The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 110, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 14, 1917 Page: 4 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
J. H. ABNEY HERBERT ABNEY
J. H. Abney& Son
Owners and Publishers
Entered at the Postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Payable in Advance
One week............................................ 15c
One Month........................................ 40c
Three Months................................ $1.00
One Year...................... $4.00
J. C. Matthews W. H. Browning
Matthews & Browning
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Lampasas, Texas
Office over Peoples National Bank
Will Practice in All Courts.
W. B. ABNEY
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Civil Practice Exclusively
Lampasas - - Texas
Palace Barber Shop
Everett & Berry, Proprietors"
Sanitary Barber work-
and Baths\
We solicit your patronage
~ DIRECTORY
District Judge—F. M. Spann
District Attorney—M. M. White
District Clerk—C. G. Bierbower.
County Judge—J. Tom Higgins
County Attorney—W. H. Adkins
County Clerk—J. E. Morgan
Sheriff—A. R. Mace
Assessor—E. T. Jordan
Surveyor—W. H. Fountain
County Treasurer—G. W. Tinkle
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
SANTA FE
TRAINS ARRIVE..........
From Temple going west 6:25 a. m.
From Temple going west 5:34 p. m.
FROM WEST
Going to Temple................10:18 a. in.
Going to Temple................10:24 p. m.
H. & T. C. Trains Leave
For Burnet and Llano...... 7:40 a. m.
For Burnet and Austin......12:50 p.m.
ARRIVE
From Austin and Bumet..l0:50 a. m.
From Llano and Burnet 4:00 p. m.
Obituaries of less than 70 words
will be published free, all above 70
words will be charged for at regular
local advertising rates. Cards of
thanks, resolutions of respect, church
lodge and society notices of events
which an admission fee will be charg-
ed, will be published only on payment
of regular local advertising rates.
TO OBSERVE
FIRST DAY AT FAIR
Mothers’ Congress Day Designated—Presi-
dent Knight Expects Full Attendance.
Recognizing the importance of the
safety first movement, the State Fair
of Texas has designated Monday, Oct.
15, as safety first day at the 1917 ex-
position and special observance of the
day will be arranged. The annual
meeting of the Texas Safety Fir6t or
ganization will be held in Dallas Oct.
15 and 16 and it is expected that a
large number of the members of this
organization will be on hand for the
meeting.
President R. E. L. Knight has also
announced that Friday, Oct. 19, will
be set aside as Mothers’ Congress day
at the 1917 fair. In conference with
officers of the congress, President
Knight was told that there would be a
large attendance and that the meeting
of the congress would be made one of
the features of the fair.
Secretary W. H. Stratton announced
that plans have been completed for
remodeling the dairy barns where the
dairy cattle are exhibited and where
the dairy demonstrations are held. The
entrance to the biulding will be rebuilt
to make the front much more attrac-
tive and the interior will be rear-
ranged and improved, giving wider
aisles and other conveniences, lack of
which has heretofore proved somewhat
of a handicap.
Interest in County Exhibits.
Particular interest is being shown
this year in the county exhibits and
correspondence on file in the secre-
tary’s office indicates that a greater
number of counties will exhibit than
ever before. Bountiful crops through-
out practically every section of the
State have given almost every county
wonderful products to display and
large numbers of counties are taking
advantage of these opportunities.
This, coupled with the fact that free
exhibit space is offered in a com-
modious^ well-lighted and well-venti-
lated building, will undoubtedly make
the county exhibit of great value, ac-
cording to Secretary Stratton. One
section of West Texas has signed
up for more than twenty counties and
others are expected to enter.
President Knight is particularly en
thusiastic about the amusement pro-
gram which has been arranged for the
917 fair.
“We are looking forward to enter-
taining between 1,250,000 and 1,500,-
000 people at. the 1917 fair,” President
Knight said, “and We want to be pre-
pected by those In charge to prove
big drawing cards for the 1917 expo-
sition. Fi're hundred boys and 250
girls will be guests of the State Fair,
and, in addition to receiving invaluable
educational service, will be awarded
prizes of material worth.
The offer of free exhibit space and
increases in prizes to be awarded are
expected to bring to the 1917 fair the
largest number of county exhibits yet
listed. Correspondence already on file
with Secretary W. H. Stratton indi-
cates that a number of counties which
have never yet shown their products
will be represented this year.
FOOD TRAINING GAMP
AT STATE FAIR URGED
R. F L. Knight Tenders Use of Grounds to
Government During the War
PATRIOTISM DAY FOR
STATE FAIR PUN
Authentic Scenes From War Zone to Be Ex-
hibited to Visitors.
GLAD T0TESTIFY
Sty* Watoga Lady, “As To What
Cardui Has Done For Me, So
As To Help Others.”
pared to satisfy perfectly all of these
folks. Last year, it will be remem-
bered, the attendance at the State
Fair was a little over a million. With
the bountiful crops of the present sea-
son and these crops bringing higher
prices than was ever before known,
there is going to be a period of great
prosperity throughout Texas. The
people are going to have more money
than ever before and they are going
to have a good time on part of the
surplus. This means, to my mind,
that they are going to flock to the
State Fair in numbers such as have
never before been dreamed of and that
attendance records of f.he past will be
smashed to smithereens.”
Watoga, W. Va.—Mrs. S. W. Glad well,
of this town, says: “When about 15 years
Of age, 1 suffered greatly ... Sometimes
would go a month or two, and I had
terrible headache, backache, and bearing-
down pains, and would just drag and
had no appetite. Then ... it would last
. . . two weeks, and was so weakening,
and my health was awful.
My mother bought me a bottle of
Cardui, and I began to improve after
taking the first bottle, so kept it up till I
took three ... I gained, and was well
and strong, and I owe it all to Cardui.
I am married now and have 3 children
. . . Have never had to have a doctor for
female trouble, and just resort to Cardui
if I need a tonic. I am glad’to testify to
what it has done for me, so as to help
Dthers.”
If you are nervous or weak, have head-
aches, backaches, or any of the other
ailments so common to women, why not
jive Cardui a trial? Recommended by
many physicians. In use over 40 years.
Begin taking Cardui today. It may
pe the very medicine you need.
NC-130
For Rent—After August 1,
T-017, the one-story stone build-
ing, now occupied by Fox &
Mills Hardware Co. for a ware-
house, adjoining my office. Size
34i/2x90 feet. Will sell or ex-
change for acreage property.—
W. B. Abney, tf.
WAR SPECTACLE IS PROCURED
FOR FAIR.
Advance notices of “The War of
Nations,” to be shown at the State
Fair of Texas, Oct. 13 to 28, proclaim
this the greatest pyrotechnical display
ever created and one which may es-
tablish a standard for years to come.
“Many thousands of dollars have
been spent in building the settings for
this gigantic fireworks display,” R. E.
L. Knight, president of the State Fair
said. “Patrons of the 1917 fair will
witness a spectacle as beautiful as it is
extraordinary.
“No thought is more uppermost in
the minds of the American people to-
day than the terrible struggle across
the sea, and the entrance of the
United States into the conflict brings
us to a realization that our sons and
loved ones may soon be in the very
thick of the fighting. With this in
mind the creators of “The Waf or Na-
tions” has tried to bring to us in
America a portrayal of the spectacu-
lar side of the combat.
“By the immense crowds which at-
tended last year it was clearly demon-
strated that patrons of the fair are
highly in favor of high-class fire-
works. Recognizing this, we adopted
the time-honored principle of the fair
management of looking only for the
best to be procured and in “The War
of Nations” it is our judgment that
we have selected the greatest display
of the kind that has ever been of-
fered.”
.. Interest in Encampments.
In addition to the nightly display of
fireworks, a program of events has
been arranged to be given before the
grand stand each afternoon and night
during the fair. Feature acts, from
some of the largest theatres of the
world and circus numbers that have
pleased millions of people have been
procured to make up a program of
two hours.
The encampments for farm boys
and girls are attracting much atten-
tion from rural districts and are ss.-
The State Fair of Texas, to be held
Oct. 13-28, has tendered its services
to President Wilson as a food train-
ing camp, to assist the Government in
its efforts to increase crop production
and reduce the waste of food, which is
known to be enormous.
‘Our directors offer the services of
our fair as a food training camp,”
wrote President R. E. L. Knight of the
State Fair of Texas, in part, to Presi-
dent Wilson. “Military training
camps are bein gestablished every-
where in the country, where men in
increments of half a million each
are to be taught the principles of mili-
tary tactics. However, as you have
pointed out many times, there is just
as much responsibility for the success-
ful prosecution of the war resting
upon the shoulders of the 100,000,000
persons in private life as there is upon
the men who are called to the colors,
for it is essentia] that working Ameri-
ca labors hard to furnish our allies
with food and clothing.
“The men whom you are calling into
service are being concentrated in cen-
tral military training camps, because
it is found to be much more efficient
to train them in that way than by es-
tablishing camps in every little town
or village. It appeals to the directors
of our fair that there is just as much
necessity for calling the great rank
and file of food producers and food
users into central food training camps
for a short course in the more effic-
ient methods of food production and
food conservation. It could hardly be
done now, for the Nation is working
hard to care for the crop already
planted, but if we could hold such a
food training camp during the full
following the harvest season wonder-
fully efficient instruction in food pro-
duction and conservation could be
given.
To Raise More Live Stock.
“To make this food training camp
unusually insti-uctive, an effort is be
ing made to induce breeders of pure-
bred live stock to exhibit in larger
numbers of such type and breeds as
will assist the Nation in meeting the
demand for more meat, milk, butter,
cheese, leather, wool and horse power.
Manufacturers of farm machinery are
being urged to exhibit all of their
latest models and improvements, that
farmers may learn how to produce a
maximum crop at a minimum effort.
All the territory tributary to our fair
is being scoured to find superior speci-
mens of the varieties of grain, vege-
tables, fruits, forage crops and com
best suited to our soil and climate,
that encouragement may be given to
the production of as much of these
crops as possible.
“Since the economical use of food is
of just_ as much importance as the
production of food, our woman’s de-
partment is to offer a series of dem-
onstrations and lecturers by food
specialists of national and local repu-
tation, to instruct wives and mothers
how to prepare and conserve food,
and check the extravagent waste of
food, for which our country is con-
demned in every other country in the
world. In an effort to enlist the chil-
dren in the cause of food production,
the work of children in the schools
and fields is to be exhibited, an dem-
onstrations of interest to children are
to be conducted.
“Our board of directors sincerely
trusts that the National Government,
mindful of the good which can be done
at such a food training school, will
operate to the fullest extent in fur-
nishing lecturers, demonstration and
exhibits, to assist the fair in accom-
plishing the mission it has under-
taken. rI here could be no better way
of reaching the people in this terri-
tory with Government propaganda
With a keynote of patriotism pre-
dominating in every effort of the
State Fair of Texas, President R. E. L
Knight has worked out plans for uti-
lizing the immense educational value
of this exposition to increase and em-
phasize love of country and desire for
service.'
Realizing that many hundreds of
thousands of people will assemble at
tlm State Fair this fall, President
Knight believes that no other occasion
during the year will give so great an
opportunity to remind the people of
their patriotic duties. -
That the greatest number may be
reached with this message of patrio-
tism, a special day will be set aside
(luring the Fair for a mammoth patri-
otic rally and special programs will be
held each day, when the principal
theme will be love of country and duty
to our Government.
As a member of the Texas State
Council of National Defence President
Knight has taken up his plans with
the Bureau of Patriotism Through
Education of the National Security
League and the fair will have the ac
tive co-operation of these organiza
tions throughout the entire fifteen
days of the exposition. Speakers of
national and international reputation
will be present on the special Patrio-
tism Day and on numerous other days
during the fair.
Supplementing the big rally to be
held on Patriotism Day, these speak-
ers will be heard each afternoon and
night in the Colisuem, where, as a
part of the regular program, ten-
minute talks on patriotism will be
made by some national character.
During these periods Thaviu’s Band
will render programs of music appro-
priate to the occasion, and war scenes
will he projected on the curtain of the
stage. Special arrangements are be
ing perfected to procure authentic pic
tures direct from the battle fronts in
Europe, and with the landing of
United States troops in the war zone
these views are expected to prove of
exceptional interest. Discussing the
plans for the patriotism programs
President Knight said:
“The whole purpose of the plans of
the State Fair of Texas along these
particular lines is to put before the
people not simply patriotism and pub-
lic duty and backing up the Govern-
ment, but also a clear statement of
the sufficient reasons for going to
war and sticking to the war until vic-
tory is reached, as it is absolutely sure
to be reached. It is vital to make
clear what can be done by the individ-
ual man, woman or child, the church,
the lodge, the community, the society!
for the common good.
“Addresses will be made during the
State Fair by leaders of thought in
every branch of activity related to the
war. -The relation of the war to agri-
culture. labor, business, finance, medi-
cine, military and naval ‘ needs and
every phase of endeavor will be ex-
plained
“Every individual citizen of the
United States must be aroused to a
relization of the meaning of the war
and the importance of personal serv-
ice.
“The people of no country are im-
bued with more patriotic spirit than
the people of Texas. While this is
true, it is yet a fact that, even we,
sometimes, need to be reminded that
patriotism means more than mere
demonstration of this enthusiasm.
“In my opinion v
or elsewhere could
All the Numbers to be Drawn in
The Selective Draft Plan.
Washington, July 12.—Draw-
ing of lots for the selective draft
will determine what men are to
be called to the colors in the first
war army and will show in what
order the others registered will
be liable for service when later
armies are organized.
A plan of drawing will be fol-
lowed under which a definite
place in the waiting lists will be
given everyone of the ten mil-
lion who registered. Those
standing at the head of the list
in each county or city district
will be called first before the ex-
amination board and then the
obligation will pass on down the
line as long as men are needed.
This does not mean that a
separate name or number will
be drawn for everyone of the:
country’s 9,800,000 registrants..
Every number drawn under the1
theory of the plan, will repre-
sent more than 4,000 men, one;
for each of the registration dis-
tricts. Details of the system-
have not been made public, but;
an outline of it sprincipal fea-
tures follows:
Every registration board has-,
numbered the cards in its nos-
session in red ink beginning; ,.t
No. 1 and continuing to a num-
ber corresponding with the total
in the district.
At the drawing numbers will
be used ranging from No. 1 to a
number corresponding to the to-
tal in that district of the coun-
try.
The first number drawn will
determine what man in each
district is to be taken first. If it -
be No. 10, for example, it will
mean that the man in each dis-
trict holding local card No. 10
will be called for examination
jefore any other men in that
district.
The second number drawn
will determine what man in'
each district is to be taken sec-
ond and so on as long as men
are needed.
Those not needed for the first
war army will retain their po-
sitions on their lists and these
positions will determine the or-
der of their liability when they
are needed.
The drawing will be public
and each number will be an-
nounced as it is drawn. At the
offices of most local exemption
boards the red ink numbers of
jthe re&'istrants already are post-
vt TOum eomprenen-1. , ~ ^ **----
sively direct this patriotism into real ed so that registrants may in-
for the increased production and con
servation of food.*’
service than the great State.Fair of
Texas. While these people are gath-
ered together in multiplied thousands,
we want to bring home to them clear-
ly and forcibly a complete realization
oi the meaning of this war and a clear
understanding of the great economic,
industrial and international problems
that are confronting and will confront
this country during and after the
war.”
Dallas, Texas—The Farm Boys and
Girls Encampment to be held during
the State Fair of Texas, Oct. 13-28,
will attract 750 youngsters from the
farms of Texas to an exposition that
will have untold value for them along
educational and entertaining lines.
The boys encampment- is to be held
Oct. 15-20, inclusive, and the girls en-
campment will be held Oct. 22-27, in-
elusive. Comfortable quarters, whole-
some meals and other necessities will
be furnished free to boys and girls
who win scholarships in competitive
contests in their own counties/ Spec-
ial educational tours of the Fair and
special amusement programs will be
arranged for these guests of the
management. Competent instructors
will be in charge of the camps at all
times and every care will be given to
the hoys and grils who attend.
Dallas, Texas—Athletics will have
aJargye part in the program of the
State Fair of Texas, Oct. 13-28. Foot-
ball teams of the first line will meet
m gridiron contests that will give
lovers of this strenuous game the
greatest program of g'ames ever
arranged in Texas. Arrangements
are being made to furnish more seat-
ing facilities and to take care of
form themselves beforehand of
their respective numbers. If
they do as soon as word of the
drawing comes they will know
in just what qrder of liability
they stand.
Obviously there will be high
numbers drawn for which there
are no corresponding regis-
trants in small districts. The
smallest district in the country
is understood to have but 187
registrants and the largest
about 7,000. Whenever a num-
ber beyond the total in any giv-
larger crowds even than attended last IT r i •7 S
year’s games when all records for!en c IS^1C^ C017ies out’ it Will op
year’s games when
Texas were broken.
Dallas, Texas—Farm exhibits in
greater numbers and larger in scope
o.t individual showing than ever before
has been known will be shown at the
State Fair of Texas, Oct. 13-28, Free
exhibit space and a commodious, hand-
some building will enable producers to
make a great showing of the bountiful
crops which are being raised in Texas
this season. Already more than fifty
counties have signed up for space and
letters are reaching the office of Pre-
sent R. E. L. Knight, daily asking for
erate as a blank for that dis-
trict. Thus, if the theory works
out evenly, the larger districts
will be constantly assessed in
excess of the smaller on a pro
rata basis corresponding to
their size.
reservations. To assist in taking care
of the livestock show this- year, hand-
Resignation is Denied.
..........wu5 jear, nanu- Amsterdam, July 13.—Ac-
KJStotWKSSSSC cordins t0 a semi-official dis-
iy $40,000. rhe Dairy Building has P&tch received here from Berlin
Slid1lsid<Tw eiitrar,ce and re-; today the report of the resign*.
tion of Dr. Von Behmjmn-HoII-
Daily Leader, Three Months, $1.00.
weg, the imperial chancellor, is
untrue.
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