Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1900 Page: 2 of 4
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nominees
TOWN
PRIMARY ELECTION RETURNS.
Speak kin
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Total Vote of Van Zandt's Primary Election.
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CANDI DATES FOR
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THE COUNTY OFFICES.
50 11 29
H 96 5240 838
3 35 53 101
6 301
26561 7846 194 393166 173145257138243 384042601 2601
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139
6 88' 837
’ 72 27
2105 776
862
55 38 8 281 858
36130
70
14 79 24 24
528
23
4 127
1
129
74 185 33 154 14801 824
26761
Pine mid hemlock stumps and niciously active nt any moment.
M. G. SANDERS, PUBLIEHER,
JUNE H
THURSDAY::::
Announcements:
J. J. HIGH.
Your morning coffee is heated Suppose his health got bad,
to Boers.
ui
K. A. RUSSELL.
and he Little Cecil and Jewel Williams
F
is quiet along the Potomac to night, ernment and liable to become per- weekly? Strange! Strange! I
Curtis carried most of the count
ies in last Saturday’s primaries.
656
528
It is sai‘
have been
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Remai
cemete
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100 55 94 149 100 59
11130 20 14 17 54
carried mud between his toes and
freckles on his nose, and hie heart
was full of dreams and his head
full of achemes and his pocket full
The wife of ex-Governor Robt.
L, Taylor, the lecturer, died Mon-
The co
affirmed
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It is stated on good authority
that Mark Hanna will conduct the
republican campaign in person.
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Detut
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642220 4
J 81 22 301 8
12 0 17 4
102 2133 0:
Admiral Dewey’s claim for prise
money from $40,000 to 120,000.
W. H.
the Hub
handed u
T.
ie hav
house
made
Shern
W. L.
thanks for
became worthlesb years ago are
being gathered in North Michigan
to be manufactured into lath.
F. E
tial Sim
pleasant
subecrip
J. W.C
orders the
all must go if we would see God.
“So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms
are o’er,
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Anyone desiring to contribute to
the sufferers from the famine in
India, can do so by sending their
contributions to the “Committee of
One Hundred on India Famine
Relief,” New York city.
Hon. W. J. Bryan made a stir-
ring speech at Omaha in behalf of
the Boers
So dies a wave along the shore.”
A Friend.
For District Clerk:
H. J. Craft
For County Attorney:
C. H. Reese .
Jerome F Kearby
Wood county polled 2002 votes
in her primary.
19141 116
For Tax Aesessor:
A B. Chappell
W. G. Payne
R. L. Murphy -
R. M. Bamford
45 45
20 35
For County Judge:
W. J. Greer
W. L. Haynes
G. M. C. Davis
J no. W. Davidson
For Countv Surveyor:
W.W. Gibson
For County Treasurer:
D. H. Swindall -......
W. B. Cheatham-. .
W. D. Thompson........
For Sheriff:
Cicero Rusk
J. W. Howard
, at the breakfast table and the din- cuts and hope they will call again. t Bible achool.
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For Tax Collector:
J. J. Starnes ......
Sim Florence -----------
B. H. McKinnon
Nat M. Crawford......
168 23 431202 380
For Justice Peace, Precinct No. 2:
N. T. JORDAN.
For Representative:
R E. Yantis
J no. M Dean
J no. T.Currsy
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For Commissioner.Precinct No. 2:
R. 8. HERRIN.
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 3:
J. R* SANDLIN.
For Commissioner Precinct No. 4:
C. W. TUNNELL.
For Justice Peace,Precinct No. 8:
JNO. T. McNAIR.
For Constable, Precinct No. L’
W. H. WARD.
For Constable, Precihct No. 2:
JNO. T. TAYLOR.
For Constable, Precinct No. 3:
ED. MATTHEWS.
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Rev. C. J. Youngblood and fam-
the Me-
JNO. W. DAVIDSON.
For County Attorney:
C. H. REESE.
For Sheriff:
CICERO RUSK.
For District Clerk:
H. J. CRAFT.
For County Clerk:
H. P. DAVIS.
For Tax Assessor:
R. L. MURPHY.
For Tax Collector;
J. J. STARNES.
For County Treasurer:
W. D. THOMPSON.
For County Surveyor:
W. A . GIBSON.
To judge from the continuous from w.ich the Populist Pismire his daily companions,
display of administration scandals clips 80 fully and freely. Now, if
Love. Lovlier. Lovliest. Real sprouting up in every direction, one the little journalistic mistake has because
We are authorized to announce
the following as candidates subject
to the action of the Independent
party:
For Justice Peace, Presinct No. 1
U. McCLELLEN.
NATIONAL TICKET:
For President:
W. J. BRYAN.
Vice President:
O. H. P. BELMONT.
3
7013305 822
2 1 571 338
Bob Taylor on Boys.
Ihe happiest thing I ever saw
Free State Enterprise. . .
old logs that were BuPpOBed to have
2 through AB hot a time as I did last
Saturdny , especially if he received
His billy goal and his dog were mt rails Tuesday it ever had.
For United States Benator.
J. W. BAILEY.
For Governor;
J. D.SAYEES.
For Lieutenant Governor*
J. N. BROWNING.
For Attorney General:
T. 9. SMITH.
Por Comptroller:
R. M. LOVE.
For State Treasurer.
JOHN W. ROBBINS.
Eor Com. Gen’) Land Office1
CHAS. ROGAN.
ForSnpt. Public Instruction1
J. S. KENDALL.
For Chief Justice Supreme Court •
R. R GAINS.
For Associate Justice Supreme Ct
F. A. WILLIAMS.
For Aeso. Justice Ct. Crimn. Apo1
J N. HENDERSON
For Railroad Commissioner:
L. J. STORY.
For Court Civil Appeals the 3.h
Judicial District.
For Chief Justice*.
ANSON RAINEY.
For Associate Justices*.
JNO. BOOKOUT.
HOWARD TEMPLETON.
For Congress 3rd Distrist.
R. C. DEGRAFFENRIED,
Fur Judge of the 7th Jud. District,
J. G. RUSSELL.
For Diet1 Atty., 7th Jud. District1.
R. W. SIMPSON.
For Representative 100th District:
> JNO. M. DEAN.
For County Judge:
a yeller
J. J. St:
Terntory.
tl.e Eoi 1
9 10 29 12 163124 12 14 181 36
6 6 1 15 17 118 13 12 lb 78
For Constable Precinct No. 4:
T. M. JOSLIN.
For Constable, Prec’t No. 5:
J. E. BEALL.
For Constable, Precinct No. 6:
L. A. KING.
For Constable, Precinct, No1 7:
T. V. WOOD.
For Constable. Precint No. 8:
JEROME ODOM.
The bit
Ara lb I1
long, ie -
Sea Berpente live in water but it
isn’t water that makes a man see
serpents.
For County Clerk:
H. P. Davie
T. J. Foster, Jr
Joel P. DuBose
please bring a large bucket full of and looked guilty, but finally re-
the milk of human kindness, fori covered his equilibrium and re-
For cold
Jesse Foste
voyage,one of which I will tell un-
to you and then quit, as the poet
says. At frog island there was the
most damfulest funniest occurrence
5 162;
Lovely. Blame Lovely. Yee all might suspect a whole volcano of that many subscribers, why is it "hooped because he had a whoop- rant flowers. We thank our pleas- Point. From there Bro. Young |
is Lovely in Van Zandt now. All them was located at the seat of gov- that it cannot afford to issue semi- er. At home he was the autocrat ant little visitors for the nice pres- blood will go to Waco to attend •
Philen is dead. Her death occur- Eor Commissioner, Precint No. 1:
215 44 66 29 80221 149 138 80 169 105 232 30 151 1700 819
42 16 7 17 119 159 27 42 59 83 30 27 7246 881
• as damful a reception at the hands
of the beautiful, dodgasted people
as I did. Oh, me! Damfisee why
the folks whistle and laugh. Pus
som Creekers, you may think that
in Memory of Ora Belle Philen.
Ben Wheeler, Tex.,June 11.—
Death is sad at all limes, yet it
rides on every pissing breeze and
lurks within the tiny folds of every
flower. To it does the high and
low, the rich and poor hasten and
lay their burthens down. The ev
er dreaded foe to humanity, it has
invaded our community with its
cold and sapless hand and plucked
from our midst one of the sweetest
girls whose life ever sweetened and
brought happiness to the home and
roamed over the hills and yelled came to Fe+ 1F at d brought abas- ily of near Tyler were in
he had a yeller and ket of nice yellow plums and frag- tropolis Monday en route to Will®
From there Bro. Young
All flavo
st Jesse Fc
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“Have you noticed the fine ad
vertisment I have on the fence west
of town?” “No,” replied the farm
er, “but if you send the fence
around to my farm I will read it
and see what you are dealing in.
The fa t is, I’m reading the Horn-
et and don’t get much time to read
only after supper.”—Vernon Horn-
et.
The Resuit.
The primary election is over, tbe
votes have been counted, and the
result has been declared. Those
who were not agreed on the same
men before the primary should be
now. Far above our own person-
il choice should be placed the suc-
by the coal trust, sweetened by the
sugar trust, cooled by the ice trust
and diluted by the milk trust
And most of your breakfast is pay-
ing similar tributes. Pleasant,
isn’t it?—Sulphur Springs Gazette.
In south, the McKinley adminis-
tration of Mr. McKinley does not
appear to have donean ything else
since its inauguration but mix ex
plosive materials in violation of
their constitutional qualities.
But fellow citizens of ‘Possum
Creek Club, in spite of all this bar-
rassment and refusement of our in-
nocent and pure minds, there were
The supreme court reduced
“Have several requests to pub-
lish the Appeal semi-weekly. My
dear sirs, I cannot get enough mon-
ey to publish it weekly, except 1
go down in my pocket for it.”
The above is a clipping from the
Appeal to Reason, a little social
istic warty journal published at
Girard, Kansas, U. S. A‘, claiming
to have 99.521 subscribers and
a blessing to society. How hard
80me damful funny things on the it is for us to say that Ora Belle
J. O. A
recentiy
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For Justice Peace,Precinct No. 3:
J.N. EDMISTON.
For Justice Peace, Precinct No. 4:
J. J. RAMSEY.
For Justice Peace, Precinct No. 5:
R.S.CAUTHRON.
For Justice Peace, Precinct No. 6:
JOHN WILLIAMS.
For Justice Peace, Precinct No. 7:
W. F. WOODS.
Over 8,000,000, people have
visited the Paris exposition.
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Congress has adjourned but we
still recieve the Congressional
Record. And it’s just as interest-
ing now as when congress was in
session!
Miss Evelyn Adams, authoress,
of that charming little book enti
tied, “Ie Marriage a Failure?" re-
cently starved to death in the city
of New York. It is a fact that
those who lose sight of bacon and
beans in quest of glory generally
awake to the realiration that glory
is a right good thing but something
to eat is better.
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When a man who steals 1400,000
of government money can lug in
the United States Constitution to
support the defense of unconstitu-
tionality in the method of bis trial,
it is evident that the Constitution
has indeed become an effete instru-
ment. There is something in the
legal point that the Constitution
having been abolished there is no
way to punish imperial thieves.
was barefooted and dirty, He So gently shuts the eye of day;
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Now the ice man gets the cold
cash.
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86 48 5151 957
but damfi don’t Know better, for I
went up it, and there are the most
gruesome, damfulest eights along
the stream, and all of us cursed
4 mud whistled except our beloved
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1291934 2 50 162 51 42 27 66 22 139 6 88 837
68363528 39107 53102 59 131 47 8014 43, 842
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Mr. Finley has withdrawn from1
from the race for comptroller.
quaintance Truly she desired not to
live long but well. At the age of
10 she professed the Christian re
ligion and that religion of her
young and tender years was her
shibboleth and shield till the dark
ness of death gathered about her
feet and the shades of evening crept
upon her brow. Following in the
footsteps of the blessed Savior, she
died as she had lived happy in the
love of her God. Her latest song
was, “Standing on the promises of
God," and her last breath was
spent in telling affectinnate parents
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swearing a little for damfi don’t present help in time of trouble.”
P"ground, and th- 1 Of the Democratic Primary *siain
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whistle and be merry, and then we W e deeply sympathize with the
all except the chaplain went below heart broken relatives. We know
deck, tok a drink and cursed the it is hard in a dark and trying
damful trogs and everything else, hour like this to hold implicit
including our damful fate, and faith in God and to believe that
swore solemnly by the toe nails or Death is life’s messenger. But it
Moses that the civilized world mnst be s0 and where her bright
should never ste us again, for we soul is there can be no night. She
are going to South Africa and turn has only gone the path which we
chaplain, who said, friends, I can’t lb? working and diliaat. In the
comrades, for I am faint, Oh, mel
At this dainful juncture, about
thirty nine billion damful little
frogs bobbed up their beautiful
dodgasted beads and sang together
in chorus, long and loud, the im-
mortal words of Mrs. Partington,
“Played out,” “Played out” and .. ,
i । ill- n i i goodbye and asking them to meet
our beloved chaplain sang a Psalm/, . .. .
,, . . ! her on the golden shore.
lune and sari friends, why do you
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red at the home of her parents in
this place, June 5th, she being a
little past 16 years of age. Her
life was short but sweet, bringing
happiness and sunshine to all who
came within the circle of her az-
ingsand dissensions die away and
all unite for the suereas of the par-
ty. While we nr? in nowise con-
fronted with a formidable oppo
nent, yet the victory is always for
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Young men, have a character of
your own; do not be idle all your
days. Your reputation is made up
by your conduct. Cultivate force,
energy, self-reliance and be a quan-
tity that can be calculated upon al
all times and all places. Be a
man whose word is worth a bun
dred cents on a dollar and your
reputation will be as good as gold.
—Selected.
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plied with a twinkle in his eye:
। “Il says a lie is an abomination in
the sight of the Lord and a very
am very sick and damfino whale
the matter with me—woe is us.
Excuse me, fellow citizens, for
great number of candidates, of
c urse a maj rity had to be de-
fpated. But it was a friendly
fight and all in the family. So
dry up all inane gabbling and
think only of partv success in No
vember.
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The ENTRPRISE was the recip For Public Weigher, Precinct No. 3:
of firings and elints and thinge ient of the sweetest and most pleas- — ---------
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of the whole trip—woe is us. We
stopped there for supplies and re-
pairs and took on board ship as
supercargo, one of our brethren in
tribulation, who used the axiom-
atic language about frogs, but for
fear these ear marks are not plain
enough, I will tell you plainly, as
the poet says, that he was “Meth-
odist Bill.” As he got upon the
boat, he says, cheer me a little,
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this Salt river business is a myth, cess of the party. Let all bicker-
' believe that old Billey Satan would
curse some if he should pass
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For Che
per and 1!
Foster.
R M. Love got 1619 votes for
comptroller in the primary Satur-
day. Finley, 714 That gave Love
a majoririty of 905. Henderson
got 1432 votes for associate justice
of the court of criminal Appeals and
Hurl 817, leaving the former a
majority of 615 Storey recieved
1732 for railroad commissioner and
Curtie, 629, giving Storey a ma-
jority of 1103. The rest of the state
officers and the district officers had
no opponents and got there by a
tight squeeze.
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VP salt river. ner table and the supper table; at
K. L. Hichardson’s candidate school he was the demoorat ’•.."he
gets defeated and takes advantage I - - .
of the excursion. of the lunch basket-he "anted
, it ... , ... m pg,, everything in eight. He abhorred
Fellow citizens of Possom Creek • . .,p:L1, n
, , , the bath tub and the Bible, and
Club, I propose to ppeak unto you ;)
i » , was the sworn enemy of castor oil
on this occasion, as a poor.diegrun* , . „ ....
2 ,,, . i j i i 1,., and civilization. He was ever*
a tied, dodgasted, defeated candidate . .
g- u L \ p 4., I lastingly under indistment for
# begin I wish you would go unto high erimes and misdemeanors,
= the drug storeand get this pre and atterpted to prove an alibi.
- Kriptiou filled for me. viz: I f el His father tried him convicted
i c like I need a dose of zymocideor him for dodging the truth one day,
’ Lime other antiseptic and detergent and turned to him with a frown
preparation which will be nones- and said: "My .00, don't you go
charoticandnon toxic, composed to Sunday School?’ “Yes sir.
, of powertul vegetable antiseptics, "Don’t you study the bible
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suI phocarbolate of zinc, boracic ac- " 1,
! id, thermolate of soda, and eseen- you tell me what it 8ay8 about 8
tial oil. of various kind., and lie?” The boy scratched his head
RATES:
For Congress................115.
For District Offices.......... 810.
For County Offices.......... 85.
For Precinct Offices .........13.
der Strictly Cash in Advance.
I
see why you whistle. He was the
only Christian and human in the
whole crew, and this one had one
more than any other crew that has
heretofore navigated those damful
waters. I would like to tell you of
the fiendish sights I saw, and of
the cries and shrieks of the crew,
as bats and owls and snakes and
vampires and lizzards and adders
and scorpions and alligators and
crocodiles and all living and
creeping things that lovethor mat
etb mischief surged around the
boat to get at us, but damfino what
they wanted with us unless they
thought we were fit only for food
or companions for such damfu
beasts as themselves—woe is us.
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Sanders, M. G. Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1900, newspaper, June 14, 1900; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585403/m1/2/?q=land: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.