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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1909
Page
3
A man writes friends across the state urging letters and wires to legislature members to back submission, claiming saloon opponents fear removal if it carries. He says daily papers oppose him. Court bills to create new courts in Tarrant and Bexar counties referred to House sub-committee in Austin on January 27.
In the Texas House the Mobley motion to reconsider the submission question did not pass, while the Senate spent most of its time on it. Senator Murray reversed doubts and voted yes, likely sealing the anti submission position for now. Nearby, a motion to adjourn sine die on March 13 drew attention as per diem earnings end.
A committee from the House visited the College of Industrial Arts spending the forenoon at Normal college and the afternoon at the College of Industrial Arts. They observed crowded libraries poor lighting and ventilation and urged more room and better facilities for trades art and science programs including home economics and teacher education under the Thirtieth legislature.
Waco Texas January 27 Business men greet a message from Congressman Henry stating the rivers and harbors bill will provide 150000 dollars to complete the upper Brazos work and additional funds to build six dams and locks above Waco.
The president of the Industrial and Orphans Home in Macon Georgia reports nine years of use with Electric Bitters in the institution. He says the medicine aids digestion liver and kidney troubles strengthens weak children and run-down people and is effective for female complaints. Available at 50 cents from J F Raley Co.
Rusk Texas January 27 The jury found John W Wright not guilty of violating the anti nepotism law in a verdict rendered late yesterday supporting the defense claim of lack of evidence.
A House committee led by Marshall Jennings and Hill visited the state schools to study funding and policy. They reported that educational matters will receive fair and generous consideration from the current legislature, with a Senate committee planned to tour the schools soon.
Denton dispatch reports bear activity dominating today’s cotton trading. Liverpool futures slipped with March-April at 5.18 to 5.15, New York and New Orleans also lower, spot rates mixed. Local receipts light with modest price changes. Fort Worth livestock shows cattle and hogs trading varied, hogs down slight while others hold.
Local market notes show corn at 60c with earlier gains. bran up nickel at 1.30 wholesale and 1.85 to 1.45 retail. oats 59 to 55c. flour up 10c per 100 pounds. eggs steady at 20 to 22.5c. chickens weaker with fryers at 10c top and large at 7c. old hens 6 1 2 to 7c per lb. hogs strong 4 3 4 to 5c gross and 6 1 2 to 7c dressed. Abbott in Tyler reports Pure Food law talk. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised for burns and wounds at 25c to 65c.
T. D. Campbell, father of Governor Campbell, is ill in a Dallas sanitarium with acute pneumonia. He is eighty one and has been reported to his son and siblings, who have been urged to come at once. He arrived in Dallas yesterday from Greenville.
Austin dispatch reports the Texas Supreme Court today affirmed the Katy versus Waggoner case from Grayson and overruled motions for rehearing in several Bexar county cases. Dallas note: John Gillespie the Prairieville postmaster pleads insanity in a federal embezzlement case involving $1400 with Dr Gregory of Terrell as a witness.
A fragment notes furnished room listings in the Record and Chronicle want ads. It references easy squelching of trowpies through classified notices and implies constraints on rental postings in the period.
The Temple and Aller company finishes a run at the Majestic with sketches and the show The Devil. Audience members who missed the first performance are urged to attend the repeat. A program of pictures and songs accompanies the act.
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