The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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The Polk County Enterprise
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LIVINGSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1911.
)UNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
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let Here Tuesday. Many in At-
tendance. Interesting Papers
^ Read. Banquet at Pine
Lodge.
The Polk County Medical As-
|sociation met here Tuesday, and
it' was one of the best and most
interesting meetings ever held
|The meeting was held in the
school auditorium at 4 o’clock,
W. H. Beasley of Shepherd, pres-
ident of the association presided.
Dr. C. F. Brock of Corrigan sec-
retary, read the minutes^of last
meeting.
Interesting papers were read
by Drs. Sim Moore and H. C.
Feagin of Houston, M. J. Taylor
of Camden and W. P. Barron of
Carmona. ‘
Those present were, Drs. J. T.
Moore, H. C. Feagin and Sim
Moore of Houston, W. P. Barron
Carmona, M. J. Taylor Camden,
W. J. Pullen and C. F. Brock Cor-
rigan, W. H. Beasley Shepherd,
S. Bergman Knox, H. Bergman
W. K. McCardell, B. C. Marsh,
H. S. Denham and R. B. Love city.
At night the visiting doctors
were treated to a sumptuous ban-
quet at the Pine Lodge, which
I was given by the local physicians.
The next meeting will be held
at Shepherd the first Tuesday in
August.
Anti Lecture.
Hon. Fred M. Stevens lectured
at the court house here Saturday
afternoon to a good sized audi-
ence in the interest pf anti-state-
wide prohibition. Mr. Stevens
told of the conditions in Oklahoma
as he found them. Many pros
were out to hear him and to learn
what he had to say for the anti
side of the question.
Protracted Meeting in Progress.
The protracted meeting began
Sunday at the > First Baptist
church. Evangelist E. Z. New-
som is conducting the services
and has delivered some good ser-
mons. Large crowds are attend-
ing the services, and much good
is expected to be derived from the
meeting. Services are being held
morning and evening. v
Market Review.
Houston, Texas, June 20.—
Within the past few days benefi-
cial rains have fallen over nearly
| all parts of Texas. The rain area
opeared first in North Texas
rhere heavy downpours were re-
nted in the daily dispatches.
Official reports, however, placed
i precipitation a great deal less
. the estimates, although any
Siount was welcome. The first
4e week the rain belt extend-
Duth, several sections in the
reporting varying precipi-
Monday. _
consequence of the rain re-
tire prices of cotton have
With the first reports
pm in the Southwest the
was announced and by
I'day precipitated a sharp
the sharpest fall in cotton
several weeks. Theav-
fof the drop was 22 to 25
down in New York and 221
to 24 in New Orleans. Spot prices
declined in ratio.
Until the rains the effects of
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the continued drouth were be-
coming apparent. The hot weath-
er was fast cutting down the sup-
ply of vegetables, a lightening
movement being observed on
Produce Row daily. In this mar-
ket the shipment of watermelons
has been the feature and prices
have been maintained on the sup-
position that the melon crop was
cut down materially on account
of the hot weather drying the
vines. The Hempstead melon
crop is due, but will be under
earlier estimates on account of
the hot weather damage. Esti-
mates place the Hempstead crop
at about 1000 carloads. The cur-
rent price on melons has been $3
per dozen.
Ruling prices on staples on Pro
duce Row are quoted as follows
Tomatrfes 10 cents per basket;
lemons, $7.50 per box; chickens
slow and unchanged, ruling at
$3.50 for hens and $3 for medium
fryers; country butter unchang-
ed at 10 cents.
Cold storage eggs are having
their inning on the Houston mar-
ket, as about 75 per cent of other
varieties ure in bad condition.
Storage eggs are ruling at 20
cents pertiozen.
Business conditions in South
Texas are conservative, attention
being paid to crop prospects.
Bradstreet reports no failures
for the week, and Houston bank
clearings $21,954,534.
Want Ad Pays a Patron.
Mr. W. S. Medearis, of Soda
was in the city Monday and while
here stated to the editor of the
Enterprise that he had received
answers from four different coun-
ties to his want ad he had in the
Enterprise, advertising his place
for sale. Said he received one
letter from Houston, one from
party in West Texas and letters
from several other towns. He
said he expected to close a deal
with some of the parties for his
place. He further said that he
had no idea that he would get as
many letters of inquiry from so
many different places; that he
had no idea the Enterprise cover-
ed so much territory.
Death of Mrs. R. N. Green.
News reached here Monday of
the death of Mrs. R. N. Green of
Colmesneil, which occurred at 2
o’clock Sunday. Aunt Marthy,
as she was familliarly known
among the Livingston people,
livpd here a number of years,
^having moved here with her hus-
band from Moscow. She had
many friends in this county who
will regret to learn of her death.
She was 82 years old at the time
of her death and leaves a hus-
band and several children and
grand children to mourn her loss.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Noblitt left
here Monday to attend the funer-
al services. Mrs. Noblitt is a
daughter of Mrs. Green.
The Enterprise joins the host
of friends in offering condolence
to the bereaved relatives.
Jacon Jones of Corrigan was a
visitor in town Tuesday.
Death of Yivie Leggett.
Little Vivie Leggett, the 11-
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. F. K. Leggett, died at Cam-
den last Wednesday at the home
of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Leggett, where she
had undergone an operation for
appendicitis; The operation was
performed Sunday and all that
medical aid and the assistance of
kind friends in lending assistance
were to no avail.
Mr. and Mrs. Leggett were
both raised in this county and
were residents of Livingston un-
til two years ago. They are now
living in Houston. They have
many friends in this county who
sympathize with them in the loss
of their little girl.*
Vivie was known to all the Liv-
ingston people and was a child
that was admired by all who knew
her. Her death was deeply felt
by the little companions who
knew her in the school, and spent
many happy days with her on the
play grounds.
The remains were brought to
Livingston and laid to rest in the
Forest Hill cemetery Thursday
at 10 o’clock, Rev. J. S. Lewis
conducting the funeral services.
The grave was covered with
wreathes of flowers Which had
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afternoon between Livingston
and New Willard. While neither
team had their regular lineup,
and were forced to get some subs,
yet they played an interesting
game. The score was tied in the
eighth inning, being 5 to 5, but
in the first half of the ninth I^ew
Willard made a run, changing the
score 5 to 6 in '"their favor. Liv-
ingston came to the bat for their
last half, and a ball was knocked
to the right field when a man was
on second. The New Willard team
went up in the air and made some
wild throws and let two runs in,
which gave the game to Living-
ston, the score being 6 to 7.
Batteries for Livingston, Pee-
bles and Cruise; New Willard,
Tullos and Whitman.
Advertising Matter of Polk County
Sent Out
Last week we had requests for
advertising matter of Polk coun-
ty from Col. T. J. Anderson, gen-
eral passenger agent of the H. E.
& W. T. Ry.,-and from Mr. Dud-
ley Scheefer of Vivian, South
Dakota. Mr. Scheefer is a real
estate dealer of South Dakota and
is placing to bring a number of
immigrants to Texas this fall.'
We sent each of these gentle-
men 100 of the Polk County Pros-
been made by the sorrowing pectus that we issued some time
friends. ago, and we are sure they will be
A Split Log Drag Cluh.
A Split Log Drag Club is one
of the latest organized movements
for road building in Texas, says
Texas Secretaries Association.
The territory covered by a club
usually embraces about six miles
of road and the farmers along the
route join the club and they pay
fifty cents membership dues per
mofath. All the money received
by the club is used in defraying
the expenses of running a Split
Log Drag over the road when
needed.
The county commissioners of
Cooke county furnish free of
charge to each club a Split Log
Drag of steel construction, which
cost $25 to build and the club
stands the expense of operation.
Cooke county now has eleven of
the£e clubs in operation and the
results are so satisfactory that
the movement is rapidly spread-
ing throughout the entire county.
The businessmen of Gaines-
ville assist in the organizations.
It is quite a common occurrence
for fifteen or twenty merchants
and bankers to ride ten or fifteen
miles in the country to attend a
Split Log Drag meeting and they
usually join the club, lending
their moral and financial support
to the movement.
New Tailor Shop*
J. C. Tomme has opened a tai-
or shop in the rear of the City
Barber Shop and will do cleaning,
dyeing, pressing and all kinds of
operations. Mr. Tomme solicits
a share of your trade. We call
your attention to his ad in this
issue.
First Game of the Reason.
The first game of baseball of
’the season was played Tuesday
and we are sure they will be
put out in a way that will benefit
our county
Notice.
Dear Bro. Editor—Please say
through’your paper to the. people
of Mt. Rose neighborhood and
adjoining communities, that we
expect to begin our protracted
meeting at the Baptist church,
Mt. Rose, Friday night before
the first Sunday in July, unless
providentially hindered. We ex-
pect Bro. R. E. Watson of Corri
gan to be with us to help us in
the meeting. Everybody invited
to attend. G. B. Rayner,
Pastor.
Scholarship for Sale.
We have a scholarship in the
Hill’s, Business College of Waco,
that will entitle you to an unlimi-
ted course in Bookkeeping, or
Shorthand and Typewriting.
These scholarships sell for $50.
On account of wanting to assist
some young man or young lady
in taking a business, course we
will sell this scholarship for $35.
tracted meeting being in pro-
gress not as many of our citizens
were out as should have been.
Dr. Moore was introduced by
Dr. W. H. Beasley of Shepherd.
The subject, “Promoting the
Health of the Town, or How tq
Prevent Sickness,” was brought
out very forcibly by Dr. Moore,
and many things were pointed
out to our people as to how they
could promote the health of the
town, and some things that Dr.
Moore referred to should be ta-
ken in charge at once. A clean
town is the most essential thing
in promoting health. There are
few people who realize the dis-
ease the common fly spreads, and
also the mosquito spreads his
part of disease. Dr. Moore fur-
ther stated that to first get a
clean town is to establish the
sewerage system, which would
carry off the filth of the town,
and told the people not to consid-
er- what the taxation would be',
but to consider what the water-
works and sewerage system
would mean to our people in the
saving of doctors bills and pro-
moting the health of the town,
which would more than offset the,
taxes. y
The people of our towrr have ,
been slow in realizing these needs
and if more of the citizens would
take an interest in the welfare of
the town and their own people,
we would soon have one of the
cleanest towns in the state.
The commercial club and med-
ical association, apd the citizens
are thankful to Dr. Moore for his
very intetesting and instructive
talk.*
Before and after the lecture
beautiful and well selected music
was rendered by Misses Addelle
Green and Gladys Sawyer on the
piano, and Miss Helen Sloan on
the violin, which was highly ap-
preciated by the audience.
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Notice to Correspondents.
Some few weeks ago we had a
notice asking correspondents to
send in their communications so
they would reach us not later
than Monday evening, but some
are still sending them in as late
as Tuesday evening, which caus-
es us to leave them out until the
next week. We kindly ask that
all correspondent's send in their
letters so they will reach us by
Monday afternoon.
Respectfully,
The Editor.
Mrs: Ella Nettles and son, Gor-
die, left Sunday morning for an
extended visit to her sister, Mrs.
Henry Brock, near Rule, Haskell
county.
Mrs. J. D. GeBott of Onalaska
was shopping in the city Friday.
Rev. A. Finch has been confin-
ed to his room for sometime with
slow fever. His many friends
lope to see him well, again soon.
Ollie Morrison and G. D. Mc-
Mahon left Monday to attend the
Pharmaceutical Ass o c i a t i o u,
which is in session at Dallas this
week.
Chas. Epperson, who is attend
ing Draughon’s Business College
at Houston, spent Saturday and
Sunday in the city with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Epper-
son. ;
L. F. Gerlach, Rev. C. L. Cleve-
land, W. P. Smith and Edwin
Gerlach spent a few days fishing
at Horse Shoe lake last week.
They report having had a fine
time and say they caught all the
fish they could eat.
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LECTURE BY DR. j. T. MOORE
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Was Well Attended at School Au-
ditorium. Talk Was of Much
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Interest to Our People.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 22, 1911, newspaper, June 22, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660437/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.