The Dublin Progress and Telephone (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 31St Year, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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BTOUK pboqb
Guardians of the Nation
J N PEACE and war the Bell telephone girl at the switchboard
protects life and property in each community.. In danger and
disaster, it is her quick response which summons aid and brings
order out of chaos. ,
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In the Bell system there are 100,000 operators whose presence
at the switchboard adds to the security of the nation.
community who have at heart your la-
te rente and the interests of every pre-
cinct in your county. These men are
spending their time and money in an
effort to provide means of overcoming
the present condition and to improve
every mile of road in Precinct No. 2,
and not only to improve these road.?
but to provide a sinking fund for main-
tenance during each and every year
for a period of at least 30 years. Of
course, everyone knows that it is use-
less to build a road no matter liow
completely and then leave it nx|K>sed
to all elements of destruction without
money ami method to keep it in re-
pair.
It is estimate'1 that there are about
250 miles of first and second class
roads in Precinct No. 2. forty miles of
which are designated as state high-
way. These highways run ea«t and
west and north and south practically
through the center of the precinct and
are. therefore, so situated that, they
are of equal benefit and importance
to every citizen within the precinct.
These highways are to be built under
the direction ami supervision of 'both
the state an federal government and
will, therefore, receive, an appropria-
tion direct from these governments
both for construction and mainten-
r.nee purposes. It. is, therefore, clear
that these roads, since they are in-
tended to carry the travel front all
other roads leading into them and are
designed to take care of the sum total
nf till traffic, local and foreign, must
be made of gravel and stone and more
permanently improved than the first
and second class roads. Tile exixuid-
iture will be about as follows:
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;; lam coming again to Dublin with a good selection of
More than 12,000. of these faithful operators have been train
ed especially to meet the requirements of the government for
telephone service. 1
Like the soldier on guard, the telephone girl is always alert
and at her post of duty. Everything is done to make her physically
and mentally fit for the splendid service which she renders to
the company and to the public.
SAVE AND SERVE. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
AND HELP WIN THE WAR
The Southwestern Telegraph
& Telephone Company
Registered Jersey
Sale
REGISTERED JERSEY MILCH COWS
AND HEIFERS
Also will bring a couple of tip-top young bulls.
Dublin people already know the class of stock I han-
dle and my standing as a breeder of Jersey cattle.
I can assure one and all that they will find most de
sirable class as to breeding and production in the
herd that I will bring to hold
SALE AT DUBLIN
Saturday, May 25
1 2.000.00
u.uoo.nu
■ID miles of designated
highway, $2,500 per mile, $ I iHi.uoO.OO
30 miles firm class roads,
$400.00 per mile,
30 miles first class roads,
$300.00 per mile,
24 miles first class roads,
$250.00 per mile.
4o miles second class roads.
$200.1)0 per mile,
SO miles second class roads,
$175.00 per mile,
0,000.00
S.OOO 00
15,000.00
$150,000.00
The above totals $150,000.00 and rep-
resents the amount, necessary for the
construction and maintenance of each
and every mile of first and second
class roads in Precinct No. 2 and rep-
resents the total for a thirty year
Pond issue bearing 5'7, which will
build the roads and [>a> itself out in
30 years at a tax rate of 25 cents per
one hundred dollars valuation.
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Subject to Democratic Prima-
ries, July, 1318.
For Representative:
MACK TAYLOR.
For District Attorney
ROBERT L. THOMPSON.
Wm. PANNILL (re-election)
Stephen ville.
For County Judge:
W. HI BOWER, re-election
- E. E. SOI/OMON.
For County Attorney:
G. O. BATEMAN (re-election)
FRANK S. MORRIS
For Sheriff
J. T. (Jim) TUR.NBOW
G. H. (Bud) DEASON
For Tax Collector
R. M. YARBROUGH
Morgan Mill.
LUTHER BURLESON
For County Clerk:
R. L. PIPES.
JOE J. PATE.
OSCAR WILLIAMS
SPARKS HOWELL
(Re-election)
G. M. LANG DON
For District Clerk
ED MISENHEIMER
S. P. WILLIAMS (re-election
For School Superintendent
JNO. E. BURNETT
(MISS) MARY MARKS
A. C. JOHNSON of Duffau.
For County Treasurer
C. F. KIKER (re-election.)
For Justice of the Peace, Dublin
C. W. FINE
For Constable, Dublin Precinct
W. M. GIBBS
For Commissioner, Pro. No. 2.
U W. FULFORD. (re-election
TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS
OE PRECINCT NO. 1:
We, who livi. today, are blessed with
greater privileges and opportunities
than those of any previous age since
the lieginning of time. At a glance
and without mature thought this may
sound prosumpi ions, but, 1 repeat, we
are confronted with opportunities to
do tilings todav bounded only by the
effort and energy wo put forth. It is
no day for a slacker, mother is there
a place for one not willing to do
1 O’CLOCK, P. M.
J. Riley Green
WOLFE CITY, TEXAS
Bombardments Cannot
Drive This Woman Back
She Think* Coffee for Soldier*
More Important Than Safety.
The following extracts are taken
from a letter written by a Red Cross
Canteen worker, Helen McElhone, an
drawing coffee from a big marmlt# aa
fast as 1 could fill cups aad, pointing
to bis pipe, said, ‘Tobac, tobac.’ I
said, 'Do you want some tobaccoT' He
seemed stunned for a moment and
then said : 'Do you know it nearly
gave me a fit to hear you speak Eng-
lish. I haven't heard a woman speak
English in live mooths.' He said he
had been walking about in the cold
since four o'clock iaat night He
' couldn't And a hotel or a bright light
because, of course, everything la closed
and darkened on account of the bom-
bardments. . . . The Axnericana are
American woman and college graduate : very fond of ham sandwiches. They
their lull and complete duty, one who
will not co-operate with his fellowinen
in not only increasing the privileges
we have, but. in a mighty effort to
surge forward and to take first place
in the entire world.
History ami observation'1 makes it
clear that advancemment and greater
production has l>eon measured only by
transportation facilities. Up to the
present time we have had two great
avenues of transjtortation ; first, wat-
er, tile ships carrying to and fro upon
the high seas a mighty commerce,
then there came the railroad to take
this commerce from the water's edge
and to distribute il in each section
or to carry it entirely across the con-
tinent. Up to the present time these
two groat avenues of transportation
have boon sufficient to meet the de-
mands. Tile advent of the railroad
has transformed many a wilderness
into a thriving community, has caused
in our State, land to Increase from
25 cents per aero to several hundred
dollars, and has caused the imputation
to double many times. Without, this
increased facility for marketing our
products we could have had no in-
crease in farm products nor in com-
merce in any other way
It is a well known fact that for a
number of years railroads have been
over-burdened with the short haul
problem, and Hie short haul means
COMANCHE
Summer Normal
FROM JUNE 3 TO JULY 25
EIGHT WEEKS
Faculty: J. B. Layne, Comanche, Condirctor
f 'J jgSupt. R. D. Foster,Hamilton; Supt, B. W. Speed,
; Gustiue; Mrs. W. O. Reynolds, Brow 11 wood, Pri-
mary work; Miss Pearl Boyd, Sidney.
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several hundred miles; the officials
have constantly been seeking higher
rates and because it costs just, as
much to load for a short haul and to
unload as it would for a shipment
across the entire continent, it is
clear, therefore, that our limit of prog
ress and advancement; that, the limit
of productiveness and fertility of our
farms lias been reached ami that, wo
have reached our commercial limit
until we provide other and more active
means of transportation.
Tiie only logical solution of the
problem that confronts us is by means
of a system of National and State
Highways, extending out and into cen-
tral points in all directions and from
which our products will is; carried
by the first two mentioned avenues of
transportation or in many instances
in which centers a large portion of all
farm products will be consumed. Not
only is this system of main arteries of
transportation necessary over which to
make dally deliveries by trucks, but
wo are called upon and must build
tlie local first and second class com-
munity road* that lead into and out
of the highways in all directions. To
do tliis. we must have the full and
complete co-operation of every citizen
in each and every district
Anyone working for and contribut-
ing to the improvement of his individ-
ual road, or road within his commun-
ity or elsewhere, is today helping his
government just lb)' same ns if lit)
took the same amount of money and
! contributed toward the purchase of
ration or the making of shells. This
is true because if this avenue of trans-
portal ion is not. provided just, so surely
is our government hampered by not
being enabled to roach out, and ink-’
full advantage of the productiveness
of our nation. As you know, we are
I all called upon lo cultivate and im
I prove greater acreage than ever bc-
! fore. I Tide Sam says this is iioocs-
sury to supply the food tor our grea!
I army. Hence, the conservation of en-
ergy and in food distribution is also
a part of the work that must lm done
(if we are to win the war
it. has beam recently shown by fig
tires that, there Is no money at pres
cut, in the road and bridge fund of
Hrath county; not only this but it is
also shown that, there Is. practically
no maintenance for a period of fifteen
years to come. Think for a moment
just wlmt this condition means! Even
with fairly good loads at present, im-
agine their condition without repair
or upkeep for even a few years. In
this day of progress and advancement
can one Imagine how far behind any
Community could possibly fall if it
could not make any public improve-
ment or advancement during a period
of fifteen years?
In order to overcome the conditions
before-stated a mows hm 'been inaug-
urated by untiring citizens of your
All roads will first be graded at an
average cost of $50.On per mile.
Bridges and culverts to he made of
concrete at a cost of $25 to $50 per
mile, making an average expenditure
of $100 per mile covering the first
cost of construction. Taking this as a
basis and estimating the entire cost j
of construction, building concrete j
bridges and culverts and placing metal ;
or hard surface uixm the entire desig-
nated state highway mileage, the total I
amount will be practically $100,000.00 1
or 50'i of the bond issue and the
state and federal appropriation. Now
then, this would leave an equal
amount, or seventy-five to one hun-
dred thousand dollars on hand for a
road and bridge maintenance fund ex-
clusively for expenditure in precinct 2.
Please hear in mind that this sev-
enty-five or one hundred thousand
dollars is placed in the county deposi-
tory and brings the usual amount of
interest, thereby earning a., addition-
al amount and serving to ot fs q the
interest paid upon the heed-. You.
therefore, have all roads in Precnc*
No. 2 improved, a maim "'.une 1 find
in hand equal to that -,,eni on en i-
stfuction, and all at a cost to each
taxpayer not to exceed 25 cent s op. the
one hundred dollar valuation.
Tile foregoing is presented ,.s i bus-
iness solution of the difficulties of fi-
nancing the road building problem in
Krath county and more especially in
Precinct No. 2, which is taking the in-
itiative. lad us each one do our part
and know that in doing so we are do-
ing our bit in winning the war.
J K. HICKMAN,
Chairman Road Committee.
now located In a district almost con-
Bta.ii11y under bombardment :
“Foyer lies Allies,
“Bar le i>uc.
“ThInga look very black t" me. I
ant discouraged at the big outlook of
affairs and also at my small doings,
eat much more than the French aol-
dlers. and when they first came in and
ordered six eggs apiece it caused con-
sternation throughout the land. The
funniest thing of all la to hear the
Sammies grandly urging these wealthy
English girls to ‘keep the change—oh,
keep the change!’ ... We start the
day at five and work continuously un-
but It may be the blackness that comes i til nine, when three fresh cantlnlereB
relieve us At five w# go on for the
before dawn. Let us hope so. Our
men certainly need help now its much
as Hie poilus. 1 am beginning to
see those who iiuve been at the
front. In fact, I am beginning to see
gome of tile results of this life They
are sick and homesick, ami worse
things have happened to them. Sev-
eral have said: 'All we ask Is to get to
the front and do what we have to do.
Anything is better than this life. , .'
Tilts morning we had more Americans
than I have seen before st one time.
One came up to me here as I was
evening shift from five to eight, and
it Is the most exciting and exhauating
of the shifts There la a certain time
when they corns? down on us like a
flood, eight or ten deep around the
counter ami three or four hundred al-
together In this little room, as eager
and tired as schoolboys."
The foregoing letter Indicates that
our soldiers look to the Red Orosa
Canteen as an oasis In a desert. They
would not have it if It were not for
your Uj-d Croaa.
GARAGE;;
AND
Service Station I
We Make a Specialty of All Kinds ef Automobile Repairing
VULCANIZING: Casings vulcanized by us are done on the insurance
plan Wo are sure that our work will stand up. You get cheap
mileage by having casings repaired.
Ph^ne 86 DONLON A MC CLESKEY
COTTONSEED MEN OF TEXAS
TO MEET FEDERAL EXPERTS
In order to afford Hugh Humphreys |
and George H. Denny of the cotton j
seed products division of the United i
States Food Administration to make i
a first-hand survey of the needs and j
the operation of the cotton seed indus-
try in Texas, Administrator Peden lias
called a meeting of all persons and
firms engaged in this industry, from
the farmer to the miller, to confer in
Dallas. May 3, at 10 o'clock, in the
Adolphus hotel. C. W. Gibson, secre-
tary of the Cotton Seed Crushers' As-
sociation of Texas, has been requested
by Mr. Peden to issue invitations to
all members of the association, and
all non-members who are engaged in
milling and distribution; while invita-
tions are extended to the producer and
the ginners through their respective
organizations Governor Hobby hits
been asked to make the opening ad
dress.
Among the sped; 1 agents of the
conference will he Governor Hobby of
Texas; K. C. Welnert, director of mar-
kets and warehouses for Texas; Fred
W. Davis, commissioner of agricul-
ture; Fritz KngleWard, president, and
M. Falkner, secretary of the Texas
Farmers’ Congress; D. A. Lyday, pres-
ident of the Texas Farmers' Union; E.
W. Cole of the-state bureau of mar-
kets; T. F. Justlss, president, and S.
3. Frazer, secretary, Texas Cotton
Ginners’ Association; and Prof. T. O.
Walton, Agricultural and Mechanical
College, College Station,
Wanted---Ten to Fifteen men of f
good character to be motormen
and conductors on our Waco city
lines. Permanent employment.
TEXAS ELECTRIC RAILWAY
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REPAIRED, RECHARGED VND EXCHANGED
New Prestolite Batteries
In Stock at All Time*
GOODRICH TIRES ANR TIKE WORK
Cast lion welding, aluminum wolding, brass welding and ail kinds
of welding. Don't throw away brhken castings.
Magnetos, generators and carburetors overliaeled.
We repair everything pertaining to automobiles.
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The Dublin Progress and Telephone (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 31St Year, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1918, newspaper, May 10, 1918; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth560593/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.