Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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DECATUR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUG. 18, 1911.
WHOLE NO. 1579
VOL XXXII. -NO 32
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Rosser in McKinney
County Commissioners’
Accept Government’s Offer
School Tax Money in Hands of City Council.
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and the‘committee representing
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to pre-
ternoon Mr Gau • r. the government
that the city
-- ess ion the sum i result from
that was created
in excess
the
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sioners have done a good work.
THE LAST STATES.
J. W. Lillard is Dead
End Comes Suddenly
What do you
BASEBALL COACHING.
know ? ?
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F. tak-
ing the management of the Oregon,
City Dailies Represented
Mr. Lillard was well known to the of age.
Independent 45
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parture in American history. involving
i difficulties akin to the negro problem
taxes for the school fund that have
been levied for the past four years.
of the state—Dallas
News, the Galveston
News, and Ft. Worth
Record—have repre-
sentatives with the
Messenger force, and
they ask you to re-
port news notes to
। two boat ds
su t will res
living
and
it it
in!
granted by congress and boasts a vote-
Dess delegate in the house of represent-
atives in Washington.
heart,
it all
City School Trustees and
- Council Can’t Agree
osition, and the
Eight Hundred Dollars to Be Expended to Advance
Scientific Farming Methods in Wise County.
But
fond
w e <
zine.
Well Known Decatur Citizen is Found Dead at the
Home of His Son This Morning.—Funeral
Services Saturday Morning 10 O’Clock
a Suggestien.
Old Richfellov idesperately-If you
refuse me what is there left for me to
do?
Miss Fertleigh-Well, I read tbe qtb-
er day about a rich man who made
his will in favor of the woman who
refnsed him and then went out and
banged himself.- Boston Trareler.
men and
it was his intention to bring suit to
money over to them for the purpost
of making the needed improvements
chane s are favorable for nothing to
j W. Lillard died very suddenly people of this city and vicinity, hav-
of heart failure about the middle of ing been in business here for quite a
last night. His dead body was dis- , number of years. Last year he went
covered about by his grandson, | up in the northwest and engaged in
Warren, who had gone to the room farming in Oregon, but returned here
to see about his grandfather. The 1 several months ago, sine that time
recover all
in sneh a i has . ome of
the school
ss nothing
the way of news; we :
will appreciate your and no one can hope to learn them all
w e go I
the proy
matter : - e
council has : It- 11
of $7 5 0 in a fu
the average law maker in Austin and
the people down there are rapidly
coming around to the conclusion that
he is a potent power in the political
affairs of the state. His broad, pa-
triotic views on questions affecting
the welfare of the people, and his love
for aggressive action when he believes
he is right, make him secure in the
high regard and esteem of his con-
stituency. The old "war bosses"
and political bosses who have for
years been running rough shod in the
Texas legislature have awakened to
the fact that the big boss and little
boss, politician and puppet, all look
alike to Rogers and he fears them
not
explain Any movement that has for its pur-
The cit v
public se
work thi
that is of
the I •
Mess
of Deca
years ago the
Submarine Paint.
In 180)5 n speciat sutmarine point
was prepared by I lolza pfel. the object
being first coated with mi anticorro-
sive deposit and then with a second
layer containing lotte substances, be
Ing to the reactions which occurred be-
tween the two layers, however. the
paints were Untile to crack and would
not last for more than six mo nt ha. Re-
cently this drawback has been reme-
died by the production of a paint in
which the outer coating conmists of an
amalgam of copper incorporated with
an earthy pigment and a waterproof
medium. As soon as marine organisms
attack this coat the amalgam is ex
posed nud voltaic currents ere pro-
duced which set free poisonous com-
pounds of copper and mercury and de-
stroy the intruders. Thus the action tai
only brought about in places where it
is necessary and the life of the paint
is doubled.
was created. After leaving MeKu agricultural representative .
; the orders for plays, lies in the fact
: that the sign languages change rapid -
ly. often being altered or entirely
base and both players stand stt some
players and mo t spectators give up
striving to learn the xign lanznage ot
the game and just play buil w ith in
trying to anticipate moves or to pre-
pure for the style of attack '
church at Honey Grove, then one
year at Denton Street Church, Gaine s
residents . boat d.
Dallas. The latter is married and
has two interesting little children.
Rev. and Mrs. Rosser's only daugh-
ter, Miss Byrd. has recovered her
health and is with them at Decatur.
We were highly pleased to meet up
with Brother Rosser and shake his
genial hand again. —McKinney Demo-
crat-Gazette.
end was seemingly sudden and with- , he has been here, his son, J.
out pain. for he had fallen from a
changed in a day. If Arlie Latham
jumps into the air and screams ‘Hold
No Cause For Alarm.
Nervous Passenger (on New Haves
steamer—There’s a very peculiar noise
in the water tonight. Do you notice
ft, captain?
Captain—Tee, madam. That's the
regular Long Isinnd eound.—Harlem
Lift.
engineer for the Southwestern Tele-
moneys he has paid in phone and Telegraph Company at
In the Big Leagues the Sign Language
is Constantly Changing.
Hugh S Fullerton writes in the
was formerly held by Mr Waterbury,
— it is only too certain that the next ; whose performance • ttended over
state will represent an important de twenty-eight and one-half hours The
into a’cup ahd’a nan or grarutatea
sugar rub three-quarters of a cup of
butter, add two eggs, half a teaspoon-
ful of soda dissolved in a tablespoon-
ful of hot water and a cup and a half
of buttermilk. Now sift in enough
flour to make a tender dough and roll
out.
ness for which the tax was assessed
had been met and since that time a
surplus has been piling up in the
treasury of the city that rightfully be-
longs to the tax payers and should be
refunded to them, if the amount is not
to be used for school purposes. What
promises to be an interesting contest
is brewing, and the Messenger hopes
to see the matter setttled for the best
interests of the town.
Decatur must have at least $15,000
spent on substantial improvements in
its school building, as the present old
shell is a disgrace to the progressive
spirit of the town, and whether we
get the amount in the hands of the
city council t o assist i n making
the improvements, the money must be
forthcoming and the work commenced
immediately at the close of the present
term of school. The children, the
patrons, the public-spirited citizens
of the town, demand a better school
building, and we must have it.
The leading dailies your base" it may mean ‘Steal second
today and tomorrow it may mean ‘Hit
further meetings of the
In . pre babjlity a law
. : and the whole matter
proposition । mer : purposes, provided the duti
chair, and there was no sign of a
struggle.
While Mr Lillard had been quite
ill during the past two weeks, he had
seemingly recovered, and was up town
and at his mill yesterday. He retired
last evening at the home of his son,
S. A., in usual health, but, as was
his custom when he could not rest, he
had lighted a lamp and was seated in
a chair when death came
Funeral services will be held at the
residence of S. A. Lillard tomorrow
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, after
which the remains will be interred in
the city cemetery.
educational board were present, this
matter was discussed and the propo-
Record in Piano Playing.
The Paris newspapers record a feat
of endurance on the part of one
Thorpe. described as a native of Bo-
hemia. who played the piano for thirty
hours and fifteen minutes without stop-
ping it seems that there is a record
even in this kind of folly and that it
come to it. — Metropolitan Maga , their beds or took their enjoyment in
parts
years as pastor of the Methodist were made by the busine
— . .... lifting of the water from this river,
assistance in keeping The worst of, to stu 7 thesig often from 800 feet below.Christian
2.--" “KP5 language of the game, by which the Hera d
“the Pioneer Paper" coachers from the little spaces near _____
abreast of the times, i drstaandicird bases Five or transmit t , Theses" Yarns. r ,
trie oraers Tor DaVS nes in me 1aC A worthy old dame of New England
on the city school building At a
meeting held Tuesday afternoon, at
which all members of the council and 1 claiming that four
amount for liquidating the indebted-
property. He was a man of strong
likes and dislikes, plain and blunt in
his talk. Mr. Lillard lived in Mis-
souri and Kentucky in the days when
those states were torn by the civil
strife between the north and south,
and it is said he performed good ser-
vice for the south. He wascharitable
to a splendid degree, never refusing
to contribute his part to the needy,
and he had many friends who will re-
gret to learn of his sad and untimely
taking off. Mr. Lillard was 73 years
lived n McKinney foi four years
daring which period 1901 02-‛03 and
‘04, Mr. Rosser was presiding elder
of the McKinney district He was the
first to, serve on the district afte: it
in the utter s church, at Decatar
“ Rosser - । me of the ablest ai
members of the school board have
best know n Methodist divines in the
the state and was heard by many of
his old friends and acquaintances The county comm ss oners have ac
herewith much pleasure and profit, cepted the federal government s
Mr Rosser and his exce .1 family proposition to contr bute 8400 to-
phone the Messenger American Magazine on baseball coach
• 9. Ing in the big leagues. He says:
what you know in 'Each team has its different systems
Arizna and New Mexico Will Com-
plete Uncle Sam's Family.
Since the thirteen colonies became
the nation in 1783 thirty-tive states
have been added to the Union. The
United Stales have multiplied at the
handsome rite of one stale for every
three a: a naif years of national ex
istence. Decidedly there is a shock in
the suggestion that we now have come
to the end of our tether, f< r the end.
If end it prove, closes an epoch.
Congress has passed the at t enabling
Arizona and New Mexico to form
state goverumeuts and become equal
shareholders to the Union. Thus I he
last of the contiguous territories are
hidden into the great American fed
eration.
Many questions arise: Shall we
forever remain a close, compact broth-
erhood of forty-eigbt mutually depend-
ent and respectively independent
states? There is no such design, yet
further changes are evidently far off
in time. Doubfless one or more states
will be founded in Alaska. Some say
the .laps Chinese and spineless natives
of Hawaii even now aspire to be rot
ers of a mid Pacific state. Our brown
charges in the Pb lippines are expert
menting. under surveillance, with a
toylike gift of self government, l'orto
Rico, really ambitious for statehood,
already has a territorial government
Great River Under Texas.
Geologists are claiming that the
greatest underground river in the
world flows from the Rocky moun-
tains underneath New Mexico and
Texas, emptying itself in the gulf of
Mexico. This river is thought to be
in places several miles wide, and it is
believed that it feeds rivers that flow
upon the surface The artesian well
belt of Texas is pointed to us the up-
we shall. as the politicians are
Rogers Visits Home.
Hon. A. D Rogers was here from
Austin a few days the latter part of
last week. Mr. Rogers is one of the
really big men in the state legislature
and is leading a splendid tight for
the pro cause in the house. The oth-
erday he made a speech on the appro-
priation bill, and from all reports
we hear he made the house members
sit up and take notice. As the Mes-
senger has frequently stated, this
man towers head and shoulders above
Of s p rvising the work were placed
in thehauds o the cou neil and a
a interests of a county should be
■loyally supported by all citizens,
■■ 'I in making this allowance for
such ., worthy cause the commis-
- readily admitted, as th, returns
w be three fold in a short time.
f saying, cross that bridge when aud < me, as to whether they brought
.. . . . . .1 n: ■r Rev. W E Thomas whois assist _
Brewing About the Disposition of in a series of neetin igs f rMr .R ,
farmers present the court closed the
contract. The work will be started
about October 1. and for ten months
in expert agriculturalist will be giy-
once Invited her husbands attention
to what seemed to her a curious item
in the Journal she was looking at
"Listen to this," said she, reading:
“ ‘The .Mary II. Barker of Gloucester
reports that she saw two whales, a
cow and a calf, floating of Cape Cod
the day before yesterday.’ "
"Well. what about it?” asked the
husband
"Only this." replied the spome. "I
can understand about the two whales
but what beats me is how the cow and
the calf got way out there "—St Paul
Dispatch.
re p rt states that Thorpe was fed and
itlm i dnrlng the entertain
ment But notbing is said about the
for school inte rest purpo3
of the act u ■ neet ' of 1
school bond indebtness
sition made. The legality of the
transfer came in for considerable
discussion, but when Secretary Sim-
mons of the school board. asked the
question of the council, "Will you
gentlemen be in favor of transferring
this amount to the school board for
the purpose of improving the public
school building if. after a thorough
investigation, it is found the transfer
can be made legally," the council
asked for further time in which to
consider the proposition. Wednes-
day afternoon the council met to
discuss and go into the matter, and
we are informed by Superintendent
Barton who was present, that no
progress was made toward a settle-
ment of the question, and that a ma-
jority of the councilmen seemed to
favor the city holding the money to
meet obligations that may arise in
the future. Four members of the
council, after the meeting adjourned.
ney, Mr. Rosser was stationed four ed the matter, and after several talk- pose the betterment of the agriouitur-
called upon the council to turn this
them. Don’t hesi-
tate to use the phone
Southwestern 50
th- ' v 1 he threshed out the courts A
representative of one of the big taxi ville and now serving his second year
payers of the city, in conversation at Decatur. Mrs Rosser is visiting
with a Messenger reporter stated that her son, Dick Rosser, Commercial
ward pushit g scientit e far .in;: me th-
ods in this county if tie county would
assist with a like amount At a
meeting of the court Wednesday af
and run.' One never can tell what a j
sign means Huglie Jennings hoists
his right knee as high as his shoulder,
pulls six blades of grass and Delaban-
ty bunts You are certain that Jen
nings signaled him to sacrifice, so the
next day when Cobb is at bat and Jon
nings goes through the same motions
you creep forward and Cobb hits the
ball past you so fast you can't see it.
If Connie Mack tilts his bat over his
eyes and Eddie Collins steals second
base as the next ball is pitched, nat-
urally you watch the hat, and. lo. Bar
ry plays bit and run You bear Clark
Griffith yelp ‘Watch his foot" and see
two of his players start a double steal
The next time he yells ‘Watch bls
foot." van hreak your neck to coyer the
■ rest to the citizens
, . , h* - the interests of I
Rev l ■ Rosser 1
I W ise . . unty pi, ached S nday an
i Sunday night at the W cox Street
Method st church for the paste
.1 the Decatur j i pressed a willingness to turn over
1 ave been at 82,5 0 of the fund for school Improve-
■
, 1
Interesting Time
ing demo strat ions am! instructing
the farm s in better and more pro-
dtable methods This government
agent wi visit all pa is of the coun-
ty and ail h s time will be gyen the
' work That it is money well invested
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911, newspaper, August 18, 1911; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581388/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .