Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1905 Page: 2 of 10
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ously guard the interest of the
people; that it would not squan
der their money in paying exhor
bitant salariesto officers,however
clever they may be and however
good friends they may be to the
cis of this function by the court
at any time; he takes his oflice
with the understanding that the
which she tried and whioh cured her
pletely, as she has not suffered since.
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A New Way to Memphis and the
Southeast.
To Randolph and then Rock
Island. Leave Fort Worth 10:50
A. M., arrive Memphis 8:00 A.
M. next morning. It’s every
day with the best of service.
C. W. Strain, G. P. A.,
Fort Worth, Tex.
seribe to a first class geperal
paper. Such a newspaper is
SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS.
and it would be rank injustice to
change it now. If the question
comes up in the next campaign
and a treasurer is elected with
the understanding that the sal-
ary will be made nominal that
will be fair because it is known
in advance, and the one who was
elected would know just what to
expect.—Decatur News.
Damnant quod non-intelligunt, in-
cluding Editor Tyler’s political
advisory board; hence our read-
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people and this court is the ser-
vant of the people and is entrust-
ed with their money to be dis
bursed in their interest, and not
to be given away to favorites of
the court. Tax money is hard
money to pay, and the writer
ventures the prophcc ’ tha if the
present court continues to lavish
this money on its favorites, the
voters who toil in sun and rain
to provide the taxes will be
heard from.
And the News is informed that
the “object of springing this
question” is to infyrm the peo
pie what their trusted servants
commissioners' court, and that
it can exercise that duty at any)
time. All c iunty officers accept
their offices subject to the exer
court. Uncle Bob Davenport is
a good fellow and is perhaps not
to blame for receiving all the
court will give him, but there
are ten thousand good fellows in
the county just as much entitled
and need this bounty as badly as
$100—Dr. E. Detchen’s Anti-Diuretio
may be worth to you more than $100 if you have
a child who soils bedding from incontineceof
water during sleep. Cures old and youngalike
It arrests the trouble at once. SI. Sold by
Man & Simmons, Druggists. Decatur, Tex.
pain is felt. Some
TO CVRE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E. W.
Grove’s signature is on every box.
25c, /
Sour
Stomach
No appetite, loss of strength, nervoun
ness, headache, consttpation, bad bread
general debility, sour risings, and catarrh «
the stomach are all due to indigestion. Koda A
cures indigestion. This new discovery reprtf l
tents the natural juices of digestion as the I
exist in a healthy stomach, combined wit
the greatest known tonic and reconstructiv
properties. Kadoi Dyspepsia Cure does ne
only cure indigestion and dyspepsia, bat th!
famous remedy cures all stomach troubles
by cleansing, purifying, sweetening mJ
strehgthening the mucous membranes linip•
the stomach. Hd
- Mr.S.S.Bat,.a Ravenswect, W. Vs. i^^
.! triHod with sour stomach for twit, you •
Keea9m4 — W ustse It la mi l.
Kodol Digests What You Eat. ■
Bottles omly j too su. holaene2% tmestietr m
which Miu fer so Onta" E
”repered y i. o. D•WITT a oo., omieAQE
Sold by Summar & Thomasom
commissioners’ court has no
right to bestow the people’s
attacks. Under its tonic effect the nervous system (re-
gains its normal tone and the appetite and digestion im-
prove, resulting in the upbuilding of the general health.
S. S. S. contains no Potash or minerals of any descr ip-
tism becomes chronic, the pains are wandering or
shifting from one place to another, sometimes sharp
and cutting, again dull and aggravating. The mus-
cles of the neck, shoulders and back, the joints of the knees, ankles and wrists are
most often the seat of pain. Countless liniments and plasters are applied to get ref,
but such things do not reach the poisoned blood; their effect is only temporary; they are
neither curative nor preventive. The blood must be purified, and all irritating mattei
money it is giving so copiously moved from the circulation before permanent relief and a thorough cure is effected, and
to its friend, Uncle Bob, is not remedy does this so certainly and so quickly as S. S. S. It contains not only purifying
its to bestow. It belongs to the J J J °
To all Agents:
For the above occasion you are
anthorized to sell round trip
tickets to Pueblo, Colorado
Springs and Denver, under the
following conditions:
Rate:-Seventy-five per cent
(3-4) of the one way standard
rate. Dates of sale:-July 9th
and 10th, 1905. Final limit:-60
days from date of sale. Tickets:
-Use regular round trip form of
tickets. Stop-Overs:-Stop-overs
will be permitted as are now au-
thorized on regular round trip
ommend 8 S S as a good medicine.
Okolona, Miss. J. E. REELER
the term when he was elected, Uncle Bob., But the most im-
portant cosideration is: That the
remedy does this so certainly and so quickly as S. S. S.
and tonic properties, but solvent qualities as well, all these being necessary in eradicatingthe
poison and making a complete and lasting cure of Rheumatism. S. S. S. cleanses the
blood of all irritating matter and the acid particles
dissolved and filtered out of the system, thus relievng
the muscles and joints and removing all danger of futre
digestion or exposure to the damp. Easterly winds of
i <5-----— f----he i----, cutting winds, freezing
atmosphere and bitter cold of Winter.
4 Rheumatism never comes by accident. It is in
Thousands of its readers proclaih
it the best general newspaper in the
world. Its secret of success isthaltt
gives the farmer and his family j5*
what they want in the way of a famil r
newspaper. It furnishes all the new ■
of the world twice a week. It has ,
spledid page where the farmers writi
their .practical experiences on th
farm. It is like attending an immene
farmers’ institute. It has pages es
pecially gotten up for the wife, for th
girls. It gives the latest market re
ports. In short, it gives a combine
tion of news and instructive reading
matter that can be secured in no oth
er way.
For 81.80cash in advance, we wil
send The Semi-Weekly News and th
Wise County Messenger each for oa
year. This means you will get a tota
of 156 copies. It’s a combinatio
which can't be beat, and you will se
cure your money’s worth many time
over.
the commissioners’ court to be. - -
exercised in interest of the peo the blood and system before a pain is eIt. dome
pie. It was supposed that the inherit a strong predisposition or tendency; it is born in them; but whether heredity is
back of it or it comes from imprudent and careless ways of living, it is the same a ways
and at all seasons. The real cause of Rheumatism is a polluted, sour and acid condition
of the bTood, and as it flows through the body deposits a gritty, irritating substance
or sediment in the muscles, joints and nerves, and it is these that produce the •
ble pains, inflammation and swelling and the misery and torture of Rheumatism.
ers have no rason to expect a
more sensibl argument in be-
half of this sinecure in our official
administration. However, flim-
sy as the dbove argument is, it
results i some good; it proves
that after conducting the News
some fourteen years without ev
has’ not yet acted under this
statute; other counties have, and
are receiving as much as six per-
cent interest on the county
funds. If our court does its
duty under this statute it will
bring to the people a nice sum as
interest on their money and will
practically dispense with the
treasurer, as the bank will do all
the work and incur all the re
sponsibility. As the law has
been heretofore the county
treasurer has turned all the
county’s money over to some
Our friend, the Messenger,’
has been having a series of
spasms over the fact that the
county treasurer of Wise county
is drawing a salary of about
$2000 per annum and the work
in the office is not onerous. In
fact it would have the commis-
sioners’court cut the salary of
the treasurer to about $30 per
month, like some other county
has done which it cited. Noth-
ing was ever heard of a thing of
this kind until in the course of a
speech made by Hon. Emory
Smith, of Denton, during his
canvass for state senator, he
showed where by getting a bank
to take charge of the books and
money it would be possible to do
away with the services of the
treasurer and save that amount
to the county. He introduced a
bill in the legislature to that ef
feet but it was never passed,
supposedly because the commit-
tee to which it was referred did
not think it an advisable meas
ure. What the object is of
springing the question in the
middle of Treasurer Davenport’s
term, deponent sayeth not. How-
ever, the facts are that few if
any of the voters of Wise coun-
ty would consent to a reduction
of his salary at this time even if
it could be legally done. Mr.
The Only Way.
There is no way to maintain the health
and strength of mind and body except
by nourishment. There is no way to
nourish except through the stomach.
The stomach must be kept healthy
pure and sweet or the strength will let I
down and disease will set u. No ap-
petite, loss of strength, nervousness,
headache, constipation, bad breath,
sour risings, rifting, indigestion, dys-
pepsia and all stomach troubles that
are curable are quickly cured by the
use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. Kodol
digests what you eat and strengthens
the whole digestive apparatus. Sold
by Summar & Thomason.
other disease causes such pain, such wide-spread
suffering. It deforms and cripples its thousands,
leaving them helpless invalids and nervous wrecks.
• When neglected or improperly treated, Rheuma-
decided stand on any public they may
question Mr. Tyler has at last propertning when they under
t “ stand the facts. Mr. Daven
come out boldly and says his port’s salary was not fixed when
paper actually favors something. he was elected. The commis-
sioners’ court has never taken
any action in the matter, but if
it had, it has the perfect right
and it is its duty to change it at
any time when it becomes prop,
er in the interest of the people to
do so, and it could be no injustice
to Mr. Davenport, for he took
his office with this understand-
ing.
It won't do to put off this ’til
after the next election; that is an
excuse that graft always resorts
to. The man who is elected the
next time will come whining that
all bis predecessors received
$2000 and “he made the race”
expecting to get the same, and it
would be “rank injustice” to him
to cut the pay down just as he
got hold of the teat, and his plea
would have more merit in it than
Mr. Davenport’s, for he has al-
ready received $6000 and is in no
position to cry “injustice.” But
is it the idea of the News that no
change should be made in the
salary until some fellow runs for
the office upon a certain salary?
This would be putting the office
up to the lowest bidder and is
utterly abhorent to a free people,
who have the right to select
their own servants and pay them
in proportion to the labor per-
formed. Senator Smith is not
the first person who has called
this great abuse to the attention
of the people; other county com-
missioners' courts have seen
their duty and have dared to do
it, and in a number of counties in
the state the salaries of the
treasurers have been fixed at a
proper sum. The office cannot
be abolished until the constitu-
tion is amended; it is one of the
offices fixed by the constitution.
A bill was passed by the last leg-
islature providing that the com-
missioners’ court should select
some bank to act as a depository
and receive and disburse the
county funds and pay the county
interest on it while in its posses-
else. He should, however, also sn -
the use of the people's money
free, unless it paid the treasurer
a bonus for the favor. In this
county in the past the bank
specially favored by the treasur-
er has often had on deposit more
than $30 000 of the people's mon-
ey and paying them nothing for
it. It is high time that all such
graft should stop. Let the
commissioners’ court do its duty
now and not procrastinate to a
more convenient season.
Now, in conclusion, I wish to
state to the News' “editor and
manager” and his legal advisers
that to endeavor to make it ap
pear that this is a personal fight
on Treasurer Davenport is child-
ish rot of the first water, and
only betrays the weakness of
their contention. Discuss the
question on its merits; the good
people of this county are too in
telligent to take your womanish
defense of this matter other than
as paid prattle. You are posi-
tively amusing, Tyler, in your
Special Clubbing Offer.
Every man should subscribe to i n
local paper, because from it he s a-
cures a class of news and useful i -
in the system, and joints and muscles are saturated
with the poison, the aches and pains are coming and
going all the time, and it becomes an all-the-year-
round disease; an attack coming as quickly from sud-
den chilling of the body when overheated, a fit of in-
bounty upon anybody. This
tion, but is guaranteed purely vegetable. Old people
-will find it not only the best blood purifier, but a most invigorating tonic—just such a remedy
as they need to enrich the blood and quicken the circulation.
Whether you have Rheumatism in the acute or chronic stage, the treatment must be
internal, deep and thorough in order to be lasting. Never be satisfied with anything less
than an absolutely perfect cure. This you can get by the use of S. S. S., the oldest
and best purifier and greatest of all tonics. •.
Write us fully and freely about your case, and medical advice will be given without
charge, and our special book on Rheumatism will be mailed free to all desiring it.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY. ATLANTA. Gi
I’ll treat friend Tyler in a kind-
ly, yet convincing manner, and
trust the information given will
result in making him more
dutiful in his capacity as editor.
This is a strange pronounce-
ment on the part of the esteem-
ed News at this day; when the
people are expecting the press
of the state to speak out and con
dem graft of every specie, espec-
ially such a rank species of graft
as is now practiced in connection
with the office of county treasur-
er. Yes, the county treasurer
of this county is now being paid
the sum of $2000 per year out of
the people's money, “and the
work is not onerous.” Indeed
not. It is a notorious fact that
the present treasurer’s predeces
sor hired a competent man to
do all the “work in the office’’
for the sum of $25 per month.
Now, if a competent man can be
hired to do this work for $300 a
year, will the News please ex-
plain why the people of Wise
county who toil in their fields for
a livelihood should pay Mr. Daven
port $2000 a year for this work?
Where is the “rank injustice” to
Uncle Bob in paying him a
reasonable price for the work be
actually performs? He has held
this office now three years, and
has collected from the people of
Wise county, out of their hard-
earned money, the princely sum
of $6000, and will the News edi-
tor or his political advisors ex-
plain how he is to suffer a "rank
injustice” when the commission-
ers’ court says to him. that he
shall from now on only receive
what his labor is worth.
To explain fully the law on
this subject, it is proper to state
that Art. 2467 of the statute pro-
v
as the commissioners may fix -I. -
not to exceed 2} per cent of the I W - nr -s r wrEr ’’W mr wommr"r ar -ur mr
funds hand'ed by him, and in no R. G F ■ BA A ".E « EhAk
eveut is he to receive more than EK EL 8" E G V I ■I !
$2000 per year. The higher M.E > E 6 VMA > Em»MVA
courts of this state have repeat |
edly held that the fixing of the
sion. Our commissioners’ court SPEOIAL LOW BATES 10 COLORADO
HIS WIFE A GREAT SUFFERER.
My wife had been troubled with Rluma-
tism for some time when she heard of E 8 8,
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Halcomb, N. W. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1905, newspaper, September 15, 1905; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560992/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .