The Temple Daily Telegram. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 248, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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THE TEW DAILY TELEGRAM
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Issued Dally Except Monday.
Entered as second-class matter
December 7, 1907, at the postofflce
at Temple, Texas, under the Act of
Congress of March 3, 1879.
Published by the Daily Telegram
Publishing Company.
E. K. Williams Managing Editor
Ben Haralson City Editor
Kiss Nettie Gooch.. .Society Editor
Henry Pashtag Railroad Reporter
B. D. LaPrelle. .Advertising Manager
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DRURY LaPRElXE, EKWILUAMS
J. F. CROCCH
Directory Board.
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Daily and Sunday. 1 yr »5.00
Single Copie* 05
Dally and Sunday, 1 mo ... .50
THRILLING PICTURES
SHOWING AT MAJESTIC
One of the most realistically thrill-
ing motion-pictures of the nr.iny pre-
viously shown at the Majestic Thea-
tre is "The Cowboy's Babjf," which
tells in graphic manner, a romance
of the West in it's earlier and more
strenuous days. This exhibition at-
tracted large crowds at the Majestic
last evening, and the comments were
altogether favorable, and merltedly
so.
These pictures will be shown again
today at the matinee antL- evening
performances; and this opportunity
for iBteing the climax of motion-
picture attainment should not be
passed by by the amusement-seekers
here.
"The Gypsy Girl's Love" Is anoth-
er splendid attraction at the Majestic
today.
Tfce Daily Telegram has more than
doable the number of subscribers in
Temple, and more than (our times the
aunber of subscribers in Bell county
outside of Temple, of any other d&ily
newspaper published.
THE NEWLYWEDS and
Their BABY, NAPOLEON
By George NcManus
COPYRIGHTED—All Publication Rights for Central Texas owned by the
Daily Telegram
—
Miss Mlna Moore, sister of Mr.
John Moore of the Majesties manage-
ment was overcome last evening with
a fainting spell while at the theatre.
Fortunately, her fall was not severe,
and soon afterwards Miss Moore re-
vived and was able to proceed home.
' TEE man behind the gun.
While we are waiting, somewhat
In breathless suspense, maybe, for
further word from the St. Louisans
Upon whom we have hung our inter-
urban hopes, it is not amiss to keep
in grateful mind the man thru whose
knowledge of affairs in St. Louis and
his initiative resulted in our being
brot in touch wtth our visitors of last
week. We refer to Mr. Jas. B. Talley
of this city who is of the class who
demonstrate the theory that "what's
worth doing at all is worth woing
NOW."
Fortunately so, in Temple's citizen-
ship there are others of Mr. Talley's
mould, but there is need for more.
Let these who now are here, build
the trolley lines, and others of the
same kind will ride in on the first
ears run. Don't let that fact get out
of yonr mind.
ERHARD GETS INJUNCTION
TEMPLE NATIONAL BANK
Bastrop, Sept. 2.—The district
court issued an injunction today re-
straining the Temple National Bank
and Sheriff Townsend of Bastrop
county from selling the Chester Er-
hard estate, valued at six thousand
dollars. Erhard's wife obtained the
writ.
two inches of rain
in western texas
Splendid Bain From Abilene to El
Paso—The Range and the Cat-
tle Are Saved.
El Paso, Sept. 2.—Two inches of
rain fell over West Texas this morn-
ing. It was badly needed and extend-
ed from Toyah to Abilene assuring
winter range and saving the cattle.
Atlantic City Is evidently troubled
■with a lid that won't stay on.
JOE MEYERS MEMBER
DEM. CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
Fort Worth, Se^t. 2.—Joe Myers,
state librarian, formerly a Katy fire-
man, was today appointed a member
of the national Democratic campaign
committee. Myers will go to Chicago
Editor Watterson's latest five-col
umn effort is on "The Shrieking ,0 assume his duties.
Life." It's a scream.
When Temple gets the?e trolley
lines, we'll get back into the Ail
State League. Mark the prediction.
For Temple: Doubled volume of
trade right away; and doubled pop-
ulation in less than five years—af-
ter the Temple-Marlin-Waco inter-
mrban is competed.
"There is no hot air about this inter
urban proposition; we mean strictly
business."—Charley Campbell to var-
ious and sundry Marlinites. Wacoites
and Templeites. Amen!
The Telegram's editorial on the
need of a rest room in the shopping
district made some of the good women
"hopping mad" yesterday, according
to subsequent reports. Quite so.
Maybe now, the "long felt want" will
be filled.
New interurban lines will place
Temple in such a class that paved
streets wiil be absolutely necessary.
Meanwhile, don't let this be a de-
terrent to the purpose to build the
lines rightaway.
M NEALUS REAPPOINTED
AS SECRETARY
Austin, Sept. 2.—The State Demo-
cratic executive committee today re-
appointed J. C. McN'ealus of Dallas
to be State Secretary, and selected
three men living in Lockhart, the
home of the new chairman, Storey,
as assistant secretaries.
DR. HARTHAN MEETS CHORUS
HERE ON MONDAY NIGHT
Dr. Hans Harthan, director of mus-
ic at Baylor College, will be in Tem-
ple next Monday night, and will be
glad !o meet with all who are inter-
ested in proposed organization of a
chorus, at the First Baptist church
at & o'clock.
It is understood that Dr. Harthan
is receiving the co-operation of all
the teachers of music her& in this
effort to promote interest and ad-
vancement in this matter.
Organ Recital in Near Future.
It ig understood further that at an
early date, Dr. Harthan will give an
organ recital in this city, the First
Baptist organ to be used.
1HERE!
KNEW THAT
oust
what he
wanted!
he
WANTS TO
UP WITH
YOU LOVEYI
baby
uke play
wlv papa?
sofa!
PP
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taken
notice of him.lovey!
wanted
da-da
da-oa?
Good Cow Feed
There is no better feed for
your cows than
Baled Shucks
And they are much cheaper
than any other feed. Order
now while you can get good
nice, bright, clean shucks. '
A B CROUCH
Will Deliver one bale or one
hundred bales.
iPMoriar-t
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Review ::
Patterns it
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| For Septempber, now on I!
hand i -
GERALD-'S
OUR POSITION
is that you have
laundry work to be
done 52 weeks in
f<£■>,* I..
the year an dthat
we want to do it.
y'/.v.y „v
f . : .... Hence we are just
/• ✓ v'"* as careful as we car,
:/v tv be every time you
(•I'1, a-:., a. send your things
here to be
. LAUNDERED ..
Send us your
things this week and
yiu will get a sam-
'ple of what fine
lift'work we do. Also
sample of the
lnw.Mnd of laundering
you can expect ev
!ery time you employ
us.
THE NATIONAL LAUNDRY.
Via long distance TELEPHONE
involve no cost for hotel bills or rail-
road fare. you remain COMFOR-
tably at home or '» >'our office
and accomplish important and satis-
factory results quickly and ECON-
omically.
The lines of this company, with
their connections, reach most place?
of consequence within 1,000 miles
The rates are moderate, the service
prompt and reliable.
the southwestern tele-
graph and telephone co
Henry Watterson—the Survival of the Fittest
F financial conditions in
this country continue as
they are until next au-
tumn, there is no power
that can prevent the
the not Infrequent fate of those who befor« or since. I felt as If I could I
may be said to have outlived their face the sternest editor in the land
time. Of that original "Big Four" without a quiver. In this frame of |
whose influence was so potent in na-
tional affairs Watterson alone remains
election of a Democratic ~",fUU al "",t aDd an »»"1
president i y on milU"rs ot current interest
Ti?
He could do nothing with ^Republic-1 rT" thiS Vefy
an cungress uan of all could M, 0"' Pattersons were Ten-|
pow.r J n t rat "the Zjl "esseeans who were at the rational
The tim# ki tiMbKi ufh«K « capital temporarily, the father of the
candidate for president at ™ T "J COD*re"1
election. The east has let pass the k ^ L ?°u,h-
opportunity to be rid of Brvan and ; tJt '» ' , "l ^eins an int'mate
pat a new man forward Jacta0n' (h"
"Governor p.-irH • i 1 influential newspaper and a pub-
1V»tar.ds in the ljc speaker of e8tablUhed rfpuJiot1.
when K? for t lu™? » was but that Lis eon should
diffe rence U that „« \T ^ and h*
den's organixatton ™ ™ I at an "ar!-v a*<>
"Tarifr reform canni. v„ _ , ilu"' raade his entry Into his chosen
l«me in the™«t . r«Zm ^ i pr0f,"M!ion ;iS ^'""der, publisher and
p" ^, cal"" ; ^itor of the MacMinnville New Era.
don't care for doctrines ' ""■ * S ?JVnn*"^fa^r whlch is 8tin ln «"
"So man can n intn ,i,» m-, '*tence, although its creator remained
House again „ Theodore rojm^U 1 ToeL"'""'^ & ^ *°''*"** Ne"
did Anrt u.h.,1 . . , «">**elt { York in his nineteenth vear. where
nun r v 1 Ba 0 'or a twelvemonth he led the preca-
man, never aarain can rftn«>faHAh1 j LIlt preca-
J-jWd.n. ruled by .UtT j ^ dZ M
porai tV' or fifty incorporators by one .v. v »i
Influential head. * breaking out of the civil war
"I contend Huit iwlitlcians are an ,?aS !" Wa,hln?ton' at"
Idle and corrupted class. A man can- u- m i° * Ml,,ona! 8,aff of the
not work wtth tiwm without havinr a Wa*hins1on States, a new paper start-
part in the corruption ' y a" "ld friend of the Watter-
-The youiiR man of character so- 1 T*' Maj°T J"hn P H"lss' Whpn
—— —* ' M ! r-nnessee seceded, he went south
brtety and ability, however, has as
■romptly and joined his fortunes to
much Chance |n this country as ever ,T' ,. , ,
I prefer the clev, r n.ar to the «enlus 1lb! , ''nf"d*rac>-
b p Serving f.ilthfully until the close of
: hos'ilities. he turned up in Cincinnati
aoove are some of the recent in 1««S with 110 prospect beyond a keen
political observations of a man whose realization that he must find something
opinions on almost any subject are to do at once. This Is his own account
•till accepted as final by a large and of that period of his career.
intelligent class of newspaper "1 arrived in Cincinnati one bluster
■» sil over the om.ntr, „„ ■ . . . .
readers all over the country, as they
have been accepted for at least a quar-
ter of a century. They are not repro-
duced here because they represent in-
fallible wisdom, but for the reason
that tbey serve admirably to Introduce
• nua who needs no further introduc-
tlca to the people of the United
States—Henry Watterson of Kentucky.
Thar* an great editors today—per-
haps they may seem eves greater after
awhile—but Mr. Watterson la now the
j, , 0f that type of
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ay
h
at a
whoa* opinions
ad reflected the m
army of Totera.
party
ing winter night a ragged, hungry
stranger, just out of the rebel army. 1
had just enough money to pay for a
night's lodging. How well 1 remember
wandering about the streets o'. the
great city wondering what the neat
day would bring mel I believed that
I had ability as a journalist and was
satis tied that I could prove it If I could
get an opportunity. Several times I
waa ln the act of entering the different
morning newspaper offices and apply-
ing far work, bat I was so downhearted
that I did not have the courage to do
so. I took a good sleep that night and
did not get up till late the next day.
-Mr
1 a desperate one, 1
emplo
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•It
w/;v
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mind I started out to make a tour of I that his staff was crowded, and then 1 suit, except the Times office That na-
the various offlcea At the first the he resumed work. I visited all of the! per had a large job printing office
editor told me in a brutally blunt way | newspaper offices with the same re- ! attached to it which did a gnat deal
! of theatrical printing. I also noticed
| that the paper had a mlHerably written
dramatic column. I called on Colonel
Starbuek, the editor and proprietor,
and asked if there were any vacancies
on his staff
" 'There are never any vacancies on
! a good paper, but there's always room
for a good man,' replied the colonel,
t "11 shall never forget that answer,
, and It is one that I have always made
to applicants for positions. I sue-
I ceeded in impressing him with my be- j
' lief that I could improve his dramatic
column and proposed to write It for
nothing If he would give me 25 per
cent commission on th^ printing and
advertising which I might secure He
declined my proposition, and as I was
turning away In despair he said that
he would give me $12 per week to per-
form that service.
"What a change eame over me! I
immediately felt myself suddenly en-
riched, He then told me that I was
engaged only lor a week and that if
I didn't suit 1 would be discharged at
the end of the week, I told him that
I knew a permanent job when I saw
It, that this job would be permanent
and that if lie did not find tne compe-
tent I "would consider It an offense If
he-did not remove me."
' * H
He made a success of It—a great, a
glowing success from the very first.
In a short time he was m«d». manag-
ing editor of the'Times, but In about a
year he was back In Tennessee, this
time the editor and joint proprietor
of the Nashville Republican Banner,
a brand new paper of his own making.
He had very little money, but he had
so much energy and determination
that ln less than two years all of his
eight competitors save one retired
from the field. That year he was In-
vited to go to Louisville and take
charge of the Journal, the famous
Whig paper established In 1830 by
George D. Prentice.
Prentice had grown old and feeble,
and his paper was fast decaying. It
needed a man of Prentice's Individual-
ity, former vigor and sagacity to re-
store It to its early estate. The choice
fell on Watterson, and he sold his Ban-
ner and accepted, buying a third Inter-
est In the Journal. In sla months he
had put It again In the position which
It had taken thlrty-flve years of Pren-
tice's best effort, to maintain. That
same year the Journal was consoli-
dated with the Courier, the only other
P^er of Importance In the city. That
the
IT WATTEMOI, TEX BLUE O&ASS STATE'S FAMOUS
was the beginning of the famous
Courier-Journal, which the genius and
individuality of Henry Watterson have
made known to all the civilized world
* *
When Mr. Watterson assumed con-
trol of the united Courier-Journal he
found plenty of work awaiting blm.
His comparative youth atnd the repu-
tation of his predecessor .were before
him. The first he outgrew, and the
other he soon equaled and even ■-"■r
passed. He has Indeed shown hi;
to bo a many sided man and a nt."
parts. He fought in rags under
flax of the south, and he was one of
t)i" first td take up his pen and bjt.-
tle fur a reunited nation. In and ".it
of season he has deplored all
tional feeling, and ills fervent »i 1'''s
for unity have had a wonderful ■ : ■ '
on all sections of the south, in the
dark days of reconstruction h» o>n:i-
aeled forbearance end promised that
justice should arrive in time. l!|s ,a
bors have not been in vain He has
lived to see national unity an estab-
lished fact and the mischievous myth
of Mason and Dixon's line barely a
memory.
Watterson's editorial work has beer,
described by a fellow journalist as
"oratory set to music." He writes as
he talks, with admirable grace, a ca
dence. a mastery of style, apparently
Impetuous, but so earnest and 's-
forceful and with such Infinite chain
of expression and originality that hi'
equal cannot be found In tnoden
newspaperdom. His busy- pen has not
stalei) through all these eventful years
His uniqut, humorous touch has In -
come more delicate, his wit more mel
low, and Its shafts are never tlpl"'"
with malice. He has never lost «">
of the delightful piquancy that fril,n
the first has lifted his. work above th>
dull and perfunctory writing to bt
found on the average editorial page.
JAM ICS R. BKNTU'X
BRITISH COAL OUTPUT.
Advance statistics subject to correc-
tion Issued by the home office show
that the British output of coal in 19"6
was 261,050,808 tons, or 6.33 per cent
more than In 1#Q5. The number ot
persons employed at the coal mines In
1»0« was 812.345. The mineral produc-
tion also Included 2,»71.17l tons of fire-
clay, I.20M80 tons of Ironstone. 2,616.-
XII tons of oil thai*. 1.124.415 tons ot
Iron ore, 220,(51 torn of rock 9alt'
151,915 tons of salt flwm brine and
12M»* tons of slat*. The number ot
persons employed at mines under tna
metalliferous mines relation &«t»' •
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Williams, E. K. The Temple Daily Telegram. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 248, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1908, newspaper, September 3, 1908; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth474797/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.