The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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The Texas Mesquiter.
One Dollar Per Year.
.. John E. Davis, Ed. and Pub.
Published Every Friday At
Texas.
.MKSQUITK,
Entered in the postolflce at Mas-
quite. TexaB, as second class matter.
Assocff^}0^
Friday, September 11, 1008.
Democratic Nominees.
FV>r the Legislature, Place No. 1:
W. L. Crawford, .Til
FVir the Legislature. Place No. 3:
E. C. Lively.
'Pot Flotorial Representative:
Jeff D. Cox.
For Judge 44th District Coin t:
E. B. Muse.
FV»r Judge Criminal Dist. Court:
R. B. Seay.
Fbr Couaty Judge:
Jqhn L. Young.
Judge County Court ,At Law:
W. M. Holland.
Fbr County Attorney:
©wight L. lewelling.
Ftor County Tax Assessor:
James E. Bolton.
Wor Country Tax Collector:
Henry W. Jones.
JSbr Sheriff:
A. L. Ledbetter.
FV»t District Clerk:
H. H. Williams.
For County Treasurer:
H. L. Erwin.
Fttr Commissioner District No.2
Matt Hamilton.
Iflcr Constable Precinct No. 4:
'E. N. Terry.
Bbr Public Weigher, Precinct 4
W. B. Stampes
The members of the county
Democratic executive committee
are all good fellows this week.
On Saturday this committee will
select a nominee for an office
with a four-year term and an
annual salary of $3,000. The
term is worth 12,000 besides the
opportunity to be awarded a
second term with the 12,000 sal-
ary attachment. Of course they
are all good fellows.
Little Visits with "Uncle By/'! Balch Springs. j STATE FAIR OF TEXAS.
The State of Texas.
. Mesquite is paying the price
and getting the cotton.
'What's the matter with Col-
quitt for Governor next time?
Don't forget about those
shade trees for the pubiic square.
As a newspaper the Texas
Mesquiter is all right "till it gets
to talking about the cotton mar-
ket. Right there its jealousy
gets the upper hand of its judg-
ment and facts are ignored or
distorted, and its bump of geo-
graphical wisdom is as warped
as that of the Richardson Echo.
According to these two papers,
Garland takes in all the territory
from Fort Worth to Greenville
and from McKinney to Kaufman,
judging from the personal men-
tions of parties who sell cotton
there.—Garland News.
What provoked the above was
an innocent little item in the
local colums of this paper which
said that Church Goforth of near
Garland marketed cotton in Mes-
quite. The Mesquiter doesn't
know exactly where Mr- Goforth
lives, but understands that he
lives near Garland. Will the
News enlighten us as to the dis-
tance from Mr. Goforth's home
to Garland and Mesquite, re-
spectively, and will the News
also ascertain if it is true that at
the time Mr. Goforth brought
the cotton to Mesquite referred
to above that he had first gone to
Garland and got prices. That
was what we have since under
stood and if we have been misin-
formed we would like for the
News to set us right. Oh, no,
Dear News, the Mesquiter is
not jealous of Garland. We al-
ways get our share of the cotton
when the farmers make it and
this year the crop is better than
it has been in a lon« time. Mes-
quite always gets more cotton
from the territory of other towns
than it loses to them.
A united—a fighting Democ-
racy looks good to us. This year
thej are too busy fighting Re-
publican rsm to fight among
themselves.
There is talk of Thos. H. Ball
and Judge Howard Templcton
for Governor in 1910. Railroad
lawyers, both of them. Let the
railroads keep 'em.
It is two more years as Gov-
ernor and then back to the
woods for Campbell. And un-
less all signs are false, the peo-
ple of Texas will let him stay
then.
1 be nomination for Governor
of Texas by tne Republicans is
an honor of course, but one that
has no prospect of a salary at-
tachment or holds out a promise
of official power unless it should
pave the way for a Federal ap-
pointment.
The dentist never cares how
much the heroine grinds her
teeth in rage.
No one ever has sent back a
post card at the end of the jour-
ney of life.
Some people can draw their
checks as easily as they can their
breath, but my bank has always
been sort of short breathed.
An old maid never «ets too old
to lose interest in anybody's
love letters.
There is always a grill room in
the house of a man whose wife
wears the trousers.
Too much love is never given,
and too many hearts are broken
for a little love withheld.
It is hard for some men to re-
member they are gentlemen,
when they never have been.
When the wife's away a man
can smoke in any room in the
house. And he does too!
A Kansas newspaper kicks be-
cause no editor has referred to
Mrs. Gunness as "the village cut
up."
The way some people try to
keep cool by freezing their in-
sides, makes the dyspepsia docs
snigger!
No gentleman will kick because
he can't fiind his smoking tobac-
co when his wife is down in the
cellar splitting the kindling.
There is nothing quite so fun-
ny as a woman in a speeding au-
tomobile, trying to hold a Merry
Widow hat on her head.
Something ought to be done to
protect our cockroaches. I found
one baked in apiece of apple pie
the other day!
"Are eggs live stock?" asks a
Michigan newspaper. Not al
ways. I've seen them when they
were just an awful smell.
Opens October 17 and Continues
Sixteen Days.
Miss Myrtle Borclmrdt at-
tended the teachers' examination i
in Dallas Friday and Saturday.:
Rev.s. Elliott <>r Mosquite, LARGE SUM IS EXPENDED.
failed to till his appointment here
Sunday.
The Mesquiter does not be
licrc that the cause of local op-
tion has many real friends. The
prohibitionists often support
local option as the best' that is
altered in the way of prohibition
and the antis support it to head
off prohibition.
The county Democratic execu-
tive committee is charged with
an important duty in the selec-
tion of a nominee to fill the va-
cancy caused by the death of
Judge Nash of the 14th District
Oonrt. We regret that the nomi-
nation cannot be made by the
people but we had much rather
risk the executive committee
than the Governor, And ninety-
fhreowe-hundredths of the peo-
ple of Dallas county will say
yma> to that.
$ Commoner Clippings. £
From Bryan's Commoner;
Every time he pauses for a
moment Mr. Taft thinks of some-
thing the Republican platform
is silent upon.
By the way, does Mr. Taft
favor postponing the cheaper
and more exact administration
of justice until "after election?"
Mr. Taft demands that justice
be made cheaper. Mr. Rocke-
feller and others of his class are
satisfied with its sureness at
present.
The Birmingham Age-Herald
says that the Alabama state
treasury is full of money. This
may, however, be a bid for immi-
gration from Pennsylvania.
"Moonshine makes the com-
plexion yellow," says the Wash-
ington Herald. Remember the
old times—the good old times—
when the moonshine made you
mellow?
A New York woman who arose
at 4 o'clock to prepare breakfast
for her husband, yawned and
dislocated her jaw. This is cal-
culated to start a boom in alarm
clocks.
"Labor is divided!" shouts a
Republican organ. Yes, part of
it working and a large part of it
taking an enforced vacation to
watch the "prosperity proces-
sion" go by.
They Take the Kinks Out.
"T. have used Dr. King's New
Life Pills for many years,'with
increasing satisfaction. T h e y
take the kinks out of stomach,
liver and bowels, without fuss or
friction, "says N. H. Brown, of
Pittstield, Vt. Guaranteed satis-
factory at Culltvm iv Chapman's
drugstore. 2">c.
The Mesquiter and Dallas
semi-weekly News, both one
year for §1.50.
Lee Futrell and family of Mes-
quite, visited li. B. Futrell Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. John Moore of
Oklahoma, are visiting here.
Wm. Leo has returned from a
trip to the West.
Mrs. E. Allenbaugh has been
sick for several days.
Roy Futrell is doing jury ser-
vice in Dallas this week.
I
Walter Cole of Oklahoma, is
visiting home folk.
Miss Hattie Bennett has re-
turned from a visit to friends in
Dallas.
Jack Potter has returned from
a visit to his daughter at Green-
ville.
j Tom West, with the assistance
1 of the convicts, is doing some
j good work on the Dallas and
I Kaufman road.
| Our Sunday School is prog-
; ressing very well.
I
Charley Cole and family of
Dallas, visited home folk this
week.
Farmers are very busy gath-
ering corn and picking cotton;
and D. L. Wright is harvesting
his tobacco.
Cut your burs and plow your
Johnson grass this dry weather
Felix, we are glad to hear of
that new church building at Ry-
lie. May the good people live
long and be happy.
ED. L. SERVEN
Will sell you a Piano or Organ cheaper and on
easier terms than any firm in the whole United
States or Europe, or forfeit $100.00, cold dollars
280 Elm St., .... Dallas Texas
Saturday Busy Day.
Prosperity is once more smil-
ing on the people of this section.
Saturday was one of the busiest
days the merchants have had in
several years.
Early Saturday morning the
square began to fill with vehicles
of all kind, mostly cotton wagons
from Mesquite and surrounding
territories, such as Lawson, Ry-
lie, Seagoville, Scyene New Hope,
Trip, Rose Hill, Reinhardt and
Rowlett and remained crowded
until late in the afternoon.
125 bales of cotton were weigh-
ed in the local yard, which is re-
markable for this early in the
season. Mesquite always pays
the highest possible price for
cotton and this is the reason she
gets cotton from such a large
territory. Bring your cotton to
Mesquite and get the top price.
Mesquite Citizen Assaulted by
Negro With Knife in Dallas.
Dallas, Tex., Sept. 7.—Henry
Cleveland, a negro who gave his
age at forty-five, was arrested
last night by Officer Lenzen at
Akard and Cadiz streets, follow-
ing which a charge of Ussault to
murder was preferred against
him.
Cleveland's arrest grew out of
the supposed serious cutting of
an old gentleman named Carlton,
who said he lived near Mesquite.
The trouble occured near Austin
and Young streets, but particu-
lars are monger, except that
Carlton said he was hunting cot-
ton pickers. The wounded man
was taken to the city hospital
but reports from there today
states that he had been dis-
charged and left yesterday after-
noon.
The white man referred to in
the foregoing, from Monday's
Times Herald, is C. B. Carlton
who lives on the Wilkerson ranch,
about three miles south of Mes-
quite.
Letter to Jas. R. Welch,
Snyder, Texas.
Dear Sir: They're glad they found-
out Dcvoe,
Corpus Christi, Texas, is right on
the Gulf and one of thehardestcliiuates
for paint; hot sun, salt air, and strong
winds.
'The Sidbury Building, painted De-
voe in 189!), is a shining example of
perfect paint snow white after 7 years,
as if painted last week..
We should like every property-own-
er from Maine to Mexico to see that
white white white.
Experience teaches who wants to
learn as well as who waits to be kicked.
Yours truly
P W DEVOE & CO
P. S. Humphreys & Vauston sell ourj
paint. .'H
It Pays to Advertise,
Improvements For Coming Exposition
Coit $125,000.—Unprecendented De
mand for Space For Exhibits and
Privileges—Other Features.
It is but natural that the people of the ;
southwest should expect that each an-
nual meet of iheTexas Stnte Fair should
be greater than the on$ preceding. I
And their expectation's have nevei j
been disappointed, and will not be this j
year, for the Pair management
Is preparing for the greatest exposi-
tion ever held in the south. Every
department is being enlarged, with ad-
ditional facilities added. The F'air as-
sociation is expending $105,000 and
the municipal government $20,000 foi j
new improvements, and the amuse- j
ment and music ball features will
cost twice the amount expended foi
that purpose last year.
The sum of $105,000 referred to
abovo, represents the net profits of
the fair of 1907, and was prorated as!
follows: For ladies' textile and fine
arts building, $35,000; for the comple-
tion of the agricultural and manufac-
turers' buildings, $25,000; lor a new
steel grand stand, $40,000, and the bal-
ance to be used in the perfection of
the toilet and sewerage systems.
The city of Dallas has erected a
handsome entrance to the grounds at
the cost of $V),000, and is spending a
like amount in beautifying the park.
All these improvements are prac-
tically completed, and prove beyond
dispute that Texas has the greatest
fair grounds of any state in the Union.
Judging in the various departments
begins the first week of the fair.
Exhibitions of livestock begin in the
arena Monday, Oct. 19, at which time
the tying of blue ribbons, and the
making of awards begin. In the poul-
try department the premiums will be
awarded during the first week, clos-
ing the same not later than Satur-
day of that week.
Big events will feature every day
during the fair, and the management
expects them to be greater than ever
before. Morning, afternoon and night
there will be showing of high school
horses, coach and carriage teams,
saddle horses and equipages and the
various breads of cattle, hogs, jacks,
jennets, tntiles, sheep and goats in
the livestock fttena.
In music hall, iVofessor Phinney of
Phinney's United States band will
give three programmed dally—morn-
ing, afternoon and night. In addition
to this great band, famous the' Country
over, the programme will be featured
by a double quartette of the finest
singers in America, and with high
class vaudeville acta secured from
the orpheum circuits of the north.
These offerings will be free to visit-
ors to the fair.
Never before in history was the
demand so great for space for both
exhibits and privileges. Every foot
of space on the grounds is now prac-
tically taken. The exposition building
and the implement and vehicle de-
partment is full to overflowing. Every
stall in the livestock department will
be needed for the housing of stock,
and in amusement park there will be
hundreds of shows offering amuse-
ment, instruction and entertainment.
In fact, so great are the applica-
tions for apace in every department
that the association is finding great
difficulty in taking care of the exhib-
its, even with the enlarged facili-
ties, though it was thought that
when the present new buildings were
erected they would answer all pur-
poses for the years to come.
Premiums this year will exceed the
$90,000 mark. The sum of $50,000
will be hung up in purses and stakes
and $40,000 distributed in the various
departments. The racing events prom-
ise to add brilliance to the history of
Texas turf, and the exhibition of fine
cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, goats,
jacks, mules and jennets be an eye-
opener to visitors from the north.
In fact, the fair is on a sounder ba-
sis than ever, and is prepared to give
its patrons the greatest entertain-
ment in its history. As fn the past,
the railroads have promised cheap
rates, and a visit to the fair will be
within the reach of all.
Does advertising pay? Weil, j
I should say it does! Last week j
a lie ment merchant advertised
fresh dairy butter for sale. The
compositor substituted an "h"
for a "d" and and the ad read
uFresh Hairy Butter for Sale."
A smart barber called up the
i grocer and offered to shave the
butter at the standard price.
The grocer got mad and licked
the b.trber, breaking his nose
iand otherwise disfiguring him so
^ t hat lie was compelled to call up-
on the doctor, who charged him
' a tenner for the service render-
led. The next day the barber
met the editor on the street and
! threw a brietr at him; giving him
a close shave. In his effort to,
get away the pen pusher fell
down, tearing his trousers on
the west side so badly that he
was necessitated to buy a new
pair; also the editorial shears,
which were in his hip pocket,
penetrated his anatomy so that
the service of a surgeon were re
quiied. And all the result of
one little ad. Who asked, "Does
it pay to advertise?"—Ex.
APIARY DEPARTMENT INTEREST-
ING.
Will Demonstrate Value of Honey-
Producers to Texas.
The "busy bee" will have a depart-
ment of his own at the twenty-third
annual meet of the State Fair of Tex-
ls at. Dallas, Oct. 17 to Nov. I. next.
Begun as an experiment last year,
this department is now one of the per-
manent. features of the fair, and re-
ceives a liberal portion of the awards
and premiums offered. J. W. Slaugh-
ter is director, and two prominent
Texas bee-keepers, Louis H. Scholl of
New Braunfels, Tex., and W. O. Vic-
tor of Hondo, Tex., are superintendents
of this department.
All the various processes of honey-
making will be exhibited, sections of
the hives being placed in gla.ss-cover-
ed cases. Here the visitor will see
the bee engaged on an artificial foun-
dation making honey; see the differ-
ent workers and drones that go to
make up the bee kingdom and the
queen bee In all her glory.
Texas is famous the world over for
her Italian queen bees. Queen bees
nf this variety have been shipped to
the different, states of the Union, to
South America, Japan,, Asia and Aus-
tralia.
Tastefully displayed will tie bulk
comb honey, extracted honey, the same
In granulated form, beeswax in fancy
designs, honey vinegar, fruit preserv-
ed in honey, etc. Forms of cooking
In which sweetening is needed, and
!n which honey is used n« the only
sweetening, will also be exhibited for
the benefit of the housewife.
Old papers for sale 15c a 100.
THE STATIC OF TEXAS, i
COUNTY OF DALLAS. \
In the name of the State of Texas
and County of Dallas to the Sheriff
or any Constable of Dallas County,
Creeling; You are hereby command-
ed to make publication of this cita-
tion and notice by publishing the
same in some newspaper published ill
said county one time a wuelc for eight
consecutive weeks previous to the fust
Monday ill October, A. D. 1908, the
same being the .*>iii day of October, A.
1). 190fe, the return day hereof; but if
there is no newspaper published in
said county then you are commanded
to publish the same in a newspaper
published iii an adjoining county one
time a week' for eight consecutive
weeks previous to the first Monday in
October, A. D. 1908, the return day
hereof, to-wit; In the name of the
Sta'.o of Texas and County of Dallas
directed to ,1. E. Myriok, his unknown
heirs, executors, administrators, as-
signs, and to all persons, linns or
corporations owning or having or
claiming any right, title, interest, lien
or claim in, to. or against the follow-
ing described land in Dallas county,
Texas, delinquent to the State of Tex-
as and County of Dallas for taxes to-
wit; Lots two [2j, three [3], four [4J
and five*[5J in block 1027-b according
to Murphy & Bolanz ollicial map of
the City of Dallas and suburbs to
which reference is hereby made, A
further and more complete description
of the real estate herein referred to is
as follows, to-wit;— Lying in the City
and County of Dallas, State of Texas,
and being lots 2, 3, 4, anu 5 of block
B of Z. T. White's Oak Lawn addi-
tion to the said City of Dallas as
shown upon the map or plat of said
addition which is recorded Volume
121, page 107 of the Deed Records of
Dallas County, Texas, to which ref-
erence is also hereby made for a more
particular description of said proper-
ty which said land is delinquent for
taxes for the following amounts $2(1.02
for state taxes, $27.58 for county taxes
for the years 1901, 1902, 1903, 15104,
1905 and 1907, and you J. E, My rick,
your unknown heirs, executors, ad-
ministrators, assign, and you the un-
known owner or owners, claimant or
claimants of any right, title, interest,
lien or claim in, to, or against the
foregoing described land (it having
been al'eged upon oath by the attor-
ney herein for the State of Texas that
the owner or owners of the lend here-
in described are unknown to li'iu ex-
cept as herein shown and after in-
quiry can not be ascertained, and Mat
to the best of his knowledge and be-
lief you are a non-resident or non-
residents of the State of Texas) are
hereby notified that suit has been
brought by the State of Texas for the
collection of said taxes in the District
Court of Dallas County, Texas, the
petition being iiled in the District
Court for the 44tli Judicial District of
Texas on the 4th day of August, A.
D. 1908, the case being styled "The
State of Texas vs. ,T. E. Myrick, his
unknown heirs, executors, adminis-
trators, assigns, and the unknown
ottner or owners," defendants, and
being numbered on the civil tax dock-
et of said court as No. 3059, now,
thjrefore, you and each of you J. E.
Myrick, his unknown heirs, executors,
administrators, assigns, and you and
each of you the unknown owner or
owners, claimant or claimants of any
right, title, interest, lien, or claim in,
to or agaimst the above described
land are commanded to appear and
defend such suit at the October term
of the District Court of Dallas Coun-
ty. in the State of Texas, 44th Judicial
District of Texas, to be begun and
holden at the court house thereof in
the City of Dallas on the 5th day of
October, A. I). 1908, and show cause
if any there be why judgment should
not be rendered eondeming said land
or lots above described and ordering
and decreeing the foreclosure of the
lien asserted thereon for taxes, inter-
est, penalties and costs of suit and
the sale of said land for the satisfac-
tion of such lien.
The following is a statement of the
Plaintiff's cause of action: Suit by
the State of Texas against J. E. My-
rick, his unknown heirs, executors,
administrators, assigns, and all per-
sons and firm!; or corporations own-
ing or having or claiming any right,
title, interest, lien, or claim in, to, or
against the herein above described
land, defendants, the said defendants
being unknown except a» above set
out and being non-residents of the
State of Texas, the said suit being for
taxes alleged under oath to be due, de-
linquent and unpaid to the State of
TeXas and County of Dallas for ihe
years 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and
1907, State taxes amounting to $2(1,02,
County taxes amounting to $27.58,
fees allowed by law amounting to
Sti.25, including a penalty amounting
to 10 per cent of said taxes for the
said year for which said taxes are de-
linquent together with 0 per Cent in-
terest on said taXes from the 1st day
of January neXt succeeding the year
for which any taXes are delinquent,
and that the said amount of said
taXes, penalties, interest, fees, and
all court costs are due, delinquent
and unpaid to the Plaintiff and that
the amount thereof is a charge against
and a lien on said land or lot in Dal-
las County, TeXas, described herein
above.
Plaintiff prays judgment for the
amount of said taXes, interest, penal-
ties, fees, and all Court costs and for
a foreclosure of the said taX lien
against each and a 11 of said Defend-
ants on said land or lots to satisfy the
amount of naid taXes, interest, penal-
ties, fees, and all Court, costs, and for
all other relief, general or special,
legal or equitable.
Herein fail not and have you before
5th da v of October,
juing the lirst day of
the reXtterm thereof, this writ and
m-tlec with your return thereon en-
dorsed showing how you havoeXecuted
the same.
Ctven under m v hand and the seal
s aid court this 4thday of August, A.
1! OS.
\
d court oft
1). 1908, sail
L1 Of
D.
IT. 11. WU.MAMS,
'•rlc District Court of Dallas County,
IVXas.
fty S. M.
SPKAKIO, Deputy.
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DeW itt's Little Early liisers,
the famous little liver pills, nre
sold by Oullora & Chapman.
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