The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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HIGH
StephenvilU, Texas.
GRADE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
Affiliated with the State
University.
Graduates admitted to the
leading colleges and universi-
ties without examinations.
H. J. McILHANEY, A. <B., Principal
debt-paying, progressive farmers
who believe in comfortable homes,
in educating their children, in
schools and churches, and with
such backing there is no such word
in our vocabulary as failure. Fel-
low citizens, when I came to Ste-
the work. I have figured these
things out on a gold basis for the
convenience of our Republican
friends. I wish them to know just
how much of the people’s money
they have expended.”
“This is certainly a comprehen-
phenville (and I am still a boy) ! sive way of putting the matter of
such a gathering as
have been impossible
this would
There was
vast expenditures up to the people,
but it is impersonal. “The aver-
The Excessive Heat
I
Naturally creates a demand for toilet
articles, such as Perfumes, perfumed
Soap, Toilet Waters, Face Powders,etc.
I have a complete assortment of all
requisites to the toilet and would be
pleased to supply your wants.
R. E. Cox,
DRUGS AND JEWELRY
Hast Side Square.
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THE TRIBUNE
S/.OO PER YEAR
C. R. Coulter, Publisher.
Sntered at the Postoffice at Stephenville. Texas
as Second Class Mail Matter.
STEPHENVILLE, JULY 24.
Announcements.
For District J udge :
W. J. Oxford, re-election,
F. H. Chandler,
For District Attorney :
Ben Palmer, re-election,
For District Clerk:
J. J. Pate, re-election,
For Representative:
T. T. Roberson, re-election.
J. G. Conner,
For Flotorial Representative:
Jess Baker, re-election,
R. S. Whitehead,
For County Judge:
W. H. Garrett,
J. B. Keith,
For County Attorney :
L. O. Cox,
Alex Johnson,
For County Clerk:
Geo. P. Knight, re-election,
G. E. Toliver,
For Sheriff:
Bates Cox, re-electioh,
For Tax Assessor:
D. J. Patterson,
Geo. Tummins,
W. C. Kenny,
J. E. Mobley,
John H. Ross,
W. C. (Bill) Burnett,
W. G. (Lum)Cook, of Dublin
For Taf Collector:
A. E. Oates,
For Connty School Superintendent
W. T. Graves,
MisS Emma B. Perry,
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 1:
L. D. Moore, re-election.
J. H. (Jim) Young,
For Commissioner, Precinct No, 3:
G. F. Higbee.
T. W. (Wash) Belcher,
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 4
J. D. Biggs,
T. P. Thornton, re-election,
For Justice of the Peace, Pre. No.l
W. E. Bower.
G. S. Watson.
Andrew R. Wilson.
R. G. English,
M. L. (Mart) Jackson.
For Justice of Peace Precinct No 4
T. W. (Wash) Belcher,
For Justice of the Peace Pre. No. 7
A. H. Miller,
For Constable, Ptecinct No. 1:
Abb Young.
J. W. Harris,
John Barham,
I. F. Moser,
not more than half a dozen buggies j age man is apt to say, “What of
within a radius of ten miles of this it? It is the government’s money,
town. People all came to town on ! I am not concerned about it. I
horseback or in farm wagons, many j pay no taxes to the government,
of them drawn by oxen. You • Let the government spend it if it
could havfe told very readily by ] will. The money goes back into
the attire of the young ladies that the channels of trade and some-
Address of Welcome.
The following address was deliv-
ered by N. C. Baldwin, mayor of
Stephenville, at the opening of the
picnic Tuesday, brought forth
thunderous applause :
Indies and Gentlemen: -s
The pleasure is now offered 'me
as mayor of this city to extend to
you on behalf of our citizens a
genuine, hearty, Texas welcome
cational, the financial center, and
the religious center of the best
county in Texas. We welcome
you to a city where the door of
each and every home stands open
to you and to hospitality. We feel
honored by your presence here
with us today. Particularly are
we proud to see some of the old
pioneers of Erath county here;
the brave men who years ago res-
cued this the best county in the
State from the hands of Indians
whose hands in many cases were
reeking with the warm blood of
their wives and children. These
men are no less patriots than the
noble band of patriots who died
defending the Alamo. Let us not
be unmindful of the services that
this noble band of pioneers have
rendered us. Some before me have
lived in Erath county many years
and have seen the last red man and
first white man. In a few years
the future mayors of this thriving
and bustling city will not be able
to say this. These gray haired old
pioneers will have passed over the
river. This is a new county even
for Texas. We should be proud
of the progress we have made and
are making. Our developments
have been marvelous in the eyes of
the world. Contrast our public
schools, the corner stones of re-
publican government and our civil-
ization with what they were twenty
years ago. Contrast our farms and
dwellings with what they were at
•time, and tell me if ever a people
madegreater progress? Our county
cannot boast of a single million-
aire; here the richest are poor, and
the poorest live in abundance. We
welcome you because you are our
friends and neighbors grown up to-
gether with us, and this reunion
is really a great family reunion.
We welcome you to the town be-
cause the town is yours. All the
wealth comes from the soil. Every
brick and stone piled up in this
town was dug out of your farms,
and there will never be a better
time to turn the town over to you
than the present. I would say,
however, should you not desire to
take immediate possession, we-can
turn the town over to you in much
better shape by Christmas, and it
will make a very approptate Christ-
mas present. I cannot formally
turn you over the keys to the city
because we have no keys.
We have stich a citizenship that
we need no locks to our doors or
bars to our windows. We have
no need of locks to keep our peo-
ple for there is not a man in the
city who has a desire to get out.
Our doors always stand wide open
to any honest, progressive citizen
who desires to live in a live town.
We extend no invitation to moss
backs. We welcome you because
you are indispensable to our wel-
fare and we desire to cultivate still
closer relations with you. We
welcome you here because it affords
us the opportunity of telling you
that within the next two years we
are going to make this town indis-
pensable to you. Every man
should have a town. This tqwn
is yours in the fullest sense of the
word. Help us to make it such a
town as a progressive, educational
town can feel proud of.
We welcome you to a live town.
Some doubt might have existed in
your minds the past ten years
whether Stephenvllle was dead or
alive. My friends we were not
dead but only sleeping. We are
now awake and fully awake to the
fact that we are more than ten
years behind the times in civic
pride and public improvement.
But, gentlemen, watch us grow!
We have the backing of a broad,
rich agricultural country
by hard-working, God-fearing,
they had not received their last
Delineator. Now hacks, • surries
and buggies are as plenty as John-
son grass. Now there are not a
brighter, better educated, more
fashionably dressed, better looking
lot of young ladies in any state in
America than we have in Erath
county And, boys, these Texas
girls are the universal earth-be-
witching. They are good and
true and handsome, too, in kitchen
and in parlor. Mothers, we wel-
come you, remembering that the
hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world. We welcome you here
to-day because you are the moth-
ers of the brightest lot of children
anywhere. If you doubt this go
back to the old states whether east
west, north or south, and come
back and tell me if this is not true.
Ladies and gentlemen, the town
is yours, the officers are all locked
up and will not disturb you. Let
all religious denominations and all
political parties unite in this grand
love feast, not forgetting to give
thanks to the Giver of all good
gifts, for civil and religious liberty,
for prosperity, and all the comforts
and luxuries that education and a
high state of civilization have
brought us. This grand picnic is
now open. Let each do as he
pleases, remembering that our
greatest pleasure comes from giv-
ing pleasure to others. Thanking
you ladies and gentlemen.
A Millionaire’s Baby
attended by the highest priced baby
specialist could not be cured of
stomach or bowel trouble any
quicker or surer than your baby if
you give it McGee’s Baby Elixir.
Cures diarrhoea, dysentery and all
other derangements of the' stomach
or bowels. Price 25 cents and 50
cents. Sold by Perry Bros. 27-5t
Advertised Letters.
James Ashley, Edna Butcher,
G T Cargile, A A Campbell,
Mrs. Kate Parmley, Ned Vaughn.
W H Christian, P M
Don’t sell produce until you see
Cameron & Evans. You’ll lose
if you do. 25-tf
H H Hathaway now has alber-
ta peaches ripe for canning. The
nicest he has ever had. 29-2t
For Sale—Full blood Jersey
cow with young calf, gives 4 gal-
lons of milk, good butter animal,
good color, gentle and an all around
cow. None better. C. H. Baber,
Dublin route 5. Farm 6 miles
east of Stephenville. 29 tf.
Ton
body must pay out money if there
is to be business.”
Of course the answer to this is
that the expenditure of this vast
sum of money is mainly economic
waste, it not being employed in
production and is not therefore
business” in its true sense.
But let us make a personal appli-
cation of this governmental ex-
pense. Suppose the average man
can earn $3 a day, it would there-
fore require one day’s labor of
333,333,333 men to produce the
annual sum demanded by congress
of the American people, or sup-
posing that they worked every day
in the year, Sunday’s included, it
would require the yearly efforts of
913,242 men to earn the stipend
exacted by congress.
The annual earnings of millions
of men. Is not the cost of a gov-
ernment out of proportion to its
benefits.—Fort Worth Record.
. Gold by the
The amount of money distrib-
uted by the congress which Satur-
day has been made the subject of
arithmetical study bv Congress-
man Hamlin, of Missouri, who has
demonstrated in this inquiry the
proverbial trait of the Missourian.
When Mr. Hamlin ascertained
that the appropriations of the re-
cent session aggregated a billion
dollars he was appalled at the mag-
nitude of the total. He set him-
self to the task of showing to the
country what it meant to disburse
so colossal a sum. He first ascer-
tained from the treasury depart-
ment how many $20 gold pieces it
requires to weigh a pound. He
was informed ^hat thirteen such
pieces weighed fifteen and three-
fourth ounces avoirdupois. With
this information as a basis he began
figuring. The result of his calcu-
lations was something startling.
But let him tell his own story.
At this session we have appro-
priated a billion dollars. Now
27,000 $20 gold pieces or one ton
would be equivalent to $540,000.
One billion dollars, divided by
$540,000 or one ton make 1,851
tons of gold appropiated at this
session. Takingtheaverage wagon
load as one ton, it would require
1,851 wagons to haul this gold.
“If you were to put a ton of
gold in each wagon and string the
wagons out touching each other
and allowing seven yards to the
wagon they would stretch
over an approximate distance of
seven and one-half miles.
2 “The average freight car holds
about twenty tons. Loading
twenty tons to a car it would take
ninety-two- and one-half cars to
haul that gold. If you were to
try and carry it off on your back
it would require 14,063 meu to do
Don’t be a Loafer.
Don’t loaf young man. If you
cant secure the kind of employment
you pfefer take the next thing
offered if its nothing better than a
position as third assistant dish
wiper in a batter cake emporium.
The longer you loaf the less quali-
fied you are to fill a position of re-
sponsibility, and to the street gang
is the last place an employer goes
seeking an employee. Work is the
promoter of happiness, content-
ment and prosperity and the young
man who has not enjoyed the re-
ward of pleasure that comes from
honest toil is certainly an object of
pity. Tine young man who is
worth thousands by inheritance
will never enjoy the pleasures that
might be purchased with his un-
earned dollars like those bought
with the coin earned by the sweat
of his own brow. There is an hon-
est task for every able bodied in-
habitant of this big round world
and no individual, rich or poor,
should shirk it. Henry Watterson
once wrote: “We would rather
know that a boy of ours was study-
ing the architectural peculiarities of
the rear elevation of a grass-fed
mule as he follows it up and down
the corn and cotton rows from
early morn till dewey eve—inhal-
ing the mellow odor of freshly
turned earth, quaffing deeply of
God’s life blossoms with the per-
spiration of honest toil sloshing in
his brogans (bought at a bargain
sale for 78 cents), with an appetite
that could eat through a day’s
rations of corn bread, butter milk
and turnip greens and come off the
encounter without having its keen
edge dulled, than that he had be-
come the pampered pet of effete
society, dawdling away the hours
of night in the many evolutions of
the wabbly waltz, with some other
man’s wife pressed to his bosom, in
the midst of voluptuous surround-
ings, with his young brain awhirl
with the intoxicating perfume of
rare exotic plants and imported
champagne, and spending a few
hours a day not given to slumber
in planning new excesses whereby
to squander his time, wealth and
honor. ’ ’ —Abilent Reporter.
APPENDICITIS
PLAGUE COMING.
Nearly Everybody Must Undergo
Operation or Perish, Says
Surgeon.
The United States is fast becom-
ing a nation of appendicitis vic-
tems!
This was the assertion today of
Dr Jabez Jackson, prominent sur-
geon and member of the American
Medical Association, during a dis-
cussion regarding abdominal sur-
gery at Chicago recently.
“According to the present statis-
tics,” declared Dr. Jackson, it
will be only a few years until
everyone in the country is affected
with appendicitis and forced to
undergo an operation in order to
prevent death.’’
' As a practicing physician and
surgeon in New York and the
south for a number of years, Dr.
Jackson has made a specialty of
abdominal surgery and has per-
formed a great number of appen-
dicitis operations—more than any
other surgeon in the country, some
say.
High living, wineing and dining,
late nights and irregular habits
were some of the causes attributed
by Dr. Jackson for the rapid
spread of appendicitis.
The whole question devolves it-
self into one of whether we are not
exceeding the speed limit of liv-
ing,” he said. “I, for one, be-
lieve that we are. In fact, it has
been scientifically determined that
we are living too high. And that
is one of the greatest causes of ap-
pendicitis, the malady which is
bound to grip everybody in this
country if the conditions and cir-
cumstances are not changed.
“Now, the idea of after-theater
suppers causes as much appendici-
tis as anything else. What chance
hasa man’s stomach and appendix
when he persists in loading himself
up with rich foods late at night?
None at all. As a rule, the appen-
dix is one portion of the human
anatomy that is peaceable and good-
natured as long as it is treated right.
The minute it commences to get
crowded it rises up and rebels
strenuously.
“A large amount of rich food
taken into the stomach causes a
certain disturbance and infiamation
to set in which extends through to
the intestines. Then with both
the stomach and intestines in poor
working order, the infiamation
rapidly envelops the appendix,
much pain is caused, and the quick-
est and best remedy is to have them
cut out just as soon as a physican
can be reached.”
A Contented Woman
is always found in the same house
with Ballard’s Snow Liniment. It
keeps every member of the family
free from aches and pains, it heals
cuts,
cots, bums and scalds and cures
rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago
and all muscular soreness and stiff-
ness. 25c, 50c and $1 a bottle.
Sold by Perry Bros. 27-5t
Wanted—A man to cut fifty
cords of wood. Write A V Pear-
ey, Bluff Dale, Texas. 28-3t
An Ordinance
To prohibit persons from bringing stallions,
ja^kt snd other like aniipsls upon the pub-
lic aquare, and prohibit persona (tom feed-
ing horses, mules and other animals upou
• the public square and to prohibit persona
from selling animals at auction, except such
as are sold under process of law, and to pro-
hibit persons from selP'ug medicine by ex-
hibiting same from wagons or platforms, etc.
giving what is known as coucerts, such as
singing and dancing.
Sec. 1.—BE it Oudainkd by the city council
of the City of Stephenville that hereafter it shall
be unlawful for any |>erson to bring upon the
public square of the City of Stephenville any
stallion jack or bull and keep same upon public
square for the purpose of exhibiting the same.
Sec. 2.—it shall he unlawful for any person de-
siring to trade or sell a horse, mule, jack, or
other like animal to place same upon the public
square for such purtioses.
Sec. 3.—It shall tie unlawful for any person to
sell at auctioh any animal upon the public
square of the City of Stephenville, except officers
who are acting under process of law.'
Sec. 4.—It shall be unlawful for any person to
feed any horse, mule, cow, jack or other like an-
imal ui>on the public square of the City of Ste-
phenville.
sec. 3.—It shall he unlawful for any person to
sell, upon the public square of the City of Steph-
enville. any medicine, book, map. picture or
merchandise of any kind whatsoever, by having
what is commonly called concerts, wherein there
is music, singing and dancing, or by any device
w hatsoever that will attract a crowd.
Sec. 6.—It shall be unlawful for any person
to sell at auction upon the public square
of the City of Stephenville. any medicine,
book. map. pictures, or any kind of merchan-
dise whatsoever.
Sec. 7.—Any persons violating any of the above
sections shall lie deemed guilty of a misdemean-
or and upon conviction thereof before the Re-
corder of the corporation court shall be fined in
any sum not to exceed 125.00.
An Ordinance
“Tennessee is noted for hot pol-
itics and, something like East
Texas, nearly everybody gets into
the game some time or other.
David Crockett, Sam Houston, and
the late Judge Reagan and many
other great men in the public life
of Texas hailed original from
Tennessee. I remarked this fact
to Senator Bob Taylor, whom I
met not long ago in Washington.
The Senator replied that he found
Texas full of Tennesseeans and that
every one of them had an office of
some sort. The Senator said that
on his last lecture tour through this
State he met up at Dallas a fellow
from back home whom he had
hardly time to miss from the ranks
of the Tennesseeans. “How long
have you been in Texas?’’ the Sen-
ator asked his former aquaintance,
’Goin’ on two year,’ the ex-Ten-
neseean replied. ‘What are you
doing for a living?’ the Senator in-
quired. He replied, ‘I’m county
jedge in one of the adjoining
counties.”—Corresponds in Hous-
ton Post.
'' A man without a purpose in
his life is like a dog without a tail
to wag,” sa/s the Philadephia Re-
cord. And a man who is forever
trying to manage folk’s business is
like a dog without a tail to wag.
Happiest Man on Earth.
The old poem about the king
seeking for the shirt of the happy
man that he might wear it and be-
come freed of his cares—and then
finding the man a beggar who
hadn’t a shirt on his back—might
again be realized if any monarch
would wander to the village of
Suhr, canton of Argovie, Switz-
erland, where lives Johann Schmid.
Across the front of Schmid’s cot-
tage is painted : “Here lives the
happiest man on earth.” Schmid,
who is 55 years old, says to inter-
viewers : “ I defy you to find a
happier man than I. I have never
worked, never married, never been
ill, never been anxious for the fu-
ture, I eat, drink, and sleep well—
what more can you ask? I was left
$5 a week and this piece of land
on which is my cottage, and I have
lived the happy man’s philosophy
ever since without a care for the
outer world.”—Ex.
Faithful Parrot.
Not long ago a lady, calling on
another, noticed the absence of a
cherished parrot, and asked what
had become of it.
“Oh, I had to give her away.”
“Give her away! And you
thought so much of her!”
“Yes, but you know I taught
her to ask me in the morning, 'Did
you sleep well?’ and she was such
a dear, faithful little thing that she
used to wake me up all night long
asking me if I slept well. Noth-
ing could cure her of it—she was
so morbidly conscientious—and so
at last I had to give her to a night
editor of our acquaintance!”
How It Worked,
Well, sir,' explained young
Mr. Sooberbs, “it was like this.
I thought my wife might be afraid
of tramps, so I bought her a watch
dog. He was a fierce looking bull
and I reckoned he’d about fill the
bill. I got him in the morning
and had him sent right out to the
house. When I got home that
night, one of the toughest looking
hoboes you ever saw was sitting on
the porch. ‘What in thunder are
you doing here?’ I asked. ‘Well,
bosa,’ says he, I come lookin fer a
handout, an’ de lady she gimme 50
cents to stick around an’ pertect
her from dat dog o’ yours. She’s
sure scared of im7~”
t
Prohibiting Cmildbkn on Stbbets Aktek
Cbbtain Hocbb:
Sec. 1—B* it Obiiained by the City Council
of the City of Stephenville,Text*, that it is here-
by made unlawful for any person under the ace
of 18 veara to be or remain in or upon any of the
streets, alleys or public places in the City of
Stephenville. Texas, at night after the hour of
9 p. m. from March 1 to September 30. inclusive,
each year. And after the hour of H p. m. from
October 1 to the laat day of February, inclualve.
of each year, unleaa euch peraon is accompanied
by a parent, guardian, or other peraon having
the legal cuatody of Mich minor peraona. or ia in
the performance bf an errand or duty directed
by euch parenta. guardian or other peraon. hav-
ing the care and cuatody of auch minor peraona.
or whoae employment make* it neceaaary to he
upon the said atreeta. alleya or public placea
during the night time after aaid apecified bourn;
provided, thia exception ahall not apply when
the peraon Uuder auch age ahall be playing or
unnecessarily in or upon any auch atreet.alley or
public place, whether aloue or accompanied
with the parent, guardian or any peraon whom-
aoever. Any peraon violating the proviaiona of
thia aection ahall on conviction be fined in any
aum to not exceed trn dollara for each ollenae.
and atand committed until auch fine and coata
are paid.
Sec. 2.—Dcty or Parent ob Ouabdian^H
ia hereby made unlawful for any parent, guard-
ian or other peraona having legal care or cuatody
of any peraon under 18 year* of age. to allow or
to permit auy auch child, ward or other peraon
under auch age. while in auch legal cuatody to
go or be in or upon am of the atreeta. alleya or
public placea in -aid City within the tintea pro-
hibited in Sec. 1 hereof, unleaa there exiata a
rcanouable neceaaity therefor. Any peraon vio-
lating the proviaiona of thia aection ahall. on
pr<
conviction, be fined h^any aum not exceeding
twenty-five dollara for each offenac and atan
committed until auch fine and coata are paid.
Sec. 3.—Duties ox Police —The chief of po-
lice, or any member of the police force, while on
duty, ia hereby authorized to arreat without
warrant any peraon willfully violating the pro-
viaiona of Sec. 1 of thia chapter and to detain anv
peraon for a reaaouable time in which complaint
cau be made and a warrant iaaued and aerved.
Provided, that no child or minor peraon afreated
under the provision* of thia article ahall be
placed in confinement until the parenta or
guardian of auch minor tieraon ahall have been
notified of auch arreat and ahall have refuaed to
be held reaponaible for the observance of the
proviaiona of thia article by auch minor peraon.
f*
I>r,
I>r. J. Duff Hrimn,.
Physician and Surgeon
Has resumed, the practice of
medicine. Office over Mc-
/K Adams Drug Store. Residence
at Mrs Mollie Martin’s, phone k...
246. Office phone 62. Hr
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UNDERWOOD
•fit
¥000 sfa
Practise limited to eye
ear, nose and throat.
Office hours, 9 to 12 a. m. and
titil 1 to 5 p. m. Office over Perry
’ II rnn Tlvat rv C t va
Bros. Drug Store.
Residence phone number
b. G.OXFORD,IVI.D.
Physician and Surgeon,
Has resumed the practice of med-
icine in this city. Office
over Wilson Drug Company,
.Stephenville, Texas.
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DR. L. H. MILLER.
Practice Limited to Diseases of
EAR, EYE NOSE AND THROAT.
Special attention to Fine Rimless Kye
Office, Perry Bros. Drug Store.
Glasses.
Bring your produce to Cameron
& Evans. They pay more_ tht
any one
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The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1908, newspaper, July 24, 1908; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth882057/m1/4/?q=%22%22%7E1: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.