The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1910 Page: 4 of 4
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$1000 FREE
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Protection for Yourself
And Your Family
with each suit of Men’s Clothes sold this month.
To be perfectly plain, if you’ll buy your Spring Suit of
us we’ll guarantee to give you full value for your money
and the best clothes obtainable; in addition to this we’ll
give you a $1,000.00 paid up accident insurance policy,
good for one year.
The Policy is Guaranteed by
State; the Clothes by Us
You may read these statements several times before
you fully realize what they mean to you.
" Accident insurance you may think is entirely outside
the dealings of a department store, but in this little deal
you are certainly given the long end of the stick.
Come in and let us explain this matter fully.
What This Policy is Worth to Your Estate in Case
of
Loss of life.....$1,000.00 For loss of one hand and one foot .
For loss of both eyes . . . $1,000.00 For loss of one hand
For loss of both hands at or above wrist $1,000.00 For loss of one foot
For loss of both feet at or above ankles $1,000.00 For loss of one eye . !
And $5 00 per week will be paid for disablement not to exceed ten weeks.
Who is the American National
Insurance Company?
COPY OF LETTER
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
STATE 0£ TEXAS
AUSTIN
Austin, Texas, Feb., 20, ’08
This is to certify that the American National In-
surance Company, ot Galveston, Texas, has deposit-
ed with this Department One Hundred Thousand
($100,000.00) Dollars in approved legal securities for
the benifit of all policy holders alike. (Signed)
SAM SPARKS, Treasurer.
$1,000.00
$ 250.00
$ 250.00
$ 100.00
No. 254
COPY OF CERTIFICATE
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF
INSURANCE AND BANKING
STATE OF TEXAS
This is to certify that the American National In-
surance Company of Galveston, Texas, having com-
plied with all the requirements ot law relating there-
to, is hereby authorized to pursue the business of
life, health and accident insurance. ^
In testimony whereof I hereunto sign mv name,
and affix my official seal at Austin, Texas, this 3rd
day of March, 1909.
(Signed) THOS. B. LOVE, Commissioner. *
Bonljam Jl?etos.
Evans &
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year.............. n.oo
Six Mouths................ .50
rhree Mouths................... .25
Invariably in Advance.
Letter.
Ediror News:
The visit of Mr. Poindexter
was not the event his leaders led
ns to believe it would be. If
there was a mine the fuse did not
reach it. At least there was no
explosion. However it was a
very fine exhibition of local sup-
port. The crowd was twice as
large as that which greeted Col-
quitt, and the enthusiasm indi-
cated that Poindexter will carry
this county, if Bailey does not
lead them into the Colquitt camp
He has indicated his intention of
leaving Poindexter and taking the
stump for Colquitt, if he sees
thst the chances for the election
of either Johnson or Davidson ap-
pear good. He might do such a
foolish thing, but he has never
acted like a man who would com-
mit suicide. However men some-
times get tangled up so that they
do that very thing. And Hailey
is badly tangled. Bailey has a
supposed candidate in Poindexter,
but it sterns that Colquitt has in'
bis camp the largest crowd ot his
friend*. How do they come to
be there? How does it come
organs as the Ft. Worth Record
and Houston Post are for Col-
quitt? Why is F.F. Hill, one of
Bailey’s strongest pro friends,
for the same Mr. Colquitt? All
thees straws show which way
not only by his open advocacy,
but by personal patronage. They
ought to love him, because he is
valuable to them.both as a patron
and an advocate.
So you may listen for the first
signal of victory. It will be
given on the night of the 23rd
of this month. On with the
battle! Jot 6ye.
- The precinct in which Muens-
the wind blows. At the opening ter is situated will have a probi-
of the campaign Mr. Ousley bition election the 23rd of April,
agreed to support Poindexter, j By every token the Germans will
cl"!!! h3S J* in,t0 thC l0SC their beer’ The anti-politi-jT. P. Freeman very much. Fprty
at M RCa-inP> S °0t■ .* 1 thls cians have made excellent use of years ago last November I ate
at Mr, Bailey s suggestion that these beer drinking Dutchmen in I dinner with Uncle Tom, and
ances s our betaken upon , the past and now as the hope of many are the changes that have
Observations by the Way.
March 23.
I enjoyed last night spent with
f
words to describe his beautiful
farm.
Noon found me at F. M. Tur-
ners. h rank is anotner one of
mv old customers. Twenty-four
years ago he was a poor tnan.
Now he owns 229 acres ot fine
land in the suburbs of Bailey and
has a bank account besides. He,
adopted The News into his fam-
ily twenty years a#o, I visited
the Augie school community.
The school is taught bv Miss
Lottie Fitzgerald of Bonham.
I have just met Mrs. M. C.
Hixon. She is in her eightieth
year and is as spry andl active as
many women halt that age. Al-
so met Charley Oikly, 11 years
old, whose weight is 140 pounds.
• I . round Jim Bledsoe digging a
large pool on his farm north ot
Biiley. He intends to stock it
with fish. f
March 24,
Stayed with C. T. Turner last
night. He is a diversifver and
his crops look fine. I was up
bright and early this morning.
Had two glasses of buttermilk
for breaktasb and with an early | ======
this morning will bring daughters are g
SHARPLES TUBULAR:
m
Cream Separator
]M OW that the creamery is in course of construc-
1 v tion, get your Separator and be ready to
market your cream when operation begins.
We have with us this week an expert Separator
man from the factory who will be glad to demon-
strate to you how the Simplest, Easiest Cleaned
easiest to run, Closest Skimming Separator works!
We guarantee that the Tubular Separator will
get enough more cream under like conditions than
any other machine, to pay at least 10 per cent in-
terest on its'entire cost.
Come in and talk over the matter with us.
THOMPSQN-ABERNATHY HARDWARE CO.
start
these good
wonder that I
iod entertainers.
prosperity to The News. , I rested'well, have had a good
4 I have driven over to the Port- breakfast and have been most
land school community,'and it treated by
a fine one—fine people und fine People. It is no
country. Have just met B. S. j STow younger all the time.
Smith, a News reader. He has ! I have now reached the 3P com
been a resident of the county 32 J munitv again, and have called on
years. He is another one of the I L. R ivnes. He has a good
boys who wore the gray. He
w.as born in K-’btuckv and grew
to manhood in Louisiana, His
head is now silvered over. God
bless the O d Confederates.
Am now in sight ot Philadel-
phia church, a Primitive Baptist
congregation. I am stopping a
while with T. L. Carpenter, 6
teet 4 inches tall and not hand-
some, but he. has a beautiful
daughter who makes up for all
his failure in the line of beauty.
Land is fine here.
On the W* E. Marshall farm I
find a force of m^n digging a
neighborhood well. They intend
to find water if it can be found
this side of China.
Noon found me at W. L. Sif-
ford’s, eight miles south of Bon-
ham. Mr. Sifford has a good
farm of 125 acres. He has a nice
house on top of a hill, and a nice
He has
farm ot 200 acres well improved.
He is one farmer who raises
everything at home, and doesn’t
have to live out of paper sacks.
I stopped a while beneath a
green elm tree as I came through
and is 63 years old. He enlisted
in the war at 17 and served as a
courier. He has been a reader of
The News tor 21 years. • Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas have four chil-
dren living, but they'are all gone
from home and the old forks are
left alone.
I am now homeward bound. I
drove by Hail as I came from
Gober and saw some- beahtiful
country. I stopped at Dodd City
and called on1 Organ & Biggs,
Sadler Bros., and McClary &
Hodge. They all report a good
North Suiphur bottom. Thelspring trade. Do you kuow
ground beneath was literally | that Dodd City is a miguty good
covered with violets and the!clean little town? Well, it is,
scene carried me back to my J. K Luton
childhood days. I. -** ■ ---
Noon found me at the home of f1 woon| noebodies copper
Mrs. W, A. Evans,'whom 1 have
known all my life, having known I y0 g,,ra| Mail'Patrons
her back in Old -Tennessee. I r, !.,. * .
, . ,, a. I ,s the earnest desire ot the
can almost smell now the per-| , c
postoffice department that all
fume of the honey suckles
patrons ot the rural mail service
-----auu DUW as me n<
'the election of Johnson or David- their gain is gone ihey are terri-
son? It means that he would j bly mad. They are mad because
rather see the most dangerous ; scared. It is planned by the pros
man who has been before the'towin the greatest victory in
people in my recollection in the! this precinct possible, in order,
governor’s chair, than an anti-! not only to have prohibition
Bailey man there. What has be-
come of the patriotism of Joe
Bailey? Has not Bailey by his
renunciation of prohibition re-
lieved the pros of all obligation
to him? Why should they fool-
ishly follow him when he has no
right to be an issue in the Demo-
cratic Party in Texas?
wants
right.
there, but to create great enthusi
asm for a county fight. As it
appears to us, the prospects for a
complete victory in t-he county
were never so bright as now. We
expect to put up the biggest
fight ever made in this county.
Of late thercThas been
great
If Bailey j deal of interest in a proposition
to be an anti it is his to build a railroad to the
Let’s allow that he has i west from Gainesville.
been wrought during' that forty
years. Some have been sad ones,
some glad ones. God has been
good to both of us and has spared
our lives, and given us the sweet
along with the bitter.
Uncle Tom is now 77 years old,
and has lived here for 64 years,
lie served during the war, ar.d
was a true soldier ot the houth.
He has plenty and is enjoying
his old age while waiting lor
the Master s call. He lives with
his omy son, J. M. Freeman.
John and his wife have Only one
south-] child, Mrs. Liita Yoakum. All
They J reside in same beautiful home,
that right, but lets not throw , claim to have the renutred j bccupying a hoe elevation andoil
our principles to the winds. Our amount of money in hand to build ; the HUM acre larm-: owned by
cause is dearer to us than the ! it, and that work will begin with-, them. Of this 400 acres arc in
friendship of any man. especially ; in sixty days. . However the 1 Cultivation and MH) in fine tlm.
one who has deserted us in our! president of the company said her.
greatest time of need. It may be yesterday that the hot air valve : I tried a ride with John- Free-'
hf Pt \ TStrf K‘XdS ^ WOrk1^ WeU* 11 is ‘bought! man in his $2,200 autc mobile
will have to whip Bailey before by many that .the project is all -from his home to Bailey and rc-
he saloons ran be got et directly, hot air. gotten up to hinder and! turn at the rate of 25- raids air
If necessary we will put our lead- forestall a prohibition Campaign hour. It wis a delightful ride !
ingmenin their po/itical graves which was clearly foreseen. But I to me. Mv stay with these good
people will cheer me along life’s
wav.
I have visited Tv F. Landress'
this morning and am at a loss tor’
orchard. He has been in thecas been in this county 20 years,
county for 30 years, Mrs. Sif- ~
ford is a native of Fannin Coun-
ty, being a daughter of Tom
Bell. These good people have a
family of two boys and two girls.
Their baby is^a cute little girl
8 years old. They are good peo-
ple and are blessed with plenty.
Gober, I find, is still on the
map. The saw and the hammer
are playing £ tune. Fifteen men
are at work building a Woodman
hall.'.f llave just made the ac*
quaiofance-of Mr. J.. C. Stepp.
He speaks in the highest terms
of my preacher nephew, Jesse
P. Luton, having met him at
Tracy City, Tenn. He also
speaks most, highly of Jesse’s
good wife. I added Mr, Stepp to
The News list.
Another day has gone and
night finds me at A. R. Carpen-
ters. I have found a little pet,
Matty Carpenter, eight years old.
She is smart and pretty. Hive
done well in my work loday,
These people are becoming better
acquainted with The News and
Observations by the Way,‘a fine |
combination—good reading and
good looks. I -.j
March 25th.
Mr. Carpenter was. up early
i ui me ru
used to grow there when we were .
Children. And, oh, the good V IT! boIes “d ,h'
times we used to have. Yet Tex- white tT Ti *tl*clKd
as and Fannin County and Bon-
hamate dearest places on earth preserve the ^ .(
I have met E F. Smith. He 'qi^" T’T" *”d
ithird it will serve to fix. their
tt_ * , . i -—every part of the
Hecame here poor and ,s now COHntry as y g Jg ^
"Vi«« i, here and I have made •ho desires i4*
a sate landing at J. W. Terry’s in C™”*'09™* th“'
the suburbs of Gober. His -tfelKiari, i..,.r , • "f .*lr. X la
is a daughter of Unde Jimmy p Jet'"V K e
Carpenter. M, Editor, my l»U ;
...... , , . I should be set in an easily accessi-
has fallen ,n pleasant places this L,e place ,he> side of ,
week I have been royally enter- and box,s secure|y fastened
atned. Mr, and Mrs. Terr, are proieclwtr arm of wood or , b„c.
intelligent people, They have ket ofbaBd iron
four children. The, are not Xhe departmen, „„ a,k(.d
rtcb in this worlds goods, but tn Pps,mistress Martin g
Ihe,' .« rich""’ ” Pr‘nC‘0leTb,S “-rough the pa-
March 26th.
Mr. Terry being an early riser,
and Joe being fed, I will add
few thoughts. The effects of
About 365 feet of track tron-
tage and with 20 acr^s of as rich
------------ soil as is to be found, can be had
broken rib and the grip makje mej for only $2100.—X cash. Ad-
1 joins the compress.
| 96-41 Will H Evans.
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of Forrest’s
feel bad this morning. Any
change in the weather brings to
my mind that ihe grip is still
alive. I must now bid Mr. and
Mrs. Terry adieu and go t o
this morning, as Judge Denton’s
big court in Bonham wants to
see hi in at 9 o’clock, and he has
to drive 17 miles to get there. I
am not in such a hurry to leave,
and Mrs. Carpenter and her
Veterans
„ ___ Cavalry.
work for the editor and his little Headquarters of Forrest’s Cav-
office devil, for somebody must airy during the Reunion at Mo-
feed the whole crew it thev work, bile, £oril 26th, 27th and 28th,
So come on with your wheels. will be in a store room on the
I stopped tb see Uncle Charley first floor of the Battle House. .
London in his blacksmith shop. I All veterans are requested to
He is 70 years old, but is still call and register and secure
hammering iron as he has been badges.. Annual election of
for 39 years. He is a Christian Commander-iri-Cbief will be held
man, and is a good talker, well at Headquarters at 10 o’clock a.
informed and ready at all times of the 27tih, Every member
to intelligently discuss the ifc- is requested to be present,
sues of the day. H. A. Tyler,
I have just met W. A. Thomas. Et. Gan’l Commanding Forrest’s
He has been in Texas 47 years, Jcavarlv Corps.
b,
one bvone in order to rid Texas : the tide is too strong to be turn-
of the liquor traffic. led- back, and we don’t believe it
----'-i Mr. Colquitt showed himself a can be hindered from sweenint?
about that such dyed-in-the-wool ' friend to the saloons while here.1 the liquor traffic from the county
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 99, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1910, newspaper, April 8, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth898822/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.