The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1911 Page: 4 of 12
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THE SULPHUR SFRIVSS GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 22, 1911.
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IT’S NOW TIME YOU WERE INTERESTED IN
THE NEW FALL GOODS!
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We are ready to show them to you. Many lines of merchandise
are already in and being: sold, others are being: marked and
placed on sale nearly every day now. We welcome the opportu-
nity to show you these new goods, even though you do not buy.
Our Fall 1911 Stock Will Surpass
all previous ones shown in Como. Not only as regards exten-
siveness jof assortment, but as to the attractiveness of the val-
ues offered. Shureman Skirts, American Lady Shoes, Novel-
ties an4> J>ress^Ooods, at prices in reach of everybody. : : :
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Marked in Plain Figures so Your Little Boy or Girl Can Trade For You.
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COMO, TEXAS.
“US" COUNTRY FELLOWS.
By Joe Sappington.
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Flora, Texas, Sept. 18.—Rev. Hen
dricks filled his regular appointment
here Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Harrison and daugh-
ters,'Vesta and Inez, of - Sulphur
Springs, visited her parents, Mr. and
-Hip. Blansette, at this plaoe last
week.
N. A. Flippin went to Texarkana Sat-
tie Cargile of McAlister, Okla., ar-
fived here Saturday for.a visit to A.
H. Hopkins.
A union Sunday school was organ-
ized at this place last Sunday. Let
everyone come out Sunday morning
at W o’clock.
, - ;, Misses Lois and Myrtle Bryant and
Mary Spears of Ash Grove visited
Kisses Verna and Havah Hopkins last
V Sunday.
.Frank Sheppard and *wife of Ma-
• honey visited at Fate Linker’s Satur-
day and Sunday.
Willie McKinney and family and
Amanda Fraze of Independence were
the guests of A. H. Hopkins Sunday.
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FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS
Will reach your individual case if you
have any form of kidney and bladder
trouble or urinary irregularities. Try
ASKEW & BUFORD.
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Oak Dale.
6ak Dale, Texas, SepL 15.—Mrs.
Bartlett fell last week while picking
cotton and sprained her wrist.
Mrs. 'Harrod of Sulphur Bluff is vis-
iting in onr community.
Charlie Gregg and Jesse and John-
nie tRobert8on visited in Birthright
Sunday.
Mrs. Gregg and children have mov-
ed to Sulphur Springs. The children
have entered school there.
Messrs. Gregg and Bartlett attend-
ed prayer'meeting at Ash Grove Sat-
urday night.
Will Meltoa and wife visited at Sol
Burkhart’s Saturday night.
Bert McLaren, Verna Hopkins and
Vera Grant were in our community
Sunday afternoon.
Claude and pus Adair visited in
Tira last week.
We were sorry to hear of the
deaths of Mr. John Martin of Addran
and Mr. John Goggans of Birthright.
We extend our sympathy to the be-
reaved. MISCHIEF MAKERS.
Now’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars. Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot he cured by Hall’s Ca-
tarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last ij years, and believe him perfectly
honorable In aU business transactions, and finan-
cially able to carry out any obligations made by
bis firm Walding Kinnan ft Marvin
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly uj on the blood and mucous surfaces M the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by at! Druggists.
Take Hail’s Family Pills for constipation
Pickton.
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Pickton, Texas, SepL 19.—Those on
the sick list this week are Misses Ad
die Walters, Inez Kimmons and Mr.
Ike Baxter
Mrs. Harrell and son of Como at-
tended Sunday school at this place
Sunday.
Mrs. Boyett Randolph and daugh-
ter, Ida May, of Alma, Okla., arrived
here last Friday. Mr. Randolph will
ccme later, and they will make their
home here.
Mrs. J. G. Welborn and daughter,
Inez, visited Mrs. Laura Matthews
ard Georgie Rutledge from Friday un-
til Sunday.
Dennis Ivey and Abie Randolph of
Como were in Pickton Sunday.
Misses Essie B. James and Emma
Pickett spent the night with the fam-
ily of Wirt James Friday night.
Roy James of Greenville visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. James,
Sunday and Monday.
The members of the First Baptist
church called Rev. H. B. Bender of
Greenville as their next pastor.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Miller and their
daughter, Pauline, spent last Satur-
day night and Sunday with the family
of J. J. Miller near Bethel.
W. H. Townsend of Leesburg was
in Pickton last Sunday.
W. D. Randolph left this morning for
Dallas.
Mat Gilbreath of Winnsboro was in
Pickton Monday taking up 150 bales
of cotton that he bought from the
Pickton buyers.
Mercer Cochran and family of Scrog-
gins are here for a visit to relatives
and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Ard are in Como
today. ALABAMA.
It makes no difference how much
sense a fellow has, if he has been
raised in the country he can’t keep
from a’cting green to save his life when
he goes to the city I know what I
am talking about, for I have been all
along the road.
From the time he boards the cars
to leave hame, until his return, every
move he takes is awkward. The first
thing he does is to inspect his ticket,
and when the conductor comes around
he gets excited and begins to claw at
his pockets and turn them inside out
in a frantic effort to find it. Then
when he settles back in his chair, with
a sigh of relief and tries to let it down
like the rest of the passengers have
theirs, he finds the darn thing has a
new apparatus from the one he had
tackled a year previous. He “rassles”
with it, until the nigger porter, comes
through the car calling out the next
station, sees his predicament and
shows him how to press a little knob
and the thing goes back.
When he arrives in the city he
shuffles out with his little “six bit”
telescope and walks into the town if
it is not over five miles from the de-
pot, and begins to look for hotel
signs. He finally -decides to follow
the crowd that goes of at the depot
with him, and who stops at the leading
hotel. When the porter comes dash-
ing up and tries to take his telescope
from him, he clings on to said tele-
scope with a tenacity that puts the
porter out of business. He then puts
the telescope on the floor between his
feet, so the porter can't get away
with it and desperately struggles to
locate “terms.” After a while he gives
*er up, and follows the crowd that
has just registered, into the dining
room, stuffs his baggage under the
table and calls for a .regular “two
bit” meal: The waiter smiles and in-
forms him that they do not serve “two
bit” meals, whereupon he reaches for
his telescope and goes out on the
street and stops a drayman and asks
him where he can find a good wagon
yard hotel.
I shall never forget some of the
strange and almost tragic things that
befell Davis R. -Hall and mlself the
time we went on an excursion to San
Antonio sixteen years ago last fall. It
was during this trip that Davis and
Elm Hill.
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Elm Hill, Texas, Sept. L8.—We are
glad to know that Aunt Becky Hum-
phrey was able to go to her daugh-
ter's Saturday for a few days visit.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Caddell are re-
joicing over the arrival of a fine boy
which came on the 11th of this month.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Formby visited
Chester Smith Sunday.
A. R. Caddell and family visited at
the home of Jack Caddell Sunday.
There was a singing at Louis Hum-
phrey’s Saturday nighL
Mr. Nichols and family visited at
the home of High Smith Saturday
night and Sunday.
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FALL ANNOUNCEMENT!
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We have a good stock of Buggies and Buggy Harness,
Wagons and Wagon Harness, Saddles from $15 to $40;
Bridles, Collars, Hames, Traces, Back Bands, Strap
Goodrof all kinds. In stoves we have the best Cook-
ing Stoves to be had anywhere. We have the exclu-
sive sale on the New Wilson Sewing Machine, the best
in town for the money. We have Clocks, Pocket and
Table Cutlery. We have a good stock Dishes, Plates,
Cups and Saucers. We have many other useful
household articles too numerous to mention here and
will kindly ask you to give us a call and let us show
you through.
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Don’t forget the Brown. Wagon when
you want a good one
Shook Grocery Co.
I saw our first street car, folding bed
and elevator. The folding bed gave
us more real trouble than anything
we struck on the whole trip. We were
assigned to the topmost room of the
hotel, that contained but one bed,
^nd it was of the folding variety—so
we afterwards learned. We had hot
been in our room two minutes when
Dave made a discovery that could
have probably escaped my attention
until I had pulled off my clothes to
go to bed. He discovered or failed
to discover any bed in the room. The
joke was on the hotel clerk and we de-
cided at once to go to the office and
spring it on him before the crowd
down there. We didn’t know how to
call for the elevator so we rushed
down the four flights of stairs, and
burst in on the clerk with the office
full of men, and told him in a louo
voice that he had to treat for the mis-
take he had just made. He looked
blank and asked us what mistake he
had made and we told him that he had
given us a room that had not a sign
of a bed in it. He called the nigger
that had shown us to our room and
asked him if there was no i>ed in num-
ber thirteen, and the nigger said that
there was. Dave called the nigger a
liar and started after him, but I caught
him and held him off the coon. Our
loud talk attracted the crowd of men
in the lobby and they crowded around
us. The clerk assured us that we
must be mistaken about there being
no bed in No. 13, as he had just in-
spected the room a few days before.
Dave and I with one impulse pulled
out our pocket books and offered to
bet every cent we had that the room
contained no bed. The clerk happen-
ed not to be a betting man, so we made
no bet. Dave did most of the talking
and told him in a most emphatic man-
ner that there was nothing in the
room but a washstand, two chairs and
a piano. When he said piano the
clerk turned to the nigger and told
him to take us back to No. 13 and let
the bed down for us. I never heard
such a roar as went up from that
crowd of men when they learned that
we had taken a folding bed for a
piano.
But our troubles with the bed were
not yet over, for while we had never
before come in personal contact with
one of those things, we had both read
about their deadly qualities, and were
afraid to lie down in it. Dave said he
had just as soon risK his life in a bal-
loon as to risk it on that bed and told
me if I had no regard for my life and
cared nothing for my wife and chil-
dren just crawl in the darned thing
and get killed. In order to impress
me with the awful danger of folding
beds, Dave said statistics showed they
had caused more deaths to the human
family than war, pestilence and famine
combined. He told me just how they
got in their deadly work. He said
the thing would lull you to sleep just
like a fond mother luhs to sleep her
On Wednesday Sept. 27
We will sell 50c, 75c and $1.00
Blue and White Enamelware, con*
sisting of Stewers, Milk Pans, Tea
Kettles, Preserving Kettles, Skil-
lets and Bread Pans,
choice, one to a customer wvv
The Variety Store
South Side Square
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babe, and aiong in the early morning
about the time the roosters begin to
crow for day, the thing springs a trig-
ger and proceeds to mash its victim
into a cocked hat, or words to that
effect. We sat up until about one
o’clock in the morning, not daring
to risk our lives on the thing, when
Dave made a suggestion that we act-
ed upon immediately. He suggested
that we take it turn about sleeping
while one of us would stand guard
and hold the bed down.
Dave took the first three hours of
sleep, but he wasted at least an hour
of his time by jumping off of it ev-
ery time I changed my hand-hold on
the foot of iL I awoke him when the
clock struck four, and told him to get
up and hold the bed down while I
slept three hours, which he did some-
what reluctantly. I /was so tired that
I fell asleep in a-minute after I struck
the bed and when I awoke it was
nine o’clock, and there sat Dave sound
asleep with not even a hand on the
bed. I reprimanded him sharply for
sleeping at his post when according
to his own statement, death lurked
in that very room, but he soon proved
his fidelity by showing thd precau-
tion he had taken for my safety. He
had taken off his suspenders and with
them had tied his feet to a leg of the
bed, so if the thing flew up it would
have to pull him up with it.
It has been a long time ago since
Dave and I tackled our first folding
bed, and we are both older and I
hope wiser than we were then. Dave
has been signally honored by the peo-
ple of Gatesville, his adopted town,
and is editor of the Messenger and
Star-Forum, one of the ablest, clean-
est weekly papers in the state, and
was mayor of Gatesville for years and
did more for the civic advancement
of the town than all of his predeces-
sors combined. But Dave was raised
in the country and wore cotton check
dresses until he was eleven years
old and it makes no difference to
what heights he may climb to, a one-
legged man with a glass eye could
tell he was raised in the country.
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As usually treated a sprained ankle
will disable a man for three or four
weeks, but by applying Chamberlain’s
Liniment freely as soon as the injury
is received, and observing the direc-
tions with each bottle, a cure can be
effected In from two to four days.
For sale by all good dealers.
Hon. C. B. Randall has announced he
will open his campaign for United
States Senator at Waco, October 7th.
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS
Insures
Everything
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS
DESIGNATES EAST TEXAS DAY;
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"At a recent meeting ef the management of the Great State F'air
of Texas, it was unanimously decided to designate a day, Wednesday,
October IS. to be known aa East Texas Day. for the purpose of giving
the cltizsns of this section of the state an opportunity to proclaim to
the world the advantages of East Texas, from' an industrial and com-
mercial standpoint. j
"After carefully looking ever the entire state, anyone who is com-
petent tc judge, always admits that East Texas is certainly the garden
spot of the state, hut the trouble lies in the fact that her wonderful
possibilities and undeveloped opportunities have never yet been placed
before the eyes of the commercial world In a manner that would bring
about the desired results.
"It has become a recognized fact that East Texas is the finest
fruit growing, hog raising and truck farming country in the South. Her
famous ‘Elberta lands” are the best in the world for the production ef
the most delicious fruit, which finds a ready market and at fancy prices.
Her tremendous acreage of foresta; her many streams and rivulets and
her bountiful supply of mast, affords an excellent opportunity for stock
and especially hog raising, while her cheap and yet productive lands
produce crops that are unsurpassable.
• Through the courteous and untiring efforts of the management of
the State FhJr of Texas at Dallas, the citizens of East Texas are n*w
given an opportunity to meet at this great institution on Wednesday.
October 18. and proclaim to the many thousands of. visitors and pros-
pectors who visit this great Fair annually, the possibiifriefc of Want
Texas ard the many opportunities yet undeveloped in our section of
the State
"One today is worth two tomorrow, so let every live wire booster
in East Txeas begin today and let us work hand in hand to make this
one of the greatest and most profitable days In the annals of the his-
tory of East Texas Begin by gathering up the very best ef agricul-
tural. fruit horticultural. livestock and mineral exhibits and so compile
statistics of the unlimited opportunities frem the past and present as to
be able tc convince the business man of the necessity of looking into tho
future of East Texas
"An opportunity la seldom presented and Is easily lost. The State
Fair of Texas has now given East Texas an opportunity to clothe her-
self in her gorgeous raiment of prosperity and home productions and go
marching proudly forward, unfurling her banner of unlimited opportun-
ities to the wistful eyes of the vast multitudes who are seeking the
ft • environs of a fertile land in\|rhich to locate homes mid peace and happf-
*1* ness, and it is now up to the East Texans, to grasp, this chance and make
ft it a success or let it pass on as in the past.
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For appearance, durability and lightness of draft.
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IT CAN’T BE BEAT!
W. E. STEPHENS & CO.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1911, newspaper, September 22, 1911; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth817489/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.