The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 9, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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THE BONHAM SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS
THE BONHAM IsTEWS
ESTABLISHED I860
chosen and a membership com
mittee chosen- Thursday night
of next week it is proposed to
complete the organization.
Greenville should by all means
have an ad league. It is, as sev-
SUBSCRIPTION RATES ®peak.er® brou£ht
On*Tear............One Dollar *he Monday night meeting, the
Six Months...............Fifty Cents best preventive ot fake advertis-
-Altered at the Postoffice at Bonham,
Texas, as second-class mail matter
Three Months.....Twenty-five Cents
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE
CLUBBING RATES
Tfews and Farm News (Dallas News) - 11.75
Njws and Fort Worth Record - 11,75
COMSTOCK a DICUS, Proprietors
•E. S. COMSTOCK, Editor
L. E. DICUS, Business Manager *
Statement of Ownership,
Management, circulation, etc., cf
The Bonham News, published Tues-
days and Fridays at Bonham, re-
quired by the Act of August 24,1912.
Editor E. B. Comstock, Business
Manager, L. E. Dicus, Publisher Corn-
stock & Dicus; Owners, L. E. Dicus,
E. B. Comstock. . . ['
Known bondholders, mortgages,
and other security holders, holding
1 per cent or more of total amount of
bonds, mortgages, or other securities:
Ashley Evans.
L. E. Dicus, Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 5th day of September, 1913.
Ashley Evans, -
Notary Public, Fannm Co., Texas.
My commission expires June, 1915.
T«8 National Farmers Union
-which represents 2,000,000 cotton
Taisers has gone on record as de-
manding 15 cents for their cot-
ton. It seems to be the consen-
sus of opinion that the farmers
deserve 15 cents per pound for
their cotton and the News, would
like to see them get it. But
when they receive the 15 cents
will there be complete satisfac-
tion? If the organization once
realizes that they hold the price
in their power will they not ex-
ercise it for the purpose of get-
ting 17 cents and that attained
would they not’make the demand
for 20. Is there a!ny danger of a
private corporation being organ-
ized in the future that will do for
the cotton business what the
Standard Oil Co. has done for
the production of kerosene?
Sixteen silos have been erect-
ed in Young County during the
past year. Fannin County, also,
has begun 4o use them. Ed
Steger has two large silos on bis
farm northwest of Bonham and
the are filled with feed for the
winter. Mr. Steger uses a big
auto truck instead of team and
wagon and hauls mpny tons of
produce when the average firmer
has a hard time to manage a few
hundred pounds. Efficiency* and
speed is needed in farm as much
work as any place.
It is a fact that there are many
teachers in our public schools
who do not take a newspaper
and do not keep up with current
Events that every teacher should
Icnow. This should be a requir-
•ment of a teacher Many teach-
ers fall short of what they should
do to such an extent that they do
not even take their own County
papej. A teacher who really
-makes good-is one that puts a
value on a knowledge of current
happenings
Some one wants to know where
the common antidote for rattle*
3nake bites could have been
found had the big rattler which
was killed on the pavement the
other day bitten one of its slay-
ers. Men who come to Bonham
from Denison are always trying
to locate the. antidote.
Some days ago the Governor
of Missouri donned overalls and
went out to work on the County
roads. Tuesday the Governor of
Arkansas did the same thing. It
might be well to suggest that the
roads of Texas could be improved
by a little manual labor.
The diaphanous gown must
go. Winter will soon be here.
Exchange Comment
The first step in the organiza-
tion of an advertising club for
Greenville was taken Monday
night. Temporary officers were
mg. A fake advertiser cannot
hold his head up in such an or-
ganization. And if all the fake
advertisers were eliminated from
the parpers the public might well
read any advertisement with per-
fect confidence. And confidence
is the secret of success in adver-
tising. But there is another ben-
efit to be derived from such a
league, That is the improve-
ment in ad writing which will
result from the ideas that can be
gathered from a course of lec-
tures by men who have made ad-
vertising a life study. Every bus-
iness house in Greenville should
become a member of this organi-
zation. It should start with at
least one hundred members when
it is permanently organized next
week.—Greenville Herald.
An “ad*’ club is a good thing
tor any town. It shows many
business men the way to write
advertisements that will count
in their business, and it is an aid
in keeping fake advertisements
from getting into the papers.
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J Repeating Things Said J
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Tbte ocean-to-ocean highway
will mean more to this section
of the country than most people
here realize. If the Government
will make an adequate appropri-
ation, and the local committees
will do their part, this road may
he to America what the great
Appian Was is to Italy. Thous-
ands of tourists will pass over it
every week, and incidently leave
their money with the people
along the route.—Bonham News.
The old order is changing,
and the new order means the
multiplication of automobiles in
transcontinental travel. The
automobile has been thoroughly
tried and found dependable. It
delivers the goods on a three
thousand-mile journey, and
thousands of persons every year
will be seen passing on rubber
tires from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and from the Pacific to
the Atlantic. The best roads,
the roads made and provided for
such traffic, will catch the golden
stream. But transcontinental
travel will not be all of it. Inter-
state and inter-county and inter-
town traffic will largely predom-
inate, and local traffic will ex-
ceed all the rest. What the long
trippers will find worth their
while the short trippers will find
doubly worth. Good roads are
due in America at this stage of
our cultivation. The oCean-to-
ocean highway will soon be a
v ell established, charted, recog-
nized and splendilv useful thor-
oughfare, but it will be but an
incident in -comparison with the
innumerable good roads that will
bisect it and parallel it to the
glory and comfort and prosperity
of the millions of Americans who
will live within the scope of its
educative influence.—State Press
in Dallas News.
A Great Opportunity for Young Men
The demand for telegraph
operators was never so great as
at the present time. The largest
telegraph school in America —
equipped with over a hundred set
of instruments, miniature train
systems, a train wire of a main
line railroad, all telegraph and
freight blanks, tickets, in fact
everything just as complete as
found in the best equipped rail-
road offices, the best practical
teachers to be obtained, thorough-
ly experienced in commercial and
railway telegraphy, station and
freight work—the Tyler Commer-
cial College of Tyler, Texas, is
unable to anyways near supply
the demand upon it by the rail-
roads and telegraph companies
for operators. Just as surely as
a young man will complete a
course of telegraphy and station
work, just as surely will he be
placed immediately in a good
position. The sam$ is true where
our course of bookkeeping and
shorthand is completed.
Write for free catalogue. Our
students are on all the leading
roads.
WES EXCURSIONISTS
ihe an
Fifty Prominent Business Men in Autos
Visit Every Village in Fannin
County.
FIRST DAY.
Fourteen cars containing about
fifty ot Bonham’s business men
together with the Bonham band,
left the public square at 7:30
Wednesday morning. Large and
enthusiastic crowds greeted us at
each stop.
The first stop was Doniphan
from thence to Oakland, where
the following sign appeared on
the front of Philip Herd’s store:
“Hurrah for Bonham. The Bon-
ham people are good and true, if
you treat them right they will
you. They will loan you sugar
if you will divide the pie, and if
we need anything we will buy it
in Bonham. Three cheers for
Bonham.”
Danner was the next stop. Pro-
gram: Free drinks and speech by
Will H. Evans.
The next stop was Lamasco,
where we received a very hearty
welcome. Also at Hudsonville a
large crowd had gathered to bid
us welcome. Thi9 being our first
visit to this section of the county
we were very much surprised at
the hospitality shown us by these
good people.
Carson was the next stop.
Telephone and dinner and a
fine one it was. Enough for 3
times as large a crowd. From
Telephone to Elwood and then on
to Tulip. After leaving Tulip
the car the writer was riding in
became disabled and we came in
to Duplex about 20 minutes after
the other cars had left. We went
from Duplex to Ivanhoe, missing
McRae.
Ridings Store was the next
stop, where the crowd filled up
on watermelon at Mr. Ridings
expense. From Ridings to Mul-
berry and on to Ravenna and
from there to Bonham.
SECOND DAY.
Thirteen cars starting from the
square on schedule time.
Dodd City was our first stop.
From there we journeyed to Hil-
ger, where we were greeted by a
large crowd. We were furnished
tree drinks and free cigars by
Mr. Pearson.
Lannius, Bantam and Windom
were made on schedule time and
on to Honey Grove, landing in
front of Mr. McKinney’s Hard-
ware store. On entering the
store we were served with punch,
ginger ale and cigars. Our short
stay in Honey Grove was a most
pleasant one.
Ladonia was our next stop, we
were first conducted to the rear
of the First National Bank,
where we removed some ot the
real estate from our faces and
clothes, after which we were
served with a fine dinner by the
ladies of the Cemetery Associa-
tion. From Ladonia to Silver
City, where by mistake some of
the boys came off without settl-
ing for their drinks. If the pro-
prietor of the store will forward
his bill to the Bonham Board of
Trade, the bill will be settled.
At Hail a large crowd greeted
us. Also a tub of grape juice,
which was greatly relished bv
the bunch. From Hail to Gober
and on to Moore’s Gin. Time
and space will not permit- us to
express our appreciation of the
kindness shown us by the good
people of the Moore’s Gin com-
munity, We were served by the
ladies with five or six different
kinds ot cake, the most delicious
we have ever eaten. The pro-
prietor of the store, Mr. E. J.
Hendricks turned his ice box fill-
ed with soda pop, over to us and
said “help yourself boys” and
the wiiy the bunch went alter
that cake and soda pop was a
sight to behold. From Moore’s
Gin to Bonham on time.
THIRD DAY. ...
The trip the last day was com-
posed of an eighty-five miles ex-
cursion through the south-west
part of the County. The first
stop was at Ector. where
neatly every citizen of the town
was on the street to greet us.
From there to Fulp, where a tufl
of free soda pop awaited the Bon-
hamites and which was used free-
ly in washing down *he dust.
Savoy and Ely were soon passed
through and in each of these
places a goodly crowd awaited
us. • ' \
Here the schedule was changed
as originally planned and a quick
trip over to the town of White-
wright was made. There the
mayor, Pascal Head greeted the
visitors in a most appropriate
speech to which Senator Gibson
replied. Senator Gibson said
that he was of the opinion that
Whitewrigbt should be out into
Fannin County, that it was such
a good town. It was there that
he received his early education
and he looked upon the little city
in a most friendly manner. The
fire which the town had about a
year ago, he said, had been a
blessing in disguise, for now on
either side of the main street is
to be found a row otmodem brick
buildings to take the place ot the
old fashioned wooden structures
*
which were there before that
time.
At Trenton plenty of good cold
ice water relieved the crowd of
their thirst and a cordial greet-
ing by those on the square await-
ing us made us at home. From
here to Leonard for dinner was
made in a short time as the Bon-
ham boys were desperately hun-
gry and were of the opinion that
something good awaited them up-
on their arrival.
There is no town in the Coun-
ty or probably in the State of
Texas that always extends to its
guests more cordial treatment
than does Leonard. Hardly had
the trades been seated at the
tables at the hotel than it was
announced by the Mayor, Mr.
Shields .that all bills had been
paid, that it was Leonard’s treat.
This announcement ' brought
cheers from the Bonham Boost-
ers.
After a most sumptuous meal,
a meeting was held in the town
hall, where Mayor Shields in a
most appropriate speech extended
to the Bonham men a most hearty
welcome. Responses to this
speech were made by Will H,
Evans and Senator Gibson.
There was in no town the size
of Bailey the number of people
out to greet the visitors that was
found there. The streets were
fairly packed with people and no
place did the children seem to
appreciate the souvenirs that
were given them more than they
did there, nor do more scrapping
tor them after they received
them. At Randolph a quiet or-
derly bunch of citizens were
found. Plenty ot water, hand-
shaking and friendly greetings
marked the stop.'
Between Randolph and Efhube
the excursionists were overtaken
by a rain which greased the
streets up to such lubricity that
the autoists found themselves
slipping around from one side ot
the road to another until they
got out in the drenching rain and
put the chains on the wheels^
The rain caused somewhat of a
separation among them so that
they did not arrive at Edhube in
a body as they did at the other
places. But those that/did make
their stop her! found Rev. R. E.
Tarpley, better known as Uncle
Watt, ready to greet them with
open arms. He had a big tub of
ice water waiting and a large
bunch of bananas hung out in
front for distribution among the
thirty, hungry and rain-soaked
pieces of humanity.
On the whole the Trades Ex-
cursion this year was most satis-
factory and the business men
feel that they have not only
made a great many acquain-
tances, but have added many
friends to their list. Bonham
wants every man, woman and
child to feel at home in Bonham.
HALDANE VISITOR
TO THIS COUNTRY
British Lord High Chancellor
at American Bar Association.
HERE ONLY A SHORT TIME.
Besides Stopping In New York City,
Noted English Scholar Delivered Ad-
dress at Montreal, Canada — First
Chancellor to Leave Britain In Offi-
cial Capacity In Many Years.
New York.--When Viscount Haldane,
lord high chancellor of England, ar-
rived In America to address the Amer-
ican Bar association and also to speak
in New York city lawyers of this coun-
try had the opportunity of greeting
one of the most' noted men in the legal
profession. He was accompanied by
his sister. Miss Elizabeth Sanderson
Haldane, and Sir Kenneth Muir Mac-
kenzie, who is principal secretary to
Lord Haldane.
In England Lord Haldane never
gave out an Interview to the press in
deference to a royal intimation. It
was expected, however, that he would
talk to American reporters. Aside
from New York and Montreal, the
eminent English scholar planned to
visit no other American city, having
arranged to return home immediately.
His sister, who is an LL. D. of SL
Andrews university, has written vol-
umes on Hegel and Descartes and on
other philosophical subjects.
Haldane is the first lord chancellor
to leave Great Britain in an official
capacity since Cardinal Wolsey went
on a historic mission to France, taking
with him the great seal, which eventu-
ally was made one of the articles of
his impeachment. The present lord
chancellor put the great seal in the
hands of a commission during his ab-
sence, three commissioners having a I
ready been appointed.
Lord Haldane is one of the most In-
teresting and remarkable personalities
in a cabinet that is exceptionally rick
JjOaa HALDANE.
in able men. He is etout of figure,
above the middle height, with a short
peck, n stooping gait, a large, pale, full
face, firm mouth and heavy lidded rest-
less eyes. He observes and thinks all
the tima An equity lawyer of emi-
nence, a devotee of Schopenhauer and
Nietzsche, on whose works he has
written both in English and German,
his mind is of a philosophical cast
His voice Is high pitched, his manner
free from pretension and very agree-
abla He is an exceedingly brilliant
conversationalist his knowledge, top-
ical, literary and historical, being ency-
clopedic and-his memory, prodigious.
He Is a hflcfftalor. but associated with
bis life Is aymnapee whose tnystery
has never beeoyjal eared up. was
engaged -ago to. marry
Miss HeldfBljfimk^erguson, a*clever,
haSvlsome^k^ 'tjAvomaifc a- sister of
the leading sNpKshT^dpjArdAnd mem-
ber of parMamentT-an^mnmate friend
of Haldane. After a month the' en-
gagement was broken off. Miss Fer-
guson* afterward wrote n novel in
which one rather harshly drawn char-
acter was understood to be her former
fiance.
Going straight from the equity law-
yers’ chambers Into the war office, he
gained in the face of Violent military
prejudice and hostility complete con-
trol of the war department and intro-
duced a territorial scheme which has
successfully survived even the bitter-
est and most persistent partisan op-
position in. the press and parliament
{TRIES WIRELESS ON TRAINS.
Pennsylvania Railroad Putting Tsi*-
phones on Freight Engines.
| Philadelphia.—The Pennsylvania rail-
road is to Install a wireless telephone
system on Its trains with a view to
j preventing accidents. Preliminary tests
' have been made, and the freight cars
. are being equipped with the wireless
apparatus.
It enables the conductor in the ca-
boose of a freight train to talk with
the engineer and will result in lessen-
ing the number of brakemen necessary
In operating the trains.
While a metallic circuit is used, the
system is practically wireless. The
railroad track is one line of the cir-
cuit, contact being made between some
portion of a metal part of the truck.
A single metal connection is then
wound about the coupling of each car,
and from this point the circuit is car-
ried to a pole on each car. The electric
battery then flashes the current from
pole to pole and the system is com-
plete.
An ordinary headpiece instrument Is
installed In the cab of the engine for
the use of the engineer, while the
mouthpiece can be attached to some
part of the trainman’s uniform, so as
to leave his hands free to perform his
regular duties.
PROBE MISSIONARY’S DEATH.
Turks Assert Thst C. H. Holbfbok
Wss Killed by Mistake.
Constantinople.—As the result of con-
flicting versions of the murder of the
Rev. Dr. Charles BL Holbrook, an
American missionary, at Soushehir,
Asiatic Turkey, Lewis Heck, acting
vice consul and interpreter at the Unit-
ed States consulate general here, has
been sent to Soushehir to make an in-
vestigation.
Officials of the Bible House In Con-
stantinople assert they have informa-
tion that the murder of the missionary
was deliberate, whereas the Turkish
authorities assert that Dr. Holbrook
was killed in mistake for an Armenian
who had aroused the anger of two
Turks.
The two murderers have been arrest*
ed. and the Turkish government prom-
ises that they will be severely pun-
ished. /
HAVE MARRIED EACH
OTHER ELEVEN TIMES
Wedding Ceremony Often Per-
formed For Vernons.
Hagerstown, Md.—To be married, to
each other eleven times since 1909 has
been the novel experience of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Vernon, who are at Brad-
ddek Heights. The marriage ceremo-
nies have been performed in as many
different countries.
Asked why he and his wife had beCtt*-
married so often, Vernon said it was a
sort of hobby with them, and they took
the step as a precaution because in
gome foreign countries marriages per-
formed in others are not recognized.
He aqd his wife were first married
in Columbus, O., in 1906; then In Mon-
treal in 1910; in England, Scotland,
Wales, France, Germany, Belgium and
Russia in 1911; In Sydney, Australia,
In 1912, and in Vera Cruz. Mexico, in
1913. They hold marriage certificates
of all these weddings, and the display
is unique.
In some of the countries where they
were married they did not understand
a word the officiating clergyman was
saying, but simply nodded their heads
when they thought the time bad coma
to make the responses..
They speak French and German.
—*— -
U. S. EXECUTOR IN BALKANS.
Postal Bank Pays $260 to Montenegrin
Soldier’s Father.
Washington. — Postmaster General
Burleson has ordered that $200 be sent
to Bojov Martinovich, whose son, Milo
P. Martinovich, was killed in the as-
sault on Fort Tarakasch at Scutari in
the Balkan war.
The son was formerly a laborer in
Oakland, Cal., and deposited his sav-
ings in the postoffice there. A certifica-
tion from the secretary of the legation
at Athens says that the depositor was
unmarried and lhed with his father.
His first deposit was made in October,
1911. and the second in February, 1912.
This, is the first United States postal
savings depositor .known to have lost
his life in the Balkan war. .
MERCURY FAILED TO KILL.
Driscoll, Who Took Twenty-one Grains
of Bichloride, Is Recovering.
Orange, N. J.—Timothy Driscoll, who
was told a short time ago that he
would certainly die as a result of bi-
chloride of mercury poisoning, Is look-
ing forward to the near approach of
the day when he will be discharged, a
well man. from the Orange Memorial
hospital. Driscoll took twenty-one
grains of the poison, and his case was
regarded as hopeless. Physicians at
th|e hospital say that his recovery was
his
“GOSPEL STICK” FOR WILSON.
Negro Clergyman Sends Queer Carved
Staff to President,
Washington.—President Wilson has
added to *his collection of freak gifts
a “gospel stick,” an elaborately carv-
ed staff bearing his monogram anti
several scriptural texts. It was pre-
sented to him by Rev. G. O. Penwick,
a negro clergyman of Chalybeate
1 8prings, Va., the former bishop of Li-
beria. The stick is of dogwood, and
the donor assured the president he
j had carved It entirely himself, although
he is seventy-two years old.
Laid Three Eggs In One Day.
Logansport, Ind.—H. A De Ford of
this city has a hen. This hen, he says,
laid three eggs in one day. One egg
had a perfect shell. One had a soft
fchell. The third had an • inside lining
remarkable, and they regard his case, iround it Mr. De Ford says three
aa unique in the annals of mercury persons besides himself saw the three
poisoning. . eggs.
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Comstock, E. B. The Bonham News (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 40, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 9, 1913, newspaper, September 9, 1913; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth898566/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.