Upshur County Echo (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1916 Page: 1 of 6
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Upshur County Echo
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Gilmer. Texas. Thursday, December 21. 1916.
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complishing patriotic legislation
within the time allowed that the
Brumley school,
Berma Goolsby,
Box Supper at West Mountain.
We are authorized to announce
one.
case
that place were not up on the
now rules,- and refused to play
us unless we would play the way
they had been playing, and so
during the campaign lastsummer
are false the people who made
them should be treated*" to the
exposure the yrichly deserve; if
which these large firms ihave
gone in decorating shows enter-
Friday
sts at i
have given a home to little Loula
Mae Stome, who is an orphan
and a cousin of Mrs. Perdue.
I of Mrs. E. C. Lyle.
citizen* of Gilmer were
d Monday to bear of the
ith of Mrs. E. C. Lyle
burred at the family re-
that morning about 4
toe meas
f Thedfa
has had
fatetions and Personages
Support Her Claims.
here Ool. Sterrett was
le ore beds, mountains
h the desired mineral,
ransportation facilities
ir physical advantages
Baptist Sanitarium,
ousness of her illness
generally known.
necessity of haste.
Really, I’ve seen so much of
legislative haste and have noted
were accom paniecLbome by Miss
Ching Lteci
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Ore City Sunday morning. Mrs.
Howard Coppedge returned With
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We wish the Echo and its many
readers a merry Christmas.
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the entertainment of the graduat-
ing class.
Mr.-Joe Hart, of Peach and
Mr. Edd Calvert, of Gilmer, have
moved to Simpsonville. Each of
le
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ers
sick for many months ana bad ’
undergone two operations at the
have their show windows beauti-
fully decorated with evergreens,
Christmas goods and the latest
showing in masculine and femi-
reads thus: ‘The thirty-third
legislature shall assemble to hold
its biennial session on the second
Tuesday in January, A. D. 1912
at 12 o’clock M. and shall meet
biennially thereafter on the same
innnennenennenen-en--reemeey
ECHO $1.30
AFTER JANUARY 1, 1917
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tisfied will
it indicat"
JI the New
and other departments of church
work when her health permitted.
She leaves a husbad- and
daughter, Miss ChingLyle, be-
sides a brother, J. D. Faulkner
of Arlington, and other relatives
to mourn her departure.
Her brother and wife of Arling-
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Simpsonville.
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expenditures. Not only would a
proper treatment of these five
questions, require sixty days
time but in fact a propertudy
of the first and the least alone
might very easily do so."Det us
see.
The good name of the Demo-
bn is that
in to train
long untilth
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Dr. Rogers of Rosewood mo-
tored over to his farm with pros-
pectors Sunday afternoon.
Dimp Wyatt of Como is visit-
BOARD WILL
’ VISIT GILMER
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Town Will be Permitted to Pre-
sent Claims for Armor
Plate Factory.
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ryZElect Gilmer Board of Trade
The boys basket ball team of
Simpsonville school accepted a
challenge from the boys of Poor
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The funeral services were held
at the Baptist Church Monday subjct weighs on my mind.
from the nearby communities
were present. The dates are
every first ad third Sundays af-
ternoon in each month.
The young people enjoyed a
party at Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Keith’s.
A Singing at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Harris last Sun-
allow its auditors a year. The
legislature can give it a few
To the Echo: — .___
School will be out next Friday
until after Christmas. One week
will be taken for the holidays,
school beginning again on the 1st
of Januar , 1917.
The Sunday School will render
a program at the Baptist church
on Christmas day, and this will
be followed on Monday night
and Tuesday with two or more
sermons. We expect Bro. Ar-
rington and Bro. Conner, both,
tn be with us and hope to have
some good services. This is the
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spiritually, and has a winning
personality. It was easytosee
that he found his way at once in-
to the hearts of the people here.
He stayed over until Monday,
visiting the school, and made an
interesting talk at opening exer-
cises, Monday morning.
Grandma Clark came in this
week, from Gilmer, to spend
Christmas here with her sons
and many other relatives. She
will make this her home for a
while.
The graduating class of our
school was entertained at Mr.
which may finally go to that 23, we will have an exercise and
court cannot now expect a de- Christmas tree. Every one has
days. Need more be aaid?
The question of supreme court
relief is also a large and difficult
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bad coldg.
Count Tarnowski, has been
granted safe conduct across and
ye’ll expect a whole lot of the
same after his arrival.—Ex.
class and we are proud of them, j vocal and instrumental music.
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the charge* are true, punishment
should be meted to the guilty.
The iunocent, if any, will court
an ‘inquiry; the guilty, if such
there be, should not be allowed
to prevent one. A superficial
investigation might do more
harm than good. If the house
needs cleaning, it should be well
fulness and -impropriety made of Longview are visiting her par-
ents, Mn and Mrs. C. T. Cui pep-
Wishing the Echo and its
many readers a joyful Christmas.
P. O. TOTANUG.
December 18th.
m unity Saturday and Sunday.ist_a-week ago a number of
towns in Eastern Texas closely
situated to the ore fields have
r is strictly in the spot-
Her claims have been
ed by big institutions
men. Neighboring cities
concede. Gilmer a clear
way and offer a helping
per.
Singing was well attended
Sunday after noon. Good crowds
generous Tyler.
the least among the com
6 paid our city, is the
s in her behalf of the
News, the recognized lead
uspaper of the Southwest.
n a position to best serve
irsst of Gilmer, the News
ol W. G: Sterrett, staff
ondent, here this week to
he situation at close range
• the salient facts to the
in next Sunday’s issue of
iper. Col. Sterrett’s im-
e of Gilmer as a location
big armor plate plant will
iteresting reading
squite natural that.mem.
the local Board of Trade
rominent business men
anciers should give this
ished visitor a cordial
on, for besides the fact
L Sterrett is the "nestor
dlism" in Texas, he has
lute Oyster, Fish and
Washington, Dec. 16.—It is
practicly cerbain that the board
to be named by Secretary Daniels
to cosder sites available for loca-
tion of the Government’s $11,000,-
G00-armor plate factory will visit
Gilmer, the only Texas site
named by the Naval Board as
meeting the possible require-
ments. -
4 Since announcement of the
Austin Letter.
(By R. B. Humphrey.)
* Stange to relate there is no
warrant of law for a convening of
the 35th legislature. The state
constitution contains only the
following provision as to the time
of legislative meetings: ’’The
legislature shall meet every two
Baptist Church and was a faith land question; the .gcod roads
ful worker in the Aid Society question; inrestigation of public
sicuous among‘whient Deceased lacked about three
months of being 49 years old.
meant. It “thirty third” is
stricken out, the meaning be-
comes plain. Of cou rse the 35th
will meet; and no one will seri-
ously attack the validity of its
proceedings. I cite the law and
the facts as an instance of legis-
Stamps.
To the Echo: ..
Miss Nora Todd is very sick at
this writing
q John Duffey returned home
Friday from Waco where he lias
been attending the S. D. N. of
music. ---"-4
Fudel Mangum"returned home
from Ft. Worth, where he is
taking a* business course. He
will return after Xmas.
Rev. W. H. McClelland filled
his regular appointment here
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. V.O. Stamps and children
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them had already been sending +
their children to the school here.
We welcome them into our com-
munity.
Mr. Claud Morris moved to
his new residence in Simpson-
ville, last week.
satisfied. They maintain regular
legal staffs and are prepared to
litigate. But it is hard on the
little fellow. Something ought
t be done, but how can it be
safely and wisely done in a few
days? When a man is well it
may be easy to keep him so, but
when he grows desyerately sick,
Dis restoration is difficult. So
the devising of a right system of
court procedure many years ago
when our litigation was light
would have been much easier
than now.
As allied with the question of
Let us all remember the Christ,
and try to spend the holidays in
a way that will be pleasing to
him. We can be happiest by
making some one else happy.
Rev. Conner, the new Method
i*t pastor, preached his first
sermons here last Sunday and
Sunday night. He is a strong
preacher, intellectually, and
governor.'’ The only statute
court procedure, or embraced
within it, consider the patch-
work laws prescribing methods
of giving legal notices, which in-
clude election notices, estray
notices sales notices, etc. It is
uncertain, epensive, futile and
generally ayurd. A simple law
should be enacted providing that
legal notices of every kind shall
be printed in a newspaper having
a general local circulation.
Let it be illustrated this way.
Eliminate all but, say, twenty-
five of the hundreds of pressing
questions. Then select any five
of the remaining twenty five, and
their proper treatment will easily
require sixty days.
Consider this list. (It does
not include submission) Su-
preme court relief; taxation; the
Frank Winkler have all gone to
west Texas.
Mr. McBride has,bought and
moved upon the Parish farm
Mr. McBride is from Limestone
county.
Misses Grace and Mae Glezen
of Gilmer visited their parents at
Wilkins Saturday night and
Sunaay.
A few young people from here
attended a party at Union Grove
last Friday night.
•Several young men made a
pleasure trip to Longview Sat-
urday night.
A steel bridge is constructed
across Glade Creek which will
unite the good roads.
. Edgar Dunagan of West Moun-
tain visited relatives in this com
was not so frequently the difficulty of ac-
i aiT other
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afternoon at 3 o’clock and inter.
mentfuliowe.dat the City Ceme-
tery. Rev. Gordon Barrett
preached the funeral, which was
very touchiug and appropriate.
Rev. J. R Christian offered a
fervent prayer.
is to offer.
eedless to say that the.
1 the armor plate plant day and hour until otherwise
Id make of Gilmer ai provided by law.” Read it again
and note the “thirty-third! Note
also that the time is set for
January 1912,when 1913 is clearly
a Box Supper at West Mountain
and Mrs. Martin's last Friday on Saturday night Dec. 23. A
They organized and made ' short program will also be ren-
dered by school children, with
cleaned. A big corporation un- day night was weli attended,
der similar circumstances would
State Aid Granted.
State aid has been granted to
the following schools in amounts
specified, available next Feb-
ruary:
Mings ’ Chapel, District 23,
1400; Simpsonville, District 2,
$500; Glenwood, District 21, $400;
Rhonesboro, District 43, $350;
Perryville, District 1, $350;
Soules Chapel, District 12, $350;
Kelsey, District 45, $400; Rose-
wood, District 15, $300; Ashland,
District 46, $450.
Creek school last week and went
down to play them on Saturday, S rosby - cGauK 1Y Marshall Co.,
accompanied by several front, out
community. But the boys of,
nine toggery. The pains to
Rocky.
To the Echo:
Since my last correspondence
there have been several fam-
ilies moved away. Mack El-
der. Milton May, Crof Johnson.
Jim Vire, George Smith and
cision in less than three or four a ordial invitation to attenb.
years. We grow impatient withi Norman Mathis and Huel
such folly. It ought to be done Brandon of Simmons attended
in three months, easily. Of । the singing Sunday night,
course the big corporations ano . Clein and Claud Fowler and
other big business interests are Willis and Jim Willeford were in
wo came back without a game. ' ,
or course we were disappointed, I l,"Si; worlby of wecl.l mention.
but we let them bare our rule
book and invited them to come up
and play us when they learned
the game. —
Mr. Steve Nelson made a bust
ness trip to Dallas last Tuesday,
returning Wednesday.
Miss Brogden, principal of the
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A person interested in a On Saturday night December
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bmmissioner, and our - , ,
thta to honor the men provided by law, and at other
Hinam times when convened by the
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! A bundle of white news paper that cost us $3.00 ,
; net in Dallas last January now costs $7.00 and .
; freight charges. On this accouhtandthetigh ‘
; cost of other printing material it will be abso, 3
{ lutely necessary to raise the price of the ECHO :
; from $1.00 to $1.50.
Subscribe or renew now so as to get the :
! benefit of the $1.00 rate.
All who pay by January 1, 1917, will have i
; their time extended at the rate of $1.00 per -
3 year, no matter how long they pay for. ;
: J. J. STEPHENS,
Editor and Proprietor
proximity to the Gulf were fea- i-
tures largely bringing them into
consideration.
The Oklahoma delegation pro-
bably will go to the Navy Depart-
ment and ask that the State be
visited by the board.
TdinigAiesk
vesRasean
endeavored to become applicants
for the location,- but without
success.
In response to inquiries from i
Gilmer, Senator Sheppard and
Represen tative-at-Large Davis
were advised by the Navy De-
portment that Gilmer would be ~. '
called upon for a brief as to local
advantages, its ability to procure
coal for extraction of gases, Its
health conditions, transportation
facilties, etc.
Robert Galbreath of Tulsa is
here in the interest of that town
as a possible location of the plant.
Tulsa and Muskogee were the
only Oklahoma towns mentioned
in the board’s report on avail-
able sites. It is understood the
abundance of natural gas and
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Stephens, J. J. Upshur County Echo (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1916, newspaper, December 21, 1916; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1414402/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.