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The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1909-12-30

Miss Hattie Melee who has
zen attending Belmont College
at Nashville, Tenn, spent the
here with her parents
and friends.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1909-12-30

Last Saturday night, at about
10 o'clock, Mr.. Harry Nideyer, of
Post, and Miss Clara Carnahan,
this county were united in we'd
locks holy bonds, at the home Of
Rev. j. II. Richards, in Emma,
Rev Richards officiating.
Mr.. Nldever is an employee in
the Planning Mills at Post, and has
a nice, comfortable home in which
20 enscone his pretty bride.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1909-12-30
INEW YEAR GREETINGS

We have EiQhty-ri,e Thousand Dollars in Cap
ilal and Surplus, and after Jan. D. the uou-in-
tercst bearing and unsecured deposits OF This
Bank viii be protected by the STATE BANK
GUARANTY FUND. This makes as safe
enough for the most prudent.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1909-12-30

We wish 70 thank our Friend, and Customers
for the business they have given us during the
year 1900. and may good luck and happiness
attend you during the year 1910.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1909
GREATER BROWNSVILLE
COMING SOON.

The sewerage system is assured
and in the near future Brownsvume
will be supplied with this highly es-
sential adjunct of modern ciyiliZa-
ton. 1t scarcely need be said that,
in securing the construction of this
improvement, Brownsville has taken
a very important step towards as
surfing its rapid development Many
who have delayed building here be
cause OF our lack of a sewerage
system Will doubtless lose no time
now in doing so. The present year
has already witnessed the erection
of a large number Of new buildings
The coming twelve months Will with
out doubt witness an Unprecedented
activity in all building lines in the
city. That one or more large hO-
tells viii be built is very probable,
while several large business houses
are sure to be erected before long,
as various business enterprises have
been looking fol- suitable buildings
here. The active demand for dwell
lings which still continues and high
rents being paid for such as are
available are also a sure indication
that many more dwellings VIII be
built here before long So that, the
beginning OF work on the sew erage
system Will very proabably inaugu-
rate a renewed building activity
which viii soon increase Browns
ville's proportions very greatly
And, if a hint to the sewerage
company be in order, it would be
well for it to see that the system
IS planned to accommodate the
Greater Brownsville, which already
looms portentously in the near flu
ture
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
HARLINGEN HAPPENINGS
To the Herald.

To the Herald
Harrington, Sept. 22.-The new
State Bank of Harrington will open
for business on or before October
l. The fixtures are now being
placed in the west room of the Lon
C. Hill block, which will be the
location for the bank until the new
buiIu.ng to be erected for it is COM
pleted.
A new lumber yard in addition 10
the two already established here, is
to be opened in the near future.
H. n Marrow, who has a large feed
barn here has formed = partnership
with his brother to omen the lumber
yard The firm W be known as
the Morrow Bros. Lumber Co \
great deal of the stock Is now here
and being unloaded, while more is
on the way When all IS here. they
will have one of the most complete
stocks of lumber in the v9iley-
j. d. Ellis has opened men
furnishing store in the Weller
block. This is a store that was need
ed. and We bespeaI for Mr. Ellis a
fire trade
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
MISSION MATTERS

To The Herald
Mission, Texas, Sept 22-J- w
Holt returned to Mission today from
st. Louis, Mo, in company with H
W King. Mr.. King is a civil engi-
neer and is down here to look over
the La LOmita tract
Mrs. D. H. Law has returned from
Dixon, Ill, after an absence of sew
eral months and will spend the whit
er here
Mr. Michael Parkinson OF Beaver
Falls, Pa, arrived here a few days
ago and will at once proceed to de
velOp his twenty acre tract north of
town
Miss \. ]. Kildahl of Chicago.
Ill, has recently purchased twelve
lots in the residence section OF Mis-
SiCn
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. S. Beard, who
formerly had charge of the San Car
los hotel at Brownsville. arrived here
Sunday to take charge of the Mission
Inn \ carload of furnishings has
been received.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
SAN BE-..fo SCHOOL OPENS.
Enrolment OF 125 PupiIS-SOOn to
Have $4,000 School House
TO The Herald

To The Herald
San Benito, Texas, Sept. 22.-The
San BenitO public school opened
here Monday morning, enrolling
about one hundred and twenty-five
children The school board here
erected Il large temporary school for
the time being, until the large brick
building, to cost SO, 200. for which
an issue of bonds was voted, can be
built The teachers in charge are
Iue very best The principal, Ralph
Woodward of New York, is a gradu-
ate OF Harvard and also a student
of Berlin and StrasbOurg, besides
having taught several years in New
York. and at the government college
at Honolulu, Hawai- The other
teachers are Miss Maud Hamilton,
of Arkansas, who is Just from Cuba,
having taught three years there; Miss
Matte Lastinger OF Brownsville
Miss Kitner of Missouri, Miss Nell
Johnson of Indianapolis. and Miss
Kate Purvis of San Benito. The
probabilities are that quite a number
more of children viii be enrolled
before long.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
HXRLINGEN TO HAVE \ BANK
New state Bank Will Open Its Door,
Next Week

Another banking institution which
will facilitate financial transactions
in the valley is the Harrington State
Bank, which viii open its doors for
business next week. Several prom
inent citizens of Harrington are iden-
titled with the new bank, and
Brownsville is also represented in
the directorate, in the person of f.
A. McGary and Charles NJ. Arm
strong
1t was from the latter that the
Herald obtained its Information rel
ative to the matter Mr. Armstrong
states that the bank Is having tenn
pOrary quarters fitted up in the
Hill building to be used until the
new bank building to be erected on
the adjoining lot is completed
The capital stock of SIS, 900 has
been subscribed and paid in and the
application for the charter has been
forwarded to Austin. The bank will
start in as soon after the charter
is issued as a bank examiner can
get here. the Texas law requiring an
examiner to be present at the open
ing of a new bank.
The officers of the new iHstitu-
ton are as follows
President, Lon c. Hill.
Vice. president, S w. Campbell
Cashier, R E Chambers
Directors: z. A. McGary, Ray
mOnd Dickson, Chas VI. armstrong,
\. H. Weller, P. D. Haley and the
three officers.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
RAYMONDVILLE HAS
BUSINESS CLUB.
Prominent Citizens Identified With
Move-Other Items of Interest
From the Town.
To The Herald.

To The Herald.
Raymondville. Tex, Sept ga
Business Mems Club which Will use
its best endeavors to promote the de-
velopment and up-building of Ray
mondville and the surrounding COM
munities has been organized, with
the following officers:
S. l.. Gill, president; Ed Mann,
vice president; w S. Overstreet, sec
rotary and treasurer. A number Of
other prominent business men are
interested in the move.
The gin started Monday and the
fleecy staple as well as the hum of
the machinery gladdens the hearts OF
our farmers.
At a meeting of the Board Of
School Trustees, Miss Clella B.
Burnes was elected as teacher in the
primary grades and it was decided to
open school on September 81.
Everybody is jubilant over the
condition of the country surround
ing Raymondville-e everything is
green and the growth of vegetation,
etc, astonishing.
E. W. Bauer has returned from
San Benito and is fixing up an OF
flee on Hidalgo avenue.
F. n. Raymond and brother Ed,
left the first of the week to resume
their studies at college.
c. F. Craig, after an absence OF
some time in the North, was visi-
FOR from Word Monday
L. J. Barbour has moved into his
new cottage on the 'l0-acre tracts
of the Gulf Coast Irrigation Co.
Linton 3. Woods cottage on the
"10-acre tracts is about completed.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
Sea Island Cotton in War Times.

Sea Island Cotton in War Times
Speaking about cotton, Mr. Nike
Dunn said today that the first cot
ton grown in Nueces county was Sea
Island cotton, raised on the Oso be-
fore the civil wa> General H. P
Bee, who settled there near the John
Gallagher place, planted the seed
and giHned the staple with a gin run
by horse power The general moved
away shortly after, going to San
Marcos, selling his gin TO Mir, John
Dunn, father Of Nike Dunn, just be
fore leaving the country.
Later on, Mr. Thomas Dunn, faith
er OF Pat and ThOs. B. Dunn, went
to North Carolina and bought anOth-
er gin similar to the one already
here. This variety OF cotton was
grown successfully, the only kind
grown here in those days. till the
war came on, when the business was
abandoned
Mr.. Dunn says Sea Island cotton
is hard TO pick Picking 100 pounds
a day was considered a good days
work. The cotton was first put into
sacks like wool and brought good
prices. Mr.. Dunn sent some to
Brownsville where it sold at ST a
pound in gold
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

II Is lucky Cook and Peary are
both OF the same nation. Their ri
val claims to the North Pole might
have caused international GOODNESS
had they been of different countries
AS il is, Uncle Sam seems threaten
ed with a petty civil war over the
diSpute
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
BURIED AT ST. PETER.
Gov. JOhnson's Body Taken From
st. Paul to Old Home.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
St Paul Mimi. Sept 23.-In
keeping with the dignity of the high
est office in Minnesota, and to the
accompaniment of tolling bells, the
body of former Governor johnson
was escorted from the rotunda of the
state capitol today with military
pomp to the train for st. Peter.
Mimi, his last resting place
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
DICkINsON DAY.
At State Fair in Nashville. Gea. Grant
Reviews Confederates
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Nashville. Sept. 234-This is Dick
inson Day at the state fair here and
despite the threatening weather i'm
mense crowds turned out to DO honor
70 the secretary of war. This evening
General Frederick Grant reviewed a
uniformed regiment of Confederate
soldiers in front of the grand stand,
himself appearing in full uniform of
a. general of the United States army.
Secretary Dickinson delivered an
address at the fair this evening.
General Grant also made few re-
marks.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

Some of the railroads in the Unit
ed States have placed the bible i'll
the libraries Of their trains, and it
is encouraging TO remember that the
officials traveL-HoustOn Chronicle
1t does not follow, however. that
the officials will read the good
book
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

The enterprising Gulf Coast Rec
ord is two years old and celebrates
its birthday by charging from six
to seven columns Editor Toner IS
doing his best to make the Record
one Of the best weeklies in South
Texas, and Kingsville should show
a substantial appreciation OF his eff
forts
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

Brownsville is growing right
along, new houses building every
day, and the demand is still for
more. The knockers can't hold the
town back
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

A good rule for irrigated farming:
Use a minimum amount of water
and a maximum amount Of cultiva-
ton.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
LEE MCCULLOUGH OF
YALE. [. =. TREASURER

BY Associated Press
Washington. Sept. 23.-Lee Nc
Coliough. treasurer of Yale universe
ty, has been selected as treasurer of
the United States to succeed Charles
II Treat.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

Another Vanderbilt divorce suit.
1t evidently runs in the family
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
COTTON MARKET
CARRIED AWAY
Touches HIGHEST POINT SINCE
WAR AT THIS DATE.
Price Advanced $50 per Bale Since
Yesterday-All Deliveries Score
New ReCOrdS-PreSent Price To-
tai Crop Worth S7O6. 900, 900.

New York, Sept. pa fresh
wave of bullish excitement fairly
carried away the cotton market to-
day with every delivery on the nst
making new high records for the
season and prices scoring advances
from yesterdays close of 90 to 81
points, or over $50 bale
The price of approximately 1919
cents reached today is the highest
ever paid for cotton since the civil
war at this date. Surprising the
crop amounts to only IO,5Jy, 900
bales, at the present price, it would
be worth a round $706,0OO, ZOO, the
largest amount ever realized for d
single crop in the history of the
trade
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
The Stock Market

New York, Sept. 2S-The open
ing prices Of stocks today averaged
a fraction lower, but changes were
generally small and many stocks
started unchanged. There We're also
o small number OF gains,
In the afternoon, the market be-
came stagnant and prices eased off.
Southern Pacific, however, was
strong and advanced a point
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

Cotton spot closed quiet, 40 points
higher; middling uplands 1885;
middling gulf 1880 Futures
closed strong; Oct. 1886; Dec. -
80: Jan. 1885; March 1914.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23

Liverpool, Sept 23.-Cotton
spots gained 8 points today on an
active market, closing at 7,63d.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-23
By Brownsville Herald Publishing Co.

Official County, and city Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-20
FACTS AROrT ABsORPTION.

Senator Culberson of Texas evidently
thought he would uncover a mares
nest when he introduced his resolution
calling for information concerning
the absorption by the United States
steel corporation of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad company, but
the only result is to disclose facts
which are entirely praiseworthy con-
cerning the attitude of the president
and the representatives of the cor
poration. 1t is peculiar, however, how
misleading statements can be made
about the real facts in the case, says
the Iron Trade Review.
Before, however, the transaction was
consummated, Judge Gary and Mr..
Frick, representing the steel. corpora
tion, and showing characteristic dis
position not to take any chance of
violating the law, went to the presi-
dent and explained to him the object
of the contemplated absorption. They
stated that, as a mere business trans
action, they did not care to purchase
the Tennessee stock, and that under
ordinary circumstances they would not
do so. that the corporation had fol-
lowed the policy of declining to ac-
quire more than so per cent of the
steel properties of the country and
that the acquisition of the Tennessee
company would not raise the percent
age owned by the Steel corporation
above so. They expressed their desire
to do all they could to prevent a panic
and, as the president expressed it, a
general industrial smashup," and that
they did not wish to carry out the
transaction if the president stated that
it ought not to be done. ST answered" :"
says the president, ''that, while. of
course I could not advise them to take
the action proposed, felt it no public
duty of mine to interpose any objec-
ton" The president adds that after
the absorption was consummated, he
was orally advised by the attorney
general that in his opinion no sufficient
ground existed for legal proceedings
against the Steel corporation, and that
the situation had been in no way
changed by the acquisition of the Ten
nessee company. It will thus be seen
that the president did not assume that
there might be a law preventing the
absorption, but that he simply felt it
was not his duty to interpose an OBJ
lection. He rendered an important
public service in taking this position.
and it is well for the sake of all con-
cerned that the facts have become
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-20
OREGON,s SENATOR.

An unusual chapter in the political
history of the country was written on
Tuesday when a Republican majority
in the Oregon legislature elected Dem
ocrat, Governor Chamberlain as
one of the states representatives in
the United States senate. There has
been a good deal of discussion and
doubt during the past few weeks that
this unique event would take place, but
why there has been any such discussion
OF doubt it is hard to fathom. Because
in electing Mr.. Chamberlain to a Uni
ted States senatorship the Republican
members were merely fulfilling their
ante-election pledges to the people to
the effect that if they were elected
they would vote for the United States
senatorial candidate who received the
largest popular vote in the state. That
is the new method provided by Oregon
for giving her people a voice in the Sc
lection of United States senators. Had
the Republican legislators disregarded
their pledges, just because man of
some other party was desired by the
people to represent them in the Uni
ted States senate, they would have been
unworthy to be classed as men and
probably some serious trouble would
have resulted.
There is a question, though, as to
whether or not this Oregon method of
selecting a United States senator will
become popular. 1t does away, when
an occasion such as the present one de-
velops, of government by parties which
is written with an indelible hand into
the institutions of the United States.
On this ground it is likely to prove OBJ
0I15 fnr7c
do not hold to the extension of the di-
rect primary system to the nomination
of United States senatorial candidates
such as is provided for by the new
Kansas law on the subject and which
worked with such apparently good re-
suits on it's first trial This extends
the government by parties in strictly
logical way into new and desirable
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-20
Drew shin to Its Doom.

That the seacoast's magnetic infiu-
ence drew his stout ship to its rugged.
ironribbed shore is the explanation of
Captain KeIdie of the wrecking of the
British steamer Sandal, which was lost
on the coast in question, and he has
made an affidavit embodying the fore
going statement. The affidavit is on
file with the board of trade in Eng
land.
Not only does the commander of the
Sandal attribute the loss of his vessel
wholly to the magutic influence OF
Lapland,. but Joseph .Newmarch, first
mate of the wrecked vessel, swears TO
a personal knowledge. gained by many
years experience in that region, of the
magnet like qualities of the coast
which hold the bones of the Sandal.
Loaded with timber which she took
aboard at Archangel, in the White sea,
Russia, the Sandal was bound to the
Tyne river, England. Captain Keldie
said:
ST am convinced that nothing could
have saved the Sandal. The particular
part of Lapland where she struck I
have since found composed of iron
I am equally positive that the magnet
ic attraction disturbed our compasses
and drew US steadily landward. The
weather was hazy at the time"
Mate Newmarch said that for an
hour before the ship struck it was i'm
possible to keep her on her course,
that her head kept yawing in the di-
rection of the land, and that, in his
opinion, the stranding was caused by
the attraction of the land.-New York
Evening Mail.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.J

TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
1t is a rare man who can do favor
delicately.
Everything man likes to do, a woman
can prove is wicked
There are a good many exceptions to
the rule of common sense.
When you have a cold, you are sick;
don't imagine that you are only half sick.
Winter is also the only season when
every town can boast of its winning base
Even a 16-year-oId girl with her Sun
days on, isn't as sweet as baby that
Believe in Christian Science enough to
believe your health would be better If
you only thought so.
Get behind the girl who says her hair is
naturally curly, and you, viii find curl
ing iron scar on her neck
The only time man of experience
tell her he is not making any money.
Very often, when the oldest girl of
| the family narr1es. the house Is left
boss. Be 's A-'As ''i-'-O- ''''-' "''A'O' any
The people seem to be divided into two
classes on Sunday; " those Who 10, get lone @
A lot of men try to be fair. but not
many would give themselves the worst OF
it in compiling an autobiography.
! When a man scolds, he repeats toe
much, but the same complaint is never
made of the man in complimentary
Some people like to worry so well that
| they wouldn't enjoy being happy unless
they could worry for fear they wouldn't
always be.
BY the time man and woman meet
! the they would like to marry, the
love they have to offer is as battered VI
as a last seasons baseball
If you want to hear a terrible tale, get a
married woman to tell what she would DC
| her; that is, strike her.
| Speaking of handicaps: What is more
| tragic than the situation of the syrnpa-
| thetic woman at funeral who finds she
has left her handkerchief at home?
| EXCUSE me for interrupting you in your
| reading, conversation. and maps, ladies
1 and gentlemen said a polite brakeman
| on the Central Branch the other day,
I but this is Pennington"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-20
PErER HOMES

She yielded to her mothers harsh COM
mandS
(Ambitious parents are such thorns to
And gave, not nea-t. but icy little hands
To Sir John scraggsby, Bart. K
To crafty a parents selfish pride
She broke her heart and that of Peter
Poor Peters honest, noble love denied
He blackened up and went through life
as Bones
saw him at a minstrel show last night,
The end man, asking questions Of the
houri
And oh! the fiendishness of his delight
When Of wives mothers he made visage
sour.
AIasl the world of fashion oft can tell
OF perjured vows and honest love de-
And when the great asbestos curtain fell
For Peter Jones, the Bones,' 1 softly
criedd.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
AS a woman sews, SO shall her husband
rip.
Diamonds come highest when sold at cut
rates.
wise man make proverbs that fools may
misquote them
Crooks understand the art of getting out
of financial straits.
Women wouldn't be so taIzative if they
only spoke their minds.
But the silver lining of most clouds is
not of the triple-plate brand.
The light of happiness is often shut out
by the shadow of suspicion.
The average man will quickly acknowl-
edge the corn if you step on his foot.
When a mans heart is broken by a
woman he employs some other woman 10
mend it,
It's good thing to have opinions-and
it's better thing to keep the lid on them
sometimes.
Some people spend SO much time handing
out advice that they have no time to ac-
complish anything.
When a woman's husband is the subject
of conversation, she isn't in a position to
say what she really thinks.
AS long as a man is willing to pay the
freight he can always find a crowd stand
ing around waiting to give him the glad
hand.