The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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Helping a Woman
Generally mean* helping an entire family.
Her back aches so ahe can hardly drag
around. Her nerves are on edge and she
is nearly wild. Headache and Sleepless-
ness unfit her for the care of her family.
Rheumatic Paine and Lumbago rack het
body. But, let her take
Foley
Kidney Pills
and all these ailments
will disappear. Shs will
soon recover her strength
and healthy activity for
Foley Kidney P.IU are
healing, curative, strengthening and tonic,
a medicine for all Kidney, Bladder and
Urinary Diseases that always cures.
For Sale By New Drag Store.
held here.
classes.
Worth—The
Company of
Fort Worth—The Texas Anchor
Fence Company of thtr city has
awarded a contract for the erection
of their new plant at this place. The
structure is to be a brick building
reinforced with steel costing $10,1'00.
Work will begin immediately.
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Ballinger—Fetereta, Soudan grass
and Dry Land Clover are three new
forage crops that have been intro-
duced into this country this year by
the United States Government All
three are showing splendid yields and
will be planted on a much larger scale
next year.
completed at this place on the new
city hall. The building is a two-
story structure and is modern in ev-
ery respect. The city commission is
making arrangements to move into
their new quarters.
San Angelo—The local chamber of
Commerce is making preparations to
have the fall fair and carnival cata-
logue printed. It will be the largest
edition ever issued for this purp.?e
and will be widely distributed. The
management has offered $5,000 as
racing prizes. No effort is being spar-
ed to make this a success in every
way.
Itasca—This city’s seventh trades
day was held in conjunction with the
annual stock show, which was recently
Cash prizes were awarded
for the best exhibit in the various
It is estimated that a crowd
between four and five thousand were
in attendance.
Whitesboro—The state banking
board, which recently convened in
Austin voted a certificate of author-
ity to the City Guaranty State Bank
of this place, to do business with a
capital stock of $50,000.
MERCHANTS AS EDUCATORS.
He who takes his own time general-
ly takes other people’s too.
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DEE WHEATLEY,
Cotton Belt Watch Intpector
JEWELRY...
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21 Large and Elegant Assort- <•
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Jewelry, China, Watches and ■ •
Clocks, Etc. Come and see ::
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REPAIR WORK...
A SPECIALTY of REPAIRING CLOCKS, ; ’
WATCHES and BROKEN JEWELRY— !
—CHARGES REASONABLE.
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Phone 21
MODEL BAKERY
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S ATCH ER'S
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Baked Clean,
Made Clean,
Large — Loaf
5 c. To All .
Dallas—The executive secretary of
the National Corn Exposition is in
this city and plans are being consid-
ered for the six months’ campaign of
publicity and organization, which is to
culminate in the Sixth Annual Corn
Exposition, to be held here during
February, 1914.
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WHAT
M AKES THE
WOLF
HOWL?
PURIFIES
THE
W A T ER\
Look for the gray wagons with the
sign—Commerce Ice & Power Co.,
which means pure ice, full weight and
courteous treatment. Phone 240.
Sabinal—At the closing of the fifth
annual session of the Texas Dry Far-
ming Congress here, Hondo was chos-
en as the meeting place next year.
Officers were elected as follows: Dr.
Benjamin F. Barkley, Alpine, presi-
dent; A. J. Durham of this city, vice-
president; and rletcher Davis of
Hondo, secretary.
Galveston—The Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
has received orders from the Mallory
Steamship Company of New York, for
two new vessels to ply between this
city and New York.
Hallettsville—The county commis-
sioners of this place have let the on-
tract for the work on the Halle;isvill»
Vienna Seclusion road, upon which
$4,000 is to be spent.
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Portland—Work will begin immed-
iately in this city on the erretion of " ;
the bathing pavilion, with a restaur-
ant, ice cream parlor, rest rooms,
waiting rooms and dance hail all in
connection. The cost will be $10,000
Merit—The Guaranty State Bank of
this city with a capital stock of
$10,000, was granted an authority to
do business by the state banking
board, which recently met in Austin.
Port Arthur—Work has just been
The merchant has one of the high-
est and most useful callings. He is a
builder and an educator as well as a
dealer. As a rule he does more to
promote the general welfare of the
community and to support its public
institutions than any other class of
citizens. Through the columns of the
press the merchant teaches us how to
live economically and keeps us in-
formed of the progress of modern
business and science in providing
means for our care and comfort. The
merchant is an indispensable business
educator and he diligently studies our
needs.
A merchant who has no message.
for the public is not keeping abreast
of the times. The prosperous mer-
chant must create the desire to buy
goods and then supply it.
■’ BEGINING MONDAY, AUGUST 11th:-
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Orange—Plans are being arranged
for the Inter-state Inland Waterways
League, to be held here October 16th,
17th and 18th. The local commercial
club is assisting the program com-
mittee.
v TEXAS INDUSTRIAL NOTES. V
San Antohio—Municipal improve-
ment bonds in the sum of $3,450,000
and school bonds to the amount of
$300,000, carried in the recent bond
election held here.
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Rockdale—The sixth annual fair
held at this place recently broke all
previous records for attendance. The
exhibits were fine and caused much
favorable comment.
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Burkburnett—Watermelon growers
in this section are preparing for their
annual melon shipments. The crop
is not so large as last year, but it is
estimated that between 150 and 200
cars will be shipped.
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Georgetown—Property assessments
in this city for
$2,100,000 which is
1912 of $137,000.
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1913 aggregate
an increase over
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Beaumont—The following officers
were elected at the closing session of
the annual meeting of the Southern
Rice Growers Association: W. B.
Dunlap, re-elected president; W. W.
Dudson, vice-president, for Texas;
P. L. Lawrence for Louisiana and
F. D. Gibson succeeded J. L. Ducharme
as vice-president for Arkansas; H. G.
Chaikey was elected treasurer and A.
C. Wilkins, secretary and general
manager.
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Hillsboro—Plans are being arrang-
ed by the citizens of this place for
the celebration of the first car to
enter this city over the Hillsboro-
Dallas-Waco interurban line. A pro
gram committee has been appointed
and a large crowd is expected.
* * *
Austin—Delegates to the Rnra’
School Education Bee, recently held
here, completed arrangements for an
organization to be known as “The
Rural School Assembly.” A commit-
tee was appointed on permanent or-
ganization and an invitation extended
to all school superintendents, princi-
ples, teachers, trustees and friends of
education for membership.
* * *
Houston—A paper box company lo-
cated in Birmingham, Ala., has been
purchased by the Magnolia Paper Co.
of this place. The consolidation will
give Houston the largest factory of
its kind in the south.
* * *
Waco—Directors of the Cotton Pal-
ace Association of Texas recently met
in the rooms of the local chamber of
Commerce, to discuss plants for the
next Cotton Palace to be held Novem-
ber 1st to 16th. Out of town exhib-
itors are securing space for their
displays and indications are that this
year’s record will surpass all previous
records.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
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OFFICE:
CITY OFFICIAL ORGAN
COMMERCE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913
OLD HICKORY CHIPS.
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Entered as second class matter April 7, 1905, at the
post office at Commerce, Texas, under Act of Congress
March 1879.
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The United States Government expects to obtain valu-
able information from Ambassador Wilson, and Mr. Wilson
’.s likely to hear some things of importance from the Unit-
ed States Government.
EXPIRATIONS.—The address on your paper shows the
time to which your subscription is paid. All arrearages
must be paid up if subscriber desires paper stopped.
Obituaries, Resolutions of Respect, Cards of Thanks,
Notices of entertainments, Etc., where admission is charg-
ed or given for money making purposes will be charged
regular local rate. 5 cents a line.
Advertising rates are made on a basis of
the month.
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Most of us w’ho are more comfortably situated like to
tell ourselves that the gentlemen who dig the ditches and
stoke the furnaces at 98 in the shad get used to it and do
not mind the heat.
In the hot city the masculine half of the domestic sketch
comforts himself with the thought that the feminine part
cannot buy anything but picture post cards up there in the
woods.
* * *
A St. Louis girl slept almost 150 hours and when she
woke up asked if her new slit skirt has come home. Pleas-
ant dreams!
SECOND DOOR EAST OF POST OFFICE.
TELEPHONE NO. 19.
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The frankness with which Mr. Bryan has discussed his
pecuniary affairs will make work a little easier for some
income tax collector.
One Year.....
Six Months.
It may be asserted with confidence that Co], Mulhall will
never have a chance to acquire another such collection of
autographs.
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THE COMMERCE JOURNAL
ESTABLISHED 1889.
As a candidate for re-election to the office of Mayor of
New York, Judge Gaynor would be compelled to accept
the support of some of the New York newspapers he has
so indignantly rebuked.
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IS UP TO FITZGERALD.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which
may appear in the columns of The Journal will be gladly
and fully corrected upon being brought to the publishers’
attention.
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A movement is on foot to secure a creditable fire depart-
ment for Commerce. It is desired to procure a hook and
ladder an hose wagon and a good team and to maintain a
paid driver. This would afford protection that would
materially reduce the fire risk and consequently reduce
Insurance rates of the city.
Mr. Bryan says that he has been the worst roasted man
in the country. Then his countrymen are justified in
saying, “Well done, William.”
* * *
Men admire women who are perfectly square, but not
too angular.
* * •
Press dispatch says that Georgia Senate opens its pro-
ceedings with prayer. Would you have thought it?
* * *
A $50 milliner’s creation is a poor sort of cap for a girl
to set in an attempt to catch an economical bachelor.
• * •
It may be said of our investigating bodies that they face
the heavy firing of the camera squads without flinching.
* * *
That correspondent who spoke of the present Balkan war
as “a lapse into barbarism” was slightly in error. Our
very best Barbarians considered it unethical to fight among
themselves.
* * *
Occasionally American millions go abroad as a matter of
sheer donation without the festivity of a marriage.
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It must be a discouragement to a man who founds a
brary to find so many people taking out summer fiction
instead of books of serious instruction.
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BRYAN WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME.
Fifteen and eighteen years ago when Mr. Bryan was ad-
vocating many of the policies that today seem common-
place he was called a crank and other names about as bad.
Today we read of a great railway controversy settled un-
der the provisions of the Newlands bill. What does it all
mean? Graually the government is stepping in and as-
suming charge of things that scared our leaders to death
a few years back. The only difference in Mr. Bryan and
an ordinary man is he thinks about twenty years ahead
of the ordinary man.—Abilene Reporter.
A special election was held last week in the 6th Con-
gressional district of New Jersey to fill a vacancy and the
Democratic nominee endorsed by President Wilson won by
6,000 plurality, and a clear majority over both republican
and progressive candidates of more than 2,000. If there
is anyone who has doubt about where President Wilson
ftands in the confidence and affection of the people of
this country, that election ought to settle it.
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Every time Wilson, Bryan, Burleson or any of the pro-
gressives give them half an opening, the same old crowd
of reactionaries turn their batteries on them. All the
cabinet officers get a short vacation and because Secre-
tary of State Bryan chooses to deliver a series of platform
lectures during his vacation, the reactionary Democratic
and standpat Republican press are criticising him. If it
is right for him to have a vacation we see no objection to
him using the time as he sees fit.—Mesquite Mesquiter.
Well, let ’em alone. They have been abusing him for
the last sixteen years and don’t seem to have set him
back much.
To start things coming your way, go after them.
* * *
More good news: Jack Johnson promises never to
turn to this country.
FAITH UNSHAKEN.
Cooper Review: President Wilson is receiving the
most stalwart support from the public that any President
has received in fifty years, and any Democrat or patriot
who can not approve the leadership of President Wilson
should certainly have his sanity, patriotism or intelligence
examined by an expert, because he 4s evidently wrong
in one or more of these points.
They are timid Democrats who fear to reform the tariff,
to reform the currency or to reform anything- They are
Democrats in name only, and have little confidence in their
party’s power to legislate successfully. Some of these
are covertly criticising President Wilson and some are
more boldly bidding hipr go slow. Their point of view is
difficult to realize by any Democrat who is genuinely
faithful to Democratic tenets, who thoroughly believes in
the Democratic party and democratic government. Either
President Wilson and the Democrats who control Congress
competent. So far there is
every evidence of their incompetency, and if there is any
vitality in Democratic principles every member of the
Democratic party should urge its agents to move forward
without hesitation and write into the statute books of the
Nation those principles for which they have contended all
their political lives. For himself State Press believes ‘hat
Woodrow Wilson and his colleagues in Congress are in-
struments of regeneration called by destiny to restore to
the people the privileges and dignities taken from them
through a long regime of Republican misrule. Ten years
more of Taftism and Cannonism would have sufficed to
bend our National institutions to the preferences of an
oligarchy which would have been as contemptous of pop-
ular justice as the medieval barons were contemptoun of
the peasants whose labor sustained them in their robber
castles.—State Press.
The Fort Worth Record, formerly a Democratis paper,
but now independent, has completely repudiated all its
old principles except a protective tariff, anti-prohibitioz
and boosting the Panther City. Now being independent,
it is not to be criticized for criticizing the administration
at Washington.—Commerce Journal.
It is now up to Fitzgerald to state whether he is an
independent in the field or whether he still stands by the
pld Democratic flag. The editorial page of the Record
is well worth reading whether you agree with all it says
or not.—Greenville Herald.
We don’t know about Mr. Fitzgerald personally but the
Record has in recent issues plainly and positively stated
that it has changed its policy and that it is no longer a
party organ but is now independent and that it will here-
after speak its mind regardless of who it may suit. The
Record is to be commended for this, it seems to us. When-
ever a man or a newspaper cannot conscientiously support
the principles of a party he or it should withdraw from
it and affiliate with some party that better suits his t>r
its idea. In this instance we recommend the Republican
party. It is sadly in need of recruits and no doubt its
leaders would welcome our Ft. Worth friend. There are
also other “separated brethren” in Texas who might con-
sistently do likewise. This advice or suggestion is kindly
offered in return for the numerous invitations that some
of us have had to go and join the Populist party. ,
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THE NEW CURRENCY BILL.
President Wilson has succeeded in having his Currency
measure introduced in Congress which fully embodies his
views. This bill is such a masterpiece of statesmanship,
and is so free from partizenship that all parties should
give it cordial support. The bill provides for twelve
“regional” Government Banks, each of which is to be a
parent bank over those national banks which eome under
it; for instance, one of the regional banks will be placed
over the banks of, say for instance; Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky, constituting a region. When these banks have
more calls for loans than they can meet, under this new
Bill, when it becomes a law they can turn their assets or
securities over to the Regional Government Bank and se-
cure whatever money is needed to supply the wants of
the business men in their communities. The same con-
dition will prevail in all sections of the country. It will
be seen at once that this bill will provide for an automa-
tic expansion of currency, and there need never be any
more tightness of the money market
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TARIFF BILL MAKING HEADWAY.
Voting on amendments to the tariff bill has l&gun and
not only are the Democrats sticking well together, but
many of the progressive republican senators are voting
with them. Senator Cummins of Iowa, Bristow of Kansas,
LaFollette of Wisconsin, Works of California, Crawford
of South Dakota and Norris of Nebraska, all of whom
(ire “progressives,” voted with the Democrats last week.
They would be in an awkward position if they had re-
fused to vote for a reduction of the tariff, on which issue
they left the republcan fold.
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(PRESIDENT WILSON’S OVER-
WHELMING HOLD ON THE PEOPLE.
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Subs :ribers’ addresses changed as often as they
wish. In ordering address changed please give OLD as well
as NEW address.
STERLING HART, Commerce. WREN HART, Cooper.
HART BROS-, Publishers.
Also publishers of The Cooper Review, Cooper, Texas
And the Quinlan Journal, Quinlan, Texas.
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