The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 77, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 15, 1918 Page: 4 of 4
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tt LOCALS AND PERSONALS 8
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A. L. Yeager, who resides about
five miles north of Bonham, was an
apreciated visitor at The News of-
fice Saturday. He left an order for
The News to go to J. B. Sneed-on
Route 6, and also -renewed Mrs. G.
W Boyd’s subscription. The Dallas
News was ordered for both parties.
Preaton Guthrie, of Merkel. Texas,
•ends a dollar and an order for The
News to be sent a year.
Tom Martin O'Brien of Ector is a
new subscriber foy The N^Wfc.
We are in receipt of cash from B.
C. Pearce of Route 1, out of Savoy,
with an order to send The News a
year to his address.
W. M. Fears, on route 5 out of
Bonham, was in the city Saturday and
ordered The News.
C. A. Madearis of Whitewright 2,
sends renewal for The News.
S. M. Tacker on route 5 out of
Bonham, has our thanks for a dollar
to renew for the News.
LAMASCO ITEMS
Mrs. Dr. Gill, whose husband is a
Lieutenant at Camp Travis Base
hospital, is selling her furniture and
breaking up house-keeping.
Marvin Biggers’ father has moved
to Lamasco and is living with Marvin.
Marian Woods, who moved in from
the West will farm on T. H. Melton’s
place this year. ‘
.. The body of Mr. Jenkins, who died
on his farm north of Stool Grub
prairie, was burled at the Lamasco
grave yard, Wednesday. Oliver Rowe
preached his funeral.
There is a good deal of moving yet
tc be done in Lamasco if they can
get one vacant house to start on.
Hoyt Womack h.ts improved the
place he bought from H. W. Hunt and
rented it to Mr. Kelley, the village
blacksmith.
Grover Roberson has built a nice
bungalo residence on the 50-acre farm
he bought from John Windle forth of
Lamasco.
Frank Haynes has gone • to Nor-
man, Okla^. on a prospecting tour.
Elmer Haynes has purchased 40
acres of land about 2 miles east of
Lamasco, and is puting in some new
ground on his farm south of town.
Tom Melton has returned and re-
ports Dallas dull and Ft. Worth on
a boom.
Prof. K. B. Foster has had his
dwelling and barn and contents in-
sured in the Fannin County Farmers
Mutual Isurahce Association, he lives
north of Lamasco and is teaching
school at the Bettis school house.*
um Smith has returned from
where.
ton Wilkes still has considerable
more .cotton in the field.
There was a fellow the other day
applied to me as Notary Public to
marry him. I said that I could do
as well as the Justice in Throck-
morton County, who took their affi-
davit to live together as man and
wife, and put his Notary seal on it.
Mr. Chester Sanders and wife of
Oklahoma, are here visiting Mrs.
Sanders’ father, J. P. Windle.
—Osmokus.
ENDORSES VIEWS
Mr. Editor, I just want to indorse
Ajax’s views on the homestead law
as stated in the News Jan. 11, 1918.
Our higher courts have always giv,en
a liberal construction of our' exemp-
tion laws, even holding that a jack-
ass may be construed to be a horse
or a work ox in order that an unfor-
tunate debtor may hide from the
harsh and cruel hand of an unjust
creditor. The intention of the law is
to furnish a safe retreat of an hon-
est and unfortunate debtor from the
oppression of cruel and relentless:
creditors. Of course such laws have
been abused, but many more times
justly used.
Such a law has never benefited me
directly, as I have always lived on a*
cash basis, but during my 25 years
of active law practice I have >*en in-
stances of its good protection.
I got up this morning, found the
ground covered with snow. I built a
gcod fire and we had a hot cup of
coffee and bisquit and ham and eggs
for breakfast because I have a home
to make a living on. Suppose bad
luck should overake me and I owed
debts and my home was taken away
and no means left for me to make
/
more. Let us keep our homestead
law intact. We can under the pres-
ent law mortgage our home to se-
cure the purchose money or to im-
prove the home, that is enough.
In 1900 people made a good crop
and sold for a good price and paid
many debts barred by limitation,
and are paying now. Nobody so
mean as the man whose only desire is
to get rich. —Osmokus.
Hardware
EXACTLY REQUIRED
t>F VOTES IS CAST IN
OF RESOLUTION
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NUMBER
FAVOR
Come to us. Our line
is complete
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Rash Catron
We«t Side of Sq
vice-president; T. B. Williams, acting
vice-president; I. W. Evans, casLfer;
Neil Williams, first assistant cashier;
Neal Johnson, second assistant cashier
A. J. Moore will serve as active pres-
ident during the coming year.
DAVID ROBISON DEAD
THE BONHAM COTTON MILLS
NEEDS WORKERS
David Robison, Pioneer settler of
this county, died at his home on South
Main St., Sunday morning at 9:30
o’clock after a few days illness of
pneumonia. Mr. Robison was born
in 1856 and came to Texas at the
close of the Civil War, in 1865 and
has lived in this county since then.
He was married to Mi3s Nancy E.
Stovall at Dutch Mills Arkansas,'
March 3, 1893. The three children,
Leota, Eugene and Hayden, born to
this union, survive . The wife and
mother died in this city sixteen years
ago. Since that time Mr. Robison
has traveled a rough road and had
a double burden in being4 father and
mother both to his children and all
who knew him say they never saw a
man kinder and better to his children
While they are all grown, they will
miss their father sadly, as they have
no near relatives and are now alone.
Mr. Robison joined the Missionary
Baptist church more than 40 years
ago and has been a faithful member
since then. He was a qtli^t, peace-
loving man, who made friends 'where-"
ever he went and was always ready
to lend a helping h.and to those in
trouble.
The funeral service was conducted
at the residence this morning at 10
o’clock, after which the remains were
conveyed to Carson cemetery North
of Ector and laid to rest. ?
The Nbws joins the friends in ex-
tending sympathy to the bereaved
children.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Richard White and Minnie Pointer.
Wade Preston and Vada ftender-
son.
Will pay. enough to cover
Grown young women in families
preferred,
expenses while
few weeks experience
nine to twelve dollars per
learning.
After a
can earn
week. The
work is light, the mill is comfortably
heated, the
learn and
Gan give employment to twenty-
five or thirty women. Comfortable
work Is not difficult to
is not dangerous.
houses at
the office.
nominal rents.
Apply to
75-8t
BONHAM COTTON MILLS.
FELL AND BROKE HIS ARM
Sataurday afternoon as J. E. Car-
ter, who resides in the west part of
the city, was going from town to his
home, he fell and broke his left arm.
Beth bones were broken near the
BANK ELECTIONS
At the annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the Fannin County Nation-
al bank held Wednesday, the follow-
ing directors and officers were elect-
J. W. Russell, A. B.
Russell, C. L. Brad-
ed: Directors:
Kennedy, J. B.
ford, Ed D. Steger, T. L. Rogers, L.
K. Crawford, J., R. Russell and S. D.
Rainey.
Officers: J. W. Russell, president;
A. B. Kennedy, vice-president; C. L.
Bradford, cashier; J. V. Chapman and
J. R. Russell assistant cashiers.
The First Natioanl bank held an
election Wednesday. It re-elected its
old board of directors, who are: J.
W. Haden, A. B. Scarborough,' J. M.
Wells, D. W. Sweeney, Zac Smith, J.
C. Saunders, J. M. Freeman, Ciias.
Halsell, H. A. Cunningham, M. A.
Taylor, Will H. Evsns, and Bland
Smith. The directors then selected
officers as follows:
A. B. Scarborough, president. D.
W. Sweeney, active vice-president;
Zac Smith vice-president; Chas. Hal-
sell vice-president; Dick Saunders,
cashier; Roy. Gas, assistant cashier;
Sim Smith, head bookkeeper; Miss
Anpie Ward, stenographer and as-
sistant bookkeeper; Olvin Gross col-
lector clerk.
EDHLBE NEWS ITEMS
are preparing
while some
for another
The First State bank at its annual
meeting Wednesday night voted to in-
crease its capital stock from $109,500
to $200,000 and its surplus to $100,-
000. It elected the sam? officers that
wrist. Mr. Carter is well up in years served it last year, namely: A. J.
which makes the Injury more serious. Moore, president; T. R. Caldwell, first
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Another Big Shipment of
Harness
This makes, our harness stock most com-
plete and up-to-date. There is quality
in every strap or piece.
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See us lor Harness
Bailey Hardware Company
PHONE NO. 39.
THE HOME OF QUALITY UNES.
After a long cold dry spell we are
visted with a good rain which will be
or great help to tlye wheat, if it is
not all killed.
Some of our people
land for another crop
have no, place to go
year. '■'*
There has been more moving and
changing places than there has been
for a number of years.
There are quite a number of per-
sons sick with colds, LaGrippe and
pneumonia.
Mrs. Spqt Edwards died Monday
morning, Jan. 7th with pneumonia.
Mrs. Edward’s son, who is in tfie
army, could not get home until Tues-
day night, the funeral did not take
place until Wednesday evening. It
was held in the Baptist church in the
presence of a large crowd of relatives
and friends. The service was con-
ducted by Rev. C. C. Hazelip, ®ssist-
ed by Rev. R. W. Tarpley, after
which the body was buried in the
Hampton cemetery.
Prof. W. C. Green and family, who
have been away from home for sev-
eral days, have returned home and
Prof. Green has resumed his school
duties.
Mrs. Dollie Hart and daughter,
Jennie, and Mrs. Mary O’Donnell, who
live north of Edhube, were in our vil-
lage a. few days ago.
Clem Mize and family of Denison
have moved in our community. They
once lived here. We welcome them
back. There are several families of
new comers here and we w elcome
them to our community.
Cole Perkins and family of Dodd
City were in our community a few
days ago. They came in their car.
Captain C. A. Biggers, who did not
get to come home Christmas, came in
lrom Camp and spent Sunday with
home folks.
Miss Tempy and Flora Belle Mas-
sey of Randolph came over and
sient Sunday at the home of Barney
Young, and attended our Sunday
school.
Mrs. B. Scott and son, W. E. Scott
of Oklahoma came in to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Edwards. ' '
Dan Barns of Paris and Emory Ed-
wards of Sherman were here to at-
tend the fdneral of Mrs. Edwards.
Glen Webb, \vh<J is a, nephew of
Mrs. Edwards, came in from Camp
Bowie, to attend the funeral.
Dr. Kennedy of Bonham, while on
his way to se^ Mrs. .John Freeman,
u-ho is quite sick, stopped a few min-
utes with us.
Land Hammond and wife of Tay-
lorville, t ame over a few days ago to
h e Mrs. J. L. Hammond, who is quite
sick. —Uncle Watt.
Washington, Jan. 10.—Woman Suf-
frage by constitutional amendment
won in the House tonight with exact-
ly the required number of affirma-
tive votes.
While members in their 'seats ar.d
throngs in the galleries waited with
eager interest, the House adopted by
a vote of 274 to 136 a resolution pro-
viding for submission to the Slates of
the so-called Susan B. Anthony
amendment for national enfranchise-
ment of women.
Byt for the promise of Speaker
Clark to cast his vote from the chair
for the resolution if it was needed
the change of a single vote to the op-
positionwould have meant defeat. Re-
publican Leader Mann, who came
from a Baltimore hospital, where he
has been under treatment ever since
Congress convened, and Renresenta-
tive Sims of Tennessee, ju$t out of
a sick bed and hardly able to walk
to his seat, brought the yotes which
settled the issue.
The House hardly had adjourned
before the suffrage champions began
their fight for a favorable action on
the Senate side of the capitol. Re-
cent polls there have indicated that
the necessary two-thirds vote could
not be mustered, but encouraged by
the House victory and counting upon
the influence of President Wilson, who
came to their support* last night) the
uffragists hope to bring the Senate
,to line so as to have the amend-
ment before State Legislatures .dur-
ing the coming year. They feel sure
of at least forcing a vote in the Sen-
ate before the present session .ends.
Advocates of the amendment had
been supremely confident of the re-
sult in the House after President Wil-
son advised the members who called
upon him last night to supoprt It.
They were 'o confident that the close
vote was received with amazement
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and some of the opponents were al-
most as much surprised.
When the first roll call Was fin-
ished unofficial counts put the result
in doubt and before, the speaker could
make an announcement there was a
Then
and the
su
i>1
to $160;
around $2.50 at most Southern points,
and wheat, oats and hay are corres-
pondingly high. Prices of all kinds
o.’ livestock are soaring, and the
same is true of tobacco, peanuts, su-
gar, syrup—practically everything, in
fact, the farmer grows.
These prices mean, above all things I:
else, that the Souther® farmer’s hour j
of golden opportunity has struck.
Never in the history of our country
has the farmer had a greater oppor- j
tunity to achieve that economic in- i
dependence that is the rightful due of
every American citizen. Never againJijj
probably, will we see a time when the
whole world will be so dependent upon
the farmer, so willing to adequately
reward him for his labor.
To the whiye tenant of the South
and the struggling landowner we.
would especially .npeal to make lisp.;
of an opportunity th^t may never
come again.
In many^b community in the South
this winter there will be small farm-;.:
ers, both tenants .nd land-owners, :
with the proceeds of from ten to
thirty-five bales of cotton, or from
one to four or five thousand dollars'
in cash. Of course in most cases the
‘run” must be paid for, but even af-
ter t^is is done there is probably go;-
ing to be a larg^surplus of clear
cash than ever before.
The use that is made of this monk-
ey, the wisdom and foresight with
which it is expended, is , going to de-
termine the future economic status of j
many a Southern farmer-^—determine !
whether he shall remain a tenant, a
slave to time prices, or whether he-
shall be independent.
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To the white tenant farmer,- we
would say buy land. "The man who
For Ladies, Men, Misses, Boys
and Children
♦ _
Ladies’ Rain Coats specially priced
$3.50, 4.00 and 5.00
Men’s Rain Coats, specially priced,
$4.00, 4.50 and 5.00
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Misses’ Boys’ and Children’s Rain
Coats specially priced $3.00, 3.50
and $4.00
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AIL Sizes and Colors
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Max Hermer
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“THE SAFEST PLACE TO TRADE”
owns thy land he ti
der his own roof,
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who lives un-
achieved an
WEST SIDE-SQUARE
Bonham, Texas.
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MEN WANTED—to clear land and
cut wood near Telephone. Apply to
W. B. Ccoper, Lamasco,.R. 1 67-8t
Of All
Kinds
demand for. a recapitulation,
the name df each member
way he was recorded Was read.
Announcement of the vote was
greeted with wild applause add cheer-
ing. Women in the galleries literal-
ly fell upon each other’s necks, kiss-
ing and embracing and shouting
“Glory! Glory! Hallelujahn
She was the mother of four children
who survive her, namely: $lrs. Rich-
ard Gray of Denison;' ’ M!r& Max
Gardner, who has been making her
home with her mother since her hus-
band went to* Europe with the Rain-
bow Division; Sanford Chaney, who
went with the first draft that left
here for Camp Travis; and Henry
Chaney who has remained here with
his mother. All the children* were
present with the mot’ er before her
death. Sanford reached here Wed-
nesday, being the last one J tp reach
her bedside. • j •
-The funeral services were conduct-
ed at the residence at 3 o’clock Fri-
day afternoon by Rev. F. W. O’Mal-
ley, pastor of the First Christian
a mem-
Willow
PRINTING
not the cheap kind
but the
good kind done here.
From the profits
let us put by in
independence tndt is worth all the ef-
fort, the work, the hardship, it may
have cost. But in buying, buy wise-
ly. Get good land, even if it costs
more, for some land are dear at any
price. And then so plan thsd after
the land is bought there will be some
money left for equipment and opera-
tion. .
To the landowning farmers of the
South, now is tne time to put away
forever the crushing time-prices sys-
tern that has dragged many a good
man down to ruin,
ox this years crops
the bank a cash surplus on which to
do business until the next harvest
time. After this surplus has been pro-
vided, whatever remains may be used
for providing whatever the family
may wish for. But let us make sure
of our operating bank surplus first.
Now is our time of opportunity,
Brother Farmer. Improvident waste
points the way to poverty; thrift and
saving, to independence. Which road
will you chooser—The Progressive
Farmer. . -
this
you know. An article marked “Made
ir Hades” would sell better.
I’m agraid we’ve over. done
thinjf. What do you think?
Faithfully your friend and ally) *
Beelzebub,
Prince of Dcm's and K»dser of Hades
THREE KILLED AND TEN
IN WRECK
HURT
MADE IN HADES
church, of, which she was
her. Interment was made in
Wild cemetery.
THAT OLD TOWN CLOCK
What’s the matter
With the old town clock ?
It refuses to tick
And will not tock.
The hands on the North,
Where the sleet hits worst
Seem to have struck
And quit work first.
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MRS. IDA CHANEY DEAD
Mrs Ida ( haney died Thursday
afternoon at her home on West 7th
and Cedar streets, efter an i'ln'ess of
only a Jew days. Pne'uinionia was the
immediate cause of her4 death.
The deceased was the v.idow of the
late James f’haney, and had made her
home in Bonham for many years.
She was reared at Whitewright, we
They tell us blandly,
A yarn on its.face,
The hour’s 5:50
A shame and ylisgrace!
The hands on the West
Are in trouble, too,
And cheerfully state, .
10 minutes to 2!
While on the South, '
.Camouflage galore,
The* old clock declares, ,:
It’s 5 after 4!
On the. East side face,
It’s near 3 p., m.
As a time-telling clock
This one’s a gem
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Even the arrow, *
On top of the thing
Has gone on a strike
And refuses to swing.
The vane is contrary
Ajid points due East-
•While the wind is North,
! 1
H
The
scoundrel beast!
—Prohibit io
nist.
TWO KINDS OF TAXES
Professor Wright says we ought not
to say “school tax,” but “school in-
vestment.” And the point is a good
one. We must have done with dem-
agogues who fight all kinds of tax-
es. What we need to do is to remem-
ber that there are two kinds of tax-
es. First ,there are consumptive
taxes—taxes used merely to pay sal-
aries and expenses for ordinary puK-
lic officers; taxes used merely in keep-
ing the wheels of government going
round. And the rule is that the low-
er we keep these taxes'* the better.
But in the second place * there are
productive taxes—taxes used for mak-
ing people more intelligent, healthy,"
or efficient through educational work,"
health work, agricultural work, etc.,,
and the more people spend in this way
the richer they are. In fact, it is the
mark of a civilized people to spend
much in this way. As Dr. C. D. Me*
Iver was always saying ,“The savage
pays no tax.” Taxation for schools
is really a form of civic cooperation
-in which the strong
burdens of the weak,
too much
Farmer.
Confidential Letter from the Divil
the Kaiser
Decoded by Eugene H. Blake of the
Vigilantes
Infernal Palace, Hades.
My dear Wilhelm:
Before we started this war,'any
article would sfell i'«gter in almost
any country if “Mroe in Germany”
W8S stamped on it. Confidence in
product and good will for Germany
put the sale across dead easy.
But now my dear Kaiser look what
you’ve done. You have
Plarjs for World Conquest--“Made
in Germany”
Scrapped Belgian Treaties—*“Made
in Germany.”
Poison Gasses—‘Made in Germany.”
• Plans for Armenian Holy Wars—
“Made in Germany*”
Luifcitania Murders—‘Made in Ger-
■many.”
Pledges—“Made ir. Ger-
Temple Texas, Jan. 10.—Three lives
were snuffed out and ten persons in-
jured when two Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railway passenger trains met
iu a rear-end collision at Ginger
this morning at 2 o’clock. The first
section of train No. 5, known as the
San Antonio and Austin train, was
coaling at the chutes on the main line
north of the station when the second
section, known as the Houston train,
came bowling along at a good rate of
speed, crashing into the rear sleeper
of the waiting train with terrific
force. The latter, of steel construc-
tion, was forced by the terrible pres-
sure astride the sleeper in front,
which was of wood, shearing off the
roof and one side of the car- almost
clean. Three of the passengers in the
of Hate—“Made in
help bear the
We can’t have
of it.—The Progressive
POPE REPORTED TO BE
MOVING FOR PEACE
STRAYED
One brown mare* about l4
high, with spot in forehead.j
her which
hands
Bay
tlso has
Rome, Jan. 12.—Intimation that
Pope Benedict has dip’omaticaliy call-
ed attention of Emperor Karl of Aus-
tria to President Wilson’s war aims
message and suggested that he seek
to influence the Kaiser’s consideration
of these peace terms! was made to
influential Vatican circles today.
Official comment was declined at
f •
the Vatican. The ^report declared the
Pope called the attention of tne Cath-
olic Monarch of. Austria-Hungary to
the correspondence which 1 as been
exchanged relative to the Pope’s own
peace efforts, as bearing on considera-.
lion how of the President’s terms.
There-were persistent, although un-
official, iumoj-s today that the Holy
Father will eventually gather up the
threads of the allied terms and those
stated by the central powers ami from
these try to weave a fabric which
would serve as the groundworlc for
peace.
The Pope regards America as the
Broken
many.’
Hymns
many.”
Zeppelin Baby-brni.lings—“Made in
Germany”
Bartnarities against Prisoners—“
“Made in Germany.” "
Bett-avals of Neutrals—/‘Made in
Germany.’ ’
Sink-withuot-a-trxce Notes—“Made ;
m Germany.” , > j
good work all right, Wilhelm,1
you don’t, watch -out vou never1
can use “Made in Germany” after the
You gotta think about that,
second car were crushed to death in
their berths and ten others sustained*
painful injuries.
The dead;
Morris Cohn, Daiuis.
J. J. Hoffstadt, St. Louis.
F. N. M oxley, Linsdale, Texas.
All were des.d when found by the
rescuing party. The body cf Cohn
was prepared for burial and forward-
er to Dallas and that of Moxley was
forwarded to his nearest relative, Mrs.
M. E. Davidson, 2303 Church street,
(Greenville, Texas. The body cf Hoff-
: stadt w’as held pending location of
qci. relatives, papers found
It’s
but if
war.
on the body
j indicating that his wife, Mrs. Carrie
! Hoffstadt, is a resident of St. Louis.
The injured:
A. Jung, Waco.
C. C. More, Tulsa, Okla.
F. S. Whitley, Austin.
. R. P. Vivian, Dallas
W. L. Brown, DeKalb.
A. W. Young, Jr., Hillsboro.
Oliver Clark, Little Rock, Ark.
W. G. Dooley, residence unknown.
W. H. Mooney, Smithville, engineer
on the second train.
understand. Her ma den name was horse colt with
Scales. She was of a retiring dis-
position , rarely going away from at Bonham, or J M. McNabbj Wolfe j be leapt likely to insist on rigorous
hom# except when it wm nacassary. City, route 2
spot in forehead.. Notify the (Sheriff most democratic element which would
76-2t . I terms.
Great Reductions
We are now making great Reductions on all
Winter Goods'and it will pay you well to get our
prices before you buy. Prices quoted now can
not be duplicated later on neither can they be
bought at these low figures next fall.
Don’t fail to supply yourself and family with
all the cold weather wants for no doubt most of
the winter is ahead of us.
Rogers, Woodward & Rob-
erts Company.
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