The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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TEMPLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12 1897 Regular Subscription $1.60 per Year.
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then make a hat to fit it? Sounds fool-
J ish to even talk about it, dont it?.
I Sounds Just as Foolish
(to us), this idea that you’ve got to
go to a tailor to get a fit.
NO MATTER
If You’re Tall,
If You’re Short,
If You’re Stout,
If You’re Slim,
If You’re Average
Your Size
Is Apt to Be Here.
If it is-the saving here will be
no small item. We dont sell Suits worth
$20.00 for $9.98—no “stickers” like that
to work oft.
A RIFE THOUGHT.
We sen
Dependable Qualities
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at prices that-well, you drop
in and see. That will be better anyhow.
At same time we can show you money- »
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Shoes, Hats,
Underwear,
And anything else in Dry Goods.
i i Bentley, Bass & Go.
“CASH LEADERS,”
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A friend in an eastern city writes
me that the bank of which he is a
director has withdrawn all business
from Texas. This, he says, is on
account of bad laws and the unsound
views of the people on the currency
question. I will give you a part of
my reply to his letter. After ex-
plaining to him how little the people
who live where he does really know
of our people. I said: “The with-
drawal of all business of all the
banks and of all the wholesale houses
of the east would put us to a great
inconvenience for a time, but would
not destroy us. There are mills
here to grind our corn arid our
wheat, We have the cattle, and the
sheep, and the hogs to make our
meat. The use of the old time spin-
ning wheel and hand loom have not
been entirely forgotten, and the
forests still would furnish us with
dye stuffs, so that our women could
furnish the men butter-nut jeans
suits and cottonade dresses for
themselves. The farmer could make
his own implements and shoes. We
could make our own hats from the
wool that grows on the backs of our
sheep. The women could knit
stockings tor themselves and socks
fjr the men. We have paper mills
to make paper for our books, and
lots ot men and women capable of
writing books for use in our schools.
Our own mines could furnish us
with the iron, copper and salt that
we need. Our own fields would
furmsh us with sugar and rice, and
just across the border in Mexico we
can get all the silver and copper we
want. We can make our combs and
buttons from the horns and bones
of our cattle and hair brushes from
the bristles of our hogs. We could
make our cups and saucers and
plates, our jugs and jars and bowls
from the material that the God of
nature has bountifully provided for
us, and our glass ware from the
silica that is abundant in Texas.
We could soon have factories to
manufacture our cuttlery and other
needed things from the steel that
we could make from our own inex-
haustible mines. We can build our
houses with our own lumber and
brick and stone. In fact, my friend,
when you take a sober second
thought you will see that Texas can
get along better without the East
than the East can without Texas.
The effect of the policy your bank is
pursuing, if generally adopted in
the East, that is, if the boycot
against us becomes general there, it
will make us the most independent
people on the face of the earth in
ten years.” I band this to you,
Mr. Editor, because I feel that the
time has come for our own people to
reflect a little. Under our present
system the majority of our people
are growing poorer every year.
They depend on buying from abroad
everything they eat and wear, and
thus become more and more helpless
and dependent all the time. We
practically manufacture nothing,
when it is in the power of every
farmer to be almost entirely inde-
pendent of the outside world. I say
almost, because there are some
things he needs that he cannot
make himself. Not long ago I
passed by a farm house and heard
the whirr of a spinning wheel and
the steady bang of the old time
loom, and it carried me back to my
boyhood days. I drove up to the
gate and stopped just to see what I
would find. I was kindly received
by a hale, hearty, kindly looking
farmer’s wife. She was neatly
dressed, her children were com-
fortably clothed in jeans woven
by her own hands, her floors were
covered with home-made rag car-
pets, and there were all the eyi-
dences of neatness, comfort and
thrift about the placo. I asked her
if she had done this work all the
time since she had been married and
she said, no, that she had only been
at it about three years; that her
husband had tor some years depend-
ed on making cotton and a little
corn, raising a hog or two. They
bought everything out of the stores
they liyed on, as long as they could
get credit. The time came to them
when they had no money, no sup-
plies and no credit, and they were
driven to their present plan. Now
they have money, have supplies and
don’t want any credit. She told me
that she was happy and contented,
and that she expected to keep on
spinning and weaving, while her
husband would raise corn and oats,
and hogs, and colts, and some cot-
ton as long as the Lord would give
health, and sense, and strength.
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Belton Breezes.
ucueral Manager I*-1.!., iLv
Santa Fe, was in town Wednesday.
Maj. Crow, of Waco, and P. L.
Downs, of Temple, have been ap-
pointed to install officers in the Uni-
form Rank K. of. P., in Belton, Feb-
ruary 19.
Dr. J. H. Payne, of Parkdale, was
in town Friday.
Misses Lola and Allie Thompson
spent Friday and Saturday in Tem-
ple.
W. S. Monger has purchased the
place formerly occupied by J. R.
Donnell.
1 rs. Hughes, of Kansas, is visit-
ing her brothers G. A. and Dang
Gray.
Dock Talley, of Bartlett, was in
Belton, Thursday.
Chas. Holzgraf, returned Sunday
from San Angelo, where he has been
for two months as telegraph opera
tor. He now goes to Hearne to fill
the same position.
P. L. Ellis is building a brick bus-
iness house on the Avenue.
Mr. Mabry Shrock went to Cam-
eron the past week on business.
Miss Olga Doabek has returned to
Temple after a two week’s visit to
her parents in Belton.
The Y. M. C. A. had a special
meeting Sunday for men only.
Miss Elsa Rand, of Alvarado, has
succeeded W. C. Armstrong at the
telegraph office.
Capt. Mabry, of near Seaton, was
over Sunday to see his brother Jerry.
Mrs. H. Y. H. Mabry, of Seaton,
has returned home after a visit to
her son Jerry, near the dam.
The district court has been en-
gaged during the past week on the
McGlasson case and are not half
through.
Following are the marriage licens-
es:
Fred McLaughlin, Bell Cress.
W E Gideon, Ethel Lanford,
J A Ham, Daisy Taff.
T F Hefner, Carry Cooper.
E L Donelson, Mattie Graham.
Geo Fields, Cora Moore.
D G Hubbard, Josephine Gilmore*
Commissioners Court:
Kellers Branch and Belton road
changed.
McClure and Hamilton road
changed.
DISTRICT COURT.
State vs Dave Meyers, murder,
court of criminal appeals.
State vs Thos Kennedy, selling
mortgaged property, dismissed.
State vs McGlasson, forgery, not
guilty.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,
G W Courtney to J G Wolf, Bel-
ton, $25.
S D Bough to S G Sevier,$3.077.75
I M Cheatham to J T Anderson,
$000.
J H Simpson to M A Simpson,
$1000.
Mamie D Harmon to H M Johnson
$343.70.
R M Cole to A B Loner and T E
Loner, $65.
John Alexander and wife to W H
Black, $1000.
I F Murphy to A V Atkins, $1200.
Jos B Pruitt and wife to Mamie D
Haron $160.
J R Coffev to L R Wade and W R
Wallace $35.00.
J E Pietzsch to J H Jones, $30.
S D Wheat to F M Wheat, $975.
J E West and wife to P Toland,
$2,077.58.
From Ooker.
Farmers are rushing their work
during this fine weather.
The literary last Saturday night
was a success and well attended. It
meets again next Saturday might.
Dr. Bob Bunt, who has been at-
tending lectures at Louisville, re-
turned last Thursday.
Several of Ocker’s citizens have
been summoned to appear at the
Lehman trial on the 12th inst.
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Crow, J. D. The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1897, newspaper, February 12, 1897; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth585206/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.