The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PLANO STAR-COURIER
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Something
to all who
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Week.
FOR SALE
10 shares Plano
Cotton Oil Co.
Stock. Address
H. Follansbee,
Bo* 555
Corpus Christs, Texas.
CARD or THANKS
Words aro inadequate to ex-
press our appreciation to those
who were so kind to help and
sympathize with us in the hour
of our trouble.
May God’s richest blessing
rust upon you all is our prayer.
Mu. and Mus. W. O. Hacdaud.
FOR SALf.
First class prairie hay and oat
straw. (• 0. A i.1 *kii kjk.
The King and Queen of Eng
land are served daily with his-
euits from Hour made on a 2ft
barrel Midget Marvel mill. They
are progressive. Plano Hour is
made by the same size and style
of mill.
W. A. Stanley & Co. moved
their ofliees the latter |*art of last
week from the soeoml floor of the
Crawford building to the second
floor of the Spilman building, to
the rooms formerly occupied by
Attorney J. F Harrington. This
is the location formerly occupied
for a number of years by Mr.
Stanley and he is comfortably at
home again.
The Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Co., had two men
busy for a week at Plano adjust
ing cables looking to a better
service, who completed the work
Tuesday.
Come early and get you a bar-
gain in a cultivator at
Kkni>iuck’s.
Will Grow Fine
Pecans at Plano
.1. S. Aldridge is making a con-
siderable investment this week
for the production of improved
pecans of the highest quality. At
his home, two miles west ol'the
city, he is having an expert graft
250 native pecan bushes with
buds of a species of the nut that
grow to the enormous size of a
walnut and because of size and
quality sell at a premium of 100
to 5(H) ;«■; cent over the common
stock.
The work is being done by
Charles S. Edwards of Dallas, as
sociated with the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas
in this class of development. 'Flu
buds thus grafted will begin to
bear in the second year of their
age, and will reach full develop-
ment by about the fourth year,
and without reference to the
stock upon which grafted,assure
a reproduction of the parent
from which the bud is taken.
The process is an innovation
here and Prof. C. E. McGuire, of
the city school, is talcing a class
of boys out to the Aldridge farm
to get lessons in the process.
J. L. Aldridge will later have
about twenty trees similarly
treated and C. N. Haggard will
also have about the same number
budded by Mr. Edwards while
he is here this time. The plan,
though new at Plano, is by no
means experimental, as Mr. Ald-
ridge visited and examined many
examples of its successfu I results
before beginning it. He is en-
thusiastic in the matter and
naturally contemplates with sat
isfaction the pleasure ami protit
he will derive in future years
from his present enterprise.
FOR SALE.
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Black Langshan eggs for set
ting. SI.IK) per setting. Phone
S. W. 102-3. Mks. EdNet/.ku.
Estimates furnished on your
muse painting, everything fur
ished. Phone 109.
Mr. and Mrs. 1). L. Palmer
and Misses Creola Searcy,
Gladys Fox, Julia Vernon, C*er
trudo Pe Maurier, Maggie
Taylor, Luena E r a n k 1 i n a n d
Hariot Sherley went, to Dallas
Tuesday to see the Garden of
Allah at the Dallas < )per:i lions.*.
His numerous friends were
glad to liml C. E. Goode ;d>|e to
he up town Monthly again fter a
severe and dangerous at lack el
pneumonia.
Rev. P. I>. Tucker attended
the banquet given l\i Dallas
Presbyterians to the Hon W .1.
Hr.van Wednesday night in that
city.
In the Annual Report of the Texas Rail-
road Commission for 1900, then presided
over by that grand old commoner, John H.
Reagan, after noticing the great increase in
the amount that the Railroads of Texas had
to pay in satisfaction of Jury verdicts and
Court Judgments for personal injuries, the
report says:
“While we have no official information
showing the cause of this great increase
we understand, in a general way, that
it probably results in a large degree
from the activities of regularly organiz-
ed personal injury bureaus. The only
direct interest which this Commission
has in this question grows out of the
fact that, as the amount of these pay-
ments are increased, the available rev-
enues of the railroad companies are
reduced thus necessarily operating, to
that extent, to prevent the reduction of
freight rates, or, it might be, to cause
an increase of rates.”
What Judge Reagan and his associates
foresaw and warned against has actually
happened. The Railroad Commission of
Texas has increased freight rates. Not
much yet; but it is hoped the increase will
he sufficiently liberal to relieve the roads of
their distressing necessities.
The Commission, after the most exhaus-
tive, patient, laborious and painstaking in-
vestigation ever before undertaken by a
state rate-making body, in which hearing
the Commission was assisted by able attor-
neys and experts, in no way connected with
the railroads; and with the single purpose
of learning the truth and doing their duty
as sworn officials of your choosing, the
Commissioners have found that the rail-
roads are entitled to earn more revenue to
enable them to pay their operating expenses
and a fair return upon the value of the
property devoted to public use.
It would not he fair to charge the entire
increase to personal injury payments. Such
payments had, however, a considerable in-
fluence in the way of increased expenses,
but there are many other ways of unneces-
sarily increasing the expenses of the rail-
roads. The legislature can, and in the past
lias done so. And every expense imposed
or forced on the railroads by the legislature
must he considered in fixing freight rates
paid by the people, and mostly by the pro-
ducers of the wealth of the state.
The last legislature was importuned, by
selfish interests, to pass wholly unnecessary
and expensive lnws, such as the so-called
“full crew bill” and others, that would, had
they been enacted, have increased the ex-
penses of the railroads of the state about
four million dollars per year. The legisla-
ture, how ver, refused to place this enor-
mous oxper-.-.e >u i v snippers and produc-
ers of ties state, a ad you iustly owe your
lawmakers a vote of thanks for thus protec-
ting . u. For if t c legislature had passed
>ense would
have had to he > ken mto consideration by
the Radro id Commission fixing the ad-
• • : 5i eafter allowed.
T‘ ■’ anti; . . : t* . .dature has saved
the shipper a.id produc ts of this state a
vast amount of money.
Tim iinaneia! cm dition of the railroads
fin- • i, a s i- an iurv. as-a in freight rates.
We oulc l -er glm;, had the condition
o! he r '..is . 1 ; uck i! at we would not
have had to ask for such increase.
Ives in the
amount of freig t rates is to assist tiie rail-
11 prevent-
in their op • rating <• n es from being
urtkt I;. as*. V.-h you tl us help your-
sX” •; y< ”• ;,M bats and your friends?
Youi* late and comity officials publish
nts of the r rnblic acts for the infor-
mali<•: ’he oeeplc; v.'nle rai’roads are
pn\ Italy owned, they u - 'operated for the
one f oft m public. 11 tee people are en-
titl d t< kn )W how the] ar^ 1 by rail-
road legislation ane regulation.
GENERAL
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You aro oat inn too much
starchy Hour. Why go furthor
anil fare worse, uso Plano Hour.
Pure wheat Hour, nothing more
nor loss.
YV. M. GhadJiek returned Fri-
day from a visit to Corpus
Christi, whore he lias property
interests.
Richard Tillery
county is visiting
T. N. Tillery.
of Concho
his cousin.
Mrs. Robert Goebel of Dallas
was the guest of Mrs. P. D.
Tucker the tirst of the week.
Tomato, cabbage and popj>er
plants for sale. 2,’* cents per
UK). J. T. Johnston.
| The Fearless Film Star
HELEN HOLMES
in the great railroad film
novel “The Girl and the
Game” at the
PALACE TUESDAY.
OIL STOVES j
Make the work of the home lighter by using the
gasoline stove, of which our stock shows a complete
assortment. See them before you buy. Lawn mow-
ers, cream freezers, garden tools. Now is the time to
screen your homse before the flies get a start. We
sell more screen wire than anybody.
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Fannie Harrington
Epworth League
The following program will be
rendered at the Chattel, March
ID, at 0:30 o’clock:
leader—Schley Dupree.
Song.
Scripture reading.
Reading—Earl Story.
Solo Mrs. Walter Harrington.
Talk —Miss Ethel Co then
Quartette — Kennedy David son,
Mathew* K. Harrington.
Music—Mrs. Glen Dupree.
Song.
Bible Characters.
Song.
Prayer.
Announcements.
Benediction.
Favors Senator
Ed Westbrook!
Tim Texas R ii; -iy .’ >i>rn.-
a muffizine puldisl cd ■ r Cmt
Worth devoted to the iiAcii
of organized labor ::nd I: bor
gene rn I, uses the follow- i u c.<
plimei.i.iry language in sp-viuing
of our Senator Wost •rook’s
record in the Senate mid his
candid,.c»■ to second term:
“Senator Ed Westbrook is a
candidate to succeed himself in
the 35th Texas Legislature, and
I no more deserving public official
in Texas is offering for re-elec-
tion at the hands of his constitu
cuts. Ed Westbrook is a man of
and for the people, and one in
i whom the people can trust any-
where and any time, and ought
to he returned by his people
without opposition.
The Journal knows Mr. West-
brook and admires and respects
him, because of his honesty,
sincerity and courage of his con
victions, and to our readers in
his district we wish to say that
he should ho returned to the
! state senate because of his loyal-
ty and and his sympathy for
them in all his official career.
The Journal is always for those
who remember their benofac-
tors, as does Senator Westbrook,
and we are certain he will he re
' elected to the state senate.” Ad.
Overland Automobile
the best on eAccra for the koney.
Let this fact be impressed oh your mind at the -tar : Thci • i - not now and ha* never been
any other automobile embodying all Iheadvanl - «*■ the G\ .-bind Engineers will tell you,
that in any mechanism, the simples! design is in\ ba>V,y the most efficient The have!- the
parts, the simpler and more positive the operation, the le- s chance there is lor friction and wear.
Here lies the advantage of the Overland motor, it is simple and mechanically correct.
Prices Right: 36lo.0v1
see JAMES R. ADAMS, Age
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: P. 0. Box 323.
PLANO, TEXAS.
Phone 29.
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I_7. VJ. VJiL/Ui^v.
Hundreds of iieople in and
nround Plano use Piano Hour.
Why hesitate? Order Plano Hour
next time.
City Federation
of Clubs Meeting
At the meeting of the city fed
oration of clubs this week vari-
ous committee reports were re
ceived and new work assigned to
other committees* which is being
despatched. The next meeting
of the federation will be held at
tlio «chno1 auditorium on Thurs-
day. March 23, at 3 p. ui.
J. F. HARRINGTON
Attorney-at-Law
NOTARY PUBLIC
Plano, - Texas.
Dr. C. J. HICKS
DENTIST
Oftiee in Beaty Building.
Phono 02.
S. B. WYATT, M. D'.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Old ’Phone 100.
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tVtMliUUilLC. V-Mlt 1 nun- 4-IV.
New ’Phono 20.
Listen friend! If you haven’t
tried Plano Hour it’s your move, j
Star Courier $1.00 per year.
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F|iJ M TO. LIVESTOCK.
j HOODR 'AL’I'i 1 J. Oilier; Guaranty State Hank.
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Dr. Harris
Residence 'Phone 84.
Office ’Phone 02.
W. D. ELLIS, M. D
Office over Allen Brothers
Drug Store.
Office Phone 3^. ices phone™.
obt. T. Day N
VETERINARY SURGEON.
( .e 27 Night Phone 227
• ■ai ' »: d‘s Livery Stable.
G ic 'red on Motorcycle.
>■11 ’ WHENCE LEWIS
VETERINARY
KiW omi vec u-i
proposition.
‘ lit -* t/UJ|^li Ubt/^iiviuu SAJ «««i LUIA0
'Phone No. 17o5-rings.
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The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1916, newspaper, March 17, 1916; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601592/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.