The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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MEXIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1910.
11.00 Per Year
Court House Notes
ieek Journal.
HH| , Commissioners Court.
The Commissioners Court was
in session the first part of last
week, and disposed of the usual
business accumulated during the
month. These proceedings were
crowded out last week by reason
of lack of space.
The trustees of Independent
school district No. 45 were au-
thorized to sell the present school
building in said district.
The quarterly report of 0. Wat
son as justice of the peace pre-
cinct No. 2 was approved and his
resignition as such officer was ac-
cepted, he having moved out of
the county. On motion W. P.
Alexander of Delia was unani-
mously chosen to succeed Mr.
Watson he being the democratic
nominee for the office.
" The bond of W, P. Alexander
as justice of the peace, precinct
No. 2, with R. F. Whitte and W.
A. Rivers' as sureties, was ap-
proved.
That Zepli Anglin, the convict
manager, be required to discharge
Tom Garamell, the guard now
employed to guard the convicts.
Ordered by the court that no
convict guard be allowed to whip
any convict for any offense.
The quarterly report of * S.
Raseo county treasurer was ap-
proved.
By order of the court, W. A.
Keeling'-County Judge, was au-
thorized to enter into contract
with the H. & T. C. R. R. Co.
for the laying and maintainance
of a sewer line along the railroad
right of way.
To «J. L. Ainsworth and wife,
Farrur; Sept. 9—a girl.
To Walter Fife and wife,
Delia; Sept. 13—a girl.
To .J. A. Boy less and wife,
I Mia, Sept. 13—a boy.
To Mob Cager and wife, Delia;
Sept 111—a boy.
To Jolin Me Linton and wife,
Delia; Sept. Hi—a boy.
To William Medders and wife,
HigJlill, Sept. 16—a boy.
To Warren Clancy and wife,
Groesbeck; Sept. 4—a girl.
To C. M. Raseo and wife, Big-
bill, Sept. 14—a girl.
There is deep consternation
among the crap shooters now,
for the officers got busy last
CAPITAL CITY LETTER.
J. A Fernandez.
Austin, Texas, Sept. 2(i,—The
remains of Stephen F. Austin,
which are to lie moved to tin-
State Cemetery at Austin short-
ly, will lie in state in the Hall of
Representatives on October 19
and 20; on the evening of the 19,
patriotic exercises will lie held in
honor of the memory of the dead
patriot. The remains are at
prest-nt buried on the banks of
the Brazos River, near Brazoria.
Considerable difficulty is being
experienced by the independent
school districts of the State, es-
pecially those in the rural see-
, . , tions, in finding a market for im-
week and turned in about a0: . . , . *
. . , , . , , , Iprovement bonds and as ;t result
complaints, charging the dusky . ..
„ ' f, • i nianv buildings which were nee-
sons of Ham with toying with
the festive dice. But they know-
it will come and will "roll the
essayy for the accommodation of
th>* pupils this fall have not been
bones" even if an officer was I
I erected. The eastern bond mar-
looking over them. Some people
think it ought not to be an of-
fense. for a darkey to shoot
craps. We sometimes believe the .
are right about it.
ket is dull
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< Count" Court.
^ ""SqThe following pleas of guilty
have been entered:
Pink Stutts, theft, fined $1.
"Coal Oil" a negro, gaming (2
cases) fined $10.
Tom Gardner, displaying pis-
tol, fined $1.
J. D. Culpepper, gaming, fined
$10.
Chas. Popejoy, assault fined $1.
Tom Gammell, abusive lan-
guage, fined, $5.
Sebe Johnson, disturbing peace,
fined $1.
Marriage License.
Ellie Merrill to J. B. Rogers.
Susan Raseo to L L. Williams.
May Stewart to Houston Bir-
mingham. i
Mollie Jackson to Jay Wtf-
liams.
Alva Adams to Wilmer Turner.
Laura Moncrief to W. D.
Bishop. ,
Narcessa Moss to J. W. Berry.
Bess Bell Baldwin to Med Ap-
plewhite.
Vilena Maffett to Nealie
Brown.
Rosa B. N'orris k> R. L. Wil-
liams.
Lydia Cay ton to Luther Bo-
born.
Lillie M. Davis to T. W. Smith.
Carrie Warren to A. T. Crint.
Hattie Faulkner to Jim John-
BOYS CORN CLUB
Temple, Texas, Sept. 2-3.—
["There are one hundred boys in
j Texas who will make one hun*!n'"
. dred bushels of corn to the acre
this year" was the encouraging
statement of J. L. Quicksall of
the United States Department of
Agriculture who attended the
Annual Institute of Commercial
Secretaries here recently.
ed with arguments, statistics and
general iaformation concerning
agricultural conditions in this
state. .Mr. Quicksall came to
the convention to assist the Sec-
retaries in laying out plans for
the betterment of agricultural
methods and to offer the co-
operation of his Department to
this end.
Mr. Quicksall is strung on
I the state school
fund, to which many districts
look for a bond market, is not in
a condition to cover more than a
small part of the bunds voted.
The State of Texas is making
good ;is a cotton farmer, farmer,
according to Superintendent Her-
ring of the penitentiaries. A
total of over thiVe thousand hales
raised on the State farms
and on farms worked by State
convicts, this year, this being a
much better showing than the;
system ever made before.' The
total crop, it is estimated, will (
iie 31 GO bales and at the general
Arm- - "lark*-'t Price of seventy-five dol-j
| lars per bale, would bring in the!
| neat sum of about $235,000. Ow-t
j iug to the fact that most of the
convicts in the penitentiary are!
being worked on the State farms,
!at this time of the season, uu
| unusually large number escaped,
I the custody of the guards during!
August, according to the month-'
iv report of the superintendent.i
The annual report of Joe .My !
Boys Corn Clubs and the data "1'8' sta,° commissioner of 'a'>°r.j
furnished to the convention on I
j will contain several reeommenda-j |
j tious of importune
the success of the Clubs so far,
forever closes the door on doubt] 'a" ('hisses of Texas.
as to the feasibility of the Boys severa' drastic change;
to the labor-
He sug-
in
('orn Club movement which ha^
'the child labor law. so that it
write to find employment in mills
He also favors an
in law, where-
an employe injured through
(j: „t f. son.
V Pruic Leo to Marion Castle-
. shouldtt.
Emma Lewis to Jack Jeffer-
son. )
Luclla Harris to Wfllie Bluitt.
o
Births
To J. T. Halley and wife,
Groesbeck; Sept. 17—a boy.
To Frank Foster and wife,
•Coolidge; Sept. 9—a boy.
To Gene Prince and wife,
• Coolidge, Sept. 15—a girl.
To Desto Baker and wife, Horn
hill: Sept. 9—a girl.
To Jas. McClintoek and wife,
Uornhill; Sept. 13—a boy.
become so popular in this state wiU b" '"'Possible f°''
during the, past year. dr''u who a,'e unal>le t0 read !,n(li
"'Every where the boys Corn,
Clubs are meeting with encour-jau<^ factories
agemnnt" continued Mr. Quick- |u-'ur-v compensation law. wlier
sail, "and 1 am prepared to sa)
that the movement to organize; thl' Q^igenee of his employer
the boys of the country has been may '>t? compensated without the
a signal success. Down in Wil-' expense and delay contingent up-
iiamson County this year, one of 00 a l^'5"1'1- wants a law
our boys seventeen years of age 14 definite compensation
will average on seventy five acres;,or injury, to be based upon the
of land, sixty five bushels 0fiin-iur''d man's earning capacity,
corn to the aero while right Au"th',r law h,> wi" *u£*est P1'0"
across from his land hi.* father,: v'des tor the branding of all
a man of fifty, who has farmed j P"son-made goods. Overalls anc
all his life, is hoping to pull! manufactured articles from the
through with twenty seven and a Penitentiaries of Missouri, West
half The farmer's reply in an-; Virginia and other States, he
swer to a question a.s to why his >).vs. are being offered for sale
son was more successful than ^ Texas in competition with
himself was, "O. well, he'sjwitl1 goods made by free labor
learned how to cultivate from'and he favors a law putting the
them there corn clubs and in my words, "Prison-Made'.' on every
day, there war'nt none of them.''I penitentiary article.
Mr. Quicksall is accomplishing The State may be drawn into
great good through the medium | an international controversy
of his department and suggests! through the refusal of the school
that when the boys of tthe state'authorities at San Angelo to per-
have become thoroughly organiz- mit Mexicans to attend the same
ed and realize that the farm in-j schools as the white children
stead of being a place of harrow- The Mexican consul at San Ail-
ing toil, is the only safeguard j tonio lias taken up with Governor
against panics and the founda- j Campbell and will endeavor to
lion of all substantial prosperity,I have the State take action in the
that the cry of "Back to the j matter. It is not believed, how-
so'l" will have to be supplement j ever, that the governor or any of
ed by the slogan of "Back to'the State officials can force the
the city" in order to keep our j San Angelo school trustees to
cities and towns from being de- act in the matter. In ease tin
populated.
Joe She.rrill has gone to Aus-
tin to attend the University. 1
State cannot relieve the eondi-.
tions, it is understood that tl
matter will be taken up with the
authorities at Washington.
A total appropriation of near-
ly half a million dollars for the;
next two years has been request-
ed by the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College at Bryan. Num-
erous permanent improvements-
are asked, among them being a
new heating plant, several new
stock barns and a husbandry
building. The sum asked by A.
& M. is more than twice as large
as that received two years ago.
According to figures given out'
recently by Coventor T. M.
Campbell, the total cost of the
regular and called sessions of
the 31st Legislature was +278,-
945.58. This includes the per
diem of the members, the contin-
'
gent expenses of each House and
the mileage of the members. The
regular session and called ses-
sions totaled one hundred and
seventy-four days, which makes
the average cost per day about
fifteen hundred dollars. The reg-
ular .session of the 31st cost a to-
tal of $122,809.12. The fourth
called session was the least ex-
pensive of the four, being at
work the shortest length of time.
It has developed that several
ol' the State's most important
criminal statutes arc in danger of
being knocked out in the courts,
owing to a defect recently dis-j
covered in the S.cnter vagrancy |
law. This law was passed at the
regular session of the .list and
defines several ('lasses of unde-
sirable citizens a.s vagrants, pro-
viding that they shall be punish-j
ed as vagrants by fines and
county jail imprisonment. Then :
are included within the ban of'!
this law. gamblers, bootleggers:
keepers of disorderly houses arid:
receivers of stolen property.
Each of these classes of offend*]
ers is made a felony by separate i
statutes applying to them, while!
the vagrancy law merely makes
their offenses misdemeanors. Con i
sci|uently. it is claimed, that thej
vagrancy law repeals the other]
tatutes and that gamblers, boot-j
•ggers. keepers of disorderly
i ^ ■' |
houses and receivers of stolen
property may be punished as
vagrants, but may not be sent
!o the penitentiary as the laws
••overing their particular offen-j
ees provides. The matter will j
come up in the court of criminal
appeals within a few weeks and
the outcome is awaited with in-
terest.
The decision of the Comptroll-
er with regard to the opening of
saloons at Amarillo, mention ot
which was made in these columns
last week, has been upheld by
the Attorney General, who, in a
recent ruling, held that the elec-
tion of August 27 was void be-
cause the technicality ot' the elec-
tion held in December. 1907. had
never been established. It is
stated that Amarillo anti-prohib-
itionists will abide by this de-
cision for the present.
The disease of pellagra, which
has attracted more or less public
attention within the last year is
not due to the buffalo gnat, ac-
cording to the State Health De-
partment. Some entomologist;
have claimed that this gnat was
responsible for the disease, but
the state health authorities hold
that the gnat breeds only in run-
ning water and sonic pellagra
cases have been found far from
streams There were fifty-seven
deaths from pellagra in Texas
this year, according to statistics,
most of the victims being white
women. The cases were found in
practically every section of the
State.
Deposits in the savings
■anks under the bauking laws
of Texas showed a materi-
al increase during the month
of August, the amount go-
ing from nine hundred and for-
ty thousand to nine hundred and
sixty-five thousand during that!
period. This is considered an
excellent showing and is duel
probably, to the money from
cotton and other farm products
now being marketed.
Rumors of another ranger raid
at San Antonio were current at
the. capitol last week, being due
to the visit here of Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney C. M. Chambers
of Bexar county. So far, noth-
ing in the way of a raid has re-
sulted, although Mr. Chambers
spent, several hours in conference
with the governor and the adju-
tant general.
TEXAS FARMERS.
Ft. Worth, Texas, Sept. 20.—
"This is my first visit to Texas
since 1 left here more than 25
TERMS OF THE SETTLEMENT
BETWEEN SAN FRAN-
CISCO AND SAN I
DIEGO.
As was established to the sat-
isfaction of all the conferees
gathered at Washington, D. C.,
in May, 1910, the ambitions of
San Francisco aiid San Diego in
the direction of a 1915 celebra-
tion were not in conflict, and a
settlement was affected at that
time. The general plan of each
exposition was outlined, and the
representatives of both cities
united in the demand that Con-
gress accord recognition of Sau
l«'rancisco as the proper place for
a World's fair in observance of
the completion of the Panama
Canal.1
in a communication, addressed
by U. S. Senator Frank P. Flint
to Director General D. C. Collier
years ago to try my luck at farm-
ing in the far north" said Gib; of the Panama-California Expo-
Turner i wealthy farmer 0fiBitlon it was provided as follows:
Adair County, Iowa to a repre-j "That all Congressional repre-
sentative ol the Texas Commer-j sentatives of California should
cia.1 Secretaries Association,funite in support of a resolution
while shaking hands with the inviting all the nations of the
older settlers of this county, who; world to exhibit at San Francisco
remember him as a thrifty far-; in 1915 and that subsequently the
i.-ter of Tarrant County in thej same influence should be exerted
early eighties. "The improve- in behalf of a second resolution,
incuts which have been made in inviting the governments of Mex-
every line of industry and es-jico and the republics of Central
pec tally in agricultural methods | and South America to participate
are little short of miraculous. Lin the San Diego Exposition,
can remember when 1 owned a: "That the San Diego Exposi-
little farm in the Eastern part of j lion should have for its principal
Tarrant County that the rule j features demonstrations along the
among farmers was to put their; line of conservation, with espee-
seed in the ground and cover j ial attention to the possibilities of
tlieni up and take a long chance j irrigation and reclamation. In
on ever seeing it again. .Vow. I addition, that the Exposition
understand, that the average up-1 should have the support of all
to-date farmer of Texas makes a: the conferees in an effort to ar-
study of agriculture just the j range for a great assemblage of
same as the lawyer makes a ! representatives of all the surviv-
study of law or the doctor of i ing tribes of Indians on the West-
medicine, and that he studies the ern Hemisphere.
adaptability of the soil to a eer-i "That all the members of the
tain kind of grain or vegetable California delegation should
with the same precision that a unite in the effort to obtain from
physician will study the effect: Congress an appropriation for
ot a certain kind ot medicine on (|le San Francisco Exposition
the human system. I notice alsO;;tn(j jije same influence be
that most ot the farmers have: exerted in the effort to obtain
telephones installed in their farm [or Diego an adequate ap-
residences tor the purpose ot as- propriation from the California
• ertaining 4he exact date of thej Legislature.
arrival of Jack Frost, and in a! aU 0aHfornia rPpresen-
few instances. I learn that thej1a(jves in Congres8 should en.
farmers are keeping pace w ^ ,„avor to obwin for ^ Dieg0
with their city brothers and have-^ establishment of a great gov.
purchased automobiles for trans- j f.rnment farm and experimental
porting their farm products to stfltion fop the exploiution ot
market. This is quite a depart-1 horticultupp> aa a permanent in-
ure from the customs of the daysr |
when I claimed Texas as my
"That the advertising matter
tsent out by the publicity bureaus
!at San Francisco and San Diega
j should contain, a;< far as practi-
cable, reference to both Exposi-
| tions."
The terms of settlement were
home, i'or at that time it was
not an uncommon sight to seei
products of the farm being driv-
eu to market behind a team of
oxen and frequently packed on
the back of a mule. However,!
the improved conditions of the;
farming interests are onlv in! approved by stockholders of the
keeping with the progress made'&in D ^o Exposition and en-
iu all other lines of industry and dorsod b-v thp entire Congression-
I am glad to sc<> it for I think th, al <^gation. «w well as the Gov-
farmer owes it to himself to bet- l'rnor oi' the St!,tc' tho Ma>'or of
ter the conditions of hks cla^s San Francisco and the special
and all indications in Texas cer-! delictum representing the San
tainly point to a more favorable 1 Exposition.
condition for the farmer who, af-j '
ter all, is the backbone of Pros-
perity," said the genial land
owner as be packed his grip witIC
literature on Texas furnished
COTTON RECEIPTS
him by the Commercial Secreta-
ries' Association for distribution!
among his Iowa neighbors.
Cp to noon today receipts at
■the Mexia yards footed up
Farmers i iiion 2425
Hughes Yard 24fi4
Total 4889
Good for Biliousness.
"I took two of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets last FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE.
night, and I feel fifty per cant
better than I have for weeks, 200 acres, 100 in cultivation,
says J. J. Firestone of Illegan, i 60 acres in pasture in the prairie,
Mich. "They are certainly a 33 acres in timber for fire wood,
fine article for bilioiumess " For; on easv terms.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1910, newspaper, September 29, 1910; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290284/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.