The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1916 Page: 6 of 12
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The Old Veterans
Fast Passing Away
City Ordinance No. 53
The following, by Mrs.
Workman, of Decatur, in
Chas.
Farm
plan.
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levied for tlie year 1916 to pay
__ . outstanding indebtedness and
Levying Taxes for the Year deficiencies.
1916 | 5. That a poll tax of one dol-
Be it Ordained by the Cityi*ar i0rt^e year ^iere|5y
levied against every male m-
That a tax of one-fourth of j habitant. or the City of Olney
between the ages of twenty-one
an-
The Newcastle Register ...
nounces an impending advance Workman’s article follows.
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Quality First
, Our Motto
We are just as particular
regarding the quality of
foods we buy as we are
about the way we serve
them.
Only the best products
on the market are good
enough for our patrons.
And the most rigid rules
of cleanliness are fol-
lowed in preparing these
products for the table.
........ .............J
SLIM’S CAFE
to $1.50 per year,
increased price
materials. '
account the
of printing
Ben Harlan, recently with the
Waco Morning News, has switch-
ed to the Arlington Journal, tak-
ing the advertising, management
of the latter.
The two Graham papers did
themselves, credit in handling the
reunion news recently. It was
a big assignment, but the boys
covered it nicely. . &
THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE
Entered at the Postoffice at Olney,
Texas, as second-class matter
If you- see an editor who
pleases everybody, there will
be a glass plate over his face and
he will not be standing up.—
Thomasvifie (Ga.) Times.
Here’s another one for Luke
McLuke, taken Jrom Uncle Bill
Gilliland’s Baird Star: “Born,to
Mr. and Mrs. John Boatwright,
of Deep Creek, Wednesday,
August 2, 1916, a boy.”
“Twilight and evening star,
And after that the dark” —
But not so with the gray
veterans of the south and the
“old settler” as they meet from
year to year to commemorate the
gentle words and loving deeds,
the brave acts, of their fallen
comrades. No thought of being
in the twilight of life comes to
them—they live in the past and
to them the past is youth. Here
and yonder as they stroll, meet-
ing now a comrade, they shake
hands, sit down to—well, to talk
it all over.
“Gettin’ fewer ever# year,
ain’t they, Jim?” I heard one
say to another as they stopped
to indulge in a few reminiscences.
Yeh,” answered Jim.
Published every Friday at Olney
Texas. Established 1910
R. SHUFFLER, Ed. and Owner.
Col. W. A. Bowen, the courtly
editor of the Arlington Journal,
has been around some, and says:
“Bathing costumes for both men
and women are as near the Zulu
style as they should be permitted
to go.”
One of the blessings of a free
country is that it allows those
who don’t get any mail to loaf
around the postoffice, says the
Dallas News,
The comparative costs of pav-
ing are per square yard, creosote
block $2.29, asphalt $1,23 1-2,
concrete $1.10, good intentions
still cheaper but not worth
much.
Candidate Hughes, of whom
much better things were expect-
ed, has seemingly developed into
a mere scold, picking infinitessim-
al flaws in Mr. Wilson’s official
record and offering nothing
better.
Munday is to have a 50 barrel
flour mill immediately. The
plans for the mill building are
on hand and the machinery
ordered. This shows a commend-
able spirit of enterprise, and sets
to other towns an example wel
worth emulating.
A new high mark in hog prices
was made on the Fort Worth
market Monday, when hogs sole
at $10.30, breaking the previous
high mark for the year, as wel
as the high price for the past
six years. In 1910 hogs soldi on
the Fort Worth market for $10.
80. Moral; Plant pigs and pea-
nuts.
Say, fellers, whatcher goin’ to
do about it? Editor Cole, of the
the Bridgeport Times, perpetrat-
ed half a column of po’try last
week. Cracking good stuff, too,
but think of writing pomes dur-
ing the closed season!
chIsedClaCn Intertype machine!and Ranch- was writte,n ot..the iCouncil of the City of Olney:
and will forsake the old handset WIse county leunion, u so\ . ,
applicable to the Young,county |one per cent on the assessed
reunion, also, that we reproduce j value of all real and personal
it in The Enterprise. Mrs. estate and property within the
City of Olney, Texas, on the 1st
day of January, A. D. 1916, not
exempt from taxation by the
constitution and laws of the
state, be and is hereby levied
for general purposes for the
year 1916.
2. That a tax of fifteen cents
on the one hundred dollars
valuation of all taxable property
in the City of Olney on the 1st
day of January, 1916, be, and
the same is hereby, levied for
the year 1916 for the construction
and improvement of the roads,
bridges, and streets of said
city within its limits.
3. That a tax of nineteen
cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation of all taxable property
and sixty years of age on Janu-
ary 1, 1916, and who was a
resident of this city at that time.
Passed and approved in open
council, this the 16th day of
June, A. D. 1916.
R. E. Myers, Mayor.
Attest: A. A. Cooper, City
Secretary.
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The total yield of winter
wheat will be approximately
between 465,000,000 and 475,-
000,000 bushels. The quality is
most exellent. As a whole,
harvesting was done under
generally favorable weather
conditions. The total wheat
crop for 1916 will be approxL
mately 30 per cent less than the
yield of 1915, and slightly under
the average for the past ten
years. It must be. remembered,
however, that the 1915 yield was
For County Clerk:
C. W. (LUM) HINSON
'For County Superintendent:
D. K. LYON
in the city of Olney on the 1st
Guess ■ day °f January, 1916, be and is
’twon’t be long till there won’t hereby levied for the year ^^ ja record production. An esti-
be many more meetings with us,! ton Pay the interest on the City j mate of final production of corn,
unless—well, unless, William, wejof 01ney Waterworks Bonds and due to the varied weather con-
meet over yonder,” with an up- ito provide for the required sink-
ward point with his forefinger, j sa1^ bonds; this be-
And we, who love the veterans N ^ ad^on * the six cent
and the “old settler,” are made,tax nere 0 °5e
sorrowful.
A few days after the battle of
levied for this
year to pay the interest and pro-
vide for the sinking fund of the
Carrizal a veteran called to his City of Olney Waterworks Exten-
neighbor across the fence, who; S10n on s‘
too was a veteran, to know what | 4. That a tax of ten cents on
he thought Uncle Sam would now j the one hundred dollars valuation
do with Mexico. ! of all taxable property in the
“Oh,” replied the neighbor, | City of Obey on the 1st day of
“the war’s on, and no doubt.” ! January, 1916, be and is hereby
“Well, are you ready?” the
first then asked.
The neighbor straightened his j |
proud, stooped form, threw his j j
head back and answered; “I’m
ready any time they call for
ditions, is largely approximate
at best, but it does not seem
likely at this time that it can be
less that 2,700,000,000 bushels
and it may-run as high as 2,850,-
000,000 bushels, or approximate-
ly the average yield for the past
ten years. — U. S. Chamber of
Commerce report.
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For-Public Weigher Precinct No
H. WOOD.
For Commissioner Precinct No. 3
JIM B. REYNOLDS
For County Treasurer:
C. J. COOK
For Tax Assessor:
L. H. (BUD) HARRIS
For State Representative
DR. J. W. McCOMB
For District Attorney
LESLIE HUMPHREY
For District Judge
W. N. BONNER -
Canadian women are organiz-
ing to boycott German and
Austrian manufactured goods.
The Wichita Tribune gives the
1916 bank deposits of its city as
“$370,000,000 plus.” Hey, Tri-
bune, didn’t your typewriter or
your linotype stutter on those
ciphers? “$370,000,000” is some
deposits, even for Wichita.
One of the features at the
South Dakota state fair at
Huron this fall will be a mule
derby driven by the editors of
the state. The mules are to be
white, wear white harnesses,
hitched to a white sulky and the
driver must wear a white shirt.
Commenting on the constantly
advance of print paper prices,
the Baylor County Banner says:
“To meet the new conditions
many publishers are raising the
subscription prices of" their pa-
pers. Taking this section of the
‘country, the Olney Enterprise
has led the way for a $1.50
paper. The two papers at Gra-
ham have recently followed suit.
The Munday Times has announc-
ed a raise to $1.50 and its action
was closely followed by that of
the Knox City Journal. Now
the Throckmorton News gets
itself in the $1.50 class. Thus
far the Baylor County Banner is
the only paper to stop at $1.25. ”
It is again persistently rumor-
ed that Roumania will join the
Allies and form another link in
the chain that is gradually draw-
ing tighter about the Teutonic
powers, She has had between
500,000“ and 600,000 troops
mobilized for a year, and her
army is reported to be one of the
best trained and
Europe.__
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Rev. William M. Saunders
has deserted the saloon business
for the pulpit. Saunders, who
formerly conducted a saloon in
Smithton, Pa., has been appoint-
ed pastor of the Avondale Pres-
byterian church in Chicago.
When Saunders decided a few
years ago to devote his life to
the ministry, he closed his bar
and entered the McCormick
Theological Seminary as a stu-
dent. 1
The danger that thousands
printers may be thrown out
work because of the high price
of wfyite paper is said to be
question seriously concerning the
delegates to the sixty-second
annual session of the Internation-
al Typographical union which
equipped in began in the city of Baltimore
on Monday. John W. Hays is
secretary-treasurer of the union.
He is reported as having said
the alarming shortage of print
paper is making it difficult for
many newspaper corporations to
continue business and that in
some cities there was talk of
consolidating two or more plants
me.
Brave old veterans, valiant
and strong! They, after having
drunk the dregs of war’s cup of
bitterness, are ready at a
moment’s call to fight for their
country’s cause. And ’tis al-
ways just this same patriotism
that characterizes the coming
together, from year to year, of
“Joe Wheeler’s” gray sons of
the South.
For some quarter of a century
the people of Decatur have at-
tended well this gathering,
while the people from all parts
of the country have not been lax
in doing their part towards mak-
ing it a success. And for the
entertainment of all there has
always been a varied program
made up of splendid home talent,
augmented by political and
patriotic speeches of prominent
men of the state. This year
there were a number of politi-
cians present who spoke, some
of whom were: Marvin Jones,
J. G. Willacy, Reuben M. Ellerd!
The Decatur band boys were
there and lent great zest by
playing throughout the four
days. * x
What grim determination,
what love for a past cause,
marks the coming together of
these veterans. For out of the
old regime, which 25 years ago
could have, in numbers as well
as in spirit, withstood a pretty
stubborn invasion, only a mere
handful remain today. But the
spirit is there just the same—it
cannot die! And the few still
living are always there, each
doing his part. So the veterans
themselves still have the manage-
ment of affairs in charge; how-
ever, some of the sons and
daughters have been taking
hold in a way which proves that
the mantle from the sires has
not, indeed, cloaked unworthy
forms. So this last one of July
11-14 inclusive cannot be the
last great one, as some have:
to reduce working forces and j feared. For, again, the spirit j
expenses. The American pub- j can not die! So that great love, !
lisher is face to face with a that patriotism, that courage
saBsatk^. aasasmm
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EIGHT PER CENT
.. MONEY ..
We have an unlimited supply of
funds to place on farm and ranch
lands in this and adjoining counties.
Loans are made for terms of five
years, giving the borrower the privi-
lege of making payments on the
principal each year if desired. The
thing that is usually most dreaded
about procuring a loan is the long
delay and the “red tape” frequently
met with before the loan can be
closed. If your title papers are in
good shape, we can have your land
inspected and deliver your check
within TEN DAYS. This is not
guesswork with us; we know we can
do it because we ARE doing it. We
had some inspections made Friday,
June 23, and on Wednesday, June
28, we delivered checks in payment
of these loans. JUST FIVE DAYS.
Names of parties furnished on re-
quest. If you need money and do
not want to wait from three to six
months to get it, try us. We can also
handle good cattle loans.
V
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crisis. — Fort Worth Record.
Enterprise advs sell goods.
which burns always in the soul
of. the veteran, shall be the
heritage of the sons.
The Cooper-Minor Co.
LANDS LOANS INSURANCE %
Olney, Young County, Texas
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1916, newspaper, August 25, 1916; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103151/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.