The Canton Telephone. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1887 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 32 x 22 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE CANTON TELEPHONE,
Till ONLY
NEWSPAPER •
Fl'ilUDliKD AT.
CANTON, TEXAS.
1 1,1 ■" '■ » " ■ ■' I.. I .11 I , _
©he <£antcm ©elepljont
SUBSCRIPTION RATES i
OM«opjr,-oo6 jrcnr........
UM Wpv, -lx mouth*......
On# eopy, three month*.
“Peace and Good Will Towards AIL'
BY FI. E. FOSTER.
CARTON, Y/JNZUNDT COUNTY. TEX/JS. SEPTEMBER L6. 1887.
VOL. Yl. NO. Vi.
:-:THK:-: ^
- :C ANTON:-: TELEPHONK:-
JOB OFFICE •
KACTICAL, PRETTY. PRE-
CISE AND PROMPT.
Job Printing a Specialty. A*
Full Line of STATIONERY
Kept Complete.
|#"I>«ln»n<1i promi llj OK PllCM IS *qUU
the Hard Time*.
D. L. RILEY,
DEALER IN
GENERAL
Merchandise,
Canton, Ten.
J. M. YOUNGBLOOD,
Thje Telephone,
Canton, : : : Texas.
FI. B. FOSTER
Editor and I'rodhietor.
j and the prohibitionists claim
i will carry twelve of them. The
1 j hibitiouists in the atuto nrc in
glee and confidently expect to i
j twolhirds of tho conntioe, and
they eay it will bo tint a single
to coiialitutional prohibition.
Untereil at tha post office at Canton, Texas *”* T .
as Soonnrt Claw Mall Matter. I *v hcn ,l man-age occnra in one a
.......*"■■ 1 — family yo homo body,” says an ex-
| change, ' likea to see a monlion of it
in hia local papers. When hia folks
IUB8CRIPT10N RATE.
are visiting ho expecta to see it in tho
paper. Dut who# by sending to some
One copy one year, 8100
” ” 0 months, 50
” ” 3 ” go | city ho can get printing done a little
To Ministers, per year fiO cl’*;0 mo. 1!,%els'] cheaper, ho frequently overlooks tho
fact that his homo paper is employing
— DEALER IN —
Hardware, Furniture, Wagon and Buggy
Material, Iron, Queensware, Tin Goods, Etc.
South Side of Public Square,
CANTON, - TEXAS.
ITira/TJLcL Sz, Sprout
Peddlers Must Go!
STluo IbT-uLXsex^
lit Vnu Z;mc!t Count?!
J*ear Iret-a—Ith- to 20o
1’, lu ll Iri'i's—(if to 10c.
IVelrii.e tin a — 10e to 20o.
Inm It eea— )0e in 2 '(•
tjnioce In el—10' to 25e.
l’ollli gill elite— lOl'Jll 25r
Jtwntl Appb III'- 10. to 25 •.
Dwarf Chf-riv Irees—10u (o 25i;
I Apple trees—5c to 8e_
| Apricot trees—10c to 20c.
| Craliapplo trees — 10c to 20c.
I (Jicrry trees—10c to 20c.
| Ft}; trees—lrtc to 25'-.
I'w nrf l\>nr trees—10c tit 2"»c.
Dwarf I’ciich trees — 10c to 25c.
Black and Rtisphcrrv vines—2'' to 5c
I vergre* n. Shrul berj—10c to 25o.
t.liipo vines 5c to I Or.
Roses— 10e to 25c.
My Slock is selected from 250 sorts of Prni s growing on mv fruit (aim
XW n 'N o «SOb,
Nut scrynittn & Fruit Grower.
4., miles from Canton on the Wills Point roau.
Jno. O. Allen,
tfgent lor
S. P. Allen & Co.,
of Palestine asml fylcr, Tex,
— Dealers in a ml-Manufacturers ot—
M5T0HB, mm. FTC.
To parties wishing; Totnhstonos or any kind ol Marble work I nlTcr su-
J prior indncenicnts—and it would bo t,- your financial interest to see me
bcW|rc Din king orders with other parties, fall on or address
-■ mm «»• «!»«. XX Bi da u: W «, aG’T.
CANTON; TEX.
/Mill • i-HIM
a t~i^- t
To do any and all kinds ol
• WfoODH’OIiK & BLa(-KSMITH1NG1
AT REASONABLE PAIGES 1
iKir 8 .listsotion Guiiranlood usa
SHOP—South Hast Corner Public Square,
CANTON. - - - TEXAS.
j7r samples,
dealer nr
First-class Family Groceries
At Rock Bottom Prices.
East side of public square.
iCanton,. * • - Texas*
I Kll>AY, SKI*. 11. 1SS7.
The Africa Briggs controversy is
growing monotonous.
A MUD tuitle with “1820” burned
on its buck was recently found in Mud-
isun county. III.
There is room in Texas for a few
million nmre industrious farmers and
stock misers.
The Dublin Telephone,* special edi-
tion was a daisy. Brother Neal is
milking a success of his pa pet. Long
may it ilourish.
For pure, undetiled, all wool and a
yard wide Democracy, we recom-
mend the Fort Worth Gazelle. It is
tho purest Democratic daily publish-
ed in the sunt)i
A Cooi.i.koe with 150or 2(H) students
it attendance—well equiped for in-
structing the minds of the young will
lie no small thing lor Canton, which
sho will have soon.
Tiie Ruins county Record put. this
sensible interoggatory to its readers:
Does it take whisky and drunkennois
to keep a town alive?” The Tele-
phone answers mi.
A COLLF.OE sounds pretty large for
tha capital. But when the Air Line
and tha St. Louis, Ark. and T. iron
horse runs through the metropolis it
wont sound so “big.”
The Lalirango Journal says:
We have always been an anti-pro
hibitionist, but will never favor the
reading out of any democrat because
he voted for prohibition. A vote on
that question at the late election was
not a tost of a man’s Democracy, still
we think all good Democrats ought
to have voted against the amend
ment.
A good newspaper is worth more to
t town, more to the merchants and
■ re ' •’ untrv than a railroad.
. i g'- n-ral i • formation
concerning the town and the country
in which it is published and what
the business men are doing. The
town derives more benefit from it
than the paper derives from the town.
—Exchange.
Last week we edited the paper in
bed—this week wo have repeated the
dose We relapsed last Saturday,
and have suffered more since then
than we did during the 22 days we
were forced to endure a horning fever.
Thus wo offer as an apology if tho pa-
per does not come up to tho standard.
Wo are very thankful, however, that
wo are alive and able to edit the pa-
per in bed. We hope to he up soon
and give our readers tho best country
paper published in eastern Texas.
Reader, please use a little patience.
We havo a bright prospect for buil-
ding up a first-class high school at this
place; and wo have learned that we
will have several scholars from a dis-
tance who are doBirous of attending
the school. And if our people will but
take that interest in hi,tiding up the
town that some have done to run it
down we will have a live prosperous
city.—Rains County Record
What is good for Emory will be good
for Canton. We ask our fellow
townsmen to consider what, the Re-
cord says, and act accordingly, ns it
is applicable to Canton.
Local Option In jtllKSonrl.
St. Loins, Mo., Sept. 7.—Elections
on local option wore held in nine
counties , f this Stato yesterday, sort
on of which voted in favor of it and
two against it. Sixteen counties
have tiuw voted for local option, and
these added to the fourteen couutica
that had already abolished saloons
give up to dale thirty pronounced
prohibition counties iu tho state. In
the next two weeks eighteen other
counties will voto on the question
hands and paying them money week-
ly, part of which is pretty shore to ho
spent at his place of business, (laying
taxes to support the town and county,
keepiug the country around informed
as to home news, inducing trade to
come to town ele , where he ignores
home effort, and for a few paltry
cents sends to some other city where
a press run by a twenty-five cent boy
gets out hills, note-heads, els., on in-
ferior paper and inferior work, for on-
ly a few pennies less than ho would
have to puy for a good job done at
home.
No paper can be published without
home patronage, and every man is
interested in keeping up a paper.
If a railroad or factory is wanted the
newspapers aro expected to work for
it. If a public meeting is wanted
for any purpose the newspaper is call-
ed on for a free notice. If the church
or charitable society havo a supper or
entertainment of any kind, tho news-
paper is always expected to give all
the necessary notice, and then puff it
after it is over. The newspaper must
puIf the schools and do everything
olt-o to advance the interests of busi-
ness men of the place, and then give
them a handsome notice when they
go to Heaven (?) and yet they do
nothing to keep tip a paper.—Iron
News.
(let a Home.
Every man of family should have «
home fff his own. Money (mid out
for rent is moltey thrown away, la -
cause at the cud of the month the
tenant has nothing to show for it.
In the language of an exchange, a
homo is whul every man should have
—a home, it place whgru he can plant
out a tree, a shrub, a (lower, and
know that ho bus nuituii-d and cared
for it until it has reached p, rfeclion,
it is his nan. It is pleasant to have
no landlord poking his nose iu around
the premises every once in a while a.-
if to say ‘Ibis is my property; I want
to see how you aro treating it.' It is
pleasant In s t out in the door yard
in tho evening to watch the trees,
shrubbery and flowers growing, and
see the little folks playingout iu the
yard, and ho able to say ‘This propi r-
ly is mine, everything I plant conics
to my benefit; that grass plot on which
the children are playing belongs to
me; I can go; do as I please, with no
one to moke me afraid.' Thcro is
real comfort in this.
Tho convicts in the State prison at
Nashville Tennessee, to the number
of four hundred, havo just joined in
the following remarkable address:
To the Voter* o f the State, of Tennessee:
Prisons are tilled, poorhouaos oceu.
pied and paupers created by tho di-
rect influences of tbatsoul destroying
demon—whisky.
We, tho inmates of tho State peni-
tentiary, knowing by observation,
and convinced by undeniable facts,
that liquor is the causo of all Lire
misery we endure, of all thohardships
and privations of those dependent up-
on iis, do hereby most earnestly ask
that the voters of this great State
may seriously consider tho question
before them, and give their aid in
word and deed to the cause of Prohi-
bition.
Wo do not tray that every prisoner
in tho Slate is a habitual drunkard.
We do not claim that every crintinni
act was perpetrated under tho influ-
ence of whisky; hut wo fearlessly as-
sort that throe-fourths confined with-
those walls can trace their down-
fall directly or indirectly tothnt causo.
Wearing tho garb of disgrace, being
dishonored and counted unworthy to
mingle with the peoplo of our Stato,
wo yet have the same devotion to our
mothers, the same affection for our
sisters; and for their sake, and for
the sake of our children, we appeal
to you to unito nsone man and free
the State front a curse created by the
hands of men, discountenanced by
tho law of God.
PRINTBlt’8 INK is KING.
There is a host of men who boast
Of powder, cotton, steam;
But every hour tho mighty power
Of printer's ink is soon.
It moves the world as easily
As does somo mighty thing,
And men proclaim in depots’ ears
That printer's ink is king.
Tho man of gold, of woalth untold’
Printer’s ink may scorn,
Or nit his brow, nor doign to bow
To one so lowly born;
But printer's ink has built its thmhe
Whore minds their tributes bring,
And God’s most gifted intellects .
Shout “printer’s ink is king!”
King of the world of thought refined
No abject slave it claims}
Where superstition's victims pine,
It burst their servile chains.
In ovoi^ clinte, in coining years,
Will men proud anthems sing,
And round tho world tho echoes float,
That printer’s ink is king!
HOWTO BUILD I I* \ TOWN.
Before you cook your rabbit you
must catch him. A town that ex-
pects to prosper in this country must
so spread its nets as to capturo live
men—energetic men, prgresaive men.
A town with any natural advantages
at all will succeed if its citizens are
onergo'.io and enterprising. For a
community of live men will not sit
(town and whittle white pine and al-
low tho town and its interest to stand
still. A town must have natural
commercial advantages—but it might
have all tho advantages in tho world,
and yot not prosper if its citizens aro
so constituted as to he willing to look
uRcrouly their on-n individual allairs,
Wachii.au Kansas (own, is an exam-
ple of what can ho accompli shed by
the enterprise and tile united public
spirit of the citizens. Witchita has
grown in a year or two from an insig-
nificant little town to a great trade and
railroad center. There has hern an
increase of over one thousand per
cent in value ot real estate ami an in-
crease of over 20,000 iu population.
Lots in town sell for $2,000 a front
foot. What is tho secret of this won-
derful progress? Li t a business man
tell tho story:
We organized. Wo held almost
nightly meetings, anil among the
first filings wc agreed upon was to
hang together and stay by each oth-
er through thick and thin.
Wo advortisod by hundords of thous-
ands of circulars. We sot forth nil
our advantages in such a manner that
strangers who wero li d by circulars to
give us a call were not deceived, hut
ugreed that wc had put it ns strongns
wo might'
Every town in tho oast of notoriety
was not only served with our circulars
hut our newspaper. And the newspa-
per advertising did double duty.
Our people made it a rule to ask nil
their friends to advertise.
We then subscribed for a large
number of copies, loaded with local
advertising anil great advantages,
and wo found by conversing with par-
ties who final I v came here prospect-
ing that the full advertising columns
of our papers which they hud scon did
more than all else to impress them
with the growth and importance of
tho place. >
We (bund then we could not over-
do this thing—Hint the mol’s wo paid
out for these purposes the moro wero
our profits. Every new-eomcr was a
customer to most of nur stores, and
while their advertising paid to them
rich returns, it seived the double pur-
pose to impress Gift eastern man who
had an eye to business with tho fact
that Waehata was a rising town and
thus we havo gone on until we havo
added'a population since I came here
of over 20,000 and property has in-
creased in business places more than
a thousand-fold and in the country
round about us the appreciation has
boon over <100 per cent.
I know as well as you can know
that printer’s ink is the best capital
to boom a town. Mad^wo not used
it tiltsavingly Wachatu would not
have boon larger than Carthago. As
it is, wo will outrank any town in the
SI# to.
. The moral of this is obvious.
There is not a town in Georgia, or
in the South, that cannot achieve a
reasonable degree of prosperity by
blowing its own horn.— Atlanta Con-
,tltulion.
CITATION.
THR*STATE OF TEXAS.
To the Sheriff'or any Constable
of Van /.-unit county, greeting:
You are hereby oommended to
summons C. B Owens ami tho bairn
of I'olitna Wilhnghuiii. whose names,
tiro unknown, by making publica-
tion ol this citation once in each
week for lour successive weeks ura*-
•vious to tlys return day hereof, in.
some nowspaper pub ished in your
county, it there lie a newspaper pub-
lished therein, lint if not, then lit;
any newspaper published in the 7th.
Judicial liiatrct, tint, if there ho no,
nowspaper published in said Judicial
District, then in n nowapnpor pub-
lished in the lieu rest District to tho.
said 7th Judicial District, to appear
nt the next regular term of th<> j)ia-(
lriel Court of Van Zamll county, to
b hidden at the Court llouso '.here,
of in lh* town of Canton, on tho
thirteenth Monday allot the first
mouduy in July, A. Ih 1887, the
mime being l he .'lid day of October,
A. D. 1N87. then mid ihuro to an-
swer u petition lil.il in said court on
tho 17th day ol February, A l> 1
887, in a suit n ii in ho rod on lliodock-
ol of said court, No. 1.107, wherein'
A. M. Doan is plaintiff ami C. B.
Owens and Tolhliu Willingham uru
defendants. hiuij poll'ion alleging
that heretofore, to wit: On tho
•lay
A. J). 1851, Ohi-di-
nh Owens by his deed in writing of
thiit dutc sold und convoyed to Mrs.
Margaret Miller, one htiudrud uml
seventy seven acres of land—a putt
of the Joseph Bays headlight, situa-
ted in Van Zundt County, Texas
That heretofore, to wit: On the
-day of - i860, tho said
Joseph Rays, Cora valuable consid-
eration, soli uml delivered his land
certificate, by virtue of which said
land was patented, and prior to the
location ol tho same to the said Obe-
*1 inh Owens, that the plaintiff is now
the owner in fcetiinpla of said land,
holding unitor uml by virtue ot a .
regular chain of trllo from and
| through Mrs. Margaret Miller
That the said deed of conveyance
from Obcdiahr Owens to Margaret
Mdier was never piacod upon rec-
ord, hut is lost, misplaced or dos-
lioyod, and plaintiff prays for an
order to substitute said I ml (lead.
Herein fuil not, hut have you be-
fore said court at its aforesaid next
regular term, this writ with your re-
turn thereon, showing how you
havo exocntod the same.
(iiven under my hand and the
ot said court ut of-
this tho
dny of September, '
A. D. 1887, O. I*. Campbell, Clerk
ol tho District Court of Vun Zandt
County, Texas.
wivmi unurr my r.uiMi
«—- J seal ot said com
heal > fico in Canton,
—,—- \ 6th dny of Si
CITATION.
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To tho Sheriff or any Constable ol
Van Zundt County, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to
snmmons W L. Robertson, by mnk
ing publication of this citation onco
in cneb week for (our successive
weeks previous to the return day
hereof, in somo newspaper publish-
ed in your county, il there bon news
paper therein, hut if not, then in uuy
newspaper published in tho 7th Ju- *
dicml District; but if there be no
newspaper published in said Judi-
cial Distrie’, then in n newspaper
published in the nearest District to
the said 7th Judicial District, to np-
penr at the next regular torm of tho
District Court of Van Znndt cottn’y,
to he holdcn at tho court house
thereof in the town of Canton, on
the thirteenth Monday after tho
first Mondsy in July, A. D. 1887, tho
same being tho 3d day of October, .
A. D. 1837, ’hen andthoro to answer
a petition filed in raid court on tho
20lh dny of Mar h, A. D. 188G, In,,
tho suit nuqibored on the Docket of
said court No. i960, wherein O. W.
Tull is plaintiff and \Y. L. Robert-
son is defendant; said petition al-
leging that the defendant is indebt-
ed to plaintiff as evidenced by bis'
certain promissory note for one hun-
dred nnil ten dollars with interest
thereon at tho rate of ten per coni,
per annum from date until paid, und
to foreclose n vendors lien on fifty
acres ol land of the J lnntan head-
right survey, situated about ten
miles northeast of Canton in Van'
Zamll (jaunty.
Heroin fail not, but have yon be-
fore said court, at Its aforesaid neat
regular torm this writ with your res"
turn thereon, showing buw vim ’
havo executed tho sumo.
Given undor my .hand*
and the seal of mud court, *
J Seal. > nt ofllce in Canton, thii*'
v—- ) the DOth day of August *
A. D 1881. O. P Oaraii-
: hell, Clerk iff District Court of V*;1^
(Z'ttmlt county-, Tokils.
MM
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View four places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Foster, W. E. The Canton Telephone. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1887, newspaper, September 16, 1887; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142527/m1/1/?q=texas: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.