Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1910 Page: 2 of 7
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Friday. Jan. 28. 1910.
SOME OBSERVATIONS.
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Moore & Hampton
to every taxpayer and should not be
City Delivery’
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pay your poll tax before Feb. 1.
It is the Messenger with the wise.
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Any reader wishing to find out more
about the fertile cut over lands In Wis-
consin, to which reference was rerent-
ly made in these notes, may do so by
writing Mr. A. D. Campbell. commis-
sioner of immigration. Madison. Wis
Like information about the same kind
of land in Michigan and Minnesota
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An apple grower in the famous We-
nntehee valley. a Mr France, this year
Mark our prediction; Decatur will
take oa a geovsh dicing th: gsod
year 1910 that will make the knockers
go for the tall and uncut.
Judge Terrell says the senatorial
bee is buzzing a familiar buz in his
bonnet.
and the matter of completing the di-
rect line to Bridgeport will be attend-
ed to.
That trade in the Greenwood’ coun-
try, now going to Gainesville, is com-
ing back to old Decatur before the
good year 1910 is many moons@old.
Oard of Thank*
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. McMillan wishes
to thank their friends, particularly
the members of the K. of P. lodge,
who were so attentive ano kind during
the sickness of Mr. McMillan and lit-
tle boy.
City Announcements
For City Marshal
CLAUDE LEWIS A
MARK ROGERS %
J. A. WASSON. P-
WILL RENSHAW.
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We thank the public for the generous patronage in the
past, and solicit for the new firm a share of your pat-
ronage in 1910, assuring you we will always be ready
to furnish you with the very best of GOOD THINGS
TO EAT AT REASONABLE PRICES.
• For Local Representative: N4
A. D. ROGERS. 7
For County Treasurer,
R. D. (BUCK) SMITH
H. H. TRUSSELL.
CROCKETT ALEXANDER
J. A. (Ab) MOORE
For Sheriff
WES HELM
SAM FAITH
W. R. (Buck) RILEY
J. R. (BOB) DAVENPORT.
For Tax Collector
MILBURN ARNETT
J. W. GENTRY
E. H. BOONE
For County Clerk
WALTER HARDING
J. P. (Pat) WILLIAMS
TOM P. BROWN.
J. E. BOYD.
For County Judge
E. M. ALLISON
For District Clerk
LORY D. WHITE.
For County Superintendent
CLAY BRITE.
D. J. SIMPSON.
For Justice, Precinct 1:
T. L. GREER.
For Constable, Precinct 1:
W. M. WORKMAN.
For Commissioner Preets. 1 and 6
3RYSON WILLIAMSON.
commissioned company, as all com-
panies legally permitted to transact
the business in Texas must comply
with the rulings of the State Rat’ng
Board. See me for the best. “L.t-
ter be safe than sorry . ”
GEO. W. RAGSDALE, Agent.
That apple prirea are nicely to be a*
high as they were last sesr may be
taken fur granted from an inspection
of the estimated yield for the year. I
which is 425 per cent of a full crop
aa against 43.4 per cent in 1908 and a
ten year average of 50.» per cent.
Notice to the Public.
I have assumed charge of the milli-
nery establishment for the past num-
ber of years owned and conducted by
Mrs. J. L. Vastine, and it is my in-
tention and earnest desire to keep the
business up to the splendid level
attained by her. To do this I will
continue to serve the trade with the
latest creations in the miliinary art.
Hoping to merit a share of your pa-
tronage, assuring you good goods
and good service, I am
Yours truly, HAZIE VASTINF.
ward* a just and uniform system of
values. Our efforts should be to I realized $3,924 from one acre of his
equalize these values, so far as nos- old Winesap orchard, considered the
H record yield for this valley and quite
likely equaling or surpassing that of
any other apple growing section in
Announcement
Since the new insurance law went
into effect I am prepared to write in-
surance on farm property, occupied
by the owner, in the strongest com-
pany on earth at rates some cheaper
than formerly existed. There is but
one legal rate, anything to the con-
trary would be in a Wild Cat Non-
las aumw bruves about us appre-
clate kindness and consideration, and
so do the folks who labor with us. It
to a specific that has never been over-
worked, yet when it to tried invariably
gives satisfactory results.
This is to notify the public that W. J. HAMPTON
has purchased a half interest in the new grocery store
recently established in Decatur by J. A. MOORE. The
firm is now MOORE & HAMPTON.
The captain of the Ft. Worth po-
lice shot and instantly killed a man
and the testimony that the man had
made dire threats against the cap-
tvin’s life was immediately forthcom-
ing from the captain’s subordinate
officers.
Don’t allow the “Bailey question”
to cut any figure in your selection
for local representative of Wise
county. Don’t get “balled up” over
this question and while the squabble
is on have some weakling floated in-
to office on the wave of prejudice and
wild clamor. Let merit and capacity
the world. Laud that will give such
annual returns to worth about any
price the owner take* a notion to set
on it.
to do be your guide. Senator Bail,
is not an issue.
Notice Directors
The directors of the Decatur Inde-
pendent Telephone Co., are requested
to meet tonight (Friday) at 8 o’clock
in the Messenger office. Business of
importance prompts the call for this
meeting. An operator-manager is to
be appointed for the ensuing year,
The sooner the barnyard fertilizers
are spread on the land after making i
the larger the value which will be
realized from them. To do this work
room for making road*. These
fences should be removed. The right
of-way to public roads has been eith-
er donated or paid for, and belong*
to the county. It is now needed for
which it was set apart, and no one
has the right to intrude on it.
In the matter of tax values under
the full rendition law much yet re-
main* to be done by future courts to-
Entered at the Decatur, Texas, postoffice as second class mail matter.
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tothe taxpayers of the? county to
look well and carefully, at this par-
ticular time in the progress of our1 . . . .
Tairstothekindof"" to whom
8 ’ - your votes, full and are usually in the respective capital
unrestrained power to transact your cities,
business. ’ | --------
~ — The question of whether or no there
is likely to be an overproduction of
apples is quite effectively answered in
the statistical returns of recent years.
The 1909 crop is placed at but 42.5 per
cent of a normal crop, last year it was
but 52.1 per cent, in 1907 34.7 per cent,
while the average for ten years past
has been only 50.9 per cent. With this
condition of underproduction continu-
ing over so long a period and with
population steadily increasing there
would seem to be slight grounds for
fear that the apple supply wrill seri-
oualy exceed the demand.
most effectively and to make the ma-
nure go as far as possible a spreader
should be used. The success of many
a manufacturing plant has depended
upon the disposal it made of its by-
products. It is also true in the case
of farm management in the handling
of its chief byproduct, the stable ma-
nures. In any event, though neglect
of them may not mean failure, the
proper handling of them would Insure
a much larger measure of success.
RATES—Cash in Hand
Precinct......... . 9
Gou nty.........7." 5'1
Legislature..................
District............
Congress.......... 1
The Messenger wishes to thank its
friends among the farmers who aie
showing their appreciation for tl e
paper by subscribing for[the""pion-
eer publication in Wise"county."
Our big list among the "farmers was
increased by adding nineteen rew
names this week.
make some suggestions regarding the
future welfare of our county. What
I here say is no reflection on the
present commissioners’ court. It has
done well, and I have no criticisms
to offer; neither have I aught to say
for or against the qualifications of
any man who may aspire to be a
member of said court. But as the
time is approaching when we will
again select the men whom we are to
entrust with the affairs of our county-
Read what our friend W. D. Pas-
chall has to say in today’s Messen-
ger about good roads. It rings as
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WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
ESTABLISHED 1880.
COLLINS a SMITH
burdensome to any.
If in this communication I should
be accused of trying to reflect upon
the capability of any man who may
seek to become a member of the com-
missioners'court. I ask that the ac-
cusation be withdrawn, and that this
be accepted only as an admonition
Bird lovers may do much to make
the winter days cheery for their little
friends by fastening small pieces of
meat in trees or on shelves near the
windows so that they will not bare to
go hungry when the snow lies deep on
the ground. They appreciate such
kindness and often reward their bene-
factor* with gentleness and confidence.
There are a whole lot of children
who would have better mothers than
they do if the latter would show half
the interest in the intelligent rearing
of their offspring that they do in club
work and poodle dogs. From the
standpoint of wonderful possibility of
development a child from a time sev-
eral months antedating its birth to
maturity far surpasses flowers, pets
or any other creation and is al-
ways responsive in ways which none
of these things can be. The need of
the times, along with cleaner things
politically, is more real kindergartners,
mothers who nurse their own children
if possible and take an intelligent in-
terest In their physical, mental and
moral development instead of delegat-
ing the job to some hired maid.
Caught in the Rain
then a cold and a cough-let it run —
on -get pneumonia or consumption
that's all. No matter how you get
your cough don’t neglect it—take Bal-
lard's Horehound Syrup and you'll
be over it in no time. The sure cure
for coughs, colds, bronchitis and all
pulmonary diseases in young and old.
Sold by Man & Simmons.
BY W. D. PASCHALL
What we need First. The per-
fecting of our system of road im-
provement, whereby all work done at
public expense will be permanent.
Second. A more rigid enforce-
ment of law requiring road-overseers
to work their roads five days in the
year where such work is necessary.
Third Requiring fences removed
from the right-of-way that belongs to
the county for road purposes where
there is insufficient room.
Fourth. The adoption of some
plan whereby that portion of the
road fund belonging to any precinct
may not be expended altogether on a
few roads, but that each community
and each taxpayer in said precinct
may, if possible, be benefitted by
such distribution
Fifth. The equalization of taxes
under the full rendition law, so that
every dollar’s worth of property in
the county shall be made to pay its
just proportion of taxes and no more.
Sixth. A continuation of the poli-
cy of economy in the management of
county affairs.
At the risk of being accused of hav
ing an “axe to grind” I venture to
meet the expenses. This seems fair
government I have thought that
some observations along this line
might not be out of place.
It may be that more than twenty
yars of experience and observation,
a part of which time I was a member
of said court, qualify me to speak
with some degree of information as
to the importance of the commission-
ers court work. There is not anoth
er official position in our county that
is of so great importance to all the
people as is the one to which we en-
trust the hard earned cash that pe-
riodically in taxes we are required to
dig up for the maintenance of the in-
stitutions of our county.
No man would care to put in charge
of his private affairs that individual
whose ability to successfully man-
age same night be questionable.
How much less excusable are we, if
for any reason, we deliberately clothe
such a one with power and authority
and place in his hands thousands of
dollars of the people’s money that
should be wisely, economically and
judiciously expended in advancing
the county’s interests. To illustrate
this point, let us take that problem
of all problems to us- the improve- '
ment of our roads. We have but '
fairly started along this line. What
progress we make in future depends 1
very greatly upon the composition of
our commissioners’ courts, their
ability to rightly plan and to econo-
mically push to completion their
work.
The county is now well equipped
with necessary teams and tools and
much valuable work has already
been done. If good judgment and
wise administrative ability are used
by our future courts much substan-
tial progress will be made in the next
few years.
I mention this matter because it is
the most important of any work of
our commissioners’ court. More
people are effected by good or bad
roads than by any other proposition,
and the returns for the taxes we pay
to sustain our county government
are, or should be, more direct from
this source than any other. In road
building every dollar so expended
should, so far as possible, be made
to do permanent work. It is better
policy to spend live hundred dollars
this year in making a bad road per-
manently good than to spend one
hundred dollars a year for an indifl-
nite time in keeping it patched up.
In some instances a part of the
right-of-way belonging to '.the coun-
ty is fenced and there is insufficient
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