The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1911 Page: 7 of 8
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MAJORITY OF 6,295
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~t Ineffectively Protests Against
(tabMttog Zapata County on
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Grounds of Fraud.
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Austin, : Wednesday Secretary of
State McDonald in tile presence of
Gov. Colquitt and Attorney General
t canvassed the returns of the
iHde prohibition election held
on July 22. The result as officially
announced gives a total of 237,130
votes against and, 2230,251 for the
proposed amendment, a majority of 6,-
Hall County, the returns
from which county having not been
^/.received in time to be included in the
count. A telegram was received to
the effect that the returns had been
mailed and that a duplicate would be
sent, but this did not reach here in
time for the count. Unofficial returns
from Hall County gave a prohibition
been count-
the major-
ie amendment,
with the re-
,the The News on
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majority 684 and had this 1
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SOUTHERN TRACTION PLANS
134 Miles of New Track Connecting
Denison, Dallas, Waco and
Corsicana.
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Dallas^ Walter Waskum has been
appointed financial agent for the
Southern Traction Company. Mr.
Strickland, president of the company,
says tha£, work will likely be under
way by December 1, and cars will
be in operation in 18 months.
The total length of the l^oad will
be about 134 miles. Starting at Dal-
las, it will run to Ferris, Hutchins
and Wilmner. There the lines diverge
one to Waco, by way of Rockett, Wax-
ahachie, Ennis, Alma and Rice to Cor-
sicana.
Limited''and local service will bring
into close touch communities that
now depend on a somewhat meager
railway schedule, and it is even con-
templated to operate sleeping cars be*
tween Denison and Waco/ These will,
of course use the tracks of the Texas
Traction Company from Denison to
Dallas.
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Matters Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
a majority of
lent
Lane entered a protest
of the vote is
&§**• declares on the
\ and in substantiation
itted the sworn
r Tax Collector
well as the
voted in the
led to me
e total he-
re turns showed 327 j
it the amendment
by the Secretary of
DALLS’ FORTY-FIRST KILLING
Motorman On Duty Shoots to Death
Vtfelng Conductor.
Dallas: J. V. Harris, a street car
conductor, was shot Friday afternoon
and almost instantly killed by D. L.
Hoffman, a motorman on an Ervay
street car. The car was moving at
the time. Both, men were on the front
end of the c&r when the killing oc-
curred. Hoffman used a .38 Colt’s
shooting twice. Both shots took ef-
fect near the heart '
According to eye witnessW Harris
walked to the front end of the car
and said something to the motorman
when the shots were fired, ft is said
the killing was the result of personal
matters, said to have been family
trouble. ' * ' •<
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Anti-Tubercu-
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Alps of San An-
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TEXAS VITAL STATISTICS.
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Natural Increase Still on the'Vp-gtape.
Deaths Decrease.
Austin: There were 2,143 death*
reported in August, a decrease of sev
en from list month. Tuberculosis of
the lungs, as usual, leads, with an in-
crease of 17 per ever last month, there
being 202 deaths reported. Diarrhea
and enteritis (wider 2'years) claimed
114 infants, a decrease of 10. Next
in order comes typhoid, also showfng
a decrease of 3; 97 deaths having been
reported. Senility claimed 113 this
month, against 129 last month. -Bright’s
disease Increased from 71 deaths in
July to 83 this month. Thera were 166
deaths
When you are crowded, just keep
an moving.
The low-down wagon is all right, but
folks have no use for a low-down man.
Those who in the autumn take their
ease are the more likely later on to
freeze.
The man who will break his word
will smash anything that comes within
his reach.
Co-operation is the alternative of
corporate land ownership and the
(ease system of farming.
Fear makes more boy liars than
anything else in the world and too
often it is the fear of the parents.
Comfortable quarters and plenty to
eat is all that is necessary to make
a hog satisfied but it takes^ something
more to keep happ/ueBs in a'woman’s
heart J’
In Denmark credit societies lend
money to farmers with which to buy
lands. The loans run up to 50 years
and the land is the only security. The
Interest rate is about 4 per cent.
Potatoes are high this year'and yet
tanners are not getting a figure in
proportion. Same oIcTstory. The mid-
dleman regulates the supply and helps
himself from producer and consumed
alike.
The farmers of this country own and
operate 16 cooperative meat packing
plants. While the fanners Uhlon
alone owns and operates 6,600 manu-
facturing plants of various kinds and
the American Society of Equity owns
4,300.
Farmers in the southwest part of
Dickenson county, Kan., being unable
to Induce somebody to start a bank
finally opened one of their own with
a paid-in cash Capital of $125,000. The
bank is making money and has funds
to loan.
Co-operation in production is more
practical, and will prove to be more
profitable for the fanner, than co-op-
eration In final distribution, for the
sufficient reason that he understands
can manage the one, while he
does not understand the other, and
must leave its management to hired
men.
ARLE LEADERS ARE NEEDED ?»iy them.
the J
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Will be
slaty pSr
im
feet. There
building,
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Texas
at the car
large new pas-
on thelrffort
pars are of
hrm b, ** into
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of the high
*%ys, lies in
middlemen.
‘T would have
t the government
i purchase household sup-
as is done by the army and navy,
producer and consumer must be
JBJvtor city
i a supply bureau and there is no
; that this could be broadened
When it comes
passes through
The public has to pay
—
of supply,
w protect
HB1
Dimly Burning.**
farmers in this
save their crops
and other
working two shifts a day.
ift workf
cause of chftdkenV sicio
There were 5,420 births in .the State
during August, an increase of 453 over
July. The blades show 400 deaths and
501 births, 101 more births than
deaths. -* ?v t
Twins are again numerous, 59 set*
being reportel|rihi8 month, an increas
over fxilj of 23 and over June 39.
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Passing- of Prominent Citizen.
Gainesville: Col. D. L. Painter, a
native of Virginia and a citizen of
this place for some forty years, a
Sian of large wealth, a member of
the Waples-Patnter Lumber Company
an active member of the Gainesville
Public School Board for twenty-five
years, a local philanthropist and one
of the most popular and highly re-
spected citizens of this community
died here early Sunday morning after
a brief illness. He was 84 years of
age. °
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Family Picks Cotton.
Paris: M. R. Funs ton and children
made the following cotton picking rec-
ord on a farm south of town Friday:
The father, 506 pounds; girl 12 years
old, 200 pound*; boy 10 years old, 303
pounds: boy S'years old, 210 pounds;
girls 6 years old, 108 pounds. They
had to walk a mile to the cotton patch
and quit before sundown. The moth
r was sick and away from home and
had to do all of the housework.
President Barrett "Telle 8hawnee Con-
vention of Prosperous Condition
of Farmers* Union.
v The following Is the address In part
of President Charles & Barrett, deliv-
ered before the recent convention of
the Farmers’ Union at Shawnee,
Okla.:k
At a day when the Farmers* Edu-
cational and Co-operative Union Is
more powerful than at anytime In Its
existence, it gives me pleasure and
profound pride to greet its representa-
tives in annual convention assembled.
Ton are the authorized spokesman
for the most important farmers’ or-
ganization In all history- You gather
gt a time when we can view battles
won. and battles yet to be won. in a
degree that is new In the annals of
the producers of any nation. I am
sure you share With me a .miffbjy thrill
a* we look backward, upon the long
and hard road we have traveled and
the obstacles we have Overcome; and
that, with me, you feel np. less a call
to action when we consider the prob-
lems yet unsolved by the American
fanner.
During the past year, and especially
during the past summer. I have visit-
ed personally all the important state
organizations and all the state conven-
tions. And I come to you with the
message that the Farm'rs’ Union is
stronger, better drilled in discipline,
in finer financial condition and more
Inspired with the stem enthusiasm of
sacrifice, of brotherly love and of co-
operation than since that never-to-be-
-forgotten day when Newt Gresham
launched its first great principles.
States that were previously indifferent
or laggard are going forward by great
strides. State treasuries that once
suffered lack of filnds, are being
placed upon a solid basis, everywhere
—north, south, east and west—the
farmer Is waking to the opportunity
and the duty of affiliating with his
brethren, and is learning the true
meaning of the creed to which he sub-
scribes when he .takes the obligation
of membership. \
* We have accomplished all, thus far,
that the reasonable man could expect,
and much more than our secret ene-
mies and the pessimists hoped We
stand upon a record that no similar or-
ganization has remotely approached.
And I bring to you the further Import-
ant message that America is so wak-
ened to the significance of our move5-
ment that limitless financial assist-
ance will be at our disposal, the mo-
ment we bring this organization to
the high state of perfection it is now
rapidly approaching. The day may-
come this year, or next year, when the
member of this order will find him-
self backed by such large capital and
so many resources as to remove his
last wavering doubt as to the coun-
try's appreciation of the role of the
producer, so lon^ne^Bcted. ^
As an Instance^Ve national atti-
tude toward our caiffK it is a pleasure
to report that n#re than 3,200 papers
print regularly the statements Issued
from national headquarters. Each
mail brings requests from more pub-
lications to be placed upon our mail-
ing list And I am in receipt of in-
quiries regarding our work and it*
progress from practically etery coun-
try in civilization. I tell you this, tiiaC
you may realize %he momentum this
movement* has attained, and the grave
responsibility resting upon all of us
to see/that in no wise do we betray or
disappoint the trust the nation and
the world begin to repose In our mis-
sion.
The greatest need of the American
farmer today, whether within or with-
out this organization, is effectual lead-
ership. I know that for the so-called
"rural problem” there are a thousand
and one remedies and solutions sug-
gested, some of them -good, some ab-
surd and some absolutely vicious ift
intent and principle. None of them
touch the core of the situation. We
need not remedies but leaders. GTve
uz proper leaders in every state, and
we shall soon find the remedies, and
' _ _' The machinery for re-
form, for progress and prosperity; the
greatest plans outlined by the brains
of the most accomplished exerts;
(kpit&l in uinheastired proportion; are
ail at our disposal.fjAH that is lacking
is leaders to administer and keep ad
ministering the great; and the little de-
tains that underlie the welfare of bo
mighty an organisation.
Some of tis think we need more en-
thusiasm. more plaids, higher or lower
dues, constitutional amendments, tc
go into politics, to let politics severely
alone. All these considerations are
more or less vain. We do not need
prescriptions. We need not doctors tc
see that the patients take the pro
scriptlois and keep qn taking tbeb.
If you ask m* the proof of these
statements, I point you to the history
of every farmers’ organisation that
has been born, risen to a dizzy height
in some instances, and then fallen tc
n inglorious death. Whpse was the
ult in every case? That of the lead-
ers. - The Wheel, the Farmers’ Alll»
ance, are they the mighty powers thpt
once madfc the nation trembler You
know they are not Selfish leadership,
cowardly leadership, inefficient leader-
ship is responsible. I know as well as
anyone else that the Alliance had
some splendid, unselfish leaders. But
there were not enough of them to save
the organization.
IDS FASTIDIOUS FIAN<
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By LOUIS CARL STEIN
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(Copyrlrftot, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.)
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Mrs. John Dunbam was what might
be termed an overlooked widow! She
was only thirty-eight years old when
her husband died, and she was by no
means a homely woman, and yet at
the age of forty-six she was still a
widow. Such things do happen in vli- down in a coal mine?”
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are
A night shift
f the lanterns 4
fhinarv farmers have raised
a by lantern light,
|C the ma-
immense amount of forage crop* and
harvest
are anxious to
&U of it
gsw*;.
Glancing 8hot Kills Woman.
Fort Worth: Mrs. Frank Annstron g
was probpbly fatally shot Monady night
on Bast Thirteenth street near Hard-
lng. A neighborhood quarrel prompted
the firing of a pistol shot at her hus-
band. The ball passed through the
fleshy part of his leg, struck the side-
walk, glanced and wounded Mrs. Arm!
strong in the stomach. She was tak-
en to the Medical College Hospital
where the wound Is regarded as almost
necessarily fatal.
Story of Large Theft Comes Out.
Louis: That a registered pack-
age containing a bank shipment of be-
tween $25,000 and $30,000 in currency
was stolen from the postoffice here a
year ago "became publie for the first
time Monday. Since the theft Post-
master Akins and a few employes un-
der hlta and postoffice inspectors have
\ kept the theft a secret while trying to
locate the thieves and their loot. It is
stated the money was consigned to a
if#
A Long Staple Day.
Clarksville: Four hundred and
eight bales of Jong staple cotton were
sold oh the streets of Clarksville Sat
unlay, tbe largest single day’s re-
ceipts of tbe present season, which,
runs the total receipts for the season
to 2,729. The highest price paid dur-
ing the day was received by Ed Fer-
guson. who sold one bale of long sta-
ple cotton to W. R. Moore for 21c
per pound.
Fell Out of Chair Dead.
Athens: /While sitting in a chair
reading-*^ bis home In Athens Sunday
between 10 add 11 o’clock, L. B. Han
nah fell over dead. He was on the
health, and had been serving as an
officer in connection with the dis
trict court the present
widow, survives him.
term.
Maine’s New Senator.
Portland: Obadiah Gardner of Rock
land was Saturday appointed United
States Senator to succeed late Senator
William Frye. Gardner was democrat
ic nominee for governor In 1906.
Transportation Picking Up.
Chicago, HI.: Idle car reports re-
cently received show an encouraging
decrease In the numher for the entire
oountry. Roads in the East, Middle
West and on the coast report large de-
creases, indicating improved busiiiesa
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RUN A FARMERS’ ELEVATOR
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Manager Must Be Well Vereed In
Methods Used In Shipping and
Conai^nlng Grain.
(By HL T. PATTERSON. Montana Ex-
periment Station.)
There are a number of points that
must be kept in mind by those select-
ing a man to run their elevator. In
the first place, he must be a good
fudge of commercial grains. He must
be able to glance at a load of grain
and tell very quickly what grade will
be placed upon it when it is received
upon the terminal market He should
have a clear understanding of the
meaning of the different quotations,
since nearly all of our lajWg terminal
grain markets have a sofp^&code by
which their grain is handled.
An elevator manager must be weil
versed In the methods used in ship-
ping and consigning the grain. He
must understand tbe loading of the
cars, as well as know how to keep an
accurate set of books. He must be
the progressive man of the locality.
His opinion upon tbe market should
be respected by the shipper and the
farmer. He must be thoroughly famil-
iar with the value of Introducing new
seeds as well as the importance of
seed selection.
Farmers organizing a co-operative
grain association cannot do better
than to put some time and attention
into the ^election of the man that is
to run their business. Unless a re-
sponsible person is hired, the organ-
ization is bound, sooner or later, to
have a great deal of trouble. Tbe
writer has known of a number of
farmers’ organizations that have
failed simply because they did not se-
eure the right man to handle their
business. .
Shelter for Live Stock.
A shelter Is heeded to protect the
live stock from the cold winter winds
and rains. The shed also protects the
manure from the rains that too often
leach practically ail the plant food
out of the manure. The shelter costs
very little money and pays for Itself
eveFy year in protecting the cattia
and manure
To Teach the Mothers.
A number of philanthropic women
In Montreal have opened a “Mothers’
Clinic.’’ In a poor district of the city,
where every morning »he mothers of
the neighborhood caq take their ba-
bies to receive treatment for childish
complaints. As well as treatment
for their little ones the mothers are
given instruction by doctors and a
trained nurse In proper methods of
caring for their children Little il-
lustrated lectures are given dally on
the necessity of cleanMne** in every-
thing affecting food. Pure milk, and
any special food either for a baby or
a Durslng mother, is supplied free
upon a doctor's order.
A Lucky Genius.
“Did you write that beautiful song
entitled ‘Welcome, Merry Sunshine?’”
”1 did,” replied the popular bard
•Well, you’re lucky. Any man who
could write tbnt never had a good re-
liable case of B’Miburn, or lived In the
vicinity of the kiosk, wbe-w !b« tem-
perature went to ninety and o»er.”
lages now and then. The piano man
may praise a widow’s eyes, the sew-
ing machine man praise her hair, and
the tin peddler look at her with ad-
miring eyes and sigh, but that may
also lead to nothing. It had led to
nothing in the widow Dunham’s case.
A widow qr any other woman must
have an offer of marriage before she
can refuse it
The ’time came. Mrs. Dunham was
still hanging on to her forty-sixth
year when along came Moses Frazer,
living in a village she miles away.
Moses would have come years sooner,
but for circumstances over which he
had no controL He had & wife, and
having one, the most he'could do was
to sigh and wait. When the wife
was gathered In by the Reaper and
a year of mourning had passed Moses
was free to call on the widow. When-
she looked out of the window at the
click of the gate latch and saw him
she knew his errand.
Moses entered the house and talked
about this and that, and it was a long
time, and he had crossed and re-
crossed his legs many times before he
got up the courage to shy:
"Widow, I’m alone in the world, and
so are you.”
“Oh, but I don’t mind it,” was the
reply.
"But I thought yon might. It some-
how Isn’t natural for a woman to be
living alone. As the Bible says,' there
ought to be a man around the house.”
“I never read that In the Blhle.
Leastwise, 1 shouldn’t want a man
aronnd under foot. It must be a relief
to you not to have a wife massing
around.”
“But it ain’t widow—it ain't,” re-
plied Moses. “I’m so dinged lonesome
I don’t know what to db.
Even If we could^ no preacher
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go up to marry us
Well, Mosetf. 1 dont want to
over-particular,” replied the
after a little thought^® vtoi
married up In a balloon how about
§
“That might do. If Lean find one.”
Moses went Inquiring again, and by
and by ascertained that the nearer
coal mine was 150 miles away, and
very Wet place at that Besides,
minister told him that he
descend into a coal mine and marry a
couple for less than a hundred dollars;
When the widow Dunham had been to-
formed of how the matter stood
replied:
“I had rather set my heart on
but I have always been a
sacrifice. Why can’t we bi*'
a circus ring before all the ^
“Why, I never heard of sue**
thing! We’d be almost took I
couple of camels or something!
no.”
"Moses, we must be married
circus ring or not at all." »
Moses made his
was now September,
could be expected within
the village until' the next /
When he spoke to his minister
ceremony
performing the
man exclaimed:
"No—never! I should be put
trial for doing such ft thing!"
w
"You don’t seam
much energy," remarked
when she bad heard his r
“I guess we had better drop 1
ter.";- vi;; /.'vV
be a
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anothc
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one of
ir.t% .
Why can’t we be
of a mile a
“Lands,
dollar we
1 read
sr «w-
f:
"But It Ain't, Widow, It Ain't.”
how Td feel about It, and on her dying
bed she said I’d ^better gat married
again."
“Did she name any oner'
“Well, no, but she. might If she
hadn’t got short o’ breath. I guess the
naming, was to be left to me.”
“And have you picked the person
out yetr* *
"I have, widow, and. that's- what
brought me here-today. Yes, her name
la Dunham, and I’m going to ask her
right out if she’ll have me.”
"Why, Mcses Frazer!" exclaimed
the woman as she threw up her hands
In pretended astonishment "You
can’t be speaking to me! Yon can’t
mean what you say!”
“Every last , word of ft! I’m here
after your heart and hand!"
“My stare! But this is no way to
court a woman!”
“I’ll allow it’s s little sudden, but
then we ain’t young folks who have
got to spoon around. I thought I’d
tell you how t felt, and then give you
a week to make up your mind."
Widow Dunham neither encouraged
nor discouraged. Moses let It go at
that. He was back in a week. Tbe
widow kept him talking about hogs
and pumpkins, and buckwheat as long
as she could, and then said:
“Moses, perhaps it’s my duty to
marry you.”
“I know It Is.”
“But if I do I’m going to have my
way about certain things.”
“You shall, widow.”
to
m
m
herefi-L^T
"Yei. there’s i
mile beyond
“Can you
top and then
"Lands, but do you
ried in a tree-top!”
"1 do. You have dlsap.
about the other things, but:
about
■ *. n ■
Moses went out to t
s. and to ta
ministers;
at close range, and
uZ “ta r«U« bo
the minister was
plied with a shiver:
"What? Climb a 1
pouple! You can ha’
for tbe cloth to propo*
The good man cons
to call on the widow i
and he did call, and
lasting two hours •
effected. The
place from a platform
haystack, and two week*
off with the whole
tatora
asked Why she was^££$
ufiueual she smiled and
"“Why, I suppose I was
think I had b«e» •
years before any man
v as a
after s
marriage was
mm*
village
Later on. when the 1
marry him!’
t
8
wri-
te a»J>i
, but t
alloon.
want
“We must be married
I’m ngt at all romantic,
something different from just calling
In the minister."
“But how am I going to fix for a
balloon?” he asked.
“I don’t know, but that’s what you’ll
have to do. No balloon, no marriage.”
Moses went riding through ail the
villages for twenty miles around ask-
ing questions about balloons, and It
was two weeks before he returned to
the widow to say:
“I'm willing to obleege, but we can’t
get no balloon here short of a thou-
sand dollars, and mebbe not for that
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Lost the Lake.
Our British cousins have been
cosed of being devofdj
so long that tbe
told to remove the Ixn]
measure. Not so vary
Englishman, Just across*
point, one of the large
towns in the northwest
tbe entire town and
ed by a company. The
was taken out into the great,
A«A IlMaAMS* ! teltMi
whf*
ests, where Immense
tower on every aide.,
"To whom does this forest
he asked.
“To the Hutnblrd Lumber company,"’,
was the aasd’ilf
> Be was shown through
lumber plant and informed that H
longed to the Hurobird*. The
bank building, the great
store, rows upon rows of dw
houses, all belonging to the same
poratlon ;
As a crowning treat he
for a spin around lake Pend
in a swift launch. Upon;their
while standing upon the dock, he
ed:
“May I ask who owns this iake?7
“Oh. It belongs to God."
“Aw, really, Is that so? Now,
you mind telling me how he|
to get It away from Mr. Hnmbifdl
Outing Magazine.
Well-Preserved Statesmen.
There are thirty-five senators
forty representative in congress
are 60 or more, and they seem to
in their prime.
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Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 29, 1911, newspaper, September 29, 1911; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542751/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.