The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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Tin- Si'. Louis Republic had
nil article in ii the other day
about the condition of the
Shackelford county roads—we
have even convinced the Mis-
sourian how bad they are—you
had better iix them.
Let's quit our durned foolish-
ness, and get down to business
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m . j| |jl(a:u'!il stall''—the tide of muni
no I .^ration is going around us
,u. ^,,,!;urj. | geiitlemeu—just sleep on—we
..j,-;. u(, | hate like the devil to disturb
l:Mice at the your evening nap.
ild flat boat j
iy hand I An old broom tailed bronk
|iuUl(| j kicked the fitullin' out of the
v j j I j editor Friday morning, and he
i '.i fellov. w:,sn'! able to get lo 'he polls
m.,i.i;ir ii,,i Saturday—but we noticed the
I elect ion was pulled off just the,
I same and the sun didn't stand
still. One unui is a
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We have posted over our
sactum door: uNo information
wanted here about the condi-
tion of the loads—tell your
troubles to the merchants and
commissioners court.
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come
don't
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mighty
Break your wheat stubble
land, and make preparations
to plant a big wheat crop.
Cotton picking will soon be
here—but don't forget to iix
the roads.
The Albany News didn't
liiim potato in this whirlpool; lose any money on the election
it don I matter he is a country
editor.
and mighty little time, and we
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enemies.
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under his breath
mad a! his I retheri
s out of ihe church
' failh in the truth and ver-1
t.y of his neighbor, and has
- political dagger up his
e for tile whole human
—but gol'ey , ain't it a
!y trip?Wh u he gets home
> children look at him ask-
. he had told them that he
oing to beat the fitullin
of his opponent—and the
• d don't love a liar—not
a he me folks. Yes, Salt
is a dark turbulent stream
there ain't no picture
1 along the route, the grass
11 dead, and the hills are all
ren, the birds don't sing
the cocks don't crow, and
a dead calm all the way.
e world loves a success and
ays pats the man on the
k that wins in the chase—
en't malter whether he
■ by fail' or foul ni'TUis, it
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ace i •*. . at in a poiili
••aiupaiga i«-o, if it were,
country would be in a devil
fix.
! :>• audi If we could get the citizen-
foggy and j ship of Shackelford county to
.t can't see a ; work for ihe settlement of the
travels thru ; country as hard as they work
d do-.v i t! • •. tti a political campaign, we
a- Liiiieii to 'could • asiiy put ten thousand
, 1 a 1 p-'-aple in our county in twelve
mouths, a a d macadamize
every road in the county.
What d*~n fools we mortals be.
ain't got no
heal up.
election sores to
Hang' up your muck rake
now, boyi-, and let's get busy.
Politics don't pay grocery bills
break stubble lands, nor build
good roads. See?
Sometimes we think an
j earth quake would be a good
i tiling for Albany. It might
wake the merchants and the
commissioners court up—and
then it might turn the roads
bottom side up—and possibly
itwculd be a little iinprovment
over the old—it wouldn't make
them any worse—it couldn't.
If men could piow, hoe and
grub like they talk politics,
Shackelford county . would
bloom like the garden of tha
gods.
We wish to the Lord we were
a good cartoonist. We would
give a series of pictures of the
mud holes, broken down cul-
verts and gulleys along the
Shackelford county roads.
Possibly it might wake up the
merchants and commissioners'
court—it's doubtful tho.
We are going to have to tear
down the pasture fences pretty
soon, and let the traveling
public go thru the woods.
The Country Editor.
I'd be a country editor, and
chase around for news, before
I'd be a millionaire, with
wealth I could not' use; I'd
rather be a printer with patch-
es on my breeches, than be
master of finance with my
thoughts on riches. I'd rather
eat my modest meals, digest
the same with ease, than sit
down to a royal feast, with a
stomache like John D's. To
romp and frolic with my kids
around our cheerful hearth,
with their mother for the au-
dience. to help enjoy the mirth,
is better than to move in high
society, where dress and jewels
false displays make life a
mockery. 'Tis true the print-
er's cash gets short and duns
come in a hurry, but the happy
fellow does not fret, he lets the
"dunner" worry. He always
has conscience'clear, a disposi-
tion sunny. He knows that
life has other joys, besides the
chase for money. For the
moulder of opinion is a happier
man by far then the man who
owns a palace, a yacht and a
private car. And when he
goes to his reward he knows
that all is well, while the man
who makes his wealth his god
may some day wake in —.—
Western Publisher.
We don't want a friend if vve
have to do all other fnendjBiit
to hold his opinion.If we camiot
be just to all, but have to
make false statements, or in-
sinuations concerning a part of
our neighbors in order to retain
the good will of the other half,
we will quit the game. There
should be a line of decency a-
cross which no man who wields
the pen will go. The man
who refuses to regard that line,
will some day have cause to
regret his course, if he lives
long, or if his conscience ever
awakens. —Abilene Reporter.
The San Francisco Call cop
ied an extract about our roads
the other day—dog gone if the
whole world don't boycott us
if we don't lix them.
Shackelford county roads are
going to be abandoned. We
heard one prominent man say
this week, ' hat has occasion to
Idiive over the roads nearly
every day, that the roads are
in worse condition than they
have been in lo years.
If our horse kick continues
to improve we are going to have
something to say about the
roads next week—don't miss
it, it will be a hot number.
If our health continues to
improve, we wifl bring out a
road edition of the News right
soon.
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There has been enuf time
and energy lost in' tin
campaign to have built •
dred thousand
dollar
air
past
h linn-
cotton
wasted
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the wood pile ,nilI;ftud hot
to have run its machinery for
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Say,have you heard about
the condition of the Shackel-
ford county roads? Great God,
they are awful.
The sun is shining and the
grass and cotton are growing
—but we should not negect the ! There is lots of fun in politcs,
i but 1 can't see where the news-
Profiting by Past
Experience.
So far I have taken little or
interest in the state campaign.
Why should I? For twenty-
five years or more I have been
in the newspaper business, and
have split my pajamas from
hell to breakfast and more, too
trying to elect first one man
and then another to some good-
paying office, and in isolated
cases modestly assert that I
believe I have done some of
them good service. My exper
ience has been that a newspa-
per man who worke his fool
self to death trying to get his
man in office, generally has his
labor for his peias. As long
as he is boosting his man he is
as popular as an advance a-
gent of a circus, but after the
election all the reward he, has
is the glorious satisfaction of
knowing he has made a galvan-
ized ass of himself. It takes
me a long titae to learn any
thing, /but after 1 do, I know it
for keeps. So I am now busi
ly engaged in making a living,
and intend to keep it, up
The Tyler Peach.
The only trouble with the
Tyler peach is that it is too
juicy to eat without a napkin.
—Dallas Times-Herald.
Napkin, notliin'!
That's like kissing a girl
with a veil on.
To enjoy a Tyler peach you
want to turn up your cuffs,
hold it in both hands and bite
it, to the middle. Never mind
about the juice. It will run
down your arms and drip off
your chin, but there's plenty of
it, and the waste of it is half
the enjoyment: When you've
eaten two or three yon are so
satisfied you don't grieve over
what leaked. If you do you're
greedy.
And don,t peel it, just wipe
the fuzz off cn your breeches,
push your hat back, spread
your legs, lean forward slightly
sink your teeth in its rich, red
flesh and fetch out a plumb
mouthful.
No finicky man of knives
and napkins deserves a T/W
peach. His proper diet »3
prunes arid canned stuff. lie
would salt his watermelon and
eat it with a fork instead of
cutting it lengthwise in slices
and losing his face in it up to
the ears.
At table, of course, a linger
bowl is necessary for peaches
or melons, but the table is no
place for really enjoying either
You want plenty of room on
the back porch, leaning over
the banisters, or in the back
yard sitting under the mul-
berry tree. Then you wont
ask for a napkin, you'll go to
the wash basin and the roller
towel.1—-Fort Worth Record.
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Do you know of anything
that will not grow in Texas?
A negro near Austin is cutting
his third set of teeth at the age
of a 102 ond a stalk of corn
near Tyler has nine ears on it.
Next!—Ex.
roads.
a':-
K I O
cut
•our wile a got
t lot oi
wood—she's tired. (She
is,) Then go down to tlie
and get, up a cock light,
cut thejweeds out of the fence
a re
corners, and mow
d a n in the front yard
help you to forget yourt
the grata
the next fifty years. What
d—n fools we mortals be.
Nearly everybody is going a
fishing now—.but they had bet-
ter be fixing the roads.
-it will
•rouble
The condition of Shackelford
i mty's roads are known all
< er east Texas. When they
st.M i on an over land trip the
common saying is: "For Cod's
VVliy ia the Sam Hill don't
you jump on the merchants and
the commissioners court about
the roads? We ain't got no-
There will be another alec-
tiou in two years—We wish to
God it was ten.
Lay down your knocker now
boys, and let's go to digging
thin' to sell, and don't want to after greater things,
buy anything but white paper
and printer's ink.
Say young man, when you
go to pop the question to your
girl, fell her you are going to
shed your political harness
boys, and go to digging after
hog and hominy.
papei» man comes in.-
ity's Harpoon.
-K. Lam-
sake don't go through Shack- lix the roads—Yes,
Sow
roads.
turnips and fix the
An exchange says that "e" is
the most unfortunate letter in
the English alphabet, because
it is never in cash and always
in debt. Our exchange forgets
that the aforesaid letter is nev-
er in war and always in peace.
It is the beginning of existence
the commencement of ease, and
the end of trouble. Without
it there would be no meat, no
life, no gospel, no Jesus, no
Heaven, no earth, and no de-
linquent subscribers.—Sher-
man Democrat,
The regular services will be
held at the Baptist church
here next Sunday night.
L. E. Masters
Pastor
Protracted fleeting at
Snalum.
Brethern Brown and Maddox
have agreed to conduct a revi -
val meeting at Snalum school
house, beginning next Sunday
at 3 ©clock p. m. All the peo-
ple in and around the place
will be gladly welcomed.
L. E- Masters.
Sow a big turnip patch anj
then fix t^e roads so you c
haul them to market.
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1906, newspaper, August 3, 1906; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth413315/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.