Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — EDITOR’S FATE IS UNKNOWN [ARTICLE]

EDITOR’S FATE IS UNKNOWN

Texas Newspaper Man Gives His Patrons a Few Truths. Dallas, - Texas, July 26. —A west Texas editor got tired of- being called -a “liar” because of an occasional typographical error or slight disarrangement of the facts in publishing a commonplace news item. In his wrath he announced in boldface Jjlack type as follows: “A lot of people in this town fall out with the editor and brand him as a liar when the ordinary human mistakes of life show up in a newspaper. You have a little charity and fellow feelin’ for every man in town but your editor. You 'claim that you want the_facts, and d—d if I don’t give ’em tn you. Read the next issue of. this, sheet and vou’ll see same facts with the bark .off. I’ll admit that I have been a liar, an editorial liar, ever since I have been editing this sheet, but I have never printed a lie in these columns except to save somebody’s feelings from being hurt. I’m not afraid of any of you, and' I’ll be dad-blamed if I don’t print the truth from now on, or until you get out of the hajtyt of -calling me a liar every time I make some little unavoidable typographical error. Watch my smoke.” Here are some paragraphs culled from the next issue: “John Coyle, our groceryman, who voted with the Republicans in 1 896 and consumes more” mail order whisky than any other member of the Baptist church in this country, is doing a. poor business. His store is dirty and dusty. It is a wonder he has any business at alj.” “The Rev. Sty preached last Sunday night at the Christian church. His sermon was -punk and uninteresting except some stuff he quoted from Bob Ingersoll, for which he failed to give Bob any credit. He also recited a few passages from one of William Elbert Munsey’s sermons and had the gall to palm it off as his own.’’ “Dave Chartier died at his home two miles north of this place last Thursday night. Dock Holdernes, who is an old friend of the family, attended him a few minutes, before he expired. He gave rit out that Dave died of heart failure. That is a lie. Dave died from drinking too much of a verv poor grade of mail order licker. This paper prints, the f rnth. - “Tom Spadlin married Miss Cordie Meador last trades’ day at the countv seat. It ain’t generally known, but the marriage was brought about mainly by a Remington shotgun manipulated by the Bride’s father. Tom concludin’ that marrying was the healthiest thing he could do until other arrangements could be made.” “Roger Lloyd, cashier of the State bank at Willow Grove, died Wednesday evening and. was buried Fridav by the Odd Fellows in Pleas, ant Mound cemetery. He had been .taking this paper seven years and so far. hasn’t paid us a cent, we thinking that he, being a banker, wnii’j pav some time. We will sell the account for two bits’ worth lof fresh greens.”

“Married: Miss Susie Scruggs and Horace Guffin last Saturday at the Methodist parsonage, the Rev. James C. Williams officiating. The bride is a very ordinary town girk who flirts with all the -traveling men she. and never, helped her mother three days all ppt together in her whole life. -. She is anything but a beauty, resembling a gravel pit in. the face and walk’s like a duek. The bridegroorh is*a natural-born loafer and bum. He never did a lick of work uptil his step-daddy run him off from home last fall. He went to tjie jcpiinty seat,' and -.tust before starving tb death accepted a job as chambermaid in a livery stable. As Soon ,as his ilia found out. where he waS she went and go’t him’and-brought him home. He no-w resides at the home of his wife’s , father, and ,shys. tllat he has no definite plans ' for the future. Susie will, have- a hard row to hoe.'.' ’ - \