The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1911 Page: 3 of 12
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Published Every Friday,
J. E. VERNOR J. H. ABNEY
Proprietors.
J. E. Yernor Editor and Business Mgr
Seniors Entertained.
Miss Louise Harris was host-
ess Friday night at a very enjoy-
able affair in honor of the senior
class of the high school. The
rooms were profusely decorated
with school and college pennants,
and the class colors—blue and
white.
On arrival the “grads,” each
with an invited guest, were asked
to go before the “registrar,” ere
they could be “matriculated,”
Miss Harris acting as registrar
for the gentlemen and Mrs. W.
J. Fleming for the fair co-eds.
Lists outlining the different
courses of study were given out.
After consulting this list and
checking the desired course of.
study, partners were found by
matching score cards, outlining
the same studies, such as the
Latin course, science course, etc.
These cards were made in the
shape of a real bonnet, hand-
painted blue and tied with white,
cleverly carrying out the class
colors, blue and white, and the
class flower, the bluebonnet.
The popular game of progressive
senior was the diversion, there
being six tables of lively con-
testants. Claude Alexander
scored highest and received a
hand-painted bluebonnet girl;
Tom Stokes received the booby
prize, a pennant with L. H. S.
engraved upon it.
Miss Harris served refresh-
ments of fruit salad in banana
boats, veroniques and philipons.
The tray cloths were decorated
with blue and white pennants.
Those present were Misses
Ruth Cauthen, Mary Dickens,
May O’Keefe, Caroline Richard-
son, Velma Gerald, Laura Ran-
dall, Elsie Coker, Vivian Mc-
Whirter, Ruby Colbert, Messrs.
John Cowan,, Claude and Cloy
Alexander, Elmer Moore, Burney
Clack, Raymond McGuire, Tom
Stokes, Cecil McHenry, Prof.
Thomas, Dr. Hearne.
Good Streets and Good Roads.
There is no question that good
roads materially enhance the
value of farm property or that
the cost of the good roads is far
less than the increased value of
the abutting property by reason
of their being. The same ap-
plies to good streets in the city
in abont the same proportion.
It is simplyLa matter of business
to provide^ the city with good
streets and the country with
good roads. The progressive
citizen wants both and if a tax-
payer he is willing to be taxed to
provide them, if he is convinced
that the money will be judicious-
ly and rightly expended instead
of being wasted in ineffective ex-
periments. When a good road
has been constructed it should be
properly taken care of or else
the expense will have been in-
curred to no good purpose.
It is a waste of money to pave
streets and then neglect them
until they are full of holes and
rough places and the cost of re-
pairs almost equal to the cost of
constructing them anew. It is a
waste of money to build good
roads and then allow them to go
to wreck for lack of proper care.
The people must learn this lesson
and profit by it before either the
city or the country can enjoy the
full measure of prosperity to
which they may be entitled.
Regardless of everything else,
we ought to have good streets
and sidewalks in the city and
good roads in the country.—San
Antonio Express.
To Do Away With Extravagant funerals.
What a pity that the churches,
the lodges, or some powerful
body of men and women of cour-
age and common sense organized
for this special purpose, can not
do something to lessen the ex-
travagance in funerals. Probab-
ly it may be true, as some one
Premiums for the Best
Agricultural Products.
Dallas, Tex., May 18.—Proba-
bly no other state surpasses Tex-
as in the 'number and value of
premiums offered for the largest
and best yields of various farm
and garden products raised in
the state this year. From reli-
chants, banks, and individuals.
Premiums are offered on a varie-
ty of farm and garden products,
but corn and cotton are the prin-
cipal crops for the best yields of
which prizes are to be given. In
value, the $10,000 in cash offer-
ed by the Texas industrial con-
gress heads the list, while a
number of counties are each
offering premiums that aggre-
gate from $500 to $1,000. In-
cluding the members of the boys’
corn clubs, there are perhaps
10,000 contestants for these
prizes, and the results are cer-
tain to be apparent in the total
agricultural production of the
state for 1911.
has said, that those who are able | able sources the Texas Indus
to bear the expense money spent j trial Congress, has received re-
upon funerals is no more wasted 1 p0rtg that indicate a total of $30,-
than it could be in other wavs; i Q00 m cash prizes, and addition-
but where great displays of flow- j premiums, consisting of mer-
ers, costly carriages and long j chandise, seed, etc., amounting
processions are desired simply j $5^000, to be awarded. -
for the show that may be made, \ These prizes are being given
and where the means do not jus- i hy the Texas industrial congress,
tify such expense, there is much ; iocai commercial clubs, mer
reason for complaint and a grow-
ing demand for reform.
There has been produced re-
cently a letter written by Rev.
Beverly D. Warner, rector of
Trinity Church, New Orleans,
during the epidemic of yellow
fever, at which time Dr. Warner
took a conspicuous part in the
work of rallying the people of
that city and helping them Clear
it of'the scourge. He strove dur-
ing his life to correct, as far as
possible, the extravagant dis-
plays at funerals which seem to
have grown more common in
these latter years. Some extracts
from his letter will not be deemed
out of place. He wrote:
“If I should die in or about
New Orleans I would like to be
buried there.
I solemnly charge those who
shall have charge of my burial
to put my body away with the
least expense possible. I have
seen so much extravagant waste
in connection with funerals that
I shrink from the display and
from the example of putting un-
der the ground what ought to be
kept for the maintenance of the
living.
I die a poor man, and all that
I have been able to gather should
be husbanded for the support of
my family. If I were a rich man
I should still desire that my fu»
1 neral expenses should be at the
I lowest point needed for a decent
| interment.
I I wish nothing more than the
service of the church to be read
over me. Neither at the hour of
the funeral nor at any future
time do I wish memorial services
or addresses. Let my life be re-
membered as long as the public
j recall it naturally. If I have i
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Less expensive than metal or shingles. Approv=
ed by the Fire Underwriters. Easily
put on by the purchaser.
MAKE YOUR OLD ROOFS WATERPROOF
By recoating them with
Texaco Roofing Cement.
For sale by local dealers
The Texas Company
General Offices: Houston, Texas
FAIRBANKS-MORSE 1
GASOLINE I
ACMES
All sizes from 1 horsepower up. All
kinds of pumping machinery. Gasoline
engine supplies and repairs.
. H.
BEAI
| LAMPASAS
, TEXAS
C. J. Huffstuttler who is a ten-
ant on the Byrd farm at Bend
was in town Friday. He raises
onions and sweet potatoes for
market, using irrigation. Says
potatoes will produce 400 bush-
els per acre and onions 200 bush-
els per acre. This is equal to
$200 per acre putting onions at
one dollar and potatoes at fifty
cents per bushel. Potatoes gen-
erally bring one dollar per bush-
el on the local market.
J. J. Davis showed some sam-
ples of wheat and oats from his
farm, which might be described
with all the surperlatives and no
injustice be done. He has 35
acres in oats, out on Lucy creek,
and 15 acres in wheat all of
which he claimed to be as good
as the samples shown. It is a
real pleasure to mpet such farm-
ers and to look upon the samples
of the products of their soil and
industry.
FOR SALE—One six-foot cut
helped people, I thank God, but! McCormick reaper in good repair.
I do not want special addresses I Wil1 do g°od work'- A bargkin
j to be made, to tell the community
i of that.
at $40.00.
T. J. Lloyd, R. F: D. 1.
Lometa Summer Normal
AH who wish to Secure a Certificate or Renew the one
they now have Should Attend the Summer
Normal at Lometa
TheJFacnlty is one of the Strongest in the State. Nice,
New Brick Building, Cool Boarding Houses and Private
Homes. The Normal Opens May 29 and Closes July 8,
followed by the examination. Make arrangements to
attend this normal, and go back to school better pre-
pared to serve your people. For further information
\v-28
Write J. WIER, Conductor, Lometa, Tex.
Tribute To The Press.
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man, full of the love of mankind,
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but it is well to remember that
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or woe of the multitude that read
and heed the wholesome advice
of a wise and kindly advisor, or
drift into error when the editor
himself is wrong.—Henry Exall.
Dr. J. D. READ
Office at CasselTs Drugstoeiy 4
Lampasas, Texas
■*r:‘
m
w. B. ABNEY
attorney-at-law
Civil Practice Exclusively
Lampasas, - - • Texas
Jno. P. Word Roy L. Walker
WORD & WALKER
ATTORNEYS-AT=LAW
LAMPASAS, - - . TEXAS
w-33 Will Practice in All tlie Courts
I would like to have my funer-
al as short a function as possi-
ble.”
Considering the great and cost-
ly ceremonials to which igno-
rance, superstition and better
qualities of human nature have,
from the first, led bereaved peo-
ple to resort in burying and hon-
oring the dead, and the peculiar
exactions brought home to the
bereaved, it is not the least
strange that funerals should have
grown mope and more oppressive.
To correct this evil a most deli-
cate and difficult service needs to
be performed, but already deter-
mined movements toward correc-
tion have been started in Balti-
more, Denver and New Orleans,
and probably in other cities. The
service of saving sadly afflicted
people from an extravagance and
oppression from which they are
in no frame or condition to save
themselves should not be neg-
lected merely because it is a dif-
ficult or delicate service; and it
is but fair to explain that the ex-
travagant cost of burials is
chargeable much less to the un-
dertaker than to the merciless
custom or fashion by which most
people are so easily and so com-
pletely Qontrolled.—-Dallas News.
A GOOD REASON.
Lampasas People Can Tell You Why
It IS So.
Doan’s Kidney Pills cure the cause
of disease, and that is why the cures
are always lasting. This remedy
strengthens and tones up the kidneys,
helping them to drive out of the body
the liquid poisons that cause backache,
headache and distressing kidney and
urinary complaints. Lampasas people
testify to permanent cures.
T. P. Prickett, Chestnut and First
streets, Lampasas, Texas, says: “I
have had no occasion to use Doan’s
Kidney Pills in over three years, as
the cure that they made in my case
has been permanent. For nearly 30
years I Avas troubled by a lame back
and sometimes when I stooped a pain
seized me in my loins, keeping me in
misery for weeks. During one of these
spells Doan’s Kidney Pills were
brought to my attention and I obtain-
ed a box at Schwarz & Hoffmann’s
drugstore. They gave me more relief
than any other remedy I had had ever
taken and I was.led to continue using
them until they had entirely disposed
of my trouble. \ believe that Doan’s
Kidney Pills will do as.much for other
persons afflicted in a similar way.”
For stile'by all dealers. Price 50cts.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s —and
take no other. 28
Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Rogers,
who haye been visiting friends
here for two or three weeks, left
Monday for their home at Knox
City, Texas. Mr. Rogers hope3
to return to Lampasas at some
future time,, as none of the fami-
ly are contented to live elsewhere.
He still owns some good proper-
ty here.
Will H. Yernor and family left
Sunday night for Dallas where
they will make their home for a
time.
DtTb. F. HEARNE
Dentist
Office over First National Bank
DICKASON, Dentist
THE MAN WHO
DELIVERS THE GOODS
J. 0. Matthpw s. W. H. Browning
MATTHEWS & BROWNING
Attorneys at Law,
Lampasas, Texas.
Walter McCauley
Treats all Diseases of Domestic Animals,
does Minor Surgery, such as removing tun
warts, operating, on poll evil, fistula, trea
corns, etc. Will attend calls day or night.
Office at Allard’s Stable. Phone 171.
“ON TIME”
Direct Line to
Houston and Galveston
Connections with Main Line for
KANSAS CITY, ST,LOUIS, CHICAGO
Low Summer Tourist Bates
To Points North, East and. West
Effective June 1st to September 30th
TRY A TRIP TO COLORADO
For Further Information Call on ,
Local Agent or Write
T. J. ANDERSON, General Passenger Agt.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1911, newspaper, May 26, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892568/m1/3/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.