The Goree Gazette. (Goree, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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THE (M)REE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.
GOREE, KNOX COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9,1907.
NO. 97,
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COTTON OUTLOOK GOOD
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT
CROPS EVERYWHERE.
RAIN BIGHT NOW WOULD HELP
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The Reports Indicete a Large Per-
if centage of Gain Over Former
i Reports.
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4 LSI ('in phis, Tenn., Aug. 5. — The
'dminorcial Appeal today prints the
^following summary of crop condi-
tions throughout the cotton belt,
compiled from reports of its spe-
i-ciul correspondents.
While general and moderate to
■heavy rains did not fall during the
"week, many heavy or light showers
- did, and they were so widely scat-
tered that much Lhe larger part of
the cotton belt from Texas to North
Carolina was visited. Those sections
'Iwhich received no rain eortipNain of
the drouth and received no rain Sf>m-
plain of the drouth and arc undoubt-
edly in need of moisture. In sedr
tions where the precipitation was
light, a number of moist, cloudy days
succeeded each other, and the most
was thereby gotten from the rain.
JiBeports of improvements are largely
®in excess, some cornYpomlcnts noi-
sing the best progress of the season.
^Reports from Georgia indicate a
' large production, and Texas reports
. are the best of the season.
The small plant is everywhere tak.-
| ing on fruit in an excellent manner,
* and in proportion to size,, fromise.s
i to be a largb producer. Irregularity
M is still apparent throughout the een-
**tr$l. eotfuai’Wl,* wfcie fields [fromia-
ing well, while others are not nearly
so good. The poor stands in the cen-
tral belt will also perhaps be a fac-
tor to the final onthfirn.. But what-
ever the condition of the plant, a'
A marked improvement has not taken
„ place where showers fell.
There is little complaint of dam-
age from boll weevil in the infested
$ districts, and elsewhere there are no
damaging insec ts.
Southern Texas remains dry and
the cotton is tieing opened prema-
»- turely. The yield there is less than
last year.
Rarrinf; the lack of'evenly dis-
? trihuted moisture the week was a
livery favorable ofle. The area tin-
touched jjy showers, while worthy of
-tuttojvharibt TO twrge a» th be alarm-
ing-
LATEST NEWS BOILED DOWN
Sir Thomas Lipton is arrar
to come over and race American
yachts again.
The raise in price bv the South-
western Telephone Company for
business telephones in Waco .from $3
to $4 per month is causing a howl.
John Price, charged with assault,
to murder on Albert Jacks, the Hel-
ton fireman, was given the limit—
fifteen years in the penitentiary,
Saturday.
The work on the Haskell oil mill
is in good progress, and within a
short time this mill will he ready
for operation and will take care of
this year’s seed crop.
Spencer Lewis, a negro, was shot
and killed at De Kalb, thirty miles
west of Texarkana, Sunday. An-
other negro named Louis Carson, is
in jail, charged with the killing.
Rather than face a called session
of the Legislature, the railways in
Virginia have,decided to submit to
the recent statute living the fares in
.that State at two cents a mile.
The Governor has appointed J. D.
Dupuy, of San Antonio, a member
of the board of the Southwest Tex-
as Insane Asvlufn, succeeding Dr.
T. T. Jackson.
John Bardon of Fort Worth, was
awarded the1 contract for"the exV
tension of the Federal building at
Fort-Worth. 11 is hid was $141,750
for the job complete.
^The Governor has appointed
General William II. Stacv, of Aus-
tin, a member of the board of mana-
gers of the State Irisang Asylum,
succeeding R. W. Finley, resigned.
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NEWS IN NUTSHELLS
Eugene Clapp, of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas construction de-
partment, has his left leg cut oil
Tuesday evening at fancy, 1. T.
Major -I. S. Gtinnin, one of Ter-
rell's oldest and mo»t prominent
citizens, died Tuesday morning
soon ater midnight.
Tin* work of constructing the Tex-
as Company's pipe line through El-
lis Countv was commenced Monday
about two miles north of Waxa-
haehie.
The employes on the Lamar Coun-
ty meadows have been haling hay by
moonlight. The present summer has
been exceedingly . favorable for the
hay growers.
William Nelson, a negro, was ex-
ecuted in the electric chair at Sing
Sing prison at Osirining Monday for
the murder of Lizzie Norman, with
Whom lie lived, on December 2, 1905,
WILLIAMS WINS RACE
CONGRESSMAN
WILLIAMS
JOHN SHARPE
ELECTED.
FALL HILLS ANDREW HOLMES.
VARDAMAN’S STAND LOSES
Charles Bonier, eighty
age, of Buffalo,. conv
y'ears of
for the
Spencer Lewis, a negro,
from ambush four miles
•The
rc-
was shot
north of
l)e Kalb Saturday afternoon at (i
o’-cloek. Lewis is the negro accused
of cutting out the tongue of a mare’s
head a month ago. - ,
A subscription is being circulated
in San Antonio to seeuee $1,500 to
give to the Bronchos should they
win the pennant this year. - There
are fifteen members of the San An-
tonio baseball team, and the $1500-;
will give them $100 each.
Jim Hughes, a negro section hand-
on the Texas and New Orleans Rail-
way/died in the Union Depot at
Nacogdoches Saturday night from
on-the1 “head with
shovel. Warrant has been issued
Aug. 5%-’’
T i mes-l^trKKtrftt' tCoothty cotton
. port estimate says:
DfStiiict improvement has been the
rule throughout the belt, the weather
having'been favorable and the culti-
vation .thorough.
The plant, has grown rapidly, but
is still small as compared with the
normal, and is, therefore, peculiarly
dependent upon the datS of frost.
Serious complaints of boll weevil
coop) from certain sections of Tex-
as and Louisiana, hut the extent of
the injury wemning.to Be determined.
Sdrne timki muSt elapse ?bejk»re the
prop begins to move m earnest, arid
farmers Appear to hold out for high-
er prices. ■ . f
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etc all offices payi one
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---— PI Ashe*.
Velasco :;Velasco’s beautiful Surf-
aide Hotel is in ashes, tfhe pride of
,ht****
•red fire in the north end of ihe
building,, aipl immediately notified
the inmates, who were pll gotten out
without loss of life. The fire, being
on the north side of the building,
hurried very' slowly until the wind
for thVarrest of another negro sec-
tion hand.' ,« v ,
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- Ijft'ele Sam-is turning a deaf ear
to the frantic appeals of Cassie
Chadwick, now serving out a ten-
vear Federal sentence in the Colum-
bus. Ohio, penitentiary. It has been
decided that she is. not entitled to
parole, this being her second impris-
onment.
John Holt, a white man, aged
abopt'Jorty years, wffs run over in
the yards of;4he Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railway‘at Dallas Sunday
night by a s^iteiuengine. The low-
er part of his body was horribly
.raaftgled, and he diritU iri- aboi?Mif-
teen minutes after reaching the city
Hospital,- :
-Ifhe fruit and Truck Growers’ As*
,tion of the State of Texas
wrtjgTneeklhn August ’27. and 28 at
23 and 84. Marshall, and it is expected that
----non* of jfre greatest crowds that ever
attendro their meeting will be on
. Orders have just Been placed by
the Japanese Government with the
Krupps at Essen, for a consignment
of ,150,000 rifles and large field
pin to be shipped to Yokohama at
lie earliest possible moment.
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J. A. Johnson, of Austin, dropped
dead at Thirteenth, and Colorado
Streets Sunday mohaiug. He was
about forty years of age and a yard-
man. He had not been working for
the last few weeks because of ill
victed
murder of Franz and Johanna
Frehr, was electrocuted at Auburn,
N. Y., Wednesday mornitig.-
With Mayor Simmons driving the
golden spike, the building of the
•street railwaV at Denton was inaugu-
rated Wednesday in the presence of
several hundred people.
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Didon Dering, the ninetenn-year-
old son of J. C. During, a prominent
farmer of Flnloeof^ight miles west
of Cleburne, whgyflrowned while
swimin'ing in toujjrazos River.
At tl'e lioip«|mB'er father, Xor-
frio FrlpetltfjP^X' miles north of
Bryan, Thursday evening, a seven-
year-old Italian girl attempted to
start a fire for teaming supper with
kyyosene. v An ekpjosion • foRawetlJ
and the girl was so badly, burned
that she died in a short time.
The Committee on Arrangements
for the Old Settlers’ Reunion of
Hopkins County, is busy getting the
grounds and public roads in good
shape for the coming reunion, which
will,be held August 20 and 21, at
old Tarrant, the former county site
of Hopkins County.
A railroad meeting was held at
Sulphur Springs recently to consid-
er the feasibility of organizing a
Williams Receives Twelve to Fifteen
Thousand Majority of the Votes of
Mississippi.
Jackson. Miss, Aug 2—la the Dem-
oeratlr primaries yesterday Congress-
man John Sharpe Williams was elect-
ed for the United States Senate over
Governor James K. Vardanian by a
majority of from 12,000 to 15,000 votes.
Later figures will doubtless increase
the majority, as many of the strong-
est Williams counties are yet to lie
heard from. Of a total of from 11)5,-
000 to 110,000 votes polled Mr. Wil-
liams has received from 60,000 to 65,-
000 votes, carrying perhaps fifty of the
seventy-eight counties.
In the city of Jaekson, where the
campaign was fought with much bit-
terness, Mr. Williams received a ma-
jority of 150 votes and carries Hinds
County by 500 votes. He also carries
the Governor’s home county (Leflore)
by a small majority. The significant
lesson of the election Is the repudia-
tion of Governor Vardanian’s propa-
ganda for the repeal of the fifteenth
amendment, which Mr. Williams de-
clared ’■tkpuld he unwise to attempt at
this tlmek and would serve to bring
the negro question hack Into National
politics, rendering likely the strict en-
forcement of the fifteenth amendment
rathev. than Its repeal.
Shock by Live Wire Causes Man to
Fall to Ground.
Fort Worth. Tex., August 3.—An-
drew Holmes, a lineman In employ of
the Southwestern Telephone Company,
23 years of age, received an electrical
shock while at work negr the top of a
pole in front of the Second Ward
school building on West Belknap
street Friday morning, lost his footing
as a result and fell twenty-five feet to
the pavement below, sustaining a
crushed skull, which caused almost^In-
stant death.
Holmes was touched on Ihe hip by a
live wire, but it is not certain that the
shock was sufficient to produce death.
It caused him, however, to start and
jerk violently and to lose his grip on
(he pole. The accident occurred in
front of the home of Mrs. C. W. Case,
408 West Belknap street. She heard
the noise of the fall and looking out
of her window suw the man lying upon
the ground. Efforts to reeuecltate him
proved unavailing. Mounted Officer
Turner and I)r. Allen Coffee were
among the first to reach the spot.
Holmes had been In employ of the
company five or six months, coming
here from Terrell. He has a sister re-
siding In North Fort Worth.
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FLOUR MILL DESTROYED.
corpoFatitjtt to build a PfJimeSt>’ sald ^r’ "The ce?ery
Sulphur Springs to Quftman, and Planted was or tbd golden, self balanc-
uorth.-and south’ of tha«f'-,fH»M*tK to
daily point that would take an inter-
est in the enterprise. >S*b
The first suit
providing (terialt'es for^hon-sfiftpott
of families, wai* filed -jji Houston
■Friday. ’iW, wifd'.AlltP/RAs non-sup-
port. The pqnaUy is a fine .of, from
$100 to $1000 with a jail sentence
from thirty days to two years, or
both fine andr sentence.
u!p o
,'A;featui$' of the first day of the
ex-Confederate and Old Settlers’
Reunion* and picnic, at McKinnev,
-August 14, will be a dinneT served at
the home of ’E: W. Kirkpatrick,
President of the association, by the
Daughters of the Confederacy, to all
^Confederate veterans and their
observations made during the
I's Fair of lhe public school
$1,000 AN ACRE PROFIT.
Teet of Celery Growing In' the
Browneville Country.
San Antonio: A thousand dollars
profit oiF one acre of land! This may
seem Incredible to those farmers who
congratulate themselves if they clear
$10 to $20 per acre on cotton and corn,
hut that amount was made by Wil-
liam Volz and sons on their farm at
OlffiTfo, ’'seveh miles from Brrrwns-
vllle.
These gentlemen sold from tills one
acre of land 39,000 pounds of celery,
for which they received $1,979.89, leav-
ing'a profit of $1025, net.
"The crop was planted as nil ex-
Sixteen Thousand Dollar Plant at
Hillsboro Burned.
Hillsboro, Tex., Aug, flour mill
owned by J. W. McCrearyj^f Franklin,
Tex., and leased temporarily by too
Hillsboro Mill and Elevator Company,
in the southern part of the city, was
destroyed by a five which started
about 11:30 o’clock Thursday night.
The fire originated within the building
from an unknown cause.
Two Iron-clad warehouses adjoining
the main building were saved. In the
main building Lhere were about 400
sacks of flour, 150 sacks of bran, a
quantity of edrn chops and some
wheat. All this," ns well as the ma-
chinery, was lost. The original cost
of the mill was $16,000 and It was In-
sured for nearly $12,000. The manu-
factured flour and raw products, which
were the property of the Hillsboro
Mill and Elevator Company, were In-
sured for $6,200. The loss was fully
covered. \
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the flames. health. » '
World’s Fair of
system of- the United States. Df.
Kruypor speaks in flattering term's
of the, American schools.
On the top of Pike’s Peak, Colo-
rado, more than 14,000 feet above
ea levgl, the leading organization of
stamp collectors tn this country, the
American Philaletic Association;
began its convention Tuesday.
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The directory of The Baptist
Standard has accepted, the resigna-
tion of Hev. J. IL-Gumbrell of the
editorial staff, and has elected Rev.
J. M. Dawson to fill the place. Mr.
Dawson is editor of the Western
Evangelist of Abilene, Texas,
lug variety. It was (jpvyed in th,e seed
beds September 20 and frnn^planted
in December and January. ,lt was eul-
three times and»1000 pounds of
fertlgxer. ippjied to the
acre.
"U. was irrigated every twelve Of
fourteen days, exeept near its matu-
rity, When we were unable to secure
water for nearly four weeks, owing to
repair work In the canal, and this re-
duced the yield forty per cent Next
year we will plant fifty. acres In cel-
ery.” •
Lodz In the Mldet of Turmoil.
LOda, Russia: This city Is again the
scene of a strike movement accom-
violence disorder and
"lhe 'troops encountered strtk-
qenter of the town and some
Hf" were.kllled ojr wounded In
Dm *ldne. Business is at a
standstill-awl fear* afy entertained for
what the daw*, may storing fqrth. It
Appears to be the'beginning of a big
labor war, and the. workmen’s unions
are preparing T
“Didn’t Know It Was Loaded."
Clarksville: Thirteen-year-old Pearl
Jackson was shot and instantly killed
by her ten-year-old brother, Oswald
Jaekson,, Wednesday. The children
were living with their parents on the
John Upchurch farm,,two‘inllos south-
east of Boxelder, this county. The
girl was sitting on the floor playing
with two or three smaller children
when the boy entered lhe room and
began' handling a shotgqn wjilch was
| standing nearby, with the above re-
sult.
Poor Old Missouri.
St. Louis, Mo: Youths of Interior
Missouri towns will view with alarm
the announcement of the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas and Missouri Paci-
fic Railroads that circus trains In the
railroad’s busy season will hereafter
be treated at regular freight and clas-
sified rates. This means, circus men
say, that traveling in Missouri will be
too expensive for 'the ordinary shows
and that circns and carnival troupes
will skip Missouri unless the ruling Is
changed.
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or a tong struggle.
Baker Burned to Death.
Devine, Medina County, Tex: Frit*
Tjrschmann was burned to death In
the flames that destroyed the baker’s
shop. Grant’s barber shop, Hatton's
restaurant and Ballets tailor shop at
an eaHy hour Thursday morning. It
was only by the mdst strenuous efforts
that the destruction of the whole town
was averted. The loss will probably
reach several thousand dollars. The
cause of the Are la unknown, but It le
thought to have been aecidental.
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Didon Dering, the nlnefeon-year-old
son of J. C. Dering, a prominent farm-
er of Enloco, eight miles west of Cle-
burne, was drowned while swimming
In the Brazos River last week.
Frightful Death From Burning. -
Denison, Tex.: Mrs. Margaret La-
Bell died Thursday afternoon from the
effects of burns received Wednesday
afternoon while cooking bread In. an
oven In the back yard of her home.
The woman’s dress caught Are from
some embers raked from under the
oven, and she was fatally burned bo
fore assistance could be rendered. The
funeral was held from St. Patrick's
Church Friday morning. Deceased
was about sixty years of age.
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The Goree Gazette. (Goree, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907, newspaper, August 9, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth540540/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Eastland Centennial Memorial Library.