The Sherman Courier (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 25, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 20 x 14 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
'-'Y
V
1Y
I
111
■
w
THE SHERMAN COURIER
1 . !
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, »**.
Re jgfrmmm (trotter
County's Oldest
Newspaper
VEX AS IMMIGRATION COMPANY
Owners and Publishers
W. J. Minton, Editor.
iU
Minton, Managing Editor
Harris, City Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Daily (except Monday) 60 cento a
month; $6.00 a year. Any number of
months desired may be paid in ad
vanot at the rate of SO cento a months
Thursday’s issue 10 cento a month;
12 months $1.00, when paid in advance.
Thursday’s issue, in addition to giving
the general news of the day also gives
a general summary of the news for
the preceding week, and is specially
devoted to the interests and doings of
the country people.
Sunday’s issue, 10 cento a month;
12 months $1.00 when paid in
advance. Sunday’s issue, in addition to
riving the general news up to 2:00
eVleck Sunday morning also carries
special features and articles for Sun-
day reading, and is specially devoted
to education and the doings of the
schools and school children of Sher-
man and* Grayson county for the pre-
ceding week.
Thursday and Sunday’s issue, to-
gether, 20 cents a month; 12 months,
12.00 when paid in advance.
W. L. C. Hill made a commission
of fifty thousand dollars when he as-
sisted in the sale of the Eaatham farm
to the State—and that was a pretty
big commission on a $360,000 sale.
But the State was paying, what’s the
difference!
The movement to save two million
cattle is all right—they should be
saved. But let us not forget to save
the men, women and children as ws
go along. And some of them are as
helpless and needy as the cattle, in the
section where the cattle need saving.
That there are prominent men in
the United States that have conspir-
ed against this country, men who have
made money and been given offices of
trust, seems incredible, yet it is stated
by the Government attorney in the
San Francisco distiict that such is
the case. If found guilty they should
be sent to Germany to live.
What the Schools Are Doing
7 Million
There are still too many deaths
from typhoid fever. One death is
too many—and there have been sev-
eral times one in Grayson county and
in adjoining counties lately. Water
is probably the cause in many cases.
Pure water is a great lack in many
communities. The cost of a funeral
would provide a family with tanks to
store rain water.
Advertising rates
request.
furnished upon
Entered at the Post Office at Sher-
man, Texas, as second-class matter.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1917.
GOOD ROADS PLAN.
Senator McNealus, one of the mem-
bers' of the committee investigating
penitentiary affairs, favors the work-
ing of convicts on the building of per-
manent good roads in Texas and the
abolition of factories on the inside
that require skilled labor. And there
he is right. It is seldom that skilled
workmen go to the penitentiary. They
are so busy attending to their own
business and looking after their fami-
lies, as a rule, that they seldom have
any time for criminal offenses and
less inclination, to follow criminal ca-
reers. Then they read so much about
crime that the desire to do wrong is
taken away.
The writer of these lines has for
years favored the plan suggested by
Senator McNealus. Senator McNealus
says that he favors substitution of s
system making possible the use of
prisoners of the State penitentiary
system upon public works, especially
the building of a great system of
public highways, planned and made*
of a permanent nature to serve the
whole State. In this work, he be-
lieves, the great majority of the men
prisoners could be used profitably.
For the others, he favors some form
of industry, such as rock quarrying
and crushing, that (would be of a less
complicated nature.
He said his report to the Senate
as its subcommittee will embody de-
tailed recommendation to this effect,
and opposing either the present indus-
tries or the present system of exten-
sive fanning. He does not believe the
farming system can be profitable, ex-
cept in extraordinary years such as
this, when record-breaking prices an)
fair crops make immense profits.
- Counties could well afford to hire
from the State one hundred or two
hundred men for a year and get their
roads well constructed. There are
good reasons why inside industries do
not pay in the penitentiary and lack
of skilled labor is one of them, but
the opportunity for graft is one of
the greatest drawbacks.
Citizens who are visited by strange
men who ask questions that they ap-
parently have no right to ask should
get in touch with the police or sheriff
force. There are various and sundry
sorts of swindlers and spies going
about and in some districts there are
men who claim to be seizing food for
the government and taking canned
goods, etc., from homes. The Govern-
ment has no agents out seizing food
and is not going to send any out.
The Germans will have to nbandon
trench fighting to a large extent be-
cause the British do not intend to let
them stay in one place long enough
to put in their “pill boxes'” and gen-
eral system of trench defenses. Ger-
many is short of cavalry horses and
the American cavalry forces can be
used to good advantage in open fight-
ing. The British have done a won-
derful work with the tanks and there
will be more of them built and used
from now on. The tank is a wonder-
ful engine of war.
DAVY CROCKETT.
Visitors
Welcome
Some of the mothers have been
kind enough to come and see ^his
wonderful school we have over hfere
in the south fifth ward. The guests
we had this month were: Messrs.
Steadman and Coleman; Mmes. W. H.
Miller, Mitchell, L. Paradeau, Geo.
Opel, B. Carpenter, A. Carpenter, and
W. Phillips; and Miss Pearl Burdette.
Christmas
Pageant
The dear “mothers” of the Crockett
are busy again planning a Christmas
pageant. Of course this means a lot
of hard work, but they never seem to
mind that, thanks to their kindness.
If it were not for the mothers this
school would soon go broke. They
are doing everything in their power
to make it a great success.
Best
Spellers t
Perfect spellers in the low sixth
grade this week are: Hazel Stafford,
JHurrin Clark, Elsie Matlock, Ollie
Kelly, Ida Mae Yayne, Floyd Greer,
Vera Neal.
Low III. Louise Lanhan, Gilbert
Waddle, Arrel Sewell, Pauline Miller,
Ralph Jarnagan.
& -
Perfect in
Arithmetic
The low third grade reports two
pupils perfect in arithmetic for the
whole week—Allen Murphy and Loie
Fleming.
Personal
Mention
The low sixth grade had a special
visitor this week, but it was not a
mother. It was one of the old Crock-
ett boys back visiting.
Mrs. Mayfield had a letter from
Evelyn Oglesby, a Crockett girl who
is now a student of the Brackenridge
High School in San Antonio. Among
some of the things she mentioned
was that she was on the Ho(nor Roll
for the first quarter.
Our idea of something! to worry
about—the scarcity of ’possum in
this immediate vicinity.
Sometimes when we hear some peo-
ple talking it is hard to guess whethe.*
they talk that way because they think
it is smart or hope that other people
will think so.
There are more than two mililon
farms in the United States without a
hog on them—and entirely too many;
of them are in Texas. That is, the
liogless farms, not the hogs.
•f* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*
*x* •}■
•u From Other Papers 4*
•j*
*1* 4* *1* 4* *1* *!* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*
IT’S EVERYBODY’S WAR.
From the way some people talk,
it is their particular and private
war but don’t you believe it,
fierce reader! It is ycur’n and
our’n—a free for all fight, and if
we do not do our share we are
slackers. Get the point?—Clarks-
ville Times.
The trouble is that so many peo-
ple are afraid they will do their share
and not get their share, which is a
different thing. They think now is
the time for them to make a stake, to
stick every man they can in a deal
and sell everything for nn extrava-
gant price. They are only concern-
ed in making a profit out of the needs
of the country. They want to do
their share of humanity and not fdr
humanity. They remind one of the
advertisement of a set of fake doc-
tors whose closing appeal was, “Come
to us and we will do you good.” Some
of the people want to them and the
doctors (?) did do them good—and
plenty.
SEWER SYSTEMS NEEDED.
Ladouia is wanting to put in a
sewer system and the Ladonia
News is telling the people of that
city how Whitewright put in her
system, and advising that the
same plan be used there. If Van /
Asltyne and n few other towns
we could name would follow the
pace set by Whitewright, they
would be better towns to live in
than they1 are today.—White
wright Sun.
Quite correct. The town of these
days cannot afford to do without a
sewer system and neither ean any
farm of considerable size. You can
get along after a fashion—but you
cannot afford it. Many a farmer who
does not think he can afford to carry
insurance against fire finds that^ he
could have a great deal better afford-
ed it than to lose his barn and feed
Attendance
Record
First grade pupils present every
day of the second month are: Eliza-
beth Alexander, Alma Hunt, Rut't
Butridge, Ina Burleson, Velah Bilder-
back, Myrtle Coleman, Hazel Kirk,
Lois Kennedy, Dorothy Melton, Allie
Mae Morris, Irene Mitchell, Julia Og
lesby, Willie Rogers, Nola Sewell, Ev-
elyn Slagle, Lois Simpson, Beatrice
Talmage, Thelma Tong, Verna Bar
rington, Oleta Ashley, Vaugh Ashley
Jack Boaz, Cecil Bernard, Ernest
Hunt, Raymond Hogue, Ones King,
David McElroy, Fred Offitt, Albert
Smith, Randolph Parham, Darwin
Spragin, and Fred Thomas.
Low first grade pupils absent dur-
ing the second month are: Olivin Es-
tes, 7 days; Katie Barrett 1-2 day;
Hazel Davis 1; Claude Stanford 4;
Eva Ray McKey 3; Mary Ross 1-2;
Fay Stice 1; Marjorie Thomas 2; J. D.
Brannon 6; Colquitt Elliott 5; Collie
Kirshnes 10; William Patterson t;
Andrew Potter 10; William Wilkerson
1.
\
General Haig and General Byng,
names that will go down in history and not Wt a cem ‘n return from
have done a great work the past week
and have started something that will
end the war.
A Fannin county man of twenty -
five married a widow of thirty-five,
with four boys from thirteen years
old down. Guess that fe*?sw is going
to raise cotton and wants a cinch on
pickers to start with.
Vi ____
A Sherman lady says that there
not many flags displayed and
vrhy more are not shown.
uny special reason? Or is it
is so severe cm the
them. Afford is a very clastic word.
The farmer cannot afford to spend
$100 or'$200 to get a pure water
supply—then he has to afford
to spend twice that amount on
two members of his family, by rea-
son of the lack of the pure water sup-
ply. He could have afforded it but
he just did not want to part with
the money. The parting with the
loved ones was much harder. Let
Ladonia and Van Alstyne and Whites-
boro and every other town that has
not a sewer system get busy and put
in ono. The loss of two or three or
more valuable lives in ejich may bn
any kind indefinitely at our social
meetings.
Many talks were given for the good
of the club, and each mother present
promised to come next time and bring
another mother with her. If every
mother who has a child in school
would visit the school and see the
bright, happy faces of their own chil-
dren as they enter their room, they
would feel that they were more than
repaid for the little time given them.
Every little one is anxiously looking
for mother, and some are made so
happy when they see her arrive, but
seme are so disappointed and their
little faces so sad, for their mama
Never Comes.
Let each mother make a more des-
perate effort to visit the school at
least once a month. It will help the
teachers; it will help your children;
and last, but not least, it will help
you. It is to you mothers of today
that the great responsibilities of home
and the safeguarding of our country
have been given. Are you conscient-
iously and unselfishly doing your very
best? Nothing in this world is truer!
than that We get out of this-life just!
about what we put into it. So come
see what others are doing; catch the
spirit of work yourself and brighten
up your comer of the work. You arc
one mother. Every one counts. You
can not do eveything, but you can do
something. And every little thing
counts. If you do your part and ev-
ery other mother does the same how
much easier the school work would
be for our children. How their happy
little eyes Would dance, and how light
each little heart would be, when mama |
visits the school.
We completed plans for our Christ-
mas entertainment to be given Fri-
day night, December. All are work-
ing to make his entertainment a
great success.
A Mother.
Thousand Dollars
1 Is the Amount Subscribed (or
LIBERTY LOAN BONDS, 2nd BSUE,
* By the
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES, REPRESENTED
IN OUR AGENCY.
Place Your Insurance with Companies
that Are Helping Your Country.
GULICK & HALL
(General insurance agents.
410-12 M.IP. BANK BUILDING
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
Best
Spellers
Those scoring perfect in spelling
for the week in the low seventh grade
are:
Boys: Warren Boggs, William Den-
nis, Henry Crawford.
Girls: Louise Noble, Jimmy L.
Taylor, Dorothy Scott, Lavelle Wilson.
Aubrey French, Grace McKown, Elma
King, Georgia McKinstry, Frances
(Continued on page seven)
Chiropractic- -
Names
THE CAUSE
MOTHERS why do you let your chil-
dren suffer with Bed Wetting, when
there is a cause ?
HAVE THE CAUSE REMOVED.
D. J. D A W D Y, Chiropractor.
Mrs. Dawdy, Asst
Nothing but pure unadulterated Chiropractic. Consultation and
Analysis always FREE. Appointments Day or Night. Phone 688’
AT DR. TEEM’S OLD STAND, 528 S. ELM.
J
PROSPECTIVE BUILDERS—When yon want a contractor prone 279
\
Mothers’
Club
The Mothers of David Crockett
school met in regular monthly social
meeting, last Friday afternoon at J
o'clock and had a large attendance
and several new members added to the
roll. The sixth grade, with Miss
Emma Wallace, teacher, entertained
the mothei-s with a delightful pro-
gram cf music recitations and songs,
which were much enjoyed by all. One
song by the class was especially en-
joyed, “Can the Kaiser,” tune Dixie
Land, as follows:
In khaki suit and army visor
All .abroad to can the Kaiser.
Look away. Look away,
Look away to Germany.
In Kaiser’s land he reigns alone.
We’ll push the Kaiser off his throne.
Look away, Look Away,
Look away to Germany.
Chorus
Oh then I want to can the Kaiser,
Hurrah! Hurrah!>
I take my stand in Kaiser land
Until I can the Kaiser,
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go
And can the Kaiser.
This little song by the class receiv-
ed much applause and shows the great
effort the teachers are putting forth
to teach our children real, true Ames*,
ican patriotism.
Little Jewel Brewster sang beauti-
j fully “Mother”, to the delight of every
tone present. This interesting little
program closed with “The Star Span-
gled Banner" sung by the claw., A
social hour was spent, which was both
profitable and enjoyable to all.
Owing to so many appeals for more
economy than ever before baa been
known, and in consideration of the
United States food administration
act, and what we are asked to do fori
our country, it was luianim'm’;'
ried to dispense with refreshments ef
Discharged—But Not Fired
Don’t think your battery’s
a “dead one” because it’s dis-
charged. With expert handling
a discharged battery can be
filled again with “pep” and put
back on the job.
-j , But it takes an expert to do
it- - to determine the proper
slow rate of charge to begin
with, then to speed up the
charge as the battery is able to
take it.
Recharging is only one phase of
the batfery service we’re offering
car owners, but it’s an important
one.
And don’t forget that a Still Better
Willard and Threaded Rubber In-
sulation means Jess liability to bat-
tery trouble of any kind.
Sherman Storage Battery Company
218 S. TRAVIS ST. RHONE 1S<3
HB ■■>
Willard
BliilAiiMiftiiyil
Mill, 1V y
■ '
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Minton, W. J. The Sherman Courier (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 25, 1917, newspaper, November 25, 1917; Sherman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth717445/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .