The New Era. (Marfa, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 6, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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‘The Illuminated City of The Plains’
| ONE NEW LUMBER HOUSE I
With 5 lots. Two blocks from railroad; south front: four nice rooms, papered and ceiled;
two porches; well finished and all fenced in.
$1,500 Cash
HUMPH RIS REALTY COMPANY,
Stenographer and Notary Public in Office.
St. George Building, /IAREA, TEXAS.
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THE NEW ERA.
Establmked May 20tb, 1886.
InauciJ every Saturday by the
New Era Printing Company.
(Incorporated)
A. (jOiiim)n Fricnch, KiUtor.
JIknhy W. ScHOTZK, l’rea, and M'«r.
John II. Livinobton, Secretary.
A i np u t 8. Pemcott, Treasurer.
DIRECTORS.
W. F. Mitchkix, M. R. Ciiaktain,
I.UKK C. ItlllTR, IlKNKY F. VoUNd.
It KM BY W. SCHUTXK.
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March 3rd, 1879.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 1900.
MARFA 1,01)0K NO. 6WI A . F. AND A. V
• Meets the second Thursday evening in
each month.
Visiting brethren are cordially In-
Ylted to be jiresent.
' ^ ' W. O. I.KMPART. W. M.
B. B. OKIkkin,Seey.
MARFA 0HAFTRK NO 176, K. A.
M„ meets In Masonic Hall on the
Saturday before the fourth Sunday In
each mpnlh.
Visiting companions are welcome
W. w. Room,, If. F.
O. L. Nicoom.s, See’y.
Newspapers all over the United
States are going to send lady rep-
resentatives to Seattle next sum-
mer, during the Alaska—Yukon
Pacific Exposition. What Marfa
young lady would like to go?
The Parcels post bill now be-
fore the U. S. Senate aims di-
rectly at commercial interests and
is the most dangerous and revo-
lutionary measure yet concocted
to increase the espionage of the
government and doorease the
rights of the people. Should it
become law the Government
would become a retailer, deliver-
ing goods, and knocking out
the homo merchant. Wo are
pleased to note that Senator
Bailey is fighting it to a finish.
We acknowledge with many
is subsidized and completely
dominated by the Railroads, the
pencil pushers, inouldors and
retlectors of public opinion, would
indeed be in ill repute were the
vaporings of these irresponsible
political reformers seriously con-
{ sidered. But though many may
believe these slanderous aspor-
sionsbecause of the “standing”of
the authors, the people generally
will refuse to accept the proposi-
tion that the whole press would
condescend to such mercenary
and unprincipled d u p 1 i c i ty.
Sterling Strong and the Governor
are most plausible, affable gen-
tlemen as long as thoir views are
endorsed, but neither of them can
brook opposition—it makes the
former mad and the latter sick,
so sick, ho has to go home to
Palestine and take a “rest.”
The daily and weekly press, being
conservative, have not endorsed
the radical schemes of these won-
derful reformers, therefore the
press is “subsidized.’’ Tin
Press has as much right to accuse
these champions of duplicity and
chicanery for personal gain, as
they have to make the published
charges against the press. But
the press is too diguified to com-
mit such a breach of common
decency. Sterling Strong and
Governor Campbell are personally
above reproach; no slur has ever
touched their private character
and they are both believed to be
above roproach; but the trouble
is they are extremists, uncom-
promising, implacable extremists
and neither seem to have the
virtue of self control. The
revival of the age of fanatacism
and ignorance is distasteful to
progressionists of whom the press
is the exponent,and because of op-
position to the dangerous policy of
restrictive legislation the press
has been made the target of veno-
mous abuse and abstract allega-
tions. For ourselves we can
refute the charges made by
stating that, during the whole
period covered by the agitation
for submission and also the agita-
for a two cent faro, the New Era
has not been approached in any
way,shape or form by the oppon
on a mere matter of opinion lie
stigmatises it as “subsidized”
and because some of the weeklies
used “patent” inside, in which
the same argument against the
2 cent rate appeared, the Gover-
nr of Texas descends from his
high estate, and without a scin-
tilla of evidence, without even as
much as as a semblance of a
reason, he mikes the serious
charge that the Railroads have
•‘bought them out.” The fact
of the matter is the peevish and
narrow visioned governor has
discovered that the country press
has intelligently sized him up aud
ho sees the handwriting on the
wall.
They are Different.
Reader, have you ever noticed
when reading the advertisements
of the Tylor Commercial College
of Tyler, Texas, that the ads
always said something definite?
They did not say. “it will not, in
our opinion” be thus and so, or
‘ ‘ if you could se* it as we do, ”
it srtikes right at the point, it
tellH you positively that we have
the best systems, the best employ-
ment bureau, that they secure
for the student the best salaried
positions, they tell you why this
is true. They do not stop at sim-
ply telling you, they back every
statement by a ciish guarantee
that not even a competitor has
dared to challenge. A student
at any time during the course or
at its completion, not finding the
school to be as advertised, can,
by handing in a written statement
to the office to that effect, receive
every cent of his tuition back,
aud Ins railroad fare will be paid
both to his homeland return. It
is simply a case of genuine goods;
the Tyler Commercial College
delivers the goods so to speak; it
has them to deliver, and there,. .. . . .. ,
are no ifs and ands aboutMt; that |xt 18 mentl0ned in *he Blble would
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Miss Mary Shannon, one of
Marfa’s charming young ladies,
is visiting in our town at present.
We trust that she will find the
climate so genial and the social
atmosphere so pleasant that she
will decide to spend quite a while
with us. Young ladies are at a
premium in Shatter nowadays.
H. B. Young, one of our hust-
ling merchants, paid Marfa a few I
days visit last week-
Mrs. Burns and son will leave
for their home in Chicago
Thursday.
Harry Gleiin is away on a
short visit to El Paso.
Santos Terrazas is iu Marfa
last week for a short stay.
Our genial County Assessor,
Frank Russell, has opened an
office in a convenient part of
town, in order to better accom-
modate his constituents in con-
nection wiHi’his official business.
Wm. E. Russell was over
from his ranch at Casa Piedra
and spent a few days in our city
last week.
Oren Bunton and Tom Perrine
came in the other day with a
drove of mules, which they had
bought from Leon Gonzales,
Indio.
Prof, and Mrs. H. P. Bailey
took dinner with Dr. Hensley,
Sunday.
George Brooks, of Presidio,
was in town a few days last week.
Mr. Brooks has been experimen-
ting in the Campbell system of
dry farming, and has meet with
reasonable success.
We are glad to note that“Quien
Sabe” has found something re-
markable about the Kansas City
and Orient R. R. The fact that
Notice Is Hereby Given.
That the Commissioners Court
of Jeff Davis County, Texas,
will, on or before 10 a m on the
8th day of February, 1909, re-
ceive from any banking incorpor-
poration, association, or individ-
ual banker residing in Jeff Davis
or adjoining Counties, sealed
proposals to act as the depository
of the said Jeff Davis County, G
foi* the ensuing two years from---——
February, 1909.
A certified check of $500.00|f
1 0
NEAT MARKET,
GEO. R. SHANNON,
Proprietor.
J atiTFresb Meat Killed Daily .-'©a
a Sausages,
5 Boiled Bone Ham,
1 Vegetables, Fruit, Bread,
Assorted Sweet Cakes.
2 and
MARKET PRODUCTS.
3 Good Prices paid for Hides.
’PilONE - - - 60.
must accompany each 'bid a9 a *
guaranty of good faith. +
The said court reserves the, *
+
right to reject any or all bids.
Given under my hand this the
9th day of January, 1909.
J. P. Weatherby.
County Judge,
Jeff Davis County,Texas.
Elevation 4692 Feet j
196 Miles East of El Paso.
MRS R H. BROWN, Propt letress.
V. Hogan—Real Estate and
Rental.
—FOR SALE: A scholarship in
either the Tyler Commercial Col
* St. km Hotel
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1C I liave leased tlie .thrive house and will
1C conduct it iu a manner to command your
J patronage. The rooms have been over-
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hauled ami renoyu'eU and such change*
and additions made as will Inst re the £
•j. comfort of guests. The rooms are huge 4.
4. clean and airy ami will be made pleasant £
lege of Tyler Texas, or Hill’s £ am-acUve to the occupants.
Business College of Waco, Texas,1 r
it a big discount. All interested
apply at the New Era Office.
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REASONABLE.
e» than of ar.jr oin rii .no o: nrr*.
account of th^ir style, accuracy *n« simplicity.
McOa j’,« HfnffnfInn'Tlw Qusm of Fashion)
trior* suuscilhcrs ib n *i*> <o “rr I.k. ic- ’ >xm#. On#
year’s •ubsccinU -in (12 i*i"nKr') ** 6ft Ot’l't#. LateaJ
number, f) I*-r«jv subscribergcu a McCall ra>
t#rn Free, fcu ~oilb# touay.
I,ndY /ift+rt 1 WauiH. Handsome prrmluma or
Kbm'\ 1 cash Pattern Car»lofc»i<»( c*t 600 de.
ft-rnn) and Pren into Catalogue (nho»Mi£ zoo premium*)
•eat tree. AiIUxum THE JicCALL cA, New Ywk.
TI^IIS TABI.E.
Ci. II. & s. A. K. It.
is why it is today the largest
school of Bookkeeping, Business
Training, Shorthand, Typewrit-
ing and Telegraphy in America,
ami bids fair to soon lie the larg-
seem to indicate that it has been
in course of construction quite a
while. If Quien Sabe cares to
investigate the matter further he
will find a passage of Scripture
West Bound:-Leaves Marfa at 1:15
a. in. and arrives in El Paso 8:30 a. in.
East Bound:-Leaves Marfa at 3:31
a. m. and arrives San Antonio, 8 p. m.
Billiard Hall
Soft Drinks
and CigarSc
The Piece to Enjoy lourself,
I ^ Oiisie, Proprietor
’ rc »,7**Tnrvi«an* mK.xiana.-i
est in the world. We wish that in FJebrew 13:3 tbat is e(lual,y
thanks a courteous invitation | 0f these measures. Furth- more of our advertisers could aPP lcable to said K. R
from J. H Tom, of Pecos, Presi-
dent of the West Texas Horticul-
tural Association, to attend their
first annual meeting in that thriv
inglittle city Feb.17 and 18-If we
oannot take advantage of it this
year we feel assured of doing so
at the seoond annual meeting
when we will have railroad ser-
vice between the two representa-
tive Western towns. Success to
the West Texas Horticulturalists.
Why not turn the 8tate of Tex-
as over to Stirling Strong and the
pulpit politicians? With the form-
er proclaiming on the house tops
ermore the “liquor interests”
have discontinued their advertis-
ing ‘ in these columns and only
one railroad carries a small ad
for the information of th-7 travel-
ing public. Can it be expected
that we should remain silent
when suoh wholesale slanders
aud unsupported “falsifyings”
are hurled from those high in
authority. We v e n ture the
assertion, and challenge the press
defamers to controvert it, that
the country press generally is a9
innocent of duplicity as the
New Era and we do not propose
to tamely submit to the villifica-
that the daily press has been eold tions of frantic extremists who
out—look, stock, and barrel to cannot stand the brunt of manly
the liquor interests, and the : opposition or conservative criti-
115,000.00 a year Governor open-j cism. Because the daily press
}/ #T9wing that the weekly press takes issue with Sterling Strong
guarantee their goods as does the
Tyler Commercial College.
A. G. Hall Greets Yon.
Shatter wa9 threatened Satur-
day with some real old time win-
ter weather. The snow came
down at a lively rate for several
hours, and while it scarcely cov-
-7"— j ered the ground in the valleys,
I am stiil making the best lines jt could be seen on the hills a!,
of saddles, harness, and cowboy . , . ,
boots to be found anywhere. My da> 1 A good snow or rain would
work is well known all over th*e be mo><t welcome now to settle
western country and needs no some of our valuable real estate
recommendation. that is floating around in the air.
Send mo your orders; you will | Joker
always get just as good goods as
if you were here in person. *“--
A G. Hall, I mean what I say wheu I tell
Big Springs, yOU I can sell you nursery
exM' stock cheaper than any agent in
— this country. Give me a trial or-
■M hy r.ot paint your barn,|der and be convineed. Fruit
fence, or the roof of your house? trees from 15e to 2oo.
We have a full liue of Roof and1
Barn paints. All colors.
Marfa Lnrober Co,
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Sftntet Mix*1 In* offer* the mfn of thU paper (ha beat opportunity
HtvtEw or Reviews . so.00> at 1 par
SUMSCT MAGAZINE .... 1 SO l IT
WOMAN’S HOME COMPANION 1.2s) $3.00
AND FREE rOUr. order' “ fc**®tffiil premium, a 75-pa«# book
fnuetrmtcd in four color* with 125 Western view*.
SUNSET MAGAZINE
SAN fNANCISCO. CAUrOANIA
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IF1 "V OLT W.% ]\ r ^>r »L!TY for
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Henry W. Schutze,
Agent Comal Spring* Nursery,
Marfa, Texas.
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