The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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Oakdale Echoes.
Weather still continues beauti-
ful but no rain to make a season,
though people are plowing right
along getting the ground ready
for the rain when it does oomes.
G. O. Craven and wife left
last Saturday for Austin to at-
tend the session of the legisla-
ture.
W. J. Moulder is improving
his rent house whioh will be oc-
cupied in a few day*.
Grover King is putting in a
telephone.
C. C. Crutsinger's family who
have been detained in Tioga for
more than a week on account of
sickness were able to come home
last Friday,
Henry Mosses of Mustang
visited in our community last
Sunday.
Some of the young folks tried
to have a party at Henry Kayse
residence one night last week
and only one girl present, don't
think she will go any more.
Parties seem to be out of date
over here.
The young people had singing
at the home of J. M. Tipton last
Sunday night.
Quitman Davis and family
visited his father Perry Davis in
the Barren community last Sun-
day.
F. M. Price has built a new
smoke house and is making
quite an addition to his barn.
Uncle John Tomberlin of Pilot
Point is spending a few days
with F. M. Price and family.
Fred Taylor is right sick with
Pneumonia.
J. H. Massey is seriously ill
from pneumonia at this writing.
Mr. Paine had a fine cow to
die last Sunday, eupposed to be
oaused from over feeding.
D. H. Tipton is improving his
barn by building a large new
■'da shed.
Rev. J. W. Murphy moved to
Pilot Point last Tuesday. We
regret very muoh to lose Bro.
Murphy from our churoh, Sun-
day school and community, as
he is one of the old land marks,
a sound preacher and wise
counsellor.
As we rode our stalk cutter
last Monday it was amazing to
watch the big road it was full
from alpha to omega, bound for
Second Monday.
Watchman.
Fairview.
Little Miss Lucile Lincecum
is very sick at present.
The surprise party at Mr. S.
T. Sullivan's last Saturday was
a very gay occasion. There was
a large crowd present, and of
course the youngsters enjoyed
themselves very much.
Mr. Leslie Wood and sister,
Mattie visited Charlie B and
Mary Hammons Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Mollie Berry of Hemming
visited in the community the
past week.
The weather was too inviting
for farm operations for many of
our good farmers to attend
Second Monday.
Mr. Depew and son, Thomas,
passed through enroute for Pilot
Point.
Jno. and James Morrow of
Hemming were in the community
last Saturday.
F. S. Irick spent Saturday and
Sunday with home folks at Pilot
Point.
Prairie Chapel community was
guest of Gray Harris Sunday.
Uncle George Newton is still
improving.
Robert Hall was in Valley
View Saturday.
Messrs Tom and Mont Shelton
of near Sanger were in the com-
munity Sunday night.
Miss Mary Hammons visited
the past week with Miss Mattie
Wood, near Sanger.
A large orowd attended the
singing at Mr. Gary's Sunday
night.
Spelling here next Friday
night. Everybody invited.
The writer visited in Hemming
Sunday afternoon.
Socialist speaking Saturday
night. You are invited.
Miss Lillie Hames of near Pilot
Point is guest of Miss Mamie
Buchanan.
Born:—To Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Harris, Jan. 5, a girl.
Newsboy.
Wesley Chapel.
Everybody is busy plowing.
Mrs. H. C. Chapman is sick
with lagrippe.
Several from here attended
second Monday.
Mr. Wes MoReynold of West
Texas who spent the holidays
here with his father, Mr. W. B.
McReynold and other relatives
returned to his home last week.
Born:—To Mr. and Mrs. John
Vaughn Monday night twin girls.
Mr. P. G. Cantrell is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Connie Wil-
son near Aubrey.
Mrs. Chas. Smith and daught-
er, Ida, visited her daughter,
Mrs. Frank Wheeler near Au-
brey.
Mrs. Up&ur Wilson visited her
son, Maok, south of Sanger who
is real sick with pneumonia.
Mrs. E. J. Hester who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Thead-
ford at Cleburne returned last
Friday.
Mr. W. F. Finley left last Sun-
day for Fort Worth where he
will make his future home.
Sanger.
John Miller and wife of Boli-
var visited with Mr. and Mrs. J.
O. Strioklin Sunday.
Mark Gresham of Krum visit-
ed relatives here Saturday.
Mrs. Bessie Hendly of Sulphur,
Okla., is visiting Miss Winnie
Dudley.
Miss Elsie Bourn from Okla-
homa, is visiting Mrs. Connie
Garry.
Mre. C. F. Batis and Mrs. C.
D. Hart of Krum were visiting
here Monday.
Miss Nora McCurdy of Ponder
visited Miss Lottie Breashears
Sunday.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Hicks is very sick this
week.
John Dean of Krum was here
Friday.
Dr. Tnwnes and wife visited in
Cleburne last week.
Mrs. May and Jewel Pryor are
visiting in Hood.
C. Dees will move his stock of
dry goods to Commerce.
Mrs Buck Nelson andson Rob-
ert Lee of McKinney aud Mr.
and Mrs. Blanton of Cisco are
visiting Mrs. Clarence Sulivan.
Miss Maggie Foley of Fort
Worth visited here a few days.
Jeff Ready returned Wednes-
day from a visit to West Texas
and Oklahoma.
Lee Brewer is visiting his par-
Population Centers
There is no more inspiring
scene than to watch the growth
of an empire and no viewpoint is
more instructive than that of the
center of population.
The Texas Commercial Secre-
taries Association has developed
the population center of Texas
by decades since 1850, the first
Federal Census, and the pathway
of our civilization is shown by
the heavy line in the mup below.
During this period the population
oenter has traveled a distance of
105 miles west and 45 miles north
and it now rest five miles north-
west o f Waco i n McLennan
County, and the City of Waoo
may be said to be the "Heart of
Texas."
The first Federal Census was
taken in 1850, showing a total
population of 212,592. The pop-
ulation oenter 'hen rested in the
southeast oorner o f Madison
County. At that time there were
168 counties having no popula-
tion, or at least none were en-
umerated, and only one county
in the State had a population ex-
ceeding 10,000 which was Har-
You Are Taking a
Great Riska^
By not protecting your house-
hold goods, clothing, home and
other buildings, against fire
loss. You ought to attend to
this today, whether you have
a policy already or not.
Write me, and I will tell you
some valuable things about the liberal policy issued by
My Line of Old and Reliable
Fire Insurance Companies
J. EARL SELZ
INSURANCE
EVERY KIND
PHONE 14
P. P. NAT. BANK BLDC.
equal to the entire State of Texas
in 1850 with 42,632 to spare.
They are Baxar in Dallas. If
we make the same per cent of
gain in the first half of 1900 that
we did the laBt half of 1800 our
population in 1950 will be 40,-
000,000.
The center of area rests in Mc-
Cullough county, near Brady,
H
rison.
We now have a population of
3,892.000 and all our oounties are
populated; we have 127 oounties
having a population of 10,000
and over and we have four count
ies with a population of 100,000
and over. We have two counties
that now have a population
and is indicated on the map by a
star.
The center of area and the
center of population appear to
have little or no affinity for each
other, but the development in
the western portion of the State
will have a tendency to bring
them closer together.
ents.
James Daniels of Valley View
was in Sanger Sunday.
R. T. Slaughter has returned
home from Bonham. He was
acconpained home by his broth-
er E. P. Slaughter and daughter
of Oklahoma.
Little Haskel Spratt is on the
siok list.
Miss Johnie May Rice has
been very sick two weeks, but
she is reported some better.
Mr. J. B. Wilson and daught-
ers, Mrs. Bledsoe of Sherman
and Mrs. Howard of Kansas City
Mo., visited relatives here last
week.
Misses Winnie and Verb Willis
and Miss Vera Aston of Valley
View visited here several days.
Miss Bessie Vaughn visited in
Valley View last week.
Mr. George Odom died last
Tuesday at his home near here,
funeral services were held Wed-
nesday evening at the Mission-
ary Baptist church. He was
laid to rest in Sanger Cemetery.
Miss Jimmie Hall visited sev-
eral days in Justin.
Born:ToR. L. Mallowe and
wife Jan. 3, a boy.
Jeff Kirkland left Monday for
Fort Worth to attend school.
Walter Lavender and family
have moved to Oklahoma,
Mrs. Nettie Sullivan and Miss
Colie Jones visited Mr. and Mrs
Edd Wallace in the Union Hill
neighborhood Thursday and Fri-
day.
Bert Hancock of Valley View
was in town Saturday.
Henry Comer of Midlothian
came in Saturday on a visit to
home folks.
Rufus Stafford of Union Hill
was in town Saturday.
Mr. Dehart and family of
Hemming visited relatives here
Sunday.
A. H. Goff one of Sangers old
and one among the most respect-
ed citizens left Sanger Thursday
for Louisville, Ky. Mr. Goff
ha9 been at Sanger 22 years and
has made a host of friends who
regret his leaving.
Continued on last page
NEXT DOOR'S FRUIT TREE.
The One Whose Branches Extend
Over the Fence Into Your Yard.
The next door fruit tree, growing so
near the line that laden branches ex-
tend over the fence, has proved a
source of untold spankings to the
small boy, quarrels between otherwise
good neighbors and even resort to the
police courts. One is inclined to sus-
pect that the original apple tree of
trouble hung over a neighbor's fence.
The cause of friction is, of course,
the question of the ownership of or at
least the right to take and use the
fruit on the too widely spread
branches. Generally this fruit Is
claimed by the person whose property
Is thus invaded, but If he asserts this
claim to the point of gathering the
fruit without permission he may feel
the iron hand of the law, says Har-
per's Weekly. If he objects to the
presence of the branches which extend
over his property the owner of the
tree must remove them. But if the
owner of the tree applies for the fruit
or asks permission to enter and take It
the owner of the land over which the
branchos extend cannot refuse permis-
sion for entry for this purpose. If he
refuses either to hand over the fruit
or to allow the owner of the tree to
enter and take it, then the owner of
the tree may enter without permission,
but he must use no force nor commit
any damage in so entering.
Certainly the most neighborly thing
to do would be to divide that fruit.
INDEXING BOOKS.
The Custom Is an Old One That De-
veloped Rather Slowly.
The custom of indexing books de-
veloped gradually. Cicero used the
word "Index," but in the sense of a
table of contents. Seneca provided
some works which he sent to a friend
with notes of particular passages, "so
that he who only aimed at the useful
might be spared the trouble of exam-
ining them entire." This was at least
a partial "Index" in the modern sense.
Annotated, or at least explanatory,
tables of contents seem to have pre-
ceded the Index proper.
Such tables followed the order of
appearance of the subjects In the
book Itself. Alphabetical arrangement,
which was the beginning of the real
index, nppears not to have been
thought of until the Invention of print-
ing, and even then It spread but
slowly. Erasmus was one of the first
to provide his works with alphabetical
Indexes. The custom did not become
universal until well Into the sixteenth
century.
The first Index to an English book Is
said to be that printed In Polydore
Vergil's "Angliae Illstoriae," in 154(5.
An edition of this work published ten
years later has an Index of thirty-
seven pages.
Tolstoy's Thoughts on Death.
The fenr of death Is unnatural. The
fear of death Is the consciousness of
Rln.
The fear of death emanates from tli"
fact that people regard as life only a
small part of it, limited by thtlr own
erroneous conception.
Just as the owner of the fig tree
knows the time when the fruit is line.
*o Ond knows when to call the right-
eous from this world.
Strive to kep your life at a pomr
where y■ n neither fear death nor (I:'
Mre it. ToNn>-"«« "Cycle of Readings "
r
TO THE PUBLIC
We have on hand Fresh, Pure Hog Lard, guaran-
teed, at a reduced price. Also 6o or 75 pigs and shoats
for Sale, Fresh Meats of all kinds. Everything car-
ried in a First Class Market,
SKINNER & LINDENBORN
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1911, newspaper, January 13, 1911; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291150/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.