Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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WHOLE NO. 1548
DECATUR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 1911.
VOL XXXII.—NO 2
democratic majority he
ly redoced
qualified voters
and its
has changed both his song
All right!
sat at the helm of state
Turn Colquitt loose
On with the battle!—Home and State.
self exceedingly offensive in the im-
of his
PARADISE.
neces-
ing
and thereby he is
these and cases
ALVORD
children of Mr. and Mrs Lee Phillips
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law and for dodging
liquoi license
As a result the lo-
the S nday laws.
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attor y
near
this will stop,
vouchers for
will sign no
be paid for such work, that
Mrs. L. Obrien and sons, Mun-
of
day, Lee Proctor
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tered the Paradise ceinetary.
Why is
’ I Mathenson of Ft. Worth, conducted
the funeral services.
ith a bitter feud,
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FARMERS
$
$1.25
for the ridiculously low price of
year
will add to this offer the great
and, still better, we
of
d prosperous farmers
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Decatur
Samples at Messenger office,
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Your Vote Will Be Needed, Don t
Neglect to Call On the Tax Collector
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to
he i and they can go after his tai
feathers in a way that will bring him
one hour than M r
twelve monthly
> en-
Rev.
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f your farm, containing valuable in-
perious and insulting manner
letter
The last legislature found it
conn
that
mor !
the
will
throu
quitt
Mr. <
matt
th
cau-
gene
Mr
Detch have ret laimed more than 1,000..
000 acres of land from sea, lake and
liver.
He will g
political t
tio t toward the attorney general's
department? Is he not determined to
se ■ to it that he will cripple the at-
b . Slidell c.o. Burgen and family
of Ft Worth, W. M. Wright and fam
paid before Dec 4, 1910 So it is im.
portant for the voter to know this and
to pay in tune See if you havetopay
city taxes sooner than heretofoe.
As stated above, th- safest way is
spective tax collectors, state and City,
and learn what he must do. Please do
lids at once Your vote will be needed,
and negligence now cannot be repaired.
i ounty i ape ' ' please copy
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a guide to the hid-
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turned to their respective schools:
Mr Ceneda, Haves Mamie Grimith,
Beu h Hollaba gh, Annie Mathews
K , nd Nell Dillingham, Alma J*
Burkburnett,' cobs, Prof. Horace Bishop.
tune and today it is “political war
He is not yet Inaugurated governor
and will not be before several days.
ily and Clay Brite and family of
Wichita! Falls, Oda Leslie of Hasting,
All the facts point that * ay
But why should Mr. Colquitt in-
sult Attorney General Lightfoot?
Why could he not adopt the course
of a well-bred gentleman and write
politely to his brother official? W by
are not ac-
den treasures o
were buried at the Paradise Ceinetary.
Their many friends join the parents
in their sad berievement.
The Paradise public school is sus-
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governor all
cates of exemption. AH men over 60
snarling Worth and Okla, rer called to the daughter of Oklahoma, Mrs La -
death bed of their father. ( Donald, Decatur, Miss Lillian Bayn-
Mr. W. MCATee an old settler of ham, Nocona, Bennie Pior and fami-
church Sunday night.
Prof. Perrin is spending this week
with homefolks near Decatur.
Willimer and John MeAffee Ft.
general that when he be-
WALKERHALL Wiltargercounty,
living in cities of 10,000 inhabitants HOBERTE C FER, ( ookecounty,
and over must I ave certificates of ex ! Members of Committee from Thirteenth
eruption. The safest way for every Congressional district
soon as Comptroller Lane bee s to
turn the screws down on applicants
for liquor licenses and makes them
Mr. Horton, former Denver agent
for this station, has moved to Okla-
homa
Jewel Sparkman is operator here
since the sixteenth century the
For your special benefit the Messenger has arra{ 6-
ed to furnish you this splendid farm paper, pub-
lished twice a month, along with the Messenger one
polite letter as conte ning “self lau- died last week with Scarlet fever;they
II has the bit in his mouth and let
him run his full length. I wo years
from now the people will see him as
his ability to use the fund set apart
by the legislature for this purpose? to his senses
and Earl the youngest
launch a bitter war upon his chief le- greatly loved and esteemed by many
gal adviser the man whom the peo- friends who mourn the death of such Okla
pie elected by a larger majority than a good citizen. His remains were
The peop’e of Paradise read the
first issue of the new paper, “I ‘aradise
American,” Thursday and are all
well pleased with it.
Messrs Henry Coffee, J. W. Wal-
lace and A'f. Franks are serving as
jurors this week.
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grand contest. Let every man get his
poll tax receipt or certificate of ex-
em ption before the time expires. If for each voter to go at once to his re
•‘Farm and Fireside is the first farm paper to help farmers get belli r Pr icesslar Uhrirenrng
ducts. Selling crops is just as important as raising Eoodero Paperh has done before. The
that Farm and fireside is going to tell about as no otherfarm.PF who know how to sell
farmers who have big bank accounts and handsome homes a
and how to handle not only their products but their finances as el
oung men who are not of voting
no*, but will reach their mnjor:
luring the com > g y ar. should
r ne mbei to secu a cer HU' ate <>’
qualilcation. There may be omo-
tiling doing in the way of an election
Dr Gentry spent several days in this yea; and now is the time to pre-
San Ahtonio. pare yourseif for the fun. _________
orney general’s department
ave to reach all such cases
h his regular help, which Col-
special counsel to look after
Prof. Jesse Gettys is teaching in
put inte office by the liquor and
brewer influences and is not this blow
at the "clubs” by the attorney gen-
eral a blow at the brewer and the li-
quor business? Does Mr. Colquitt
feel bound to protect these interests,
even if he has to insult the attorney-
general? Is it not this phase of the
question that is infuencing his ac-
recent statewide prohibition organiza
lion meeting at El Worth the under
ioruey general up to his
contempt! y et Mr. ( olquitt wants
“political peace a id political rest."
But in order to get it the very first Wise county died at his home
thing he does before he is permitted town last Friday night Grandpa Me
to warm his seat as governor is to Affeu was a good christain man and
The Wise County Health Ofier was
here on business Saturday.
saving to the state and to the public
school fund thousands of acres of
valu ’ ble lands; and he has also aid-
ed local authorities in the enforce-
ment of laws against so-called
“clubs” that make it their business
to get charters from the state as lit-
erars “ organizations and then use
them for purposing of evading the
formation, from successful an
Colquitt’s Attempt to Interfere With
Lightfoot’s Duties as Attorney General
pended for a while on account of
sickness.
Rev Matthews, of Ft. Worth filled
his appoinament at the first ( hristian
nows is impossible. Why is they elected Colquitt i
quitt so officious about this to office not only with F
, is it not a fact that the in progress, but wi" :
hich has aroused his ire and created by his ° 1 imperious and j
him to insult the attorney haughty manner. Ins official fami
is the persistence with which ly. And it will not be long until he
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'now. Mr. and Mr*. Sparkman have
moved to the Hollis place.
Following are some of Alvord s re-
cent visitors: Jim Moody and little
whom they have dealings? W hy
does he strut and lift himself upon
his tip toes and indulge in the lan-
guage of a bully ? He does not hesi- Hoyett
late to refer to the attorney genei al’s (
cal a i horities can not reach them
becau e they are state chartered in-
stitu >ns. The only way to get at
them - to have the attorney general
revoke their charters, which he is do-
ing through the courts just as rapid-
lv a- le can reach them. i
No Mr. Colquitt has notified the
I Mrs. Chess Purcell of Burkburnett.
vet he is writing defiant letters to
heads of departments at the capital torney general’s effort to close these
telling them what they must do and club dives and joints by blocking
i rr glL:-1.:15+.+aentha fnnd gat anart
. " K what they must not do, Io one of
* - , them particularly he has made him-
Mr. Gray and family have moved
to Mesquite, their former home
( Mrs. Oran Speer is at Austin with
her son, Berchal, who is attending
school there.
Several Alvordites went to Dallas
to see the fly mg machines
Mrs E Caldwell is very low with
cancer.
Mis Mitchum has been quite sick,
but is better now,
Hal Sands spent Sunday in Burk-
burnett
Mis w M. Gibson's mother is
here from l Bhicago
Quite a number ef Alvordites at-
tended court in Decatur this week.
Will Boone and family have re-
turned to Byers.
Floyd Covington and Miss Challi
Payne have returned to school at
Dallas: Miss Eula Gose to George-
town, and Miss Alvah Oneal to Hal-
ton .
The following teachers have re-
sary to pass a law appropriating
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and in helping to enforce the laws of cal boss and use in the public prints
thestate. Out of this fund Attorney epithets that gentlemen
General Lightfoot has been employ- ' customed to use toward those with
you are not sure a * needing a
certificate of exemptio ’ at once
and see your tax collect -11 young
men coming of age must have certifi-
dation" and “self praise,” a species
of taulologo common to an illiterate
scribler? Why does he practically
accuse the attorney general of lying?
Way does he turn up I is nose and
say that the methods of the attorney
general in filing vouchers in these
cases with the comptroller would
“put to shame an ordinary justice of
the peace?” Is it not a fact that the
attorney general knows more law in
particularly the departments that »f
feel the saloon interests it will not
be four months until the people will
awake to the fact that they have put
into the governor’* < Bee the most need next year are qualified voters
self-assumed political boss that ever ror the constitutional amendment for
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prob,bition. A voter without his pool
comply with the law in every particu
I lar, Colquitt will be on his hind feet
spittingfirelike a mad coyote He
will not stand for it a minute. Now To the Prohibitionists of the Th Ir-
watch him. His policy will be to teenth congressional district At the
run every department of the state,
prohibitionist to do is to call on his
state and county collector and also
his city collector, and see just whes
is necessary for him to do in order to
vote next year Theo no mistake will
be made Do not take anything for
granted, but attend to this at once.
This must be attended to before Jan.
31, 1911, as to the state poll tax or cer-
tificate of exemption But "in some
cities the lime has been moved up. For
instance, in the city of Gainesville the
city taxes are now due and must be
Wise Gountn Atlessenger
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tax receipt or certificate of exemption
will be useless to the cause. Therefore
we urge upon the prohibitiqn voters
of the state, and especially ol our
congressional district, to qualify
themselves while it is yet time for this
the public school in place recentiyliy
resigned by Prof Flannery.
Mrs. Hiner was sick last week
little book “Farm By-Products,
signed were appointed on the state-
wide prohibition campaign executive
committee . We realize that what we
nrR. COLQUITT’S mellifluent
N song throughout his campaign
before the primaries was “po-
litical peace, political rest 3ut
now that he has been nominated by a
minority vote and elected by a great
< 'olquitt know s in
Yet he holds the at-
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1911, newspaper, January 13, 1911; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581358/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .