The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 2008 Page: 7 of 24
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Thursday, Jan. 31,2008
The Dublin Citizen
Sec. A, Page 7
Voter registration
(leadline days away
Candidates are lining up for local
elections, preparing themselves for
the March 4,2008 Primary. Political
signage can be seen on nearly every
comer in the county as area
Republicans and Democrats prepare
to battle out to fill local offices.
Z Included in the upcoming
Section are the offices of Erath
County District Attorney, County
Attorney, Sheriff, Tax
Assessor/Collector, Constable
Precincts 1 and 2, County
Commissioners Precincts 1 and 3,
State Representative District 59 and
State Senate District 24.
Early voting begins Feb. 19 and
voters have only days to register to
vote, the deadline to register is Feb.
4. Early voting will end rar Feb. 29.
Officials encourage everyone
who is eligible to vote to do so. To
register you must: be a U.S. citizen
and a resident of die county in which
you are registering. Voters must be
18 years old although you may
register two months prior to your
eighteenth birthday. Convicted
felons are not eligible to register
unless die individual's sentence is
complete including probation and/or
parole. Any person declared
mentally incapacitated by a court of
law is also ineligible.
According to the U.S, Census
Bureau, Erath County had an
estimated 34,289 residents in 2006.
As of Jaa 25, the Erath County
Cleric's office reported a total of
about 19,600 registered voters in die
county. In Hamilton County, about
5,600 of 2006's estimated 8,186
residents have registered As of Jaa
29, Comanche County had a total of
9,108 voters and an estimated
population of 13,837 in
2006Regj strati on applications may
be obtained
Voter registration applications
may be obtained at the Erath County
Courthouse in Stephenville, the
county annex in Dublia all post
offices and most city, county and
state offices. You may also register
online at www.sos.state.tx.us.
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Check your voter status
With the registration deadline to
vote in the upcoming Primary
Elections fast-approaching, the
Secretary of State's Office has
launched a new web tool which
enables Texans to check their
registration status online.
Additionally, the new "Online Voter
Central" web portal allows
individuals to determine their
polling place as Election Day nears
and provides contact information for
local county voter registration
officials.
"We are doing our part to ensure
that voters are prepared and folly-
equipped when they show up to vote
on Election Day," stated Texas
Secretary of State Phil Wilson.
"Now, Texans can check their
registration status from their
computers in plenty of time to
address any possible issues before
the registration deadline on February
4."
With the implementation of the
Texas Election Administration
Management system (TEAM), the
Secretary of State's Office now
maintains a, "uniform, official,
centralized, interactive,
computerized .statewide voter
registration list," as mandated by the
Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Texans who registered to vote using
their driver license will be able to
check their status using their driver
license number. All other Texans
can enter their Voter Unique
Identifier (VUID) found on their
voter registration card to check their
voting status and find polling
locations.
"As we begin a busy 2008
election season, I hope all Texans
will recognize their rights and duties
to head to the polls on Election
Day," added Wilsoa "We are faced
with sane important decisions as
we determine new leaders for our
nation and our state and my office is
committed to making the elections
process accessible and easy for
Texans in every region of the Lone
Star State."
The deadline to register to vote in
.the March 4th Primary Elections is
Monday, February 4, 2008. Voter
registration applications are
available on the Secretary of State's
website: www.sos.state.tx.us, as
well as county Voter Registrar’s
offices, and most libraries, post
offices and high schools.
LEGEND-
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Lang, who also had been an
employee of Smith's imcle.
Smith and Lang had a difficult
time turning a profit in their store,
mostly because a fire swept through
downtown Portland and destroyed
much of the business district tire year
the two friends opened their store. As
a result, market forces pushed rents
too high for many merchants to
afford. Smith attempted to
supplement his income by hiring out
his team of horses, raid relying
heavily on his soldier's pension.
About this time, Smith began
writing in his diary again and
recorded the following cm July 31,
.1867: "The Squire raised my rent 12
dollars per year, and we had some
pretty strong talk."
Also adding to Smith's troubles
was a poor investment in an early oil
drilling scheme. He did write
consistently during this period of his
life, and it seems he spent much of
his time collecting books, shooting
taigets with Lang, and attending
veteran's meetings, all of which seem
to indicate that Smith may have had
some difficulty reincorporating
himself into civilian life.
He filled his diary with mundane
statements, mostly about his day to
day activities, but humorous
incidents appear peppered
throughout On Sept 10, 1867, he
writes "Circus procession
paraded.. .drunken fellow came into
our home at noon." Other statements
during these months include the feet
that his "old cat got lamed by Ml
from window," that Smith had been
"serenaded by a band of bagpipes,"
and that Smith found a local church
to have "very interesting services...
rather long."
By 1868, however, Smith was no
longer enamored of his opportunities
in Maine, and the Smith family
moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
where it is believed Smith first
involved himself in the lumber
business. Following the move to
Wisconsin, Smith never again wrote
in his diary.
In 1877, the Smiths settled in
Waco, possibly because physicians
of the era believed that a warmer
climate would benefit Alice Smith's
health.
Smith found work with William
Cameron and Company in Waco and
rose quickly to the position of
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HIGGINBOTHAM GENESIS - HA. Smith poses with workers in front of his lumberyard in about 1900.
Following Smith's retirement, his son-in-law Rufus Higginbotham purchased the lumberyard, beginning his lumber
and hardware empire.
manager in one of Cameron's Waco
lumberyards.
Cameron extended his company
westward with the growth of the
railroad, and Smith transferred to
Morgan, Texas in 1880 to manage
one of Cameron's lumberyards.
Smith transferred again the
following year, this time settling in
Dublin, where Cameron supplied
lumber for the growing cities of
Comanche and Brownwood Upon
arriving in the city, Smith built a "neat
and tidy cottage on the comer of
Patrick and Live Oak streets." .
He had by this time become a
leading citizen of Dublin, appearing
as "Mr. Smith, Dublin's gentlemanly
and efficient lumber man" in the
May 16,1881 edition of the Dublin
Enterprise, "who had provided the
city a good crossing over the railroad
track"
In 1882, Smith became a partner
of Cameron's, investing his own
capital in the Dublin lumberyard.
The following year saw one of tire
most important events in Dublin's
young history take place. Smith's
daughter Hattie married Rufos
Wilson Higginbotham, a native
Mississippi who was employed as
a bookkeeper in Cameron's
lumberyard.
R.W. Higginbotham soon bought
out Cameron's interest in the Dublin
lumberyard and became a junior
partner with Smith in HA. Smith
and Company.
Smith's community prominence
was also evident in his election as
captain of Dublin's Hook and Ladder
Company, a forerunner of the
volunteer fire department
In 1889, upon the incorporation of
Dublin, I LA Smith was elected
alderman. In this year, he also began
a teim as president of First National
Bank.
In 1906, Smith retired from HA.
Smith and Company, and moved to
Waco. Smith's son-in-law RW.
Higginbotham acquired all tire rights
to HA. Smith and Company in
1918, thereafter creating the
Higginbotham lumber company that
lias become so well known in
communities across the state.
During his retirement, Smith, with
his brother Gustavus, published a
complete genealogy of the Smith
family in 1910, and inspired through
this woric the creation of many of the
Higginbotham family's later
genealogies.
After settling in Dublin, Smith
only returned to Maine once, on the
occasion of the 1901 Pan American
Exposition in Buffalo, New York On
this trip. Smith visited his family and
friends in Maine, and made a stop in
Wisconsin, where he reminisced
with friends he had accumulated in
Oshkosh decades before.
Smith was heavily involved in
community and veteran's affairs. He
was a charter member of the
Bosworth Post of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and an officer and
member of the Portland Army and
Navy Union in Maine.
Further, Smith participated often
in the lodges of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
He was also a member of the
Baptist Church in Dublin, and sat for
many years on the Board of
Deacons.
H.A. Smith died in Waco on
October 7,1926 at age 83.
A modem transcript of his diary
can be examined at tire Dublin
Historical Museum.
"By general consensus he was a
congenial person who enjoyed his
family and friends," wrote John A.
Stoneham, editor of Smith's Civil
War diary. "He was a good natured
optimist.. .he liked horses and dogs."
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