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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
2
The Hearne Democrat notes J Felton Lane as editor and proprietor in Hearne Texas. The brief item identifies Lane's role and title within the newspaper.
Representative Bartlett of Georgia leads the push for a one cent letter postage rate. He cites post office finances showing heavy profits from first class mail and argues the system should be operated at cost with a lower rate for letters, aiming for reform in the next winter session.
A long serving college town treasurer and former mayor, admired for 22 years, led a modest academic life until a disclosure last September ushered in questions about the endowment fund and possible financial misconduct within the scholarly community.
An elderly county treasurer on the Atlantic Coast mishandled funds totaling 15 250 dollars and 1 600 short, with money siphoned to aid an incompetent son. After death by suicide, a note read I have never succeeded at anything. No mean motives. a tragic tale of intent, not theft, reflecting life in the far west and great cities.
A Cleburne Enterprise editorial extols city growth through sacrifice and unity. It urges residents to invest money and labor, advertise, and attract others, asserting enthusiasm and faith in the hometown drive development and competition for a better, larger city.
A column urges residents to maintain sidewalks and keep premises neat while criticizing city inaction on public spaces. It notes a flood of vagrants, calls for relocation or employment, and encourages local business advertising with a playful nudge about Christmas seals and Red One dollar’s worth.
Christmas seal charity appeal urges readers to support crippled children in hospitals, urging acts of giving beyond receiving. The column cites civic duty, rural prosperity, and rainfall as symbols of community effort, urging farmers, lawyers, doctors, and townsfolk to participate, while stressing unity through faith and service.
The Hearne Democrat announces a price hold at $1.50 per year in advance to cover production costs. Readers are urged to pay by January first and will face monthly list cleanups for accounts over a month in arrears. The paper asks subscribers to support the newspaper with timely payments.
General Mercado and his soil diers lead hundreds of civilians fleeing on foot from Ghauaru as federal forces withdraw.
General Villa reports Chihuahua City evacuated by 2,000 federal troops led by Salvador Mercado. Federals retreating to Ojinaga and mountains west of the city, civilians marching toward the U S border amid starvation. Villa aims to intercept Mercado and capture Orozco and Salazar as he concentrates forces near Chihuahua. Half a million in provisions and 100,000 from Banco Minero seized in Juarez to aid the rebels.
In Jourdanton Texas the jury found Porfirio Torres guilty of murder in the Fowlerton killing on October 25 and imposed the death penalty. It marks the first death sentence in Atascosa County since 1856.
The Chilean battleship Almirante La Torre was launched Thursday at the Elswick shipyard in Newcastle England. Displacement 28 000 tons engines 30 000 indicated horsepower contract calls for 23 knots speed.
The first Texas sulphur shipment from Bryan Heights left on Saturday. A twenty five car train carried about 1000 tons headed for Freeport. The historic load marks Texas sulphur moving from its only mineral mines.
Washington secretary of labor urged Congress to appropriate 107000 dollars for improving the Galveston quarantine facility. The request includes acquiring a ferry boat to assist operations at the station.
The Royal Society on Tuesday awarded the Hughes medal to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell of Washington for his investigations into technical electricity.
The Texas State Supreme Court in an opinion by Julie Nelson Phillips held the Thirty third legislature land reappraisal act constitutional. It provides forfeiting landowners a repurchase option at a reappraised value within 90 days, not reinstatement at a different value, and the mandamus request to repurchase was denied. The court ruled the act offers a preference right to repurchase, not relief from purchase obligations, and is not unconstitutional.
Attorney General Mc Reynolds conferred Thursday with Representative McKellar of Tennessee, author of a bill to control shipments of cold storage products in interstate commerce. As a result the department of justice will assist in any congressional investigation.
William Bayard Hale departed Nogales on Wednesday bound for Washington to report to President Wilson about the recent conferences he held with General Venustiano Carranza, the leader of Mexico's constitutionalists.
Henry Greenwall longtime dean of southern theatrical magnates and the oldest active theatre manager in the United States died Thursday in New Orleans at an advanced age. Brights disease and old age were listed as causes.
Congress began the long session, with only routine formalities marking the transition from the old to the new. The session is expected to extend into next summer as lawmakers settle into ongoing business.
Mexican oil field notes that Mexia Oil and Gas Company brought in a large dry gas well on the Mary Focke lease seven miles southwest of Mexia. The well is estimated to produce 15,000,000 cubic feet of dry gas per day.
The new $6,000 school building in San Leon Texas is completed with land donated by The San Leon Company and a county bond issue of $6,500 approved for the project. J C Yantis and associates from California plan to develop oil and gas fields around Colman Texas.
Washington announces under the new tariff act that raw wool is placed on the free list. It is estimated that about $1,000,000 worth of wool remained in bond in New York awaiting admission free.
Washington reports customs receipts for November fell by 4,500,600 compared with November 1912, per the monthly treasury statement issued Monday. The drop signals tighter federal revenue conditions as the fiscal picture shifts amid ongoing economic concerns.
Local notes show Elliott progressing under Miss Scott and Miss Kellogg with new school grounds purchased for a future modern building. Residents critique road work delays on the Hearne Franklin route and demand bridge construction over Three-mile Creek to ease taxes and access.
The McDagwell family and others express gratitude to Hearne citizens for their generous aid and sympathy during J. C. Johnsons long illness. They praise prompt, compassionate help and pray for divine guidance and blessings on all who assisted.
The many friends of age McGee learn that he has been returned to the Hearne church for the ensuing year. Rev. McGee's work has been crowned with great success and the people of the city, without regard to church or creed, are glad that he and his family will remain in the community.
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