The Herald. (Carbon, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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THE HERALD.
BY WT. CURTIS
CARBON, EASTLAND COUNTY. TEXAS, AUGUST 31, 1906
VOL. 6. NO 2
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Others may tell you that they are selling goods cheaper, but
that is not the point for you to consider.
HONEST GOODS
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HONEST PRICES
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FINLEY
THE HOUSE
FAIR
DEALING BUILT
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Sells goods as cheap as anybody; quality
and quantity considered. Everything new and fresh. Try
A DOLLAR’S WORTH FOR EVERY DOLLAR.
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AT THE COUNTY CAPITAL
the court; after which the court
adjourned until! Thursday, Aug-
ust 16th, when the court again
• - I met persuant to adjournment,
Doings Among TI10 Courts with county Judge Spann aud
VV. M. Eppler still acKont, and
At Eastland.
(From Eastland Dulk tiu, Aue 114 i
opened without expense to the j
county.
Order No., 9—Report of various j
officers approved.
The quarterly report of county
| LOCAL NEWS
Pullman Sleepers are operated
on the Texas Central night
trains Nos. 3 and 4, between
' Waco and Stamford. The berth
| the following further business-a balance of $541.91 in jury
I was transacted. • fund; $1456.86 in road and bridge
. . , . - , Carbon Public School opens rate between Waco and Stamford
treasurer Whittington, showing Sept. 10th. is $1.25. Between Cisco and
Waco and Stamford and Morgan,
The report of the treasurer of ■ fund; $245.54 in general fund;
Our City Council have the
interest of Carbon at heart.
DISTRICT COURT.
the Gorman free school was j $579.91 in court house and jaii
checked up, and after consider-: fund; $41.60 in fourth class; I =========
ing several accounts and claims j $1074.44 in sinking fund; approv-! Our City Council are doing
The Syl Morton murder case, j r^a<| matters which were ed. j much to build up Carbon Their
which has been on the docket jdej ertad on final action until' Order No., 12—Will Morgan, j work is much in evidence lately
since January 1901, was continued t idoix* members were present. a convict, was released one tenth ! in the way of clay side walks,
and set for the fourth Monday in i he court met again T nday of his time and released from ! stepping stones, etc.
January ] 007 ‘ 1 with all present except W. M. custody. I ...................
The Paul Keith murder case, i Eppior. when the bids on school; All officers of court were al-j __ * — -
which wss transferred to Abi~ Ci’osby , county were lowed their per diem. i _ M.r VVyatt, a miner, from r -
lene. is set for Heptembeu 10th, »pened and considered and de-j ____
all witnesses in this case are it!To° until all of the court should
required to attend under old i be present. _ . j
summons : Order No., one—Wherein thei
‘ LM C Johnson was f-und : r8!?0rt of a jury of review, here
$1. $1 being the minimum
berth rate between any points
on the road.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
j Worth was at Mangum yesterday
| and leased a lot of land for the
| purpose of digging for coal, oil.
j or other minerals that may be
licenses i found, work to begin inside of
ixj i<x v/ . _____ . , ______ | Twenty marriage
inffitv of for^VTv and ^Tntenced tof - «ro appointed, was. acceptedI have been issued by County ! one year There is good evidence
to 1'VO voa’-s in the penitentiary approved in the establishment! C-lerk Kimble since August first, | that there is mineral at Mangum
-Three ' h - charges against'a ^ad to be known ss Des- j to the following parties: J. A. i and we would not be surprised
S'in.i' mrf two “for musin'•' demonia ami Olden road in which1 Reynolds and Rosa Lee Trant, to see the place make a paying
forged instruments and one for damages in the sum of $41.25 j £• S. Henderson and Daisy
fnrwrv was dismissed * were assessed. | Norris, K.'L. White and Nettie
~ .jog Davis, murder, continued Craer No. 2 -The petitition ofj Henderson, II. C. Ward and Mrs,
mine as well as a health resort
The mineral water has already
proven to be a good medicine
TZh'TS'T & L. Teague and 39 others to I Smith, Wade Kinsey and Perle 1 and is being shipped extensively
fendant granted bund'in sum of change road bed of Cross Plains Adams, E E...Conlee and Devia
«2ri0fi which {riven with and Cisco road, granted. Ayers, J. W. roster and Mrs,
a StUffiiieTdM.T Hale, Order No., S-J. VV. Mathis j Wells, G F. Glover and Carrie
A. J. Murry, E. N. Kirby, and was employed as janitor for E, Douglass I. K Lamb and
B. D. Shropshire as surities. court house under old contract.} Minnie M. Bone, Russell Pence
Sol Basham seduction gave Order No., 4- The petition of j Blanton and Wffip0Ahe?^'V
bond m son, of M00, and case fHarbin and 00 otherapray-
Frank .Clements, . seduction., * Snet^ N„*T '*•*» Robi"»" «*> Lillta
On account of the death of
one of his children Stanley J.
Clark, state organizer of the
Socialist party, failed to speak
in Carbon Saturday, however,
a crowd being present, Dan C.
Cryder, Socialist nominee for
Representative of this district I
_ Dont forget that school opens
Sept. 10. The weather is no
hotter to go to school than to
play. That your child may do
the school course and become a
man or a woman prepared for
the duties of life, you must give
it a chance by placing it in school.
School days come only once in
life. The teacher eanhot teach
it unless it is in school. This
demands that they start at the
opening. The child who starts
at the first has a great ad van tage
over those who start later. They
cannot do the year’s work in
First Bale In.
Carbon received her first bale
of the 1906 crop of cotton Tues-
day. It was raised by Y N
Barron, 3 miles east of town,
ginned by the Morris & Towler
gin, and bought by Williams
Bros, of our town at 10c per
pound.
A premium amounting to $20
was made up for Mr. Barron
who was so well pleased that he
came in with another bale
Wednesday,
Cotton is opening ail over this
country now and in a few days
they will be rolling in regularly.
Now Train Schedule. .
A new schedule has been
affected on all four of the .Texas
Central passenger trains. Trains
iNo ! pas-sea (Jarbon, giving’ west,
at_ 2:o3. p. m. No. 2 passes,
going east, at 2:4 p. m. No. 3
i i■■ - goes v 'st at 3:20 a. m. No. 4
halt ot the school year. They j goes east at 1:39 a. m
have to take two years to do;
one grade or pass on without _
having done the work. Either j L. S. Organiser
is a failure. Give the child a ! Nntwith«ti*idln,v t *
bXeH°mett rS-ownf° Start H!llT ^ FTie V' W““b
.At.haf.rtt, wn-
Buys More Fruit Land
The Carbon
country is at-
continucd by defendant.
3, sfeuucuun.., justice precinct jno.. 1, was r-TYT" I ^BiJicsenutuve or mis v — ,
gave bond in sum of $500 and granted and election ordered to he w*io„ Yjmps0? and r3fl,er! spoke. The Executive com- j tractmg considerable attention
case continued by defendant. held September 29th., T. H. TKeane<U'an.a ij(’u“ mittee of the Socialist party met here-of-latefrom men who know
Perry Gullett, rape, gave Harbin. Lon Martin, Ed T. i'oxwiii^nm’ J. H. Kedwme and , here on that date for the purpose
SssfihfSL“d sr“ - a;
W. D. Pope vs LenaR. Pope, ’ q p g,vwn, was allowed si50- £IVw’ pc Pope and Mrs. jiearn the proceedings of the
suit for divorce, granted to G.V SmT 57-" (Sf S^ ^i>«
Kimble, $75. ; R. 1. Davenport, Mary E. Rice _ „.—7=TT:
$100 as e.mffico. ! Certificate Of Nursery
Inspection.
________________ ________ J P Butts informs us that! “This is to certify that I have
iBpAiiX w!h1 -S nnL gmnVlvQv-;in Chaney school district No., some more of his friends and. examined the nursery stock of
^pCourt will adjourn Saturbayj^ to defccrminp whpt}}nr nr nn[ relatives will soon move here ! Dublin Floral & Nursery Co. and
from Wood county. J P has j find it free from dangerous in-
been instrumental in leading
many weevil-sick souls from
Wood county to this garden spot
where crops are always abun-
dant and weevils unknown.
defendant.
The gran 1 jury which re-
convened Friday and was in
session one day, returned four
idictments in felony eases.
for the term.
COMMISSIONERS COURT.
Monday, August 13th, the
commissioners court opened with
J. E. Butler as presiding officer,
Judge«SpanP being absent, and
also B. I. Marshall and W. M.
Eppler and C. I>. Poe being
absent, when t he following bus-
iness was transacted: Certain
claims and accounts against the
county, which a>-e upon the
minutes of claims allowed, by
Order No., 6—Upon canvassing
the returns of an election held
40. to determine whether or not
q tax of 20 cents should be assess-
ed for free school purposes; it
was found that the tax was
Unanimously voted to be assess-
ed.
Order No., 7-Upon petition
of J. Evans and 7 others, per-
mission was granted to move a
certain gate at the point where
Grandbury, Eastland and Ranger
roads intersect.
Order No.. 8—Upon petition
of J. C. Heard and 10 others a
second class road -was ordered
two more chapters ready for
organization; one at Carbon
Eastland county, the other at
tort Davis, Jeff Davis county.*-
The Texas Freemason.
....^-iu^uuuniicuwiiuKfluw , b connection with above I
what a good fruit country is., y^ur (o,sa{ L*ia^ Sister Fannie
S. 1, Phelps, who is generall XA Wardw,S?3 ^ri^en ,Sisttr
manager of the Dublin Floral White, W orthy Matron
& Nursery Co., of Dublin, was (Cgbo" Chaptor O. K. S..
up again this week and purchas- H expects to organize at
ed 50 acres of land from D. R. | ar^a,n on ?'jPD pth, and all
Boatright near the tract he; w have paid the rnitiatioh fee
purchased recently about TU ! an( , subscribe.^.' as Charter
miles east of town. The entire!niernl)erS ure requested to be
50 acres that he got this week Prfcnt at MasonicTIall on that
is in a good state of cultivation x_ato' Wr purpose of organiz-
Assistant Postmaster T PI
Dingier informs us that the two
Rural routes heretofore mention-
ed will be installed Nov 1st
This should be appreciated by
the town as well as those on
the lines
sects and dangerously contageous
tree and plant diseases. This
certificate to be void after July
31, 1907 A. W. ORR,
State Inspector of Nurseries and
Orchards.
Dublin, Texas?, Aug. 11, 1906.”
In addition to the above certifi-
cate the Inspector said our stock
of trees were as fine as he ever
saw. Any one wanting Fruit
Trees, etc., will do well to make
application soon. S. L Phelps.
and Mr. Phelps informs us that
he will set it in fruit trees this
fall. When such men as this
invest in Carbon fruit land it
more fully convinces the people
that ours is a fruit country in-
deed. In speaking of the Car-
bon country some time ago Mr.
Phelps said: “There is no part
of the state of Texas, of which
ing, confering the O. E. S.
degree on those present and
giving instructions in the
exeoterie. _ T. II. Dingier W.M.
Carbon Lodge No. 786 a. f. a a, m.
Remember Carbon Public
school opens Sept. 10 instead of
the 3rd as Was published in last
wees- s issue. Sickness of Prof.
I have any knowledge, that is a I -[-Md has caused this change in
better^ all-round fruit countryjc*ate'
then Eastland county, and most!
especially the Carbon country.”, Carbon’s new. side walks “do
And he ought to know. I shine.”
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Devoe l
Dealers
in Lumber,
Shingles, Lime,
Cement,
Brick,
Devoe
\ Paint
Paint,
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And in Fact
Everything in
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Paint
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Curtis, W. T. The Herald. (Carbon, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1906, newspaper, August 31, 1906; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521650/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Eastland Centennial Memorial Library.