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Vol. XL. No. 44
GILMER, Upshur County, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916
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prise party at the residence of
Mr. J. W. Rooinson, in the north-
Gilmer is one of the best cot-
ton markets in East Texat, has a
ae regular meeting of the city
iacil was held Friday night, and
aldition to the routine business
hich Mayor W,
ded, a contract
titive bids for
six concrete cul
lace of wi oden
satisfying and it is not appetiz-
ing to those who have to listen
The railroads and city property
represents two-thirds the valua-
tion of the road district, there-
fore will pay two thirds of the
Fortieth Year
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Dehtal Serzon
Office in the
Crosby Building
Work Guaranteed
SOME TRUE STATE-
MENTS UNCONTRADIGTED
There was a good crowd out at
Concord Monday night to attend
the good rosds joint debate, and
those of the good roads advocates
present seemed to have been well
pleased with the result of the meet-
ing.
There was a joint debate between
Mr Roy Deen and Mr. J. M. Per-
due, none of the committee men
from Gilmer participating in the
debate.
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STATEMENT OF THE
COMMISSIONERS' COURT
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INOTHER BAD ROAD
EXPERIENCE RELATED
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
W. F. DOUGHTY
OUR LAND. UPSHUR GO.
OUR TOWN. GILMER
The Traveling Man That Had Such
an Experience With Bad
Roads Talks.
TO THE WEEKLY
MIRROR SUBSCRIBERS
tract for Concrete Culverts Let
To Joe Pickett.
The farmers are busy with
their crops.
Miss Mary Gorman, who has
been quite sick is convalescing.
Mr. 0. 0 Stracener of Bettie,
spent Sunday in our community,
the guest of Mr. Church R.
Young.
Mr. Sam Schrum spent Satur-
day night with Mr. Don Still.
There was an enjoyable social
entertainment at the home of
Mr. and Mrs R. E. McClendon
Saturday night.
Mr. Leroy Culberson was the
guest of Mr. Church Young Sun-
day.
Mi C. R Young has been suf-
L. A. Williams of Mississippi, For
a Reward of Fifty Dollars
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SURPRISE PARTY
TENDERED TO
J. W. ROBINSON
Expresses Himself About the Gilmer
High School—Praise From a
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01 N'T TELL ALL
HIS EXPERIENCE
That Gilmer is proud of her
High School, and that she has a
right to be, has been often ex-
pressed. but a recent letter from
the State Department of Educa-
tion, from State Superintendent
W. F. Doughty, to Superintend-
ent 1. A. Coston, is praise indeed
which we appreciate. The letter
says:
SIMPSONVILLE
GOOD ROAD .
JOINT SPEAKING
MINGS CHAPEL
VISITORS TO
LGNGVIW ROADS
SHERIFF B. G. BUIE
CAPTURES FUGITIVE
SPEAKING AT CON-
CORD MONDAY NIGHT
WOODMAN UN-
VAILING SUNDAY
AT ROSEWOOD
CITY COUNCIL
IN SESSION
FRIDAY NIGHT
We, the members of the Com-
missioners’ Court. at the request
of a number of citizens, wish to
state that it is agreeable to us
and we believe it to be to the
you for the courtesies extended
Mr. Stokard; and assuring you
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Mr. M. M. Mangum attended to
buainess in Big Sandy last Monday,
Mr J. F. Barton and wife visited
the county beat last Monday.
Mrs. J. R Waters of 1703 W.
5th. St, Texarkana Texas is visiting
her daughter Mrs. J. A. Morris.
We were glad to see Dr. Crad-
dock on our streets last week.
Mrs. M. C and F. C. Florence
left for Tyler last Saturday.
Mr. J. F. Barton defeated his op-
ponent in theTrustee election by a
vote of 2 to 1.
The election voted on last Sat-
urday for the purpose of erecting a
modern school building carried by
a good many votes.
Mr. J. P. Connally and sister
Mrs. W. Connally spent the day
with Mr. J. F. Barton and family,
last Sunday.
The frost did some damage to
this section of the County.
Sunday school is blooming out
again, we are glad to see our attend-
ance increasing each Sunday.
Mr. M. C. Florence attended to
business in Gilmer last week.
Mr. J. R. Warren candidate for
District Judge spent Saturday and
part of Sunday in our little village.
Mr. Carrol Florence of Gilmer
was a welcome visitor on our streets
last week.
Mr. Riggs and daughter left for
Commerce last Sunday whefe Miss.
Flossil will enter school,
Mr. J R. Hinson spent last week
in Winnsboro attending to business.
Mr. Richardson of McKinney was
here last Saturday. Banday, and
part ft Monday looking after land.
M rs. W. T. Stephenson sister of
Linden, is visiting here this week.
Get the go (to Sunday school
habit.
Mrs. Maberry is visiting relatives
nsbine somewhat mitigated the
afternoon.
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DR.WD. CLEMENTS
The norther increased in Severity
l iday afternoon until there was
e a8iderable apprehension that there
w mid be frost . It was cold enough
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There wlil be speaking at Union
Ridge tonight.
I am pleased to learn through
Mr. L* V. Stockard, one of our
High School supervisors, who
visited Gilmer school recently,
of its excellent High School
building, good equipment, capa-
ble teaching force, and fine stu-
dent body. Your community is
to be congratulated for its splen-
did school spirit and the effi
ciency of its school. Thanking
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t interest of the people to
e a citizens advisory commit-
chosen from the different
' 'ore New Mains to be Laid. Con-
Mr. Ben Tobolosky, represent-
ing Brinn Bros, Dallas, was the
traveling man referred to in a
previous issue as having had
such a trying experience coming
from Graceton to Gilmer Thurs
day night. He was able to be
out Saturday morning and called
at the Mirror office to say that
the half had not been told. He
says that his car stuck in a creek
swamp where the road was not
well enough defined for him to
follow the road, and that he ran
into the water too deep to get
out and had to wade around,
pack boards and debris in order
to bridge out the auto, and after
getting out, water soaked and
his clothes ruined, that he could
not reach town, striking another
bad place, used up all his gaso-
line trying to plough through it
and finally asked for the hospi-
tality of Mr. Chapman along the
way and came in Friday morn-
ing. He thinks he will be able
to get back to work in a few
days, and in addition to this loss
of time, and danger to his health
he looses a good suit of clothes
which were ruined in the water
and mud tugging at the stalled
auto.
Mr. C. S. Taylor has pur
chased the Silver Alley restau-
rant and has assumed charge,
and will be pleased to have the
hungry public call and eat with
him. Fresh fish and anything
the market affords all the time.
equipped with aut truck and
plenty of hose, has a good band,
has a cornpress, oil mill, crate
and basket factory employing
over one hundred peop’e, eleo-
trie light and power plant, sani-
tary sewerage, a good telephone
system, with lines running to
every rural precinct in the coun-
ty.
The city owns its own water
works and is supplied from a
deep well the water coming out
of a strata of coarse sand gravel
that is considered the very best
filter. It is pure, clear, tastless,
not being impregnated with any
kind of mineral but just pure
clear, cool water.
The people are hospitable, and
extend to those coming among
them, a cordial welcome.
They are democratic in their
tendences, liberal in their diver-
sity of views, and if you hail
from a section where land is too
high, and want to become a land
owner in Texas before Texas
land gets too high, come to Gil-
mer, Upshur county, and investi-
gate its advantages
THE CONCORD
GOOD ROADS
SPEAKING
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DENTIST
Office in the
Crosby Building
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me bad place. Vote for the
nd issue so that people can tra-
vel over the roads at any time.
Several Interesting Talks and an
A luting Incident Told By
the Visitors.
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W. W. Sanders, making his
good roads speech and agein ho
was disgusted for he had gone
there to hear the other side dis-
cussed, and he left again, just
missing all the anti good road
talks by reason of, not having a
very clear conception of what
was coming by Mr Hart’s open-
ing remark, and getting back
when Mr Sanders instead of
Mr. Perdue was talking.
The incident furnished a good
deal of amusement to the crowd
in fact the whole meeting was
described to us as being a very
pleasant one, and the good roads
speakers that were present were
very well pleased with the situa-
tion as they found it.
ern part of the city Friday night, good volunteer Fire Department,
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The Weekly Mirror has several
hundred dollars subscription due
it, $1 in a place. The amount to
each individual is small, but with
paper right close to five cents
per pound laid down here, the
aggregate would materially help
us out. We need the money , to
carry on the business and im-
prove the paper
The establishment of the Daily
Mirror has materially added to
our expenses, and while we do
not like to send out duns through
the paper, we know that the
subscribers to the Mirror nelect
these amounts because they are
small and they know they are
good for it, but when they run
into hundreds they become bur-
densome to us to carry, besides
the postal laws require a paper
to be stopped after it has been
overdue for one year.
We are trying to constantly
improve the paper, and will ap-
preciate your help.
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Rev. Gordon Barrett, Messrs.
John Barnwell and Jas Bishop, i
were the speakers that went out
to Concord Friday night to pre-
sent the facts, figures and rea-
sons for the good roads bond is-
sue to be voted on April the 18th
Notwithstanding the cold
night there was a good many out
to hear them on this important
subject, and the arguments were
convincing-
' Gilmer has no curfew ordi-
nance, and the few tops of the
Sre bell at 6 o’clock everx after-
noon is to remind the Aisiness
it seems impossible for negro
troops to be sent to Texas that
will not try to take advantage of
their uniform to force them-
selves where they are not
wanted and cause the death of
some of them or somebody else.
It looks as if the Brownsville
experience would have learned
the army officers this, but one
of them was killed a few days
ago at Del Rio while resisting
arrest and defying the laws by
trying to beat up a Ranger.
There was a wreck on the M.
& E. T. R’y Saturday afternoon
near Rhonesboro, two cars of
lumber turning over.
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CHOOSE YOUR TIME
TO MARKET CROPS
THE DIFFERENCE
| tax for building good roads
IN THE GOOD AND BAD Every road-in the district
Chewing the "rag” is not very
Essex Camp, No. 11641, Wood-
man of the World, of Rosewood will
unveil the monument erected to the
memory of Sovereign Leslie Walker,
deceased, at Enon cemotery at 3
o’clock Next Sunday afiernoon the
16th.
Woodmen generally are invited to
attend and participate in the cere-
mony which promises to be very
impressive.
L ra killing frost, .but a high wind________ -_________- ---
E . avented the frost, but Saturday of my interest in your school, i
| - ) .ruing was cold and disagreeable am, Sincerely, (Signed)
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Unfortunately the market on
most of our farm products varies
from day to day. Everyone is
familiar with the way cotton
prices fluctuate. The modern
farmer, like any other business
man. should watch the market
closely, and sell his products
when the market is highest.
Now it is a fact with which
everyone is familiar that thous-
ands of bales of cotton are held
on the farms in Texas when the
market is good, simply because
the condition of the roads is such
that it cannot be hauled to town
Nowadays the telephone is be-
coming common all through the
country. Suppose that we also
had good roads everywhere. A
farmer who has cotton to eell
can call up the buyers in town
and find out how the market is
by ten o’clock in the morning.
If the market is right, he can
load his cotton on the wagon and
be in town in time to sell, even if
he lives ten or tweleve miles
away, This one thing, trivial as
week, bat was to Gilmer from Italy, the sue
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Some splendid music con
the occasion being Mr. Robin
son’s 61st birthday.
Quite a number of his friends
and neighbors gathered at the
Robinson home to wish him
many happy returns of the occa-
Sheriff B. C. Buie Saturday ar-
rested near Graceton, L. A. Wil-
liams, a man wanted in Scott
county. Miss., on a charge of
disposing of mortgaged property,
and for whom there was a re-
ward of fifty dollars.
He wired the sheriff of that
county Saturday night, and he
arrived here Monday evening,
and identified the prisoner, and
took him back with him, leaving
Monday night. The prisoner
waived the formality of requir-
ing a requiring a requisition and
went back willingly with the
Sheriff.
There was a reward of $50 for
the arrest of the man, which was
paid to the Sheriff by the Missis-
sippi Sheriff.
The Gilmer Mirror has been so
busy since the daily was estab-
lished talking about good roads
that it has not had much room or
time to exploit the advantages of
Gilmer and Upshur county, as
much as they need exploiting
There are hundreds of dissat-
isfied citizens of Texas and oth-
er States that would come to this
section if the conditions were
contrasted with the sections in
which they are eking out an ex-
istence.
Upshur county offers excep
tional advantages to the poor
man. Land is cheap, and living
is cheap. Here he can raise
nearly every known Zvariety of
crop, and is assured of a crop
There are no complete crop
failures in East Texas. Some-
times we may not make a full
cotton crop, but it will perhaps
be a good year for corn, peas, po
tatoes, pea-nuts, fruits and veg
etables, and these last named ar
tides grow in endless variety'.
There are a greater variety of
crops raised in this section than
any part of the State, and taken
one year with another fewer fail-
ures.
In fact it is the only natural
real fruit section of the Stte,
East Texas Elberta peaches be-
ing famous whereever they have
been marketed.
Gilmer, the county seat, has a
population of about three thou-
sand, good schools, good church
ers, both extraodinarily good for
a town the size of Gilmer, offer-
ing to the home-seeker the very
best educational, religious and
social advantages, a place second
to none, in the advantage of mor-
al environment an atmosphere in
• i e road construction and O- K.
:i accounts for the expenditure
of money, and we will take
p asure in co operating with
si :h a committee, as we are do-
ia t in she Big Sandy district. .
W H. McClelland,
County Judge.
J E. Glover,
J. W. Atkins,
O. J. Phillips,
, W..R. Arrington.
Commissioners Upshur County.
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it may seem, could easily pay a
man’s road tax tor the entire
is here year on a single sale.
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warded to Mr. .’ Pickett.
Two of the C" erts will be on
sinity street 1< ling to the High
hool building; three on Titus
reet, one near the Mattox gin and
ae near the cotton seed oil mill
id one on north Trinity near the
enn gin.
The council ordered a thousand
et more of water mains, which
ith the amount recently laid will
lake 4014 feet of new mains.
The newly elected officers will
ualify next Saturday, April 15th.
pt houses that in acco
ex. their agreement in
pom April the firat, it
nasizes the necessitv for good l si on, and to remember him
-sads Some otrer tia ele a numberof substantial^!
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receive its pro lata part of the
money V ted by the people.
During the last four years
about half of all money paid into
the county treasury has been
paid out for road and bridge ex-
penses.
Menbers of the commission
era* court say that if the roads
nd bridges are cared for the
county can be run on a 30 cent
rate.
How do you like Gilmer’s pub-
lic square? Its been in use six
years without repair. Let’s fol-
low Tom Debenport’s example
and build roads like this all over
the district.
No one wants roads with high
dumps with the attending dan-
gers. everybody wants sensible
hand surface roads.
- With clay, sand and gravel in
easy reach Upshur county can
build the best roads on earth at
the least expense. The people
want gravel roads
$800,000.00 spent in this road
district will give work to every
laboring man in the county and
will make a market for feed
stuff, farm produce, mules,
horses and wagons, and road ma-
terial of all kinds.
The only two men openly op-
posing good roads live in close
touch with two hard surfaced
highways, one leading to Shreve-
port and the other to Tyler and
Dallas, yet they oppose other
people having the privilege they
enjoy.
tributed to the pleasure of the
occasion The gathering a n d
congratulations. and remem-
bran.es, wore all a complete sur
prise to Mr. Robinson, but this
only heightened his appreiation
of the kind rememberance of his
friends.
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The joint debate on the good
roads question and bond issue to
be voted on April the 18th. held
Saturday night, was well at-
tended. and from the reports we
gather of it was heartily enjoyed.
It was a good humored, good
natured crowd, and the speakers
were in good humor, and while
there was some “hot shot” fired
et each other there was no bit-
terness in the taiks, and every-
thing passed off very pleasantly.
There were four speeches, by
Messrs. Roy Dean, Jas. Perdue,
Geo. Hart and W. W. Sanders.
Messrs. Dean and Sanders
were the good roads advocates,
and the other two speakers
against the bond issue.
When Mr. Geo. Hart started to
speak, and keep in mind that
he was against the bond issue,
he opened his speech with the
remark: “Gentlemen and La-
dies, I am in favor of good
roads,,’—a man in the rear of
the audience, about "three
sheets in the wind,’’ and not in
favor of good roads, perhaps
wanting to avoid the tax and
save it to furnish the material
for “full sails,” remarked loud
enough for nearly everybody in
the audience to hear, “you’re a
liar—or you’ve gone back on
what you said to me, and I won’t
listen to you, and he got up and
strode outside, rather than lis-
ten towhat he thought was com-
ing a good roads speech, cursing
his anti-good friend out in the
yard by himself.
Getting tired of this and the
speech ended he decided to come
in and hear the other side, and
Mr. J. C. McDonald, of this
’ ity returned Saturday morning
torn a trip in his auto to Pitts-
urg. He intended to return
'riday night, but got stuck in
he mud and had to leave his car
ut in the weather all night and
k for the hospitality of Mr.
• o. Sutton, who very hospitably
ttertained him. He says that
" , I e enjoyed the night all right,
t wanted to get home, and
uld easily have made it in
ire without so much loss of
tme if there had been a good
od. And this is perhaps as
toad as there is in the county.
e one between here and Pitts
irg He says the fact is that
* . ou cannot go anywhere just
after a rain without danger of
getting stuck on the way, em-
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Ten auto loads of interested
voters, most all from MMgs
Chapel community, took an out
ing with some of the Gilmer
boys Sunday to see the roads
recently built in Gregg county.
The trip was in every way a
pleasant one and they all had an
opportunity to see the advantage
of good roads in our neighboring
county.
Common e x p r e s sion heard
were, “Life is too short to vote
against good roads.” “Them’s
some road though.” I never
imagined there was so much dif
ference. ”
It was a jolly good trip and
the adage “seeing is believing”
was no exception in this instance
Mr. G. L Florence r-turned
Friday from Willis Point, where
ha went on business, an J came
home with a concrete illustration
of the advantages of a good
road
He wanted to go from Will’s
Point to Canton, and they have
a very good dry weather road
there and run a jitney line, and
he was able to go to Canton for
80 cents.
Arriving there the big rain,
came, and the jitney line could
not get back to Will’s Point for
days, but he managed to get
over to. Grand Saline, the same
distance, so he could catch a
train to come home, and it cost
him just $4 for the trip in a
buggy, and a great deal more
time, instead of the 80 cents that
it would have cost had there
been a hard surfaced road.
There was a delightful sur- which to rear a family.
Mr. C. A. Magrilland family,
of Longview, spent Sunday in
the city, the guest of relatives.
They couldn’t help contrasting %
our roads with those of GregghiI
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Weekly Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1916, newspaper, April 13, 1916; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1431450/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.