The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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The Meridian Tribune.
THE TRIBUNE PRINTING CO., PUBLISHERS
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Entered at the postoffice Meridian,
Texas, as a second-class mail,matter
SUBSCRIPTION ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
LEVI A. DUNLA P, EDITOR
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FRIDAY,FEBRUARY, 7, 1 9 0 8.
: ANNOUNCEMENT COLUMN:
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For Tax Assessor:
GEO. M. NICHOLS.
For Sheriff:,
HOMER RANDAL.
FRANK HORNBUCKLE.
For County Clesk:
D. J. CUTBIRTH.
RUFUS A. BARKER.
For Supt. Public Instruction:
C. L. BATSON.
T. W. ELLIOTT.
For Tax Collector :
R. V. FERGUSON.
For County Judge: ,
B. J. WORD.
P. S. HALE.
For District Clerk:
W. S. POWELL.
For Commissioner Pre. No. 1:
’ J. H. RHODES.
JOHN W. STANDEFER.
For Putlic Weigher Pre. No. 1:
WILL CABLER.
If a thing’s worth doing at all,
it’s worth doing well, and this
does not mean to over do it either.
J. S. Pool, of Valley Mills,
bought the lumber business of
P. E. Schow & Co. at Aquilla last
week. J. V. Callan, formerly of
Valley Mills, will have charge of
business.
Learn to laugh A good laugh
is better than medicine. Learn
to keep your troubles to yourselt.
The world is too busy to care for
your ills and sorrows. Learn to
do something for others. There
is always something you can do
to make others happier, and that
is the surest way to attain happi-
ness for yourself.
While in the city Wednesday
on business, W. A. McNemar,
who has charge of the county
road gang, stated to a Tribune
reporter that on last Monday they
had a little fire in their camp
which is now located near Norse.
It seems that they had built a fire
in the stove, which was situated
in one of the tents, and while
they were eating dinner the tent
in some way caught fire, and in
spite of all they could do the tent,
together with all of their bedding,
was in a very short time reduced
to ashes.
One day last week Jack Hill
closed a trade whereby he sold
his furniture store to Henry King
who will continue the business at
the same place. 1 We regret to see
Mr. Hill quit the mercantile busi-
ness, but trust it will be only a
short time until he will again be
engaged in some other business
with us Mr. Hill is a wide-a-
wake young man and was always
ready to assist in any thing that
would tend to promote Meridian.
Mr. King, who has been in busi-
ness here for the past thirty five
years, needs no introduction as he
is too well and favorably known,
however we will say that we are
glad to know that he has engaged
in this business and wish him
unmeasured success.
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Don’t neglect your cough.
Statistics show that in New York City
alone over 200 people die every week from
consumption.
, And most of these consumptives might
be living now if they had not neglected the
warning cough.
You know how quickly Scott's
Emulsion enables you to throw off a
cough or cold.
ALL DRUGGISTS ; 50c. AND $1.00. C.
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Some of the funny fellows are
always taking up some well
known verse and precipitating a
parody on the public. The follow-
is now sailing around under the
unsatisfactory credit of exchange:
“If you should turn backward, O
Time, in your flight, and make me
a child again just for tonight,
would my mother draw me once
more o'er her knee and with her
slipperput the kibosh to me?
Would she take the fine comb and
examine with care this old cocoa-
nut that used to grow hair?
Would she plow up my scalp and
plow it deep for keeps, and if I
objected slap me to sleep? Turn
back to me, Time, when I was too
young to vote and the bank was
not pushing that 6o-day note;
when I didn’t have to hustle to
pay my grocery bills, and my little
bosom filled with gosling love
thrills. Take from my muscles
this rheumatic pain, take it 'and
give me my childhood again. I
have grown weary of dust and de-
cay, weary of humping day after
dav; weary of sowing for chinch
bugs to reap, but I don’t need
anyone to rock me to sleep.”
By looking at our announce-
ment column this week you will
observe the name of P. S. Hale as
a candidate for re-election to the
office of County Judge of Bosque
County, subject to the action of
the democratic party.' Mr. Hale
is now securing his second term as
county judge, and has, up to this
time , made a good record. He
has discharged the duties of this
office without partiality, and in a
just and honorable way. Henow
comes betore the people of Bosque
county and asks for re-election to
teis office, promising, if re-elected
to continue to comply with all re-
quirements of the law without
fear or favor. He therefore asks
to be favorably remembered at the
primary in July.
In our announcement column
this week will be found the name
of Will Cabler as a candidate for
re-election to the office of public
weigher of precinct No. I. Mr.
Cabler is now serving his first
term, and has filled this office to
the entire satisfaction of all, and
promises, if re-elected to faithfully
discharge the duties of this office
in the future, as in the past. He
therefore asks you to favorably
remember him Witn your votes at
the primarv election in July.
Hiram Muse, a freight engineer
on the I. & G. N. railroad was in-
jured in a wreck near Taylor
Wednesday, but at last account
was getting along nicely. Mr.
Muse is a brother of Mrs. W. B.
Odle of this city.
We are in receipt of Vol. 1,
No. I, of the Valley Mills Tribune,
edited by J. S. Hair. It is a well
edited and newsy five column
quarto. We wish Mr. Hair suc-
cess.
The state democratic executive
committee is called to meet in Ft.
Worth on Saturday, Feb. 15th,
to arrange for the first state con-
vention of the party in May.
Back again! Blair the old
reliable photoprapher, has
moved his photo car back to
Meridian and will work here
four days in each week—
Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday.
Michigan salt for less than
original cost at B. J. Word’s.
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A YEAR OF ECONOMY.
As we go forward into the new
year of 1908, it is well for every
man to watch his business affairs
closely and contract no debts
which can possibly be avoided.
The effect of the money panic
which came so near staggering the
country in the last three months
of the old year, isl still felt in
channels of trade. The only class
of people who are seriously affect-
ed by severe stringency in the
money markets are those who
owe debts that are maturing or
those who do business largely on
paper. The man on the farm who
was out of debt and had a well
filled corn crib and smoke house
this winter has not felt the wither-
ing blight and touch of the string-
ent times through which the
country been going for the past
few months. The satisfied, in-
dependent youmanry of the coun-
try are of a type who avoid debt
and make their farms supplies at
home. The cotton growers of
the South have had a severe ex-
perience this winter and.one which
they are not likely soon to forget.
The peremptory demands of
the supply merchant for the col-
lection of accounts due, and the
inability of local banks to finance
the growers on their cotton hold-
ings caused the forced sale of
hundreds of thousands of bales
of cotton, which might otherwise,
and could have been held off an
artificially depressed market. The
rapid marketing cotton in the
early fall months is due entirely to
the demand for money to liquidate
the credit accounts and loans
against farmers made through the
spring and summer for producing
the crop. No man can blame the
merchant or the banker for de-
manding a settlement of accounts
when due if the money is imperit-
atively needed to protect the
credit of their business. The
farmer who makes an account
must expect to meet his obliga-
tions promptly or he will impair
his own credit.
He must either sell his cotton
and liquidate these debts or bor-
row the money on his cotton in
storage. As but little or no
money could be secured during
the heat of the stringency there
was but one course to pursue, and
that was to sell. This thousands
of farmers did and the financial
status of the South and its busi-
nsss integrity was preserved.
Our local banks have admitted
that they cannot finance a great
credit system through the spring
and summer, and then on top of
this finance the cotton crop as
desired by the growers in the tall.
Cut Out the Credit System.
The sensible thing for the farm-
ers to do when standing face to
face with such a condition is to
get rid as quickly as possible of a
system which ties their freedom
of action so completely each fall.
Stop so much buying on credit.
Live more at home and practice
rigid economy until the business
of farming can be operated on a
strictly cash basis. No other
system will give relief to the aver-
age cotton grower. No other
system will enable the farmer to
be free and untrammeled in the
slow marketing of his crops.
Borrowing money on cotton in
storage through the use ot ware-
house receipts in order to get
money with which to pay store
accounts is but lightening one
burden to assume another. This
is, of course, better than deluging
the whole crop on the market at
once and suffering the severe pen-
alties of very low prices. What
we are especially opposed to is
the continued contraction of debts
which can be easily and safely
avoided by carrying on a better would be given a warm reception
system of farming by which each
farm in the South will be more
self-sustaing. Under such a sys-
tem the cotton crop would bring
more money per pound and the
real independence of each cotton
grower would be far more
strengthened. ’
Plan to Wise End.
In planning the crops to be
planted this year, exercise sound
wisdom in every department. Do
not rush headlong, as usual, piling
up store accounts or loans from
banks, just because credit may be
easy or possible to get. Buy
nothing but those things which
are imperatively needed. If debts
are contracted they must be paid,
and should be paid promptly when
they are due. The only way to
avoid the strain of debt is not to
assume the burden Many a man
can keep down his accounts if he
will only try. -
It is the man who has a bank
account, be it small or large, and
who has no time account at the
supply merchants, who is prosper-
ous and happy, and who ’can,
properly educate his children and
give his family some of the com-
forts and pleasures of life. - The
man who has this distinction in
his neighborhood is always the
man who has fields of waving
grain in the summer and a pasture
full of hogs in the fall. Board at
home and cease any longer to be
dependent upon the credit of the
supply’ merchant. Have but one
master, and let that one be the
Great Master of the Universe who
gave through the splendid handi-
work of nature ample opportuni-
ties to every farmer to be free and
unfettered from the cares of the
commercial world. Plant corn,
oats peas, potatoes, alfalfa, sor-
gum and have a splendid garden
to grow vegatables for the table.
Raise poultry and eggs, hogs and
cattle whether they be few or
many. Let every one-horse farm-
er have a cow for milk and butter.
Plant what cotton you can culti-
vate after providing for these
other things and all will be well
on the farm. It isn’t the amount
of money you handle in the fall or
the number of bales of cotton you
sell that should appeal to the
cotton grower. If the amount of
profit that he is making at the
end of the year's labor, and the
amount of money that he can call
his own. Practice economy this
year and raise more bread and
meat.—The Cotton Journal At-
lanta. Ga.
MR. MILLER, MOWEQUA.
The best way to form an opin-
ion about an article is to use it
yourself, yet testimony of others
should carry much weight. M.
H. Miller of Mowequa, III.,
says .that- the only thing he
knows of that will surely cure
stomach trouble, indigestion
and constipation is Dr. Cald-
well’s Syrup Pepsin, the great
herb laxative compound, which
is safe and also pleasant to the
taste. It is absolutely guaran-
teed to do what is claimed for it.
and if you want to try it before
buying send your address for a
free sample bottle to Pepsin
Syrup Co. 119 Caldwell Bldg.,
Montecillo, III. It is sold by all
druggists at 50c and $1 a bottle.
Tom M. Pool has been suffer
ing for the past two weeks with a
scalded ankle. While killing
hogs he had the misfortune to
slip and one of his feet went into
the vat of boiling water. The
shoe protected the foot, but the
ankle was badly burned, which
has caused him much pain. He
was in town Saturday to have the
wound dressed, and the doctor
pronounced him improving —
Clifton Record.
RACE SUICIDE
as President Roosevelt calls it is
not nearly all the menace to in-
crease in population that deaths
among infants are. And eight
out of ten of these deaths are
directly of indirectly caused by
bowel troubles. McGee’s Baby
Elixir cures diarrhoea, dysentry,
sour stomach and all infant ail-
ments of this nature. Just the
thing for teething babies. Price
25 and 50c. Sold by J. E. Turner.
A prominent Erath county citi-
zen suggested to the editor this
week that in as much as Hamilton
seemed so anxious to bid us good-
bye that it would be a very good
time to take up the question of
straightening the Erath county
line so as to place Hico in Erath
county.
He assured us that we
by the people of that county and
would not be treated like a step-
children. The suggestion may be
worth considering. To secure a
new county under the present
condition would mean a hard and
expensive fight and it might be
well to take such step as neces-
sary to place Hico in Erath coun-
ty. We have long paid the bulk
of taxes for the county and have
never been allowed any represent-
atives in the county offices, neither
have we been given a ‘square deal
in the distribution of county funds,
and now that Hamilton seems so
anxious to bid us good-bye it
would probably be well for the
people of this city to see if the
lines cannot be changed and Hico
placed in Erath or Bosque coun-
ties.—Hico Review.
PUBLIC BOOKS
The following books have been
donated to the Public Library.
Mrs T. C. Primm—Conquest
of Canaan.
M”s. E. F. Fossett—Mettle of
the Pasture.
Mrs. J. J. Lumpkin—On the
Field of Glory.
Miss Miriam Lumpkin—Mrs.
Jim and Mrs- Jimmie.
Prof. Nickell—Abe Lincoln’s
Speeches.
Rev. W. A. Manley—Vendetta
Dolly Frenchs Household, Chris-
tus Consolatus, Sunday School
Studies. ’ —success, with such financial crisis
Mr. Muirhead — Mine Inheri-
tance.
Mrs. Jordan—Miltons Poems.,
Soldiers Three.
W. S. Rowell—A Confederate
Spy.
A Lesser Light.
Mrs. H. B. White—The Mil-
lionareBaby. • .
Jonas Lee—The Barque Future
California and Oregon Trail. .
Rev. Geo. Campbell—Berslack
of the Guards.
Frank Woodruff — Improve-
ment of the Mind, Notes on the
Gospel.
Mrs. Woodruff, Vt.—Women
of the American Frontier.
Dr. J. J. Lumpkin—Friday
the Thirteenth.
Roy Estes—Lion of the North.
LOVERS
of good health should prevent
sickness instead of letting them-
selves get sick and then try to
cure it. So long as you keep
your liver, bowels and stomach
in a healthy and active condition
you won’t get sick. Ballard’s
Herbine relieves constipation,
inactive liver and all stomach
and bowel troubles. Sold by J.
E. Turner.
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T. M. Dodgion, an old and
highly respected citizen of the
Mosheim community, died Mon
day, Jan. 20th. His death was
caused by an attack of pneumonia.
He leaves a wife and several
grown children.
Don’t neglect your stock. When
we guarantee seven and a half
cents worth of Rex Conditioner
per month will keep him in fine
condition. It is good business to
give it a trial. J. E. Turner
Meridian.
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Why Not Protect
Yourself
by taking out some
insurance in one of
the old reliable in-
surance companies
that we represent.
f It is better to have Insurance and not need it
I than to need Insurance and not have it. ::
Dunlap & Cureton
Meridian, Texas.
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4 BIG BUSINESS
In Spite of the financial Panic—
The Biggest Business in the
History of this College.
During the month just passed,
the Tyler Commercial College, of
Tyler, Texas, enjoyed the largest
enrollment for any one month
since the school was established,
and their heavy correspondence
indicates that this month will al o
be a record breaker. This big
as this country is just passing
over, is conclusive evidence of two
things. First, that the, Tyler
Commercial College is giving the
most thorough and practical edu-
cation possible, one that fully
meets the demands of the business
world. Second, it proves that the
better thinking people were made
to realize by the panic, that there
was no better way of investing
their earnings than in a practical
commercial education. May this
institution continue to prosper.
It is doing a great good for our
young people. Parents interested
in placing their sons and daugh-
ters in a commercial college where
they will receive valuable moral
training as well as a thorough and
practical business training, would
do well to investigate this school.
A business training without the
proper moral training as a foun-
dation is a failure.
WEAK AND SICKLY WOMEN.
It is hard to estimate how many
women owe their female troubles
general weakness, nervousness,
sallow skin, etc., to constipation
and indigestion, but doctors
whose practice is among women
say that 90 per cent would be no
exaggeration. It is well for
them to know of Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin, which cures con-
stipation, indigestion, sick head-
ache, heartburn, hot flashes, etc.
It is absolutely guaranteed to do
what is claimed, and if you want’
to try it before buying, send
your address for a. free sample
bottle to Pepsin Syrup Co., 119
Caldwell Bldg., Monticello, Ill.
It is sold by all druggists at 50c
and $1 a bottle.
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Dunlap, Levi A. The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1908, newspaper, February 7, 1908; Meridian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1629725/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Meridian Public Library.