The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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COMMERCE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 2,1905.
NO 42
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newest
tock of Dry Goods in
stated before, we sell BARGAINS only.
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Fine
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Hats and Shirts.
Ladies Skirts
son
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up-to-date dry goods business.
We are
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Come around,
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Fairlie Whitting's.
A
talker.
persuading, against every im-
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jy Gro-
re, look
There
iceries.
fully
tJxire
when to buy, and
you already know, his is the
button
now ..
Political Pete.
The Sabbath Again.
ushes.
ionery
Lots of them!
7.50c values going at... ..$3.75
5.00 values going at ....... 2.50
3.00 values going at ....... 1.98
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Our Job Department
is constantly being supplied with
new type faces and other neces-
sary material for turning out the
most artistic work in this line.
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A lady’s low cut, cloth top,
or lace, regular 11.75,
95c
The Happy Home, $1.50 value,
now..................fl. 19
Diamond, a S2
something to keep up interest
you may buy whether the
A few Gold Watches to close
out at once.
A few men’s hats, to close out
we offer 82 and S3 hats for 75c to
81.50.
Big assortment of men’s work
. -hirts, the Jack Rabbit kind. 39c
Fine shirts, regular 75c kind
at.................
The $2 Swaffer shirt at. 81.25
The Black
value, now...............81.35
18 karat oxfords, worth $2.50
now........................
Oleander, patent leather, but-
ton, worth $3. now.........$2.25
Shoes of all kinds, for men and
boys, at any old price. Come and
see.
and Mrs.
was interred at So- must have convictions, clear and
Dress Goods.
Mohair lustre, others sell spe-
cialiy at 25c; our price for the
Reason has been 22c; we now sell
t,or ................... 19c
■ Mercerised chiffon volt, regular
|30c; in this sale....... . 15c
I Bouton nauveaut'e in all the late
(designs, regular 30c, now...,2Oc
Linen color dotted mulhouee,
I regular 25c goods, now......21c
32 inch linen chambray mad-
ras, regular 15c, now.......10c
Jacquard knicker roil helio
mulhouae. regular 19c, now 12‘»c
Knicker zephyr linen, regular
20c, now..............12Sc
fit. Gall novelties, regular 30c
k.nd, now............... ]4C
Dotted silk mull, regular 50 -,
now ..................25c.
Tarantelle nauveaute, regular
119c, now...... ........9..
Katrina Dimity, regular 10c,
Pow..........................
L Light blue dotted Swiss, regu
hr 18c, now......... 9^.
I Nice white lawn, regular 10c,
FIW ..............5c
Millinery.
We have a few very fine and
up-to-date ladies’ hats, ranging
from $2.50 to $4.00; we offer
them in this sale for $1.75 to 3.00
Shoes.
Peters' shoes and other good
makes.
the welfare of the inner 1
God has promised that these
terial things shall be added
us if we look first to the welfare
of the spiritual man.
Prof. Simons is to give an l"
day singing at Sweat Box Sun-
day, we are told,
fellows—as one of
, correspondents abbreviates it__
inimitable. (I hope she means
vour voice, Professor!) But you
1 do sing better than you look,
sure—you sing “good enough for
me.” | ___
Speaking of hard times, Irish ^nda’ nothin8 can be done with
Kelly says it nearly kills him to I . cre>*ra Parlor- be it said to
live this year! Some of our
neighbors are eating bull-frog
legs. We suppose they do so in
order that they may “leap”
through this hard season.
Eggs am struck low,
King Cotton struck high also.
Hopin’ deze lynds ’ill fine yo’ I
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I Of frJ,:“~ •
has <
our pleasure to hear this!hind them
Rev. Blanton preachedI
Sunday night, taking for
S. K. Ander.on .tte„drf th.!Umvi«U™ ™'
meeting of the Masonic Lodge at! and
Commerce Monday night.
The infant of Mr.
Walt Hanes
man. | worth considering. It is we'I
1 ma- | known that those who play, play
unto ' for the money there is in it. Cut
off the gate fees and the thing
will stop. A legislature that will
--------1 an evil ought
(I am
rward when it chances to rain '
L it did on Piaster this ;----1
--ordir.g ta^hat we are doomed
another week's downpour he-
re we may hope for better
lather and chances to farm.
Little Cloyce Reynolds is sick
------- His trouble seems to nora Tuesday.
potatoes j The other day the writer
Look out, 1 wkh a
—. j one of the party remarked that j convictions.
hoemoin was j never r“ ___
will justify a man of convictions
to stoop and compromise with
those who may oppose him and
try to out iorxi aim into their
We have everything kept in an
lere and don't want to go away, and must do
liis summer. So we put ’em down that
ects be good or bad.
a good, plain, mills, and the like, make it 1
Come to require their men to make re-
1 pairs on Sunday.
are And in numberless other ways
and j the Sabbath is profaned, and the
IS .a •TKy.'-k • — A. _ ■
guilty
mem-
crop pros-
you are welcome at any and all times
whether you buy or not; we want to get acquainted with you.
Yours for straight business,
C. E. WIGGINS,
outh Side the Square, Commerce, Texas.
you
rain _______ _______
who made you is worst of it is that the
to be ready for business Monday, i
Corporations which operate
us at Sonora, machinery, such as oil and flour
a rule t the
___ 1 a middle ground
clock depart- between the fwo is proving, as it
. The at-
We temP‘ to compromise on a moral
■ principle always operates to the
8 day kind, at prices to suit you. sacr,fice of the principle. Hence
. . ~ | we are shut up to either the Puri
“ tan Sabbath, or what a Christian
must call no Sabbath. We are
running very rapidly in this
country toward the latter. Not
only every Christian, but every
good citizen, should be aroused,
for the going down of the Sabbath
would mean the going down of
the very convictions and safe-
guards that have made this coun-
try as great as it is.
Aman’s estimate of the Sab-
bath 1
mark of his moral sentiments—
that is, he is no better at
time than he is on
his conduct on that day will fix ! for themselves,
his place in the moral scale, go
This applies to those who
free to choose their own
, Some have no such freedom and
___ _ are not to be held to the same 1
I strict account as those who have. ■
I It is said to be a common thing
follies; furthermore, if you have
convictions and the courage be-
I ------1 as the three Hebrew
I children, there will be no points i
of quandary between the evil and j
the right side to any question
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Men’s Clothing.
We are showing some rare bar-
gains in men's high grade wors-
ted, made in the very best and
latest styles. They all sell ’em
for from $14 to $18. We are sell-
ing them from ....... #5 to 1<>
Men’s two-piece outing suts,
new and up to date, regular $6
and $7 kind, our prices on them
are all alike........... $3.00
Odd pants till you can’t rest at
from...............75c to
Boys knee suits, any size, any
color or kind, from 75c to $7.00
Several times in the pulpit,
many times in private conversa-
tion, and once in the Journal, I
have sounded the note of warn-
mg against the encroachments
being made upon our Christian
Sabbath. Once more I wish to
utter a protest, and appeal to the
law-abiding and God-fearing
portion of our people.
If present tendencies are not
checked, fifty years hence will
find us practically without a Sab-
qo" ' bath‘ 1 ®ay be called a Puritan,
J'’ but there are just two courses
__ open to us: we must get back to
the Puritan Sabbath or plunge __________«
A.,- fil 1 TV 1 1 i headlong into the secular holiday tion specified above, yet th
Our Clock Departmentof the c°nt,nentai countries Of x ■
* , Europe. The effort we are mak-
We want especially to call your | 'nK to maintain
attention to our < ___ <
ment. No one can keep time un- I a‘way® will, a failure,
less he has a time piece. V..
have the very best alarm clocks,
fcasy to Understand
Why WIGGINS can undersell the other fellow.
tier factory prices; he buys heavily, and avoids
Anything. He understands what, where and
just here I wish to say, as
1 the shame of past legislatures,
but something can be done with
cigar and lemonade stands, and
m many counties of the state
they have been, and are being,
closed. The officers can close
them if they want to, and they
.------........ 3h°u,d remember that they prom-
joying’ de same blessen, I closes ', the P®°P|e tha‘ if they would
elect them they would enforce all
| the laws just as they found them.
Only on such promise could they
hope to be elected, and those
*ho are laboring for the moral
betterment of the people have a
right to insist that the strong arm
of the law be brought to bear. If
we cannot restrain every form of
Sabbath desecration for want of
adequate laws, we can restrain
some forms of it.
But the final appeal must be to
the people. Law or no law, the
people of our country know what
is right, and should stand up for
it in the home, in society and in
business circles. There is hardly
a man in the country who would
for a moment defend a single one
of the forms of Sabbath desecra-
- .----icy are
ail tolerated, and with but very
little protest so far as I can hear.
Our great need is a general ton-
ing up among the springs of our
moral activiries. Evils of long
standing dull the edge of public
sentiment, and their commonness
blinds the eyes of many to their
enormity.
If the people throughout the
country who profess to be moral
and law-abiding, to say nothing
of those who claim to be Chris-
tians, would act in a manner
consistent with their pretensions,
these things would stop, officers
or no officers. The work of re-
form must begin with the in-
dividual and in the home. The
judicial function seems to have
------------------ almost departed from fatherhood,
measures the high water and the home is no longer a court
nf hi. ----- . ot ]aat re80rt jn the aettlement of
any moral questions, but the children
Sunday, and 1 are allowed to settle such matters
* fOT* TS n
-------- li they want to
on Sunday excursion to the
are ball game, they go. If they want
course, to spend their Sunday afternoons
and nights revelling in cream
parlors, they are not hindered.
I nless parents take up the reins
of authority again which they
seem to have thrown down, no
prophet is needed to tell us where
we are going to land. With the
get authority of the home and the
sanctity of the Sabbath gone,
the prospect would present noth-
all not deal with such
■■ • j itself to be dealt with.
He is OK., j glad to know that our own repre-
our neighbor ■ sentatives were in favor of the
bill which proposed to stop it.)
Then the drug stores, many of
them, and the confectioneries aie
becoming hot beds of Sabbath
desecration. As the law now
Ladies' Underwear.
All kinds of ladies’ underwear.
Black sateen underskirts worth
$2.50, now ...............$1.25
A good cambric underskirt,
well made and ruffled, worth
$1.50, now.....................
town, absolutely new, clean and up to date,
nd it will save you good money to read the following prices. As
It is said to be
for country people to go into the
towns on Sunday, hunt up a
__ merchant and go through the
back door into the store and
a bill of goods.
Meta often come into town on
Sunday afternoon and gather up Ing roInsPir7hop7 Che" fuZ^
a load of cotton choppers or cot- »».•
ton pickers and carry them out fPar of ar® 6aid in th9
pressure of moral convictions,
with the hope that a deeper in-
terest may be aroused in one of
--J greatest of ail moral ques-
tion9- R- C. Hicks.
I Legal Blanks.
I We keep a full stock of Mort- MW M
gages. Releases. Bills of Sale, i 8 fl S 8k
Mechanic’s Leins, Rental Con- # fl %
tracts, Notes, etc., on hand. i
.
-
had little trouble in securing the '
w .. .. . x .school the'second-time. °Em-
/ ’ a9 drownedjblem has one of the best public
t yet. Old men tell us that it i schools in Hopkins county We
srays rams for seven weeks af- think Prof. Yarbrough luckv. 1 LT,,
------ I k. w. Brown went tn Cnm-L- . . - ------» «
year, i merce Monday on busine-s 9U,bjeCt’ ba9ed on the Bible,®
attended thejwas a plain, but forcible discourse ^,ty;n?DCNhfa;theW3’
and was altogether appreciable jSuUy P ue '
by both oH yo„„g.
other things, he said: “A man over and hear htm.
Piding, against every' 1 grtwing'about
moral, illegal thing and then be, weeds that He r '
: F-fCT tl!?n CTOpS and de8erves parties are often prominent
j to be greatly praised that he has bers of the church!
storm 9°DonTlet7ntt2 V The Sunda>' bal1 ?am*. on® of, far.
adversity drive bttl® n,ateria! the blackest abominations of the “nd ®'
the sn^re. of Satan11 h ‘?tC I a«e’ia becoming more and more
me snares or batan, but 1 ___x n ..... 1 Rent
complaining and look
terian minister, delivered two
the best sermbns Sunday it I
been
year.
To cure a cold when you Lave
no cough—to cure a cough when
you have no cold—to cure vonr-
Mf when you have both—take
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and
k, u a L .- I ? be new idea, the original
blackest abominations of the j “n2_ oulT genuine laxative cough
. L - v I ” ------B —-..A. . Remember the name,
but rather popular, yet the last legislature see that the red
■a took wldib .<,< ,rra « „ “'•»<
| bers of the church!
i The Sunday ball game,
was
must have the courage of his
. He said there are
any circumstances that
|s week.
Ime from fresh Irish
id green peaches. 1
tie folks, or you’ll be next.
Pr°f. 'arbrou&h went ■ hoeing in such foul cotton
m Tuesday and not « * P^ant drram. “Yee ’’
!nenta™r t?e'cb0<’> ‘hce | another replied, “like a dream
f nwt tarm Prof. Yarbrough j all right—a nightmare?’’
‘T’ J’-'us a-Jt Cralua sL Eanis, P.-«by.
crowd hoeing cotton and I
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