The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
’ublished Every Friday,
fcRNOR J. H. ABNEY
Proprietors.
E. Vdrnor Editor and Business Mgr
The Rain.
The long-looked-for rain came
onday night and continues.
All things come to them that
ait.” Don’t say yes, but it isn’t
nough; be thankful to the Giver
f all good for what he sends.
A statement was made recently
n one of the daily papers, that
eeps in touch with all parts of
e state, that Texas was in a
etter condition to raise a large
rop than it had been for many
ears. It is a well established
act that good crops follow long
rouths. The chemist can give
ou the scientific reason. .Farm-
rs have had a good time to pre-
are the soil; the freezes have
ulverized it and it is in a good
ondition to hold the moisture,
"any farmers have come to real-
e that a great deal depends on
proper preparation of the soil
order to retain the moisture,
he after cultivation is also im-
ortant.
Science has done niore for the
armer than it has done for any
ther occupation. You have but
o read the newspapers to be con-
inced of this. This is a fact that
annot be controverted, and now
he government has appointed an
gent to demonstrate these facts
in this county. Many have en-
tered into an agreement to place
themselves under his instructions
and the results will convince the
most incredulous. Let us give
Mr. Mackey our support and en-
couragement that he may prove
the value of science.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Williams, of Lampasas river, on
the 12th inst., a son.
The Leader was pleased to re-
ceive this week a pleasant com-
munication from Mrs. J. O. Se-
crest, a daughter of former sher-
iff, Young, now living in the
Traveling Beggars on the Streets.
Lampasas again seems to be
the Mecca for the traveling beg-
gars and a week rarely passes
that one or more of them are not
seen on the streets, sometimes
showing their afflictions and at
others claiming charity because
of the need or neglect of others.
Soon after the county poor farm
was established this class of
beggars was scarce, but now
they seem to have returned in
greater numbers than ever. A
writer in the Galveston Tribune
gives the following on this sub-
ject, and the suggestions are
worthy of proper study:
“I believe the city commission
should pass an ordinance or the
police department should adopt
a rule calling for the' investiga-
tion of each case and the issu-
ance of a permit if the person is
worthy of charity. I mean by
this that the people have been
greatly imposed upon by beg-
gars and that undoubtedly
worthy charity has been neglect-
ed. I am charitably inclined and
have a right to complain, because
recent developments have shown
that the good people of this city
have been imposed upon in at
least several instances. No
doubt there are many deserving
of charity who seek alms on our
streets, but it has been found
that many of the itinerants are
not worthy, and if charity does
begin at home we have enough
deserving poor in our midst who
must be taken care of.
“Not very long ago a blind
man, accompanied occasionally
by his wife and sometimes by his
child occupied a place on the
street corners soliciting alms.
He and his family were here
about a year ago, and about six
weeks ago returned and spent
six or seven days here and then
left. By a chance I had occasion,
with others, to investigate this
case, not thoroughly, mind you,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Lee, of Bris-
tow, Okla., who have been visit-
ing the latter’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John L. Taylor, of Lampa-
sas river, left for home Friday.
Hugh Gilbreath, from near
Kempner, one of the enterprising
young farmers of that section,
who though only 34 years of age,
has a family of nine children,
was in Lampasas on business.
It is a pleasure to meet him.
Joe Straley, from the northern
part of the county, was here a
day or two and called to get an
extra copy of The Leader, saying
his health could not be good un-
less he had the privilege of read-
ing the paper each Friday, and
that day he was away from home.
It was a pleasure to have a
note from Wycliff Skinner, now
in the banking business in the
wide west. He began his work
in the First National bank at this
place, when his father was its
president, and is now a cashier
out at Odessa, where he has been
making his home for some years
It is always a pleasure for The
Leader to record the fact that
Lampasas boys are “making
good.”
It may interest some to know
that Dr. J. W. Ellis and J. E.
Yernor and their respective bet
ter halves have exchanged resi-
dences, and that they and their
families will move within a few
days. Dr. Ellis going to East
Lampasas and the Vernor family
going to lhe place known as the
Ernest Noble home on Third
street, which Dr. Ellis has occu-
pied for the past year. There are
some other realty transactions
pending, which may be recorded
later. This is a good time to get
a home, if you are not already
provided.
The announcement of G. F.
Richter for the combined offices
but superficially, and we learned j of justice and sommissioner of
enough. We found that this | precinct No. 2 appears this week.
Texas Industrial Notes.
Texas Commercial Secretaries Association. |
One thousand dollars has been
raised by the Commercial Club
of Brownwood to be offered as
prizes to farmers living in the
trade territory of Brownwood
who will diversify and raise other
crops than cotton.
Funds are being subscribed for
the erection of a large peanut oil
mill at El Campo.
Arrangements are being made
for the extension of the Rio
Grande & Eagle Pass Railway
from Laredo to a point south
along the Rio Grande. Work will j
begin early in the spring.
A special train will arrive in
Brownsville, Feb. 27th, with one
hundred sightseers from St. Louis
who will spend two weeks touring
the Gulf Coast country from Gal-
veston to Brownsville.
There has been considerable
activity in the cattle markets at
Seminole the past week. Deals
aggregating over $100,000 were
closed, most of the cattle being
shipped to Denver, Colorado.
A charter has been granted the
People’s Oil & Gas Company of
Wichita Falls; capital stock
$250,000.
It is reported that the Katy
Railroad will erect a plant at
Waco for the purpose of remov-
ing lime from water, the cost to
be approximately $100,000.
Beaumont business men have
purchased seven miles of river
frontage on the Neches river, to
be held for terminal sites and
wharfage.
Work on a ten story building
which will cost approximately
$300,000, to be built at San An
tonio, will begin within the next
thirty days.
Citizens of Corpus Christi are
planning to build a causeway
over the bay from the end of the
reef to the city.
During the month of January,
the Texas fishermen sold $80,-
000 in oysters and $36,600 in fish.
man and his family spent from
west. Mrs. Secrest is kindly re- SI.20 to bl.85 for each meal at
membered by many of the citi-
zents of Lampasas.
The rain will save the oat crop,
and what has been sown in the
past few days will germinate at
once and soon show that there
will be feed made this good year.
It is not time yet to begin the
worry about the possibility of the
oats being ruined by the rust.
H. B. McDowell, now living at
El Paso, sends a nice remittance
to The Leader, for which he will
accept thanks. He is a son-in-
law of our good friend, A. B.
Horne, and has lived in the west-
ern part of this state and in Mex-
ico for many years, occasionally
visiting relatives here and at his
old home on the Lampasas river.
John W. Moore, from out on
the Lampnsas river, states that
the rain in that neighborhood
was just what was needed and
that all interests would be large-
ly benefited. The people were
getting a little restless on ac-
count of the drouth, but they are
all cheerful now that there is a
promise of a return for the la-
bors expended.
the restaurants where they
boarded during their sojourn in
the city. It was a common
thing for the blind man to dis-
patch his child to a store for
cigars, and he smoked nothing
less than tencenters and some-
times two for a quarter.
“Now, a family that spends
over $100 a month just for food
and the father from $6 to $8 a
month for choice Havanas, not
to mention other luxuries, such
as excursions on the bay at $1.50
per excursion two or three times
a week, evidently makes a good
thing out of the charity game.
Picture the many men contribut-
ing to this family who earn less
than $100 per month and have
families of their own to support.
They are moved to sympathy by
the sight of the afflicted sitting
half clad in the cold on the street
corners. They believe, and have
a right to believe that the cripple
or the blind man is deserving,
else the police would not let him
remain here.”
Mr. Richter has been in public
life several years, having had
four years experience as consta-
ble and a like term as deputy
sheriff, which position he holds
now. He is a believer in good
roads and has had extensive ex-
perience as an overseer and will
give good service in the manage-
ment of the road fund. He is,
and has always been, a democrat
and is subject to the primary
election to be held in July.
T. E. Fields, of the upper Lam-
pasas river, was in to see The
Leader and left enough ready
cash to put him more than a year
in advance on the books. Mr.
Fields is one of the young men
who is making good as a farmer
and ranchman and has some
splendid cattle of good breed as
well as other excellent stock. The
Leader is always glad to see the
young men coming to the front.
J. M. Shelby, who bought what
is known as the Wolf ranch some
months ago, was here Sunday
and Monday, having his little
daughter with them. They left
the train at what is known as
Tumlinson’s switch, and walked
out to the ranch, but it is proba-
bly an experience they will not
try again. Mr. Shelby would like
to move to Lampasas,- provided
he could exchange some resi-
dence property he owns at Aus-
tin for residence property which
would suit him here.
Good breeding, like charity,
should begin at home. The day
is past when children used to rise
when their parents entered the
room where they were and stand
until they had received permis-
sion to sit. But the mistake is
now made usually in the other
direction in allowing small boys
and girls too much license to dis-
turb the peace of the household.
We think the best way to train
children in courtesy would be to
observe toward them a scrupu-
lous politeness. We would go so
far as to say that we should make
it as much a point to listen to
children without interrupting and
to answer them sincerely and re-
spectfully as if they were grown
up. And, indeed, many of their
wise, quaint sayings are far bet-
ter worth listening to than the
stereotyped common places of the
morning callers. Of course, to
allow uninterrupted chatter would
be to surrender the repose of the
household, but it is very easy, if
children are themselves scrupu-
lously respected, to teach them
in turn scrupulously to respect
the convenience of others, and to
know when to talk and when to
I be silent.—Selected.
Texas Industrial Congress.
Names of contestants for the
$10,000 in gold prizes for the
largest crop yields grown in Tex
as this year, are being received
at the headquarters of the Texas
Industrial Congress in Dallas at
the rate of fifty daily. Two en-
tries received in the same mail
recently were notable in illus-
trating the wide range of interest
that is being taken in the contest,
one being from a nine-year-old
girl from away up in the Pan-
handle in Dallam county, and
the other from a citizen of Ander-
son county in East Texas, whose
age is 72. On the same day five
entries in classes A, B, C and D
were also received from one man
who wrote: “My family and I
wish to grow some prize-winning
crops this season over here in
East Texas.”
Application to enter the con-
test should be made to the Texas
Industrial Congress at Dallas,—
By Request.
Fred Briggs, one qf the irriga-
tion farmers from the Mount
Pleasant neighborhood, was here
and paid The Leader a business
call, advancing the dates of four
different papers, that of his
mother being included. Fred is
succeeding with his irrigation en-
terprise and makes some of the
other farmers “take notice”
when he brings in his crops of
corn, cotton, potatoes and other
truck. He was raised to work,
and learned to love it when but a
kid, and will grow into a strong
man physically, mentally and
spiritually, as he takes great
pride in all this character of work.
Your Prescriptions
When intrusted to
our care receive
the most careful
attention and
Purest of Drugs
Ask your doctor
to phone us or
leave them with
us* We deliver
free in the city
SchlcParz & Hoffmann
The Obliging 'Druggists
Make Our Drugstore Your Drugstore
Nearly A Million School Children.
Austin.—The scholastic popu-
lation of Texas for 1911-12, which
was taken in May, 1911, shows
that there were 991,409 children
in the state over 7 and under 17
yeors of age, September 1, 1911,
that are entitled to free tuition in
the public schools. This gives a
gain of 23,143 over the enume-
ration of a year ago. Using this
figure as a basis for the annual
apportionment of the State’s
available funds, the State Board
of Education apportioned to each
of the school districts for the year
1911-12, either through the coun-
try or direct from Austin, the
sum of $6.80 for educational pur-
poses for every child of school
age enumarated in the scholastic
census. • The sum for 1911-12
amounts to $6,741,581.20.
The permanent school fund is
$72,040,000. The total available
fund derived from state, county
and local sources is $13,351,121.
The income!' from the county per-
manent fund and from local
sources will give an average of
$6.66 per capita, making a gene-
ral average throughout the state
of $13.46 for the maintenance of
the schools for the present scho-
lastic year. This is almost $3.00
more per capita than for the pre-
vious year.
There are 20,742 certificated
teachers in the public schools of
Texas, 17,566 of these being white-
teachers and 3,176 colored. Of
the total number of teachers
68.65 per cent hold' county cer-
tificates.
The average salary of a white
teacher in Texas for 1909-10 was
$405.82, as compared with $394 23
in 1908-9. It will be observed
that there has been a material
increase in every instance.—
Commercial Secretaries Associa-
tion.
A recent decision of the Su-
preme Court of the state of Ohio,
sets at rest the popular delusion
that the mutilation of a coin de-
stroys its validity. The court
sets forth that a coin issued by
authority of law to circulate as
money is not deprived of its legal
tender quality merely by being
worn in the process of circula-
tion, nor when bruised or crack-
ed, so long as it is not apprecia-
bly diminished in weight and re-
tains the evidence of its being
genuine coinage. The case
which called for decision by the
highest court of the state grew
out of the refusal of a street car
conductor to accept a badly mu-
tilated nickel from a boy passen-
ger. The boy had no other mon-
ey, and was put off the car. He
recovered $1,000 damages in the
lower court, and the verdict was
sustained upon appeal.—Atlanta
Georgian.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912, newspaper, February 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892507/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.