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Bonham Property
For Sale
One acre, Lipscomb addition......................$130.
Vacant lot, 56x73 feet, N. E. Bonham . .............$350.
Four room cottage, North Center Street..........$1,000.
One acre, on good roads near golf links............$500.
Lot, 1-2 acre on good roads to Heights..............$325.
House of six rooms, on paved street, close in ,.....$1,850.
Big eight-room house, one block of square, E. Fifth $3,000.
Cottage of four rooms, close in, West Sixth........$2,000.
Six room house on North Main street............$4,000.
I can give you extra good terms on any of this property.
I invite you ta talk the matter over with me.
WILL H. EVANS
PHONE 31
THE BONHAM FAVORITE
(Issued every day except Sunday)
BY FAVORITE PRINTING CO.
W. S. SPOTTS
Editor and Business Manager.
ASHLEY EVANS
City Editor and Solicitor.
Entered at the postoffice at Bonham,
Texas, as second class mail matter.
PURE FIENDISHNESS.
The world has stood aghast at
German ruthlessness, at German
heartlessness and German mur-
der until the world has come to
believe that it cannot longer be
surprised at any atrocity Ger-
many may perpetrate. But not-
withstanding this belief in the
degree of its own callousness to
horror, the world does find itself
once more wondering at the
depth of the depravity to which
militarism and frightfulness
have led the German nation. One
not absolutely devoid of every
vestige * of humaness mu'st be
made to shudder and to wonder
at the latest outbreak of German
raiders over London, when near-
ly a hundred people, many of
whom were women and children,
were killed outright, and some
four hundred and thirty-reven
others injured. Many of those
killed were little school, children
in the primary grades** Some of
these were killed iii a school
house where they/were at their
books. Most of those killed were
in the poorer quarters of the
city, far from any point of mili-
tary impoitance.
Not one bit of advantage would
have been gained by German
arms had ten thousand of these
non-combatants been killed in-
stead of a hundred; not a day
nearer would the end of the war
have been brought had ‘every
child and every school house in
London been destroyed.
What then can be the German
object in such attacks? There
can be but one possible answer
that the average mind can grasp
as being any explanation, and
that it that by thus attacking
England’s capital |he Germans
hope to force the withdrawal of
a large number of aircraft from
the French and English fronts to
protect London. Such an ex-
planation might satisfy a mind
that was willing to acknowledge
the murder of children as justifi-
able to win a military point. But
since all efforts have failed to
have this effect on the English,
and will fail in the future to have
that effect, no man whose mind
and heart are not warped and
calloused can condone such atro-
cities as the German air raiders
are guilty of. The'only reason-
able explanation, then, of the
c mtinuecl practice of such inh i-■
man murder is that German mil-
itary power is utterly devoid of
every sense of human justice, or
mercy or shame. And this is the
true explanation.
A power that has forced tens
of thousands of Belgian and
French women and girls into
moral and physical degradation
to satisfy the lust of its bestial
soldiers, that has enslaved the
husbands and sons of the women
it has outraged, that has shot as
spies those who ministered to
the spiritual and physical needs
of its own soldiers, that has sent
to the bottom of the ocean thous-
ands of innocent women and
children—such a power can de-
liberately and gladly murder the
innocent and helpless babes in
the school houses of an enemy
land for the sheer pleasure it re-
ceives from the contemplation of
its own power to destroy.
This is the power that has
made war on peaceable Ameri-
can citizens for two years, and
with which this nation is now at
deadly grips. Let the people of
America contemplate such scen-
es, and begin to realize what na-
ture of foe they fight, and try to
imagine the fate of this land
should such an enemy triumph
in the contest of might now go-
ing on. Let them realize that
for pure fiendishness and human
depravity the world has never
since the days of Genghis Kahn
witnessed such an example as
German warriors are giving it.
“There will be four thousand
people present to devise ways
and means of keeping the uni-
versity going after they have
had a graduate of the university
enjoin11 MY members of the
Board of Regents from doing as
they see fit.” Does that sound
like the German kaiser? “My”
army, “my” navy and “my” gov-
ernment are favorite expressions
of the German autocrat who
wants to be a world autocrat.
But he didn’t talk about “my”
regents. That was just what
Gov. Ferguson called the regents
of the State University in a
speech he made at Haskell Wed-
nesday. Most people really
thought the regents were the
state’s, but Jimmy says they are
his, and we reckon Jimmy knows.
Jimmy thinks the state is his,
and he is going to do with it as
he pleases.
We commeild the foresight of
the kaiser in sending a message
of condolence to the king of
Greece on his forced abdication
of the throne. It will not be long
until the kaiser will feel the need
of a sympathetic letter condoling
with him on his forced abdica-
tion.
The officials in Washington,
are receiving some letters now
from wives who suggest that
their husbands would make good
soldiers, and would be worth
more to their country than they
are worth to their wives.
Hay
Time
good hay tools as never before. Hay
cannot afford to waste it. John
standard in quality. Let us show
nd Oil.
DW.
Quality Lines”
ne 39
co.
FOE THE
JUNE
BRIDE
Our Stock of Suitable Gifts for
the June Bride is now open
for Your Approval.
Beautiful designs in Cut Glass,
new patterns in Sterling Silver,
and new decorations in Hand-
Painted China. Prices to suit all
purses. Come in and make a
selection now.
C. E. Bowman
Jeweler and Optician.
We are Selling Land
Sold two farms recently and
have four buyers waiting for
something to suit.
We need more land to sell,
have buyers for both black and
sandy land.
We especially want some good
farms in Angel Flat north of
Ivanhoe. No sale, no charges.
A. L McRae
East Side Square.
Season of Weddings
Is here, and in our jewelry dis-
play will be found a very unique
and distinctive collection of ex-
quisite creations most attractive
to those who desire to choose
gifts of artistic merit and genu-
ine worth.
BRANDON JEWELRY CO.
Northwest Corner of Square.,
All Sizes
Electric Light Globes
TEL. 210
RES. 2r
••^3 hop ••
2nd Door South of Light Office
T0BE WOODS
2:11*4—$25.00.
Greatest Trotter in Texas.
THE EXCHANGE
2:08*4— $25.00.
Greatest Pacer in Texas.
NEW YEARS
Full Brother to The Exchange.
The best aH-purpose horse in
Texas.
$15.00 to insure.
W. 0. FOOTE
Bonham. Tex.
It
Will
Do It
Yes, it will! Fly Way will make
the flies “fly ’way” from your
stock.
Protect your horses and milch
cows.
Prices from 50c to $1.50 for
large cans, and it does the work.
“GET IT AT CLAYPOOL’S”
W. P. CLAYP001
,fTh© Rextll Store,” ^
SUMNER
EXCURSION
RATES
DAILY
TO THE NORTH AND EAST
TO COLORADO AND
CALIFORNIA
—VIA—
Choice of Many Routes, Stop-
Over Privileges.
ROUTE
OF THE
FAMOUS
“SUNSHINE SPECIAL"
Consult T. & P. Agents or write
A. D. BELL GEO. D. HUNTER
Asst. G. P. A. G. P. A.
DALLAS
I am now prepared
to do all kinds of
DYEING
G. P. BALL
TAILOR AND HATTER
North Main St. Phone 242
J. A. HARRIS, D. Y. M.
BLUE CROSS VETERINARY
HOSPITAL
210 North Main Street
BONHAM
Deputy State Veterinarian.
Phone 543.
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A NEW GRILL FOR SUMMER
COOKING
SEE IT AT OUR STORE
THIS WEEK
Bonham Elec. Supply Go.
North Side Square.
Phone 500.
OXY-ACETYLENE
WELDING
AND
CDTTING
Can* weld any kind of
meta1---bring us your
broken castings.
Phone 520.
F. M. German
(ELSon
Cor. E. 3rd and Center
NO ONE SAYS THE DISH IS
TOO LARGE—
—after tasting our ice cream. It
has such a splendidd flavor that
one is tempted to eat “just a
little bit more” until the biggest
dish is emptied. Those who eat
our ice cream once canont be in-
duced to taste any other after-
wards. Try it to learn the rea-
sons. You’ll enjoy the learning,
all right.
LINDSEY’S ICE CREAM FACTORY
Phone 196-2r.
CLAUDE CALLAN’S FAREWELL.
K
In leaving Fort Worth to take up
his new duties in Kansas City, Claude
Callan issues a farewell address to his
original thirteen readers as follows:
Since we are going to leave Fort
Worth, we feel that we should write
a long and touching article bidding
farewell to our thirteen readers and
to our unknown number of creditors.
Martha is the cause of our leaving.
Four years ago when we moved here
from dear old Jaggerville, another
family came. They had been our
friends in the old home, and they still
are our friends. But the other man
prospered. His wife has “everything
she wants to wear,” and she has a nice
automobile. Well, of course, Martha
can’t forgive her for all that. Some-
thing had to be done. Finally the op-
portunity came for us to go to the far
north—to Kansas City. We hated to
leave here, but in her own inimitable
way, she said: “You’re going.” We
went out on the back porch to sit down
and feel sad. In a moment we heard
her call up the friend who has every-
thing she wants to wear. She said:
“How are all of you all? Yes, well I
have been a little sick myself. Well,
I don’t know whether I can come or
not. I must begin packing up. You
know we are going to move to Kansas
City.”
Our creditors need not worry. In
fact, they should not. Worry hurts a
creditor far worse than the loss does.
Anway, none of them will lose any-
thing because of our leaving. In all
probability we wouldn’t have paid
them even if we had stayed here. It is
only to our furniture dealer that we
owe an apology. We bought a new
rug from him last month, and nothing
has been paid on it. Of course he
can take the rug back, but little Bert
spilt a bottle of ink on one corner. We
just couldn’t whip the sweet little
dear. He came into the room with the
ink in his hand- and said: “Me doin’
to wite a letter.” Just then he fell,
and out went the ink onto the rug.
However, it is only one corner, and
the dealer can tell the next people he
sells the rug to that they can put that
corner under the bed where it will not
be seen.
And now comes the saddest part of
all—our farewell to our thirteen read-
ers. Since we are going to the far
north, we naturally think of our stout
lady reader first. We hope that this
summer her husband will take her to
the north, where cold winds that have
swept across the blue lakes or snow-
crowned hills will make her forget
that she ever spent a miserable day
moving about from place to place in a
vain effort to find the coolest part of
the house.
We hope that our poor but honest
reader will make a fortune, but we
don’t expect to hear that he has. Luck
is against him, and when luck once
gets it in for a fellow it is almost im-
. possible for him to prosper. He has a
| great mind, but that counts for noth-
ing. All of us poor but honest people
have noticed that it is the fellows who
haven’t much sense who make the
greatest success.
We feel sorry for our rich rascal
reader, because we know what awaits
him in the distant future. He will be
miserable then. Much punishment_ is
in store for him, but old Satan certain-
ly is showing him a fine time while he
is here.
We hope our dear old lady reader
will keep after her husband until he
learns not to lose his specs. And as
much as she dislikes to interrupt him,
she should not hesitate to do so when
he makes some such great mistake as
telling that a thing occurred in 1867
when it really occurred in 1868. Also
she should continue to caution people
against having too much confidence in
doctors.
We have so many readers—thirteen
—that we can't mention all of them,
but we appreciate them all, and there
is one especially that we shall always
sympathize with—our strong-looking,
weak, overworked reader, who does
nothing but cook and wash and iron
and scrub and sew and tend to the
children, and who isn’t appreciated by
her husband.
When our son Woodrow heard that
we were going to move he said to us:
“Papa, when you leave will it bust up
the Star-Telegram?” We appreciated
the compliment that he paid us, and
would have felt fine if his mother
hadn’t sarcastically remarked: “When
your papa leaves, son, it will bust up
the town.”
Bryan wants to move so he will
have a chance to eat on a dining car#
It will be a new thing for him, but it
will be old to us. We ate on one last
week. Of course we’ll carry along
enough lunch for all except one meal,
but we want to take her and the chaps
into the “diner,” as we call it, and
show them how everything is in there.
Christine says she isn’t going. You
see her chum lives here, and she can’t
leave that chum to go with people
who are nothing to her except father,
mother and brothers.
One thing makes us glad we are
leaving—the fact that it furnished the
occasion for a certain man (we learn-
ed yesterday that he has been our boss
for the past four years) to say that if
we ever cared to return, our old place
would be waiting for us. Coming from
him, we would appreciate this under
any circumstances, but we appreciate
it all the more because of the fact that
in all our life this is the first time we
ever worked for anybody that didn’t
fire us.
Thistle
Enameledware
—is the latest achievement in enameledware making. It is
the product of several years’ experiment of the best chem-
ists. It’s the latest word in Enamelware making, and tthe
best one. .Purple and white? Yes, all white inside, the ex-
terior being a dainty blend of purple. It’s nothing like the
old-time mottled war you’ve grown weary of.
GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY
FIRE-PROOF.
Wells, Nunnelee & Humphrey
SECOND-HAND SURREY.
Second-hand surrey and buggy for
sale at a very low price= —Apply at
The Favorite office. 6
YOU KNOW ME.
Every baby, one year old and less,
that visits our store from 2 to 4
o’clock p. m. Saturday, June 16, will
be given a nice little finger ring. Ev-
erybody is welcome even to the town
baby. Watch our show windows for
premiums every two weeks. Phone 5.
3 SID SMITH.
HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED.
Only a few short years ago, and a
very few at that, an effort was made
to defeat a county commissioner be
cause he favored removing the hitch
rack for horses from around the court
house square. Many people conscien-
tiously believed that such a thing was
a great injustice to those who wanted
to drive their teams or ride their
horses to town and have some place
to hitch them. These good people
could then have no way of knowing
or suspecting that in a couple or so
years there would be so few people
using buggies and riding horse back
that a public hitch rack would be al-
most a curiosity. But such is almost
the case now. One afternoon this week
a citizen took occasion to dotice the
'number of vehicles on the square, and
by actual count there were one buggy,
six wagons and sixty-five automobiles.
What a change in the last two years.
Who knows but that within ten years
more we shall be counting to see how
many more air ships there are in town
than antomobilfsV ’55' • - '
SPECIAL QUALITY BREAD
ALWAYS, WITHOUT FAIL, BEARS
THE LABEL.
Sold by all merchants.
MODEL STEAM BAKERY
“The Bakery on the Square”
GUNTER HOTEL
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS—Official Headquarters T.P.A. and A.A.A.
Absolutely Fireproof, Modern, European. Rates, $1 to $3
A HOTEL BUILT FOR THE CLIMATE
PERCY TYRRELL, Manager
EEDS WRITTEN
NOTARY WORK DONE
WILL H. EVANS, PIIONE 31, BONHAM, TEX.
WHEN YOU TRAVEL
SERVICE
IS WHAT YOU WANT
15he
Texas Special
THE M. K. & T. LINES’ ALL-STEEL, ALL-QUALITY
GIVE JUST THE SERVICE YOU WANT TO
ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY AND
OTHER POINTS IN THE
| NORTH AND EAST.
| In buying your ticket specify— *
“THE KATY"
TWO NEGRO THIEVES.
Deputy Sheriff Elam went down to
Ca/son yesterday afternoon and
brought back with him two negroes
who had been arrested for theft. They
had entered a home and had stolen
some clothing, and one of them had
gone into a U. S. mail box and ex-
tracted therefrom its contents. That
fool nigger didn’t know what trouble
he was bringing on to himself when he
got to monkeying with his Uncle
Sam’s letter box. The old gentleman
is powerful particular about his mail
and his arm is long in reaching after
those who violate the rules he has
made to govern such matters. A
little matter of the theft of a letter
will make him get busy and send his
secret service men half across the con-
tinent to catch the thief if need be.
^ Constantine Lodge No. 13,
A. F. & A. M. last Satur-
day night in each month,
tf JAS. ANDERSON, Sec.
ONE GOOD SPUD.
Yesterday Nat Lovelace had grab-
bled out of his patch a measly little
potato that weighed only a pound and
two ounces, and he was showing it
around as some potato. We admit
that it is pretty fair size—just a
little larger than any we have yet
gathered out of our patch, but it isn’t
a patching to what we are going to
grow when we really get interested in
looking for a sure enough potato. Nat
says that he planted a little patch,
using only three pecks of seed, and
that he will gather twenty-five bush-
els.
HUNDRED SLACKERS HELD.
By United Press.
Chicago, June 15.—More than 100
alleged slackers are held in the Chica-
go police stations as a result of an all
night round-up by Federal and police
authorities. These represent only
about half of those arrested, others
being discharged without arraingment.
Sixty were arraigned before the Fed-
eral commissioner yesterday, all but
five of whom were released when they
promised to register. Eight officers
of the League of Humanity were
seized in a raid last night at a
downtown meeting hall attended by
three hundred persons. All but oney
were arrested. w
FRESH BLACKBERRIES. "
I will begin picking berries Mon-
day, June 11, and continue each day
as long as berries last. Parties call-
ing at patch will bring vessels and
save crate charges. T. R. STARNES,
8 miles northeast of Bonham on route
5. lm.
YOU CAN VOLUNTEER.
The recruiting officer of the regular
United States army is asking for nine-
ty volunteers from Fannin County,
between eighteen and forty years of
age, who will volunteer for the war.
He wants them NOW. The full quota
is desired by June 30. Now if you
want to go join the army here is your
chance. If you are of proper age ana
physically able to pass the examina-
tion, you ought to want to volunteer.
—.—o——-
TIMBER IS SCARCE.
I have twenty-one acres of first
class timber land, no overflow. Will
sell all together or sell timber in body
or cut in five-acre strips. Could handle
some trade,
6 DR, LANIUS,
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Spotts, W. S. The Bonham Daily Favorite (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 272, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1917, newspaper, June 15, 1917; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth839668/m1/2/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannin County Historical Commission.