The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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FATE OF THE RESOLUTE.
W. W. AIKEN, Editor and Proprietor.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE
Obituaries, resolutions, cards of thanks
and other matter not "news" will be
charged for at the rate of 5c per line.
Parties ordering advertising or printing
for societies, churches, committees or or-
ganizations of any kind will, in all .fases,
be held personally responsible for the
payment of the bill.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
British Economy and the End •#
Franklin's Exploring Ship.
The story of how the brave little ex-
ploring r.hlp the Resolute was found by
an American vessel in Davis strait aft-
er u thousand mile cruise from Mel-
ville island without a soul ou board is
of easily the most captivating in the hls-
news in tory of arctIc exploration. The Reso-
, , , lute, locked in the ice, was abandoned
aesiraole. on May |5i X8S4, sorely against the will
——— of her captain by advice of the leader
The Ferguson people say that the of the Belcher-Franklin expedition.
Houston Club, of which Tom Ball is ¡¡* ÍLX? Z
a member, but is not a director or the United states brought the vessel
officer, dispensed $10,000 worth of, with great ceremony to Cowes in order
liquor over the bar last year. The
people interested.
1 condensed form is
The
most
1 to present it to the queen of England.
The Courier is authorized to make
the following announcements for
office, subject to the action of a
democratic primary:
For Congresman-at-Large
R. B. Humphrey
of Throckmorton County
For District Attorney
J. J. Bishop
of Henderson County
J. E. Rose
of Anderson County
For Representative
Nat Patton
J. R. Hairston
For Countv Judge
C. M. Ellis
E. Winfree
G. B. Wilson
For County Attorney
B. F. Dent
For District Clerk
John D. Morgan
For County Clerk
O. C. Goodwin
A. S. Moore
For Tax Assessor
John R. Beeson
John H. Ellis
H. P. English
For Tax Collector
Geo. H. Denny
For County Treasurer
Ney Sheridan
For Sheriff
R. J. (Bob) Spence
O. B. (Deb) Hale
A. W. Phillips
For County Superintendent
J. H. Rosser
Jba M
For Commissioner, Prec't No. 1
W. L. Vaught
Oscar Dennis
For Commissioner, Prec't No. 2
Charles Long
J. C. Estes
G. R. Murchison
For Commissionér, Prec't No. 3
J. P. Sanders
J. A. Harrelson
J. H. Jones
For Commissioner, Prec't No. 4
C. B. Isbell
J. W. McHenry
For Justice of Peace, Prec't No. 1
E. M. Callier
C. W. Ellis
For Justice of Peace, Prec't No. 6
T. R. Hester
For Constable, Prec't No. 1
Hal Long
C. C. (Buck) Mortimer
R. E. Hale
General Felix Robertson of Mc-
Lennan county, who was until re-
cently a candidate for governor,
says he will not vote for either
Ferguson or Ball, because one
wants to take his land from him,
while the other wants to take his
whiskey. Sad plight, that.—Mexia
News.
Contributors to the Courier will
please confine their articles to a
column and a half in length and
often less. It is a matter that cer-
tainly needs lots of explaining when
it requires more than a column and
a half to explain it in. Condensa-
tion is the thing most devoutly to
be desired.
Hon. C. C. McDonald of El Paso
will speak at Crockett this (Thurs-
day) afternoon at 2 p. m. for Fer-
guson. Hon. J. J. Strickland of
Palestine will speak at Crockett
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock and
at Grapeland at 4 o'clock for Ball.
Hie Courier asks that both speakers
be heard.
, The queen, the prince consort and
Houston Club has a membership of others of the royal family then at Os
over 500. That makes an average borne House inspected the vessel,
of $20 a year for each member. ^ ha<* í,ee" c,aref,u'ly ^paired and
the original furniture retained in
all
a year
Now anybody who knows anything position down to the smallest trinkets,
of such clubs as the Houston Club, The American skipper traced before
organized mainly by business men her majesty the thousand mile course
of the vessel and expressed his belief
to entertain their out-of-town cus- that slr John Franklin was still alive.
tomers and friends, knows that $20
a year is no money at all for a ¡
business man, if he uses liquor at I
all, to spend in entertaining his
friends and customers. That is
only a little over a dollar and a half ¡
a month for each member. But
many club members never use
liquor. Then, if only half of them
do, the amount is only a little over ¡
$3.00 a month. But that amount
is not enough by half for a whole-,
sale business man who is contin-
ually entertaining customers from
over south and central Texas. If
he drinks at all, he will spend not
less than six or seven dollars a
month for liquor, for himself and
friends, aUthe club. By this cal-1
culation only about 25 per cent of ¡
the club members use liquor and
75 per cent use no liquor at all.
Liquor is served there because a
majority of the club's directors
directors and drunkenness is ground
for rejection or expulsion.
living among the Eskimos.
After many banquets the actual
transfer of the vessel took place on
Dec. 80, 1866, when the American flag
was replaced by the British. And now
comes the tragedy. The admiralty had
no sooner come Into the possession of
the vessel than It proceeded to break
it up on the good old principle of pub-
lic economy!—London Chronicle.
A TRAP FOR MARINERS.
Salmadina Bank, Off Colombia's Coast,
Is a Perilous Shoal.
One of the most dangerous places for
navigation is the Salmadina bank,
which lies just outside the harbor of
Cartagena. Colombia. Many vessels
have come to grief on the treacherous
sands of Salmadina in the past, and
because of the impossibility of keeping
buoys on it the shoal is a constant
menace to ships plying those waters.
This daugerous bank is about four
miles long and two miles wide. There
Is scarcely more than twelve feet of
water over it at any time. The sea
is usually smooth in that part of the
Caribbean' and unless there is ground
swell enough to cause waves to break
think it advisable. Application for on the reef there is nothing to warn
membership is passed on by the üie navigator that he is approaching
1 this shallow spot He may have his
lead going and get plenty of water
one minute and be bang up on the
shoal the next.
The lighthouse people will probably
never be able to put buoys on Salma-
dina that will stay there. They are In-
variably carried snajr iu cus cerrinc
hurricanes that periodically sweep
these waters. So it seems as If Salma-
dina was a bad spot put there for the
permanent worrlment of shipmasters.
The Ferguson people say that the
Houston Club, of which Tom Ball
is a member, spent $3en.4S ror
playing cards and poker chips last
year. That is less than one dollar1
a day for a club membership of |
over 500—men who are continually i ~New Tork Sun-
Penalties For Sabbath Breaking.
Sabbath breaking in Dundee was an
coming and going and buying new;
cards whenever a social game is!
started. They also say that the expensive business in former times, to
Houston Club spent only $112.60 3udf £ tfe etc" dr*w"
. . j . * , i up by the local Guild of Bonnetmakers
for magazines and periodicals last: |D 1005. For traveling or drinking in
year. The Houston Club is not a ' a tavern on Sunday the fine was fixed
literary club, but a business man's' at 40 shl,Ungs for each offense. For
, . j , . . . I "banging out bonnets, clothing or flsb
club, and business mén have no|to dry_penalty for duneta, os. ad.:
need for periodicals and magazines (for clothes, 4 shillings; for fish. 3 sbii-
except in their homes. The Fergu-! 1,nss Carrying water from the well
son people ought to tell you that or wash,ng ^efttQ th°Tl In
tt j. o. l a , . . 1 sermon, penalty, 8 shillings; gathering
the Houston Club, of which Tom kail in time of sermon, penalty, 5 shll-
Ball is a member, spent last year lings; going to neighbors' bouses in
$465.38 for stationery and printing, tímo of sermon wlthout ,awful excu8e-
coinocr x nn , , snch as sickness, penalty for Tlrst
$210.25 for postage, $175.00 for tel- fault, 12 shillings, and for second
ephone and telegraph uses and that twice as much, with rebuke before the
the sales in the dining room cra't« an(* f°r the third, summons be-
amounted to nearly $20,000 or
nearly double what the sales from
the bar amounted to. The Ferguson
people are hard-pressed for argu-
ment against Ball when they resort
to such campaign buncombe. The
fore the kirk session."—London Chron-
icle.
great mass of people outside of the
cities know very little of clubs and
it is an effort to create and appeal
to a prejudice—to array the country
against the towns
against the cities.
cities are to the men what the cor-
ner drugstores and sidewalks are to
the men in the towns—just a place
to look for a fellow when you don't
find him in his place of business, if
he is a member.
Sailors' Superstitions.
It is a common belief among sail-
ors that a ship which has been sunk
and raised again is haunted by the
ghosts of those who were drowned
in her. Some years ago a large emi-
grant steamer was sunk in the Med-
iterranean, and over 500 lives were
lost. Thousands were spent in rais-
and the towns ing the vessel. She was brought
The clubs in the home and refitted, but has never
since been used. It is impossible to
keep a crew. The men declare that
every night the great hull rings with
the screams and groans of the mul-
titude who sank, like rata in a trap,
to the bottom of sixty feet of stormy
sea.—Strand Magazine.
¿•iftething Like That.
"Herr Schmidt is so fat that he can't
get near enough to his counter to sell
goods."
"H'ml Sort of a corporation in re-.
stralnt of trade."—London Answers.
Might and Mane.
Tom Hood, Che punster, once descrlb-'
ed the meeting of a man and a lion,
and in doing so he said, "The man ran
off with all hla might and the lion with
all hla mana." j
Womanly Wit.
A young lady whose dramatic
ability was greater than her person-
al attractions called on a popular
manager with the view of obtaining
a part. The manager chatted about
the value of good looks to a woman,"
ending up with, "Beauty is to a wo-
man what brains are to a man."
"There's only one thing more valu-
able to a man than brains," said the
young lady. "What's that?" asked
the manager. "Tact!" was the re-
ply.
for Children
We certainly appreciate the trade of
the little folks and give them special
care and attention.
Our sodas are good for
children, good for every-
body.
If you send the little ones in alone,
we'll see that they are well taken
care of. We believe that children are
just as appreciative of service and
quality as you are. Send the children
and come yourself to
King's Drug Store
All In the Mind.
On the opening day of one win-
ter session the late Professor Tait
of Edinburgh university entered
the natural philosophy classroom in
the midst of the uproarious ap-
plause common to those occasions.
Presently he looked up at the
tumultuous benches above him with
the smile of one who had known
the ways of students for a lifetime.
At last, when a momentary lull
came, he remarked, his gray eyes
twinkling:
"Gentlemen, I must remind you
that there is really no such thing as
noise. It is merely a matter of
subjective impression."
Lloyd's.
The earliest reference to the fa-
mous Underwriters' association
known as Lloyd's appears about the
year 1688 in the London Gazette.
This great commercial establish-
ment had its origin in a "coffee
house" kept by one Edward Lloyd,
in Tower street, London, where cer-
tain merchants were in the habit of
meeting for gossip or business. In
1692 Lloyd moved to Lombard
street, where he virtually began the
business which is now so well known
All over the world under his name.
Making Practice.
"These mere vassals of the town
have the audacity to say my poems
make them sick," said the proud
bard. "You don't object to them,
do you, sir?"
"No, indeed," answered the
stranger.
"Aid may I ask who you are?"
"Why, I am the town physician."
—Chicago News.
College Education.
A college education la not a scheme
to enable a man to live without work.
Its purpose is to help him to work to
advantage — to make every stroke
count—David Starr Jordan.
China's Millions.
Any figures for the population of
China must necessarily be more or less
unreliable, inasmuch as the census man
is'not much iu evidence in the land of
the Celestials. The estimate, which is
probably somewhere near correct, Is
402,700,000. As to whether the mil-
lions of China will ever become thor-
oughly modernized in the sense that
the Japanese are remains to be seen.
The Chinaman possesses plenty of
good sense and there seems to be no
valid reason why he should not some
time "catch on" to things and forge
ahead with the rest of the folks.—New
York Journal.
As 8he Is 8poke In Lancashire.
First Lancashire schoolboy from the
top of a passing tramcar to a school
friend:
"Gooln1 th' "all Cneet?"
Second L. S.—Yi.
"Hayve past?"
"Aw reet"
The two. explains the Manchester
Guardian, have made an appointment
to meet at half past 6 for the first
show of the local picture ball, which
will be faithfully kept.
Easy to Remember.
"Beg pardon, sir," observed tb«
tough looking waiter suggestively.
"Gentlemen who dine at this table usu-
ally—er—remember me, sir."
"I don't wonder," said the customer
cordially. "That mug of yours would
be hard to forget."—Dallas News.
The Cranky 8tage.
"What Is the difference between sick-
ness and convalescence, pa?"
"The convalescent, my boy, generally
makes those around him sick."—Boston
Transcript.
Honors come by diligence; riches
spring from, economy.—John Francis
Davis.
Considerate Parent.
"What are you doing these days?"
"I have Joined the sons of rest."
"How can you do It?"
"By having a father who didn't"
Watch Your New Home Grow
day by day. And if it is
being built with our lumber
watch it with the confi-
dence that it is being built
right and for many years
of good service and pleas-
ant occupancy. You, of
course, want a good house
when you build. You can
obtain it only by using the
best lumber, such as we
sell exclusively.
Crockett Lumber Co.
"The Planing Mill"
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Aiken, W. W. The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1914, newspaper, June 25, 1914; Crockett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177748/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.