The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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WE HAVE JUST
RECEIVED NOTICE
Of a large hhipiwnt of Scll>y and
Howard «V Foster hhoen.
The e got Kin will be in tliin week
and ve invite you to come in and
insp ct them.
j. M. HOLT & CO.
W. J. MILEY,
Druggist.
BASTR00, TEXAS.
Special and careful attention giv«n
to the Prescription Department.
A full line of I'atent Medicines,
Perfumery, Toilet Articles and
Stationery. Phone 61.
Latest war news-
still at it.
Every body
Dignity should never interfere
with duty. _
Monday last was a fine day for
planting hogs—in the smoke-
house.
Courtesy never paid a bill—
neither contracted a debt; yet it
is sure to yield a dividend.
Since interest in war news is
abating somewhat, the metroitoli-
tan dailies are now digging up
old "Fraud case" prosecutions.
No, it is not "Greasy joe" that
wants to regulate the oil pipe
lines. Tt's State Senator L. H.
Daily of Harris.
Cotton to the amount of 186,056
bales left Galveston for Liverpool
last, week. The total exports for
the season are 200,(XX) bales over
last year to date.
Some increase in general trade
was reported Saturday along
the line. 'Tis said "the darkest
hour is just before dawn." Per-
haps its almost daylight again.
What, not start a
Son test as to who will
*nt of Mexico next
Houston Chronicle.
Perhaps there might bo two a
week*,then what?
guessing
bo Presi-
week?—
A bigg*1** "loco" than the one
who blames President Wilson for
bringing on the p*nic lias been|the bound
discovered. This laioir person- 1 • .
«®tf*aerased the farmers of being
responsible for the high cost of
ifving.
Woodrow Wilson
For Second Term,
According to the United Press
Association a statement has been
officially 8 issued by Chairman
McCombs of the Democratic
National Committee to the effect
that President Wilson would be
a candidate for a second term.
This is good news to the rank
and tile of Domocracy, and while
lie will have every conceivable
phase of the panic placed at his
responsibility by Republicans as
a catnpaigh canard, we believe
that the great voting public have
too much intelligence to overlook
the real circumstances and condi-
tions bringing about the panic
and its attendant retarding of
measures of national better-
ment.
In fact, we believe that in the
consent of Woodrow Wilson to
become a candidate a second
term lies the hope of democratic
continuation in power.
While there are many other
true and brainy democrats who
would make a good President,
yet none of them have been
tested.
Woodrow Wilson ha.-t been
found a safe nation-guardian and
unto him will be concentrated
the strength of all conservative
elements and we believe a major
ity of Democrats are conserva
tive.
Saturday's Galveston News
contained a timely cartoon dis
playing the Senate, Governor and
House singing a bar of musii
fitted to the words "Harmony,"
with a listener posing as "Texas"
applauding. It is good that har-
mony exists, yet there is a limit
to all things and it is sometimes
necessary for some solon to
create a legislative furor in de-
fense or advocacy of st>me needed
measure. Let not the present
s
and revert into stagnation.
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Scene from the well known comedy, "PEG O' MY HEAR!1," Ation
Opera House, Wednesday, Feb. 10th.
Change Not the Old
Friend For the New.
The Texas legislature refused
to endorse the Colquitt adminis-
tration and endorsed that of
President Wilson. Perhaps after
this rebuke Mr. Colquitt will be
a little more careful of how he
offers criticism hereafter.
Now since the German block-
ade of British oorts may inter-
fere with the Liverj>ool shipping
trade we can fear but little effect
on the price of cotton since it
has about all passed out of the
bunds of the producer.
Andrew Carnegie has prophe-
sied that the present war cannot
last long and that after it is
closed* there will be no more
great wars. He also prophesied
not long since that a world con-
flict could not take place. Hope
he'll have bettor luck with his
second thought whirl than he
had with his first.
President Wilson does not favor
the placing of a "literary tost"
•n immigrants. The President
is about as well posted on the
Htorary needs of the country as
any other man in it and it seems
to us that he is right in opposing
this measure. If a foreigner
oomes up to all other standards
of citizenship he should not be
barred just because circumstan-
ces over which he had no control
have limited his literary train-
ing.
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
The Cemetery Association met
January 4th at the Library room,
there being fifteen members and
one visitor. Grounds were re-
ported in good condition. Now
is the time to send any shrub-
bery that you have to spare to
to the committee. We find a good
many in arrearof dues, and would
be glad to have each one attend
to this and let's start the year
1915 with paid-up dues.
Dues collected at this meeting
were as follows: Mesdames R.
Starcke, $51.00; R. Warren, $3.00;
E. E. Schuelke. $3.00; M. Young,
$3.00; Geo. Rabensburg, $3.00;
Geo. Starcke, $1.50;Kreidel,$3.00;
A. T. Morris, $2.00; H. Orts, $1.50;
W. Townsend, $2.(X); L. W. Olive,
$1.00; W. A. McCord, $3.00; Ed
Jenkins, $1.00; Win. Kesselus.
$3.00; T. A. Hasler,, $3.00; Mtss
Ann Jenkins, $3.00; LeSueur
Bros., $3.00.
Meeting adjourned to meet the
first, Monday in Februarn.
Mrs. L. W. Ouve, Sec.
Cake Sale Feb. 12th.
There will is- a Cake Sale at
Hasler Bros. Co. Store, Friday,
February 12th, for the benefit of
the Cemetery Association. The
Cakes are to be made of the
Blue Ribbon Flour. First prize,
one sack of Blue Ribbon Flour;
Second prize, one-half sack Blue
Kibbon Flour.
Mies L. W. Olive, Sec'ty.
It is persistently rumored that
there will be several aspirants
for Mr. Culberson's seat in the
United States Senate.
It is well that the citizens of
Texas ponder the question before
illowing themselves to pledge
their vote to a new candidate for
■.his impo.tint office not only to
his state but to the entire
nation.
Never in its history has the
United States needed men, not
>nly of brains, but of experience
in their special work, in ;• 1 de-
partments of governmental and
parliamentary alTairs, as it needs
them now. Mr. Culberson has
had the necessary experience to
ably fill his part in steering our
ship of state over the stormy
waters through which it is now
passing, and that experience is
backed by cool, clear-headed
"onsen atism
Had it not been for the con-
servatism of President Wilson,
Secretary Bryan, supported by
tides in the Senate and House
such as Mr. Culberson, it is im-
possible to imagine how deplora-
ble this country's already unset-
tled condition would now be.
The time Is not yet V> break in n
new man by displacing one who
has been tried and found to be
of pure metal.
Throughout Mr. Culberson's
career his democracy has not
had even a suspicion of a taint.
He could always be depended on
to stand up Loi Uy for that brand
of democracy that has no strings
to it—the genuine article. It
was this class of democrats who
wrenched the country from
Republican control after a long
drawn out fight in which to
many it seemed all hope for
democracy's ascendency into
power again was lost.
It was to a great extent thru
the errors of hot-headed, impul-
sive Republican leaders that
Democracy won the battle again.
Democracy cannot afford to
lose the vantage gained, yet one
mistake of some one servant of
the people might, just at those
trying times, swing the i>endu
lum of governmental control
back into the hands of republi-
canism.
I^et's not run the risk of mak-
ing that mistake by putting an
untried man in the Senate in
place of one whose worth and
experience is known through
years of exj>erience.
Change not the old friend for
the new.
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The agitation at present anent
the question of more extensive
military training in colleges sug
gests the thought that more
agricultural training even at the
exjHinse of militarism would
benefit more not only the boys
themselves but the country as
well. Peace and prosperity out-
weigh war and i>overty a great
deal just now.
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TRIUMPH
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Talking by Telephone from New York to San Francisco Is Now
an Accomplished Fact.
THE latest and ff-eatett triumph in the art of
telephony is a transcontinental telephone service,
the rqua! of which is not even approached in all
the other nations of the world. Within a short time it
will he op n roi pib'le ms?.
tin a splendid scientific achievement is the product
of American brains, American initiative and American
scientific and technical akill. The human voice bas
been made to travel as fast a* light ovege distance of
3,400 miles and is reproduced perfectly and Instantlv
across the continent.
This work was planned and completed by the
Experimental and Research Department of the Bell
System which consists of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company and Associated and Connecting
Companies, giving universal eervice ta 100,000,000
people.
With no traditions to follow snd no experience to
guide, this department which is now directed by • stag
of over 350 engineers and scientists, including former
professors, post graduate students, scientific investi.a
tore—the graduates of 140 universities—has created an
entirely new art—the art of telephony, and has given
to the people of this country a telephone service thai
has no e<|ual anywhere in the world.
It haa required vast expenditures of money and
immense concentration of effort, but these have been
justified by results of immeasurable benefit to the
public. The transcontinental telephone line J 400
miles long, joining the Atlantic and Pacific, is 'Mr't oi
the Bell System of 21,000.000 miles of wire conoTcHiM
g,000,000 telephone stations located everywhets Uwou h*
out the United States. K
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The Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company
CALL FOR IIIDS.
Notice is hereby given that the
Commissioners' Court of* Bastrop
County, T< xas, will, at its regular
February Term A. I). 1915,
receive proposals from any bank-
ing corporation, association or
individual banker in said county
that may desire to be selected
as the depository of the funds
of said county.
Any banking corporation, asso-
ciation or individual banker,
in said County, desiring to bid,
shall deliver to the County Judge,
on or before the first day of the
term of said Court, a sealed
proposal, stating the rate of
interest that said banking cor-
poration, association or individual
banker, offers to pay on the
funds of said County for the
term between the date of suchi
bid and the next regular time
for the selection of a depository
Said bids will be opened at 2
p. m., on Monday, the 8th day of
February, A. D. 191.r>, the same
being the first day of the term
of said Court, and each bid sub-
mitted must be accompanied by
a certified check for $l(K).(X) as a
guarantee of the good faith on
the part of the bidder. The
Court reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
Witness my hand this the 12th
day of .January, A. 1). 1915.
J. B. PRICE,
County Judge,
Bastrop County, Texas.
REPAIRING ANI) DIGGING
WELLS.
1 am prepared to repair and
dig wells, also build underground
cisterns. See mo for prices.
R. O. Bkannon.
* RECEIVER'S NOTICE.
Having been appointed re, ,.Sve|
of tho stock of general merchan
aise of the Klzner Mercantn-
Company, Bankrupt*, I offer for
sale all farming implements
plows, plow points, etc Th«I
remainder of the stock will Z
held in trust until disposed of hv
order of the Court 01 by
I have also been ordered
the Court to collect all accounts
notes etc., due the above
and those who know thorns*^
indebted to the said firmofwrt-—
Elzner Mercantile Company are
requested to settle the amount of
their indebtedness at once
H ^an.so.mk, Receiver,
Don't forget that The Home
Hardware Company has a large
assortment of Cooking Stoves, be
S.7&? "bcfore yuu •>«
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The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1915, newspaper, February 5, 1915; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206148/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.