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See J. Sandford Smith for FIRE, LIFE and TORNADO Insurance, flexia, Texas.
The Mexia Weekly Herald.
vol. 9
MEXIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 3, 1908.
NO 36
COURT HOUSE NOTES.
■Groesbeck Journal.
COUNTY COURT.
The following cases have been
disposed of at the presentjterm:
R o b t Matthews, disturbing-
peace, fine Si-
Henry Matthews, disturbing
peace, fine $1.
Dick Matthews, assault, fine
$5.00.
Will Gaddy, diturbing'peace
fine $1.
Joe Henton, disturbing peace,
fine $1.
Gaston Thetford, assault, fine
$5.00.
Fred Phillips, gaming, fine
$10.
Logan Ferguson, gaming, fine
$10.
_Lum Hanna, gaming, fine $10.
Jesse Young, gaming fine $10.
Clint—a negro, Theft, fine $25.
Ben—a negro, 'gaming, fine
$10.
Will—a negro, gaming,£fine
$10.
Shorty—a cross eyed £negro,
gaming, fine $10.
Clarence [McMillan was tried
in the County Court Thursday
for carrying a pistol in violation
of law and was acquitted by the
jury.
CIVIL DOCKET.
Susan Holland vs V T Holland
—continued.
J R Wills vs P K McKenzie—
dismissed.
Sandy King vs Mexia Light &
Water Co.—on trial.
W W Sanders vs T & B V |Ry
Co, judgment for plaintiff for
$744. > >
J W Losse Prog Tailoring Co
vs S F Carroll, judgment for
plaintiff for $355.50.
PROBATE DOCKET.
Est of B D and P F Person de-
ceased. W P Alexander appointed
administrator with bond in the
sum of $60,000.00 and Dan Par-
ker, Sol Nussbaum and Jim]Brad-
ley appointed appraisers.
Est of Overton Rainwater,
minor, Mrs Rainwater appointed
guardian.
Est of S E Rule, minor, B H
Oates appointed guardian of
estate and bond fixed at $6,000.
Estate of Annie L Munger
deceased, will probated and H M
Munger appointed executor with
out bond. Tracy McKenzie,
Jack Womack and J Sandford
Smith appointed appraisers.
Est of G P Miller deceased, ap-
plicant to sell land at private
sale, granted.
MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Gertrude Silias to Geo Phil-
lips.
Anna Wright to E D Spillers.
Mollie Jackson to Jim Daniels.
Annie Beard to B A St ^lair.
Ora L Robinson to J H Free-
man.
Lula Myers to Henderson
Glass.
Perlina Harper to Oscar Gee.
Dennie Cox to W E Lewallen.
Myrtle Morris to J B Cabaniss.
Viola Sharp to Z W MooJy.
A SURE-ENOUGH KNOCKER.
J. C. Goodwin, of Reidsville, N. C.,
says: "Bucklen's Arnica Salve is a
sure-enough knocker for ulcers. A bad
one came on my let? last summer, but
that wonderful salve knocked it out in
a few rounds. Not even a scar re-
mained." Guaranteed for piles, sores,
burns etc. 25c at Mexia Drug Co.
For Sale,
My 83 acre farm 3 1-2 miles
west of Mexia, for $22.50 per
acre. $300 cash balance on easy
terms.
M. A. Williamson,
R. F. D. No. L Mexia, Tex
Miss Buna Lofland spent Sun-
day in Grueoueok.
Rich Without Money
If one is too large to be moas-
j ured by the dollar-mark, or to
i be enclosed in his estate; if the
wealth of his personality has
| overflowed until all his neigh-
| bors feel richer tor his life and
I example; if every foot of land
j in his community is worth more
j because he lives there; then the
) loss of his property cannot
materially shrink his inventory.
If you have learned to be rich
without money; if you have, by
the cultivation of your mental
powers, gathered to yourself a
treasure of indestructibly wealth,
if, like the bee, you have learn-
ed the secret of extracting
honey from the thistle as well as
from the rose, you will look up-
on your losses as mere incidents,
not so very important to the
larger and fuller life.
It gives a sense of^immense
satisfaction to think that there is
something within us greater
than the wealth we acquire or
our material pursuits; that there
is someteing about us better
than our career, better than liv-
ing-getting, money-getting, fame
'gatting; that there is something
which will survive tne fire, the
flood, or the tornado which
j sweeps away our property,
which will survive detraction,
| persecution, calumny; something
: that will outlast even the dis-
i sollution of the body itself. That
j is, nobility of character, the
I sweetness and light which have
helped people, which have made
the world a little betterjplace to
live in.
There is something within us
which protests against having
our most precious possessions at
the mercy of accident or uncer-
tainty. We have an innate as-
surance that, no matter what
happens, nothing can possibly
injure our real selves or destroy
our greatest riches, or grandest
possessions. There is a still
voice within us which tells us
that the true life is beyond the
reach of anything that can harm
it or rob it of one iota of its sub- j
stance.
This feeling of serenity, this
assurance of stability and of
possessing that which no power
can shake, gives a satisfaction
beyond all words to express, im-
parting to life its true dignity
and grandeur.
Does it not seem strange that
men will put all their ability,
their energy for a lifetime, into
piling up the wealth which may
be destroyed in an hour, while
! they make almost no effort to
j accumulate the wealth of charac-
ter, the riches of a large, com-
plete manhood, of unselfish ser-
vice of culture, riches which
survive all disaster, which no
fire can touch, no earthquake
destroy?—Success Magazine.
A BURGLAR IN TOWN
his name is "bad cough.*' He
doesn't care for gold or silver but he
will steal your health away. If he ap-
pears at your house arrest him at once
with Ballard's Horehound Syruu, it
may mean consumption if you don't.
A cure for all coughs, colds and chest
troubles. Price 25c, 50c and $l.t>0 per
bottle For sale by Mexia Drug Co.
Farm For Sale,
I have 1(H) acres of good mixed
Prairie land 10 miles from Mart
1 ]-4 miles from good school. 75
acres in cultivation, 25 acres in
pasture. Land all lays well.
Good 4 room dwelling, brick
chimney, 2 gallerys, Barn and
out buildings. Will take $350.00
cash, $600.00 in tra v, mules or
cattle, balance 10 years time.
Price per acre $30.00.
L. F. Reed.
Frosa, Tex.
County Singing Convention.
it now becomes my official duty
to announce that the Freestone
County Singing Convention will
meet in Wortham, beginning on
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
Oct. 2nd and continueing until
Sunday evening Oct. 4th.
All presidents of regular or-
ganized singing classes in Free-
stone countv are hereby request-
ed to appoint or elect from two
to four delegates to represent
their class in said Freestone
County Singing Convention in
the city of Wortham on above
named date.
Each delegate who desires to
enter this convention must wear
a white ribbon badge bearing the
name of the singing class they
represent.
All regular delegates in the
county and honorary delecates
out of the county will be provid-
ed a home while attending this
conventio i.
We have invited and are ex-
pecting the able help of some of
the best known professional sing-
ers in the state (and Texas has
some of the best singers in
America.)
An entertaining and arrange-
ment committee consisting of
several of Worthams most sub-
stantial and wide awake busi-
ness men has been appointed to
give all singers, delegates and
visitors a royal welcome. Hon. J.
M. Baker of Fairfield the en-
terprising president of the
Freestone County Singing Con-
vention and all may rest assured
that this coming Convention
promiaes to be one of the best
ever held in Freestone County.
Very Respectfully,
Jesse J. Garmon,
County Secty, Wortham, Texas.
IT DOES IT.
The remedy that cured you and your
father of chills twenty years a'^o is
sure good enough to cure you and your
kids at the present time. Cheatman's j
chill tonic did it and will still do it. Its
guaranteed.
Love of Home.
A good man loves his home.
He will labor to beautify and
make it comfortable. The in-
mates are dearest of all things
earthly, He has that paternal
spirit which will cause him to
make any sacrifice for his home
and its sacred precints. The
stronger the love of home, the
better master he is one of that
home. The love of home is part-
ly innate and partly cultivated.
In youth there is a tendancy to
wander off from home and loved
ones, yet there is a universal de-
sire to come back. Boys who
wander away from home soon
realize there is much at home
they miss. The love of home in-
creases with maturing years.
The thinking man soon reasons
out the value of the home.
He looks about him to find the
truest happiness, the stable, and
good in all things. He finds
them in the home, a place of en-
joyment and a safe retreat from
cares and vexations. He sees
that all the society, all the insti-
stutionsand stability of the rov-
ernment itself, is reliant upon
our American homes.
Home building is one of the
the strong bulwarks of this re-
public. The love of home broad-
ens us. It makes us love our
neighbor's home the country and
all mankind. One of the highes
ideals of life is to build a good
home and to protect its inmates.
—Jacksonville Banner.
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It Pays to Trade at Wagner's.
1 New Pall Goods
I
This Week marks the begin-
ning of Fall. Our Fall Stock will
soon be complete,—We are already
showing the greatest Line of Fall
Clothing ever shown in this sec=
tion—You can't afford not to see
our Line before you buy.
We w ill make it to your interest
to spend your money with us for
anything you buv in our line.
I'A. J. WAGNER & CO.
It Pays to Trade at W agner's.
IT KNOCKS MALAI;L !tT.
The old 'i'.able Clr athai. ' • Chill
tonic cnraf iriick-. and ore perma-
nently thr,'• y ouier remedy. ^ne
bottle is t, jaranteed to curi , ..ny
one ca e. You can't lo.-.e. Try it.
Formerly Lived at Groesbeck.
Pearl, the sixteen year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Em-
mett F. Jackson, was drowned
in the Colorado river about ten
j miles below town yesterday eve-
ning at three o'clock.
Mr. Jackson with his family
and his sister with her daughter,
\ who are here from Groesbeck on
; a visit, went down the river
I early yesterday morning to
jspenk the day picnicing and
1 fishing. A number .of the party
i went in bathing about three
! o'clock. The bottom of the river
where tliey went was very shal-
j low next to the bank but grad-
ually slanted to a depth of seven
or eight feet, and three of the
party got in water over their
heads. Mr. Jackson was some
distance away from the party
and when he reached them he did
all he could to save his daughter,
but she had gone under the
j water for the last time and it
j was two hours before the body
was found.
It is another one of those sad
■ deaths that has visited our town
I so often and many heads are
bowed with grief. Mr. and Mrs.
Jackson have been living here
for a number of years, having
moved from Groesbeck, and they
are numbered among our best
j citizens.
Parties went out from town
last night, and the remains were
brought home this morning
about two o'clock and the funer-
| al will be held this afternoon at
! three.
i The Leader joins the many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jack-
son in sympathy, in this the
saddest hour of their life.— Bal-
ling" Banner-Leader.
Mrs. J. C. Mimnib has return-
ed irom a visit in Corsicana.
Three Marriages.
Mr. Emmit Johnson and Miss j
Myrtle Hensley of the Forest
Glade community were united in
marriage at Tehuacana Sunday
afternoon. Rev. Higginbotham
officiating. The bride is the
beautiful and accomplised daugh-
ter of Mr. Lee Hensley, and the
groom is a prosperous young far-
mer of the Forest Glade commu-
nity. We join their many friends
in wishing them a long, happy i
and prosperous journey down
life's pathway.
Sunday afternoon Mr. Willie
Cochrum and Miss Jessie Fife,
both living west of town, were
united in the holy bonds of mat-
rimony, Judge .J. W. Kincheloe
officiating. We extend congrat-
ulations.
Mr. William Mathews living
west of town and Miss Jennie
Picket, living south of town, j
were married Sunday afternoon,
JudgeJ. W. Kincheloe officiating.
Here's to you both.
HOW TO GET STRONG.
P. J. Daly, of 1247 W. Congress St.,
Chicago tells of a way to become strong
He says: "My mother who is old and
was very feeble, is deriving so muuh
benefit from Electic Bitters, that I
feel it my duty to tell those who need '
a tonic and strengthening medicine
about it. In my mother's case a mark- j
ed gain in flesh has resulted, insomnia
has been overcome, and she is steadily
growing stronger." Electric Bitters
quickly remedy stomach, liver and kid-'
ney complaints. Sold underjguarantee I
at Mexia Drug Co. 60c.
Wanted.
A good family to go to Corpu
Christi to improve a truck|farm. j
This is a fine opportur ty for any
one that is not abi loJ buy a
home. There is big money in
tht truck business.
C. E. Guinn, Mexia, Texas.
The Better Way.
A good friend, expressing his
indignation at an offence, said
"I'd fight." But aside from a
morsel of sweet revenge, what
good would a fight do? To get
the best of another for calling
him a liar wouldn't prove that a
man isn't a liar, though it might
entitle him to the pennant as the
"cock of the walk." Any cow-
ard can call a man a liar and any
bully can bruise his nose for do-
ing it, but it takes a real man to
ignore the epithet, to turn the
other cheek and to return good
for evil. Physical courage is a
fine quality for a man to possess
but moral courage is finer. Bra-
vado is not courage. In paying
back, in settling the score of
personal abuse, in "evening up"
people too often forget that in-
stead of wiping out the score
they are drawing a black mark
across their own page. Each
man's sin is his own; no other
man's sin can increase, diminish
or cancel that sin. Because one
man finds it in his heart to do
another a grave wrong is no rea-
son why that other should do
wrong. The sooner we all learn
that each is alone responsible
for his own acts, the sooner we
will learn to detach ourselves
from other people's acts, and be
the happier and freer for the
learning. —Timson Times.
TO BE HAt'PY
you must have good health. You
can't have good health if your liver is
not doing its duty —slow but sure pois-
oning is going on all the time under
circumstances. Ballard's Herbine
makes a perfectly healthly liver-
keeps the stomach and bowels right
and acts as a tonic for the entire sys-
tem. For sale by Mexia Drug Co.
Mr, and Mrs. Luther Cox ara
the pruuu parents of a fine boy..
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1908, newspaper, September 3, 1908; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth290181/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.