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No. 39
IMPROV
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CHING
N BELT
THE 0
STOP PI
ITEERS
CITY
Legislati
I
OAKLAND, Ca
" joined
t
little
IK belong to this class
and
a
to
I
revised
$752.21,
price
TO
new
$731.54,
nevr
$
$960.76,
new
$1090.92,
new
$912.10,
new
BAILEY TO START
to go.
to
PHYSICIAN IS FOUND
I
GUILTY OF MURDER
MAN
WHEN
OF MOTHER-IN-LAW
WOMEN
Y PICKED
20.
f
J,
S
OUNTY
OF COTTON.
HAS
10,551 POP.
WOMAN RUNNING
SYLVANIA
IN
FUNERAI
ELD THURSDAY.
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TEXAS DffilOCRATS, jCOX TELLS
DO ’YOUR DUTY
HENRY FORD CUTS
PRICE OF FLIVVER
TORNADO
BEFORE
NEW Oil
appealed,
ed with the murder
law.
The funeri
was held her)
vices were c<
terian churrj
made in Rosa
to make these properties
adequately maintained of
way in the So*(hwest.
spend $755,000 in
fills and filling ii
this being permai
enlarging exist
water stations.
An outlay of $1
the
any
ly they
all titrf
>;
r
may
and
all
everything
PAPER AT FT. WORTH CA™ BEST
WANTS WURST
A to
FThe Jou
ie office of tl?
Inty.
[ven
the
headquarters
Nomii
live
Cost o£j
OD
on
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VOL. XXXLS
to
this
ac-
DunnfM
best time
more dem;
If you wg
erty widf
Co., at A<
Journal.*
Re-
tbe
St
Lines, The Cotton
approximately $5,(
next twelve month
formation received
agent here.
washingI
County, Texas
210,551 accoa
ment today b|
This is an inei
per cent.
yon
••
are in-
work.
I, Sept,
mghter
Vilson,
stately
Me- -s
nptis
I
(
11 p* -------
iBsbestles much
FOUND—A pi
iy-J
Larry SeatnonK
R. Watkins,
irer, or
la FJls.
lonvention
is amount
is certainly a reflec-!
Itate of Texas and
terially increased, par-
le foregoing, large
: by the Company
roadbed, etc., the
resumed since
the railroads were
ELLWOOD
—When John
beater, was t«
by a jury of I
woods about I
three days, ad
caid. He was]
who persuade!
He pleaded ■
draw her chad
Kincaid hM
or drinking da
ridge Is here and he tained absi
Also, his able, but t
have put in an ap-, vertising, |
of Mr. J. W. Conder
"hurs. afternoon. Ser-
lucted at the t’resby-
was
iniger has gone
to visit relatives.
gxt few months is the
■11 a farm as there is
gt this time of year.
L list your prop
ntiL Investment
Commerce
d&wtf.
Mrs. Flor
1 Vernon, Te:
are
return.
Make your
i some folks
what
Mayor Jose
ed Saturday
Policeman Al
of billboards find posters, to enforce
a new ordinatice recently passed by
the city.
Some time ago a complaint
i the interest of I
1 and devoted to t
ing the younger
' principles expoum
j and Jackson.”
A. N. Hoosieri
i bale of long st!
for the sum of $1
' er of Mrs. C. S.j
DALLAS, T
as has received
tion in cabind
the hands of |
tion than ann
it is greatly ■
that the the J
has shared i
al appointm
able fund t<
paign Cornu
Democratic
ing to J. A
of the Texi
eratic Natie
tee.
While
work.
The new ballastryrogram calls for
$500,000.
structures,
fe has been no
State of Texas,
opinion that
| as possible should
list in the election
Bevelt.
20.—Miss
of Secre-
today an-
lidacy for Congress
mnsylvania district,
tented that district
i a member of the
The East T
College opened,
year Tuesday, '.!
exceed the gid
year. This p
counted for wj
pects are const*
--
NEW TEACHERS
tf.
AT THE COLLEGE
to announcement1 by Bob
Ration manager of
pn, Saturday,
as
according
WASHING!,
Agnes Wilson,
a. tary of Labor
rmunced her ct
from the 15th
Her father ref
before he becg
cabinet.
and interment
lound cemetery.
Among Those Present.
pmen he hid in
[mile from here
(rding to Mrs.
pund by his children,
■him to return home.'
h his wife to with-
e and she agreed,
gone without eating
mg his flight.
are |
together!
like oil j
©heCammerce JounuiE.
while he is away Jon
Plummer has taQ
place. Miss Hod
place of Mrs. WU
in the reading «•
Cashman and MjBs
he new to some/wl
steal education, Mi<
will take chargelol
ministration div*k
These new tqwehers are experts in
their several sipjects and they are
making friends Rapidly.
BILLBOARDS
(e Gives Feer
1 of Reducing
living.
ITY, Ta., Sept.
incaid, alleged wife
he was to be tried
the
for
Kin-
Sec re
to J. A.
Temporary
|id the
(tee in perpetuating a
administration, accord-
jiemp, State Chairman
Branch of the Demo-
ll Campaign Commit-
COMMERCE, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920
L I. 8/ N. COLEEG
^formation tonight did
■arrant any great an-
; sugar and rice cops
■ of the state in the
hurricane. Reports of
knage at Morgan City
■ef here that the hurri-
iof great intensity and
| perceptibly by the
M the coast. Residents
b bordering on the
■ed here tqpiay said no
■th had been received
all necessary precau-
taken before the
lohnnie! Miss Vir)
Miss Sims came in i
only one face was
FT. WORTH, Texas, Sept. 18.—
'After twenty-four hours’ delibera-
tion the jury returned a verdict of
guilty of murd«r in the Wallace
Smith case and assessed punishment
at thirty-five years in the peniten-
tiary. The ca* will be
was ' ba
.mothers
NEW ORI
the passing <
into the intel
point just wedt of
Atchafalava fiber
City, railroa^Jwi
4»ber public ^arv
the vicinity <* N<
were I ‘ ’
vice to near qormal
More than a thousand telephones
-Tioeder here tonight, tele-
nuflkiication other than
vrti to the larger cities
aiijt impossible and rail-
party composed of
[, P. M. Green,
Mack 1
McDaniel
returned
CENSORED
|Bon on C ole's
Sept. 27, 28. 29.
re Co. d231.
Special D<^
Hot Blast Rai
Ii “The Fly Cop.”I — The New Fui
lulf Coast what sesm-
• a series of gales dis-
i the tropical distur-
>d bridges, traction
caused considerable
ig villages.
craft, held at Port
warning, steamed to
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20.—When
Captain Newton ®est, commanding a
company of MaWnes at the Pearl
Harbor naval sMtion in Honolulu,
read that Privafl C. R. Wurst had
been declared bdf Brig. Gen. Smed-
ley D. Butlc: dB the smartest sea-
soldier at QuanGco, Va., he imme-
diately filled outja requisition blank
for Wurst. Th^ form followed, al-
though not stridtly according to
General Hoyle, nsu-i : “It is request-
ed that Wurst hc^put in Best’s com-
pany.” Now it 4s up to Wurst
whether he w ant* to serve a few
thousand miles ffbm his home in
Elizabeth, N. J. (jut in Honolulu the
ukeleles are tuning up to the re-
frain, “The Wugst is yet to come.”
Bsxas, Sept. 23.—Tex- Democratic
■ greater representa-1
I appointments, and at
ie national administra-;
Lther single state, and-
rnatter of appreciation ernor James M. '
Itate of Texas, which) today, named
munificently in nation- which the high cq
is, should raise a suit- reduced and thej
National Cam- ed. He suggests
islation: First, j
porations engag*
merce to preves
it; a law limitil
w hich goods nigfi
storage; third ■
the price at wflt
placed in stor^L
them; fourth,£
all goods for
marked with
er. He stal
since the beg
increased ths)
000,000 a y<
average, whis
ily in the UnMed States pays an av-
erage of $301 annually for necessi-
ties of life iwre than each family
paid before the war.
E Sept. 20.—Gov
fix, speaking her -
■ ur methods b/
t of living could b ■
profiteers elimina
| the following leg
I law licensing cur-
in interstate com-
unreasonable pro ’-
the period during
be kept in eold
law requiring that
:h all goods were
be marked upon
law providing that
Itcrstate commerce be
be price of the produc-
n that corporations,
Ining of the war, have
■ profits by $5,000,-
[T above the pre-war
means that each fam-
ed States pays an
DALLAS
if CUgksville sold .
'leJF’tton recently
JIT He is a broth- i
rayes of this city.
The building
crowded with
and friends I
rapidly,
times.
Of course, t
i of I ed and the iro^t popular leader
1920) all is L. D. I
and' Fish fighter,
bo driven awi
to drive him c
Pleasant and Texar-] classes under
Does
Ig Seay of the same I
gentle little friend.;
re’l, look ’em up!
forms
will
again.
Rubarth said
announces
prices:
Touring car, old
new price, $60<Ji.73.
Roadster old yrice $726.48.
27 Western Indemni- price $559.88.
,11 checks should
I as
Commerce
most
undertaken within Mu
by any Soulhwestelfn
::__jS>
than $l,000.®fto for new rails
about $1,250^^0 for new loco-
‘ “ f of twenty-
nn type engines
1 to
be delivered until fk entire lot is in
service. The unitocedented busi-
ness being handled between St.
Louis, Memphis a*d Southwestern
points made ned^gsary additional
motive power. It U contemplated to
idening cuts and
of
can't run FratA off.
Big Zinnecnr
mer’s work ,
Mt. Pleasant ((links that he'll try
again.
Speaking o® I
you seen the Moi
Morris has ^brought
brothers withnni
behave. HonW
tunate Sophs J> T
that good-looBjnji
place, with I
Badt? No!
You’ll like 'e«
Alas! PooBji
ginia Seay a^
yesterday, aii* <
hunted in vaiK
Mrs. JoniiiK will be found
' Miss Malnoe ■
if Charley wfi
The two 4
Bakers are wfi
dent Bentley*
arrived in chfi
brother, J. W1
fame.
Archie Pari
grin, is here, I
Workman moi
certain little J
her sister Sun!
quota
Mr.
as
be
of
To this end the
organized and an ef-
secure active workers
County chairmen
carte-blanche to
|ethods they may adopt
■on of funds.
geiy $50,000 was pledg-
porth during the State
by various
according
1
surf
raised to as
Cox and Rd
state is ben
fort made J
in every cd
have been j
pursue any 1
in the colle|
Approxinl
ed at Fort j
Democratic
counties. T
| to Mr. Kenk
tion on th.- Fl
should be nwi
ticualarly inwiew of the favors that
have come to^Texas from administra-
I tion hands. ®
It is also joi
Kemp that Tv'
fered imnieaMr;
The students a^E. T. will meet. n,r the faCTT the Democratic ad-
several new instructors this year.
Mr. Ray has take^Mr. Lutz's place,
leave. t~'.
fen Mr. Phillips’)
ysrt 11 tnLr. 4 L>
^fields, nee Allen, |
ipartment. Coach
I Glutenburg will
■ho report for phy-
id M rs. ----------
>f the business ad-
rion.
were out of
graphic col
by trunk wii
was practic;
road schedul* were revised to meet
conditions oqrfle necessary by weak-
ened bridg«f[*nd washed out road
beds.
Available »f
not seem t4. p1
xiety regarding
in that sectf
path of the
only minor j
led to the b(
cane was nfe
had weaker*
time it reec^
of the pans]
Gulf who afl
reports of 4
And apparenl
Crons had bs
storm struck
Along the
ed to have bi
connected w
bance damr
equipment a
alarm in fisl
Ail outbuayid
Eails by stkirni
sea today, n 1
ML
GalvestefilRefugees Refers.
GALVESTON. Sept. 23.—Refugees
who formed Heng queues yesterday
around in terirb 1
tions and fofegi
going tra naj*
cane bore <
coast, today
back into tl
Dicinson t
About 6.000
terday and I
the storm's 1
to the Lou nil
ally comudep
L Stores shl
'goods out o|
preparation /or the
were arranglig windows and
tecs and repkf,nlt plate-glass
rors. All industry throughout
city had res'
along the 1
to see "her” Wi
Paul BledMM
Thelma ilrkiAs
she is leaving-,jier sister here.
Pitts is hek
French and <Ewl
tie more hiftdSy
what Captain I*'
ball eleven W*
“Toughy” benight up the Fite
brothers of •Cges county while Bar-
ber and Wofnziek of the same coun-
ty are on hgnd| They are all big
men, but Nfelsbn says
from Cass cgugty is big.
McKenzie law M. I. Pigg are as
chummy as brothers, but they seem
to be very brny. Bill Sherrill is
still interested Jin "Bees,” but you
can’t always aopietimes tell.
The local High School has sent its
quota and the Tracing School
large number. v ;
th# first to be mention-
r of
Iwsonj, the veteran
The old boy just can’t
aj$, besides who wants
■ >fC Do vou have anv
gm?
anybfegy fail to know
“Toughy”? It'doesn't seem possible
, but we will ____
has to do wit)i permanent roadbed) ing that he is the boy who didn’t filed with the mayor charging
improvements, .such a bank-widening
and drainage. A Many thousands of
dollars will be’gpent in effect prop-
er draiaage, ngfeny miles of tile be-
ing placed to accomplish cross drain-
ing.
The heavies^ freight business in
the history of the road ts now being
handled by thg Cotton Belt Lines,
according to operating reports. It is
said that the aim of the management wouldn't be but he is.
.---1— M-----1------the most J4. ..
rail-
OPENED TUESDAY
and campus
lany familiar faces,!
' getting
It sufcly looks
)N. Sept. 21.—Dallas
has a population of
ng to an announce-
the Census Bureau,
ase of 74,803 or 55.1
F. Nichols announc-
t he had appointed
1 Horton as censor
queues
■an and railway sta-
J‘ [ht for places on out-
«J*a the tropical hurri-
dfea n upon the Texas
_7^ere slowly trickling
t0k city from Houston,
and other mainland cities.
*> people left the city yes-
lipt night. Reassured by
Merve late last night in-
’ “ha coast, people gener-
li all danger past,
h yesterday moved all
their ground floors in
storm today
coun-
mir-
the
sujhed normal work; while
winter front the work of
loading and dtochargmg cargoes pro-
ceeded as uafeal.
Shipping dreies tonight consider-
ed the Gulf safe for vessels. Eight
ships departed and three arrived in
port today.
The weather bureau here received
orders from Washington today
take down all storm warnings.
expenditures of About
Betterments to el^Bting
such as bridges, tfebttles and culverts
will involve an edknditure of ap-
proximately $459,#60. while placing
of additional and side-tracks
will cost more th*n $300,000. Con-
siderably more t$|pr $170,000 will
be used in makip^ additions to and
i&r station facilities,
Mkp buildings, etc.
, ,!yp.000 has been as-
signed to impro^ng the condition of
existing equipmigfet and providing
new freight car*v
In addition tuiAi.
sums will be spfent
on maintenance,*t>
management hang
March, 1st. wh4» ’
relinquished by'the Government, its
brood and libeial policy of maintain-
ing its property, in contrast with
curtailments dufeing Federal control.
Among the largest maintenance
items is that of ballast, contracts
having been infedv for the delivery
of about $750jBO0 yards of washed
gravel.
Contracts have just been made for
21,000 tons of *eel rail at a cost of
more than SljpOO.OOO. This steel
will be used in Allaying 157 miles of
track with hes^fler steel. Plans for
the relaying <rf about 94 miles
heavier rail doting the year
have progressqd satisfactorialy
much of this Oprs will be completed |
on time. The work now under way!
is between Mt^. Pleasant znd Texar
kana, in Texas'-aml between Camden
and Pine Bluffi in Arkansas.
Much of th* betterment program
published in)
will
ministration
' torn being d
Miss un<4 tha$£j>ermitted the market- Ford cars
1 as well as their fi-
lanics might have oc-
isistance rendered the
by the Federal
1 paralleled by
Sank assistance,
sen urged numerous
rd funds at once to
I the National*} headquarter.. Tele-
grams and let^i
I <'f the issue hve come from various
sources. Whtli Texas ha; been fad-
ing to forwali funds, headquarters
reports, otherjstates are sending in
contributions >that proportionately
i are far largM than those pledged
I thus far to tia fund at the State
convention. £'exas
are located at
ty Building. All checks should be
sent to the headquarters, made pay-
able to Royalf
tary and Treal
Kemp at Wiehl
receipts will be issued.
Carrying out plan ■ designed te
improve transportation facilities, the
Louis Southeastern Railway
iZ.Belt, will spend
liu.OOO within the
ia according to in-
i-4»y Jack Jordan,
The new work t|i'Tww under way,
and is said to be ofer of if not the
extensive betttrment programs
e last few years
line. Among
the large items of^sxpenditures are
more
and
motives. The deliwi
one large conaolida&>n
has begun and pow«w will continue
Beas State Normal!
<for the new school
fThe boys seem
I in numbers
penomenal is
len the athletic pros-
lered. There is much
enthusiasm ovfer the athletic outlook
and much < !a» spirit pervades the
campus. H<M$ver. the Freshmen
will have it fell their way in numb-
ers this yea^since about a third of
those registi ' „ --
a good^iany of the others to
the second ,
of these y
ed banterii
surprise am
heard on al
friends, am
The aftai
watching tl
registering
* us again and Prvsi-
kf the Glee Club has
Me of his sister and
Kt, also of Glee Club
Ifer. the boy with the
rand he and Jerry taining
Med (?) out to see a same by idei
■burn haired girl and for this ad —
F
i
w.
.... The!
Simpson. [
p, Jim McDaniel and
ird returned Monday a
ays fishing trip on Ter-
Phey report a fine time
(toes and lots of fish.
(lever saw fish
■s of day and
IP
DETROIT, Sfept. 21.—Henry Ford
today announced a 31 per cent cut
in the price of Ford cars, trucks and
tractors. The reduction, which he
declared was 4o pre-war levels,
amounts to an average of $130
and $95 to $180
trucks and trafekors.
“The war is jpver and it
high prices wefee
He said there $ri'
wages. The rad.
effect immediate!
that the Ford -company has
than 146,000 unfilled orders,
mobile authorities in Detroit tonight
declared Ford* reduction probably
would cause a fieneral slash in auto-
mobile prices. ?•
The Drake Sfotor Co. of this city
thd following
the Lions, iCal
The pubii^ i
out and seen
work in thalt
ing manner, j Then to watch them
get Burleson'Jon Oct. 2. at the Park.
The studfeits of the East Texas
State Norma College need not be)
told that they are more than wel-
come to Commerce. Their bright
faces are always missed when they
go away, and the citizens are al-
ways glad when they return. We
nre glad you are here,
selves at home, and
say, “if you don’t I
want, ask for it.”
epen to you and the people
terested in you and your
"May you have a happy and profit-
ab'e year’s Work with us.”
of > dinance w;
be demeanor for
Of tion to exl
pictured.
You) Mayor 1
local show* have done
. _’“j tdwrevent abuses
i Slat they are
1® high class pictures here.
•«nd frame advertising in I
Wirgeiy the result of care-
>• declared, and hereafter
qf will censor billboards
Maph frames to see that i
■n objectionable nature
c®—Greenville Herald.
/--
Good Fishing Luck.
’ —
A fishingf
M. Matting!'
Hill, Hulett Binox,
with Dee Wheatld
tthe library. Wonder T. J. Hubla
| join the Fish? i from a few I
prkmans and the two ry's Lake. 1
—few mosql
In fact they I
bite better a' ....
night than un^his
r is in from a sum- possible t
(alias, and Blevins of kind, and
t us ■ nothing bi
I The poster
Mt. Pleasant, "have! point were-
>ur Hood brothers?”) lessness, hi
his twin Mr. Hortol
lim to make Homer and ^hotog
is one of the unfor- nothing of
'.Tnen, have you seen is exhibited
is time
■S over,” said Ford,
till be no change in
luced prices go into
.—-ly, despite the fact
^company has more
Auto-
.wF_ i
Refugees Fra* Threatened Points
Re**** Hoatfe and Business is
\^lg Up Again
Ins, Sept. 23.—With
(he tropical hurricane
$ of Louisiana from a
»f the mouth of the
- and near Morgan
'ire companies and
rice corporations in
, New Orleans tonight
making efforts to restore ser-
wse in our car con-
rOwner may have
jft’ing it and paying
Mrs J. B. Sharp.
was
the
use of sugljgstive pictures and post-
ers in advertising a local motion pic-
ture show. | The show in itself con-
itely nothing objection-
■ poster and frame ad-
was said, did. An or-
passed making it a mis-
any person or corpora-
iMbit obscene or suggestive
Jr-wr MMtre ■ - •
ifkhols declared that the
the utmost
of this!
bringing
}t(kr prep, the allied class
flMngsters. Good natur-
n* and exclamations of
irf; pleasure are to be
likides as friends meet
>4" rival factions mingle,
noon was devoted to
hg football squad, or in
Mte arrivals. It is go-
ing to be artery successful year for
dl indications are true,
is welcome to come
the pigskin pushers
graceful and entranc-
Then to watch
Nash and Massey are looking
'hings over in Jompelition with the
Jones brothersC
' Big Bigg»W' joined “Ted Big-
gahs" here offer a little run down
ie think).
says she didn’t, but
)s says she did, and
Trucks old ptoce
price $601.53. >
Coupe old pri<:e
price $851.43.
Sedan old price
price $903.49.
Tractor old price
price $852.10.
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FT. WORTH. Sept. 21.—A week-
ly newspaper edifc-.i and published
by Joseph WeldoR Bailey will be es-
tablished in Texas Nov. 1, according
to announcement' by Bob Barker,
business and cireal
the new publicaqr
The paper wilHbe known as the
I Democratic RevBw, according to
Barker, and will > be published “in
t* true Democracy
tM cause of return-
r generation to the
nAd by Jefferson
The paper will L'
Fort Worth and Bfeaiiquarters
be established het*#
Senator Dailey ■ now in Wash-
ington but will ret*rn about Oct. 1
and will reside at fiLllas. where he
will practice law '
-
$455 FOR BAI
for a little more
■1 Morrison for a lit-
|T, while we all know) a^j^ned
lingleton of the hoof-| Kemp is 0<gthe
large a
tinted out by Mr.
ixas would have suf-
irably had it not been
Bat prevented the bot-
JBen out of their mar-;
Mr. Phillips’ 1 inK of the CWS
will take the ™ncing when^ta
curred. The'
cotton growe]
serve system
Federal Land
Texas has
times to for
National headquarter..
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Hart, Sterling. The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1920, newspaper, September 24, 1920; Commerce, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1359765/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .