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VOL. XXXII.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3n.
No. 2-3
COTTON PRICES
LAST CALL FOR
IN GREENVILLE
FAIR EXHIBIT
FLYER KILLED
Klux Klan, now under
and
the
cast*.
Il.9fi9.322 bales in Commerce, that funds
12,000,000 bah
un-
cotton
Notice!
i
year
as
ORDER HOWAT TO
ASSOCIATIONAL
RETURN TO MINES
Better
newspa-
D.
n jw
very
TYPHOON SWEEPS
as
LOTS OF TALK
CENTRAL JAPAN
BUT NO FACTS
I
r
TO BURY SOLDIER
RAIL WORKERS
AT KLONDIKE
5
MINERS MAY BE
ORDERED TO WORK
West Ward P.-T.
Sold Garage.
The funeral will be held
at
ha.'
U. S. DELEGATES
TWO AMERICANS
TO MEET SOON
business there.
For Sour Stomach
Sour stomach, belching,
wind
in
probably
your
Chron <
Diarrhoea
in
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TARRING OF WOMAN
DONE BY MOTHERS
and
the-^e
His father and a sister live
family
The body of Claud 1
killed
strong,
Oklahoma
ts
arrange-
was
are
Mrs. E. M. Alexander and
daughter. Carrie Marie,
been visiting Mr. and
who
Mrs.
Little Dupree Long has returned
circus and visited his aunt, Mrs. J.
A. Mayes.
3
»ne
7,030,000 bales
’.•.170.000 baes
1.251.000 ba-. s
1,000,000 bales
.. 1 HO.000 bales
100,000 bales
105,000 bales
1 57,000 bab's
400,000 bales
W.
urges that
quota or
Ramsey
month's
What
most pleasant out-
of
M.
a
into
the
may
C. E. DINKLE.
Corresponding Secretary.
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emphatically
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<£ljc Commerce .Sotinml
COMMERCE, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS,
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To Our Friends and Patrons:
For two
carried your accounts, hoping
would settle.
limit in our <
‘the
not 1
i
Mrs. DeShon Barron of Dallas
visiting her parents, Mr. and
C. J. Debenport.
Tay-j
move |
and
little
have
.1. ■-
Eat at the Midget, where you can
see your meals cooked. No kitchen.
DALLAS STUNT
j Sev. and Mrs. J. G.
returned last week from a
years we have patiently vacation in Southwest Texas,
you was otherwise a
We have reached the ing was saddened by the death
extension of credit. Our .Mr. Ramsey's mother, which occurred
J. Wfde Debenport has been
fined to his bed with
sure your
somewhere.
ly Ash Bitters.
tent tonic and bowel purifier, it In-
vigorates and strengthens both body
and brain. Priie >1.50 per bottic.
Commerce Drug Co.. Special Agents, fever for about ten days.
GREENVILLE. Sept. 28—The
first public announcement that there
exists in Greenvi'le an < ’ "
of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Fair,
came early Tuesday morning wh n .
the local press received an official and yellow dent
letter announcing an appropriati >n threshed wheat, oats.
a splend-
system is clogged i
You should take Prick- Ott, vice-counsul at Chihuahua.
It is a thorough sys- report gave no details.
tier of freedom, ‘The Stars and Bard
so bravely and gallantly,’ ami d rac-
ed that the amount of $205 “be giv-
en to Mrs. Murfee Irby, matron of
honor, and Captain J. P. Holmes
Commander of J. E. Johnston camp,
U. C. V., to defray expenses of oar
beloved veterans to their reunion.”
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 27.- Final
decision on whether striking co il
miners in Kansas should b ■ ordered
back to work was delaved until to
morrow when the convention of the
United Mine workers of America ad-l
joumed late today with little more
than three-fourths of the vote com-
. plete. The incomplete vote, how-
ever, favored the order for return r»,
work by a majority of 230 (unoffic-
ial).
We wish to
pupils.
is anti-Jew
On the contrary,
( hristian, Protestant organtza-
church an«l
must owe no
allegiance to any foreign government
or power, and the Catholic and Jews,
under these conditions, automatically
bar themselves,” said Mrs. Tyler tn
a recent statement.
“Any fraternal order has the
questioned right to select its mem-
bership. and this organization is no
more anti-Catholic than the Knights
of Columbus are anti-Protestant and
no more anti-Jew than the Sons of
Israel are anti-Gentile.
“I most strenuously object to the
charge of lawlessness. It is forbid-
.. den by the constitution and rules of
Taylor GriTfitts states that he
sold his garage to Reynolds Brothers
of Winnsboro and that they will take
charge of same next Monday,
lor says he and his wife will
live
gara-e
con-
intermittent Alexander, returned to their home
Greenville this afternoon.
Edward Wray left Sunday to re-
sume his work in Yale University.
He entered last year as a sophomore
and became an honor man for the
good work he did. He was also a
member of the sophomore rowing
crew. This year Tie is a J’u nt Ar.
The West Ward P.-T. was deligh-
fully entertained at the home of
Mrs. Dr. Wheeler, Friday afternoon,
Sept. 23. A large crowd was pres-
ent and a nice program was render-
ed after which we were served with
delicioqs refreshments.
REPORTER.
the order, and any Klansman violat-
ing these rules is immediately ban-
ished from the organization. We
court and welcome the most rigid in-
vestigation.
“There are other statements made
that are not fair, but I shall not go
into them because they are rather
expressions of unfriendly opinion
and prejudice than a statement of
farts. We grant the right of any in-
dividual tri honesttiy dislike tm,- -'-and
sometimes we are pround of the ene-
mies We have made.
“The order does not foster
prejudice, but believes there is
in this country for every race,
’ believe however, that this
AUI
Unital
Report issued Sept. 1st, shows
conditidn of the cotton crop to be
49.3 per cent and the estimated
yield to he 7,030,000 bales, the
shortest crop in more than a quarter
of a century.
Damages from insect pests,
the yield below the government esti-
mate, especially the Texas crop,
is 6,499.108 bales entfi whose children attend th pub- 27th.
cent lie schools. The one vital essential The letter announcing the girt
un- in securing this co-operation is the set forth that "we consider it a pnv-
understand- ilege that we be allowed to try and
■ proble ,i- show in a small manner our high i s-
----— —— ..i every possible
way the true and tried Confederate
Veteran who, in the dark days or
not civil war times carried the great ban-
neees
the
un-
the First
Baptist Church, Greenville, will de-
liver the introductory sermon on the
1 a splendid program
has been arranged for the entire
session.
“A number of years ago an aged
gentlman lived with us. He used
< hamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea
Remedy for chronic diarrhoea ami T
believe it saved his life. Time and
again it was the only thing that help-
ed him" writes Mrs. J. S. Smith.Sc-
neca Falls, N. Y. In cases of diarr-
hoea this remedy has always proved
prompt and effectual.
centering upon Magova on the island
of Hondo, killed several hundred per-
| sons, and many were hurt. Several
steamers were sunk, and many fish-
ermen are missing.
Only meager reports have been
1 received from the storm center.
More than 3,000 homes have be-n
VOTE TO STRIKE
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—The ma-
jority of the one hundred and eigh’y-
ninc thousand railroad men have vo -
ed to strike rather than accept the
wage reduction cut ordered by the
i United States Labor Board it
announced by the officials who
counting the votes today.
BY GEO. B. TERRELL,
Comni'ssioner of Agriculture.
Hr Texas, Sept. 26.—Tho
wtes Government Cotton
the
of government should and
in the hands uf its white
and that they hi
its dentiuy.
“We stand
supremacy,
to the negro alone, but
to Washington, D. C., to
that he wil *ngage in the
I the bowels and constipation, can b-
■ corrected by taking a dose or two if
i Prickly Ash Bitters. It is just the
thing for such ailments. Price $1.50
per bottle. Commerce Drug Co ,
■ Special Agents.
His • - -------------
Emerson hail completed his per-
formance for the afternoon with the
exception of changing planes. He
had just passed over the grandstand,
did a loop standing on top of the
plains, and was ready to change
planes. The two planes, piloted by
Lieutenants Kinchannon and Hayes,
maneuvered fos position for a mo-
ment, and Emerson was standing on
the outer edge of the lower plane.
The wind was blowing strong, ac-
cording to reports from
City, and blew the ladder from Em-
erson’s reach. He fell about five or
six hundred feet.
Only one week remains in which
to assemble our prize winning agri-
organization cultural display at the Dallas State
..... We need several hundred eal s
of smooth, evenly matched
A ----1 corn, sheaf
rye,
some
no
race
------ room
IT H’ ITPf this country f‘,r every race. We
iflu.L 1 ilVJ liljlvu do believe however, that this is a
white man's country, so ordained hv
the will of God, and that the reins
must rest
citizens,
I guide and shape
L. Jackson,
American soldier killed in action
I overseas, arrived at Cooper Wednes-
! day. The funeral will be held at
Klondike with military honors Sun-
: day afternoon. The deceased was a
son of D. S. Jackson of Klondike.
ly important.
many things for the
among them being to increase
High school reference library
supply some much needed maps
charts. A committee will call
the Central patrons in a few days
to solicit new members and we hope
to meet with hearty co-operation.
CONTRIBUTED.
attend the Central school. Our num-
ber is small and an increase is, es-
pecially during the school term, vital-
do s a
chief erditors will not carry us, neith.-r at the family home in San Antonio
the can wt' continue to carry you. We on August 19th after a short illness,
and expect all persons indebted to us to His father and a sister live th re
ami settle by cash or secured notes not and Mr. Ramsey and family spent
on i later than Oct. 15th, otherwise we two weeks with them and then went
cannot extend further credit. AH out on his brother's ranch in R -il
obstetric work should be cash. Don't I couptv for a visit. The ranch
ask us to do otherwise. All accounts Heated on the headwater
of our city patrons are due and pay-i
able every thirty days. Your groc.T
will do no mote, why should we?
We are not hard boiled but hard
pressed. We do not want people to
suffer because of our refusal to
work for nothing, but we owe a duty
to our own families. Don't wait ti l
you are in sore need of a doctor be-
fore making arrangements. 1
do it now.
J. G. ALLEN, M. D.
C. G. ALLEN. M. D.
E. R. WHITLEY, M. D.
D. T. PRATT, M. D.
W. R. CATE. M. D.
G. W. HOLDERNESS, M.
d233w42
THE AIMS AND PUR- KU KLUX KLAN IS
SHOULD GO HIGHER POSES OF A P.-T. A
i < •
letter announcing
of $205 with which to pay the trav sjeltz and millet. Also
ing expenses of members of Jos pn c as t '
E. Johnston < amp, United Confed**.- picked*,
ate Veterans, to the national en-
campment at Chattanooga, Tennes-
see. to be held October 25, 26. an T
unreservedly for white
By this we do not refer
we mean ev-
ery colored race in the world, So far
the I ited States is concerned.
“I take exception to the sugges-
tion that the order is a "grafting in-
stitution, and also to the reference
made to the home which was purchas-
ed by Col. W. J. Simmons, head of
the Klan, by the Klansmen of the na-
tion. I can and do truthfully state
that Colonel Simmons is a poor man
and at the time the idea of the home
was conceived he was receiving only '
$100 per week salary, and previous
to that—for five years—he received
practically nothing from the organi-
zation.
I "The thing the Klan has had to
tight hardest is the mob violence that
has been resorted to by men masked
in white, masquerading as clansmen.
There was a woman tarred and feath-
ered in some Texas town. It was
laid to the klan. Upon investigation
we learned that the tarring was
done by mothers of the town, dress-
ed in overalls, not white robes, who
were against the woman as an im-
moral influence.
"There never has been an outrage
committed by the Klan and wherever
. we have heard of one being imputed
to us we have at once sen! out of-
ficial disclaimers, but of course it is
harder to get circulation for a deni il
of anything than for a positive state-
But I say officially that the
Klan does not countenance any viol-
ence of any sort."
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 29.
I The United Mines Workers of Am-
| erica today ordered Alexander H >-
. wat, president of the Kansas Miners.
to order the workers to return to the
i mines. The convention decision
came before the polling of the dele-
. gates was complete.
i Howat made a statement later in-
dicating that he would not obey the
[ convention's decision. He said, '
* action taken by the convention is
to alter our position in the least. We
are standing as we have from the
beginning, and the only way he will
advise the men to return to the’r
work is under the same conditions
that prevailed before the operators
closed the mines.”
Is
Mrs.
KILLED IN MEXICO
— I
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—The j
killing of two American mining men
—S. H. C. Smith of Vinita, Okla.,
I and S. E. B. Kilsingbury
If your brain don’t work right an-* Angeles. Calif.—by c JI
Vou feel tired and lazy, you may be Dolores, Mexico, was reported to the j
«_ -i j up Rtatc (jepartm),nt today i,v Hurry B.
.V 1 . ..
nient.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.—The
first meeting- of the four American
delegates to the armaments limi’i-
tivn conference probably will be
held next week.
Representatives of two nd inions.
Christian and Buddism, conveyed t >
President Harding today their hop?*
for the success of the armament
conference.
| _____________________
Mrs. Ivan McNatt and baby. Ivan I * —. o
Jr., have gone to Dallas to join her from Paris, where he attended
husband. They will make their home
there.
Total carryover
Less 24 per cent He schools. The one vital essential
damaged and un- •>* securing this co-operation is
tenderable cotton 1,559,785 bab s mutual knowledge and i
Total'jhflerable *ng on each side of the
cot^n 4,939.322 bales an'1 difficulties peculiar to the oth- teem and to honor in
Estimated yield 1921 7.030,00 bales ‘’r-
Total crop and car- It often happens, as it the
ryover 11,969,322 bales >“ Commerce, that funds are
Or in round available for certain essentials
numbers 12,000.000 bai-s s*<’y to successfully carry on
Estimated
A Parent-Teacher Association is
the hand that unites more closely the
parent and teacher, bringing
closes relation the home and
school that parent and teacher
co-operate more intelligently in the
education of the child. To arouse
the fathers and mothers to a sens*
of their responsibility for conditio is
which affect childhood. Effective,
systematic work for the school ca 1
not be accomplished w.thout sym-
pathy and active support of the pa’-
TOKIO, Japan, Sept. 29—A ly- There have been sensational rumors j Iiver the introdu'
phoon sweeping* over Central Japan in circulation about a gas strike in j °P*ninK <lay “nd
, the Tri-City oil well this week and
the Greenville and Sulphur Springs
papers have published some interest-
I ing stories about the matter, but
} none of them can be verified by
Commerce parties who visit the well.
The drillers are not giving out any
information ami if there* is any gas
flowing it cannot be detected from
the outside of the inclosure.
manager :
was a witness to
not returned
to Dallas Monday morning, and it
not yet known what funeral
ments have been made.
Th<* c reus was billed to perform
during th<; fair here, and had on?
Frof. and Mrs. E. H. Wray r - more engagement at Pittsburg, Tex-
turtied last week from a ten days as» before coming here it is said,
vacation spent at Dallas, Ft. Worth Emerson had completed his
and other points.
A Month’s Vacation
The Hunt County Baptist Associ
tion will hold its annual meeting with
the First Baptist Church in Com-
merce beginning Wednesday morn-
ing, at 10 o’clock. Oct. 5, 1921.
The meeting this year will have
for its attention a number of
important matters which are of vita-
interest to every Baptist in this As-
sociation. The Moderator. Rev.
B. McDaniel, of Celeste,
all churches send a full
delegates and visitors.
Rev. A. A. Duncan of
destroyed, it is estimated. .
Wire communication has been bro-
ken. No dispatches from abroad
reached Tok io today, the papery go-
ing to press with only local news.
of the
(ColdI river 70 miles from a
>>a«l arfd 1-6 mile from a post-d-
fice. Goats, fish and rame are tin-
principal products of that region.
Rocks and canyons make it some-
what difficult for automob' es but
they can make it out there. To get
home Rev. Ramsey had to ;• de i
truck the 70 mile to a railroad
station, which hr friends are unkind
enough to say he was probably glid
to do in order to get back to civiliza-
' tion where he could get a
per to read. His tanned and husky
appearance indicates that the r« n •
out-of-doors life was good for him.
Some extra good preaching will
| be expected by his parishoners.
12,000,000 ba<»« sary to successfully carry
domestic school work. With the earnest,
consumption and ex- selfish efforts of the school patrons,
ports to Aug. 1, the mothers especially, ways
1922 .12,000,000 ba'-s means are devised whereby
These figures by the government funds may be aeeured. In all these
virtually wipe out any surplus eatton undertakings the co-operation spirit
at the end of the present cotton should predominate, for whatever .a
year, Aug. 1, 1922. « benefit to the pupil is in an indirect
The world's production for th - *>y •* benefit to the teacher. With
crop of 1920, cotton year closing these objects in view our Central
Aug. 1, 1921. was 19.595,000 bales. 1 I‘ -T. A. was organized and, with the
The estimated production for the frw loyal workers, is doing
crop of 1921, cotton year closing id and unselfish work for pupils who
Aug. 1, 1922, based on last year's
yield of all foreign countries, is
follows:
United States
India
Egypt
China
Russia
Brazil
Mexico
Peru .
•Ml, others
-J-’''.-----;—.
i’fta! world’s supply 18,259,000bares
Of fi.33fi.000 bale* !»••<** than that
for the cotton year jm v closed.
With such an unprecedented shoit
crop, the price should advance at
least to 25 cents per pound, and if
:he crop is marketed gradually, so us i
to g.ve the mills their actual needa
and no more, the price should
tally advance, and the crop should
be held down next year to actual
needs of the mills in order to main-
tain this advance.
A circular has been sent out from
Boston to the New England spinners
stating that the cost of producing
this cotton crop is the lowest n
years, and that a price ot 10 or 11
vents for cotton will yield a good
profit to the producers.
Statistics furnished by the cotton
growers of Texas, as to the cost of
production, and carefully compiled,
show that it coat above 40 cents per
pound last year to produce the crop
and 25.H cents per pound this year.
If the yield per acre this year, had
been as much as last year, the cost
of production would have been mtn n i
lower.
Thtf statements in the Boston circ-
ular as to cost of producing cotton
this year, are deliberate misrepre-
sentations, in order to bear the price
of .^^ton. Every indicat on points
to Warner prices, if supply and de-
mand are to control.
Eat slowly, masticate your food
thoroughly. Avoid beef and fresh
pork but eat the lighter meats such
i a crisp bacon, chicken, fresh fi<h,
and mutton. Sip a cup of hot water
and take one of Chamberlain's Tab-
: lets just before going to bed.
NEW "YORK, Sept. 24.—A woman.
----- - j •»-* ^wv>«biiv<a, Ga.,
cus performer, who was booked fo- holds an important office in the Ku
the State I-air of Texas, was instant- Klux Klan, now under a
white ly killed Saturday afternoon, while by New York and other
—••••••*•3 of peo-
State Fair, at
Oklahoma C ty. Emerson was at- head of the
tempting to ehang- from one plane ment of the organization,
to another when wind became strong
and blew the rope ladder dangling
from the upper plane out of his
reach. He jumped for the ladder,
l>ut the upper machine swerved and
Emerson missed it. Every bone sn
h.s body was broken and he was
mashed into a pulp.
Sam Bullman, of Dallas,
ot the ilying circus,
the accident, but had
and performing before thousands
barlev,‘pie at the Oklahoma
high
cotton stalks (with no bolls
, and a few hundred select
< pen boll. In fact any choice farm
products will be highly appreciated.
Look over your’farm and see if you
can not find some good products that
will help win the blue 1 bbon.
Exhibit must be shipped to Dallas
not later than October 4th. If you
know of any choice products ple tse
nhone the Chamber of Commerc •,
Greenville, Texas and truck wiir
call at once, or they may be left at
the Board of Trade in Commerce.
HUNT COUNTY FAIR
EX HI BI T CO M MITT E E.
r of Lob
a Mexican at!
bitter attack
newspapers.
Mrs. Tyler is grand chief of staff of
the woman’s division of the Klan and
of the propaganda depa>—
c.------In view of
the atrocities attributed in this >•
tack to the "K. K. K.” Mrs. Tyler
presence in the higher circle of
Klan is of interest.
Mrs. Tyler denies <
most of the charges hurled at the
ciety.
“1 take exception to the statement
that the Ku Klux Klan
and anti-Catholic.
it is a C '
tion that believes in and teaches
solute separation of
state, and its members
DALLAS, Sept. 27—Arthur Em- I" . Ml, „ „„
erson, Dallas aviator and flying cir- Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler oTAttanta’
Pile .. »- ...U ■ l ■ „ 1 >
the State Fair of Texas, was instant-
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