Cooper Review. (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1913 Page: 3 of 10
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to any reader of The Review.
remedy also cures frequent desire to
urinate during the night or day in old
or young. The C. H. Rowan Drug Co.
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The paramount issue of our Board This is the age when advertising
of Trade at present and for some and boosting rules the world and
time to come is good roads for all of happy should be the town that has a
Delta county. good Board of Tradp and press agent.
BETTER THAN SPANKING.
Spanking will not cure children of
[ wetting the bed, because it is not a
1 habit but a dangerous disease. The
$ [c. H. Rbwan Drug Co., Dept. 1835,
v* Chicago, Ill., has discovered a strictly
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of CORN or COTTON depends largelyon the stand. Your seed
may be good and your seed bed excellent, yet if your planter fails
to distribute the seed properly the crop will be materially lessened.
Look our J. L C. Planter over carefully. Note the AGITA-
TOR plate, all of malleable iron. The fingers separate the cot-
ton seeds and the picker wheel finishes the job. With the seeds
once separated then an accurate drop can be secured.
cate held by my wife, No. 297
anb dated July 20,1912.
died on January 29,1913.
had only been out admission
fee.
EAST KLONDIKE.
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Some sickness in our part of the
county. )
Com is nearly all planted and some
are planting cotton.
J. R, Worley has two sick children.
Mrs. Clemmie Anderson, who has
been visiting at Klondike, returned to
her home at Katy, Texas, the past
week. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rich are the
proud parents of a little girl since
last week.
Tom Morgan and wife spent Sun-
day in Hopkins county visiting rela-
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Worley Scott
Cooper Visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Vessie Dalton of Klondike vis-
ited Mrs. J. R. Worley the past week.
Miss Julie Scott visited Mrs. L. J.
Gantt the past week.
Mrs. Ethel Worley and Mrs. Creed-
ie Studdard visited Mrs. Kate Gray
Saturday.
Mrs. Blanch Nelson and Miss Maud
.Vess of Dallas are spending a few
days with Mrs. Vennie Poteet.
Mrs. Winnie Gantt and Miss Phoe-
bia Worley were shopping in Klondike
Monday.
We had quite a little hail storm the
past week but no damage done Bo far
as we can hear. NO. fO-2 RINGS.
1CHEAP INSURANCE!
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READ DOWN-----
Don’t buy your Slippers and Shoea—
Don’t buy your Dry Goods.
Don’t buy your Furniture—
Don't buy your Clothing—No don’t—
Don’t buy your Hats—
Don’t buy your Groceries—
Above all don’t buy your Implements, and in fact, don’t buy
anything until you call on me and let us show you our most com-
plete stock. And do not sell your Eggs and Butter until ,you have
called on us or called us over the phone and know the price.
DO THIS—DO IT NOW j-
acres $100 per acre, 109
acres $60 per acre. This is all black
land, for sale on reasonable terms.
CLOWER & HARRISON,
Pecan Gap, Texas. 13*
We are getting new members
almost every day. Join now
while the rate is only $1.75.
BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE-
150 acres $75 per acre, 128 acres
$85 per acre, 152 acres $100 per
acre, 69
OU) HICKORY CHIPS.
Easter bonnets show which way the wind blows.
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COOPER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913.
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Too much Wilson in Mexico, will be neutralized by just
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Hogs used to be called “mortgage lifters.” Now they
are said to be “automobile buyers.”
President Wilson cannot complain that all these job
hunters are not forward looking men.
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It might be comparatively easy to recognize the Mexican
Government if it would only stand still a minute.
The American syndicate that financed the Madero revo-
lution will never pay more than 20 cents on the dollar.
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Historians of the next century may have something to
say about Wilsonian simplicity.
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It may be possible to produce a coinage so quaintly ar-
tistic that a man can save his nickels by convincing himself
that he is collecting brie—a—brae—
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Some impatient curiousity may naturally arise in Oyster
Bay as to when the horse-back riding and tennis are going
to start in Washington.
T v Wilson men to office. Modesty will
Wren Hart B,WnK-
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The constitution provides a salary of five dollars per ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
day for members of the legislature for the first sixty days, ‘ ‘ '
but requires them to work for two dollars per day there- enough in the United States,
after. (Some have been unkind enough to say that it is
more than they are worth.) It has become a practice for
the legislature to adjourn at the end of sixty days whether
it has done anything or not, so that an extra session will
have to be called, thus restoring their five per diem. Of
cource this is an evasion of the lav/, which is little better
than a 1
It is now painfully apparent that the ph counter la Mt
a quick lunch establishment.
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Colonel Bryan likes being Secretary of *e state and •»
does the country.
ASPIRATIONS.—The address label on your paper shows
che time to which your subscription is paid. Thus 1-12
M«ans that your subscription expires on the first day of
fanuary, 1912.____________________________________________
^HITUARlES, ETC-—All obituaries, resolutions of re-
spect and matter of like character will be charged for at
rate of 16 cent per word for each word in excess of 250;
250 words or less will be inserted free. Double price fori
poetry.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, 'standing
«*t reputation of any person, firrti or corporation which
ftaay appt
and f lly
attention.
Advertising rates are made
the month.
CITY OFFICAL
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Martial law in Columbia, SJ. C., would be an improvement
over the Blease kind.
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He looks like a real President.
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The regular duty of the Washington police is to restrain
the vivacity of the colored brother and summon cabs for
statesmen Who have dined indiscreetly. Then one day in
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The change in administration threatens to bring to light
nore favorable things about Southern navy yards than
he New England senators were able to invent about Ports-
mouth and Boston in half a century.
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T. R.’s bull moosers will back Whitman for mayor of
New York, but the chances are Aiat notwithstanding this
leavy handicap, New York’s capable prosecuting attorney
HOW A FARM PAPER EDITOR LOOKS AT A
CITY BOY’S SUICIDE.
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With Secretary Bryan controlling a big bunch of pat-
ronage, maybe he will have a little something to say about
hat tariff bill, after all.
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The popular election of senators is now practically in
sight, but how about the election of popular senators?
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San Shank, Indianapolis’ potato-selling mayor, has sign-
ed a contract to go into vaudeville, but the stage would
never have got him if P. T, Barnum were alive.
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The commoner a man talks at the State Department the
better his show for place. • ■
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Only the brave deserves the fair, but lots of timid men
are landed just the same.
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“It’s no trouble at all,” says a bill collector “to find ped-'
pe out.”
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and many other such organizations, and there is no reason tangible, something concrete, something to which he was
why cotton should not be handled the same way. This , adapted to make good in ? I think he would. I feel sure
movement is one that is of vital importance to every man,
woman and child in the cotton growing states. To the
farmer is means a reasonable price for his labor, to the
merchant it means the sale of more goods, to the banker
it means more deposits, to the lowyer, doctor, teacher,
preacher, newspaper man and every other professional
man it means prompt payment for his service. The South
has a monopoly on the production of cotton the greatest
money chrop in the world, and if we can sell it at a reas-
onable price our whole Southland wil be more prosperous
than ever before.
Hart
HART BROS.
Also Publishers of The Commerce Journal
First Door Sou.h of Southwest Corner Square.
Telephone -----------------------------------------. 86
Entered as second class matter at the postoftice of
Cooper, Texas, under the act of Congress, March, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1-00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
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President Wilson’s determination not to usi the May-
flower as hit? personal yacht will make that vessel all the
more valuable for congressional junketing parties.
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Speaker Clark it is said will appoint his son, Bennett, to
be Parliamentarian of the House. Any time the son gets
stuck on a knotty problem the old man will be right there
o help him out.
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Another reason that more splendid minds are not heard
from is that some of us put enough matter into a checker
game to conduct a serious eaterprise,
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Some are born obscure; some attain obscurity, and some
are elected tp the vice-presldncy!
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There are two editors in the new cabinet, but President
Wjlson will be the custodian of the blue pencil.
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Prosperity often depends on the things we don’t do.
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It’g easier to make enemies than it is to shake them
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Some people manage to see their duty in time to dodge
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Mexico has been setting a wretched example to its little
rothers farther south. '
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Col. Roosevelt will speak. There was a time when the
.nnouncement created a ripple of surprise.
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Speaking of the ship of state, one WilMam H. Taft looks
ike a man who was getting a great deal of enjoyment out
f shore leave.
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Though a man with money be a bad egg, people seldom
take offense until he is broken.
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No, Cordelia, so far as we know the hookworm has never
| beee» educated to hook a woman’s gown up the back.
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Brothers and sons-in-law don’t seem to be very strong
with the Administration.
The Senate is getting to look right democratic,
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A private knocker is a public nuisance.
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The fool imagines that the world is laughing with him
when it laughs at him.
violation of the law. If this feature of the consti- every four years they manage the inaugural,
tution is a bad one, why did the present legislature refuse
to call a constitution convention and remedy it?
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A Professor Bryan of the Washington department of in-
| ternational law, will deliver lectures Tuesday and Fri-
appear in the c’olumns of The -eview' will be gladly |T V111 “UI B ❖ days at 11 a. m.
' co ected unon being brought to the publishers’ |<®>
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In the current issue of Farm and Fireside the editor re-
prints the following letter left by Joseph Dobin, a sixteen
year old boy who killed himsef in New York City:
“To My Friends and Relatives: I do not want any of
you to be troubled at my voluntary death. It is necessary
Ito terminate an odious and useless existence, and what is
[necessary is just.
The weather the past week has been as erratic as politics-1 «There is a great deal of talk about the cowardice of tak-
----------o—o—o---------- |ing one’s life. Preachers vie with each other in denounc-
No man who fails to go to the polls next Tuesday and 4ng them as pagans and infidels—those who assert the
vote, is privileged to “cuss” the city government if things 'right to choose the manner of their own death. I believe
i: . lit is even more cowardly to submit weakly to social condt-
- * - ’ Itions, to allow one’s individuality to be crushed in the
grind of commercialism, toj’ve a semi-animal existence.
“I believe a serious blunder has been made in bring’ng
mission at Austin, February 13th. Mr. Lyday is Vice me into this world, as it has been made in the millions of
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'misery and degradation, and I am glad to be among tbo
[brave souls who have the courage to do away with them-
selves amid a community controlled by the sehHmental
dread of death.” r.^-
The editor of Farm and Fireside, who was in New York
when this tragedy happened, goes on to say:
"From New York I went down to Washington, apd •
reached that city the day the three hundred ‘Ohio Corn
Here was another sort of boys.
don’t go to suit him during the ensuing year.
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By request The Review is publishing in this issue an
address of Mr. D. E. Lyday before the railroad com-1
Chairman of the Farmers Uuion Cotton Ports Committee toiling drudging human beings condemned to a life of
and this address is made after careful study of rate con-
ditions prevailing for the different ports and the discrimin-
ation and consequent harmful affect upon the cotton I
producers. Every farmer should read this article,
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We have investigated the plan of the Southern States
Cotton Corporation whose object is to secure fifteen cents
per pound for cotton and we heartily endorse their plan.
We believe that it is feasible and based on sound business (Boys’ visited the capital,
principles, and urge the farmers to contract their cotton, I They had the tan of out doors on their faces and the light
for we believe that cooperative selling is the only way to get j of fun and victory in their eyes. They were made heroes
the best prices for your products. This is not a new prin-[at the Department of Agriculture. They were a happy
ciple but its success has been fully demonstrated by the Jot, for they had made good. But would not poor Joseph
truck growers, fruit growers citrus growers, rice growers , Dobin have made good; too, if he could have had something
[adapted to make good in?
he would.
“Poor Joseph Dobin may have been a brighter boy thAj
any of *the three hundred, but the life of the city, the
methods of the school, the artificial curriculum or some-
body’s bad judgment in directing him, perhaps the lack of
a wise counselor, fastened on him the habit of failure. So
he committed the greatest failure of all.
“The contract between the boy who committed suicide
and the wholesome ‘Com Boys’—that seems to me worth
while for the farmers of this country to think about for
a while.”
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