Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1905 Page: 1 of 10
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DECATUR, TEXAS. JULY 14. 1905.
VOL. XXVI. NO 29
WHOLE NUMBER 126 5
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2000 votes with every Folding Bed under 829
2000 votes " " Bed Room Suit ander 30
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Any Friends
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D. J. Peninger (& Co
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Unless all signs fail it will rural free delivery will continue
on.
available for rural free delivery tion for the fiscal year beginning
Miss Gussie Byrom, Boyd
75
that in estimating how govern-
Miss Maude Pennington, B’nsville 20
down, rural free delivery might it close to 40,000 carriers in the
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Hettie May’s vote jumps
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more or less unreliable, howev-
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Work will
your dear, kind invitation, I was
on rural routes clearly indicates to let you all—yes. all of you—
show that fully 70 per cent of
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road, is doing for civilization.
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charges for carriers will be $40,- the country is being merged in-
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salaries of carriers will neces-
sarily be large after the country
is covered. It will still be neces-
sary to employ division superin-
tendents, of which there are six
Miss Leia Burress, Dan.............
Miss Mattie Prescott, Gr'nwood. . .440
A free bottle of Dr. Thacher's Liver and
Blood Syrup will be sent to any reader of
this paper who will write to the Thacher
Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
M. D. Sellars,
W. P. Russell,
Ira Long,
Jeff Mitchell,
Sam Gentry,
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significance than they have now.
Lively But Not Vicious.
“Well. how is everything here
in the village?” inquired the pat-
ent-churn man, who visited the
hamlet sufficiently often to be
mildly interested in its happen-
ings.
“Lively—livelier than git-out!"
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Toledo, Ohio, June 28—A. Roy
Knabenshue, the aeronaut, made
a trip in his new airship today.
Knabenshue has been working
on his new balloon for the past
five weeksand it was completed
yesterday. This afternoon at 4
o’clock he started on a trip over
the city and sailed his new air-
ship for 45 minutes, going with
and against the wind. The trip
was very successful.
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An Old Settler Beplies.
Los Angeles, Cal. July 1, '05.
To the Old Settlers of Decatur
and Wise County:
I have just received your very
kind invitation to your reunion,
for which accept my heartfelt
thanks for your dear, kind re-
Ice Cream Privilege.
Sealed bids for the ice cream
privilege at the U. C. V. and
Old Settlers' reunion. August 8,
9. 10, 11, will be received up to
and including July 22. Privi-
lege will be sold to the highest
bidder, one-half cash down.
Cold drinks stands now on sale
at $20 each: one-half cash down.
Pruntytown!”
HOW THE VOTE STANDS
S' Miss Hettie May. of Mridgeport, Leads ay A Few Hundred Votes -
service by July 1, 1907. ♦ * • Of
course the rural service is far
from self-sustaining, as has been
frequently pointed out in these
for I am sure you will have a
great and glorious time, and I
ing’s vote increased nicely, she
taking third instead of second
of mail is not to be measured by
dollars and cents. To be sure,
they are not disinterested wit-
nesses. but they see the fruits of
the service at first hand, and
their testimony is therefore valu.
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With kindest regards to all of
you, I am, with very many good
wishes, your old time friend
Viola Smith.
Mrs. Smith was a Miss Miller.
She has been married three
times to Messrs. Schmittou,
Davis and Smith, respectively.
ments in these votes. The ewi-
(ET IN THE MESSENGER, PIANO CONTEST and
“ put your friends to work. Send them to us to buy Furniture,
Buggies, Surreys, and Hacks, Cook Stoves, Wagons, Disc and Sulky
Plows, Grain Drills and Shelf Hardware. We will give you or your
friends
3000 votes with every Folding Bed over $29
3000 votes with every Bed Room Suit over 30
1000 votes with every chiffonier wardrobe
If you are not
others do to you, do you the same
to them ” If our loved ones had
been swept from us, our homes
demolished, all that is dear to us
destroyed, and our means of sup.
port for the year cut off (for the
crops in that section are also de-
stroyed), would we not like to
have others to enter into our
suffering and help us to bear it?
Then let us divide our means
with them and thus share with
them this great calamity which
we have been fortunate enough
so far to escape. Let us give as
we would have others give to us
if we were so situated.
Leave your gifts at the City
National Bank.
Respectfully,
J P. Hayter, Chairman,
W. P. Thurmond, Secretary
and Treasurer.
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of the survivors were renters
and had nothing but their house
hold goods and team. Practical-
ly all of the household goods are
gone and some of them have
nothing left but the clothing they
had on when the storm struck
them. They were left without
a shelter or even one bite of food
for their little ones. Some have
lost their loved ones in the storm
while they, themselves, are in-
jured and must have attention or
die. The greatest and best law
concerning man's relation to man
T» The Citizens of Decatur.
This means is taken to appeal
to you for aid for the Montague
county storm sufferers. There
were many killed in the storm.
These are out of our reach. But
there are many others who have j
lost all but their lives and must,
be helped to live. A great many ;
there are in operation 31,796 rural
routes, which cover between
600,000 and 700,000 square miles.
It is estimated that it will take
gbout 18,000 additional carriers
To cover the available territory
In round numbers, it will take
50,000 carriers to serve the peo-
ple who live in the territory
classed as available.
Now that the department can
begin to look forward to the day
when the service will reach its
growth temporarily, at least—for
it will, of course, continue to ex-
HAVE YOU
crease. The phenomenal increase 3___-____, 1
in the amount of mail delivered prompted with a kindly feeling
it would afford me the greatest 14,400 to 19,685, placing her
pleasure to come to your reunion, the head of the list, tiuugi sue ,
j leads Miss Bessie Roberts by dent moral is:
votes; Miss Mattie Prescott, of
Greenwood, with 440 votes; and
Miss Gussie Byrom, of Boyd,
with 75 votes. It will be noted
tnat the votes of Misses Vanme-
ter, Baits, Neel and Burress
stand close together, all being
between 2000 and 3000. It will
July 1, 1906, will have to be close
to $30,000,000 for salaries for
carriers alone. Under the appro-
priation available July 1, this
year—$25,000,000 for salaries—
extensions will continue to be
weeks, raises her vote from 6,900
to 9,380 and takes fourth place,
exchanging places with Miss
Drexel Terrell, whose vote, how-
ever, has made a substantial
gain. The votes of Misses Ag-
nes Neel and Ethel Vanmeter
have each made good increases.
The names of three new con-
testants appear this week. Miss
Leia Burress, of Dan, with 2,010
nau iu esviuzaviug Lw e-.- - made at the rate of 600 routes a
ment expenditures may be cut ■ month. Such progress will bring
2000 votes with every sideboard
1000 votes with every Couch 1000 votes with every Dresser. Princess Dresser, Dressing Table
3000 votes with every Steel Range 3000 votes with every Buggy, Surry or Hack
1000 votes with every Cook Stove 3000 votes with every Peter Schuttler, Mitchell, Old
3000 votes with every Disc Plow Hickory wagons 3600 votes with every Sulky Plow
3000 votes with every Grain Drill And on every Saturday we will give 25 votes with every
cash dollar purchase in addition to the above. This is the chanee of your life to win a nice
piano or present of some kind; so bring on the customers and we will sell them the goods
Votes given only with cash purchases.
two fires, a donation party, open-
air concert by our new band, a
jail-breakin’, case of delirium
tremens and an automobile ex-
plosion in our midst, all inside of
as well be eliminated from the
calculations. * * * Back in 1902
the department estimate the ter
ritory in the United States avail-
place on account of Miss May's ,
advance. Miss Myrtle Rogers, neither has any of them
whose votes have been increas- for over-confidence. T-
ing rapidly for the past three J win, but it will take work to win.
able for rural free delivery em- dispatches. Any estimate of the
braces about 1,000,000 square loss the postal department sus-
are greatly helped by the open-
ing of rural routes. Statistics
be the sum congress had in mind
as the sum that will eventually be The city, through the three agen-
agreed on and when the pay is ; cies mentioned, they say, is be-
fixed at that amount the fixed ing merged into the country, and
lord of the Pruntytown tavern, is: -‘Whatever you would have
Why, we’ve had an elopement,
miles, or one-third the country's - tains on account of the service is
area, excluding Alaska. Today
men; rural agents, of which there
are 186 at present; clerks at di- able.—C. Arthur Williams.
may possibly come. But should
I fail to be with you in person I
can assure you that my heart
and good wishes will be with you:
and may God's richest blessings
be with you all and may you
have the largest and best reunion
you have ever before had in dear
old Wise county. While I know
that I am not expected to answer
that the city postoffice revenues know that I so very much ap-
preciate your kind invitation.
to the city. Their view is that i the last ten da YS * eu.uu can
the value of rural free delivery that pretty lively, myself, for old
all of the dear names on the pa-
pers inclosed, and it made me
both glad and sad— glad to be
remembered and sad to think of
my dear old native state and the
dear, good old friends that are
still there. But some of them
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have passed to the unknown be- Mias Vonie Wilhite, Greenwood.. .60
Miss Lola Martin, Bridgeport.....50
“Yes; I have already heard of
those occurrences,” was the an-
swer. “Nobody seems to have
been injured by them.”
“No; that’s a fact! Prunty-
town is only just lively—it ain’t
vicious.”—Tom Watson’s Maga
sine.
Amid all the calls for retrench-1 vision headquarters, etc. The
ment and economy. rural free de- prevailing view in the postal es-
livery of mail marches steadily tablishment is that the cost of
At 6 o’clock on Wednesday ev-1
ening the vote in our great piano ,
voting contest stood as follows:
Miss Hettie May, Bridgeport.. .19,685
Miss Bessie Roberts, Decatur.. 19,275
Miss Ada Harding, Decatur... 17,700
Miss Myrtle Rogers, Decatur... .9,380
Miss Drexel Terrell, Decatur... .8,790
Miss Edna Reasor, Greenwood. .3,980
Miss Ethel Vanmeter. Rhome.. .2,910
Mies Mattie Baits, Decatur..2,585
Miss Agnes Neel, Boyd.........2,450
yond. Some of those names are
old schoolmates of mine, the Miss Nellie Lipps, Bridgeport. .
Cates boys and the Terrells. alsoi There are some striking chang-
Chas. A Cartwright. I can as- .es in the voting this week,
sure you. dear old friends, that
pand as the new sections of the
country develop—it is possible the mail delivered in the country
to estimate with some degiee of originates in the cities. ___
accuracy the cost of a full grown rural routes create the business
service. Assuming that it will and the city postoffices get cred-
take 50,000 carriers to cover the, it for the increase in revenues,
country the fixed annual charge • * • Division superintendents
for salaries of carriers alone, at ■ and rural agents who visit their
the present rate of pay, $720 a chiefs here bring interesting in-
year, will be $36,000,000 I he formation as to what rural free
carriers are insisting on betterdelivery, along with the country
pay, and as. in their semi organiz.1 tele phone and interurban rail-
ed condition, they are a potent
political factor, they will no doubt
get it sooner or later. Eight Theysforesee the day when city
hundred dollars a year seems to
is covered. The people want it
and it has been demonstrated a
good many times that when the
citizens of this country want a
thing they usually have it. re-
gardless of the cost. So it is
only 410 votes. Miss Ada Hard- busy, get busy; and if
er. It is impossible to make a
reliable estimate, because nobody
can accurately say what propor-
tion of the increase of revenues
in large cities is directly charge-
able to the establishment of rural
free delivery in the surrounding
country. The department ad-
mits that there is such an in-
continue to go forward untill all to grow until it approaches $50,- membrance of me. Even tho
the territory of the United States 000.000 a year. The appropria- j I am so far away, I so well know
RURAL DELIVERY |__
-e Call* for Retrenchment in P. O. Depert ment Has No Effect X
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Halcomb, N. W. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1905, newspaper, July 14, 1905; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560978/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .