The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SCHULENBURG STICKER
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Schulenburg, Fayette Co.. Texas, Friday, August 14, 1914
No. 46
Congressmen are Grafters
The House in yielding to the
Senate in the matter', of the
20-cent mileage grab, goes upon
record as being willing to accept
graft after having unctiously de-
clared against it.
The public, which has every
right to be as cynical about the
actions* of Congress which affect
the pocketbooks of congressmen
as it is when there is legislation
adverse to the interests, will
hardly credit the House with
strenuous probity. No honest
defense of the mileage grab can
be made by the most needy
member of Congress. The most
adroit member cannot make a
plausible defense of it. Con-
gress has simply declined to quit
grafting. That is all there is to
it, Honor to those whose names
are recorded as having voted
against the greedy majority.—
Louisville Courier Journal.
Texas State Banks
Austin—There are 874 State
banks in operation at this time.
Information concerning the ope-
ration of state banks is told by
W. W. Collier, commissioner of
banking and insurance, in a let-
ter to C. K. Boardman, secretary
of the State Bankers* association.
The department has closed and
liquidated, through the guaran-
tee fund law, four banks, with
deposits aggregating $378,497.75.
In liquidating the deposits of the
first three banks closed, it was
necessary to use from the
guaranty fund $143,347.08. Of
this amount $77,842.13 has been
repaid to the guaranty fund from
the assets of the three banks,
leaving a balance due the fund
from them of $55,505.67.
The last bank closed was the
First State bank of Amarillo, and
it was necessary to use $87,476.62
from the guaranty fund. From
the bank’s assets the department
realized a 30 per cent dividend
and it is expected that practically
all of the funds advanced from
the guaranty fund will be re-
paid. The bank owes the
fund $61,233.56. The four banks
liquidated owe the fund $116,-
739.31.
There are 63 bond security
banks in Texas. Commissioner
Collier says none of these banks
have experienced any difficulty
in having banking companies
make bonds for them.
The Texas law protects the
non-interest bearing and unse-
cured deposits. Interests bear-
ing deposits, savings deposits
and government funds or other
funds secured by bonds are not
Miss Irene Holland Honored at San Antonio
For the second time in her
Imusical career, Miss Irene Hol-
land, of this city, has been
awarded the Hertzberg Medal, a
much prized honor among the
musical fraternity and which up
to this time has never been
awarded to the same person
twice. Mrs; Hertzberg is a de-
voted patron of music in San An-
antonio, being president of the
leading musical organizations and
an enthusiastic member of the
musical clubs of the city, and to
arouse the ambition of the musi-
cians she was instrumental in
founding a musical commission
whose duty it is to award a
medal each year to the musician
showing the most marked abil-
ity and the medal in turn was
called the Hertberg Medal.
Six years ago Miss Holland,
who is a student of Mrs. Yates
Gholson, of San Antonio, was
awarded this much sought prize,
and at the conclusion of her re-
cital on the 30th of July of this
year it was decided that the
medal should be again be awarded
her.
All Schulenburg congratulates
this young lady who has made
such an enviable record and over-
come difficulties which would
have caused many to give up the
struggle, and takes almost as
much pride in this singular dis-
tinction as does the young lady
herself.
The recital program which won
this second medal in competition
with all the San Antonio musi-
cians, follows:
PROGRAM
CARNIVAL MIGNON, Op. 48..............
PRELUDE—1Tristesse de Columbine..
PIERROT—Caprice Sgnarelle.............
NOCTURNE, Op. 9, No. 2.....................
TROSIEME BALLARDE, Op, 47........
SONATA TRAGICA, Op. 45Mac......
THE EAGLE......................................
MOON RISE.......................................
POLONAISE, Op. 46, No 13.................
Awarding Hertzberg Medal
.Schutt
..Chopin
. Dowell
Price Reductions
In Oxfords for men, ladies and children. We have
a well selected stock of them in black, tan, white
also grey, white and browh buck colonials.
For one week, beginning Saturday 1 5th
we will sell hem at a reduction
from 10 to 15 per cent
$5,00 (Words Sell For $4.28
$4 50
$4 00
$3 50
$3 00
$2 50
$2 25
$2 00
v
$3 99
$3 54
$3 06
$2 64
62 23
$2 04
$180
"STAR BRA/VO SHOES ARE BETTER
—Courtesy San Antopio Express
protected by the law.
There are 18 bank examiners
in the employ of the department,
and they are continually on the
go. _
Diversification is the Country’s
Salvation.
Mr. W. J. Miller of Chester-
ville was a pleasant caller at our
office one day last week and re-
newed his subscription to the
old reliable for another year.
Mr. Miller is of the opinion that
the calamaties, in the way of
droughts and rainy seasons, that
this country has been experienc-
ing the past few years, will in
the long run, be a good thing
for the country. “We were get-
ting too much of the one crop
idea into our head,” stated Mr.
Miller. “We all went crazy over
the rice crop, planting nothing
else but rice, then we went just
as batty over potatoes, planting
only potatoes.” Mr. Miller says
these unfavorable seasons have
opened the eyes of the farmers
to the fact that if they want to
live and prosper they will have
to divesify their crops. Mr.
Miller himself is adding more
cows, more hogs more chickens,
having now about four hundred,
and says in the future he expects
to plant only what rice that he
can well take care of and then
plant other crops in proportion.
“This spring I brought into
town a quantity of early toma-
toes and a quantity of eggs, and
received 17 l-2c for the eggs and
20c a dozen for the tomatoes.”
All of these little crops that add
money to the farm at the time
money is needed are absolutely
essential to a successful farm,
says Mrs. Miller.—Eagle Lake
Headlight.
Railroad Strike Averted
President Wilson is entitled to
the thanks of the nation for his
work in securing arbitration of the
dispute between the managers and
trainmen of the railroads west of
the Mississippi river. Because of
his energy and good sense the grfeat
! disaster of a railroad strike on all
m
the lines between the Mississippi
and the Pacific ocean has been
averted. Both sides have agreed
to abide by the decision of a board
of arbitration.
Without discussing in any way
the merits of the claims of either
side, it may be stated! as a general
proposition that neither the rail-
roads nor the employes have the
right to embark on a struggle that
would so greatly damage the busi-
ness interests of so many millions
of their fellow eitizens.
Men as individuals, and men
who have become members of labor
unions, have the legal right to
strike either in person or in mass.
There can be no possible question
of that. Managers of railroads also
have the right to accept or decline
any business proposition that may
be made to them either by individ-
uals or by labor unions. There
can be no question of that. And
right there is evidently a weakness
in the organic law.
The business interests of this
country have been built along the
lines of the railroads. They are
dependent upon the railrods. They
cannot live without them. If the
business interests of the country
are not allowed to operate the
country is going to smash. That
is so fundamental a truth that it
does not even call for discussion.
There are many thousand times as
many people dependent upon the
operation of the business interests
of the country as are directly de-
pendent upon the operation of the
railroads, and it is not proper that
the rights of the comparatively few
should offset the rights of the com-
paratively many. The latter
should be safeguarded in their
privileges.
It is somewhat difficult to see
how the trouble can be met without
in some manner infringing upon
the individual right of contract
which is almost synonymous with
“the rights of freemen” which the
orators shriek about, but there
is some way around the difficulty.
It is possible that a federal law
could be enacted compelling every
man who enters the employ of a
railroad, either as a workingman, a
clerk or general manager, to sign a
stipulation that he would not en-
gage in any movement designed to
interrupt the railroad service of the
country even for a limited period.
If he was not willing to agree to
this, he need not go into the
railroad business.
Such a suggestion is of course,
clumsy to the last degree, but if
railroad strikes are to be made im-
possible—and they should be made
impossible—some such plan must
be adopted. The interests of the
people in their manifold aspects are
far greater than those of the men
enployed on railroads or of the rail-
roads themselves, and they should
be considered accordingly. At the
present time, the danger is too con-
stantly in evidence to be agreeable.
Thanks to President Wilson, the
country has avoided for the pres-
ent the great calamity of a wide-
spread strike. Care should be
taken to make such strikes impos-
sible in the future, and the man
who solves the problem will de-
serve exceedingly well of his coun-
try,—San Antonio Express,
Weimar Mercury
Only about one more month of
vacation for the school children.
The Weimar high school, we un-
derstand, will open for business
on the second Monday in Sep^
tember.
W. J. Dobbs, who moved here
a few days ago from Schulen-
burg to take up the work of tel-
egraph operator, purchased a
five-passenger Maxwell car from
Agent C. H. Potthast last Sat-
urday.
Agent C. H. Potthast, last
Monday, received a car-load of
Ford cars, but as they had been
spoken for in advance of arrival,
friend Charlie is still afoot unless
another car got in since that
time, Last Saturday he sold
the last car he had on hand, even
including his own private car,
which, to say the least of it, is
going some.
Drucilla Jones, colored, mother
of Charity Whitley, Si Foley and
Jessie Allison, died Tuesday.
She was born about 1818 in Ala-
bama; brought to Texas by
Mr. Foley, who lived in Lavaca
county; lived in Weimar for over
30 years. Had been a member
of the colored Baptist church for
over 40 years. She was about
96 years old at the time of her
death.
Numbers of our citizens went
out to Live Oak and Osage last
Sunday to spend the day. At
both of these places religious re
vivals are in progress, are well
attended, and considerable inter-
est is being manifested. Revs.
Gibbons, of this city, and
Robert Payne, of Luling, have
been conducting the meeting at
Osage, while at Live Oak Revs.
Manning and Tom Pond are in
charge.
Ads Pay if you Have the Goods.
The audience at the opera
house picture show to witness
the Perils of Pauline, was a rec-
ord breaker and none went away
displeased. The manager, B. E.
Prickette, is a 20th century busi-
ness man, always buys the best
to place before his patrons, and
then uses the columns of the
newspapers to tell just what he
has. A thing worth seeing or
using is worth advertising. Read
the talk of the manager of ihe
opera house picture show in this
issue. _____
Big Business.
Johnnie Oltmann, while on his
mail route Friday, found a stream
swollen by the rains and being
afraid he would be washed away ,
grabbed the mail-sack in one
hand and $5 worth of stamps in
the other and swam ashore. The
stamps got away from him dur-
ing the struggle and Burk.
McKennon reported a man in
Saturday saying there was a
parcel post package out near his
place with no address on it. It
was a three foot live oak tree
with the stamps sticking
to it, and Oltmann will probably
have to dig up the tree and send
it to the dead letter office.
Short One Cent
Seaford, Del.—Luther H. Clif-
ton, former postmaster at Blades,
Del., near here, was threatened
with prosecution by the Postof-
fice Department in Washington
today because of a shortage of one
cent in his accounts. He paid
the amount and escaped trouble.
Clifton had been postmaster
seventeen years. Last November
he was succeeded by Caleb R.
Cannon. When the office was
transferred the accounts were
examined. It was impossible
to learn the amount of cancella-
tions.
It is on this that the postmas-
ter’s salary is based. Finally^, -
the report of the expert account-
ant showed the government
owed the retiring official one
cent. Today notice was received
that he owed one cent instead.
Clifton paid the money to his
successor and took his receipt.
Comus Card Club.
On Tuesday afternoon Mrs.
R. A. Wolters was the charming
hostess at her beautiful and hos-
pitable home to the members of
the Comus Club and a few addi-
tional friends.
The color scheme, purple and
white was used throughout the
home, pretty cut flowers were
noticed in all convenient places.
After an hour spent in conversa-
tion delicious ice cream and cake
were served, after which the
guests played progressive high
five. Five tables were arranged
to accommodate the players. At
the close of twelve spirited games
it was found that Mrs. R. Stie-
ber scored high, thereby win-
ning first prize, a beautiful berry
set.
The consolation prize a pretty
cake plate fell .to Miss Envma
Matula,
The guest first prize, a china
bread and butter set was cap-
tured by Mrs R. Nordhausen,
The guest consolaoion, also a
cake plate, went to Miss Annie
Herzik. The booby prizes fell to
Mrs. Vacek and Mrs. Thomas.
The hostess was assisted in en-
tertaining by her mother Mrs.
Bohms, and Mrs. Oscar Wolters.
Those included in the enjoyable
affair were: Mesdames Gus.
Baumgarten, W. A. Richter, H„
A. Schaefer, R. O. Perkins, Emil
Baumgarten, R. Nordhausen, W-
O. Leudermann, Fred Ebeling, B.
F. Johnson, Henry Herder, H. W.
Neuhaus, Chris. Baumgarten, E.
Vacek, R. Stieber, Mrs. Thomas
of Hondo, Misses Lily Sengel-
mann, Mollie, Emma and Louise
Matuia, Emma Merrem and
Annie Herzik.
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D. O. Bell & Son. The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1914, newspaper, August 14, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1126041/m1/1/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.