The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1907 Page: 2 of 4
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Saved! Saved! The citv coun-
cil didn't cut off our fishing: per-
mit. The banks may shut off our
Md a. ih« l'ostofflce. at Bonham. Tax.., credit, the Kroceryman our pro-
as second-class mall matter. vision and the dry goods man our
‘ 11 1 - clothes, but thank goodness our
fishing: permit is safe for another
thirty davs.—Bonham News.
ICRIPTION ......$1.00 PEA YEAR
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
CLUBBING RATES.
j News and Globe- Democrat..........1.7*
i News and Ft. Worth Record........1.75
i News and Bryan’s Commoner ...... l.bo
i News and Atlauta Constitution..... 1.75
EVANS 4 EVANS PROPRIETORS
ASHtCYi EVANS, EDITOR.
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The public has been watching:
with bated breath the contest in
Bonham to decide whether or not
fishing: would be allowed in the
(city’s waterworks pond and we
judge from this paragraph in the
News that the fishermen have
won the fight. The people can
A Bonham man has nerve now resume the contemplation of
enough to this week advertise the crack in the court house. The
Now is the time to buy coal.” j Honey Grove Citizen seeks to
. . ., . take away some of the fisherman s
Ana yet some people tell u< it is delj(fht bv the fol.owinK:
no use to offer to sell goods out | “The city council of Bonham
of season. | has granted Bonhamites a special
privilege to fish in the city pond
The News, with the other pa* j at night. It took a pretty hard
pers in Bonham, observed the fi2ht on the Part of the aforesaid
elprious Fourth yesterday, and p°nhsmites to secure this pri.i-
.. u . . ti . , lege, but they got it all right,
the result shows in the columns nothing but mud cats bite at
^of this issue. The case is un- night it must be a case of catch
usual, in that by observing the a cat ordo without meat up at
are not as full as | Bonham town. The exhileration
produced by a three-pound bass
tugging at a line is evidently not
holiday they
usual.
factory at Paris appreciated up that way.”— Wills
Point Chronicle.
The peanut
has had to double its capacity.
Why can’t Bonham have such an
enterprise? It pays the operator,
and it creates a market for a
product that Fannin county can
produce in practically unlimited
quantities.
Mis^rifn again. I ain’t no
mud cat fisherman! The coun-
Icil threatened to stop angling
for black bass, rock bass and any
other game fishes that infest
these waters. It decided not to
do this. That called forth this
ts
m
The Austin Statesman makes pean of ioy. The Honey Grove
a plea for the people to cease newspaper boys havenoknowl-
criticising the courts of the land, edge of fishing, unless it be in
It ends an editorial with these tire Blue Hole, where nothing
words: “We must at all times but mud cat bask in the sun, and
and under aflcircumstances stand they can’t understand what a
by our courts. ’ If we do, we calamity it was threatened us.
shall be kept busy jumping from Then they absolutely have no
one side of the fence to the other, feeling of sympathy for a Bon-
When the courts reach the condi- | ham editor,
tion that the court of criminal
appeals is now in, the people “Gargle after every fifth kiss,
can’t tell howto^“stand by them.” I says a Chicago doctor^ if you are
A decision rendered today will
be reversed tomorrow.
— 11
that hygienic, it will be neces-
Jsaryto change girls.—Houston
„ . , The Ctromcle.
Statesman oueht to make a plea After every gargle?
for the courts to reach a decision
concerning the law, and then | Mayor McClellan
standby it. When courts are an ordinance that
has vetoec
—----- — ----- ---- ......------------------ provided that
able and just in their decisions, women teachers in the New York
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there will be no cause to call on
the people to “stand by them.’
The people will do that of their
own accord.
schools should receive the same
wages as men in similar grades.
Approval of the ordinance might
haye resulted in less money-tor
the politicians on the schoo
board to spend.—The Commoner.
New York couldn’t stand for
WkY TO DESTROY BOLL WEEVILS
Every farmer who grows cot- { anything like that,
ton is interested in the boll wee-
vil question, and wants to learn
every practicable method that
will destroy the pests or lessen
their numbers.
A writer in the Farm & Ranch,
Keeping everlastingly smooth-
tempered and smiling is the card
that wins, but the only absolutely
sure way to do this is .to keep
everlastingly in hearing distance
--------------of the music of the angels.—
who lives in Bell county, gives I Evening Herald,
his experience, and perhaps it! And to always keep in hearing
will be well for our farmers to j distance of the music of the an
consider it. He says: ( would take one out of the
‘In this part ot lexas the boll jurisdiction of the newspaper
weevils are mighty bad, although | office,
we can raise good cotton. Sum-
mer plowing is the thing to kill | June bride is merely the post
weevil. Plow single so that the graduate degree which awaits
S,mi ,C tre,6 °,n the double shovel j every sweet girl graduate.—
will knock them off and when the j Houston Post
XreL*sr^ar^“isa dree :':at
twenty acres in cotton, and by ! !a*en once’ but of late it is fash-
plowing late we got fifteen bales, j tonable to graduate several times
while the man just across the j before middle age is reached,
“turn row” had in about fifteen
acres and got four or five bales,
and he quit plowing early.’
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Exchange Comment
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It s time to take^a hand in a I paper had no right to trade ad-
matter which we have allowed to vertising space in its columns tor
drift along without our protest, transportation. This same man,
In truth we feel like apologizing we understand, expects to get
to the public for our failure to the support of the newspapers in
attend to the unmitigated galoots his district in an effort to go to
whom we are about to swat, but Washington as congressman.-
we can only plead negligence of Clifton Times,
our editorial duties. But here We know of a gentleman of the
goes for a long, loud and ener- same class who hopes to break
getic swatting of the hemales and into the attorney general’s chair
shemales who persist in taking in the same way.-Venus Times.
i%ycDpdu^P?aUhT„h;sron
with malice and aforethought pu ,llc office
refuse to move down when other nerve’ an(l be wants to do any
people enter. Not long ago we thing he can to ma‘ke himselt
tried to squeeze into a seat in “solid” with the voters. Perhaps
seat hours* anfl "results ‘came near ‘hetS* mcn ".ouerht to win favor
being disastrous. We are rather .y their course ln opposing the
tall, the end seat hog was rather ^ATht ot the newspapers to ex-
short, and we struck an atitude change advertising for transpor-
like a half closed jack-knife and | tation over the railroads. Then
Some men have unlimited
nerve; we know a case where a
man went to Austin a few months
| ago with an allowance of twenty
cents per mile from the State,
then accepted a pass from the
railroads, then voted that a news-
again, perhaps they thought it
best for the country.
What is a Democrat?
The New York World recently
addressed a communication to
Wm. J. Bryan asking him to de-
was successfully passing in front
of this aforesaid end-seater, we
sneezed. Naturally we bumped
her face. The congregation
tittered, we blushed, and the hog
looked like she wished she was
not there. This experience
makes us desperate, and we say
right here and now that it is our 1
opinion that it is no sin to annihi- ”ne what constitutes a democrat,
late the end-seat hogs with dy- and we extract the following
narnite, a club or a gun or any trom his reply:
weapon of offense or defense- if, then, by vour question,
What is a Democrat, you mean
All of which comes from the to ask for a definition considered
editor having once attended from a party standpoint, I would
church. We suspect that had he say that a Democrat is one who
been in the habit of attending considers himself a member of
each Sunday he would have long the Democratic organization, who
ago begun this crusade. It’sa!works with the Democratic or-
vote a Democratic ticket. I do
not mean to say that by taking
partin the organization he wouid
bind himselt morally or political-
ly to i :dorse <anv platform that
might be adopted or support any
candidate who might be selected,
for these questions qmst be left
to the conscience of each voter;
but when I say he expects to sup-
port the ticket I mean he desires
to do so and will do so, unless
good and sufficient reasons can
be given for refusal. I may add
that his membership in the Dem-
ocratic party cannot be thorough-
ly Democratic unless he consid-
ers other members equally enti-
tled With him to a yoice in the
party’s deliberations, and to his
influence in the party’s manage-
ment. No intelligent man be-
comes a member of this party
with the expectation that he will
agree on all subjects with every
member jj{ his party, but he
ought tQ expect to agree with
other members of the party on
the general policy of the party
and be willing to confer on equal
terms with other members as to
details and methods, content that
the voice of the majority shall
be the voice of the party unless
the majority violates some funda-
mental principle or demands of
him the surrender of a conviction.
I think, however, that your
question calls for a broader con-
sideration of the subject. If the
Democratic party is entitled 10
the name, it must be true to the
ideas of Democracy, and if we
can for a moment lay aside party
definitions I will define a Demo-
crat as one who believes in the
rule of the people. The word
democracy is derived from the
Greek, and the two words, demos
—the people— and krateo—to
rule—leave no doubt that a dem-
ocracy is a government in which
the people rule* A Democrat,
therefore, if the meaning ot the
name is considered, must he one
who believes in the rule of the
people.
In brief, Democracy means the
will of the people,.and tlie man
is a Democrat who believes in the
right ot the people to rule. This
idea necessarily carries with it
subservience to the will of the
majority, and the man who is a
consistent Democrat must sub-
scribe to the right of a majority
rule.
Members of the great Demo-
cratic party are free to express
individual opinions and have in-
dividual predilections until such
time as the party shall take
action. When there has been a
party expression Democrats are
*
bound to go with the majority of
fellow-Democrats and abide by
the action of the marjority.
It is at this point where many
men part company with their
party and become what has been
designated politically as mug-
wumps. They refuse to go with
the majority, and hold on to their
individual preferences after party
action has been taken. And such
men are not true Democrats. Mr.
Jefferson, who had the honor of
fathering the Democratic party,
has yery truly defined Democracy
as “absolute acquiescence in the
will of the majority.”
uate from a school of experience
the flowers he receive are hauled
to their destination by the under-
taker.
Each and All.
Go in and do the best you can,
Nor waste jour time in sighing:
The mind’s the measure of the man,
And strength is. born of t rying.
And though you meet a sad reverse,
The world is still your debtor:
’Tis only that some do tilings worse
That some can do them better.
There is a place for one and all:
Each lias his given powers.
Think what a solemn hush would fall
Upon this world of ours
If all the birds in all the vales
That now with song are ringing,
Because they are not nightingales
Should cease their joyous singing!
This life's a game of crack the whip,
And every man must play it.
Some strange forCe keeps us on the
skip,
There is no way to stay it:
If you can’t be the leader bold.
Why, you can be the lummox
Who at the hash’s end is rolled
Ileels over head* “Kerfluinmux!”
—Nixon Waterman, in New York
Commercial.
Cheer Up.
Why dream and sing of old days
^Then death is at the door?
The new ways, the true ways
We never trod before
Are stretching w'ide before us:
Oh, may no hearts deplore us!
The blue sky arches o’er us
More splendid than of yore.
The yesterdays were glad days,
The olden days were kind:
But sun shines on the new ways,
The shadows stretch behind:
The rough ways are behind us,
The dust that use to blind us,
And old-tiine friends will find us
And all the years be kind.
Why dream and sing of old days?
Our hand is on the door
That, opens on a wider way
Than e’er we knew of yore;
The sweethearts known of yore now,
The friends who went before now,
The babies we deplore now
Await our love once more.
—J. M Lewis, in Houston Post.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
New York Press.
A woman’s idea of political
ambition is how you would have
to dress for it.
Marrying a woman is a yery
useful thing to teach you how
you don’t understand her.
A man would have to have a
lot of brains not to try to make
people think he had more.
Mottoes About Gold.
Exchange.
A vain man’s motto is: “Win
gold and wear it,”
A generous man’s motto is:
“Win gold and share it.”
A miserly man’s motto is:
“Win gold and spare it.” *
A profligate man’s motto is:
“Win gold and spend it.”
A banker’s motto is: “Win
gold and lend it.”
A gambler’s motto is: “Win
gold and lose it.”
A wise man’s motto is: “Win
gold and use it.”
A Christian’s motto is: “Win
gold and give it.”
switchman in the local yards of
the Kafcy and has spent most of
his life in Denison. He returned
to this city a few months afco af
ter a prolonged ab-euce ancf fus
been employed regularly since !
then. His father lives in Sapul-
pa and is the secretary of the)
Y. M. C. A. at that place. He
has a married sister living in the
same town. A telegram has)
been received saying they will
come to Denison. Resides the
father and sister, he has a wife
living in New Mexico and two
children with lifer. They had
not been living together for
some time.
Among Robertson’s things
was found an identification card
from the Continental Casualty
Company of Chicago. It is also
learned that he was at one time
a member of the Order of Rail-
road Clerks.
Whitakei came here several
months ago from Sedalia, Mo.
where he h is relatives. He was
employed as a brakeman on ti e
south end of the Katy, Ilis rel-
atives has been notified.
Mr. Brock-smith is also a south
end brakeman on the Katy.—
Denison Herald, July 2.
COOL
food work, and needs to be pushed | ganization and who expects to
• Pointed Paragraphs.
Chicago News.
It isn’t easy to get a job on
Easy street.
The thoughts of a music com-
poser should be noteworthy.
When the quiet man does make
a noise in the world it counts.
The average man’s politics was
an inheritance from his father.
It takes as little to make some
men laugh as it does to worry
others.
Our idea of a brave woman is
one who isn’t afraid to talk back
to the cook.
It’s easy for one man to get
rich quick if he meets a lot of
others who want to.
After one girl has broken a
man’s heart some other girl
comes along and mends it.
A wise man never makes a
buisness of writing poetry unless
he can convert it into money.
It there is one thing we dis-
like more than another it is to
hear a man boast of what he is
going to do.
It’s as difficult to start a
modest man to talking about him-
self as it is to stop him after he
once gets started.
If a theatrical performance
doesn’t make a woman laugh or
cry, she thinks she isn’t getting
her money’s worth.
When a man finally does grad-
Two Men Drowned at Woodlake.
Charles H. Robertson and Har-
ry C. Whitaker, men about thirty
years of age were drowned at
Woodlake last night about 9:30
o’clock from the ' capsizing of a
row boat.
The cause of the accident as
given by John Brocksmith, who
formed the third member of the
party, was an attempt to change
seats in the boat. The capsizing
occurred about thirty feet of the
end of the “shoot the chutes”
where the water is approximate-
ly twelve feet in depth.
People along the shores heard
the men’s cries for help and
rushed to the scene, but as it
occurred at a secluded point of
the lake the men had succumbed
before rescue could be made.
Mr. Brocksmith swam ashore in
an exhausted condition. t
A searching party was formed
and the lake was dragged during
the night. At 2:30 this morning
the body of Robertson was found
in the locality where the boat
was capsized. It was immedi-
ately put on a special car and
sent to Denison.
Efforts to recover the body of
Whitaker were not successful till
near daylight this morning. Sev-
eral times the drags caught the
clothes of the dead man, but ef-
forts to bring it to surface were
unavailing The searching party
arrived in Denison shortly before
six o’clock this morning with the
body of Whitaker. Both bodies
were laid out in W. 11. Walton’s
undertaking establishment and
remain awaiting instructions
from relatives for their disposal.
Robertson was employed as a
Unknown Infant Escapes.
Chicago, 111., .July 2.—Some-
where in Winnekq.) a north shore
suburb, there is a baby which
has the proud distinction of hav-
ing been run over by a railroail
train and emerging from under
the wheels without a scratch.
Just after leaving the station
yesterday Engineer Duncan of a
northbound Chicago and North-
western express train saw a
white object lying between the
rails in front of the train. At
the first glance he supposed it to
be a newspaper and paid no at-
tention to it. The next instant
he threw on the air brakes with
a jerk that sent everyone in the
train sprawling.
^ “Good heavens” he shouted,
turning a white face to his fire-
man, “it’s a baby.”
By the time the train had come
grinding to a standstill the white
object was under the tender.
Duncan and his fireman jump
ed to the ground and with a
scared group of passengers rap
idly gathering around drew the
baby’s body tenderly from un
der the big engine. The baby,
which had been lying on its back
opened its eyes, stared at its res-
cuer for a moment and then
burst into a healthy wail. The
child was absolutely unhurt.
Subsequent efforts to learn
the identity of the child or its
parents were unavailing. The
baby appeared to be about a
year and a half old.
County Courts
County Court is working like a
clock and disposes of t ininess in
a very systematic way.
The following cases were dis-
posed of:
J. T. Sutherland, violating lo-
cal option law, found guilty and
was fined $50 and 30 days in jail.
Charley Perry., disturbing the
peace, plead guilty and was fined
$0. The charge cf aggravated
assault against Perry was dis-
missed,
Woodson Steele, aggravated
assault and battery, was decided
by the jury to be not guilty.
A. J. Moore, aggravated as-
sault and battery, continued by
the State.
Jim Brembry, usRg abusive
language, continued by the
State.
Cal Johnson submitted two
cases for violating the local op-
tion law to the mercy of the
court and his honor fined the
defendant in each case $40 and
20 days in jail. In a third case
Johnson was found not guilty.
Geo. Poponoy plead guilty to
violating the local option law and
the court fined him 825 and 60
days in jail.
Morg, Gibson, theft, continued
by defendant.
Dave Renny, malicious mis- :
chief, continued by the State.
Jim Maples, malicious mis-
chief, dissmissed.
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Let us sell you a good
wire cot cheap. We have
folding cots from $1.50 up
Halsell a " ” Co.
FURNITURE AND COFFINS
Bonham Boy Married.
The Sonora Sun. published in
Sutton county, gives us the first
information we had concerning
the marriage of a former Bonham
boy, Joe Ben, son of B. F. Blake-
ney, of our city. He was mar-
ried on June 27th to Miss May
Belle Tillman. The Sun says:
“The bride is the pretty arid
accomplished daughter of E. F.
Tillman, of Sutton courtv. The
groom has been a resident of - aPPly this office.
Special Rates to Mexico City.
The M. K. & T. Ry. will sell
tickets at one fare for the roupd
trip to Mexico City.
Second Series—Selling dates H
June 8th to 15th inclusive. Limit
Aug. 31.
Third Series—Selling dates
June 20th to July 12th inclusive.
Limit Sept. 15.
Stopovers allowed on going
trip withiu transit limit, and on
return trip within final limit of
ticket. For further information
Sonora for several years, and is
a popular employe of the E. F. !
Yander Stucken Company. The
Sun extends congratulations, to
the happy couple.”
C. K.McGoun, Agent.
Sunday School Association.
The Fannin County Sunday
School Association will be held
in Bonham Thursday and Fri-
day, August 15 and 16. It i§
hoped that every Sunday school
W all the denominations will be-
gin plans now to send a large
delegation, not only delegates
but visitors as well. Our schools
will gladly entertain you all.
J. Lee Tarpley, Acting Pres.
Cora Phillips, Sec’v.
Windom Second Best.
I
Tuesday afternoon the Win-*
dom ball team came up to Lave a
game with the Bonham Elk’s
team. The boys from Windom
are fine follows, and are pretty
good players, too, but they were
outclassed by the Bonham Elks.
The game resulted in a score of
17 to 3 in favor of Bonham.
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First Cotton Bloom.
The first cotton bloom we have
seen this year was sent to The
News Wednesday by M. C.-j
Nictiols, who lives out on Arledge
Ridge. The crops in that neigh-
hood are reported to be fine, and
no boll weevil to damage the
cotton. Mr. Nichols has a good
crop, and if nothing comes to in- •
jure it expects to have a good
yield. - * |
The infant child of Mr. and
Mrs. Mack Smith died at the
family home on East Sixth street
Tuesday morning, and was
buried that afternoon in the-In-
glisli cemetery. Mrs. Smith is
very ill at the Allen hospital.
Wanted.
Second hand safe.—J. L.
Ware & Son.
“And There Was
Never Yet Philosopher
Who Could Endure
The Toothache *
Patiently — Shakespeare
Well, don’t you think you
should have those bad teeth
made good? I wont hurt
you one bit and positively^
guarantee the work to give-<
y*u u perfect satisfaction
DR. F. C. ALLEN
OVER HUB CLOTftlNG STORK.
LAND BARGAINS
Is what I have to offer in several
gool farms, and some town
property.
I will advertise your land free,
and if no sale is made, will make
no charge.
I will rent land, write rent con-
tracts and attend to writing le-,
ga.1 papers, and notary work of
all kinds. T. J. Self,
Dodd Citv, Tex.
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The White House
West of First National Bank
Rates, - - $1.00 per day
Meals, 25 cents
Private House with all the
conveniences of home. When
in town, you are invited to
stop here.
C. H. WHITE, Prop.
Prospects Much Better.
Rev. W. T. Gtav, of Tele-
phone, was in our city Wednes-
day. He says that the people of
his community are in better
spirits than they have been for
some time. They feel that a
good crop of corn is assured, and
c >tton has improved wonderfully
in the last ten days. In addition,
what boll weevils there are in
the countv are dying out and are
doing no hdrin. The Telephone
people arc hopeful ot a fine crop.
Corn and Cotton
You are preparing now your land for corn and cotton,
which you expect to plant early and cultivate well so as
to head off the insects that prey on them. To do the
work the best, the quickest and the cheapest, get our
Two Row Automatic Com and Cotton Planter
Two Row Check Rowers
John Deere Plows—John Deere Sulkey Plows
Then you will need to follow up this work later on with
John Deere Middle Busters
Reindeer Riding Cultivators
They do the work thoroughly and with the least outlay
of time and labor. We also carry the
John Deere Harrows, 1-2 and 5-8 Teeth /
We make Galvanized Iron'Tanks and Gutters, Galvan-
ized Flues and tin work of all kinds. Water and Steam
Pipes and Fittings.
Our stock of Hardware, Stoves and Dishes is up-to-date
and the best grade of goods. We are selling at bottom
prices, and guarantee satisfaction to our customers.
Thompson-Abernathy C
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