Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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DECATUR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913.
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HARMONY MUSICAL
ALAMO MONUMENT
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
BUILDING ASSURED FUND IS INCREASING
CLUB ENTERTAINS
OF THE CUBANS
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Heroes’ Memory
Becomes Law
in four health
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Miss Rush to Wed
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into Prominent Family
DIRECT ACTION
Zack Lillard Capitulates, to
The Wise County Messen-
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Kathrine Frazer of
The hospitable home of Mrs. F. P.
thrown open to the
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families occupying apart-
several
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in receiving the guests into the spa-
flat and are used as a playground for
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Decatur taken. Mr. Emery
and his assistants being at
tieman or lady, young man
or young lady, living with-
Patriotic People Rallying
to the Call for Shaft to
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fair were spant in congratulations to
she bride-elect .
cent buildings and the comfort
their occupants.
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Measure Creating A New
District for Decatur
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Charms of Winsome
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upper stories of the business houses,
VOL. XXXIV—NO. 13.
CURIOUS CUSTOMS
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• is worth more to us than any kind of advertising, but we must
• get you to give us that first trial order
i Good Service, Fresh Groceries, Promptness •
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♦ COLLINS GROCERY :
wash wowan to ply her trade, and it
is no uncommon thing to see a line of
By Buying a
business house.* The little tots are
often seen playing about the living
Mr. Boyd Writes Another
Interesting Letter on
the Islanders
of Bridgeport, Francis Nash. Holt, Jew-
el Ingram.
Popular Organization Has
Reception to Mothers
and Friends
if another paymena ■
remains are reme
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And we want you to become one of our customers. You will
always get what you call for at
' in her own charming way.
This was followed by the guests writ- j
laundried clothes fluttering in the
of shoes or sandals, and perhaps ear
bobs and showy hair ribbon.
The unmarried clerks live in the
store with their employer and it is
N not an infrequent occurence to pass
aqlong the sidewalk at meal time and
- she the proprietor and his force of
Jlerks dining together in the midst of
" their wares. business being temporar-
ily suspended.
Another strange custom in the
home life of the Cubans i- that upon
rising in the morning they only take
a cup of coffee with perhaps a slice of
bread, their regular breakfast hour
bein'g 11 o'clock. Thenfollovs dinner
at about 6 o'clock p. m.
Under the Cuban law. children are
I permitted to take the name of ei her
h»arent. Sg it is often the case that
hh he same prent- bear dif
Dan Cupid.” The basket, contained
. ., . .. el the mysteriou- secret, which read,
in the corporate limits of] "Rush-Lillard. April 16. 1913." The
last minutes of this most lovely af-
with a six months’subscrip-
tion; 3rd, three months’
subscription. Send in your
guesses. Any citizen, gen-
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imposing monuments, beautiful trees,
shrubery and flowers. I was there
about one hour and during this time
there were six funerals, oAe of the
six hearses being drawn by ten horses
and another by six.
It is a custom for the poor to pav
for burial privileges for a term of five
years. At the expiration of this time
J of which is unique and apparently
faultless, many of them costing mod-
est fortunes. Even these districts are
to some extent interspersed with shops
and store houses. In the principal
business sections the buildings are
ed and deposited
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ances. the casket is removna rrom tne per, sign it, put in envelope
hearse to a marble stand where the
corpse undergoes an examinational and mail to the Messenger,
the hands of a physician whose duty Census Dept., and if you
it is to ascertain of a nearest the actual
subject is dead. I hen With Dared ,
heads, on foot, the attendants follow number the Messenger Will
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OUR ONE BIG HOBBY!
Everyone has a hobby of
some kind, and this is ours.
But if you knew how im-
portant our hobby is to the
health and welfare of your
family, you would thank
us for being a crank on
PURE DRUGS.
we are concerned
the Corpse to the prepared grave. visit you 53 times free of
Few visitors to Havana fail to see ,
the cemetery, it being a place of more । charge. The second near-
than ordinary interest, because of its est guess will be rewarded
gorgeous funerals, its expensive and
It has no pilot to cause ex-
plosions.
breezes from a two or four story
Havana, March 17, 1913.
To the Messenger and Readers:
My topic for this letter was sug-
gested from observation and actual
contact with many of the customs i
have undertaken to describe.
Upon arrival in Havana you first
introduction will be to the zealous
hotel solicitors who swarm around
the visitors and in both the Spanish
tongue and broken English, press
their claims upon you. Next, the
strange street scenes, cab drivers,
street peddlers, odd style of houses,
all of which proclaims that you are
e in a foreign land.
% The heavy style of architecture will
at once attract your attention. The
walls of all buildings are thick, with
massive doors and windows and high
ceilings, the doors and windows be-
ing guarded by iron cross bars, giv-
ing the buildings a prison like ap-
pearance, yet not unattractive as this
grating is often highly ornamental in
design.
Coolness and ventilation are two
important ends in view in the con-
struction of all buildings because of
the warm climate. The windows and
doors are usually left open day and
night, the iron shutters remaining
closed as a protection against intrud-
ers.
In this connection we will mention
a Cuban custom that prevails relative
to courtships, one that I am sure the
young gallants and fair lasses of our
country would strenuously object to
its adoption. Leaning upon the
grilled window or door the young
Cuban suitor peers through the iron
bars at the idol of his heart who oc-
cupies a similar position on the in-
terior. In this way they carry on
their courtship, some member of the
family being present to hear all that
passes between them. When they
have progressed to the point of en-
gagement they are permitted to go
upon the streets together, but the
mother or some close relative of the
lajy invariably accompanies them.
‘Ilrictly speaking, Havana has no
lusive residence district and, con-
kely, it has no exclusive district
•transacting business. However, in
me sections, there are many very
Tractive residences, the architecture
apartments perfectly nude, except
that they invariably have on a pair
LILLARD & CO.
Reeves, Payne, Frazer, Thurmond:
reading, Miss Jewel Ingram; piano,
selected, Miss Roberts; chorus, club.
Refreshments of cream, cake and
mints in club colors were served, af-
ter which the time was further beguil-
ed in cheerful greetings and social
converse, while the hostess assisted
by her mother circalated through the
crowd dispensing sunshine into the
hearts of all by their genial smiles
and gracious manner. *
It is needless to say that every
number of the program was enjoyed
and each received its due mead of
praise, for what so universally ap-
peals to the human heart as music?
It follows us from our birth to our
death, it sings lullabys at our cradle
and dirges at our tomb, it mixes with
our religion, our wars, our dance
and ou} banquets, it is so blended
with the life of the lowly as well as
that of the lofty and becomes a com-
panion to all those who toil and suf-
fer.
Blessed then is music, because it
touches, moves, teaches and consoles
us Let us love it, “for what it makes
us forget, for what it makes us re-
member.”
The following ladles were the club's
guests: Mesdames Glen Russell, F.
P. Timberlake, Vancleave, A. R.
Nash, R. M. Collins, C. C. Hender-
son, Renshaw, Burnett, W. S. Gil-
bert, E. P. Gibson, S. C. Riddle, J.
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Today the Messenger publishes a
call for an election of a full board of
trustees for the Decatur High school.
The measure creating a new indepen-
dent school district in the territorial
limits of the town’s corporate limits,
was introduced in the legislature last
Friday morning b y Representative
Rogers and in a short time it became
a law, the governor signing the bill
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Word of the measure's passage was
immediately sent to Decatur and there
was much gratification manifested, as
this has been a much needed piece of
legislation for the betterment of edu-
cational affairs of Decatur. When
this bill became a law the present
high school board. composed of men
who have given much of their time to
the work, was dissolved and an
election held to fill the vacancies.
This is the law, and Tuesday April 8,
1913, has been designated as the day
for such an election. That Decatur
was in sore need of legislation that
would permit the citizens to mak
better and more substantial arrange-
ments for more modern school facili-
ties has been known to the citizenship
of this community for several years,
and with the new order a handsome
school building will be erected and
the children given a better opportu-
nity and a greater chance to pursue
their work. The present building has
for years been too small and the ac-
commodations years behind the times
but with the coming of a modern
structure,equipped with modern meth-
ods and facilities Decatur will have
made a forward step that will redound
to the good of the rising generation.
The Messenger has all along been a
champion of better schools and better
public highways and we have entered
into t.ie work of assisting in making
Decatur a better school town with all
our might, and whenever we can help
such cause our efforts are at hand.
We do not believe there will be any
sorious objection to the present loca-
tion of the schonl building, the most
ideal one in (he city. and we hold that
it would be a useless waste of money
that could be put to a good cause to
have the walls of the present building
destroyed They are sound and will
save a considerable sum of money to
the city when the building is remodel-
ed.
work now. The census
taken last year gave De- Timberlake was
The Cubans in the main, live in the catnr 1654. ' ThisshowingWenalvonsubsamemhernoondinhon
several iat.....es vucupyag ■ Funerals in Havana are attended has never set Well Wath or of her charming sister, Miss Elise
ments in the same building. For lack with great pomp, especially by the the Messenger, believing Rush. The hostess was assisted by
of other space the roofs are madeweaithy. The hearse, extremely , . ... . +wn con 1T her mother, Mrs. William L.
' ' rich and gaudy in appearance, is fre- that, tnis 8000 own cam -a-
outing for the quently drawn by ten horses, they undisputed claim to a cious library, which was artistically
. > Entire family in the cool of the day. and their driver in dress parade for preater number of citizens decorated in carnations and ferns.
t, i. -1- • f.--uite wlana fer the for the occasion and put to shame the | Mrs. Thurmond, accompanied by .
ordinary street parade of a circus, than that report gave us- I Miss Risinger, sang “The Everlast-।
for show. No lady is seen in the pro- What say you the present ingLove"
cession. When the cortege reaches will show? Write""
the entrance to the cemetery, the count "H1 Sno" • . V 115 ing short romances.
mourners alight from their convey- your guess on a slip of pa-l Bridgeport was awarded the prize for
• ti.....asket is from thener. sion it- nut in envelone herezgielupwdpinthermbrcidted
Last Saturday afternoon the spa-
cious hospitable home of Dr. and
Mrs. L. H. Reeves was the scene of
an entertainment of the highest or-
der, the occasion being a recital giv-
en by the Harmony club to the moth-
ers and friends of its members. The
elegant parlors were abloom with
Easter lilies and carnations, which
nodded a welcome to the arriving
guests, while upon a table huge
bunches of violets formed an exqui-
site setting for the punch bowl from
which Mrs. Ralph Man and Miss
Elise Rush refreshed the throng with
its ruddy contents.
With Mrs. Geo. W. Ragsdale as
leader, Mrs. John A. Simmons as
choral director and Miss Mary Ri-
singer as pianist, the following pro-
gram was rendered: Chorus, club;
piano, four hands, Mesdames Fullin-
gim and Mecaskey: song, “Silver
Threads Among the Gold,” Mrs. Jno
Simmons; piano, selected, Miss Elise
Rush; piano, selected, Miss Raviah
Sullivan; song, Mrs. Richard Collins;
the dining room, where the hostess,
assisted by Misses Kathryne Frazer
and Clotilde Davis, served delicious
block ice cream and angel food, each
block being mounted with tiny golden
wedding slippers. The table was
beautiful with Easter tokens, Bre’r
Rabbit holding sway in Hie center
surrounded bv masses of pansies.
Next to these were smaller rabbits
and Easter chicks, each standing by
a basket of violets. At the extreme
edge of the table were tiny baskets of ,
candies tied with ribbons held by a
bunny -itting in a basket under the |
gorgeous chandelier nblaze with
lights. After refreshments, the me— |
senger boy urrived with telegrams
for all, which read, “Within your
favor hidden deep, lies a secret
which will no longer keep. Signed
The only stove that will cook
biscuits in seven minutes.
Messenger classified ad rates are very low
and the results are most gratifying to the
man having something to sell or trade
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The building fund for the Alamo
heroes monument has begun to grow.
The ^people of Texas quickly ar
showing their intrest in the efforts
being made to erect a monument com
menaurate with the greatness of Tex-
as in recognition of the great sacri-
fice made by the defenders of the Ala-I
mo when they gave up their lives for I
Texas and the cause of liberty. In
their letters acknowledging receipt
of the tickets deposited with them,
five banks reported having already
sold several. The Adams national
bank of Devine reported twenty sold.
The First State bank of Chandler,
the Tulia Slate bank and Trust com-
pany, the Citizens’ National bank of
Wolfe City and the Guarantee State
bank of Ore City, each reported a
number of tickets sold within a short
time after being received. Other
banks have since reported tickets
sold and ehe money placed on depos-
it. There are today nearl fourteen
hundred banks in Texas, and more
than thirteen hundred of these now
have tickets of the Alamo heroes
monument building fund for distri-
bution. The money they receive for
them will be kept on deposit by each
until the fund has advanced sutticient-
ly to justify the making of contracts
to begin work, which cannot ba with-
in one year, at which time each bank
will have a large amount to the cred-
it of the fund. The Alamo heroes
monument association is now having
prepared small celluloid signs. each
showing how the monument will look
when built, and announcing the sale
of tickets for the building fund.
These will be sent to each bank so as
to draw attention of its customers to
the fact that tickets in aid of the
monument fund may be obtained
there. Encouraging letters have
been received from banks in every
part of Texas, approving and ap-
plauding the monument and promis-
ing assistance in every way possible.
A handsome print of Bromley’s fa
mous painting of “The Siege of the
Alamo'’ with likenesses of the great
Crockett, .Bowie, Travis and Bon-
ham worked into the print goes with
each ticket sold for 60c.
usually from two to four stories high.
The absence of skyscrapers is nota-L. Vastine, Frank J. Ford, John H. . having the census of
able. I am informed that there is a Cates, A. S. Kenny. Potts, McCarter, ger IS Bating me census Ul
city ordinance forbidding their erec- Dwyer, Saunders, Brown, Roberts,
tion because they would tend to inter- Jennings; Misses Clotilde Davis,
fere with proper ventilation of adja- Ruth Christal,
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1913, newspaper, March 28, 1913; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581802/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .