The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 28, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE GOLDTHWAITE
VOL. 19. GOLDTHWAITE, MILLS COUNTY. TEXAS. DECEMBER 28. 1912.
NO. 20
WE WISH
To express to all our many customers and friends our ap-
preciation of their patronage during the past good year
and beg to assure them that by courtesy, good service and
the highest standard of quality in merchandise we shall
do our utmost to merit a continuance of their custom and
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friendship during the year 1913. :: :: :: :: ::
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL
Goldthwaite
Mercantile Co
Albert Long, principal of the Win-
ters public school, is at home for the
holidays.
W. W. Berry left Saturday night
for Oklahoma to spend the holidays
with relatives.
G. H. Frizzell came home from
Farmersville to spend Christmas with
his relatives and friends.
Misses Bell and Blanche Harper
went to Moody Tuesday to spend
Christmas with friends.
James Long, who is teaching the
echool at Glen Cove, Coleman county,
is at home for the holidays.
Mrs. Carrie Whitaker went to
Zephyr Tuesday to spend Christmas
with her daughter, Mrs. Carpenter.
A. H. Braker was here from Priddy
the first of the week, buying holiday
good3 and meeting with his friends.
, W. S. McCall and wife arrived from
I Waco the first of the week, to spend
1 Christmas with Prof. Humphries and
jfamily. ’
Waddy Ross and his wife and
laughter arrived Tuesday morning to
^pend Chri'stmas with L. O. Hicks
^nd! family, i
Miss Mary Lou Grundy was sum-
moned to Mullin Tuesday by a mes-
p,ge annoqncing the serious illness
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Edda
rundy.
|L. E. Miller and his son, Louie,
put to Austin Tuesday night to
Bdend a few days with Mrs. Miller,
wio is under treatment there and is
inproving nicely.
R. Wilcox of near Center City
wak here Saturday to meet some of
his relatives who arrived from Grimes
coiiity on the evening train, to spend
thelholidays with him and his family.
rs. W. W. Fowler and little
daui liter visited relatives here the
first of the week and left on the
mor: ing train Tuesday for Houston
to v; ait Mrs. J. W. Slavin and family,
toefoie going to New Orleans to spend
the winter, where Dr. Fowler is tak-
ing 4 post graduate course in his pro-
fession
things in general.
While human nature is fairly bulg-
ing with the Christmas spirit and our
strenuous lives are rested by a re-
freshing dash of childhood and we
watch with lingering hope the disap-
pearance of Santa Claus who has an-
nually ministered to our fancy since
the holy babe lay in the manger, let
us now turn our attention toward
the real Santa Claus. The real Santa
Claus is the man who makes the pay-
roll. Upon industry must rest all
the happiness of the human race and
from it society must get its inspira-
tions and jo: l Without the hum of
industry and tne jostle of the harvest
there will he empty stockings and a
cheerless Christmas.
The civilization of a country can
be best judged by its vehicles of
transportation. In Texas we have
kept well up with the procession of
progress in our modes of transporta-
tion. The automobile census taken
by tbe Commercial Secretaries Asso-
ciation shows that we have 35,187
machines in use valued at approxi-
mately $43,98.3,750. There are 105
different models used at prices rang-
ing from $400 to $10,000 each. It is
estimated that we spend $25,000,000
per annum in 'joy rides.
A hill dealing with the establish-
ment and maintenance of a State
Highway Department has been
drafted by Senator H. B. Terrell of
West, which he proposes to intro-
duce in the coming session of the
senate. Provision is made for a
state highway engineer, his duties
and compensation and also for creat-
ing a fund by the license of automo-
biles and motor cycles to constitute
a state highway fund. The proposed
act provides for a nonsalaried State
Highway commission composed of
five members whose headquarters
would be in Austin, who would em-
ploy a competent highway engineer.
He would be required to make a
general highway plan of the state,
gathering data relative to mileage,
character and condition and other de-
tails concerning highways of the
different counties of the state, and
establish standards for the construc-
tion of highways which must he met
in the plans and specifications of
proposed county road construction be-
fore any commissioners court could
use funds derived from the sale of
bonds for constructive purposes.
Owing to the absence of reliable
data regarding the total yield of the
1912 pecan crop, the Texas Commer-
cial Secretaries and Business Men’s
Association has taken a census of
this season’s crop- and estimate the
yield to be approximately 3,100,000
bushels in Texas this year. The
figures are based on estimates of
both dealers and growers in all
sections of the state and no pains
were spared in securing as complete
data as was available. The average
price per pound of the nut this
year is 13 cents f. o. b. shipping
point and breaks all previous records
for high prices. On this basis the
total value is approximately
$403,000. This years yield is 30 per
cent of a normal crop but is consid-
reably larger than last years pro-
duction. In a few places in the state
the pecan crop is reported to be the
best in years, but geuerally speaking
the yield is short. The quality of
the nut this year is up to its usual
standard.
The co-operation of the Commercial
clubs of Texas is sought by Congress-
man Stanton Warburton of Washing-
ton state who proposes to introduce
a bill during the present session for
the construction of a system of Na-
tional highways connecting the cap-
itals of every state with the national
capital. The proposed hill contem-
plates the construction of about fif-
teen thousand miles of roads, the
estimated cost not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars a mile. The neces-
sary money for the payment of the
work will be collected by the govern-
ment within five years, according to
the plan. According to the route of
the proposed highway, Austin, Texas,
would he joined with Santa Fe, New
Mexico.—Commercial Secretaries.
Representative Slayden of Texas
has filed a minority report of the
military pay bill, which has been in-
dorsed by a majority of the military
affairs committee of the house, and
In the vigorous fight that he will
make against the bill, it is stated that
he will have strong support in the
house. It strikes us that in his oppo-
sition to the Pepper bill, reported
favorably by the committee, the
Texas congressman occupies a very
sound position. While it is true that
under the existing laws providing for
the organization and maintenance of
a State militia as a reserve force sub-
ject to immediate call to the colors,
Federal authority has practically su
perseded State authority in the mat-
ter of directions of the activities of
this support of the regular army, it
seems to us that the effect of the bill
in question will he to greatly en-
courage the prevailing tendency to
centralize all the power in the federa
government. * * The Pepper bill
would hold the militia of the several
spates on arms, so to speak, on par-
tial pay from the Federal government
and subject to its military orders in
time of pease the same as the regu-
lar army.* * In opposing the Pepper
bill Congressman Slayden takes the
position that it will foster a spirit
of greed instead of patriotism in the
ranks of the militia, will make of the
citizen soldiery a powerful political
organization ‘‘that would be able to
eat congress alive if the greed for
pay and the hunger for power is not
checked.” The Texas congressman
further argues that if the bill is en-
acted an annual appropriation of
from fourteen to fifteen million dol-
lars will be necessary at the outset
for the militia and that the increase
during the succeeding years vail be
enormous. That his fears in this di-
rection are not ill founded, we may
re^dily agree when we reflect upon
the enormous drain upon the
country’s revenues that is entailed
by a rotted pension system that is
forced upon congress by a semi-mili-
thry organization that annually be-
comes more insistent in its demands,
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and whose voracity knows no limit..-*-
Houston Post. ~
For some time past complaint has
been made by merchants all over the %
State against the practice of selling
fruits and produce from railroad care
in the various towns of the state,.
The Retail Merchants’ Association of .
Texas has been behind a movement
to secure the discontinuance of this .
practice and the matter was brought *
before the Texas Railway Commis- ;
sion, but this body has no authority
to prevent the continuance of the „.
business. Merchants argued that ifc
detracted legitimate trade from tli^
merchants of the towns' and this
was unjust in that the merchants
were the supporters of the towns and
were entitled to the business, and to
a fair profit from it. The matter
of the discontinuance of this practice
is, for the present, upto the Individ- j
ual railroads, some of which have,
already notified their agents, to for-
bid selling from cars on their
property. The local agent of the San- '
ta Fe and all other agents of the
Santa Fe system, have received pos-
itive instructions to forbid the sale
of any such produce or other, articles
from cars on property owned by the
road. Agents are instructed to pre-
vent the public coming on 'the
property to buy, if thisf becomes
necessary to stop this traffic, whicli
has attained such proportions as to
be a nuisance to the railroad as well
as a menace to legitimate business.
The Santa Fe management is to be
commended for this voluntary action,
which it is hoped will be followed By
similar orders being issued by other-
roads to their agents.—Brownwood
Bulletin.
Mrs. Cathrine Blackburn of Iluli,
England, in a letter to the Eagle, re-
ceived this week, extends good
wishes to her friends in Mills county.
She is a sister of Judge George
Whitaker ajul lived at Williams
Ranch when that was a prosperous
TiUasei .
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Thompson, R. M. The Goldthwaite Eagle. (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 28, 1912, newspaper, December 28, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103444/m1/1/?q=baylis+fletcher: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.