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VOLUME 14
YOAKUM TEXAS: OeWITT AND LAVACA COUNTIES, MAY 14, igio.
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Official Statement of the Financial
Condition of the
Our people should not rest for COMMERCIAL CLUB PROCEEDINGS.
a moment until a sewer plant for, --
the city becomes an assured fact, j On last Thursday night' the
-------------- I Commercial Club met in called
If you want the correct popu-1 session in theK. P. hall,presided
lation of Yoakum, see to it that | over by VV. L. Burton, for the close°of business Con° the02nd day of lection of Mr. Peterson as su-
the enumerator Rets your name. ; purpose of seeing whether or not May lino published in The Yon- perintendent. He is a Rood
____: the club would join in with the e<l and miblished at Yoakum. State of man.-Cuero Record.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.
The Record notes the nomina-
tion of Prof. M. V. Peterson for
superintendent of the Cuero
pul lie schools in the Cuero
Star to succeed Prof. W. S.
Fie mi or, who Roes to BallinRer
next term and is Rlad of the
privilege to second the nomir.a-
1 tion. Prof. Covey, should he
leave for the position, would he
really entitled to the appoint-
ment, if the board viewed the
matter as we do, but assuming
that he prefers his present posi-
tion, the mantle of Prof. Flem-
ing should, we think, if he meets
the requirements, justly fall
upon the shoulders of Prof. Pe-
terson. Coming here a total
stranger a couple of years ago
to accept the principalship of
our schools he has endeared him-
self to the children by his fair
and impartial treatment of them
has made many friends among
our citizens and has demon-
strated his ability as a disciplin-
arian and instructor and if the
I board can see its way clear the
Record would rejoice at its se-
PUSH and pull for Yoakum ; if Sons of Hermann in giving a Texas, on the 8th day of May, 15)10.
you can’t do it, better puli’ up ! Mayday celebration, or to have a
stakes and hike for tall timber. ! Market Day.
ns ui
rl he latter was
RESOURCES.
Loiins and Discounts, personal or
Loans,
was moved (,vmlrar,:
a I ostali
.decided on, and it...... .......- ns„,eu,
„ i,„f the reconstruction of the Market jFalKaliltrI,.1,!'nk,n«h,u,s'‘'
Wlicit . . Other Real Estate.
Does any one realize -• - Dav committe by addins more to K«™imr.i>,«i ri.m,
Yoakum is missing by not havinj?. ■ . y ,. , .. *..................
a sewer plant, paved streets and!sa,d which motion
cement sidewalks ? j Preva,led' a n d ,th® f°llowlng
| names were added, II. Roos, J.
K. Eikins and E. C. Koerth.
If the enumerator fails to find j A motion prevailed to the ef-
you. notify Jake Lyons, Ross & fect that thc c]u^ work in con-
Shall, or the Secretary of thei junction with the Herman Sons
Commercial ( lub, Dr. McVea. ja their Mayday celebration with
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7,769.61
I, 200.00
9,000.00
000.00
J. 5H5.UO
THE MISSION DRUG STORE.
l!.22s.lU 3-.327.8ti
5S.80
A.‘.*snt.~
Dm* from otln*r Hanks am!
Bankers, uubjoct to eheek.
('ash Items........
Spcv'it*..4......................T.Tis.fiB 2ik09R.43
Other resources as follows; Uol. Acco’nt 52.50
TOTAL..... .........833 300.91
LIABILITIES.
Uapilal Slock paid in..............
Surplus Fund............
I Undivided I Yotit.. net
Due to Banks and Bankers, subject U
------- j moral support but without ftn:\n-
Take an inventory of your do-;cial assistance, and a committee,
ings for the past two years in | consisting of Messrs. H, Roos, J.
pushing Yoakum to the front, | N. Baylor and S. A. Carnes, was
and see just where you stand.
check
Individ
Time C<
Demand
(’heck - Cert ified
able,
laahi
unpaid
lal Deposits, subject :
Ttificates of Deposit
I Certificates of Depc
to cheek.
Deposit......
Hil's Payable. .
Other Liabilitie
follows; Dividends
I Reserved for Interest
appointed to wait on the rner-j totai.........
Of course our west side citi-
zens arc not millionaires, yet
that is no reason why they should
not have a decent school house.
chants as to furnishing floats for j j.k. «'•!’ n.V!Vn'‘
ileinnl.s
the celebration and to get them: Cttshier "f sai'' bank- °,lch ,,f u 'lo
| Welhausen as vice-president, and J.IO. Garnetl
g%- Lier of said bank
swear that the above statemi nt ii true to the best
close their business half a1 °r oul'knowl?jK<‘ ,H-,|luf- „
I'lUMP \V i:i,hauskn. Vice-rrexiilenl.
J. E. Gaunett. Cashier.
ri’he building formerly occupied
by VV. A. Dennerline as an ice
cream parlor, is now undergoing
extensive interior alterations,
which, when completed, will give
Y( akutn one of the handsomest,
neatest and most up-to-date drug
establishments to be found in this
i.ooo.ort' section of the state. The name
of this new candidate for public
patronage is “The Mission Drug
Store,” under the firm name of
Tooke & Majors. These gentle-
men have for a number of years
been engaged in the drug busi-
ness both here and at Cuero,
and enjoy a wide reputation as
thorough business men. Mr.
Majore, who is a graduated
pharmacist, w i 11 have have
bhUBO.OO
y. 7-10.27
‘.i.nat.si
2.11 22 V ih
liH.Fillil.hO
000.00
15.M0
10,000.00
21.00
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if:;:’, s, :nio. o:
to
day. ( s
The next important matter, m .......... charge of the prescription ,1c
acted upon was that or census; ia«i aforesaid.
.. . ... ~ W. F. Adams.
enumeration. A committee com-1 Notm-v i-unp
County of Lnvui'u.
CoRKECT—Attest:
Thirty thousand dollars is not
much when you come to consider posed of D. J. Shall and Jake
the great good the city would Lyons, was appointed to act with
derive by investing it in a sewer, tho enumerators in securing a
plant. ! proper report for Yoakum and to
— ■ " —..... issue proper advertising matter
When the enumerator calls on to carry out same,
you don’t put him off until the ^ A committee was also appoint-
morrow. Give him all the infor- ed to act with a committee from
mation he asks on his initial the VV. O. W. for a celebration! sun>iu
visit. j to take place on July 28, Yoa-! ankruyaiiii
_ j kum’s birthday. The committee j
One thing we Yoakumites like | are Philip Welhausen, Eck May
about ourseives is our all-around an(j y. q Koch.
J. Rich. KirchhofT,
VV. L. Orth.
J. E. Lanilr
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RECAPITULATION
RESOURCES.
Loans.....
RankinK Ilou.si
Cash and Exc)
<■ and fixtures
lantce...........
1.1 Alii UTILS.
Capital
partment, and Mr. Tooke will
attend to calls in the front of the
establishment. Starting out with
an entire new and fresh stock of
j drugs and other essentials to a
j business of this kind, they will
‘ .. I he in a position to cater to the j Ending a dental college at New
*47o*7<l! wants of the general public in aij^1'^In’n/g m C,,y vis,t,ng
ios,3,;o.ni!most satisfactory manner. Due! 1 s
notice will be given of the date I ,Xj• X. May, jr., of Moulton,
Local News
Mrs. VV. F. Adams has returned
from a pleasant visit to Houston.
J. H. Floyd, the piano tuner,
left Tuesday for Eagle Lake on
business.
J. E. Lander and Gus Rinn
were passengers north Monday
on business.
R. A. Wagner, the piano man,
was a business visitor to Wael-
der Monday.
J. F. Ullrich and wife have
returned from a pleasant visit to
relatives at Halletsville.
W. F. Traxler returned Mon-
day from a business visit to Hal-
letsvillc.
Mrs. George Eikel, of San An-
tonio, is the guest of Mrs. E. II.
Schwab.
Mrs. T. R. Jones and children
left Saturday for Silsby, their
future home.
Mrs. John Durst of San Anto-
nio, is the guest of Mrs. H. If.
Brown.
Mrs. Jake Lyons returned Fri-
day from a pleasant visit to the
home folks at Luling.
Master Mechanic T. F. Sullivan
returned Monday morning from
a business visit to San Antonio.
VVm. Heuermann, of San Ba-
tricio county, is in the city visit-
ing His mother and friends.
Mrs. E. J. Muecke returned
Monday from a pleasant visit to
relatives and friends at Moulton.
H. W. Patrick and wife of
Rock Island, returned home
Monday after a brief visit in the
city.
R. B. Thrift, Nixon’s wide-
awake merchant, was in the city
Sunday shaking hands with old
friends.
Mrs. A. VV. Woolsey and chil-
dren returned Saturday from a
pleasant visit to relatives at Oak-
land.
Special attention is directed
to the new ad of Will Johnston
& Co., which appears in this
issue.
Dr. Gray and v little son of
Shiner passed through the city
Saturday en route to San An-
tonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schoenberg
returned on the Crockett Mon-
day morning from a visit to San
Antonio.
Dr. Earl Vollentine who is at-
*' ot openin^,”io which a | ^ way To M^th^on catil^
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io.oo°.(»o1 yitation is extended the public to bUsint»ss.
superiority to the people of the
rest of this great and glorious
fountry.
A GREAT many of our citizens
seem to be troubled with “cold
feet” whenever any improve-
ments for the uplift of the city
is suggested.
ELECTION RETURNS!
MRS. W. L. ORTH ENTERTAINS.
Encourage the grading of our
streets and the putting down of
substantial sidewalks. Such im-
provements would prove quite a
drawing card for Yoakum,
More and more does it be-
come apparent that our town is
gaining nothing in the way of
material improvements so long as
the citizens refuse to pull to-
gether.
If you see the enumerator is
going to miss you, unintention-
ally, remind him of the fact that
you are a citizen of Yoakum and
of the United States and that
you are anxious to be counted in
as a member of Uncle Sam’s
family.
At the beautiful home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Orth in east
The school board election! Yoakum Friday night Sunday
passed off very quietly Saturday. School class No. .3 of the Chris-
Only 76 votes being polled and ^an Church gathered for a social
264.62ii.67
j be present and participate in the
hospitalities of this enterprising-
drug firm, Messrs. Tooke &
Majors. The Times bespeaks for
these gentlemen a lucrative busi-
ness and welcome to our mi 1st.
ENTERTAINS.
resulted as follows:
J. M. Haller.................30
H. Neumann.................76
A. J. Ross..................31
H. Rittner...................48
Jake Lyons -........ 50
Tho3. Smoot ...............69
From the above it will be seen
that two of the old board. Haller
and Ross were defeated and
Lyons and Rittner were elected
in their stead.
In this issue appears the state-
ment of the financial condition of
the Yoakum State Bank which
shows the individual deposits sub-
ject to check to be $231,325.48.
Read the statement which ap-
pears on tho front page.
evening. About twenty came at
the invitation of their teacher,
Mrs. Orth, and found everything
nicely arranged for a good time.
Each member was met at the
door by their teacher and a beau-
Miss Effie Shoaf, of Lockhart,
on last Tuesday afternoon enter-
tained the Girls Study club in
honor of Miss Storey. Besides
the members of tho club a few
.. of the nearest relatives of the
tiful badge presented to them to llonoree were present. A aeries
wcai tor the evening with the progressive hearts was played
Sunday school class No. 3, nicely an(] a nunljjer of handsome
printed on it and each to keep prjzes given. Then roses were
the same. The class enjoyed distributed to the guests and
themselves very much, and at they pu||e(1 the petaIa as they
10:30 were invited to tho dining j conned ,he conjuring words:
Whe7 »Sht re/seshments ..ghe lows me; 'she loves me
were served and at 11 o clock all .»> ■ . . . . .
repaired to th^ir homes thanking, and, fortune tempted,
their teacher for the enjoyable j emptied her whole quiver.”
occasion. | Miss Shoaf after this announced
—~ [that some time during the month
Mr. W. B. Tuttle, Vice Presi- of May the honoree, Miss Storey,
dent and
general manager of would be married to Mr. Lollie
Uncle Roxie Nichols of Lock-(the San Antonio Traction Go.. I Lyons of Sapulpa Okla
^in^^^Mr.-1 Th* WeU. of LoUl, in .....................................................................
tired list, arrived in the city' Lathrop, a capitalist of Newj*oaku™ vu*' J°1!1 I be iimes in. p|aCe on Saturday. The Times ket Day. This year cotton and
Saturday to spend a few days. York, spent Friday in the city j extending congratulations and | extends heartfelt sympathy and corn are their staples. - Cuero
The Yoakum Book Store will
give you 15 sheets examination
IN NEW QUARTERS.
Architect J. H. Yentzen, who
had his office with Ross & Shall,
has moved into the second story
of the Orth building just across
tho street, where Ho has fitted
up a neat office. Mr. Yentzen is
the architect for the Ross & Shall
Lumber Co., and also the super-
visor of buildings. Mr. Yentzen
informs The Times man that he
has been as busy a “cranberry
merchant” during his three
months’ stay in the city and finds
that he must have more room
and a private office to do his
work, hence his move.
SONS OF HERMAN IN FINE SHAPE.
The semi-annual inspection of
the book of the grand lodge,
Herman Sons of Texas, now in
progress here, has been almost
j completed.
It shows that the lodge now
has in effect insurance to the
amount of $13,345,000, with a
total membership of 14,704. The
grand lodge contains 254 main
lodges and 90 women’s auxilia-
ries. The membership since
January has increased 508.
The finance committee reports
that the Sons of Herman have
more than $575,000 in the re-
serve fund and in addition a
special fund of $175,000, the re-
turns from which are used in re-
ducing lHo annual assessments
of ths members of the order
wlio have been members in good
standing for twenty years. —San
Antonio Express.
HEALING SALVE FOR BURNS, CHAPPED
HANDS AND SORE NIPPLES.
As a healing salve for burns,
sores, sore nipples and chapped
hands Chamberlains Salve is most
excellent. It allays the pain of a
burn almost instantly, and unless
the injury is very severe, heals
the parts without leaving a scar.
Price. 25 cents, for sale by all
druggists.
Mr. and Mrs. VV. L, Orth, Dr.
VV. Shropshire and Rev. J. John
Ramsey have gone to Dallas, to
attend the Texas State Chris-
tian Convention.
Peter Raska and family arrived
in the city from Halletsville Mon-
day and will make Yoakum their
future home. Mr. Raska has a
position with 1). B. Cain & Co.
George Washington appeared
at Weymouth Drug Co. Monday
as advertised dressed in his colo-
nial costume and attracted much
attention. He was advertising
Snapp’s tobacco.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Opet
paper for 5c. See ad which ap- have returned from a visit to
pears elsewhere.
Chief J. J. Olsen, W. A. New-
som and J. D. Turner left Mon-
day for Temple, to attend the
Firemen’s Association.
Houston, and were accompanied
home by Mrs. Levy, who will
spend several days in the city as
their guest.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Stoermer
Mrs. VV. VV. Moore and chil->ld. chddr«.n and Mr. and Mrs.
dren arrived in the city from I.a- Hoeninphaus, in their
donia Saturday to join Mr.
Moore, who is manager of the
Yoakum Cotton Oil Mill.
Koerth Bro’s., are going to
give away their ♦‘400 piano on
July 1. For particulars read
their ad which appears on the
front page of this issue.
Thos. Lander and Mrs. N. G.
Hickman, of Clarksburg, Mo",
Maxwell autos, left at noon Sat-
urday for Beaumont. They
reached Houston at 1 p. m., and
spent the night in that city, ar-
riving in Beaumont at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon. They re-
turned to Eagle Lake Tuesday.
—Eagle Lake Headlight.
F. W. Kunetka, who as noted
in the Star heretofore with his
brother in-law, Mr. Morgan,
are in the city visiting their i now owns the former Capt.
father, the venerable J. A. Lan-| Lynch river farm, tells the Star
der. i that he has cut twelve loads of
_ ,, .... , ! alfalfa from two acres and ex-
F. Mergenthal returned on the i l)0Ct8 to get a lot more. 30 acres
Crockett Monday morning from j were planted last year by VV. P.
a business visit to Bay City ard j^pp bU( drouth prevented a
reports that rain is badly needed g0t,d stand on much of it and
in that section of the country. j (|ie weeds got a lot of it. He will
John McCurdy, father of Mrs. | extend his field as soon as prac-
A. A. Rowan of this city, died at i ticable, however, as he is dead
Pittsburg, Texas, Thursday, May stuck on the crop. In dairying
aged 94 years. Mrs. Rowan left and hog raising the farm is also
Friday to attend the burial of got tug a fine .start, as they took
her beloved father, which took the fitter prize at Yoakum Mar-
among his friends.
»I * a, nielli a i nifty I
|with Mr. J. W. Greer.
best wishes in advance.
i condolence to the bereaved ones. iStar,
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Lindenberg, H. A. Yoakum Weekly Times. (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 14, 1910, newspaper, May 14, 1910; Yoakum, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth758944/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.