The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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THE THIRD
Lovelady, WeMoa ul Other Towai Vis-
ited—Matic, Fkwer Preseatatloa at
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One car was added to the fifteen
that made the first day's trip and
that made the full second day's trip
for die trip on the third day, Thurs-
day. The start with sixteen cars
for Lovelady was on time, and
Lovelady was reached ahead of
time, where a hearty welcome was
in store. The Lovelady band, nbted
for its good music, led in the wel-
coming. Mayor Young, from an
automobile, made a speech
along the lines as at other places.
When he had finished, Miss Verne
Monday, in that charming and
graceful manner that is always hers,
mounted the speaker's automobile
and presented Mayor Young, in be-
half of the people of Ijpvelady, a
large and beautiful bouquet of
flowers. When Mayor Young had
expressed the gratitude of the ex-
cursionists for such a handsome re-
ception, County Attorney B. F. Dent,
Who formerly lived at Lovelady,
was called on for a speech. Mr.
Pent spoke of the unity of action
thát should lie with the people of
lovelady and Crockett in every
Worthy effort to develop their hofae
county. He closed by saying that
he hoped to see the day when the
two towns WQjild.be linked together
In a sandbed
near Shiloh one of the cars was put
out of commission and had to be
towed in, its passengers dividing up
in other cars. This car, however,
was repaired at night and went out
on the trip the next day. Crops
are good, but corn is needing rain.
THE LAST LEG OF THE
EXCURSION A. GOOD ONE.
Eathasiasu Overrode Superrtitio —Fri-
day, tike Tklrteeatk, He Herios Day
for the Crockett Booster Buck
The last day of the Crockett trade
excursion, of which there were four,
was Friday, the thirteenth. So en-
thusiastic was the booster bunch
that no attention was paid to the
hoodoo number. Two new cars
were in this day's trip, increasing
the number to eighteen, the largest
of any day. The bunch left Crock-
ett blowing horns, waiving banners
and singing trade hallelujahs, with
Porter Springs as the first stop.
These eighteen automobiles carried
upward of ninety business men.
At Porter Springs a large and enthu-
siastic crowd of men, women and
children met the excursionists with
h hurrah for Houston county. After
a short speech by Mayor Yoüng of
Crockett, in which he called atten-
tion to a few of the possibilities of
Houston county in particular and
East Texas in general, the good la-
dies of Porter Springs served to the
booster bunch some cream and cake
of the most delicious kind, after
which each booster was pre-
sented with a bouquet of cape jes-
samines by a bevy of young girls.
Dr. W. W. Latham responded to the
mayor's speech with an address of
welcome, after which the little girls
sang a welcome and the band again
played. The reception was held in
front of the public school building.
Trades day, June 21, and the
Houston county fair dates, Septem-
ber 30 to October 3, were advertised
cotton. Coming out of the river
valley one ear became disabled and
had to be left. The return trip was
made by way of Creek, where the
usual stop Was made and the usual
greetings exchanged. In a sand
bedi thirteen miles from Crockett,
on Friday, the 13th, another car
went to the bad and had to be left
Sixteen cars were able to get back
to town on their own power.
It was a wonderful and a memo-
rable trip, combining educational,
business and pleasure features. It
afforded an opportunity for the
city's business men to get better
acquainted with sections of their
home county that they knew little
about and to get better acquainted
with each other. The opportunity
for observing individual character
and characteristics was unlimited.
by a hard road and as one throughout the trip. The next stop
city. He admonished the Lovelady Iwa8 Ash, surrounded by a fertile
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people to first patronee their home
merchants, but if there was any-
thing their home merchants did not
have which they wanted and
needed, he invited them to send to
Crockett, their county seat, for it
and not to some town out of their
home county. Sam Sharp, once a
citizen of Crockett, but now of
Lovelady, happily joined in the sen-
timents already so nobly expressed.
The Lovelady band played again
and the excursionists departed for
Antioch, where a short stop was
made as at other places. The next
town was Weldon, on the new rail-
road from Trinity, the Beaumont v&
Gteat Northern, recently bought by
the Katy and to be extended across
the river to Midway in Madison
county. Weldon is five miles from
Trinity river and at the lower edge
of Nevil's prairie, across which it is
seven miles. Three miles from
Weldon lies the famous Eastham
farm with its thousands of fertile
cultivated acres, as level as the
and as- black as your black
hat. Until last year this farm was
worked exclusively by convicts and
the prison house is there yet. The
farm is now worked by free labor
and many new tenant houses have
been built Under the guidance of
the manager, W. A. Eastham, the
automobile excursionists were pilot-
ed over the farm, good roads inter-
secting broad acres at convenient
diBtances. There is no richer land
on earth than this Trinity bottom
is so much of it that
the ocean. Lunch was
Weldon depot plat-
excursionists, and after
business men in their
concert by the Booster
was off for Volga
and thence
crowd
m
fanning country. A large crowd
was present to welcome the boos-
ters and the usual program was
carried out From here the excur-
sionists headed for the Big Four
river farm, owned by Daniel & Bur-
tom, Arch Baker and ¿John Mark-
ham. After a short run, led by I.
A. Danial in the pilot car, ,the boos-
ter bunch was brought to a halt in
the midst of a thousand acre block
of as fine cotton as the world can
produce—full of blooms and bolls,
and all showing signs of scientific
farming. Mr. Markham of the firm
is in charge of the plantation.
Leaving the Big Four plantation,
the next stop was for dinner at
Blue Lake, on the adjoining planta-
tion of H. J. Arledge. Here a bar-
becue dinner was in waiting for the
bunch, but it didn't wait long. You
-should worry about what that crowd
of hungry boosters did for that bar-
becued mutton and pork! This
dinner was prepared and served by
the negro hands who gave it all the
Election Order.
Whereas, the City Council of the
City of Crockett, Texas, deems it
advisable to issue bonds of 'said
City for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned.
Therefore, it is hereby ordered by
the City Council of said City that
an election be held on the 22nd
day of July, 1913, at which election
the following proposition will be
submitted:
Shall the City Council of the City
of Crockett, Texas, be authorized to
issue the bonds of said City in the
sum of Eighteen thousand ($18,000)
Dollars, payable in forty years after
date, bearing interest at the rate of
five per cent per annum, payable
semi-annully, with option of redeem-
ing said bonds at any time after
ten years from date thereof, and to
levy a tax sufficient to pay the in-
terest of said bonds and create a
sinking fund sufficient to redeem
them at maturity, for the purpose
of extending and completing the
water works system in said City of
Crockett
Said election shall be held at the
voting box in the southeast corner
of the Court House in said City of
Crockett and James Langston is
hereby appointed manager of said
election, and he is hereby -author-
ized to select two judges and two
clerks.
Said election shall he held under
the provisions of Chapter 149 Acts
of the Twenty-Sixth Legislature,
Laws 1899, and only qualified vot-
ers, who are property tax payers of
said City, shall be allowed to vote,
and all voters, desiring to support
the proposition to issue bonds shall
have printed on their ballots "For
the Issuance of Bonds," and those
opposed shall have printed on their
ballots the words "Against the Is-
suance of Bonds." The manner of
holding said election shall be gov-
erned by the laws of the State regu-
lating general elections.
A copy of this order, signed by
the mayor of said City, shall^ serve
as a proper notice of said election,
and the mayor is directed to cause
notice of the election to be posted
up at the places designated for hold-
ing said election at least thirty days
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i t ^ u.- i * Prior to the date of said election,
earmarks of the oUta^e pUmtaüon md (o ^ fls required
bavbecrue. Led by Mr. Arledge in
his car, beautiful Blue Lake was
left behind and fifteen hundred
acres of corn and cottbn, as fine as
grows, traversed by the excursion-
ists. These plantations are all in
the black land and level and the
crops in a high state of cultivation.
Out of this farm we passed through
the Cowherd & Rucker plantation,
where the corn and cotton is as
good as the best, passing on the
way the pretty lake home of L. JD.
Rogers at Patterson Lake. Next
was the two thousand acre planta-
tion of George Murray, where there
is one cotton field of seventeen
hundred acres, level and black.
From here the excursionists turned
homeward through the river valley
farm of W. B. Cochran, viewing on
either side the finest of corn and
White Wile
Warner
The ring with the guarantee—the best
known set ring in America. We have
just received an assortment of the new-
est and best creations.
Also a nice assortment of Vanities in
Sterling and German Silver—fashion's
latest fad.
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The McLean Drug: Company
The Rexall Store
To Hike This City Her Home.
Little Mabel McFadden, six years
old and bright and amiable, came
all the way from Battle Creek,
Michigan, by herself to make her
home with the family of Dr. R. M.
Hamlin of this city. Little Mabel
was formerly adopted by Bernarr
McFadden, the unquestioned lead*
ing physical culturist of the worlcí,
who unexpectedly had to go to
England for an indefinite length of
time and could not take the child
with him.
Snake Editor Gets Busy.
Allen Chatman, a negro living
near Lake creek, south of Arbor, is
reported to have killed a monster
rattlesnake Saturday. The snake
measured 6 feet 11H inches, had
22 rattlers and a button and fangs
% of an inch long. It was killed
with a shotgun.
Take Herbine for all disturbances
in the bowela. It purifies the bowel
channels, promotes regular move-
ments and makes you feel bright,
vigorous and cheerful Price 50c.
Sold by I. W. Sweet.—Adv.
by law. J. W. Young,
Mayor of City of Crockett, Texas.
The State of Texas,
County ofHouston: "
I, J. Valentine, city secretary of
the City of Crockett, Texas, hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of an election or-
der passed by the City Council of
the City of Crockett Texas, on the
9th day of June, 1913, at a regular
meeting of said council, a quorum
being present, which order is of
record on pages 81, 82 and 83 of
Book B of the minutes of said City
Council, which said minutes have
been duly signed by the mayor.
Witness my hand, and the seal
of said City, this the 17th day of
June, 1913.
J. Valentine, City Secretary,
tf City of Crockett, Texas.
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Aiken, W. W. The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 1913, newspaper, June 19, 1913; Crockett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177710/m1/4/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.