The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume IX
ALTO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH e, 1909.
Number 13
AT Mrs.AGNEW'S'MILLINERY PARLOR YOU WILL FIND CLEVER DESIGNS
Expressing the Newest Ideas in Spring Millinery
Awaiting your early approval & Her long association with you has enabled her to select a style and price suited
to all *£ Go in and be convinced of the above statement, and if /ou are ready to >.* t*& ^
"Bud Out" in i\ Bran [New Spring Hat—It is Ready Mere for Yo
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Four hundred Greeks, wlio
were driven out of South Oma-
ha, have arrived at Ft. Worth,
where they expect to secure
employment.
Whether our ad vice has been
taken or not, or whether it will
be, is for the farmers to decide,
says the Rusk County News.
We have had a great deal to
say in regard to different crops
that should be planted, and
hope that our feeble efforts to
point out why diversification
should not be overlooked and
home consumption provided
for first—then and not until
then, go in to make all the
cotton possible.
The California senate, by a
vote of aS to 7, passed a reso-
lution favoring the exclusion
of all Asiatics from the United
Siates.
A tornado which raged
through Louoke, Prairie,
Woodruff and Poinsett conn
ties, Arkansas, killed thirteen
persons and caused serious in-
jury to eleven more.
We Ask You Statement of Condition
Of the Continental State Bank of Alto,
To examine our state* Texas, as reported to the Texas Rank-
ment of condition. lnk Department as per call Feb. 5, oy
People who intrust rksources
. 1 *■ „ _ Loans and Discounts $15,10448
L i. Advanced on cotton lis'J 55
bank should kno w Kuriiiturf antl fixture*. . 1,7.11 «*-
something of its fill* Cash 011 hand and with other
anciai strength. The banks 36.507 45
annexed statement #57,91648
speaks for itself—on . liabilities
its strength we solicit CaPltal stock Paul m Uo.ooo 00
its strcngtn we soncit undivided profits 20787
your business. Individual deposits subject to
*-1 .. , t check 47,708 61
Continental $57,916 48
State Bank the state of texas i
County of Cherokee ( I, Gus Rounsaville
J. G. Wilkinson, Cashier of the Continental State Bank
A. C. Harrison, of Alto, Texas, do solemnly swear that
J. E. Willis, the foregoing statement of the assets
M.J. Hogan, and liabilities of said bank is true and
Gus Rounsaville, correct"
Directors GUS ROUNSAVILLE, Cashier.
Suuscribed and sworn to before me, the mule.signed, 011 this,
the nth day of February, 1909.
) A. C. HARRISON, SAM F. HARRISON,
Attest: | yj j JJQGAN Notary Public, Cherokee Co., Tex
86 per cent of Our Deposits in Cash <
WHCNJ YOU NEED ,
New Buggy Wheels. Buggy Points
Wagon Skeins of Any Make or Size, Correct Horse
Shoeing, or Any Other Kind of Blacksmith
Work, It will be to Your Interest to See Us
p ATTON DICKEY.
. T. Williams|
B Staple Groceries |
Flour, Weal, Bacon, Lard, |
SUGAR, COFFEE, SALT, MATCHES g
SOAPS, AXLE GREASE, Etc £
fheB^tFlourhitheTownl
EVERY SACK GUARANTEED__ I
"H^Br^Tchops, Etc., in stock, Come and see me. IcEn |
and will save you money on your purchases
W. T. WILLIAMS {
Pistols and Taxes.
The Raleigh [News aud 01 -
server praises the Texa? law
which places a gross receipts
tax of 50 per cent on pistol
sales. The Houston Post wish-
es that its contemporary's
praise for this statute were de-
served, but it is not. And the
North Carolina legislature
would be very foolish to enact
such a law as a rented}* for the
pistol evil.
The Texas statute was enact-
ed for the purpose of suppress-
ing the pistol toting habit, but
it has not accomplished any-
thing in that direction. Pistol
toting is as prevalent in the
state now as before the law was
enacted, and we say it with
■^ame that -• ! «• •«. Ixcs*
more pistol tragedies since the
law has been in effect than evei
before. It is not charged, of
course, that the law in reality
encourages pistol toting, but
we state it positively that it
does not discourage either the
carrying or the sale of pistols.
It is true that pistols are no
longer kept in stock in Texas,
but the statute caused the sale
of the thousands of guns on
hand aud increased our armed
citizenship by that uuinber.
Of course, a man who wants
to buy a guu has no trouble
whatever in doing so. Adjoin-
ing states supply all the artil-
lery our people desire prompt-
ly at the old time prices with-
out the state tax and quite a
business has been built up in
this way,
All of which goes to show
that it is useless to pervert the
taxing function in an attempt
to uplift society. The time
honored theory that the only
righteous function of the tax-
ing power is to derive revenue
with which to conduct a frugal
and economically administered
government has not been 111
any degree upset by the exper-
iments our lawmakers have
made with it as a reforming
and rcgulatiug device.
The Post is strictly against
pistol toting. It would wel-
come almost any measure that
would put an end to the prac-
tice. It has denounced the
evil year in and yeat out and
will continue to do so. It has
appealed for the strict enforce-
ment of the statutes against
the practice; it has commend-
ed judges and juries that have
striven to enforce the statutes.
But gross receipts taxation is
not a remedy.
The statute has been in ef-
fect two years. It has not
stopped the traffic, but has
merely prevented Texas deal-
ers from making sales aud
transferred the business to the
towns and cities of adjoining-
states. The amount of reve-
nue that the law 1 iut in
the treasury is sn .) the
point of nothingness.
We do not know that the
present legislature will repeal
the statute, because that kind
of legislation is something of
of a fad throughout the coun-
try, but the Post thinks it
proper to inform all interested
newspapers and legislatures
that as a remedy for pistol tot-
ing and pistol tragedies the
taxing law is a rank failure.
Bloating after eating, indi-
gestion, flatulence or water
brash, may be quickly correct
ed through the use of Prickly
Ash Bitters. It strengthens
digestion, cleanses and regu-
lates the bowels. A. C. Har-
rison &. Son, special agents.
In the house Representative
Hayes of California declared
that the people of his state
would not only exclude the
Chinese from the soils of Cali-
fornia, but also the Japanese
and "all other orientals in the
category." "The race problem
iu the golden state has not
reached a state of mob vio-
lence," said Mr. Hayes, "but
it must come. When men are
hungry, I look for trouble.
There are 22,000 idle white
men in San Francisco, aud yet
in my district there are 10,000
Japanese and nearly all of
them employed." Mr. HayesJ
remarks were greeted with ap-
plause by the Democrats. Rep-
resentative Champ Clark ex-
pressed his approval of the
exclusion of Japanese and Chi-
nese, which, lie said, is advo-
cated not only by organized
labor, but by all labor.
Nothing so thoroughly re-
moves disease germs from the
system as Prick I v Ash Bittcro.
It gives life and action to the
torpid liver, strengthens and
assists the kidneys to properly
cleanse the blood, gives tone
to the stomach, purifies the
bowels, and promotes good ap-
petite, vigor and cheerfulness,
A. C. Plarrisou 6c Sou, special
agents.
Jack Johnson, the champion
pugilist, will arrive for a visjt
to his home 111 Galveston 011
March 15. Jeffries, while pass-
ing through Chicago to fulfill
a theatrical engagement in
New York, said that he felt it
his duty to the sporting public
to give Johnson a tussle if he
can get in condition.
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McClure & McClure. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1909, newspaper, March 5, 1909; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214040/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.