The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914 Page: 1 of 10
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El Campo, Texas, Friday Morning, May 8, 1914.
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SESSION
CITY FATHERS
in Private
Oic« Report*-
t Salary Modelled
Condi met in regu-
late night those pre-
Al-
York, Mann
appointed to
grader and drag for
they had found
and pur-
to arrange for
•rfc of dty reported
io arraagemeot with
the work for what*
toot of it
wm reappointed as
Dr. Uneecum
as dty
Dr. Redwine
; poaition,
hpard |fif
him: Dr*. Grant
and Pans
C* E. Erie-
W. Doaon Upon
of fire depart
was re-
tgi
of the street
his report
' It
lengthy document
the work done
and offering many
to the Council for
of our sanitary
Mh aa the cleaning
securing of proper
at. systematic col*
etc.
tod to the fire de-
the purpose of de-
of four dele*
firemen’s conven-
l i ■ »•.
ton was presented
Joe Ue for appointment as
School Board Meets
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The school board of the El
Campo District met Monday even-
ing and canvassed the returns
of the election held last Saturday
for the purpose of electing three
trustees to serve a term of two
years. It was found that S. F.
Bates, J. E. Evans and C. H.
Ruddell had received the highest
number of votes and they were
declared duly elected. J. E. Me
Iver was elected to take the
scholastic census. No further
business # appearing the meeting
adjourned. Below is tne vote
for Trustees at the election Sat-
urday: J. E. Evans 154; C. H.
Ruddell, 151; S. F. Bates,* 150;
Oscar Lund, 22; A- M. Reef, 17;
J. Graves, 15; scattering 3; muti-
lated 3; total voting 175.
Have You Met Him?
“1 met in town today,” said
the good man to his wife, “the
friendliest man I’ve ever met4n
alt my wandering life. He smil-
ed and grasped my hand and'
.called me by my name, and I re-
turned his hearty greeting just
to show him that I was game. I
supposed he was mistaken and
that he soon would see it was
some one else he wanted and not
just me. But he quickly set
those fears to rest when he ask-
ed for brother Jirp and before 1
had time to answer said he knew
your Uncle Tim. He knew your
maiden name quite well and used
to know your father, and named
your brothers every one without
a bit of bothers. It is thus
he kept me guessing wondering
who that he might be, and all
the time he was talking right
straight out to me. He talked
about the weather and the pros-
pects for a crop, and asked about
the hogs I sold at a price up near
the top. * Finally I got to think-
ing maybe this was cousin Ned,
who for years we hadn’t heard of
and supposed he might be dead.
But when I thought it over I
knew that could not be, for such
I friendly feeling Ned never had
M a salary for $25 *or me* * gav® fluest UP
U thoaUbe explain-1and for*Dt my consternation and
,,-ftirn af day roar- i*tarted 10 enj°y the sprightly
a Misty of p^lconversation. I had a lively time
■n-lfirfirr *■» | with this, my new found friend
i m both marshal and
each office
The ap-
the chairman of
Ittee as street
The World’s All Right
Mv boy, it's a pretty good world, you’ll find,
If you look .straight ahead and don’t Icok behind.
Though it snows sometimes,
v And it blows sometimes,
And. you think its flooded with woes
sometimes,
r! . ' • • i- '
it’s a glad old world,
And a sad old world—
Or-a bad old world
When you make it so. .
But just bear in mind wherever you go
That somewhere the grand old sun’s aglow.
“Git up and git’’
rf
And a lot of grit
Are the things that label a man as “fit.”
There’s a shadow here and a dark place
there,
But you’ll find the sunshine is everywhere,
If you took for it. Chirk up! Elate!
Rub the word “Pessimist” off your slate!
Meet the knocks with a grin,
But never give ip,
And, sooner or later; you’re bound to
- win! —C* P* McDonald -
Marketing Eggs at a Profit
As we are now getting to the
time of year where eggs will
spoil in a very short time on ac-
count of the very hot weather
that we have heYe in the south.
It is said that $45,000,000 is
lost every year between the pro-
ducer and the consumer just by
eggs spoiling too quick and the
way we market our eggs. Now
the first thing that we can do to
prevent this great loss this year
is to take the males (Roosters)
away from the hens, we will
then get an infertile egg and it
is a well knoWn fact that an in-
DEATH Cl
C. O. Isaacson and
Grant are Called int
nity Without Wi
Last Saturday evenii
sage from Placedo annoui
sudden death of C. 0.
at that place that
Mr. Isaacson had
do with other worknu
Messrs. Counts and !
the erection of the i
fertile egg will keep much longer these gentlemen are
than an egg that is fertile as
tne germ of life is the first thing
that spoils in an egg and your
hens will lay just as well if not
better, 2nd is keep your eggs in
a cool place and keep them
as clean as possible. Market all
your white egsfs together and
the brown ones the same and see
if they don’t look some better,
take them to market once a week
twice would be better.
Now I would like for the El
Campo farmers to try the above
for once as the hatching season
is over any way, sd take your
males away from the hens, if
males are valuable make you a
coop to put them in if not use
the hatchet thereby saving feed,
time and worry. I am satisfied
it will pay us to do so, it will al-
so be better for the one that
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HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT
A Mo& Successful Year of School
Work Terminates Next Week.
Thfee Graduates Will
Receive Diplomas
' >
Next week will see the close of
the Public Schools for the summer-
The session just closing has been
one of the most successful in the
history of the district. Superin-
OFFICIALS OF
RAILROAD HERE
A Get Acquainted Meeting Held
In The Commercial Club Rooms .
Proves of Great Value to
This Community
*
Last Wednesday morning in
the rooms formerly occupied by
the “late lamented” Commercial
♦ *5 ■ r
Club there v/as an interesting
meeting held that will have a
at that point. He had
in the gin business s
thoroughly familiar
stallation of the mac!
essary for successful c
The cause of death was m
ed as heart failure. The
was brought to Ef Campo on
10:00 o’clock train Monday
upon it’s arrival the Members
the local W. O. W. of whi
ceased was a member,
I*charge of t h e remains,
body was taken to hisj
residence in the west part
town where it remained
Tuesday at 1:00 o’clock when
services were conducted Ay
W. Q. W. and bunal at (JKf
Cemetery. Deceased iad
been a resident of this olace
ing associated with his
P. J. Isaacson, under the
name of Isaacson Gin
He was a member of the
0. F. and the W. O. W.
leaves a wife and one
buys our eggs, and will be glad
to pay a little more for'them.
Let us farmers of the El Campo
district join hands in this lfttle
egg campaign, we all know that1 Mrs. Joe Koons, both
we will profit thereby, I hope to t>lace besides many
see the time come when Whar- j friends to mourn his
ton county will be the home of T ~~
fine chickens, (good layers) if ^ain °Jur CltyJ1®*
we have the layers we will also Wlt reahzation
have the eggs.
Yours for the infertile egg
through the summer months.
grim reaper has been in
and one of our choicest
has been struck by the
Chas Brandi, Route 1. el and garnered to await'
when he that spake t$f$i
tendent Griggs and his able corps tendency to be of lasting benefit
of teachers have been on the job j to the people of El Campo as
lives is not measured by
ber of years that we live.
leaves the marshal
M $25 per month
Otr Attorney Cappel
at that the council
Let m night
at $2$, thaa firing him
The question
but soon I noticed that his talk
took a most peculiar trend- He
slapped me on the back and ask-
ed if I would smoke—handed me
a good cigar and told a funny
joke. And then the truth dawn-
ed on me, or I’ll eat my Sundhy
coat—he was running for office
and was out to get my vote.—
Salisbury (Mo.) Democrat.
Rod-
ha favored Mr.
as night mar-
would afford him a
ha eoold live.
York Mid it had ai-
eept any pay for his services as
alderman as the city needed the
money. The pay roll for the
mayor and aldermen amounts to
approximately $40 per month.
Alderman Mann took no part in
the discussion except to tell Mar-
shal Lee that he ran for the office
to pay the knowing it paid only $25. The
leom-! latter replied that it had always
for been customary for the marshal
fans. AMfrf1*— Stovall jto appointed street commis-
the city's ftnan- rioner in order that he should re-
would not permit ceive a salary on which he could
•f over $25 for mar- live* The mayor suggested that
York replied ** the council was divided on the
_____ atv bad always been | »ubject action should be post-
ffUM* pay k befot e. and former- poned. Marshal Lee, however,
h r*4 betb day and night mar- insisted that some action be tak-
0$ per month each. Al* eD* Tne motion to appoint Mr.
Stovall finally suggested Gee as night marshal was then
offering to vote j Put* Aldermen Ruddell and York
ta gf^e the marshal1 voting in the affirmative, Alder-
Marshal Lee; men Mann and Stovall in the
la aonridar this. Mr., negrative. The vote being a tie,
«j>udttotia*i«wof this Mayor Me,cher sajd he wou,d
leave it stand until a full counci
was present, Alderman Barr be-
ing absent-
every day during the expiring
Session. They have spared no
efforts to give us a good years
work and to maintain the high
standard required for affiliation
with the State University. The
number of graduates this year
are not so numerous as they have
been in some previous years but
this is on account of higher
grades being added and more
advanced work being taken than
in previous years. There will
be but three graduates .this year,
Mr- Ralph Barron^and Miss Ruth
Waugh and Blanch Kirk having
completed the course. The Com-
mencement sermon will be
preached at the Isis Theatre
next. Sunday at 11:00 A- M. by
Rev. Bailey. Graduating exer-
cises at the same place will be
held Monday night.
Ice 0*6301 Social
The Ladies Aid of the Chris-
tian church will give an ice cream
social Friday night May 8 from
7 to 10 at McKinley park. Music
by Firemans band. All are in-
vited.
Hearte Items.
The grass is still growing.
Most of the farmers are busy
waiting for the water to dry up
so they can go to farming.
Mr. Cornett and family visited
at Mr. Stark’s lasLSupday.
W. B. Harriss has been on the
sick list for the past week, but
we are glad to know he is im-
proving.
well as the farmers in the dis-
trict. The cause of the assembly
was a notice from the officials of
our railroad that they would be
in town on that date and wanted
to meet the business men of our
city for the purpose of getting
acquainted and bringing about a
closer relationship between the
railroad and its patrons. . The
officials of the road present was
H. H. Mayo, Manager Industrial
Immigration Bureau. Mr. T. G.
Beard, Manager Trafic Depart-
ment and Mr. Forgason, Assist-
ant Superintendent. W. A Hid-
dleson in a few well chosen re-
marks made the opening address
and then introduced T. G. Beard
who told us something of the
policy of his company in furnish-
ing cars during a car shortage,
and arrangements that had been
made with connecting lines for
through transportation. Mr.
Mayo was then introduced who
paid a glowing tribute to the fa-
ther of W. W. Duson for what
he had done for the upbuilding
of the rice industry in Southwest
Louisiana. Mr. Mayo said that
El Campo had long been an im-
portant figure on the map of the
S. P. System, and that his com-
pany had spent $250,000 in ad-
vertising the rice industry
throughout the Gulf Coast. The
speaker then touched on the
false impression that the public
in general were laboring under,
that they had conceived the idea
that all a railroad company had
to do to get money was to tap
the barrel and a stream of gold! ation along the west side.
of her early demise. Mrs.
was 26 years 7 months
She was the daughter*
would flow therefrom, when in existance shall declare
fact his company was spending j shall be no more. Her fi
all they made in better tracks short but the usefkHflf
and equipment. In addition they
had borrowed $30,000,000 upon
which they Yere Paying 6 per [Shaver Grant departed
cent interest to better equip and very suddenly Tuesday
serve their patrons. He also 10:00 o’clock she bad jj
told us that Texas lines last year plaining but a few dry?,
cost them $981,000 more than her condition was not
\^as received from them. This serious in any particuhr
was on account of the increase the shock was greater,
in wages which was from 18 to failure is assigned as the
85 per cent and. the cost of ma-
terial which had also increased
in price from 15 to 100 per cent I days old.
in the past decade. The taxes Wm. Shaver of Weiraer
of his company were 5 per cent of, spent her early life
and that the settlement of dam- school. About 8 years
age suits entailed an additional was united in marriage
expense of 2J per cent on the
gross income of the company.
He also asserted that 47 cents
out of every dollar received was
paid out for labor and went back
into the channels of trade at the
points of collection. Mr. Mayo
gave us some good advice in the what assistance is ~
way of developing our country this trying hour. The
that might well be considered.
He said that we had done well,
and that this line of railroad was
more remunerative to the com-
pany than the main line, but that
we might still do a great deal
better and that steps should be
taken at once to make an exhi-
bition at the Dallas Fair this fall.
That the meeting was satisfac-
tory to both the officials and to friends from this place,
the city was evidenced when, be- thus again we are
fore adjournment, the proposi- full realization of the
tion of building a crossing over life is extremely unoa
their property in front of the de- sudden deaths in our li
pot to connect with that to be in four days should be a
built by the city was agreed to. er that the
They also agreed to put in cul- ; realize,
vert iust below the ice plant. Sff+ZX*
which vrtll relieve the flood situ- this perhaps the
L. Grant and most of
they have made their
our midst She lea
children, husband and
mourn for her besides
sympathetic friends
share in their grief
services were conducted
the residence Thursday
6y Rev. W. A. Manley,
mains were then shipped
10:00 o’clock train to
old home for burial. ^
accompanied by relat
family, of Houston and
who had come in
besides husband anc n
they have ever es
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914, newspaper, May 8, 1914; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876567/m1/1/?q=Negroes+held: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.