Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1913 Page: 1 of 10
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DECATUR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1913.
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For all occasions you will
find the proper corset to be
Opening song,
led by president.
room, the young woman stated, she
screamed very loud and the man ran.
for the military prison at Leavens-
worth, Kan., where he will take up |
the war department, giving the pic-
ture and a description of the deserter.
will not
munity.
room of a dark-eyed married lady of
tender years. When the intruder made
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the Baptist college, is in a sorry con-
dition. and it seems to this Messenger
scribe that the good citizens living on
these thoroughfares are about ready
to surrender in their efforts to get as-
sistance from the city council and
turn the streets over to the washing
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Prayer by chaplain.
Song by Joe Bailey class.
Words of welcome—Wallace Gregg.
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Resolved, that a copy of these reso-
lutions be given the Messenger for
publication, a copy be spread upon
the minutes of the lodge and a copy
be sent the family of Brother Hard-
ing-
an enterprise but has
Two songs by all over forty.
One song by the children of Joe
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Respectfully submitted.
J. W. BAILEY,
JOHN DICKSON,
W. B. WATKINS
Response—W. D. Paschall.
Song by Paradise.
Song by Anneville.
Special by Garvin.
Song by Decatur class.
Special by Boyd.
Song by Bridgeport.
Special by Chico.
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man, we will draw no pension.
There is one thing that just at this
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Cotton Report
According to the government report
up to Sept. 25, there had been ginned
4,938 bales of cotton in Wise connty
To the same date in 1912 there had
been ginned 6,874 bales in this county.
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line4^knockers, and their energies
fall a (prey to the unsuspecting enemy.
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Resolved, by this lodge that we ex-
tend to our departed brother’s wife,
children, mother and other relatives
our most heartfelt and sincere sym-
pathy in this, their sad hour of be-
reavement of the beloved one. Be it
further
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. Baptist doctrine way back yonder in
the early days of this country. The
letter of Mrs. Long is interesting and
community, was at the meeting and he
informs the Messenger that steps are
being taken to put the matter over if
the people of Decatur and Wise coun-
ty will take the proper interest in the
movement. Messenger would lixe to
har from some of the old timers
about the suggestion
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time gives us pain. We note a ten-
dency of the board of education to
decline to give further aid to the
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Resolutions.
To the Officers and Members of De-
catur Lodge No. 142 1. O. O. F.
We, your committee appointed to
draft resolutions of our departed
brother, Waller S. Harding, who fell
asleep September 30, 1913, submit the
following:
Whereas, in accordance with the
laws of Almighty God, which were
planned by his wisdom and love, our
brother has been taken from his fam-
ily, his large acquaintances and
friends and this lodge, to that place
where there is an ever enduring fra-
tracts of three acres each
school districts and in some
Sin WRITES ARMY DESERTER
ABOUT SCHOOLS CAPTURED HERE
diligently to place school gardens,
agricultural plats and domestic econ-
omy in the best schools of our coun-
try, and we are glad to say that dur-
this time the State Board of Educa-
tion has been very liberal and has
lent very gratifying assistance. Dur-
Bailey.
Duet by Sparks and others.
Song by Pleasant Grove No. 2.
Solo by John Sparks.
Duett by the Misses Henderson.
Special by Joe Bailey,
Song by Keeter.
Song by Oak Grove.
Special by Pleasant Grove No 2.
We would be pleased to have every
district send one district delegate with
report of their class work, for this is
just what we make it, no more,
no less.
C. E. HENDERSON, President.
MAY PORTWOOD, Secretary.
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plans of some of our citizens are car-
ried out. At a recent gathering in
Alvord this matter was discussed and
it was suggested that the graves of
these people, who were so foully mur-
dered by the Indians be properly
- marked. Uncle Jack Watts of this
School garden, domestic science
and agricultural training belong to
the late reform in our common
schools and is only popular with our
best school men and the more liberal
thinking laymen. The masses do not
understand the vast importance of
this long neglected line of school life.
Since deserting Fleming has wander- "
ed about the country working on ’
ing resemblence between Fleming and his appearance
a picture poster he had received from
never to be
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Wednesday. This time a young Mex- exception of South Trinity leading to
I ican was charged with entering the
their charge. For years the Messen-
ger has held to the opinion that the
town's council, aldermen or city-
getting along in years, still holds her
old time power as a charming writer.
Will Mark Huff Graves.
The Huff family, the victims of the
last and most cruel raid made in
Wise county by the wild, blood-
thirsty Indians, will probably have
suitable marks at their graves, if the
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Fleming was rounded up and brought I take the stand by his attorney. Mr.
to Decatur. Fleming confessed to | Ratliff, and he denied the woman’s
the charge, and W ednesday Officer । story in toto, and branded her as a
Pior left for Fort Sill with the prison- a monumental liar and intimated that
er. The military authorities will pay he had made a trip to Thurber where
Mr. Pior #50 for delivering Fleming the woman lived before moving to
with our fine jewelry. We
have everything of the very
latest styles and patterns.
We have a new and elegant
line of cut glass. Don’t
forget that.
BE DELIGHTED
Copyright by the Review ot Reviews company.
CAPTAIN UrRIC DAHLGREN, U. S. A., AND GENERAL J. D. IMBO-
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the hard labor of a convict. Flem-
ing is 24 years of age and his mother
and sisters live at Rogers, Ark.
arranged for domestic science and
have received state aid as follows.
District No. 32, for 1911, agricultural
and domestic science #1,000: district
No. 32, for 1912, for same, #750; dis
trict No. 13, for 1911, for agriculture,
8600: district No. 23, for 1911 *500,
and fnr 1912 $500; Chico independent
m school, for 1911, for agriculture and
# domestic science 81,000. and for 1912
W8750; Bridgeport independent school
district for 1912, for agriculture and
. domestic 82,000.
B While these schools have not iat
{with our full desire, we remember that
it was altogether a new enterprise
Imanaged by an altogether inexper-
ienced school board and, I might say,
Efess experienced teachers. And again,
• We were face to face with the non-
progressive who watched for every
presentable mistake and then sneer -
ingly remarked, “I told you so.
But for all that, we have not failed.
Our mistakes stand out for those who
follow to profit by, and our efforts
New pictures every night at the
Majestic. Go once and see them.
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such matters in their hands, and that
a committee composed of members
from the body, acted as supervisors
on the job of kaeping the streets in
good condition. We were also wed-
ded to the idea that the tax paying
citizens within the corporate limits of
•‘Delightful” Decatur were contribu-
ting to a fund set aside and apart for
street work. Now, after going over
the streets in this town, the Messen-
ger scribes are ready to "back up”
and publicly proclaim our mistake.
Undoubtedly, there is no fund in the
hands of the city council for street-
making purposes, and it is high time
the citizens now wading in mud and
stumbling over rocks and twisted wa-
ter pipes, were letting up in the un-
just and cruel criticism of the town's
fathers or, city council, as you pre-
fer to address 'em. They are not re-
sponsible for the bad condition of our
public streets. Cruel washing rains,
constant travel and the relentless
decaying work of time are the guilty
parties, and as Harley Portwood
would say, “the recourse” is on the
citizens afflicted to combat the matter
with hoe, and plow and pick.
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rains and sink holes. Trinity street
running north from the square is lit-
tle better than the worst country
roads in the county. Water pipes
have worked to the surface and the
constant running of wagons over
them have caused leaks to spring and
the result is, mud ankle deep is in the
V shall be an incentive to further the
▼ a good cause. We have tried to im-
O d press the great fact upon our people
A a agricultural and domestic science
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E"TTZation calls for it, the conservation
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W .. .5 us; and we must do it or the trained
V i European will come over (many of
A h them are already here) to our land
A and within another century, we, like
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YOU WILL.
BELAH & SONS CO.;
The Store For All The People!
as you wish to call ’em, had
at the fort. The punishment given to ; Bridgeport, and what he heard there
army deserters will come to F lemiag I was anything but good concerning her
and in a short time he will be headed character, ete. He was not allowed street constantly.
to tell what his investigation in Thur- washed out here and there and large
ber had revealed. Several witnesses ! rocks, worked up from the old worn
A AU reforms have been fought by the
4 non-progressive and unthinking.
M There is not a good man but has an
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For three years we have worked
farms. Some days ago he drifted in-
to the Slidell country and secured a
job as cotton picker. Deputy Sheriff
Ben Pior saw the young stranger and
the alert officer immediately came to
the conclusion that there was a strik-
took the stand in behalf of the defend- out grading, litter the thoroughfare,
ant and swore that the woman was I other streets in the town are, and
evidentiw mistaken when she stated ! have been, for months in a disgrace-
that she screamed. Two witnesses ' ful condition. The public square re-
occupied the adjoining room to her at minds one of a poorly drained and
the time it is alleged the crime was j recklessly kept barn yard. In fact,
committed. Attorney Lob de 11 of the streets and public square in this
Bridgeport is representing the woman town is a serious reflection upon the
Mexicans in Court. Streets in Bad Condition
The Bridgeport Mexican colony had North Trinity, along with most ev-
The Wise County Singing
Convention Oct. 19th
The Wise County Singing conven- . .
lion will meet at Pleasant Grove No. in the case. The whole day of Wed- public spiritedness of the people who
1 on Sunday, Oct. 19. at 9:30 a. m. nesday was devoted to the trial of the have Ilie ‘keeping" of the streets in
We wish to urge all the classes in case. Theveraict was not “guilty."
Writes Interesting Letter.
Mrs. Sue Newton Long, one of the
old lime citizens of this town, writing
from Muskogee. Okla., to her sister,
Mrs. J P. Turner at Slidell, tells of
attending a better baby show at the
new state fair in that city. Mrs. New-
ton says the prize-winning baby
carried off the #100 prize as being the
Senior League Program.
Leader, Miss Ethel Renshaw.
Subject: "Mission Study Rally
Day.”
The topic—looking upon white
fields, by the leader.
Mission study is instructive, H. R.
Hall.
Mission study quickens spirituality
and aids prayer, W. H. Galloway.
Mission study increases offerings,
Miss Leia Rich.
Study of the labors of missionaries
enlists sympathy and finds volun-
teers, Miss May Belle Pirtle.
Sidelights on “The Uplift of
China,” Outler Gose.
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What Some of Schools Curtis Fleming Quits the
Deputy Sheriff Ben Pior last Mon-
day night arrested Curtis Fleming
near Slidell and brought him to De-
catur jail Fleming is a deserter
from the United Stales army, having
quit the service at Fort Baker, Cali.,
on the 17th day of last July. He en-
listed at Denver, Colo., for a four-
year term and had less than one year
to serve when he took leave from his
command, the 61st coast artillery.
the county to send a full delegation
With your leader with credentials in
order that we may make this conven-
tion the best one yet. Everybody is
invited. Come and bring your bas-
kets full of something to eat and it
best developed contestant. Baby
shows along these lines are different
r from the ones held in the past, when
the child's facial beauty was only
considered. Mrs. Newton also tells
of meeting an old Baptist brethen,
i Kendley Shumate, 93 years old. who
j told of the imprisonment of the Bap-
tists in Virginia for preaching the
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complete and up-to-date
line of staple and fancy
groceries in town.
schools that have heretofore received
aid. This decision of the board
would be a good one if the reforms
| were already firmly fixed and backed
up by a majority of the more able
people of the district. But that is aot
the case. Only a few people appre-
ciate the importance of agricultural
training in our common schools, and
it occurs to me to refuse these schools
further aid will greatly embarrass the
work for which a faithful few have so
earnestly toiled to establish. Better
aid the schools already started and
save them from failure and embar-
rassment and fix them firmly on solid
ground than to withdraw just at a
time when aid is most needed, and let
them go down as failures and then
grant aid to other new schools to ke
treated in like manner.
If you wish to cross a river it is a
bad policy to pay the ferryman to
take so to the middle of the stream
and there dump you out unless you
are a wen 11 ained smimmer, the waters
very placid and no sharks hard by.
Met the board of education whisper in
■ach Ether’s ear, “A thing half done
■s never done fight.’
• We are anxious to foster these
Mehools’ that have been established
mha would beg the board to continue
Mate aid to some of them until we can
Bet them more firmly fixed.
K Yours very truly,
A D. J. SIMPSON.
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1913, newspaper, October 17, 1913; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1581873/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .