The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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TWH ARGITR. FT.ATOVTA. TITTAS
VILLA KEEPING CLEAR £
R. A. M.
OF AMERICAN CAVALRY
TOURISTS RETURNING FROM THE SOUTH
Moulton Chapter
Nfc. 134
VILLA NOT ABLE TO SECURE RE-
CRUITS AS HE HAD EX-
PECTED TO DO.
Stated com o -ationa Thurs-
day on or before full moon
each month. Sojourning
•eganpaniona cordially invited. '
MEXICAN SOLDIERS AID U. S.
A. Brunnemann, H. P.
Henry Hurr. Secretary.
From All Reporta the Constitutionalist
Troope Are Aiding In Running Ban-
dits Down—Much Trouble With
Transportation of Supplies.
/tTVv Clark LOwenLodge
VA'NJ No. 136
A3ark L. Owen Lodge No. 136,1. 0. O.P.
meet* regularly on the 2nd. and 4th.
Tuesday night of every month. Visit-
tag brethren cordially invited.
P. J. Haas. N. G.
G. Q. Menefee, Sec’y.
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FLAT0N1A LODGE
No. 203 K. of P.
Meets Every lat and 3rd
Tuesday in their Caatle
Hall. J. J. Sedlmeyer, C. C.
Henry Miller, K. of R. A S.
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Fiatonia Rebekah
Lodge.
NO. 21, I. O. 0. P.
Meets every 2nd and
4thTuesday afternoon
St 2 o'clock from OeL to April and at
4 o’ckck from April to October.
Visiting Sisters and Brothers are
cordially invited to Attend.
Mrs. Louise Kais>r, Secretary.
Mrs. Justine Albiecht, Noble Grand.
FLATONIA LODGE NO. 436
A.F4A.M.
Meets Saturday on or beforj
full moon. Brethren in good
•Landing are invited to attend.
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Columbus, N. M.—Brigadier General
J. J. Pershing announced Tuesday the
establishment of a new base In the
pursuit of Pancho Via. The second
base Is much nearer tue location where
the bandit la reported in precipitate
retreat than the old base at field head-
quarters.
Evidence that Pancho Villa Is pre-
paring to resist the American pursuing
columns and that the Mexican people
are not aa yet rallying to him has been
collected by the officers and the
icouts of the American troops.
The headquarters, It Is presumed,
will be maintained aa an Important
link In the supply bases. The bases A-|Tp w
form a strong military line, readily STATE CAN { LEGALLY PAY
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tCupv rielil.t
FOR PJUTICAL PRIMARIES
ISSUES FINAL GINNING REPORT.
C. P. Johnson, W. M.
Henry Hurr, Secretary.
Ireland Camp
_ No. 340
W.O^W.
meets IsL and 3rd. Monday nights each
month. Visiting Sovereigns invited.
Am M. Gosch, CC H. R. Thulemeyer
Secretary
O. D. H.S.
Germania Loge, No. IS
defensible, reaching a distance into
the Interior of Mexico, which is con-
sidered remarkable, considering the
(act that the army has had leas than
two weeks to bridge deserts, moun-
tains and many miles of barren land
without benefit of any railroad com-
munication.
The officers who have ridden over
the various fronts now maintained In
the district of Quefrero, where Villa
fled when the United States expedi-
tion crossed the border, have discover-
ed numerous significant indications
that Villa miscalculated completely
when he expected that hlB Columbus
raid, by drawing an army Into Mexico,
would ct use a general uprising against
Americans in hls-rfavor.
#The bandit who Is being chased by
American soldiers not less than 260
miles south of the border has appar-
ently divided his outlaw organization
into at least two sections, If not more,
according to reports reaching authori-
ties. In fact .there are some who con- i
elude that Villa has split his hard-
pressed outfit Into a number of small
gan^s, which, by scattering here and
there, can at least make more difficult
the location of the particular crowd
■till headed by Villa hUnselT
A big International plot, the details
of which are said to have been laid In
this country and designed to force
United States Intervention in Mexico,
Is slated for exposure by the national
administration, and the president's
statement of a few dayB ago was but a
prelude Jo the Incident, it is said..
Figure*
ng Bale)
Show That 11,059,430
Supreme Court Holds Presidential
Preferential Act of Third-Third Leg-
islature Is Unconstitutional.
Austin, Tex.—The supremo court. Ir.
a unanimous opinion Thursday, held
the presidential preferential primary
act of the thirty-third legislature Is un
constitutional. The opiulon was writ-
ten by Chief Justice Nelson Philips
Only the question of the constitu-
tionality of the act was considered.
The finding of the court was tersely
set out in the concluding paragraph ol
the twelve-page opinion, as follows:
“Tested by legal principles which
are clearjir.d established, the paymen
of expenses of primary elections ol
political parties Is not a public pur-
pose for which public revenue may be
used, and in our opinion the act In
question Is therefore unconstitutional
and unenforceable.”
It Is held that It Is a fundamentally
sound proposition that no power oi
the government can be constitutional
ly used In furtherance or aid of the
effort of any class or Kind of organ
lzation, political or otherwise, to oh
tain the control of the government.
The act In question provided that the
expenses of the primary shall be paid
by the state. The cost of such a pri
mary election would not be less than
3300,000 and would probably exceed
that amount.
Bureau’s
Running Bales of Cotton Came
From Mills From 1915 Oft>p. ‘
Washington.—The final cotton gin-
ning report 'of the census bureau le-
aned Tuesday shows 11,059,430 running
bales, or 11,183,182 equivalent 600
pound halos of cotton, exclusive of
linters, were ginned from the 1915
crop. Those figures are recorded as
the official statistics of production for
the crop
Included In the figures are 39,623
bales, which glnners estimated would
be turned out after the March can
vass.
Round bales Included 111,716, sea
Island included 91,920, average gross
weight of . bales, 605.6 pouuds; gin
nerlca operated, 23,146; Ilnter cotton,
not Included, 895,274 running bales, or
880,780 equivalent 600-pound bales.
Ginning by states in equivalent 500
pound baies: Alabama, 1,020,208; Ar-
kansas, 815,846; Florida, 47,816; Geor-
gia, 1,907,310; Louisiana, 340,606; Mia
sissippl, 953,620; Missouri, 47,930;
North Carolina, 698,852; Oklahoma,
639,209; South Carolina, 1,133,581:
Tennessee, 302,898; Texas, 3,223,803;
Virginia, 15,809; all other states, 35,-
694.
Your Cotton Seed
- SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO OUR MILL
Prompt Attention and Courteous Treatment
Telephone 90
FLATONIA OIL MILL
It's Grand]
keep
Glo4
The old-tlr
Planing and Grist Mill |
Manufacturer Of ^
All Heart Cypress Tanks, Water Cisterns^
FlfAsh Corn Meal, Brass Goods, Pipe Htt-
ings, General Machinery and Bee Supplies.
G. S. EIDELBACH
Successor to A. Eidclbach FLATONIA, TEXAS
FLATONIA BOTTLING WORKS
Jos. Schmidt, Proprietor
Pure Sparkling Soda Water and
Delicious Ice Cream
Buy it by the case
It’s cheaper
•treaked and
er*s recipe, ail
It to keep theil
which is quitff
tng in an age |
suice is of the
Nowadays,
the troubli-so^
•age and the|
All drug stor
product, imprl
ether lngredl
Gage and si
about 50 ccntq
alar-
has been at
your comb
and draw thli
tng one smal|
morning the
what delightsl
8age and Bull
besides beaut|
after a few
duces that sc
of abundance
This ready-tc
lightful toilet|
desire a more
Is not lntenc
tion or preveil
Shooting
eport In Chi!
clubs have 1|
'Over 2,000 Merchant Veeeele Taken.
Washington.—The European war hat
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. E1, P/?-.?rVllla hf“ 8Ucce89fu.1- taken from the seas more than two
Meets first Sunday of every month ...j* tll0usa*ld" merchant vessels of nearly
p,i» ~i* ~t i~~ jutyi a.
Phone Men’e Convention Ends.
Fort Worth, Tex.—Sherman or Tem-
ple will be the meeting place for the
next convention of the Texas Inde-
pendent Telephone Association. Sat
urday the executive committee was In-
structed to meet at an early date and
select one of these cities for 1917,
with the understanding that the other
is to be the meeting place for 1918.
Officers elected at the closing session
are: R. B. Still. Tvler. president: J,
Shaving
Made
Pleasant
At This
Shop
Every Conven.ence for the Customer
Cool Delightful Shaving, Hot and Cold Eath. Good Laundry
The Patzelt Barber Shop
NORTH SIDE
A FF
For Install!
use "Mississl
Price 60c and
Steel is prol
which is equiT
In every wayl
TAKE SAL]
KIDN
Gays Too Mul
Which Clf
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AUGUST FINKENSTEIN
South Side Saloon
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Funston that the bandit is being close-
ly pursuod by American—troops. In
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^Church Directory^
Two hundred and
twenty-five of the hnnar«.,t nriiini.
SIX'
Catholic Church Services
.Every, other Sunday at 10:30
A. M.
Sunday School at 3 P. M.
Every Thursday morning ser-
vices at 8 A. M.
Night services on same day
at 8 P. M.
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* Methodist Church Services
Sunday School, 9:45 A. M.
Preaching Service, 11 & 7:30
Mid-week Prayer Meeting,
Thursday, 7:30 P. M.
D. E. Carr, Pastor Phone 76
three columns under command of Colo-
nel George A. Dodd. It Is. stated, how-
ever, that should Villa gain the moun-
tains the chances of his capture would
be remot<T'ahd that the stay of the
American troops fn Mexico would btf
Indefinitely prolonged.
In view of this the question of trans-
porting supplies again looms big on
the horizon and Is Upcoming one of
the greatest Importance, especially au
General Pershing states in his report
this week that already the horses are
suffering from a lack of grain.
A report from Queretaro stateo that
vessels lost were sunk by submarinas
Great Britain’s allies lost 167 ships
Austria lost SOjind Turkey 124. The
total of neutral losses is put at 736
but -most of these were released aftei
being reported captured. Ninety-two
neutral versels have been submarined
and ninety-four sunk by mines. Twen
ty-three have been damaged by sub-
marines and mines.
Vital Stastics fer February. 4
Austin, Tex.—Eleven centenarians,
their ages aggregating 1,136 years,
died in Texas in February,-according
to the report issued Wednesday by Dr
General Piero Guzman and twenty-two- W. A. Davis, state registrar of vital
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Baptist Church Services
SUNDAY
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
Pit a hing every Sunday at 11
A. M. a .d 7:15 P. M. *
Prayer meeting. Wednesday
7:15 IV M.
Villlstas were killed in battle by Car-
ranza' troops near Laguna and ten
others captured were summarily exe-
cuted. Successes for the Carranza
troops also Is reported In the Btate of
Oaxaca and on the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec.
Several points on the border have
statistics. The oldest was a woman
In Limestone county, aged 111 years
The total of births reported was 4,142
including 38 sets of twins. Heaths
numbered 2,372, of which 340 were In
facts under 1 years. Tuberculosis
caused 281 deaths, the greatest num-
ber of any disease. . Pneumonia and
WCIOIOI pviuiB vu vile? UUI upr. unvu J
been reinforced with additional troops lnf'u®n*e were tlea with 207 victims
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Electric Lighted Sleepers
' and Diners.
Oil Burning Locomotives.
Steel Coaches, ElecUic Block
Signals.
Heavy Rails. Rock Ballast
1 he Route of Safe Travel
Sunset Route
Standard and Tourist
Sleepers
Sunset Limited
NEW ORLEANS AND
SAN FRANCISCO
Daily
For farther Information aak the
Local Agent
and a report Is current at El Paso
that another expedition is to enter
Mexico from Fabena.
General Funston stated that United
States troops would pursue Francisco
Villa as far south as he would go into
Mexico.
No decLlon has been made In the
matter of the use of the Mexican rail-
roads so far.
More motor trucks hrtVe reached the
border for use of the army- and more
are on the way from the factories.
General Bell, in conference with of-
ficials of the Galveston, Harrisburg &
San Antonio railroad, listed all the oil
burning locomotives for possible use
of the Americans iu Mexico.
Refugees from Torreon state that
the country l« In deplorable condition,
that It is Infested with bandits an^l
that the train bringing them out wa^
constantly fired upon despite the presi
once of a guard furnished by the Car-
ranza commander.
each. Twenty-four homicides and -fif-
teen suicides were recorded, and pel-
lagra caused thirty-one deaths.
Washington.—President Wilson Sun-
day Issued a warning that "sinister
and unscrupulous Influences” are
spreading alarmist reports about the
Mexican situation with the qbject of
forcing Intervention by the United
States "in the Interest, of certain Amer-
ican owners of Mexican properties.”
The news services supplying news-
papers had been asked, tho president
said, to assist In keeping this view con-
stantly before the Mexican people and
i American people, to the end that the
| expedition should not be given the
I color of war.
Odd Fellows Select Dallas.
Mineral Wells, Tex.—Dallas was “se-
lected Tuesday as the place for hold-
ing the nextepiand lodge meeting of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
of Texas at their closing session. All
grand lodge officers were advanced In
rank and J. W. Chancellor of Mon-
tague was elected grand warden. Mr.
Boggess of Del Rio was chosen su-
preme retfresentative.
Sheriff .Giles Killed by Prisoners.
Muskogee, Okla.—Paul V. Hadley
and his young bridge of Kanras C ty,
Mo., accused of killing Sheiirf Jake
Giles of Beaumont, Texas, aboard a
Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger
train, were captured I'rlday a few
miles from Checotah, when a posse
surrounded a farmhouse in which the
couple had taken refuge.
jlSO.OOO Voted for Good Roads.
Taylor, Tex.—Tho Hutto precinct of
Williamson county Saturday voted a
150,000 bond issue for good roads pur*
poses. This will connect Hutto and
Taylor with the proposed meridian
highway.
•Ig Firs Loss at Moody.
Moody, Tsx.—Firs starting from •
leaking gas stove consumed five stores
and the Woodmen of the World hall
Sunday, entailing a loas of approxi-
mately 171.000.
aresldertt; E. C. Blomeyer, Waco, sec-
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Most folksl
(Ike the howl
ged and nee!
else we have I
In the kidn|
aches, rheut
acid stoma el
eorts.of bladtT
You slmpli
active and cj
feel an ach^
region, get
Salts from nl
take a tub!I
water before!
retary;
urer.
E. ’M. Powell, Dallas, tveas-
Willard Retains Championship.
New York.—Jess Wizard is still the
her vyweight pugilistic citation of the
.t’orld,' In ten rounds of*fast fighting
it Madts-on 'Square Garden Saturday
night he defeated Frank Moran of
Pittsburg on points. A crowd of about
13,009 persons paid approximately
$lt>0,000 to see the fight. Willard
broke his .right hand In the third
round, but blows from his fighting left
kept Moran at a distance. Willard's
jhare of the purse was $47,500 and
Moran’s $23,750. Tex Rickard and his
partner In the enterprise, Sam Mc-
Cracken, will clear up close to $50,000
profit on the bout.
THE CENTRAL SALOON
Otto Olle, Proprietor
Choice Liquors* Wines and Cigars
To pret vaTtte*forytitiF dollars patronize Otto Olle
'ecld of grap
blned with ’ll
M flush c!ogge|
-them to hots
Oil Field Is Burned Over.
Tulsa, Okla.—A prairie fire, started
by burning waste oil, burned over four
Sections of land in the hearj of the
Cushing Qil fifttd Tuesday night and
early Wednesday morning. Fifty-five
rigs, two score tanks of oil, ranging In
size from 250 to 1,600 barrels, filled
with oil. one 55,000 barrel tank, par-
tially filled, two school houses, several
butil<hou8es, one pumping station gnd
one boiler house were destroyed. The
actual loss is estimated at $200,000.
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For a First Class — -
Shave or Hair Cut
.•* •• —Goto—'" ■ ■ ■ ’*• •
HANS ROLLIG
Agent for the Best Laundry in Texas
traltzes the
no longer lrl
der dlsorderf
Jed Salts
snakes a dell
water drink |
take now ar
aeys clean,
plications.
A well-knc
•ells lots of
lleve In ovl
while it is or
The man
may merely |
For old
earn. Adv.
Most peoi
crowding th(
their turn.
To Drive
" Snow and Sleet Encountered.
Columbus, N. M.—Snow and sleet,
comipg after a nine dnys’ march under
a withering desert sun, Saturday
brought difficulties to the American
troops In the Casas Grandes district,
according to reports received from
Brigadier General J. J. -Pershing, ex-
peditionary commander in Mexico.
Texas Is Killed by a Train.
Chicago, III.—Luther Calvin Dupret
of Colorado City, Texas, was Instantly
killed Friday by an express train. His
personal papers showed he had writ-
ten a book entitled “The Cowboy and
the Bible,’’ which he expected to have
published.
Rent-Free Home for Girls.
New York.—A rent-free apartment
house for unmarried working women
Is provided for in the will of Charles
B. Webster, a dry goods merchant,
who died March 16, leaving ah estate
worth $1,000,000.
Half Million Dollar Firs st Houston.
Houston, Tex.—A large open cotton
warehouse, filled to the roof with cot-
ton, burned Sunday, along with maoh
other property. The loss is estimated
at $660,900.
Take the
TASTELESS
what vou a
printed oo
O'linine aud
Quinine clri\|
builds up
,Don’t Use a Scarecrow
V
To Drive Away the
Mail Order Wolf
.v
You can drive him out
quickly if you. use the n;ail
order houses’ own weapon
—advertising. Mail older
concerns are spending
thousands of dollars evrry
week in order to get trade
from the hor;e merchants.
Do you think for s minute
they would keep it up ti
they didn’t get the busi-
ness? Don’t take ft for
granted that every one
within ■ radius of 25 miles
n . . ^ _. ... knows what vou hive to
sen and what your prices are. Nh.e times oul of ten vour p.ices
•re lower but the customer is Influenced bv the up-to-date adver-
°:derJhOU:e- Every Article you advertise should
be desenbtd and priced. You must tell vou- story in an inter-
•stmg way, and w hen you want to reach the buyers of this com-
munity use the columns of this paper.
London ha
-•It routes.
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and Oi|
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by • gentlt
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Hurr, Henry. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1916, newspaper, March 30, 1916; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987924/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.