The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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FLOODS BRING DEATHS!
Many Reported to Have Perished Near
Comanche—Several Farm Houses Are
Saed to Have Been Swept Away and
Occupants Perish—Reports Are Un-
confirmed.
Comanche, Tex., Sept. 6.—A
Seven-inch rain fell here last
night and the precipitation was
even greater south of town,
causing destructive overflows in
South Lone creek and its tribu-
taries.
Along- this s’ream farms were
swept cljean of crops and several
homes /were wrecked. Several
■ persons had narrow escapes.
The flood attained its maxi-
mum after midnight near Gus-
tine, fourteen miles east of here,
where several farm houses were
swept away and the families
were caught. Rumors h$v'e been
received here of a dozen deaths
by drowning These, reports,
owing- to the bad condition of tel-
ephone wires, could not be con-
firmed at a late hour tonight.
The Control of Disease.
It is well to sometines pause
the housefly, the mosquito and
the rat will be extinct; and
and take bearings with "regard to j wben people^ want to know
the problems of health and sick- j anything about tuberculosis, they
ness. With the' many wonderful wiii have t0 read about U in the
discoveries, the serums, the im-
munities and the improved
knowledge of hygiene, what is
the solution today? There are
plenty of statistics which, al-
though they cannot lie, do not
always tell the truth. It is known
books.—Youth’s Companion.
There is considerable complaint
upon the farms which have been
liberally irrigated this year of
the “root rot” in the cotton plant,
some saying that the loss from
Home Gardening.
The 'Leader is interested in
every movement for progress, jno
matter how small it may be, and
hence the'following observations
on the home gardes of Lampa-
sas.
There are a number of these
Are You One of Them.
Are you throwing money away?
If you are not, you are the excep-
tion of one out of ten. Read the
following from the Grand Saline
Journal, and you will agree with
us:
We were a little surprised a-few
small gardens, some of them run j days ago to find $50 lying in the
for marketing purposes, and oth-
ers which make the market only
subject to use after the wants of
, , the cotton dying will amount to
that although many diseases are one.fifth tha entir6 acl.eao,fe | the home are supplied. First of
wiped out and many others; 8uoh farmers should gettheSov- i importance is the well known
doomed to extinction at a near] ernment bulletins and wao-e war i Finlan plot ot ten aeres half »
day, there are other disorders I again3t the whjch causes imile •«» M ,«»e courthouse,
ominously on the increase. | the cotton to die. The remedy ! whieh is now operated by Albert
Typhoid fever, one of the most A ei , and does not ,, jre j Berry, and who finds ready mar-
road beside the hedge at the cor-
ner of one of our prominent bus-
iness farmer’s home, and the
more so-to find that it had lain
there for quite awhile unmolest-
ed, but beginning to look much
the worse owing to exposure. The
money was in the way of farm
implements that wiii have to be
dreaded of physical ills, is now great dea, of ,abor flnd ja w&| ket for all the produce he cam replaced by new ones before *"
positively known to be due fo ]■worth the experiment of trying jraise there- Th>3 5'ear has j many years unless cared for bet-
j polluted drinking water or milk,; Wood ash0s UberaUy 8prinkled ibsed the intensive method, and ! ter. This is food for thought on
or other food, or to be spread
from house to house through the
agency of the fly, and its days
are numbered.
Yellow fever and malaria are
no longer regarded as visitations
of the will of heaven, but are
recognized as due to the visita-
, T , . , tions of mosquitoes; and it is not
One report savs that John Lanier j „ , ,
1 J really necessary to have those
and his 15 >ear old daughter , mogqUjtoeg^ although it may take
were drowned and their bodies . , , , , ,
„ _ , some time and hard work to get
recovered this afternoon. . Others
escaped by climbing trees.
The same report declares that
the list of all who were drowned
is not known. ✓
Here at Comanche the rain
was so heavy that the southern i
upon the land is said to be the j bas ra*sed oats, corn, cotton, j the part of the farmer,
simplest remedy and at the same: sor&hum and other farm prod- observes ~
time is very effective, though the ! ucts in a'ddition to his vegetables,
department recommends a num- > wb*cb be seds wdh great regu-
since the anti-toxin for it Gas
been found.
Tuberculosis is still all too com-
, y , , , mon, and the destruction of it
part of the county was flooded to ! wm ^ ^ for humanity fop
die (Jangc-r pum t^ - j years to come, but the work is
e iom^ o L V3- enry ar ; Well under way. The great start
er v/as flooded and the family re- i , , ... ? , ,.
. was made when this dread dis-
moved by a boat. The ram was ! , ,
J . , lease was moved by common con-
the heaviest m wenty^ass. j‘sent from the ..fatal» t0 the
The towns of Hamilton, Hic'o j “curable” class,
and some country precincts Y/hen this has once been done
voted on the local option ques- m regard to any humari ill, it is
tion Tuesday of this week, the *hen for humanity to take care of
result putting the territory into j itself-
- the dry column by a majority of I Those nations that are willing
over three hundred votes. This | to spend the most money and
is the first time the town of Ham- j take the most pains to wipe out
..iltonhas been in the dry side, j disease are coming out first in
though elections have been held j the race,. Great cities havelearn-
a number of times in the past I ed the lesson that it pays them
several years. The fact that j to take care of the health of their
Lampasas, Goldth waite, Co-j populations. It is much too ex -
manche and other near by towns i pensive to permit unnecessary
were dry was used as an argu-! sickness. Clean water pays,
ment by the pros, and seems toj clean streets pay, decent housing
have been effective. The Ham- j f°r the poor pays,
ilton Herald did some splendid I The boards of health are do-
work in the canvass. . j ing much in these directions and
-i--:- -j in many others, and as time goes
Col. C. R. Hubbard has gone! on they will do more. As people
to Galveston, from which place! are educated in these matters
accepted a position as city libra1
rian, vice Miss Fannie Houston,
some time and hard work to get resigned. Miss Lula Smith has
rid of them. j had the place for the last month,
Diphtheria still rears its head, j during Miss Houston’s vacation,
but it is no longer formidable, | and has had fine'success, having
the Bryan Eagle:
“At present prices, with goocfv,
ber of other thingsYA'1 wav almost the year round. Mr. “XfblTta !°WV **
treatment for the land where 'the ■ McGoniga1 has about an acre in i piotllablf na lot or eTOn m a
louon diel th ! East Lampasas whieh-tte irrigates I pen’ with good hog pasture
____ | from the city vtaterworks, and | tbe„prfts are ^8^
Miss Beatrice Guererro has from this small plot makes a iec' Biazos county farmers
good living for • his family by!shou.ld raise more ho&8 for mark-
selling the vegetables, and sup- 1 et! ^ndeed’ tn^b admonition ap- v
plementing the income by the j Pdes farmeis of other counties.
induced ten people to subscribe
for membership. The library
board, held its regular meeting
Saturday, and made the appoint-
ment of the new librarian. There
are an unusually large number
of good books in the library now
and people are urged to read
them. “Freckles” is especially
recommended as being intensely
interesting both for young and
old. “The Redemption of Ken-
neth Golf,” holds the attention
from cover to cover, and “The
Tyranny of the Dark,” is a nov-
el in Hamlin Garlan’s best style,
dealing with psychic phenomena.
he will sail for Atlantic City, New
Jersey, to attend the G. A. R. en-
campment. He will be gone
about a month, and will visit
Now York City and other points
before his return.
they will be willing and able to
give more and wiser co-opera-
tion. It is safe to prophesy that
the day is coming when people
will refuse to put up with pre-
ventable nuisances, and when
Work on the streets continues,
men and teams being kept con-
stantly busy repairing the bro-
ken places and filling in the ^dw
places. Lampasas may be con-
demned by some on account of
comparison with great cities
where paved streets and cement
sidewalks are common,, but it
surely has had more attention
paid to its streets and sidewalks
than any city in Texas of its size.
Dust is kept down by sprinkling
all through the week, men and
teams are constantly bettering
the condition of the principal
streets, and many of the citizens
have splendid cement sidewalks
around their homes. Let the
good work proceed.
raising of some good hogs.
Farther down the creek are
some larger plots of land, acre-
age tracts, which are devoted
largely to onions, beans, toma-
toes and potatoes, and the own-
ers of these are making money
by using the water from the
creek, plenty of manure and in-
tensive cultivation, some of them
using the same land for several
different crops during the year.
There are also home gardens
right in the city which produce
enough vegetables for the fami-
lies to which they belong and
some to spare. Notably among
these are the gardens of J. F.
Lewis, Homer Seale and others
who plant a variety of vegeta-
bles, potatoes, corn, etc., and
have some to sell at all seasons
of the year.
This article, however, was
caused by riding a few blocks
along the streets with Mark Al-
exander who lives in East Lam-
pasas “right among the rocks,”
as one would say, and who
planted a little garden for home
use, but found it so prolific that
he has been selling part of the
overplus to the merchants of the
city. He has kept account of his
sales, and remarked that with his
peas, okra and tomatoes which
he had in the buggy would make
a total of $65.00 in cash from his
little home patch, besides the
abundant supply for home use.
Plant a garden. Nothing pays
better, and it is but little trouble.
Backed by intelligent diversifica-
tion the farm thus produces a
daily income instead of once-a-
year money under the old one-
crop method.
Grandma Fulton, who has been ^
so sick, is now getting better.
She was ill for five weeks at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fulton,
but has been with her daughter,
Mrs. J. W. Townsem, for two lor
three' weeks.
M. W. Moses is home from
New Tork, St. Louis and other
eastern points, where he has
been purchasing the fall and
winter stock of dry goods for the
firm of Stokes Brothers & Com-
pany, of which he is a member.
With the fine valley lands
along the Colorado and Lampa-
sas rivers and in the creeks of
the county, there should be a
much larger acerage under irri-
gation than at present, and the
man or men who inaugurate irri-
gation plants will never have
cause to regret such action. The
irrigated lands this year will
produce from five to ten times as
much as the dry lands, and this
should stimulate others who have
water to get ready to put it on
their lands when the next dry
season comes along. Indeed, ir-
rigation will pay in this section
in any season which may come.
Daily Leader 3 months for $1.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1910, newspaper, September 9, 1910; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth890882/m1/4/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.