The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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m Attorney Manry Breaks
Record in Hardin County.
The Texas News, published at
buntze, said in its last week’s
that the record had been
roken in Hardin cduhty for con-
fictions in felony cases. In two
reeks there were’ 17 convictions
felony cases, and the News
i said, “that speaks well for the
state and the powerful Prosecut-
ing Attorney Joe ii Manry.” In
addition to the 17 felony convic-
tions Attorney Manry had five
convictions for misdemeanor.
Mr. Manry is going after the vio-
lators of the law in every county
in his district and he is netting
many compliments for the effi-
cient work he is doing.
LIVINGSTON, TEXA& THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1911
.........
Little Phil Blalock Brought Home.
Little Phil Blalock, who was
operated on a few weeks ago in
Houston, Was brought home Sat-
urday night by hi:? father and
mother, and the little fellow is
practically well. While in Hous-
ton he was under the treatment
of Dr. H. C. Feagin, and the par-
ents of the little fellow ai*e loud
in their praise for Dr. Feagin,
who is an old Livingston boy.
Dr. Feagin is proving himself to
be a capable physician in every
way and his many friends here
are glad to learn of' the success
be is having.
For the benefit of the public
during the fair, a phone has been
placed in the opera house. The
phone.No. is 144.
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League Program.
Program for the. Senior Ep-
worth League:
Daily readings in Luke, “the
most beautiful book in the world.”
Leader, Gordon Nettles.
Devotional, Mrs. Fannie Lan-
dram.
The Simple Life of the Spirit,
tyfrs. 3. E. Hill, Jr.
The Mighty Struggles, Miss
Juanita Sprott. ,
What is a Sign? Prof. J. C.
Wright.
The Other SidlTof Goodness,
Miss Love Landram.
How It Spreads, Miss Johnnie
Jones.
Strange Diet for the Soul, Miss
AdaV. Beailey.
The Blight of Mediocrity, Rev.
H. B. Smith.
Calling of Roll.
Collection of Dues.
Report from Epworth Era. "
, League Benediction.
Press Reporter.
We^warjt the names of every
person who attends the fair.
Please register at the Enterprise
Booth. ,
What a Houston Business Man Says
of Our Special Edition.
■ ■
Houston, Texass Oct. 14,1911.
r. W. L. West, Livingston, Tex.
My Dear Mr. West—I am in
receipt of a copy of your splendid
paper and want to thank you for
this number, and beg to state
that it is the best gotten upcoun-
try paper I have ever seen. You
set up the type and everything
much better than some of our
own city papers.
Your merchants are broad
minded and liberal in their adver-
tising, and the people in your vi-
cinity should trade with those
merchants who let them know
what they have to sell.
We are glad to see so good a
paper, and are also glad to see
that it is patronized by your best
citizens. From our little person-
al acquaintance in Livingston,
we fifid the citizens to be of a very
high order of intelligence and
character. This should make
your paper a strong factor for
good in your community.
Again thanking you, I am yours
very truly, C. E. Oliver.
Revival Services at the Livingston
Baptist Church.
The Slippery Wheel Snake
Show and other attractions on
the Midway, back of the Racket
Store.
- Texas Industrial Notes.
Texas Com. Sec. Association.
Schwartschild & Sulzberger of
New York City will erect a cold
storage plant at El Paso costing
$40,000. ’
Hardin county has voted a bond
issue of $160,000 for building
good roads in that county/
Grayson county is considering
a $300,000 bond issue for road
construction. The election will
probably be held October 30.
Considerable track improve-
ments will be made by the Gould
nes in Texas, including the-lay-
roTaew an<T heavier rails.
The commercial club of El Cam -
po is endeavoring to establish a
peanut factory at that place and
now have from eight hundred to
one thousand acres of t peanuts
promised by local farmers in caa<js
the mill is erecjed.
The Rice Institute at Houston
will make improvements of that
institution in the near future
costing $190,000.
The College of Industrial Arts
at Denton is planning improve-
ments for that school that will
cost approximately $75,000.
The contract has been let for
the. construction of a pleasure
pier at Port Arthur. The wbrk
calls for a retaining wall for is-
land 600 feet sqriare and cause:
way 3,000 feet long. Work will
begin at once.
On October 21 Chambers coun-
ty will vote on organization of
Trinity River Irrigation District
to comprise about 75,000 acres.
A San Antonio man, Ben An-
drews, has successfully grafted
the wild grape grown in South-
west Texas with a California va-
riety, producing an excellent
specimen of fruit.
The capitol grounds at Austin
are to be paved with bitulithic.
$25,000 has been set aside for
this work. »
Mrs. W. L. Sellars of Goodrich
was shopping in the city Sat;,
urday.
Everybody rides the Carry-us-
all—-big, little, old Arid young.
If you want to have sdme fun,
visit the Crazy House while at
the fair.
Dr. S. E. Wisdom of Onalaska
was a visitor to the city Saturday.
Chas. Motsch of Cleveland has
Our revival services will begin
next Sunday if the Lord wills.
We expect Dr. and Mrs. Snow
to*be present for the services on
Tuesday. There will be services
Monday night. To all these ser-
vices the church goers are invi-
ted, and non-church goers are
very specially invited. “Come
thou with us and we will do thee
good. ” You Can help us in these
services. Ydu can pray the bless-
ings of God may rest on the
meetings, that His people may be
revived and lost mrin saved.
We expect our new song books
for the meeting. Come and en-
joy the service of song with us.
Bro. Frank Meece will have this
service in charge. A. Finch.
The Fair a Grand Success.
The Third Annual Fair of Polk
county, held in Livingston Oct.
18, 19 and 20, bids fair to far sur-
pass anything* of the kind ever
held in this section of the state.
A large number of the enterpris-
ing merchants and business men
of the town have decorated their
floats, and many of the ladies
here will have decorated buggies
in the parade today.
Wednesday was Farmers’ Un-
jori Day, and at 10
bek the far-
was enjoyed by a large crowd.
Despite the threatening bad
weather the early part of the
week, the first day of the fair saw
a splendid day, and the prospects
are that good weather will pre-
vail throughout the three days.
At IT o’clock Hon. Peter Rad-
ford, State President of the Far-
mers’ Union,, addressed a large
audience on the court house lawn.
At 1:45 p. m. Wednesday an in-
teresting and amusing feature
was' exhibited on the public
square in the form of a potato
raca.
From 2 to 4 p."m. the Living-
ston Band gave a concert at the
opera house.
Many exhibits were brought in
by the farmers, fully demonstrat-
ing the productiveness of Polk
county soil, and they are taste-
fully arranged at the opera house.
The booths of the different bus-
iness firms are *handsomely deco-
rated, and the color schemes and
taste displayed in the arrange-
ments deserve special mention.
The entire' opera house is
decorated in the fair colors, white
and green, and many pretty ex-
hibits are on display thera of
fancy work and embroideries,
being the work of the ladies of
Livingston. ,
Next week , we will give a full
writeup of the fair, using-many
halftones of decorated buggies
and fair scenes.
Help Polk County's Candidate.
The Houston Post Contest is
in its closing run, and it will be a
matter of ohly a short while till
it will be over. The Polk county
contestant, Miss Carrie Camp-
bell, is a little behind, but right
up with the leading one. Up to
a few weeks ago Miss Campb4ll
the close of the contest and help
secure the prize for Miss Camp-
bell. She will appreciate the ef-
forts of her friends in her behalf,
and we will be glad to see a young
lady from our town and county
come out ahead in this big con-
test.
Advantages of Cash-in-Advance
‘ Plan.
When a newspaper gets estab-
lished on a cash-in-advance basis,
this means that thereafter, if any
one is receiving the paper he has
ordered it, and what is more im-
portant to both parties to the
transaction, he has paid for the
service in full. It means more-
over that when the term of sub-
scription is up the subscriber
|yill not need to take a club to the
editor in order to have the paper
stopped, for after due and courte-
ous notice is given if a renewal is
not made within a reasonable
time, the publisher should accept
that as prima facia evidence that
the paper is not wanted another
year, and accordingly drop the
name of such subscriber from
the list. /
There are so many advantages
to both subscriber and publisher
in this pay-in-advance stop when
up system that the only wonder
is that any newspaper is run on
any other plan. It does away
aJU that unpleasant feeling,
at irievitably gfiows up between
an editor and his chronic delin-
quents. The one dreads to meet
the other, because he knows the
other hates to meet him. It does
away with the everlasting dis-
putes over credits anddebits in
the subscription accounts, which
are a constant menace to the
peace and happiness of thousands
of country newspaper men.
It puts an end to the shameful
imposition which, in the old way,
is eternally being practiced upon
hundreds of readers' by forcing
upon them year after year a pa-
per which in many instances they
do not want and to get rid of,
seems as utterably impossible as
the annihilation of the hunchback
in the Arabian Knights. Like-
wise it precludes the imposition
from the other side by which so
many well meaning publishers
are cheated outof hundreds of
dollars on subscriptions every
year by dishonest people who
would accept and use a newspa-
per for life without protest, until
a bill for the service is presented
when they strenuously object to
paying that which they owe the
publisher.
It reduces bookkeeping to a
tainimum, and such a condition
will not only mean a better living
for the editor and his family, but
better wages for his employes,
better machines in the printshop,
and in the end better newspapers
for the people, better and bigger
values for their cash paid in ad-
vance.—Elgin Courier.
J. D. McLeod Appointed Agricul-
tural Agent.
A few weeks ago the commis-
sioners court supplemented $450
to the $450 given by the U. S.
Government Agricultural depart-
ment for securing an agricultural %
agent for this county. Mr. J. D.
McLeod of Leggett was recom-
mended for this position to the
government and he has been ap-
pointed. Mr. McLeod yts well-.
and favorably known’ to many of
our citizens, is a practical farmer
and his many friends predict that
he will accomplish much for the
good of agriculture in our county.
Moscow News Items.
After the rain the sun shines
and everything is lovely for the
week of the fair. Quite a crowd
from here will attend.
Mrs. Angie Rowe went to Liv-
ingston Friday to the association
and will remain over and take in
the fair\
Mr. Brown came up from Sils-
bee last week to burry the re-
mains of his infant in the family
lot in the Holshousen graveyard.
He was accompanied by Mrs.
Brown’s brother, Harry Victery
of Leggett.
Miss Carrie Lewis returned
last week from a five weeks visit
to relatives at Call.
Miss Lillian Lewis has accep-
ted a position as postmistress
and ticket agent at Bering.
Miss Tessie Fuller of Camden
was the guest of relatives here
this week. ^
J. J. Goodwin spent Saturday
night with his parents, returning
to his home at Woodville Sunday,
Mrs. Angus Lewis went to
Stryker Monday to attend- the
funeral of her little niece, Grace
Saxon, who died at her home at
Trinity.
Meekins Kennedy and two lit-
tle boys spent Sunday with his
parents here.
Sunday afternoon a party from
Bering went out for a “joy ride”
on a moter car and near Laurelia
the car jumped the track. Miss
Womble received a scalp wound
and injured shoulder, she being
the only one at all seriously hurt.
Mr. Crenshaw of Laurelia bro’t
her, accompanied by Miss Lillian
Lewis, here to Dr. Hutson, who
dressed the wounds, and today,
Monday, Miss Womble is still at
his home and resting easy. The
balance of the party returned on
the car to Bering.
A. G. Poe of Cold Springs has
accepted a position with the Pee-
bles Drug Co. ,
Mrs. Barker of Shepherd is
visiting Mrs. V. B. Hinson this
week.
accepted a position with the First was leading in- the contest. Let
National Bank as assistant
cashier.
every citizen of Polk county bend
forth their efforts from now till
Please go to the Enterprise
Booth and register during the
fair.
How much fun we will all have
this week on the Midway. ’
Representative S. H. German
made a business trip to Austin
last werik.
The Enterprise force is all tak-
ing holiday today and seeing the
sights at the fair.
Russell Davis’ shows, one of
the finest Vaudeville shows on
the road. Don’t fail to see them
while attending the fair. All
high class plays.
The Von Sisters with the Rus-
sell Davis shows are one of the
main attractions. Don’t fail t6
see this excellent company while
attending the fair.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1911, newspaper, October 19, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth658052/m1/1/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.