The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3070, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1911 Page: 4 of 4
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the Lampasas Daily Leader
J. E. VERNOR J. H. ABNEl7
PROPRIETORS.
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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........................... l^c
One month............................... 40c
Throe months ....................... $1.00
One vear................................. 4.00
For City Marshal, Assessor and
Collector.
RICE KING
GEORGE D. ZIYLEY
Long Staple Cotton.
It is noted that long staple cot-
ton is selling around 22 cents at
Clarksville. The yield is said to
be about as much to the acre as
is that of the short staple. And
while the market has been going
down with the short staple, it
has been as steadily advancing
for the Clarksville product. Bell
county is to be given the long
staple experiment station. The
Clarkson fund donated for the
express purpose of experiment-
ing with long staple cottons, is
to be expended here and at the
A. and M. college. At the sta-
tion at Midway next year, a spe-
cial expert will begin his work of
ascertaining what varieties of
long staple cotton will best thive
here, and work out the other
problems involved in transplant-
ing to black lands this cultiva-
tion of the fiber which is worth
so much more in the market. It
is not doubted but that these ex-
periments will result in the dis-
covery of a long staple cotton
which will yield as abundantly
as the short staple, and that will
bring nearly twice as much in
the market.—Temple Telegram.
Money-Getting W$s His Passion.
That death should have come
to John R. Walsh nine days after
he had been paroled from the
penitentiary is such a climax as
would probably have been con-
trived if his life’s history had
been the invention of some nov-
elist intent on proving the folly
of making mere money-getting a
passion. He was a notable ex-
ample of those virile Celts who,
coming to this country with
nothing but their wits and cour-
age, crawl out of obscurity and
climb to eminence, and even pre-
eminence. He was first a news-
paper peddler and then the own-
er of one; penniless and then the
president of banks and the mas-
ter of millions. Neither the pub-
lishing nor the banking business,
nor indeed both combined, could
circumscribe his ambitions nor
absorb his energies. He bunt
railroads and mined coal. His
energies were devoted to tasks in
which success brought, not satis-
faction, but even larger ambi-
tions. To these he became a
slave. Money he craved, not for
the comforts and enjoyments it
could be made to buy, but for the
power it gave for ever larger un-
dertakings. His work was cumu-
lative; the more he did, the larger
liis tasks became, and the obses-
sion in them grew with their size,
and when the time came that his
own funds were insufficient for
his needs he, in the intoxication
which had resulted from uninter-
rupted success, dulled the sense
which enables one to distinguish
between what one owns and what
one holds in trust. He was dis-
honest in the essential and broad
meaning of that word; but his
greater sin is in having enslaved
his mind to the single task of
money-getting.—Dallas News.
The second week of the session
of 1911 and ’12 of the A. & M.
college of Texas, closed with a
registration of 1100 students,
which is more than has ever
been enrolled in this institution
This means that fully 1200 will
be the total enrollment for the
session because there are many
students who do not enter until
after the Christmas holidays.—
A. & M. Press Bulletin.
Walter McCauley, veterinary
surgeon, Lampasas, treats all
diseases of domestic animals.
Will attend calls day or night.
Reasonable charges. d77
The Educated Impulse.
One of the best items of news
now going the rounds is the of-
ficial announcement that Texas
made more progress in the erec-
tion and equipment of school
buildings in the last two years
than any other state in the Union.
As the Eagle has often said, ed-
ucation is the only means of re-
form. Educate the people and
all other interests will take care
of themselves.—Bryan Eagle.
Texas is already a well educat-
ed State. We perhaps have not
done as much in the way of pub-
lic school extension as some of
the older sisters in the Union,
but there are and long have been
teachers enough and schools
enough to make illiteracy inex-
cusable among our citizens. Pos-
sibly also we have been a trifle
remiss in making our school work
too purely clerical and literary.
We may have educated some of
our young men out of a chance
to make good mechanics in order
to make badjlawyers or doctors or
editors out of them.— Dallas
News.
The Model Market will be open-
ed again for business on Novem-
ber 1st. We will appreciate the
public patronage.
d73 Phelan & Browning.
Bishop Candler, in an address
delivered at Atlanta, had some
very plain words to say on what
he termed “mischievous mendi-
cancy. ”~-The bishop meant plain
begging, as applied to church
and educational institutions
which whimper around northern
millionaires for handouts for pur-
poses which southern people
ought to take care of themselves,
or do without. He included the
hookworm insult, so dear to the
hearts of many who have had
prospect of becoming a vehicle
for the distribution of the Rocke-
feller million, given in sympathy
to the poor inhabitants of the
southern states for relief of the
germ of laziness. The bishop
declares that while a few hundred
thousand dollars have • been ob-
tained by ecclesiastical and edu-
cational beggers, the effects have
been disastrous, in giving the
rest of the world the opinion that
it so largely holds concerning the
south, and that the donations
have cost millions of dollars
which might have been secured
for deserving purposes, from the
people who in a self-especting
way ask nothing in charity.—
Temple Telegram.
Scripture Quotation.
“Enter not into the path of the
wicked, and go not into the way
of evil men.”
John C. Earnest, Veterinary
Surgeon, treats all curable dis-
eases of domestic animals. Of-
fice at Earnest’s stable. d-tf
Cotton Prices Discussed.
Cotton is not “consumed”
when it is sold. It is not con-
sumed when it is converted into
yarn, nor into cloth. As a bolt
of cloth or as a shirt it still exists
unconsumed, and not until, as a
discarded garment, it is sold to
the rag picker does it cease to be
a force that operates to depress
the value of every boll oft a grow-
ing crop. It may be possible to
determine approximately how
much cotton will be spun during
the next twelvemonth through-
out the world, but the probable
consumption of cotton will re-
main an unknown quantity. Nor
can it be an ascertainable quan-
tity. One may not like to wear
a shirt more than sixj months,
but he can, if put to it, make it
serve a year. Cotton is endowed
with no peculiar power that
makes it impervious to those in-
fluences which render the demand
for other commodities a highly
variable quantity. When need
arouses the spirit of economy,
the clothes bill gets scrutinized
before the meat bill. Cotton -is
more sensitive to the depressing
influence of hard times. Next
year’s population, although it
may be ten million greater than
this year’s, can get along with
even less cotton than this year’s
population will consume. The
best estimate is scarcely more
than a guess as to the probable
size of a cotton crop, and the
best estimate as to the probable
consumption of cotton can hard-
ly rise to a higher dignity. The
only way for the farmer to have
some voice in fixing the price of
his own product is to remain
master of it after he grows it.
The problem of assuring a fair
price for cotton—and it is the
most urgent problem that con
fronts the South—is the problem
of enfranchising the farmers
from the servitude of debt. What-
ever the solution, and the solu-
tion will be a long time in getting
discovered and formulated, the
first is the practice of diversifica-
tion. The farmer who practices
diversification' in a thoroughgo-
ing and persistent way will be
able at least to feed himself. He
may fall into debt, but, at worst,
not hopelessly. He will remain
the owner of'at least a part of his
cotton after he shall have grown
it. His road from the gin need
not be, as now, inexorably to-
ward town. He may then exer-
cise the choice of driving back
home if the price is not such as
to tempt him into town. If all
season the price should not ri§e
to a tempting level, he will be
able to count the bales in his
barn as so much less to be raised
next year, and devote that re-
leased cotton acreage to some
one of the hundred crops that is
possible to grow in almost every
section of Texas. By following
that practice he will get more for
five bales that he held over than
he would probably get for eight
or ten grown next year to pile
upon the sold but unconsumed
cotton. The solution of the
problem will come from the
practice of a very few simple
common-sense principles. The
more machinery that is invented
and set up to save the farmer,
the more will the farmer be in
need of saving from the misdi-
rected sympathy of his friends.—
Dallas News.
Colder Weather
Makes the putting up of the stove a
necessity. We have the best Heat-
ing Stoves made, both in ornamental
patterns, box styles and air tight
models for wood, coal and oil.
Give us'your order for any character
of stove you may desire, and we
will deliver it in your home, furnish
the necessary pipe and fix you to
withstand the cold"weather.
1
Fox
Shovels, Tongs
Zincs, Stoveboards, and every
character of stove utensils.
i liils Hardware Co.
The Largest Stove Dealers in Lampasas
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Xownsen & Lamb
Barbers and Hair Dressers
Northeast Corner Square
Hot Tub and Shower Baths
Good Workmen, and Courteous Treat-
ment. Your patronage solicited.
Dr. J.
Office at Cassell's Drugstore,
Lampasas, Texas
Railroad Time Table.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.
Departs.
East-bound, 9:45 a. m. and 9:44 p. m.
West-bound, 6:32 a. m. and 6:45 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.
Daily Leader 3 months for $1
There are 575 Southwestern Tele-
phones on the Lampasas exchange, 264
of these are in the country. There are
also a number of other telephones, ru-
ral, independent, etc. The Leader can
be reached through J. I). Cassel’s Drug
Store from any of these. Call for Dr.
J. D. Read and let us have the news
from your section while it is news.
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0 CITY DIRECTORY
Mayor—W H McGuire
Attorney—H. F. Lewis
Recorder—Roy L. Walker.
Marshal—G. D. Zivley.
Secretary—T. II. Haynie.
Treasurer—W. B. McGee
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
First Ward—,T. S. Taylor, C.E.Vartin
Second Ward—G.W. Clements and E.
W. Smith.
Third Ward—PI. F.Dic.kason and W.
R. Young.
City Council meets first and third
Monday nights. n each month.
Three Pieces of Land.
485 acres, two and a half miles
com the courthouse, more thar
100 acres can be cultivated ; plen-
y of timber and two splendid
anks. No better grass land tin
his section. Fronts a mile on
ast side of the Georgetown road.
420 acres, eight miles east of
Lampasas, about 50 or 60 acres
tin cultivation, two wrells, two
anks, plenty of timber, good
grass, young orchard, house of
hree rooms, gallery and chim-
iey, good outhouses and sheep
^heds. All fenced sheep-proof.
About 236 acres, two miles east
>f the courthouse, 15 acres in
cultivation, 28 acres just cleared,
about 30 acres more can be cul-
tivated. This place has half mile
of front on Sulphur, and 10 to 25
acres can be irrigated; fenced
with cedar posts and seven wires.
The most desirable place for a
suburban home that could be
found.
These properties all have per-
fect title and are free from all in-
cumbrances. Reasonable prices
will be made and easy terms can
be had on any or all of them.
For further particulars apply
to the owner at this office,
tf J. E. Vernor.
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COUNTY DIRECTORS
County Judge—M. M. White.
County Clerk—J. E. Morgan.
District Clerk—A. F. Baker.
Sheriff and Tax Collector-
M hC6.
Assessor—E. T. Jordan .
Treasurer—G. W. Tinkle.
Attorney—A. McFarland.
Count} Court meets third Mondaj in
Fauuary, April. July and October.
District Court meets first Monday ii.
Apriland October.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Precinct 1—W. H. Simmons.
“ = 2—J. 0. Iloliy.
‘ ‘ 3—Frank Kirby.
“ 4—LukeLigon,
Commissioners Court meeti lecoi d
Monday in February. May, Augusl and
November.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3070, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1911, newspaper, October 27, 1911; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910610/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.