Yoakum Weekly Times. (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 20, 1910 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME 14
YOAKUM, TEXAS: DeWITT AND LAVACA COUNTIES, AUGUST 2«, iqio.
NUMBER 51
l|)ou arc covtnallE iimteb
to attcnb
£bc (Straub (Opening
of our
IBew Store
Saturba^, Huoust 20tb, 1910.
1R. C. Jfltck Mercantile Co.
Souvenirs will be given to each’lady and gentleman
registering in our Store on Opening Day.
Tiff attorney general of the
State of Texas has ruled that a
As usual. William Jenninersl
Bryan does not know when he’s!
mnriied woman can not hold the.dh'Jjed. Although so recently
office of c>»u.ity school superin-
ton lent. The ruling is based on
the law that a married woman
can not execute a bond. Sift it
down to a line point and the laws
of Texas say that the wife
ought to hold the baby while
hu band holds the office—and
the pocket book. — Quatiah Ob-
server.
Gened down by Nebraska Demo
crats, he is now going through I
the motions of reading Illinois
Democrats out of the party.
Last year $600,000 was spent Borings have begun in New
in Cuba for new public schools. York City for the projected
■ 1 ■■■■ 1 bridge across the Hudson river
The railroads of the country j toward t he end of the city. It
have agreed not to advance rates vv>d be the greatest bridge en-
until November 1. I peering enterprise ot the age.
The newest addition to the
Pinchot - Ballinger controversy
has been made by the wife of
Louis R. Glavis, whose charges
against Secretary Ballinger pre-
cipitated the wretched contro-
versy. Mrs. Glavis has sued her
husband for divorce, and she
alleges that her husband olfered
her a government position and
attorney’s fees if she would
consent to a divorce.
The Weimar Mercury gives
the following discouraging re-
port from Colorado County.
Corn in many fields is ready for
gathering. Cotton is very nearly
on a standstill, very few blooms
to lie seen In some fields the
plant has been dying to a con-
siderable extent and small bolls
dropping off, all due to the pro-
longed drouth. A soaking rain
is needed to revive the plant.
Stock water is also reported very
scarce, while pastures are brown
and almost hare.
, , ., , , I The Christian Unity Founda-
AST eposi s o 01 ar) ua jtion composed of twenty-four
ural gas has been located m east- American Episcopalians, have
ern and northern Louisiana. . . -
__I cut out for themselves a particu-
larly large job in bringing about
Tiie mistakes ot a neighbor. the organice union of all Chris-
are generally so big that they, tians in the world, Protestants
completely shut out our own. j and Roman Catholics.
An exchange says “Texas has
elected a wet governor on a dry
platform.” The platform has
not yet been made, but when it
is The Statesman predicts that it
will agree with the nominee like
the verb and the nominative
case in the old Kirkham gram-
mar, “in gender, number and
person,” and still following the
rules of that old grammarian In
this case “the nominative case
will govern the verb.’’—Austin
Statesman.
- -........- - i r ~ i Ethel, aged five, had spent
Automobile owners may have, ^ ‘ -Johnson, ox-I resident nearjy tjie whole morning in try-
money to burn, but judging from ,ot lexas 1 ress Association, |jng )0 Vijn tjle companionship.of
the odor it must be more orless!^as been elected to the senate i her brother. He, however, was
tainted. I from the Twenty-ninth district, au enprroSge<i in hiSt0p, Whieh he
=———jin the Panhandle. Ihe writer jiaj jusj- ]earnet] how to spin,
If you know of any means: “ends cons^tiilations, knowing] therefore, superbly indiflfer-
available to present Ihe attrac., Bro Johnson ,s the nKht man ,n | c.„t hia ,itt|e sister. Finally
the light place. she- could bear her loneliness no
tions of Yoakum and vicinity to
the prospective homeseekers,
tell it to the Yoakum Commer-
cial Club.
Oregon farmers are importing
heavy draft stallions of t he purest
_ : blood from Belgium for which
rr.1 f . . , j they pay $2500 to $3500, The
The sum of $2r600,000 is to be - - XT n
. . , . . ’ , -n farmers of the Northwest are
spent in reclaiming the Ever-',, . .. . , ,
Blades of Florida, (6,000,000
longer, and, running to her
mother, said : “Please, mamma,
I’ve decided that I want to he a
boy. Do you suppose it’s too
late now ?’’
acres) and the construction of
several hundred miles of drain-
age canals.
to improve the quality of horses
in that region.
The Scientific American raises
the question why we permit an-
nually the exportation of more
than a million tons of our best
J. O. V. Wise, a Longmont, j
Colorado, farmer, claims all i
records for a grasshopper harv- i , , . , . , . .
est. In three days he garnered
125 bushels of “hoppers.” He
used oil to kill them. Wise says
he will dry the grasshoppers and
feed them to his chickens next
winter.
ceive the paltry sum of $5,000,-
000. This carries away from the
United States an amount of the
only element of plant food we
j should ever need to buy, that, if
j retained, will be worth one
Along with the great con-1 thousand million dollars in the
cerns of wide scope whose af-1 production of food for future
fairs have been looked into by ■ generations.— Lx.
the Government, some of the j
laundry concerns are having; California oil fields seem to be
their troubles, for the Govern- j Jar from reaching their maxi-
ment is considering evidence [mum yet. The wonderful Lake
bearing on the existence of a View gusher produced 4,000,000
laundry trust at the national j barrels of oil in its first 86 days,
capital. j besides what went to waste in
- ■ ■— , spite of all the efforts to control
Quite an excitement has been J the flow. One of these was to
stirred up in Nevada over the!build a wall of sacks of sand
reported finding of the Comstock ! around the well to collect the
vein which produced so many!oil. By this means a pool was
million dollars a generation ago. i made 75 feet across and 30 feet
The- newly discovered vein pro- [above the top of the well,
duces as high as $50,000 a ton} 1 ■ ■
and some of the rock is said to be
almost pure gold.
The steel mills of the country
are working everywhere for ad-
ditional supplies of iron ore.
Sixty thousand acres of ore land
in Texas will be developed by
powerful steam shovels, the ore value
mined by dynamite, emptied into Value
Various fruits and nuts con-
sumed in this country and which
for years had been imported, are
being grown at home to an ex-
tent that points to the cutting
off of Imports altogether. In
1890 we imported oranges worth
$2,000,000 and last year their
was less than $100,000.
of imported raisins in
immense cars, rushed to the; 1890 $2,000,000, last year $333,-
coast, emptied into large vessels 000. In other fruits and nuts
and carried to Philadelphia, such as bananas, almond and
thence shipped to the steel mills, cocoanuts importations are
in the interior of Pennsylvania, largely increasing.
The railroads seem hopeless in
their obstinacy, and now it is an-
nounced that they propose to
evade the rulings of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission by
putting the passengers who buy
tickets at the rates fixed by the
Commission in old, uncomforta-
ble cars, thus driving a certain
class of passengers into the Pull-
man cars, where they will he
charged higher rates in addition
to what they have to pay for a
Pullman. If the roads do this,
it will simply compel the Com-
We want to say a good word
for the man who meets his small
obligations promptly. They are
not as plentiful as they should be
and the man needs encouraging.
Most men will pay, but fewer
will pay promptly. Almost any
firm will testify that counting
the time, postage, booking and
the like, it costs all some ac-
counts are worth to collect them,
and still the rnan owing it to
them is perfectly responsible in
a financial way. It very often
happens that the worst sinner in
this particular is the man best
able to pay.—Nixon News.
A SUMMERGROWING legume
which should receive more atten-
tion in the South, is the velvet
be in. The fact that it will not
usually ripen seed in the north-
ern half of the Cotton Belt, has
served to limit its use; but it is
such a vigorous grower, produc-
ing such tremendous quantifies
of feed, and gathering such
Urge quantities of nitrogen from
the air, th«.t it should he more
extensively grown whenever
these objects are sought and the
land can be given to it for the
entire seasom Raleigh (N. C.)
Progressive Farmer and Gazette.
n Striking Contrast «
Presents itself to the farmers of Lavaca and
DeWitt counties today as compared with that of a
hundred years ago when cotton seed was left on
the ground to rot. The Yoakum Cotton Oil Co. is
prepared to receive all the seed brought to its
door, and will pay the highest spot cash for same.
Patronize home industry. There i > reason why
the farmers of this sect ion shou' carry their cot-
ton seed to other mills mil and miles aw:1''.
Here you will receive good 1 reatment and living
prices for your products .i trial is all we ask.
We also manufacture ,xe famous Cotton Seed
Flour, the most nut*, ,ous food on earth for man;
highly recommended by all physicians as one of
the best foods for those suffering withTubureulosis
and Brights’ Disease. For rale by all grocers.
Yoakum Cotton Oil Co.
A School of Applied Designs! Some mercy should in shown
is an appropriately named resort by critics to Mr. Roosevelt’s
for promoters. children. What have they done
■------------- j to deserve so much attention ?
Twenty thousand dollars was -------------------l -
paid July 1 to Richard Parr, the W. J. Bryan’s prohibition issue
New York customs employe, j indicates that, he isn’t quite sat-
whose vigilance in detecting isfied that free silver was as fatal
frauds in underweighing sugar1 to the Democratic party as is
imports saved the Government | commonly supposed.
more than $2,000,000. Parr’s j ----------.....
total reward is to he $100,000.
For the remaining $80,000 Secre-
tary MacVeagh will ask Congress j
to make the necessary provision. I Ilalletsville, lex
The money came out of the
moiety fund.
TERMINATE TEN YEARS’ SERVICE.
So, with even tread, in solid phalanx,
with confidence in victory, Republicans
of Ohio, let us march forward to the
polls in November. —Senator Burton.
There have been finer perora-
tions than that. There was, for
instance, the one in which war
was described as having slain its j Xoxas
thousands, while gold sent tens
of thousands to another world.
Then there was the famous anti-
climax : “We have begged and
they have mocked ; we appeal
no more, we defy them.” The
Aug. 12.
| Professor F. P. Guenther, who
j has been county superintendent
j of schools of this county, has
TlIE Advocate mentions a pos-1 tendered his resignation to the
sihility of Judge John M. Green commissioners c~urt, now in ses-
locating in Victoria since his up- sion, to take effect Sept. 1. The
pointment there has been an. ini- j ,:Jurt has accepted the resigns-
pression that. Judge Green might ... ,
move to some of the moreac-j lon and appointed I rolessor
cessible county seats of his dis- ^iHiam Filers, the democratic
trict and the Star would be de-1 nominee at the recent primaries,
lighted if he should
come to Cuero.
a better citizen or a more (L sira- , „ . ,
hie family. Ho would be among ig lve m a f(’\v ^‘G'S J°r Ganyon
friends who recognize his great [City, he having been elected to
legal and natural ability and whoia professorship in the new state
delight to honor him. - Cuero; normal located there. Professor
.Guenther has made a most effi-
Meanv\ hiie The Times hopes icjent county superintendent of
that Judge Green and his esti-iBcll00,B> havin>, j tho
muble family will continue to re-|8choo,8 of this county on a high
side in Yoakum, the best town in j8t;indard. IIo hekl' Hu} office
[from the time of its creation, for
about ten years, having had no
il YYUUIVI Vli;- | U'JMlim v fMllimiK'S,
hould choose to ; to fill the unexpired term of Prof.
We couldn t. get j Guenther Prof. Guenther will
Sad indeed is the home of the
democratic gubernatorial nomi-j
nee, O. B. Colquitt, for they are!
mourning the death of their little j
*, ------. - - —« -------- ----son. Walter F. Colquitt, whose1
.ucree Commission io prescribe a utterances 0f other Titans might demise occurred in Austin Aug.!
certain style of cars and certain qUOteci to niake clear that the
comforts and conditions for those |Senator ;8 no olympian, but it is,
opposition during his entire time.
A SAD DEATH.
who pay the regular rates.—
National Tribune.
The statement attributed to
John H. Schofield, secretary of
the United Butchers of America,
makes interesting'reading. Mr.
difficult to withhold a tribute to
the “even tread,” though the
speaker should have added that
Ohio Republicans have been
treading on each other.
Mr. Otto Karney went fishing
8. Every courtesy and attention Tuesday on theRickaway branch
has been shown the Bereaved Rod did not return to his home
family. The governor and other that evening. Search was insti-
prominent officials were among tuted Wednesday and on Thurs-
the pallbearers and all depart- day morning his body was found
merits of the state house wore in the watet^s of the above branch,
closed the day of the funeral. The supposition is that Mr. Kar-
This sorrow coming just at the ney who was subject to epileptic
Schi,field nays that the butchers wS"™v“"d :close. f his strenuous and rue- fits, that while in one foil into
sen neia says mat Uie butchers (able aml> unjeg8 t0day’s reports of the csssful campaign calls forth the the water and could not help
propose to establish co-operative government bureau on the cereal cro.pu sympathy ev' ii of his most hitter himself and was drawned.
ffnivQ wViipVi will lshould prove much worse tluin is ex* i , . , rni • 1 . %
abauon&wnicn win enable them, i I)0Ctetli th9 out)ook iH for H rapij ex- opponents. - Gonzales inquirer. I h* remains will he interred
largely from the profit to belpansionof trade.-New York Herald, j -------in the Pilot Grove cemetery to-
made in marketing the by-pro-j Correct. With good crops will, The dastardly, murderous at- day, at 10 a. m., funeral leaving
ducts such as hides and tallow,; come conditions which should re-1 tack made upon William J. here at 6 o’clock this morning,
to sell meats to the consumer suit in trade expansion, always Gaynor, New York city’s chief He leaves a number of refa-
away below the prices at present providing that the government1 magistrate, lust Tuesday morn- tives to whom the Herald ex-
charged. This is an attractive j will permit. But, government ing, has aroused universal re- tends condolence in this their sad
proposition, but whether thesis now understood—or as now sentment throughout the nation, hour of bereavement.— Halle!;>
butchers have resources suffi-; conducted-includes the regula-'lt is as stupid a crime as was ville Herald,
cient to PUt-it into execution is tion of business, and such regula-1 ever conceived in the diseased
at least doubtful. Nevertheless tion is subject to change at j mind of an assassin. Yet it. hut SORE NIPPLES
the United Butchers will com-j every meeting of a Legislature, I shows that the more useful a —
mand sympathy even if they do national or state. Never know-'public man the more he is ex- -^n-Y mother who'has had
not achieve success. They are ing what to expect, those who posed to the designs of the ene- £xPerjence wit'h this ailment will
engaged in a popular fight. Any are engaged in trade are always mies of society. The nation’s cure may'he eff(«cted°hy applying
movement having for its object wondering what will happen resentment is fully justified. But Chamberlain’s Salve as poo A a*
the cheapening to the general next and whether regulation will a few months as Mayor of the the child is done nursing. Wipe*
public of the necessities of life he a synonym for ruin. Hence, City of New York, William J. lt off. witJi a soft doth before
gets a welcome, even if it never uncertainty ; also apprehension. Gaynor has won the golden opin- -the» ^ u r.S t‘'
passes beyond the stage of dis- Hence, hope for tho best and— ions^of all sorts and conditions saLve"v^t^^st resuits l1 Jr
cussion, fear of the vrorbt. gf mei^. ^by all druggibt*.
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Lindenberg, H. A. Yoakum Weekly Times. (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 20, 1910, newspaper, August 20, 1910; Yoakum, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth758841/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carl and Mary Welhausen Library.