The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 30, Ed. 1, Friday, February 20, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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Central Christian'. Church,
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Cell Drop Cotton and Corn Planter
!..'- 1914
The planting device is changed on above planter
this year.
We plant cotton seed with a plate with holes or
cells in it, this method plants seed in an arrow drill
PREVENTS BOUNCHING-saves labor in thinning.
Saves seed can plant from 15 to 38 pounds
cotton seed per acre by changing gear wheels, which
can be changed in one minute.
This is a great improvement in cotton and corn
planting.
The above are some of the new features which
we will be pleased to demonstrate to anyone whether
you are in the market or not.
TOKES-BLAIR HARDWARE GO.
Expecting a great day in our
Bible School.
Morning worship at 11 o'clock.
Theme "The Purpose of the
Church."
Evening Theme: Will be Evan-
gelistic. Splendid music by a
faithful choir. Gospel sermons.
Come be with us and on time.
NUGGETS FROM THE MINE
One man in the front of the
auditorium is worth two in the
rear.
A true life never Beeks re-
venge but ignores all petty per-
sonal attacks.
Life is a great contract be-
tween three parties, God, our
fellow man and ourselves.
Nothing so en-ages the hosts of
evil ns noble action on the part
of tose they oppose.
Satan is dis-armed when you
actually show iorth the fruits of
good deeds.
The glory of the outer world
differs to men with the difference
in their power to see clearly. '
The light of God cannot il-
lumine the soul of man who sees
everything with the vision of the
sensualist.
When one is rescued from the
sins of this life, he will be saved
in God's own way and . not ac-
cording to man's notion of what
is or what is not essential in the
divine scheme of redemption.
The evidence of one's love to
God and loyally to truth can be
best demonstrated in a life of
obedience.
Homer A. McCarty,
Minister.
Valentine Party
Assassination at
-i Round Roctt
H. W. Lawson, a prominent
merchant of old Round Rock,
was shot and killed by a high-
wayman while on his way home
from his business ahout 8.30
o'clock Friday night
Mr. Lawson had closed his
place of business and was cross
ing the Brushy Creek bridge
when the highwayman appeared
from behind some rocks at the
end of the bridge. When Mr.
Lawson's body was found short
ly after the shooting he Shad a
38-caliber revolver in his hand,
bat it had not been fired. Law-
son was shot twice, once
through the left arm near the
wrist, and through his right
breast.
Officers over the county were
notified shortly after the shoot-
ing, but no clew to th6 murderer
has yet been found.
SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED
The Round Rock school build-
, ing was burned Friday night
All indications point to a lire or
incendiary origin. The building
was valued at $400 with $3500
insurance. The theory is ad-
vanced that the highwayman
that killed Lawson set fire to the
school building to divert atten-
tion to the fire while he made
his escape.
' 'Helton Gin Is Burned.
Belton, Tex., Feb 13.-&bout
midnight Wednesday fire was dis
covered in ?he gin owned'by Bel-
ton Gin and Cotton Compay in
tnis city. The damage to the gin
amounted to about $12,000 and
was destroyed. The cause of the
fire iB unknown. The engine tmd
engine house of the property was
saved, the gin part ana gin
stands being destroyed.
IMP p
Buy one of those incubators
from Stokes-Blair Ha6are Co.,
uv; fcnd raise your chicks on a larger
scale.
Highway Robbery Charged
Taylor, Tex.. Feb. 13. -I. C.
Hale, until recently an under-
taker of this city, was released
on bond in the sum of $25C0 in
the Taylor Precinct Court this
afternoon to appear before the
grand jury and answer to a
charge of highway robbery.
The complaint upon which he
was arrested alleges that he held
up W. C. Wofford, a postal clerk
of this city near the First
Christian Church building on
West Sixth Street shortly after
dark on Dec. 30 last at the point
of a pistol and relieved Mr.
Wofford of his watch. Constable
Arch Byrd went to Fort Worth
this week and arrested Hale,
bringing him to Taylor to answer
to this and another charge, the
second being a swindling com-
plaint. N
Hale waived examination on
both charges and was bound over
to the grand jury in the sum of
$2500 on the first charge and
$500 on the second. The de-
fendant was represented by W.
P. McLean of Scott & McLean,
Fort Worth attorneys and Judge
C. V. Compton of Taylor. County
Attorney Harry N. Graves of
Georgetown represented the
prosecution.
On Thursday evening of last
week, the Philathea class of the
Baptist Church, entertained the
young people of all the other
churches at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Walton with a
Valentine party. The home was
tastefully decorated in the class
colors, pink and white, while pot
plants made a pleasing back-
ground. Over 100 guests were
present. After a most delight-
ful evening daiaty refreshments
in pink and white were served.
Music was furnished by the
Bartlett Orchestra. The follow-
ing are members of the class:
Misses Ida Thompson, Lehella
Jones, Amanda Kruger, Nettie
Smith, Lottie Dixon. Andrews,
Blanche Schoef, Annie Reed,
Violet Laughlin, Maggie Daniel
and Mrs. Davis. Mrs. Curling,
teacher.
Pool Hall Election Ordered
Cameron, Tex. Feb. 10. -The
Commissioners' Court of Milam
County on petition of 20 per
cent of the qualified voters of
Precinct No. 4. embracing Rock-
dale, ordered an election for
March 9 in that precinct to
determine whether pool halls
be permitted to run.
Commissioners Reject Bids.
Belton. Feb. 13. -All bids for
the road improvement in Bartlett
precinct which were filed with
commissioners today were re-
jected by the court as unsatis-
factory. County Engineer Dozier was
instructed to draw up plans and
specifications on which the new
bids are to be based. These
specifications are tp be ready for
for the use of bidders by lour
o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Those here from Bartlett to
day to look after the placing of
tli3 contract were Stanton Allen,
Albert Clark, Louis Bartlett,
Tom, Talbot and Bob Sexton.
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liave got a right to.
We Lave the swelled hunch of
All-Wool fabrics for Spring wear
you ever peeped, at.
and you'll feel like the cock-of-the
-walk when you take your
EASTER Morn Stroll, attired in
a GLOBE "Needle-Molded" suit,
made to your individual measure
. hy the "Needle Masters" of
Tlie Globe Tailoring Co,
Cincinnati
. FIVE HUNDRED new Weaves
and Patterns in All-Wool Fabrics
just think of it, 500 of them,
from which to take your pick.
,s Any chance of missing anything
in so immense an assortment?
Come in and study the 500 take
' ' , your time ahout it and "when
you get ready, well he glad to
'measure you."
Cleaning, Pressing, Altering and Making
Clothes Our Specialty.
Make a Real Tailor Shop Yoir Home
F, J. PAVEL, Merchant Tailor
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Is.it A Crime To Play Pool?
WHEN THERE ARE MANY
MOUTHS TO FEED
the size of the bread-loaf is im-
portant, and this is one of the;
reasons why you should buy of
us. Not only do we make larger
loaves but better loaves than
many other bakers, because we
are willing and able to' accept
somewhat smaller profits-there1
fore we can use better flour and
materials and pay better wages.
Lawrence Brothers,
From Temple Telegram.
Ocker, Tex., Feb. 10, 1914.
Editor Dally Telegram:
About a year ago The Telegram pub-
lished a very excellent and a vei
broad-minded editorial regarding some
of the evils which beset mankind es-
pecially that element of mankind not
so fortunate as to be a member of a
social club, or to have comfortable
homo surroundings to which to retire
after the day's work is done the
transient, the boarding bouse dweller,
and the liborer.
In that editorial which we have pre-
served, and which we enclose here-
with, the much abused pool or billiard
room was defended as u haven of ref-
uge for the man who must spend his
evenings somewhere, and who, but for
the pool room would doubtless seek
tho next most available or inviting
aiong wun tne good points. Probably
place, the saloon.
As that editorial was published vol-
untarily, and at a time when there
was no active campaign against tho
pool room, we ask that you again give
space to it now, in view of the fact
that an election has been ordered for
tho purpose of vptlng out tho pool
rooms of Boll County.
Now, Mr. Editor, we out here in tho
rural districts agree with you that
tho Y. M. C. A. gymnasium rooms, tho
picture shows and tho pool rooms have
a rightful place in a community, and
are necessary for the diversion of tho
people, but we call your attention to
tho fact that of these three we have
only tho pool halls and now mus.t wo
bo dop ed of them?
Wo have no picture shows or X. M.
C. A. out here in the country. Wo
plow and hoe and work all day for
ten or twelve hours, and our only di-
version is a pool or billiard gamo be
tween the hours of supper and bed-
time. There are pool halls at all the
little villages, cross road stores anr'
community meeting places In this part
of tho county, but they are orderly
places, and wo do not seo why any
ono should object to them, and wo d&
not want them taken away from us.
Pleaso print this in your paper and
help us keep our only amusement
places in tho country,
(Signed):
It. E. RAABE, Ocker.
H. W QUEEN, Cyclone.
PRANK MAREK, Marekville.
JOHN HRUSKA, Hruskavllle.
FRANK MOTL, Seaton.
P. W RINN, Alrville.
J. H. DARTEK, Double-Header.
Commltteo.
Tho editorial in question, which wob
published in the Telegram of last
March, is as follows:
THE POOL ROOM.
Every legislature has a wrestle with
tho pool problem. Without Inquiring
particularly into what phase of the
problem now confronts tho lawmakers,
some observations my bo timely on
general principles:
There is a "school" of religionists,
prohibition question with reservations.
It is popular with tho extremists to
question a brother's sincerity, when ho
presumes to add a "but" or a "provid
ed," to his confession of faith In the
usage of the law to Inculcate morality.
Tho fellow who knowB something of
humanity and humanity's ways in con-
ditions beyond the happy home circles
of tho favored, sees something more
in tho saloon than a dram shop and
drunkard maker. He does not wonder
like his more radical colleagues on
tho pro side of tho liquor question why
tho saloon continues to exist why
a thing which everybody condemns as
an evil Is grasped to the bosom by so
many men, and strenuously defended
whenever it is attacked, via the prohi-
bition route. Many a saloon keeper
himself will denonunce liquor drinking
In unmeasured terms very few there
are who would not, if they could, wipe
tho curse from off the faco of the
earth. Yet they and the thousands of
others are roused to resentment more
tense than on any other question,
when the prohibitionists undertake to
abolish the admitted evil.
There 'must be somo underlying
cause to thus bring to tho support of
the- saloon those many people who do
not profit in tho traffic, who them'
selves do not touch intoxicating liquors
and who are as solicitous regarding
tho welfare of their sons and daugh-
ters as are tho advocates of saloon
abolishment.
Thero is another side to tho question
and a side seldom touched on in argu-
ments of pros and anils. It is an in-
tangible motive to many men which
Inspires them to oppose what they ad-
mit is a to-be-desired reform. Under-
neath their declarations that "prohibi-
tion won't prohibit, lies an unasserted
great truth, tho very foundation of tho
antl position.
.Why. does prohibition fail to pro
hibit?
Tho radical pro is apt to rejoin, "Bo-
cause too many men love the liquor
itseK."
Wrong.
It is more because liquor selling Is
surrounded by conditions which are
suppled in no other way. There Is
lost to sight tho great number of men
who have no firesides to which to re-
tire during tho hours oft from busi-
ness. The saloon offers the only place
where a man can find companionship,
cheer and "welcome at any "
times. Tho saloon is tho rendezvous
for that number of tho male popula-
tion which is lacking in ideal homo at-
tractions. Drinking is more an inci
dental accompaniment to saloon fre
quenting than it is a motive, mho in-
nliinntal. or companionable drinking
merges into "thirst" in too mauy cases
and thero Is produced tne inumuuui
who will have liquor for liquor's sake,
In spite of statutory laws.
Many men and'womon, recognizing
tho fact that a big percentage of tho
population of towns and cities cannot
bo turned out to walk the streets or
driven by curfow bolls to seek tho con-
stricted lodging roomB of boarding
houses, hotels, or even of many homes
havo teen earnestly working to pro-
Drv Gooda Grooerlea and Bakery supplemented by tho entire farces of vldo a substitute for tho saloon. The
Dxr faooas, Urocerie- and unKery tho nlorall8t8., who npprollcli tholy. M. 0. A. Is a product of that effort,
though it is not far-reaching. Tho pic-
ture show, while not primarily operat
ed with the idea in view to keep men
from saloons and other places of ques-
tionable benefit, Is nevertheless ono
of the greatest moral Institutions tho
world has ever known, and that is said
while swallowing the imperfections
more of lato In keeping men and boys
poqeiidtnooou sun; mous .ojnpjd oin
from worse places than has any other
agency.
Tho pool room that thing handled
with tongs by the unthinking and un-
observing, is damned almost in terms
as bitter as those employed In con-
demnation of the saloon and brothel,
and especially In home advice to boys.
Almost every "reformer" who makes
his way to Austin has a pet measure
directed against pool halls.
Will the Temple pros who so con-
demn pool halls and pool playing do
themselvPB the justice to take a Tew
hours away from their established hab-
its and walk about tho city some
night? Will they look into the many
pool halls, observe the hundreds of
men therein, note what they are doing,
listen to the conversation, observo tho
game itself?
Do that, and then ask yourself the""
questions: WHERE WOULD THESE
MEN BE IF THEi WERE NOT IN
THE POOL HALLS? Where would
they go if these places of pastime and
recreative diversion were not open to
them? What alternative attractions
are thero for tho thousands who re-
side in Temple and for those who
come and go, and have time to spend
in tho city?
There nre threo probable answers:
Thoy would bo at the picture show un-
til 10 o'clock; thoy would walk tho
streets until sleep or arrival of awaited
train should call them off.Thoy would
find a place to rest, and something to
divert attention in tho SALOON
Count it "faint-hearted" ir wished
but as suro as liquor drinking is a
curse, so suro will it continue until
thero nre substitutes for saloons
Tho pool room and tho picture show
are tho stongest and most effective
allies tho prohibition cauBe ever had.
Through such methods of combating
tho saloon and other evils, tho rrent
body of oarmt, conscientious citizen;-,
who now fight tooth and too nail
av.lnst p'ohlb.i'cn, becomo al ,
Will you look on tho pool room and
tho plcturo show, tho Y. M. C. A. and
other substltuto establishments
through these spectacles, Good Citi-
zen? Advertisement'
To the Trade.
From this date, February 13,
1914. I will have to sell groceries
for cash, and not for any longer
time than SO days. I am doing
this because I am not able to sell
goods on fall terms; and besides
it will enable mo to sell on closer
margin. Wiil pay you tho high-
est market price for your pro-
duce. D. B. McKenzie.
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Cates, R. F. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 30, Ed. 1, Friday, February 20, 1914, newspaper, February 20, 1914; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth48864/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.