Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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CHEROKEE COUNTY BANNER
J. E. McFARLAND, Editor and Prop’r.
Dice or Publication, ■ Jacksonville, Texas
Branch Offices at Rusk and Alto.
Obituaries, Resolutions of Respect,
Cards of Thanks—all matter not NEWS
—will be charged for at the rate of one
cent per word. Poetry double price.
PUBLIbHKD WEEKLY.
Friday Morning, Sept. 9, 1904
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The following gentlemen announce them-
selves as candidates for the offices under
which their names appear, subject to the ac-
tion of the Democratic party:
Tor Congress--
M. L. BROOCKS
of San Augustine.
For State Senator—
C. C. STOKES,
of "Houston County,
For District Judge—
JAMES I. PERKINS,
of Cherokee eounty,
For District Attorney, 2nd District—
W, M. IMBODEN.
For Representative—
FRANK B. GUINN.
For Clerk of the District Court-
E. S. JONES.
For Sheriff—
TOM SINGLETARY.
For County Judge—
R. L. ROBINSON.
For County Clerk—
LOUIS TITTLE.
For Tax Assessor-
WALTER E. SLOAN.
For Tax Collector—
W. J. SUMMERS
For County Treasurer--
Q C. LOONEY.
For County Attorney—.
WILL H. SHOOK.
For Justice of the Peace. Pre. Nd. 3,
I. H. THOMPSON.
For Co. Commissoner. Precinct No. 3,
A. O. W. FREDERICK.
September is expected to be
the biggest month at the World’s
Fair from the point of attend-
ance. ______
At Overton _a few days ago
an old gentleman who has seen
eighty-four winters pass over
his head led to the altar a blush-
ing young maiden of twenty
summers. All the brave men
are not dead yet._
The Nacogdoches Sentinel
continues to pour hot shot into
the government officials who are
responsible for the pulling off
of the great military encamp-
ment at Manassas, Va. Un-
fortunately the opposition of the
Sentinel seems to be having very
little effect.
Down at Rusk they seem to
have an election nearly every
week in the year. The attorney-
general recently decided that
their independent school district
bonds are illegal because of some
technicality, and another election
has been ordered on that ques-
tion. An election for the pur-
pose of re-incorporating the town
will also be held soon.
Alexander Collegiate Institute
Rev. W. K. Strother, writing
to the Texas Christian Advocate,
has the following to say in re-
ference the A. C. I., of which
he is president:
A number of substantial im-
provements have been made,
electric lights in all of the rooms,
a system of waterworks has
been installed, all the dormitory
rooms have been papered and
painted and there is not a piece
of old furniture in the house. A
seven-room music hall been built
to meet the demands and fur-
nished with first-class new
pianos. This last mentioned
item will be quite a treat to the
music pupils—new pianos for
practice. _
Senator Culberson, who
was billed to speak in Dallas
Saturda^^was a passenger on
the T./^PlN-. O tijain which was
wrecked near Athens Friday
but was in the sleeper and
was therefore uninjured. He
reached Nacogdoches Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The Houston Post issued a
magnificent industrial edition on
September 1st, in which consid-
erable space was devoted to the
fruit and vegetable industry in
East Texas. Jacksonville came
in for a good write-up, and the
portraits of some of our leading
growers were printed.
A machine has lately been in-
vented which will manufacture
fruit baskets automatically, turn-
ing out twelve times as many
baskets an hour as can be made
by hand. Ten of these new ma-
chines were put to work this
year in a big factory located at
Paducah, Ky., at the junction of
the Tennessee and Ohio rivers.
Gum timbey is used, and great
rafts are floated down the river
to the factory, enabling the
manufacturers to get their sup-
plies very cheaply. The intro-
duction of this new machine is
expected to revolutionize the
business of making baskets for
the use of fruit shippers. Under
the old method of making them
by hand the demand often ex-
ceeded the supply and great
quantities of fruit have spoiled for
the want of shipping packages.
Manufacturers will now be able
to turnout in a very short while all
the baskets that will be needed, and
the cost should also be decreased.
The process of manufacture is
so rapid that logs are transform-
ed into the finished product in
two days’ time. A full de-
scription of the machine and of
the great plant now using them
was published in the Scientific
American of September 3rd.
Talking Sense, Now.
If the democratic party of
Texa& expects to maintain its
prestige for good government it
must impress on its public ser-
vants the necessity of living up
to its platforms- The last legis-
lature and officers of the admin-
istration ignored the platform
made by the party. This has
been followed by denunciations
by the populists. That party
has called attention to the dis-
obedience of the officials, and
from it argues that the plat
form of the party means nothing.
While the Populist party may
not be strong enough to wrest
the administration of public af-
fairs from the democratic party,
it is strong enough to call atten-
tion of democrats to the acts of
their officials, which, in time,
will create, if the disobedience is
continued, a division in the ranks
of the party itself. For there
are democrats in Texas who
mean what they say in their
platforms x and will insist that
the commands shall be observed.
—Dallas News.
If a candidate does not intend
to abide by his platform, he
should promptly decline the
nomination. When the party
speaks, it is the duty-ef all mem-
bers of the party to obey.
Especially is this true when ap-
plied to party leaders and nomi-
nees.
The News talks sense in the
foregoing utterance. -— Tyler
Democrat-Reporter.
The News is talking plainly
now and the people of Texas will
endorse its position. But there
are some things the public
ought to think about with re-
ference to platforms. In the
first place the platform should
contain no planks not thoroughly
discussed and well understood
before the meeting of the con-
vention. It is not possible for a
few men to get together at a
convention and formulate a long
list of legislative demands with
calm and deliberate considera-
tion in the few hours allotted to
them, and amid the excitement
that always prevails at a state
convention. Only those issues
which have been discussed and
endorsed by the people in their
primaries should be embodied in
platform demands. But the
legislatures of Texas have been
riding rough shod over the de-
mands of the platforms that
were discussed in all their de-
tails, and then endorsed by the
people. A few years ago Gov.
Hogg offered three amendments
to the constitution which were
discussed through the press
and on the stump in all sections
of the state. The democratic
voters endorsed them almost
unanimously. The platform in
the state convention recom-
mended them to the legislature,
and yet the legislature, influenced
by corporation lobbyists, de-
feated them, the members of the
legislature absolutely refusing
to give the voters a chance to
adopt them.—Henderson Times.
Saturday, Sept. 10th, will be
celebrated by the Jewish mer-
chants of this city as a holiday,
it being Jewish New Year.
Library Contest.
The votes in the library con-
test will be counted at noon ev-
ery Thursday, and the result
published in Thursday’s daily,
and also in the weekly. Mer-
chants will count the votes filed
with them, make out a list show-
ing the results, and send same
to this office.
The standing of the various
contestants up to noon Thurs-
day, Sept. 8th, was as follows:
Jacksonville College...... 7139
Fraternal Brotherhood.. . 5140
Alexander Colg. Institute 4637
Baptist Church, J’ville.... 4160
M. E. Church, J’ville..... 2588
W. O. W. Lodge, J’ville. .. 1671
Bijou Club............... 1523
Public School, J’ville..... 1197
New Hope School........ 789
C. P. Church, J’ville...... 629
J. L. Hogg Chap., U. D. C. 465
I. O. O. F. Lodge,. J’ville.. 449
Masonic Lodge, J’ville... 302
Christian Church, J’ville. 284
W. O. W. Lodge, Craft.... 266
O. S. Presbyterian Church 243
Colored Baptist Church.. 140
Walker’s Chapel.......... 50
W. O. W. Lodge, Dialville. 50
Colored M. E. Church.... 40
Universalist Church...... 15
Craft School............. 11
Afton Grove Church...... 11
Shiloh School............ 9
Reynolds Church........ 5
Maccabee Lodge......... 5
Enterprise Church....... c
Philomathean Lit. Society c
K. of P. Lodge, J’ville.... I
Call for Meeting of Democratic Executive
Committee.
Alto, Tex., Sept. 2nd, 1904.
By virtue of authority vested
in me as chairman of the demo-
cratic executive committee of
Cherokee county, I hereby call a
meeting of said committee to as-
semble in Jacksonville on Satur-
day, September 17th, 1904, at 10
o’clock a. m., for the purpose of
making all necessary arrange-
ments to conduct the ensuing j
campaign for the success of the
democratic ticket, and to trans-
act such other business as may
properly come before the com-
mittee. Every member of the
committee is earnestly request-
ed to attend, and all democrats
who are interested in the success
of the ticket are respectfully in-
vited. Respectfully,
Geo. B. Terrell,
Chm’n. Dem. Ex. Com.
For some time Jacksonville
has been endeavoring to arouse
the citizens and instill in their
minds the great necessity of hav-
ing a good water works system.
Last week they had a fire that
came yery near spreading until
it would probably have destroy-
ed a large part of the business
portion of the city; but the wind
being favorable and the heroic
efforts of the citizens and the
bucket brigade saved them from
a great disaster. Every town
should have a good water works
system, if for no other purpose
than to save property from de-
struction by fire.—Rusk Journal.
Some substantial improve-
ments have lately been made in
the arrangement of The Banner
office, and our floor space has
been greatly increased. The
change enables us to handle
work better and faster than
ever before. Our friends are in-
vited to give us a call and inspect
what is considered one of the
most complete and best arrang-
ed printing offices in East Texas.
Mr. Dickerson, a representa-
tive of the Linotype Company,
was a caller yesterday. Th$
linotype is the most successful
type-setting machine in the
world, and thousands of them are
now in use, their sales covering
every part of the universe. The
Banner indulges the hope that
its business may show such an
increase in thb next year or two
as to justify the installation of
one of these great machines.
Mr. Wm. Miles has arrived in
the city and has been checked in
as agent for the T. & N. O., tak-
ing the place of T. G. Sayers,
who resigned' several weeks
since.
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McFarland, J. E. Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1904, newspaper, September 9, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507916/m1/4/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.