The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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SEVENTEENTH YEAR.
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 26,1909.
NO. 9
Base Ball
Supplies
At
PERRY BROS.
I
I Condensed Report to the Comptroller of the Currency
of the Condition -of
The Farmers National Bank
W. H. Frey, President. of Stephenville. Carl C. Hardin, Cashier.
, CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, 62,500,00
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts.............$138,822 16
1J.S.Bonds and Premiums..... 52,215 00
Redemption Fund..................... ' 3,700 00
Real Estate..................... 4,000 00
Furniture and Fixtures.,______ 2,270 00
Cash.............................. 107,052 77
ToTAI..................... $308,059 93
LIABILITIES
*
Capital Stock................................% 50,000 00
Surplus and Profits............... 17,519 84
Circulation................... 50,000 00
Deposits ............................. 190,540 09
Total................. $308,059 93
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/bile the Washington mask ball at
: opera houae Feb. 22 was not in its
sense a mask party, yet it was in
ry way one of the nicest social events
season, and was eujoyed with the
jest zest by those fond of following
i maizes of the waltz, especially when
i music was so well adapted as it was
this occasion. It was a success; in
Ct[one of'the best managed affairs
Bie young people have had in several
fears, and the promoters have been com-
sended and congratulated numbers of
es over the good fortune In having
everything just right and so very nice.
be proper time the guests were
Served coffee, sandwiches, snd other
tempting dainties, and when the parting
hour came wished that the winds were as
gentle zephyrs set to waltz music by the
god Aeolus so that life would be one
gram!, never-ending waltz.
In the event that any property owner
refuses to build s pavement after receiv-
ing notice from the city government the
■city will proceed to build the same for
him, and then tax the charges against
bis property, taking judgment, etc. Not
-one man on any public street will be
permitted to retard the improvement o{
the town, and, if he does not wish to
chip in and make his town more delight-
ful ,and pleasant to live in be had
better sell out and move to Clabberville
or Barnacletown. This is an age of
enterprise, and no man should attempt
to stop the car of progress. If it had
not been for men and women who love
things beautiful we to-day would not
have so many splendid American cities.
They crowded out the men who
persisted in keeping hog pens in town,
and built handsome structures where
hovels once existed.
Capt. J. W. Collier and Judge Daniels
of this city, while at Austin recently,
visited the Colorado river where a great
concrete bridge of seven spans is being
constructed across this river. They also
went out to the insane asylum where
hundreds of lunatics under guards were
taking exercise. Lunacy evidences it-
self in various forms, and' the gentle-
men were notified to beware of a certain
woman in a group of unfortunates who
had a weakness for the opposite sex,
and when a very handsome man came
within reach she was sure to hug and
kiss him. When Mr. Collier learned of
this he quietly spirited Judge Dsniels
WEI OMAN’S
Big American
SHOWS
Cosmopolitan Rough Riders and Indian Congress, Introduc-
“ ducing the Grand Sublime Spectacle
# ,
duster’s
Last Charge
WILL EXHIBIT AT
STEPHENVILLE, ,
Friday, Feb. 26
RAIN OR SHINE
See the cowboys, wild west girls, vaqueros, senoritas,
guardi rurales, champions of the lariat, rough riders, pony
express veterans, bucking bronchos, cow ponies, pinto ponies
and Shetlands. A band Sioux Indians, fresh from the camp
Hfire at, \council, makimg their first acquaintance with civili-
zation. Dainty aerlists, daring athletes, funny clowns, thrill-
ing Indian fights and war dances.
Two Performances Dally
Afternoon at 2, Evening at 8 o’clock. Doors open one hour
earlier. Come Sure!
Don’t miss the grand, glittering Street Parade at 1 p.m. and
the big free exhibitition in ffont of tent immediately after.
Will be given to anyone bringing an unbroken horse
| or mule our cowboys cannot ride.
AA/antpH Sober, reliable workingmen who wish to
VV diitCLl travel. Apply'to superintendent of canvas.
Also to buy three more bucking horses, spot cash. Bring to
show grounds day of exhibition.
•V. :r\
away, for he did not want the Woman to
get near hitn, for he believed that M Jie
permitted it he might be forced to figure
aa a witness in a divorce suit after he
got home. And Mr. Colliers’s friends
say that when he (Collier) got the judge
away he (Collier) stole back and let the
woman test her hugging propensities.
A negro man was shot at Thurber a
lew days ago, and following it Justice
Hamilton held an examining trial. Cir-
cumstantial evidence lead to the arrest
W. V. West, a white man and a carpen
ter, and his bond was fixed at $500
Deputy Sheriff Roberts went to Thnrber
Wednesday, and placed him in jail at
Stephenville until he makes bond. The
trial developed that someone went to the
home of a negress and demanded admit-
tance. Being refused admittance to the
building the party exclaimed that he
would make her open the door, and he
then fired through it, bitting a negro
man who was sitting in a chair with one
hand on his legs, the ball passing thrugh
the fleshy part of both legs and through
the hand and hitting another negro in
the leg. That afternoon it was said that
West told the negress that he
was coming around in the evening.
Next morning after the shooting it is
said he wem and picked up a bottle near
the bouse—a bottle be had purchased at
a saloon. On this circumstantial evi-
nence he was arrested.
Tuesday while a couple of negroes
were driving a team the animals balked,
and decided nottodoany yiore work. The
drJkers filled the ears of the animals
with pebbles and then wrapped, the
ears with strings. Unquestionably
this is a good plan to make
balky horses work, for not long there-
after the team was seen flying downj
Graham street and across the square,'
and toward Hudgen’s store. Mr. Hud-
gens is always open and ready to accom-
modate all customers with money in
their pockets, but these customers looked
a little too lean and sorry for him, and
he tried to “shy” them away from his
door, but they were - persistent and de-
termined to enter. However, as the
horses struck the pavement, one of them
being shad, she fell flat, and Mr. Hud-
gens uttered a great sigh of relief. He
had some bran and other stuff piled up
along his show windows, and this was
scattered when the horses struck it with
their feet. They would have entered
the store with the wagon had the acci-
dent not happened on the pavement.
To-night the 20th Century ladies meet
with Mrs. Lee Young, and the annual
dinner will be given their husbands, for
which very elaborate preparations have
been going on for several days. All
former receptions and dinners have been
pronounced as nice and good as women
of excellent taste could make them, bul
this one promises to eclipse all past
efforts as the world has progressed since
former meetings in intelligence, science,
culture and refinement, and the mem-
bers of this club are women who lead
the world’s progress. That’s what they
are here for, and that's why their hus-
bands are proud of them. There will be
an address of welcome, a response and an
elegant dinner, and then many speeches
and toasts. The whole affair will he
dignified, chaste and refined, because
the ladies are all equal to the task they
have assumed.
It has been over 90 days since Erath
county has bad a rain. What was it
that the governor of North Carolina
said to the governor of South Carolina?
Dr. A. G. B. Dunn was reported to he
in a very precarious condition Thursday
morning, with little hope of surviving
beyond the noon hour having already
1>ecome unconscious. For several years
he has suffered from kidney trouble.
The doctor’s home is one mile south of
town, but for many years he lived near
Selden where he accumulated a com-
fortable fortune, and lived an upright,
honorable life.
“The lizzard climbed a wall. He climb-
ed it once,
He climbed It twice—then crawled away.
“The bee sipped a flower. He sipped it
once,
He sipped it twice—then flew away.
“The man kissed a maid. He kissed her
once.
He kissed her twice—then walked away.
“The wall wasn’t sunny; the flower had
no honey
The maid had no money. Funny!”
The N. T. S. club meet this afternoon
with Mrs. Geo. Schnabel.
(personals):
Cards of thanks and obituary notices
are charged for at regular rates. 6 tf
The United Charities will meet at Mrs.
Day Cage's, Tuesday, March 2.
Miss Audie Davis visited friends at
Fort Worth this week.
Sam Hendricks and Miss Isla Compton
spent Tuesday in Hico.
Charles Blakeney has purchased a big
stock of goods to meet the spring trade.
Ben Compton was quite sick the early
ngrt of the week. ^ v
G. M. I.angdon, a commercial mission-
ary of Cisco, waa shaking hands with
^friends in the city this week. *
Miss Susie Chapman is in the city, and
has taken a position in the trim-
ming department of Keith Bros, store.
The Higginbotham spring purchases
began arriving this week. They pur-
chased neavily,
Charles Neblett will be back from St.
Louis Saturday, where he purchased an
immense stock of spring goods.
Miss Tessie Doyle is visiting Mrs. W.
P. Bowdry and Miss Fannie King at
Fort Worth.
Carl Hardin is fast" becoming a great
traveler. He went to Huckabay Mon-
day- an unusually important event in
bis placid, qneventful life.
The following Hico parties were guests
last Sunday of Mrs. Bob Carlton of this
city: D. Scarborough and wife, Miss Ef-
fie Shannon. Messrs. Jones and Carlton.
Walter Bell^came over from Hamilton
Sunday to visit friends. He is on tlw
clerical staff of the SN&ST at Hamil-
ton, and is an efficient man.
Mrs. J. W. Richburg of Hico, Mrs.
V. B. Mitchell of Iredell, Mrs. Dave
Deatoq of Dublin, and Mrs. G. M. Carl-
ton of Hico were guests Sunday of Mrs.
James Adams.
Mr. Patton finished Banker Frey’s
cement pavement on Graham street
Wednesday. Work was commenced on
the pavements of Burt Watson and Day
Cage on Thursday, On with the good
work.
The mothers’ club will have a concert
in the auditorium of the public school
building, Monday evening, March 1, at
8 p. m. Admission 25c, children 15c.
Proceeds to go toward paying for the
piano.
J. J. Bennett, Burt Watson, Baxtor
Ator and W. H. Frey attended the
bankers’ convention at Ifort Worth this
week, and participated in the banquet
and other hsopitalities of Fort Worth
citizens.
John Cameron goes to Galveston Sun
day to represent the Odd Fellows of this
city at the grand lodge, and W. H
Brooks will represent Morgan Mill
Mrs. Jack Lennox of this city and Mrs.
Brooks of Morgan Mill are the Rebecka
delegates.
Tenth Triumphal Tour
Of the Popular
Morey Stock Company
Opera House one week, commencing
MONDAY, March 1
Presenting a Repertoire of successful plays, inter-
spersed with high class vaudeville. Monday Night
‘*A Vagabond's Wife*'
Prices 15c, 25c, and 35c
Season tickets good for entire week only $1.75.
Ladies will be admitted free Monday night if accom-
panied by a person holding a paid 35 ceut ticket.
The ticket must be purchased at the seat sale before
6 P. M. Monday in order to get the FREE ticket.
Matinee Saturday afternoon at 2:30 P. M. featuring
Master John Murphy
J. B. Neece came in Thursday for a
coffin for his cousin, Isaac Williams,
who died at his home near Huckabay
Feb. 24, at 8 p. m., of tuberculosis.
Deceased was about 40 years old, and
leaves a wife and several children. One
of his daughters attends Mcllhany acad-
emy. He owns a good farm near this
city, and one near Huckabay, the latter
only partly paid for.
The Tribune editor was a very sick
man Friday night, and expected to pass
over the river—but not to the great
hunting ground wher^ all men go who
fail to pay their subscriptions to news-
papers. He recovered, tied a knot in
his anatrmy, and is back again at the
old star/i tp receive and hear all com-
plaints, aid make it pleasant for those
who want to Veep their "titles and con-
sciences clear, ’ nv paying up their back
dues.
Next Sunday, at Racestreet Christian
church, there will be a sjrcial “ordina-
tion services” at 11 a. nr.; at which time
several newly elected officers w)l be set
apart—some as deacons and stme as
elders in A simple yet appropriate nan-
ner. The sermon will deal with the
duties and responsibilities of these im
portant officers. At the evening service
the subject will be, “Our Heavenly
Father Cares. ’ ’ All are cordially invited
to attend these services.
M. Carlton Bros. & Co. havq se-
cured the services of Miss Smalley at
the head of their trimming department.
She is said to be a woman of exception-
ally fine artistic tastes in putting the
finishing touches on women’s headwear.
Mrs. Phil Wright, nee Miss Pearl
Morris, died at San Antonio, Thursday,
Feb. 18. Her sister, Mrs. Bingham
King, of this city, went to San Antonio
to attend the funeral. Mrs. Wright was
well known in this city, where her ami-
able character won her'many friends."
Our townsman J. W. Collier has re-
lumed from quite a trip through Texas,
visiting all points of interest in south
Texas. While traveling on a gasoline
launch from Corpus Christi to Rockport
a squall came up and came very neat
drowning Mr. Collier.
Messrs. T. M., J. D.Av. D., and J.
W. Cary of route 6 leave .Saturday for
Wichita Falls, where they expect to
raise less cotton and more wheat and
hogs, and make more money than they
can from one crop farming. The Tii-
bune follows them to their new homes.
Ewen Riggs of Johnsville was in town
Tuesday looking blue over the contin-
ued dry weather. He says it has been
ninety days since rain fell in Erath
county, and he does not believe it i
quite possible for the rain goddess ti
withhold her blessings many minut
longer.
If all the waters held in solution in
the earth were put on top of the ground
it would cover the earth to a depth of
96 feat. Erath county would not object
to having a few feet of her share put on
top where it would do the most good.
Ninety days without a drink is some-
what of a dr^ spell.
Next week Mrs. C. L. McElhany goes
to Santa Paula, Cal., on a year’s visit.
Her husband is already in correspond-
ence with a big matrimonial house in
Chicago, as he has inside information
that it will furnish him or auyotlier man
a wife, and deliver her st Gordon or
Santo, at a cost not to exceed $5. Me.
says she would be dirt cheap.
Geo. B. Cady at Ben Compton’s store
fell from the top of the fire wall of the
Farmers' National bank bnilding on the
east si/ square Friday, while at
wor*t-|MBPBnRll was perhaps 20 feet,
and he nruck and fell across a crate on
the ground, but was not seriously Injured.
He was hoisting some material from the
ground, and when the apparatus he was
using tilted he lost his balance and was
thrown to the ground. It waa a miracle
he was not killed. But some men live
charmed lives. \
There was considerable excitement over
on Greens creek this week over a child.
The mother, a Mrs. Turner, sued out
papers to prevent the husband from tak-
ing it to Alabama, and Deputy Kay
Roberts was notified to watch the train at
Stephenville and stop him. At 2 %. m.
Mr. Turner and the child appeared at
the depot, and the child was detained
by the officer. The party causing all
uhe excitement among neighbors and
rouble between parents is about two
years old. Baby was turned over to its
mother.
I. A. Griffith of Abiline was in the city
this week. In speaking of sidewalk
building in his town he says that the
citizens there have been engaged in
building them for the past 18 months,
four gangs of men being kept at work
all the time, and one of the longest
streets in the town has been graded
with crushed stone by the property
owners at their own cost. In sidewalk
building not one man has been found
unwilling to build. He says moss-
backs are unknown there on streets
where pavements are needed.
Base ball enthusiasts will gather at
Stephenville on March 2 from all over
Erath county to wituess twogreat games
between John Tarletou college and the
Chickasha (Ok.) Indians, a team com-
posed of Indians from the Carlyle Indian
school. The Indians are professionals,
and they should put up a game worth
witnessing, and no doubt draw a l^rge
crowd. Garrett, who has won a national
reputation, will pitch for Tarfeton. One
game will be played at 2 p. in., and the
other by gas light. The Indians carry
thyir own lighting apparatus, and will
illumuinate the hall park as bright as
day with a 5000 candle power machine.
The hotels here will be crowded with
guests—just about “meal time.”
The “Lucky 13” met with Mrs. Mar-"
shall Ferguson Wednesday, and in-
dulged in 42 and other games, refresh
ments being served by the hostess. The
embers hold that no one should dreadk
e number 13, especially in affdirs of
the heart, and the club adopted it as
their club name to show to the world
that they had no superstitious foars of
the diabolical ”13”—this number of
evil omen—ever being able to work them
harm, either in this or the next world.
Club members: Mesdames. M. Fergu-
son, John Cage, Roy Bledsoe, Tom Don-
nell; Misses Mary Johnstone, Nell John-
ston, Mary O'Hara, Audie and Willie
Davis, Ella Crouse, Hoyt Hamilton, Jef-
fie Bennett and .W. Mothershead.
The Tribune believes the city is mak-
ing a very great and costly blunder in
fixing the grade of cement walks. They
are six inches too low, and will certainly
be covered with mud and water when
the streets are flooded. They are so low
that the walks are not given the dignity
and individuality they possess were they
higher. Besides, the wind blows sand
into the gutters, and the walks are ao
low it does not require much sand to
level them with the gutters. The rail-
road engineers in planning the Central
from Waco to Dublin made the same
costly mistake. They made bridges too
low and culverts to convey water too
narrow, and there were millions of dol-
lars wasted. The property waa washed
out. By reason of the pavements in
Stephenville being made ao low it ia
going to put the citv to much immed-
iate expense in cutting out side ditches.
The pavement in front of Mrs Higgin-
botham’s elegant residence is a very-
forceful illustration of this. Were it/
sixfinches higher an added individuality
would be given this handsome residence
and there would be no danger of water
flooding the pavement, and leaving a
deposit of silt, and the city would not
be required to grade that street which is
now in good shape. The Tribune does
not believe that any pavement no higher
than the crown of a street will permit of
a gutter sufficient to carry off the water
in a country where the winds shift the
sands, and where heavy dashes of rain
occur. The editor saw thousands of
dollars worth of goods ruined in Austin
stores in the early history of that town
by reasou of a mistaken idea that pave-
ments must be no higher than a street’s .
crown. If we had storm sewers on our
streets low pavements would do, but
.even then they do not give a residence
that dignified individuality which one
six inches higher would give. This
added height will also save the ciiy
many hundred dollars of ditching, and
there will be little danger of the pave-
ments being flooded and some of them
piled lull of mud. Our people are now
preparing to spend some $10,000 or
£12,0U0 on streets, and pavements. II
be corrected. This _
with the best of motives^' an? _____ _
desire to force individual opinions on
any one.
On account of sickness in his family
Hon. Tom Roberson of Austin has se-
cured leave of absence, and is now at
home. Before leaving Anstin, however,
he paired on several important bills.
Tom says he is alarmed at the extrava-
gance manifested by legislators, and if a
halt is not called the state will soon be
grieviously taxed to maintain the use-
less institutions now being created. He
has been placed on several very impor-
tant committees, one of which is the ap-
propriation committee, and has thns
been enabled to see the drift of extrav-
agance. Of course such institutions as
have already been created must receive
appropriations each year to (liaintain
them. To say nothing of the various
institutions demanding immense sums
from the public treasury we mention
the State university which demands
$780,000, the Terrell insane asylum
wants $700,000, the insane asylumat San
Antonio $700,000, and the A. & M. col-
lege $468,750. Inasmuch as the Gaines
bill has passed the house creating 16
more branch A. & M. colleges to be
located throughout Texas, this means
that in a few more years great sums of
money will be demanded for new build-
ings and expensive equipment, and for
the payment of high salaries of the po-
litical pets selected to run them. fiich
of these 16 new barnacles will be de-
manding large appropriations from the
legislature. Members will be elected
from districts where these colleges are
located purposely to secure appropria-
tions, and the whole thing will resolve
itself into a game of loot, and the farmer
who now lives so serenely and happily
up about the forks of the creek on bis
little farm will be taxed to the utmost
to meet these new burdens. His valua-
tions will be raised. He will even be
1aised out of his boots. That innocent
king feature in our public school law
hicta forces the teaching of agriculture
11 our public schools now means that an
expensive system must soon be put on
foot to put this into practice, and another
great and unnecessary burden put on
tax payers. Tom Roberson, we are
glad to say, opposed this measure bitter-
ly, as he opposed the measure establish-
ing the 16 A. & M. colleges. A large
number of legislators look upon tax
payers as cows to be milked.. If agri
culture is taught in public schools, whv
not brick laying, plastering, blacksmith-
mg and hundreds of other occupations?
The Tribune is opposed to the creation
of new offices. ,
Thirty-nine years ago J. A. Gardner
was a very sick man, aud was on his
way to California. He got broke and
stopped in Erath county to make a few
dimes, and was given a job to teach Dan
Thornton’s children on Barton creek at
$30 per month. After being here a short
while his health improved so fast he
determined to remain. He soon adapted
himself to the habits ami customs of the
cople, and since then has made Erath
is home, and, as he has mule a good
citizen, Erath county is glad that he got
broke 39 years ago, and had to stop
over. This year the old gentleman and
bis son will cultivate the farm —the one
the old gentleman has In-en living
efnee 1872.
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