The Conroe Courier (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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THK CONROE COURIER.
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THE CONROE COURIER
Every Friday"
ENGLAND k ETHERIDGE, Publisher.
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Official City and County Paper.
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i mall matter.
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n firm net a regular advertiser or patron. '
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JOB PRINTING
We are equipped to handle any kind of job
" * or small the job.
___announcement to
everything but money
ana peerage stamps in our up-to-date job depart-
meat. Let us show you samples and quota price*.
advertising for which
line for
Good roads will bring immigra-
tion and that will mean more and
better schools for the country
districts. .
Progressive people want to live
in a progressive community.
Let's put Montgomery county in
the progressive column on the
28rd of Decmeber.
“Turn Montgomery county
loose” should be the slogan of
every citizen who really wants to
•ee the resources of the county
developed. Vote for the bond
issue and get your neighbor to do
likewise. Good roads will do
bon than an? other one thing to
settle up the county with a good
elsas of people.
The bond issue of today will be
b benefit to the coming generation
tf the proceeds are used to build
roads, for the lands will be better
developed and worth more money.
Tfie crops will bring better prices
add facilities for marketing them
will make diversification and rota-
tion desirable and profitable. The
voter who quibbles about the ex*
peuae of improvement because of
future generations is simply mak-
ing a specious plea as a mask for
his stinginess. His concern is not
for his children, but for the next
taxpaying day.—Galveston News.
8. K. Hailey, secretary of the
Good Roads League is in receipt
of a letter from Col. Robt. J.
Potts of the Division of Highway
and Rural Engineering at A. &
JM. College, in which Col. Potts
expresses satisfaction in knowing
that a cam pain for good roads is
bsing launched in Montgomery
comity. He also promises to be
in the county for a few days dur-
ing the week beginning December
lfith. Arraogement will be made
to have Col. Potts meet the people
at different points in the district
and make talk* on the important
subject of mad building.
About Fruit Cake
Why not let os make poor
Fruit Cake for you?
FIRST IMPRESSION IS REST I
That piece of land you acquired
on your first impression you tig-;
urod would iubance in value by
reason of the country being more
thickly settled up and you would
get busy n putting it iu shape to
show off its true worth and be (Conducted by the
ready to meet the changed condi
tious looked for. But for some
reasou the changed conditions
have not materialized. We have
stood still and watched our neigh,
boring districts double aud treble
ou their lauds—no better than
ours. They did uot stand still,
but united in one effort, shoulder
to shoulder, and said they would
make their holdings attractive and
thereby onjoy the good things
that are rightfully theirs. They
built good roads and are paying
for them on easy terms with one-
tenth of the enhanced value th at
the good roads brought about.
The good roads proposition is
like unto this: Suppose a friend
would say, “I will present you
with 100 acres of land, worth
$1000,and you would say, “I
don’t want it because I will have
to pay taxes on it.” Now, sup-
NationaJ Woman’s
Christian Temperanoe Union.)
WHO PAYS THE SALOON TAX?
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Answer Is Found In Tired Woman
Leaning Over Wsehbosrd end Un-
kempt Children In Streets.
Did you ever see a wan, tired wom-
an leaning over a washboard, with an
expression of woe and misery on her
faoe, with clothes that betokened the
extreme of poverty, and a thin, worn
body that told most eloquently of the
lack of nourishing food? Have you
seen such a woman working her life
away while the man that promised to
cherish and support her Is out In-
dulging In the sparkling oup of so-
called "good cheer" and complaining
about the Invasion of "personal lib-
arty" by the temperance fanatic?
That woman la paying the saloon
tax.
Have you seen Ill-kept, unkempt
children roving the streets, their men-
tal and moral degradation pictured In
their faces, growing up to be a
charge on society, and perhaps a men-
ace to It, Instead of becoming, as God
Intended them to become, a moral and
DaMrawMef
■AbsohitefyPQie
The Woman Makes the Home
• She makes it best who, looking after the
culinary department, turns her back resolute-
ly upon unhealthful, or even suspicious, food
accessories. She is economical; she knows
that true economy does not consist in the use
of inferior meat, flour, or baking powder. She
is an earnest advocate of home made, home
baked food, and has proved the truth of the
statements of the experts that the best cook-
ing in the world today is done with Royal
Baking Powder,
pose you own 100 acres of laml I J?
valued at $1000, and good roads tax.
make it worth $3000, would you
say, “I don’t want my place with
good roads and worth $3000?’’ I
would rather have it worth $1000
than $3000.” If you are progres-
sive you prosper and are happy
BAKER'S MESSAGE TO YOUTH
Noted Baseball Playsr Does Nat
Drink or Smoke and Advlsaa Boya
to Follow Example.
J. Franklin Baker, the man whose
If you are non-progressive vou home runs won tho ltii world’s chain-
are discontented, unhappy and Plon»kli> for tho Athletic*, would be
.... . * astonished If ho was spoken of aa a
retard the progress of the com-
munity. Sow the seed of progress
and reap the harvest of prosperity.
spoken
groat teacher. Tot ho recently ut-
tered a great truth which should bo
Impressed upon tho mind of every
hoy la tho United States. Hero la
what tho greet popular hero of tho
Amarloan small boy has to say:
T don’t drink or amoks. Never did
i drink or smoko. If -'any youngster
Parker-Jarrard.
A quiet wedding occurred at the Bap-
tist church during the prayer meeting
hour on Wednesday night of last week
when Miss Katherine Parker and Mr.
Joe Jarrard presented themselves be-
fore the altar and were united in mar-
riage by Rev. T. W. Boynton. The
bride and groom are two of Conroe’s
popular young people, and have a boat
of friends here who join the Courier in
wishing them a long, useful and happy
life.
Eld Texas Cat-Over Land.
Houston Chronicle: ______________ _____
There has always been so much wante advtoe from on# who doesn't
unoccupied and unused land in
to preach.
olgaiota or tobaooo In
thorp It
> In any
la. Leave
form alone.
We can
It cheaper, and
Texas that people have given but and don't touch ’boose,’ now or at any
little heed to the matter of selec- ^ma. ire the usual advice and don't
tion. rn.KOod tod, requirinK only
fencing and plowing, was abund- moan a little more to the Amarloan
got; but at last people are begin- *ida."
' QREyresT NEED Of CBITUIO
besides prairie lands whioh are New Ooeaelone Taaoh New Duties,,
desirable.
There was a time when the cat-
tlemen swore by all the horns of
all his bolls that the prairies were
worthless for the plow, and the *5 °°l? in ?!
___ - . fl*ht ««alnet the villainy of that slav-
owner of pme land looked to it ary which unites the saloon and the
only to be sold to the millmau brothel agnlnst humanity and govarn-
whenever he arrived, and the mill- .°°d ***** ***?. * w®nd?11
, . ., ’ . Phillips to undsrstand Its desperate,
man treated it, when the ktrees bold and cunnnlng crime, to show us
taken off, as a kind of that we "cannot neutralise nltrio acid
Mrs. and Mrs Mark Jackman were
called to Kyle last week to attend the
funeral of Mr. Donaldson, a brother-
in-law tb Mr. Jackman. They returned
home last Friday.
There is a movement on foot to fence
and beautify Lewis Park. Enough
wire has been secured, but fence posts
are needed. Don't you feel Interested
enough to give s post? A committee
will visit you in the near future for
your donation. We can make this one
of the prettiest parks in Texas, if you
will help us do so. X. Y. Z.
Rev. R. O. Wier and family left
Wednesday morning for Anderson,
where the former has been sent as
pastor for Anderson and Bedim*
churches.
The White House
HAS RECEIVED
Says Rav. Frank Qunsaulua, Talk-
ing of Liquor Question.
God give us a Webstar who ahall so
interpret the Constitution that it may
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Uver Puri Aar, the
yet tla
Pat ag la
Priee lie.
human piracy to the coming and fierc-
er battle, and say, with the orator
whoee hundred years of purity and pa-
triotism are eloquent. In his words:
"We will not- say ‘farewell,’ but 'all
hall,* welcome new duties! We sheath
no sword. We only turn the front of
the army upon a new foe!”—Frank W.
Gunsaulus, D. D.
were JJ
tetluwirhdthpoieoft bum
Southeast Texas Fair at Beaumont
is going to show people a few
things about j what cut-over pine
lands will do.
Lands that will raise Japanese
persimmons as big as a man’s tist,
and cape jessamine bushes ten
feet high, and ribbon cane equally
as tall, will produce any kind of
product.
The sandy soil and the darker
gray and chocolate soils are both
underlaid by a stratum of red
day, which insures abundant
moisture, snd which enables the
land to retain all fertilizers used
oat it, and with proper cultivation
will bring good garden and field
crops every year.
There are hundreds of thous-
ands of sores of such lands in East
TImwm. and they offer the best op
portnnity for cheap homes and
hnos now offered in the United
THE TWO STREETS.
By Nixon Waterman.
Two etreate there are In many town*,
A sad ona and a fair;
In one. good cheer and peace abound;
In ona. a dark deepalr;
In on*, the light of love la ehed;
In on*, griefs bitter tear;
Th* name of ona of these streets Is
Broad.
The name of the other is Baer.
In Bread street there are busy men.
And happy homea and wtvea.
In Bear street the degraded dens.
And ead and broken Uvea;
In Bread etraet Plenty sings her song.
And Labor chants bar rhyme.
In Baer street Want la Joined with
Wrong
strive to An
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want otmnrr
want ebeer. what ebear In g glass gf
btori
A doubtful Jaet Mid g novert moot.
A pglolod tongue and a maudlin tear,
pjBL'jK’jr.'ArAr
Foils a Foal Plot.
When a shameful plot exists between
liver and bowelt to cause distress by
refusing to act, take Dr. King’s New
Life Pills, and end such abuse of your
system. They gently compel right ac
tion of stomach, liver and bowels, and
restore your health and all good feel-
ings. 25c at the Corner Drug Store.
A. L KAYSER
Attorney at i aw
Office up-stairs in Koonce Building
Conroe, Texas „
A full line of the fam-
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Corsets in the latest
styles and offer them
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The Conroe Courier (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1912, newspaper, December 6, 1912; Conroe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth843752/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Montgomery County Memorial Library.