The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XI.
PADUCAH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916.
No. 16.
BAPTIST MEETING CLOSED
j The revival meeting of the
j First Baptist church closed last
OVER THE STATEVs-day night with ten additions
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MANY PLACES STORMS HAVE!
DONE INJURY TO THE
CROPS
The storm that swept South
Texas Friday the 18 wreaked in-
calculable damages to the crops.
This storm covered the territory
severely from Brownsville on the
extreme south to Uvalde on the
west and Matagorda on the east,
diminishing its fury before reach-
ing Austin. The worst of the
storm as to crop damages seemed
to center around Cotulla, La
Salle county. Feed crops were
largely damaged and cotton suf-
fered in great proportions. Open
to the church, six by baptism
and four by letter.
Rev. A. J. Morgan of Fort
Worth, who did the preaching,
1 delivered some plain, forceful
j sermons, which aided all who
j heard him. The house was crowd-
I ed every service, and the meeting
j has proven a blissing to the town
and country.
The music, under the super-
vision of Mr. Lamm, was splen-
did, and added much to the
success of the meeting.
JURY LIST FOR SHOOTING AT
COUNTY COURT TENNESSEE VALLE!
HAS BOB CAT
DOCKET IS EXPECTED TO BE NEWT. LEMMONS AND WIFE
LIGHT FOR THIS TERM
OF COURT
Following is the jury list for
The Bob cat in the window of
the Home Furniture Co. attracted!
quite a crowd last week. It is
a pretty animal, 4 months old.
being captured in the Dumont
settlement by the Scott boys. CULBERSON
The little note at the bottom
of the description oc.-'.ssi >ned,
quite a lot of fun. It reads: |
Will sell or trade for good'
_ horse.” Several have been heard j
to remark that folks must think [
Last Thursday afternoon the them crazy if they thought they
that would give a horse for a thing
wife had like that,
both had--
ARE SHOT—J. C. LEM-
MONS HELD
ELECTION RETURNS
IN LEAD FOR.
SENATOR—IRONS LEADS
IN ASSESSOR’S RACE
Mrs. McAdoo Rests Well
WHEAT SOARING HIGH
Wheat is still going higher,
which makes the farmers of this
county who have any for sale
feel good. Last Saturday there
were several wagon loads sold on
Paducah at $1.50
the streets of Paducah at
cotton was beaten out and green j per bushel.
fcv. I
bolls beaten off. The stalks were
damaged so that a new growth
seems impossible. A heavy rain
accompanied the wind over most
of t ic territory.
I endall and Kerr Counties
C) ops in Kendall county are
badl y injured by hail in the
earl, season and have never re-
covi red. All crops in Kerr are
abo\ e the average and all stock
in j rime condition.
B isco, Swisher, Castro and
Deaf Smith
R tins have fallen. All erops
pre' iously placed at about 50
per, cent still hold good. Fav-
orable exceptions for land scien-
tifically prepared are made. The
land that has been worked under
the demonstration methods will
make much better crops than
the other land.
Delta and Lamar
We are needing rain very bad-
ly. Cotton deteriorating, shedding
and rust developing. Cotton,
65 per cent; sorghum, for mo-
lasses, 50 per cent.
Fisher County
Cotton, 25 per cent; sorghum,
25 per cent; corn. 5 per cent;
Stock water very scarce.
Taylor, Mitchell and Nolan
All crops are slightly below
average, yet the country will not
have to import any feed stuff.
Cotton picking is now under
wav.
j Stonewall and Haskell
All crops suffering for warn of
rain. No boll weevil. The early
make, kafir corn and feterita is
holding up well.
■ Hopkins and Hunt
Corn, 90 per cent; cotton, 75
per cent. All hay crops, 90 per
cent. Hot and dry.
Wood and Rains
Cotton, 80 per cent; corn, 100
per cent. Hot and dry. Late
fruits and gardens are suffer-
Eastland and Callahan
Cotton deteriorating, especially
on hard lands. Peanuts shedding
badly. Fruit crops suffering.
SWeet potato acreage growing.
Potter County
Rains have fallen during the
week. Sudan grass and sorghum
greatly benefited.
FEED BEING SOLD
There were several wagon loads
of feed sold on the streets of
Paducah last Saturday. It was
mostly this year’s maize, an
was as fine as anyone could asK
for. A nice price is being re-
ceived for it. ,
We are of the opinion that tnc
farmers of this county are ma -
a mistake by selling feed at
time of year. The chances
that they will need it before
next year is out, and it th y
have some left over to sell
t can certainly get more tor
ext spring than they can at
time.
the coming term of county court,: message reached Paducah
* _ . , . Newt. Lemmons and witf
which convenes at Paducah on been shot> ail(1 that
the 4th of September. The court been taken to Quanah for metli-
is expected to be very light this i Cal treatment. j -
term as there are not many cases1 It is alleged that Newt. Lem- Spring Lake, N. J., Aug. 28.—
’ tv, etiL chm ! mons and his father became ni- The condition of Mrs. W illiam
now on the docket, and the chan-^ Jn a dif£iculty. That the | Gibbs McAdoo, wife of the sec-
"1 : senior Lemmons ran into the rotary of the treasure and daugh-
| house; that Newt, attempted ; ter of President Wilson, who is ill
But while the wheat is going
“out of sight,” flour is also
making just a little gain, to
which fact all of us can testify,
whether we have, wheat for sale
or not.
ces are that not many more
be filed:
First Week to follow him into the house, but! at her home from a mild ease of
Ivy Gunn, R. A. Findley, G. T.! that he was prevented from en- , typhoid fever, is said tonight to
Andrew's, R. S. Liedtke, C. W.! tt|r|n^ ftlie door; that Newt. bV better.
Lewis, J H. Marrs, Ernest Stew- j then tried to break in a win-
art, Ed Thompson, Sam Lynch, | ^and^nter thay-ay; that.
MEETING CLOSES AT BUCK
CREEK
Rev. Wright closed a meeting
at Buck Creek Sunday which was
very successful, there having
Following is the report of the
second primary that was held
in Cottle county last Saturday.
Not much interest was taken
in the election, and it was an ex-
ceptionally quite affair. A large
crowd was in town in the after-
noon, but the morning showed no
extra large crowd. The excep-
tional order in the city during
both elections is worthy of special
mention:
Box No. 1—Paducah
_______ Culberson ................. 189
SHREVEPORT RATE EFFECT-1 £°|?ultt .....84
IVE NOVEMBER 1
II. R. Love, J. J. Boley, A. G. j mjssed) but that the ball struck
Bigliam, W. V. Bigham, «T. M. [ Mrs. Newt. Lemmons in the j Washington, Aug. 27.—The re-
Biddy, Frank Glover. W. E. Bass, right shoulder going through that: adjustment of freight rates recent-
...... ’ ’’ ‘ ordered by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission to become ef-
fective from Shreveport to East
Texas points Oct. 1, was today
postponed until Nov. 1 to give
the railroads more time to read-
just the new schedule.
J. A. Crump and O. T. Britton. I into the right hand and out; that
Second Week latter firing at Newt. Lemmons
E S Malone. S. three times J. C. Lemmons shot
him the third time, the ball en-
tering the right shoulder, rang-
ing downward into the side.
The direct cause of the trouble
is not* known. The above is the |
in Paducah. ILLINOIS WON’T HOLD
SOL-
J. I. Crump,
A. Marrs, S. L. Biddy, O. D.
Stephens, J. W. Fannin, N. C.
Wren, Roy Gary, J. H. Rountree,
June Watts, F. L. Briggs, Chas.
Delaney, J. B. Brothers, W. IT.
, . . ; Beavers, J. A. Carr. C. C. Me- report given out
been ten additions to the dhurch,; . , R p Criswell andR H.l J- C. Lemmons was plaeed un-
five bv baptism and five by let- m jr 'der a $2,000 bond, a $1,000 in -
ter. The Giusite people are well! ’ __ each case, to await the action of Springfield, Aug. 2i.—Because
pleased with the outcome of the' ATTflTPTATJ LAND IN HEART the grand jury. iof a sufficient number of the
meeting. * j OF ROME IS SEIZED
Rev. Wright left for Chalk j -
Monday where he will liold^ a Rome, Aug. 27.—By royal de-
HEALTH NEWS
DIER” LEGISLATURE
members of the general assem-
bly failed to answer favorably.
1 Gov. Dunn has announced
protracted meeting during this
week and perhaps next.
■ ~ -----
PUBLISHING TAX LIST
The commissioners of King
county are having the delinquent
tax list of that county published
in The Post thW w6ek. It is
not such a lengthy one, but we
note that there are people living
in Cottle cclinty who have land1 to the Vatican for safe keeping.
cree the Italian government last
night took possesion of the his-
toric Palazzo di Venezia, an
Austrian territory in the heart of
the city of Rome for several cen-
turies. The public demand for
the confiscation of this Austrian
plot has been increasing since the
outbreak of the war with Aus-
tria. The government turned
Austrian embassy records over
delinquent Ik King county. It
would pay ea^h °f our readers
who own land in that county to
look over this list and see if
you are in the clear on the rec-
ords of that county.
It is too often the case that
people buy land without examin-
ing the records very closely,
thinking that the taxes have been
paid. It developes later that
they are not, or at least the
county has no record of it. This
makes people “sore” and “cuss’
the government. It would be
well for each man to examine
the records in this country and
see if he has a clear title so far
as taxes are concerned.
The Palazzo di Venezia consists
of a large place and a smaller
one, erected in the thirteenth
century. Pope Pins IV presented
the buildings to the public of
Venice in 1560 and they' later
came into posession of Austria.
Austria was using the buildings
for her embassy at the outbreak
of the war.
U. S. AROUSED BY SEIZURE
OF FISHING BOATS
COTTON SELLS FOR 15
CENTS
Several bales of cotton sold in
Paducah last Saturday for 15
cenfs per pound, the (iidlest
price being paid in this section
for many years. The staple was
middling grade, and on account of
benig gathered without any rain
having fallen on it, was spotless.
There is no doubt but what old
Cottle county will yet come into
her own. With cotton bringing
such prices as above quoted, the
seed bringing at the same time
$36 per ton, the feed crop being
much better than at first thought
for, there is no cause for a “Blue
Feeling” to be felt here.
BRITAIN SEIZING GRAIN FOR
HOLLAND
SOME OOOL WEATHER
e have been having some real
fall weather this week. The
_ have been very cool, ana
mornings have made many
le hdnt up their old coats
t hadf almost been forgotten.
------*—'there* was a
fell in Pa-
t enough to
k
Washington, Aug. 28.—Dr.
Henry Vandyke, United States
minister to Holland, cabled the
l state department Saturday that
Great Britain is seizing all car-
goes of grain billed for Holland
on the ground that the grain
might be distilled into spirits for
the use of the enemy.
The Dutch government has or-
dered all burgomasters to take
possession of the new crop in
Holland for am equitable dis-
tribution. The .^ British idl-
ing will make it difficult for
the Dutch to get enough grain
for their own consumption.
is confirmed by many observa-
tions, that many physicians who
have devoted considerable labor
to the study of a particular di-
sease have themselves died of
that disease One of the most
interesting examples is that of
John Daniel Major, born Aug.
16, 1634, in Breslau, a physician
and naturalist, of no mean ability.
Bitten early by the wanderlust,
he studied at Wittenburg, took
courses at many of the schools
in Germany, and finally went to
Italy where he received the de-
gree of doctor of medicine at Pa-
dua in 1660. Returnnig to his I
own country, he resided for a
short time in Silesia, and in 1661
married at Wittenburg. The fol-
lowing year his young wife was
stricken with plague and died
after an illness of eight days.
Distressed by his loss, Major
wandered up and down Europe
studying plague wherever he
found it in the hope that he
might discover a cure for the di-
sease which had bereaved him.
Spain, Germany and Russia were
visited by him. He settled in
1665 in Kiel,where he was made
professor of botanj and the di-
rector of the botanical gardens.
He made frequent voyages, how-
that one African “vesseT was j ever, always in quest: for a ireta-
seized off the Iceland fishing | edy for pl^e.
Irwin Laughlin, the I he was called to Stockholm to
It is a remarkable fact that ! will not call a special session of
the legislature to consider giving
♦ he soldiers at the border the
right to vote by mail in the com-
ing election.
ITALY DECLARES WAR ON
GERMANY
Washington, Aug. 27.—The
state department is preparing a
protest against the seizure of
American fishing vessels off the
coast of Iceland by Great Britain
and the reported refusal of Can-
adian port authorities in tile Pa-
cific to provide American fishing
vessels with supplies.
It has been officially informed
banks.
American charge at London, has
sent to the state department the
report of the master of the vessel
seized. It is proposed to link the
two causes of complaint in one
note, as they are regarded as
closely related.
YOUTH STEALS OFFICER’S
HORSE
Texarkana, Ark., Aug. 27.—A
strange young man today stole
the horse of Mounted Officer Vir-
gil Grigson from the hitching
post, only a dozen yards from
the police station, and rode rap-
idly away. He was pursued by
two officers and was captured
late this afternoon twenty-five
miles west of here and brought
back and lodged in the county
jail here. A warrant charging
horse theft has been issued. He
gave his name as Joe Jenks.
treat the queen of Charles the
Eleventh, then ill with plague.
But before he could render her
any service, he contracted the di-
sease and died on the third of
August.
The bubonic plague of today
is identical with the black death
of the Middle Ages. Primarily
a disease of rodents caused by
a short dumb-bell shaped micro-
scopic vegetable, the pest bacil-
Berlin, Aug. 27.—Italy has de-
clared war on Germany, it was
announced officially today. The
announcement follows:
“The Italian government has
declared that from Aug. 28 it
considers itself at war with Ger-
many.”
Brains and energy make a
splendid team, but in single
harness neither is worth a hot
dog.
Bolt
Irons ..................... 197
Box No. 2
Culberson .................. 16
Colquitt ................... 15
Bolt ....................... 2
Irons ...................... 12
Box No. 3
Culberson .................. 14
Colquitt.................... 18
Bolt ....................... 21
Irons ...................... 12
Box No. 4
Culberson .................. 10
Colquitt ................... 12
Bolt ....................... 3
Trons ...................... 19
Box No. 5
Culberson .................. 14
Colquitt.................... 22
Bolt ....................... I?
Irons ...................... 25
Box No. 6
Culberson .................. |
Colquitt ................... 6
Bolt ....................... 3
Irons ...................... 4
Box No. 8
Culberson .................. I3
Colquitt ................... 6
Bolt ....................... 11
Irons ...................... 18
Box No. 9
Culberson .................. 15
Colquitt.................... 32
Bolt ....................... 11
Irons ......................
Box No. 10
Culberson ................. I3
Colquitt ................... 41
Bolt ....................... I7
Irons ...................... 36
Box No. 11
Culberson ................. 9
rat, seeks refuge and sustenance
on the body of a human being
to whom it transfers the infec-
tion.
Since plague is a disease of
rodents and since it is carried
from sick rodents to well men
by rodent fleas, safety from the
disease lies in the exclusion of
rodents, not only exclusion from
the habitation of man, but also
from the ports and cities of the
world. Those who dwell in rat-
proof surroundings take no such
a disease as plague. Not only
i_____ _____ should man dwell in rat proof
lus, it occurs in man in three | surroundings, but he should also
forms; the penumonic, which has live in rat-free surroundings, lhe
a death rate of almost 100 per
cent; the septicaemic, which has
a death rate of nearly as much.
Life in high society; “ Just one; c0iqUitt ................... 6
affinity after another.” B0it ....................... 1
Irons ...................... 14
in much the same way as is dip- ■ ®ox ^°* ^
htheria antitoxine. , Culberson .................
Plague is transferred from the!Colquitt ...................
siek rodent to the well man by (Bolt .......................
fleas. The sick rat has enormous j Irons ..... •■ • • • • • ........
numbers of plague bacilli in its • _
blood. The blood is taken by I Culberson ................. 1
the flea which, leaving the sick Colquitt ...................
day is past when the rodent
served a useful purpose as the
a uroiu ________unpaid city scavenger. Rats will
and the bubonic in which even ! not come where there is no food
with the most modern methods of | for them. Municipal cleanliness
treatment the mortality is about!may be regarded as a partmMn-
50 per cent. It is a disease of
commerce, spreading around the
globe in the body of the ship-
borne rat, It is estimated that
every ease of human plague costs
Irons ...................... 23
Box No. 14
Culberson .................. 13
Colquitt ................... 6
Bolt ....................... 11
Irons ....................... 8
Totals
Culberson ................ • 328
Colquitt .................. 287
Bolt ...................... 196
Irons .. ....................430
BIG PURCHASE FOE STATE
INSTITUTION
snrance against plague. The
prayer that no plague come nigh
nur dwelling is best answered,
however, by rat-proofing the hab-
itations of man. Modern sani
OFFICERS’FIRE INTO STREET
OAR
». Aug. 27—One
killed and two
' St. Louis, Mo. Aui
passenger was killec
were injured here this afternoon
firing at two
shot into
the municipality in which it oc- tary science has developed a sim-
curs at least $7,500. This does
not take into account the enor-
mous loss due to disastrous quar-
tines and the commercial par-
alysis which the fear of' the di-
sease produces. ) „ .
The disease is now treated by
•1*
genius
pie and efficient weapon against Yes, yes, it’s quite true,
the pestilence which walketh in lone is sure to be elected
Austin, Aug. 28.—A number of
large purchases were made by
George Leavy, state purchasing
agent, during the week, all of
them being on the open market.
Purchases included 80,000 bar-
rels of crude oil at 80 cents per
barrel; 20,000 gallons of gaso-
line at 16 cents per gallon; and
15.000 tons of coal.
The state purchasing agent
has practically concluded the
awarding of contracts calling
for $1,750,000 worth of supplies.
darkness and striketh at noonday,
and the United Slates Health
Service has put this knowledge
into practical operation and thus
speedily eradicated plague wher-
ever it has appeared in the Unit-. J^dingJh
dent, but just now both sides
insist -that they are going ito
elect their man. WWcan’t give
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