Upshur County Echo (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1914 Page: 2 of 6
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Term 1915. .
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DR. J. C. WINN
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Cotton Belt Time Table
CHRISTMAS SONG,
By EDMUND HAMILTON. SEARS.
The answering hills of Palestine
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completes this best issue of his
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will be mailed for -85 cents. The
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or three of those who helped to
frame that constitution now liv.
Breaks the first Christmas morn.
And brighter on Moriah’s brow.
Crowned with her temple spires.
The Echo receives a good deal
•f “rush’’ copy that is rushed
H. Connell, B F. Humphreys 2
Josh Still, J. L. Mathis, I.E.4
THE FIRE DEPARTMEIT
I* all Right in Caseop
from heaven's eternal King."
Light on thy hills. Jerusalem 1
The Saviour now is born.
AN IMPOSSIBLE THING.
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The really good weekly news-
Loud with their anthems ring.
"Peace on the earth, good will to men, Y
ready, frequently without hope
of re.ward.
SingleCopy
Three Months
Sh Months
One Year
WE tha
eral pat
you a H
Send back the glad reply '
And greet from all their holy heights
The dayspring from on high.
O'er the blue depths of Galileo
There comes a holier calm.
And Sharon waves in solemn praise
Her silent groves of psim.
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No. 2 a10
No. 4 22a
"Glory to God!" The lofty strain
The realm of other fills.
How sweeps the song of solemn joy
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Res. Phone 94 o
Calle promptly answered,
great Almanac at the close of his More bright
plains
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$y experience, and as the yrs ortion of froth rather than go
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Dr. S. D.HAYNI
VETERINARIAN
Where wild .Judea stretches far
Her silyer mantled plainer
Celestial choirs from courts above
Shed sacred glories there,
And angels with, their sparkling lyres
Make musie on the air.'
on the listening-ear of night
cepting for ourselves this wondrous '
gift of our Heavenly Fnther and then
to show our appreciation of this won-
drous gift by giving ourselves and all.
m.andlto3
• Bank Bui
O'er Judah’s sacred hills! unu.nJn. a.----
"Glory to God!" The sounding skies ' out Malaria, Enriches the
Builds up the Whole Syste
secretary of the Southern Bap- other crops, such as peas, pea-i
tist Foreign Mission Boaresince nuts, Bermuda hay and other
the few fleeting years they tarry
here below? Why is it that
some people in a Christian land,,
seem to prefer • paying 20 cents
The remains were taken to
Little Mound cemetery near
Rhonesboro for interment Sun-
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tag deeply
afire of the
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both from a
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ktobe us
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id land lyi
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bell edition t
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to those who visit lands where the re-
Hgion of Christ is little known.
Before the advent of Christ the
whole world. with the exception of the
secluded Roman province of Palestine,
was buried in idolaltrs—- Men worship-
things in the near ..future." The rising wrath of a determined
resorcesqf _ouricounty and the pesple. Democracy is the na-
rence, G C Tillman, E C Gaston, I
J R Mings, J M Brison, L F
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Attorney at Law
Office la Crosby Building
Whenever You Need a tU*1*
Take Grove s
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Upshur County Abstract C
L J. M. Shepperd, Mg.
We have the only seotAbn
■ Books in Upshur County.
MELL & STEPHEN
LAWYERS AND LAND AGE
Abstracts and Iand Titlea pt4. J
Officein Crosby
Gnuz. Tuu ...
May th
uitful of
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leisure*
1893, was stricken with apoplexy feed crops to substitute for corn
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Upshur County Echo. Thursday. December 31. 1914
The Old Standard Grove s
, chill Tonic is equally valuat
General Tonic becnuse.lt c0001
well known tonic properties°Xr.j
and IRON. It acts on theHnid
TheDemncrats of the nation
have su issue to face and they
as wei prepare for it. The
Christmns hrightness unless others
come to their help andzive to this
At each biennial regular ses
sion of the Legislature numer-
ous resolutions are introduced
for constitutional amendments.
In our opinion the State has out
grown the constitution adopted
in 1876. The wise tiling to do
would be to call a constitutional
convention to frame a new con-
stitution. .There are only two
Rev. Irl R. Hicks fin; magaz ne,
Word and'Works, is'sent one
year with a copy of his Almanac,
for only one dollar. Send for
them to Word and Works Pub*
lishing Company, 8401, Franklin
Aye,, St. Souis, Mo. You will
never regret your investment.
Try it Am 1919.
party cannot, afford to lower the p Hudgins, T N Camp, Poland
colors to gain a temporary ad Hutchinson, Ramah Oliver, Tom
vantage. Those, whose support Baxter, O C Clark, H S Coslett,
depends upon subservience to Jim Martin, Mack Stewart W H
the liquor interests disgrace the Snow, JnoRTayor. J D Bailey,
. party while they are with it, and G H Catron, P 8 Collier, Geo
Not Like the Plan
Con! Denler-Why dont0i
the barrow along more 9 rhe
Bethlelem's joyous It's not a very hurd.jo on
inelined ptane tn relieve J
I Aye. mamter. the pinne •3 Pu
। but nang me if 1 am
Weekiy.
pathetic personnl contact between rich
■ and poor Du thisqnd yen will have
ns merry a Christmos ns you ever
knew.-Rev. IL A. Torrey.
imposed upon by people who are
batter able to stand the impo
/. sition than the editor. We learn
• There is a move on foot to . .
: . bJd . ra rad front Srphu- pietesreadjustment
A for t
COmicers i
on for the
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iness i
eore then
W.D. Boi
office. Professor Hicks'
God-existing from eternity unto eterni-
ty. a God who created all things by
his power, who governs all things by
his wisdom and whose superintending
. . that it takes a good deal of money belp them to be more clean, ............
te run a newspaper, and that the fl intelligent. citizens during weeks ago.
little country weekly is ofen the few feetine voars thev tarn" l hed al
day, \
Deceased was a member of
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No. 1 125a.m.
! Xo, 3 2:46 p. m.
ed the sun and moon and stars of bear- ■
en. They worshiped everything ex-
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purg spoke tl
leitizens on
bursday ad
tSoudan g|
Aaf instead
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on burna.
family a rent Christmus. inelnding a ' . :
good cnristmas dinner and some appro- M. < E. r. I
printe gift to every member of the _ The passengertrain echeduleonte-
family down to the yountest child, F N’y-is as follows: 4
Don’t do it through some society. Train No. 1 (nortb-bound at. 10.072
What is most needed is living and sym- TrainNo. 2(sonth-bonnd)arrives
prise.it appreciates the condi the wots of their victims, but
EutaraatthepostomcetGimer.Tezasasse lions with which the individual they are fighting desperately
ondciass mail 44.+ - *, • +. < ,,
—-—Lcitizen is confronted in view and are willing to hold any party
- THE ALCOHOLIC MILLSTONE. Grind Jurors For the January y
♦ be Message of; i kllsthepain.
The Echo, like other
prises, has passed thrnu
•1,1
ing. One of them is Col. E L
Dohoney and he favors a new
constitution.
ept God only. to whom alone divine
homage to due. Christ‘the Light of
the World, prociaime4-unt-al men 'in
isazi-qouapetOhar “-Sintellizenee and morals, and thelelinton.Ray, JR L McKinley, ‘T ircrotloe-nidaentrutjudblc"ahedaught
• m-**eenne* -"e-A “al---tke *‘* ’ *---m " *’---Dla-a mankind to know the one true God, a
AoDAY the whole Christian
"4 ’ worid prostrates itself in ado-
>^7 ration around the crib of Beth- .
lehem ah A rehearses in ac-
that we have for others. _ Hospital at Buie and Marsha
it fsa true instinct that lends us to
gie . -ih-. Ci. t-- ,......but barn
too often Tn followins out this instinct p. • _ I Res. 204
we give these Christmas girts to the noneOffice 137.
wrong persons. We give to those who GiImer " Te
alrendy have too much and forget those . ’
who bare not enough. —■ —
‘God gave his great gift to the needy, i * . f _... \
to those who had nothing to return for —-PuF .
his gift et us- follow. him. Let us woom or vE •ORLD.
find the needy and give to them out Gilmer Camp No. 359 meets adad
of ou abundnhce. Every one who is f nightain each month,
in. comfortnbe circumstances shonid , . „ A..
_ . _ .0 ■- i J. J. STEPHENS, RAMauOLIT,
find some family that is renllym-nced. , ,2cm
wine family where there will be little C. (.
to be between Hon. JohnW: hay, oats and other feed* crops,
- Woods of FisherCovnty and the animal consumes, and the
Hon. N. B. Williams of MLen-margin for profit on the animal
nan County with chances in fasis wider than on the feed crops.
— „vor of Mr. Woods. ' *— Why sell roughage and grain
, =—=-= when you Can make a profit. on ‘ .j;,, . --------- . ,
The Newsome Argus announc- »feeding these to animals as well thenssleave it if it refuses to obey Jons, J B Johnson, Wash Spen
ed last week that it would move as in growing the crops’—Farm them. They are a millstone_ cer, B C Johnson, 8 C Morris,
from Newsome to Pittsburg, and Ranch - About the party’s neck. The H H Price. Hal Walton, W H
giving as a reason that the paper; ===== " democratic party is the party of Hamlet, J W Oliver, Aubrey Mc-
— could not live on subscriptions The farmer who raises all the the future—it has a chance to Clelland, G A Tohill, Paul Smith,
and that the advertising patron meat,, corn, enter the Promised Land-why D A Irons, W M Parker, T C
age at Newsome was not -L hometcorsenpstonietshiten’r allow the liqnor interests to lead -n. - "
fleient to justify continuing the as bad by the Lw price of cotton it. away into the wildernesl Get M L Stanley,
paper at that place. ' as the one who depends on cot ready for the fight.-
—-= ton for a living.—Upshur Coun- W. J. BRYAN.
Liquor shipments are said to t Echo.-
besoheavy that the Texas Paci We are skeptical about corn
Alders Me
State I
and, Texas
bom Concer
1 Annual n
holders oft
bank will]
Notice to the Public. j of thia the Echo has tried to between them and fire.
Anierroncous rehection upon ah example of cheerfulness democratic barty cannotsfford
and thus encourage the in- to^shield the brewery, the distil
the character, standing or epu dividual to anticipate -.bettor lery and the saloon from the
tation of-any person, firm or cor- t
.. poration, which may appear in r
thecolumnsofThe Echo,"i be resourcefulness of oyr people tion’s hope on political and econ ww Grider. G w Mahis, J D . . . ,
gladly corrected uj^n its, should < stand as a guarantee omic quest ons-let it not, by Parkhurst P L Snow J A Cat ' Christian civilization are poured T.T
brought to attenton of publisher. . . . - . 1 anknursl, I — ou-"‘ • - | reguluriy and abundantly on the Intel
azainst panic and depression taking sides with the liquor in- lett. Temp Morgan, F N Buie, | lectuai, moral and social world, like _______
repel those who put A E Redfield. J H Hudspeth, J ' the suniigbt and the air of heaven and GILMER.
— ■ - - the fruit* of the earth, that they have t
ceased to excite any surprise., except
providence watebies over the affairs of
natons as well as of men, "without _____
whom not even a sparrow falls to the. But For Insurance Indemnify]
ground."— . you againstjo^s see
The measage of Cbristroaa day ia fn- - JNO A MATHIe
tended for all men. for all times. Tor nil. •‘-* • MA I HIS
conditions ofexistence. Only by stern Successor.to Smth Bro,
adhesion to the principles therein con- ■ ■ . 1
'twined - can —Andiridunis and nation* rn Q D Ac), J
hope to share in that pence which baa 1, 0, dan
been promised to men of good will PHYSICIAN AND SURGZ
To violate them Is to reverse the order : . - .“H
established by God. and disorder is the ce in Eirst National ank Builda
synonym for sin and strife. Residence phone No 6. OfficephoneN.
. . ________ ‘ GILMER. TEXAS
— The Greatest Gift. ! '__..
Christmas stands for one thing—our ,
Father’s wondrous love to us. bls )K. H. CHILDREN
erring and unworthy children, in send: ” t
i ing his only begotten Son intonthis i Office in Masonic Bulding.
, world to die for our sins nnd to rise GHLMEN, ... TEx
.gain to be our Deliverer each day REaresce Pnoxk 38 OmaP
_ from sin and selfishness. I c. 1__. , I
Haile,T J Bradshaw, ER Know - Jesus Christ himself is the great Call" promptly answered, day or
les, H C Palmer, C L Pope, M D Christmas girt The only true way to
au 1 u N .v crr., keep Christmas is by first of all ac-
Shaw, W H Mathis, G C Hart, 11
cgLing its full share, of the common liquor interests are at bay, they
125 misfortune which has befallen are on the defensive: They real
.so the nation because of the great ize that they have but afew mone
should ♦ stand
j_____________ against panic
'— . — Courageously and hopefully to rests,
Begin the New Year by- sub- meeting the situation has been moral issues first. The young w Long. D W Spier, Jackson
. Scribing for the Echo a you are a tenet of the Echo, and thia we men of the country ardemocrat- Bauman, N P Hopper, M L
. not already a subscriber. urge as the surest and swiftest ic by nature, but they wiil no* Shrum, j H Strange? H M Pat-
way of bringing about a com- submit their claims to political terson, H HBauman, HFShrum;
#esei=-t prefer mert to those who com-tJ e Jenkins, R L Bullock, J P‛
‘ Springs to quitman.‛we hope Eeginningthexear 191* under spre against, the home and er Ray, w D Humphrey., J W Per
• " n more hopeful auspices we wish ery tiling good—neither will they due.
our readers a happy and proa find pot house politicians oongen j
k perous NewYear ial. party associates. The pres- PETIT, jcrors— sCoND WEEK:
. The race for Speaker of the A pig,acair,alamb,or ajcole ident has high standard in ; ’
House of Representatives seems
. 1.00 European War. As ar. enter years in which to fatten upon
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UPSHUR COUNTY ECHO
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the Christian church. SM
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goby we find out more ad more
R to avoid being imposed, ing Gosperor "‘8. anannasereggpap
‛ ‛1 . tion.—Edge wood Enterprise. ----
“ PETIT JURVRS THIRD WEEK. -
Geo Spann, C B Melton, J 8
___________ __ Mattox, W F Shrum, V O Ham-
-ficrallway has found it necessary for Harrison county, at least. _ . Fberlin, T W Loyless, D Burnett,
< — “I -
—Tyler Curier. sults. , A few farmers d know,0i, Ir .,.4, 7-2
and they are able to grow 40 to pontswe 1 •,NTh ere E Hill, Jas Caffey, J W Marr,
Jeff: McLemore, editor of State 60 bushes to the acre, wherens is n en .errisnithat tdoge 80 w T Burckiey, w A Bynum,
Topics, is a very capable writer, the average jarmer cannot pro mH . , , TPO .. 2 Joe Arnold, E L Dunbar, R J
but when he goes to Washington duce over 6 to JO bushels.‘such in ividua citizen 5 * Paper Shaw, J H Cates, J ACrie, L
to take his seat as . Congress- crops are not worth raising. Itis the friend .of eversthw Walker, Lon Moore" " eive to others Christmas presents,
man at large from Texas, wejon man in this county had eon- 1 h t.stndssforsth building Mathis, J s Ethridge, Dock "......"i"
hope that his substitute editor siderable fun with his neighbors . k 1 . P J Douphrate, J O Cumbie, T M
will give us-a rest on the fallacy some years ago by confining his 20-605 tt0nls0)‛ Bickerstaff, Luther Ray, I H
of prohibition, the harmful use so-called "corn land” to two . ’ . - V ips Harden, E L Gillespie, J J Will-
of drugs and the mistakes of the acres, and planting it in sweet; 161 . ‘ e •. S , iams, Jno Calvert, J E Buie, C C
- - ■ potatoes. He got 500 bushels yorthabynthezreopiereatarKecarson, Eugene Bishop. Geo An.
off the two acres and used the .001'. . . derson. — >
• HDr.R.J. Willingham, general proceeds to.buy corn, having fought for fownor county arush -
- • ~ - ih made to the newspaper office, petit jurors— FOURTH week.
.1 w a} s to find, the loyal editor CM Moser, J F F L
millionth part of an inch—upon ness enterprise of the communi- Irl R. Hicks 1915 Almanac.
> higher plain of morality or W. The editor is a "basiness The Rel. Iri R. Hicks Almanag
usefulness-by going under man and not • mnendicant .nd now ready, grows morejpopular
those dirty sheets to witness the should be recpgnized as the and userul with eaeh 'passing
were, there enacted and there mOst Important factor in the. Itisatixed necessity' |„
performed. Of course the ad community, for poor indeedLis l hemes, shops ana commercial
mittancefeeis small but their 'the town orcorporatiion that hanestablishments ali over tbis con.
into the waste basket. There investment is about the worst' not at east one of these neees; tinent. This famcu. and valu-
•re numbers of organizations that could be made so far as sary persons in it.—Publisher, akleyear book or ast-onomy
that try to get free advertising value received is concerned. Auxiliary._____________ stoems, weatbe. and earth'
in the newspapers under the "hy—oh why do not the pe ple ~ Deoarted^ quaktes should be in every home
guise of news matter, and oc of this unholy old earth devote " ' .fond
caisonallyindividuatsattemptit their time and spend their Mrs. Arthur Nolan diedatthe
Sixteen years experience in the means to ard for that which will family home In Gilmer Satur:
business has taught this editor lift them higher and higher and year. The Almanac
use- ■ stuck in her foot ‘ about three I will be mailed for 35 cent.. The
Favors.
Stenn-Wh.it were the Te |
dinner? Bella— Well g!’ M
thought they did her“e ad
ins. nnd she thought te Su
tnvor by lei vtn<-- N>w
The multitude tout
Itaeit to unity in contsent
that does not depepdao
while on his way to Sunday most of the feeding period, and
school at Richmond December he had a tig bunch of hogs and Many other enterprises, are
20, and died-soon after. Calder several cattle, too. Corn can be encouraged by a bonus, buSmart, Bert Holloway, Lee
T.. Willingham, one of his sons;grown with profit,Nbut it takes erarelyis the_papereMered "avy Weathers, W B White, Jess
is a missionary to Japan. Mrs. brains and brawn to do it, and such helP. Communities riot in- Hudson, C E Williamson, C c
J. W. Downer, whose husband careful study of soils and condi-« freguenty lose sigbt of their Hill. B T Roberts, J H Mings,
. is a professor in Baylor Univer tions.—Marshall Messenger. real benefactor when they fail Menry Martin. D p Wheeler, E
sity at Waco, is a daughter. ==^— to recegnize the weekly paper in Binion M D Stanley par
========== There are many pitiablesights their midst as such. The minis Evans ,‛E A Marshall W B Ad- '
to behold, these trying times, ter and the editor go hand in-kins CBOrr H AC'Cox D A
one of whieh-is to see a I atf dez hahd as the bulwark of deferse Markey LA Davis G H Ma '
en or so stout, able bodied men against the attacks cf evil or berry, L Bulara,‛3-r Smith
with some kind of little vehicle desiningscbemes affecting the E M Berry Buek Edison W V Calm
loaded with a dirty tent and a -ingividual or the town. Muilinix, Locney Hudson, J M
lot of show contraptions, drawn For th se and other good rea Sbepperd, Chas’Rberts T W
by poor, balf starved and almost sons the nt wspaper of the town Smith. G W Bullard.. S L Foe.
hidebound ponies rambling over . and couhty should receive the ter, Arden Taylor. R L Taylor
the country as a show. No gen-' support of the public at large in IR G Fridale, W H Chandler
tieman or lady, man or woman, a very liberal degree, for it is '
boy or girl are ever elevated a really the most important busi-
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Which first proclaim the newborn light.
Clothed with Hu orient fires.
This day dhall ‘Christian lips be mute
And Christian hearte be cold?.
Oh, catch the anthem that from heaven
Or Judah** mountains rolled
Whon nightly burst from seraph harpe
The high and eolemn lay,,r
■Wary t foedt en earth be penco
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Carr, 8. R. Fenlaw, J. C. Bates, 4 cardinal GIBBONS, o
C E Kay. W. H. Renpell, W. i
Williamson, M. C. F lorence, John i
M Todd, C. T. Crosby, Shell i
Willeford. —--. _ _____-_______________- ।
Following is a list of the Petit' lehem ah4 rehearses in ae- H-SCIANaudSURG
jurors for the first week. cents ef love a bistory which precedes Special attention given
-1.9 V all time and will endure throughout .. c KenEyt
J S Rees, Joe Pickitt, J R eternity, if asked to explain the rap- * and Throat Di seses.
Tur ingtgn, W P Dunan, B D turous intueuce which controls us we hoursto12a.r
Norwood, O L Bullard, AOBouk- have no other words than the evangel Office in F. & M.
' , rcc , A Nr of joy which the angel gave unto eatth, .___A
night. J SAult J P assr, A M "For this day is born unto you al -
Oliver, J S Truitt. C‘A Gloyer, ’ Saviour, who is Christ the Lord "
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