The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1909 Page: 3 of 10
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To Ex-Confederates Was one of
the Best Ever Delivered in
Nocona—Other Events.
Large Crowds Attended on the
Second and Third Days and
All Seemed Satisfied.
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Health is Worth Saving, and
Some Nocona People Know
How to Save It
all the hard-fought fields of
war. With all their wounds and
all their honors, they rise and
plead with us for their brethren
who survive and .bid us if indeed
we cherish the memory of those
who bled in bur cause'to show
our gratitude, not by sounding
words, but by stretching out the
strong arm of the country’s
prosperity to hel^ these veteran
survivors gently down to their
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eminent at Appomattox he spoke
from a heart too great to be false,
and he spoke for every honest
man from Maryland to Texas,
for he was pious, just, human,
temperate and sincere; uniform,
stock killed, his barns empty, his
trade destroyed, his money
worthless, his social system
swept away, his people without
law or legal status, his comrades
slain, and the burdens of others
heavy on his shoulders. Crushed
by defeat, his very traditions
gone, without money, credit, em-
ployment, material or training,
and, besides all this confronted
with the gravest problem that
ever met human intelligence the
establishing of a status for the
vast body of his liberated slaves.
What does he do, this hero in
gray with a heart of gold? Does
he sit down in sulliness and de-
spair? Not for a moment. Surely
God had scorned him in his pros-
perity, inspired him in his adver-
sity ! As ruin was never before
so overwhelming, never was re-
storation swifter.
trenches into the furrow; the
horses that had charged upon
Gen. Sherman’s line marched
before the plow, and fields that
run red with human blood in
April were green with the har-
vest in June. From the ashes
left us in 1864, we have raised a
brave and beautiful South, and,
some how or other we have caught
the sunshine in the bricks and
mortar of our homes and have
builded therein not one single
ignoble prejudice or memory. It
is a rare privilege to have had
part, however humble, in this
work. Never was nobler duty
confided to human hands than
T. H. FIELD, Agent
NOCONA, TEXAS ■■mm
Many Nocona people take their
lives in their hands by neglect-
ing the kidneys when they know
these organs need help. Sick
kidneys are responsible for a
vast amount of suffering and ill
health, but there is. no need to
suffer nor to remain in danger
when all diseases and aches and
pains due to weak kidneys can
be quickly and permanently
cured by the use of Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills. Here is a Nocona
cititiz^n’s recommendation. •
B. T. Parr, Nocona, Texas,
says: ”1 have used Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills with very beneficial
results and I do not, know of any
other remedy as reliable as they.
I had a general disorder of the
kidneys and my back was very
painful and weak. The kidney
secretions were also annoying on
account of their irregularity in
passage. Doan’s Kidney Pills,
procured at Clark Bros.’ drug
store, have never failed to bring
me relief and consequently I
feel that I am making no mistake
in recommending them to other
sufferers of kidney disese.”
For sale by all dealers. Price, 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo^
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the
take no other.
South. Misguided, perhaps, but
beautiful in her suffering, and
honest, brave and generous al-
ways.
On her record of social, indus-
trial and political restoration we
await with confidence the verdict
of the world. When Gen. Lee,
I whose heart was the temple of
our hopes and whose arm was
clothed with our strength, re-
fery fine talk along lines that he
. is trying to make issues in his sponsor for the Old Soldiers dur-
race for governor. Here as in imr the reunion while Miss Annie
other places where Mr. Poindex- Winters was the Maid of Honor,
ter has spoken he addressed At the opening of the reunion
i Wednesday morning Miss Paine
I read a paper welcoming the visi-
tors to Nocona ap,d paying a very
pretty tribute to the Veterans.
The following is the paper read
biT Miss Paine:
In behalf of the old soldiers of
the Bob Stone camp and of Noco-
na as their sponsor let me wel-
come you one and all to our little
city. We assure you we will do
all in our power to make your
stay with us as pleasant as pos-
sible; come and make these old
soldiers happy. Let me ask you
my friends to picture if you can
the foot-sore soldier who, button-
ing up in his faded gray jacket
the parole which was taken, tes-
timony to his children of his fi-
delity and faith, turned his face
southward from Appomattox in
April 1865.
Think of him as ragged, half
starved, heavy hearted, enfeebled
by want and wounds. Having
fought to exhaustion he surrend-
ers his gun, wrings the hand of
his comrades, and lifting his tear-
stained and pallid face for the
last time to the graves that dot
the Virginia hills, pulls his gray
cap over his brow and begins the
slow and painful journey. What
does he find? let me ask you,
who went to your liomes eager
to find all the welcome you had
justly earned, full payment for
four years sacrifice - What does
he find—when he reaches the
home he left four years before ?
He finds his home in ruins, his
farm in ruin, his slave* freed,bis
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himself to judicial reform and
the question of prohibition. His
speech was very emphatic and
easily understood, but eloquence
played no part in the effort of
this fine old gentlemen from
ne. His speech had its
, however and it will be up
r. Johnson to take away
fk .n Judge Poindexter the votes
he made for himself on the
y hibition question.
After the opening exercises
Thursday morning the first
L speaker for the day was Con-
/ gressman Stephens who talked
for about an hour. His speech
% was almost wholly devoted to the
1 recent special session the United
I States Congress.
W Immediately after dinner Sen-
^^btor R- E. Cofer of Gainesville
A^spoke to what was probably the
largest audience during the re-
union and his address was devo-
voted to recounting the deeds
of the last state legislature and
,in defense of the administration
Of Governor Campbell. Another
important part of this address
.*♦ was Mr. Cofer’s tender methods
n telling his hearers what a good
and true man was H, Bascom
Thomas, and the eloquence and
|thos used by the gentleman
fom Gainesville in referring to
M him of expulsion fame” was
thrilling in the extreme.
Next on the program was the
speech of H. Bascom Thomas
and when he made his way to
the front of the platform and
made that pretty little bow and
broad, expansive smile, the audi-
ence was struck with awe and
notwithstanding the floor was a
dirt one yet it is highly probably
that you could have heard a pin
drop. He spoke for about an
hour and a half telling how it all
happened and it can be truthfully
said that he entertained the
people. There was no incident
during the reunion more amus-
ing than the speech of our visitor
from Sulphur Springs.
The baby show was pulled off
at the appointed hour and the
little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Miller of Pilot Point won the first
prize, which was a $10.00 go-cart
given by Mr. J. B. March. The
second prize which was a saving
bank containing $2.50 in nickels
was awarded to the little son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clark.
The Woodmen program was
only partially carried out on Fri-
day, as it was interrupted by the
cloud which came up in the after-
noon. The much looked for ad-
dress of Cone Johnson did not
marteralize because of the illness
of the gentleman from the city of
tomatoes. Mr. Johnson wired
his regrets however and it is pos-
sible that the people of this sec-
tion will have a chance to hear
this gentleman before this time
next year, as he is in the race for
the office of governor.
The balloon ascension did not
marteralize, but this was no fault
of the management and it cannot newed his allegiance to the Gov-
be truthfully said that something
was advertised which they did
not expect to get. The balloon
man signed a contract to be here
and the failure was due to his ir- ... - _ JSL,
j responsibility j dignified and commanding, his
Tbe lowaPark Band which fur-1
| nished the music for the reunion jof that example lasting. To l.h [they VI1C U1UWUK
is a good band for its age and ! equal, he was condescending; to i lines of Saratoga and Yorktowm
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throughout—vice shuddered in [ the Brandywine, from the dreary
; felt his fostering hand. His last i
scene comported with the whole
up on Friday either, tenor of his life; although in ex-
treme pain not a sigh, not a groan
escaped him, and with undis-1
’ turbed serenity he closed his I
well spent life. Such was the
man the South has lost. Such
, I was the man f6r whom our nation
mourns.
Let us imagine we can see his
august image, and hear falling
from his venerable lips these
deep sinking words: “Cease sons
of the South lamenting our sep-
aration; go on and confirm by
your wisdom the fruits of our
joint counsels, joint effects and
common dangers. • Reverence
religion, diffuse k n o w 1 e d g e
throughout your land; patronize
the arts and sciences; let liberty
and order be inseparable com- 1
panions; control party spirit;
observe good faith to and culti- ,
vate peace with all nations. Shut |
up every avenue to foreign influ-
ence; contract rather than ex-
tend national connection; rely
on yourselves only; be American 1
in thought and deed. Thus you I
will preserve undisturbed to the
latest prosterity the fidelity of a
people to me most dear; and thus i
will you supply the only vacancy '
in the round of pure bliss high
heaven bestows.”
Let us therefore exalt patriot- |
ism and moderate party conten
tion. Let those who would die U
for the flag on the field of battle I
give a better proof of their
patriotism and a higher glory to
their country by promoting a I
fraternity and justice. 1
No other people have a govern
ment mon* worthy of respect and
love, or a land so magnificent in
extent, so pleasant to bx>k upon, i
and so full of generous sugges- |
tions to enterprise and labor.
Go<l has placed upon our head a
diadem and lias laid at our feet
power and wealth beyond defin I |
tion or calculation. Let us not
inistruat the future. Dangers
have l>een in frequent ambush
along our path, but we have un
covered and vani uhhed them
all. Passion has swept some of
our communities, but only to give
us a new demonstration that the
great body of our people are
stable, patriotic and law-abiding.
No political party can long pursue
advantage at the expense of pub-
lic honor or by rude and indecent
methods, without protest and
fatal disaffections in its own
body. The peaceful agencies of
commerce are more fully reveal
ing the necessary unity of all our
communities, and the increasing
intercourse of our people is pro-
moting mutual respect. We shall
find unalloyed pleasure in the
revelation which our next census
will make of the swift develop-
ment of the great resources of
some of the states. Each state
will bring its generous contribu-
tions to the great aggregate of
the nation’s increase.
The soldiers stepped from the And when the harvest from
the fields, the„ cattle from the
hills, and the ores from earth
shall have been weighed, counted
and valued, we will turn from
them all to crown with highest
honors the state that has most
promoted education, virtue, jus-
tice and patriotism among its
people. Nor let us forget on
this memorable day, the men
who, when the conflict of counsel
was over stood forward in that
of arms.
Yet let me not, by faintly en-
deavoring to sketch do deep in-
justice to the story of their ex-
ploits. The efforts of life would ,
------------ ------ suffice to paint out this picture,
the upbuilding of the prostrate in all its astonishing incidents, !
in all its mingled colors of subli-
mity and woe, of agony and 1
triumph.
But the age of commemoration
is at hand. The voice of our
father’s blood begins to cry to
us from beneath the soil which '
it moistened. Science is bring
ing forward in their proper be- I
lief the men and the deed of that
high - souled day. The genera-
tions of contemporary worthies
is gone; the crowd of unsignal-
ized great and good disappear,
and the leaders in war as
well as council are seen in fancy-
eye to take their station on the
Mount of Remembrance. They
come from the unbattles cliffs of
Abraham; they start from the
j sods of Bunker Hill;
To his j they gather from the blazing
rrect from the blood-dyed waters of
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his presence, and virtue always 1 snows of the Valley Forge, and graves.
It, is made with foot as a. pattern; made ho skillfully that
style and comfort struggle for first phua* in your favor;
made so well that, their shape is the h.st thing to wear out.
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The reunion began Wednesday
of last week as was advertised
and it lasted for three days.
Promptly at the appointed hour
the old soldiers assembled in
front of The News office, donned
their badges and marched to the
grounds. Religious services were
led by B. T. Parr, and Rev. A. J.
Davis offered a prayer. The
morning was consumed in pre-
liminaries, but promptly at one-
thirty Congressman Morris
Sheppard took the platform and
addressed a large, attentive audi-
ence on the ‘‘Rise and Fall of the
Confederacy.” The speech of
Mr. Sheppard was probably the
most eloquent ever delivered
under the old soldiers pavilion.
The News regrets very much
not being able to print this
speech in full, but Mr. Sheppard
says it has never been reduced
to writing. But the eloquence
of the man was so evident that at
times his hearers broke down
and sobbed, especially was this
true when he recited some of the
national hymns of the great
\ations of the earth, and so elo-
quently lead to his recital of the
old confederate hymn, “Dixie.”
Another beautiful part of hisj
speech was his recount of the I
personel of the United States,
Senate in 1850, finishing his
flight with Jefferson Davis as the
peer of them all, and paying a
tribute to this ex-president of
the Confederacy, the like of
which was never 1
this section. j ing that he was compelled to go
Following Mr. Sheppard Judge to Houston on business connected
’oindexter of Cleburne made a with the office which he holds,
bry fine talk along lines that he Miss Annie Paine acted as
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Hodges, Walter. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1909, newspaper, August 27, 1909; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1253924/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.