Upshur County Echo. (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1912 Page: 4 of 12
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Upshur County Echo, Thursday, February 15, 1912,
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Feb. 13.
Cubic.
Twenty Bodies Awaiting Burial
day or two last
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several weeks and is no better.
were a
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True and Straight.
Geo. W. Wilkie has said that
when Thos. Carlyle was writing
his matchless "‘French Revolu-
tion,” someone twitted him on
ing of others. Note the men
and women whose lives have in-
fluenced the world, some for
good and some for evil, which
good or evil lives after them.
Let your life be so directed that
the world my be the better for
you having lived in it.—Retail
Merchant
Adveriised Letters.
When calling say advertised.
They will cost you one cent each
Alexande , Lee.
Benton, Fannie.
Starnes, Jim.
Dixon, S. J.
Doss, C. M. (2)
Down, M. F. —
Garlington, Jack.
Johnson, Richard.
Helms, Jim.
Majors, Mrs. Dessie.
Monroe, Author.
Orttern, Oscar.
Pittman, Al.
Pallard, Mary.
Simmons, Lula.
Shepard, H. S.
Ussery, Oscar.
Williams, P. W,
Waddle, Rosa.
Whitter, Hezzie.
W. M. Thompson. P. M.
or scalp disease, to come here
and get the ZEMO trial-treat-
this trouble. ZEMO stops the
itching at once and opens the
pores and draws out the poison-
ous accumulations to the skin
leaving it clean and health/.
Get a trial-treatment of ZEMO
mourn her departure.
Gum Boots.
there that unfailin
accept the treatme
without protest ?
f riendis
l appini
life.
A'gle
ing characters every day, all the
while, and will as long as we live
and it behooves us to build it
true and straight and strong, for
whether or not we fully realise
it, our character building is also
Miss Virgie Ramsey and Mr.
Tol Tansel borded the train for
Niss l
at Dr H
be nice.
Ewell Lovell, who has been
quite sick with fever, we are
glad to report him better. -
Malclon Richardson of East
Mountain visited relatives here
last Sunday.
Everybody remember the all
day to do at Bethelem Saturday
the 17th instant. I expect that
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but I never dreamed it got sor
cold in northern Indiana.”—
Huntingburg . (Ind.) Indepen-
dent, Feo., 10, 1912.
A simple way of making teleph
conversations more audible has b
invented by Herr Petersen, * )
manager of Nykjobing, Denm
On the principle that round U ■
readily transmitted through rare
air he has constructed an aPPAD
to warm the trasmitter, whereb
air in it becomes thinner and
sound is intensified. Professor "
nover, of the Danish goveram
telephone testing station, wh
made extensive experiments With
tenon’s apparatus, says in hisEe
that the increase of sound obta
Mills was here a
week.
Feb. 13th.
mason, a builder of walls. Carlyle
answered: “Yes, be was; more,
he built himself into every wall.
ECZ MA ,
QUICKLY CURED WITH
"ZEMO"
A Trial Treatment Eor 25c.
Gilmer where they were happily
married last Saturday. They
will make their home with the
.bride’s mother, Mrs. Ramsey.
Mr. Scott Riden and Miss
Lizzie Davidson were married at
the home of the brides mother
Mrs. F. L. Davidson, at two
o’clock last Thursday eve. The
brideand groom boarded the four
o'clock train for a visit to the
bride’s, sister Mrs. Baxter, at
Glenwood, Ark.
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Snow, MConnelly, N P Hopper, — -
S R Fenlaw, R-J Shaw, J BI Dog.
Johnson, Wm Allen, J L Pankey '
lot of unfeeling.
and uniform courtesy should beta
rule and where every member shoula
use his or her ulmost effort to keel
tion with the administrator he the family life unrainted^y theS
asked me if I wanted to see the tating experiences of the life outside
the man. I taid No. He then of it.
said the body was at the under- - " _
County Court Jury List.
Following is the list of, jurors
drawn for the February term of
County Court, which convenes in
Gilmer the 19th instant:
FIRST WEEK.
WB Inman, W W Hawkins,
JAW Brison, J G Chapman,
W F Duffey, Melvin Hart, M R
Barton, I A Weatheby, J L
Reavis, A W McKinney, I L
Hill, C L Hamilton.
SECOND WEEK.
J C Wood, J A Lindsey, W W
Williamson. Tom Foster, J 1 B
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; “Is it a excitin’ book, Jimmie
“Naw;i‛s dead slew! Heme
is de third chapter an’ he ain’t kille
but eight or ten Injuns so far
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IMPROVED TELEPHONE
ment. We heartily endorse and_______________... ....
recommend ZEMO and ZEMO I and if J, his son, can but build
SOAP to all persons suffering my books as straight, as true,
from any form of skin or scalp I and as everlasting
trouble. It is a clean, soothing, I this walls, I will n<
healing wash and a sweet anti-'jn vain.”
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1tt0r
Murry has been sick
was in his grave. In conversa-
treatment package consisting of
agenerus bottle of ZEMO, a
trial cake ZEMO SOAP and a 32
page booklet "How to Preserve
the Skin.”—This entire package
to be sold at 25c, so that every-
body can test the true healing
and cleansing properties of
ZEMO. We have recieved a good
supply of these trial-treatment
packages and urge all those
troubled with Eczema, Pimples,
It ’i>
Pleasant Grove.
To the Eclot - _______
Health in thiscommunityis
very good at present ,eKcept a
few badcolds.
Some of our farmers are get-
ting a hustle on themselves try-
i ig to get their land fixed for
fm ininsr.
Toi Caffey and family, who
have been living at Forney. are
moving back intoourcemmunity.
Nearly nil of thos who go west
soon want back in the piny
woods.
Mrs. Fed Davis is visiting
relatives at Greenville this week.
Walter Duke at Shady Grove
was in our community Sunday.
- Owen Davis of Pritchett was
visiting his father, Fed Davis,
Sunday.
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many friends a
frozen five and one-half feet
The Makers of ZEMO-the down and graves can not be aug.
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Fire at Rlunesboro.
the Eda :
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An M. P. was discussing,ota
frauds—impersonal ion) andei
plication of votes generally-
stanced one duplicator, a, 1847
fellow who had the stolid “i..
moved look of an animal.
: "When they arrested him b
what crime lay at his doo
«You are charged,’ said te
liceman, “with having voteg e
: “‘Charged. am I?’ mu
prisoner. ‘That’s odd. Wate
to be paid for it.’ -
’ is remarkable. Telephone con
tions between Copenhagen and *
jobing, a distance of some 75 ®
could be clearly followed 8om
tance away from the instrun
; The investor has applied for P“
.in different countries.
DISAPPOINTED. -
Glenwood.
Te the Echo:
Farmers are very busy, as it
seems as if tho, spring has be-
gun.
Our school is. progressing
nicely with three teachers, Mr.
J. G. Reid, principal, MissEsther
Berry and Miss Lora Hargrove,
assistants. We have over one
hundred enrolled. They are
to-day—you’ll find it the best 25c influencing the character build-
investment you ever made. H. -
P. Robertson’s Drug Store.
Enon.
To the Echo:
Health of this community is
not very good.
Mr. Simpson has had some
right sick children ith roseola
but they are improving now.
W. B* Phillips and family visit-
ed his son, W. D. Phillips, of
near old Calloway.
There was singing and Sun-
day school at Enon last Sunday.
There was singing at Mr. Tom
McPeeks last Sunday night.
Of all places on earth thehomei
the place where the best and sieet
have placed on the market a trial up the dead in the ‘dead houses’
* found in Canadian cemeteries.
his humble origin, on the fact
Itching Skin, or any other skin that his father had been a stone
we will have preaching. I guess
thmt isitspurpose
......, Mrs. B. B. Berry rtf Gilmer is
. eb uary 4th, Rev St-ntey : visiting relatives and friends here
De: forming the cercmony: Tieir this week.
- ‘ Mrs. Kirkpatrick and children
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septic soap that does not ulaxe. The delivery boy on the wagon,
over the trouble like salves, pow- the salesman behind the counter,
decs and greasy lotions, butI the merchant in charge of the
penetrates to the very root of business, yes all of us, are build-
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Mr. John Morris and M-s.
• Maggie Turner were qui+ty
i! a riled at the home of Rev D. i
A. Stanley Sunlay afiernoon.
teaching up to the 9th grade.
We are anticiapating having almost complete,
an entertainment here the 22nd mh--- *—- -----
I instant, celebrating Washington’s since our last report.
Birthday. We are sure it will Niee Viumie Ramee
takor’s next door. There were
twenty bodies, awaiting for warm
weather, to be buried. In that
part of Indiana the ground is
Pritchett.
To the Echo:
Every thing is quiet in our
little town at this timne, conse-
quently, we have very few
newsitems toeport this week.
Singing at the Christian
church Sunday afternoon was
very well attended. A mon sr the
visitors present was R. B. Riggs
of Rhonesboro.
W. L. Turner of Pittsburg
was a business visitor in our
town last Wednesday.
T. W. Collins and sister, Miss
May me, of Locust Grove visited
friends here Sunda.
Hardy Petty and wife of
Gilmer were here between trains
Saturcay.
Clarence Ballard of South
Texas is visiting relatives and
friends this week.
Wright Seago of West Texas,
who left Upshur County several
• yearsago, is in Pritchett this
this week. We learn that he
intedds tc make his home here
again. When a fellow gets a
taste of the good, things of East
Texas, itrs hard to keep him
away - some time he will wander
back again.
J. M. Connell is in Texarkana
this week on business.
Mrs. A. J. Bauman left Satur.
day for her home in Dallas, after
a month’s visit with relatives in
Upshur Ccunty.
U. R. Neil and John Prothro
Of Big Sandy were in Pritchett
Tuesday. )
Recent arrivals in our town
are a boy at the home of Mr. e nd
Mrs. G. II. Maberry, and a boy
at the home of Mr. and Mis J.
*• Baird All parties are de 1,
wed.
p • and
Lyles by Gilmer peopl vas $60
and Shady Grove community six
or seyen dollars, making a total
of $65.95 for Mr. Lyles. lle
amount donated to Mr. Bo z Was
§13.05.
J. W. Wall and R. B. Nelson
came down on the M. Ar E. T. Ivy
and returned Sunday.
Mr. Fouts, the M. A E. T.
Agent, is doing business in a
box car. They will rebuild soon.
Also Mr. J. B. Johnson is going
to rebuild. He is talking of
building a large house and cover-
ing it with sheet roofing.
Rutledge of Gilmer
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Ashland.
To the Echo:
Business is picking up here.
J. H. Rivers and wife made a
business trio to Gilmer last
Friday.
The farmers of this place are
rolling logs preparing for an
other crop.
l‛s thin werk
ATMOSPMEREOF THe 1
One Place Where the B. ]
est Side of Character J
Be 3hown. .
Family life shonla, I
utmost deferene ahd ;
ia peculiar phase of
that we are oftenr more eons, “
of stringers than ve ar,
who in the very nature of tin-08
nearest and dearest tong. • -3“
Why should we fret and fina,
until we make home life intele-"4
Why should we carry a grouch 2
our homes every time we leave-12
ness?” Why should we
services of those in the home gm
which we only request in the m
respectful manner from tL00
side of it? °u
Stamps. J
Fthe Echo:
't he farmers of this com-
munits, are taking advantage of
th s i • mtiful spring weather.
Grard na Wiileford departed
this life Tuesday morning about
6 o’clock at the home of her son,
Arthur. She had been sick for
some time. All her sons and
soveral other relatives came to
viit at her bedside. The be
reaved has our sympathy.
C T. Culpepper and family
visited relatives at Ore City Sun-
day. —
Mr. Lee Alexander has a very
sick child.
Mrs. Virgil Stamps and Little
daughter of Ore City are visiting
relatives here now.
Mr and Mrs. Howard Duffey
entertained the young folks with
a pan v last Friday night.
Mrs. ”. A. Oliver and Miss
Bell. her daughter, visited at
JohnBradley’s at Boxwood Sun-
day.
Dr. Crrroll was in our com-
munity Monday of Ore City.
Mrs. Law and son, Willie were
in Gilmer Monday and Tuesday
Why should a man say to d
wife, “May, I want my’ slinn
Brmg them to me,” and use a ton
command when he horj
wouldn’t address the veriest 1&J
in a similar manner? Why shom
“I have paid out hundreds of May use an iritating, commandin
thousands of dollars for deal tone toward John when shewant
losses lor my company, said Geo.1 any little service done and whrd
Mr Halt i has got an .awful- R Wilson, State Manager of the both order thcilren-ronna J
sick child. They say it is dip- State Life Insurance Co., to The if they
cheria. School is progressing InflepenueLt —representative, thinking little minions v 10
nicely at this place. 1 "since I have be'n m tiWJ' life better than to
• Planting oats is the order of insurnce business, and I have
the day. A. funa many queer conditions,
Mr. George Wilkins, and fami-buu last week I reached the
ly visited his brother, E. N. Wil- limit for this state. I went into
kins, of near this place last a northern Indiana country to
Saturday ant Sunday. _ ' pay a loss and found the man’s • shown.
Mrs. Milk r of near Rosewood funeral had been preached, his tones .and kindest actions shoml
died Jan. 2, 1912 and she was 'children in school, his adminis-prevail. i
buried February 1, 1912, at the trator settling up his estate, and '
Enon Cemetery. She leaves I the ught, of course, the man
-tedatIntiun Boca Jast Sun-
day.
urs. Pv . d iaughter.
tie, of India Icck were visiting
here last week.
Grandma Barton is very ill,
caused by fallingim •
Mrs. C. C Worker* and child-
ren were visiting relatives and
others here the past week’s.
Willa Gillispie has gone off to
take a course in pharamacy.
Every body remember the
singing here the 1st and 3rd
Sunday afternoon.
' 21
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entered school here Thuhsday.
Also Miss Lula Smithlof Shady
Grove re entered school .V onday
after an absence of several weeks
on account of sickness in her
father’s family.
Among the students who visit-
ed home folks Saturday and
Sunday were the following: J. M.
Lawrence at Wallingville, G. C.
Cowley at Newsom, J J. Whatley
at Ashland, S E. Baile at Kel-
ses, W. P- Townsend at Matin-
burg, Miss Nannie Lee Efurd at
Pine.
Miss Ollie Connell spent Satur-
day night at her home in Gilmer.
J. W. Collaway and wife visit-
ed at Smith Saturday and Sun-
day.
Prof. C. J. Williams spent
from F’riday till Sunday with
liis father’s family at Soules
Chapel.
Dr. R. O. Connell who recently
moved foom Pritchett to Pine
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Vollie Davis of Winnsboro was
in our town Saturday and Sun-
day.
Tern Barton and Amos
Weatherby made a business
trip to Graceton and returned
Sunday. They are figuring .on
moving there soon and taking
up the prop business.
We had a destructlue fire here
on the Sth instant. About 9
o'clock a. m. fire broke out in
Mr. Lyles’ Kitchen and burned
his hotel, J B. Johnson’s gener
al merchandise store, the barber
shop owned by Mr. Boaz was a
total loss, the M. & L. T. depot
ni-o burned to the ground. Mr.
Lyles saved considerable house
hold gods, lbs fced_ hcuse
with all its contents burned, also
his , trm housc . He ‘-.tales that
—he lest $125 in cash—He said it
__ wis in a tobuetosack oetmel a
• mmeefrnm . and wlen ihcy
took the picture down the money
fell unnotic d and burned. 1114
total loss is estimated at $1,010
wit! no insurance. Mr. Johns:'.?.
■ saved abort 500 worth of his
good a. 11 • loss is eslimnuteti at,
:1.000 witi i u insurance. 'I hey
sivec most of the depot, except
th • house. I don’t know what
th • loss is. Johnson A; Joiinson
v: ; danaged some, but the
damage was covered by in
suratce. Itl ched for a while
like thic wholc town was geingr.
The people, hero-dona ted lber-
ally to Mr. Lyles and Mr. Boaz.
wish for them iuct
s d ring ihotr sarriet
(‛ of ditih= ’ s
n ur Ro- • w oo', nc of M 1s J out S
! 1 1 . inis, thouun she is ip/0-
Feb. 11. 1912.
These letters will be sent to
the dead letter, oflice if not call-
ed for. Feb. 19, 1912.
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Stephens, J. J. Upshur County Echo. (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1912, newspaper, February 15, 1912; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1431266/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.