Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1904 Page: 2 of 11
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$6o.oo GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE! $60.00
Rug Department.
Smyrna Rugs $1.25 to .......$3.00
Wilton Velvet Rugs $1.50 to..... 2.50
Turkish Rugs 35c to.............75
Art Japanese Rugs $1.25 to ... 2.00
Genuine Axminster $1.50 to..... 5.00
We have some beautiful designs in
this line.
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Mattings.
Jointed China 10c to............$0.20
Jointed Japanese 12|c to.........20
Long straw China 12|c to........20
Long straw Japanese 15c to......20
Fancy China 25c to............. .30
Fancy Japanese 20c to...........25
Carpet effects in both China and
Japanese lines in bright col-
ors; range in price from 15c
to.........................3
Remnant Matting less than cost.
Pictures.
Over 100 different scenes and
subjects in any color and in
any style, frame complete, at
a price never heard of before
at only.....................$1.00
$1.25 and up to $2.00 buys a beau-
tiful picture in an elegant
frame such as agents sell at
$3.00 to $5.00, our price now
from $1.25 to............... 2.00
Call and see this line; it will be
a pleasure to show you through.
THE PLAN.
With every $2.50 purchase made at our store be=
fore 12 o’clock May 28th, we will give a coupon ticket
with a number which entitles the holder thereof to any
such prize as their number may draw. A duplicate
ticket of each coupon given out will be placed in a
large box and thoroughly mixed; some disinterested
person will be selected to do the drawing. This per=
son will draw out 10 coupons, the tenth one will draw
Prize No. 1; he will draw five more, the 5th coupon
will draw No. 2; draw three more, the 3rd coupon
will take No. 3; draw 2 more, the 2nd takes prize No. 4.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIZES.
Prize No. I, a beautiful hand painted Toilet Set - $25.00
Prize No. 2, a genuine Leather Rocker - - 20.00
Prize No. 3, a large Glass and Brass Foot Center Table J0.0C
Prize No. 4, a due bill for $5.00 worth at our store - 5.00
Making a total to be given away - - $60.00
Besides the great number of special bargains to be obtained
during this sale.
Bed Room Suits.
A very fine line of there goods
and you will have to call and in-
spect otir goods and learn the price
to be convinced that you can save
money by buying of ust besides the
right of participating in the draw-
ing on May 28th:
Suits in hardwood $10.00 to $30-00
Suits in plain oak, $15.00 to 30.00
Suits in quarter sawed oak $25 up.
Furniture
Novelties.
Sideboards, Chiffoniers, China
Closets, Book Cases. Veneer Set-
tees, Odd Dressers, Music Cabinets,
Mantles, Center Tables, Hall Trees,
Mirrows, Hassocks, Taberetts and
all kinds of small arEcles that ac-
company the Furniture Line at
greatly reduced pfices during this
feast of bargains. Call for what you
need.
Crockery.
Nothing but toilet crockery, such as
Bowls, Pitchers, Combinets
and Toilet Sets.
Bowls and Pitchers 90c to.......$3.00
Combinets $1.25 to............. 3.00
Toilet Sets $2.25 to........... .25.00
All new and late styles, beautiful
decorations and the best
grade of goods in this line.
Iron Beds.
We carry the famous Simmons line
known the world over to be the best
line of Iron Beds made, neat in ap-
pearance and guaranteed quality,
ranging in price from $3.25 to $25.00;
in fancy combination colors and beau-
tiful designs.
Rockers and Chairs.
We carry too many different styles
in this line to enumerate them and
quote prices separately. We have
over 200 different patterns, to suit
any kind of trade, at prices to sui
our customers, beginning at 50c and
gradually upward to $20.00 each. We
can please you and save you money on
anything in our line.
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$60.00 G&O. WILLIf\MSON $60.00
Jacksonville, Texas.
Random Thoughts.
A headline in a morning paper
attracted my attention today. It
read: “Innocent Man Killed.”
With a slight variation this same
headline appears in some of the
papers every day. I read this
item to see where he was killed
and under what circumstances.
As usual it was in a saloon that
he was shot and it occurred du-
ring a fifficulty between two
men, the victim being a bystand-
ej^AThis is a mere repetition of
undreds of items which readers
of daily papers have seen.
The saloon is a good place for
the innocent man to stay away
from if he would avoid trouble.
It is often said that whisky will
not hurt you if you let it alone.
You can put it down as a rule
that the man who frequents the
saloon goes there to drink. In
fact that is the inducement to
him to go there. The man who
drinks is pretty apt sooner or
later to get into personal trouble
as a result of his convivial habits
and the association he forms in
the saloons. But if he should
happen to avoid all such difficul-
ties with like convivial spirits,
he does not know what minute
he is going to get plugged as an
“innocent bystander.” If the
men who shoot and are shot, who
slash and are slashed, were the
only sufferers, it would not be
so bad. But there are the wives,
the children, the other relatives
whose intense sufferings the
newspapers never chroncle.
Were the facts all published
what a history of sorrow would
be the result of every bar-room
killing recorded!
No pen could properly picture
it, but it would tell first, perhaps,
of the regrets of the drunken
wretch who did the murder, af-
ter he had sobered in a felon’s
cell and realized fully that he
must take with him a troubled
conscience to a murder’s gallows
or through the lonely life of a
penitentiary convict. No picture
of a fiery hell could compare with
the ever living reality of a con-
sciousness of having murdered a
fellow being, and of having de-
prived his family of his presence.
It is enough to drive one mad to
think that he has without provo-
cation or cause cut short a life
which the mighty Creator has
placed in the world.
Then, what must life be to the
family of the murderer? The
feeling of disgrace that must at-
tach to every one connected with
such a criminal is enough to for-
ever burden their lives. They
feel that they are shunned by the
world, that they themselves car-
ry the brand of the murderer on
their own foreheads, that they
are looked down upon, despised,
disgraced. Children taunted by
thoughtless playmates with such
things have been known to take
their own lives rather than face
the world with such a sense of
disgrace; wives have faded away
until premature death has come
as a relief. Entire families have
been scattered to all parts of the
world in the hope that their dis-
grace would not follow them.
There is no misery more painful
than a feeling of disgrace at the
sin of a relative which the world
will not forgive or forget.
The family of the slain man is
included in the web of wretched-
ness that is wound so closely
around all who are even remotely
connected with the parties.
Shocked almost beyond the point
of physical endurance at first by
the sudden taking away of hus-
band and father, the pain being
intensified by the fact it occur-
red in a saloon, the lives of wife
and children are saddened be-
yond hope of any earthly resto-
ration until the world holds out
to them but little inducement to
live. Added to the mental suf-
fering and the humiliation of
both families, is the poverty that
usually befalls them, that con-
stant struggle for life on the
part of widows and orphans
which makes existence slavery.
The imagination, however vivid,
cannot conceive one-hundredtli
part of the suffering that must
come as the direct result of the
incident told under that headline
“An Innocent Man Killed.”
It is admitted that nearly all of
the killings in our country come
either from the saloon or as a re-
sult of the use of intoxicating
liquors, and a greater part of the
misery of life comes from the
same source. Will the readers
of this article patronize the insti-
tutions that bring about such de-
plorable results, or allow them-
selves to become even in a. small
degree victims of a habit which
is so likely to end in misery and
disgrace? Will H. Mayes,
Brown wood, Texas.
A Recommendation from Allright, III.
In a recent letter to the manu-
facturers, Mr. E. N, Scholsser, a
prominent merchant of Allright,
111., says: ‘‘Enclosed find $5.40
for which give me credit and
ship me six dozen Harts’ Honey
and Horehound, 25c. size. It
gives the very best of satisfac-
tion,” The above letter is the
most convincing evidence of the
virtues of Harts’ Honey and
Horehound for the cure of colds,
coughs, croup, and all throat and
lung diseases. Sold by Ambrose
Johnson.
WILL LOAD AT DIALVILLE.
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident is narrat-
ed by John Oliver, of Philadel-
phia, as follows: ‘T was in an
awful conditi >u y skin was
almost yellow, eyes sunken,
tongue coated, pain continually
in back and sides, no appetite,
growing weaker day by day.
Three physicians had given me
up. Then I was advised to use
Electric Bitters; to my great joy
the first bottle made a decided
improvement. I continued their
use for three weeks, and am now
a well man. I know they robbed
the grave of another victim.” No
one should fail to try them. Only
fifty cents, guaranteed, at A,
Johnson’s drug store.
Foley’s Kidney Cure, if taken
in time, affords security from all
kidney and bladder diseases.
Jacksonville Drug Co.
Some Good Reasons Why You Should
Ship Through the Union Consider
Them Carefully.
1st. It is a growers’ organiza-
tion, strictly.
2nd. It is the best selling
medium in Texas.
3rd. The manager is under
$10,000 bond.
4th. All salesmen give good
and sufficient bonds.
5th. The Union spends more
money for the protection of ship-
pers than any other selling
agency.
6th. The manager has had
twenty-three years’ experience
in selling and handling truck and
fruit.
7th. The policy of the Union
will be to sell every car on track
at loading point if possible.
8th. The Union will cover
more markets than all other
shipping agencies combined.
i
9th. It is to the growers’
interest to build up the Union—
FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION.
This is to notify all parties
who wish to ship through the
Union to meet me at Dialville |
Saturday afternoon, April 30th,
and give me their acreage. I
have sufficient signed to load
regular from beginning of
season. Respectfully,
H. L. Hodges,
Mgr. E. T. F. & T. G. Union.
East Texas F. & T. G Union.
At a meeting of the board of i
directors at Marshall on!
April 20th, H. B. McWil-!
liams, J. W. Waltman, Dr. |
H. V. Collins and J. W. Francis '
were elected as members of the j
board. Dr. Collins was also j
made a member of the executive I
committee. H. L. Hodges of I
Jacksonville was elected manager !
for the season.
The meeting was very enthusi- J
astic, and prospects for the;
Union were never brighter. The j
committee present counted as in j
sight, 250 cars of potatoes to be '
handled by the Union, besides
the large peach and tomato
business to be taken care of.
The policy will be to sell on track
as far as possible, but a sufficient
number of sales agents will be
placed in the North to protect
the interests of Union members.
It is the intention of the man-
agement to do a progressive as
well as an aggressive business,
and we can assure the Union
shippers that their interests
will be well looked after and
protected. Prospects are that
we will handle over 1000 cars of
East Texas fancy potatoes, to-
matoes and peaches, besides
cantaloupes, watermelons and
other products.
We ask all buyers to make our
office their headquarters, and
we are sure we can supply them
with all they want. Jackson-
ville being headquarters for .all
this business,’' It will be to th
interest of buyers to locate here,
where they can get in close touch
with sellers.
A full statement of the Mar-
shall meeting will be published
by our secretary.
H. L. Hodges, Mgr.
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup.
Immediately relieves hoarse,
croupy cough, oppressed, rat-
tling, rasping and difficult
breathing. Henry C. Stearns,
druggist, Shullsberg, Wis.,
writes: “I have been selling
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup for
two years, and have never had a
preparation that has given better
satisfaction. I notice that when
I sell a bottle they comeback for
more. I can honestly recom-
mend it.” 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold
by A. Johnson.
FOR BARGAINS IN
Dry Goods, Groceries and
Feed Stuffs
-Call on-
M. COOPER. (St CO.
South side Main Street, Jacksonville, Texas.
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McFarland, J. E. Cherokee County Banner. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1904, newspaper, April 29, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508028/m1/2/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jacksonville Public Library.