State Herald, The (Newspaper) - March 2, 1905, Mexia, Texas See Sandford Smith for Life and Tornado Insurance TH STATE 6 THURSDAY No 9 Our Austin Letter Some of the Doings of the Social Tne question of raising the for tnc support of the state to pav the present is from being although j Williams has been passed j up to the senate by the uid no doubt other bills will be there before this is The rond roads convention which met Here last week proved unto an interesting event and no valuable ton imparted to the tr to leurn aboi Davidson has forma the p of in the c i to each teacher or There is one employe university to every tfn students in the Agricultural anc Mechanical college la one U each student The asylums one employe i i about five IT six Tne senate prohibiting any county or from ap anv relative to a po sition under him been kill ihe house of the mm the house and til of the and cele Washingtons birthday y an excursion to Laredo tne bull The senate just as if there been no father of his or his little rule is that but at is to speaking in the He is expected here about tne first of ApriL Out in Ochiltree county a state of against the payment of state taxes on lands bought from the but not yet paid The citizens refuse to pay and the county officials back them To meet this par a drastic measure was passed by the house and sent to the Now some of the senators want to lock on an amendment compelling farmers everywhere to swear to the value of their It has been suggested that such a will double the taxes of the average A big part of Thursdays ses sion was devoted to discussing a resolution which was intended to smoke out a increasing the ad valorem tax rate to 25 cents on the one hundred The resolution was killed by a good or but there is one in the who ciui Senator Glasscock will tomor row introduce a providing that where a citizen is summoned as a juror and cither at county or district he shall receive his pay as a juror even though he was not He as it is large numbers of citizens are made to go long distances and lose much time ant are not sworn in anil DO Glasscock says hi if will prevent this and will make tha officers use more discretion in summoning jurors and will stop so much in discriminate excusing of jurors The senate lias adopted a minors entering en pin alleys and billiard This is a good and ought to jecome a The house had much fun Fri lay out of a Texas member when the session first con returned with much ado the railroad passes for himself I Only 10 Days More g OF THE GREAT Jj CLEAN SWEEP SALEl I WHICH WILL POSITIVELY CLOSE Saturday March Thousands have attended our sale and that they are more than pleased with the bargains that we are offering during this sale is on every so if you fail to avail yourself of the opportunity of attending the Greatest Sale Ever Inaugurated In Mexia you are sleeping on your own We have sold entirely out of several but have hundreds of others to new goods every so come with the they are still and family but while watching the bull fights he was touched i the attention of the a who not only got his and that is Blount f passes but his money as He is one off A little scrap occurred in the house the day over a reso thoe one every now and then whose Sincerity intense it bc ibi of ID ou of his he do cm need the wind in saying that if the of some of the speakers were cut they would be f like full of Much time of the committees has been taken up in considera tion of certain consolidation bills are meeting with than in former We have just received a line of the Famous Faultless brand of mens suits that our buyer bought at SOc on the We have these on sale at the following prices Suits at Suits at Suits at at Clean Sweep Prices on How is This Brooms sweep clean each Fine line of ladies all new styles we are selling at regular wholesale have a few ladies fine Jackets left on which the Clean Sweep price is less than half the cost to manufacture SHOES Another hundred pairs of pJe Shoes just that we have piled out on the and Remember that nothing is Everything in stock at L PRICES during this BARGAIN I effort will lution providing for the them in ing of a portrait or General Ed ward to be hung in the hail of the house of representa Such a portrait was hung in the old capitol more than fifty years ago along with portraits of Austin and These were destroyed by fire ime vice president of the ic of and at his death was of the senate of the tate of The proposed amendments to he Terrell election law propose o hold the primaries in An be made when the old capitol was reduced Commissioners Commissioners court adjourned last after a very busy ses Before adjournment was had Judge Kimbell had himself placed on record as favoring the selling of all and There are a number of bills having for their object Use increase of the condensation i r various county has been invited to visit to The portraits of county and furnish all and Crockett have Old Ed Austin since been Burleson was one of the brav est of the band of pioneers who freed this state from Mexican domination and helped to rid it of the Indians who terrorized the early At San at Sao Jacinto and on all occas ions danger lurked in the first days of the republic he was figure in the struggle for General Burleson was at one overseers of public roads with plows and scrapers and help them when they actually need A majority of the court did not agree with the The county attorney was also instructed to investigate and prosecute all road bands and overseers who failed to with the law in the ard management of their Joe Peeples was granted tele phone the city of and will erect phone system in that growing little FIRST TAX UP TO GOVERNOR Texas Legislature Passes Brelsford Franchise Tax senate this morning passed finally the franchise increasing the franchise taxes to be paid by foreign and domestic raising that of do ately iaO per cent and foreign i Under the rules the reso lution went The house adopted a resolution appropriating out of the con tingent fund to pay a nurse for waiting on Representative Foun tains also adopted a resolution looking to the liberation of Mac The Love gross earning tax was UD when the house took a Good Situation The Brush of want an active man or woman for Mex i ia and surrounding territory to sell the Worlds Only Floor and Caret TVinner of the Gold corporations per about j equalizing The principal amendment pro vider that the increased graduat ed tax shall not apply to at the St Louis Krnch r ations having no capital stock or for the exclusive purpose of promoting the commercial in of any city or The house concurred in the senate amendments and the went to the This is the first tax reform measure to reach he Senator introduced a resolution requesting President Roosevelt to extend the Standard Oil investigation to the Texas This brush sweeps without dust and is tailing the plane of other methods of sweeping Its durability makes it cheaper than a broom This is an excellent opportunity to secure a good paying position and employment No experience necessary If interested write the Milwaukee Dust less Brush after a short in our city has return ed to her home m fff
