The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 63, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1905 Page: 2 of 4
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Bonham Jl2et»e.
MTABLISHBO
Entered at the Postofflce, at Bonham, Texas,
&• second-class mall matter.
SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.00 PER YEAR
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCB.
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CLUBBING RATfS
The News and Dallas News...............tl.7S
The News and St. Lonls Republic........ 1.75
The News and'Globe-Democrat. .........1.75
The News and Ft. Worth Record —..... 1.75
The News add Bryan's Commoner....... 1.60
The;Jfews and Atlanta Constitution..... 1.75
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CYANS a EVANS, PROPRIETORS.
AlBMLEY EVANS, EDITOR.
Negroes in the Southern
States, the wild and ill-founded
statements of the pretended ne-
gro-lovers of the North to the
contrary notwithstanding, are do-
ing remarkably well. For in-
stance: According to Booker T.
Washington, head of the Tusko-
gee Institute in Alabama, the
Southern negroes have accumu-
lated since the war over $300,000,
000 of property. In twelve of
the former States they own 173,-
000 farms and support 28,000
churches. This statement shows
two things: First, that the ne-
gro has made remarkable material
progress during the last forty-
five years, second, that the
white men of the South have laid
naught in the path of his prog-
ress. These things certainly
demonstrate the fact that the
South is the best‘’home for the
negro, and that the white man of
the South is the negro’s truest
and bestlfriend. As long as the
negroes continue to labor for the
establishment of little home:, of
their own, and as long as they
keep out of their heads any
dreams of social equality, we
shall continue to be their friends.
The sons of those whom old
“Uncle Ephriham’’ served, and
whom the old “Black Mammy”
sang to sleep by her croohings
and lullabies, will continue to
stand by the negroes of today as
long as they manifest an inclina-
tion to work out their own salva-
tion.
Patent medicine advertising
is falling off. So noticeable is
this fact that it was the subject
of much discussion at a recent
meeting of the American News-
paper Publishers’ Association
held in New York City. It seem-
ed to the concensus of opinion
of the members of that Associa-
tion that the cause of such a fall
ing off is attributable tooths fact
that the people are rapidly turn-
ing away from patent medicines
as panaceas and are taking up
physical culture, health foods and
massage treatment as a cure for
their ills. This is, indeed, a hope-
ful sign. It shows that the peo-
ple are becoming more enlighten-
ed. When the day comes that
newspapers no longer have patent
medicine advertisements in their
columns, and the people resort to
*4ch sensible methods, as above
/suggested, to cure their ills, the
irace will have taken many steps
'lipward toward a brighter sun-
light. Though that will mean
a decrease of the amount ot
money that goes in the jeans of
the country editors throughout
the land, may God speed that
day!
Irishmen held a meeting in the
Academy of Music in New York
City the other day in memory of
Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot.
About 3,000 persons attended, 200
prominent Irishmen being seated
on the stage. Resolutions of
sympathy for Russia were unan-
imously adopted amid great ap-
plause. The Czar will no doubt
appreciate this expression of sym-
pathy from Irtsh-Amerieans. He
is doubtless in almost as great a
need of sympathy as he is of an
army. And no one on earth is in
a better position to sympathize
with the down dog than an Irish-
man. That’s right, Pat, express
your sympathy while your objects
of commisseration are among the
living, for, judging from the past
events and the present condition
of affairs, it won’t be long until
the bones of the remainder of
Kuropatkin’s army will be bleach-
ing on the plains of Manchuria.
Express your sympatH^now.and,
by the way, it might oh advisa-
ble to cable those resolutions
forthwith and immediately.
Representative Onion, of
San Antonio, has introduced a
bill to submit to the people a Con-
stitutional Amendment to limit
the State Senate to thirty-one
members and the House to ninety-
three. Mr. Onion probably thinks
such a body will be more easily
controlled by his friends, the
brewers, than the present body is.
This proves that advertising
pays: A man advertised for a
maid and got a jewel.
The Board of Trade might in-
augurate a campaign for good
sidewalks while it is tso trpiddy
to build good roads.
The Russian nobles say they
have no thought of peace. Kuro-
patkin hasn’t either, as long as
the Japs can keep moving.
Mrs. Chadwick says she is not
guilt^ but shecouldn’t make the
jury see it that wav, and she will
doubtless spend a while in prison.
Had you forgotten that the
Fannin County Fine Stock and
Poultry Association is to have an
exhibit and sales day on Satur-
day, March 25?
An official who knows that he
has lied to his constituents by
not carrying out the things which
he promised to do, cannot help
but look sheepish when among
those who know his record.
The Russian soldiers and the
Russian people know they are
whipped, whether the grand
dukes and the great generals and
the grand frauds at the head of
affairs know it or not.
Other parties have concluded
to try their hand at running cold
storages in Bonham. They will
have an opportunity to see if
they can get a decision sustain-
ing them in their efforts.
An unknown penitent thief,
who stole $3,000 from the govern-
ment, has just returned $12,000,
explaining that he is following
the Biblican injunction to return
four-fold for the injury done.
That is restitution in earnest.
He says that he has learned that
“the way of the transgressor is
hard.” So has every other trans-
gressor.
Texas cattlemen are furnish-
ing proof in the beef trust inves-
tigation now in progress in the
Federal court in Chicago, which
is said to be conclusive and most
sensational. The evidence in-
volves the railroads. Texas is
not going to let Kansas have any
monopoly of the sensation busi-
ness in the trust field.
The independent oil mills in
the Kansas and Texas fields are
preparing to build a pipe line
from Chanute, Kan., to Port Ar-
thur, Texas. It is said that John
W. Gates and Cudahy are inter-
ested in the project. If so. and
the line is built, we will soon
have the little oil men out in the
cold, and one set of big trust
magnates fighting another set of
big trust magnates.
Cuthbert Powell, editor of
the Kansas City Journal, who is
one of the best posted men in
America on live stock and pack-
ing house interests, says that in-
stead of the packing trust tnak
ing a profit of only two per cent
on its investment, that it
makes an annual forty-seven per
cent, or $47,700,000. Fortv-seven
per cent on a capital stock at
least half of which is “water,”
ought to be enough to satisfy
anybody, Mr. Powell quotes fig
ures to prove his assertion.. He
is evidently much nearer correct
than Commissioner Garfield.
Sir William Blackstone, a
man who was fairly good author-
ity on law in his day, defined law
as “a rule of action prescribed by
the supreme power of a state,
commanding what is right and
prohibiting what is wrong.” Re-
cent actions on the part of the
Texas legislature, however, have
caused a contemporary to sug-
gest that the definition should be
changed to read: “Law is an ex-
periment suggested by persons
specially interested by the legis-
lature just to see how it will
work.” This definition comes
from the pen of the editor of an
Austin periodical—one who, by
his close proximity to the Legis-
lature, is in a good position to
know, and his definition doubt-
less covers the case pretty well.
Hal and Andy Young, the two
negroes recently taken to the
Federal court at Paris on a
charge of selling whiskey, were
released. Hal, it will be remem-
bered, had plead guilty to the
charge in the county court and
had served about a vear on the
county road. «
Pay cash tor your supplies.
The Farmers Warehouse & Loan
Co. will loan you the money. %
50-8t.
District Court.
Tuesday Bud Oliver, charged
with the killing of a negro crap-
shooter near Ladonia last fall,
was allowed bail in the sum of
*
$1,500. The bond, however, has
not been made, and thedetendant
is still in jail.
Will Lane, colored, charged
with the killing of a negro wo-
man near Elwood, has been al-
lowed bond it^the sum of $500,
but, as yet, has not filled the
same.
Jim Guire, charged with the
murder of Will Kirby at this
place nearly four years ago, was
allowed bond in the sum of $1,-
500, but, not having filled it, is
still lodged in the county jail.
State of Texas vs. Horace Mc-
Duffey, charging him with as-
sault with intent to murder Doss
Hanes out at Ector last summer,
was continued until next term ot
court. The three witnesses, the
absence of whom was the cause
B
of the aontinuance, were fined
$25 each by the court. ‘ -
Church Rhames, charged with
the theft of two bales of cotton
from Lamb’s gin, near Honey
Grove, last fall, was being tried
as we went to press. The testi-
mony of the witnesses had been
taken, and the arguments of the
attorneys had begun." *
Thurmond Ford, a Mexican
charged with the murder of a
Mexican girl down on the river a
few years ago, will be tried after
the Rhames case is disposed of.
Ford, it will be remembered, was
convicted at the last term of
court and given a term in the
penitentiary, but the court grant-
ed him a new trial.
The special venire summoned
for today has been continued,
and need not appear until fur-
ther notified by the sheriff.
Meeting of Farmers.
V /
Capt. W, J. Hood, of Savoy,
chairman of the Fannin [County
Cotton Association, has issued a
call to the farmers urging them
to meet at the court house on
Saturday, April 1. *
The call is based upon a reso-
lution adopted by the State Ex-
ecutive Committee on March 4,
1905, requesting the Cfarmers of
the various counties throughout
the State to meet at the school
houses in their respective school
districts on Wednesday, March
22nd, at 2 o’clock for the purpose
of selecting a committee of three
on membership, and choosing
delegates to the county conven-
tion. The resolution as adopted
by the State Executive Commit-
tee, was published in The News
last Tuesday.
If the farmers expect to do
anything this year toward organ-
izing and agreeing to reduce the
cotton acreage it is high time
that they get to doing some
thing. Cotton-planting time will
soon be here, and, unless steps
are taken to prevent it, as much
cotton or more, will be planted.
Hence, the necessity of attending
the meeting on Saturday, Aoril 1.
This call is no “April fool”—the
Captain means business.
Sidewalk Fund'Raised.
For some time parties in Bon
ham—the ladies in particular-
have been trying to raise funds
sufficient to pave the sidewalk
from the Carter property on
West 7th to the Willow Wild
cemetery. The women raised
quite a good deal by subscription,
but not enough. They recently
got the men interested by having
the matter presented to the city
council, and by faithful work on
the part of a few patriotic citi-
zens the required amount has
been raised. Work will begin as
soon as the material can be got-
ten on the ground. The monev
needed was raised by Sherwood
Spotts and Collie Sparger.
Arrested for Burglary.
Charlie Carroll was arrested
here Wednesday on a charge of
burglary. The offense is alleged
to have been committed at Savoy.
The value of the stolen goods is
estimated at about $30. Goods
were found on Carroll’s person,
when arrested, which Jim Ander-
son, of Savoy, identified as being
his, which had been stolen.
Carroll is now in jail awaiting
the action of the grand jury.
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Marriage licenses have been is-
sued to D. J. Chadwell and Liz-
zie McDuffy; J. T. Davis and
Frona Price.
Evans & McKinney
Over the First National Bank, Offer the Following
Property For Sale.
A pretty cottage on East Fourth street. Only one block from the square. Corner lot. South front. In good condition.
$1800 is the price with Vi cash.
front.
The Dick Allen home on North' Center street, of 8 rooms, is a snap at $2750. Remember its a two story; corner lot, with east
A new cottage of five rooms. Stable, crib, wood house, etc. On the car line adjoining P. & Cameron’s. This is a new frame
building. Rents for $12.50 per month. Price $1375. Y cash. Look at this place.
400 feet on the car line. X fine pecan grove. Has a depth of 500 feet. Only $1850 for the whole tract. This is the only vacant
let out there for sale. Come to see about it. Easy terms. '
Two fine lots on Fourth street in South Bonham. $275; Vi cash.
3 room frame building. >4 acre of land. Fine cistern. In northwest Bonham. $550; $100 down.
Brick business house on South Main street. $1000; V? cash.
Large two story house opposite Homer Thompson’s. Ya acre. Corner lot. $950; $250 cash.
We can trade you some Bonham property for a farm.
PAY CASH
. Money Loaned to Farmers at $6.00
per $100.00 with Cotton Consign-
ment. You get the benefit of our
facilities for selling cotton. We
ta^e personal or chattel mortgage
security.
FARMERS WAREHOUSE & LOAN Go.
COTTON FACTORS FOR FARMERS
SOUTH SIDE SQUARE, BONHAM, TEXAS
A. H, SAFFOLD, Managek W. T. WILLIAMSON. Ass’t Manager
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Prayer.
I do not undertake to say
That literal answers come frpm
heaven,
But this I know—that when I pray,
A comfort, a support is given
That helps me rise o'er earthly tilings
As larks soar up on airy wings..
In vain the wise philosopher
Points out to me my fabric’s flaws;
In vain the scientists aver
That all things are controlled by
laws.
My life lias taught me, day by day,
That it availeth much to pray.
*
I do not stop to reason out
The why or how. I do not care,
Since I know this-- that when I doubt
Life seems a blackness of despair,
The world a tomb; and when 1 trust,
Sweet blossoms spring up in the dust.
Since I-know in the darkest hour,
If I lift up my soul in prayer,
Some sympathetic loving power
Sends hope and comfort to me there,
Since balm is given to ease my pain,
What need to argue or explain?
Prayer has a sweet, refining grace:
It educates the soul and heart;
It lends a halo to the face,
And by its elevating art
It gives the mind an inner sight
That brings it near the Infinite.
From our gross selves it helps us rise
To something which we yet may be,
And so I ask not to be wise,
If thus my faith is lost to me-^-
Faith, that, with angel voice and
touch,
Says, “Pray, for prayer availeth
much.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
More About Mr. Wm. Goat.
A sweet girl graduate from a
Boston school thus describes the
manner in which a goat butted a
boy out of the front yard in the
neighborhood: “He hurled the
previous end of his anatomy
against the boy’s afterward with
an eagerness and velocity which,
backed by the goat’s avoirdupois,
imparted a momentum that was
not relaxed until the instigation
of the vehement exasperation
was landed on terra firma beyond
the pale of the goat’s jurisdic-
tion.”—Dawson County Herald.
jatliue*of
The Desbecker-Block
C'.cwcs. They a-t *-Or^*r tad mad*
. f.: -ud I'jC world over. Our agent
iwle lue.iur* ,rry car«fully-,*IUT |
•i h»» ■ j. »de your selection from kao-
lin's ci .'.-‘"etei.t fattens, sad we will
■ - r £.td»eat ia a way thst will be
: it l\-t y yuo.
Leilwckof-Blyclt (Mo are wore la
everv city sad town from the Atlantic to tha
mthwal * dissatisned customer. Sait*
\ ,v,-r lions Jn.so jpwsrds. Trouser* to
d i, *5-75 uf-wui*.
rue besBecKen-BLOCH
JAiLOKINC {COMPANY,
Buffalo, ft. r.
NEW STOCK
Spring DRY GOODS
and GROCERIES
«
CASH OR cre;dit
Wanted.
We have a cash buyer for a
first-class black land farm of from
40 to 60 acres. Also house and
lot of 5 or 6 rooms, priced not
over $700. And one of 4 rooms
priced not over $500. See us ii
you have such property and want
to s*ll. Evans & McKinney.
Over First National Bank.
The butted boy was her broth-
er, and also.a Boston child. In
recounting the experience tq bis
mother he said, "between sobs: j
“But I remained incumbent only
momentarily and regained the
perpendicular almost instantane-
ously and with extreme^ agility,
after which I exalted one of
nether extremities and directed a. _ ...
__ , • t , ,. dock, Sr., deceased, by the coun-
forceful propulsion of the pedal.c i tyco^rtof Fannin county, Texas,
appertainment d i a m e t r i ca lly on the 28th day of January, 1905,
against the rear elevation of the and has duly qua ified. All per-
quadruped’s physical posterior, 180118 having . claims against the
which resulted in such a surprise: ^ p“£ t thfsame wu'ib-
to the object of ray immediate in the tjme required bv law. My
antipathy he committed what is postoffice is Lamasco, Fannin
M. ROSENBAUM
Estate o! M. H. Haddock, Sr.
Notice is given that the under-
my signed was appointed adminis-
trator of the estate of M. H. Had-
county, Tex.
No. 50-4t
Beginning March 15 and end-
ing April 15 I will sell all stock
on hand at a discount of twenty
per cent for cash. I have a fqll
assortment of the best in every-
thing in marble or granfte.
62-tf E. Anderson.
called in the parlance of the pas-
toral regions a “bleat,” after
which ejaculation he manifested
to my visual comprehension an
earnest desire to remove his cor-
poral presence from the vicinity
of his discomfiture, which men-
tal disposition he promptly exe-
cuted in fact, leaving me the sole
occupant o f the circumscribed gratified
territory over which each of us
had asserted our individual au-
thority.” His mother was natur-
ally quite proud, of his valor and
•expressed her satisfaction point-
edly. “Your example, Beacons-
field,” said she, “is such as to
commend itself to all your class-
mates and infantile companions.
While we always should observe
discretion in the conduct of retal-
iatory or punitive adventures,
thereby guarding against superi-
or muscular or numerical opposi-
tion, it is comforting to the ma-
J. C. Thomas,
Administrator.
Don’t spend your money until
you see the new goods at Ware’s.
63-2t. ’
FOOT
COMFORT
For Elderly People.
T Elderly people find oceans of com-
fort in soft, warm footwear. Soft
stock in the uppers and soft stock
in the soles—no seams to hurt and
made on widjfe lasts. .
EVERY DETAIL
In the making that will add to
comfort has been looked after.
Men’s Styles____$2.50 to $3.50
Women’s Styles $1.50 to $3.00
We oiler great relief to tender feet.
LEWIS
THE SHOE MAN
ternal mind *to reflect that you
thus early display a tendency to
pursue the tactics suggested by
your fortunate inheritance of
predominative proclivities.” The
youngster’s father was equally
over the outcome and
did not fail to bestow a liberal
measure of fatherly advice upon
his victorious offspring. “My
son,” Said he, “remember that
life is a serious matter and hu-
man existence involves not only
an unfathomable psychological
phenomenon combined with an
unsearchable physiological entity.
There are occurring diurnally un-
toward circumstances with which
man must cope with all the pow-
er of his mental and muscular
ego, and on such occasions one
must employ either discreet si-
lence and inactivity or a discrim-
inative vigor, whichever seems to
most abound in satisfactory pos-
sibilities and pleasing eventuali-
ties. In this instance,’* continu-
ed the proud paternal authority,
“your decision appears to have
been as spontaneous as your con-
duct was vigorous, and the com-
plete humiliation of the mischiev-
ous rutninant which assailed you
conforms to my ideality of manly
promptitude and thoroughness.”
The boy’s Uncle Appleby, who
was a prosperous pork broker
from Kansas City, happened to
be visiting in Boston at the timq*
and when the circumstance was
stated to him he took the little
fellow on his knee and said to
him: “Beaky, you done the
right thing. Never let anybody
nor nothing run over you and
stay run over.”^ Dallas News.
Notice oi Sale.
By virtue of a Decree of Partition
in the case of E G. Tatum et al Vs.
John M. and Levinia P. Davis, No.
585". rendered by the District Conrt
of Fannin county, Texas, on t lie 8th
day of February, 1905, in which I was
appointed a Special Commissioner to
sell the land for the purpose of mak-
ing a division thereof among the own-
ers, I, D. A. McDaniel, Commissioner
as aforesaid, will, on Tuesday, the 4th
day of April, 1905, between the hours
of 10 a. m. and 4 p.m. sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash at
public outcry at the court bouse door
in Bonham, Texas, the lan&described
in said decree, situated in said county
about 10 mile9 south from Bonham,
and being a part of the E. M. Eubank
survey. Beginning at the northwest
corner of 50 acres of said survey sold
by YanZandt heirs to G. W. McWil-
liams. Thence west 709 varas a stake
in ttie W. B. line of 1535 acres set
apart to the YanZandt heirs. Thence
south 477 8-10 varas to northwest oor-
ner of tract sold to Miles. Thence
east 709 varas to the W. B. line of
said 50 jicres. Thence north 477 8-10
varas to the place of beginning, being
the same land conveyed to E. G. Ta-
tum and D. R. McWilliams by Com-
missioner of the District Court on
October 1st, 1901, deed recorded In
Vol. 84, page 451 of Deed Records of
Fannin County, Tex., and containing
00 acres, except one acre in the north-
east corner of said 60 acres lying on
tiie East side of the Bonham and
Greenville road sold to R. E. L. Tur-
ner, as shown by deed recorded in
Vol. 86, page 47 of the Deed Records
of Fannin county, Texas, leaving 69
acres to be sold.
The land will be sold subject to a
purchase money note for $1000 secured
by a Deed of Trust on said-land and
due to The Investor’s Mortgage Se-
curity Company, Ltd., with8 per cent
interest from November 1st, 1904, and
due November 1st, 1906, the purchaser
to assume payment ofjsaid note when
due. Said sale is also made subject
to tlie rental contract for the year
1905, and to the right of the renter
now in possession to hold said land
during the year 1905.
Saia sale to be reported to the Court
and approved before deed is made.
D. A. McDaniel,
56 F-6t Commissioner.
The State of Texas.
To all persons interested in the estate
of John L. Wileman and Herbert
H. Wileman, minors:
J. L. Wileman, guardian of the es-
tate of John L. Wileman and Herbert
H. WiJeman. minors, has filed in the
County Court of Fannin county an ap-
plication for leave to resign the guar-
dianship of the estate of said minors,
and has accompanied same by an ac-
count for final settlement thereof,
which will be heard by our said court
on the first Monday in April, A. D.
1905, same being the 3rd day of April.
A. D. 1905, at the court house of said
Fannin county in the city of Bonham
at which time and place all persons
interested in said estate and guard-
ianship are hereby notified and re-
quired to appear and contest said ac-
count and application, if they see
proper to do so.
Witness, Pat Henry, Clerk of the
County Court of Fannin county.
Given under my hand and seal of of-
fice in Bonham on this, the 6th day of
March, A. D. 1905. Pat Hknrv,
Clerk Co. Court, Fannin Co. Tex.
By Henry Wells, Deputy.
No. 60-T3t
News and Dallas News $1-75.
City Council Met.
The city council met last Mon-
day night. It was the regular
monthly meeting. Several mat-
ters pertaining to the interests of
the city were taken up, discussed
and disposed of.
Large shipment of latest style
clothing just received at Ware’s.
_ 61-2t.
The Farmers Warehouse &
Loan Co. will advance you money
on your cotton, and you will
make money by having them sell
it. _ 50-8t
The iron buildings on North
Main Street are for sale. See
Evans & McKinney.
Eight Room Dwellings
Close to the business section of
the town for sale are very scarce.
We have one only 4 blocks out at
$2750. Easy terms. Come quick.
Evans & McKinney.
Pastures
In Fannin county are scarce.
The one of 108 acres advertised
by us elsewhere in this issue for
only $1650 is, a snap, all fenced,
good pool, 8 acres of timber, all
smooth, Yt cash. Here is your
chance. Evans & McKinney,
Over First Nat’l Bank.
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