The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 104, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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superintendent of public instruct
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Appreciative enough to give the
business of the smallest customer
efficient attention.
Suits, our $3.50 and $5 00 Trousers and then look
Haberdashery and Spring Hats,
on a few garments.
will leave our store with contentment in vour heart,
will wear one of our regular smiles.
garment we sell.
He smiles when we show him our choice garments, and he
smiles when we name the prices,
a smile and he always retains it.
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'Well, come in and take a look at our $15, $20 or $25 Spring
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Alter yob have looked, try
If you’re pleased buy'-if vou buy, you
and you
that goes ^ith every
speckled trout wait for his’fly, I
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We are strong \ enough to take
care of all desirable btfsiness of-
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We want your business on the
above grounds and will treat you
right.
If it were possible to
tiiake and sell better Low.
Shoes than the sort we of-
fer our trade, we would get
them. We’ver been selling
shoes for ytfkrs, and we
know Shoes as few people i
do. If you are interested in
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white man’s power
Largest Tailor Shop
in Bonham ; J
We are now located on North Main
St reet, where we can save you money
by Cleaning and Pressing’your old
Clot hes. Suits made to order. Hate
(leaned and’ Blocked.
G. P. BALL Phone 363-Ringa
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“GOOD CLOTHES”
J ewelry
Peanuts for Seed. ’ <
.1 have about 100 bushels of
seed Spanish peanuts for those
who want to plant. • Price rK)c
; per bushel at mv barn.
E. H. Pritchett,
Bonham, Texas
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Land Notes.
Can handle a few good land
notes, must be good ones.
98-2t Wilf H. Evans.
• Over First National Bank.
to write the]
Metropolitan for a catalogue.
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Auction!
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The Metropolitan Business
College, of Dallas, is generally rec-
ognized as the foremost busines
^college in Texas, and the equal of
the best in the United States.
This reputable and reliable school
was established twenty-one years
ago, and is conducted by business
men on sound business princi-
ples. Quite a number of students
from Bonham have attended the
Metropolitan, and without' an
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oing to have i.t, but the thing
j bi regretted about it all is
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editorials. There is always a
rush made for The News by
every member of the family’on
Fridays and Tuesdays and he
who gets it first counts himself
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lucky. \ou certainly do hit the; of our country
West hard but not nearly so’hard
as I am told the wind does. I
am sure that our old Fannin
County friends wfrl all be back in
a short time now.
I notice in today’s Dallas News
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with the merits and advantages
of the institution. If any of the
readers of The News contemp-
late attending a business college
it would be well tO write the]that * res°Iu‘ion i»tendedXo en-
courage the Conference for Edu-
cation in its work to secure com-
pulsory education in this Staft
was defeated and that by the
influence of some of the repre-
sentatives of North Texas; Some
representatives went so far as to
intimate that the work of the
j Conference for Education was a
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do so, I will offer my entire stock,* consisting
of diamonds, watches, cut glass, sterling sil-
ver, solid gold jewelry, clocks and plated
ware at Public Auction, piece at a time, com-
mencing Saturday, April 24, at 2:30 and 7:30
P. M. and continue each day at these hours,
until the $2,000 is raised. Ladies invited to
attend the sale.
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YOU c^n easily piuk out the Men we clothe.
buys his Outfitting here, we place a smile upou h^s counte-
nance th at, won’t come o.ff. *
L^^Bptect ‘its citiz.nship
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• uf citizen it prefers to* throw its
arms around. Every one knows
> that the, mojority of the oeople
i ofi this State do not need a com-
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pulsory school law. Neither does
the same mijoHty need a law re-
straining them from drime, it is
It is -the minority that needs such a
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law because it is, a minority that
will not give their children the
benefit of school when they can
do so. Yet this minority is large
enough to be a very disturbing
heard to say on the floor of; the elemept’if it does not think along
the right lines.!. , , '
It would not do, I suppose, to
have alb good laws th^t we need
enacted during one session of the
legislature, there would be no
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Files from 10c to $1 00.
Every thing in farming
tools. We need your
business. ... . . .
Come here and see the best $3 50 and $4.00 Oxfords
that are made. Tan, Wine, Gun Metal and Patent Colt.
Pay interest on your money,
Any way you go,
We want your business.
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The Hardware People
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The Gurney Refrigerator, it will save Ice. Ice
< Cream Freezers to suit you/..
We also have Lawn Mowers from $3.50 to $12.00.
Water Hose, screen wire, Stoves and -Hardware
of every kind; We make your water tanks and
Guttering to order.
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OUR PATRONS
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John Riley Hoe. Some-
thing new, 8, 9 & 10 inch.
SUPT KING WRITES.
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J An Inferestina Communication from a
Former Bonham School Man.
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11 WotFE Cifv.Texas, April 18, 190*1
i: Editor News, Dear Sir:
I I never see in the columns, of
nThk News any correspondence
from Wofe City, so J will write^ion on educational matters as
you a friendly note and vou mly j the Conference tor.’Education has.
use vour pleasure about publish- . To it more than to anything'else
ing it. j is due the honor for the- success-
Our little city is quite a busi-
ness place. Of course, vou know
that I have been a citizen of this
i place only a
the thing that first attracted my
attention to the amount of busi-
ness done here was the amount
cotton bought last fall, about
8000 bales. For last year, and
considering that this is a ptlace
of twenty-five hundred inhabi-
tants, and surrounded by good
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cotton, I thought, indicated that
Wolfe City is quite a cotton
market under normal conditions.
Our people are very enthusias-
tic over the Greenville-Wolfe
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City-Bonham interurban idea.
How is Bonham on this question?
We have also decided to have "a
park. Just a few davs ago the
plan was set on foot and I was
told that in two or three days
four-fifths of the money neces-
sary to build it was secured. It
is not necessary ti\ state to you
that we have a splendid system
of public schools, but to show
you that idea of progress per-
meates the mind ot cyery one Is it not strange th^t when
here, will say that since last fall such met! as. Dr. W.
we have the best equipped labor-
atory of any school of anything
like the siz? of this in the north
part of the state. The school
board spent several hundred dol-
lars for laboratory equipment cational ability is hot questioned
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to the study of great educational
questions, and hundreds otothers
just as strong, lend themselves to
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in
Texas and stamp it ^with their
approval arid say that it is the
pply way for the white people of
the South to hope to compete .in
coming years with othrr parts
. that have long
since adopted this system, that
some youngster who never spent
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five cents.tor candles in his life
can see that it is all wrong?
sees the loss of the white* man’s
powe^ in the movement. If it
will be the.causejrf any one los-
of the kind that we have seen
around Austin during the last
few months, giv^n us, oh give us
compulsory - education ! • To a
close observer, there has been no
stronger argument tor compul-
sory education needed than to
observe the daily program of the
Texas legislature during the last
three months. -
Well, the people want
pulsory school law and, t
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■4hat a few selfish politicians ca
delay its coming. '
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purging of the capitol
necessary. 4 \j
The South has had to
tor.centuries because of the poli-
cies -of that brilliant statesman
and patriot, Gov. Berkley
Virginia, who thanked
there’ were neither
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; Virginia npr wouldn’t be tor lo
these many vear*>.
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i. ilk have done the South more.
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BONHAM. FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1909
work that wascalculated to under- harm than all the other evil in-
mine* the white' man’s power, fluences combined. I had hoped
That it was born i.r such a move.; th,at he and his kind were all
'dead, but it seeths not.
^1 am one who believes, that if
: Stale is io be called
•tect ‘its citizmsnip ______ __
as a right to prescribe the kind
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chair of education in the State
University, R. B, Cousins, state
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superintendent of public instruct-
ion, O. H. Cooper, T. H. Harris,
J. L. Long, all men whose edu-
A few days ago. and who have given their lives
entertained unawares.
We Should strive to so live ,as
to be’worthy of the friendship of
our better selves. :
Good habits are nine *parts of
character.
Ennui i$ egotism.
Fine'manners’do not make 6ne E
fje morals; but fine morals do make I
> .fine manners. E
If unheard melodies are sweeter ■
perhaps the greatest books are ■
ing such power as a. great deal, unwritten. _ • H
Good prose .is milk and honey, ■
and every ! booklover possesses E
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vine and # figtee; but poetry is ■
manna. • • :■
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science occupy .the prompters ■
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The lesson of outward -change|M
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is inward'steadfastness. ' ■
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■> Wealth can not buy health, but ■
a, com- health can earn weal-th. r
Color114 a gift of G6dr most .ap- ■
predated by the best people. - U
To an on! heart with a young ■
head prefer a young heart with ah I
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. . Art Is the expression of gen ius, ■
and genius i$* th? expression of ®
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Self-restraint, • self-reverence
and self-respect: cultivate these
three and leave .the harvest to
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I have Persi'a-ri floss in. colors.
Mail orders solicited.-^
Oldham, Bonfiam^
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next year. He must have a job
and meanwhile the state will
continue to pay the bills^^—
Hoping that Thk News may
live long ar.d continue to do the
good work it has always done
and to speak its mind on all pub-
questions, and that The News
man ma/ have an opportunity
right soon to hie awav with his
pole and line ~ to where the
f Very respectfully,
1 il. F. King.
Chroniclinos.
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Laugh and live;
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A good man makes himself so
for other^.
In the main, * conversation is
agreeable because of its agree-
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conferred the M. D. A
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mind; an angelic idea may be
TUESDAY
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I want to raise $2,000.00, [and in order to
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lod that*
printing
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alone last fall, r ,
the writer was^tlected to succeed
himself as superintendent o f
schools..
Well, I still enjoy reading your this educational awakening in
approval arid say that
I think it is to be very much re-
gretted that we l^pve legislator^
who will malign the work am
workers in an "organization th a
has been instrumental in bring
ing about as much good legisla-
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friendly note and vou mly ‘ the Conference tor.-Educatibn has.
is due the honor for the-
ful results, in our efforts to se-
cure the great educational- amend-
ment adopted last, /ear.' q
few months, and due thq honor for arousing au
"educational interest in Texas the
like of which was never experi-
enced by any Texan before, p /
One learned representative was
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house that the South was not
ready for compulsory education
till the “niggers art| all dead.”
that amount oF1 What an idea for a wise law-
maker to advancel Think how
much wisdom there ' is in that I possible theme for the politician
statement and then wonder how
the head that holds in store such,
brilliant notions can continue to
weight its body down in the ways
and walks of a lowly .lawmaker!
And yet that calling is a high
one if one is able-to appreciate it.
It seems to me that such a head
would of itself pull him upl high-
er. And as to undermimttg the
white man’s power in the South,
I have never seen a white man
who was afraid of' losing his
power, except a politician
demagogue.
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 104, Ed. 1 Friday, April 23, 1909, newspaper, April 23, 1909; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1370785/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.