The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1912 Page: 1 of 6
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The AspermontSta
Richard H. McCarty, Editor and Publisher
Aspermont, Stonewall County, Texas, Thursday, August 29,1912
VoL 15. No
Citation By Publication
THE STATE pF TEXAS
To the Sheri^F or any Constable
of Stonewall County—Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to
summon J R Woolsev, 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 his heirs, and all persons
claiming under them or any 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 land=v in sñd 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
AL 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
holder 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Rhomberg rescinded the con-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 how 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 County, Texas.
Delaying and Slaying Pro-
gress.
The following item was in-
cluded in a quantity of "press
matter" sent out recently by the
Texas Commercial Secretaries
and Business Men's Association,
and is both clear and expressive:
The doctors are said to be the
only class of people who bury
their mistakes, but our law mak-
ers have frequently given us
legislation that sent industry to
tbe cemetery and paralyzed
growth and progress.
Since the day when Moses gave
us the commandments written by
a divine hand, legislation has
been a powerful force in human
affairs. Our legislators can
build a magnificent civilization or
become the pall bearers to pros-
perity according to their inclina-
tion or ability, and our coming
legislature faces an opportunity
of making Texas a world power
in commerce and industry by giv-
ing constructive legislation. Tex-
as has been nominated by nature
as the industrial headquarters of
the universe, and nothing but in-
judicious legislation will cause us
to miss our destiny.
Substituting in the above the
name of any other southern state
would make it equally applicable
particularly at this time. The
item not only furnishes food for
thought, but should supply an
incentive for action.— The
Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
July 18.
Grandma Holcomb Dead.
Last Monday morning at 3:30
o'clock, the death angel visited
our city and Mrs. M. Holcomb,
aged 76 years, was called to her
final reward. Decedent had not
been well for some time, but her
death was a great shock to
relatives and friends. The
funeral services were held at the
residence at 2:30 o'clock, Mon-
day afternoon, after which all
that was mortal of Grandma
Holcomb was laid to rest in the
Aspermont cemetery.
The deceased was the mother
of F. M. and T. M. Holcomb of
this city, who, with relatives and
friends elsewhere, have the sin-
cere sympathy of the people of
Aspermont.
Notice.
All persons are hereby notified
not to throw watermelon rinds
on the streets of Aspermont.
City Council.
The Cost of Armament.
The fear of war is consuming
the homes of the rural and village
populations of Germany, France
Great Britain and the United
States in a single generation, ac-
cording the bulletin on the school
observance of peace day, which
is soon to be issued for free dis-
tribution by thé United States
bureau of education.
In discussing the cost of war,
the bulletin says.in part: "War
debt began with the Nineteenth
century. Not until the estab-
lishment of constitutional gov-
ernment had nations any credit
in the world of finance. The bond
of a king was notoriously bad se-
curity.
"Since 1800 the war debts of
the nations have grown by leaps
and bounds. That of Europe as
a whole amounts to more than
$26,000,000,000, bearing interest
at the rate of $1,150,000,000 a
year. All these endless caravans
of ciphers represent sums that
have never been paid, will never
be paid, can never be paid, so
long as the present system of na-
tional armament goes on. For
practically the entire amounts
now raised by taxation in civilized
nations go into the support of
armies and navies.
The United States, in splendid
isolation from old entanglements,
without an enemy in the world,
and bound by ties of blood and
commerce to all civilized nations,
spends 73 per cent of her income
in this way. The civil or non-
military expenditures of Europe
are so small as to be negligible.
At the present rate of expendi-
ture the four countries of Ger-
many, France, Great Britain
and the United States will spend
in the next forty years, the life
of one generation, for the sup-
port of armies and navies an
amount sufficient to build 20,-
000,000 country and village houses
at an average cost of $2500 each.
With father, mother and four
children in each of these houses
they would furnish homes for
120,000,000 people, which is more
than the total present population
of these four countries living in
villages and the open country.
Thus the fear of war is consum-
ing the homes of the rural and
village populations of these great
nations in a single generation.
"It estimated that the total di-
rect cost of the armies and nayies
of the world each year in time of
peace, is $2,500,000,000, which
equals the total valuation of the
wheat and corn crops of the
whole of the United States."
The bureau of education's bul
letin, which is entitled "Peace
day," contains suggestions and
material for the observance in
the public schools, of the occa-
sion. The bulletin was compiled
and in part written by Mrs. Fan-
nie Fern Andrews, secretary of
the American Peace League.
is Mars, the ruddy globe whose Our School tO OpCH M<MD
D. J. Dunn of Haskell, has ac-
cepted a position as prescription-
ist at the Aspermont Pharmacy,
W. T. Day having resigned to
take a position on the road. He
will have headquarters at Pecos.
A Beautiful Word Picture.
I have wondered a thousand
times if an infidel ever looked
through a telescope. The uni-
verse is a dream of God and the
heavens declare his glory.
There is our mighty sun robed in
the brightness of his eternal
fires, and with planets forever
wheeling around. Yonder is
Mercury and Venus, and there
poles are white with snow, and
whose other zones seem dotted
with seas and continents. Who
knows but that his roseate color
is only the blush of his flowers?
Who knows but what Mars may
now be a paradise inhabited by a
blessed face, unsullied by sin,
untouched by death? The giant
orb of Jupiter, the champion of
the skies, belted and sashed
with vapor and clouds; and Sat-
urn, haloed with bands of lights
and jeweled with eight ruddy
moons, and there is Uranus, an-
other stupendous world, speed-
ing on its prodigious circles of
tireless journey around the sun.
And vet another orbit cuts the
outer rim of our system, and on
its gloomy pathway, there, the
lonely Neptune walks the cold,
dim solitude of space. In the
immeasurable depths beyond ap-
pear millions of suns, so distant
that their light could not reach
us in a thousand years. Here,
spangling the curtains of the
black profound, shine the con-
stellations that sparkle like
crown jewels of God. There are
double and triple and quadruple
suns for different colors, com-
mingling their gorgeous hues
and flaming like archangels on
the frontier of stellar space. If
we look beyond the most distant
star, the black walls are flecked
with innumerable patches of
filmy light like dewy gossamers
of the spider's loom that dot our
fields at morn. What beautiful
forms we trace among these
phantoms of light, circles, and
eclipses and crowns and shields,
and spiral wreaths of palest sil-
ver. And what are thev? A tel-
escope resolves them into mil-
lions of suns standing out from
the oceans of white hot matter
which contains the germs of
countless systems yet to be. And
far removed from us are these
suns that the light which comes
to us from them tonight has
been spreading on its wa^y for
more than two-million years.
What is that white belt we. call
the milky way which spans the
heavens and sparkles like a
Sahara of diamonds? It is a
river of stars, it is a gulf stream
of suns, and each of the suns
holds in its grasp a mighty
stream of planets, as ours does,
how many multiplied millious of
worlds like ours are now circling
in that immeasurable concourse?
Oh, where are the bounds of
this divine conception? Where
ends this dream of God? And
is there no life and intelligence
in this throng of spheres? Are
there no sails on those faraway
summer seas, no wings to cleaye
those crystal airs, no forms di-
vine to walk those radiant fields?
Are there no eyes to see these
floods of light, no hearts to share
with ours that love which holds
all these mighty orbs of space.
It can not be! It can not!
Surely there is a God! If there
is not, life is a dream, human
experience is a phantom, and
the universe is a flounting lie.—
Bob Taylor.
I fmm
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Next Monday the Asper
Public School will open for
term, and it is hoped that e'
child that intends to att
school will be present on opening
day. This will facilitate
work of grading, etc., and
pupils can get down to re,
work without the intérru
that must necessarily follow,
pupils do not come in on opening
day. Parents should see that 1
their children are there on the
first dav and every other day,
unless prevented by sickness or
other unavoidable circumstance.
What was good enough in the
way of education forty years ago,
will not meet the needs of tfce
present generation, and the
man who thinks the education
he went thro' life with, will be
sufficient in amount, for the boy,
will start the boy down life's
rugged path under a very serious
handicap. The time is not dis-
tant when the man without edu-
cation will be a small factor in
the affairs of the nation, and the
farmer of the future must b?
educated, or fall far short of at-
taining the best results in wrest-
ling from the soil her best
treasures. Boys and girls, go to
school every day possible, for tfee
time will come all too soon when
school davs are over and your
opportunity will be gone.
Following is the faculty for
the coming term: Prof. T. \j.
Hiner, principal; Miss Soss^óf
Alledo; Miss Hill, Morgan;* Miss
Welch of Abilene, and Mrs. Roy
Riddel of this city.
These teachers are all tried
and true, and will do their part
toward making the term one of
the most successful in the history
qf Aspermont Public School.
Let every patron and friend
lend a helping hand. Let the
parents become interested in the
school and it will not be long un-
til the pupils begin to show an
increased interest. Visit
school frequently and th
both teachers and pup
you are^vílaÜíy interested iñ tifeir
work. Let everybody pull for
the best school term Aspermont
has ever had.
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m
J. M. Hickman came in from
Stamford this week and will have
charge of the gin here again this
season. The gin will probably
make its first run next Saturday,
as we understand there are sev-
eral bales ready for ginning.
Presbyterian Meeting Closed.
The meeting which has been
in progress at the Presbyterian
church for the past ten days,
closed last Sunday night. Rev.
R. M. Wimmell, of Hamlin, who
did the preaching, is an able and
logical speaker and those who
heard him were much edified and
revived spiritually. While there
were few visible results of the
ten days of hard work, there can
be no doubt but that the earnest
efforts of Rev. Wimmell and
the Christian people who so
faithfully held up the Master's
cause, will bear fruit many fold
in the futre.
Clean Up Day,
By order of the City Health
Officer next Tuesday is designat-
ed as Clean-up day in Aspermont.
All trash and filth musf be piled
and trash burned. All tin cans'
and other trash that cannot be
burned must be piled so wagoni
can get to it conveniently. This
order must be complied with in
order to preserve the health of
our people. This means you.
W. A. McLaury, Mayor,
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McCarty, Richard H. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1912, newspaper, August 29, 1912; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168497/m1/1/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.