The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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Arkansas State Returns Incomplete.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 13.—
(Returns tonight from all sections
of Arkansas indicate almost be-
yond a doubt that amendment
Stfo. 10 to the constitution, pro-
Tiding for the initiative and re-
ferendum, has been adopted, and
ih.ere is: slight possibility that
amendment No. 11, exempting
money invested in cotton manu-
factures, has also been adopted.
The majority of the counties re-
port that the initiative and refer-
endum amendment has carried
those counties by good majori-
ties.
Before it is finally determined
whether the amendment has
Wen adopted, however, it will
kave to be decided first whether
. it secured the majority of votes
■cast for Governor. For adoption
the amendment must not only
kave the. majority of votes cast
©n the question of its adoption,
but the majority of all votes cast
at the election. It will be several
‘lays before it is definitely known
whether its majority has been
.secured.
The returns today show that
Republicans captured one or two
■sounty offices in heretofore safe
Democratic territory. On the
She other hand they also show
ibat the Democratic party has
made a remarkable showing in
Republican strongholds in North-
west Arkansas, where the Re-
publicans were held to one and
two offices.
Pulaski county has gone wet
• !>y several hundred- votes.
Ouchita county has changed
irom.wet to the dry column by a
close margin, while Miller coun-
ty, in which Texarkana is locat-
ed, has gone wet after a period of
dryness.
Hempstead county has also
gone dry by about 500 votes and
Fort Smith went wet by 150 ma-
jority. The western district of
Carroll county, in which is lo-
cated the health resort, Eureka
Springs, ha3 changed to the dry
column, and Poinsett county has
'?«ted down license, according to
incomplete returns.
Craighead county is in ques-
tion, and will be either wet or
Ir.y by not more than fifty votes.
St will take the official count to
isci.de the liquor question in Hot
^Springs county.
I Clayton and Grundyville Items.
! ( Bv Auntie.)
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! We had quite a windstorm
| Monday with rain enough to lay
| the dust and beat out the cotton.
| It will enable people to plant tur-
nips, but was not enough for
stock water.
j Amy Landrum spent last Sun-
i day with home folk. He is at
! work in Lometa.
j Rev. Mr. Doak did not fill his
i appointment here Sunday, but
I began a series of meetings at the
! Gatesvilie crossing on the river,
i The meeting continued during
1 this week.
Rev. G. C. Jenkins will fill his
regular appointment here next
Saturday and Sunday.
Martin Holoman was quite sick
last Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Sewell is an home
after spending a few days in Lam-
Graft and the Press.
i pasas.
j" Miss Eupha. Wheeler spent
some days in Lampasas with her
: aunt, Miss Allie Bostick, who was
■ at the Rugeley house. Miss Al-
lie has returned home much im-
proved in health.
Cottbn pickers are needed in
this neighborhood.
Get a 50c box of Mi-o-na stom-
ach tablets and rid yourself of
indigestion, sick stomach, after
dinner distress, gas, heartburn
and belching. Schwarz & Hoff-
mann guarantee them. dw
Cl Paso Bars Pauper Sick.
El Paso, Tex., Sept. 13.—Coun-
ty Judge A. S. J. Eyler and
€ounty Physician White confer-
red today and decided that El
Faso would not be imposed upon
by indigent consumptives this
winter, as has been done in the
$ast.
It was decided to arrest these
Sndigents on vagrancy charges
and fine them if they refuse to
lea ve town. The worst cases will
be given transportation to their
homes, but those able to get out
will be forced to “hit the track.”
El Paso has either housed and
fed them or given them trans-
portation in the past, and the re-
sult has been that the city is
overrun with sick persons every
Vinter.
lading Bill Law is Approved.
Austin, Tex. Sept. 13.—Gov-
ernor Campbell today approved
and signed the bill of lading
measure passed by the last called
session of the Legislature. The
act became effective at once.
Under its provisions the railroad
commission has the authority to
?egulate bills of lading and will
doubtless prepare regulations at
once, if they be considered nec-
essary. Governor Campbell now
Jhas only the penitentiary bill to
dispose of.
Nix Nuggets.
Regular Correspondent.
Some of the people here at-
tendedMhe Christian meeting at
I the Bend last Saturday and Sun-
l-day, among whom were Will
I Doyle and family, Misses Ida and
Allie Doyle, Ed Bearden and
wife, Milton Bearden and wife,
Geo. Edwards and wife and Miss
Lillie Belle Dupree and Fred
Faught. The last mentioned
couple were married Sunday
morning by Mr. McCoury, the
justice of the peace at that place.
Miss Lillie Belle is a grand
daughter of S. L. Dupree and
Ered the son of John Faught on
Lynch creek. The young people
are well known in this country
and have many friends who wish
them much happiness.
Mr. Layne having received a
telegram from Copperas Cove
stating that Mr. Mills was very .:
sick, Miss Ivey. Layne went to
the sick bed of her uncle. She
returned Sunday and reports
that her unple died.
Mrs. Edwards went to Lometa
Monday and her little friend Ada
Belle Noyes returned with her.
Russel Brown, of San Angelo,
visited relatives here last Satur-
day and Sunday. He has been
to Oklahoma, Paris and other
eastern points prospecting.
Uncle Johnnie Doyle has been
on the sick list with fever but is
better.
Mr3. Sam Faught was called to
the sick bed of her grand father,
Bailey Traweek, at Sunny
Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Faught
went immediately and her grand
father died in about two hours
after their arrival.
Good rains in the immediate
section of this country of late
which fill up the tanks again and
bring up the grass afresh which
will be of great help to the peo-
ple hpre.
T. A. White and family, t>f
San Angelo, who are in Brown-
wood now, shipped their furni-
ture to Kempner. They will lo-
cate there, where they have lived
before.
If it were not for the vigilance
of the press we would have a na-
tion of grafters. Corruption
would stalk in the land as it has
stalked through the ages. It is
the duty of the press to comment
on men and things affecting the
public. An honest man has no
fear of newspaper criticism. It
is the grafters and politicd.1 porch-
climbers who squirm. What
matters it to an honest man what
any newspaper sdys of him?
Absolutely nothinjg. If the news-
paper misrepresents, the news-
paper and not the individual suf-
fers.
Ever since the formation of this
government the press has been
free to criticise and comment up-
on official conduct and upon
measures of public interest. Ev-
en Gfeorge Washington was most
severely criticised.
He was accused of violating
the Constitution, but as the Con-
stitution was very new and
scarcely anybody knew its limi-
tations, such accusations were
not to be wondered at. He was
accused of pilfering from the
treasury, which was to be won-
dered at, since Washington had
'I always shown himself the soul of
honor in money matters. He
; was accused of having tried to
J traffic with the British while
: head of the army, and forged,
| where the forgers had planted
j them, to prove it.
John Jay was accused of trea-
: son. Thomas Jefferson was de-
1 nounced as an atheist. John
■ Adams endured torments in
! the presidency. Other great
men were subjected to the re-
fining fires of a fierce publicity.
Because public clamor went wide
of the mark about Washington,
it does not follow that it is always
: wrong, else-we must accept the
dictum that Robespierre, Matt
Quay and others of that ilk were
unjustly dealt with.— Merrill
(Wis.) Herald.
“As Goes Maine So Goes Nation.”
Washington, D. C., Sept. 13.—
Democrats of national scope who
contributed to the victory in
Maine yesterday are Judge Alton
B. Parker „of New York, former
Gov. Joseph W. Folk of Missouri,
Champ Clark, Democratic leader
in the House of Representatives;
Representative Lloyd of Miss-
ouri, chairman of the Democratic
congregefesional campaign com-
mittee. All made speeches for
the Democratic ticket.
The Republicans here, while
anticipating the defeat of their
party in Maine, cannot conceal
their discomfiture at the result.
They see in it other disastrous
defeats of the G. O. P.
Politicians and newspaper cor-
respondents returning from the
Middle West are unanimous in
the opinion that Ohio, Illinois, In-
diana and Iowa are certain to go
Democratic in November.
While due weight is given to
local conditions in ascribing a
cause for the remarkable victory
just scored by the Democrats in
Maine, there is no disposition to
manimize the fact of the Payne-
Aldrich tariff law upon the voters
in determining the direction their
ballots should go. Republican
extravagance and boss rule are
also regarded as contributory
causes to the republican disaster.
It is the traditional saying “as
. goes Maine so goes the Union,”
I for thirty years they have rubbed
1 the saying in on the Democrats, '
and now the latter will do some
; vigorous rubbing.
Advises Farmers to Hold.
The Signboard That Says “Be Kind.
Galveston Bars Fight Film.
i Galviston, Tex., Sept. 13.—The
‘ first attempt to exhibit the John-
son-Jeffries championship fight
| pictures in Galveston was stop-
; ped by the police today,
j A motion picture show secured
j the film at a cost of several hun-
dred dollars and started to ex-
hibit the pictures this afternoon.
Chief of Poliece Perrett warned
j the theater management and then
sent an officer to the show to not
j only arrest the proprietor if he
i started the performance, but to
■. seize the film and hold it as an
I evidence in the case. Finding
that the officer w.ould take the
film and thus make it impossible
to give the show, the theater man
decided not to test the law which
the Legislature passed in special
session.
R. H. Caldwell, of Austin, came
in last evening and is the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Stokes.
Robt. Young and Mrs. M. B.
Huling have gone to Stanton and
Toyah on business.
Mrs. Elor Hamilton retuned to
her home near Lometa last even-
ing, after a visit with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Osborne.
The state fair of Texas will
open at Dallas, Texas, October
15th, and continue sixteen days.
Many new features added and
many wonderful improvements
made. Premiums are increased
in every department. $5,000 ap-
propriated for night horse shows!
The Modern Idea.
“Would you marry for mon-
ey?” asked one girl of another.
“Not I; I want brains!” was
the reply.
“Yes I should think so,” said
the first speaker, “if you don’t
want to marry for money!”—
Ideas.
j “If I can make people feel bet-
i ter, I certainly am not going to
| make them feel worse,” re-
I marked, a lady recently. I
| thought: “What a fine motto to
j live by! ” I know a young woman
! who is a positive terror to her
| best friends because of her sharp
i tongue. She believes in “speak-
j ing her mind.” She says caus-
: tic things about her best friends,
and then wonders why she has
1 not more friends. She complains
| that she.is not popular, but does
! not realize that she alone is the
cause of her lack of popularity.
She “drives tacks,” so to speak,"
! into everybody she meets, her
sharp tongue being her hammer.
“Words fitly spoken are like
apples of gold in pictures of sil-
ver,” we are told by the sage of
olden times; and no truer words
were ever spoken. Like the dear
woman who said, “If I can’t
make people feel better I certain-
ly will not make them fell any
worse,” we can always find
something pleasant to say if we
try.
What a shabby buggy your
friend drives in,” remarked this
“driver of tacks” lady. I winced,
of course, and did not take the
trouble to tell her that my friend
was rpore able to buy a fine
buggy than she, had she wished
to do so, but was using her
money for nobler purposes. We
never know the inside of people’s
lives. With Ella Wilcox we may
say:
“Where are you going? Never
mind;
Just follow the signboard that
says ‘Be Kind.’
Do the duty that nearest lies:
That is the road to Paradise.”
Kind Words.
Galveston, Tex.—“The cotton
growers of Texas -ought to stop
selling their product for the time
being,” said E. F. Shropshire, •
central selling agent and secre-
tary of the Farmers’ Union Ware-
house Co-operative Association
of Texas, when interviewed Fri-
day at the recently opened quar-
; ters of the association—the cen-
| tral selling agency —-in the Moody
j building at Twenty-second and
I Strand. “There has never been
a time in years when the visible
supply of cotton has been as low
in Texas as' it is now, and the
majority of the crop that is now
being sold is premature. This
rush to market the present crop
naturally lowers the price of the
staple, when, if the cotton were
held for a little while the price
obtainable would be far more in
reason than the current price.
That is one of the aims of the
association. In my belief there
will be a'shorter crop than usual
this year, probably a total of two
and three-quarter millions of
bales for all Texas, and if this is
held the price will have to im-
prove.” ■ .
Questioned further as to the
aims of‘the association, of which
W. H. Ainsworth of Gonzales is
president, Mr. Shropshire con-
tinued: “There are three gen-
eral aims of the association,
although the chief one is to
leave the cotton in the ware-
houses in the interior apd sell it
to #the purchasers in the port
; through samples. The other two
1 aims are to have the cotton of
members of the association con-
signed and sold upon arrival, or
to have it consigned, money bor-
rowed upon it, and have it sold
at the discretion of the central
selling agent. The association
has 324 warehouses in Texas, all
owned by the members, and nat-
' uraliy our main object is to have
! the cotton stored in these ware-
i houses and sold from this office
: by samples. This will do away
with the middleman as far as
i possible, and that is one of the
j objects of the association.”
m
The State Fair.
Prof. Lucian Price who has
been spending some time at home,
returned Wednesday to Rotan
where he will take up his work
Monday as superintendent of the
public schoo). His sister, Miss
Ethel Price, who is one of his
assistants, will leave Friday for
Rotan.
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On October 15th, this year, the
Lfcwenty- fifth annual meeting of
' the State Fair of Texas will open.
| For 16 days the citizenry of the
I Southwest will be treated to a
i glorious panorama of the varied
j resources, industries and possi-
bilities of this great section; ^
farm, ranch and garden products
galore. Hundreds of good horses,
mules, hogs, sheep and swine.
Farming implements, vehicles
and machinery; geological treas-
ures of Texas; aristocratic poul-
try of all kinds; dogs'- of the
bluest blood and pedigree. Dairy
products and machinery in oper-
ation, and the finest bands in the
United States. First-class at-
tractions for the entertainment
of the public will be found at the
coming Exposition which will be
the greatest event held under the
auspices of this association.
Splendid improvements are
now being made in preparation
of the great event. A great coli-
seum of steel, brick and orna-
mental stone is completed, mass-
ive but still beautiful in style
and architecture. This building
will fill a long felt want. It is
150x250 feet floor space and will
contain an arena 90x100 feet for
the use of the Horse Show. Here
the great musical and operatic
programme will be given and
where, on the last four nights of
the Fair, the greatest horse show
entertainment in the history of
the Fair will be held.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1910, newspaper, September 16, 1910; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth891021/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.