The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 6, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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12 Pages This Week
Vol. XXV
COMMERCE. HUNT COUNTY.
No. 6
MEETING.
GREEN
OLD COMRADE GONE.
SINGING CLASS.
attending.
MRS. S. L. MOORE HOSTESS.
Salmon
C. E. Farrow visited
in
Sulphur
place
Has Been Postponed From Mon-
S E. GREEN
K. OF Pg. ENTERTAIN.
i
irst
CITY SECRETARY.
LEG BROKE
accommodate you if
ex-
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
BACK FROM WASHING
DINNER 25e.
DEATH OF OLD LADY.
T -
NEW LAUNDRY RATES.
t
9th.
son ara
CITY
Q
J
il
A
WILL MOVE TO COMMERCE
WHERE HE ENTERS BUSI
>ng terms of their i..j.
Progressive forty-two
Mr. Apperson r
market for Southern
—, receiving eight
OPENING OF
ASSOCIATION
The installation
new r
greasing in
municipal
WATER PLANT
ones
make it
I
day—Large Attendance
Desired.
behalf,
the Knights, and
as only "Punk"
serv-
con-
salad
put
at
Boston, a class
-- pastor
' Mangum
St. Louis
in plac<
furnishing
M
9
R i
p>d
k<
I
passenger
--1 Eu
charge of the
Ma„;Vo::r^X7co::|rro^ “> Meet In Green,
ville On February
Fourteenth.
I
saft
~jt wT
NEXT THURSDA -
COME OUT AND MEET SEC.
CALLCOUNTY
MASS MEETING
H. E. Crunk was over from
merce Sunday and returned M
He and Fred Anderson, who fo
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To Be Installed f "
Ceremony—Visiting Min-
isters to Assist.
'sued a
mass
(February 14th.
TEXAS, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY B. 1914
NIGHT IS REGULAR BOARD OF TRADE
’ASTORS FORM
ASSOCIATION
GOOD ROADS
MEETING SAT.
ifested.
merce are
The i---* "
about two v '
steam for the c—
compressor and old
K\V.y
It
Commerce's
• is pro-
man-
has
Phitf. S. E. Green has been elec
as secretary of the Commerce Bo
of Trade to succeed C. S. Welsch,
signed. The change was made j
tgrday, and Secretary Green is noy-^
Eharge. .
As Secretary for the past th
months, Mr. Welsch has done a
of hard work and the results h
a good dinner. 13 [ look into them,
FREE FLOWER SEED.
pl
I
---- cattle.
was hostess to the ped the
on the day he sold,
cents.
6
• post at the’
~ — — —————— ■ a 1 to
week Horace and
while driving W. F. Cor-
been gratifying. The peo|*
will ever remember him ki*
•wish him success in whata*
he may cast his lot
Mr. Green has lived in (♦
a good many years and is F
favorably known to everybq
has been engaged in teachir
College for about ten years ,
ability is genrally recognised. 1
devote his entire time to the Boi
Trade and will carry forwan
good work that has been and is
done.
Mrs. Jno. Baxter and little s
home from a visit to Shennan.
Ministers of the City Organ-
ize To Meet Once Every
Month.
Mayor C. J. Debenport
last week from a trip t
ington. While there he mel
Theppard. Congressman Ray
many. >V?er notables. He l
fine trif^
Tabh'a is the place to I
of things cheap for cast!
•: Funny PaJ
I I
Be sure you gfl
■ • Comic Suppleinel
; sued with The Jl
<; every week. I w
■ • dont read i t, t»
;; home to the chil#
: Remember the E
' ones. t
ed for F '
determine who is the
favor prohibition
J man in-
of saloons
this mass
movement to
■ to the end
™aYnot make the mistake we
of C„
municipal water plant
' „ l-i a very satisfactory
ner. Engineer R. l
of the work.
new boiler has been
--J weeks and is
-J operation of the old
i -----Pump.
the largest type of boiler L.._
uch cheaper than the'old
r' 1 and labor.
office as as-
Today R. C. Dial, county prohibition
j chairman appointed recently by Dr. C.
Will Soon Be Completed. Street
Lights Free to Those
Who Wire.
CHANGE IN »h'1
SECRETARIP"'
US t<
S. E. Grem Succeeds Welsch
Senary Board of
vj ,rade.
McKinney, former pastor, who wiil
propound the consti-
J to the pastor and
Mrs. Guy Taylor of Texarkana is
here visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. Thornton.
Merchants Retail Credit Asso-
ciation Announces Ready
For Business.
secretary, assess-
, which will
more convenient for you
. etc.
“r1—F ** w« wiU
This
wash-
you to show a record for prompt
payment of your obligations before
tending the courtesy of credits. Give
the merchants evidence that you are
entitled to credit and you will have
no trouble. If you fail to do this,
don’t get sore at the merchant when
be refuses to accommodate you.
THE MERCHANTS RETAIL CRED-
IT ASSOCIATION.
Origin "Whisky."
of^he “ A“«llel«*> form
mJ-nto' l’.r , * C<’IUC wort
Irtab word ulsque. ‘’V don* ch*aply.
«*>• «<rta the wvrd »KGky. CITY gn
SIX CARS OF CATTLE.
W. F. Apperson and Joe
returned last week from bv. x-ou.s , „
W .!,re 8i* ear loads of senatorial chairman, is-
says he top-
-------1 cattle
Mrs. S. L Moore Was hnstaoo 1
at the home of Mrs
-----—•/ afternoon 11
After an hour of pleasant work---’ '
ad course was served,
ty ladies were present.
a candidate for re-election to
The records for the Merchants Re-
»n will be ready
on February 1, 1914. por
| the benefit of those who have not paid
I Z.“. ■“',t year s accounts the records
open for 15 days to give resPect not known, but it l._„
\ J pay or make sat- ®“^e8t*d that, owing to the tact that
on finances, a
------! people that,
bear the expense
streets, the city will
street lights free. This
------—iness and resi-
dence sections. It would be a good
proposition and, *
run. 1
---* ww x-a*
On. nF u ----°n the line8’ Meier .Who
One of them broke and he was thrown
out and became entangled in the other
and was dragged some distance. Be-
sides bad bruises about the face, his
left leg was broken below the knee
so that the bone protruded several
— . [inches. He was carried home where <
They came froighe received medical
Tnow on the road to
| Mr. Henderson is
'Mrs. W. M. Henderson .. ,ln
.than ^?Jye,rs .old h* has * wife ed against all
ac- paid by that time.
C. J. DEBENPORT, Mayor.
r^LO,»S E Gr““' Ch*irm»I> of the
Good Road. Committee, requests the
Journal to announce that the meeting
called lor next Monday ha. been
off until Saturday. February 7th.
Which a full attendance is hoped for
Mr Green and Mr Harbert were dele-
Mate, to the Good Roads Convention at
Ft. Worth this week
Supply music and everything
propitious for a fruitful meeting.
A cordial invitation, of course,
extended to the public to attend.
Notice
to*the eIm 4”“ m" P*r“e’ in<,eb‘«<*
mit. TeX*’ Norni»* College Com.
csll.^VkX".? .7boTc'ePti’“’ ”
amount of your indebtedness ZiUbl
Placed i„ (he hand. of a collec~“£
from th° H J0" COmmi‘'« borrowed
ind . ink,,° re'’',ll<l the college
*nd,‘owe, a balance now of $7 500 00
^‘'herw.th interest. wh.chi,p.^e
e n,n” ** P*id You should not
<P«ct to ride the Comm.ttee longer
Committee.
Mra. D. L. Cummings of Klon-
dike i« visiting her oistar Mrs.
Fincher and b®r par—tn* J, I
[tracting business.
Mr. Greer is qualified to make the
/ as good a treasurer as any
that have ever served the county.
While he is getting up in years he
is as active as a man of forty.
He has a desire to serve the people
of Hunt county in this capacity and
will appreciate anything done for
him, either at or before the elec-
tion. If elected he promises a faith-
ful discharge of his duties.
I am
the office of City Secretary, Assessor isfactory
and Collector.
I have held the office one and one-
half terms and in offering myself
candidate for re-election I do
the following propositions:
It is a democrat <
•n office holder at least two terms in
office.
My experience in the
Bessor of the p————*
Of the funds in the various depart-
ments, make me thoroughly conver-
sant with the details of those depart-
ments which n0 one can acquire in
less than one term, hence I am just
serve you ef-
The proceeds of the office toerpfhor
The people of Charity, south of
1 a singing class
Charity every Sunday
call for democratic prohibition
meeting to be held in Greenville charge
The call is as follows:
"All democrats who are prohibition-
ists, in Hunt county, are urged to
meet at the court house Saturday,
February 14th, for the purpose of se-
lecting delegates to the Fort Forth
"convention of democrats who are for
state wide prohibition which was call-
ed for Saturday, February 21st to
determine who is the man for the
< a L democrats who favor prohibition to
Nunday With unlt« on for governor. Every
. terested in the overthrow
in Texas should attend
| meeting and help the 1—
[get the forces together 1
that we 1---
made in 1910.
...".V is heliev’ed by Judge A. W.
of the move-
» on one can-
ac-
! wherever they will
1 of wiring the
i furnish the f-
would apply to both bugii
It would be
no doubt, would be
. . . ..... .......— vx vne pUS*‘ng puttinK in ornamental metal
Association have a right to require ..bt posts at regular intervals on both
eS of the str«t. This would be
much more attractive than the old
way^of unsightly po)es and ovefheJ
On next Sunday the pastor elect,
Rev. William A. Rolle, will be for-
mally installed pastor at the 11 o’clock
service. The installation sermon will Walker, state chairman <
M,.P-Ia-hed?y ReV’ E' B' Fineher of ment to unite our forces
didate or man that this will be
complished at the Ft. Worth meeting
the 21st R. c. DIAL,
“County Chairman.”
also preside and ]
tutional questions
congregation.
Rev. Rudolph of New T
mate in the seminary of the
elect, will deliver the charge to the
vTn? and Rev- J' A Williams of
It. Pleasant will deliver the charge to
the congregation.
The public is cordially invited to this
impressive ceremony and service in
Commerce’s friendly home-like church.
Sabbath school will
promptly at 9:45 and r
' one of the visiting?
Preach. Come and tail Credit Associatio,
i for service i
I their last r
| will be held
an opportunity to
isfactory arrangements, before your the citJ’ >■ very short In
ratmg IS recorded. Your future cred- ProPosiion be made to the
It will be based on your past record, i
as If you are reported to the Association
so on for not Payng your last year’s ac- i
counts, you will find it hard to get
custom to give further credit till you have paid or
arranged to settle same. 1
--T?2_Cr!d!t merehant 's anxious to a^c®P‘ed generally. The blsills,
ProPerty, and collector to credit; but the memlZre 71'the
in voriAiis J____
’Squire W. A. O’Neal received a -
I:‘Tam/adn-day ^forming him town, have organized
of the sad news that his old comrade which meets at C
and captain for three and a half vears k« -
during the war, Capt. G. E. Thomas, ' M“Ch ,nterest *’ beinl
was dying at his home in Columbus,
Ga. Mr. O’Neal is a Georgian and he
was back there during the spring of
1912 and spent two weeks visiting
Capt. Thomas.
The Journal is authorized to an-
nounce J. L. Greer as a candidate for
^ county treasurer of Hunt county, sub-
to ject to the democratic primary in July.
Mr. Greer is a native of Georgia
way of type- but came to Texas some 20 years ago
*> etc., more 1 " ’
T , worth of office fixtures
to i— •
which has COST THE CITY
emetery Association will j ING, in order that I might more
inner, Saturday, February 14, curately keep the city records
Aunt Rebecca Shrtden. famiU.rly ?„Ttei7X7 .Th com.T y°V'’d y°Or to I
’Aunt Becca,” passed .w.y good cause. Menu: Baked hen, d're,,’ let me SHOW vol how’7hT T
mvy, roast, salads, pick.es, the city books. XT
was conducted Wedne.-!coffee. Only X'e/n TVnte "theT^iX" Tsre
|J °. Simpson and L. B. England, who
checked them each month for twelve
I months.
of On the merits of the above propo-
------v my candidacy to you.
you in advance for your
—.J vote, I am.
Yours very truly,
S. C. PRICE.
It is of
™ !. V ------- and produces
team much cheaper than the old one,
requiring less fuel and labor. It also
has a much larger capacity than the
The new Skinner engine is in
and bned up on it. concrete found.-
tion This engine includes a dynamo
foU; T ,tS S,haft’ Which is t0
Ind r u?g/ ectricity for street hghts
and hghts for the city’s use. No elec-
tricity will be sold.
The compressor, .nd pump are be
°n their foundations but have not
’• T,en P'aeed ,n Position and lined up
■ L y ar! Oth much ,ar(?er and later
improved machines than the old
and when in operation will
easy to furnish all the water that
h®rke be any demand for.
The building covering the plant has
C<’.mp,ated’ « » both commod-
ious and substantial.
About two weeks will be required
Jet to complete the installation of the
nmchinery and to put in place all thl
Pipes and fittings.
edTtotn’dMmaChineS WiH later be mov-
ed into the new building and kent
ready for use in case of emergency A.
suhstantml reduction is promised in
double rateS 3S ,OOD as
double equipment is completed,
at th >aI?he machiner>’ * installed
str ht the matter of wiring f°r
street lights will be taken up.
-IT the Cit?’ C°Uneil wiU do in this
... ■ — -t has been
the R. F. Jones furniture sto
undertaking department and tl
now in charge.
Mr. Crunk ie staying there aJ
Crunk will join him in about!
days. They are most excellent
and the Banner regrets to sJ
move away.
merce here and are very welJ
the people of that little, city.-I
vill^ Banner.
On Wednesday of last
Henderson
nelius’ grocery wagon in the north
Sy hfuri°WTh.WL’ T °Ut “* tertain"’ent in‘‘their’
. a "", Th U,m b^ante fright- credit is due C “
ened and started to run Mr Hen i.li„ . z-J 7 "‘‘,KnvB- «na
re.1d_ed thia city, have puif dereon beg.n to puII b.ck on jgj °w^,n^r
’pared no trouble nor la- The proceeds of the office together
----- „ie big success w,th my insurance business justify me
so that when I
con-
The secretary of the Board
„? a supply of flow- sitions I submit
, to be distributed free to
persons desiring to beautify their
premises. As long as they last they j
may be had by calling at the Board)
of Trade rooms.
NOTICE!
Ail parties who have i
closet license
attention, and is tion of the law,
recovery. r -------
a son of Mr. and subject to l
While he is February 7th
fand two children, which makes the
I cident the more unfortunate.
The team ran into c
depot and stopped without harm
themselves or the wagon .
Thimble Club,
R- R. Hewitt Wednesday
an 1 "
t work a sal-_
About twen- C. Z.
Springs last week.NEW PASTOR OF
PRESBYTERIANS
commence;
at the evening 1
■ ..I—2a.*
Come
Beginning Monday. February
25 per cent off on all flat work,
is a chance to hare your family
Cotton Belt Collision.
A head-on colli.to. -t |wifch
station oat of Ft
the Cotton Belt, between
and fast freight
J resulted in
the freight cart. The
■p bat no one serioasly
•re operating in viola-*
- WWW. weSi.1
■ tllnlaaoa A. -
---- -Da fine for each day. On " ‘
a complaint will be fil- make it
The local pastors met on last Mon-
lay morning at the Baptist pastorum
or the purpose of organizing a Com-
nerce Pastor’s Association and after
everal preliminary talks by those
Tresent on the benefits, etc., of such
in organization, it was resolved to go
nto a permanent organization. Rev.
D. Allen was elected president and
i ^ev- iHiam A. Rolle, secretary. The
£ ■egular meetings were appointed for
he first Monday morning of every
nonth at the Baptist church.
p Among several important matters
[Up, nformally discussed was the holding
■f an “Everybody in Church” day in
. Jommerce, the date to be set at the
lext meeting of the association. ‘
Those present at this meeting were
Revs. J. D. Allen, S. G. A. Fields,
I. T. Bryant, A. P. Terrell and Wil-
iem A. Rolle. It is the hope and
Purpose of the association to enlist
■very minister in town of whatever de-
nomination, as such an association as
Ais cannot fail to bring the heartiest
I "-operation between all the churches
xnd result in the greatest good for
■ [ ommerce in a religious way, because
In unity there is strength.
----
° MEETING TO
BEGIN SUNDAY i Tuesday night last week Commerce
1 Lod*e N°- 95 Knights of Pythias en-
n . . : tertamed the Pythian Sisters and oth-
Revival of Year to Be ers ellff'bi^ to membership in same
Held at Methodist IWlth an open meeting. While careful
Church P d been Iaid for a" enjoyable
Lnurch. evening, there wa8 no set program nor
fOn"al,ty’ th* wcasion being marked J
itv ‘ ,TSbmPl‘dty and eenuine hospital- Service at" 7M5
, ...........
definitely. Services will be held twice ’>rM8ed themselves in the r— * •" * y°“r fr,end8-
—J week. The
fully d ♦^morning services will begin at 10:00
and | --J — •
, which the audience
two sides for an
ing match, Prof,
ing from the old
Fincher and W. W. Sherrill
ones
T. net
en
TJicj
’"I* ^.A protracted meeting will begin at
r<4> jh** Methodist church next Sunday
,'ebruary 8th, and will continue in
—«xw. 1 /definitely. Services wil’ ’ • - -
Mr. Green, as chairman of tha~plaily throughout the
Roads Committee, has
atrated his executive
abRity. °'clock-
The present condition of the E ®ev- Bryant, the pastor, will con-
of Trade is good. Several new tbe services. He is an able and "’“h’*1, Pr°f- A. L. Day pronounc-
bers have come in this month aWorceful Preacher and his sermons are ,r°m the o,d “B,ueback.” W. H.
payment of dues is satisfactorjtjF°T spirituality. A good choir will er and Sherrill were the
■ —8 solytT/raining up wh- th*»
■ >de turned down their last opponent
,a -Irs. Jim smith was the last to go
down on her side.
Refreshments, such
knows how to prepare, were then
ed at the game tables. These
(sisted of pimento sandwiches,
hot chocolate and wafers.
The ladies were profuse in their ex-
pressions of appreciation of the en-
Much I
espec-!now *n 8 position to
E. J. Ticiently.
. I Th.
in keeping a clerk r
am out of the office, which the
duct of the City’s business necessi-
tates, you can always get waited on
not paid their when coming to the office.
I have leased a down-stairs office.
will be located the i-----*
or and collector’s office,
make it r— ,
persons who have not Pay taxes, water rent,
I have added in the t.)
j writers, adding machine,
than $350.00 worth of off
my office in the last three years’
NOTH-
ac-
large attendance of
J and they all ex-
—J most pleas-)
enjoyment.
aj . , , ' , . ’ —■’■■■ 1_ •' *"J and other
bu 3° c,ock and the evening services at *ranies were played for a time after
o’clock. th?Lt.he.aa<,ience was chosen into
old fashioned spell-
Vi j * *
Ajduct the services. J' '
_ Porceful preacher and his
payment of dues is satisfactorjSruR spirituality.
Executive Committee is doing tl®
lecting in pairs. "Every citizen s
help by paying his dues proi
The best way is to call at the
of Trade office and pay Sec
Green.
> and has resided in Hunt county since
1887. For a number of years he liv-
and five years ago moved to Green- Worth on the Cotton
pil e where he has been doing a con- P**«enger train No i(U .r -
W’ Thorxdxy morning
cons.dec.bted.m^ lo the e
weree.bLhe,re“h,Car’
were xhaken — - -
hurt.
fhJhe ,re,*ht k*4* h*d stopped to go on
the n n* b”’ b*,ore *' could back in
•h« passenger came up ud rM into it
r..„ the engine
ere un*bl« «o see very far, which
contubuted to the accident.
Conductor Musgrove ;nd Engineer
Conder were in charge of the
train and Conductor Hawkins and
gineer Gamble were in
freight.
The
serve
I upstairs
| luesaaj or last week at her home ing, gravy, roast, anted. I th- u__,
| on Bonham street after a long illness, cranberries, celery
I The funeral Wfifi cnnriiiesf Ael 1 •_
day by Rev. J. D. Allen, pastor of the
| j Baptist church, and the remains laid
to rest in Rose Mound cemetery.
The deceased was an aunt of S. A.
Fain. She had no children and her j trade is in receipt of
husband had been dead a number of er seed sent bv
years. She was i----“ •
oT A good, Christian woman Rayburn,
has gone to her reward. The bereav-
ed family has the sympathy of the
community.
f
approved.
’urner and
i fined SI
ty theft.
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