Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 232, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE
Secretary of State As-
les Duties at Austin
Today.
(United PresB Report)
■•Churchill Bartlett, of Marlin, ap-
to succeed John G. McKay
, secretary of state, took the oath
[ office and assumed his duties this
morning.
ALL MEN ELIGIBLE
FOR ARMY SERVICE
; Without Further Act of Con-
gress Men between Ages
of 18 and 45 Eligible.
Washington, Dec. 29.—Every able-
bodied male citizen of the United
, States between the ages of 18 and
45 years is held liable .or service In
f the national guard in war time with-
out further act of congress hy war
dtpartment regulations for the gov-
ernment of the guard issued under
the national defense act.
Ia a circular prepared nearly two
norths ago but made public only
Thotfday the militia bureau directs
that where a national guard regiment
|« called out for war service, a re-
icrve tialning battalion to (111 vacan-
cies at the front shall be organized
out of the national guard reserve and
if voluntary enlistment.
"If for any reason," the order con-
tinufi, "there shall not be enough
reservists or enough voluntary en-
Hltmeuts to organize or to keep the
reserve battalions at prescribed
ttitogtb a sufficient number of the
11etjin.zed militia shall be drafted by
Ptfe president to maintain such bat-
or lesser unit at the proscribed
(pNagth.
IV language follows closely that
i Of the national defense act in which
W. miHtja is. jeBnod.a*
ALBERT THOMAS.
Minister of M.„u,.ct
nitiens and Transport ln7r.^.
brenham, w/
1 BASRIDGE, 32,
DIED AT WHITMAN
Prominent Young Farmer a
Victim of Paralysis;'
Funeral at Ennis.
""T " ■
Raymond Baldridge, aged about'
32 years, succumbed to paralysis on
j his father's farm near Whitman on
Thursday evening. The young
I was stricken Sunday, and never ral-
lied.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made, but the body will likely
be taken to Ennis, Where the family
reside. The father. Joe Baldridge,
is a prominent banker at that place.
Raymond Baldridge bad been a reol-
jdent of the county for the past two
years, having charge of his father's
extensive farming interests here.
iiidudmK every able-bodied male <?lf-
h*'a within the prescribed age lim-
it or those who have declared thcli
Intention of becoming citizens.
tirts national guard regulations,
Which will be amplified in great de-
till later, also strike at the problem
o' dependent families of soldiers
fhii'h has cost the government sev-
eral millions of dollars already
through the border mobilization. R1?-
trailing officers for the nations!
Kuerd ire directed to discourage the
Hiiitlment of married men or thosp
*tth others dependent upon them
Sarh rersons are to be accepted only
tor reasons in the public inter >st,
«en viho wish to become officers be-
lli* tiie only class specifically except-
VON MACKENSEN
CAPTURED 3,000
Sledge Hammer Blows by
German General Put
Russians to Flight.
The Associated Press thus sum-
marizes the war news:
Field Marshal Von Mackensen is
continuing his sledge hailing blows
upon the Russians in Northeastern
Wallachla, and Is rapidly pushing
them back to the river Sereth, in
Moldavia. He won a new victory
Wednesday and captured an addi-
tional 3,000 prisoners.
Tho most recent attack appears to
have scored its great success In tho
region of Rimn Ik-Karat, on the ral!
r . .
way. 20 miles north of Bezeu. The
NO
It is provided in the regulation*
tint no officer of the guard hereafter
"hall be recognized as such under
U..« ("iftense act unless he shall have
subscribed to an oath binding him !■>
oW the orders of the president and
W the governor of his State. Ap-
roimment8 will be made on recom-
mendation to the secretary of var
. hum governors or the commanding
'ICwrs of State or territorial units of
| tho tuard and after proper physical
*nd nw.ntal examination by boards of
oOceiri. Promotions will be hm-
®<i in the same way and any ofll-
wr who fails in the examination as
to his professional ability can not
tome Pp for re-examlnatton within a
War.
After three years active service,
or when the organixations are dis-
Wnded, national guard officers may
H* Into the national guard reserve,
The
reserve is to remain an un
;7®*S*nl*ed body in peace times except
tor temporary purposes. It will be
§,:*6»Posed of men who"have served
®r*e years in active organizations
whose enlistment contracts will
"Wire them to serve three more in
tke reserve unless they prefer active
They will hold the same
: in the reserve that they held at
Hlme of furlough from active
1 except that when drafted into
federal service they will report
' grade of private.
Teutonic forces, stampeding the
Russians front the new line they had
taken up after the failure of a Rus-
sian counter attack, have pushed for-
ward beyond Rlmnik-Sarat. Toward
the Danube, to the southwest, the
Russian lines also were pierced and
the Austro-German forces are ad-
vancing northeastwardly In the direc-
tion of the important Roumanii. -
grain and oil store house of Braila,
on tho Danube.
Across the Danube from Braila
the German-Bulgarlan-Turklsh forc-
es made headway In their attack up-
on the Matchin bridge head, where
the last remaining Russian forces in
Dobrudja arc hanging onto the north-
western corner of the province. I1 or-
tifled heights east of Matchin were
taken. Military correspondents re-
port that the Teutonic guns at Do-
brudja are ablo to reach Braila,
which thus is doubtless under heavy
fire from the hostile artillery.
On the other war fronts the fight-
ing has been of a minor character
The French on the Somme front
have been successful in rather ex-
tensive mining operations and report
also the repulse of a German sur
prise attack on hill 304. northwest
of Verdun. Berlin .in its report on
the western front fighting, announces
Ihe loss of eight airplanes by the en-
' »"'F
tente.
PIERCE FORDYCK lMPRO\E
Opacity Of the Fori Worth Refinery
Will Be Doubted} New Pipe
Line*.
-The
t the
Go to Eagle Lake-
(United Press Report)
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 29.
capacity of the Fort Worth refinery
ot the Pierce-Fordyce Oil
will „e doubled by the construc Ion
of a new pipe line, costing a million
and a Quarter dollars from the Hel -
ton field in Oklahoma, to tbto ^
P,a„s for the building of the pipe-
line are under way
,„th pip. «>» ""
g 000 barrels to
present capac
20.000 barrels of crude p-
AH extension
plant is also
ect.
William Lnsk. Albert Stone
hn Parks left today for Eagle
where they will spend a few
d«k hunting.
and work will
It will be
to the Texas City
included In the proj-
GOLD IS BURIED
BENEATH STUMPS
Millions of Acres of Land Ly-
ing Idle on Account
of Stumps.
That extensive farming, rather
than intensive farming, Is still the
great problem of the American farm-
er is a fact beyond argument. The
expert observer sees tne evidence on
every hand—millions of acres going
to waste which might be ridded ot
stumps, plowed, sowed, and made the
focal points for a new tidal wave
of farmers prosperity. It is no ex-
aggeration to say that most of
America's logged-ovor hind is rich
in agricultural posstbiltle*.
There certainly is nothing new in
Ihe Idea of barneying forest land
to the plow. American history
makes Its start upon the clearing in
the forest—upon that first scanty
crop of corn which served for (he
initial Thanksgiving dinner of the
PiWUjUESlftfllS, , a* -»
With up-to-date methods and ma-
chinery of stump-pulling at their
disposal, many modern American
farmers hesilnle to do Ihe very
thing which our forefathers were
obliged lo do with the slow, painful
labor of their hands.
True to the adage that history re-
peats Itself, Ihe first American land-
clearing has found Its counterpart In
many subsequent feats of daring
land cultivation. For Instance,
there is the interesting story of the
three Benedictine monks, who some
thirty years ago, founded a colony
In Ihe wilds of the Ozark mountains
of Arkansas.
They were not equipped with mod-
ern methods and machinery. They
dug up the stumps In the most prim-
itive manner. Yet, today this col-
ony has 160 acres of land under a
high state of cultivation. And this
land has proved its ability to pro-
duce better than $13,500 worth of
crops, dairy products, poultry, etc.,
in a single year.
In Arkansas, In Louisiana, in Mon-
tana, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Wisconsin and many other states,
humble hut wise and thrifty Immi-
grants have bought hideous, barren
stump lands for a song and a prom-
ise. And by patent industry tbey
have redeemed these lands and made
them blossom Into a sure means of
Independence and prosperity. Thus
they have put to shame many a less
progressive native farmer.
The clearing and cultivation of
forest lands, which has been an im-
portant American Industry from the
day thai the first white man landed
on the shores of Plymouth, has yet
to take on the aspect of a great na-
tlon-wide movement But farmers
ag a class are becoming more alive
to the gold that lies under
Mumps than they have been
the next few years should witness a
much more earnest and concerted
effort on the part of farm owners to
Increase their holdings In good cut-
over land, and prepare U with what
ever stump-land they already p'>*
sees for the sowing and the reaping.
It is the next step necessary to make
the average American farm a better
rounded and therefore a better pay-
ing proposition-
Ji
r--
Bank of
Open; Bandit* Es-
cape with $6,000.
I'hoto by Amtrlctn
Thousands of tons I
si -t yearly. siwllq
atto*.
I food are condemned by New York's foot la-
being thrown lr\ Ihe rwhbWh l>e*ii
STOLE.; PROI
■; was
Buggy and b
from J. S. Gic
at La Gr
Local officer* hare
from officers at La (ij
buggy stolen from J.
Christmas day had
A negro is said to bq
buggy lo La Orangey
property of Ernest
ten
PIONEER RESIDENT
EXPIRED THURDAY
'Funeral
| Aged 83 Years, WiU Oc
cur at 4 O'clock.
(United Piwm Report)
Sherman, llec. *>.—Hi* bandits
dynamited the vault of the bank of
Hagerman, eighteen miles we*t of
Sherman, at 11; 10 thta morning,
escaping with M.OOS.
A posse of clllaeo*. awakened by
th< explosion, exchanged shots, but
without any damage lo the beelng
robbers.
pany, was hltebeih
animal was apparent
The
to
HXASG000 ROADS
ASS'N WILL MEET
Annual Convention Will Be
Held at Austin, Jan.
17th and 18th.
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. IS,— The
date for the annual convention of
Ihe Texas Good Honda Association
has been flxetl for January 17 and
IX, Ihe meeting to be at Austin and
Secretary 1). K. Oolp is notifying all
members of this fact and urging all
advocates of good roads to attend.
One of the meat Important mat-
ters to come up Is the proposed bill
creating a Highway Department
which not only Is necessary before
Texas can ever hope to have a real
system of roads, but unless such a
j Department is created she can not
of Edward Kiebs, ! receive one cent of the 18li.000,000
appropriated for good roads through-
out Ihe country.
Onl) one or two Stale Uepresen-
On Thursday evening al 7 o'clock lathes are known to be opposed to
OKurred Ihe death of Kdward Krebs. thta bill and as an exempts of how
aged years, a pioneer resident of'at least one of them, lion, M. M. Mc.
the elty, the funeral occur* this |Fatlaiid of Alpine, representative
f o'clock, in. | from the 17th district, feels a let-
Prairie Lea ter written by hlin to overy other
member of the Legislature is glv
word
it ihe
is on
E^wd
l the j (Friday) afternoon at
lerment being in the
<MMji«terj>.
residents of the oKy, having made
hi* home In Brenham for the pa*t
"Being very much Interested In
the good roads movement In Ta*a*
death. When he dropped from ex- forty year*. For a number of years and especially in the passage of the
haustlon, the thief sold the buggy bo was employed In the old Zeiss good roads law Introduced at the
and harness for IS.50.' brewery, later plying his lrad« as,previous session of Ihe Legislature,
I I
Dp until noon today the thl.f had j cooper. Several years ago he en-! by lion, Leonard TUIotson of Bealey.
not been caught. The horse was gaged In the mercantile bunlness, jand this now b«ln* a platform de-
valued al 1100, and the bugcy and jand until recently conducted a small, mand, I favor giving It right-of-way
harness at approximately the same 'store In Ihe (Jus Schumacher build- over all other matters;
So far as favor giving all platform demands
WOI'I,II KLIMINATK Ml IBM.KM AN
ilng on Rl Charles sired.
11* known, he lea vet- no
having never married.
relations,
A. A M. Instructor HtiggcwlM Tbk As
Notation of High <V»«I of
Living.
Dallas, Tcxus, Dec, 111.- Solution
of the high cost of living problem by
the establishment of a market Whure
consumers may purchase directly j
from producer*, thus eliminating Ihe (
middleman's profit, I* planned by
Mrs. T. V. Marshall, A. 4 M, field
worker here.
She will establish the public mar-
ket at the county women'* re*t-room,
Immediately after the holiday sea-
son Organisation of the county
federation of women's clubs, to en-
courage the country women to bring
their produce, poultry, butler, eggs,
and milk lo Ihe market I* a part of
lh» plan.
Utl for Weimar.
Mr. un Mrs, John J. Gildings left
Friday afternoon for Weimar wher«
Mr. Ulddlngs will attend to business
matters They made Ihe
heir louring car.
ARTIFICIAL LAKE
WASHINGTON PARK
their
And
in gasoline prl<*« »B
advance
nn amount ol the di-
near future, on a-*®"
minishlag i» the WPP* of
Imlrpradmra News.
Mines (lladys flrilDn, lone Keniicy
and Ada SstUller of Brenham mo-
tored to Independence Wednesday,
and spent the day with Miss riars
Picket,
Robert Hooker Is spending several
days with L. K. Hooker slid family
of Yoakum,
Miss Carrie Lee Styles Is Ihe guest
of Miss Lticilfl Williams.
Clay Seward, who has been spend
flng some time Willi relation* In Cor
i alcana, has returned home.
' llaynes Shannon and family of
Navasota sre guests at Ihe home of
Tom Shannon.
Ned Booker ha* returned from a
i Christina* visit lo Brenbatn.
Miss Grace Terrell of Navnsola
spent Wednesday In the city.
Frank Hooker and Tom Viekers at-
tended the dance at the Hardy horn*
at Oay Bill. Ml**e* Orace Orlffln,
lone Kenney. and Ada Beaumier rep.
trlp ,n ; resented Brenham at the dance.
j A dance will be given at Independ-
ence on Friday night. Mu*lc will b<-
furnished by Ihe Taylor Richardson
iatrlng band, and Brenham and Oay
Hill will be well represented.
Contract U Let for Drilling
Artesian Well on the i-1-
Property. 1
WAS KILLKI) AT l*OKT AftTHt lt
Itoiron Came In Omturt with
Mr« Wire Thwrsdny.
precedence over other legislation
"Furthermore, I would like to
this bill made number 1 and pats
Ing II with Ihe emergency clause for
Ihe following reason*:
"I am Informed that In order to
participate In the federal approprla.
Hon of 185,000,000 for good roads
throughout the United State*, Texa*
must, lo comply with Ihe r*uulre-
mcnti, have this law, pnttsed and the
highway commission organised by
June 1. 1#17. Texas' portion of thl*
sum will be approximately $4,filG,~
7fi0 and besides my belief that we
could use this money advantageous-
ly, bellevo also that such a depart
| men! Is necetnary before we aver
can hope to hav« a HKAL system of
highways tor this State.
"I hope that will meet with your
approval and would be pleased lo
hear from you will reference to the
proposition *t an early date, ao,
thanking you In advance for yotir
Ideas In this connection, 1 am, very
ruly your*,
"M. M. McFarland,"
So willing I* the United State* of-
fice of public road* to aid Tela*,
which I* one of the two States which
hag no highway department, Captain
J. D, Fauntleroy, district engineer,
already ha* been assigned to Texa*
so that once the Highway Depart,
men! i* established, there will b*
mi delay in receiving the federal aid
money.
Sgt. Ernest Mueller 1* In the city
from Corp as ChrUti. spending
abort farteagh at
Representative Sam D. W. Low is
displaying a number of photographs
recently taken of Washington park,
showing the ornamental gateway and
scenes in the park, which was re-
cently fenced.
A contract was let ye*terd*y for
the drilling of an artesian well,
which 1* calculated to All *n arti-
ficial lake which haa be*n built In
the park.
When work ba* been f»nl*hed on
the park. It will present an inviting
Port Arthur, Texas, Dee. 2».~
A. Dolron was instantly killed
ben- Thursday morning at the Oulf
Refining company by coming In con-
tact with a live-wire on an else trie
crane. He was 88 years of ■««, and
is survived by his widow and four
small children.
Vferftors from VktaHa.
Mr. and Mr*. 0*car ftooa and
daughter of Victoria, are *u«U ot
Mr, and Mra >*. M. Crotfer this
week.
WAV H|VKIN<; WAS JI'STIKIKD
<«.»nvuir Halm* IMio Wa* t%a»-
torred to* Trwis|»o« Parpoaea.
Berlin, Dec *». The reply of the
Oerman government to another of
the American Inquiries in regard lo
st< amshlp* snnk by submarines, In
thl* instance relating to the destruc-
tion of the Norwegian steamship Del-
to, with Americans In the crew
elnres that the
lered for transport pnrpooaa to »W-
ligerent government «*fl
• ■
For the past five mm I
the custom of tha
the Banner Publishing
compliment the
banquet during the holidays,
Thursday evening the entire
together with a few invited
gathered at the Bllnn dining hall la
reaponse to an Invitation from
Iness Manager George Neu, and en-
joyed an elaborate spread.
Yule-tide decorations of red aad
green adorned the dining hall aad
In one corner stood a besutlfully.dee-
orated Christmas tree. The long ta-
bh> presented a most atlraottve ap-
pearance, and wb* loaded with good
things, to «at, the following delicious
menu hsvlag beeu prepared under
the rapsble direction of Mr*. George
Neu and Mr*. Charlea Waadler.
stewardess ot Bllnn diulng hall.
tlrnpe fruit, oyster*, turkey, cran-
berry sauce, potato salad, nut salad,
creamed potatoes, French pea*, fruit
cake, cocoanut cake, pecan cake,
German l^ebkuchen, stuffed date*,
salted slmonds, black coffee, cigars.
The esls were In plsln Bngliah—
no foreign uames to confu** the
force.
Full Justice was done to each de-
licious dish, after which an enter,
talnlng program of brief speeches
was rendered. Business Manager
George Neu acted as toastmaster |n
his usual finished and happy manner-
He spoke of the good work done
by the force during (he past year,
snd declared that much of the suc-
cess of the publication wa* attained
through the cooperation and service
of alt employee*, for which he sx-
pressed hi* gratitude In a substan-
tial hy dating jW»at during the
year or more would be given a va-
cation with full pay. This atalement
was received with enthusiastic ap-
plause.
A restore of the evening was tho
presentation lo Mr, Neu of a hand-
some gold knHe snd chain, with the
compliments and best wishaa of the
entire force. The presentation wa*
made by Mrs. Ruby Robertson In a
brief speech and Mr. Neu responded
In a r*w well-chosen words, voicing
hi* appreciation of the gift and tha
kind ihnuglita that prompted It.
Each member of the force had been
remombered by Ihe msnagemant
with a substantial cash gift lu gold
coin.
Several tnu"leal selections on a
magnificent Kdlson machine, "Mn.
sic'* Re-creation" were thoroughly
enjoyed, afier which the gueit* de-
parted thanking Mr. and Mr*. Neu
for one of the mo*t delightful en-
tertainments ever tendered the Ban-
ner.Prcs* force,
Tlie following program had
arranged for the evening:
George Neu, toe«tm*ater.
Where My Wandering* Hare Tak-
en Me Harry L, Vaugban.
Shgll the Meek Inherit the Barlh?
Kmmet Shannon.
This and That Out of the Trlala
and Tribulation* of tha Society Id*
(tor.-- Mr* Ruby Robertson.
looking Into (he Future-—Edward
S. Catbrlner.
What the Printer 11a* Don* for
Civilisation- Taul C. Blake.
The Difference between Teaching
School and Keeping Books In a
Newspaper Office- -Otto Brandt.
Bugaboo of the Carrier
Julius Ftacher.
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