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The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11
Two Elections Ordered,

Mayor G. H. Powell has order
ed an election for Friday Febru-
airy 26, to determine whether or
not a tax Of 80 cents on the 800
valuation of property shall be
levied in San Angelo for the
maintenance of the public free
schools of the city.
On this election there will have
to be a majority of two.thirds
vote of the property tax payers to
secure the tax.
County Judge Milton Mays has
also ordered an election to be held
on Thursday March 3, to deter
mine whether or not the corpora
tion shall be abolished A ma
jority of the tax payers votes will
decide the question.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11

Everything in Music at Aliens.
John 5. Miles went to Coleman
Sunday.
Attorney Lee Upton is home
from Coleman.
Lee Gentry went to Taylor Sat-
urday on business.
Mrs. John A. Guffee returned
from Brentwood Saturday.
Groceries and confections, the
very best, at Jones and Davis.
5-tf.
Will Rau left Saturday for
Marlin where he goes for the bene-
fit of his health.
J. T. Hobbs, prosperous ranch
man of Sterling county, was here
this week on business,
p +, Truly, of Ballinger, came
up Saturday for short stay in
the city, returning home Sunday,
Moody the blacksmith repairs
anything. 40 If
Miss Kate DeMaville, of Balm
ger, who has been visiting at
Sonora for several weeks, passed
through the city Saturday on her
way home.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11

Bruce Dabney was in from the
ranch Monday.
Theo. Schultz, travelling repre-
sentative of the San Angelo
Manufacturing Co., returned Sat
urday from a visit to Concho
county.
D. B. McCallum, of the firm of
j w. Reid & Co. of Robert Lee.
passed through the city Sunday
enroute to the eastern markets to
lay in spring stock for his house.
Piano Stools, Scarfs and Covers
at Aliens Music Store.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11
A Beautiful Valentine,

St Valentines greeting to all
who love to snuggle close to Ma
lures heart-a beautiful creation
in water color, with u handsome
1904 bicycle girl for its center,
her bloom of rosy health happily
blending with the sunshine of an
opening Spring. If you want one
free, just drop postal to Pope
Mfg. Co., Hartford, Conn, or
Chicago, Ill.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11
From Stiles.
Stiles, Tex. Jan.

Stiles, Tex, Jan. 20.
Editor p ess:
As | haven't noticed any news
in the Press from this locality
lately | will give you n few
items
1t has been exceedingly cold
here for some time and am glad
to say we are having beautiful
weather again.
Our school ls progressing
nicely.
Mr.. Collision is having well
put down on his ranch south of
Sherwood and will also erect II
five room residence.
The health of our community is
exceedingly good. We are need
ing rain very bad, but stock are
doing we'll. j. II.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11


March Bros. bought of Isham
Wright six bales of cotton at l44
cents per pound, the highest price
ever paid for that staple in San
Angelo.
r. w. Foster, the big ranchman
of Sterling City, passed through
the city Friday on his way home
from Ballinger where he is feeding
a string of cattle at the Ballinger
oil mills for the market.
Ring up 405 for your plumbing
and timing. Aft
r. w. Stephens has closed a
contract with Willis Johnson TO
exterminate the prairie dogs in
his north pasture of the Crows
Nest ranch. Mr.. Stephens also
has contracts with Geo. B. Hen
dirk and VIM. Klotenhotl' TO kill
Tie dogs in their pastures.
The home of Joe Rawls, which
is situated in Coke County, about
80 miles from San Angelo, was
destroyed by fire Monday of last
week. Mr.. Rawls estimates his
loss at about 800 with no insur-
ance. 1t would pay our ranchmen
and farmers TO carry some insur-
ance on their property. The cost
would be very light and the pro-
lection we'll worth the investment,
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11

Mrs. Judge j. o. Woodward, Of
Coleman, came in Friday for IL
visit to the family of DR. A. A.
Woodward, and returned home
Sunday Judge Woodward, who
is "A member Of the law firm Of
Woodward ~ Garland, expect to
move to San Angelo with his
estimable family some time in
March
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11

G.. W. Stevens is out at the
LOOMS ranch in Concho county
engaged in the erection of eleven
good tenant houses for Mr.. LOOMS.
Mrs. Kate Haimes, of San An
tonic, who has conducted most
successful dancing class here for
the past week, left Friday for
Ozona where she will instruct IL
class.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11
l.. q. L. M. Len.

The ladies of the Maccabees
served a 10 cent tea at the Red
n-Maccabee hall in the Lasker
building Saturday afternoon from
3 to O'clock. An enjoyable after
noon was spent by the ladies and
their friends, and n neat sum was
rpnli2ed.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11
Pictures OF Children

Become invaluable as the years
roll by. They are children but
once. Get pictures of them now,
money could not buy them later
ON. NJ. G Ragsdale. 6-2t
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11
Dog Lost.

\ small dark fox colored, bob
tailed, half bull and half shepherd
dog. viii pay IA liberal reward
for any information leading to
his recovery left at this office. It
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11

J. d. Sugg went to FIT. Worth
Saturday.
All kinds of green house plants,
come and see them, at J. j. Nuss-
banners, phone 233. 2-tf
John Freible has rented ii. w.
Heckert's two acre garden north
of town and will supply the pub
lie with fresh vegeta Dles this year.
Owen Ratlitf, who has been
visiting his parents in Reagan
county, and his sister, Mrs, Shan
Hull for some time, left Saturday
for Central Texas.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-02-11

Jones IL Davis will sell YOU
good groceries for the least money.
5.tf.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1904.
RE.TURN OF THE DAY.

To some thousands and millions of people this. is the glad Christmas Day. To some other thousands and millions 1t is sad Christmas. All over the civ ilized earth there will be little chill dren with bounding hearts as they open we'll filled stockings and gaze on the wealth of good things Old Santa Claus has brought them To them 1t will be a day of abounding joy and merriment And in millions of fortunate homes the older ones will sit down to bounteous foasts, will give ani receive tokens of loving remembrance. will go to churches to give thanks for the many good things of life. or will sit by their own firesides with their loved ones and rejoice that all Is well with them.
 But there is another side to the pie ture. There will be other millions of children to whose poverty-stricken homes Santa Claus never finds the way. To them no gifts will come and for them there will be no merrymaking. Poverty with icy hand will grip their hearts and want and privation keep them company And to their elders there will come nothing of brightness or good cheer. For them Christmas is an unmeaning word, for it brings them nothing to rejoice over. It will be sad Christmas to those whom poverty and want have marked for their own.
 If there is one day In all the year when selfshness should be banished and when hearts should be open to charity. fl is this. It is the day when Christian people give thanks for a Sa- vior born into the world, and 1t should be a day when each and every one should open the heart and the ear to the calls of the needy, and when the hand should give aid to the suffering The path of many poor one can be smoothed. the heart of many a sufferer can be gladdened, and the eyes of many child can be frightened by even a small gift ou, of the abundance which many enjoy. The songs of praise will sound sweeter. the prayers will have more significance. and the Christmas feast will be more enjoyable for the knowledge that some good thing has been done for the deserving poor. Those who give and those who receive are alike blessed by the exercise of the true Christmas spirit.
 And to each and all, high and low, rich and poor, The Advertiser sincerely wishes A Merry Christmas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

temporary in the sister city of Mont eomery upon this notable evidence of It's enterprise, artistic ability and typo- graphical excellence.--Atlanta Consti-
 The Christmas edition of The Mont. somery. Ala, Advertiser is one of the most notable papers ever issued in the sU1th: sOS It contains ninety-two pages end sd had a circulation of over 25.000 cvpie@ The typography Is of a high ..sss as are the handsome engravinEs. made by the papers own engraving xePartment. This special issue of The MMavertiser. for city of 10000, such as st somery Is, Is certainly very cred- ''aoie'-Minneapolis Journal.
 .. ane Montgomery. (AIa.) Advertiser. Cxmty-nve years old, celebrates Ct,nristmas t,n by issuing a mammoth edi- snr on o1 nfnety-two pages, thus eclfps- ,,r ms; as It claims, "everything else ever Sn uesken H by a newspaper of Ala na II proudly boasts, also, that
 os. of the matter in this fine mum @ was prepared by Alabama writers" tno M that Tt Is the first time in the his .oIy oi the State that 50 much horne ,atent mas been assembled Tn this way" prs comparattvely youthful Pioneer cohsratulates its esteemed South- ern contemporary on the eyidences of prospefous old age which abound in i's coiumns.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
POISONOUS ALCOHOL.

The number of deaths from poison ing caused by drinking wood alcohol. either diluted with water or as an adul- shows the extreme difficulty of dealing with a poison of this nature. Wood alcohol is really a deadly poison, and as 1t is produced at smaller cost than 1t can be obtained from fruits or grains the temptation to change it into a cheap grade of whiskey Is great, and unscru- pulous persons do 1t for the great profit there is in 1t. That such prepara- tion causes death has been demonstrat- ed so often that there can be none to doubt 1t.
 The question of a remedy is becom- ing an important one. The proposition of Congressman Tawney that the Gov ernment place what would really be a prohibitive tax on 1t would not be ex- actIy just. for the reason so much of 1t is used in various manufacturing and other industries. The cost of grain or fruit alcohol. taken in con ection with the tariff on the imported article. would place many of our man ufactures and arts at a serious disad- vantage if a high revenue tax should be laid on the wood product. If 1t is possible to punish those who sell it un der an assumed name. or who mix 1t with liquors of any kind. the remedy might be made effectual. but how to get at the criminals Is the question to be solved. And yet we are told that in some recent eases of wood alcohol poisoning in Kentucky the case or package containing 1t was plainly marked "Poison.' and it Is known that the label was seen by those who drank the stuff. It is difficult to see how a law could be framed to fit case of that kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
A Curious Pronouncement,
Cincinnati Enquirer.

The time has come for a general showing of hands. The Enquirer is ready with its pronouncement. It will not, under any circumstances, fall in with leadership that has been three times rebuked by the people, but has still insisted on governing the party councils. It will not yield obedience to men who have just been enormously repudiated by their own party. It will not be coaxed, wheedled or drag ooned into suicidal course by suS- gestions of party fidelity. It Is for America. and for the American people It bows to their will as to what Is necessary for the splendid advance ment and development of the country It is for prosperity and not for calafn- ity for the sake of triumph. It is in the proud company of Democrats numbering in the millions, who re fused at the last election to be deliy- cred. It touches elbows on either side with legions who did not find in Bry- an or Parker the exemplificatIon of true Democratic faith. Good luck to personal affairs. No recriminations and no hard feelings But no more Bryan leadership, no more dilution of Democracy with Populism, repudiation and heresy; no more restraint on the night of the American eagle, and no more tugging at the holding back Enquirer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
ANOTHER HAND NEEDED.

A Boston woman who has been doing some Christmas shopping. and finds how difficult it is for one set of hands to hold many things, expresses her sur prise that mo one has invented a third hand" Sure enough, when we come to think of 1t, such an addition to the human anatomy would come in very handy at times. The fellow mentioned by The Dothan Siftings, who held his ter in the other. while he took a drink of gin must have been a sort of triple handed specimen, but if so he is an ex ception.
 But really and truly. there are times and occasions when we haven't half enough hands, and sometimes we feel that if we had as many as an octopus we could keep them all busy-and even then we'd let something drop. Still. the men are not really so badly off as the other sex. To hold shopping bag. parasoI, f-a-dozen bundles and man. age a dress skirt is more than a man could do and If he should undertake such a job he'd be arrested for litter ing the sidewalk and using bad lan- guage. A woman can manage some things a deal better than "a mere man can.
 What the Boston woman meant by inventing a third hand evidently doesn't mean a mere mechanical appliance, such as we see every day, but she wants a sure enough member that will he as ef- fective and controllable as are the ones we have. We are taught by the sci- entists that when any orgap or mem- Der of the human or animal anatomy is no longer used it will finally disap- pear, and if that is the way nature manages things why doesn't she re- verse the process and supply us with new organ when we need it? That would be but fair. and we agree with the Bostonese lady that another hand would be about as convenient as any thing we can think of. Let the wise men get busy and give us the third hand,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
Mir. Crumpton Goes West.

Rev. w. B. Crumpton, Correspond ing Secretary of the Baptist Mission Board. left the city last night for East Lake, where he will spend Christmas with his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Shel- burne. Monday he will leave for Cal ifornia, Mrs. Shelburne accompanying him as far as New Orleans.
 MT. Crumpton's brother. Dr. H. J. Crumpton, who left Wilcox County lp '49 for the land of gold, resides ar Sausalito, a beautiful little city across the bay from San Francisco. When J boy MT, Crumpton went to California and was there when the civil war broke out. Anxious to fight his coun- try's battles he made his way back through the lines. After many thrill- ing adventures he reached his friends in Mississippi-former Alabamians--in April. 1862 and fought through the balance of the war in the 37th Mis- sissippi Infantry.
 pr. Fl. J. Crumpton. although 7S years of age, is hale and hearty and in active practice of his profession; Three years ago, after an absence of forty years. MT. Crumpton visited his brother in California
 The members of the Mission Board. believing their Secretary deserved a rest. have granted him a leave of ab- sence of month or six weeks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
A MOMENTous auEsTIoN.

We have had no little harmless amusement among our contemporaries in discussing the momentous questions about Gains wife. the sex of angels, the rabbits nose wiggle, and others of like interesting nature. They serve to while away some dull moments, and to act as interludes between matters of more pressing importance, and so are very good in their place.
 It happens sometimes, however, that courts themselves. even the solemn and ancient courts of Great Britain, be- come involved in tangles as intricate as any of those we have mentioned, and a recent case in Dublin Is in point. There a man died and left his property to his next eldest brother At first sight that may have seemed a simple matter to settle, but the lawyers proved to the court that 1t is nothing of the kind. and that it has two sides to 1t. The court before which the matter came was composed of three judges. One of them held that the expression in the will might mean a younger borther. The second judge held that next eldest" couldn't possibly mean next youngest" while the other wisely decided that much might be said on both sides, and there they stuck. The matter will have to go to a higher court. which may or may not be able to settle 1t. and which, ever way they decide will be unsatis- factory. That is about all that Is cer- tain in the case.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
Newsnaper Young Man.

Jessie D. Beale. Jr, Is q Montgom- cry young man who has developed into a clever newspaper man away from hons.
 Mir Beale is here for a few days with his parents on Perry Street. He is Night Editor of The Asheville (N CD Daily Citizen. a position of great responsibility. and he has the news paper germ" which brings success in the profession.
 we think our paper compares ia vorably with other dailies in North Carolina" said MT. Beale. We pub fish A full Associated Press report and we have a full corps of competent men. Asheville is lively little city of 22,000 people and l enjoy living there"
 Before Mir. Beale went to Asheville he published a small newspaper in Hendersonville. N. C. He is greatly interested in his work and says that he is ambitious to become associated with some newspaper of the great cit les,
 That will come in time," he added q am placed so that I can learn all branches of the business and I will probably remain with The Citizen a year or more before making a change"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

fall. We repeat that We are surprised
 to find this position taken by The Ccurant. becauae many of the Northern papers approve the move- ment to cut down Southern represent ation. It is some satisfaction to know that some of them are fair-minded enough to look with disfavor on such an unfair scheme.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
<,o,x,ct. on the Roads !.

whose homes are away from Mont gomery. left yesterday for the purpose of spending Christmas at tneir homes' ConyIcts on the Roads.
 'Thc tendency of the times. said a public official lis to work convicts on the public roads and 1t IS matter @ of surprise that thls mas not been uohe
 1T read the other day with pleasure that the Montgomery County Board of Revenue had determined 10 experi. roads and since then I have observed that other counties are considering the same matter.
 on the roads of Alabama twenty years ago our public road system would not now be a disgrace to the State. The good roads movement, however, has extended to every County or the state and I am hopeful that within a de- cade our farmers will find 1t a pleas ure to travel the roads instead ot 8 danger as it now is.
 Mir. Fred Meyer has returned home after a residence of eight months in Dale County.
 Mir. Phelan Beale, a student at Co., lumbia College, New York City, is at 6O3 South Perry Street. He will be in Montgomery two weeks.
 Wiley Mir. Herbert Simon of this city. who enlisted several months ago as g landsman in the naval service, has been honorably discharged by Secre- tary Morton. His mother and family are happy upon the receipt of this Christmas gift.
 MT. R. D. Wilson of watertown. Fla, is spend the holiday sea son in Montgomery.
 Rev. George D. Booth, formerly as- sistant pastor of the First Presbyte- rian Church of Nashville, Tenn, Is in Montgomery en route to Monroe, La. of the leading Presbyterian Church MT. Booth will preach this evening at the First Presbyterian Church. He was reared in Montgomery and has many warm friends here.
 Mir. Samuel Martin Engelhardt. a student in Washington and Lee Uni versity, arrived in Montgomery yes terday to spend the holidays here on a visit to his relatives. Young MT. Englehardt has taken quite a high stand in the sophomore class of the University which he attends.
 MT. Alfred wellborn of New or- leans Is visiting his sister, Mrs. w. F. Dent, on South Street.
 MT. Willis Clark. who is a student In the University of the South, at Se- vance. In the theological department is at home until March, when the win ter vacation ends. He is with his grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Banks. on Moulton Street.
 Dr. John Watts, d former well known young man of Montgomery. but now a practicing physician in Bir- mingham. is In the city to spend the holidays with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Thomas H Watts MT, Watts has great many friends in Montgom- cry to whom his homecoming is a source of much pleasure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25

The Advertiser must also "own to surprise" at finding in The Hartford Courant, strong Republican paper this paragraphs
 We own to surprise that even one Southern newspaper should have been taken In for minute by such very cheap and tinny stage thunder" as the Tom Platt (by requesO reductions of representation bill. The thing Is as devoid of seriousness as of statesman ship.
 The Courant quotes approvingly the wish expressed by The New York Age. a colored organ, that such radical and reactionary measures as those of Platt, Crumpacker Keller and others. will
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
A ouEsTION AND ITs ANsWEk,

paper's standard is gauged by its circua tton2 We do not boast of the iaIsess .hs the world. but we do claim to nave S S.sv largest in the State of Alabama. or aIs other State or Territory of a corresponusrrss population. That IS why The Montsox Advertiser is accorded the highest stanu ard and makes 1t the most valuable meoiu h for both the advertising and reading pun, lie. The following statement compneo a ~ sworn to by our Circulation Manager shows tho actual net circulation of The AoNerusei for each day in the month of No'enDe' 1904.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
Clenr aA Mud.

HuntsVilIe Tribune.
 Speaking of Huntsville's big spring The Tribune informs us that there Is a heavy layer of stone between the surface and the water" What does the stone rest on?-Mon tgomery Ad- vertiser.
 It does not rest on anything or at any time. It carries the enterprising city of Huntsville on its back night and day, and holds the remainder of the world together all the time So it Is occupied, always busy, never rests a second Sec?