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The J acksboro Gazette
VOLUME XLV.
JACKSBORO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924
NUMBER 15.
Shaver Confident of Election of SCounty Fair To Be Held at Fort
Davis.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Confi-
Richardson.
The various chairmen of the dif-
dence that’ the presidential elec- ferent committees of the Jack
tion will be decided in favor of 'County Fair Association met with
John W. Davis in the electoral the president of the organization
college and will not be thrown in- at the court house last Friday af
to Congress was expressed in a ternoon to formulate further
statement issued Tuesdy night plans for the fair which will be
by Clem L. Shaver, chairman of held here this year, the 3rd and
the Democratic National Commit- 4th of October,
tee. I The commanding officer of Bat-
“It is just as well,” he said, “to tery “F" 131st Field Artillery
get rid at once of the nonsensical j (Jacksboro’s own) offered the use
notion being spread by Republi- of Fort Richardson. This was ac-
cans that Coolidge is the leading 'cepted. The administration build-
candidate and that it is necessary 1 ing will be used for the art, text-
to vote for him to keep the elec- lie, culinary, and agricultural ex-
tion out of Congress. Just thejhibits; the material house will h
reverse is true.’ ’ used to exhibit the poultry and
Claiming 204 “sure votes” for dog shows, and the stables for the
the Democratic candidate and live stock.
conceding only 138 in that cate- j The premium list has been prc
gory for the President, Mr. Sha- pared by Miss Lula Sullivan and
ver asserted: V | Mr. C. C. Willis and is being print -
“ There has not been a single ed for distribution the latter part
estimate by those engaged in car-1 of the Aveek.
rying the election now with their j On account of the heavy ex-
pads and pencils which has not j pense incident to operating :
conceded the vote of the Southern | county fair the committee decided
States to Davis. That means that. to charge a nominal fee for ad-
Davis starts with 139 certain mission to the grounds this year.
Rep ort of Grand Jury
Highway Work Is Progressing Plans Completed F;r Patriotic
Satisfactorily.
Through courtesy of the
county engineer, Guy R. John-
ston, the Gazette
This is necessary because of th'
fact that there must be some
means of securing the premium
votes in the electoral college.
“But there are other States
that Davis will carry. They rep-
resent a total of 65 votes in the and the other expense money,
electoral college, giving Davis a I only other method would he t<
total of 204 sure votes, without jlow a carnival to run in connee-
counting the doubtful and nor-[tion which would be objectiona
Rally on National E efense Day.
f The Jacksboro National De-
fense Day program A t be a pa-
ml ------- - -------- representative Atriotic rally such as he.- been
1 o the Honorable r. 0. McKinsey, citizens; and to that end we ask was recently taken on an inspec- 'witnessed here for several years.
Disrwr -Juage:— that the good citizens of the coun- tion tour of the Perrin highway. It is planned to give everv citizen
We, the Grand Jury, duly cm- ty in every manner possible assist ] The contractors are progressing Wopportunty to show his love of
panneled at this term of the Dis- such boys m going right by en- very rapidlv with the work on country and to show b;s willing-
trict Court of Jack County, Tex- courage/ient, and by advice, and this road. All of the timber has ness to serve his country, whether
by removing from their paths the been cleared out of the new right- tehe be at peace or whether she be
temptations to commit crime; 0f-way and about ten miles of {attacked. It is to prove to the cit-
and in this connection we wish to grading has been completed, izens of Jack County that we are
call the attention of the parents About seventy per Cent of the fcroud of our country and jealous
of this county to the seriousness concrete culverts and bridges1 of her good name. To this end
have examined a great many wit- of the situation, when young boys have been completed. The con- every man in the county between
nesses from different portions of break into homes, and stores and ' crete work should be the pride ol ; the ages of 18 and 45 is urged to
the county. We find that public commit theft and other crimes, |the county on account of its beau- register for the dav and loin the
sentiment is largely in favor of which must ultimately land them ty. Crushed stone was used in- parade. All women and men who
law enforcement in Jack County,! in the penitentiaries of our State. I stead of sand, which makes the
and in some of the communities ; Too many boys are allowed to | work more durable and gives it a
no violations of law seem to have roam the streets of our towns and aurp white finish that is verv
been committed, while in a few, villages without any sort of
as, beg leave t , rubirit the follow-
ing report:
We have diligently inquired in-
to every matter of law violatioi
that has come to our notice, and
pure white finish that is very
pleasing to the eye.
The longest bridge is the one
over Los Creek near the G. T.
W. depot. It is composed o*
mally Republican States.
“The minimum claim of friends
ble to many persons and would
take much money away from
bf Senator La Follette gives him 'the county without benefiting
35 electoral college votes. Adding j any one and would be more e.
these to the Davis vote of 204! pensive in the end.
makes a total of 239 votes that | Dr. C. E. Putnam and I
Coolidge can not get. If this^Richardson are in charge of 4
number is subtracted from the to-1 amusement department which
tal of 531 in the electoral college will consist of races, and a few
it leaves 292, out of which Cool-! rodeo features. They are getting
•idge must get 266, which gives the grounds leveled, with the ar
him a safety margin of only 26. sistance of the county engineer-
“The so-called solid Republican ing corps, and in first class eondi-
JStates have a representation of tion for the big event.
138 in the electoral college. Cool-j The art department is being
M,ge therefore needs 128 more to conducted by Miss Joanna Rog-
get the necessary 266. Subtract- fers who is ably assisted by Mrs.
ing his reasosablv sure 138 from H. A. Wills and Mrs. Mizell Stew-
292, the votes not certain for ej- art. They have selected the
ther Davis or La Follette, leaves! southeast room of the old hospi-
154 from whicch his additional tal building for their exhibit* and
128 will have to come. are confident that they will have
“/n other word.^, Davi£. w ja pleasing collection of paintings
have to get only 62 votes ou ; (displayed for the approval of the
the doubtful States (the gr people" of Jack County,
having 154 votes), whereas Cool-J' E. W. Rankin is an authority
idge will have to get 128.” 'on the dog question and he will
, m T feee that this department gets the
• . |hest of attention. One of the fea-
Perrm News. itures that he promises will be a
Perrin, Sept. 8.—The Perrin ,^T°lf> race,
feins have ginned to date 350 S. F. Borden will again direct
bales of cotton. * Jthe poultry department. He is ex-
The people residing near tlm
- - ,. , , new highway in the Perrin vicin-
jajrswirir&s „“»t
&re no empty dwellings here now. everyone that has good chickens m0Bt b tiful roads in the state.
Clarence Vaughn sold his cafe notify him immediately that the- j section every residence
to Milas Churchill. want space reserved for their ex- jfor Mveral miles is befng pamted
The Perrin people are getting dibits. ^ wm be nnder and other improvements are be-
there seems to exist a deplorable straint, without any work to do
apathy toward the matter of ob- to keep them busy. The responsi-
serving the laws of the land, es-.bility rests heavily upon parents
peeially so with reference to what to' look into these matters. Some J three 43-foot spans, or a total
are commonly known as the liq- of these matters we have decided length of 129 feet, and cost ap-
uor laws. These laAvs seem to be to let go over to the consideration 1 proximately $8,000.00. The total
the laws violated most, but we of the next Grand Jury, in the eost of the concrete work on t
trust as time goes on, public sen- hope that the conduct of these 1 perrin road, which includes the
timent will come to the rescue of youthful offenders wil improve in|CGnerete and reinforced steel,
the-officers charged with the re- the meantime, and that such! wdi amount to $48,310.82. Mr.
sponsibility of enforcing law, and Grand Jury may see fit to not re^jobnston states that he hopes t
and that the good citizens of our turn bills for felonies in such | be dble to let the contract for the
county will heartily assist them eases. jbase and top of this^road some
in discharging their duties in this j We wish to thank Your Honor time during the winter, probably
respect,—and when that condi- for his uniform courtesies to us, about the last of the year,
tion fully exists these laws will:your advice and counsel in the! Contractors are now grad
not he violated more than others (matters investigated; and also, the Bryson road. One of the Wo-
on the statute books. ^I to the officers of the court who 1 mack Construction Co. crews is
Quite a large number of crimes have faithfully'- discharged their . working near the Wilfred Carney
committed in this county* during | duties to and with us. Their hear-; farm about seven miles from toAvn.
the past six months have been jty co-operation has very materi-1 Sub-Contractors Barnes and Tur-
committed by juveniles, mostly; ally assisted'us in our work. We'nam are grading on D. R. Scav-
boys from eleven to fifteen years hereAvith return into court 19 fel-jell’s land"about ten miles west,
of age; ranging from petty theft onies, and sixteen misdemeanors.1 and Sub-Contractor Brown’s for-
to technical cases of bufcglary. We j Respectfully* submitted, 'ces are in theBirdAvell pasturenear
.think from the youthfulness of J C. E. Johnson. Foreman. [Bryson. The material has been or-
these offenders that they most; We submit this additional re- dered for the concrete AA*ork and
certainly did not realize the enor- port in regard to the jail build-j is expected to be here Avithin the
mity of the offenses Avhich they* ing: We have examined this next Aveek. The cost of the eon-
Avere committing, and as far as building and grounds and find1 crete Avork, including the cement,
possible, we believe that leniency j same in bad shape. The building and re-inforcing steel, etc., will
should be extended in such cases, needs many repairs, and also the 'amount to $31,046.67.
but Ave also belieye that they ! yard and outhouses. j The material and labor for the
should be punished sufficiently to j We recommend that the Com-. sulnvay structure under the G. 'J
call their attention to the very se- ; missioners have this building & W. right of way near the city
rious consequences of violating overhauled and repaired; that,limits Avill cost about three thous-
the laws of the land. We thinking grounds be worked oA*er; that and dollars. This will save the
! the leaks in the roof be fixed.
We also recommend that the
good people of the county, the la-
dies’ clubs, and church societies
provide some sort of reading ma-
terial for the inmates of the jail.
do not register arc urged to come
and join in the singing cr patri-
otic songs.
The position of honor in the pa-
rade is to be given to the veter-
ans of all wars in the order nam-
ed: The War betAveen the States
(both sides), Indian Wars, Span-
ish-Ameriean War, the World
War. Captain Georg? Spiller -is
furnishing a Confederate flag to
be carried with the Stars and
Stripes. All veterans® should re-
port to Kyle Spiller at once.
'Transportation Avill he furnished
for older or crippled veterans.
Battery “F,” 131st Field Ar-
tillery, Texas Vatic .al Guard,
Avill follcAV the veterans. Jack
County* is justly proud to have the
prize battery of Texes. . At the
rear of the battery will march the
meir^ registered Tor the day, fol-
that the first consideration in
the^e matters should be the Avel- i
fare of the boys Avho are going
wrong to the end that they may
make amends for Avhat they*' haAre
•done, and then make their earn-
est endeavor to grow up into good
To Have Beautiful Highway.
sss
Jacksboro ___
Sunday with F. O. Massengale. .this year*B|PH HHH
Mr. and Mrs. Mart Colwell of I The textile department will be
‘Jennyn visited W. P. Colwell and managed by Miss Lula Sullivan,
Mrs. Fred Mask, Saturday. iand the culinary by Mrs. C. E
Perrin, is having his yard ffence
built of concrete blocks, and ex-
pects to have a bermuda lawn.
.Others are adopting splendid
Miss Ina Loyd of Gibtown vis-! utnai?- g +uQf methods of adding to the appear-
ited herder,, Mrs. C. F. Lee. L * of their homes.
Linnie Mae Turner of Weather-1^8 the livestock department, j-
ford spent the weekend with her spent many years as a suc-
cessful breder of livestock and he
Reception
for Public
Faculty.
School
The Parent-Teacher Associa-
tion gave a reception Monday
evening at the school building for
this year’s faculty. The band
furnished music, a piano duet Avas
rendered by* Miss Bernice Green
county a large sum of money. By
going under the railroad at this
place it Avill save about two-thirds
of a mile highAvay or about $12,-
000.00, with an expenditure of
$3,000.00.
The plans ^iave been approved
on the east or Cundiff road by the
highway department and the
county judge is advertising for
bids for the contract to be let the
third of October. The cost will
be substantially the same as the
south road.
j The average cost of the drain-
age structures and grading i
amounting to about $5,000.00 per
mile. The Perrin road is 16.94
miles, the Bryson road 16.68 miles
and the Cundiff road is 17.38 miles
and Mrs. E. M. Da\*idson, read-
ings by Cresidus BroAvn and Ad- in length. The cost of all surveys
die Ruth Atkinson, a talk by* Rca*.
C. N. Wy’lie and a vocal solo by
Mrs. C. A. Worthington. The ..re-
ceiving line consisted of the of-
ficials of the Parent-Teacher As-
sociation, the board of trustees
and the faculty.
sister, Mrs. Sid Osteen.
Odus Wade and family visited
Alex Nance at Graford, Sunday.
Mrs. McMeans and family of
Spur visited Mrs. Hardy last
Eld Griffith and family of Loek-
ney visited T. W. Jones this week.
Jeff and Clyde Bentley and
theis sisters, Laima and Eula en-
WE CAM AWI. THINK OP
A LOT O** FOOLISH
THIN6S we’p VO IP
WE ONLY HAP the money
aeg
is spending much time preparing,
for this department.
The better baby show will be
'directed by Mrs. Howard Timber-
lake and the Parent-Teacher As-
sociation.
There Avill be no fees charged
for exhibiting at the fair, an'
those who have exhibits will be
given free passes to the grounds.
tered school at Arlington this
week.
Joe Tompkin entered school at
Quanah this week.
Prof. Gresham has moved here
preparatory to the opening of
school.
Miss Leta Schenks of Jacks-
boro is visiting Misses Alma and
[Mildred Duke.
Mrs. M. N. Vick of Throckmor-
jton visited her daughters, Mrs. L.
j L. BroAvn and Joe King, this j
[week.
Miss Mary Christian of Quan-
'kh visited her brother, B. C. j
'Christian, and sister, Mrs. F. II.
iMarks, on her way to Baylor hos-
'pital where she begins work. i
You Hot Fail
. Om Whti Hodkit x
Here la a man who had every right to and—didn’t. Ever hear of
Aaron Saptro, of Oakland, California, who makes *500.000 a year at
the age of thirty-eight? *
One of nine children, born in a stable loft, brutalised In an orphan-
age, he la today recognised leader of the cooperative movement amonz
farmers. *
His flrst ride In any public conveyance, a cable car was at tne
funeral of bis father, who was killed Avhen Saplro was nine. His flrst
square meal qame when neighbors donated food to the stricken family.
His flrst whole suit of clothes came when his mother placed Aaron and
three brothers In an orphan asylum and they gave him a cotton uniform
labeled “No. 58." For six years he was brutalised and poorly fed.
1 »espite these hardships he graduated from the orphanage school
with high honors. At sixteen he entered Union College at Cincinnati.
Then he worked his way through Hastings Law College at Frisco by
sawing wood, pressing clothes and tutoring.
Incidentally he returned to the Orphanage as Superintendent, reor-
ganized it, jailed its brutal keepers, and made It a model Institution.
About 191*4 he developed his scheme of cooperative marketing and
became chief counsel to the State Market Commission. At a dinner
recently given by Otto H. Kahn, international banker, at which Judge
Elbert H. Gary, head of the billion-dollar .United States Steel Corpora-
tion was a guest, he was asked why the California growers were run-
ning away with the Eastern markets.
Turning to Judge Gary, Sapiro said: •
• “Eastern farmers market their "products as individuals. They are
not organized. Western farmers used to dump their output wherever
it avhs grown Thus they created a glutted local market from which
speculators could buy at their own price. That’s bad business. Now,
the California farmers, by pooliug their products, and having a cen-
tral business organization of experts to sell them, have adopted the
same methods as the gieat steel Industry.
and plans complete is eosting the
county an average of approxi-
mately $175.00 per mile, as com-
pared to an average of $225.00 per
mile in other counties of the State.
This item alone means a saving of
about fifty dollars per mile to the
tax payers of the county, and has
been the-cause of much favorable
comment from the State and Ferl-
eral engineers who were also very
favorably impressed with the h'gh
class work being done in the con-
struction of the roads.
The greatest difficulty the en-
gineers and court have had to
deal with has been the adjusting
of right-of-way claims. The prop-
osition as explained to the Gazette
is that the county gets two dollars
for every dollar spent by the
county on the roads now under
construction. This does not in-
clude the purchase of right-of-
way or fencing and each dollar
spent by the county for that pur •
pose really costs the county three
dollars.
lowed by
Scouts:------
the Jacks’; or? Bov
The parade will start sharply at
six o’clock in the evening on
North Main Street, Fr lav, Sep-
tember 12th. After marching
around the square the column’will
assemble on the court h use lawn,
\\*here the Jacksboro band will
play. ^ After the band selections^
Mrs. 0. A. WorlKi'ngten Avill leaf,
and the band accompany the sing-'
ing of patriotic congn After the
singing Judge McKee'ey vrill de-
liver a short addreA on the sig-
nificance of the occasion. *
The program Avill end sharply
at seven o’clock. The co-opera-
tion of all citizens is requested t®
enable the marchers to appear on
time. All are urged to join in the
singing. Merchants are request-
ed to fly their flags all day and
until the end of the program. No
arms or field pieces will he in the
parade.
The chairman of the committee
desires to thank the other mem-
bers for their enthusiastic Avork:
Capt. J. R. Dennis. C. A. Worth-
ington, R. L. Gwaltney and C. E.
Putnam. Also the special com-
mittees, Mrs C. A. Wvrthingtnr,
patriotic songs; E. M. DaA*idson,
Jr., Band; Kyle Spiller. Veter-
ans; Rev. C. N. Wylie, Boy
Scouts; S. O. Callahan, flags and
decorations. . The entire commit-
tee appreciates the co-operation
and support of all those whfi are
working to make the program a
success.
Leo Rannev, Captain, O. R. (!.,
Chairman.
Things We Sometimes Forget
Every hat should be removed
Avhen the flag passes by.
While “The x Star Spangled
Banner is being sung, everybody
should stand and every hoCshould
be iemo\*ed until the song i.s elid-
ed.
Wichita Falls Boosters Coming.
The Gazette has recei\*ed an-
nouncement from the secretary of
the Wichita Falls Chamber of
Commerce that a special train
To the Jack County Veteran® cf
All Wars.
Veterans of all wars—Civil V.k.r
(both sides), Indian Wars, Span-
ish American War and World
War—are requested to march in
the Defense Day parade at Jacks-
boro, Sept. 12th, at six o’clock p.
m. Wear uniform if possible, im-
port on North Main Street. A
tomobiles will bo furnished ..
older or crippled veteran>
Kyle Spiller, Ccnir.iktee.
Marriage Licenses Issued.
George Garrison and Miss Ma-
ry Ladd, Sept. 6.
Horace W. Green and MissWiL
carrying about one hundred and lie Chambers, Sfept. 6.
twenty-five business men from j Frank Searber and Miss Beu-
that city would be in Jacksboro j ith Campsey, Sept. 9.
Wednesday, September 17th, | John Lee'and Mrs. Ad<Lc Bulk
I from 3:30 until 4 p. m.
,Sept. 9.
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Dennis, J. R. The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1924, newspaper, September 11, 1924; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729612/m1/1/?q=kitchen+cabinet: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.