The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 131, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 8, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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The Lampasas Bally Leader
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TOtJRTEENTH YEAR
WEDNESDAY
LAMPASAS, TEXAS, AUGUST 8, 1917.
WEDNESDAY
NUMBER 131.
Summer Glassware
We have on display in our south show window a large
assortment of summer glassware, consisting of Ice Tea
Glasses, Cafe Parfait, Handled Ice Teas, Oyster Cocktails,
Goblets, Wine Glasses, Sherbet Glasses, Sherbet Cham-
pagne, Guest Room Sets, Etc.
This is a most beautiful line of summer glassware. Come
and let us sell you what you want in this line.
The Encampment. j extraordinary assembly for
Tuesday night those who at- nex^ year-
Encampment had
Fox & Hills Hardware. Co.
Phone 70
Camp Meeting at Rumely..
The date of the meeting at
Rumely, at the Union Taber-
nacle, has been changed from
the 17th to the 10th, beginning
next Friday evening at 8:15.
Come and camp with us—
free wood, water, etc. You can
help yourself and your friends
by this co-operative effort in
saving the souls of men.
D. R. Hardison.
W. J. Fox and little daughter,
Dimple, left Tuesday night for
Petersburg, Tenn., wherd they
will visit relatives and frierds.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Mills, Mrs.
D. C. Thomas and Mrs. Wm. Mc-
Kinney returned Tuesday from
Colorado where they spent some
time visiting different points of
interest.
Mrs. R. J. Andrew and daugh-
ter, Miss Katherine, of San An-
gelo are guests here in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Andrew.
R. J. Andrew has been here
since Saturday.
The business men of Lampas-
as are raising money to be given
as a premium for the first bale
of cotton. The list is not yet
complete and it is not known
just what the premium will be.
Mrs. Alice Bowden and chil-
dren made an automobile trip
Wednesday morning to Burnet
where they will visit relatives
and friends.
Farm Hands Temporarily Ex-
cused from Service.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 6.—
Provisions to protect harvesting
from shortage of hands due to
the mobilization of the National
Army has been made by the
government in regulations' go-
ing out to the exemption boards.
Men needed in fields to complete
harvesting will be permitted to
remain at work until the need
for them passes. Local boards
will determine what men are
necessary in this class.
Application for delay on this
ground may be submitted to the
district boards. The local boards
are authorized to arrange their
quotas in five divisions of incre-
ments, which will be ordered out
for service in order.
EXEMPTION LIST CONTINUED.
Below is given a list of the names
of persons Avho have filed exemption
claims with the local board of Lam-
pasas county, Texas, together with
the grounds on which such claims are
based:
Dependents.
Robert Arthur Lee, Lometa, wife
or child.
Charley Ivy, Lometa, wife or child.
James Thompson Whitehead, Lo-
meta, wife or child.
David W. Nichol, Lometa, wife or
child.
George Milton Carroll, Izora, wife
or child.
Joseph M. Hart, Winters, wife or
child.
Elijah J. Nobles, Topsey, wife or
child.
Edward Lee Anderson, Moline, wife
or child.
Henry Thea Soules, Moline, wife
or child.
Myrtise Taylor Higginbotham,
Lampasas, wife or child.
Tom James, Lampasas, wife or
child.
Agriculture Claim.
Jack Milner .Eddy, Lampasas,
farming and stock raising.
John Calvin Palmer, Lampasas,
farming and stock raising.
Thomas B. Scott, Bend, farming.
John C. Adams, Moline, farming.
David Homer McMahon, Moline,
farming.
Charles A. Phillips, Bond, farming.
Claud Hodges, Lampasas, farming.
William Walter Smith, Adamsville,
farming.
... Ordained Minister.
Tallie Williams, Kempner, Texas,
ordained minister.
Student of Divinity.
Thomas Enos Rumbo, Lometa, stu-
dent of divinity.
Religious Claim.
Isaac Barney Cantrell, Kempner,
religious convicitions.
Oscar Ellington Jackson, Kempner,
religious convictions.
James Doss Alexander, Bend, re-
ligious convicitions.
Daily Leader, Three Months, $1.00.
Number of Persons to Be Called By
Local Board.
. No board can receive final credit on
its quota for any selected man until
word has been received from the mil-
itary authorities at the rendezvous or
mobilization camp that the man has
been accepted into the military ser-
vice of the United States. Some
men passed by the local board will be
exempted or discharged on appeal by
the district board and some will be
discharged for industrial reasons by
the district board. Some will be re-
jected at mobilization camps. The
number of persons passed by local
boards who will be discharged by dis-
trict boards or at mobilization camps
is tentatively estimated at about ten
per cent of those passed by the local
board. Therefore local boards should
continue to call men up for examina-
tion until they have apparently filled
-their quota with ten per cent addi-
tional.
Local boards have been ordered to
call two hundred per cent of their
quota for examination. By the sev-
enth day after this call is sent out,
all claims for exemption and dis-
charge by men called will be filed in
the local board. By examining the
number and character of these claims
and by considering the number of
persons rejected physically the board
can roughly estimate the number of
men that it will be necessary to call
to fill their quotas. Immediately af-
ter making this estimate, the board
should send out a new call computed
on the experience of the first call.
This new call should be for enough
men to complete one hundred and
ten per cent of the quota.—E. JL
Crowder, Provost Marshal General.
tended the
the privilege of hearing a mas-
terful sermon preached by Dr.
L. R. Scarborough of Fort
Worth. This sermon was a
strong evangelistic appeal, bas-
ed on the scripture/4 He that
Winneth Souls is Wise”. That
Dr. Scarborough is especially
fitted to make an appeal of this
kind is shown by the fact that
for several years he has been
the head of the Department of
Evangelism of the Southwest-
ern Baptist Theological Semin-
ary, and is now president of
that institution.
Wednesday morning the sun-
rise sermon and the Bible lec-
ture were delivered as usual by
Drs. Taylor and Sampey. The
noon hour was in charge of Dr.
Tolman, president of Howard
Payne College, who delivered an
educational address.
Tuesday was a day in which
much important business was
transacted. The young people
were hard at work all day rais-
ing the money to pay the in-
debtedness on the B. Y. P. U.
pavilion. They were successful
in this attempt, and have raised
not only enough money to raise
the debt on the pavilion, but will
have a nucleus remaining
around which to build a fund for
the erection of a B. Y. P. U. club
house on the grounds for next
year.
At a business meeting Tues-
day morning the Assembly B.
Y. P. U. elected the following of-
ficers : President, Fred W.
Sparks of Lampasas; vice-presi-
dent, Mr.. Elmo Dietz, of Fort
Worth; secretary, Miss Goodson
of Brownwood; corresponding
secretary, Mr. John I. McEiroy,
of Georgetown; treasurer, Miss
Singletary, of Ballinger; play
and athletic director, Mr. L. L.
Cooper, of Fort Worth.
The B. Y. P. U. will publish a
daily paper throughout the En-
campment next year, and Wm.
H. Andrew was elected editor,
with Miss Marie Grafius, of Pe-
cos, as assistant, and Burdette
Sparks as business manager.
This organization has meant
much to the assembly this year,
as is evidenced by the increased
attendance of the young people,
and it will be the purpose of this
organization during the coming
year to “boost” the encampment
and exert every effort toward
the enlistment 'of all B. Y. P. U’s
in this portion of the state in
the work.
The general mass meeting of
the assembly was held Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 in the main
auditorium, and the following
officers were elected for next
year: President, S. E, Tull, of
Temple; vice-president, Dr. J.
T. Higgins, of Gainsville; sec-
retary, Mrs. J. H. Andrew, of
Lampasas; executive and pro-
gram committee, Mr. Louis
Entzminger of Fort Worth; T.
C. Gardner, of Dallas; Dr. J. A.
Tolman of Brownwood; and Dr.
W. E. Foster of Taylor. All the
reports presented to the meet-
ing indicated the soliditary and
growth of the assembly and
Lampasas Would Make Fine
Summer Resort.
(Temple Telegram)
The first question one asks
himself when arriving at Lam-
pasas and notes the beautiful
little city, the surrounding
country, the unlimited water
supply, and the quality of the
water, is “why don’t these folks
boost the place as a summer re-
sort ?”
Surely there is not a place in
all Texas more suited’Mor the
purpose. Here they have the
best water obtainable anywhere,
the largest bathing pool in the
state, the best bathing pool in
the country for those who de-
light in sulphur water baths,
one of the finest shadiest anc
most convenient parks in all the
country, and last, but not least,
the most accomodating business
houses to be found.
Two lines of railway touch
the city, on which visitors may
come from all quarters, the dirt
roads leading to the city are
plentiful and most of them solid
in wet weather and dry, so those
who own cars can come and
bring their families and camp
equipment. The breezes blow
from the southeast (gulf
breezes they are called,) all
summer, making life pleasant
throughout the warmest period
of the war; although there is
an abundance of water here-
abouts it does not seem to be
the right kind for breeding mos-
quitos, as the pests are few and
far between.
In fact, outdoor life in and
around Lampasas is most pleas-
ant at all times, and all that is
necessary to double the popula-
tion of Lampasas, during the
summer, it-would seem, is for
the people, of^the. state and the
southwest in general to know of
the country and just try it a few
days or weeks. They would sure-
ly come back.
Hancock park $lone is an at-
traction that few cities in the
country possess. Here ten days
of each August the Baptists of
the State hold their encamp-
ment, where noted preachers
and lay workers in the denomin-
ation are brought to teach aijd
instruct the members of the de-
nomination in the work of build-
ing up the religious lives of the
people of the state.. This park
is owned by the Lampasas En-
campment Board, and can easily
accommodate two hundred tents
and have everyone of pieijb in
the shade the greater part of
the day. That means that the
big shade trees are almost limit-
less in numbers and spread.their
branches over nearly’"half the
entire space of the park. There
is a big pavilion for holding the
main services. This pavilion
will seat nearly two thousand
people. Besides this there are
smaller pavilions* one for .the
Sunday school instruction work,
another for B. Y. P. U. work and
others for other branches.
There are a number of cot-
tages on the grounds, notably
among them being the Baylor
College Club building, where the
Or. Norman Bi Taylor
DENTIST
Office Over Townsen & Lamb
Office Phone No. 294
LAMPASAS, TEXAS
do not care to camp in a tent,
can stay during the encamp-
ment.
Those-who do not care to
bring tents with them may rent
anything needed for comfort on
the grounds, not only for the
encampment, but from early
summer until early fall the
same accommodations may be
had. The enterprising business
firms will deliver groceries, ice,
wood, and most anything need-
ed to any part of the grounds.
There are telephones and elec-
tric lights, and in short, one
may have the conveniences of
city life and yet live the life of
camper. The Daily Telegram
is delivered on the grounds be-
fore breakfast, and this last is
considered one of the crowning
conveniences of camp life- at
Hancock park.
There is the bathing pool. It
is big enough to accommodate
several hundred bathers at the
same time. The water runs into
the pool continuously in such
large volume, and as the bottom
of the pool is of clean gravel it
is always clear. During encamp-
ments and when large numbers
are using the pool it is drained
every night, and any foreign
substance that might accumu-
late during the day is thus re-
moved. The fiood gate is then
lowered and^by
the immense pool is filled, ready
for the bathers.
Down town one finds Hanna
Park, in which is situated the
famous sulphur springs. It is " v-
not a question of “is it really
sulphur water, or do they just
say that so to advertise it?” In
the language of a well known
magazine advertiser,' “your nose
knows,” for, believe me, there is
enough sulphur to the glass of
water to make the whole gulf of
Mexico smell like sulphur. In
Hanna park is a bath
separate pools being pro
for the ladies and the men, and
all those desiring sulphur bath-
ing need go no further chan
Lampasas, Texas, to find it.
give cause for great hopes of an ladies who have no families and
:. ; ho use, '
proVid- d
W.1 P. McCullough and family
of Goldthwaite are among the
visitors here and are camping at
Hancock park. ^
Furniture for Sale—I have
several pieces of second hand
furniture for sale. Will sell
cheap if sold at once. Phone
34-J. Mrs. P. C. Abney.
If you are not already a cus-
tomer give us a trial order
when you need cleaning and
pressing. Phone No. 7 and we
will call for your clothes. The
Elite Tailors.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 131, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 8, 1917, newspaper, August 8, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906389/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.