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BROWNWOOD BULLETIN FEBRUARY 15 1919
TIE BROWN WOOD BULLETIN
MAYES PRINTING CO. PROPS.
Member Associated Press
Office of Publication Bulletin Build-
l corner Brown and Lee Streets.
Entered at the Postoffice at Brown-
od Texas as second class matter.
TELEPHONES
Edkorial Office No. 22
Buiteess Office ;;Xo. 3
SUBSCRIPTION
10 cats per month. $7.20 per year in
advance.
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wonarousiy wen in Ms labors to lay
the foundation of a permanent struc-
ture upon which the peace of the world
may depend for all time to come.
PRAYERS ATD GOOD ROADS.
The Bangs Enterprise which has
always had pronounced ideas as to
road improvement work in Brown
county suggests that: the citizenship
should pray for dry weather so that
the mud holes may dry up and the
roads again become passable. This is
a peculiar world. "We in .what was the
drputh section last year are prepar-
ing to fill mud holes in our public
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character standing or reputation off
any person firm or corporation which! "roads and have had a surfeit of rain.
nXS in C01UT3 Tke Enterprise suggestion is all right
Dally Bulletin will be gladly corrected
upon its being brought to the atten-' eiqel)t the Prayers of a good man-
tle of the publishers. j people who use the public roads would
"THE PEARSON'S COLUMN"
"A Thing of. Shreds and Patches"
Th iHMotoJ PrMO ( 0ioi asi;uu mgu unuugu 10 uo mucn
entitled to the use lor republication of I good in the present emergency.
all news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited In this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
The
A CO3EBIXATI0X OF 'ATIO''S-
FOR PEACE.
The last time the Parson was in San
Saba. "Sim of a Gun" otherwise Billy
Smith of the San Saba News asked
him to say whether Ground-hog Day
was the second or the fourteenth of
February. The Parson gave him the
required information but Sun of a Gun
came out with -an intimation that he
was still undecided. So the Parson
sent him an extract from the Standard
Dictionary which seems to have satis-
fied him as to the question of time.
But Sun of a Gun is now troubled with
a doubt about Natural History the
dictionary used the expression "ground
hog or wood-chuck" whereupon Sun of
a Gun wants to know the difference
between a ground-hog- and a green
woodpecker.. "Well the Parson is al-
ways patient and will try to satisfy
Sun of a Gun "The wood-Umek is a
sciuroid rodent .a marmot Viciomyd;
monax.) of Eastern North America!
usually grizzly grey? It is otherwise
known as the ground-hog.- Further-'
more a wood-chuck is a green wood-i
"pecker in Provincial English So. Suiii
tended the banquet held last Monday
evening for the purpose of Hearing Ur
Ritchie on the subject of community ;
work under the auspices of-the- V'.- M. j
C. A. He was very much impressed.
The work as sketched is a magnifi-
cent one and wanted nowhere ..'more
than jn Bro wn wood. The. ; Parson
knows how nmfi'h there is to he ((one
m o
I -JUL
F' HORSES AID
ES IN PBOBfi
chases during the past two years but j Pggs an economical food at present
I now that thcrwnr is over the: business prices. Phone us. Looney 3Ierc. Co4.'
'is.' Kettiiitr back to the former com-! - "
P-Imereial hmlL I economical food at present
prices. Phone us. Looney Merc.. Co.
::VKRAL ViKhU JKN0WX Bl.
JIEKK- VM)M PORT .WUHTJl
AND OTJIKir J'OISTS.
mereial basis.
Among the? well known buyers who.
j are-here today for the. sale are Sam1
! Ross of -Forf Wort h. J. . B'. Roger.- t ? .
THUS' Fort '-"Worth; SVIr. Reynolds of New Ov-
-liulkiOardcn Seed at Looney's. ..
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Fresh Roasted means more to coffee
leanS; S. H. Mayo of Urady ami Auc-hato anything else. Get it fresh from
Itibneer Johri.AV. Yourit ofFort Worth. ' our roaster in bulk and save the price
.'Many of thersu.les. are by auction al- 0f the can. Looney .Merer Co "
sale of horses 'and limits is in though others may be-made at privat.
and how difficult it is to do it For i T'wesfV today at tn-i wnvvOT haie. Sure Edge Cutlery every pocket and
five years or thereabout ho .carried p!-otyaMsS wun.a muiioer . vr ; .ine- uycswwc puereu in me bate wj-ablc knife guaranteed. Looney Mer
the work of the Hoy' Scouts licliad r
bushel of fun out of it out lie hail also
no end of labor and difficulty -lie kepi
i:i attendance and a -Iare as-sQrtmeut duy has neon gathered up lrom a :;antile Company.
i "nurses antl nlules ior salt. The sales st ore-of counties in this -terrS; ry. snd
tfrom the stockyard .have been fon- wm consent ratji.d hero hecai: of the: Fresh tuffs set our price before or-
up the work till the cadet movement
in the schools-cut the ground from
under Ids feet. Ho has' however the
satisfaction of - knowing that there i
fined largely 'to war depart mo n't pur-1 .acilitios for soiling and shipping.
fhrinfr. Loonpy Merc. Co.
1 iTS
hardly an officer in the cadets who is
Your-1919 Banking Service
important thing is that the Enterprise
is- ready to co-operate in the good of a Gun can make his choice between!
roads day movement and its editor I lne beast a"d le irl.
prbmises to see that some of Bangs'
which was made public Friday may
not bring about a peace which shall
never be brolcen; indeed so long as
men having the characteristic human
passions of ambition covetousuess
anfl splf-nH'JiTifpmnt rnntrnl the r?:-
tinies of the nations so long will
there be international disputes which
niay lead to wars. But the League of
Nations promises to become such a
powerful combination of the five great
powers of the earth that it will be able
not one of his old scouts.; There is one x
direction in which it is of the greatest KJ
unrortauce that the community spirit
should -be introduc.od and maintained.
Then a few years ago Brownwood-
was advertised as -'the cleanest town
in Texas Alack and aliis and wop'
is1 me! where are we now?' "Littery-
ture" is scattered on every" corner and
d borne on every .wind. - Thc;Pan;on re-
lnembors tliat it was a very remarka-
In Questions and Ariswors in thrt! We community "effort captained by i.e
..wow vitiua uu u 6uuu uu wuu. in Dallas -News an enquirer was the 6thH iauies- which cleaned us up.
this week's issue the Enterprise says;. er day informed that Mardi Gras was. inen- need anotner community et- x
a nmninmoHnn ?ci lltL i uesuay ueiore Lent ami that r"1 - 1"i:.u" '""" w
this year it occurred on April lothi "."iMsement is there in fown vhat X
The first part of the' information is ent:paCe of "'"csort.- except. the movies? fv5
tirely correct. But the date of Mardi Otitside. of schools jjild-CQllCKs -tluifc'r&A
Gras this year is the rth or Marcln'is nQt so ?ftr as the PzirsQii-knows a .yt
And a little reflection would show tlmf 'p?ns'le athletic' team'.-. Me lees in f'X
it is absolutely-impossible for Mardi 1 papers every "now ami' again tii ir 9i
j'Gras at any time to fall later t!un the-i "sing-soni;':- is hel.l. u -bme-. public "ga
glad to seethe announcement and are;?1 UI V ; 8nce u?c latst ;b!e - v n
n avna n :Jtiate of Faster is April 2ru. As Lent .And so forth. and so on; The commiN O
that we can be made chairman of a j!Vhef"rt . ' ' -
crowd of men like H. P. Rutherford J l?1
j prepare that part q!' ft. fir course .tbo ;
"A proclamation has been issued by
. . 2 2 r a. i .
p T x f . i Luc vumuussiyuers uouri joined y
&uC t -awuUO uie iau uiMfcyor Howlett and the Chamber
of
Cbhnnerce designating "Wednesday
February 19th as good roads day and
calling on all good citizens in every
walk in life to assemble and devote!
the entire day to Toad work. We are
HP HE business of the year 1919 will be unusual
because of the strain of recovery from War con-
ditions! For this reason banking and financial conditions iiiU he- uri-
usual. For this reason you should haOe close relations With
your hanker ' You should haOc the. service that you need and
the backing that is necessary. This Bank can and vlill serOayou
andassureyou those banking requirements that you may need
More Than a Quarter af a Century of Safe Banking SerOice!
Ian
National
L N. Yarbrough N. P Robertson. Doc
ing men for we want to go with a
ctpwd that will do some road work.
But in our opinion the very best thing
that can be done is to get up .'a peti-
tion to somebody and get the rain
and for;
to quickly settle any disputes that j stopped. If it would only quit raining
-r' j j- ! the roads would soon dry up ami would
macy ample provision for which is
made In. the plan upon which the
League is being organized fail to
bring about an amicable adjustment
of any international difficulties then;
the League will be prepared to exert;
its mighty strength in such a way as;
to crush any nation which defies its
authority or declines its good offices j
tin the role of arbitrator. There should j
i
Jbe .no more great wars such as that
which has been strangling1 civiliza-l
tion since the summer of 1914.
Powerful combinations of capital
have been necessary in order that the.
business of the country might be pro-
moted along the paths of marvelous
progress. Such combinations have al-
ways exerted a beneficial . influence
when their activities were regulated
so that there might be no oppression
of the weak and no destruction of the
individual rights of the people served.
The same principles we think can
well be . applied to such a combination
of nations as that which is embodied
in the League of Nations -plan. Unre-
stricted by any considerations other
than their own advancement" the na
tions becoming members of the League
of Nations by virtue of the practically
Invincible power which will be repre
sented by their combined resources
could smother and ruin all the otherj
nations of the earth. Under the wise
and just restrictions outlined in thti
draft pf the plan made public this
great combination of nations is.prohibj
ited from exerting such a depressing!
influence on states which are not mem-J
. it
bers. Ample provision for protecting
the rights of the member states ifi
made but there is also a consideration
of the rights of the smaller nationk
which is binding upon every member
of the! League and promises the smali-
ler states a degree of protection whiclji
has nevec before been given them.
That much of the credit lor having
originatod the highly pleasing plan
upon which the League of Nations s
being organized is due to President
Wilson who has been the" leading ex-
ponent of the League of Nations idea
since the beginning of discussions qt
peace is gratifying to every American
citizen. That the United States is one
j
of the members of the League arid
"the nation which is unquestionably
the one member of the League 'to
which scores of smaller states are all-
ready looking for a protection of In-
terests menaced during the war Is al-
so gratifying. There lies before the
United States a wonderful opportunity
to serve the world while serving her
;own interests and we think that fin
recognizing this privilege President
Wilson haB also noted the responsi-
bility toward humanity ihat is rest-
ing upon this nation and has wrought
not need any work.' Let's pray for
dry weather; that is easier than work-
ing." '
"Prayer without work is like a Dem-
' 1-
qCratic minority in a Republican con-
gress. So let everybody -go oulon the
roads Wednesday and work; then ev-
erybody will be qualified to pray for
dry weather.
The San Saba News says if is. not
much interested in the cotton acreage
problem because
'the price is the
thing." Quite right; but quite wrong.
i I
(The price is controlled by the produc-
tion and.the production is controlled
largely by the'acreage planted. There-
fore in order to secure. a big price for
Cotton there must not be an over-production
Meanwhile what does the
News think about the newly organiz
ed Central Texas Press Association?
iWHl Editor Smith bring his family to
Brownwood for the! first meeting some
Itime in. the spring? There is' a press-
' - ' ' t jwholc th-inS will .'typo.mljoiMhe-mtm
Then hero-.is State Press giving ufe who' 155 alw1-- nuv-we l&ve' thi ;ad-;mDDaDaGDOrOD
the information thai the RussiansarpfvalaSo of the promised did of tin or-'
"an Asiatic stock grafted on a I2m'al-Eanizat.ioij. - which has ; tiro experts in CiO
pean vine." The Parson is.not.murjjf this .Hue on its books; fThen let jj
of a horticuituralist but-he has- at-: stand behind him; aiid; h God's goal-CP
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ways understood that the slip or thje isrntc we shall do 'grcixt tilng
vine was "grafted on the stock; not-f : " - -. "-' 1 ; '.-.
as a very-bright friend of the ParsoiU Distich effort i apiiutly to Vt-
who Ioxed.to air his Latin once saik ma(1e on our ov.rn acpind ' J'xt Wp-i-
not "viva voce." ' : f t ncsday is "jippo'hwd ;as. flood Rnads.
. . . .r i j.Day. The Parsgn iiin.iiids if ho in 'not
The Parson has been following witjh I prevented to' go aitd.fln .h!s bhu. One
some interest the evidence in the I- 'oE las tYipnds Ernest Morris "to .'
vestijration of the' Rancer -forpb 1-in dellnite haw oromiaed ihat. he. xW
- "... . j - . . ' Ptt
Hfl?Pnc flint D1i11 o fA.nri ii..r-t tenn tA it tltnt- lw lis ittirn.i iKn fV.t Uh
perhaps is a necessity in this statL.; fl'it of the hottest iattc W'.'rj. su'O
especially on . the border. But fiirof'e"''t-i If the . -PareWX .cwwfes do" mt :Q
law.
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Tomorrow .is Sunday
The Parson as in "duty bound at-fished for instead of golnc fishing
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OIL FIELD NEWS AND SOSSBP I
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Jing invitation of w
(to take advantage.;
hich he is expected
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Ninety-six women paid poll taxes in
Coleman county
Order to qualify as
during January in.
voters. TJiousands
cf women in the other counties of the
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state also paid their poll taxes. Now
'Comes a legal authority; who says
that the payment of poll taxes by
women is not required by law. The
Bulletin inclines to the belief that this
legal opinion is iwell founded. The
women were hot legal citizens of Tex-
as on the first of j January 1918 their
citizenship dating from the time of
their enfranchisement by the special
session of the Legislature last spring.
Therefore the women should pay a poll
I tax for this vear. becinninc Januarv
1 3919 and should be permitted -to
vote this year without a poll tax re
ceipt "in case .they are given the full
right of franchise by the adoption of
i j- ' . 'J
the constitutional amendment to be
WEEK Of ACTIVITY
IH TEXAS OIL FIELDS
Continued from page two)
has also been much.
Geo. V. Kfnc rpII is shut down af C4tj
feet with a crarkpd .stem. Several sh'al-J q
low avcIIs M'ere Bpudded during thg;'pO"
week in the Lohn neighborhood.1- '. Qo '
. ; : ' -" .: -57 - EJO--
t Oil Leases ana Transfers igg
i -' ' -' ;:' ! do
Guy Watts tq'trl E; !oodnian3e as- :gg
Islgrimenu 50 acress in th? S A.- t aVJ. 13
! Ry survey $1110' and' ;oilior GoiKider ' Sg .
progress this ;.eraUan. . ' - ' . iRa
week-.- Aew wens m voting .ami' -:Guy Waits to
btepiiens counties nave attracteu ;u-jment. ."( acres in Uie S. A- M-CI.
tention while the Roper well -hi fhe y surcey. ;$1.00 and' other consldder- f ;r:r'
Hanger field has extended that- fipd.-atioiiv ' ' ' -" '-'ff
to the west and increased interest: 'Charlie -Low Irt ' ;WI it iioilinctswortli
there. At the same time the apparfenL 'leasjci .acres ihj tlio -Mjqse Little sur-
failure of the Magnolia well ten miles tvey. '.ron&idcratibn -'?.?9P : " '
southeast of Ranger has put a ilew w. G. Gar.lfr.tp Dj-1. Jones lease.;
light on further" operations in that 1 two tracts J"0 'acres Jn- the Dickin-.
neighborhood: j json league .survey lu'imbe.r "10. Con-;
. a small snowing ot on is reported ssideraiion Jr-.)1!.
in a new well far from production in j J. W. Lowis to Texas Co.;. lease litu .
the southwest part of Caddo county j acres- near Byrd's..'' I: epns.ideratioii ;
Just over the river front the Biirk- i;'00D. - . . ':. " - - i
burnett field scores of. rigs are now- V Mediswuio the-jTexas -Co;. i
in' operation and a lot of development acres in the -Simon Saunders surey
is expected there. . . 1 Consideration $20ib;:" h
The week's development in the D'uke D. P. Jones to Texas C. two .tracfs. j
field lias not encouraged the" sltua- in Comanche ' county. Conaideratiou
tion much tending to prove .that! the j$"42j. . : . !.' - ;
pool is smauer man tne Hanger pool i
'BlkEGTORS:-
p Lv McCartney
. Ben F. Stone
E. B- Gilliam - ;
J. W. Gilliam.
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Incidentally the Bulletin was glad
to again demonstrate its ability to
serve the people of this vicinity by
giving the first authentic announce
ment of the draft of the plan upon-
which the League of Nations is being
formed. -The great events in history
events upon which the ifate of na
tions have depended have been erent3
of the daylight hours. Such events
are chronicled in the afternoon news-
papers and it is because .of this fact'
that the afternoon newspaper is able
to give to Its readers the big news of
the world . on the date of its occur-
rence. The Bulletin is a "today's
news today" paper.
J lit .W.lfellUllcl UL Wlll l nillUJl 1J1W1
Baptisls are reminded that there will
duction from the Woodward' farm wel'M niass ineetiug.at:.the lrst ' Dap
$000 feet south of the discovery vyeu
while the Magnolia's well'on t.he iBa-
vis farm throe miles north- of 'the
original Duke well has been finished
up -for a gassers . . ;
nvai xess iMcivi.(j up
i. .UorULLOCIt -COUiXTY
tist church louidrrow "(Sundny) Hftor-
nooirnt four o'clock. " It "is important
tliat .eveiy . member of the -Baptist
church' in Brownwood attend.
Garden tools and garden peed at
Looney's
Oil activity in McCulloch county im-
mediately south of Brown county is
increasing steadily from week to week;
A number of rigs are now drilling on
both deep and shallow tests and some
encouraging showings have been fpund.
Due to the fact that the city of Brady
is now thoroughly organized for the
promotion of McCulloch county's inter-
ests and through the Chamber of .Com-
merce'.8pendlng a neat sum of moneyl
In paid display advertising in" the bifiJ
dailies of the stute a large number of!
prospectors are being attracted toJ
Brady each week and there is a con-
stant increase in the interest- attach-
ing to that field.
Early this week the Douglas Oil
company struck a showing of oil and
gas at a depth of 700 feet In its well
In McCulloch county. The gas is esti-
mated at half a million feet . daily
Water prevented a careful tost of the
showing.
The Prairie Oil & Gas company la
again drilling at about 1000 feet ex-
pecting a sand at about l2f0 feet
the Liberty Oil & Gas company is
drilling at about 300 feet. J. E. Mor-
gan north of Brady is drilling at ?.00
feet Progress Is bolng made on the
C. S. Thomas well at Whiteland. The
TT..-.. I'.. t lT1.MJ.i .!. ...I .l.iil.
.ililiiS IUUi:uilj til I' lint inniunt i ii.uii.il j
Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. -
War Departrtient Says
District Must Close
. District Attorney Walter V. Kar-
ly .received a loiter this week from ;
the war department stating that the !
red light dist'rlct.ln Hrownwood must !
bo abolished. Complaints from -Brown-
wood citizens havo'-bceh turned in to ;
the war department asking that steps
Hie taken to remove this element from
the city. '
Several attempts have "been made
during the past few. months though
little has been accomplished in Mho
way of ridding the city of this dis
trict. The matter has ibeen turned
over to the sheriff and it is. under-
stood that with -one or two excep
tions the district has ticcn abandon
ed and that i"t will hot be necessary
lo use drastic measures.
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: ; .Bank SheiiM lender
-The Same Service
No Matter whkt may be their position
an life we have tried to impress upon:
our depositors that this is a bank for
all people;. That its success is built on a
foundation of sa tisfied cus tomers gaih-
ed through an endeavor to be courte-
ous accurate and prompt in every
'transaction. ; ;
Urgent business" or the church do
mapds the presence of every Baptist
at the PJrst Baptist church Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Where will you ho at 3 p. m. Sun-
day? People with hearts will be at
the Tnbernaclo to see If they can help
starving human beings. Where wJU
you be?
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