The West Weekly News. (West, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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•DO YOUR BANKING WITH-
The First State Bank of West
-A GUARANTY FUND BANK-
West, Texas
O. S. BOGGESS, Pres. C. .W HOLLOWAY. Cashier
Abbott Gleanings
By JUDGE W. L. McKEE
Mrs. Claude Harnett was
quite sick last week, but is now
better.
1 TEXAS INDUSTRIAL NOTES
A Boys' Corn Club has been
organized at Kerrville.
The 140,000 dock at Fort Boli-
var haa been completed for use
in shipping iron ore from the
| Longview mines
Kilgore has organized a long
staple cotton club for the pur-
pose of purchasing seed for
j those wishing to grow this cot-
ton this year.
It is reported that ton thou-
i sand acres of land at the mouth
I of the Brazos River recently pur-
j chased by S. M. Swenson & Sons
| of New York for the purpose of
developing Texas sulphur beds.
The Commercial Association
at Galveston is perfecting plans
for the erection of a $150,000
autdmobile factory.
The homeseekers excursions
to San Benito are attracting a
I large number of prospective set-
i tiers to that city.
Real estate men of Mercedes
Mr. W. Ii. Tinsley returned j Born January 20th to Mr. and
la^t weet from St. Louts where] Mrs. E. A. Menefee a son.
he had marketed ten cars of fat
steers, Mr. Tinsley topped the
market ’fith his cattle the day
he solo/ and consequently re-
ceived a good price. | Earl Oliver and Howard Gun-
Mr, Uzzle, a former Menlow J "’bo bas been absent a week
merchant is now a resident of or days down the Katy re-, . . .
thi* town ! turned home the latter part of report having sold property to
„ last week oyer o0 P61' cent of the people
Tom Miller of the Menlow last weeU'
neighborhood, was serving his j Judge W. L. Stamber, a dis-
Jcounty as a juror in the Hill j tinguished attorney of Denver,
\ County District Court last week, j Colorado who is visiting the fam-
Miss Fannie Whitworth is a ily of J. R. Blair near Abbott,
was quite ill the latter part of
last week.
new accession to Mrs. McKee's
music class.
Mr. Pittman who formerly
lived a short distance West of
town left with his family last
week for Tennessee.
Mrs. F. C. McMillon, one of
the pioneers of this section of
CHINE8E COLUMBUS.
F. C.
According to a Chinese chronicler,
Hui Sen, who lived in the sixth cen-
tury qf the Christian era, North
America was known to the Chinese
Hill county, died at her home in under the name of Fusang or Fusil
Hillsboro last Sunday and was | H was said to be a continent lying
buried there Monday afternoon. *>.500 miles to the east of Asia. The
chronicle states that in the year 453
five Buddhist priests sailed from
China for Fusu, landing in Mexico,
"'here they taught their religion to
the natives, built temples and set up
enormous statues of their gods all
over the country.
Traces of a .Mongolian civilization
have been found in Mexico. There
exists in particular a statue of a
She was the wife of Rev.
McMillon.
Mrs. J. W. Kennedy was quite
ill the later part of the present
week.
Mrs. E. A. Menefee has been
in quite a precarious condition
since the arrival of the new Men-
efee heir, her health not haying , ...
been at all good during the fall I POt tbe A,ztec. ^
and winter.
L. C. Barnett of Hillsboro was
but one of the grotesque deities of
j tbe Chinese.—Harper's Weekly.
DEADLY VAPOR.
visiting at Abbott, Sunday.
Mr. J. W. Page and wife have j The explosion” vessels carrying
been under the weather recently: petroleum frequently occurs, and
from an attack of La Grippe. j this is generally caused not by the
Messrs. T. S. Moon, Ross | cargoes of oil which they contain,
Breeding and Bob Martin, of
Hillsboro were in town Monday.
Will McDonald of West made
a flying trip to Abbott one day
last week and bought a mule
while here.
Mr. Foster the new black-
smith is now installed in the W.
A. Wood blacksmith shop at this
place.
Erie McKee and family of Hills-
boro were down Sunday to visit
the family of W. L. McKee. His
brother Will went up in his new
car and brought them down car-
rying them back that evening.
E. B. Dawson was on the sick
list the latter part of the week.
The young people of Abbott
who entered tbe Waco schools
last fall have not retu rned to
Waco since the holidays on ac-
count of the meninigitis scare,
except Floyd Wood who is stay-
ing with his schoolastic duties at
Baylor.
but by the inflammable vapor which
is left behind after the huge tanks
of the ships have been emptied. It
is difficult to remove all the oil that
adheres to the sides of the tank, and
the evaporation of the oily film left
in^ them after they have been
pumped out takes place with great
rapidity. A spark may thus cause a
fearful explosion in the hold of a
■hip that is apparently empty.—
Harper’s Weekly.
PROTECTION AGAINST FR08T.
To the long list of the means
heretofore proposed of protecting
fields, orchards and vineyards against
frost a new one haa been added by
M. F. Chavernac. Writing in Pro-
gres agricole et viticole, he pointa
out the fact that frosts are not
feared when the wind blows; he is
thus led to suggest the creation of
an artificial wind by the installation
of electric fans among the plants to
be protected. He considers this plan
applicable chiefly to vineyards, but
also possibly useful in orchards.
If You Lose Your Money
either by theft, accident, care-
lessness or other reasons, the
chances arc that you will re-
cover little or none of it.
Deposit it in the West Bank;
it will stay there until you
wish to draw it out. The
honesty of its officers, and the
solvency of this Bank is
known to all. Therefore, do
not tempt dishonest persons to steal or run needless risks.
THE WEST BANK
(UNINCORPORATED)
who came to Texas from Iowa in
the last week.
Southwestern Oil & Gas Com-
pany of Pittsburg, Pa., was
granted a permit to do business
in Texas with principal offices at
Nocona.
Texas has the only tobacco
lands in tbe United States on
which can be produced a dupli-
cate of the famous Cuban cigar
leaf tobacco.
The Empire Gas & Develop-
ment Company of Cisco, has
been granted a franchise and
will at once begin laying pipe
for a natural gas distributing
system in that city.
A bond issue of $105,000 for
the construction of a drainage
system in Cameron County,
drainage district No. 2, was
authorized at an election recently
held in that district.
The Gulf Coast Fish Company
of Aransas Pass is erection a
fish house and wharves at Mus-
tang Island.
Twenty two thousand acres of
land in Duval County recently-
sold for $150,000.
Twenty familes, numbering
eighty people, from Greely Colo-
rado, have purchased land near
Fowlerton, Frio county, and are
now preparing to raise alfalfa,
onions and other products. They
are experienced in farming by
irrigation and will use this met-
hod at Fowlerton.
It is reported that the Hous-
ton, East A West Texas railroad
is negotiating for $150,000 acres
of land in the fruit and truck
belt near Jacksonville for coloni
zation by Europeans.
Natural gas has been found in
Sabanno, Eastland county.
Valuable deposits of fire brick
and pottery clay have been found
in the vicinity of Texline, Dal-
lam county. A company is being
organized for the purpose of
putting up a manufacturing
plant to make use of this clay.
The total value of Texas rice
crop in the year 1911, was $6,539-
000.
The Texas A New Orleans
Railroad will immediately begin
; the erection of a round-house at
j Beaumont.
j The Texarkana Gas A Electric
j Company is building a large com
pressing plant on its pipe line
near Rodessa.
Precinct No. 1, Johnson coun-
ty is contemplating voting on
j $300,000 road and bridge bonds.
The Briggs-Weaver Machinery
| Company of Dallas filed an
! amendment increasing its capi-
tal stock from $150,000 to $300, -
000.
A Fannin County farmer sold
one thousaud dollars worth of
sweet potatoes grown on eight
Our Special Sale on
GROCERIES
Is still on and if you wish to take ad
vantage of this sale you will have to
hurry; and we are well supplied in the
grocery line and will save you some
money. We have a complete line of
implements, such as Harrows, Bill and
Oliver Planters, Lucky Jim and Oliver
Cultivators, Busters, Sulkies and Walk-
ing Plows, P. & O. Success Sulkies,
and extra shares for all of the above
goods. All goods strictly guaranteed.
B. JONES
WEST, TEXAS
VARIETY INTO MENU
Grande Canal near Mercedes J natives ores. This industry has j pn j
was recently sold to Folger i been established in the Franklin
Brothers, of Antwery, Holland, Mountains, near El Paso, where R**t»ur»nt Manager Give* Order to
who will colonize the land. tin ore occurs in granite. Meet Objections of Aggrieved
Customer.
The Medina Irrigation Com-: The fruit and truck growers -
pany has constructed a freight- i of Harrison county have started In the downtown district of Chi-
ing road from Dunley on the G. a movement- toward organizing <aR° there is a restaurant which
H. A S. A. to the large irrigation themselves into an association makes a specialty of serving a busi-
darn it is constructing on the'for handling their fruit and 'lesa men s luncheon at an unusually
Medina R>ver, a distance of truck during the coming season. ovr price, in mea consisting
meat, a cup of coffee and a side,
Texas has 6,000,000 acres of ; dish of vegetables,
land subject to reclamation. j One of the customers of the plant
The largest registered Here-; became indignant because macaroni
ford herd of cattle in the world I had been
is located at Midland, on the|d*y for a week. Calling the man
South plains of Texas. j ager, the aggrieved customer said:
- i “John, you have macaroni here
STEPPED on PIN AND DIED. i too often, and it—”
You are right, sir; quite right,”
about 28 miles.
The telephone wires in the
business district of Corpus
Christi are being placed under-
ground.
Asherton Truck Growers are
making efforts to secure a can-
factory.
The Aransas Harbor Terminal
Railway closed a contract last
week for 24,000 crossties, 685
tons of seventy-pound rails and
172 tons of tifty-two-pounds tails
all to be delivered within sixty
days. This material will be used
in completing the terminal rail-
The prick of a rusty pin, which j agreed the manager,
she stepped on three weeks ago, “f don’t want to pose as a kicker,”
proved fatal for Miss Ellen Enright explained the customer, “hut—•”
of Bordentown, N. J. Miss Enright j “Say no more about it, I beg,”
“I’ll have
had been taken a few days ago to
St. Francis hospital, Trenton, suffer-
ing with blood poisoning. The vic-
tim made her home here with her
, brother, John Enright She was at ______ _ __
road from the mainland at Aran-.work about the house when she too often. Tomorrow we will mi
sas Pass to the wharves and ] stepped on the pin. It penetrated a change. We will hare spagheti
docks on Harbor Island. | the side of her thin slipper.
The International A Great! Miss Enright pulled out the pin
Northern Railroad is building a j and d'd n0‘ ‘ak° tbe trouble to ex-
new $35,000 passenger station at I am‘“e ber foot. A few days later
Lftrcdo tno foot bcgftn to swell anti tho bloou
! poisoning symptoms developed.
The Chamber of Commerce of! —-
entreated the manager,
it changed at once.” ■+
Then he called the head wt
and said:
“Tell -the chef he has macar
—The Popular Magazine.
DIED TO SAVE GRANDCHI
Heroic Woman Gives Her Life to R
cue Three-Yeer-Old Tet
From Flames.
Planview is endeavoring to land amounts to the same thing. ^ ^ Comstasak dirf
the Transcontinental Auto „j learned to gpelI migter and mig_ here at her home from burns r,
si's in school today, mother,” said m an «*ort <» MT®‘be lifer
the very youthful daughter of the ^er thrw-year-old grandchild, Agn-
lady in the flat across the hall last Thompson, who died a few hou
Route by way of that city.
A stock company is being or-
ganized in San Antonio to erect
a large factory for tbe purpose
of manufacturing gun and pis-
after the accident Mrs. Margin
Frances Thompson, mother of ti
acres of land.
A well came In last week in
La Porte, with an estimated
flow of 1,800 barrels per day.
The Mercedes Plantation lo-
cated on tbe
night.
„ . “Oh, those are pretty hard words Baps , J
tols. The capital stock is $250,- ’ for a little girl who has just started ohl d’ wa* burned about the fi
000. ! to school,” answered mother. “Are I \ndh4mla »hile trying to extingu;
von sure that that was what ^ that enveloped her mti
Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Cor
stock were seated at the
The Terrell Commercial Club1™" tb»t that was what yon
has just closed a campaign for
now members in which there
were enrolled 189 new members.
This gives that organization the
united citizenship of Terrell.
The Amazon Fire Insurance
Company with an authorized
learned ?”
The youthful daughter thought a
minute. “Yes,” she said, “quite
sure; mister is spelled h-e, and Mrs.
s-h-e,”
the Goose Creek Oil field near capital .stock of $1,000,000 has
been organized and is now really
to do the business in Dallas.
Texas is the only state in the
MYSTERY.
Rio Union that ia
"Talking about hold-upa, a
au held me up Mice, and I couldn’t
get away from her.”
“Was she of Ai
strength?”
“No, the was my nurse
table while the baby was L
the adjoining room with her I
The women were attracted
screams of the baby,
caught on fire from a
Both women rushed to 1
tust*nce. The
overcome and fell to the i
Mr*. Thompson had
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Terrell, H. B. The West Weekly News. (West, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1912, newspaper, January 26, 1912; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth588784/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting West Public Library.