The Fort Stockton Pioneer (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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TEXAS TALES
TOLD BY TYPi
MPKNINrs OF THE PAST FEW DAYS
CONDENSE DU STATED
ALL PARTS Of STATE COVERED
Numbor of Evonto Mad* Mention of
In Pdw Word* and to Praaantad
•a to a lummary of What Hat
Ooourrod In tho Raoant Pool.
Corsicana tax levy Is f 1 55 on 1100
Deposits in tin* three Marlin hanks
•re nearly $1,300,(100.
Combined deposits of the four bank!
of Temple aggregate $.’1,000,000
Nearly 4,(N**aeres liavetreen planted
to peanuts in Henderson county
Fall term of United States district
Court opened Monday at Amarillo
Taxable values of Waco are $37
106,990, an increase over 1915 of $45"
110
Eagle Production company of Hous
ton, capital stock *150,INTO, has beec
chartered.
Texarkana had a hailstorm that de
tnol I shed a number of globes alonfc
the “white way. “
Gainesville negroes expended $5"M
for graveling some streets undthe cits
E»l*ent a like amount
Atlanta Electric Light and Ico com-
,pany lost its plant by Tire; loss 130.
000; no insurance.
Helen Morton, seven years old, wai
injurod by an automobile at Dalla-
and died in a few hours.
Fannin county road bonds to th*
amount of $115,000 were approved by
the attorney general's department
Large potato warehouse at Orangs
has been completed Orange county
potato crop is a big one this year
A diamond brooch valued at $35i
and belonging to a Waco woman wat
found in a pillow case at a laundry
James F Walker, a Katy railroad
employe, whose home was at Whites-
boro, died suddenly at GatnesviJJp
The San Angelo Rifle club m id* a
requisition for arms and ammunition
Its charter was approved by the war
department
Waco Automobile and Accessory
association has been organized It is
planned to have an exhibit at the Cot
ton Palace.
The highest Texas mountain so far
determined is El Cupilan mountain, in
El Paso county, which is $.090 led
blue e sea level
Rev. .1 P.Harrington of Columbus,
Miss., has accepted a call to the pas
(orate of '! Provident Heights liap
list church, Waco
South Park, Jefferson countv, votes
on tow n incorporation Oct 24 Those
opposed to absorption by licaumonl
asked the election
Mildred Pinson, ten months old, ex-
pired in her mother's arms in a War •
stissH car while returning home from
a physician’s office
Rev N R Stone, pastor of First
Methodist church at LewrUville, Pen-
ton county, while up a tree fell and
fractured ins right arm
Frank Damron, proprietor of the
hotel of that name at Mineral Wells
expired immediately after entering his
room to ret'-e for the night
Falls County Agricultural fair will
beheld Oct band 7 Besides various
other featui s. there will be races on
each day. Marlin is the place
Hy an automobile going over an em-
bankment on Galveston island W S
Ennis, Jr., H C Roach and Miss
Claudy Collier lost their lives
A rural mail carrier out of Brooks*
ton, Lamar county, before starting on
!his route and after returning picks fie
tween 2oo ard ikm pounds of cotton
In a difficulty near Dawson. Navar-
I ro county, Reece Farmer, a farmer,
j was shot, soon expiring The party
charged with shooting was arrested
Rurr Lumber company’s yard a*
Ennis, with a large stock of lum!>er,
burned, entailing a loss of $00,000
J Seventeen bales of cotton were also
consumed.
New modern $50,000 hospital of the
agricultural and mechanical college
has been accepted It is two stories
and basement and so constructed two
j stories can l*e added
Dave Buchanan's gin at Choctaw,
Grayson county, together with 100 cot
ton bales, was destroyed by fire Loss
i- estimated at $25,000 Two box cars
also were destroyed
The Henry Pea company, the larg-
»st enterpr'seof its kind in the south,
lias shipped this season from Athens
over fifteen carloads of peas to vari-
ous points in the United States.
A 300-barrel oil well was brought in
in what is known as the Santa Anna
field,twenty miles west of Browpwood.
Another company announces it will
sink a well on a 2,500-acre lease.
W. T. Wilson,a wholesale merchant
of Nacogdoches, was run over by a
passenger t ain at Lufkin. He was
taken to the Nacogdoches Surgical In-
stitute, where death soon resulted.
Chronic Catarrh is Curable
\
Nothing is mor< d> -t rr - ir t; to tho SufToror an.I VtiifrifruL. Chroni<-\
catarrh is systemic—that ta, it is |ir«n. r,i thn>u>;iiout the body, thought
it may manifest il*- If in a local alt•• ra 0B.
Only a conntitutionai treatment wiil overcome systemic catarrh.
Loral ir atmenta somrt imei help the acute manifeelulious, but they
cannot overcome the systemic (iisdorer.
PERUNA Has Helped Thousands
It is a foe to catarrh. The voluntary testimony of thousands es-
tabii lies that. I’ernt a benefits in a number of ways. I’eruna builds
t;» tl >e digiatiou, res lore* the strength, ami helps put the system in
cor\<iii .on.
Peruna has special value in ca'arrh. It
Kiv>* vitality to the system, restores tone
to the membranes and enables t be -e to per-
form their functions. In many cases its
benefits begin at once, and it rarely (ails
when treatment is’continued properly.
The I’< rii- a Medical Department willbe
this disea-e.
Don’t delay
treatment.
TPE PERUNA CO., Columbua. O.
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The doctor’s advice is free. Don’t t
Just Hint That You Want
Lumber and we'll do every-
thing but tote the yard out
to you. We know we have
something you need. . . .
We Carry a Full Line of—
Lumber, Timbers and Shingles
Sash, doors and mouldings
Lime, cement and sand
Brick, fire brick and fire clay
Paints, oils and turpentine
Glass and paint brushes
Pickets, laths and red fence
Glass doors and Screen doors
Screen wire and corrugated iron
McAlester Coal, and select, straight
cedar posts from 6 to 14 feet long.
CONE TO SEE US
Stockton Lumber Co.
Successor* to Quin Lumber Co.
S. S. HARRIS, Manager
Fart Stockton Buanaviata
Wirrrn McWilliams a barher. w»i*
•hoi ana killed in a iWuurunl by one
et two shot* Tin'll at him at Canton
Constable Bob Parker of thatprecln t
wav arrested An old grudge is said
to have exiled
Joe Fisher h while man wav shot
and killed ir< th" western portion of
Bowie county bv out of a posse lhai
went to arrest him Jones is alleged
to have re-i-ti j and attempted lodiaw
k revolver
< otnmissioner of Agriculture Davis
ha> appointed Professor H P At-
water of Houston to assist the depart
ment ol agriculture in making its vari
ous dispiavs at the fairs to be held
this fall in Texas
Ar. amendment has been filed to Its
charter hv the St Anthony Hotel com
pany of San Antonio, Increasing it-
capital stock from $75.000 to $150,OM
Object is to establish, maintain, op-
erate. erect or repair hotels
All pleadings in the Harris county
court at law No 2 must !»e mad" in
duplicate and oral pleadings will nol
betaken is an order issued by lud|f<
Murray B Jones Hediscovered that
a petition in a case bad been lost
What is saiti to have been the long
est parade in Texas took place at F.I
Paso It was participated in hv 2b
Quo troops and required eight hours in
pass a given point Generals Clement
and Bell reviewed them
Eugene V Agnew, a resident ol
Bonham since IH55, being taken in
that city by ins parents from Alal.ama
when an infant is dead Many year!
he was a prominent business man, bul
owing to ill health retired some yean
ago
The Thelma Oil and Gas company,
composed of 'I' M Dees, M A Hi I
lard anti T J Dorsett ol Midlothian,
Pllis county sold its oil lands in Car
ter county, Okla to the Indtahoma
company of Oklahoma City tor *t* >ut
$9d, bun
George W Tve, eighty-two a retired
farmer and fifty-two yoars a Mason
and a Texan half a century, died at
Fort Worth Mr 'I've, who was *
bachelor left considerable property,
principallv in tfie Burleson section of
Tar i ant countv
President Robertson of Clobarrfl
college. * leburne. lost a diamond out
of a ring setting in a peculiar wav
While holding a rope attached to a
cow the rope slipped and pressed upon
the diamond, causing it to fall from
the setting
Sheriff Reynolds of Dallas county is
making a record of automobile acci
dents on road# of that county as a
gauge of the value of maintaining
speed officers A monthly record of
accident- is being kept
President W li Bizzell of the agri-
cultural and mechanical college lias
returned from Washington where he
conferred with war department officials
about the provisions of the. army law
a fleeting that institution
Wichita Falls chamber of commerce
went on record as indorsing the stand
of the Texas railroad commission in
fighting the “encroachment’ of the
interstate commerce commission on its
intrastate rate fixing powers
Ed Fisher, a negro convict, serving
a twenty-year sentence from Bell conn
tv lor murder, was shot to death on
the Bassett Blakely state farm in Fort
Bend county by Convict Guard Allan
pope upon whom be rushed with an
open razor _
* CITATION BY PUBLICATION
The State of Texas,
To the Sherilf or any Consta-
ble of Pecos County: -Greeting:
You are hereby commanded,
that you summon, by making
publication of this Citation in
some newspaper published in the
! Count y of Pecos, if there \te a
newspaper published therein, but
!if not, then in any newspaper
published in the 63rd judicial
district; but if there be no news-
paper published in said judicial
district, then in a newspaper pub-
lished in the nearest district
to said 63rd judicial district,
for four weeks previous to
the return day hereof, J. P.
Andrews, whose residence is
in Pecos County, Texas, but
who is absent and out of the
State, to be and appear before
the Hon. County Court, at the
; next regular term thereof, to be
holden in the County of Pecos at
the Court House thereof, in Fort
Stockton, Texas, on the Third
Monday in November, which is
November 20th, 1916, then and
! there to answer a Petion filed in
said Court on the 4th day of
September A. D. 1916; in a suit
numbered on the docket of
j said Court, No. 316, wherein
Burton-Lingo Company is plain-
tiff, and J. P. Andrews is de-
fendant. The nature of the
plaintiff's demand being; as fol-
lows, to-wit: Burton-Lingo Com-
pany, a Corporation duly incor-
ated under, and by virtue of the
laws of Texas, and doing busi-
ness in, and whose residence is
in Pecos County, Texas, herein-
after called Plaintiff, and com-
plaining of J. P. Andrews, whose
residence is now and has been
for many years in Pecos County,
Texas, but who is temporarily
out of the State of Texas, and
plaintiff is informed that de-
fendant will not likely return
before the next term of this
honorable County Court, here-
inafter styled defendant, and
for cause of action, plaintiff rep-
resents:
First. That heretofore, to-
wit: on or about the 27th day of
June, A. D. 1914. the defendant
executed and delivered to plain-
tiff, his fourteen (14) certain
promissory note's, payable to the
order of plaintiff in Pecos County,
Texas, each of said notes, except
the last note, in the principal
sum of $50.00, the last of said
notes being in the principal sum
of $40.38, each due in 1, 2, 3, 4,
6, 6, 7. 8. 9, 10. 11. 12. 18 and 1 1
months from their date resj»ect-
ively, each bearing 10 per cent,
interest from maturity and pro-
viding for 10 percent, additional
on both principal and unpaid in-
terest, as attorney’s fees, if
placed in the hands of an attor-
ney for collection, or suit insti-
tuted thereon.
Second. That each and all of
said notes are past due and
wholly unpaid, though repeated
demands have been made upon
defendant for payment thereof,
but that said defendant has
wholly failed and refused to pay
same or any part thereof.
Third. That plaintiff is the;
present owner of said obligations,
and has placed same for collec-
tion and suit with the attorney
whose name appears hereon, and
has agreed to pay said attorney
more than the 10 per cent, pro-
vided for in said notes, and that
the said 10 per cent, attorney’s j
fees is a reasonable and just
compensation for such service.
Fourth. That by reason of
said notes the defendant obligat- i
ed himself and became bound to
pay plaintiff the amounts of said
notes, interest and attorney’s:
fees, and that defendant’s fail-!
ure to pay same has resulted in
damages to plaintiff by reason
thereof in the sum of Nine hun-
dred fifty ($950.00) dollars.
Wherefore: Plaintiff prays the
court that defendant be duly cit-
ed in terms of the law, to appear
and answer herein and that it
have judgment for its damage in I
the sum of $950.00 for all costs, j
and for such other, further and
different relief to which, in law
and equity, planntiff is entitled
and will ever pray.
Herein fail not, and have you
before said Court, on the said
first day of the next term there-
of, this Writ, with your endorse-
ment thereon, showing how you
have executed the same.
Given under my hand and seal
of said Court, at office in Fort
Stockton this, the Sixth day of
September, A. D. 1916.
|L. s.) Frank Rooney,
Clerk County Court, Pecos
County. Toxaa.
By Lela Ogle, Deputy. 23-4t
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hether on armored mo-
tor truck, service aero-
plane, racing car, motor boat
or pleasure vehicle, the men
who know motors, use:
TEXACO GASOLINE
AND
TEXACO MOTOR OIL
You can bank on Texaco in
the pinch, and get full power
-at all times.
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GENERAL OFFICES: HOUSTON, TEXAS
At gents l.vcrywlxcrc
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Blown Out
By Gas
or blowing out the gas are
usually connected with dis-
astrous results. We can
not prevent folks from
blowing out the gas. Our
business is to install
Plumbing, Gas Pipes and Fixtures
so skillfully and thoroughly that there is no danger of
being blown out hy gas explosions. For safe and sani-
tary plumbing call on
DURHAM & MAXFIELD
PLUMBERS AND METAL WORKERS
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