The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1906 Page: 4 of 4
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1 HE STAR HERALD
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
«.P . HOUX. EDITOR * Pmopnikton
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year
Entered at the poitofflce t MexU, Tim,
m ••cond-clM* mail matter-
Cut the weeds.
Clean up the city.
Flush the sewers.
Kill the stray dogs.
Healht is better than wealth.
Frost is reported in Iowa.
That was a cold day in August.
The Cuban revolutionist are to
be granted full pardon if they
will agree to be good in future.
Col. Tom Campbell will speak
n Houston next Monday at the
labor day celebration and will go
dowu to Galveston and speak at
night.
Before the second ballot was
taken in the state democratic
convention in Dallas on August
14th the ring leaders of the ma-
chine had started a ticket for
1910 and possibly for 1920.
When a splinter has been driv-
en into the hand it can be ex-
tracted by steam. Fill a wide-
mouth bottle nearly full of hot
water, place the injured part
over the mouth and press it
slightly. The action thus pro-
duced will draw the flesh down,
and in a minute or two the steam
will extract the splinter, also the
j inflammation. Try it and be
convinced.—National Magazine.
President RooseveltfEas adopt-
ed the new spelling suggested
by Mr. Carnegie and henceforth
all public documents coming from
the white house will be in ac-
cordance with this decision. A
list of 100 words have been ' 're-
formed" among them being
thru, and tho, instead of through
and though. Just spell it like it
sounds and let it go at that.
Both were nominated after cam-
paigns and by conventions that
for intensity of interest are with-
out parallels in the political his-
tory of Texas. Both the friends
of the common people and sup-
ported by the wool hat and jeans-
breeches contingent. Both op-
posed by the so-called "conserva-
tive" and corporate interests of
the state. Both able lawyers.
Both noted for their strong, pro-
nounced political convictions, and
for strong, genial personalties. —
Troupe Banner.
The sepublicans of this district
met in Hoarne and elected a
chairman and secretary, indorsed
the Roosdvelt and Lyon adminis-
trations and adjourned without
nominating a candidate for con-
gress.
The negro soldier prisoners
are now at San Antonio in charge
of white U. S. Cavalrymen. The
negro escort of soldiers delivered
them and left at once to go to
Fort Worth and get out of Texas
as per instructions.
We must all learn to spell
again. Prisident Roosevelt
has signified his intentention of
adopting the reform spelling in
his official documents and private
correspondence. Printers will
, hail the change with joy, as with
i it pass the many cumbersome
j *'ghs."—Madam Editor, Timp-
j son Times.
j Why any sorrow about it? It
; will make learning in the first
| place so easy for those people who
i have never learned yet.
j News comes from Corpus
! Christi that Col. Bill Sterrett,
ithe Dallas News heavy weight
i writer, has caught some sort of
a monster fish that has a mouth
115 feet wide and its weight is
j estimated at 2000 pounds. The
colonel promises to have the
I thing photographed before he
i asks any of the boys to believe
the story. No use, Colonel, we all
I believe you all right, but just
i for curiosity sake we would like
to see a picture of the fish.
How very much more con-
venient it would be for passen-
gers enroute from Mexia to
Waco, if we had a direct line of
railway is very forcibly illustrat-
ed by the change in the present
journey to Jewett since the new
road came and the old way. Or-
iginally a trip to Jewett from
Mexia meant a ride of 105 mdes,
with the pleasure of laying over
at Hearne, long enough to create
a hotel bill of $1.50 to $2.00. The
railroad fare at 3 cents per mile
was $3.15 alone not including the
hotel bill. The Mexia, Navasota
cut off of the Central only short-
ens the distance sixty eight and
one half per cent, saves a pass-
enger a five dollar bill each trip
and shortens the time of travel
| by a considerable margin, At
: present it is about 82 miles to
' Waco and each trip necessitates
I •
I a change of cars either at Cor-
sicana or Bremond: On an air
| line Waco is 39 7-10 miles, from
! Mexia, or a difference in fare of
$2.50 as at present and $1.20 as
! it would mean, with this road.
| This road ought to be built by
all means.
ARE YOU GOING TO BUY
SA PIANO?.
If so Write Me for Prices and Terms on the
jking pianos
They are made in one of the largest and finest equipped
factories in America. Contain all the modern improvements,
unconditionally guaranteed for ten years. We have no deal-
ers, but sell direct to the people and save you the dealers
large profit. We will ship you a KING PIANO, place it in
your home, subject to any test you want to give it, and we
CHALLENGE any concern in the United States to place
one of their Pianos by the side of the KING PIANO and
compare QUALITY and PRICES.
The KING PIANOS were on exhibition at the JACKS
CREEK REUNION this vear. Ask anybody who heard them
We give the finest references. Address
BOX
H. C. COLLIER, State Representative,
291, - - - WACO, TEXAS.
I AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE I
OF TEXAS.
I THE TECHNOLOGICAL BRANCH Of THE UNIVERSITY.
Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Hus-
bandry, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical,
Textile, and Architectural Engineering.
TUITION FREE, Actual necessary expenses excluding clothes and
books, One Hundred and Fifty-five Dollars per session.
Qualified applicants eighteen or over enter on certificate without
examination.
CAREFUL TRAINING GIVEN
In the General Subjects, English, History, Mathematics, Modern Lan-
guages, and the Applied Sciences, which form the foundation of Techni-
cal Instruction. Pile your application now. Catalogue free on request.
1 Y
Eight negro soldiers are under
arrest at Brownsville charged
with participation in the recent
raid. Capt. McDonald, the rang-
er cheif went down there and
secured evidence sufficient to
warrent the arrests.
TheCtwoJdog cathers employed
by the city of Dallas handled
over 1,000 tagless canines. Of
this number 300 were redeemed
and carried home by their
owners, and over 700 were shot
and cremated. The report of
the Mexia dog catchers is not
yet in.
The prisoner who was confined
in the Lufkin jail, and murdered
two fellow prisoners on the night
of August 14, completed the
emptying of the jail by commit-
ting sucide by hanging with a
piece of his bed clothing. There
were at the time only three white
prisoners confined in the Angeli-
na county jail and he killed two
and then himself. He is said to
have been wanted in another
state for the murder of a sheriff
and a reward of $1,000 hung
over him. It is believed he was
also a member of the Dalton gang
of train robbers.
The congressional convention
is in session at Groesbeck today.
The Hardy men have most of the
delegates but not enough of the
prorated vote to nominate. The
result of this convention is being
watched with much interest as it
is another instance where the
primary vote and the conven-
tion system conflict.
Just as the negro troops were
getting ready to march out of
Brownsville a message came
from Washington to hold them
until the arrival of the chief of
staff who is to make a thorough
investigation of the case. And
then they might be needed as wit-
nesses in the cases against those
who have already been arrested.
Convention-going in Texas in
midsummer is akin to a visit to
hell at the height of the fireworks
season and all convention-goers
are well aware of it. There are
men howling about the lack of
ice water at the convention who
never tasted water, iced or tepid,
during the life of the convention.
In other cities a gentleman pays
for what he gets and goes on his
way. If he pays for comforts,
'he gets them: if he doesn't he
| goes without. The npxt time a
. convention comes to Dallas the
city should charter a refrigerator
plant, an ice plant and a ham-
mock factory in order to provide
"convention comforts" for the
chaps who expect December
weather in a Texas town in dog-
dav time. —Dallas Times Herald.
Did the supply of cold bottles
run short?
The Automobile is now making
a respectable showing in the list
of "fool killers." Speed mani-
acs are becoming more common
daily and the amateur is "not in
it." unless he dashes into a post,
telegraph or telephone pole or
runs off a bluff and kills and
cripples three or four friends,
one half of who are invariably
women.
Coincidences.—Both native
Texas Governors (James S. Hogg
and Tom M. Campbell) were born
in Cherokee county. They lived
near each other and were in
youth and manhood warm per-
sonal friends. Both had to
struggle hard for an educa-
tion and a place in the world of
affairs. Both bear the names of
animals (spelling excepted).
RUSSIA AND RUSSIAN JEWS.
The mistreatment of the Jews
which is still going on in Russia
can be but suicidal to Russia. It
is indeed a shame for any nation
to treat any set of people as the
Jews are now being treated in
that Empire.
The Jews are the bone and
marrow of the Russian popula-
tion, according to a writer in the
Truth (London). It is the great-
est blunder the Government ever
made to exasperate and alienate
a race from whose stock the
most brilliant statesmen, finan-
ciers and artist of Europe have
sprung. It is moreover, inexcus-
able, for the Jews all over the
world make good and useful cit-
izens.
"That the Jews who stand all
the world over for the most con-
servative and pacific of pursuits
—money-grubbing—should i n
Russia be the hand and brain of
the revoluntionists is intelligible
when you remember that in her
treatment of the sacred people,
as in other things, Russia is me-
dieval. Under laws which were
professedly temporary, but which
for fifty years have continued
unrepealed, no Jew may buy or
rent land, may sit on the zem-
stvo or hold any state appoint-
ment, may be an officer in the
army or navy, or a shoolmaster,
I professor, or teacher, may live
| in the country, or in any but
specified quarters of the town,
may move from place to place
without specified permission, or
without such a special form of
passport as is granted to prosti-
tutes. To make anarchists of
her cleverest subjects, who are
at once racially and proffessicn-
ally intensely conservative by in-
stinct, is, indeed, a triumph of
Russia stupidity."
H. H. Harrington, L. L. D.,
s College Station, Texas.
EhQJSJ fifSMaraicirrflJEI SlS/G'iaiSI3fi?($l SIS/EEMBlSlflJ ISI3 PW SSJSIe)
Ppesident. |J
Robt. E. Finch of Varela spent
Sunday here with his folks.
We Announce
OTHE PUBLIC THAT WE;WILL C F F R-
ATE THE : : : : : : : : : : : :
Mexia Gin Plant
Throughout the entire ginning season of 1906
and will buy your seed and pay you the market
price for them.
Mr. John Williams of Prairie Grove
Willf be Manager.
We thank you for your past favors and solicit
a large part of your future ginning.
YOURS,
ANGLIN GIN CO.
John R. Corley Furniture Company
Has Everything Needed to Furnish a Home
We can save you money on FURNITURE, CARPETS, and MAT-
TINGS. Let us figure with you.
75 Rolls «of Matting
At Special Prices Until Sold
We have a large assortment of WALL PAPER 25 per cent
off to close out. Staudard Rotary and Vibrator Sewing
Machines $18 to $35
Undertakers Supplies and Everything Else kept by an
UP-TO-DATE FURNITURE STORE
We solicit your patronage and guarantee satisfaction
John R. Corley Furniture Co.
Mexia, Texas
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Houx, N. P. The State Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1906, newspaper, August 30, 1906; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth302227/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.