The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday June 7, 1917
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JACKSBORO OAZ
THE FIRST NUTIONUL BUNKF
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OF JACKSBORO,TEXAS
Capital $150JM Surplus $50,000), j
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James W. Knox, President. E. R. Worthington, Vice Pres.
H. T. Daugherty, Vice Pres.
C. A. Worthington, Cashier.
DIRECTORS
H. T. Duagherty, E. R. Worthington,1
C. A. Woi-thington. ;
James W. Knox,
J. P. Hackley,
Warren Worthington
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Songs that stirred the hearts of patriots in tis
the hearts of patriots today. Famous war pi
lished each week in The Jacksboro Gazette^
own National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled
THE PICKET GUARi
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL ||
THE BIVOUAC OF THE
BY THEODORE O’HARA
HORATIUS AT THE BRll
BY T. B. MACAULAY
THE INDEPENDENCE B
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
THE DESTRUCTION OF SENN.
BY LORD BYRON
THE ROLL CAl£
BY NATHANIEL G. SHEPPARD
THE SOLDIER’S DREAM
BY ETHEL LYNN BEERS
When you need FINANGIAL GUIDANGE corns in.
Wehave time to “listen.” Maybe we can help you.
Our bank is a member of the National FEDERAL
PRESERVE SYSTEM of Banks.
We can turn our securities into GASH.
Your money is safe in our bank; you can GET it when
you WANT it.
Gome see us even if you are not yet banking with us.
We shall make you feel AT HOME.
Make OUR bank YOUR bank
c. A* WORTHINGTON, Cashier.
TOTAirRAINFALL, AS SHOWN BY GAUGE AT
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK:
To June 5,1913,....... 9.40 In.
une 5, 1914.......11.81 In.
5, 1915,.......13.78 In.
i, 1916........13.95 In.
ft, 1917,.,..... 0.411a.
Total—1913, 31.29 ;
For the Last Seven Days:
May 3B, ......... 27 In.
Jnne 1, ...............17 In.
Total............ .44 In.
1914. 30.73; 1915, 32.50
Court of Inquiry Opened at Gra,
Texas Boys at the Front.
West Texas Reporter: A Court
-of Inquiry was formed here last
Thursday morning consisting of
Judge W. P. Stinson, County At-
torney, B. W. KSijg and Sheriff M.
|l. Wallace, together with four
Texas Rangers, for the purpose of
investigating an organization of
the Fanners & Laborers’ Protect-
ive Association which organiza-
tion has been given mueh promi-
nence due to its alleged anti-con-
scription sentiment. All members
of the suspected association
Horace Clyde IJalslej, a former
student of the University of Tex-
as from San Antonio is an* avia-
tor with the allied armies in
France. Clitus Jones resigned
from the University several
months ago, and is now a driver
for the American Ambulance
Corps in France. Mr. Jones in
writing to a friend at the Univer-
sity says: “We are on the front
at last and things are pretty busy
even in this comparatively quiet
section. Yesterday when we ar-
rived one fellow had a close call.
(tur bugles sang truce—for the night cloud had lowerer,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.
When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,
By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain;
-At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw,
And thrice ere the morning I dreamed it again.
JMethought from the battlefield’s dreadful array,
Far, far I had roamed oh a desolate track:
'T was Autumn,—and the sunshine arose on the way
To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back.
I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft
In life’s morning march, when my bosom was yonug;
1 heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft,
And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly 1 swore,
From my home and my weeping friends never to part
My little ones kissed me a thousand times o’er,
And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart.
Stay, stay with us,—rest, thou art weary and worn
And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay;—
But sorrow returned with the dawning of monk
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
Former Jack County Boys, N^w BALFOUR COWBOY IN
Oklahomans, Heard From. j TEXAS BEFORE BECOM-
; Iiealdton Okla., June 4.—J, P. ] IN(} W0ELD STATESMAN.
1 Simpson who served two terms as
county attorney of Jack County,
Texas, has been appointed assist-
ant to county attorney, A. J. Har-
dy of Carter County, and has as-
sumed his duties. Jack County
has given up several of its citi-
zens to serve Oklahoma in vari-
ous capacities. T. J. McComb,
Oklahoma’s first Insurance Com-
missioner was from that county,
as were Milas Lasater, member of
the Constitutional Convention,
and Sam Hays a member of the
supreme court. R. A. Hefner of
Ardmore who represents the ma-
jority of the producers in the
Healdton field in the courts as at-
torney was at one time a citizen
of Jack County.
There are many
grades of lard and the
price usually governs the
quality. However, we can
supply you with a high grade
at a moderate price.
We can also give you
some very good values in
imported olive oils and
all the various cooking oils that
you might need, for
cooking and salads.
Our oils comply with’
all the requirements of
the pure food laws, so you
can be sure their quality is right.
—And so are the prices.
Telephone Orders Given Prompt Attention
FARMERS UNION SUPPLY COMPANY
JACKSBORO, TEXAS,
Pease,” had early learned when
to talk and when to stay quiet.
Balfour was taken to the Doan
home, a ’dobe building which is
immediately “removed.”
Doan was a ninterested specta-
tor of the proeedings. When it
was over be ^delightedly re-
still standing, the oldest house in I marked:
Wilbarger county. There hej “You slick little cuss, you. You’
changed clothing. don’t remind me a bit of these
Renting a horse from the store-
keeper, the Englishman started
dudish little Englishmen the com-
pany has been sending out here
out for the nearest cow camp ofj every year to inspect the ranch. ’
Henry L. McClelland Passes Away
After a short illness Henry L.
McClelland passed away Friday
afternoon. Mr. McClelland was
the third son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
C. McClelland. He is survived by
his parents, two brothers, F. W.
McClelland of the Berwick
community and Ernest of Dalhart,
and one sister, Mrs. D. C. Atkin-
son, also of Dalhart.
The funeral service was conduct-
ed at the Methodist church by his
pastor, Rev. R. N. Iluckabee, after
with my own eyes. While I am K , , .
J j which the interment took place m
! Mr. McClelland was treasurer » f
the county and was a young man
throughout the county were sum- j \ shell fragment cut the back of
moned before this board of inqui- [ hi* coat. Several other fragments
ry and were submitted to an ex-1 Qf shell went through his car.
animation. It was found that the j Really it was so miraculous that
association at Olney in particular i didn’t believe it until I saw it
lad been quite active in resisting
conscription but that since the writing this a fellow came in---0akwood cemetery
arrests in western counties, the , that two shells had hit the
activities had ceased and the min- road back of them about sixty
utes of the organization desroyed.; yard8 away. They were lucky, ine colim> dIlu wa* a .
* . , v „ r VT A . . , ;who could be trusted in the d’.s
No arrests have been made here too. No fragments struck them, j
up to the present time but Sher-! “We are three miles away from | e 1 ° . IS U KS‘ , ,
iff Wallace has obtained permis- the trenches but the Bodies on’tj « arm > a e e sympa. .>
•ion from the government to al- mind throwing a few shells over;,nanv neu s m tir so1 rcv
low the Texas rangers to remain J here occasionally to let us know
here until after today, registration that we are not entirely safe,
day, after which any disloyalty j Three other cars of ours have had
will be investigated. j close calls, too, and one had mud
i splashed over it by a shell. The
; Germans are shooting at our cars
Arthur James Balfour capti-
vated a lot of Texas cowboys
long before he won the heart of
the American nation. With the
former he fraternized in their
own rough clothes and at their
own rough sports and over their
own rough work so cleverly and
skillfully that they thought him
a cowboy too. That was many,
many years ago and few of Bal-
four’s associates on the western
plains are in the land of the liv-
ing today.
Everybody knows how he won
the American nation. Silk-hatted,
long-coated, and carrying a cane,
his entrance into Washington at
the head of the British war mis-
sion was a triumphal procession.
Since then he has received the
plaudits and honors of a nation.
His manner as a statesman is as
engaging as his looks as a Texas
cowboy.
Balfour visited the ranch
camps of Wilbarger County, Tex-
as, in the spring of 1884. He came
as the eonfifidential agent of the
Cunard Steamship Company,
commissioned by it to clear up a
the ranch. To all appearances,
he was nothing more than a cow-
hand. He wore a rough suit of
ducks, a wide brimmed hat, boots
and the never missing handker-
chief of rainbow hue about his
neck. A huge, old-fashioned Colt,
swinging at his hip, banged the
saddle as he rode. Doan, who re-
members the visit well, says Bal-
four was an expert horseman.
Straight into the nearest camp
lie rode. There he asked for work
and got it.
For two weeks the Britisher
rubbed shoulders with the plains-
men of the Pease valley. He rode
after cattle, mended fenees and
wielded a branding iron. He did
all of them well. At the same
time he burrowed into the heart
of the cattle rustling.
At the expiration of a fort-
night, he had the information
for which he had come. Giving
up his job without explanation,
he rode back to Doan. There he
changed clothing, got out his cre-
dentials and sent a runner-after
the ranch manager.
When the manager appeared
Balfour told him who he was,
what he had found out and pro-
duced his credentials for the as-
tonished rancher to see.
Then the British peer careful-
ly pointed out the road that led
to Wichita Falls. In precise Ox-
ford English, the future war ex-
series of eattle thefts that had
cut deeply into the profits of its | pert explained that the manager
Texas ranch. I was discharged. He intimated j
The year before, a number of
Englishmen interested in the
ranch had come to Doans. They
brought a retinue of servants and
camped under silk tents.
Leaving Doans, Balfour rode to
Wichita Falls whence he went
by rail to Kansas City. There he
recovered misappropriated funds
that the manager had deposited
to his credit in one of the banks.
The Measure of Attainment.
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The measure of attainment
Is the measure of desire,
The blaze enthusiasm
Kindles Fate’s compelling fire;
To will is but to finish
If the will be strong to do,
And hand and brain determined
That the project shall go
through.
That faith may move a mountain,
Means the faith that moves the
hand
And gauges mental action
To the doer’s curt command;
Desire but means attainment
When the will is at its best,
And Fate will ever hearken
To the worker’s strong behest.
Then measure all your actions
By determination’s rule,
And learn the word “Attain-
ment”
In the steady worker’s school;
The brain that wills an action,
Too, must also will desire,
Leaving Wichita Falls, then the j that forty-eight hours would be! And warm successful projects
voung sufficient time for the manager With enthusiasm’s fire.
—Jake H. Harrison.
terminus of the railroad,
Balfour, perched beside the* driv-
er, rode into Doans on the rick-
ety mail hack then in service. At
that time Doan's was the only
settlement in Wilbarger county.
to remove himself.
manager j
The manager
the sensitive lung tissues.
ELECTRIC IRONS.
Loss of British Grain Ships Less
Than Expected.
London, June 1.—Great Brit-
ain’s losses in cereal ships has
been only 6 per cent, according
„ . . deliberately; there is no doubt of
An Electric Iron « a modern need. ^ ^ ^ the on)y ^ „„
It saves time and labor, all hav' the only cara on thc roa<|, We
have been here only three days.
If it keeys up somebody is sure to
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agreed.
Mill and Elevator Co.
iron
supply, A I get hit.
These “Irons” have comfort—the j
to a statement made to the Aso-
ciated Press today by Kennedy
Jones, Direetor of Food Econo-
my. The Ministry of Food, he
added, had made allowances for
jthe loss of 25 per cent of this
price is not high.
The Gazette—the HOME PAPER kind of shipping.
OUR LUNGS
Overwork, lack of fresh air, mental strain or any sickness
It was but a short distance from disturbs their functions. Stubborn coughs tear and wear
the English syndicate’s property.
Balfour was careful not to j
speak of his mission, nor did he
tell who he was.
Buying a suit of “ducks” from j
C. F. Doan, pioneer resident and |
storekeeper, Balfour requested
permission to change clothing.
The Wilbargan thought the re-
j quest rather unusual, but strange
things had a. way of happening in
those days, and Doan, known
from Red River to Wichita Falls
as the “Peacemaker of the
KOTOINULSION
should be taken promptly for hard coughs, unyielding colds,
or when strength is lowered from any cause. Its high
nutritive value creates resistive force to ward off sick-
ness. The rich cod liver oil improves the quality
of the blood to relieve the cold and the glycerine is
soothing and healing to the lung tissues.
Rebus Alcoholic Substitutes Which Exclude the 03. M
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The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 1917, newspaper, June 7, 1917; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729211/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.