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GRAHAM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913.
Number 47
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Three Cases of Assault With In
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cause they make a
goods.
„ Make your own
Attention, Little Lights.
I want the Little Lights of
the Graham Baptist church to
get busy with their mite boxes.
The old ship is almost complete.
MRS. S. R. SKFFERY,
Supt. Primary Dept.
town a very
Graford’s First Bale.
On Wednesday of this week the
Howard gin turned out its first
bale of cotton since the new
stands were put in. The cotton
was ginned for Olen Yarbro.—
Graford Herald. ____________
,-4 the meanest place on earth. Talk
this to your neighbors and make
them think that the business men
are robbers and thieves. It will
make your property much less
valuable, but then you don’t care
for that.—Graford Herald.
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wiser by having attended one
course-in scientific farming.
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Was Sentenced for Ten Years for
Killing Brother, But Doubt
1 Existed as to Guilt.
Presbyterian Ladies' Aid.
The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid
met with Mrs. Rubenkoenig on
Thursday last, Mrs. Garrett pre-
siding in the absence of the pres-
ident. The lesson was an inter-
esting one on our work among
the Indians, who have shown in
themselves the possibility of be-
coming desirable citizens. One
V third of the Indians of America
now reside in Oklahoma. The
name means literally "‘the land
of the red man.”
he Our next meeting will be with
Mrs. Akin, using the word “Je-
hovah” for roll call.
Our hostess served delicious
fruit punch.
Carl Downs
ham.
Early Friday morning the pas-
senger engine on the Rock Island
was run off the dump at the end
of the track by the night watch-
man. He was getting the engine
ready for the day's run and start-
ed down to the water tank with
it, but upon reaching that point
could not stop it as the air brakes
failed tn work.--------------------—----
The passenger coaches were
attached to the engine and in
them were some of the railroad
employees, sound asleep. When
Fish Creek country, who were at snaii nave roueu ar
rested some time ago and placea ceunty farmers will
Notice.
All who have trash to be haul-
ed away will please place same in
a box or barrel in the alley Sat-
urday, August 16, and wagons
will haul it away. This is the
last day that wagons will make
special trips. Please take notice.
John PoLHMAN.
Telegram Received Last
Week Announces Uncon-
ditional Pardon.
How to Kill a Town.
The following directions for
Hing a town are warranted to
> the work quickly. thoroughly
and effectually:
Buy of peddlers as much and
as often as possible.
Denounce your merchants be-
New Coal Mine
Monday a party of four men.
R. B.. C. W. and Neal Harris and
Fred Tetmeyer were here and se-
cured a lease from E. L. Huff,
agreeing to open a coal mine on
Mr. Huff's land about three miles
west of town.
These gentlemen are all exper-
ienced miners and contemplate
beginning development at an ear-
ly date. They are formerly of
Newcastle and have recently sunk
an air shaft for the* SaTu^ATO
mine at Loving. It is said the
Huff land is underlaid with a vein
of coal about five feet, and we
are glad to see these gentlemen
taking hold of this fine prospect
and hope they will make some
money for themselves and Mr.
Huff. Jermyn News.
The following things will de-
termine the grade on your prem-
ises for prizes in clean-up con-
test :
100% will be basis of grade.
Bad outside condition of closet
will deduct 30%.
Manure in lots will deduct 20%.
Trash and other filth will de-
dect 10%.
Dead animals will deduct 10%.
W aler in open vessels will de-
duct 10%.
Weeds will deduct 5% to 10%.
Tin cans and other rubbish will
deduct 5% to ill',,' . ________.
Paper, boxes, etc..will deduct
5% to 10%.
The inspection will begin Aug.
20. - The following will inspect
and award prizes: J. P. McKin-
ley, Henry Criswell and John
Pohlman.
By order of city council.
T. E. Wai.uack. Secy.
District court will convene in
Graham the first Monday in Sep-
tember, which is the first day of
the month. At the last term of
court there was very little on the
docket and both the district judge
and district attorney had little to
do, but at this term they will not
get of so lightly.
I Among the charges that will
Pcome before the grand jury for
investigation will tie three for se-
duction, three for assault with in-
tent to murder, six for burglary,
two for the illegal selling of in-
toxicating liquor, two for theft,
two for theft -of cattle, two for
perjury and two for arson. If in-
dictments are found in all these
cases and they are disposed of at
thisterm of court it will keep the
court grinding steadily to finish
up in the allotted time.
The county attorney and sher-
iff’s departments have been busy
since the last term of the district
court, letting but little escape
them in the way of crime.
The Land Question.
From time to time in recent
years The Record has called at-
tention to the fact that the “land
question” was on its way to the
front in Texas politics. Confirm-
ation of this belief may lx* found
in these two resolutions adopted
by the state convention of the
Farmers' Union of Texas, in ses-
sion at San Antonio last week.
7. One of the greatest ques-
tions concerning the people of to-
day is the problem of homes for
those who till the soil. There-
fore, we recommend that our
state constitution and statutory
laws be so amended as to provide
for the issuance of state bonds at
a low rate of interest to be sold
and the proceeds used in the pur-
chase of farm lands to be sold as
homes to actual farmers on long
terms and at a low rate of inter-
est.
8. To further facilitate this
plan of securing homes for the
farmers, we favor amending the
constitution providing for the
alienation of large bodies of land
held by non-residents of Texas,
and a graduated land tax to dis-
courage large holdings of land
and to make it unprofitable for
any corporation or individual to
hold large bodies of land for
speculative purposes.
Tenancy is increasing in Texas
more rapidly than home owning.
The day of cheap land has
passed never to return. There is
no longer a frontier where the
landless man can settle on public
land and grow up with the coun-
try. Population is increasing,
but the land area is not.
Every normal man wants to
own his home. Hence the “land
question” is always with us.
When a majority of the popula-
tion live in homes owned by oth-
ers such proposals as were put
forth by the Farmers' Union last
week may quickly become the
paramount issue in a" state cam-
paign.—Ft. Worth Record.
New Road to Graham
S. G. Await was in town Tues-
day to get material with which
to finish the five culverts on the
new Graham road. He said they
expected to get the culverts all
in by Thursday and that all that
is lacking is the cutting of the
timber.
Quite a good deal of the timber
has already been removed and
with a little special effort the
road could be opened for travel
in a short time. This road was
started most a year ago and
should have been finished long
before now. Now let us not wait
until cotton picking time, like
was done last year, and fail to
get the road in shape for travel.
It means a great deal to Jermyn's
prosperity this coming fall.
The commissioners court was
applied to for an overseer for this
road several months ago, though
we are unable to learn whether
one was appointed, and presume
not, as those living on the road
do not know of it. Those who
have most to do with this road
should make it their business to
further the work on same.—Jer-
myn News.
W. N. Phariss of Lower Tonk
was in the city on business Mon-
day, and to show the results of
farming in Young county in a
year that people call dry, Mr.
Phariss brought in two ears of
corn that weighed two pounds,
stating that he had ten acres of
such corn that would easily yield
twenty-five bushels to the acre.
While this is not a fair yield by
any means, it shows that corn
can be grown in this county, ev-
en in dry years. The corn was
of the bloody butcher and big
whi:e varieties.
Doctor’s Certificate of Own
Death Held Valid.
Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 10.
A legal question as to whether a
physician can sign his own death
certificate has been decided by
Coroner Harris, who says the cer-
tificate signed Monday evening
by Dr. Alfred Helton of Payne-
town, twelve miles east of Bloom-
ington. five minutes before he
died, will hold good. Dr. Helton,
who was 62 years old, predicted
eight weeks ago that he would
die within three months. He was
in Bloomington Monday, appar-
ently in good health, but was
stricken with heart failure when
he returned home late in the af-
ternoon.
He rallied a few minntes be-
fore he died and, calling for a
physician's certificate, tilled out
his own death certificate, giving
the cause of death and all other
data called for on the blank. He
also wrote a note to the coroner
asking that the certificate be
held valid and that no inquest lx*
held. Under the law, unless a
certificate filled out by the phys-
ician in charge is filed, the coro-
ner must hold an inquest. The
law does not specify that the
physician in charge shall be alive
when the cerificate is filed. Ft.
Worth Record.
ned to hef t
Monday ac-
sister, Mrs.
ill spend a
ents.
If a stranger comes to your
town tell him that everything is
overdone and predict a general
crash in the near future.
Knife every man who disagrees
with you on the best methods of
increasing business.
Curse the town you trade in as
us Preston
ns of Bry-
in the city
in jail on the charge of burglary,
were released from custody last
Friday. Each made bond for
$1000.
J. T. Lanham of Newcastle,
who was placed in jail a few
weeks ago, indicted by the last
grand jury for embezzlement,
was given his freedom Saturday
upon making bond for $300.
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Mail Order Competition.
Although realizing that the
big mail order houses of the
country take hundreds or thous-
amis of dollars of trade each
year, many country merchants
sit back complacently and let the
business go to their out-of-town
competitors without making a
move to offset it. Some of these
merchants do not realize that
they can compete successfully
with mail order concerns, while
others simply take it as a matter
of course.
How a small town merchant
successfully combated the efforts
of the big mail order houses to
get his trade was told the other
day by the New York manager
of one of the biggest concerns in
the business.
Hearing a great deal of com-
ment among his customers about
the offering of a prominent cata-
logue house, this merchant got a
catalog of the concern and ad-
vertised that he would place or-
ders with that house for his trade
without charge. One of his first
customers for the rival house
was a woman who ordered a
shirtwaist priced at $1.29. On
delivery of the waist at his store
the merchant called in the custo-
mer and then took from his
stock a similar waist, better
made, that he sold regularly
for $1.25.
While the cost difference was
small, the woman recognized the
difference in values at once and
afterward bought at home. Oth-
er cases of this kind, according
to Mr. Fish, resulted in a mater-
ial increase in the merchant's
trade, and also helped other deal-
ers of the town.
Mail order houses have built
up their business through judi-
cious advertising. ami the mer-
. chant who freely uses the col-
umns of his local paper will soon
find that he is suffering very lit-
tle from out-of-town competition.
Another Wilson Plan.
Luke Wilson, a well kown
Texas and Oklahoma cattleman,
has evolved a new scheme for the
federal government to assist the
farmers who are in financial dis-
tress.
Depositors in postal savings
depositories are paid 3 per cent
by the government. Mr. Wilson
would have the powers that be
reloan this money to farmers at
5 per cent.
He regards land securities as
gilt edged at all times and insists
that it would be a great boon to
the farmers and that the govern-
ment would be making the best
possible investment of the postal
savings deposits.
The Record, which is printed
for all the people, gives publicity
to this latest plan for the assist-
ance of small land owners who
become involved, or large land
owners who need money for nec-
essary improvements. —Ft. Worth
Record.
the watchman discovered that he
could not stop the engine, he
hiked back over the tender ami
into the cars to wake them up.
It is said the boys quit the train
in their pajamas, landing in a
big patch of grass burrs with
bare feet.
The train continued down the
track, the engine ran off the end
of the dump, breaking off the
cow catcher and doing some oth-
er minor damage. The tender
and cars remained on the track
and were not damaged. The en-
gine was placed back on the
track Monday morning and taken
to Ft. Worth for repairs.
Sunday School Rally and
Educational Program.
We are expecting August 24th
and 25th to be great days with
the First Baptist Church of Gra-
ham. The pastor has just heard
from all of the out of town speak-
ers who are to lie on the pro-
gram and all of them will be
present.
Deacon Wolfe of Dallas will
speak three times on Sunday.
He will speak from the stand-
point of a layman and a business
man. “The Layman's Move-
ment,” “The Layman's Place in
the Kingdom." "Life Profits,”
“Stewardship,” “The Tithing
System,"’ and "The Bible jn the
Lives of Men" are some of the
subjects to be discussed.
Rev. J. H. Snow will deliver
several addresses on interesting
and timely subjects. Mrs. Snow-
will bring us some helpful mes-
sages.
Everybody is cordially invited
to all these meetings. It is
hoped that Baptists from every
church in the county will be pres-
ent and receive great good from
the discussions.
The program wiH begin with
a big Sunday School Rally Aug.
24th at 9:30 a. m. Remember
the date, remember to come.
W. D. BOSWKLI., Pastor.
Mt. Pleasant Short Course.
Instructors of the Texas A. &
M. College were in Mt. Pleasant,
Titus county, Texas, last week
and conducted a week's short
course for farmers.
Instruction in animal and dairy
husbandry, soils and crop horti-
culture, good roads and farm
terracing, fertilizing and farm
management was given.
The work was offered free and
cost of giving the course was de-,
frayed by the Mount Pleasant
Chamber of Commerce. The in-
structors received no. pay for
their efforts. If the course at
Mount Pleasant proves a success
similar instruction will lx* given
in other Texas counties where
the. interest justifies. The in-
struction was varied to meet the
especial demands of various sec-
tions. C. M. Evans, superinten-
dent of extension; Dr. J. O. Mor-
gan, professor of agronomy; R.
J. Potts, in charge of highway
engineering, and A. T. Potts,
horticulturist, conducted the
school.
We can think of no better way
for the merchants, and farmers,
who are able, in t ms county, to
spend some of their money, than
in having a similar school con-
ducted in Graham for the benefit
of Young county farmers. Many
a farmer in this section who is
not able to go to College Station
would then receive the same ben-
efiit that he would get by going
there.
And let us suggest that Young
county is one that could profit by
such teaching. We, to express
the conditions fairly, have to
tight for every blade of corn and
every stalk of cotton raised,
when it fails to rain just in the
right proportions. This short
course would assist many a far-
mer to understand the possibility
of raising a crop on dry land, or
raising it before the drouth could
destroy it.
Then, too, there is so much
that every farmer can learn,
things that he never dreamed of
before. Farming is like any
other business. You can take
things easy and make a failure,
or study the business you are en-
gaged in and make a success.
The cost of this short course
to the people of Young county
would be small in comparison to
the good that would result, and
we trust that enough interest
might be displayed in this pro-
ject, that when another year
John Crutchfield, who was sent
to the penitentiary from this
place on February 7, 1913, re-
ceived an unconditional pardon
last week.
Mr. Crutchfield was convicted
in the September (1911) term of
the District Court for killing his
brother at Newcastle in March
of that year. , An appeal was
taken and fourteen months after
the trial the Court of Criminal
Appeals affirmed the verdict of
the lower Court.
'On January 28, 1913. Mr.
Crutchfield was re-arrested, and
placed in the Young county jail,
and turned over to the peniten-
tiary agent on February 7.
Immediately after his depar-
ture his wife circulated a petition
in behalf of a pardon for him,
which was signed by the judge
and jury who convicted him and
several hundred citizens of this
locality, many of whom doubted
whether he was guilty of the
crime for which he was convict-
ed.g. - ...
Mr. Crutchfield served about
six months of his sentence, and
at the time this is written (Tues-
day) had not yet arrived at home
but was expected at any time.
I Wbad place and stab it every chance
ouget.
Refuse to unite in any scheme
n the betterment of the mater-
a ial interests of the people.
Keep every cent you get and
don’t do anything of a public na-
ture unless you can make some-
thing out of it directly.
Tell your merchants that you
can buy goods a great deal cheap-
er in another town, and charge
them with extortion.
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