The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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and Proprietor.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.
Obituaries, resolutions, cards of thanks
and other matter not "news" will be
charged for at the rate of 5c per line.
Parties ordering advertising or printing
for societies, churches, committees or or-
r nations of any kind will, in all cases,
held personally responsible for the
payment of the bill.
reactionaries made a very poor ¡
showing. Even Judge Parker, the {
temporary chairman, claimed to be!
a progressive. The democrat who I
is not now a progressive is out of I
harmony with the majority of his i
party.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The following announcements for
office are subject to the democratic
primary to be held in July:
For District Judge
John S. Prince
Of Henderson County
A. A. Aldrich .
Of Houston County
For State Senator
W. J. Townsend, Jr.
of Angelina County
For County Clerk
O. C. Goodwin
G. R. Murchison
.Nat E. Allbright
For County Treasurer
Ney Sheridan
W. H. Bayne
For Sheriff
A. W. Phillips
J. C. Lacy
For Tax Collector
George Denny
James J. Cook
Ike Lansford
S. S. (Steve) Ratcliff, Jr.
A. S. Moore
H. I. (Ollie) Luce
Samuel R. Knox
For County Judge
E. Winfree
The nomination of Woodrow Wil-
son by the national democratic con-
vention is perfectly satisfactory to
a majority of the democrats of Tex- {
as. Texas went strong for Wilson |
and in this Texas set the pace for |
the national democracy. The Texas
delegation had much to do with the
selection of. Woodrow Wilson fori
the presidential nomination.
Unloaded
C. M. Ellis
For District Clerk
John D. Morgan
J. D. (Joe) Sallas
For County Attorney
B. F. Dent
For Representative
Nat Patton
J. R Luce
Dr. J. B. Smith
W. G. Creath
For Tax Assessor
John F3K*
Hugh English
-For County Superintendent
G.V. Lollar %
J. F. Mangum
For Commissioner Precinct No. 1
W. H. Wall
For Commissioner Precinct No. 2
Chas. Long
R A. (Bob) Parker
For Commissioner Precinct No. 3
J. T. (Tom) Knox
John L Straughan
Fór Commissioner Precinct No. 4
C. B. Isbell
J. D. (Dick) John
M. B. Matchett
G. H. Bayne
For Justice Peace Precinct No. 1
E. M. Callier
N. B. Barbee
For Justice Peace Precinct No. 6
J. G. Webb
For Constable Precinct No. 1
R J. (Bob) Spence
A. B. (Albert) Smith
For Constable Precinct No. 6
Will AUee
Hie city is without Water, but it
will be for only a few days. Hold
your patience.
The Courier editor has been im-j
pressed lately with the neglect or
lack of provision for the entertain-
ment of the young people of the J
town. Budding womanhood and
young manhood will not be con-1
tent with the dry social affairs that [
may appeal to older and maturerl
minds. Young folks full of life will j
not be satisfied with sitting through j
the tedious forms of social diver-
sion that appeal to the more serious j
minded. There is not enough activ-
ity in this kind of entertainment i
for them. Their vigorous natures I
demand such forms of entertain-
ment as are provided in lawn tennis,
the different ball games, riding,
swimming, rowing and dancing. [
Wv have heard a great deal saidi
lately against the latter form of
social amusement. There are very
few if any of us who do not, when [
we hear lively music, want to keep
step to it. There can be nothing
wrong in that and there can be
nothing wrong in the real enjoyment
of music. There can be nothing wrong
in yielding to the fullest enjoyment
—giving one's self over to the
rhythm and melody of the music
for the time being and indulging in
the artistic step. If so, then popu-
lar music in itself is wrong. If pop-
ular music is to be accepted , and
permitted, then we do not see why
anyv harm should come, with the
proper safeguard, from the accepted
forms of dancing among young peo-
ple. In the selection of the proper
company lies the safeguard. No
parent should sanction his daughter
or son attending a dance patronized
by people who would not be wel-
comed into the home under any and
all circumstances, and no parent
should want his daughter or son to
engage in any of the other social
diversions with people whom she or
he could not safely dance with.
It is all in the company a boy or
girl keeps. If the company is
wholesome, the amusement is whole-
some; if the company is bad, the
amusement is bad. Dancing is a
form of social amusement about
which more suggestion of evil
comes from the outside than from
within.
A Car of
Blacksmith
Ask Us for Prices
Big Stock Hay Ties
Smith Hardware
Company
We are glad to see cement walks
being laid in this city. Do not let
the good work stop.
There is much rejoicing over Tex-
as in the selection of Woodrow Wil-
son as the democfatic candidate for
the presidency.
The democrg|te national platform
tressive. The
is progressive.
candidate was
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first selected, measured and weighed,
and the platform built to hold the
candidate.
Woodrow Wilson's nomination, as
* by the telegraph reports
f afternoon, as the standard
bearer of the national democracy,
progressive democracy
is in the ascendency. The national
was controlled from the
beginning by the progressives. The
Two Remarkable Funerals.
For the Crockett Courier.
Recently two remarkable colored
women in Crockett passed away and
their bodies rest in the portion of
the cemetery allotted to the colored
population. About the latter part
of May, Maria Green died at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. .A. R.
French. She had been a faithful
servant in that family for about
twenty or twenty-five years. As
she had often ministered to that
family in their sickness, so they did
not allow her to lack for any proper
attention in her prolonged sickness
—Mrs. French herself, often with
her own hands, ministering to her.
Maria's early life was spent in Vir-
ginia. She came to Crockett with
Dr. Webb's family, and was blessed
in receiving religious instruction in
that family. She was for many
years a faithful member Of the col-
ored Presbyterian church, but often
gave to the white church. She had
saved out of her earnings property
worth five or six hundred dollars.
After giving a portion to her rela-
tives, she gave the most of her
property to sustain the Congo Pres-
byterian mission in Africa. -
Another Maria has just passed
away at the home of Mrs. D. A.
Nunn. This Maria was brought to
Crockett in 1863 as a slave belong-
ing to the Dorsey family who
refugeed to this country from Louis-
iana. It was the Mrs. Dorsey of
that family who afterwards gave
her beautiful home, "Beauvoir," to
President Jefferson Davis. After
the war, when the other servants of
the Dorsey family returned to'Lou-
isiana, this Mariá chose to stay
with the Nunn family and so re-
mained with the family forty-seven
years, a faithful, upright servant, a
member of the Methodist church.
Colonel Nunn told her that she
should be cared for in her old age.
In her late sickness Mrs. Nunn gave
her much personal attention, and
provided a nice funeral and burial
At Mrs. Nunn's request, Rev. S. F.
Tenney conducted the funeral ser-
vices, the coffin resting on the back
gallery of the Nunn residence, and
a large number of both white and
colored persons being present. Mrs.
Nunn and a number of her white
friends followed the remains to
their burial place.
While slavery had much evil con-
nected with it, yet there was much
good in the wonderful providence of
God that grew out of it, such as the
wonderful advancement in intelli-
gence and Christianity of the colored
race, far above the degraded condi-
tion of the negro race in their
original home in Africa. And there
have been many .illustrations, such
as the two cases I have mentioned,
of the beautiful and lasting ties be-
tween masters and servants.
S. F. Tenney.
If you feel "blue," "no account,
lazy, you need a good cleaning out
Herbine is the right thing for that
purpose. It stimulates the liver,
tones up the stomach and purifies
the bowels. Price 50c. Sold by I.
W. Sweet
Four National Drinks.
It is a significant fact that man,
in his search for wholesome bever-!
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should have hit upon four
tinued use cause any chronic form
of illness."
To users of coffee, tea, cocoa and
Coca-Cola this authoritative testi-
,. , , . ¡ mony will prove reassuring, for it is
materials all of which owe their conclusive evidence that the caf-
virtues to the presence of the same ¡ feine beverages are not only not
active principle, namely, caffeine, harmful, but are positively ben-
These are tea, coffee, cocoav and eficial. They act, as it were, as a
Coca-Cola. These four may be
properly described as "The cup that
cheers but does not inebriate." By
instinct or by ingenuity man seems
to have searched out and pressed
into service every available caffeine
containing plant.
Dr. Oscar Schmeideberg of Strass-
burg, Germany, recognized as the
leading pharmacologist of the world,
describes caffeine as "A means of
refreshing bodily and mental activi-
ty." He says, "This character of
caffeine action makes plain that
these food materials do not injure
the organism by the caffeine con-
tent and especially do not by con-
lubricant for the nervous system,
and enable the nerves to do their
work more easily.
Write to the Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, Ga., for new booklet telling
of Coca-Cola vindication at Chatta-
nooga. Free for the asking.
Happiest Girl in Lincoln.
A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes, "I had
been ailing for some time with
chronic constipation and stomach
trouble. I began taking Chamber-
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
and in three days I was able to be
up and got better right along. I am
the proudest girl in Lincoln to find
such a good medicine." For sale by
all dealers.
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The Boys
Know It.
You can safely follow them to
our fountain. Their taste is
most sensitive. They know
"we make 'em right." Plenty
of ice is used and the materials
are properly blended to make
any of the
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lee Cold Delicious Drinks."
In addition to these things it is cleanliness that Teally
makes our fountain so popular.
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Aiken, W. W. The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1912, newspaper, July 4, 1912; Crockett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177666/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.