The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1912 Page: 1 of 6
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The Aspermont Sta
Richard H. McCarty, Editor and Publisher
Aspermont, Stonewall County, Texas, Thursday, August 15,1912
VoL 15.
Citation By Publication
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To the Sheriff or any Constable
of Stonewall County—Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to
summon J R Woolsey. and the
unknown heirs of the said J R
Woolsev, if any there be, and
any and all persons claiming title
or interest, either legal or equi-
table, to the hereinafter describ-
ed lands, by making publication
of this Citation once in each week
for eight consecutive weeks pre-
vious to'the return day hereof,
to be and appear at the next
regular term of the Honorable
District Court of Stonewall coun-
ty, Texas, to be held at the court
house thereof in the town of
Aspermont, Texas, on the 11th
Monday after the first Monday
in August, 1912, the same being
the 21st day of October, 1912,
then and there to answer a peti-
tion filed in said court on the 21st
day of September, 1911, in a
cause numbered 947, on the Civil
Docket of said court, wherein P.
Brady is plaintiff, and J.R Wool-
sey and bis heirs, and all persons
claiming under them or anv of
them are defendants, and for
cause of action, the plaintiff rep-
resents and alleges as follows:
That on Feb. 3rd, 1890, A L
Rhomberg of Dubuque, Iowa, by
quit-claim deed of that date, con-
veved to defendant J R Woolsey,
the N W 1-4 of the N E 1-4 of
Section 94, Block D, of the H &
T C Ry Co lands, in said Stone-
wall county, Texas, Certificate
No. 30-2539, and containing 40
acres; and that as a part of the
consideration therefor, the said
defendant Woolsey, executed 3
purchase money notes for the
sum of $40 each, payable to said
A L Rhomberg, payable Feb. 3,
1891, 1892 and 1893, with interest
from date until paid at the rate
of 10 per cent per annum. The
above mentioned deed being re-
corded in Volume A, Folio 302
of the Deed Records of Stonewall
county, Texas. That the said
J R Woolsey, soon after the exe-
cution and delivery of said notes,
departed from the said county
of Stonewall, and abandoned the
said lands, and his whereabouts
is unknown to the plaintiff, and
his whereabouts is also unknown
to the said A. L Rhomberg, the
bolder of the said notes. That
the said notes have never been
paid, either in whole or in part,
and that on Feb. 3rd, 1897, said
Rhomberg rescinded the con-
tract, and re-entered the prem-
ises and took entire possession
thereof, and has paid all current
and accrued taxes thereon.
Plaintiff further alleges that
on March 1st, 1906, said Rhom-
berg conveyed the said lands to
Wm R Harvey, and that on July
6th, 1908, said Wm R Harvey
conveyed the said lands to this
plaintiff, the conveyances thereof
being recorded in the proper
records. Plaintiff alleges that
by reason of the facts above set
forth, and the unreleased notes,
that there is a cloud upon the
title of this plaintiff to the said
lands, to his damage in the sum
of $2000.
Wherefore premises consider-
ed, plaintiff prays that the de-
fendant, J R Woolsey, and the
unknown heirs of the said J R
Woolsey, and all persons claiming
under them or any of them, be
cited to appear and answer this
suit, and that on final trial hereof
he have judgment of the court,
quieting the title to all said land
in him, for costs, and such other
relief as he is entitled to in the
premises.
Herein fail not, but have you
before said court, on said first
day of the next term thereof,
this Writ, with your return
thereon, showing bow you have
executed the same.
Witness my hand and seal of
office at office at Asper-
(seal) mont, Texas, this the 2nd
day of August, in the year
A D 1912.
R. S. Tillotson, Clerk
District Court, Stonewall
8-8 8t Countv, Texas.
Will You Give a Dollar?
The editor of the Star is in re-
ceipt of a letter from the Hon.
Cato Sells of Cleburne, asking
him to ask the people of Stonewall
countv for funds to defray the
democratic campaign. It is the
order of the democratic standard
bearer, Woodrow Wilson, to not
acceot funds from any corpora-
tion -re* e, the great com-
mon people of America are call-
ed on to contribute one dollar
each to this campaign fund.
Who will be the first to send a
dollar? The Star will make note
of every man that pays a dollar.
If you want to give a dollar, hand
it to the editor of the Star or send
to the Hon. Cato SeUs. Cleburne,
Texas. We would prefer that
you send it direct to the above
named party, but if you do so,
notify the Star so note can be
made of it, as we want to know
how much Stonewall county con-
tributed to this fund.
District Convention to Con-
vene in Aspermont.
County Chairman D. M. Old-
ham having also been selected as
district chairman for the 105th
representative district, composed
of Scurry, Kent, Dickens, King
and Stonewall, has issued a call
for said democratic district con-
vention to meet at the court
house in Aspermont, at 2 o'clock
p. m. on the fourth Saturday in
August, 1912, the same being the
24th dav of said month, then and
there to transact such business
as shall come before the con-
vention.
Good Rains in Stonewall.
Since our last issue, Stonewall
countv has had good rains, prac-
tically all over the county. In
the southern part the rain was
very heavy. John M. Lee says
he had the best rain that he has
had in five years. The rains
were general over west Texas.
These rains were of great benfit
to the feed crop, and almost in-
sure us a good cotton crop.
Aspermont's First Blae.
The city of Aspermont cap-
tured the first bale of cotton gin-
ned in Stonewall county, Satur-
day. The cotton was raised by
Wm. Dudensing of Brandenburg,
This bale was ginned at Branden-
burg. T. M. Long bought the
cotton, and paid 12 1-2 cents for
same. Premium, $20. The bale,
with premium, brought $90.05.
The West Texas Land Co
made a big realty deal this week.
Help Wanted.
The United States Steel corpo-
ration, crowded with orders,
needs 5000 men, atad needs them
so urgently that is not only ad-
vertising, but it is sending out
canvassers to look for them. Oth-
er steel mills and all kindred in-
dustries are in the same plight.
In the automobile, furniture and
other industries which center in
the neighborhood of Detroit the
shortage of workmen is keenly
felt. From the free labor bu-
reau of Cleveland comes the
statement that not an available
workman can be allowed to leave
the city. In the daily papers of
any considerable city the "Help
Wanted" columns are swelled
far above their average space.
Salesmen, clerks, bookkeepers,
chauffeurs and men for domestic
service are wanted bv the hun-
dreds.
Nor is this insistent demand
confined to those who possess
some specific training or mechan-
ical skill. From the west comes
the stentorian cry for 50,000 men
to help with the harvest. In ev-
ery section new work is in pro-
gress and the call for day labor
can be beard. From New York
there soon will a demand for
10,000 uskilled workmen to help
build $200,000,000 of rapid tran-
sit lines. The supply, already
shortened by the aqueduct and
other big undertakings, is likely
to be far below the demand.
All this tells of satisfactory
business in every branch. With
labor employad all over the coun-
try and at the good wages which
must prevail when demand ex-
ceeds the supply, every retail
store, every traction line, every
place of recreation, will feel the
benefit.
Unless something unforeseen
occurs to breed a lack of confi-
dence, the coming autumn prom-
ises to be one of excellent busi-
ness all round, and one in which
no able-bodied man who really
wants to work need lack for a
means of earning support for
himself and those dependent up-
on him.—Wall Street Journal.
B. Y. P. U. Program
Aug. 18, 3:30 p. m.
Some of the working forces of
the Church.
Leader—T. M. Long.
Scripture reading by leader—
John 14: 1 to 17.
Quartet—Home, Sweet Home.
The Home, her origin and Mis-
sion—Miss Mace Turner.
Song.
S. S. Inactive and active.—
Miss Vera Featherson.
Music.
What the B. Y. P. U. is—Mrs.
D. R. Couch.
Song.
Open discussion.
Closing.
Married.
Mr. Walter Henderson and
Miss Jessie Grantham of Brazos
Valley, were married last Sun-
day at Guthrie. The Star joins
their many friends in wishing
them a successful wedded life.
Mr. Henderson and Miss Jessie
are both prominent young peo-
ple of their community.
If you have any land that vou
want to sell or exchange, see
the West Texas Land Co.
WUl 1912 be Like 1824?
What if there are three politi-
cal parties in the field this year,
nearly equal in number, with
the socialist sapping the strength
of each and so mixing up the
vote in November that no candi-
date can get a majority in the
electoral college?
In that case the election would
be thrown into the house of rep-
resentatives as now constituted,
with its heavy democratic ma-
jority. The house, under the
constitution, must choose a can-
didate from those receiving the
three highest votes in the electo-
ral college. Doubtless the Balti-
more nominee, even if third in
the race, would be chosen with a
whoop.
The electoral college could
legally go entirely outside the
list of candidates voted upon by
the people, but probably would
be promptly and unanimously
lynched if it attempted to take
such a liberty with custom and
unwritten law. ^
Only one president of the
United States was ever elected
bv the house. This was John
Quincy Adams. The presidential
election of 1824 fell in the "era
of good feeling brought about
by the administration of Presi-
dent James Monroe. There were
no clearly defined parties.
Three popular leaders divided
the vote of the south. They
were Andrew Jackson of Ten-
nessee, Henry Clay of Kentucky,
and William H. Crawford
Georgia.
Adams had the solid support
of New England and New York,
and picked up a few more votes
in the border states. The elec-
toral college voted as follows:
Total vote, 261. Necessary to
choice, 131. Andrew Jackson,
99; John Quincy Adams, 84, W.
H. Crawford, 41; Henry Clay, 37.
There was, of course, no
choice. Clay was eliminated by
the provisions of the constitution
which confined the choice to the
three highest on the list, but
Clay, as the most popular man in
the house of representatives,
found himself in the position of
president-maker. He was friend-
ly to Crawford but Crawford
was in precarious health, suffer-
ing from a stroke.of paralysis.
John C. Calhoun had been
chosen vice president bv a vote
of 182 in the electoral college.
Clay didn't want to make Cal-
houn president, as he would
have done by electing the sick
man, Crawford, to the presiden-
cy. Strongly opposed to Jack-
son, also, he threw his influence
to Adams.
The house of representatives,
voting by states, decided as fol-
lows: Adams, 13; Jackson, 7;
Crawford, 4.
What a howl went up! They
didn't have steam rollers in
those days, but they knew all
about "deals" and "dickers" and
it was hotly charged that Adams
and Clay had disposed of the
presidency in a disreputable bar-
gain. The charge was not dissi-
pated when President Adams
promptly made Henry Clay his
secretary of state. John Roanoke
denounced what he called "this
alliance between the puritan and
the Black Flag." Adams, one of
the most conscientious of men,
did not enjoy the situation worth
a cent.—Albany Times-Union.
To the Democrats
Now that our state primary is
over, I feel free to invite the more
active attention of Texas demo-
crats to the pending national
election.
I am sure that regardless of
pre-convention preferences every
democrat in Texas « ¿ratified
that our partv is united as never
before, and that we all rejoice in
the fact there are unmistakable
indications thát nominees of the
Baltimore convention will be tri-
umphantly elected.
It is everywhere conceded that
Texas has crowned herself with
everlasting glory, both as the pi-
oneer Wilson-for-president state
and in the stalwart conduct of
her delegation at the national
convention. Unquestionably
Texas was a dominant and possi-
bly the determining factor. Cer*
tainly no other state, as such, was
so potential.
We now have a nation-wide
refutation to protect and I know
you all greatly desire that the
almost unprecedented prestige
thus acquired, shall be fully and
permanently sustained.
The candidacy of Gov. Wilson
must be continued in the spirit
of his own splendid conduct when
he repudiated the proffered Ryan
gold.
It requires a large amount of .
money to meet the legitimate ex-
penses of a presidential cam-
paign. and since ours is,a strug-
of gle to restore a genuine
government, we
people not only for votes but for
financial support.
To this end "I now appeal to all
Texas democrats to at once pro-
ceed to raising of a contribution
to the national campaign fund of
such proportions as will be wor-
thy of the greatest democratic
state in the Union, a fund so
large as to place the Lone Star
State close up to the top in the
financial roll of honor, as we are
now universally recognized to be
in bringing,about the nomination
of Governor Wilson.
Experience has demonstrated
that newspapers are the best me-
dium of raising a popular cam-
paign fund and I desire to earn-
estly request every domocratic
newspaper and other publications
in Texas interested in the elec-
tion of Wilson and Marshall to at
once actively enter upon a cam-
paign for thé accomplishment of
such a fund—asking for $1 or
other small donations. In addi-
tion to this proceedure I shall
forthwith undertake, in other
ways a systematic and aggressive
campaign covering the entire
state for the procurement of
lshrger donations, and that no
time may be lost and no one over
looked, I now invite the prompt
sending of same to me without
further request. Let Texas do
her full share in never ceasing
effort to place a son of the South-
land in the White House.
Woodrow Wilson will be the
next president of the United
States.
CATO SELLS,
National Committeeman?
for Texas.
Cleburne, Tex., Aug. 8,1912.
Jack Parramore was down
from the ranch this week. Jack
says they have had splendid rains
i out in King county.
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McCarty, Richard H. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1912, newspaper, August 15, 1912; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168495/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.