The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE KNOX
W( REACH THK PEOPLE ANO OUR MOTTO IS: KNOX <
FIRST. THE WORLD AFTERWARD.
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KNOX CITY, KNOX COUNTY, TEXAS; FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 190 « !! I] | |
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NEW SCHOOL HOUSi
Our New $16,000 School Building
No v/ Being Erccied. Material
now Being Laid Down.
We áíe very proud to say that
opr new $16,000.00 school build-
is being started this week. The
contractor, Mr. Williams is hav-
ing sand hauled to build the
foundation. This is the thing
Knox City has long been needing
and our citizens should be ver>
proud of this enterprise. Let us
not stoij wiien the building
complete for the fact is, we. Have
just started. Let us combine
our efforts, to make our school an
attraction of which any -town
might be proud. There is noth
ing which is more upbuilding to
a town than a high grade school
A school which will draw people.
Schools and churches are mort
attractive to some people thai
our fertile land. A high grade
school will elevate us all. Thet
let's have yl. Lot us build tut
school and the school will build
our town.
Some Strong Truths.
New;
insid-
iiiw eastiy
come tho
bliarht the
From the so*'
of habit
chances foi
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From Monday's Dallas
we reproduce t!he following:
Last night Evangelist Lockett
Adair read as a text "Quit, y.oi
like men, be strong." (1 Coi-
inthians, xvi, 53.) He said: "1
read this in another way, 'B*
thou strong and show thyseh
a man.' The \vhoie world loves*
to see a man, a well formed bod\
a perfect charac er. The world
loved David's strength and Dan-
iel's heroism, the great men in
history have been men strong in
some way that appealed to tlK
followers and made the Nations-
and the people appreciate ano
honor.
"To be a strong man there
must bo a good foundation.
Good blood is a wonderfully good
thing to have. It will show in
the man and in the woman, i
shows in the horse and-in the
well-bred animal. Blood will
tell. The best of tilood is l^ie
blood of christian manhood and
Godly character. A man should
be too much a man to carry the
good blood'of his mother into a
place where he would blush with
shame to have her know it there.
He should refuse to carry his
mother's blood where ho would
not carry his mother. A chris-
tian home isjshe best foundation
for a christian character. To be
strong a man must not under-
mine his body. To be pure he
must not undermine his chris-
tian teaching. To be upright he
must'prese-ve the beauty and
strength of his character* by
thoughts and acts that he knows
to be right
"So many things with
uous V lows strike down charac-
ter in men and women. Idleness
.--in youth gives entrance to many
hurtful bsibits, and in age the
weeds of sin bring forth a har-
vest of hateful seeds of sorrow.
Not willing to w«rk and to study
a young man enters upon busi-
aess handicapped and he goe -
into the strugglés of life with-
letft a well formed character,
rged and brave agairsti the
lptsytions that will assail him. j
books, bad associations folr
ppiness. and when the
times of remorse and regret
ceme over a man he fin¡is he is
powerless to free himself. Evet
Samson at latt came to the place
where he coujd not shake him-
self as of old, and the wiles of a
weak and sinful woman wrought
nis ruin.
"A man tanked full of booze,
■smoking a pipe loaded for bear,
having is feet high in the air on
t table or a mantle, writes, a
look that demoralise? ordTnns.
[t is read by' thousands and
houghtlessly imbibed. Try as
tie may when he comes to his
. enses, he has done a thing he
¡ever can undo. Your boy goes
inte these pool. rooms. He
/iiáiks á cue and smjkes a cigar-
tte ani cusses and think3 he is
he biggest sport in town. He
¡ponds a dollar a di.y when he
sn't worth a dollar a year to
:n*. body but you and to you l:~
'ause you don't know any better
:íe spends more than he makes,
le steals to make it up. Body
.¿id soul are on the way to ruin
md to hell. I am thankful to
my that is one gait I never went
md I certainly _went some. A
cigarette in action has been well
[escribed as an instrument of
iestruction with a fire at one
Mid and a fool at the other. A
soul that rolls up the tobacco
md then sucks, sucliA atyajur.t, it
^vill never be grown. You'll
have to quit this sucking busi-
ness, you've got to be weaned
to be a man.
' 'Whiskey is another destroyer
of character. I got experience
with it from the time I was 12
. ears old until five years ago.
It ruins It has no pity. It is
neartless as hell. It alone will
make you without cause slap
/our mother in the face and slab
tier in the heart It will make
you a sot too weak^ to be sober
it your own mother's fuheral.
The gutter drunkard never en-
ticed a man te be a drunkard.
"Three years ago I came t
the hour of decision. I accepted
Christ. Many of my former as-
sociates went away from Christ
They went down and cut. God
pity all of us. God help us to
use the memor and the exam-
ple of all that is good. Hear the
truths of the Gospel and listen
to men who know. Be men.
Be st ong.
Will Demonstrate Corn and Cotton
Farming.
K. C. Goree, the enterprising
manager of the Wm. Cameron
Lumber Co. of this c.ty has
bought 15 acres of land just
south of Mr Cargill's new hbme
and will begin right away to
build a neat cottage on h s land.
Mr. Goree will plant ten acres of i
his land in c otton and will culti-
vate it under government super:
vision. His father, Oapt. R. D
Gcree, whos farm is two rrnles
north-east of town, will cultivate
five acres in corn under govern-
ment demonstration. It denotes
enterprise and the outcome is
going to be watched( by our en-
terprising f rmers. It is not too
late for several more of these
demonstrations to be made in
this territory and we would be
glad to see several more of our
enterprising farmers take hold
of it
UP AGAJNSTTHE LAW
On Account of Uiilawfrl Use of
' United States Mails Sears &
Roebuck arc Prosccuted¿
The big mail order house con-
ducted by Sears & Roebuck of
Chicago are in trouble, being un-
der indictment on three counts
for using che United States mails
for fraudulent purposes. The in-
dictment was secured directly
through the efforts of a newspa-
per man, W. J. Pilkington, edit-
or of the Iowa Trade Jourr.al,
who. worked up the-, case. Mr.
Pilkingtcn has been conducting
a crusade against mail order
houses through the .columns - of
, his paper ih behalf of the retail
nmrcnanfs of .his town and state,
and the indictment is the result
"3* his work.
The penalty upon each count
amounts to $500. Now. i^ about
a dozen otner newspapers in
each southern and western state
,WT.ild inaugurate a syafmatic
investigation or tho methods of
mail order houses, and see to it
that, all impostors and frauds
were prosedftted to the last ditch,
teere wowld not be one of, these
wild cat concerns left in the
country át the wind-up of 1908.
Every newspaper in the United
States that.is receivmg, the un-
qualified support of its home
merchants owes them this much;
and if they don't support their"
home paper, then its publisher
a fool for staying there.
Here is work for state and na-
tional press associations .If such
associations ever expect to ac-
complish anything lot 'em "git
up on their hind legs and go
some. "—Jones County Talk.
METHODIST CHURCH
The Above Denomination to Er«$
a New Building aa a Coat of
$5,000.
As a visftfle outcome of thjfc
rpeet'ng which has beén going
on ¡n our town tho last .week or
two, we learn that we are It
5. It shall provide for a sys- have another church 'buildings
torn of co-operative insurance so'The calleas made Sunday niglit
that the cotton can bé insured?at' for subscriptions to build %
actual co? t to the membership of ^ Methodist church. They respond-
ed nobly, no' only Methodist
but prajtipp.'lv all deiv m natj$
and cverj outsiders contribuí
to the go-xj cáuse and now
have about $1,600 subscril
This mean?, ^something to Htfc
uniform negotiab e cotton ware-
h use rc¿e:pts for all warehouses
under its jttr.sd'cticn and nego-
tiable loans on same, either with
local or foreign banks.
4. Said corporation should
create and maintain a certain
selling agency for the sale of all
cotton !>l;\ced in the warehouses
under its jurisdiction.
the uni?n
No.-one should
to hold stock*
unless he is'"#
union.
. 8. The by-laws of the corpora-
be ;.! lowed
in the corporation
member of the
tion should he ko framed as to p0 >ple'of Knox City and we
provide for a local governing
committee at dtch lhcal ware-
house, -With powsr to jnalte-; rec-
ommendations taf the board';of
directors, and any recomrneda
tion agreed to by a majority of
the local governing board shall
control the action of the bor.r^l
of director?.
9. The State officers of tho
State union shall be ex-oflicio
members of the board of direc-
tors and shall have all the privi-
leges of the board except to vote.
10. The board of directors
shall select depositors at each
local warehouse for thp safekeep-
ing of all funds that may accu-
mulate from tho sale of bonds or J
ir| other wise, and shall shift
is|fwBí^jfom one placid to another
may n m'
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Xdopted at Memphis.
At the recent Farmer's con-
ference at Memphis the follow-
ing resolutions were adopted:
"Realizing that the timo has
come in the progress of the or-
ganization of farmers when defi-
nite and well defined steps
should be taken in order 'o se-
cure'the best results, a~d realiz-
ing that a plan of unif-rm ac-
tion is necessary iri order to
make the organizó5 n effective;
we therefor .• submit and recom-
as neces;
those 1
iuire.
sure they appreciate it. Do net
stcni back on giving to tifo,
church. You will lose nothing.
Docs not a church help to bu09
your town? Then does that QÓI
build your income? If you afir
interested in this locality help
us to build the right part of oór
to v. n fir^t and the rest will tnfer
caie of iUulf. i
We arc glad this step "has béo
taken. We ne. er tire oí hea*-
ki g the f.ccora plishmente of
feaple, of religion, th</ only o^-
life which lives after ml
Stockholders Meeting.
In accordanco with the usó !
j'iirement the shareiiolders at
The fact t'n-it this bnrtk did
mend the following t>1nn for the j not ; ¿t a limit on >" derurml
and depositors, and was able, all
! through the panic, save four
erol "State unions of the Farmers' j day:- at the very beginnin ;; of
Educational and- Co-operative|the panic, to pay money for
eottoa, shows
The First National Bank met in
the regular annual session Jan-
uary 14th,
•Shareholders Meeting. The entire directorate w
unanimously reelected with tn£
At the regular annual meeting exception of W- G. Sherrod wftfr
of the shareholders of the Far-,insisted on being relieved owm#
mers State Bank of Knox City [ to the fact he could seldom al-
held January 14, 1908, the fol-; tend the meetings. The re- ain-
lowing directors were unani- ing directors extend to Mr. She#-
moiisly elected for the ensueing,rod a vote of thanks for his set-
year. , vices during the past year ami
R. W. Warren, J. B. Janes, regret to lose nim, yet they conr-
J. H. McLain, J. W: Smith, W.
gratúlate them ¡-.elves upon bein£
B. Williams, W. S. Bower, L. H. able to replace him with aa
strong a man as Mr. Sam An-
derson.
The directors declared as ÍO
, per cent dividend and increased
a l j ,he;r surplus to $3,000 both of
wl'iich make a good healthy
sho.ving for the bank.
A most unusual condition Ims
Womble and J. Frank Potts.
There were no changes made
in the officers, all being rc-
eiectorl for the "< ar.
In compliance with the Ir
officers oP the bnn!. were - put
mukr bonds for the f ■ ithful per-
formance of their duties.
organization of warehouses
warehouse companie
to the sev-'
Union of America And hereby
AXrrr* the immediate adoption by
said union.
Sta
te
1. AH warehouses in v
sh add b'1 incorporated under
one charter, and tlierebv in-
crease the capitalization to such
an extent as to give to the cor-
poration a sufficient rating to
guarantee all contracts and en-
able it to carry on all business
along legitimate lines.
2. Said coimoration should
hav«.k the powar to issue bond *
and other forms of credit, and
to issue cotton certificates in
suitable denominations, based on
cotton as collateral security, and
backed by the credit of the cor-
port tion. Said certificates to be
issued and placed in circulation
in times ot necessity, such as
the present.
3. Said corporation to issue
the able manag-
ment, and the liq. id state their
assets are in, not having any
borrowed money at the begin-
ning of fhe panic or • t any time
through it.
There was no dividend declar-
ed, the managment thinking it
best to strengthen the bank at
all times, especially at this time,
but put .$1000 to surplus fund,
leaving the remainder to undi-
vided profits.
' iJncle Dave Bingham.
Encle Dave bingham, who
has been living with his daugh-
ter; Mrs. Herring, died at his
daughters home Wednesday
morning of heart failure. Mr.
Bingham was 76 years of age
andhasiñade Texas eis home
for maSy yeaas. We ioin the
many mends of the bereaved
ones in extending condolence
end sympathy.
prevailed thro ghout this county
for some we.'ks past and is com-
monly termed '/the panic. * Bui
this condition is pissing undeven
now the panic practically a
thLg of history. As an evi-
dence of the strength of this in-
stitution it paid out more cash
on cotton probably than anyoth-
jer bank this far weskand unlikp
some banks it never refused
pay for cotton in exchange bill
stood ready to take up every
check its cotton patrons issued
against it. /
However, the directors and
shareholders recognize that they
owe this strength chiefly to
their loyal friends find patronn
to whom they hereby extend
thanks and wish to say that by
the same able and conservative
managment they hope to merit
a.continuance of this support
All knowing themselves in-
debted to us will please call and
settle We need the money.
Respectfully.
Fox k Enlow.
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Satterwhite, Lee. The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1908, newspaper, January 24, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth178926/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.