The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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W. R. HULBERT, Business Mgr.
C. M. HULBERT, Editor.
;Wnnie-Wetmore Tufts, Editor.
Of the cotton produced, Texa'
lias credit of 20 per cent. Thu
•estimate is based on the produc
tion of the entire world.
The largest county in Texas
Is El Paso, which has an area of
«?,353 square miles. Rockwall L
the smallest, having 171 square
miles of territory.
The county of El Paso is larg-
er than seven states of the Union
—Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, ^"New Jersey, Vermont,
Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode
Island.
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We know President Taft
favors progression for we heard
him say “Onward and upward,”
a.t the fair grounds last Saturday,
and that is about all we did hear,
bat it was not his fault. The
crowd would not be quiet.
Last Saturday was Press Day
at the fair, and we suppose the
editors were all there, but like
ourselves, so' busy seeing the
sights that they saw little of each
other. The Alamo was head-
quarters, but rather small quar-
ters for the many press repre-
sentatives. They went three or
four in party, greeted those who
were there, registered and pas-
sed on. We failed to meet many
we had hoped to see. Having
previousljr visited the fine art
hall, music hall and exhibit build-
ing, we gave our time to the
poultry, fine stock, horse show,
machinery halls, etc., and a visit
to the airship tent, where we saw
and werj told of the construc-
tion of the flying machine.
Kline’s manager very kindly ex-
tended us the privilege of visit-
ing his shows, and those we vis-
ited were good. Other amuse-
ments were also opened to us,
but there were so many things
to see, we had all too short time
ta spend on amusement row. At
4 : 30 we took seats in the grand
stand to await the coming of
President Taft and we were very
fortunate in being able to both
see and hear him. Supper, and
little time for sight seeing
Ellis County in 1876
There are 3466 persons in the
penitentiaries a t Rusk and
Huntsville.^* This is 1000 less
than were in prison ten years
ago. This speaks volumes for
local option. And this 1000 de-
crease with the state’s popula-
tions greatly increased. The
counties where whiskey is sold
furnish a greater proportion of
the convicts than the counties
where local option is in effect.—
Italy News Herald.
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Tnfe Texas Magazine, Vol. 1.
No. ln reached our desk this
week. It is published at Hous-
ton, by the Texas Publishing
Co., Frank Eberle, editor, who
says the Magazine is published
**as a means oi pointing out the
opportunities that this magnifi-
cent empire presents to the peo-
ple. It stands primarially for
Texas and' its industrious peo-
ple.” There are‘articles on
finances, insurance, agriculture,
fruits, flowers, and other inter-
ests of the state in this first
number.
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O. B. Colquitt made the most
C^pen bid for the lawless vote of
the state in a speech down at
New Ulm last week that we have
ever seen. The people of that
section are largely foreigners,
and do not take kindly to many
ot our laws, and Colquitt indors-
ed all their ideas of government,
and told them that people of oth-
er sections'of the state had no
right to make laws for them. If
Colquitt doesn’t come out of this
race the deadest politician in
Texas, then we are no sort of a
political prophet. His methods
of campaigning are execrable.—
Clarksville Times.
There has been much com*
plaint on the part of our citizens
who have traveled on the Katv
‘daring the fair season over the
accommodation afforded, and
Sunday night three young ladies
returning from Dallas came near
having a serious accident. As
-the train neared the station speed
was slacked but the train did not
come to a stop, nor was the sta-
tion called. The ladies knowing
they had reached-Lancaster were
on the platform, but no attend-
ant was present to assist them
to alight. The first two ladies
jumped and called to the third to
follow, which she did, but the
train had increased in speed and
she was thrown some distance
and quite severely shaken up and
bruised. On Monday we heard
several similar complaints while
waiting at the depot. Lancaster
is a regular stop for all trains
and our citizens should come up
as a unite and demand service.
The ladies should have kept
their seats, and put it up to the
officials to return them to their
station in a safe manner.
brought the time to return to the
grand stand to see Paine’s great
display of fire works. The ex-
hibit was great, the finest we
have ever seen. The city and
the many characters taking part
in the drama, the trapeese per-
formers, extra funny clowns, the
daring high wire walking, the
bombarding of the city from the
airship and the return of fire bv
rockets from below, the many
beautifully set pieces, including
President Taft’s picture, made a
very brilliant and interesting en-
tertainment of an hour and a
half and is well worth the money
and time expended to see it.
The fair management made no
mistake in securing Paine’s
great display, and we trust they
will secure the attraction for
next year, tor if there is any-
thing new in their line they will
be sure to hq?e it and give the
people the very best there is go-
ing. From 10 a, m. to 10 p. m.
is rather a long day to put in^on
the fair grounds, but it was not
a tiresome day as the time was
well and pleasantly spent. We
have yet to see the flower show,
baby show, kennel show, hear a
night concert m the auditorium
and the/ fair of 1909 will be his-
tory for us, and we will com-
mence to get ready for the fair
of 1910, which is bound to be
even bigger and better than the
fair of 1909.
Is Your Family Reading
While ? "
Worth
So much of current reading is
merely entertaining at best that
the question naturally arises, is
it worth while ? Your sons and
daughters are bound to read
something. They hunger for
stories which take them into the
other half of the world — the
world of adventure, of valor, of
fortune-making. The problem
is to give them such reading
without putting into their hands
the literature that is either sillv
or demoralizing. The editors of
The Youth's Companion believe
that a periodical can be made en-
tertaining and yet “worth while,”
and The Companion is conducted
on that theory. And that is one
reason why more than half a
million American lamilies read
it. The paper is safe, but not
dull. Its tales of adventure il-
lustrate the advantages of forti-
tude and self-reliance. Its stories
of character lav stress on the
truth that right conduct is never
a mistake.
Every new subscriber will find
it of special advantage to send at
once the $1.75 for the new 1910
Volume. Not onlv does he get
the beautiful “Venetian” Calen-
dar fo»- 1910, lithographed in
thirteen colors and gold, but all
the issues of The Companion for
the remaining weeks of 1909
from the time the subscription
is received.
The Youth’s Companion,
Boston, Mass.
In looking through old papers
recently, S. A. Lacev came
across a little pamphlet entitled
“Descriptive and Historical
Sketches of Ellis Countv, Texas”
and containing a directory of
Ennis. It was issued in 1876,
and there are some amusing
things in this book. Ennis,
Palmer and Ferris are given as
the railroad towns ot the county.
The population of Ennis was
given as 1003, and Waxahachie
is credited with a few hundred
more inhabitants than Ennis.
We quote from this book the
price of land which to we of to-
day seems impossible that the
land in this fine section could
have ever sold at these low
prices, yet we doubt not that
history will repeat itself in land
that is now coming on the market
in other portions of the state :
“Lands of the county are prin-
cipally black waxy rolling prai-
rie ; unimproved farming lands
from $3 to $8 per acre. Unim-
proved superb lots, around the
two principle towns of the coun-
ty — Waxahachie and Ennis —
from fifteen to sixty dollars per
acre, in acre, or fractional acre
lots. Improved lands from ten
to thirty dollars per acre, owin
to size ot tracts, and class of i
provements.”
Then follows a description of
the water and timber, and in re-
gard to the use' of timber says
men will learn “that patience and
perseverance in that direction
will bring enormous profits com-
pared to investments in dry
goods, notions, etc. And just
here a hint to those that possess
ponds and springs would not be
amiss. Suppose a quarter or
half acre of the osier or basket
willow was set around your
springs or tank ; the second year
you can commence cutting to
make baskets, and instead of our
buying all of our market, fruit,
clothes and ladies work baskets
in New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia, we could turn the tables
on them and furnish those and
other cities with Texas manu-
facture. A little patience, per-
severance, and a few skilled
workmen in that direction will
j^^t in a large income to our
country, and give employment to
many of the lame, blind and
halt.”
It speaks of yellow pine lum-
ber for building purposes selling
at the lumber yards at $20 to $23
per thousand feet; also of the
court bouse, jail and many busi-
ness bouses of Waxahachie being
built of “durable sandstone” ob-
tained from quarries near the
town. Hope is expressed that
Ennis and Waxahachie will soon
be united by the “iron horse.”
The growing popularity of free
schools is mentioned, as also im-
proved farming implements, as
well as kitchen utinsels, “patent
brooms, cook stoves and sewing
machines.”
“Products of the country; small
grains, corn, cotton, and some
few grasses, fruits and vegeta-
bles. An average crop of wheat
is about 20 busbels per acre, corn
about 30, oats 30, barley 40, rye
25, cotton one-half to three-
fourths bale, grasses—millet and
Hungarian—three-fourths to one
ton ; our native prairie, mesquit
and others from one-half to one
ton per acre. Wheat averages
$1 per bushel, oats 40 cents;
corn 50, barley $1, rye $1, millet
and Hungarian seed from $1 to
$1.50, hav from $5 to $20 per ton,
owing to severity of winter, and
number of persons feeding cat-
tle for market. Rye and barley
will be regulated bv distilleries
to great extent, either in or out
of the state. Corn, oats and hay,
bv numbers of stock fattened,
and severity of winter. Cotton,
the fleecy staple, succeeds as
well here as anywhere in Texas,
on the uplands. Its vacillating
prices, and cause and effect of
same, are too well known to the
commercial world to need com-
ment, or likelvhood of prices in
the future. ’Tis a well establish-
ed fact, to the sorrow of many
farmers of Ellis county that the
less the crop interferes with the
grain crop, the better it pays,
and some are discarding it alto-
gether.”
The brownest kind of a roast
is given the man “whose land
cost him, likely, 10 to 25 cents an
acre 20 years ago, that can’t un-
derstand that the world has turn-
ed over once in 24 hours for the
last twenty years, and that can’t
write A or tell A from Z, and
consequently can’t add on his 10
or 15 per cent to gold prices, get
his money and then go and buy
his gold if he wants it to. put in a
soap gourd, bury under a stump
and die without telling his wife
or children where it is and leave
them penniless.
“Total tax, state, county, and
all other advalorum taxes, was
last year, and is this, $1.67^ on
the one hundred dollars.
“Exports of county : Flour,
bran, oats, cotton, wool, hides,
tallow, beeswax, pecans, dried
fruit, eggs, cattle, horses, mules
and mutton.
“Imports that need not be:
Bacon, cheese, butter, soap, can-
ned fruits, vegetables, brooms,
ax, hoe, and auger handles, wag-
ons, buggies, plows, wash ma-
chines, churns, dressed lumber,
sash,'doors and blinds, furniture,
tubs, pails, barrels and buckets.”
Wants of the county were more
good industrious farmers with
small capital to improve small
farms to feed the Texas coast
country instead of sending north
for produce.
Musical instruments of all
kinds from Jews harps to costly
pianos and church organs, a sil-
ver cornet band at Waxahachie
and one at Ennis, three weekly
papers in the county, book
stores, etc., were cited as tests
of enlightenment, while the peo-
ples’ love for the beautiful was
proven by the large orders sent
to northern houses for flowers,
shrubs and fruits. The descrip-
tion ends with : “Money matters
are tight, but not so squeezing
as to prevent occasional showers
of lightning-rod men and St.
Louis, New York and Galveston
drummers, life and fire insur-
ance agents, vendors of patent
wares, and copy-righted books,
and last but not least, sewing
machine agents. Society is equal
to any in the state, being made
up of good people from all the
states in the Union—law-abiding,
faithful, generous, substantial
people who are identified with
the county, whojare the adopted
children of Texas and Ellis coun-
ty, having come here, and, as
Northern men and strangers
who do not know us would say,
have ‘tamed the wild Texan,’ one
of whom ‘we is and was and al-
ways has been.’ ”
The book was published bv A.
D. Rust, publisher of the Ellis
County News, who was undoubt-
edly a genius, and knew full well
what it takes to make a commun-
ity grow and become prosperous.
Remember, reader, this was only
thirty-three years ago. Verily
the sun do move.
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LANCASTER-DALLAS.
LEAVE LANCASTER (Lyon Drug) Store) 3 a. M.; (,30 P. M;
LEAVE DALLAS (Kirby’s Drug Store, cor. Main and Lamar)
1 1.00 A. M. and 5,00 P. -M.
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Special Rates far theater Parties and Special trips
Special Attention to the Comfort of Passengers.
A Perfect Complexion
is necessary to BEAUTY and no woman can afford to
loose its charm, for it is the complexion that first appeals
to the eye.
FRECKELEATER
Is a scientific preparation for beautifying the complexion.
It removes the impurities and restores the «Hn to its
natural healthy condition. It removes Freckles, Tan
Sunburn, Liver Spots, Ring-worms and all kindred im-
perfections, leaving the skin soft, smooth and transpar-
ent, a condition very much desired and admired.
It makes bad complexions good and good complex-
x. „ , . ion* better. It is a dainty, delicately permmed prenara-
creamy consistency, and is wholly free from grease, fatty aHHf or alkaUee.
At your dealers, 25 cents and 50 cents, or by mail postpaid upon receipt of price.
THE FRECKELEATER COMPANY, Pallas, Tex.
For sale at the Lancaster Drug Co.
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O. L. Graves
W. H. Batchler
City Meat Market
Prtsb and cured meats constantly on hand. Fish and Oysters
in season. Ice in large or small quantities.
Graves & Batchler.
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B. A. BRUNNER,
GROCERIES for CASH!
SOUTH-WEST COR. SQUARE.
Give us a share of your trade and we will please you, S9"All
reasonable orders delivered Free; errand orders 5 cents extra.
T ELEPHONE 69.
Call us up ; we will be pleased to answer your questions
and serve you in any way we can.
BHBHyOTJR E^YKS!
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Are worth too much to you to buy a pair oi
Glasses out ot stock, like you would shoes.
Have them Examined and Correctly Fitted.
All Work Guaranteed !
LOCAL NEWS
The ladies’ mission circle of
the Baptist church have changed
their day of meeting, and will
meet the first and third Mondays
in each month. Next Monday
the subject will be “Central
America and Cuba,” Mesdames
Bettie Johnson and Minnie White
Strain leaders. This meeting
winds up the year, and it is hop-
ed every member who has not
already sent in her offering for
state missions will be oresent
with same. All members are
urged to be present.
The following notice has been
posted up in several places over
the citv : Notice is hereby given
that an election will be held on
Monday, Nov. 1, in the old post-
office building for the purpose of
electing a City Marshal and one
Alderman. J. D. Scott has been
appointed judge of said election.
The notice is officially signed by
the mayor and citv secretary.
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If you are not sw^et by nature, our Perfumes will make you
sweet notwithstanding, We keep VENETIAN ROSE, VENE-
TIAN CADNATION, CLOPTON, and other kinds. We keep
the very best the markets afford. Prices, 50c to £1.00 per oz.
THE LYON DRUG STORE.
Call and Square Up
Having accommodated a large
number of my friends and ac-
quaintances this past season by
selling them goods on time, I
now expect in return prompt
settlement of accounts so that
you may retain a credit standing
and that I may be able to do like-
wise. This is the proper season
to settle all out standing ac-
counts.
Remember that you can always
get the best groceries at the
lowest prices bv trading at the
established house of
Will G. Harris.
Don’t forget to call on W. F.
Griffin to install a Success Fuel
Oil Burner in your cook stove and
heater.
Notice
All stockholders of the South*
ern Securities Co„ of Dallas,
Texas, wishing to dispose of
their stock will kindly communi-
cate with the address below giv-
ing the amount of stock they
hold and the lowest cash price at
which it can be bought. If your
price is satisfactory von will be
communicated with.
Address “A. D. S.”
In care of Lancaster Herald.
I will be in Lancaster for about
ten days, will be glad to see all
my friends. Those who owe
me please cojne m. When I re-
turn west will leave Taylor and
Parks’ account in hands of col-
lector. R. E. Taylo*.
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Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1909, newspaper, October 29, 1909; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542782/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.