Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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TACKSBORO
GAZETTE
VOLUME XXXIII.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY JANUARY 23, 1913.
NUMBER 34.
Bank News
Rainy days come to every life hi-tory. No one can hope for
fair weather to the journey’s end. No sun of prosperity shines
perpetually; cloudbursts of adversity come to all sooner or later.
They come when least expected. Hope for the best, prepare
for the worst. Begin to build now the protecting shelter of a
bank account; it will keep you and yours in comfort and health,
till the clouds roll by. A dollar will start the account; a little
added every week will make it grow faster than you think pos-
sible. If you want accommodations, call on us.
TEXAS SPENDS BIG
SUM m ROADS
THIRTY-THREE BOND ELEC-
TIONS CARRY, GIVING TO-
TAL OF $3,496,000
INTEREST IS GENERAL
Many Counties Spend as Mush
as $5,000 Per Mile on Con-
struction.
Capital $50,000 Surplus $10,000
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
W. A. SHOWN, President. WM. TURNER, Cashier
SIL STARK, Vice President.
J. H. TIMBERLAKE, Vice President.
E. A. GWALTNEY. S. CASTLEERRY. J. R. LILLY.
J. D. VENTIONER. E. W. NIC"iOLSON.
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THE CHOICEST WHEAT
HARVEST
A record kept by the Texas
Commercial Secretaries and Bus-
iness Men’s Association on good
roads bond elections held in Tex-
as during the year 1912 shows
that thirty-.three bond elections
carried in various counties of the
state, resulting in a total of $3,-
496,200 being voted for highway
improvements.
Altogether there were fifty
good roads bond elections held
in forty-one counties, seventeen
of which resulted in the issue be-
ing defeated. A sum total of $5,-
603,700 was voted upon during
the year. * The amount of funds
on hand Jan. 1, 1912, raised by
and issues of
ently appropriated $10,000 to as-
sist in improving a stretli of Tex-
as highway fifty miles long and
this amount will be increased
$20,000 by Tarrant, Palo Pinto
and Parker Counties and the to-
tal expended upon a highway
connecting Fort Worth with
Mineral Wells.
Tiie Federal department of
highways has assisted the vari-
ous counties of Texas in improv
ing their highways by sending
good roads experts to the state
to analyze soil, examine grades
and investigate drainage systems
of various stretches of roadway
in the state. These experts have
also been of benefit in building
stretches of demonstration good
roads which has done much in
educating the farmer to the val-
ue of in'proved highways.
The sp it log drag is making
5 its contribution toward lifting
I
Texas out of the mud age into
an era of splendid highways, but
the total of roads now under the
jurisdiction of the drag will not
exceed 7.0C0 miles. The total
mile age of graded roads in Tex
as approximates about 35,000
miles, which includes all highways
under the class improved. Of this
mileage approximately 7,000 miles
have been given sufficient atten-
tion to enter them into the high-
ei class of improved highways.
The greater portion of the class
of highway considered improved
lost to the farmer was collected
by the mudhole in bad roads.
The fire loss in Texas last year
was approximately $4,000,000,
while bad roads
twice this amount. The lossa
against fire was partially covered
by insurance, while the loss due
to bad roads was total. The only
insurance the farmer has against
bad roads is to build good ones,
and the whole of Texas is engag-
ed in a campaign for good roads
building that promises to be on
Catholic Church. In West Dunk-
lin County more than 10,000 acres
of raw and for the most part tim-
bered land was bought. The colo
loss was just | nization scheme was undertake a
under the patronage of the Arch-
bishop of St. Louis. In the north-
ern part of the tract the Iris i
farmers settled around Glennor-
ville (named after Archbishop
Grhnncn). The Hollanders too a
the land five or six miles to the
south.
The Dutchmen and their fam:-
a greater scale than ever during j lies came direct from the mother
the year 1913. country. The majority of then
were tenant farmers there. Here
HOLLANDERS MAKE A
PARADISE OF SWAMP
Quaint Settlement About
Miles From St. Louis Like a
Piece of Old World.
th?y became landholders, and one
of their farms in South Missouri
is bigger than the holdings of i
whole village in Holland.
Forty families of the Holland-
' ers have made themselves homes
j in what was a watery wilderness
| fiv years ago. A great dite-i
j running north for a couple of
__ 'miles from the St. Francis has
straightened a crooked creek and
A St. Louis special to the Star- draincd geveral hundrcd acres;.
Telegram gives the following m- looking> fiat bottome.l
terestmg descr.ption of a quaint boatg paddle up and dowl3 theSl,
' out thrifty settlement of the Hoi- pran(.is ftnd new roads turn alon?
m
, . . .. is surfaced with either mud, shell,
bonds prior to that date was ap-; . . . , . .
. ‘ . . . __. .. gravel, macadam, crushed rock
proximately $4,504,456, making a...... , . .........
flgurII
yields to you floor which takes
rank second to none when we appropriations
grind it into what is widely
known as the Jacksboro Brand. ........,
Starting with prime whole wheat total of $8,000,656 available for! °.r >'and lay’ „A ^eC®Dt eenaus °“
made into flour according to the , . .. x. .. tne number of split log and steel
. . . . . iroad construction for the year,
best accepte modern methods, J
what else could be the result but subsequent to the sale of bonds.
A1 flour? Besides the above amount,
issued
JACKSBORO MILL &
ELEVATOR COMPANY.
many counties issued scrip for
road work during the year, which j
will be redeemed. In addition to!
drags used in the state compiled
by the Texas Commercial Secre-
taries and Business Men’s Asso-
ciation showed a total of 656 in
use in fifty-one counties of the
counties worked their
j this, mai ^
j roads out of a fund raised by’}
j voting a special tax which
j state.
Three Big Highways Planned.
with | The interest in scientifically
regular road tax was sufficient constructed highways in Texas
landers direct from the world-
famous Zuyder Zee country. :together
On the St. Francis river, 100 J ‘"Loneliness
miles from St. Louis, a little*
Holland” has developed in the1
last three years.
the section lines linking the farms
in a strange land
has caused the Hollanders to keep
up tlieir community life. Most
i of the land owners live in the lit-
With a complete equipment of machiney and
an abundance of the best of water lam prepared
to do in best shape all Laundry Work
Your Patronage Solicited
MRS. CORDA PHIPPS, Proprietor.
jto keep up their highways. It is
has extended beyond county and
Five years ago the \\at< r mo..- village, going back and forth
casin and the irog were the sole jj^ween the town and t ieir farms,
lahabitantse of the whole town- 0f neighborhood
ship in the Big Hole s country. ; centers about the church, tin?
Then the Hollanders came. sej100j an(j residence of the
Ditches were dug and the green parisk priest, Father Tussalaar.
waters vanished. I _ _
Windmills took the place of the ‘
big water oaks. Wooden shoes ROCK ISLAND
splashed in the black mud of tiiej KAFFIR CORN SPECIAL
roads that ran through the splash-
es. White caps, the head-dress'
of the Holland women, bobbed in List of Speakers Who Will Ac-
the village street. Stolid Dutch
farmers .descendant? of a hun-j company Train and Speak on
dred generations of dyke build-j Special Lines,
ers, eheesemakers and dairymen, |
settled on the rich black earth !
* that lies in the bend of the river, j jn a letter from Mr. George S.
Now is the time to place your order for a
FORD
! estimated that about one-fourth: precinct lines. Much work has
of the highways improvements been accomplished on at least
carried on in the state during;three important and continuous| Now there is a school where Pentecost, G. P. A. of the Chica
j 1912 was accomplished in this thighways in the state, although
manner. ' the counties through which they
$5,000,000 Expended. !run hav,! had t0 work “depend-
T n .. , „ entlv. The Red River to the
Information received from , ...
. . . . j Gulf highway has taken tangible
county judges, commissions and. , .
.... .. . . .. form and almost every county in
commercial clubs throughout the gl . .. .
. j • , , atu the proposed Highway has taken usual little businesses that a ru- Milo maize. Come and bring
state indicate that over $5,000,- 11 . f £ . . . . , ... . . .
steps to complete its link of the ral community must have. your neighbor with, you and
great thoroughfare which, when! The stolid, slow-moving Ilol- have the biggest crowd of farm-
built, will be 630 miles long. ! landers brought their Old World ers here on that day that hasev-
There is no statute regulating j civilization with them. Coming er been brought toget! er. It will
the width of public highways in from one of the oldest countries benefit all to hear the following
With J. F. Boyd
AT CITY GARAGE
S Passenger Touring Car $ 3415
Torpedo Roadster $ 570
the little Dutch children go. g0 and Rock Island system, ho
There is a parish church where gives the following list of men
sermons are preached in the who will address the people in
tongue you hear along the Zuy- Jacksboro, February 5th. Every
der Zee. There are a mill, a farmer is asked to bring with
form and almost every county in' blacksmith shop, a store and the him a head of Kaffir corn or
000 was expended in Texas on
highways during the year, re-
sulting in the improvement of
of approximately 1,500 miles of
1*011(1
m , . , Texas, but the average width is of Europe to a land still uncleaiy speakers:
- any coun les ane P^^in( 8 a|)0ll^ fifty feet. On this basis ed and und<*r water for much of) J. W. Neill, Department of Ag-
unesptn as ng as -to. P«] there is approximately 1,000,000 the year, they have endured many ricu’ture, Texas,
mile for road construction during . ^ i, : , . . , , , ’
.Al lA .. , acres m public highways, which hardships. Accustomed to roads
the year, with the result that . A, L , .
, .. , , , is eiiual to the total area of the! better than asphalted streets,
transportation has been cheap- „ . • ......
.... . . . state of Delaware. ! they have waded the black mud
ened, land values advanced and rm . „ ... ! . * ^ .
., , .. j. . . i here is .o3 miles of public; of the St. i rancis bottoms un-
the population of the districts , . , .. j ,
sfrved by these high-class high- b‘ghways Per s,',,are m,le ot ar'‘a' «onip.hmmgly.
TEXAS HOUSE INDORSES
SHEPPARD-KENYON BILL
Anti Members Express Desire
For Enforcement of Prohibi-
tion Laws.
ways increased to such an ex-
laws. Mr. Barmeister of Atas- tent that the added valuation of
cosa County, making his maiden the property thus affected will
speech ,expressed similar views, more than take care of the bond ;
The House refused to follow a issues.
The average in the United States
is .77. There is one mile of pub-
lic highway per 4.20 inhabitants
in Texas while the average in the
I United States is one mile for thir-
ty-five people. The average per
Built a Town.
Three miles west of Campbell
the Hollanders settled. They built
for themselves the town of Wil-
! helmina, named in honor of the
motion by McNeal to refer the! While the above amount was • . ' _ , ... 1 ! qu^en of their fatherland. Around
. .____________f_____,1__j ‘cent ot improved public highway^ __________ . ..............
j resolution to the committee on i expended per mile for good road
j liquor traffic, iind refused to post! construction in many counties of
* “ „ w. , pone consideration of it until to-’the state, it was the exception
Austin, ex., * 1 morrow, but instead adopted it. rather than the rule, the general
anti prohibitionists expressing
their desire to co-operate with
ment of the local option laws,
the House adopted, without oppo-
sition ,a concurrent resolution
$100 Per Plate
was paid at a banquet to Henry
offered by huller indorsing the m New Orleans in 1842.
Kenyon-Sheppard bill in th( Na Eighty costly for those with
tional Congress, which measure g^omacj1 trouble or indigestion,
is intended to pr<k\FBt the inter- s ^cnlay people everywhere use Dr.
average running about $3,000 per
mile.
State Highway Department.
m the state is 3.2 and the aver-
age in the United States is 7.14.
The Texas farmer last year
marketed approximately 8,000,-i
000.000 tons of products. It cost
it lies the farms of these sturdy
colon sts.
Dutch is spoken in the fields,
in the streets, in the shops and
in the parish church. The colo-
nists brought their religion with
as, and the
Wm. Ganzer, A & M. College.
E. J. Hosey, Armour & Co.
R. H. Harmon, Swift & Co.
R. D. Murray, Pub., Murray’?
Swine Breeder.
H. M. Cottrell, Commissioner
of Immigration, Rock Island
Lines.
. B. F. Johnson, Texas Indus-
trial Congress.
Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
Fort Worth Chamber of Com-
merce.
E. J. Crowley, Gen. Live Stock
Agent, Roek Island Lines.
Mrs. A. R. Tabor of Crider,
Mo., had been troubled with sick
lap of Waxahaehie, Texas, chair-
man of the good roads committee
of the Texas Welfare Comm is-
state shipment of intoxicating >>• ’ Kind’s "ncw Life Pills for these I S.'°n’ * the TeXa8 C™™1
quors into local option territory. troubkg „ H kidn, A^oc.at.cn recommends the crc-
Roger Byrne of Smithville, a vet- and bowel dis5rd(.rR. Eagy, safc) of » stat& ''‘S*™* d<!l,art'
eran member and prominent anti gure 0n)y 25(tg at AU Deaiers
leader, declared that as an anti, _(Advertisement.)
average distance or'gi'n tbe ™'on-v ’s ,)OU°d U| j headache for about five years.
The r?e?nt report of O. E. Dun- hauled » as five miles. The.gov-,m tha ,deas ot ,a"t
eminent average for the United' kuePing . * a Roman CathollC
community.
and as a man for many years en-
gaged in the liquor business, he
ites the resolution, and
four-square for
Fortune sometimes takes a turn
the rigid when despair is darkest,
cement of the local option on boosting.
ment and it is likely that several
bills proposing legislation affect-
ing public highways will be in-
troduced during the session of
the Thirty-third legislature as a
States is 23 cents per top mile.
By improving our public high-
It is like driving into a- village
along the Zuyder Zee to drive
when she began taking Chamber-
Iain’s Tablets. She has taken two
bottles of them and they have
cured her. Sick headache is caus-
ways to the government averages ^ , , . . ed by a disordered stomach foir
, j • m lover trom Campbell and halt m ___
there would be saved in Texas 1 'which these tablets are especially
front of the \\.lhelmma store*.| ^ T them t weU and
Along the road farmers are work- ^ f,()M AI1 Dealers.-
mg m the lielda, ditchmg, grub- (Advcrtisem(,nt>)
lung, plowing, getting ready tor
the big crops of anoher season. " ' m *
Stome years ago the work of j ^ The greatest known civilizer is
settling alien farmers on these the good road—what about the
$8,000,000 per annum to the far-
mers.
The road taxes last year
amounted to approximately $3,-
250,000, independently of bond is-
sues, which was spent
on
Keep result.
^ The Federal government re- highways, while the $8,0*10,000 n v»* lands was taken up by the go stn et.
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1913, newspaper, January 23, 1913; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth839758/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.