The Carbon News (Carbon, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Eastland Centennial Memorial Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Do your bathing in the Carbon mineral water
We can give you
BATHS HOT or COLD
We guarantee all our work and solicit
you to patronize the
PAYSLLIAN BARBER SHOP
We want your patronage in the laundry business
and remember
THE BASKET LEAVES ON
MONDAY
J. Y. BSNGLER Mgr.
greet, the**, where no farewell
tear is shed. Blue Bells.
A tourist printer who was in-
town one day this week and who
has been in the habit of stopping
here a day or two several time.'
during the year for some ten .or
fiften years, relates a laughable
incident concerning anothrt
tourist printer- of a somewha*
excentric nature. These journ-
eymen printers travel from
Maine to Mexico and from Ore-
gan to Florida and rarely pay
for transportation anywhere,
preferring always to walk in
preference to paying two 01
three cents a mile, which charge
they usually circumvent by
showing their union card to a
brakeman, who is also a mem-
ber of a union and usually very
readily takes the traveler to the
end of his train run. In thb
case the tourist wanted to cross
the Missippion a steamer at
Memphis, but the union earn
was not recognized and he could-
n’t walk or swim. After get-
ting turned down on several at
tempts to use his card for pas
sage he struck out and made hi.-
way down the river to a point
opposite New Orleans and here
met with further embarrass-
ment in his cherished desire to
reach the other side of th'e rivt z
without paying the price for
transportation. In his exasper-
ation at the repested refusals tin
tourist printer got mad and de-
clared he didn’t have to ride on
their old tubs anyhow and that
he would just walk around the
“bloomin’’ river. This we are
told, he aetuallp did do, going
away up above Minneapolis am
down the other side of the river
to New Orleans, covering a dis-
tance of about or over five thous-
and miles and finally showing up
in New Orleans to announce to
the various captains of the ves-
sels who had refused to carry
him, that he had gotten across
the river.-Dublin Progress.
man man, my baby has dropped
out of the window: can you slop
the car and pick it up?
“We stepped the car and hiked
oack a f< w blocks and there was
the kid yelling in the road near
the tracks. He was not hurt
so I look'd in the rule bo d; and
it says, all lost articles, vvheth
or recovered or not, must be re
ported to the claim department
do I wrote up that report.
s “No governor she didn’t give
no reward.”
“Editing a newspaper is a
good thing. If we publish jokes
people say we are rattle brained.
If we don’t we are foolish. If
we publish original matter they
say we don’t give them enough
selection, If we give them se-
lection they say we are too lazy
to write. If we don’t go to
church we are heathens. If we
do go we are hypocrites. If we
remain at the office we ought to
be out looking for news items.
If we go out then we are not at-
tending to business. If we wear
old clothes they laugh at us, If
vve wear good clothes they say
we have a pull. Now what are
we to do? Just as likely as not
some one will say we stole this
from an exchange so we did. -
McCone Herald.
Atlanta, Sept. 17.-‘‘I have to
report that a woman passenger
tossed her baby out of a car win-
dow this afternoon,” wrote a
conductor on the street car line
yesterday, “We stopped the
car, however, and recovered the
lost article alongside the track.”
This was the report which the
superintendant found on his
desk, At first he read “basket”
for “baby.”
He spelled out the word ”ba.
by” in the conductor’s scrawl
and tumped up and ordered the
conductor in to explain the re-
Dispatchas coming infrom dif-
ferent sections of eastern Okla-
homa, where there has been
practically no rain at all for
several weeks, state that much
upland timber is dying for want
of moisture. In addition to this
there are lots of forest fires that
spread to the prairies and cause
much damage. The timber in
the areas burned over is nearly
all killed by the fiers, and when
they spread to the prairies there
is a heavy loss on account of the
grass and fences consumed.
These reports also indicate that
many young fruit trees have
been killed by the excessive
drouth.
While there has been rain
during the past thirty days in
most sections of the state, there
are ‘streaks” where no rain at
all fell and it is from these dis-
tricts that the reports of fires
and a pressing necessity for
stock water comes.—Dallas
News.
Old Lady (to druggist):
want a box of canine pills.
Druggist: “What’s the mat-
ter with the dog?”
Old Lady (indignantly): “I
want you to know, sir, that my
husband is a gentleman.
The druggist put up some
quinine pills in profound silence.
—Young Pilgrim.
: |Two doctors were operating
on a man for appendicitis. Af-
ter the operation was completed
one of thqdoctors missed a small
spong.
The patient was re-opened,
the spong was found within and
the man sewed up again. Im-
mediately the second dbetor
missed a needle. Again j the
jatient was opened and closed.
“Gentlemen”’ said the victim,
as they were about to close him
i he second time, “for heaven’s
-ake if you’re going to keep this
up, put buttons on me.”—Ex.
.Subscribe for the News.
GENERAL DIRECTORY
" M. B. CHURCH SOUTH.
Preaching on first and third Sun-
days at 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p. m.
Sundp.y School 10 a. m. every
Sunday. J R. Foster Supt.
Junior League 3 p. m. every Sun-
day. Mrs. Minnie Poe Pres,
Senior League 4 p.m. every Sun-
Hay. W. C. Gorman Pres.
Ladies H. M. F. Society. Mon-
day 3 p. m. after regular preaching
days.
Prayer meeting every Wednes-
day night.
Ladies cottage prayer meeting
every Friday 3 p. m.
Eustace P. Swindall P. C.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching on 2nd and 4th Sun-
days at 11a. <n. and 7:30 p. m.,
[also on Saturday night before.
Sunday School 10 a. m. every
Sunday. W. H. Puett Supt.
B. Y. P. U. 2:15 p. m. every
Sunday, Roy Baughman, Pres.
L. A. S. 3 p. m,, on Monday af-
ter the regular preaching service.
Mrs. J. C. Gorman Pres.
Prayer meettng every Tuesday
night. E. L. Springer Pastor
District court meets on first Mon-
The road leading into Carbon
from Romney via Long Branch
has had considerable work done
on it within the last few days.
The worst sand has been clayed
which with a little more work
will make it one of the best
Parties
living at Romney and vicinity
wishing to reach Carbon will
woman said' find this road above the average.
port.
‘‘What it says,” remarked theiroads in the county,
bell punceer, “actually” happen-
ed. She was leaning out of the
window and the
How People Lose Their Money
..... i 1....."
jgy concealing it about their person; by stowing it
away in mugs, jugs and jars; by sewing it up
in skirts and ticks, by tucking it under the
couches and carpets, in cupboards and bureau
drawers; these are some of the ways by which
people lose their money, and sometimes
THEIR LIVES. . . .
How People Save their Money
gy depositing it in a good, reliable bank
Confident that this bank fully meets the
public s needs, we tender its services to all
who believe in keeping on the SAFE SIDE.
THE BANK OF CARBON
UNINCORPORATED
Responsibility, $500,000.
J. E. SPENCER Cashier
The Carbon News Piano
Contest.
Following is the standing of
the votes up to press time this
week:
Miss Iva Stockton
Miss Merl Wharton
Miss Lillian Thurman
Miss Ollie Stokes
Miss Janie White
Miss Willie Blissard
Mrs. W. P. Grubb
days in January and July and holds ' Miss Lydia Martin
eight weeks.
Miss Dora Hammett
Miss Iris Wood
County court meets second Mon-| ,
day in March, June, September, and j _ss Minnie Nix
December and holds six weeks. I Miss Birdie Seastrunk
~ . . , , , , Miss Ella Broughton
Commissioner’s court meets second ,
Mondays in February, May, August I J;1SS Florence Bishop
and November.
CARBON
City council meets 1st Monday
night in each month.
T. H. Dingier, Mayor.
L A White, J E Collins, A Bos-
ton, M V Crossley and W C Gor-
man, Aldermen.
W H Gilbert, Marshal.
BOARD OF SCHOOL
TRUSTEES
C B Poe, Pres. W C Gorman, Sec.
W L Spencer, Treas. J S Reese.
JFEdmundson, J M Wyatt and
W N Jones.
A
FEED, FLOUR, and MEAL.
Extia High Patent $3.15, High Patent $2.90.
Meal 65c.
All kinds of Feed. Our price is right
COX & SON Carbon Texas
A. F. & A. M. meets Satur-
day night on or before the
full moon in each month.
T. H. Dingier, W. M.
W. P. Rankin, Sec.
Carbon Chapter O. E. S. meets
on the 1st Thursday night after the
full moon in each month.
Mrs. Ola White, W. M.
Miss Rebecca White, Sec.
W. O. W. meets 1st and 3rd
Saturday nights in each month.
U. A. Dingier, C. C.
W. JL Huntsucker, Clerk.
Woodman Circle meets 2nd and
4th Monday nights in each month.
Mrs. Maggie Puett, Guardian.
Mrs. Wilma Gorman, ClerK.
M. W. A. meets every 2nd and
4th Saturday night.
H. V. Fowler, V. C.
J. L. James Clerk.
The Rebekah Lodge meets every
1st and 3rd Saturday night in each
month. »
Mrs. Retta Dingier, N. G.
Miss Jettic Seastrunk, Sec.
Miss Rosa Vaught
8470
5675
6425
1650
3350
1475
150
700
250
100
100
100
•50
50
50
Farmers Want column
123 acres of good (land 3 miles
n e of Carbon at 20 dollars per
acre Good terms Will trade for
land in N w Texas Eor particu-
lars call at this office
ai) or 60 acres of smooth land for
rent with a good house, plenty of
water also hove a good team cf
horses, a wagon and a cultivator
for sale M J scott
A good house, two acres of land
some orchard and a good cistern in
the eastern part of Carbon. Will
sell cheap. M. P. Hornsby.
For sale One span of horses 13
years old will sell iheap
J B Courtney
A good Spaulding top buggy been
run about one year For sale
cheap See Henry Murphy,
1 1-2 miles N w of Carbon
Those farmers in Parker coun- Some few weeks ago we were
ty who have nothing else to do. I informed by a certain individual
f,re mthng, in.then‘labor against| that we were knockers and did
not care how the country went;
to the bad or otherwise. Now,
the county’s funds to make good
roads are capitalizing their idle-
ness. They are lending their
labor at a good rate of interest
on security that is as good as a
Government bond. They will
get principal and interest during
we would like to say in our own
behalf that we are at all times
willing and ready to do anything
that is within our power for the
upbuilding oi the country, both
that prolonged season of bad morally and financially. We are
weather, which, like the circus
is ‘ ‘coming soon. ’ ’ Furthermore
they are exhibiting an intelli-
gence and a spirit of enterprise
which makes it certain that no
drouth can do more than set
them back a few month. Such
a spirit as they manifest is in-
conquerable: the men who po-
sesses it ought to be able to
maintain a considerable degree
of cheerfulness in the midst of a
drouth, —Ex.
For Sale.
First class livery stable
sale either cash or trade.
for
k
good place.
Write or see
No competition.
H. V. Fowler.
Carbon, Texas.
DeLeon, Comanche Co., Tex.
Sept. 15.—Some animal, suppos-
ed to be a panther or Mexican
lion, has been prowding around
in the country and outskirts of
town, robbing chicken roosts
and alarming some of the citi-
zens. It has been seen by sever-
al persons after night, but no
one has obtained a close view of
it. Several persons went on a
hunt for it Saturday evening
just west of town, but failed to
find it. _ It’s scream is very much
like that of the panther, and
from the measurment of the
track it ia a very large animal.
The same animal, or one like it,
has been seen and heard for six
months on the Leon and ne^r
with the people and for the peo-
ple.
When one remembers that in
an ordinary column there are
10.000 pieces of type, that there
are seven wrong positions each
letter may be put in and there-
fore 70,000 chances in a column
to make errors besides millions
of chance transportation, he will
not be to critical. In the sent->
ence’ l‘To be or not to be,” by
transpositions alone it is possi-
ble to mak^ 6,256,800 errors.
So you see the perils that beset
the printer.-Mineral Wells
Index.
If you owe an honest debt, for
heavens sake don’t fret, fume,
and frown when the collector
calls. It is very unpleasant to be
put off continuously aud al-
most insulted when you present
a bill to one you have accom-
modated with credit—and it is
more—it is a violation of confi-
dence when not paid promptly.
Those in a position to do so
should pay their debts promptly
graciously without unnecessary
Theney, southeast of town some bickering. Treat the collector
five miles. All efforts to kill
has been in vain.
Subscribe for the News.
with the same deference you do
the proprietor or clerk when you
contract the debt. The collector
lot is a hard one at best. Re-
ceive him kindly. — Ex.
T. C. Schedule.
The new schedule for the Tex-
as Central. Carbon station, is a:
follows:
No. 1. west bound. 3:40 p. m
No. 2, east bound, 1:51 p. m.
No. 3, west bound. 3:35 a. m.
No. 4. east bound. 1:07. a. ni.
A II. V. FOWLKR. A»
' _•
-$j Livcrv and Feed Stable
Does a general Livery business jjturnishes first-
class rigs for traveling and commercial men.
WAGON YARD in connection. A
full supply of feed always on hand. Good
camp house and plenty of good water.
J
CARBON, TEXAS, f
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Carbon News (Carbon, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1909, newspaper, September 23, 1909; Carbon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521970/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Eastland Centennial Memorial Library.