The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 1, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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The Goldthwaite Eagle
NEIGHBORING NEWS
J. H. BURNETT
J. N. WEATHERBY
O. C. WEATHERBY
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ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM
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riers have delivered mail on their Red Cross to be used for wounded
WE- BUY AND SELL LEASES AND ROYALTIES
Camp
Travis where they had left with-
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Building Restrictions Have Been Removed On
throng, and as he ran he shouted
Max
ards, I’ll show you how to fight.”
Now’s the Time to Plan. Let’s Help You Do It
Harelik, who died at his home
and a chaffeur were killed and
tracting parties were present.
State Ranger, Berry Nalls, was
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The death of J, J Coleman
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sizable community, but until they
organize an army of pillage in
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Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Burt of this
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bread at the Market.
The Eagle editor spent the
at three-fifteen as a result of
of the district Lay Leaders and
the Centenary commission for the
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Entered at the Goldthwaite post-
effic as second class mail matter.
central section of Philadelphia
Monday. He sped through the
streets with a loaded revolver in
each hand, shooting in every di-
time.
'A maniac ran amuck in
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armed and ruthless is something
to be avoided; and the way to
avoid it is to educate the young.
All that saved Germany from
sharing Russia’s fate was the
enlightenment of the Germans. —
State Press in Dallas News.
J. N.KEESE
The Monument Man
Note: If you intend to build a home costing between $ 10,000 and
#25,000, all that is necessary is to obtain the consent of the State
Council of Defense.
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Buy and Sell Oil and Gas Leases and Oil Stock
OFFICE: HOTEL SAYLOR
routes with great difficulty on
account of the condition of the
roads after the heavy rains, ac-
All farm and ranch buildings;
All schools, churches, hospitals, public build-
ings costing not more than $25,000;
All new homes costing not more than $10,000.
That is the advice of the War Industries Boaard.
Maybe you have hoped that another year would
see your plans of a new home realized.
Those hopes can be a reality.
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Go Ahead With Your Plans
SOLICITS THE PUBLIC PATRONAGE
Shop Located Between the Banks
We represent one of the best Laundries in Texas. Basket
leaves Wednesday Night and Returns Friday Night. Give us a trial.
None but the Best Barbers Employed.
S. T. WEATHERS
Warber
you 15 to 25 per cent and give the very best material and the highest
grade work. How? By eliminating the agent-commission-busines,
which means that amount saved for the buyer. Agents will tell you
their firms can buy marble or granite cheaper than your home dealer
and make you a better price, which is false and misleading, as we
dealers pay exactly the same price for the same grade of stock. Fig-
ure with me before placing your contract, as I can save you money—
and I guarantee my work. Will take feed or Good Stock in trade.
WEATHERBY OIL COMPANY
Goldthwaite, Texas
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63d.
ding.
Sergeant James Wm. Cummins
and Miss Mamie Hagan were
etc.—J. N. Weatherby.
Let us please you with a nice heater for
the parlor or living room. - Bodkin, Hurdle
& Co.
You can get fresh home made
The Wall family has made friends
here all of whom wish them well
in their new home.—Reporter.
COMANCHE
On Thursday of this week Mrs.
Buren Carmichael was seriously
burned about the head and chest
by falling into an open fireplace.
Miss Allie Burt, daughter of
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Seed Potatoes.
We have Irish Cobbler and Tri-
umph. Come and get yours be-
fore they are all gone.
A. D. BAKER.
town there are two or more men
who would be glad to join in
a movement to burn down the
schools and churches, sack, the
siores, rob the banks, divide the
women and compel the farmers
to feed all the town bullies who
didn’t like agricultural labor.
There are a few such in every
barnes & McCullough
“Everything to Build Anything”
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man who was with him were
blown to atoms, while several
houses in the vicinity were utter-
ly destroyed by the force of the
explosion, which is supposed to
have been caused by a wheel of
the wagon striking a rut. There
were only two quarts of nitro-
glycerin in the wagon at the
which was accidently discharged,
W. C. or Claude Boatman, as
he is better known, died last
Friday night at his home in Com-
anche and was buried at White
Point cemetery Sunday afternoon,
Rev. Austin conducting the ser-
vices.—Chief.
HAMILTON
The many friends of Bert Berry
were glad to learn last week that
he had just been promoted to
assistant cashier of the First
National Bank in Waco, where
he had been working for the
last few years.
Married. — At the home of the
Baptist pastor, 3:30 p. m. Sun-
day, Mr.-J. S. Pipes and Miss
Ludie Hafley, Rev. J. N. Camp-
bell officiating.
The death angel has again in-
vaded our fair city and this time
has taken one of our most worthy
last Thursday evening at 8:45
o’clock, after months of constant
suffering, being in feeble health
and barely able to get around for
quite a while.—Herald.
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Turkeys.
I have thoroughbred Mammoth
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day, January 14, following an
attack of pneumonia. He was a
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Coleman
of Lometa and it, was here the
remains were sent for burial.
Rev. W. L. Wall, former pas-
tor of the Lometa Methodist
church, left last week in com-
pany with his family for Eden
where they will reside in the fu-
Ranger. He and another ranger
were recently indicted by the
Eastland county grand jury in
connection with a killing which
occurred at Ranger on the night
of December 19, and the trial of
Nalls is set for Thursday of this
week. —News.
LOMETA
A. A. Hufstutler has been in
the city from Georgetown this
week.
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Weatherby Oil Co.
had to be discontinued altogether,
as the roads were impassable.
It will be two weeks before all
mail boxes will be accessible.”
Eight people were killed and
more than twenty injured, when
a nitro-glycerin wagon exploded
in the residence section of Big
Heart, Okla., last Saturday. The
“Come on, you American cow-
Ratification of the federal pro-
hibition amendment has now
been certified to the state depart-
ment at Washington by the nec-
essary thirty-six states and prep-
aration of a proclamation to
make the amendment effective
has been ordered.
and they became, not a menace, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Burt of this
but a joke. Bolshevism is merely city, passed away at the family
frenzy long sustained. Ignorance residence last Saturday morning
soldiers and sailors. They were
found to be imposters and were
taken in charge by the local of-
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
When you order bread from
your grocer specify " ‘home made 7
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For Sale Cheap—A grain drill
nearly ne. See me for price, —
every neighborhood they can not
make any headway. In Chicago
there was a convention of them
recently, said to number 6,000,
and they whooped things up in-
side their convention hall. But
after adjournment, when they
got out of doors in the workaday
world, their enthusiasm oozed
and overpowered.
Bolshevism is no such menace
as many of our sentinels proclaim
from their watch towers. Bol-
shevism is not a cult—it is an
act. In order to go bolshevik a
man must first make up his mind
that being crazy is preferable to
being a democrat. There are
plenty of such people, but they
are widely scattered. The way
Iteresting Items Culled From
Local Papers
LAMPASAS
Mrs. J. C. Abney and little son,
John Camp, are home from
Hempstead where they spent
several weeks with Mrs. Abney’s
parents.
Miss Lucile Cauthen is home
from Lordsburg, N. M., where
she spent the past few months.
She was accompanied home by
her sister, Mrs. Ralph Spann and
baby.
W. E. Garner was in Lampasas
Wednesday and showed this re-
porter a sample of thread spun
by his sister-in-law, Mrs. W. W.
Garner, of Killeen. Mrs. Garner,
who is 78 years old, carded the
cotton into rolls and spun it into
thread, from which she knits
socks and other useful articles.
The thread is of uniform size and
shows Mrs. Garner to be an ex-
pert with the old time spinning
wheel.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Camp-
bell, Albert LaBounty and Roy
L. Walker left Thursday for San
Antonio where they were sum-
moned as witnesses in the trial of
the young men arrested here
several months ago for making
Red Cross collections. The two
men were from Camp Travis and
were collecting funds for the
which C. H. Biggs bought the
driver of the wagon and another interest of Fred Townsend in the
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gents’ furnishing firm of Biggs
& Townsend. By this change
Mr. Biggs becomes the sole owner
and proprietor of this popular
house.
Rev. T. F. Dim mitt preformed
the marriage ceremony f or Henry
McMullen and Miss Eva Gage
late Saturday afternoon, Jan.
18. A party of friends drove with
cording to Postmaster C. B. Mc-
Collum. In some places delivery military authorities of
, . married at the home of the bride’s
■ rection and followed by a yelling parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ha-
gan last Friday afternoon, Rev.
transportation is now, they occurred at Ranger, Texas, Tues-
could hardly mobilize. In every - "
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five other people wounded and lale Lalgel, Delly I. alo, vvc
the chase lasted nearly a mile here the first of the week from
before the madman was run down
complications from influenza. „
Last Monday just after noon of Missions of the Methodist
Holmes Mills, sen of Mr. and church, together with a meeting
Mrs. A. L. Mills of this city, had af the dintnint t t endene ond
Bronze Turkeys for sale for
breeding purposes. The sire of
my Tom weighed 52 pounds.
G.C. STANDLEY, Star.
sizable community, but until they ture. Rev. Wall having gone to
can join hands, as in Russia, and take charge of the Eden church.
the the happy couple to the home of
the minister to witness the wed-
first of the week in San Anton io
attending a session of the Board
his foot shot practically of by a
charge of'shot from a shot gun West Texas conference.
The name of Marshal Foch is
to be perpetuated in Texas. The
town of Hermleigh in Scurry
county is Hermleigh no more,
but will hereafter be known in
postal circles by the cognomen of
the great French commander and
mail therefor must be addressed
to Foch, Texas.
More than one hundred thous-
and American soldiers are still
in hospitals in France and Eng-
land, according to an official re-
port from General Perishing.
Of these over seventy thousand
were suffering from disease and
some thirty thousand from
wounds and other injuries.
Mills county is not the only
place where mail carriers were
unable to make their routes on
account of impassable roads. Says
Waco Tribune: “Rural mail car-
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A nicelot of Monuments and Markers at Close Prices, can save i
out leave.—Leader.
SAN SABA
J. S. Yarborough arrived at
home last week from Joseph E.
Johnson, Jacksonville, Fla.,
where he had been in the ser-
vice.
A deal was closed Monday by
We have opened an Oil Exchange in Goldthwaite,
with office at the Hotel Saylor. Those who have
land to lease should come in and see us. We are
in close touch with the different oil companies and
would like to sell your lease for you. Our connec-
tion puts us in position to give you information
regarding leases, royalties, etc. See us about your
interest in this line—we are at your service. :: ::
M. THOMPSON,
J. F. Lawlis performing the mar- ..
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Thompson, R. M. The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 1, 1919, newspaper, February 1, 1919; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1531568/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.