The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
District Officers.
Callea C. Higgins, Judge,.
Jao. D. Hopson, Attorney,
K. S. Tillotson, Clerk.
District Court meets 11th Moaday
•fter the 1st Moaday in February aud
August.
County Officers.
\V J. Arriugtoo, Judge,
R. 3. Tillotsou, Clerk,
8. R. Lanier, Sheriff and Col'r,
J. M. V. Bulloch, Treasurer,
8. K. Dickey, Attorney,
H. H. Hill, Assessor,
Ira Dickey, Surveyor.
County Court meets the 1st Mouday
la January, April, July and October.
Commissioners.
B: R. Buchanan, Precinct No. 1,
C. B. Robertson, " " 2,
J. W. McMeans, " " 3,
W. Y. Kennedy, " " 4.
J. B. Storey, J. P., Precinct No. 1.
Churches.
Baptist:—Services 2nd and 4th Sun-
day in each month. Rev. A. T. Ford,
pastor. Sunday School 10 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
Methodist:—Services 1st, 3rd and
4th Sunday in each month. Rev. J.
I«. Hollers, pastor. Sunday School
10 a. m. Prayer meeting every Wed-
day night.
Secret Societies.
A. F. & A. M,, Stonewall Lodge
No. 704. Meets 1st Saturday night on
or before the full moon in each month.
B. F. Huntsman, W. M.
R. M. Reed, Sec.
I. O. O. F. Aspermont Lodge No.
47 . Meets every Saturday night.
A. A.AnníS, N. G.
T. J. Montgomery. R. S.
W. O. W.,—W. A. Frazier Camp*
Meets 2nd and 4th Saturday nights
in each month.
R. s. TiIíLotson, C. C.
D. T. Avekitt, Sec.
BY XPRESS
3Y mail
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Home Circle Department
Crude Thots as They Fall From
the Editoral Pen. Pleasant Even-
ing Reveries. A Column Dedicated
to tired Mothers as They Join
the Home Circle at Evening Time
SWIFT DESTRUCTION.
We sat upon the eea shore and
waited for its gradual approaches,
and have seen its dancing waves
and white surf, and admired that
He who measured it with His
hand had given it life and motion;
and we lingered till its gentle
waters grew into mighty billows,
and had well-nigh swept us from
our firm footing. So we have
seen some of the heedless youths
of our town gazing with curious
spirit upon sweet motions and
gentle approaches of inviting
pleasures and sins, till they have
detained their eyes and imprison-
ed their feet and they have been
spept to swift destruction.
BE KIND TO LITTLE THINGS.
The sunshine of life is made up
of very little beams that are
bright all the time. In the nurse-
ry, on the playground and in the
school room, there is room all the
time for little acts of kindness
that cost nothing but are worth
more than gold or silver. To give
up something when giving up
will prevent unhappiness; to yield
when persisting will chafe and
fret others; to go a little way
around rather than come against
another; to take an ill word or a
cross look rather than to resent
it; these are the ways in which
clouds and storms are kept off
and a pleasant, smiling sunshine
secured even in an humble home,
among very poor people, as well
as in families in higher station.
Much that we term the miseries
of life would be avoided bj' adopt-
ing this rule of conduct. 1
Grand Picnic-Barbe
and Ex-Confederate Re-U
Aspermont, Te
Stonewall County
August 27-28,1
First Day, Aug. 27th will be Picnic
Second Day will be Old
and Free Barbecue on the
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BILIOUSNESS.
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There will be amusements for all classes. Steam M
Ball Games each day, Horse Races, Foot Races, Sack
RACE PROGRAM
First Day—3-8 mile sweepstake, $75 purse, not less than four to enter, $15 entrance fee.
gets $60, second $15. Second day—1-4 mile sweepstake, $50 purse, not less than four
entrance fee S10. First horse gets S40, second $10. Races to be pulled off at 9:30 each day. '
races will be matched on the course. FOOT RACES—First day only, 3:30 p. m. 100
Purse of S10 goes to the winner. Entrance $2.50.
Speaking by Prominent Men Each
Gome Bring Your Agricultural
And show the people what can be grown in Stonewall County. Exhibit Department on the
.Sold ' r:" cerrs mended by
Joe Tanner, Aspermont.
THE BEAUTIFUL LESSON.
If you love, love more. If you
hate, hate less. Life is too short
to spend in hating any one. Why
war against a mortal who is going
the same road with us? Why
not expand the flower of life and
happiness by learning to love, by
teaching those who are near and
dear a beautiful lesson? Your
hands may be hard, but your
heart need not be. Your form
may be bent or ugly, but do you
not know that the most beautiful
flowers grow in the most rugged
unsheltered places? The palace
for care, the cottage for love.
Not that there is no love in a
mansion; but somehow if we are
not ver>r careful, business will
crowd all there is of beauty out
of the heart. This is why God
has given the Sabbaths and Sat-
urday nights, that we may leave
business and have a little heart
cleaning.
SATURDAY NIGHT REVERIES.
Saturday night seems to have
the happy faculty of making peo-
ple human: set their hearts to
beatinir softly as they used to do
before the world turned them
into war drums and jarred them
to pieces with tattoos. On Satur-
day night the ledger closes with
a clash, the iron doored vault
comes to with a bang, click, goes
the key in the lock. It is Satur-
day night and the business man
breathes free again. Homeward,
ho! The door that has been ajar
all the week gently closes behind
him. the world is all shut out.
Shutout? Shut in, rather. At
home are his treasures after all,
and not in the vault and not in
the book- save the record in the
old family Bible—and not in the
bank. Maybe you are a bachelor,
frosty and forty. Then poor
fellow, Saturday night is nothing
PRIVILEGE COMMITTEE—P. Brady, S. W. Thomas, T. J. McCamant, Aspermont,
to you, just as you are nothing to
anyone. Get a wife, blue-eved
or black-eyed, but above all, true
eyed. Get a little home—no mat-
ter how little—a sofa, just to hold
two or two and a half, in it, on a
Saturday night, and then read
this paragraph by the light in
your eyes, and thank God and
take courage.
THE ELDER SISTER.
There is no character in the
home circle more useful and
beautiful than a devoted elder
sister who stands side by side
with the toiling mother, lighten-
ing all her cares and burdens.
How beautiful the household
machinery moves on with such
efficient help! Now she presides
at the table in her mother's ab-
sence, always so neatly attired
that it is with pride the father
introduces her to his guest as "our
oldest daughter." Now she takes
a little troop into the garden with
her and amuses them, so mother
may not be disturbed in her
work or rest. Now she helps the
boys with their hard lessons or
reads father's paper aloud to rest
his tired eyes. If mother can
run away for a few da\rs" recrea-
tion she leaves home without any
anxiety, for Mary will guide her
house wisely and happily in her
absence. But in the sick room
her presence is an especial bless-
ing. Her hand is next to mother's
own in gentleness and skill. Her
sweet music can charm any pain,
and brighten the weariest hours.
There are elder sisters whose
presence is not such a blessing in
a home. Their own selfish ends
and aims are the main pursuits
in life, and anything that stands
in the way of these is regarded
with great impatience. Such
daughters are no comfort to a
mother's heart. Which kind of
elder sister are you in the house-
hold?
OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER.
Thank God, some of us have,
and others have had, an old-
fashioned mother. Not a woman
of the period, enameled and
painted, with her great chiznon,
her curls and bustle; whose white
jeweled hands never have felt the
clasp of her baby's fingers; but a
dear old-fashioned, sweet-voiced
mother, with eyes in which the
love-light shone and brown hair
threaded with silver, lying smooth
upon her faded cheek. Those
dear hands worn with toil, gently
guided our tottering steps to
childhood and smoothed our pil-
low in sickness; even reaching
out to us in yearning tenderness,
when her sweet spirit was baptiz-
ed in the pearly spray of the
river. Blessed is the memory of
an old-fashioned mother. It floats
to us now, like a beautiful per-
fume of some woodland blossoms.
The music of other voices ma}'
be lost but the entrancing mem-
ory of her's will echo to our souls,
forever. Other faces will fade
away and be forgotten, but her's
will shine on until the light from
heaven's portals shall glorify our
own.
When in the fitful pauses of
busy life our feet wander back to
the old homestead, and crossing
the well worn threshold, standing
once more in the low
room, as hallowed by her
ence, how the feeling of c'
innocence and dependence
over us, and we kneel dc
the motten sunshine s
through the western .window*—4'
just where, long years ago,
knelt by our mother's knee,
ing "Our Father." How
times when tempter lured
has the memory of those
hours, that mother's words,
faith and prayers, saved us
sin. Years have filled
drifts over between her and
but they have not hidden
our sight the glory of her t
fish love.
Beyond Expression
G. W. Farlowe, East
Ala., writes: "For nearly
years I was afflicted with a form
of skin disease which caused axt
almost unbearable itching. I
could neither work, rest or sleep
in peace. Nothing gave me per-
manent relief until I tried Hunt's
Cure. One application relieved
me; one box cured me, and
though a year has passed, I have
stayed cured. I am grateful be-
yond expression." Jgpg
Hunt's Cure is a guaranteed
remedy for all itching diseases of
the skin. Price 50c.
Many of the quill pushers of
Texas are enjoying the sights in
St. Paul and breathing the pure
atmosphere of that delightful
climate while we are basking in
the sunlight of sunkissed Texafe
and eating the luscious water-
melon. Which had you rather be?
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Thomas, S. W. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1908, newspaper, August 20, 1908; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168379/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.