San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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SINTON, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY JULY 27, 191
CALL FOR SAMPLES
OF OUR
Job Work
NUMBER 23
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MR. FARMER:
This is the prosperous season for you, when you
market your coton, you will wish to deposit your
money in this or some other Bank.
For three, years we have served the people here
satisfactorily, and during that time have built
up a nice business.
When you get your cotton check, come in and
take credit for it, we furnishing you both deposit
and check book free of charge.
Should you need a little ready casn later on, let
us knovyeod we will do the needfuL
Very truly yours.
n fne" SMITH SON! AM" fj
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IT GIVES THE BEST RESULTS.
LIGHT.
ANATOM-
ICALLY
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TRUSS!
HOLDS
IN ANY
.POSITION.
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Bank of Commerce.
“Guaranty Fund Bank.”
(Sclety Deposit Boxes For Rent)
THE S TOR Y OF A UNI-
VERSITY BOY.
“I entered the University of
Texas in September, 1897, with-
out a dollar of my own, so far as; j
I can remember. My father’sj i
ill health had made it impossible j *
for me to expect help from himjj
beyond my High School course, '
and although I had for some time
had hopes of some day entering j
college, they were of the vapuest
sort, when one day in the spring |
of 1897 President Winston, in a
talk before our school, told of the
oppertunity to pay expenses I East.—From the Bulletin of
while at college by various kinds i The University of Texas.
of work. He closed his remarks--
by saying very empatically that ; Corpus Christi Improvements
> one need SPJ awa>' from the i Work on the 13 foot channel
' University of Texas because of
lack of funds.
BHEISfiESSiE?;?©..
WATCH “The Model Drug Store” GROW
A large assortment and variety
enables me to give you EXACTLY
what you want when you want it.
ROBERT F. BURGES
Registered Druggist
SINTON, TEXAS. PHONE 3 1
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The Steam Engine
THE MARKET REPORTS.
Special to the News.
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Taking him -at his word on the
Work on
into Corpus Christi Bay is pro-
gressing, and according to offic-
, . . _ , ial advices, will be finished by
jadvKeof my parents, I wrote to Fete 1911. Another dredge
the^iden.ttoinquire-vyhathe:^,;,,^ jn operatiou within
!c’uld do fg ™e- / b i the next two weeks, and other
j wrote me of a place where t cou.d improv3ments looking to the de-
! »ay for,my TO0™ and, board fi ! velopment of Corpus Christi as a
hibition Elec-
tion.
the temprecincts. In Saturday’s
election the pros won by a ma-
jonty of 27, with a majority ai
State-wide prohibiticm j “^en of the ten precincts,
failed to carry in last
’b election, is conceded,
of the re- Sinton
taking charge of some horses and
sea port are under way.
The lir>e-up was as follow:
Pro Jknt
108 124
cows and doing odd chores for an with the completition of the
elderly woman hving on the out-^ the Texas p5rts
.skirts of town. I had never milk-|wi], ^ „ mi,re prominent part:
; ed a cow, but in the two or tnree in the commerce of the world. )
days before I naa to start for A us- j _
tin I learned how. Canada to the Gnlf Highway
To provide for my matriculation The Commercial Secretaries &
fee and library depoitand'tobuy Business Men’s Association is in
the necessary bdrncs ana other e- receipt of a communication from
quipment, I borrowed forty dol- j j a Nicholson of Newton, Kan-
lars f rom an uncle, xnatis 8ii sas, secretary of the Meridian
the money I can remember hav-; roadf a> highway which is being
ing j built fromOklahoma toNebrajlka*
:r I remain-j asking ‘ * * * 1 ** —
The record of civilization is accurate-
ly written In the progress of the steam
engine. The use of steam has enlarged Houston, Texas, July 27.—The
the purposes of the human race, built weefc jn the markets Was fea-
up civilization and developed mankind. , , .
Of all the potential energies, It is the tured ^ °y Sensational declines
most useful and it renders a service to in Cotton, erratic movements
every living creature. fluctuating the range of prices
demoralizing bulls. The.
in nature and the politicians have been COtlOn losses Were in line with
trying title with the owners ever since the heavy deals on the New York
It became a factor in transportation. ExchaRg feature which de-
This mighty force of nature has often & * u ut;
been handicapped bv having boards mOiallZGd the Cotton markets of
and commissions placed over it who the World. As the week drew
have neither knowledge or «,£•ienee tQ a the markets flrmed
in tne business and free railroads have ,
become as popular a campaign issue considerably. However, during
as free trade.
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uyins to get Kj touch W
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Railroad mileage is tne yard stick oi
Wfi hfve ia»
progress.
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the decline, January contracts
sold below’ the 12 cent level for
the first time in two years.
Several influences ha^ve been
1 at work weakening the cotton
positions. The staple has been
decidedly lower on continued
favorable crop reports, expectk- h
t'ons Ojf the early movement of
the crop market and persi/'"
liquidation of both
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total vote of-the state is! Total Pro vote 391
at 472.000 which Us the j Total Anti vote 3B4
3t ever polled ii the state &*> Majority 27
i the exception of the cam- ■*■■■"
of 1897., Campbell Comments
There are several ^noteworthy Palestine, Texas, July 25.-Ux-
E»d remarkable facts ‘connected Governor Campbell, one of the
the returns of tiie election: leaders in the campaign far the
ve it that according *o the re-!.adoption oC the State-wide pruhi-
;as they stajul at present;' bitien amendment, in speaking!
anti’s majority an ti--e city of 0f the election tins afternoon,1
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tfpon retisrning after Christ-
mas vacation in my sophomore
year, I learned to my dismay
Pi®!
be take
promoters of the Oklahoma-Ne
braska road are anxious to have
the road extend from Canada to
that my place had been given to] the Gulf and learning of the
a nephew of my employer, but 11 progress of the Texas project, !
found similar employment at a] desire to take up the matter of!
better place. There I remained j connecting the two at the Red
j until 'the end of my Senior year. River.
' During my Sophomore year I re-1---
eeived from.b.ome about 'thirtyIron Ore Development
jdoUarc, enough for necessary ex-1 One of the largest mining
jpense?,. R ' companies.in the South has just
During my-Junior year, besides: been incorporated for the pur-
in Antonio was considerable ieaid: ' Briy roigular employment, I did j pose of developing the iron ore
v per than-their majority for “While <*n 'the face of the re-!iJOnie tltorin^ which bfeught in I of East Texas, and for shipping
»e entire state; the same is true turns the opposition appears to a ]ittk cash meet m-;. actual it to the Eastern markets. The
with rtference to.thrir majority haw* Vvon- .a victory, the vote needs- That summer 1 earned company is known as the East
the city of Houston, Another !*hows that tiie liquor traffic has :some 1T’oney cuttin- weeds on Texas Brown Ore Development
• oddity is that our neighbor coun-jfceen convicted and-the sentence the caT:V ,us- aj;_d iater uot a job, Company of Port Bolivar, and
ty, Zapata, with 140 poll tax pay- js only deferred: As the old
its, cast 276 votes every one frontiersmen .said, a man in the
which were on the anti side; wrong can’t -stand up against,a
Another fe that «f the large vote ! man jn the right if he will onlv
of the citj and ctunty of Dallas,, keep. a coming, and vhe friends
wh## they make an average of 0f good government in this '
ir. a placing mid.
My Senior year bin
more tutoring. I also
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one homicide per week the year1 gtar.ee
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around, the Anti .majority was
only 248; Another was that San
Patridio Co«nty gave a Prq ma-
jority of 45 votes.
It is still Claimed by the stete
leaders, or at least some of them,
that the official returns will place1
a small majority on the sibe of j
prohibition, but be that as it may,
all who have played any part irj |
the state wide fight art* to be con-
Skjpratulatod uPon showing
tnade. We started in the cam-
paign^ “licked” and “licked" bad.
Had the election eome off two
weeks earlier, wre doudt that the i
anti majority would have been
less than 50,000. The pros made
/substantial gains during the last
two weeks of the campaign.
In Old San Pat.
Especially in our owrn couty are
thd pros pleased over the show-
ing made. On the 12th day of
March 1^10 a local option election
jld thoughout the county,
\ resulted in a victory for
itis by <a majority of 71
and .a majority it six of
propose to keep combo
ciet'K m
store.
was offeree
I was able to give
^o-opera Liv-
en d of th
has has a capitalization of $2,500-
ght roe 000, with L. P. Feathers tone, C.
ctod as L. Liickel and F. Winnie as in-
i Book- corporators.
e y<. ar I The company has a large r.um-
1-pr nf orders
for iron ore from
.he work
“Democratic politicians feed
up with the opposition can ter-
.hat I had been doing for
room and beard.
'his fedo
.hip
?er or
points or the Atlantic coast and
by the time the new railway is
ready to receive it, the company
f The cconpamtive test of
cilities !b ill miles per area. If wef
hsfl the mileage per area that the state The Crop and Wi
cf Illinois has we would have E5,soo ^ave been favorable in the
mil“s: that Indiana has 54,000 miles , . B
,na that Iowa ha. te.ooo miles, w. and significantly enough
have nniy i4.ooo miles. South has been a steady se
According to the last interstate com- 0f the forward deliveries, fef;
merce commission report. Compiled QniT1mpr ni:iPf nprvadeg WM
June 30, 1909, we constructed 273 miles &Qmmer pervaaeg -.■■B
during the previous year and ranked produce market. For the Week
fourth in the list of states In the Union fruit lias ruled to a great extent, 7
in construction during the year. We bananas featuring the TUU,
are more in need of railroad construe- _ ,
tion than any other state in the Un\on. i TeXES peaches a good SeCOIKl.
The railroad develonment of Texas The potato market Was relieved
has not kept pace with the development bv ^ shipment 4>f Callform^
of other lines of industryt Our railroad * “ . * a
mileage during the past ten years has SyUdib - . 'g ‘
increased 35 per cent: the vaLe of' Tile butter market WaS fWll
,74 and unfa^ed through !
per cent and the development of aii week. The rains that have beezLff
want 'of raHroS faciHties-retar<Jed for falling have helped -the
i:anJ butt2r and miik wiiibe:^
the union. According to the mo more abundant supply in a short!
comptroller’s report, we have forty- *' r:
seven counties in Texas without rail- ! bim“-
road faciHties and we have approxi-
nmtelv 40,00a.009 acres of territory that!- ___
Is a distance of ten miles and over and prices will be better thltf
j week. The chicken market
The egg situation is clfaringf
tr:sm a rnHroad.
Ing country.
tairily get no comfort .from the .paid^fcH my wxpcns->s during -my ill be in shape to deliver the
results,—Houston ChrorJcie. ”
Angelica.
Our section wae visited this
afternoon by a splendid rain,
which will be of uir-told bpnefft
to the farmers.
The Angelita gin, equipped'
with four stands, is now running
full time.
Some of our citizens have been
very successful catching fish bn
the Nueces river the last few'
days.
Mrs. Norman Smith returned 1
from a visit to Port Lavaca the ’
last of tiie week, accompanied by
ner cousin, Miss Annie Williams.
I C. C. Parker spent Sunday and
I Sunday night in the county cap-
ital.
year or postgraduate worn.
During all this time of course
I bad to practice the strictest e-
comomy, but I had rru nag a to
ore to fill contracts already made
with Eastern buyers.
The iron ore fields of Texas
i exarhana to
Highway
The public road comm
McKinney
: dull, the many birds being ship-'
: ped to meet the diminishing de- j
! mand. Hens averaged from $3.75*
Do $4.23. ,;/|§
i Houston 'bank clearings for
gteG c,f/he week were $24,768,540.
are as yet almost untouched and the
Texai
kana board of trade is
be very!comfortable without get- estimated that this company making an effort
tir.g over a hundred dollars from
outside sources. Berhd:
:he
outside duties, though
s, my
*ey kept
me from taking part in athletics,
did not interfere witjuny studies,
for when a chapter ?::ii Beta
Kappa was fhstalled thix-e years
after I had left the University. I
was elected a member. As an
undergraduate I soim-times r -
gre-tted that lack of it,•ey pre-
vented rny having- mu.cii share in
the social hie oi the hiisdents.
Yet I did have my frkmus. iu n I
do not think that i
alone owns over 190,000,000 tons
of brown ore.
M. K. & T. In
n-
M.isso-u r
mpre ve men ts
, Kansas U T:>xas
Rail may has had sixty thousand
dollars worth of bonds for im-
provement purposes registered
\vi:h the secretary of state,
machinally oner the
1'hrg fifteen miles, of
:1 wn!
\x
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ructeti out o
r
came
gnnu.
,vlits . v, r’ie i>ayk.r end
or, Garold Lee. sjxmt the
end in Corpus Christi.
Mr. and Mrs. Pair of
county are visiting Mrs.
sister, Mrs. Butler, of An
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1 he. :UA
iimy at Harvan
degree of P1).
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u.
s . c<uni *r n; - - n as a:! .ic r s
ilroad commission - to
■•> a; valuation of
r-1 }•’■>,■<Ifi
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■ v i; autno-iised, tin,
i! a -k o issue bonds
amount.,
to have
road built r unning from Texar-
kana to McKinney, to connect
with the Red River to the Gulf
Highway. The road from Tex-
arkana to McKinney is practi-
cally half built at present, and it
is the intention of the committee
to get the co-operation of the
secretaries and county judges in
fho intervening counties in or-
der that the other half may be
improved, and letters have been
stmt out on the subject asking
the co-operation of all citizens of
the counties interested, and a
meeting will probably be held in
1 be near futur ■ tv yw ' what
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Russell, J. C. & Swinny, Verne. San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1911, newspaper, July 27, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth718831/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sinton Public Library.