The Austin Statesman. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 32, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 21, 1902 Page: 4 of 24
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struggle against their own dirtteuities
the rapid tranwit routes of the metro-
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT NIGHT OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
Mr
a man roming in on meh buminese, myeelt that in time automobiles will
dertaker, "we’ve had prosperity, great
the boll weevil convention, held In Dal-
eend out instruetive literature at once
Ine, December 17. for the purpose of that will aid in lighting this pest.
At the meeting of the executive com-
WEATHER FORECAST.
and exhibit their devices tor trapping
it was decided that
weevil.
the
at
"We may have pending at any time
BRAKES FAILED TO WORK.
Gallah
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Knock'
before forwarded hence to their final dewti-
During the great auction sale +
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weevil.
The following resolution, premented
by Mr. Runge of Galveston, was read.
ing with this committee.
Address all communications concern-
ing remedies or plans for the destrue-
h
fully:
"We recommend that the executive
committee organise a local committee
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range hie funeral in advance In every lends a* well to everything that may
detail. be required In the care of the remains
"When he shall die he is to be taken and to their burial or further ihip-
back to his native town in another ment.
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room for her Inereamng number of till- ing the pasuencer to ellmb Merer
sent on the northerly matnlahd. The c-- -- • - “ .. . ..
1 1 cent per bale for each bale of cotton
produced in the county, according to
the United States census reports for
January if not already begun by the
cotton grower. The plans agreed upon
are simple and inexpensive, but they
must be constantly kept in mind dur-
ing the winter and spring seasona by
profesntonal men who study it. things bridge, will Join the latter with the
will be yeen accomplished which, but now bridge to Brooklyn at Delancey
yesterday, would have been considered street. The intention of the( Inter-
altogether visionary. 'borough rapid transit company to pe-
"The merging of New York's elevat- t cure a right of way across the Ma-
buildings erected, both for household
and business purposes, making space
counties euch colonies of weevil phould retary of this committee, who will Is- Wales gave birth to a son tonight,
not spread further, but, if possible, be sue receipts therefor. -----i—•---------
+ use the care.
+
people make funeral arrangements be- wavelers abroad In foreign countries,
fore death. but more to the greater facilities for
rd and subway systems of rapid tran- comb's dam bridge will bring big re-
■It, marks a new departure, because, ----- ' ' — ----- " ‘ *
ing the requirements of the situation,
however fraught with dimeuities ths
and cr to the busineta method- fol-
lowed in undertaking, those, so far as
they can be. are as distinctly modern
and as up to date as those of any bust-
ne9..
“5 4nO5 IENMDIV maNS UI Clin>in5 or- , --
ward this tight promptly and success-1 nunaway Dox Cars Derail a Chair Car
------- 1 at Sherman.
One Participant Stabbed and the Other
Hit in Head with a Hock.
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74 .1 R
50 caps, only 8c.
Seeded Raisins. per package, 100
and 12c.
Currants, per package, tc, 10c ant
12c.
Citron and Orange Peel, per lb., 206.
Mincemeat, per package, 10c, 126.
Fine lot Pecans, per lb., »c, 12c.
100 fine fat Turkeys, »0c to $1.25.
prosperity. In the country for years,
and, as you say, every sort of businees
that you can think at pretty much,
In proportion.
"Manhattan laland can expand only
"He may never come back; he may
recover from the operation and go on
his way rejoicing, and in that case the
contract is void; and that happens in
Other cases ss well.
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CHF
in the undertaking buginees, for this,
as you might say without nippaney. is
a businem that is rmg all the time,
there has been a atefy advance in the
manner of the observance of funerala.
A great saving by buying your goods for cash. Nothing sold on credit. Goods you will need for
Christmas and our prices will allow you to stock up for the week. It will be the talk of the town
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for three days, so tell everybody you see about us.
njuznd
Grd4nBN
chicago, Dec. 20- -"Yo," said the un- shop of the cabinet maker and under- had C ...... .. .... ..:5,
taker, but such cofns as are used and fight a little shy nt the etart about supplant every other vehicle in city
the now far more extensively used making hl business known—that * *
modern burial caskets, are made in......
copsB
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oop‘
and after full discusaion, was adopted
for-
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av.nus. on th. east and west aldes of
ths laland, with stations at intervala.
These platforms wobld be conatrueted
line by curving around It east or.
There ar. only so
with the nolution of this problem are
contemplating nome radical departure,
in the line of their professional plans.
Considering the ahape of this fetand
city there I. only one way of trans
porting people up and doown It as the
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Cor. 14th and Lavaca Sts.
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much overcome after the event to ed acrose the sea come this way,-are
make the arrangements then. Or they of Americans, or of other* whose
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ward plainer hearses, and lesa display _ _________________ ______ ___________-_____ _ .......
In exery way. There in an Increasing might be made by persons traveling hemes were on this continent, but who
number of night funerals, a very sen-on business, perhaps tn great dlp- died abroad and whove bodies were
Bible customn, whereby it is made pos- tances, and compelled to be away, who brought back here for burial or to be
Hlkle for all who dsre to attend a provide for ‘ - “a — . . • “ ■ •
funeral service to go without loss of |hr
time from business, while the inter-
ment is made on the following morn- Lvu..u ...
tog. the remains being followed to the three may be people
grave by the immediate family only.
This is more convenient for everybody,
and it makes a minmum expense for
carriages, which to many people might
be an item of great importance,
"Thua while there has been no boom
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can be had at a very moderate ngure
At the sume time the more curtly
burial caskets at. ‘ conatantiy being
made in greater variety and in greater _________________ __________ .u . __________ ______ J, uue „,
beauty and with more elaborate Anieh. number of Filch cases in Incroneing, some measure to the great number of
Many of these modern carved caekets, ‘ " ------*
or otherwise adorned, are mont beuti-
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..icy go away, nation,
"Not infrequently people provide in "Such bodies may or may not be «c-
ndvanee for their own funerals, and companies by friends, but they are
.. _____ -- -- In health, but met by an undertaker engaged In ad-
until now, the rule has been to make rapid transit between the city and the ____ _
-e tz - -eg f e northern suburbs .In the eame connection. It will prove
polls Independent of each other. The "The quick realisation of the eher- ’ what can be done.
subway wtreet railway will connect inhed dream of rapid tranalt, • long) "But the consummation of the whole
worth 70c lb, will sell at. per 1b., 50c.
Sugar"Crem Walnut Dates, worth
70c pet lb, but it goes at. per lb„ 500.
Mott's Pure Apple cider, unter
mented apple juice, the finest that has
ever reached Austin, worth 75c a gal-
lon, will close It out at. per gallon, 50c
Christmas Tree Ornaments, 1c to
10c.
"And the appliancea ond machinery
for th. proper and convenient perform-
ance of the undertaker's work and
The means for suppressing the weevil
were clearly set forth ETAOINN
were clearly «et before the convention
and this committee has full confidence
In their practical values, provided the
farmers of our cotton growing coun- l
ties will apply these methods. A sys-
tematie effort must, however, be made 1
that will reach a largo per cent of
the cotton farms in the infested region
to prove generally beneficial.
The methods approved by the con-
vention and reported fully in the state
pres are "cultural methods," not
has been helped by It more or less; but
I can't My that It baa helped th un-
dertaking businems very much. That
keeps along about the same. People
die and are burled just as they have
always done; prosperity doe mi't make
much difference with that.
"And yet, 7 suppose it has helped
the bueinese some. For Instance, there
are sold now a greater number of fin.
and costiy burial caskets than there
would be if we were not to prowperous.
In these days, nowever, a great ma-
jority of those who die. In cities any-
way, are buried in a modern burial
casket of some port, the old-style cof-
fin having passed largely out of uro.
"With increased production and mod-
era proccesen ot manufacture th.
cheapemt of the burial casket, have
now been brought down approximate-
ly to the price of romins, and hand-
nomely finished, cloth-covered caskets
„ — -------- ------------l», use, anyway, hearse. I ncluded; but
------- — ------ — that he had coms In to arrange about hearses will be the last vehicles to be
factories that are equipped to th. limit his own funeral; maybe he thinks equipped with power, and that will be
with modern machinery. Ihat’t a inovel proposition, but we dons only when experimenting is alto-
reach into this drawer here and take Kether ovev and there is a reasonable
take out half a dozen or a dozen con- certainty that the power can be used
supreme enemy of oUr cotton crop. ' appear before the executive committee
gegane,
,“004
GEORGE N. ALDRIDGE.
’ Chairman, Dalla
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tion of the weevil to the secretary of
------... „ ------- ----- . ------------- ---------------------------------------- the executive committee. Earnestly
the remedies that may, be developed at th. boll weevil convention. Dallas was youra.
meth as anything to the displacement fifty. It might be a hundred, advance
of the coffin, with It Indelibly terrible contracts or agreements for funerals,
niKnincance, and the substitution of .depending on the contingency of death,
the modem burial casket. Of a greater or enaller number of
"The great majority of people still these we never hear again, the pa-
make arrangemonts for funerala in tlent. happily having recovered.
case of death in the family, ns they "There are more bodies transported
have always done, after the death: but now between foreign countrles and
in many instances nowadays, and the thia than formerly, this being due In
to the north, by extendin
of her street boundarlea be;
the planters of the intested district
who expect a reasonable yleld of cot-
ton during 1903. Organised effort will
. "Coffins ar. no longer made in the
undertaker" back room, or the work-
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ergineee. Th. central Idea contined which Jotna th. Atlantic avenuetun:
In the moving platform ha» poamibili- nel, Thl. will glv. New York and
ties of development which can hardly Brooklyn Intercommunication of the
s-gui; And when it is develop- moK desirable kind. The spur of th.
on the earn, principle a. the seir-
- moving or automatic stnir case, now
the limits in use at some of the elevated rail-.
; way rtatlons, and which rale, pamen-
gar. to the platform, without regutr-
thd “he ------ 4- -l—t Ot
plating death with entire serenity, ar- tom house regulations, and who at-
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nsit s
"Rtesolved further, That the county .111121111.
Judges, commerelal clubs and the cot- 1TTTT*T*****‛E
ton growers of T.«a b. "9*56 to + FREE RIDE To OAKWOOD, 1
th. direction
to b>, elevated road to be mad. from th.
meana demtroying
407 eRe
+ at Oakwood, from 10 a m. to 6 +
+ p. m., Monday. December 22, all +
+ ladies and gentlemen who desire +
+ to attend the sale will be carried +
+ out free of charge on all main +
+ Uno care of the Street Railway •
+ company. The the close of the +
+ sale return transportation will +
+ be furnished to all who desire to +
engineers who
in certain
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•'Buch arrangements may not be wch transportation, and especially to
mads (or person* whose death was Im- the modifying in foreign countriee of
pending at home, but they would more restriction* that were formerly prac-
commonly be made for friends or rela- tlcally prohibition* on the removal of
tlons who were sick in hospital*: by bodies.
friends nr relations who would be too •'The greater number of bodies mov-
duties are now. aa you.might say, in-
numerable, and all the time increasing
in number, and there are constantly
being made additlons and improve-
ments to these things, as there are
continually being brought out new
Byles in caskets
•'Formerly the coffin, grewsome ob-
ject. wan kept hidden somewhere until
it w*b brought into use. The modern
burial casket may be displayed in a
show window. . ( believe the people
rnnd less in awe of death than they
did. and I think that this Is due as
through the mental activity of those terminal of
with yearn accumulating. Here, for vanes, who looks after every detail re-
instance. Is such a man, who. contem- qulred by the board of health and cus-
or by other
complete the organisation of local com-, -
mittees for each county Immedintely ' J
for the purpose of fighting the weevil d
Htuation may be. History records the
truth of this proverb In many Ins-
tonces, even the history of yesterday.
•'You nee how the erection of tall
buildings has been resorted to to solve
the difficulty of house room. Thus we
are daily having tailer and ealler
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ew York
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polsona To light the weevil in this a. most teastble means ot carrying
way. work in the field must begin In I ward this light promptly and sue
e — --------- - court, the building of iheme platform,
tank before us is now adequately to I mention to run the length of th. it.
transport the future population, but land, north and south, would have to
th. future .nd its population. If I may be on an enormoualy expanded seal.,
say so without being guilty of a 'bull,' a great development of th. same prn!
I. even at present a problem for our cipl, a. that of th. atairwayn They
pofutten. That I. because things move would have lo be built at a considor.
so qulekly in New York. - - . . . .
Brooklyn with New York by th. con-1 hoped for by thl. metroplis, will mark
poeiDK ot "movit hpn loop-1 a distinct epch in the history of ur.
rob.constructs abov. th. broader
effectually, thus insuring th. cotton
crop of Texas in 1903,"
A meeting of this executive commit-
tee I. hereby calls in the rooms of
the Dallas Commercial club at 9 a. m..
Wednesday, January 7. for the pur-
pore of hearing the statement, of in-
ventore, consulting upon leglelative
measures for the protection of cotton
growers, and to perfect m«n. of dis-
tributing Information to the county
judgen commercial club, and other or-
ganizations or institutions co-operat-
any contingency
directing the fight determined on At the meeting of the executive com-
against the weeyi and to inveatikate mittee held before the adjournment of
• Ism vomnathc +has vei h. davelonAA at ' •Wa hAll wAhXil conaw:IAw MalIa. wn.
th. existing Brooklyn
arren’s Bargain Store,
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any time in the future, presents to th.
coton grower, and to the busines in-
terests of Texas and surrounding re-
gion the following outline of plan
adopted for waging a war against this
laa was elected chairman, and Prgt J.
H. Connell of Dallas secreary. A num- ++*++*4**..**3
her of inventors presented requests to T TTTTTTTTT’T
fine candy, worth 50 rents per box,
as long as they last you can get a 50c
box for 25c.
large Layer Figs in lib. packages,
worth 20c package, will close them
out 2 package, for 25c.
Fresh Date*. 3 lb«. are worth 350;
as long as they last 3 Iba for 35c.
Cryatalized Pineapple and Cherries,
ban development in th. United States.
It will be an .Vent of national inter-
est. It will show that. In spite of the
peculiar difficulties which Manhattan
Bland, because of its geographical po-
sition, has had to contend with, an
almost perfect system of local rapid
transit has been planned and carried
Into execution. It will be an object
lesson of immense value to other cities.
A practical example will have been
~t by which other great centers of
population may be encouraged to
terra nrmu. On a elmilar principle w.
ar. beginning to us. th. apace under
| the earth, by constructing subways.
There I. nothing to prevent the mak-
ing of additional wubways after w.
hnve completed our first one. Th.
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in each cotton growing county, and
that the local organisation contribute
earn and below th. latter th. new
subway tunnel. But will three decker
streete eumee for all the additional
peopl we wil have here in a few
years7 The population treble*, th.
mean- of tranai will have to inorease
•hall in time «ee automobile heares,
and, in funeral procesmtons, automo-
bile carriage,.
"And generally .peaking, a. a buM-
ness, th. current prosperous times
have had no special effect, yet the
businesa of undertaking in its modern
development has certainly kept fully
up with th. procession of modern Pro
FIGHT WITH SEHIOUS RESULTS.
4
+ WEATHER FORECAST. •
w.... ..wugcug.u. a. the + Washington, Dec, 2°--Eastern +
next meeting of this committee an op- + Texas: Fair Sunday; colder, ox- +
portunity would be given for such in- + ept on the coast, winds becom- +
venters to appear and be heard. It + ing northwest. Monday fair. +
was further determined to invite «ug- + Western Texas: Fair Sunday; +
geatlons and advice from nil perron, + colder in north portion; Monday +
having any information bearing upon + fair. •
th. destruction of the Mexican boll + +
+
Fresh Cranberries, worth 15c a
quart, must sell them out so they will
go at. per quart, only 10c,
Lemons, per dozen, 15c.
Fresh Cocoanut*, 50 and 2 for 15c.
Almonds, Walnut* and Filberts, 3
lbs. 60c.
1-lb. boxes pure Cream Assorted
Bon Bone; it’* a lovely package of
, selected as the committees’ headquar-
ters. Judge George N. Aldridge of Dal-
able height nbov. the avenues they
would traverne, Movg rapidly, the portatlon facilities may bemultplled.
put(orm* would accommodate large | "No xience, perhaps, givee th*
orowda with transport up and down .world, from time to time, greater sur-
town, depositing them at the various prise* than doe. the solence of th.
etations en rout., from which they . —
would descend by mean, of elevatora
to th. wtreet. The height at which
these automatic plat (or me would be
rout, of railways k. by geographical placed, and the combined lightness and
conditions confined to a long and nar- strength of their conskruction, would
Ee= Ee You can’t circumvent this obviate th. posaibiiity of their darken-
_. . ,. .... —t in the aveiues along which they run.
- . ----- many highway. | if wuch a transit system can be
available for traversing it north and brought to a practical mheme of con-
•out*. How are the people to come etruction, it would vautiy relieve the
andIgo in these two directions, and do Galley FOUR Galley FOUR
• With an adequate degree of speed? subway, the elevated, and the nrtac.
Some adventurous spirits in th. coun- , trains and car. In thetr titanle tNek of
dt. of the engineera are figuring on a ; transportation of the daily migrating
that great erises produce inventive i populace if the metropolle.
and directing mind, capable of yeet- "It I. an old proverb, you are aware.
few In numbera at these points, an Judges and to the commercial clubs of
stated by Prof. Hunter of the United Texas, requewting that thl. matter re-
State, department of agriculture. | celve their immediate attention and
The farmers, the merchanta, and the that they be urged to pend in 25 per
busines men of all callings are anxi- cent of the quota of their respective
ous that in these and other northern counties by January 1. 1903, to the sec-
A serious difficulty occurred last
ntght about 10:30 o'clock, near the oil
mill, between Jake Jennings and Bill
MeCre ken. both white, as a result of
which McCracken is confined to his
home with two nerlous knife wounds
in his shoulder, and Jennings is sut-
faring with a gash cut in his head. In-
fileted by AteCraeken with A rock. The
trouble was caused by Jennings taking
up for a boy who. It is alleged. Mc-
Cracken was abusing. Jennings re-
monstrated with AreCracken ami the
latter attacked him with a rock, knock-
him down. Jennings pulled, his knife
and stabbed McCracken twice in the
back.
Officer Evans and Jones were detail-
ed on the case and this morning at 1
o'clock Jennings was placed under ar-
rest and locked up at the station on a
charge of assault. A similar charge
was lodged against McCracken, but his
condition was so serious that he was
allowed to remain at his home.
--$-------
HAYTI IS CALM.
Port au Prince, Dec, N.—Congress
wan convoked yesterday In order to
conform to the election of General Nord
a* president, but there was no quorum
and the congrees will reassemble Sun-
day.
The general opinion is that Nord will
be formally elected. The country is
calm.
■tats, and there buried in a specined "There is at least one Chicago un-
cemetery; everything provided for in dertaker who has a cable Addrea and
a complete and orderly manner, and as hl. establishment, with its extensive
the perron making them deslres. show room, with modern burial can-
"We make In advance, for the burial ket. dtaplayed in great glass show-
of themselves In care of death, ar- cares It. large and small halls and
rangementi with men who are going room, for funeral services and k on
Into hospitals to hav. serlous opera- have coms to be a place that strange;,
tlons performed, and commonly these visit when they come to the city,
men would approach the subject with "Automobile hearses? No, none yet.
entire calmnees. And then we have but they will coma I have no doubt
Christmas Tro* Candle*, per box.
10c.
Skyrocket*. 10c kind, 5c; 15c kind.
To: 20c kind, 10c.
Torpedoes, per package, 5c, 7 pack-
ages 36c.
Firecracker*, per package, 3c and io
Bomb Canes, 5c.
Cap. for Bomb Canes, per box of
lew York. Dee Now that New
G. wonaerful new underground
nt railroad ia showing distinct Mgr.a
progtess towards actaal completion.
• three .nd a half milllons of citizene
l beginning to speculate at to what
will feel iike to rush up and down
u.der Manhattan Island in the mgr:
ing aM evening. I" aiternate ques of
work and rest. ■ fur greater cause for
opeculative wonderment is suddenly
furnished by the propostion that .ven
when the new subwny is ready tor use,
adittonal means ot rapid transit will
be provided st once. •nd that the me-
tropolitan streets, according to plans
as yet in part kept secret, will amume
unique characteriai * as highway*.
Nw York’a constant and phenome-
nal Increase of population has brought
the necessity for adaitional transit
faentsiles to this pasa The new sub-
way road has been tarried within eight
of eompletion with a rapidity never
Wars equaled anywhere, yet the in-
1 eroaw of population has outspeeded it.
>■ "The enualion row is," said a promi-
nent engineer to me today, ‘‘that when
we begin to use the rapid transit tun-
nel, we will have three decker streetn,
the elevatee overhead, I he urtace
The executive committee elected by The executive committee desire» to
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scheme which is to give the several in our philosophy. Have we not Ju t
boroughs of New York adequate and closed a century of wonders? If thon
raptdintercommunication will do more who raw it dawn are able to see what
than show mere object lessons to we are doing on the threshold of an-
other center*. The methode which the other, they might be surprised a little.
Ingenuity of engineers will produce, aa But we will not have to wait a century
I have raid, under the attmulus of ns- to witness greater achievements than
ceraity. will be things to make the those which already caused us to grow
world wonder. The situation will be used to being surprised. Many mar-
the means of discovering new genl- vcls have been crowded Into the last
uses among our engineers. Such brief quarter of a century. Before
achlevementa ■» the practical adapta- half a decade of this one lies behind
lion of the moving platform or stair- un our experiences will be largely
cans principle, for long distance tran- added to. New York's solution of her
sit. are going to prove once again that rapid transit problem will play no
(here can be more thing* in thl» world small share In teaching the world
than we are accuatomed to dream of mors than it has ever known."
„Sweet. Beedless Orange*. 20 are
"Ath.Vs: we let 20 go for only 25c
-15 o fne Oranges, per dozen, 18c,
,206, Mc- 40e, 450 and 50c.
a.ne. Chrlatmas Apple* aa follows:
Artanus Blaeks, Winesapa, Mammoth
Tu1Kn.an4 other* that ar* worth tOc
PT peek, but will sell them, per peck.
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| About One * Greatest En-
stamped out. Systematic and organ-
ised effort will be required to do thia
It la the determination of this execu-
tive committee to urge every county
to reetst this pest and to secure lor
the cotton growers all of the protec-
tioi that can be afforded them by state
and national legislation through the
committee on legislation elected by the
convention, and to furnish such acts
to the presn and printed statement to
county committees, commercial clubs
and other organizationa as may prove
helpful in supprensing this insect
which has cost Texas not lem than
$20,000,000 for the part season. A
prompt responee should be made Bom
every county now interented in the boll
weevil or concerned about its coming.
tracts or agreements to furnish fun- with no danger of mishap.
ersts with *11 th* wpecifcatione com- "No undertaker would, or ever does,
pletoly set forth, made In advance for take any chance on that. Every hearse
others or for themselyes, by men who in use, arter it comes in. Is carefully
have come in Just na he has come, and looked over and cared for, and, as win-
show him that he is neither the first ter approaches, horses driven to
nor the only one to'do this, and this hearnes are rubber shod, so that they
rearaure* him and he goes ahead about will be in no danger at slipping on icy
the business (hat has brought him wtreeta. But I have no doubt that we
be necessary among the farmers to ac- 1900, for the maintenance of the cen-
complish this result. tral committee in fighting the boll
it was shown in the convention that weevil."
the weevil has, without doubt, pene- 1 It was further resolved, "That the
trateg as far north as Denton. Sher- secretary of this committee be instruct-
man and Greenville, though they are ed to address letters to the equmty
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and very costly.
"Dot. withal, ths modern tendency,
which han existed now for tome years,
and which still continues as strongly
as ever, is toward simplicity in funeral
appurtenances and observance*, to-
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city Itself expands to the north. Th,
Srectal to The Statesman.
Sherman, Tex.. Deo, 20.—Three box
cars failing to respond to the applica-
tion of air brakes came rushing down
from ths Texas and Pactne MM yards
nt the rate of fifteen miles an hour,
striking Frisco chair car 109, which
had been made a part of the Houston
nnd Texas Central train, due to arrive
here at 2:25. The chair car was turn-
ed over and badly broken up. There
were a number of passengers in the
chair car, but only one was badly in-
jured, James R. Steadman of this city.
His left leg was broken.
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