The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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Books Will Cost Much Lees
Than Heretofore.
Austin, Feb.' 21.—After bat-
tling with the literary output of
many authors for the past three
weeks, the state teat books board
to-day announced its choice of
text books for the public schools
tor the next fire years. Of the
thirty-seven bidders, only thir-
teen were fortunate enough to
hare one or more of their books
adopted.
»lattice the hooks, nallwrtirelg,
will, show 4
over those being need at the pres-
ent time, though, indirideally,
some are higher than tboae being
seeisow.
One thing which the board
School Arithmetic:
Scott.
4 Company; ftopkiqn 4 I^tder-
wood'a Mental Arithmetic, -Mm-
Milton Company.. 1. "j
Physiology *Krst Book in
Physiology and Hygiene: Krohne,
D. A. Appleton & Company; *Hy
K'enic Physiology: Coleman, Mad*
Millan Company.
Civil (Government—Townee'
0M1 Government, Austin, Print-
ing Company.
History—The Beginners of
Our Country: fistell. Southern
Publishing Company; Our Coun-
try, Ginn A Company; Penny-
’s History of Texas
Kjflfp
alburn.
Company
Writing Books *B D.
A Oofnpany. _
Algebra - Wentworth's Pirat
ef later-
•st Among omr Nearest
'Neighbor* *
^ ■ i etpsseiei a.
At.Btowirwob3 one day last
week a, youth, was swindled opt
of a watch by two men on the old
"lost diamond>r trick.
The postofilce at BroWnwood
has been made the depository of
the surplus funds of the post of K- L. Donelaon.
May Nows
The baby of J. E. Richardson
iaoick this-week W
Jim Boyce lefttor Oklahoma
last week where be expects to
make his home.
Mr. and Mra. Jeiaa Allen of "
Walnut are working in the al8lw|®
offices it> fifteen counties in this
district
In district court at Eastland
weak Winfield Scott sued the
Texas Central railroad for $4,000
to#alleged damage in oonhdotibta
Berry [with a cattle shipment The rail-
road won the
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(ytnpUahed. for which they
-.hould be given all due credit,
tod that is that the books, were
selected in series, one author be-
ing used for a aeries, instead of
splitting them as heretofore
Since all authors do not write
their books in like form, to adopt
the first, second and third read
era of one author and the fourth
and fifth of another, would not
pany. r* ~
: Supplementary Readers —
•Wheeler’s First. Second and
TTiird Readers, Wheeler A Com-
pany ' '-*■
Those marked with an asterisk
(*) are conditional **
A county maadmeetingof those
opposed to the principles and pol- '“f:
A jolly crowd of young people
explored the caves on the moun-
tains one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ford are
visiting their son. D. F. Ford of
Indian Creek, this week.
Mr. Richardson of 8hrum visit-
ed hia son. Prof. J EL Richard
son and family. here Woffnes
Oil at Rising Star.
Rising 8tar, Feb. 20.—Oil was
struck in small quantity ififlfiA
well that J. W. McCarley ia dig
he entirely' satisfactory, as the^ng He has contracted to go
third reader might be practically
the same as the fourth
‘ Another change effected is the
English course, it having been
composed of a literature,, two
grammars and a composition
"book heretofore, while hereafter
there will be only one grammar
book, the book adopted taking
the place of the two now in use:
The books were adopted by a
majority vote of the board, thus
epch book adopted requiring tour
rotes, as the board is coqiposed
of seven members, including the
superintendent of public {nitron
tion and ih^e governor.
Each member of the board, of
course, lost some of the books
tor which they voted, but it Is un
derstood that the final selections
were satisfactory to the board as
« Whole.
It will be noticed that several
of the selections are marked
’’conditional.” ( Th e conditions
are varied—-tSoine of the compa
nies have opt satisfactorily met
tax requirements, others will
seed typograpical errors chrrect
ed, While the physiologies will be
required to add a chapter on san
tat ion and infectious diseases.
-It is believed that the condi
uooh will be complied with and
that the list as published will be
final
BOOKS AOOPTBU. *•
Speller—*The New Century
Spelling Book, Rilvar, Burdett A
< Company
Basic Readers—‘Wheeler’s
Primer, W. H. Wheeler & Com
pany; Our Gofhntry’s First, Sec-
ond, Third, Fourth and Fifth
Readers, Southern Publishing
Company
Language — Modern English
Ijbshouh Buehler and Hotchkiss,
Newson A Company
Grammar—A Modern English
Grammar: H. G* Buehler, New-
son A Company.
Composition,— Elementary
Composition: Webster, -Hough
ton; Mifflin A Company
Geography—Maury’s New Ele-
ments of Geography, American
2,000 feet, bu|t he thinks before
resching that depth fine oil will
be found Mr- MoGarley says
th« indicatiotM are,fine ■
icies of Baileyism will be held at
Stephenville tomorrow to send
delegates to the state anti-Bailey
masting to be. held at Wlooon
March 7
At Eaetiadd last wedjr John
Bordeaux was given two and a
half years in the penitentiary for
killing Hiram McCleskey Dec. 4.
Both were farmers and met in
the road, eaclt driving a wagon,
and mother would give the road
for the other.
Mrs. Gaddice of Rising Star
came down Saturday to be with
LWS? sister, Mrs. M M. Smith,
whose family is sick.
Work on the I. O. D. F. build-
ing has been suspended until the
foundry could get some iron
columns ready.
Miss Annie Day gave' a must
cal recital to the parents of her
era to the neighborhoed of Pin-;
ei<L They have dug In several
places. The main dlgjring, boftr
ever, seems to be in a place
where six old liveoak trees Torm
s sort of s square. Thdre are in
distinct markings on the trees,
and the digging is in the center
of the square. There is also
some digging near some other
rees, on which there seem to be
marks. It is supposed that the y
digging is the work of Mexicans
It dois not seem, 'from tha-hp
pea ranee of the ground that they
have fonnd anything. The trees
ure they.are looking for is under
stood to be $8,000, probably ha
old Mexican money.—Brady Bn
terprise.
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Further Decrease Predicted.
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mation received here by internets
prominently connected With life
cotton manufacturing industry
indicates that the depression in
the' - 'mes has Hot bean dialpatod
so- - -» many manafactucers
are still having difficuly in secur
ing ready money. ,
. In view of these conditions
those identified with cotton man
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SmSs^^ht '****. uf^turin& now ***" th*‘ **»
The SJay Telephone Co. has
What Fashion Says as to Colors.
“In the choice of Colors for the
spring of 1908^ fashion seems
less capracious and more utilitar-
ian than tot many a long time,”
says Grdce Margaret Gould in
her,,fashion talk in the March
.About forty Bailey adherents
held an enthusiastic meeting' if
Brown wood one night last week
and decided to wipe the names
of .Charlie Jenkins and Arch
Grinnan from the rolls of the
democratic party and passed res
built a rural party tine running
Tour miles west of town. Messrs.
Whqeler, Arnold. Pinkston and
Pal mo re were in town Tuesday
making arrangements for ser-
vice over this line —Oox. in Bulle-
tin
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Tito citiseus of Thorp Spring
olntions asking Judge J. Gv^,*e sending out some attractive
curtailment of 26 per cent of the
working timadeolded upon about
three months ago did not entirely
relieve the situation, and they
say that a general reduction In
wages of the operatives seems in
evitable. 1
— About 185,000 persons are em
ployed in the cotton mills of New
England. :>• ' —
Woodward of Oefieman to run for
state senator
number of the Woman's Home ~5-It is' reported that prepara
Companion. /‘It was blue last }ions are being made by the ofli-
fall, and it’s to be bine again this
spring—bTue however, in many
fascinating shades, such as ca-
nard blue, which is duck blue, a
very lovely, aellcate shade. Co-
penhagen hlue continues in. fash-
ionable favor, and navy blue and
royal blue for every-day wear are
looked Upon as reliable, grind
style colors. Next to the blues,
comes the browns. A beaver
shade of brown is very fashions
8le, and so are the russets and a
citron shade. „ Clytmtoa color will
be used more than'over, and the
bread and biscuit tints. Tan is a
good color to choose for a gown
from the fashion standpoint, and
cream is also the mode. A num-
ber of shades of green will be
worn, and a few grays on the
mple order.'
Attorney-General Davidson has
won more victories for the State
of Texas, and at a smaller cost to
the state, than any toad whoever
held this office. That is why the
trust organs of the state are op-
posing him. They are anxious
to put in office some nondescript
lawyer, who can be tidd up with
legal complications every day by
The.bigh-prioed attorneys of the
trusts.—Houston Chronicle.
~ Vandals, moat likely a man and
woman, entered^ grave yard- at
La Grange one night last week
and-, desecrated sixty seven
graves. Monuments were knock-
ed off their pedestals, many brok-
en in two-and three pieces, slab*
broken in great numbers, head-
stones mutilated, copings remov-
Book Company; Manry’s , New ed and acts of vandalism commit
Complete Geography, American
Book Company; Maury A Sim-
onds’ Physical TTeogrspTiy,
ted which hardly seem possible
to have occurred in this civilised
T
American Book Company
w Arithmetic — E I e m*en t’iry
Arithmetic: Myers-Brooks,
Scott, .Fortosman A Company;
*» Newspapers in neatly all sec-
tion* of_ Texas are predicting
Dick Wynne's-defeat for attor-
ney general. > , -
ekah* oTThe Stephenville N. A 8.
raihoad'to put s surveying corps
in the field sometime early in
April, as it is believed that by
time ample capital can be secur-
ed to finance an extension of this
read to a. connection witti the
Texas A Pacific at Strawn, and
the vast coal field in that section.
—StepheiivUIe Tribune ^
Up to yesterday there had
be<w 8,897 bales of cotton shipp-
ed but over the Texas Central
since September 1, 1907. There
are several hundred bales stored
in the warehouse and yards, and
with the number still bn plants
tions the crop will aggregate ap
proximately 10,000 bales for the
season For the year ending
September 1.1W7, 16,548 bales
were shipped. —Gorman Prog
ress _ _
The election held at Dublin
Feb. 18 for the issue of $6JXX)
bonds carried by a large majori-
ty, the vote standing: for 210,
against 72. The money will be
Used for the payment of the re-
cently purchased chemical en-
gine and provide also a team of
horses for the fire department.
The amount to be expended on
the fire company will be about
$2,500. The> remaining $2,600
Will tftfused on street4mprove-
ments
A committee from the mem-
bership of the Texas Proas Asso-
ciatipp has been formed for the
purpose of forcefully presenting
to th^ National Editorial Asaocia*
tion the name of Will H. Mayes of
Brownwood for president of that
organization. Mrt Mayes is now
first vice-president, and it is be-
lievediie will haye little opposi
tiai in the election. The next
souvenir post cards advertising
their park and lake. They now
have a magnificent body of water
{or boating and the grounds are
being made more beautiful every
day. An effort is being made to
induce the Fort Worth A Rio
Grande railroad to extend a spur
to Thorp Spring from Grinbury,
with s view to furnishing a pleas-
urable sumer resort for the peo
pie along the line. As there is
nothing of the kind on this road,
a nice resort, with the customary
summer amusements, would no
Attorney General Davidson
will soon leave for Washington to
argue the Love gross receipts tax
case, which will'IKi submitted in
the supremejoourt of the United
States oq if arch 16. That Is the
esse involving the 1 per cent on
gross receipts of railroads and
which was held valid by all state
dourts. Over a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars are at issue. The tax
was levied by the twenty ninth
legislature and the law has been
in litigation ever since, but, at
last, with prospects for an early
decision, as it is now in tha high-
est court in the land He won in
all of the state courts
liaise hogs and poultry. There
has never been too moch.of either
raised. ____j__ .
Texas now has another source
of wealth H is in her mesqntto
timber- . Much of it is utfThg
shipped frCm Southern Texas to
Eastern manufacturers. It is
used for making furniture and is
said to be almost oqba! to walnut
for this purpose. C^u# mesquite
has never been appreciated at
its full value. Several years ago
sq enterprising man in South-
west Texas made quite s fortune
tapping these trees for the gum
and selling It to gbiuarabie deed
meeting of National Editorial
Association is to be. bald jd 8t.
Paul in' August Mjr Mayes is
It Costs to Publish a, Paper.
The increased. QP«t of produo 1
tion due to higher price of labor
and material has been s peooiar
hardship to publishers of news
papers. Their business has been
cqppetitive, while pools hnd
trusts and combinatipns put up -
the price of paper, of machinery;
of labor, of ink and of everything
newspapers use. They are pro5-*
duced on a free trade basis,
while a benevolent government
protects with high tariff nearly... ...
every industry from which they
' are obliged to bdy .
The conditions have denied to
the newspapers of the country
their just share Of the prosper
ity of the past ten years.
.The general movement to in
crease the selling prioe of news
papers everywhere is an Tnevita
ble attempt to restore the eoo
nomic balance violently distnrb
ed against the almost the only
unprotected and competitiye in
dustery in the country.
The cost of publishing news-
papers is increasing much faster
than the receipts justify, and
there is hardly s Clear headed
publisher in the country who iant
puullng his brain in an effort to
harmonise the increased cost
with the receipts.—Minneapolis
Tribune. . ’_
The populists of Alabama will
have a state convention at Bir m
Ingham March*4.
In order that Col. Dick Wynne,
the Bailey candidate for attor-
ney general, may have a clear
field against Davidson, Senator
Looney of Qyeenville, who wan
first settled on ee the Bailey can-
didate, has withdrawn from the
race and say* he wilt ^support
Wynne. - •
Ool. I.yon, the TMxas republi
buss, says the Texas dale
•• J-
fere. The mesquite tree tapped gation to the national republican
in middle summer cxndeq large convention will go free to anp
quantities of f
Democrat . r
warn
. - Coleman port Roosevelt J3e favors Roose
volt for s third term
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Adams, Jesse M. The Pioneer Exponent. (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1908, newspaper, February 28, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009139/m1/3/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.