Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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Carrollton Chronicle
CARROLLTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 10, 1905
VOL. I.
NUMBER 30,
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
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school building is not insured
and is continually in dange- of
being burned, and we at the
present are trying to get up an
entertainment to raise enough
money to insure the building,
and we hone the people will pat-
ronize us. The entertainment
will be on the night of February
25, as intended at present, but
we will announce more concern-
ing it later.
M. L. Hankins. Principal.
Looking Our Way.
The fame of Carrollton is
abroaJ, as is evidenced by the
letter Below, which was written
to a real estate man here. It be-
hooves us to be up and doing that
we mryget our share of good
citizens who are coming to this
country’ to locate. We have as
good propositions to offer home
seekers as any country, town or
community in the state and when
the prospector comes here he is
Wry soon convinced of this fact.
The idea is to get our resou -ces
and advantages before the home-
seeker and the rest is easy. Here
is the letter; it speaks for itself:
Carthage, Mo., Feb. (5. 1905.
Mr. T. C. Wright,
Carrollton, Texas,
Dear Sir- There are a number
of people going from this section
to the south and west. Can you
offer any inducements to home-
srekers? What can you offer to
a man who will send you a few
buyers? If you can give-ns the
proper pro|x>sition will see what
we can do to send you the buy-
ers. Respectfully,
H. B. Kei.ixv: ;.
Ayers
Take cold easily? Throat
tender? Lungs weak? Any
relatives have consumption?
Then a cough means a great
Cherry
Pectoral
deal to you. Follow your
fdoctor’s advice and take
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It
heals, strengthens, prevents.
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Work of Present term Reviewed by the
Principal.
I wish to say to! whom it may
concern that last week’s issue of
the Chronicle contained the Jan-
uary report of our school If
you have read carefully and stud-
ied that report you will see that
it is a good showing for a school
of its size. The entire’~enroll-
ment for the year has been 141
pupils and at least twelve or fif-
teen pupils for unavoidable rea-
sons are not in the school at
present, and yet our average
daily attendance for the month
ending January 20, despite the
Christmas holidays coming in
the middle of the' month, also
two weeks of bad, muddy, snowy
weather, was 96.9. That means
there was an average of that
many every day. Of course sopie
days there were a great many
more and other days not so
many, but that was the average
for the month; and if you have
had some experience in school
work you know that is exceed-
ingly good. I am more than sat
isfied.
The free school lasts but a few
we^ks longer. The free term
will close February 17, and at
time there will have been five
months of free school. Miss
Fain and I have done everything
in our power to make the school
a success and at the same time
lessen the expenses of tlje school.
We have divided classes, have
sent pupils from one room to the
other to recite, have heard two
classes at once and iieard pupils
recite during the noon hour and
recess periods in order to save
the board the expense of hiring
another teacher and thereby
shortening the public term. All
this we have done for a number
of good meaning, hard working
pupils that we knew could not
and would not attend the pay
school. We have done this extra
work without a murmur and feel
that We have been amply repaid.
We feel compensated for our ef-
fort in the fact that we have ex-
tended the tree term of school to
its maximum and thereby liave
helped some deserving children
that sorely needed it. And there
is no one that sees and feels the
needs of these children more
than we.
We have striven hard during
these five months to arouse a de-
sire in each and every pupil to
learn and try to better their con-
dition in life, and we are glad to
state that with few exceptions
we liave succeeded.
We liave not had lhe co-opera-
tion of parents in some instances
that we thought we should have ■
liitd, but as a
that the community are
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The Johnson Entertainers.
The Johnsons anc their com*
pany of fun makers have been'
playing here for two weeks in
the school house to fair houses.
On account of the bad weather
people have been unable f > come
out, but they have given the peo-
ple of Carrolton rn entertain-
ment that has been good in .every
respect. They now have nine
people. Ijost night they gave an
entertainment that was the lx«st
of the week. Miss Georgia Stout,
the charming sieging and danc
ing soub^ette, madethe hit of the
’ show. Mr. Foran, tlie buck and
' wing dancer. was th*,l>est dm c-r
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pupils when they need it; and so , , *
far as I know or am able to judge I t’,n’ 18 a ‘J * " n ’
1 The Thomas sketch did
some gof d comedy work, and the
a hit.
I Last but not least came the John-
sons in their comedy sketch «
and ar tsr.rJ- :;,r.dc the hit. They
are Without a doubt the best ail
arc and spCcir.Ity ti’am that has
plryerl (’cr?c?’*vn. '
They will give a show tonight
and Saturday niglit and t’x» p»n '
C’arroFt.'tf ought tn tn m
a pack* d
Tiekctr 10c and 20 •.
Feed For Sale
Ker-d bats, hulls, m»-ai and g<m
end !♦•» <! utc* by A. ". Bunnell,
under Woodman hall, t’s.'.ii’li >1,
lltonc 10, I rin;.
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OUR AUSTIN LETTER
comes a law, the following expla-
nation is made: When a bill is
introduced <it is sent up to the
reading clerk’s desk and the
clerk reads the bill by caption,
which briery outlines its pur
poses. It is then referred to the
proper committee. For instance
if it relates to railroads, it goes
to the committee on common
carriers; if it seeks to create a
new criminal law or amend an
old one, it goes to the committee
on criminal jurisprudence. There
are thirty-eight of tliese commit-
tees and the matters that prop
erly come within their jurisdic-
tion embrace every subject of
legislation. These committees
are necessary, as they save the
house or senate as the case may
be much valuable time, for sev-
eral ^committees meet at the same
time and the bills are disposed
of much more rapidly. If a com-
mittee reports a bill favorably, it
then goes to the house, if it is a
house bill, on second reading and
if passed by that body it is or-
dered engrossed. If it passes
engrossment, it has to come up
again for final passage. If the
committee reports a bill ad-
versely it is killed without ever
coming before the house, unless
a minority report is made by
those of the committee dissent-
ing from the majority, and this
minority report has to be substi-
tuted by the liouse before it can
come up. If a bill passes with
the emergency clause, which has
the effect of putting it in force
immediately after its passage, it
must have the emergency clause
attached to the bill and receive a
two-thirds vote of the members
present, otherwise it will not go
into effect for ninety days after
adjournment of that session.
When a bill is passed by one
branch of the legislature it has
to take the same course in the
other house. It will be seen
that a bill has three chances to
be killed in each branch of the
legislature—the house and the
senate—before it reaches the
governor, and even then he lias
another chance by using his veto
power. Thus it is not strange
that so many bills fail to be-
come laws, and it is doubtless a
good thing, otherwise the state
would he burdened with a lot of
useless and oftimes vicious laws.
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Austin, Feb. 6.—This has been
a lively week With the legislators
and some interesting debates
have taken place on the floors of
both houses of the legislature.
One of the most interesting fights
so far this season was the one
over the bill to giyje the city
councils in towns of less than
10,000 inhabitants the right to
regulate the prices to be charged
by light and water companies.
The bill was finally passed to en-
grossment after having lieen
amended so as to include sewer
age and telephone companies,
and that the city council shall
not have the power to fix a rate
that would not give the compa-
nies a reasonable profit on their
investment.
Among the new bills introduc-
ed we have noticed none of spe-
cial importance. A resolution
has been introduced that the leg-
islature adjourn sine die on
March 10. It was laid on the ta-
ble subject, to call. This is about
the time that the sixty days will
end and unless they adjourn and
compel the governor to call them
together immediately in extra
session their pa}’ would only be
$2 per day. At the beginning of
the extra session their pay will
again be $5 per day, so they may
be expected to adjourn about the
time named in the resolution.
The anti-flree pass bill has
passed- t he senate by a close vote
and is now up to the house. The
writer remembers what was done
to a measure of that kind two
years ago and we venture the
prediction right here that it will
not become a law at this session.
If it did not effect the members
themselves they would suspend
the constitutional rules requiring
bills to be read on three several
days and pass this bill in fifteen
minutes.
A few days ago the senate
committee on internal improve-
ments reported favorably two
bills having conflicting purposes.
One was to regulate ticket scalp
ing and the other was to prohibit
ticket scalping altogether. This
gave the authors of the two bills
a “dog fall,” and put their bills
before th-t senate on an equal
basis.
It is no injustice to those who
have served before him and no
flattery of Judge Foree to say
that he is the best flotorial repre-
sentative Dallas and Rockwall
eounlies have sent to the legisla-
ture in a long time. Notwith-
standing the fact that he lives in
Risk wall county, he appears to
realise that he represents both
counties and stands ready to act
with the members from Dalias
county the same as if he resided
in Dallas county.
. County Clerk Frank R. Shanks
of Dal!ah was a re. ent v.sitor
here. -
A big delegation of prominent
Dalias attorneys came down a
few days ago to represent the
whisky and beer dealers in op-
posing the passage of Represen-
tative Love's high license bill.
As many of the readers of the
• Fhronicle do not know the course!
will
closes.
When our term of free school
is out we intend to teach a few
months of subscription school.
We hope to be able to do better
work then than we have done, for
several reasons. First, the chil-
dren have become disciplined,
their minds are in better condi-
tion to learn and they can grasp
a proposition quicker and hold it
better than they could at the be-
ginning of the term. The school
will not be so crowded and there’
fore they will have an opportunity
to do better work. Again, they
are all well advanced in their
books and if they continue in
school until it is out they will
keep the connection of the book
as it is graded and goon through
without any trouble; but if they
stop at the present of course they
will be out of school so long and
forget so much of what they have
already learned that in many
cases they will have to do the
work over next year. We hope
that most of the parents will
send their children right on to
the pay school;
We are teaching a school sec-
ond to none. Our work is thor-
ough and accurate and precise ih
every respect. Don’t take our
word for it; come and see;
We intend to run our school on
staictly business principles; we
believe in the “pay as you go”
system, and we expect to collect
all tuition in advance, and if for
any unavoidable reason a child
should miss as much as one week
of school the money will be re-
funded or time extended on nekt
month. We do business in a bus-
iness way, and as long as tlie peo
pie patronize the school so it will
justify me I will teach, but when
it don’t I will fold my tent and
take up-my habitation elsewhere.
The music department that has
been under the direction of Miss
Bullock has worked in harmony
with the school all the way
through. There has been no
conflict between her work and
ours so far, and can say she has-
done excellent work. She is al- j
ways ready and willing to help j
able7o^udg<>Jn;hXis
her work has been thorough and j
the children have advanced rap- i , ,
., 1 - * 1 little clu'd wonder was
idly, and I presume she intends ’
to teach i long as school lasts.
We have all striven to make the
surroundings' as pleasant as pos-
sible fo* imrselves and t-ie puy
pils. W*have tried to lead- boys
and girls in the twtbs of truth
whole we feel i ;,n‘I riffhteousnoss by setting the
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pleased and have been standing 1 ••v’n8 honest and i.pright lives in (g'v? tti-ui
backof us and helping u.whatj«*ir P«sence. We behove that-
th. y could, tnd we assure you : right living before people is worth ■
that we appreciate it. Oar work jmopp to thc worId than
has been open for investigation j*^nd’WP| bene ar.dtrast t.iatcvei}
al* rhe time, and we have invited’!,,ov 1 t,,r,L ,a ’ ‘ 0
and insisted both publicly cemtact with us has teen made ______
priva ely everyone who lives in j better and will live better and;TvS. M
the comm unity to visit our school i nobler Ives. If we have failed in (
and despite this fact some mem j t.iis it hxs teen a mistake of ours
bers of the board have not been and notan intention. g *xl roads convention will t-**
uvlli V"c « our j! be- T a’sc •’bh to state that the tor-4 wcror.d pigr.
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gan. But a great many of our
patrons have been to visit us and
have always found us hard at
work. And we hope that those
who have not visited us as yet
do so before the school
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Wagner, A. J. Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1905, newspaper, February 10, 1905; Carrollton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1268044/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.