The Democrat (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1905 Page: 13 of 16
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PUBLISHED BY
jJON * SMITH. Proprietor*.
prank Burnt, -
ru,TKR B. Wilson. • Btwin*
Editor
> Mgr.
opposite masonic temple.
41'BSC hi rT! ON KATES:
joe Oopy One Y« r, ; $1 00
Urge* the Development of
Futile School System.
the
Captivated Audience at Elks Min-
strels In Fort Worth;
SI1II0N IN MCKIKNEY A COMPLIMEIIARY MICE
School Buildings Crowded
Out ol Repair— More
Money Needed.
and
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*Oir nan* on the margin of the paper or O* the
wrapper lndlo*t«# the tlm* to which ymrMib-
•oHpfluri 1* paid. All ub crlptton e*plre en
V Im Brit of the month. Any ob crlber not re
Mtvlng the paper regularly * 111 pienae notify «a
MARCH 30, 1905.
Id PAGES TODAY
CITY ELECTION
(April 4, llMfi.)
For Mayor.
j. L. Doggett,
Tom W. Perkins.
For Alderman ward 3.
Sam Massie.
For A1 derm ad ward 4.
S. T. 1 lammond,
Texas heoH are certainly mak-
ing a tine record.
Tbe Democrat is 111 receipt of
an invitation to attend tbe South-
ern Association of Newsaper Cir-
culators convention to be held in
Sbreveport April 10, 11 and 12.
Collin county short horn cattle
took sixteen prizes at the fat
flock Show in tori Worth. The
fine herd owned by Capt Rhea at
KheaJMills were winners. Collin
county hogs owned bv R B Whise
nant & Son, Allen; Hill, William-
son & Co, Frisco, and B F Gear-
heart, Celina, also took a number
of premiums.
The Census Bureau yesterday
issued a bulletin showing the to-
tal crop of cotton ginned for the
season 1904 to be 13,746,857 bales
with 102,275 bales still to be gin*
ned. The total orop for 1903 was
10,899,558 bales. This great in-
crease, and the drop in prices,
should certainly cause every far-
mer to decrease his acreage this
year witdout fail.
BIGGERS.
March 28 —The farmers are al1
busy planting corn tin* week an
if the weather stays fair will soon
finish.
Mrs W P Smith visited Mrs
John Kindle last Sunday.
Rev Samuel Weaver filled hU
regular appointment at Wilson
Chapel Sunday.
W T Riley from Raines county
was here Sunday on a visit to his
daughter, Mrs W P Smith.
Miss Vivie Shelton visited Miss
Addie Bridgefarmer Sunday.
Dr Rucker of McKinney visited
J W George Sunday.
There was a singing at C C
Stone sSunday night.
W111 Clarkston and family of
Bishop visited ,ioc Allen and wife
Sunday.
W G M onroe, J W George and
several others from this commu-
nity attended Mrs Carrie Nation's
lecture at McKinney Saturday
night.
George Haidin and family vis-
ited John Kindle and family Sun-
day.
Roy Mack anil wife of
Bishop community visited
letter's parents, Mr and
Turner Higgins, recent!}.
the
the
Mrs
Appeared In Fort Worth Record
He Also Since at First
Presbyterian Church
Decrease in cotton acreage
should be the slogan of every
farmer.
Large shipments of eggs and
poultry are going out from Texas
every day.
There is a hot lignt (^11 111 the
State Senate over the t-ix bills
which are pending.
A11 increase in cotton acreage
or even no decrease from liift
years acreage, means cheaper cot-
ton next fall. What will you do,
Mr Farmer?
The Kurt Worth Record in Re-
porting the Elks Imperial Min-
strels, given at Greenwall's opera
house in that city recently, has
the following to bay compliment
ing the singing of Mr Walter
Emerson, son of Mrs T li Emer-
son of this city:
"The first real surprise of the
evening was the singing of Mr
Walter C Emerson whose solo,
•'Mercede V afforded an excel-
lent vehicle for a rich,well round-
ed and exceedingly sweet toned
tonor voice. With ju*t a little
more practice in expression Mr
Emerson, who appears quite a
voung man, will not have to de-
pend on amateur entertainments
for opportunities to use his voice.
His singing was fully equal to
any heard here in minstrel com-
panies this season/'
Mr Emerson was reared in Mc-
Kinney,and his splendid voice has
been heard here and appreciated
from childhood. Of course he
has had much training since leav-
ing here. He also tings regularly
in the First Presbyterian church
of Fort Worth, Hie following an-
nouncement appearing for the
Sundiy service.-:
"Mr Walter C Emerson, the
lich-voiced tenor, will siiig old
gospel songs of simple sweetness.
He's well woith going to bear."
APPROVED CONTRACT
City Council Met in Special
sion This Afternoon.
Ses-
Tbe Rhee Mills Herd.
J E (Ed) Rhea returned Satur
day night from Fort Worth where
be Httended the fat stock show,
having on exhibition a number of
fine cattle from tbe Rhea Mills
heard owned bv bis father, Capt
W A Rhea, which took sixteen
premiums aggregating #400. Ed
Bfcea is manager of tbe heard.
Editor Democrat:—Everv few
davs 1 find a short item in your
editorial column advocating bet-
ter public school facilities and
1 had hoped that long ere this
somebody else would have felt en-
couraged to take up the subject.
A short time since J had a con-
versation with one of our leading
citizens and we drifted on to the
subject of education and with
your permission and without ask-
ing his 1 am going to give some
of bis ideas to the public.
He illustrated his point by say-
ing, take the case of a stock farm-
er with a well improved farm: if
in looking over that farm you find
doors off the hinges,farm uiaehin.
ery scattered here and there,
h<>rses cattle and hogs all ruu-
ning together, no matter how
good an equipment he may have,
from the lack of atteutiou to the
minor details of the business he
is doomed to failure. On the
other hand you look over a place
and find tools in their places,sep-
arate lots for stock, gates and
doors about tbe barn in good re-
pair and everything fed regularly
that man is going to make a suc-
cess of it Now what these de-
tails are to the stock farmer the
public school system is to the
community, ami just in propor-
tion as the people develop then-
public school system will that
community continue to prosper.
1 have been talking some to our
school trustees and 1 am not writ-
ing this to censure them, but 1
do believe that we need to bestir
ourselves in earnest in this mat-
ter. I heard one of our trustees
■emark that bethought our pub-
ic schools were as good as any in
the state. 1 do not thiuk they
are, and if they are, then they are
not as good as they ought to be.
They ought to go far enough so
that a pupil could pass from
them to Hie State University, anil
they are too crowded. No teach-
er, however capable can do jus-
tice to as many pupils as they
have to teach and no pupil can
do his best crowded as tbey aie
io many of the rooms; there is
hardly seating space to say noth-
ing of breathing space which is
far more importaut. The build-
ings are out of repair, and the
trustees have no money to repair
them with. They are doing their
level best with the money fur-
nished them. When the special
tax was voted down last spring
that was oue of the scveiest blows
McKinney ever had.
Now 1 fancy I hear somebody
say, Scotty wants to vote a tax
onto the property owners here so
as to educate his children, and
that is exactly what he wants,and
it is the best thiug for the prop-
erty owner, as well as for the
family owner. The business of
many in this town has grown be-
yond their ability to look after it
ami they are going to need com-
petent help to look after it, and
they may just as well qualify
what is already here as to send
somewhere else for help. I
am not going to criticise
the teachers, but I am go-
ing to say, we do not pay them
enough, aud wo ought to have
more male teachers. Boys frOm
12 to 16 years of age do not obey
women teachers, and the woman
who can control boys at that age
is tha exception,and not tho rule.
We could not get tho teachers we
have, at the price we pay, but for
the fact that their homes are
hero. It takes years for them to j •_
qualify, uml then the? arc p.i.l In the .priDR nf 18J4 .nj h w
lU than a clerk, or a niccb.mo. * I™.1"1"!.,,v K K """J"1 'X! h
There i« no man or woman too bborwin-Willian,. paint. The
good for a tsachrr, and what ""1"' l>* xatndac 017
your teHeherB are, that to some «verv particular and ,t still -how.
extent, may yon expect I be pu- up pretty well at tin- date, aftel
pils to he. if the hoy 01 girl eleven years -omen
does not find au ideal to satisfy Respectfully,
Ladies
Childrens
and
Infants Shoes
and Slippers.
department,
out by 11 it-
Has it t'Vej-
1 itself, and
We have just opened in connection with our other lines a new shot
No Fire Sale! No Samples or Bankrupt Trash! that has been worn
handling, but nice clean new stock direct from the Eastern market.
oceurred to you that your shoe hill for a year amounted to a hi# hi
1'# ^'(,U IJH' ' Ihe only way to make it so, is to stop buving Cheap
Shelfworn Stuff. I ay just a few cents more and get something good. In this
way you save many a dollar. We have in our line anything you want in patent
!ltr V*™; \'(' 1111,8 and \\ lute canvas, light and heavy soles in straps or ties.
We don t intend to misrepresent or mislead you by telling vou we will sell you
eheajier goods than anybody in the world or give our goods away, for
can continue in business and do this, but we do intend and will give
Honest Dollar's worth if you buy from us. We would call your special attentioi
no merchant
vou a < Jo<mI
to our line of $15o, $2.00 and $2.5o line
im
strongest lines vou will find
W
lies and misses shoes. This is one of the
find what you want ortliev or not a
e only ask vou to come ami
1001
s we rep rest
nt tl
VOU (loll t
we stand behind everv pair, if thov are not
one do better? < '01110 let us show you the entii
nev.
lem don t buv; that s fair isn't
goo<| we iii;i
ke tl
lem good, can an v
onlv new stoek of slue in MeKin
Tho City Council met in spec-
ial tession this afternoon at 2
o'clock and continued the action
of the electric light committee 111
letting the contract for the elec-
tric light plant to be installed ,by
the city, am! also examined and
approved the written contract
with tne Electric Light company,
from whom whom the machinery
was bought.
Collin County Ginners.
All ginners of Collin county are
urgently requested to be present
at a meeting of the Association to
be held Mondav April 3 at the
court house in McKinney.
J S Heard,
W J Rhea, Pres.
Sec.
Dr. Caldwell Testifies.
To whom it may concern: R
E Bristol had my house paintpd
two coats of Sherwin-Williams
paint eleven yours ago, which
gives entire satisfaction. I had
it repainted two years ago with
tho same brand of paint, though
it didn't seem to need repainting
very much, the last painting giv-
ing equal satisfaction to that of
the first. ,1 A Caldwell, M D,
McKinney, Tex, March 28, 15*05.
Public Library Books.
Chandler
Armstrong
McKinney, Texas.
McKinney Market Report
PATTON'S
Cotton
Cotton seed $11.00
Wheat $1.00 tw $1.15
Oats per bushel 35c to 38c
Corn 45c to 50c
Bran per 100 lbs $1.10
Flour 2.85 to *3.10
Meal per bu. BOc
Eggs per doz 10
Cattle 2.75
Hogs $4.ti0
Mutton Sheep 3.00 to 4.00
Turkeys 10c
Chickens $2.50 to 3.25'
Butter per pound.... 15 to 20c
Onions per lb 5c
Hay per ton $8 tc *9
Alfalfa $9 to $12.00
Lard per pound ... .10to 12M
Bacon per pound 10 to 12 'bc
7 25 to 7.10 Normal Musical Institute,
Patton, Principal.
1
Melissa, Texas, April 6th to aStu,
<905.
Fifteen Years Test.
To whom it may concern: Fif-
teen years ago 1 hired a painter
and bought Sherwin-Williams
Tho b ulks belonging to the paint from R E Biistol and had
public library, which has been niy residence painted. Tho paint
discontinuad, will be stored in an iand painter were entirely satis-
upstairs room in the residence oi factory, and I have it in mind to
Sirs M II Garnett who has so repeat tbe experiment in tbe near
kindly given the space until other future. Judge Goodnera' cortifi-
airangements can be made. j eate that he did his own painting
———————- I is almost incredible, but not more
Eleven Years Test,
them in their teacher, they will
probably find it in tho meanest
boy or girl in school.
IT we are to do anything to bet-
ter conditions for another yeai
we have no time to lose; we mint
be up and at it. I hope some
competent citizen will take up
this suhj.-ct and discuss it before
tbe people 1 remain.
Yours very tru'y,
Scotty.
W B Harrison,
McKinney, Tex, March 28, 11)05
so than the squirrel story. "Facit
per alium, faeit per se" does not
explain this regretable tendency
in an otherwise most estimable
character.
R DeArmond.
McKinney^Tex. Mareh28,1905.
A rare opportunity for receiv-
ing instruction uiuhr the direc
tion of one of the most successful
musicaljnstructors of the South
Terim, payable in advance.
Tuition for full Nonnal Course,
Advanced Harmony pupils, $1.0<'.
Full Normal Course, Interme-
diate Harmony pupils, 50.
Adults, not in erher H trmony
class, $2 50.
Children under 12, not in Har-
mony, $1 50.
Night only, $1 50.
By special arrangement, board
at noti-l or 111 excellent families,
$3 to $:$ 50 per week
For further information write
E'd .1 P Holmes, Pres , or .J E
Gibson, Sec., Meliss 1, Tex is.
Car Load Eggs Wanted.
I will pay Dallas prices for
eggs delivered to Wade Biggcrs
at the Central Wagon Yard in Mc
Kinney. Must have car load at
once. Don't sell elsewhere until
you got my cash prices.
A .1 Common'.
Capt Stiff Improved
The condition df Capt £ R
"Stiff is very tnutth Jtnproved to^
stay.
Mr Louis Dumas, one of tho
principal advocates of a line of
electric railway from Sherman to
Blue Ridgo, Collin county, where
it will iutersect the proposed
Bonham and McK uney line, said
to a 'Democrat repoiter today
that he :tinds the people fully
aroused to the benefits such a line
would be to them and that in 'his
judgment right of way and other
encouragement can 'be had for
the asking.•Sherman1 Democrat.
Tin —mMmfi
Among tho many esteemed old
friends of The Democrat, none
are more valued than ,lno A Ra-
gle of Princeton With his ex-
cellent lady, Mr R^gle visited in
McKinney yesterday and called to
renew for The Democrat till 1900
Homer D Harris, who is now in
the United States Army, being
with the Coast Artilery .lacks >n
Barracks, New Orleans. La., has
arrived in McKinney to spend a
ten days leave of absence with
his mother Mrs E Harris and
othe'- relatives.
R P Spurgin, of Lucas, is a
bran new reader of The D«.in -
crat He bunds us $1 75 for it
and the Dallas New* both one
vear. Mr Spurgin has a fine
berse for sale.
Our young friend,A M AngPn.
of Climax, recently took a young
bride to his home, the happiness
of which he wishes to complete
bv ordering The Democrat to
visit them regularb every week
111 tho future. May joy ever at-
tend them.
Hamp bowery, foreman of
Commissioner N A Burton'?
county road force,who was seix ul
with pneumonia at the camp west
of McKinney some two weeks
sgo, and was removed to the Aus-
tin boarding house in 'this city
has so far recovered that he was
able to be taken to bis home in
Wylie, yesterday, by his wife and
elamen Cook of Wyl ie who h ive
been nursing him. 'Mr and Mrs
Howery are very grsteful for
kindnesses extended during bis
sickness.
List of Letters.
Remaining in the post office at-
VlcKinner, Tex , March 2'.*, 1005,
which, if unclaimed in two weeks-
will be sent to the Dead Letter
office at ashington, I). C.
i
LADIES.
Edwards, Miss M innie
h isher, Miss Lebie
daman. Miss Alice
More, Miss Minnie
Myers. M rs Josie
Mai lory. Marthey
Myers, Mrs Belle
Roberson. Mrs Donnie
Smith Mrs Daisie
Self, Miss Bettie
Thompson Miss Bes-ie
Thompson, Mrs Dora
Vovles, Mrs Clair
Williams, Mrs N J
V\ illiams. Miss Matlia.
Wilson, Mrs AI lie
Wibon, Myra
GENTLEMEN.
Aldridge, A B
Baker, Olbe
Battorff, M L
Brown, Choiie
Bryan, Roy
Bryan Wesley
Cornell, It D
Day. R T
Edwards M >rt
Featherstone, M B
Finley, Charity (col)
Finebum. Charley
Flarclin, T^she
Hathorn W II
Keeling. W T
Kerby, F M
M icomber, W T
Malm 11, O R
Nixon, H F
Powey, J N
Robbins, W .1
Rush Ben
Tucker, Wa*h
Watson, ,1 W
Person* calling for letters in
above list plea.se say "Advertis*
ed." H. E. Smith,
Postmaster.
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vliid
lap!
Thanks to Mrs M A Cowan, of
Altoga, for cash remittance to re-
new tor The Democrat. She
the widow of the late J M Co
an honored and lamented citize
of that part of the county.
Prof Will Parker of S her ma
•is in the city visiting his paren
Mr and Mrs R L Parker.
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Smith, J. Frank. The Democrat (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1905, newspaper, March 30, 1905; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291883/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.