The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 13, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 24 x 17 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
We Are Now a Candidate
BONHAM THREE BAYS
TRADE E)
Hul !
. . ■
(J ih. r
L i don i .11
Du l ’ j
H »-iev Un y
for Your
August Grocery Business
August is the month to trade here.
It’s a hot month and many appetites
will be out of order, but by trading at
this store you will be able to buy many
good things just suited to hot weather.
We know we can save you some
money, if you will trade here during
the month of August. Now, what are
you going to do ajpout it? Farmers, we
want your Eggs, Butter and Chickens.
Thirty-Five Stops Planned at Various
Points in the County September
4. 5.6
[Dinner at
Honev Groove
MBS. S. B. ALLEN
ANSWERS I0 LAST CALL
LIGHTNING R0D IS PASSING
The itinerary which we are
printing below has £>een suggest-
ed to the Bonham Business men
by the C'tnmtttee on arrange-
ments. If “any Changes are made
later the same will be noted in
tae columns of this paner, 1" rom j ure 0f meeting a!l Fannin Coun- j
j fifty to seventy-five men arei,yonthjs trip. we will hi v •
| preparing for this trip and every j wjth us the Bonham Silver Cor-
business house ot importance j net Bind and wii;.,g!v-i a concert
will be represented. j at e|,Ch stop
2:2) Alen’sPpvn' 2:30
2:50 Sets 3:10
3:30 Bint;; in 4:00
‘ ?:30 Wind.am 5:80
5;50 Dodds 0:30
H^me
On account of roads and timj
allowed for trip we were unable
to make ever? town in the Coun-
ty i We hope to have the pteas-
People Not So Fearful of the Bolte
Now as They Were In For-
mer Times.
Tlie death of John Cole, authority
Died at Sanatarium at San Antonio last on electrical phenomena and pioneer
Friday- Funeral Held in Bin- iri th* Honing rod business, calls
attention to the undoubted fact that
ham Tssterday. humanity :s not to fearful of light-
] n:ng as it was a generation ago. The
Mrs. S. B A left or Bj.nhatn, lightning rod is vanishing,
died :n- the Sanatarium jrJ San These deflectors of electrical cur-
Antonio last Friday af'ernoloo at ™ ar" Practically unknown in the
t :00 o’clock. Tne remursi were
shipped to B'n-iim a n dl 'he
funeral took piac- a; ner h: m
Phone 171—The Quick Way
FABER RDSSELL
' ^ ■ -Vi-.- • ' *
/
The People’s Grocer Norman’s Stand
Wanted-Peach Boyers and Shippers
It is well known that many of
the counties in North Texas are
shipotng peaches to the north
where they will at this time
bring a reasonable price. Fan-
nin County has no such method.
The other day a farmer drove
abodt ten miles with a load ot
peaches. He went from bouse to the peo„p!eof the CotU*e Bend
as there should be, or means of
canning them, the peach crop
here wou'd bring the farmer
money sufficient to make fruit
raising profitable, whereas now
it is not.
The party will leave Bonham
at 8 o’clock Sept. 4. They will
| return each night and leave at S
• o’clock each morning. All who
i expect tq go are aske.d to be on
j the Wesiside of the public square
j at T;30 with automobile properly
jdecorated so that a picture cap
j be made before first leaving,
j There is to be no watting on anv
jbody. . Don’t wait until the 4th
to arrange vour advertising mat-
ter, and decorate youjf machine.
“Be Ye Readv." Any informi-
tion will gladly be furnished bv
the commtttee.
Below is the official schedule,
and arrangements are being made
tor the band and dinner each
day. BE READY.
cities. Onee in a long while yon see
a farmhouse with a few rusty streaks
of iron running down from*the roof-
tr>— to the ground under the eaves,
yesterday tn j r n . i g a; ,.0.00 fn .,.;rv usually develops the fact
o’clock. . j that these hav» been in place for
Mrs Allen w»> one of the mos' • twenty vears or more. The lightning
prominent women in Faar.in rod agent has vanished with hi*
Cottage Bend, School District No. 126
The trustees with the help of
house trying to sell them. The
market was glutted and everyone
had all he could use. In the
afternoon the farmer drove to
the edge of town and emptied
the load bv the side of the road.
At the same time he was doing j
this the same quality of peaches
was selling in the north for $2 25
or $2.56 per bushel. Many peach
growers here are giving awav
their peaches to any who will
come after them If there were
meaos ef shipping these peaches.
senooi District have made, dur-
ing this past schorl year, some
material improvements for the
benefit of tbeir school. They
sunk an eighty-foot well which
affords an abundance of pure,
soft water, and bought several
new desks which will be installed
for use the ensuing year.
Messrs. F. O Thomas, W. J.
Percell and J F. Bentle are the
trustees. Cottage Bend people
are always alive when it comes
to the educational interest of
thrir schodl district and countv.
1867,
1912
BONHAM, TEXAS
Carlton College
AND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND ART
OBJECT-to develop and train students, give special attention
to the moral and Chrtstian character which is not done in the public
school. Daily recitations in the Bible. »At night two hours in the
sfudyhall The b*>st table service, artesian water, electric light,
home steam heated Accommodate 60 Hoarders. Board and liter-
ary tuition $204 00, in three payments. $68 oer term. Send for cat-
alogue. CARLTON COLLEGE. Bonham. Texas.
September 4th
Arrive
Town
Lsave
8:20
Doniphan
8:30
8:40
Oakland
8:50
9:00
Ivanhoe
9:30
9:50
Duplex
10:00
10:20
. Tuiip
10:30
11:00
E i wood
11:20
11:30
McRea
11:40
12:00
Telephone
2:00
Dinner at Telephone
2:30
Carson
2:40
3:00
Lamasco
3:30
3:50
Danner
4:10
4:30
Huger
4:50
5:10
Lmnius
6:00
Supper at Bonham
September 5th
8:30
Ri venna
9:00
9:15
Fulp
9:30
9:40
E:tor
10:10
10:30
j Savoy
11:00
11:10
Ely
11:20
11:30
Orangeville
12:00
12:20
Trenton-
12:40
1:00
Leonard
2:30
Dinner at Leonard
2:50
Valley Creek
3:00
3:20
Bailey
4:00
4:20
Randolph
5:00
5:20
Edbube
6:00
Supper at Bonham
September 6th
Every Odd Fellow
In Fannin County
Is invitecLand requested to be present
Thursday, August 15, 1912,
to our Fraternal picnic at Simpson Park
Meet at the Hall 9;30 A. M.
| Respectfully submitted:
Commtttee
The Limerick.
Duplex. Tex . August 8. 1012
Edijtor News; —
Your quotation of the Wood-
row Wilson Limer'ck on beautv
t^ads me to submit the following:
Wehsters’ New Internationa!
defines Limerick as “a nonsense
poem of bve anapaestic lines, of
whjch lines I, 2 and 5 are .of
three feet and rime, and lines 3
an4 4 are of two feet and ritnr.T
Example—
Tljiere was a young lady, Amanda,
Whose Ballades lyriques were quite
nh de
iSiec'.e, l deem;
!But her Journal Intime
vVas what sent her paoi to Uganda.”
The Wilson Limerick will bear
reqiuoting:
‘AS a beauty I am not a star,
Th^re are others more handsome by
far.
But my face I don't mind it,
For 1 am behind it;
The people in front git the jar.
Noting that the chief griev- j
anife of Woodrow Wilson’s critics
is his change of opinion on some
questions of economics and gov-
ernment, I have asked my friend,
William Sharpsoeare to con-
struct a new limerick which
wdnlff be applicable in that in-
stance. He reports as follows:
As a1 sfandpat I am not a star
Mote (jonsistant some others bv far
But my books^I don’t mind them,
E}or i’m not behind them;
The engine’s ahead of the car.
Countv and [her w irk for trier, -o
pie has been of t i - m st geeer
ons and vaijuab.e k; id. She * .•«
one of the Old settlers hgrd ar-
riving tn Bonham before the;C;v;i
War. Her service to the oeopi-
here and heirdeed-* of charity wi
long be a monument to her mera-
wsros. H» is no longer a subject for
the jokesmith deal ng with rural
themes.
That clause in the insurance pol-
icy which protects against “fire,
lightning, wind storms and torna-
does” seems to have taken the place
1 of the platinum tinned rod tkat used
■ to st.id the roofs of the fearful and
or*- ’the prudent. There are thousand!
Mrs. A'len was born in 182”. in of farmer? ar.d business men who
Burkesville, K atuckv. H e r j never met a lightning rod agent,
maiden n ime was King. In 1842) Certainly the electncal currents
she married C. C. Alexander and »re just as dangerous to life and
property as they were when the
lightning rod was a staple article of
with him she left for Texas in
1845 They came down the Miss-
issippi in a boat and made theiri
wav un the Red R ver to Snreve-
pqrt. From here thev made their
wav over land, to Clarksville
where they remained three years.
They then moved west to ’ Paris
where they lived for two vears,
after which they cam: to Bon-
ham in 1852
In 1366 Mr. Alexander died
Mr- S. B. Allen bad been in his
employ and continued wnh the
business after his death. H
had chargeof a boat which plied
the waters from the Mississippi
t to a point On the Red River north
■'of Sherman. From this he ac-
quired the title of Capt. Alien.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander had
two children, Horace C. AGx*-
der and Mrs. Geo. Prestoa, botn
of whom are dead. The children
of the former are Mrs. L K
Crawford, of this place, Mrs
Jules Merchant, of Sherman,
Mrs. El Williams and Alien
Alexander, of K alamaz jo, Michi
gan. Mrs Ed Williams has one
l am not concerned with, the chi)dt Mrs. Caroline Hall ot Los
Angeles, Cal.
Tbe^children ot Mrs, Mattie
subject of limerick construction
so much, however, as with man’s
right, nay, his duty to, change Preston are Mrs A 3 Kenndv.
his written or spoken opinion in , Jack Preston and Mt3sA;lce
the light of wider knowledge. In
Preston, all of
the fish of the Mammoth cave,and jjnown ^ere
in the feebleness of the hermit
crab, we note the penalties ot
shutting out the light, and of
seeking shelter at the expense of
development. Man’s work of to-
day should be subject to the crit-
icisms of tomorrow. Those mem-
bers of Congress who are sand-
wiching the Record with pas- i
sages from Woodrow Wilson’s
writings, torn from their con-
tents as they must be, are doing
him a real service. They show
that be has dared to express his
opinion, even when it differed
from the orthodox, and what is
more courageous still, has revis-
ed his opinions in the light of
greater knowledge and experi-
ence. , Nescio.
commerce. More lives are lost, more
live stock is killed and more build-
ings are burned bv these discharges
now than in the past, as the country
is more thickly populated and the
chances are greater.—St. Louis Re-
public.
GENTLE REMINDER
af ■ .
* ip-vV
sm?
The Kid—Now I remember wot I
vrus to get for ma. A pound of but-
ter.
V.
and march or go in a body to the Park
where the exercises of the day will be
held. Good Music. Good Speaking.
Something doing every minute of the
day and the First Degree conferred at
the Hall that night. v
Hon. S. B. Cowell, Harry J. Emmins, G. R.
Whitesboro, Texas Dallas, Texas
will be the speakers of the day. No bet-
ter in the State. You are expected to
be present if you can get here.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1912
W. E. NEWTON, Secretary, W. M. MOSS, N. G-
wham are wel
Mrs. Allen was a thorough
Christian women. She joined
the Christiian church when she
was but twelve years of” age and
remained a member of this
church until the Episcopal church
of this place was organized. Her
life has been one of service to
others and the Allen Memorial
Hospital of this city stands as
an example of the desire which
she manifested all of her , life to
aid and help others. Her life
has been a long and useful one
and she leaves behind; her a
group of friends that will cher-
ish her memory for years to
come.
Six Steel Bridges.
MAGIC OF THE NORTH.
Huibert Footner describes the
Peace river pas* and the ascent of
Mount Selwyn in the Outlook. We
quote the following; “At our feet
lay the Peace river, nearly a mile be-
low. To the left was the wide, misty
valley of the Finlay, bounded far
away by the snow-capped Omineca
ranee. Beginning at that point and
turning three-quarters of the way
’round the horizon, there Jay below
us a strange, troubled sea of moun-
tain peaks. Peaks, peaks, peaka
thrust up in reckless disorder. It
was like a fantastic papier-mache
decoration. Deep between some of
the nearer heights we had glimpse*
of wild and beautiful valleys prob-
ably never trodden by man. Hidden
in a bowl behind Mouunt Selwyn
was a jewel of a lake, that was nei-
ther sapphire nor emerald, but more
vivid than either.”
RELIEVED HIS MIND.
A St. Louis merchant, while in
New York, received a telegram no-
I* tifying him that his wife was very
ill. He wired to his doctor asking
Six thirty-five-foo. steel bridges what was the matter, and if there
have arrived which are gding to j was any danger, and promptly re-
be used at various points in Pre-!ceivod the answer; “No danger;
cincts 1 anfl 2 Mr. Pickens
Rogers and Scott Brown were
the means of securing thqrn.
\' Notice
All the trustees in each and
every RUfJAb SCHOOL DIS-
TRICT itt. Fannin County are
called to tneet in the District
Cojurt room, Bonham, Texas, on
August 10, 1912. at 10 o'clock
a.m. This is yopr regular an-
nual meeting. Hon. F. M. Btal-
leA State Superintendent of Pub-
lic} Instruction. and Col. Henry
Eiall have been invited to ad-
dress the association at that
time. Come out and lets organ-
ize for the best year's work in
tbje history of Fannin County for
rujral Schools.. i
' Yours very respectfully,
i W'f YRrMIpAfTL: !“>»• hire ***«* V* »« * **»•*
your wife has had a child; if we
can keep her from having another to-
night she will be all right.”
The mystification of the agitated
husband was not removed until a
“repeat message” told him that his
indisposed wife had had a “chill.”—
Denver Post.
-i-
STILL A CHANCE TO SELL STOCK.
“The man who killed the goose
just sit at home and wait fqr our that laid the golden eggs was ter-
return. j ribly foolish.”
Mrs. Whitworth visited Mrs. I “Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax.
Green Wednesday evening.; ’ .“After he discovered his mistake he
Mr. and Mrs. Moore, of Pr'ins- ouSht to have put the goose in cold
: COUNTY NEWS
ismrr »*»*«•
.Continued from page .j
enjoyment as to stay up and take
part, for I am sure thevMon't
and at Telephone.
spectus.’
EXCEPTIONS.
Scholarship. j Frank Brown and Prof; Hugh|
We have for sale at our office Moorman, of Bantam, were ini -
a scholarship to the Paris- Com-. our community one day lafet week ' “Don’t vnu h-dieve when you
mercial College. Consult us be- J selling theft washing machines. '1u>1d yourself a home in putting
i fore vou enter. - I Rose Bud come more often. j something on it every '-»sr?”
I ! " The Bonham News. I _ A Cousin ok youks. I “Not if it is a mortgage.” ,
-p . - - " ; \ '
r
i
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Comstock, E. B. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 13, 1912, newspaper, August 13, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth904568/m1/4/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bonham Public Library.