The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume XXII.
Comanche. Texas, Friday, January 15,1909.
Number
NEW OFFICERS IRE ELECTED
.Various Banks and Corporations
i Hold Their Annual Share-
holders' Meetings.
Co. are corporations, but they
will hold their annual meetings
later.
A report of Neely-Harris-Cun-
ningham Co. will be found in an-
other column.
!
The banks and other corpora-
tions held their annual stock-
holders’ meeting Tuesday.
The oil mill'and Compress com
panics hold, their annual meet
ings in the spring, after the cot-
ton season is over.
The Farmers A Merchants
National Bank reelected its old
officers: J. W. Cunningham, pres-
ident; I.G WyatC vice presl
dent; Ned Holman, cashier; Lee
Hamilton, .. assistant cashier.
Directors—Cunningham, Wyatt,
Holihan, M. B. Anderson, J7 F.
Tate, J. H. Bryson, Wm. Martin.
A dividend of 12p er cent was de-
clared, $5,000 was passed to the
surplus fund snd the balance of
the earnings to undivided profits.
The directory; passed an order to
buy a complete new and modern
set of fixtures and ^furniture for
the bank building to^be in keep-
ing with its growing business.
County Court Proceedings.
Lafayett Tatum, transporting
traction engin over bridge with m. the tnermometer stooa at <0,
out using skids, Jury trial. hut suddenly without warning a
fine. Case will be appealed.
Frank Carver, gaming, plea
of guilty. $10 fine.
Will Knight, gaming, plea of
guilty, $10 fine.
Arthur Spurlock, gaming, plea
of guilty, $10 fine.
Gustine Mercantile Co. vs
W. C„ Butler, hung jury.
L. C. Gleaton va. T. H. Tuggle,
suit for debt judgment for. put in the ground.
The First National Bank post
poned its annual meeting for a
few days on account of share-
holders being absent. A dm
ad-ofrlfl por cent was declared
urM
s/
and the balapce of the year’s
earnings passed to undivided
profit*. Tire bank-ism a very
prosperous condition.
The Comanche National Bank
elected J. B. Chilton president
F. Adams vice president, J. M
Easley cashier/ Messrs. Chil-
ton. Adams. Wm- Reese, W. B.
Cunningham and M. B. Lloyd
compose the directory. The bus-
iness during the year was good
and a nice dividend was declar-
ed
The Exponent congratulates
Mr* Easley_ upon his promotion
to the responsible position of
cashier. He has been with the
bank several years and tn
his elevation. He is a quiet and
popular young man of sterling
integrity, an industrious and
thorough business man.
defendant.
Wilson-Wbaley Co. vs. L. Ri
Nabers, Suit for debt, judg-
ment for plaintiff by default. ■
Higginbotham Bros. A Co. vs
J. A. Egbert, suit for debt, judg-
ment by default for plaintiff for
$294. • f
Comanehe Mercantile Co
A. J. Pearson, suit tots dl$bt,
. udgment for plaintiff. *
~ Higginbotham Bros. A Co. re-
elected R. W. Higginbotham
president; J. M. Higginbotham
andC. P. St. Clair, vice presl
dents; T. J. Williams, secretary;
D. C. Clarke, treasurer. The
past year’s volume of business
was tlje greatest in the history
of the firm.
The Comanche Mercantile Co
re elected V. H. Thodberg pres-
ident, Eugene Greer vice' presi-
dent, Jesse Hughes secretary
They report the year’s business
was very satisfactory.
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Martin Co.-re-elected J. C. C.
Martin president, 8. J. Hicks
vice president and general teena-
ger, Hill Huddleston secretary
and treasurer. Tiie state that
many ways satisfactory to them.
- -
Dingus. Jackson A GS. ‘re-
elected T. H. Jackson president,
H. A. Carmichael Vice president,
D. L- Morris, secretary-treasur-
er. Tiioys too. report' a good
year’s budinesn^^i^^^^rj
-^tlam8 - Burks • "Simmons • tVi
* Voted to change the firm noma
to-Burks-Simmons Co. The old
officers were re-elected as fol-
lows; H. Burks, president; O.
M. Simmons, vice preeident; N.
A. Palmer, secretary; O. H. Don
NORTH POLE MAKES A VISIT
Blizzard Swoops Down and Ther-
mometer Goes Down to 8
Decrees Above. - -
The long deferred winter
■truck nere with a vengeance
Sunday afternoon and from then
until Wednesday morning Old
Boreas held full sway. Sunday
was extremely warm and at.5 p.
m. the thermometer stood at 7ft
A Bern Burned.
Yesterday about 1 p. m. the
barn dt the home of Thos. W:
Dunlap was destroyed by fire.
It seemft that the 5-year-old son
of Mr. Ddnlap was playing in^tlje
loft and had some matches and
ignited the hay. The first alarm
was when his mother heard him
blizzard swooped down about 5:80
and the mercury began to Jail
rapidly and Monday morning at
7 o’clock It stood at 12 degrees
below zero, a fall of 63 degrees
in thirteen hours. 8now. fell
Sunday night and off ana oa.
Monday, aggragating nearly one
inch, though it was so dry that
there was very little moisture
All day Monday was very cold,
and Tuesday morning the ther-
mometer registered at 8 degrees
above zero, which was the cold-
est period in this section since
Feb. 18, 1899, when the ther
mometer registered 7 degrees
below zero. Tuesday the weafch
sr began to to moderate and the
Dublin Depot Destroyed.
Dublin' Jan. 14.—The Texas
Central freight depot amj con-
tents, excepting* small aiSoSnt
of merchandise and store fix
tures, together with three cars
of cotton for the company, waa
destroyed by fire at 6 o’clock
this morning. The fire originat-
ed from a brick flue and caught
between the ceiling and roof.
The damage is approximated at
$15,000, fully oovered by blanket
insurance.
The depot was situated be-
tween several switches which
were filled with cars of cotton,
within thirty feet of ’ the Waters
Pierce Oil company, which made
the plaoe not only hard to get to,
but very dangerous. The only
switch engine in the yards was
dead, or the cotton . could h&y6
been moved aud saved.
sun came out for while, though
about nine o’cloek at night sleet
feU for a while. During the
night the weather began to get
warmer again and yfednesday
MPORTANT BUSINESS DEAL
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Messrs. Harris, Todd, Handels snd
Burton Buy W. B. Cun-
ningham's Stock
Quite an important change lias
was wuen muiuor uesru uiui . ---------»---------
screimThg ahd'ran out and found Itlftn place in the firm of Ngely -
the barn oh fire! and she bad to
rescue him. The place is several
blocks from a fire plug and it was
sometime Before the fire company
got a hose to working The
building belonged to U. Q; Love-
joy and was worth about 1150.
There was some-feed in it, but
the buggy, harness, etc. was
saved. ’
Legislature in Session.
The Legislature v convened
Tuesday at noon. A. M. Ken-
nedy of McLennan county was
ele .ted speaker of the house, and
Terrell Of Bowie waa elected
president pro tern of the senate
The most interesting question
before the body now is state sub
mission, and the- speaker, the
lieutenant governor, and ' the
heads of the constitutional
amendment committees of both
houses favor submisstoD, besides
the house il overwhelmingly for
it and most hkety—two-thirds of
Harris Cunningham Co., Messrs.
A. 8. Harris, 8am Todd, W. L.
Randals and W. H. Burton buy-
ing the entire stock of W. B. Cun-
ningham, who retires from the
firm.
This is the oldest merefntile
establisment in the city, has a
capital stock of 1100,000, and has
built itaeif upon solid founda-
tions. and as the prosent share-
holders are ail young and ag-
gressive young men who are well
known and have been identified
with the county all their lives', we
Lots of Free Seeds.
B Friday Jan. 1, on the Record
train five big mail bags of gore: n
ment garden seeds were recieved
at the postoffice here for distribu-
tion here'And over the five rural
routes leading out of this plaoe.
Each of the packages bore the
address of Congressman O. W.
Gillespie. ■———
It is claimed that the govern-
ment buys up a lot of old seeds
each year, and prorates them to
the congressmen, who send them
out to constituents. Whether
the seeds or good or bad they
prove good Campaign matter for
congressmen. ■
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Comanche's Postal Business.
Following is the receipts of the
Comanche postoffice for the cal-
endar !ieer 1908, compared with
1907: .
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the senate, so it is quite safe to
say a state prohibitioo election
wffl beorJered
predict that the firm will continue
to grow in popularity and pros
perity. The firm name will not
be changed, and the company
will continue the same liberal pol-
icy with Its customers as hereto
fore. ’
I The officers now are A. S. Har-
ris, president: S. B. Todd, viee
president; W. L. Randals, wow-
tary; W. H. Burton, treasurer.
Dupre* Makes New BohST
First quarter. 12,540.05 II.MO 50
Second quarter lJlfi.SO
AM quarter . 1,520.0*
Fourth quarter 2,41
l mu
2, OS0.SB
2,706.00
/ 2S.2M.M •»,5*7.03
An increase of $140/7$ is shown.
Assistant Fostmastor Hal . Mc-
Carty scthe office will be. rais-
ed to the second class at the be-
,|ginning of the next fiscal year,
July i,i909. ;:r
Prohibition Speaking.
We areauthorized‘to announce
V J
------ __. - _ Gustinc Nowe.
the the rmometor^ stood *k -lW-~-5i}Sg<>oPnirBennettof Dublin
sbbv$, the sun shown brightly
and the cold spell was ov«r. At
.1. p. m. thJ mercury registered
52. (The thermometer readings
above quoted are by Mr. Wies-
endanger, the local observer.)
‘ The cold spell was a good thing
in several ways—it will likely
help the general health, will keep
the fruit trees from budding, and
destroyed myriad* of insects.
Now if a good soaking rain would
fall everything in this section
would be lovely, Indeed.
Church Bumsd at Mullen.
The primitive Baptist church
building at Mullen burned Wed-
nesday night. The house stood
near the public school building
and was used for the primary
department of the school. It is
Plvmmer has a position with the
First National Bank *
B. F« Graves and Warren Al-
bln have opened y land ind in*
Raffles Cut Out
Owing to a new constitution of.
z 1 »r iVV Zntv the flue or the **cidental drop-
the anti-lottery law the'County ^ from the 9tove.
atlornev recently announced
that he would prosecute all who
promote raffles, and the an-
nouncement has put a stop to
this business
Saturday 107 chattel mort-
gages were filed for record in
the coiinty clerk’s office, and
Monday 113 were filed. Mr.
Lacy says the number filed dur-
ing this month will likely foot up
2.000. Almost all of them are
crop mortgages for supplies.
Neely Harris-Cunningham Go.
The financial value of the building
Eagle. * i -
was not large.
Senators Culberson and Bailey
are opt in letters jn which they
say that the legislature should
submit statewide prohibition to
the;poeple, in obedience to the
state democratic platform. Sen-
ator Bailey takes occasion to
state that he will vote against
state prohibition.
Jiip Alexander, formerly (of
Comanche, was given $100 fiine
the past year’s business was insold their big wagon shed
and their half block of land on
which it is situated to ..Totart
Weeps and Jim Lane, who . will
use it for horses and males.
has begnn the instruction of a
class in music here,
The old Methodist church
building mas moved this wees to
the lot west of R. E. Ruling’s
residence, where it will be used
by tbe Christian people as a
place of worship. The new
Methodist church is now under
way. '
Plummer Chancellor and famU
A bill of indictment for mqr
der of Condy Carnes was return
ed by the grandjury this week
against Milt Dupree. Mr. Du-
pree had been released on bond
for $5,000 by Jud(e Goodwin,
awaiting tne action of th$ grand-
jury, He was rearrested and
being brought before- Judge
Goedwin for the third time on a
writ of habeas oorpuq andwas re
leased from custody today under
a new bond for $5,000.—Brown
wood News, Jsn. 8.
that W. C. Dunn of Fort Worth
will speak at one of the.churches
in Comanche/nexT. Sunday morn-
ing on abate prohibition and at
night at another church.
Hon. W. P. Lane yf Ft. Worth
will speak at the Court house at
8 p. m. on the same subject.
Circulars will likely be issued
today giving the announcement
more in detail.
Miss Agnes Graham, teacher
nummer uuanaeiior ana lamir . __. .
iv *_moved to Gorman where of the Pnmary department at the
ly hove moved Ui 1*01 man, • ,n haM 75 fthttdrerr
hu ranee office in the front room
over Wheeles’ grocery store.
M. B. Odell is in Mills county
this wkek visiting relatives snd
also to look him out a location in
the Browns creek country.
W. W. Tullis has returned
from a trip to Oklahoma very)
much in love with old Comanche
county, said he did not see any
country that looked as good as
Comanche to him.
Will CHan$e Companies.
It is announced that on July 1
next the United States Express
Co. will supplant the Weils-Fargo
Co. over the Frisco railroad.
eastftlde school, has 72 chtMrwr Mrs. AnneHar
iu her room, and Mrs. Reynolds
at the westside school has 60
This is entirely too many children^
for a teacher to have in order in
get the best work, and it has
n or GbSune
died at 1 p. tn last rnonday at the
age of 76$ years and was buried
at Si loam cemetery on Tuesday.
Mrs. Harrison was a piooeer set
been Suggested that half the
pupils in the primary grade at-
tend in the morning and the other
half in the afternoon. This
would be a good solution of the
problem, because a half-day is
long enough for small„chiidren to
be in school, anyway.
An election has been ordered
------- ---- in Willow and Copperas Prairie
J. W. Porter is building to and #chool districts for the purpose
■ »»• SCHOOL districts lor UIO
improving his residence about10f combining them into an ihde
A wo miles east of town.
J B Dowdy received % rnes
sage Sunday that his brother,M-
A. Dowdy, at Merkel was dying., tr,ct which is near Gap. The
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-Gazette, Jan. 9.
Were Well Pleased.
Our Hood county t>oultrymen
and m day, m jail at Bn.wa.oodJ <bo1( „„ not
Tuesday for violating the local * L , . . .
, . . ,, . . well pleased with the winnings,
option law. Other similar rases ^ w#r# dt,|i|?Hted with the
are jiending against him. and It is many courtesies shown them by
I likely Jim will be the guest of (the Comanche people.—Gran-
pendent district, and It is .pro
posed to build a^ good school
house in the .center of the dis
election will be held Saturday,
Jan. 30.
weeks
Between 60 and 80 miners lost
their lives In a mine explosion iri
Virginia Tuesday Two
ks previous in the same
aiibeq fifty—min<>r)H_lost theie
Brown county for quite a spell, bury News
Though on a visit to his parents
______ J_______ , Speaking of so many people iti
at Winters, Runhels erifltity, dur- the country moving just now.
ing the holidays, Rev. GairieNi B. Geo Kmert. carrier im rural
bves^-r — ’ ' —, V , —r T " - yt'iirs IUIU uui III me inu ia,uiue®
—- .........—........—,r. a-.s, churches in that town together who get mail on hi* route there
The Tennessee senate has i«ss- jnone stronger'body, and was are only 31 families who were on
■ . .,bt« nnihiMfini, Tt\a » «•- *-■---- *’>•.— l"V'the route when he begun as car-
ed a state prohibition law. The
lower house will pass it. The
governor will veto it, then the
_____ war will come as the legislature
aho, treasurer. They are feel, intends to pass it over his veto. •
ing very good over their 1908
fjSalaUf. -
According to the Jewel City . I
(Kan.) Republican^ fiw Its Rift to about
Tbe Comanche Abstract Co. greatest authors of tragedy
Hsll was not idle,
brlhg
He set about
Presbyterian
successful lh doing so. Then h#
route No. 1, said laftt week that
he had been) carrier for four
years and out of the 136 families
went around and got* a fund ‘df rietv. .....
$2,000 subscribed with which to
build anew house of worship.
The general presbytery should
appoint Mr. Hall as state evange
More than one hundred new
The Clansman was presented
at the opera house Monday
night, and despite the extremely
cold weather and the high price
for tickets a good crowd was
present. The company was one
of the best that ever visited Co-
mfinche.
Lum Douglas and Mrs. Rosa
Grouch, formerly Williams, were
married at her home near the
compress Thtrrsdayof last week.
Judge Kisgnr, in hin moat >rfo»:
tier of the Gustine country. She
was the mother of Pat, Hub and
Garves Lester of this section,
Mrs. Charley Jones of Baird,
Mrs. Ben Garoel of Gustine and
Elder Travis Lester, minister of
a Christian church in Oklahoma.
Mrs. Harrison has been s resi-
dent of Texas since she was five
years of age and has lived near
Guatiae since the civil war.—
Dublin Progress.
The season ha? arrived for the
payment of taxes, and this mat-
ter should not be delayed until
the last moment. You will have"
to pay an additional amount if
your state and county taxes are
not paid prior to February 1. In
addition, neglect to pay your,poll
tax by ’that date will disqualify
you as a voter, and an election
will probably be called this year,
to vote on statewide prohibition,
besides important local elections
may bo held:____
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The postdffice at Bibb will be
abolished January 31, and the
patrons served from the rural,
routes out of Cqmanche, Sidney
and Dustesr .
tic style, tied the niiptaal knot,
eliminations in all grades at tbe
aud Jim Lacy acted as hesr poxn. public schools of Comanche, to
The 14 year old daughter of
■David Jones, who lives eight Hon.
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and the Bonner Ltod A Abstract Shakespeare end whisky.
ferent branches of tbe church
and raising money
Don’t be an Indian.
Garden hoes atC. M. Moore’s,
Tm--n drees calc hin a on fire.
If you don’t pay youx poll tax —---
yen cant vote Jack Hall of Brown wood has
" 1mm
been appointed stenographer in
the state senate at Austin.
Thta week has been given to
see which pupils deserve promo-
lOecar Kilpatrick and Mias Fer
ol Helton, formerly of Comanche,
were married at Haskell during
the holidays,
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Adams, Jesse M. The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1909, newspaper, January 15, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009126/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.