The Weekly Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1911 Page: 8 of 8
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to the Herald.
Abilene, Texas, Aug. 1.—A daylight
N surrey of the damage last night by the
wind, hail and rain storm reduced the
loss of life to one and fixed the proper-
ty damage at about $2,000,000. It is
believed the storm was local but the
wires are down, making the reports
from the Juntry slow. A man named
^ernon Milner lost his life in a fall-
barn.
' Three and three-fourtll inches of
rain fell within an hour accompanied
by a terrific hail storm, while the wind
was blowing at a velocity of sixty
miles an hour. Many stocks of mer-
chandise were soaked when the hail
broke the windows and the water
flooded in.
The damage here at boon was esti-
mated at $200,000. The storm was
local, the balance of the county es-
caping Any serious damage.
A man named Cunningham, who
was alone at his home near Lytle
Lake, was Retried fifth- yards and
dropped in the water of the lake, but
swam ashore half dead.
> the
Fort Worth, Te
Morris, a little O-yeai^Old hoy living nt
the home of his father, John Morris,
about eight or nine miles out on the
Axle road, adjolnng the Maron Sansom
place, found a $10 bill In good condi-
tion in a bird’s nest last week.
The little fellow was playing about
his father’s farm and in a thicket not
far from the road found an empty
bird’s nest Ho took it from the little
bough on which it rested and while
lodking at it had his attention drawn
to a bit of green paper woven into the
side of the nest He carefully worked
it out and found it- was a perfectly
good $l6 bill, which he carried home.
REYES IIRUN l
STORM
HAMLIN.
Houses Blown Off Blocks and Other
Damage Done.
Special to The Herald.
amlin, Texas, Aug. 1.—Numerous
houses were blown off their blocks
here yesterday. The Presbyterian
church was badly damaged. W. W.
Johnson, cashier of the Continental
State Bank, while standing inside the
postoffice was struck and painfully
cut by plate glass. The total damage
here is not excessive.
FELT IS SCrRRY.
HELDS TO INSISTENT DEMANDS
TO BE FRANCISCO L MADE BO'S
OPPONENT.
Special to The Herald.
City of Mexico, Aug 1.—Gen. Ber
nardo Reyes will be a candidate for
the Presidency of Mexico at the elec-
tion in October. Late tonight he ad-
mitted that he had yielded to the in-
sistent demand of his followers and
that within three days he would for-
mally announce his candidacy.
Several days ago when Francisco I.
Madero wrote Gen. Reyes that he was
willing to release him from his prom-
ise to be the Minister of War in his
Cabinet if elected he told him that he
would not consider his determination
to oppose him in the election an un-
friendly act At that time, however,
the General declared he would not en-
ter the race, saying that he feared the
entry of an opposition candidate would
be followed by armed strife.
Hermlelgb, WastelL* and Koscoe' Feci
Effects of Blow.
• Snyder, Texas, Aug. 1.—Houses *
were wrecked last night at Herm-
leigh, Wastella and Roscoe in the
southeastern part of this,Scurry .coun-
ty. Cotton was damaged by the hail.
No loss of life has been reported.
RECIPROCITY WITH MEXICO.
UNDERWOOD MAKES STATEMENT.
Says If President Approves Democrat-
ic Tariff Revision Bills, Will
Complete Program.
Washington, D. C., Aug. ^1—Demo-
cratic leader, Underwood, Meclared to-
day "if any Democratic tariff revision
bills go to the President and are sign-
ed by him, the extra session will con-
tinue until the entire revision pro-
gram has been completed."
Proposed in Bill Introduced by Repre-
sentative Burleson.
Washington, D. C., July 28.—Reci-
procity with Mexico, the same as with
Canada, is proposed by Representative
Burleson in a bill Introduced in the
House yesterday.
Defies Revoked Permit.
Port Worth, Texas, Aug. 2.—With
its permit to solicit alms revoked by
the city the Salvation Army officers
announced today they would defy the
commission and continue solicitation.
Wind nnd Hall at Dalhart.
Special to The Herald.
Dalhart, Texas, Aug. 2.^-Much live-
stock was killed here last night during
a hail and electrical storm northeast
of this place. About half of the stock
were Insured. More than a dozen ran-
chers lost their entire crops. No loss
of life has been reported.
Cotton Leaf Worm Busy.
8peclal to The Herald.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 2.—Entomo-
logist Scholl says the cotton leaf worm
which has been ravaging the plant in
South Texas is now threatening equal-
ly great damage In the central cotton'
belt of the state.
\ 1 7 E place on sale, Saturday, all our
V V ladies' and children's tan, brown,
and Oxblood Pumps and Slippers at a re-
duction of one-third off the regular price
♦4.00 Slippers now.................$2.67
♦3.50 Slippers now.............$2.34
♦3.00 Slippers now........$2.00
♦2.50 Slippers now.....$1.67
♦ 1.50 Slippers now $1.00
Tie Onto a Pair of These
■ ass hk n— ——a e —
We offer many other extraordinary bar-
gains in men’s, women’s and children’s Sum-
mer Footwear—Broken lines and odd sizes at
ONE-HALF price and less.
Big, new stock of men’s and boys’ every-
day shoes just arrived.
Men’s Elk 8kin Shoes, $2.50 and ♦3.00.
nr store with the goods
DESPONDENT OVER ILL HHLTH I
ILL
.GIVES CHILDREN STRYCHNINE
AX DTAKES DOSE HERSELF
Special te TM Herald.
India horns, Okla., July 30.—While
her husband was at town for the pur-
pose of securing medicine, Mrs. Isaac
G. Gore, residing six miles northwest
of Indiahoma. administered strychnine
to her two children, 4 and 6 years of
age, and then ended he»r own^ life, late
Saturday evening. A neighbor who
was passing saw one of the children
writhing in the road in front of the
house, and hastened in with the child
in his arms, saw the second child fall
dead on the threshold as he entered.
The mother was lying on a bed within
already dead.
Despondency from ill health, which
probably unbalanced her mind is as
signed as the cause of the woman's
act Mrs. Gore was 40 years old.
BOSTON NEWS BUREAU MAKES
PREDICTION IN FACE OF FLAT
TERING CROP.
Special to The Herald.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 1.—The Boston
News Bureau tonight says that 10c
cotton is practically assured unless
great disaster befalls the incoming
crop. Its reports from &H "over the
South are of the most optimistic sort
Big Crop for Georgia.
Georgia will raise the largeBt crop
in its history.
Four million bales are freely pre-
dicted for Texas, and Oklahoma is
good for not far from one million
bales.
Some experts say the prediction has
been greatly underestimate^ by the
Government and that It is possible to
harevst fifteen million bales. Any-
thing like this would mean cotton be-
low 10c.
Further Curtailment Probable.
On the other hand, it is the general
opinion m cotton mill circles that ai
further curtailment of mill operations
will be necessary through August and
well into September.
The recent break in raw qptton has
not helped the goods situation, as buy-
ers have become cautious and there is
an abnormally light demanditor goods.
..I i —— -'.I
GOVERNOR SENDS MESSAGE
Te Senate Recommending Bill i to Pny
Deficiencies nnd Fixing Otmr
Revenne Measures.
Special to The Herald.
Austin, Texas, Aug. 1.—Governor
Colquitt sent a message to the Senate
today recommending a bill to pay the
deficiencies in the treasury and fixing
other revenue measures. ^The Ken-
nedy-Hlll House saloon regulation re-
solution was introduced Igter this
morning/ In the Seuate by Vaughan.
THE BOLL WEEVIL.
The boll weevil has for yearn baf-
fled the skill of Uncle Sam In acquir
Ing a fighting knowledge of the phy-
sical structure of this terrible pest
but after following In the wake of tipis
foreign insect for nearly a decade, our
Federal Agricultural Department has
Issued a bulletin showing the result 6f
the observation of the Government ex-
perts in the Texas cotton fields.
The report chronicles the well
known fact that a dry season retards
the advance of the boll weevil more
than any other one factor and the
report states that the summer and
winter preceding the 1910 croR were
exceptionally disastrous to the boll
weevil and the insect was entirely ex-
terminated in Texas In its territory
west of a line drawn from Paris in
Lamar county to Kerrville In Kerr
county.
The spread of the weevil is entire-
ly by flight which begins about mid-
August and continues into November
when the dispersion movement is ter-
minated by frost. About 80 per cent
of the cotton belt of Texas Is now In
tested with the insect. The average
annual advance of the pest Into nqw
territory Is 27,000 sqnare mile 7,8H.
territory is 27,000 square miles. At
this rate of travel It will be fifteen
years before the eastern limit of the
cotton belt In the United States is in-
fested. On the west It Is certain that
the limits will not be materially In-
creased because of dryness and eold
winter which makes for the Insect an
Impossible barrier.
The Texas farmer is making consid-
erable headway in fighting the boll
weevil.
-4--
8km H. Harris and son, Oscar, left
this afternoon for Olsburne, .Alvara-
do and other points In that part at
the state, where they
for several weeks, risttld#
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tIt %a> 1: -it *- *
Our Regular
mmmmmmSmmm
Monday, Aug. 7th
HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF OUR BAf
One largest site galvanised tub,
f one Brass Wash Board,one Wire
Crotkes Line, 50 Clothes Pina,
entire
outfit __________:_____
SI,05
■ 2J Gallon jrise Grey
Stove Kettia with /
lid, i each ....-------------
Granite
-35c
6 Rasor Blade shape Buck Han-
dle Knives, 6 forks to match, 6
Heavy Nickle Plated Table
Spoons, 6 Tea Spoons to match,
entire
outfit ...----------—
$1.25
Btbles,
( helps,
/ Pliable Leather Bound
Illustrated, References
concordance with Family record
at the extraordinary
price of __________—
$1.00
ft Bars
of Swift Pride Leun-
dry Soep For
25c
REGULAR 5 Cent
BAR SIZE V
Only 9 bars to each
purchaser.
NONE CHARGED
NONE DELIVERED
Extra Fine Sep
piece Dinnei
including 2 covered j
tilv deqorated in
the very-low price
Of ..............
Medium site7Heavy Grey
He Dish Pans
each —1— ________
Large/size Decorate
Dishes, the regular 25o
kind, each
— "I .1 i ■ »!>
21 piece magnlfloently
ed fancy shape Dinner Set, ■
pnlring 6 cups, 6
plates, 1 round vegsti
1 oval vegetable dish,
teed against erasing
entire outfit _____
13** Many other items will be placed on sale at Special'Stray Day
We have a full line of the very best quality of Western Stone
Ware comprising Churns, Jars, Jugs and Crooks. '
Gernsbacher Bros.
Well Pleased With Prospect*.
J. H. Lovelady and Murphy Irby
went out to the former's farm Tues-
day morning which Is about six and
one-half miles north of the city, to
look at the crops and see about the
prospects generally In that locality.
They say ..that cotton is of course the
best crop in prospect, > being better
than for the past several years. The
fall crop of feedstuff Is growing fine
and the farmers are plowing their
June corn, which is about knee high.
Milo Maise, sorghum and all other
fall feed crops are doing as well and
better than they thought, and a larger
amount of this kind of stuff will be
raised this (year than! ever before.
But little or no corn was raised on
Mr. Lovelady's farm, and but for th»
peculiar weather conditions which
have prevailed there would have been
a hard time so far as feed is concern-
ed. Cotton promised more at the pres-
ent than ever before and there will
no doubt be more cotton marketed
here this fall than in any of the pdst
three years.
of the dealer with Instruction to be
careful.
The port card fad has reached en-
ormous' proportions, and many there
are which should be problted.
While the fad as pertains to comics
is now on the decline, the picture post
card is still quite the rage, however
there are a few who still use the
comics, especially when they want to
hide their identity behind one of these
little pieces 6t paste board in order
an intended call-down,
insult
A person who would resort to a
thing of this kind is as small and
cheap as the one-cent stamp which
It takes to convey the card through
the malls.
Married on the Sqnare.
Quite a cqpwd witnessed a marriage
which took place on the north side of
the public square in front of Reynolds
Drug store Monday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock. Mr. John Woody and Miss
Stella Hotchkiss, two young people of
the Sabatbany community were the
names of the contracting parties, and
the ceremony was permormed by Rev.
H. Lee Vincent. The young people
sat in the boggy while the minister
pronounced the words which consti-
tutes the marriage service, while a
crowd, which bad congregated stood
on the edge of the sidewalk. The new-
ly married couple seemed rather ill at
ease, and immediately upon the con-
clusion of the service drove across
the square and disappeared down Fort
Worth street.
Jaly A Wet Month.
More rain fell In this section thru-
out the month of July than for several
years past, and the old adage “It never
rains at night In July” was success-
fully refuted several times.
For the past thirty days the temper-
ature has been below the normal for
this season. Several days during thi
month the thermometer registered be-
low 70, and for a numbet'bf days It
went beyond 100, showing consider-
able fluctuation, but an average con-
siderably below the normal.
While the average rainfall for July
in this section Is 3.04 Inches, 5.80 fell
which Is 2.66 above the average, and
the ralnest July In several years.
A cool week, with rain In teh reg-
ions east of the Rocky Mountains is
predicted for this week.
*• Naughty Cards Barred.
The postofflee department has re-
cently Issued a ruling that postmaster#
In small towns and others selling pic-
tare post hards may no longer sell
those of a suggestive or nflfar nature,
which may not be sent through the
with safety, without riolat-
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 ♦ ♦ 4
4- PAVEMENT PASAG1
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦
T. R. Erwin ft Co., this week t
ped four cars of water melons ■
Triumph and variety,
which Parker counmy Is fast
fame and notoriety^ Part of
melons went to Dallas sad part
Kansas City.
The new county school
listing of Dr. Gagrett, of Spi
C. G. Smith, of Peaster, J.
Hams, of Buckner, J. A. Mil
Weatherford, R. F. D. No. 6,
Alsup, of this city, will meet
Monday for their first time and
organize for work.
Funeral Services.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of Miss Mary Winston Steele,
who died Thursday night at Comfort,
Texas, wefb conducted Saturday after-
noon at the family home, 318 Oak
street, Rev. W. A. Wray, pastor of the
First Baptist church, of which deceased
was a member, conducting same, after
which the remains weer Interred in
Oakland cemetery, where they were
followed by'a large concourse of sor-
rowing friends and relatives. The re
mains arrived In this city Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock over the Texas
ft Pacific railway, and were received
by J. F. Sadler, undertaker.
The following acted as pall bearer*:
Frank Rawlins, D. 8. Dodson, EM Mil-
burn, Geoge McClesky, Lloyd Doughty,
Harry Burke.
Poolrille Pleased.
Poolvllle, Texas, July 30, 1911.
Editor Herald:
We are delighted with Mr. Chap-
man’s Idea of putting on the gasoline
motor passenger cars. Our local peo
pie have begun to plan how they are
going to do things. J. F. Head pro-
poses to give 3 or 4 acres of land for
a shed and necessary grounds for the
accommodation of the Glbtown and
Oxford people, this being a point mid-
way between Poolvllle and Boonevllle
and an other point midway between
Peaster and Poolvllle* is being ar-
ranged tor the accommodation of
Adell, Advance and Red Top on the
west and Toto, Roberts and J. B.
Worley’s settlement on the east Our
people are delighted with the easy way
to get into Weatherford and our seal
Is greater than ever for the Comple-
tion of the road.
Respectfully,
W. J. SPARKS,
Chairman Poolrille R. R. Com.
UPRISING IN CUBA.
General Cevsftl Takes the Field With
Twe Hundred Followers.
Spedal to The Herat*.
Havana, Cuba, Aug. 1.—An appar-
ently serious uprising against the
government occurred last night pt
Regia, across Havana harbor, when
General A. Cefedo took the field with
followers. The
hundred
The man, John Brown, who
ported as having left We
morning vtyth his mother for Oh
ma, refused to go at tbs last
and is still confined in the county;
where he has been tor sotte- I
charged with lunacy and id
epileptic. He says "the Lord
him to not . go away from W#
ford.” 'llSP
There will so far as known at
ent be but few changes in the
and personel of cotton buyers
will buy cotton here this fall,
following are those who have
buying on this market tor the
year or two: W. H. Scoq, Tom
Murphy Irby, Tom Braaelton,
Smith and J. B. Airis. With the.
ceptlon of th^ last named, all of t
rest are well known. Mr.
just moved to this city from
and comes highly rs
The public drinking fountains
arrived Monday have been pi
position on the public square
ready, to be connected up
water mains, Tfiey are pli
on the north side and the other
south, and are an ornament
public square. When the Col
monument Is secured and
position, which the local Dai
the Confederacy are now
at work upon, our court house
will be one of the prettiest
state.
Henry Miller and Ji
turned Wednesday ni
where they had bees UT i
on the Grand Lodte of the
of Honor, which met in that
day. Mr. Miller was
office of Grand Trustee, and
ner elected to that of Grand
They both report a sp
while there and Tuesday
citlsens tendered them ft
but In fact they say, the
in tl^at progressive city a
tk>n, the citlsens not
delegatee to lack tor
Was required for their
the delegates left very
with the oourtedus
ed them. • ■
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Bell, Tom H. The Weekly Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1911, newspaper, August 3, 1911; Weatherford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth586006/m1/8/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .