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McKINNEY. COLLIN. COUNTY. TEXAS. THUhSDAV JANUARY 7. 1904.
VOL. 20, NO. 49.
Subject Discussed at the Farm,
era' Meeting.
Mil OF III
rly and Deep Breaking, and
Shallow Cultivation There-
after—Prizes to be Offered.
In
J*he Collin County Farmer*'
institute mot in regular session
|>n he first Saturday in January
In the county court room in Me-
"Joney The weather was un-
pleasantly chilly, *•*<! the ait<*nd-
_ince way small. Reporters rep -
Jesenting the following papers
rere present: Tbe Daily and
A eekly Gazette, The Democrat,
Lnd the Daily Courier.
The subject for discussion, as
innounced by President Single-
Ion, was "iJorn and Alfalfa."
p'bo discussion wa-t informal, and
pas carried on entirely bv volun-
eers from the audience. The
following gentlemen took part:
G William*, We-ley Perkins.
rIenry Perkins, W L Perkins, re-
:ontl> fiom Kansas, H E Single-
on, Mr Borum, T M Hand, E
jf Kirkpatrick, and others whoso
tames were unknown to the re-
Dorter.
f The concensus of opinion seem-
Ld to he in favor of thorough
preparation of soil, early and deep
breaking and shallow cultivation
[hereafter. There were, how-
Iver, some exceptions to this rule.
It seemed to be tbe experience of
11 present that better corn could
is uiade on ootton stalk land
rjithout breaking, and when corn
jvas so plauted on stalk land some
kentlemen present favored giving
it one deep plowing, and after
that giving shallow cultivation
It was ailv >cated that all trash
iWtd stalks, weeds, etc., be clean-
ly off the land, unless it could be
ruined under green, as in case of
V ery early breaking, when it oould
Le depended upon to decay. The
[ipiniiin of those present seemed
lo be divided upon tbe value of
lieas planted in the corn when
.aid bv—the prevailing opinion
leemed to he, however, that they
/ere well worth the trouble as a
[orage crop. Varieties suggest-
ed and recommended by various
/(entlemen were: Black-eyed,
rvhipporwill, and sto< k peas. The
\alae of the roller was recognized
lor the purpose of firming the
rroui.d above the seed especially
[ii dry seasons. The weeder was
JlMCUssed and very highlv recoiu-
[aended as a tool not in very gon-
|rul use but of groat value—and
It was *tated that a boy 10 years
f,Id could operate one ami do u*
lueh weeding as ten nu n, and do
: better. The importance of se-
-ictinp seed coi n was very much
fanphai-ized, and it was recom-
| .tended by some present that
farmers from different communi-
ties swap seed corn.
Mr Williams thought he could
I pke most corn with rows four
et apart ami one etalk in a hill
Lor SO inches apart in the drill,
r Wesley Perkins was in fa-
>f a row ot 3 feet and 8 inch-
better suited to our farming
mplements, cultivators, etc.
, Jesse Shain state I to the meet-
iv that a gontleman by tbe name
J*T Curry from Paxton, North
Carolina, who was engaged in
Flipping ootton seed, had Oeon
r "re and would be back here some
L?me next week.
Motion bv Mr. W illiams that
>ie president appoint a commit-
of thr« to meet the gentle-
Ian and learn what his plans are,
'riied, aid the president ap-
jinted on that committee, E W
irkpitrick, T B Wilson and Col
sar in Coffee.
[On motion of Mr Kirkpatrick
e institute unanimously tender-
i a vote of thanks to The Me-
innev Printing Company for
iblishing'such extended and ae-
rate reports of tbe prooeediogs
tbe organisation in The Demo-
At end Daily Courier.
[On motion of Wesley Perkins,
i discussion ss to Alfslfa wag
)ned to the next regular
iy, the first Saturday in
, ...try, and it v i also determ-
that in addition to the *ub-
I fa we should discuss at
■ ei n
L*or
hbm I
the "Care and Presevation of tbe
Soil."
Just before adjourning, Col E W
Kirkpatriok stated that he would
give $5 00 for the best bushel of
corn brought to the Institute at
its next tegular meeting, the first
Saturday in February. Mr H E
Singleton offered $2.50 for the
second best, and Mr T B Wilson
$2.50 for the third beet bushel.
Any Collin county farmer can
compete for these prizes, and the
following persons announced that
they would be on hand with a
bushel of corn competing for the
prizes: TJ Mott, J G Williams.
T M Hand and W B Perkins. It
was announced that the corn
should be brought in the ear and
preferably with the .shuck on, the
color of the corn is iminateri I.
If tho corn has* a name give it.
Corn to be judged by the rules of
The Farmer-)' ( ongret,*. A man
may bring his own corn or some
one elses' corn, just so he is pre-
pared to furni«b information as to
who raised the corn. Giving
his address.
On motion of Mr. Hand Presi-
dent Singleton was instructed to
invite Prof Bennett State Di-
rector of Fanners' Institutes to
come to McKinney with his corps
of lecturers and hold an institute
at some date to he selected by
him, and announced lat< r.
Iroquois Theater in Chicago Caught Fire During the
Performance of Blue Beard.
Explosion of Gas Added to the Horror and Caused the
Loss of Many of the Lives—People in Fear and
Frenzy Struggled Like Wild Animals.
1 HI SYNOPSIS
—— «
Add Wilson Furnishes a Resume
of the Rainfall for 23 Years
The Total for 23 Years is 823.80
Inches—The Last Few Years
Rather Light.
We give below tbe weather
record as kept by Add Wilson,
son of T B Wilson, of this city:
McKinney, Tex., Jan. 1, 1904.
— Meteoiological report for Dec.,
1903, is as follows.
THERMOMETER.
The coldest day was the 14th.
30 degrees. The wannest day
was the 26th, 69 degrees.
RAINFALL.
DATES INCHES
6 .12
12 40
31 04
Total 56
BAROMETER READING.
The highest pressure was on
the 14'h, 29 40 inches. The low-
est pressure was on the 12th, 28.80
inches.
REMARKS. - ,
The following is the rainfall for
the year 1908: January, 1.30;
February, 5.84; March, ' 5.17;
April, .51; Mav, 2.20; June, 4.94;
July, 3.96; August, .09; Septem-
ber, 1.94; October, 5.36; Novem-
ber, 00; December, .56. Total
for year, 31.88 inches.
The following is the rainfall for
the last 23 years. Nineteen years
was kept by Charles Moore and 4-
years as kept by mjself:
VEAR INCHES.
1881 39.03
1882 42.62
1883 42.37
1884 38.83
1885 ..««•> •>• 33 25
I086 21 75
1887 40.39
1888 50.81
1889 37.31
1890 41.58
1891 38 81
1892 ..««••••••• •••••••.•.45.31
1892) 30.50
1894 ............ .........35.87
189J ............43 28
1896 40.20
1897 ...................1..38.31
1898 28 44
1899 23 70
1900 26.66
1901 ... .......... .......22.01
1902 ......................31.12
1903 81 88
Total 23 years.. .• 823.50
Average 23 years...... 35.80
Ado Wilson.'
Chicago, III , Dec. 31.—About
550 people were killed in ten min-
utes last evening during u fire
in the Iroquois Theater, the new-
est, largest an 1 as far as human
power could make it, the safe-t
theater in Chicago. Estimates of
the dead and injured vary. The
polico account of dead is 536.
1 be estimate of tho newspapers is
562. Beside this there are fiftv-
five people missing at midnight.
A few of these people were burn-
ed to death by fire, many were
suffocated by gas, and score- were
trampled to death in a panic
that followed tbe mad p unge of
the frightened audience for the
IVxit. The house was packed from
pd to dome. Ju-t at the conclu-
sion of the "Moonlight Song" a
little child in the front row cried
out, "There is the moon now,"
as a tiny tongue* of flume and
smoke shot out from tha wing to
the right of the stage. Instantly
thero was a larger ribbon of
flame. A calcium light on a
s'and six feet above the level of
the stage had exploded aud in a
moment everything bacx of the
footlights was a broad wave of
fire. In another moment the
whole roof of the auditor uin was
ablaze, and two gas tanks ex-
ploded, and black, choking fumes
beat down in a cloud of death
f"om every wall That was all.
Fear, uncontrolable and terrible,
reigned. Men and women fought
like wild beasts. tilled with toe
desire for self-protection.
Records extant give only two
fires equalling this tragedy, and in
which the loss of life was equaled.
These were the King Theater fire
in Vienna, Austria, in which 875
, ersons lost their lives bv burn-
ing and nanic, and the destruc-
tion of Lehman's Theater iu St.
Petersburg, where between 600
aud 700 persons lost their lives.
Dead, Missing and Injured in the
Theater Disaster Reach 1000.
led Y« Nan J
Chicago, III,. Jan. 1.—Chicago
begun to see the horror of the
Iroquis Theater disaster in per-
spective today. The stress of
sorrow and a full appreciation of
the magnitude of destruction of
human life succeeded the dazed
feeling .vhich was everywhere ap-
paient yesterday.
The total roll of death falls
somewhat short of the latest fig-
ures given out by the police la«t
night, but a census of the silent
forms at tho morgues gives 566 as
the number who perished by fire
und asphyxiation. It is not ex-
travagant to say that the least
will be close to six hundred when
final returns come in from t he in-
jured. Unexpected difficulties
have been experienced in the
work of identifying the bodies.
Not more than a th'rd had been
identified tonight and every hour
increases the fear that scores will
go to 1 heir graves unnamed. In-
cluding the missing, it is estimat-
ed that tljp totul number of cas-
ualties is at the present time
approximately 1000.
FOUR GENERATIONS.
Grayson and Collin counties, is
remarkable in more than one re-
spect. When not at the head
of the ofliee himself, he held
the deputyship under nearly a
dozen other officers, and to bis
ciedit be it said that he never ac-
cepted j position under another
county clerk but what he held it
troughout the balance of the term
or terms of that incumbent.
He was made a Master Mason
at Bonham in 1858.
In 1856 he was united in mar-
ri«ige lo Miss Marv A. Moyois, in
Kay county, East Tennessee. For
forty-seven years they have trod
life's pathway together, rearing a
fam.ily of fi /e children, all now
grown and useful citizens The
picture accompanying this article,
shows Mr. Csrtdr, his oldest son,
Capt Geo. W. Carter, of Ft.
Worth; grandson, Presley Carter,
and great grandson, Geo. H. Car-
ter, four generations of the same
name, and all photographed iu
one group.
A. P Carter, great-grandfather; Geo. W. Cat tor, grandfather; Pies-
loy Carter, father; Geo. H. Carter, son.
A. P. Carter, the veteran depu-
ty county clerk of Collin county,
was born at Dandridge, Jefferson
county, Terin., February 15,1833.
At tba age of 23 he emigrated to
Texas, settling about ton miles
west of Greenville, in Hunt coun-
ty, in 1856 Next year he moved
to Bonham. where he was soon
appointod to the po-ition of dep-
uty nnder the administration of
Samuel J. Galbraith, county clerk
of Fannin county. In 1858 he
was appointed district cleik of
the same county to All out the
unexpired term of B. F. Fuller.
At each ensuing election until
1886, he was re-elected, and wit*
among those deposed from office
by Gov. E. J. iDavis. Although
business was practically t>u«pend-
ed in sll courts during the war,
Mr. C-uter remained in «>ffico,
pei forming the' duties of both
district clerk and deputy
federate army as commissary of
Alexander's regiment. In 1866 he
moved to Sin rman.und kept books
tor four years for J. C. D.
Blackburn & Co. Then he
accepted a deputyship under Sol-
omon Bostwick, county and dis-
trict cbrk of Grayson county. At
the close of 1 hn latter'* term of
office, Mr. Carter moved to
Southwest Fiiinin and engaged
in farming until his sons were
grown, coming to McKinney in
1886 to acc pt a deputyship in
the office of County CloiaJoe
Waddill, -This position he has
continuously eld undet ouch suc-
cessive coEittv cleik since—a pe-
riod embtaiiiig two terms each of
Joe Waddid, M W. Keen, John
A. Walden, Pat Mouldeti, and he
may be still founu at the same
t'esk as deed r< gi>tei under the
present kcuuibent, W. VI. Shir-
ley. vlr. • arter'> «oug and efli-
Hogs Wanted.
Four good shoats weighing
from 25 to forty pounds, for fat-
tening purposes. Apply to
J. Frank Smith
At Courier Office. d&w tf
II
Of the Pastorate of Dr. E. E.
King.
[ACHED A
Discussed Church Work for the
Year—Committees
Named,
Tho services at the First Baptist
church Sunday were well at-
tended The morning service
marked the seventh anniversary
of tho pastorate of Dr. E. E.
King, lie preachod a most ex-
cellent sermon, taking for his
text, "What Shall 1 do, Lord?"
found in Acts 22, verse 10. He
discussed church work for tbe
year. At the close of tho service
tho pastor announced co-opera-
tive committee aud various other
committees. The treasurer's re-
port was encouraging and showed
a balance in the treasury.
In a pastoral letter just sent
out by Dr. King, reguiding bis
seven years work, we note tbe fol-
lowing:
"The pastor has not missed an
appointment on account of ill-
health and our house of worship
has been open for service every
Sunday. Our congregations have
been good, our prayer meetings
excellent, our Sunday school has
grown, our young people's meet-
ings have been helpful, and our
ludi« s in their societies have done
a great work. As far as they can
appear in figures the results are
encouraging. We have received
into our fellowship 562, and have
contributed $23,513 70, more than
half of which has been for Mis-
sions and Education. The pastor
us your agent in the Master's sor-
vice has attended 1981 services,
preached 1115 sermons, made 140
addresses and 5,165 visits, offici-
ated ut 110 burials and 120 mar-
riages, held 28 revivals and did
much Christian work of a general
character."
At tbe night service Kev. W.
W. Smith, an evangelist from
West Virginia, preached an inter-
esting sermon from the text,
"Whatsoever a man soweth that
slptll ho also reap."
Mrs A* A Sneed of Des Moines
Iowa, h is returned home after
visiting her father, W M Bagley
and family.
Christine, the lit tie daughter
of Kev and Mrs W A Stuckey, is
sick.
I* ' '
Jack Clioat succeeds Joe Clark
as delivery boy at the J D Stiff
Dry Goods Co store.
Mrs W M Aberoathy has re-
turned homq. after sn -extended
visit to relatives in Hollr tarings,
Miss.
IS ON BRINK OF ill
Clash Between Russia and Japaa
Is Regarded as Inevitable.
European Diplomats Believe Ja-
pan Will Strike Within the
Next Few Days.
London, Jan. 2.—(Copyiight,
1904, by the New York Herald
Company.)—There is no use now
of trving to blind one's eyes to
tbe fact of the likelihood of war
between Russia and Japan.
The Daily Telegraph is told, on
the high uuthoritutive source,and
prints the stutement this morning
in double-leaded type, that the
prospects of a pacific solution of
the Far Eastern problom h very
fuint, indeed. , 1
In diplomatic ciicles which
hitherto have professed to be san-
guine as to u pucitic solution of
the difficulties, there was yester>
day a recognition that a rupture
between Russia and Japan was alt
but inevitable.
"Neither Russia nor Japan,"
said this authority, "*ill abate
any of their claim*, and there is
no disposition on either side to
invite the mediation of friendly
powers. It is believed that Ja-
pan will take decisive steps with-
in the next few days unless a con-
ciliatory message is dispatched
from St. Peteisburg, a conting-
ency which those who are best
able to form judgment do not an-
ticipate."
Up to an early hour this morn-
ing no telegrams bad been re-
ceived from tbe Daily Telegram's
special correspondents in Japan.
Router is also silent in regard to
mutters of importance, so that it
appoars as if tue dispatches were
purposely delayed.
Commenting upon tbe situa*
tion, the Daily Telegraph says:
"This much, howover, is toler-
ably certain, that the war, if war
there is to be, will, at least in its
early stages, be confined td the
principals. No European Power
is likely to intervene and tbe
United States will doubtless ndopt
the same policy as Groat Britain,
that of watching closely th« de-
velopments with undisguised de-
termination not to allow Japan to
be wiped out.
"Puplic opinion across the At-
lantic runs on similar lines to
those it follows here. As to con-
tingencies, it is better not at this
moment to speak or speculate*
Europe, as a whole, is passionate-
ly in favor of peace, and whoever
causes or abets its disturbance is
no friend to civilization."
ADDITIONAL RURAL SERVICE.
The Three New Routes Out of *lc-
Kinney Now in Operation.
McKinney now has six rural
mail routes in operution. Ser-
vice was begun today on the three
now routes recently estubli-hed
by the Postoffice Department at
VVashington. Tho routes and
curriers are us follows:
Route No. 4—Noitawest by
Chambliss and Roland, Weedin
Franklin, carrier.
Route No. 5—Southeast by Big-
ger* aud Bianch, G. B. Davis,
carrier.
Route No. 6—Northwest by
Rboa Mills,Walter Wiley, carrier.
Dislocated Her Shoulder.
Mrs. Johanna Soderholm, of
Fergus Falls, Minn., fell and dis-
located her shoulder. She had a
surgeon get ii back in place as
soon as possible, but it was quita
*ore and pained her very much.
Her son mentioned that he bad
seen Chamberlain's Pain Balm
advertised for sprains and sore-
ness and she asked him to buy
her a bottle of it. which bo did«.
It quickly relieved her and en-
abled her to sleep which she had
not done for^ several daya. The
son was so *tt* ch pleased with the
relief it gave hw- mother that he
has since rocommcnd*ri.it to maay
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1904, newspaper, January 7, 1904; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192206/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.