The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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Higginbotham Com’y.
SIXTEENTH YEAR.
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Depositors
Like to feel that in bringing their
business to a bank they are helping to
other words they are
build it up; i
giving something for what they receive.
We want you to feel that way toward us.
We Are Growing
Grow With Us
We want vour account—want to make
ourselves useful to you in any thing
pertaining to finance—and we can han-
dle it with profit to you and to ourselves.
The
FARMERS NATIONAL BANK ^
of Stephenville.
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.PERSONALS,
Mrs. N A Baker is visiting at Dallas.
Man’s inhumanity to man makes
1 countless thousands mourn.
Cecil Young will attend school at Leb-
anon, Ohio.
| J J Bennett will return from a visit to
his relatives at Portales, N. M., next
Katie Pickard, 8 years old, is very ill
with typhoid fever
Mrs. Bill Payne of Gordon visited
Mrs. Painter and other friends in thecity.
Miss Della Rucker visited with Mr*.
J H Brooks Sunday.
V H Wallace, a progressive farmer of
route 1, is in Decatur on business.
Charley Hurley and bride came in
'from Collin county yesterday, and went
out to Pizarro with John Martin.
Mrs R L Roberts of Dublin visited
Mrs Charley Hickey Friday and Satur-
day.
At John Underwood's Saturday about
75 people gathered to enjoy an old-fash -
ion fish fry. A large number of fish
were caught and all liad a good time.
Miss Bettie Lee, a
lady of Cisco, is with
Bro. as saTfeslady.
Mrs. Charles Mims.
charming voung
T E Richards &
She boards with
Mr. and Mrs. L F Way
Brown wood last week.
visited in
Mrs. J B Corley of Fort Worth visited
with her sister, Mr3. J If Brooks, all
this week.
Will Kintiev has been out to Fisher
county prospecting, trying to buy land
near Sylvester.
Miss Agnes Keyser left Sunday night
for Tuttle, Oklahoma, where she will
spend the winter with her sister.
j M Chaney,
quite sick with
week.
east of the city, was
spasmodic choleia this
to resist it.
We all feel a
ton. i,et ua
least five hundred
John Tarleton College.
The ninth annual opening of
this noble institution thatmfesnsi
so much to Stephenville and Erath
county took place on Tuesday,!
Sept. 1. Much enthusiasm was
manifested by the students and I
their parents and our townspeople
who were present, the crowd filling
the auditorium and the adjoining
rooms to overflowing. The prin-
cipal address was delivered 1*5* [
C O James of Sulphur Springs, nis neighborhood
This is
our school,
ofa# Tarle-
to place at
students there
Mrs. L. O. Williams of Fort Worth
spent a few days with friends in the city
this week.
Mrs. L L Styles, Mrs. A P Voung’ j
mother, returned last Friday from Hous-
ton, Breuham and Galveston.
Mrs. Swan Hu/ixietz of Meridian is to
be»a guest of Mesdatnes John Gray and
Riggs Roberts for several days.
Miss Katie Anderson is with the Ma-
con Mercantile Co. at Macon, Miss.,
this season.
Mike Shelton and daughter Miss
Addie of Tennessee are visiting Uncle
Pup Shelton this week. Mike is Pap’s
brother. '
The reason why Bud Deason looks so
| grave is because he has a “girl boarder”
at his home. She will likely remain
j with him 18 years.
| W S Telford of Anson came down to
| measure some land he sold to Mr. Bell.
The land is on Alarm creek and proved
j to be 13 acres short.
J N and Thomas George are visiting
their kinsman L II George, and it is
likelv they will make this city their
future home as they are well pleased
with the people.
If a tnau keeps store lie must keep it
filled with goods. This is why Charley
Blakeney bought such a big stock for
his fall trade. He is now able to meet
the requirements of every customer.
Mrs. W C Ready of Thurher was in
the city this week to attend the opening
of John Tarleton College. Her daugh-
ter Miss Julia becomes a student of the
college.
Mrs. Win. Scott of Gordon, wife of
Editor Scott, visited with her cousin
Mrs. Steve Borders last week, and was
so well pleased with the city that she
expressed a desire to live here.
Tom Aycock of Morgan Mill has raised
a fine crop of June corn, the ears being
very large and well filled. One ear con-
tainer] 666 grains, the ear weighing one
pound.
CROW’S OPERA HOUSE
Saturday, Sept. 5.
J. F. Pennington Presents The Eminent Comedian
Robert A, Neff
Supported by an Excellent Company in the Great Comedy
Success
“An American Hobo’
The greatest success of last season. Replete with high
class musical specialties
Prices 75, 50 and 25 cents
Reserved seats on sale at
Wilson’s Drug Store
within the next three years.
How the Editors get Rich.
After a good deal of study £
work we have at last figured <
why so manv country editors ,
rich. n> re is the secret of *
cess : A child is born in '
the attending
subject being “Shakespeare’s Ksti- ■ cian gets #25, the editor
mate of Human Character.” loud-lunged youngster
Among those in Texas who are
capable of selecting the choicest
and most beautiful words in tl>C|
English language and weaving'
them into lovely bouquets none
excel Mr. James. Short talks
were made by Judge Thompson, a|
member of the board of trustees;
Hon. J C George, Lee Young,
prof. Sandefer and Mayor Baldwin. |
A short visit to the college this
mormng found each and every one
as busy as bees, not only in the
college building, but in and around
the new dormitory for girls that
that has been erected within the
past one hundred davs. ’1 his
building, one of the finest in tlie
west, wli'le vet incomplete, is lie-j
ing filled rapidly with young ladies, >
the very flower of this and sur-
rounding counties. Some forty
young ladies have already engaged j
rooms. This girls’ home will be J
in charge and under the care of
Mrs. J 1) Sandefer and Mrs. E I)!
Jennings. The building will nc-i
commodate easily sixty young \
ladies. We have in this home j
built largely through the munifi- i
cent gift of one of our citizens, |
Mrs. Wilkinson, a home in every |
sense of the word, where parents,
can send their daughters that they
may he looked after and watched
over in the most cartful and tcndei (
manner.
This school never opened with
such flattering prospects. There
was an enrollment of two hundred
the first day and this term there
are no beneficiaries. The largest
opening previous to this showed
two hundred enrolled,
gives the
and the
happy parents a “send-off” and
gets $00. It is christened ; the
minister gets #10 and the editor
gets #00. Jt grows up and mar-
ries; the editor publishes “another
long winded, flowery article and
tells a dozen lies about the beauti
fnl and accomplished bride, the
minister gets #1<> and a piece of
cake, the editor gets #000. In the
course of time it dies, and the
doctor gets from $25 to #100, the
minister perhaps gets another #15,
the undertaker gets from #50 to
#100; the editor publishes a notice
of the death and an obituary two
columns long, lodge and society
resolutions, a lot of poetry and a
free card of thanks, and $0,000.
No wonder so many country edi-
tors get rich.—Moorehead Coaster.
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A Burglar in Town.
his name is “bad cough.” He
doesn’t care for gold or silver but
will steal your health away. If he
appears in your house arrest him
at once with Ballard's Horehound
Syrup, it maytneau consumption if
you don’t. A cure for all coughs,
colds and chest troubles. Price
25, 50c and per bottle. Sold
by Perry Bros. 56 It.
Typhoid l;ever.
One family in Erath coqnty did
not believe typhoid fever was con
tagious. When one member of
the family was stricken down others
of the family drank water from
glasses used by the sick one,and in
Other wayssanitation was neglected,
among I Several deaths occurred. There
which were seventy beneficiaries.
That we are drawing largely from
other counties is shown by the
fact that twenty students arrived
by the Hamilton train at one time.
There are many more students
from out of town than ever liefore.
With a faculty consisting of some
twenty members engaged because
of their competency! and worth,
regardless of expense, this institu-
tion makes a bid for our patron-
age that we shall scarcely be able
were seven cases alone in this one
family, and yet the parents claim
the disease is not catching. If you
visit where there is a ease of ty-
phoid fever, and you have doubts
about proper sanitation take with
you a vessel of water and also your
vessel to drink from. This pre-
caution tnay save a life in your
family.
John Cameron pays cash for eggs.
Debtors to Cage & Crow
Our Mr. -W. S. Watson will have his office at the
First National Bank for the purpose of collecting our
accounts, note0 etc. We ^y.juld appreciate a prompt
settAment ” ih se indebted to us.
GAGE Sc GROW.
s. W K Ware and daughters of
Manor, Texas, who have been the
guests of Mrs. A N Styles, left Satur-
day for Denver and other points in Col-
orado.
A M Benton, in renewing his subscrip-
tion remarked: “I have hurried in as
quick as I could to renew for fear you
might stop the paper. The Tribune is a
good paper, and I could not afford not
to be a subscriber.”
Mrs. Frank Vantis of l’aragoukl, Ark.,
wife of Frank Yatitis of the S N & S T
Rv., catue in Monday morning. Mr.
and Mrs. Yantis will room at the lien
Bassel residence and board at the “New
Pittman.”
Workmen art- making rapid headway
on the new building for the “New Pitt-
man” hotel. Travel has increased to
such an extent that Mr. Pittman was
compelled to add 2o more rooms to his
hotel.
Boh Williams lias returned to the city
from St. Louis, having bought while
there a verv large stock of gpod.s. This
was necessary because the stuff bought
last vear had been worked down to a
point far below the normal.
Quite a number of Mrs. Rigg Roberts'
friends who believed her to he out of
the city <m her summer vacation will be
surprised to learti that she lias been
sick. She is now in the interesting
stages of convalescence.
It is said that Willis Moon, who for-
C M Lange and family visited in the
county this week. Mr. L. was formerly
a “renter” in Erath couuty, but, tiring
of this went to Hardeman county, and
now owns 160 acres of good land, and is
getting well fixed. He likes the new
country.
Joe Terrett left Wednesday for a two-
weeks’ visit to Hickman, Ky., where he
has a brother and sister whom he lias
not seen in many years. Incidentally,
he tuay drop in to see some of the girls
of his boyhood days, and, per chance,
may return with one of them.
Arch Williamson and wife of Austin
visited Jess Neblett the past week.
Arch is in the employ of a large mer-
cantile house* at Austin, and has made
himself as popular and as indispensable
as he was in this city. Ills wife is a
daughter of Mr. Neblett.
Isaac Allen, an old Confederate soldier,
7Z vears old, died at his home near Bow-
man Ridge Tuesday of last week. He
had a disease of the jaw, and his physi-
cian diagnosed it as cancer, and it is
J said (the lower jaw was removed. He
died from the effect of the shock.
Ewing English, a nephew of Josh and
Boh English, came in from Tennessee a
a few days since. Ewing is voung, good
! looking, and all that sort of thing, but
if he desires to be oil “speaking te. is”
with the ladies he will have to keep „hv
of Josh, his kinsman.
Mrs. Bruce Cage has returned from an
; outing in Colorado and other places.
merly lived near Huckabav, has sold his j She spent a good deal of time inYellow
../SI >i is . 1 mil I iii/ii >. 1 of rttIP nnrlr nn>l foil n/t au.di Kt.Lm.lL
farm in Scurry county, and will move
hack to Huckabav. As soon as Clark
Cook, his son-iu law,sells, they will re-
turn together.
Arthur Stell, who farms in Hill coun-
tv, tells the Tribune mail that cotton in
his county will average up about like it
does in Erath On the deep black lands
the crop is good, but all light sandy or
clav soils show very i>oor crops.
stone park and found each day splendid
surprises to charm and interest her.
Although it was August the temperature
was low enough to require the use of
winter wraps.
U S Allen of Huckabav went to Gfd-
veston Saturday to see the "big pond,”
and, incidentally, to take in many other
good things which abound in that citv.
He came here from Arkansas, and says
if Texas jack rabbits are any criterion
Bates Cox says that John Willingham j by which to judge the gulf it “shore”
is making so many mysterious “moves” must be a big thing,
these days that he suspects that he is I
going to commit matrimony before J John Kiker went to Fort Worth last
Christmas—a matter that John stoutly i week to have nil operation performed on
denies. * * ‘A
Mrs. Collin Georse lias returned fr<-tn
Roscoe where she passed her “summer
vdfcation” visiting her sister. Ma$v
social events were given in her hontr
which made her visit unusually pleasure
able.
A public school teacher in Erath county,
who has practical, sensible ideas, and
believing that economy is the foundation
stone of prosperity, suggested that si)
families ought tp perserve all thelj
his collar bone. Several weeks ago he
received a fall and injured his collar
lame, and has suffered considerable since
then from the injury. Mr. Kiker lives
on Green creek, and is one of Rrath's
best citizens.
The late grand jury recommended a
number of changes in the poor farm
management, and ttaev and the tax
payers of Erath county have the grati-
fication of knowing that these changes
have been sanctioned and the changes
made. Doubled-decked bunks have
pei_,_. _ -
empty lard cans, as they are just as good(been built for the poor farm priaonera
aa«ny other cans for canning fruits and M*»d new bedding bought. The bunks
vegetables The Tribune does not know 'will be painted whit*, and the steel
the woman’s name, but feela sure in
stating that the man who wins her will-
stating
indeed
possess a jewel.
e pal
cages will be red. Jdhn Willtngham is
seeing that the work is well done. The
cost will be about $150.
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Carltons’ this season hnve been fortu-
nate in securing one of the most popular
as well as tasteful trimmers that could
be found in Missouri in the person of
Miss Margaret Maude Speak of Cape Gi-
rardeau. Her skill as a trimmer, and
her agreeable manners will make
her a prime favorite.
D D Bass and wife are visiting their
son Odie at Sweetwater. They are proud
of their boy because he is an industrious,
energetic man. and has shown an ability
to forge ahead in this world. But this
is characteristic of the average Stephen-
ville boy who li3S the courage to shake
off his mother’s apron strings, and strike
out for himself.
Miss Eleanor Larkin of Springfield,
Mo., arrived this week to take charge of
the trimming department at Higginbot-
ham’s. It is said she has fine taste and
knows how to put the finishing touches
on the latest millinery creations so art-
istically that even the homeliest women
are made to appear almost divinely
beautiful,
“I have quit the nasty habit of chew-
ing because it was killing me, and I now
feel better than I ever felt before in my
life,” was an utterance of Jim Edwards.
He now preaches against the unclean
habit almost daily, trying, to induce the
children of men to follow his example.
Men and bidoous-looking worms are the
only creatures that eat tobacco.
W P Pilkington of route 2 has just re-
turned from a visit to Rotan, Fisher
county, where he reports he saw better
corn crops than we have in Flratli coun-
ty. However the cotton crop is mined
in Jones, Fisher and Scurry counties,
having been entirely destroyed by the
boll worm. A good rain fell just before
he left, atnl it is believed a good .fall
cotton crop will vet be made.
Farmers on the lower Graubury road
are gradiqg and putting their road into
good shape so they may he used while
marketing their crops. All the ruts and
worn places in the roads on the old
graveled sections will he repaired, and
other bad places will he graveled. Some
good work has been done between Bud
Senter's and Taylor Long’s. The exam-
ple of these people should stimulate
others to follow them.
L S Fulbriglit who was in - Stephen-
ville, Aug. 2S, collecting agricultural
products to he exhibited during the la-
bor-day celebration at Tliurber the first
Monday in September, says he has 1,80
different products he and his wife have
put up from things grown on his Barton
creek farm. He will manage the two
day’s exhibit during the great celebra-
tion, and show the world the capabilities
of Erath county.
W M Leonard has returned from a
visit to his father and mother who live
at Burlington, Kan. His father is 75
years old, and gets along almost as spry
as a boy. His mother is 70 years old,
does all the family washing and takes
care of an 8 room house. Mr. Leonard
savs those Kansas people know how to
live well, and raise nearly everything
they use on the farm, and all have fat
cattle, horses ami good barns, with
plenty alfalfa hay.
The Methodist protracted meeting at
Corinth, conducted by Rev. Frank
Hnghen, closed Monday of last week,
and W K Tarver savs it was certainly
one of the best meetings ever held, and
highly commends the pastor for his tact
and skill in liberalising the people of
his church, the result being that a fine
Christian feeling has been developed,
and harmony and peace prevails through-
out the neighborhood -a state of affairs
which greatly pleases Mr. Tarver.
J B McAdams has had with liitti as a
guest an old comrade of the “lost
cause,” in the person of James Paxton
of Jones county. These two men,
althoug they enlisted in the service in
Missouri, have not met since the war.
McAdams was capture/1 at Helena, Ark.,
and served long terms in Federal prisons
at Fort Delaware and Alton, 111. Paxton
was captured in Missouri and sent to
Indiana as a prisoner of war. Not hav-
ing met since 1863 they took great joy
in telling the old camp-fire yarns of ye
tronbleaome times of 1863, and so on
down to the time when the white-winged
dove of peace hovered over the desolate
valleys of the aouth, and the dogs of
war were pulled off.. They enjoyed the
meeting as only ttaoae who have had
stormy lives can enjoy such things.
Some of the young men of this city,
after watching two hoys beat a poor,
helpless, crippled mule unmercifully,
are of the opinion that StephaB^ille
should have a society to educate men
and women to be more humane, ahd in-
cidentally, to help punish those who are
inclined to impose unnecessary hardships
on poor, dumb creatures, and who beat
and maim them because of their ina-
bility to accomplish more than their
strength admits.
“I never tie my horse across the pave-
ment and inconvenience people. How-
ever, I notice others are violating this
law, the penalty for such obstruction be-
ing very heavy. I sometimes go out amt
remove horses from the walks. I do not
like to get people into trouble but the
nuisance will never be stopped until a
few of them pay fines. And then there
is another nuisance /which demands at-
tention from thecity council. It is the
driving of loose cattle through the city
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They run over your place and alarm
one’s family, and then conies a booted
and spurred horseman who has no more
respect for you than if you were a Digger
Indian, and he ‘gallops over # your place
in pursuit of the cattle. I do not think
the citv council should permit loose ani-
mals to be driven through town.”
Overeating and injudicious eating
sends thousands of men and women to
premature graves. Just think what a
burden one puts upon his stomach when
he swallows five or six half masticated
biscuits ? The stomach surrounds the
gluey mass with gastric juice to convert
it into the necessary elements to sustain
life, and, for a while, is successful, but
the task is so great this organ rebels,
and then comes dyspepsia and other
troubles, for which there is absolutely no
cure, and the poor wretch dies-—a victim
of self-destruction. Did you ever..hear
vour boarding house mistress say.
“Have a hot biscuit?” She means you
no harm, for she’s not drumming for a
drug store, nor neither is she an under-
taker’s agent, yet if you listen to her
syren voice and eat her biscuits red hot
from the stove, the doctor, the druggist
and grave digger will soon handle you.
You will not go all at once, hut will lin-
ger for years to suffer excruciating tor-
tue. The man who has a wife who
knows how to bake light bread is thrice
blessed, and so is she, for she’s nbt
likely to become a widow prematurely.
Eat corn bread and light bread, bat cut
out liot biscuits, and the grave digger
will not be casting wistful eves at you as
he passes by.
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John Cameron pays cash for eggs.
Go West and Get Healthy.
80 acres best sandy land, near
Nugent, Jones county; all fenced,
44 acres in cultivation, 2 room
house, cistern, sheds, well, wood,
grass, 3 acre orchard, level, all
tillable, graded road, no crab grass,
telephone in house, price $30 peri
acre. Will trade for same grade
land near Stephenville or Dublin.
What have von? Address, N..
Avoca, Texas, Route 2, Box 47.
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For Sale—Registered Partridge
Cochin cocks, best iiTTexas*. Set-
ting of 16 eggs from my hens for
#1.50. Apply to M M Cunning-
ham at Trimble’s market. 36;^
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Sheriff’s Sale.
The Stale of Te.a«, county of Krath. 8y virtue-
of a certain order of sale leaned out of the honor-
able district court of Krath county, on the Sth
ilav of August. 1908. by Joe J. Pate, district clerk,
of said county, against A. I,. Cole and !,. s, Kul-
bright for the sum of Two Hundred and Klftv
Thrve ($283.00) Dollars and coats of suit, irr cause
No. 3606 in said court, stvled ). W. Collier vetjns
A. I,. Cole and I,. S. Kulbriaht, and placed lit nnv
hands for service. I. Bates Cox. as sheriff of Erath
county, Texas, did on the 2nd day of Septem-
ber, 1908. levy on certain real estate, situated it*
Krath county, described as follows, to-w11 i/»i
or parcel of land, situated in Dublin. Texas out
of the original Win. Thomas survey beiug tot
No. 1. in block No. 4. of the A and H. Bobbin*
Addition to the town of Dublin, which lot of
land was conveyed by deed of even date with
said notes, from I,. S, Kulbriaht and wire to A.I,.
Cole, and levied u.on as the property of said A.I,.
Cole and 1,. S. Kulbriaht. and on Tuesday, the
6th day of October, 1908, at the court honor door
of Krath county, in the town of Stephenville.
Texas, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p.m.
1 will sell mid property at public vendue for
cash, to the highest bidder, as the property of
mid A. I,. Cole and U. S. Kulbriaht b.v virtue of
mid levy and mid order of sale.
And in compliance with law. I tive this notice-
n. in the Knglish language.
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