La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday and Bntbrbd at the Postofpicb as Second-Class Matter.
By B. F. Harigel.
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Volume 35.
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 6, 1914.
Number 32.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.
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Delegated democrats from the various pre-
cincts in Fayette county met in convention in La-
Grange, Saturday, August 1st, for the purpose of
hearing the report of the county chairman and for
the purpose of naming delegates to the various
conventions, and to adopt resolutions. The con-
vention was called to order by Chairman Lenert.
Upon motion, Hon. J. R. Kubena of Fayetteville,
was elected chairman, F. J. Lidiak and C. D.
Krause, secretary and assistant secretary.
A motion was then made and seconded, that
committees from the various justice precincts of
the county be named to serve on the different com-
mittees. The following were selected:
Credentials—A. S. Mann, Henry Cordes, G.
M. Schleier. Edison Melcher, H. R. Thulemeyer,
R. O. Perkins, i ^
Permanent Organization—J. F. Kainer, F.
Knesek, J. Kuhn, Paul Bohart, Hy. Roitsch, H. E.
Olle.
Platform and resolutions—C. D. Krause, Joe
Wagner, A. M. Gosch, Dr. Clark.
, ‘ Delegates—E. J. Weber, J. H. Wessels, Geo.
Schulze, G. M. Schleier, Hy. Roitsch, F. F. Wotip-
ka, Harvey Clark.
The convention then adjourned until two
o’clock, and was called to order by Chairman Ku-
bena. Committee on permanent organization re-
,, ported and recommended that officers of the con-
vention be retained. Committee on credentials re-
ported that all delegates present, according to
credentials were entitled to a seat in the conven-
tion. Committee on resolutions reported as fol-
lows:
To the Honorable Chairman of the Fayette County
Democratic Convention:
We, your committee on platform and resolu-
tions recommend for approval and adoption by this
invention, the following resolutions: ^
The Democracy of this county, in convention
assembled, heartily congratulates the country upon
the recent triumph of the National Democracy,
and points with pride to the successful legislation
and administration it has inaugurated, and the
record in constructive statesmanship made during
s the short period it has been in power, unequal in
the history of our government.
Recognizing in President Woodrow Wilson, a
staunch and loyal democrat, a profound statesman
of undaunted courage and strong convictions, whose
administration has been progressive, yet conserva-
tive, wise and of general good to the nation, we
heartily, and without reservation, endorse him and
his administration, his currency, tariff and income-
tax legislation, the able and magnanimous manner
in which he handled the Mexican situation, and his
redemption of the pledges of the platform of the
Baltimore Convention; and we congratulate the
nation for having him at the helm of its govern-
ment.
We are proud of the solidity and unanimity
with which the Texas Democratic Delegation in
Congress has supported and upheld the president,
and heartily approve their work.
We endorse and approve the stand our Repre-
sentative, Geo. F. Burgess, has and is taking for
the preservation of state rights, especially on both
the prohibition and suffrage questions.
We endorse and approve Governor 0. B. Col-
quitt’s administration.
We endorse and approve the course taken by
our Senator, Dr. I. E. Clark, in the senate, and his
stand in the fight on the state penitentiary com-
mission.
We endorse and approve, with pleasure, the
course and work of our Representative, G. A.
Heilig, in the legislature.
We recommend that the delegates to the
various conventions, state and district, shall vote
as a unit on all questions coming up before said
conventions.
Some delay was occasioned by the committee
on delegates, and during that time Hon. Sam C.
Lowrey addressed the convention and spoke about
twenty minutes. He congratulated the Democracy
of Fayette county for their vote for Ferguson, and
gave it as his opinion that Texas would have in
James E. Ferguson, a good business governor. He
was followed by Senator Clark, who spoke only a
few moments, and thanked the voters for their
support and desired, in his remarks to impress
upon those present, that he would be their senator
as well as that of those not present.
The committee on delegates then reported and
read a long list of delegates to the various con-
ventions. Chairman George Lenert of the execu-
tive committee offered a tabulated statement of
the returns as canvassed by the executive com-
mittee, and then the convention adjyourped.
THE NEW $fft:NOGRAPHER.
ri have a new stenographer—she came to work
today;
She told me that she wrote the Graham
system;
Two hundred wojds a minute seemed to her,
she said, like pla}7.
And word for word at that; she never missed
’em.
I.gave her some dictation, a letter to a man,
And this, as I remember it, was how the
\ letter ran:
“Dear Sir: I have your favor, and in reply
would state
That I accept the offer in yours of recent date.
I wish to say, however, that under no condi-
tion
Can I afford to think of your free lance pro-
position,
I shall begin tomorrow to turn the matter out;
The copy will be ready by August ioth, about.
Material of this nature should not be rushed
unduly,
Thanking you for your favor, I am yours very
truly.”
She took it down in shorthand with apparent
ease and grace,
She didn’t call me back, all in a flurry;
Thought I, “At last I have a girl worth keep-
ing ’round the place,”
Then said, “Now write it out; you needn’t
hurry.”
The Remington she tackled; now and then
she struck a key,
And after thirty minutes this is what she
handed me:
“Deer sir, i have the feever and in a Pile i sit,
And I except the offer as you have reasoned it.
I wish to see however that under any condis-
hun
Can i for to think of your free lunch pre-
posishun.
I shall be in tomorrow to turn the Mother out
The Cap will be red and will Costt %io about
Materiul of this nation should not 'rust N.
Dooley.
Thinking you have the feever, I am yours
very truely.”
To the Business Men.
Through the efforts of the Good Roads As-
sociation, the consent of the Katy officials has
been obtained to have the train stop at La-
Grange while en route to Galveston on Thurs-
day, August 13th, from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. The
coming of this train should mean much tp you,
Mr. Business Man, and You, Mr. Farmer. But
to the point: •
Coming with this train will be a large crowd
of Smithville boosters, who are proud of the
fact that they have just completed $100,000
worth of graded roads, and with that bunch will
come the Smithville Concert band. We are
glad they are coming, and we are going to enter-
tain them. In order to get everything in better
working order, we must have your co-operation.
With that end in view, a meeting will ,be held
at the courthouse tonight, at 8:30 o’clock, for
the purpose of arranging a suitable program, in
which every representative man of the city is
asked to assist.
When the bell taps tonight, come, the larger
the attendance, the better, the results. We
want the visitors to leave us with broad smiles
and expressions, complimentary, anent our
hospitality and our object. This request to be
present should encourage every citizen to try
and swell the crowd. Suggestions will be
thankfully received, and all assistance as well.
B. F. Harigel,
Capt. Good Roads Ass’n.
More Road Worked.
Last Thursday a bunch of men who wish to
keep alive the movement to improve our roads,
met near C. J. Struve’s home and did what was
done on the Bluff road some months ago, placed
gravel in the low places and graded the road.
The weather was hot but the workers did not
falter, and by evening over one hundred loads
of gravel had been placed on the road. The
work of Thursday virtually means the removal
of a great mudhole.
At noon there was plenty of barbecued
meats, and good edibles prepared by the ladies.
It is not necessary, perhaps, to add that the
hungry bunch “fell to’’ with a vengeance. The
next stretch of road will be agreed upon at an
early date.
PEACE BE STILL.1
AMY PEARL COZBY.
THAT GOOD ROADS TRAIN.
An overworked young business woman Jwas
planning her vacation. “I shall go with the girls
of my club to Merrymakers’ Inn,” she said, * ‘About
fifty of us will go together, and we plan for a jolly
good time. The inn has every
modern convenience; we can play
tennis, golf, polo, go boating or
motoring, and there will be
dancing every evening.”
Her mother shook her head and
sighed. “And where you need
to go,” she said, “judging from
your tantrums caused by nerves,
is to some quiet farm, where you
would meet with nothing more exciting than a
kind faced cow ! ” ~
Edith laughed. “And to tell the truth,
Mother, ” she admitted, “that is exactly the kind
of vacation I should enjoy! Just to slip away from
everyone I know, put on an old loose gingham
dress, and lie in the cool shade of a great spread-
ing tree, by the side of some little rippling stream,
with a good book, or my thoughts! But I am not
brave enough to take that kind of an outing. The
girls expect me to go with them; in fact, I am a
sort of chaperone to them, being the club secre-
tary; I feel it my duty to go.”
“Just,” I said, "as your mother feels it her
duty to darn sox and sew on buttons ‘while she
rests!’ ” Then, I opened the morning paper, and
read how one of the best known characters in the
public eye today was being brought home, from a
pleasure trip to a foreign land, ill with' fever.
“Of course, ” I soliloquized, “he might have
had the fever had he staid quietly at home, and he
might not.” Then I had to laugh, at thought of
this man staying quietly anywhere on Earth! fHis
nerves are so tensely strung by the “strenuous”
life which he has lived so long, his whole being
demands excitement constantly, and he does not
know how to relax and rest. And though he is a
very great man, I, for one, would hate to have
him in my family!
I saw a man like him the other’ day. Erect,
militant, with quick, energetic movements, he
never sits if he can stand, never stands if he can
walk, never walks if he can run! “I never sleep
more than five hours a night,” he declared, “and
that’s enough for anybody!” And, you know, I
I could just fancy him, calling his drowsy ^family,
with clarion notes, in the cold gray dawn, and
expecting them to arise and bestir themselves
nervously, as he was doing, and I knew that I
should love such a man just as ardently as 1 love
my alanrn clock!
It seems that we, as a nation, are forgetting
how to relax and rest. There is plenty of so call-
ed “recreation,” to be sure, games at which we
may work as we do in our offices or homes! In
which we may keep alive the spirit of rivalry
which is ours in the business world, and over
which we may tax our brains as heavily as does a
business man in his office routine. But how many
of us are capable of sitting in the sunshine, with
idle hands, just resting and enjoying Goc|’s «ut-
doors! «
I never see tired, nervous people, frantically
chasing around after a ball, for instance, with
tense looks on their faces, without thinking of a
dancing bear which I once savjjn a zoo. Dressed
like a ballet dancer, it went through the sprightly
steps, keeping time to gay music, and all the while
there was a tragic look on its facel'lW, off course,
a bear couldn’t be expected to smile; and to it, the
dancing was the hardest kind of work.
And often, I think, our “recreation” is to us
the hardest kind of work! Just because we haven’t
the courage to defy public opinion and the criticisms
of our friends. Because we are expected to stand
over a hot stove, cooking a big picnic dinner, we
don’t dare lock our doors and go for the long stroll
in the woods which we would really enjoy. Be-
cause our friends expect to see us at a dance, we
don’t dare lie out in a hammock, studying the
stars.
And so we rush around and worry, even at our
play, and enjoy our “recreation” just about as
much as the poor old bear, mentioned above, en-
joyed his sprightly dance!
At the El Paso convention next Tuesday, it is
quite possible that Joe Bailey will not be in attend-
ance, and if he is, the great fight is not likely to
occur. Senator Bailey has gone to Washington to
confer with some of his clients, and this will pre-
vent his attendance. Yes, “it is a wise child
that knows it’s own father.”
The Texas Good Roafls demonstration train
operated by the Texas Good Road Association,
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and
the A. & M. College, has begun its trip through
the state. It started from Dallas, August 5th
and will end its journey at Galveston, August
loth. Following the arrival of the train at
Galveston, the mid-summer meeting of the
Texas Good Roads Association will take place,
the dates being August 17th, 18th and 19th.
The object of the demonstration train is to dif-
fuse knowledge upon the subject of Good Roads
and to exploit the tJalveston meeting. It will
be at LaGrange, Thursday, August 13, and with
this train will come a large delegation from
Smithville.
The local committee of the Good Roads As-
sociation has secured a sufficient amount of
funds to be used in entertaining all visitors.
You are asked to not forget that’this train will
be here on the day mentioned, as the people of
LaGrange are expecting you. This train will
remain here for two hours, and during that
time, we will hear from some of the best posted
men on road building, in Texas.
Keep alive the fact that you are getting
this invitation from your friends and that your
coming to LaGrange is urgently requested. Our
neighbors, the boys at Smithville, who have
just completed $100,000 worth of good roads
will tell you how'it works, and they will also
bring their concert band. Do not forget August
13th—Thursday next.
Great Britain declared war on Germany
at 7 o’clock Tuesday. The momentous decision
of the British government, for which the whole
world has been waiting, came before the expira-
tion of the time limit set by Great Britain in her
ultimatum to Germany demanding a satisfactory
reply on the subject of Belgian neutrality. The
British foreign office has issued the following
statement: “Owing to the summary rejection
by the German government of the request made
by his Britannic majesty’s government that the
neutrality of Belgium should beyespected, hif
majesty’s ambassador at Berlin nas received his
passports and his majesty’s government has
has declared to the German government that a
state of war exists between Great Britain and
Germany from llfo’clock p. m. Aug. 4.” Con-
tinent flies to arms.
We have no quarrel with Joe Bailey, but
when he came down to Texas to tell th^ people
of Texas that Jim Fergusen will not be able to
get his land plank ihto the platform of the El
Paso convention he started something he can’t
finish. What does he know about what the
democrats of Texas will do at the El Paso con-
vention? They might put (hat land plank into
the platform just to show Washington people
that they can do it.—Temple Telegram.
While the automobile fever is still on, we
call your attention to the advertisement of the
Ford automobile, and direct you to Louis Hauer
mahn if interested, and you contemplate pur-
chasing a car. Read the advertisement, and
note the reduction made, a reduction that means
much to the man who wants a car and happens
not to be in possession of the amount heretofore
asked for. Readers living near Weimar will
interview C. H. Potthast.
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The war scare in the old world seems to be
the leading topic at the present time, and here
at LaGrange the discussions are probably as
numerous as elsewhere. Street corner crowds
are a common scene. The only difference
to be that this does not settle the question,
high cost of living is about the wont]
and it’s going to be more so.
The ability to “charm” snakes,
may not covet it, is a gift that always .
the fascination of mystery. There are
only two or three men in the Orient tod
have this straage power over n
account in this week’s Journal
with one of them is an
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for State, and district offices, oi
On page three you will find a <
of the news from the war
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1914, newspaper, August 6, 1914; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999098/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.