The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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WE WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO
THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE IN BUYING
CLOTHING—INSIDE WORKMANSHIP
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We sell this Great line of Clothing which is Supe-
rior to All Others on INSIDE Quality and Work-
manship and is distinguished from all other Cloth-
ing by outside appearance. Watch the streets it
is rr^khard to point out Benjamin Suits. Their mark
of individuality is very noticeable. Buy a Benjamin
Suit, they cost no more than cheaper Clothes, but
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. J|M. CARLTON BROS. & COMPANY
I “DEALERS IIS EVERYTHING”
I NOHTIIWKST COU.M5R SQUARE ^ STEPIIENyiU.K, TEXAS
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is th<-« slngnn of the wide awake
merchant at this season of the
year, and if he is as wide awake
as he ought t > be he knows the
best channe’ through which to
seek the business is the Empire
columns.
THE ERATH EXHIBIT
There; has beer, no single issue
of any daily paper in Hie south
comparable to the silver anniver-
sary edition of the Dallas Morn-
ing news of last Saturday. It
contained seventy-two pages, re-
plete with matter of historical
value, as well as all the current
news of the world.
SSSSiiS nice coimv home
AT DALLAS FAIR;^" 5 BISTROYED BY FIBE
! love and matrimony have often
How this fine county will be been expressed to you and in
represented at the Dallas fair, is your hearing, and need not be
-j-up-to the people who-have the expressed in this announcement
products which would lx> worth again. If you decide to confer
exhibiting. on nfe the honor, please fix date
W. Chamberlin, chairman of for a caucus with your mother,
the committee to receive exhibits I have no objections to her act-
for the Erath county space. has ing as temporary chairman of the
IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA
Where Social Distinctions Were aa
Rigidly Defined as Anywhere In
the World.
Editor Ht r< will aCi_
ee pH he Km pi re Vcon grata 1 a t i o n s
on the decided improvement he
is making and has made on the
tJiitttrrTctejihune. The last issue
was a hummer, and only shows
what a i>aper will do for a town
when the merchants furnish suf-
ficient inducement in the way of
advertising.
A Twenty Ymr Paint
Would yau like to hear of a
20-year paint?
Mr. James A. O’Neil’s house,
Henderson, N. C. was painted
20 years ago with Devoe and nev
er painted again until last year;
it then looked better than com-
mon paint in half that time.
The reason is: Devoe is all
paint: while the common paints
are part true and pirt false.
Don’t pay to monkey with paint.
And Devoe coats less than any
of ’em: not by the gallon, of
course: by the house and year.
That’s how to reckort it Go by
the name. . i >
talked up the matter almost un-
ceasingly. and yet some farmers
who couid add materially to the
display wo should make at Dallas,
have not brought in anything.
Whatever goes into our exhibit
must be received by the com-
Tnfttee'on or tKJfoMnexfMlTnd&v.
Bring the best offering possible
and leave with Mr. Chamberlin.
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permanent organization..’ Should
the results of the caucus be satis-
factory we can soon hold the
primaries and select the date
and place of the convention. I
never believed in long campaigns,
so if you decide to honor me I
will ask you to make the conven-
tion date as loon as possible.
Devotedly yours.”
will The following telegram was '
do good in two ways. First they sent immediately upon receipt
will help advertise this wonderful of t^e announcement:
country to thousands w’ho will ‘‘Caucus unnecessary.. Nomi-
come to Dallas tor the very pur- nat,jon unanimous. Come at once
pose of seeing what the various
sections of Texas produces.
Second all the products exhibited
will be donated to Buckner Or-
phans Home at the close of the
fair. So nothing will be lost and
the cause merits the best-that
any producer can offer.
Politics and Love.
Here i> the way an Iowa poli-
tician is credited with asking for
the hand of his lady love:
”I hereby announce myself a
candidate for your hand, and
shall use all fair and honorable
means to secure the nomination.
I know there are many candi-
dates in the field, and I hesitate
before entering the race, but my
in political cam-
and fix date for ratification. ’
Senior Union Organized.
At the Baptist church last
Sunday evening a senior B. Y.
B. U. was organized, and officers
elected as follows: L. O. Cox,
president: Raymond Armstrong,
vice president: Millard Keith,
secretary; Miss Ethel Watts,
treasurer; Miss Edith Jacobs,
corresponding secretary; Prof.
A. E. Chandler, chorister; Miss
Ruby Matheney. organist. The
meeting hour is 7 p. m. every
Sunday.
Cash for every one in the Gents
Furnishing line after Oct.
Carter & White.
The home of Bob Cox between
Selden and Duffau was destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning at an
early hour. The report that
reaches here is to the effect that
none of the family were at home
when the fire occurred and the
particulars as to how it originated
is unknown. The household goods,
except some window shades and
other minor articles, were all
consumed.
It is said that Mr. Cox has a
policy in the Farmers Mutual for
$2100 on the house and contents.
TJhe Empire failed to locate any
of the Mutual officers to ascertain
whether the amount stated is
correct or not. _ __ _
HERO AVERTS DISASTER.
The prompt bravery of a fireman
on the Swiss Federal railway sys-
tem averted a terrible disaster. The
fireman in question was working on
the engine of a passenger train one
day recently and had just thrown n
shovelful of coal into the furnace,
when he saw in the midst of it a dy-
namite cartridge. Without a mo-
ment’s hesitation he thrust his hand
into the fire box, and, though ter-
ribly burned, succeeded in ’pulling
out the cartridge before an explosion
could occur. The railway directors
have awarded him a large sum of
money for his heroism. \
A DISTINCTION.
“A man must have self-confidence
in order to succeed,” said the ener-
getic statesman, “and I have at leaat
lelf-confidence.”
“Are you sure,” inquired Miss
1 ati Cayenne, “that it is self-confidence
liod not though (loss credulity?”
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In no part of the world were so-
cial distinctions more rigidly de-]
fined than in colonial Virginia. The
founders of that colony stepped froni
the brilliant court of Elizabeth in
the forests of Virginia. The lord-
proprietor transported to his estate a
little army of gentlemen and in-
dented servants”, and afterward came
J the negro slave. Each formed a
class apart from the others, and al- *
most at once there was created a
j quasi-system of aristocracy. The
proprietor obligated himself to pro-
tect his tenants from the Indiana;
they in turn agreed to follow him to
battlo—precisely the system inaug-
urated by William the Conqueror for
the military defense of his realm.
His environment naturally bred cer-
tain habits of oomiYiand, fostered a
capacity for directing the efforts of
others, and imposed a sense of re-
sponsibility upon the planter for the
lives that were in his keeping. Above
all else, the planter jealously guard-
ed his rights as an English freeman
When liberty languished in Eng-
land, the Virginia,!! sriirdil;. resist- J*
ed every aggression, of oyal tyrants.
One husband, one wife, one home,
one king, one God—this was the
planter’s creed. But he reserved the
right to renounce a monarch who
violated the ancient compact between
king and people. Vo other people,
numerically as unimportant as that
group of Virginian settlers, has
given to humanity so many states-
men, soldiers, orators, patriots and
philosophers.—Everybody’s Maga-
zine. •
ALMOST.
Willis—Have they got the fire un-
der control ?
Gillia—Almost. There were 20
reporters and K0 newspaper photog-
raphers there when I left—Puck.
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Hawkins, W. H. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1910, newspaper, October 7, 1910; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth877767/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.