Upshur County Echo (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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understood it was because
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bulletin, it is thought, will be of; potatoes, sixty pounds; sweet
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gives detailed explanation and
interpretation of the law. This
line went out of sight, it was
easy to believe it was because of
the unprecedented demand by
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and providing different dates.
On account of the widespread
interest in the law relative to the
election of trustees; the State
Superintendent of Public In
struction has prepared Bulletin
_i Gilmer. Texas. Thursday. March 16, 1916.
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If you buy out of town, and we
buy out of town, and our neigh-
bors buy out of town, what In
the thunder is going to become of
this old town? Trade with the
merchants who advertise.
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lot just to
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We Believe No Longer.
‘ The price of about everything
manafactured has advanced or is
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A Candidate Story.
Attention, Candidates! Place
your order now for sufficient
number of cards to last you du-
ring your campaign. — Bonham
News.
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Program School Meet Friday
March 24 and 25.
Object Lesson For The Men
Who Pay The Freight.
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years total—128,980.81
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Cotton Acreage Greatly Re-
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Austin, Texas, March 10.—Ac-
cording to reports received by
Commissioner Fred W. Davis,
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prepare and distribute the ballot*
to be used in the election of
county school trustees and to
place thereon the names of the
candidates.
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1-915 has cost your people more
than one and one-half times as
much as the entire four years of
1997,1908, 1009 and 1910. —
Now, any expenses that the
people feel fully able to incur is
well advised, when they receive
full value for their investment,
however? I have been unable so
far to find the reason for such a
radical' increase in the means
necessary to pay the State’s ex
penses. I submit these figures
without further comment, other
than to state, that they are a
A Thought For The Week.
Young men, life is before you.
Two voices are calling you—one
coming from the swamps of sel-
fishness and force, where suc-
cess means death, and the other
from the hilltop of justice and
progress, where failure brings
glory. Two lights are seen in
your horizon—one the fast fading
marsh'light of power, and the
other the slowly rising sun of
human brotherhood. Two ways
the board of school trustees in
all independent districts will
order the election as heretofore.
Under the Terrell election law
necessary to hold and conduct
all elections. It is also the duty
of the county election board to
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the crude Peruvian bark, though
it produces none of it, we are
still credulous.
But our doubts have been
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charcoal, twenty-two pounds;
salt, fifty pjunds; clover seed,
sixty pounds; timothy seed,
forty five pounds; Cotton seed.
i Upshur County Echo:
Enowing the loyalty of your
le in regard to the payment
their taxes, and the support
their government, and also
Jiping the great advances of
State's burdens upon her
sole, and for the purpose try
L to think out some plan by
ich this tendency to extrava-
Lee can be checked and re
Led I beg to make a statement
Line of the States satistics.
Ave endeavored to keep myself
ted on these matters; and
I confident that this statement
b be of interest to your many
ders. Therefore, I submit
I following statement giving
I amounts levied against each
the following Counties for the
te's general expenses and of
DOUGHTY INTERPRETS
TRUSTEE ELECTION LAW
Austin, Texas, March 9.—State
Superintendent of Public In-
struction W. F. Doughty in an
interview this morning calls at'
tention to the fact that the Thir
ty-Fourth Legislature enacted a
uniform trustee election law
which goes into practice this
year. The new law provides for
the election of county school
trustees, both common and in-
dependent, on the first Saturday
in April of each year except in
those districts incorporated by
at the same time and place for
school trustees. This year the
voters in commissioners’ pie
ci jets 1, 3 and 4 elect one county
trustee for each of these pre-
cincts. Voters in precinct 1 will
be allowed to vote only for the
county trustee to be elected
from that precinct. Other pre-
cincts the same way.
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and other1 diversified
.........................116,820 30 ine jumped to four dollars
County—State ad valor-
castor oil can be had only in
small quantities and at greatly
increased price, because our sup-
ply comes from Spain. Here s
where we balk. We can’t believe
it. If Spain-had anything as bad as
Castor oil it would be glad to get,
rid of it at any price. We don’
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A candidate cannot expect to get elections shall also hold elections
anywhere unless he announces
poor, where manhood shrivels
SroP. and possession rots down the
continaetill completed. Detail-
ed programs have been sent out
to all schools, and much interest
is being manifested by teachers.
Any one desiring a copy of the
program in detail may obtain
same by applying; to the county
superintendent. These contests
have no connection with the
University Interscholastic
League.
The time for holding elections
for trustees in common school
districts, and independent dis-
tricts and for county trustees is
Satprday April. 1 notwithstand-
ing reports to the contrary from
Dllas county. Th county judge
orders the election for county
schooi trustees, while the local
boards order elections for dis-
trict trustees both in common
and independent districts. Un
der the law voters in independ-
ent districts cannot vote for
county trustees, that is, for
members of the County Board
of Education.
The law provides that the
same managers that hold the
common school district trustee
Brggs, Director.
11:30 a. m. —Written Contests
1#—Display Work—Mrs. Grace
Weights and Measures.
Following is the legal standard
of weights and measures in
Texas as amended by the Legis-
lature in 1901; Wheat, sixty
pounds; corn, shelled, .fifty six
pounds; corn in the ear, shucked,
seventy pounds, unshucked,
seventy-two pounds; oats, thirty-
two pounds; barley, forty eight
pounds; rye, fifty-six pounds;
buckwheat, forty two pounds;
white beans, sixty pounds;-Irish
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advancing in this country, and
the invariable reason given is special acts of the Legislature
aroused. Paper that nenspa
pera are printed on is advancing
" because the bleaching material
which comes from Germany, can
be had no more” Why the paper J
mills of America should have to,
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' The Upshur County School
Meet will be held at the Gilmer
High School March 24 and 23.
FRIDAY Night’s PROGKAM.
Declamation Contest—B. B.
Elder, Director.
Old Folks’ Spelling Match—
Director to be appointed. .
Saturday.
10:00 a.m. — Atletie -Contests-
J. K. Reid Director..
10:30 a. m.—Domestic Science
Contests — Miss Pierce, Di rec
tress:— . ’ -2-——
-- 10:30 a. m.—Composition Con- '
test— Fourth and Fifth Grades—
Miss Kate Thomas? Di rectress.
11:00 a. m.--Arithmetic De •
monstration Contests—R? M.
THE TEXAS WH8TE MAN'S BURDEN
, NEWS ITEM—Chas. H. Morris, Candidate for Gaverner, said last wook, in.
speaking of the high tax rate, “The Tax Rate In Texas to the highest in the
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com- dried peaches, twenty-eight
mon school districts will order pounds; bran, twenty pounds;
the election of trustees in their Hungarian grass seed, forty-
respective districts. The county eight pounds; hemp seed, forty
Judge will order the election for four pounds; flax seed, fifty six
county school trustees, while pounds;stone coal, eighty pounds:
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ders with tigures, I will only
e these statements for the
rs 1907 and 1915 inclusive.
se figures have been taken
bq from the records of the
te and carefully compared:
psbur County—State ad val
m and pension. (Does not
ude school taxes.
7________:__________.--$ 5,643.28
_________________________ 2,700.77
i______________________ 4,215.21
----______ 1,820 25
r.years total_$14,379 46
_______________________S 6,693.76
L___;_____________ 5,396 99
_________________________ 13,951.99
|__________ 11,236.33
r years total...$37,279.07
.............._ $22,279.07
amp County—State ad valor
and sension. (Does not in
be acheol taxes.)
“the war in Europe.” When
bread and meat and boots and
horses advanced in price the ex-
planation looked reasonable.
were .hot off from dyes made 151,, entitled "The Election of
$5,225.90 only in Germany.. When gaso- School Trustees," which bulletin
hittery of the State. It to the real White Man's Burden. When I am 6 1 Jamieson, Directress.
Governor, I will reduce the tax rate. or I will renign."- -48-- X ■ 1:30 P- m—Oral Spelling Con-
90000000000000000 oeceeeseeecdaoaoo5 ! Contests are scheduled to be
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| believe Spain makes any Castor great help to school < ticials in potatoes,
lie open before you —leading to
more attention is being paid by wherer are henra teecrrlaint
chstformerropeaHatpoinattbs despair and th. curses of the
the Count.- Judge, the County thinylwo pounds; millet seed,
Ploh the Lil..e e- -- fify pounds; peaches, fifty
county shall constitute an elec- pounds; tomatoes, fifty-five
lion board for the county, whose' pounds; apples, forty- five pounds,
duty it is to provide supplies There are some products not
__________;____$ 2,661 00
__________________________ -1,626.42
.... ... 1.317.94
:................. 1,072 08
years total. ..$ 6,677 44
......................... 8,460,35
_________________ 2,881.60
..... 7,551.00
................... 5,957,82
years total.$24,840.77
---------------$10,329.29
egg County—State ad valor-
ind pension. (Does not in-
i8chool taxes.)
------------------------- $ 4,261 35
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oil, anyway. Itisntfitfor any-
thing but greasing buggies, and
mighty few of the Spaniards use
buggies. The Castor oil trust,
or trustees, whichever
it is, is taking advantage of the
appt oaching green apple season
to oppress the parents of this
Nation. We don’t believe the
war has anything to do with-it.-
Bonham News.
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in all the newspapers and pro-
: vides himself with a plentiful
supply of cards. And that re-
minds us:
Once a candidate approached a
, voter and tendering him a card,
said, "My friend, I desire to
serve you in this office, and I will
appreciate your support." "Yes,
indeed, sir,” replied the voter
addressed, "I will give you my
vote and influence." Time went
on, and when election day came,
the candidate got one lonesome
vote. Immediatelely he bunted
। up the aforesaid voter, and ad-
i dressed him thusly: "My
j friend, I appreciate your vote
very much indeed, butd—n your
Influence.—Sherman Courier.
——-------------,.$31,189.37 ing it, we can’t understand,
comparing the above fig-
ton will find a gradual de-
• trom 1907 to 1810 in
£ However, yon will also
the taxee above men-
;or the years 1911, 12, 18
exceed those 1907, 8, 9
. approximatelg three to
“ that the single year
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, fifty five pounds;
ordering, holding and reporting Onions, tiftv seven pounds;
. ---------------- turnips, fifty-five pounds; dried
Under the new law the local apples, twenty eight pounds;
is, but not tp include
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nmed here that are given in
the United State Standard of
(Weights and Measures.
gpdv
dpensions. (Does notin-
i school taxes.)
•—.................$ 7,341.28
----------------- 4.824 25
------------- 8,840.25
--------------- 1,151.11
years total $18,666.89
~—— .....$10,808 08
".... 8,075 06
............_ 20,081.14
--------------16,419.88
years total $64,828.65
copy of the records of your
State and speak for themselves
I hope th it this statement
may lead to a careful study of
the matters in question, and
evolve some plan, that will re
suit in the abolishment of many
useless offices, and do away wh
many of the extravagant waste
places.
CHAS. B. WHITE
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Stephens, J. J. Upshur County Echo (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1916, newspaper, March 16, 1916; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1414367/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.