The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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We are Exclusive Agents far
Dorothy Dodd Shoes
for Ladies
5c pearl buttons, 2
10c pearl buttons, i
en for............
25c peroxide..:.-
25c dressing comb-
Pins (dress pins) p
per................
25c talcum powder.
Fancy Ribbon, 1 in
up to 100. E3
SPECIAL.........
Many other bargai
this department.
25 in..........................
36 in Silk Poplins, f
any color.....................
Silks in Plaids. Checks. Stripes and
Solids. 85c to................
Benjamin Clothes for
Men
Bring Your Cotton To Us,
^ We Want to Bid on It
tic. 10c grade...
9-4 blcha sheetinj
86 in brown sheet!
Good outing, spd
All Merchandise in our stock
is 100 Per Cent New
G. M. CARLTON BROS. & COMP A
FIRE PREVENTION
day the 9th day of October,1915,
and urge upon the citizenship of
Stephenville to have all beating
apparatus, electrical wiring,
chimneys and flues carefully ex-
amined and placed in safe condi-
tion for winter use—that all
school buildings, hotels and other
public buildings be carefully
looked over on said day, or as
soon thereafter as possible, and
all changes effected that will
tend to the protection of such
buildings and their occupants.
Also, and on the same dav, I
ask that you look well to the
cleaning up of your premises of
all trash, tin cans or other deb-
ris of every kind, place the same
in boxes or sacks and set them
near the street where they can be
conveniently reached by parties
with wagons who will haul to
the dumping grounds without
eoipto you. Remember to cut and
burn weeds and grass even on
all vacant lots, thereby render-
ing the city as sanitary and
sightly as possible.
I urge upon all—ladies and
gentlemen, individually and
through their commercial and
civic organizations within the
city, to lend their hearty and
moral support to a proper observ-
ance of said day, and to assist
the local authorities in securing
united action of the entire citi-
zenship upon this important form
of conservation or our resources,
as well as the health of the dty.
Being on Saturday, the children
can greatly aid in this good work
as has been done in the past
This the 4th day of October,
1915. J. J. Bennett Mayor.
As Fire Marshal and City
Health Officer, I most heartily
concur in and approve the above
and foregoing proclamation.—A
E. Langford. M. D.
I am individually concerned I
would be glad to grant your re-
quest but the county has been
put to a heavy expense in keep-
ing two extra guards about you
and I don't think they should be
put to any more expense than
necessary. But as you request
it I will extend the time over a
few days, but I don't want to fix
it about Thanksgiving time. I
will set ft for Nov. 10, giving
you about five weeks."—Fort
Worth Record Oct. 6.
safe to say that seventy five per
cent of the people who trade here
study the ads of oat merchants
before coming to town: and those
ads draw many from a long ways
out, too. 7
COTTON SHOT UP
ON BUREAU
PROCLAMATION
You have doubtless noticed the
proclamation of the Governor of
Texas naming Saturday the 9th
day of October 1915 as Fire Pre-
vention and General Cleanup
day for the state of Texas and
urging the officials of all the cit-
ies and towns in the state to join
in the work. Among other
things enumerated by the Gov-
ernor, I call attention to the fol-
lowing paragraph in his procla-
mation, towit:
"Let no one be deceived Into
the belief that because, per-
chance, he does net pay insur-
ance premiums and has not suf-
fered an individual fire loss, that
he has escaped his tax. In mod-
ern business the fire waste tax
is a part of the cost of every art-
icle of trade and commerce con-
sumed by either man or beast
The significant and Interesting
feature of the fire loss problem
fa that easily fifty percent of it
is preventable."
Now, therefore in persuance
of Raid proclamation issued by
the Governor of this great state
of ours, and by virtue of the
power vested in me as mayor of
the city of 8tephenville, I, J. J.
Bennett Mayor, do hereby join
the Governor in this good Work,
and set apart and name Satur-
New York, Oct 4.—li
lately after the announcen
the government's crop i
indicating 10,960.000 bale
smallest since 1909, the t
assumed . considerable a
and strength. Futures adi
more than $1 per bale in
minutes and all prices wet
up from 58 to 66 points on
urdays ^losing.
• The governments figures
considerably under previo
vate estimates and caused
buying movement Dec
contracts sold up to 12.60,
uary to 12.77 and March tc
within half an hour aft
publication of the condith
ures, or more than $8 p
above the closing figures i
urday and into new high \
for the season. On the *
toward the end of last
January contracts sold at
ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE
The State of Texas. Erath
County. To all persons indebt-
ed to or hokHojg claims against
the estate of NT J. Stigler, de-
ceased:
The undersigned having been
duly appointed administrator of
the estate of N. J. Stigler de-
ceased late of Erath County Tex-
as, by A. P. Young, Judge of the
County Court of said County on
the 9th day of September 1915,
during a regular term thereof,
hereby notifies an persons in-
debted to said estate toeome for-
ward and make a settlement, and
those having claims «agamst
said estate to present them to
him at Stephenville, Texas, or J.
T. Daniel, iiis Attorney, or at
Thorp Spring Hood Co., Texas,
where he receives his mail. This
Sept 9, 1915. T. L. Stigler,
MYERS RESENTENCED
BY JUDGE SWAYNE
• * -
Alter Judge Jame* W. Swayne
of the Seventeenth district court
had resentenced C. A. Myeas,
slayer of A. W. Montague, Tues-
day afternoon and had set Nov.
10 as the date for him to be
hanged by the neck until "dead,
dead, dead,
Myers looked up at
the judge and smiled grimly,,
"Well, I don't want any fool-
ishness about it this time judge,"
he said, "because I don’t like to
but h*d suffered a sub
reaction having touched
last Friday. The advanct
carried the market $4.60
above that level.
broadly at the grim joke as he much advertisiug. But that was
was led away by the guards. In the long ago. Newspaper
Before the sentence of death readers have long since learned
was pronounced -upon Myers a that one of the most valuable de-
motion for a rehearing of the partments of a newspaper are
sanity case was presented to the Its advertising pages. We have
judge by Judge A. J. Power, had numerous readers to inform
one of the attorneys for the con- ns that they had saved enough on
demned man. The motion was » »»ngle deal or purchase to pay
refused and the attorneys gave the subscription price for many
notice of appeal to the higher yews, but we do not remember
courts. ever having enrolled a subscrip-
Judge Swayne then ordered tion solely on account of the ad-
Myers to stand up and receive vertising until one day this week
his serttence. The prisoner com- when Aquilla Cathey of route 7,
plied and looked the judge subscribed strictly, he said, to
squarely in the eye while the take advantage of any bargains
history of the case was briefly the Dublin merchants may have
related to him. to offer this fall and winter.
He then asked Myers if he had “Mr. Cathey is only one of the
anything to say. many hundreds who, in the pto-
"TheHe’s just one request I cess of abandoning the credit
want to ask of you," the prison- system and getting on a cash ba-
er replied, and there was a *** forced through necessity
touch of pathos in his voice. "I for economy as well as good bus-
want to eat one more Thanks- iness judgment, to make their
giving dinner before I go off this money go as far as possible,
earth, and if your heart is in the While they do not expect mer-
right place you will grant this chants to sacrifice all the profits,
request" they, do expect to derive the full
The judge pondered a few benefit of the buying power of
moments and consulted the pal- *hs ready cash, and will spend
ender on the wall. - their money with the-merchant
This Means You.
Farm loans. Land
stracts, Notary work
insurance.—King A 1
phenville, Texas.
If you contemplate moving or
trading mares bred at my barn
this season you must pay me first
—J. P. Warren.-adv. 52 tf.
Empire and Dallas
THE MERCHANT P.
A BANK CH
Small Checking
■ Accounts
If you have a checking account with
and settle your store bills with checks,
chant will seldom fail to five you pro
In case of any error in amount or othe
cancelled check,' returned to us, will I
disputable evidence as to date, end
amount No reason for argument no
dispute, no loss of friendship.
Na one is denied the conveniences of a
regular checking account with this Bank,
because his transactions are smalL It is the
policy of this Bank to encourage small de-
positors, because it sees In each one the
possibility of the large account of the future
The officers of this bank are always acces-
sible to those who call for the transaction
of business, and are glad to extend a wel-
come to new customers.
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Hawkins, W. H. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1915, newspaper, October 8, 1915; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth882393/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.