church
Waco. Speaking of “Christian Citi-
zenship,” one of his points was that a
i»e!ief in God was necessary to any
good citizen. Reviewing world history .
al the time of the Roman empire he |
pointed out that it was evident to (
any student that there was a divine f
purpose in the coming of Christ at 1
that time, because from that time r
change bail liegun in the heart - and |
ideals of men. He drew out the fact
that the nations whkrt are established
in Christian principles are the nations
that have become a force in the worlds
affair sand those who have not ohaerv-
, ed them have gone to calamity ami
, failure. He spoke of the European
failure. In speaking of the European
war he believed it would result in im-
pressing these thing on men more than
ever before and that universal dis-
armament and universal peace ensue.
He left a very strong impression in
Waco as well he might, for almost
bis closing wonls were h quotation
quotation from the “Recessional,”
“LH‘d God of hosts, be with us
Lest we forget, lest we forget!”
The Vanguard will give one year’s I
subscription to the person giving the .
best criticism, in writing, upon what I
vent it. anil whatever nr>angernent wr>t‘,r considers the best advertise- j
■ ay Ik made in the change <>f manco' ment in thi week’s Vanguard, . g tig
- from the ARTISTIC DISPLAY and!
GOOD TASTE IN VERBAL EX-
PRESSION. Persons interested in the
ads will, of course, be excluded from
the award.
The c.iticisms must be in this office
‘ ‘ . It
makes no difference whether you can
spoil correctly, or whether you under-
stand grammar. If you want to get
somclwdy else to write for you, that is
’. Remember, that criticism j
means neither picking flaws or prais-1
facts for and j
advertisements. |
.............1........_ „w^ I
mitted to the decision of disinters -•ted I
judges, and the names will be withheld
from the judging committee until the
decision is remlered. Send in your I
criticism, with y< ur name written on a ,
separate sheet.
next house will feel awful lonesome
with that one woman in their midst?
dinner-on-the-ground spread I rest.
„ all right, but I why any one of the four should not
Uncle Dick Frazier says he didn't on- have the office if he can secure the
—1 '■ And b< ci, - <>ur friends
appetite gave out liefore he was half hire virtually the ante people, I feel a | to adjust itself to the
delicacy in personally asking any of | ‘ 1 ‘ *“ **
my friends to discriminate between
myself anil the others by personally
espousing my cause as against them.
But I shall duly appreciate any assist-
ance volunteered.
In entering this contest, I shall go in
and come out with clean hands.
cannot get the office without descend- '
ing into a campaign of cri
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The Philadelphia Ledger bemoans
the trend of the west tn savor of a
Democratic president as the beginning
of a new sectionalism. Scanning the
map of the entire country, it looks to
the Vanguard as if the sectionalism
was confined to a few states in the
northeast with Pennsylvania as the
bell-wether. The map looks like a
pretty good-aised white d<»g with a terest. We all want the office simply
black tail curled up toward Greenland. | because it is a handy thing to have in
---------------------o--the family, and liecause we know of
The Rev. Francis von (Tafenbeck of
Tillamook, Ore., has sur-endered his
letters of naturalization, saying that
Wilson's re-election as pre dent “i
too much" for him. That’s the honest
thing. Dr. Clafenbeck. We wish a mil
lion or two other hyphenated Xmeri
cans would be equally honest. This
country is a nation by itself, and when
it becomes merely a hy phenated ad
junct to any European power it will
be a sad day for the liberty of the hu-
man race.
was raised to $1.50 Oct. 1. 191<’
raise did not affect contracts
oualy made, and we had a larg
2 I her of subscribers who hau take the i
' paper on credit at $1.00.
' To obs late all doubt, we j>ui, -bed
that we would not only ratify these
contracts, which we were both legally i
and in honor hound to do, but would !
. I allow any of these credit subscril ers
am in my 67th year and probably |o extend as much longer as they |
the o.de.-t man in the race. I am a wisheil at the .-amc rate upon paving;
Ty ,r«na'ns up before October 1. Many of" our I
subscribers were not prepared to avail I
themselves of this offer at the time. I
, i. . , an,l many others had paid ahead at i
five. If I should be the fortunate as- th<. ol<1 |LOO rate who ,lrHrP(1 t0 ex.
Pirsnt 1 expect to give my whole time 1(.n,| a|1(, a mai, ,(Ut |h<b ( wag
and attention to it. I believe those n„t (,pen t(, thpm
w ho know me best will confide in this In to a4.(.onimo<]ate aH cla.seH
I ball know no favonte. iiu|»)>l.rih<.I.s we now ..;,rn the «a> bv
and no enemies, if I have any. I giving vou the paper for a year ar,I a
have always regarded public offu-e as | ha|f at $1 ,n and also „ )K,
a public trust belonging, not to the of our |>remjum ma|()< whil(. th<,v la8t
, i; ••'"I We have mly 250 of them . anil .
'^nUs ** ar>’* the people, wj|| probably not make another order,
and the whole peop e. So the first 25(1 subscribers w ho . ome !
If it shou d be asked what I intend in aI1(J pav us $l -,() ea,.h wi|) ,,„t
dome with the \anguard ,n case of my th,_ Vanguard a yen. and a half
* * hut alao a map. This offer is good i
only until January 1.
Come early before they are al! rone, i
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HERE’S A PRIZE FOR YOU!
Never mind about your style
If the story’s worth the while
And may help or cause a smile,
Send it in.
for the new things along this line. Something
new arrives at our place every day and our stock is
complete in every detail. We also call your atten-
tion to our line of Tailoring. Cleaning and Pressing.
We give special attention to ladies tailoring work
and our tailor, Mr. Talmage Nabers, is a specialist
along this line. Let us have your suit.
m> correct It without the elighteet delay.
Error, and overzlghte In mailing the paper to aulwcribere are to .ome
„rent unavoidable t .hall consider It a favor to h. noUhed iu every
•uch caae, and will alway. duplicate if poMible.
i^eath noUcee. obltuarle., memorial resolution., etc., except voluntaries
ky the editor, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word for all in
•xcera of 100 word. “ “ “
able expend of time and .pace.
Subscribers are requested to noth.' the laWI on their Pap**-- The fig-
ures are the last two figures of the year and not the day of the month.
If vour labol fails to show the year to which you have paid, we shall consid-
er it a kindness if you will so notify us. A star opposite a name means
an order to stop when out. Most of our subscribers desire us to keep the
paper coming, and hence we have adopted this special sign to denote the ex-
ceptions.
from the Texaco Star:
“If you have a bit of news,
Send it in.
Or a joke that will amuse,
Send it in.
too
We
can't pay $5.(Mi for one, and we have
planned to hake a cotton-seed and
stuff it with a roasted peanut; pro-
vided we van negotiate a
credit.
If any number of politicians in T
as want to dig their own grave,
pull the dirt in after them, we w^
advise them to follow Col. Ou.iley
lead in trying to set aside any materi
one and all of
appointment, my answer is that I shall
resign its management, both editorial-
ly and financially. It is not likely
that I shall sell it. hut I expect to put
it in the hands of somebody who will |
maintain its general prestige and |
policies as they arc and have been I
heretofore. It has won a place in the ,
affections of the people of Comanche
county which 1 would not permit to be
sacrificed, if within my power to pre
arrangement
'«> r m n k .
ment, I think I can persorally guaran
tee to its friends that its tone will
main the same so fnr as different per-
sonalities will allow.
L B. RUSSELL.
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Russell, L. B. The Comanche Vanguard (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1916, newspaper, November 24, 1916; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1247918/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.