The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1904 Page: 1 of 9
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VOLUME 39.
BONHAM, FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1904.
NUMBER 5.
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,r3 A HOT TIKE IK TOWN
en’sSummerSuits? ■
ONE-THIRD OFF
'HIS great reduction, which takes all our profit and
a good big slice of the cost of the goods, is not
* delayed until the season is over. It comes ahead of
/ hot weather, just*the usual buying time. Never mind
L our reason for making this unusual sacrifice. The
^ goods are all right. Every strictly summer suit in our
house goes in this sale at ONE-THIRD OFF.
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Blue Striped Wash Suits that sold at $3.50, ..
go at .r: r.........................................
$3.35
Dark Gray or Brown Plaid Homespun Coats and Pants, also Dark Blue
Striped Flannel Coats and Pants that brought $7.50 each, can C
hehaHWeot IPO.UU
Candidates for County At-
torney and County Judge
Warmed up Things.
THE CAMPAIGN NOW CLOSED
Gray Striped Homespun Coats and Pants, a very nice summer suit
and a good value at the price of $5.00. Take one now for
be had here at.
\Voc>i Crash Suits, in dark or light gray plaids and fancy mixtures. Best
makes; hair cloth fronts; padded shnulders; $10.00 sellers. ter* r> r
Yours if you want one for.................................... IpD.DO
11.50 Hart, Schoffner & Marx Wool Crash Suits will soon, be
closed out at................. .............................IpO.OO
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Men’s Odd Summer Goats
HALF PRICE
Flannels, Serges, Crashes, Sicillians, all go at HALF PRICE.
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Coanty Coart Assignment.
The July term of the county
court convenes Monday, July 4.
The probate docket will be called
the first week, the civil docket
the second, the civU jury docket
the third and the civil and non-
\ jury the fourth.
The assignment of cases on
the criminal docket is as follows:
MONDAY, JULY 11.
5223 John Haddock.
5382 Ben Williamson.
5383 Jeff Williamson.
5027 Tony Lee.
§028 Tony Lee.
5029 Tony Lee. *
5113 Mrs. S. Johnson.
5033 Jno. Dyer.
5286 Wyatt Rayford.
5443 H. P. Stiles.
5445 Ben Sikes.
5531 Keel Hawkins.
5290 Jim Huffaker.
5351 Ed Nall.
5353 Ed Nall.
6352 Matt Biggerstaff.
5354 Underwood Judd.
5503 J. T. Eason.
5521 Joe Weathersby.
•5441 Rich Bailey;
TUESDAY, JUDY 12.
5313 Ben Watts.
5319 Ben Watts.
5336 Ben Watts.
5344 Ben Watts.
5345 Ben Watts.
* 5347 Ben Watts.
5428 Ben Watts.
5429 Ben Watts.
5431 Ben Watts.
5447 Ben Watts.
5321 Vance Kirby.
5323 B. A. James.
5358 1-2 Virge Shirley,
5514 John B. Stephens.
5507 J. S. Bridges.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13.
5166 J. H. King.
5167 J. H. King.
5231 Robt. Jones.
5247 Wm. Morrison^
5248 Wm. Morrison,
5249 Wm. Morrison.'
5258 Joe Clinton.
5423 Geo. Jackson. •
THURSDAY, JULY 14. /
5292 H. D. McDuffy.
5271 A. E. Randels.
5471 Young Beason.
5459 G. A. Gray.
5475 Wm. Pinion. ,
5533 Wm. Pinion.
5523 Mike Lynch. : \
5515 Bob Pearson.
5520 Enoch Darn all.
5534 W. E. Stinson.
FRIDA*, JULY 15.
5476 Tobe Pace.
5488 Tobe Pace.
5479 Bone Stone.
5480 Bone Stone.
5585 Andy Young.
5510 Andy Y#ung.
5466 Jim Ro^rts.
5511 Jeff Golden.
5512 Bud Stephens. ^
SATURDAY, JULY 16.
5513 Neel Dodd.
5516 Jim Perry. v
5524 R. M. Taylor.
5525 R. M. Taylor.
5526 R. M. Taylor.
5527 R. M. Taylor. •
5528 R. M. Taylor. ’
5530 Jake Mygrs. . ->
5535 Geo. Rayford.
5536 Andrew Gocher.
5537 Edwin Cobb. %
By order of the court.
Attest: Pat Henry, *
» County Clerk.
Uneasy Peter.
Peter Karageorgevitch—T h e
Society of Assassins has invited
me to a banquet.
Courier—Of course you will go?
P* K.—I am afraid to.
Courier—Then why don’t you
refuse?
COMING LOG ROLLING.
The Last of Forty Engagements
Entire County—TheAudience
Stayed Till After Midnight.
Daily Favorite, June 27.1904.
A court house full of voters upstairs
and down, with severafladies in atten-
tendance, were at tfce district court
room Saturday night to hear the can-
didates for county attorney and county
judge in the closing of their campaign.
Premliminary to the regular mena-
gerie the candidates for the other
county and precinct offices were given
one minute each to make their an-
nouncements. Quite a number of
them did so. Outside on the square
the boys had rigged up an anvil and
with the program inside and outside
both in operation there was a warm
time in town, It was a circus and
lasted till well after midnight. It
may as well be stated here to save
time and space, that the only issue in
the campaign is the enforcement or
nonenforcement of the local option
law. All the rest of all the speeches
Lof the county brings around this one
proposition.
Mr. Baldwin came first on this oc-
casion. He stated that while he was
acting as deputy county attorney un-
der Mr. Lee, he filed nine complaints
against parties at Honey Grove charg-
ing them with violat ion of that statute.
One of these parties was convicted in
two cases while another was convicted
in one, and this proceeding put a
quietus on and closed up the four cold
stora ge in operation at Honey Grove
at that time. If elected county at-
torney the same proceedure would
yield the same results in Honey Grove
and all over the county. After a shot
or two at Mr. Lee and a few at Mr.
Agnew, Mr. Baldwin’s time expired
Mr. Lee came next on the program:
Ke carried a scrap book which he
claimed was made up of clippings
from various issues of the Favorite
and of the Bonham News. These
clippings Mr. Lee construed to be
attacks on his official conduct, though
he read none of them. Mr. Lee stated
that the persistent misrepresentation
of these two papers had forced him
$2.50 SHOES
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To the Man
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who is about to buy a pair of moderate
priced Shoes, we want to say that we have the
Best $2.50 Shoe in America
These Shoes are made especially for us to meet
tire $2.50 demand. Every inch of leather that
goes into them is selected; the lasts perfected;
the styles expressly designed for this line of
shoos, a^d the making is in the hands of the
best shoemakers in the country. We have never
had a complaimt against a pair of these Shoes.
Made in Box Calf, Vici Kid and Calf
LEWIS
if there was any law for it, but there
was none. Said that he had been
charged with failure to do his duty
but whoever spoke or wrote such a
charge spoke or wrote a falsehood.
The prohibition issue in this county
not be legally closed- The other cand-
idates all promise to enforce the law.
Rising to the warmth of earnest de-
bate Mr. Agnew declared: “Fannin
W a big county but it is not big enough
to hold a county attorney and a cold
was brought about by Doc Terry and ! storage.-’ Continuing he declared
Committees Appointed and Dates
Set for lltb, 12th and 13th
of August.
In the office of Council Com- into tbe campaign—that he had not
mander H.G.Evans Monday night int6nded to be a candidate but felt
the members of the various com- that the J**?1® of the county if &iven
mittees lous com an opportunity would vindicate his
mittees met to arrange for the official conduct and he entered the
big Woodmen picnic. Besides race to furnish that opportunity. He
setting the dates as above the fol- stated that there was no law in Texas
lowing names were placed on the a£a3nst the operation of cold storages
special committees* 48 they are D0W in °Peration in this
J Tamio- ' , T « r , | county—no more law than there is to
P y and T* E. Jack- close a dr§ goods store or a grocery
son, printing and advertising; G. store. He said that the opposition to
Ash Evans in their papers. I have
made no effort to create sympathy in
my behalf, I want none. What have
I done that papers should abuse ine?
There has never been no complimen-
tary mention made of me but a gang
of Shylocks have camped continually
on my trail. I have received no mon-
ey except sucii as is fixed by law for
the discharge of the various duties of
the office, I have asked none, nobody
has offered.
Mr. Young came next. He thought
that the question of prohibition had
properly no place in the campaign for
county attorney—no more than it
would have in a race for county clerk.
He had always voted for prohibition
and everybody knew it. Mr. Young
stated that the cold storage was an
admitted evil, aconceded fact not con-
tradicted by anybody and pledged him-
self if elected to do all that lay in his
power to enforce not only the local op-
tion law. but all other laws—would
close the cold storages if it could be
done legally. t
Coming to the question of the dou-
ble primary he saidjhat he did not at
this time desire to state that he was
for or against that measure, whether
he thought it good or bad, but the
double primary had been ordered by
the proper authority and in the reglar
way and as a democrat he would cer-
tainly not at this late hour file a- pro-
test against it, and he thought that
Mr. Lee’s opposition came with very
poor grace. He thought that it was
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W. Twyman and Virgil Deering, him had grown out of the fact that he hardly in order for a man who was en-
water and ice; R. C. Bragg, p declined to be coerced and bulldoze d J J°ring the honors and the emoluments
A D«l!__ « ' I hV thft P1H7V nrnhihif inn iv.
O. Robinson and T A Lovelare Iby th® Crazy Probibition committee
rn_ into the persecution of innocent peo-
committee on grounds; Rosser ple-that he had fumed down m
1 nomas and P. G. Cameron, pro- such cases presented to him by said
gram and free attractions; P. G. committee.
Cameron, J. Lee Tarpley and W Getting into the question of the
B. Faxon, committee on orivL d°Ubl? prbnary he stated tbat the
leees pn 1 thought originated in the fertile im-
\ m aginations of Doc: Terry and Ash
An extra effort will be made to Evaes. That they stood by it in its
make this Log Rolling the big- infancy, nursed it through the colic
gest thing of the kind the Wood- and tbe measeis and when strong and
men have ever attempted in this y\g°TOUS. turned itloose on the, vot€rs
t art of the State. Nothing but purpose of its existence being to de-
the best attractions are wanted I feat him.
or solicited and the advertising I Tbe speaker stated that he was
feature is in competent hands I char*ed by 801336 P®°Ple ’with neglect
thus assuring large crowds of °f °ffiC,ial dUty and yet during his
visitors ThZ * , crowds or t€rm of offlce he had turned int0 the
. 1 he grounds have not county treasury from excess of fees
been selected yet, but there will earned, the sum of $4,700, which was
be no trouble on that score. more tban twice as much as his pre-
decessor, George Carpenter, had turn-
ed in for a like period.
The prohibition committee came to
his office actihg under the instruction
Remember the dates—August
11, 12 and 13—that’s the time.
WViPti o , , nis omce acting unaer tne instruction
, . p . er ^°fs beyond Gf Mr. Agnew, who was their attorney,
preaching Christ and Him cruci- and wanted him to tile great numbers
fied, he puts himself outside of of eases against innocent people. They
his sacred calling,” declare** a 0001(3 have madfe 10,000 cases of the
political sheet. And when noli- 1 kind they had> 0ne sucb case was
tics get so rotten a preacher irde-!tnedandCOn’,iCted bUt reversed by
nied the privilege of speaking his
sentiments concerning any ques-
tion before the public it is time
politics should be turned over to
the court of appeals. The grand jury
had been in session 16 days, yet that
body turned in not a single case of a
class like the prohibition committee
wanted him to file on. No gang of
cranks could force or bulldoze him in-
P. K. Iam afraid to.—Alkali! a”d an 3nvest>£ation to the persecution of honest people.
instituted.—Clarksville Times. . Said he would close the cold storages
Eye.
of an important office, the gifts of the
party, to go on the hustings in open
rebellion to the party’s authority.
The double primary was ordered long
before Mr. Lee announced and if he
did not like it, he could have stayed
out of the race.
Mr. Donaldson ca*menext. He said
he wanted the office for the money
there was in it. But while accepting
that money he expected to give the
county the best service of which he
was capable. He had always been a
pro and would quit the race if any re-
putable living man, white or black,
would say that he had ever been
known to take a drink of whiskey or
beer—said that he had never promised^
if elected to close the cold storages,
had only promised to enforce the law.
Mr. Donaldson then took up Mr. Ag-
new and the law and order league. He
claimed that law and order league had
that his position on the enforcement
of the law was taken in the court and
before a jury at a time wheh he was
not a candidate and had no thought
/of becoming a candidate. That posi-
tion he could not change if he would
and would not change if he could, be-
cause it was right. It meant the dos-
ing of the cold storages and .the work-
ing of the cold storage operators on
the county farm. It meant that the
blackleg gamblers whb are hounding
him from the river to the Hunt coun-
ty line, from Grayson on the west to
Lamar on the east would be out of
rpach of the sheriff or peeping through
iron bars within thirty days after he
took the oath of office.
Mr. Cobb was the last to speak. His
talk does not partake so much of the
personalities and issues of the cam-
paign, but is more in the nature of a
biography of his life. Cobb is a pleas-
ant and entertaing speaker.
Mr. Bradley and Mr. Gross, candi-
dates for county judge, came on for
discussion. This discussion was con-
fined almost exclusively to the “ballot
box and booth” affair which has al-
rerdy received a pretty thorough air-
.ing in this paper and it is not thought
necessary to go into it again here.
In a thirty-one line article the
Jericho Enterprise makes com-
plaint of the candidates for not
announcing. We have never yet
believed that persons were driven
into patronage. We have been
through twelve campainsin Don-
ley county, and have never made
a personal solicitation for an an-
nouncement nor complained at
any one for not announcing, and
we have never yet in the long run
fell -behind in the number, and a
few times came out ahead of tl
___tfie
other papers. But the Chronicfe
runs for something else besides
what it gets out of political cam-
pa i g n s .■—ClarendonChro n i cl e.
Nuggets From Georgia.
The folks that think this world
isn’t bright enough would growl
if they found the next world blaz-
ing.
I^t us all have charity and lots
of it; for some of the saints in
this world need it.
The man who whistles at his
wanted a strong and capable man for v, x.
the office and had selected and brought *7 mav be haPPy> b«t many of
out Mr. Agnew. He criticised the tbe 3ello^s who have to listen to
out Mr. Agnew. He criticised the
league pretty severely and claimed
that such an organization should not
exist.
Mr. Agnew'came next. After ans-
wering some of the references to him-
self by other candidates, Mr. Agnew
said that the only issue in the whole
thing was the enforcement or non-en-
forcement of the local option law. We
all agree on the enforcement of all
other criminal laws. We all agree
that it can be done and all promise to
do it. But when it comes to local option
there is the difference. Mr. Lee tells
you plainly that the cold storages can-
him are not,
We have cause to look for wise
men by candlelight, and gas is
too high to be wasted on them.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Many years experience in the
land^ business has given us the
advantage over the average land
agents. Let us have your prop-
erty for sale. We make no charge
unless we find a buyer.—Evans &
McKinney, over First National
Bank.
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Evans, Ashley. The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1904, newspaper, July 1, 1904; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982094/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.