The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1814, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1910 Page: 4 of 4
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f he Lampasas Dally leader
J. E. VERNOR J. H. ABNEY
Proprietors.
J. E. Vernor, Editor and Manager.
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas, March 7,
1904. as second class mail matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
One week........................... 15c
One month............................... 40c
Three months............................$1.00
One vear................................. 4.00
Railroad Time Table.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.
Departs.
East-bound, 9:30 ajm. and 10:20 p. m.
West-bound, 6:13 a. m. and 6:35 p. m.
Houston and Texas Central.
Departs.
For Burnet and Llano at 8:05 a. m.
For Burnet and Austin at 1:20 p. m.
Arrives
From Austin and Burnet at 11:35 a. m.
From Llano and Burnet at 4:55 p. m.
Warehouse Business.
The warehouse of Lampasas
has handled over 2000 bales of
cotton since it has been opened.
The first year the house was
pretty well filled with cotton. As
we all remember, the farmers
were expecting 15-cent cotton be-
fore spring, and the money pow-
ers concluded to keep them from
making a success. The panic
w as Galled, but in spite of all, the
money powers and gamblers
c ould not keep the price down be-
low 10c on the largest crop of cot-
ton the world ever saw. But
nevertheless the farmers lost a
victory, but put up such a good
retreat that the price of cotton
has advanced to the 15-cent
mark. (Did you know you were
keeping the cotton gamblers
in Liverpool awake?)
Now, brother farmers, you are
the cause of 15-cent cotton. We
all saw a short cotton crop like
this last year’s crop sell for 5c
and less, instead of 15c per
pound.
Now, gentlemen, if you will
look back you will see that grad-
ual marketing and better hand-
ling of cotton commenced with
warehousing it, and with our
present system of houses to store
cotton and other farm products
in, and our railroad facilities to
our houses, there is not a thing
to keep you from continuing to
get a good price for your farm
products.
Speaking of our own house at
Lampasas, you can ship any farm
product, wool included, or un-
load, cheaper than any other
place in town—and the right ex-
tends to anyone to use the house
as a shipping and storing point.
We don’t discriminate against
anyone, and every dollar that the
buyer can save on any commod-
ity is divided with you.
If we can get the merchants to
see our interests, Lampasas will
be the leading market of south-
west Texas, because our shipping
facilities can’t be beaten.
The stockholders of our house
did not invest their money with
the expectation of making a big
dividend in storage charges, but
they are expecting a dividend in
getting better prices for their
products, and we are reaping
Borne of the reward.
Our cotton buyers of this place
are practicing what we have been
preaching—marketing their cot-
ton slowly. One of our leading
buyers sold 1000 bales a few days
ago; it is said to be the last
large lot held in the southwest.
Some of the farmers are still
holding cotton they have been
holding two years, and they are
going to come out o. k. There
was a little, 100 bales, held last
year from the year before. The
advance on it has been 7c per
pound. Part of it was sold for
12 1-2 cents per pound, but some
was held to 15c. Those farmers
made for themselves over $2000—
at least half as much as our house
and yard has cost.
All we lack of handling every-
thing that is grown, is the wool
crop, and I think the farmers and
sheepmen are seeing their inter-
est in this line. Put your wool
where each and all buyers will
get an equal chance to buy it.
K. W.gEubank,
Pres. F. U. Warehouse.
The Era of Light.
Not two hundred years ago,
Broadway, New York, after
nightfall, was almost pitch dark
and infested with rogues and
thieves. It was not safe to trav-
el it by night without armed
guards and boys carrying
torches. Today this great thor-
oughfare is famous as the “Great
White Way,” because of the
brilliance of its night illumina-
tions.
Less than a hundred years ago
street lighting was opposed by
the very best men of the day on
theological grounds as being a
presumptuous thwarting of the
intentions of Providence, which
had appointed darkness for the
hours of night, says the Review
of Reviews. It was opposed on
medical grounds, as gas and oil
was declared unwholesome, and
they argued that it was a bad
thing to encourage people to stay
outdoors nights and catch colds,
pneumonia and fevers. On mor-
al, philosophic grounds it was
held that the people’s moral
standard would be lowered by
street lighting, as the drunkard
would feel there was no hurry to
get home, and late sweethearting
would be encouraged, whereas
black night sent people home
early, thus preserving them from
a multitude of sins. They also
argued that lights would make
thieves alert, and that national
illuminations would lose their ef-
fect if there were street lighting
every night.
Seventy-five years ago streets
were being lighted with oil and
gas. Twenty-five years ago the
electric lights were introduced
and the systematic lighting of
streets began; now there is
scarcely a hamlet so small it can
not boast of lighted streets. And
the men who are studying the
subject say that the dawn of ar-
tificial light is just breaking.
Miss Daisy Williamson has re-
turned from a pleasant trip to
Austin.
Miss Zoula Fletcher will leave
Friday morning for Brady, where
she will be the guest of Miss Nita
Wolf for a week or more.
At Tombstone, Arizona, Janu-
ary 8, Wm. Pfaunkinche was
convicted on the fifth ballot of
murder in the first degree for the
killing of Asa T. Hoy in the Re-
view office at Bisbee, Arizona,
on the night of August 13. He
was sentenced to life imprison-
ment.—Bisbee Daily Review.
PECULIAR ARTICLE.
Not long ago some farmers had
occasion to organize a corporation
and, desiring to avoid the cost of a
lawyer’s'sen ’ they drew up their
own articles o, igreement. Among
the provisions was the following:
“The annual meeting of the com-
pany shall be held on the second Sat-
urday in July in each and every
year, except when the sane falls on
a Sunday or a holiday.”
A BLIND JUDGE.
The death of Mr. E. F. P. Em-
mett, president of the Burnley In-
corporated Law society, one of the
two blind solicitors in England, may
recall the fact that in Ireland a
judge of the superior court dis-
charged his judicial duties for years
when totally blind. The Hon. Rich-
ard Pennefather was appointed a
baron of the Irish exchequer in 1821
and died in 1859 while still retain-
ing his judicial office. He was for
the last five years of his life wholly
blind and on February 15, 1856, in
the discussion in the house of com-
mons of a motion of Sir John Shel-
ley’s moving for a return of the
dates of call to the bar of the vari-
ous Irish judges, their appointments
as judges and the number of occa-
sions on which they were absent
from circuit, Mr. Baron Pennefa-
thePs retention of his seat on the
bench, notwithstanding the depriva-
tion of his sight,, was a matter of
stricture.—Law Times.
LIQUOR LAWS ARE STRINGENT
Much Red Tape Before Purchaser
Can Acquire Whisky in
Gothenburg.
From Gothenburg, Sweden, a cor-
respondent writes: “The difficulties
under which wine and spirit mer-
chants labor nowadays here may be
judged from the following incident.
When I went to buy a bottle of whis-
key the other day I was told: ‘We
are not allowed to sell wine or spir-
its over the counter.’ ‘What in the
world do you mean ?’ I asked. ‘No,
it must be ordered in advance.’ ‘But
I want the whisky at once!’
“The assistant meditated and then
said, ‘If you go across the street and
telephone to us from the cigar shop
we can supply you.’ I telephoned
and five minutes later I had the
whisky. I went for another bottle
the next day and found that the reg-
ulations had become more stringent.
Although I had ordered it by tele-
phone, I was not allowed to take it
home myself!
“I expostulated and the wine mer-
chant said: ‘But if your son here
will accept sixpence for delivering
the bottle at your house I could let
you have the whisky at once.’ My
son had no objection.”—Chicago
Daily Nows.
THE .’IRE ESCAPE.
They were country people pure
and simple, but they had read the
home papers and thought they were
educated up to all the improvements
of the day.
When they visited Washington,
D. C., they went through the navy
department and saw the models of
some of the new battle-ships.
Pointing to a companion-ladder
hanging over the side of one of the
ships, she asked her better half
what it was.
“Oh,” he replied, “that’s the fire
escane.”
A PROVISION.
Boss Lineman- -Madam, we are
going to string some poles in front
of your house.
Mrs. Backwoods—Go ahead. But
mind, the baby’s asleep, so don’t do
any shootin’ into the furriners after
ye lynch ’em.—Puck.
FEAR FLYING MACHINES.
When Zeppelin 111. made the
flight from Dusseldorf to Essen last
month it was observed that horses
and cattle ran wildly about the
meadows as it approached and sheep
crowded with loud bleatings around
their shepherd. From these facta
Count Zeppelin concludes that the
employment of airships of whatever
type will have a disastrous effect on
furred and feathered game. All an-
imals show fear at their approach;
partridges, quail and other game
birds cower and hide themselves and
domestic cocks utter warning crows,
as if they perceived some gigantic
bird of prey. Van Hoffken, the
Swedish aeronaut, when at a mod-
erate height, watched elk, foxes,
hares and other animals take to
flight and dogs rushed howling into
the house.—Deutsche Jager-Zeitung.
GARDENING TIME
It is time to prepare the spring garden, and we
have everything necessary to your success except
the seed and soil. Here you will find the
Plows, Hoes, Rakes and Ml Small
Tools Needed
Come to us also for everything in the way of
Kitchen and Dining Room Supplies, Crockery,
Queensware, Glassware, Enameled Ware, Stove Ves-
sels, and all the best Kitchen Supplies.
Fox & Mills Hardware Co.
YOU
EVER SEE
A LOT OF
PEOPLE
GAZING
A
BARK
Dr. D. C. Cosby, Dentist
15 years experience
Saving the Natural Teeth and Crown
and Bridge-work a Specialty.
Located in Judge Abney’s former office
Telephone Connection
W. B. ABNEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Civil Practice Exclusively
Lampasas, - - Texas
Eugene Townsen
Barber and Hair Dresser
Northeast Corner Square
Hot Tub and Shower Baths
Good Workmen, and Courteous Treat-
ment. Your patronage solicited.
COUNTY DIRECTORY
County Judge—M. M. White.
County Clerk—J. E. Morgan.
District Clerk—A. F. Baker.
Sheriff and Tax C o 11 e c t o r—A.R.
Mace.
Assessor—E. T. Jordan.
Treasurer—G. W. Tinkle.
Attorney—A. McFarland.
County Court meets third Monday in
fauuary, April. July and October.
District Court meets first Monday in
April and October.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Precinct 1—W. H. Simmons.
*• >2—R. B. Parker.
“ 3—Frank Kirby.
“ 4—Luke Ligon,
Commissioners Court meets second
Monday in February, May, August and
November.
CITY DIRECTORY
Mayor—W H McGuire
Attorney—T S Alexander
Recorder—Frank Beauman
Marshal—G. D. Zivley.
Secretary—T. H Haynie.
Treasurer—W. H. Browning jr.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
First Ward—Sam Dickens and Joe
Massey.
Second Ward—H. Hoffmann and G.
W. Clements.
Third Ward—B. C. Greenwood and
W. R. Young.
City Council meets first and third
Monday nights in each month.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
BAPTIST CHURCH
H. B. Woodward, pastor. Preach-
ing every Sunday morning and evening.
Sunday school at 9 :45 a.m.: J.H. Dick •
son, superintendent. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evenings.
METHODIST CHURCH
T. F, Sessions, pastor. Preaching
every Sunday morning and evening.
Sunday school at 9 :45 a. m.; W. B. Ab-
ney, superintendent.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Ernest J. Bradley, minister. Resi-
dence 901 Grand ave. Preaching every
Lord’s day, morning and evening. Bi-
ble school at 9:45 a.m. Geo. L. Wilke,
superintendent; Junior Endeavor every
Sunday at 4 p. m.; Y. P. S. C. E. at 5;
prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. Jas. B. Snowball, rector. Sun-
day services: Morning prayer and ser
mon at ll o’clock. Evening prayer and
sermon at 7:30. Sunday school at 9:45:
litany every Friday afternoon at 5.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
I. N. Clack, pastor. Sunday school
at 9 :45 a. m.; W. E. McLean, superin-
tendent. Preaching every Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Prayermeeting every Wednesday mght
at 7:30.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST—SCIENTIST
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Sunday
services at 11 a. m. and Wednesday
evenings at 8 o’clock. Reading room
reareleciric light office, open 2 to 6p.m
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The public is cordially invited. No
charges.
I BEAR IN ‘
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1814, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1910, newspaper, January 13, 1910; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906297/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 Lampasas Public Library.