The Smithville Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SMITHVILLE TIMES
RKI’ORTS have been given to the press of tlie finding of a|
diamond deposit in Montgomery eouuty. There is no telling wlmtf
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look. Hellville Times.
anil trouble to have n good
FOSTER, the weather sharp prediets a wet Septeiulier for
South Texas. Me also says til re will he no frost until November,
so tlie top erop of eottoii will have a long anil vigorous gi'owMi.
The Times hopes that .Mr. Easter knows what lie is talking almut.
lie usually foreteells the weather quite correetly-
DO NOT forget that the Katy “Squealer Speeial” will lie lieu*
on Oetoher 1st. The hog business is one of the most important
industries of our State and you ean learn something worth while
from seeing and hearing ill out the different breeds of hogs on
free exhibition on this train-
BOSS OF THE BOSSES
IK .Mr. .Morgan merges in his person the mergers of mergers, he
personifies the national organization of Ameriean business: Bns:-
ness, to whieh there is rea*outo believe a business people pay
more loyal allegiance than they do to their politieal establish-
ment. And, if that is true, if this man represents the fiuaneial
power whieh eontrals the railloads and other puhlie serviee eorpo-
rations; the trusts, hanks, instiranee eonipanies, trust eompanies,
and other speeial interests, lie represents those powers whieh - -
even before they were united— supported, defended and eon-
trolled politieal parties and bosses, and. therefore, rivaled the
power of mayors and eomieils, governors and legislatures, #the
President and the Congress of the United States. In other words
if this Wall Street rumor is true; if Mr. Morgan is supreme there
if he is the boss of the bosses in Wall Street who boss the busi-
ness bosses back of the politieal bosses all over the United States,
then .1. Pierpont Morgan is the boss of the United States.
And it is true. Not only the newspapers and the eoniie week-
lies, not only the rumor-mongers uptown and the eitrh-gossips
downtown—big men say so: lighting financiers and conservative
bankers, captains of industry, speculative operators, and corpora-
tion attorneys; men who know; men who helped to make it so;
men who would like to help make it not so. Everybody I talked
with confirmed the rumor. Some approved, others deplored, a
few resented; they all minimized and. nevertheless, many were
genuinely alarmed at the belittl'd fact, Ibit. nobody denied it.
Not a man in Wall Street contradicted the report that Mr. Mor-
gan was “IT down there Now.’’ —Lincoln Steffens in the Sep-
tember Kevrybodv’s-
HOKE SMITH, progressive, his defeated («ov. Brown
democratic nomination for governor of Georgia.
for t he
UKEAMEKIES are big paying institutions in South Texas. A
creamery is the best thing we know of to wake up a dead town.
ROOSEVELT is making war on “Sunny •Jim-’* Tal’1 saw trou-
ble coming and side-stepped it. Roosevelt can be the next presi-
dent if he so desires.
T11E Texas Mexican railroad will build from Rubstown to Aran-
sas Pass. Sooner or Inter the “Katy’’ will also enter the new
sea port-
WACO wants the Santa l*'e an I is making bids to get that road.
Waco is a good town and is right in going after things. ev< n if
she never gets 1 hem.
Smitliville needs a number of small factories. .V mattre-s facto-
ry would help to advertise our town as well as to increase the
bucket brigade.
SAN ANTONIO is to have a half-million dollar plant for iiianu-
faeturiyg wire goods. Theie ha■> long ....... an overplus of wire
pullers in the Alamo City.
1H RR CLOVER sown in Bermuda pastures, gives continuous
grass, summer and winter. Such a pasture is said to he equal to
a gold mine, Better try Burr Clover Mr. Farmer.
THE Dallas News cotton report published Tuesday shows woise
conditions than last year in all Bastrop county reports, except
Smitliville. This place reported fifteen per cent better than last
yea r.
.JAPAN has gobbled up Koiea,the so-called Hermit Kingdom.
Japan needed the territory, being much crowded with population,
and Korea, needed population, so it will probably be a good tiling
all around.
“SUNNY ..I1M” seems doomed to go the way of Uannoii and
Aldrich. The republicans are “skeert’’ and till barnacles will
have to be removed in order that the republican sloop may stand
a ebailee to win.
PRESS dispatches say that the Katy Terminal (’o., of St. Louis,
has increased its capital stock fiom one hundred thousand to t ■ n
million dollars. Tin* Katy evidently intends to spread out con-
siderable in St. Louis.
AN iron foundry would pay in Smitliville. We have a great
deal of work for such a plant,which has to lie sent to Houston
and San Antonio. We have cheap fuel, splendid shipping fa • i 1 -
ities and other advantages as a location fora foundry.
All our merchants*who have relumed from the North, report
that the crops of the Smithvilllc country are the best between here
and St- Loitrx. The Smitliville country is hard to heat.
.K)E SIBLEY, the Pennsylvania friend of "Our doe.’’ has he n
indicted for debauching the voters in his congressional disttiet-
Ilis campaign expenses averaged four dollars per voter in the dis-
t riet
THE forest fires in the great North-west have done tremendous
damage and a heavy loss of life is reported. The fires are still
raging but rains have helped thesituation some. The govern-
ment and the railroads are the largest losers.
the trash cans placed on our .......... by the city council are
proving a big success, Ol eoiirs* some tew people still insist on
throwing paper and refuse on the walks and streets,but most peo-
ple use the cans and all will do « > when they get used to ........
SENATOR Dick, of Ohio, bus also joined the “in hud ’ club.
He lias been caught practicing "shady” polities, and by the presi-
dent at that. Dick never did play the game square. He learned
political craft from Hanna, the most dangerous politician of his
age, and the man who did more to corrupt tin* polities of this
country than any dozen other men-
IT is amusing to see some of the trust controlled dailies pic-
turing Bryan and Roosevelt as hack-numbers. One thing is cer-
tain. the rc-actionarics cannot control both parties. If Taft is re-
nominated., it will require the democrats to put a progressive to
oppose him. If the democratic party allows the corporate inter-
ests to control the selection ol its nominee, the people will over
whelm that nominee with defeat-
WHARTON county funnel a who have reeentlv been giving
some attention to hog raising have profited bv their experiments,
some of them have sold nice hunches of porkers which they as-
sert were produced at praeliea’ly no expense to them. Hog and
hominy are imlispetisilile ncee-sitics of the farm, and if produced
here at home will keep many thousands of dollars at home that
heretofore have gone o it of the State. Wharton Speeta'or-
ONE of the things which the late gathering at Halvcstoii in the
name of democracy may he commended for is the selection ol a
farmer for chairman of the State Democratic Executive commit-
tee. Ilis name is Shell Williams and he makes his home in Lamar
county where lie plants real ctopsnnd raises real Imgs.keeps hooks
on the whole proposition and makes money a plenty. He will
maintain headquarters at his ranch and do the things up to a
brown turn. Wlm says we are not getting back to the farm.’
Bellville Tillies.
CARSHED BILL REPORTED
Favorably by Senate Com-
mittee on Internal
Improvements
Hot Weather Bargains
Pall Business will open up New 3 r«»m house, corner,east
pretty soon, and then prices will front, on South side. Bargain at
!advance. Now is the time to $675. $100 cash, balance $15
buy for profit. Don’t delay, monthly.
Following are a few of the bar- One good 4 room house, 2 gal-
gains on my extensive list: leries, hall, east front. Tobin
1 have for sale on easy terms addition, $50 cash, balance
all the vacant lots of the Smith- monthly. Why pay rent?
ville Land & Investment Co., East half block, 5 lots, on South
which includes nearly all the Side, most desirable. Cfceap.
available vacant lots in the city. Terms.
You can buy any one of them, A good, practically new 3 mfmi
for $10 down and $10 a month, house and two lots, S. K. corner.
Prices from $100 to $250. All on South side, Cheap at $875.
lots 67 1-2 by 125 feet. 280 acres adjoining Smith ville
1 am now platting 2<X) acres of on the south,. .This is the Aug.
the Fawcett place, just west of Bunte place. Fine valley land
town, into lots of 5 acres, ten and and good upland. No better land
twenty acres. This is the finest in the Smithville country as tin
truck land in the valley and lays crops will prove. Cheap, onsitl
just right for irrigating. See me ering location,
for prices and easy terms. Five Chas. Cain’s desirabh hpi it,
acres of this land will make you close in, corner, 6 rooms, hall and
independent. bath, marble lavatory, $85 ma it
A section of good land ten el, ete. A bargain if old >y
miles North of Smithville, 50 August 20th.
acres in cultivation, balance good The Mrs. Jessie Hughes place,
pasture and timberland, good Five rooms, bath, corner, ea-t
story and a half house, painted, front, close in, practical'y new
Two good cisterns. All fenced, house. Cheap.
This is a good place and a bar- Twenty-two lots in Tobin
gain at $10 an acre. Good terms, addition, some beautiful Live ()
A good farm, 10 miles from trees. Very cheap.
Rosanky, 100 acres in cultivation. Desirable 5 room house, on
Good 5 room house. Barn, eis- comer, close in. Rents for $
tern, smoke-house and other im- a month. Will take $450 cash
provements. This is a fine farm balance $30 a month. Price rea-
and dirt cheap at $10 an acre. anable.
An 8 room house, right next A few desirable lots foi offoreT
to the business centre, corner, people, $100 to $150. Opposiu l
East front, 2 blocks of Rabb & the old depot. Many othn liai
McCollum's corner, a bargain at gains.
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Austin. Texas, August 21.
Tlit- cai shed hill, with three
a mend incuts, was today rc| orted
out favorable by the senate com-
mittee on interna! improvements
and.will be passed without diffi-
culty as soon as presented. The
amendments provided that a rail-
road company may have the priv-
ilege of choosing as to whether
it shall erect a shed or closed
building for ear painteis and re-
pairers; that the word “fully’’
shall be stricken out where it is
said that the operatives shall be
“fully protected,” and that the
penalty for violation of the law
shall be a fine of $.'>() to $10(10 for
every ten days of failure to pro-i
vide a suitable structure instead
of the same amount for eaeli day
of sueli violation.
SPIDER BILLS-
Tile house “spider bill," wit ll |
the house amendments adopted
yesterday which radically alterj
the measure from its original
form, was reported favorably by
the senate judiciary committer
with no argument and without
dissent. The senate ‘ ‘ spider “hill.I
intend......I by Senator Kaufman,
and identical with the Moler
house hill prior to the changes
effected by house amendment-,
was "postponed indefinitely"
upon motion of Senator Peeler.
As the hill now stands with the
house amendments and so re-
ported favorably by the senate
committee, any employer of a
man injured by a “spidered“bah-
is responsible. It may be a com-
press, railroad, any other com-
mon carrier. wharf company,
stevedore, steamship company or
any other person, firm or eor-j
poration employed in handling!
cotton, and who is injured by
“spider while so employed.”
The house amendments a su|
eliminate the $.’>.(NM) appropria-1
lion for the bureau of labor
it at ist ies.
It is also provided that inspec-
tion of cotton shall lie made by
the employer and not the em-
ploye-
Even the homeliest face can,-----
have a redeeming feature— if it $2,400. Rents for $25 a month. See me, no matter what
keeps shut. Six room house, bath, corner want.
The kind of woman who goes,Jot,shrubbery, barn etc., a very W. M. COBB, *
without her corset six days a desirable place. $200 cash, ba!- Red I Est3t8, Notd TV PllbliC
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NOTICE.
On and after August 1st, we will t
lint grant < redlt to anyone.
THE RACKET. '
CLOTHING
We have always enjoyed an enviable reputa-
tion in the matter of nice clothing for men.
We sell three fourths of the tailor made suits
that come to Smithville. We represent three
of the oldest and best houses in this line and
the large amount of business that we do assures
us the lowest prices that can be had. We in-
vite you to call and see the large display
of woolens that we now have in our Store.
READY MADE SUITS
We have added to our line this season a nice
line of mens and boys clothing. Our $10.00,
$12.50 and $15.00 suits are simply bargains
in the fullest sense of the word. We do not
carry any cheap shoddy clothing but if you
want a first class suit at a reasonable price
you will give our line a look. We have boys
suits ranging in price from $1.50 to $5.00.
THE RACKET
JOHNSON BROS., Props.
ONE PRICE SPOT CASH the LEADER OF LOW PRICES
COAL, COAL, COAL.
Place your orders now for liard 1
coal, while It Is cheap. W. F. Moore,I
Agent, Phone 61.
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The Smithville Times (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1910, newspaper, August 26, 1910; Smithville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876897/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smithville Public Library.