The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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No. 23
COMMERCE. HUNT COUNTY. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JUNE 5. 1914
Vol. XXV
HORSE FELL DEAD
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
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TO PIANO OWNERS.
Opening song led by W. R.
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D. HARBERT, P. JI.
In case of S. Spence by next best
carried him
carried by autos to Ladonia
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tion of I. Nobles.
Life
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ANOTHER DOCTOR.
DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY.
DEATH OF MRS. ALLEN.
BROKE HIS ARM.
MISS ENGLAND COMPLIMENTED
teat* or
Sold in Commerce by Hundley Drus?
Those
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ost
REMOVED TIMOR.
- AN AUTO PARADE.
Improvement
DEATH IN COUNTRY.
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Mrs. J. R. Naler and sons, Lloyd
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agreement on
SUN. PROGRAM
GOOD INTEREST
BEING SHOWN
Good Attendance At Every
Service.
TRACK MEET
POSTPONED
IS
snta
flute,
Leon
R. L. Porter, Jr., of Greenville paid
The Journal a pleasant call while here
attending the League Conference, He
is a son of Judge R. L. Porter and is
THE WEEK’S
COURT NEWS
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The case of Brothers
Belt, in which Brothers
ledy
ck
roar
», a,
■ as
the
unt-
Casses and Prices of Chautauqua
Tickets.
I loss to Mr. West.
I old Pitts place.
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» Act.
oar
he*.
Hty
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hen
will
;h cards
precinct
anyone.
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The following business improvement
in Com-
\iss
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Three Surveys Made—May Go
Class History, Ancient vs. Modern gv jacobja and South
Sulphur.
: Annie Bachman,
meeting held Wednesday of the < jan; George Durham,
See S. B. Douglas & Son for that
new bath tub.
Cullings From
Courts at Greenville
Last Week.
chau- Wheeler, Floyd Ferguson, Lillie Mae
representative, the following Clifton, Leslie Clifton, Oran Culber-
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date.
SPECULATION ON
MIDLAND ROUTE
MEETING IS NOW IN PROGRESS AT BAPTIST CHURCH—CHAUTAUQUA STARTS NEXT WEDNESDAY
CONFERENCE
BIG SUCCESS.
,, for wee ending June 5, 1914:
Black, Dr. R. C.
Baird, B. F.
Cherry Robert.
Elliott, Green.
Gully, Jack.
Johnson, C. W.
Lagley, Jno.
Seals, J. D.
Subman, Nuegent.
Whorton, John R.
Murphy, Mrs. S. D.
Pilgrim. Mrs. S. W.
Parker, Mrs. L. V.
Porter, Mrs. Sallie.
Whirter, Miss.
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PROGRAM WAS
A GOOD ONE
: as,
Commerce Jtonnifll.
tton ana
it to use
ndy soils
referable
his early
or har-
ass and
fine con-
’or chop-
the «.
ItivaflQl
South is
rapidly
he great
iition to
he extra
>e culti-
season tickets are for sale by
and at the prices indicated:
the
Miss
Durham told of what the fourth de-
parment of the League has accomp-
lished. Talks were made by many
others.
Presiding Elder Harless was call-
ed and made a splendid talk in be-
half of the African Mission field.
P. H. Perkins
from a trip to Florida. He went , . ,
down there with the reunion crowd At lhe close ofJhe
uu meie ,,ne young man came forward and
j surrendered his life for the ministry
and one for mission work, and three
others united with the church on
j profession of faith,
an
A A. Ablo-
for the
son, Dillard Estes.
Following is the program:
Invocation—Rev. S. G. A. Fields.
The Witches Flight, (piano duet.)
Russel—Essie Cloe Harbert, Kate
Olive.
Chorus, Morning Invitation—Class.
Salutatory, Foreign Immigration to
United States—George Durham.
Annual Event U ill Be Held At
The College Next
Monday. #
If you got a can of Ross’ ''Dead
Quick" Spray day before yesterday,
round and used it well, you are today with-
out bedbugs, ants, fleas, chicken
Miss Greer told how o interest old (mites, plant and vegetable insects. If
for
i them
heap as
in the
a Missouri officer
The session of the Greenville Dis-
trict Epworth League and Sunday
All kinds of second-hand sewing;
machines for sale or trade.—G. W. |
Fulton, Singer Sewing Machine. is a son vi «. u. — — —
Agent. j preparing to enter the practice of iaw.
Commerce Chautauqua Starts
Next Wednesday—Classes
A Prices of
The live days Cha
held here
with song service. Pastors present
discussed ’What the League means
to the church.”
A place for the next meeting was ^<1 Arthur, have returned from •
next in order and Campbell was se-1 viait to Waco.
Prices of Tickets. j
days Chautauqua to be
under the auspices of the
Civic Improvement League, will open
next Wednesday, June 10th.
As originally planned, the Chau-
tauqua was to close on Sunday, but
the pastors of the several churches |
of the city raised an objection to the
List of letters remaining unclaimed
in the post office at Commerce, Tex-
—
High School Graduating Class
Held Commencement Ex-
ercises Friday.
reciuu ui me cviisci * awi j.
While all was so very excellent is
hard to specialize, but the program
contained a variety suited to every
fine taste in music and was a fitting
finnale to a splendid year’s work by
both teachers and pupils.”
lected by a unanimous vote.
Resolutions were adopted thank-
ing Commerce League, Sunday school
large and attenive audience, using and all others who contributed in any
for his subject, ‘The Call to Service", way to the pleasure and success of
the meeting.
Movements for Civic Improvements j few weeks since that they would build and changes are taking place
pat- ■ and their Value—Grace Harrison.
can be
was securea m Mrs. S. J. Allen passed away at the
Normal compete home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L.
-----> adver- Harrison, in the north part of the
1 tickets to all
who attend their Normals.
Mr. O. C. Mulkey underwent
operation at his home last Friday to
have a tumor removed from his side.
was
Statement From Mayo.
A Chautauqua Word:
As there seems to be a little con-
fusion over the special rates we se-
cured for the students of the College, fiuence for our town.
I beg to state that all of our tickets Vej.y sincerely>
and children’ tickets samped with, w MAY0.
“ Special Students Tickets,
to t----—.
students of the College
gean 1
the final grand chorus and orchestra
number, “The 150th Psalm," the lat-
ter a composition by Dr. Arnold, di-
rector of the conservatory.
The Texas Midland announced a
Movements for the Preservation of way of Jacobia and South Sulphur.
I Tile
The International Peace Movement, t|iat neecj?
|—Floyd Ferguson. I that will give more traffic, it occurs
The following classes of Chautau-
qua aeason tickets are for sale by
persons and at the prices indicated: ’4'e'
1. Adult ticekts, $2.00 each, by
the ladiee of the Civic improvement ,
League. |
2. Children’s tickets, $109 each,
good for children from 7 to 14 years
of age inclusive, by the ladies of,
the Civic Improvement League.
3. Special Students’ tickets, $1.00
each, good for persons in attendance
at the normal and not by other mem- (
bers of their families, as are the
adult and regular children’s tickets.
They have the form of he children's |
ticets but are stamped SPECIAL
STUDENTS TICKET, and
stamped thus, adult students them- bugintss
selves will not be admitted on them.
For sale by A. E. Godwin at the Col-
lege office.
The World's Greatest Engineering
Feats—Oran Culberson.
Fifth Air Varie, violin, Doncla—
! Virgean England
j Class Prophecy, Activities of Anc-
ient and Modern Women—Lillie Mae
| Clifton.
Valedictory. The Country
Movement—Annie Bachman.
Polonaise a major, piana, Chopin
Op. 40 No. 1—Fae Hawkins.
Presentation of diplomas.
Benediction.
The following extract is taken
from the Greenville Banner’s write-
up of Miss Virgean England’s recent
recital at that place.
“Especially worthy of note
the violin solo by Miss Gertrude Ar-
nold, the piano selection by Miss V i’-
England, the vocal numbers and
i and remained to visit relatives.
people in Sunday school work and 5’0u did not, then get it today,
was followed by Capt. W. E. Man- £------- ---- ..
gum. j Company.
The evening service was opened
with a splendid song service and de-
votional led by Rev. Davis, Rev. As-
ton occupied the pulpit and used for
his subject, “The joy ow soul win-|
ning.”
..... He one >'oun8
reports a very enjoyable time but
says that country is burnt up and
little prospect for a crop. Rain
needed badly.
The exercises of the graduating
class of the Commerce High School
were held at the Christian church last
Friday night. A pleasing program
was rendered by the class, which is
one of the strongest to graduate tn
a long time.
Following are the members of the
Chautauqua running on Sunday. At class: Annie Bachman, valedictor-
a meeting held Wednesday of the • ian; George Durham, salutatorian;
ministers of the town ,the secretary Jewel Olive, Grace Harrison, Herbert
of’the Board of Trade and a
tauqua
agreement was
day program
F. T. Todd, D. C-, arrived here last
week and expects to locate in Com-
merce. Doctor Todd is a chiropractor
and he has been practicing his prc-
I fession for the past four years in
Cameron county. Chiropractics is a
method of treating by rubbing, some-
thing like osteopathy.
returned Monday
He
She had been a long and
was a . good
While J. W. West was driving along
| Pecan street in the south part of
his horse
small bridge Attendance Larjje and Program
Interesting From Start to
a short Finish.
It was a
s a
the j
School Institute closed Monday af-
fine school, rich lands and prosper- I
ous citizenship who need better facil-
ities for reaching the market.
South Sulphur, over on the North
side of South Sulphur creek, is well
night an equal distance between
Greenville, Wolfe City and Commerce
and too far from either place to per-
mit the fullest development directly
west of Commerce, so that the build-
ing of the Midland road via South
Sulphur would not be a circuitous
route and yet would give a traffic to
the Midland not to be had on any
other line between this city and Com-
merce.
If, from an engineering standpoint,
the going by Jacobia and South Sul-
phur is not extravagant, and we see
no reason why it should be, the rail-
road facilities of Hunt county would
be more thoroughly improved by this
done short of getting a new road en-
tirely.—Greenville Messenger.
On Thur-day evening of last week ,
Grady Bickley, the 14 year old son
of Mr. and Mys. Wm. Bickley, broke
his arm by running against a build-
ing while skating on roller skates.
city at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon
of last week following an illness of '
nearly three months.
The funeral services were held at
the home of Mr. Harrison at 1:30
(o’clock Friday, conducted by Rev. B.
IF. Bryant, after which the remains j
I were laid to rest in Rose Mound
Baptist Meeting In Progress-
a number of years had made her
home with her children. About three
months ago she came to stay with
Mrs Harrison and soon after was tak-
en ill and was never able to leave
her bed again. She was a consecrat-
ed Christian woman and from early
life had been a faithful member of
the Methodist church.
Four children survive her: Mrs.
•W. Harrison, Commerce; Mr*
Beggs of Ben Wheeler; Mrs Stamps
| of Randolph, and James Allen of
i Rising Star.
All the children were at her bed-
side when the summons came except
James Allen, who was kept at home
account of sicness in his family.
The annual track and field meet
■ to have been held at he College last
Monday, was postponed until next
Monday, June 8, on account of the
rain.
Beginning at 9 o’clock the meet
> will be held under the auspices of
the Young Men’s Christian Associa-
tion of that institution. A list of
the entrees was published in the last
issue of he Journal. Eince then,
however, several more have entered.
The program of the meet will be dis-
j tribued to the spectaors next Mon-
day. Everyone invited. The meet
The afternoon session was opened win held on the College Athletic
fields.
town Sunday afternoon
stepped off the end of a
and fell. There was no evidence that
the horse was hurt but after it has [
recovered its feet and gone
| distance it dropped dead. lv
■ go>d horse and its death is quite
He lives on 1
| ternoon following one of the best:
I m^ptincrc since it« nri/anization. ' _ . ______ ___ ___
plaintiff in every court.
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G. F. Cooper vs G. W. Dixon, et al,
in county court resulted in a verdict
The following committees were bJ the favoring ^plaintiff.
Will Jones, negro, and a negro wo-
man were arrested at Quinlan and
plea»e say advertised and give ; week and attended the league con- Smith. placed in jail on charges of adultery.
Finance S. E. Green, Mrs. J. B. jn case g gpence by next best
Greer. Leon Bethel, Rev J. V. Davis, fijend. suit for damage5 against the
Miss Eula McQuire. . Texas Midland railroad, the jury re-
The roll call of delegates: Kavan-: turned a verdict for defendant rail-
augh 27; Commerce 10; Celeste 11; i road.
i Lee Street 12; Jacobia 2; Campbell 9;
j Merit 2; Fairlie 3; Quinlan 3.
Improvements and Enterprises
Made and to be Made
In Commerce.
—
Th.- revival meeting in progress at
the B.U‘«t church has already, re-
sulted 8s manifestation of a deep
and sirSL interest on the pait of
the Christian people of the several
denominations of the city.
Rev. Forrest Smitfi of Sherman
arrived Monday evening and has
since been doing the preaching. He
is a highly spiritual man and an able
preach^ of the gospel. His work is
on a high plane and is free from the
abusive and browbeating methods
employed by some preachers.
Services are held twice daily, at 10
a. m. and 8:15 p. tn. The ministers
of all the churches are participating
in the meeting and everybody of any
er no denomination is invited to at-
i their own line from Greenville to .
The Preservation of our Forests— Commerce, abandoning the joint track
- ------1 when the chau- Herbert Wheeler. arrangement with the Cotton Belt.
----1 is being made. Fur-j Woodland Echoes, piano, Wyman Two surveys have- been made and
announcement will be made as Fannie Mae Olive. the third survey is now under way by
from the Chautauqua ’’
be had. I Health—Jewel Olive.
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J. H. Shockley, charged with forg-
President Baker made a short ad- ery at Blanton, Mo., was arrested near
dress reviewing the work of the con- IV olfe City and jailed at Greenville
' . 1 reminded them that Com-) until
had twice before enterained the away.
(feience and
merce 1 1 .
body.
P.ev. J. V. Davis delivered an ad-
I dress on the work of the Sunday
i school and urged specialization, more
concentration and definite work.
Miss Orleta Payne was appointed
1 press reporter.
At he evening hour a special fea-
ture was a special song by Kavan-
augh and Lee Street Leagues. Devo- I
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Greenville.
Mr. Wilerson delivered the welcome
address for the Commerce League
and Rev. R. F. Bryant for the Sun-
day school. Response by C. L.
Bounds of Greenville and Rev. Rar-
rison Baker.
The Sunday session began with a
sunrise prayer meeting led by Leon Line trustee election resulted in el*e-
Bethel of Greenville. At 9:30 the
regular services of the Sunday school
were held. At eleven o’clock Rev.
D. H. Aston of Wesley College
preached a very fine sermon to a
reached on the Sun-
situation, and the prop-
osition was referred to the President (
of the Chautauqua for approval: Mr.
Woodman is to give his sacred chalk-
talk Sunday afternoon, the churches
will hold a union senice at the chau-
tauqua tabernacle Sunday night and
have a sermon or lecture by Rev.
Beery, and the Italian Marine Band
•will give its concert Monday forenoon Athletics—Dillard Estes,
and l»e carried by autos to Ladonia Leibes fruhling (violin,
for their afternoon engagement. piano.) Erhliele—Mrs Moody,
It is sincerely hoped this arrange- Rutland, Pauline Rutland,
znent will prove satisfactory to the,
Chautauqua management and
rons, and that this question
settled next season
tauqua contract
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soon as a repy
president can
John Duckett, negro, was jailed on
burglary charge.
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City of Commerce
wich resulted in a verdict
The Civic Improvement League
gave an auto parade Tuesday after-
noon at four o’clock advertising the
Chautauqua. The autos were decor-
ated with pennants and a number of
autos were out. Music was furnish-
ed by the Commerce concert band.
Monday was another great day.;
The morning service opened with
song and prayer service led by Miss
Dial who read a lesson and com-
mented on the subject of preparation
for service. Mr. DeShong of
, , . Rubv-Kendrick memorial fund.
The operation was successful ana
he is no wconvalescent.
meetings since its organization.
The Conference met Saturday af-
Mr. Obenchain, the piano tuner, is ternoon at 2:30, President Baker pre-
now in the. city. He will be here sidjng
until next week, stopping at the Mur- Harrison, prayer by Rev. D. H. As
lay House. it ton.
The above letters will be sent to ----- then appointed:
the dead letter office after two weeks N^iss Eula McGuire of Celeste vis- Resolutions—D. H. Aston, Misses
merce
The Postoffice Building, owned by
W. J Taylor, has been re-plastered and
j calcimined.
by Preparations are being made for put-
■ ting a modern front in the DeJernett
building on the west side of the square
The latter survej- covers a section . s ,
.. . . . now owned by Dave ablowich and oc-
— 5 a ra“road m°st and one cupied by the M A Tabb Grocery j tional services led by Joe Utting of
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Mazurka brilliante, piano, Schultze to us, than any Une that could be se- Maloney is finishing the brick
—Kate Olive. ! lected in going from Greenville to work oq fwo new. balldings oa Wash.
The Good and Evil Effect of Labor ( Commerce. logton Street They win cover 74 by
The distance between the Shreve- 100 feet and wjjj be finished in the
port branch of the Katy and the Cot- , most modern way with sky-lights,
ton Belt east is not sufficient to leave , metal ceilings and awnings, plate glass
any undeveloped territory of conse-1 fronts, etc.
quence between these two lines for' A A Ablowich will soon have his
the Midland. i new building on Main Street complete
Jacobia is quite a little village, with and will occupy it himself
a fine school, rich lands and prosper-1 The trouts of the T. I. Knight, D E
Max welt and W. P. Schluter buildings,
on the North side of the square are
are being torn out and rebuilt with
high grade brick, plate glass and metal
awnings. The T I. Knight building
formerly occupied by the W. F. Cor-
nelius grocery store is being re-
plastered and is to b« occupied by the
Commerce Drug Company, a Drug and
Jewelry establishment under the man-
agement of Boyd Bagwell, John Brigance
and J. E. Boswell.
' The East Texas Normal College
campus has been well graded and con-
crete fountains and 14000 square feet
of concrete walk are now being con
, structed on the campus; 11500 square
feet is already finished.
The above article was sent yesterday
by Sec Green of the Board of Trade as
news items to the State Press, through
the Texas Business Men’s Association
of Fort Worth.
vs Cotton
was given
judgment for $6,000 has been reversed
and remanded for a new trial and mo-
tion for new trial in the Court of Civil
, Appeals was overruled. This will
■ bring this suit back to Hunt County
for another try out.
♦ ♦ •
The county commissioners are sit-
ting as a board of equalization but
found time to recall the Commerce
road bond election and canvas school
elections. May district, No. 68 voted
a 15 cent tax by a majority of 1, the
vote being 16 to 15. This is an in-
crease of 5 cents as they already had
a 10 eent tax. Fairview increased
from 15 to 40 cents 11 to 1. County
Mrs. H. M. Lovelace died st her
home four miles west of Commerce
Monday and was buried at Sweatbox
cemetery,
patient sufferer and
Christian woman.
Sunday afternoon was one of the
best services held and was interest-
ing from the beginning. Short talks
were made by Judge Manning and
others. Ex-president Greer of the
District League announced his decis- (
ion to answer God’s call for service
which was followed by an old fash-
ioned shouting Methodist revival.
Richard Porter of Greenville dis-
cussed “How the Sunday school can
help in winning souls.” Mr. Ralph
DeShong of Uaris spoke of the work
of the North Texas Conference to be
held at Greenville June 11-12, and of-
fered suggestions from the work of
Lamar Ave., Paris.
Miss Durham conducted a 1
table talk on League problems.
Normals had their business men to
I contribute the exra $1, while we sav-
> men or Commerce
the five or six hundred dollars by
other arrangements. When this ar-
rangement is properly understood by
our citizens, I am quite sure that no
one will take advantage of this dif-
ference as an excuse to annoy the
i noble ladies who are engaged in this
laudable enterprise, and uplifting in-
that all of our tickets
children’ tickets samped with,
— ■ ■ and are
be used only by those enrolled as :
— ■ The? are
: transferable to any other person.
This special rate was secured in
order to help our
wih other Normals that were
tising $1 Chautauqua t.—-—
Eula McGuire of Celeste vis-
if not delivered. When calling for | ited Miss Essie Chloe Harbert >ast | Mau<j Smith. Martha Betherton and
same t *
• ference at the M. E. church,
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