Upshur County Echo. (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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declared that
THURSDAY. AUGLST 10. 1911.
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partial paliation of the
capital crime.—Petty Hnterpaise
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when they come.
the name prohibition; neither do they say
The political campaign in Can-
DR. T. N. ROACH
ada is nowonand the principal is- this is a matter of moral and civil
Harmony Grove H. D. CLEMENTS,
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printing, stamps, express, phone administration, which was dur-
ing the days of reconstruction
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a statemen a, which we give just
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The Tyler Tribune is
Big Normal Music
School
Prof. Ellis M. Barnett will
teach a Normal Music School at
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGI
Office in First National Bank Di
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All Work Guaranteed.
Office over First National Bank
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statement by w. O. ssamps.
* While debating the question
of investigating the prohibition
election returr.s in the House of
THE ORANGE.
During President Johnson’s
EXPENSES.
Board for term
Tuition— Primary__
Intermediate_______
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Abstract of Upshur ConuntyiiOfa
atracts of Title Furnished and Lai
perfected
Office in Crosby Buildiag
GMMER, TEXAS.
east from Gilmer, and six miles
southeast from Glenwood, in a
principal item of expense was .
livery hire, amounting to $41.00.
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products, powerless to obtain
prices for their products that
would pay for the cultivation
and harvesting of same on ac-
count of the exhorbitant prices
charged by the- transportation
that wanted peace and rest these ered that the speculators were
hot days. | standing in With the transpor-
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Normal Course—Versification,
Rudiments, sight singing, class
teaching, voice culture, harmony,
and composition.
Harmony Grove is situated
eight miles northwest of Long-
view, Texas, fifteen miles south.
eWh companies robbing the
Tarmers and making vast for-
tunes.
Upon his return to Washing-
, ton he called together several of
the leading agriculturists who
, wereemployed in the government
departments and proceeded to
organize on the 4th day of De-
cember 1867, the National Grange
of the United States. -
The tenets and fundamental
principles, as set forth in their
“Declaration of Purposes” could
not be surpassed for equity, jus
tice and fairness, not even by
the Declaration of Independence.
The declared purposes of the
Grange offered a full and com-
plete panacea for all of the evils
and troubles that afflict the far-
mer.
In 1873 this Grange organiza-
tion struck Texas and swept like
wila fire over the State. . There
were 18 subordinate Granges or-
ganized in Wood conuty nd in
other epunties in the State a like
number.
Many of the older men and
women of Texasre member the
many pleasant and profitable
days spent in the Grange in the
, country- school houses ail over
Texas. " -
We very often hear it stilled
that the Grange went into poll-
thirteen successive years the
prejucdice is all removed.
The statement of receipts and
disbursements filed by the pro
chairman for Upshur county
during the recent Stte-wide
campaign shows collections to
Complete returns in the Mis-
sissippi election of August 1 give
ex-Governor Jas. K. Vardaman
a majority of about 24,000 for
United States Senator over his
two opponents, Percy and Alex-
ander. The total vote for Var-
daman was about 76,0c0.
Surgeon Dentist.
Crows and Brown Work A 8»
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
Office Upstairs in Crosby Build
The Dallas News has begun a
series of advertisments showing
why it is the best paper publish-
ed in the State for news, accura-
cy and fairness. We think its
reputation will sustain it in all
these particulars. The Echo edi-
tor once was prejudiced against
the News, but after having been
When the Workmen on the mil-
lion dollar Busch hotel were
called off two weeks ago because
the State came so near going
dry, the leading business mh of
Dallas resented such means of
coercion and told Mr. Busch that
Dallas did not want the million
dollar hotel as a gift. They fur-
ther told him that they did not
want any half-hearted capitalists,
and if he didn’t want to build the
hotel there he could go else-
- where. .
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ble, music-loving people. We
have a commodious new school
building, with modern equip-
ment, a splendid well of water
and a beautiful grove of shade
nterea ar the postome In Gllwer. T exas •• sec
ondciass mail matter. ______
of a new weekly paper to be
started by L. M. Green at Tyler
the 14th instant. . Col. Green is
an old newspaper man and is
well known to the fraternity as
a forcible writer.
time f xed for him to pay the pen-
alcy an a scaffold. The crime for
which the negro had been sen
teneed was peculiarly brutal ard
the people have an excusable cu-
way fare, long distance phone
messages, electric lights, special
officers, hotel fare for speakers
and one or two other small items.
Hon. Horace Vaughan was paid
$10.00 for expense money when
he came from Fexarkana to
make a speech during the early
part of. the campaign. No pro
speaker was paid or his services,
nor were any expenses incurred
except for legitimate purposes.
When the campaign was over
there was a small balance in the
treasury and that was donated
to the delegates to the Fort
Worth meeting to help pay their
expenses. The statement filed
with County Judge Phillips is
open to the inspection cf any
who may desire to sea it. We
don't know anything about the
statement of the anti chairman
or whether he made one?
the summer normal
will do with the many Republi-
cans, Socialists, etc. that voted
Paris, Tex., Aug. 4.-0
planted in the bottom landst
weeks ago is now knee h
The showers have beenyeryi
‘eficial to all’fqrage crops.
citizens who supported Mr.
Stamps in his race for Repre-
sentative have expressed their
indignation at the statement, and
say they want him to be more
states had their barns fairly splendid community
bursting with grain and other " ‘
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UPSHUR COUNTY ECHO Official life is not without some
drawbacks. Just now Goverr.-
J. j. STEPHENS. Editor ane Prop r- or Cruce is having bad dreams
moment in which men of all pol-
itical -faiths and religious de-
nominations can get" together on
and not surrender individual
views as to the tariff and other
questions of political or religious
moment. One of the oldest and
truest Republicans in our pre-
cinct enrolled his name volunta
rily on the prohibition club and
voted the prohibition ticket as
sincerely and as truly as he ever
voted a partisan political ticket,
and many conscientious people
of all the other parties did the
same thing.-—Omaha Breeze. *
Thomas Ball is the logical can
didate for tbe pros to vit agunst
Governor Colquitt next year, and
ne wiu stand " gou chance 1o
win.
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There were 402 teachers en-
commuted to life imprison- as it was eported in the Dallas
ment a few minutes before the News of die 5th instant, as fol-
bon, campaign literature, raile from Minnesota, who was em-
of heart. A man who is willing
ta appoint 200,000 deputies to
enforce the prohibition law ought
to permit the elective officers
b perforin their duties in deal
ing with murderers without in-
terference .People of Oklaho-
what they propose to do with
those of the different political
parties who voted anti-prohibi-
tion. If the all-absorbing ques-
tion was a party lineup there
would be some room for quibble
on that line, but thanks to the
Supreme Ruler of the Universe
Gilmer Lodge, No. 1281-3
every Monday night ,n
onpbidemracobreu#
0. L. FERRELL, Sec.
singing and teaching in eight
President Johnson, in 1867, sent different states, eminently qual-
ployed in the department at
Washington on a trip through the
Southern states for the purpose
of learning, if possible, the hin-
Pering causes of immediate and
amicable reconstretion of the
Southern states.
On that trip Mr. Kelly discov-
ered the manner in which the
farmers were handicapped and
the unequal chances they pos-
sessed in the great commercial
world. He discovered am mg
some of the troubles that the
farmers in the north-western,
sonthern and south-western
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DR. H. J. CHILDB
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Calln promptly answered, day •"
NOTARY PUBI
J. J. Stephens
is propared to do Notary Publt"
the Echo office, southeast cor”
Blank deeds, single and
ments, vendor's lien notes,prog"d
chattel mortgages, bills ofdb’o
other blanks constantly on **7“ d
ly at the office during the de -J
to 12 noon and from 1 p. •• te"
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other side.”
He told how election returns
used tbe held out in his county
until other precincts or perhaps
another county was heard from,
and it was known how many
votes were needed to carry the
election.
Many membe:s looked amazed.
Rowell, seemingly angry, shout-
ed :
“Do you run your elections
that Way now?” Stamps said
they did not
Stamps said he had received
tetters from the Rio Grande to
Arkansas and from Oklahoma to
to Mexico which, “by intimida-
tion, coercion, ostracism .and
and every other argument tha
could be brought to bear” had
sought to get him to change his
position on this question. He
thought “the truth of it is that
all have been zealous and all re-
sorted to things we're just about
ashamed of." He believed the
greatest harm from all this mat-
ter would be that done to the
church.
Dotson asked if the partner-
ship of the church would do
more harm than the continua-
tion of the open saloons.
We don’t know which county
is referred to as “his county,”
but if he means Upshur county,
where he calls his home now, we
have to say that is the first time
we ever heard of such a charge
being made against the people of
this county. We have lived in
the county a greater portion of
the time for the past forty years
and have watched politics and
political dcings in the county
pretty closely for the past twen-
ty-one years. If anything of
that kind has ever occurred in
davs.
.Prof. Barnett is a singer,
teacher, composer and author;
graduate of the 8. D. N. Music
School, pupil of Dr. J. B. Her-
bert, Monmouth, Ill., pupil of
Harry Spanell, Waco, Texas, et
al. His training, with four
years successful experience
People arecontinualy coining Some such talk as reading all
toUpsuar county nr locate, the Democrats who voted for
pos, vlshareland to rent or State-wide prebibitienout of the
sejsloldlet it be known so'pemocratic^arty.bui.nb sugges-
i hat prospectors may find - it tion by the antis as to what they
ties and died, but no greater •
mistake could be made. The
facts are the Grange is not dead
as is evibenced by the following
statement by the -secretary of Ilie
National Grange: (
The National Grange P. of H.
To the Winnsboro free Press.
Tippecanoe City, Ohio, July 1,
1911.—The number of Granges
organized from April 1, 1911, to
June 30, 1911, inclusive, is as fol-
lows: —
Organized—Colorado 7. Idaho
7, Iowa 5, Kansas 2, Kentucky 1,
Maine 2, Maryland 3, Massachu-
setts 1, Michigan 14 yi.
Nebraska 5, New York 88006
18, Oregon 7, penn 0
Rhode Island J, Sout’Nana
Vermont 1, Washingtoni
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Reorganized: Californ
orado 1, Ohio 1, Rhode kJ
Pensyivania 2, Washi^1
West Virginia 1. Totai 1" 1
C. M. FREEM
Sec re ta ray National Gn?
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mise of the Grange in Tex •
soma financial vento res tha
ed for want of proper m“
ment.—Winnsboro Freem
July 2. 1911. *
The senior editor, J Lt
of the Free Press Wasje
of the Grange in this
country for a number ofy
and is well known to mani
citizens of Upshur coanty.
Echo editor has not forpo
taking the fifth degree in
Graageat Glenwood under I
de” Jim’s super-vision about«
year-ago.
, . because many of his constituents
Price in Advance are criticising his use of the par-
* . 25 doning power. A self-cou fessed
. .50 negro murderer had his sen-
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Wood, Harrison, and Marion
counties are the only* counties
close to Upshur that gave anti
majorities in the recent State-
? wide prohibition election. In
Wood the majority was 136, in
Harrison 24 and in Marion 52.
That means local option elections
in these counties in the near
future, and if all who argud lo-
cal option, together with the
State-widers, vote that way when
tlie local option elections are
called the counties will stay in
the dry column.
Upshur county we know nothing
of it. Quite a number of leading Harmony Grove, beginning Au-
wrung. corrustion and every sort
of deviltry you can imagine are
just as guilty as the other side.”
riesity to know why the governor (Applause from the antis.)
. ,, *—------- — tende" “We’ve all gone wrong,” he
thought, and said further that
“all the rascals are not on the
lows:
Mr. Stamps
T,, Auvertising have doubtless reached a
i-ting conciniox that lax enforcement
ing to Boston, Mass . last Friday | ofthe law against murder is at
selecred Pallas 9s it pitta pf least a
meeting next year.
trees. If you would like to have
----- an enjoyable time make new Ac
te.e companies in getting their prp- guaintances and learn music we
Governor Colquitt is not having ducts to the markets and discov- xindsEhsolicit your patronage of
LODGES.
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Surgery and Gener
Practice
Office at City Drug Stor
Calls answered promptly, day or di
Residence Phone 68. Oflice Phom,
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. sue 16 reciprocity with the Unit-
ed States. For years there has'
been an effort on tee part of the
. leading Canadians to get up re-
ciprocal relations with the
United States.
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the amount of $110.90. The specific as to time and place.
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Stephens, J. J. Upshur County Echo. (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911, newspaper, August 10, 1911; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1431219/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.