Val Verde County Herald (Del Rio, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1919 Page: 3 of 10
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HBK.4IJ), HUDAT, MAY It
Our Neighbors.
Make Your
Home Ideal
INSTALL
Delco-Lights
and
Water
System
Together with Standard
Plumbing
Fixtures
(Paper of Mrs. F. M. Brady,
read before New Century Club.)
It is fitting that one of the last
papers of our year should have
i this title. It is possibly the most
important subject and it is cer-
tainly the most delightful. And mie, which
as nearly all human persons ‘guishes both
would, I am going to talk about
the delightful side first—conven-
tions are the only things that
prevent us eating our dessert be-
fore the dinner.
It has been said that you can
tor oil and Jamaica finger and
unspeakable comfort? My neigh-
bor.
And during my absence from
home when Jimmie starts a fire
in the yard which endangers the
fence and the house and neigh-
l>orhood—who is it arrives in the
nick of time with a hose for the
fire and a float! of words for Jim-
eftectually extin-
rny neighbor.
When the black Camel kneels
at my door, and the Angel of
Death hovers over my roof there
is one helper who is ever pres-
ent, unobtrusively, patient, un-
faltering. One who ministers in
live without friends, but not j the sick room and in the kitchen
without neighbors. Nobody whose courage never wavers,
knows the truth of this as well
whose strength never fails,
as women. There is need of some whose sympathy and kindliness
one to touch elbows with in our'are like Gods, it is my neighbor,
everyday life and this contact is she rejoices with me when I re-
a stay and comfort beyond all joice, weeps with me when I
weep.
So for better, for worse, for
richer or poorer, in sickness and
in health, thank God for my
neighbor.
There is another side of the
This with ocr high-grade
workmanship gives you
all the modern conveni-
ences on ranch as in City.
We serve to please.
computation in the desert of ex-
istence.
Your neighbor may not go to
the same church—may be of a
Idifferent political faith—may not
j belong to the same clubs—in fact
may even speak a different lan-jsubject however, which ought to
guage—but the mere fact that receive a little attention. I have
| we have a party fence between1 been talking about my neighbors
us, that we can see each others from the homey standpoint of
[back yards and all its activities the old fashioned woman, but
J—that we can exchange civilities now for the sake of our club and
land gossip in our house dresses the newly enfranchised woman
land aprons creates a tie, a bond!standpoint, it ought to be con-
jbetween us which is as dear as’sidered as a national and truly
friendship and just as enduring. |vital subject.
In fact it is a superior type of j Neighbors used to mean
■ ■ i friendship because you can never “those who dwell near by,” but
fLm ft I" IIr ^ be on dress parade with your now-a-days with our improved
IVI LI. lit ; neighbors, they really see and methods of transportation and
i know you as you are. And it is communication everybody dwells
;not friendship put to its severest near by to everybody else. We
^ test? When the minister drops can actually know the most in-
■ in just about tea time—and youjtimate affairs of all the people on
|must ask him to stay—though;earth day by dav, just as they
iyou know you have nothing but happen. We know today all the
bread and butter in the house— doings of the world yesterday,
Prof 1. C. Bagwell and Misses and he stays—who is it that'what people are wearing, what
Lillian Ballou and Vera Kellis, of | smuggles half a dozen eggs, a I they have to eat, what kind of
Sterling City, Texas, w'ere in the;few slices of cold roast and the(weather, or what social or poli-
city last Saturday on business remains of a Sunday cake over, tical questions disturb them, and
DEALER
Betty Said She Could Bake
“I knew she never had baked a cake
and I was doubtful But I told her
to go ahead.
“She got my treasured Royal Cook
Book, my can of Royal Baking Pow-
der and all the fixings—and sailed in.
“Honestly, it was the best cake we
ever had, and now I believe anyone
who tries can bake anything with
Royal Baking Powder
Absolutely Pure
Made from Cream of Tartar derived from grape®
Royal Contains No Alum-
Leaves No Bitter Taste
The Royal Cook Book, containing over 500 recipes for all kinds of cookery, mailed
free. Write for a copy to
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., Dept. H, 135 William Street, New York
in connection with school affairs.
Prof. Bagwell is the newly elect
ed superintendent and the two
young ladies have accepted jxisi-
tions in the school. Miss Kellis
is the daughter of Representa-
tive Kellis of Sterling Citjs
-o-
Mrs. E. F. Measels,
your back fence and into your]the price of their products. In
kitchen? Is it your dearest!fact, we can see the back yards
friend or your nearest relative?jand through the windows of
None o fthese move to your help everybody’s house, for every
-it is your neighbor.
When Jane has the
been critically ill, is, we are glad
to report, now on the road to re-
covery.
body is our neighlxm. How are
croup oi we to deal with our world neigh-
jthe tummy ache in the dead mid- bors? I know that time has been
idle of the night and the Doctor when it was considered proper
who has can’t be reached, who is it that for men only to discuss subjects
comes in. in her slippers and bath
robe with ready counsel and a
helping hand, with salve and cas-
as large as this, and they thought
it ought to be spoken of with due
gravity, with frowning brows
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A Good Tire Year
and the
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Men were never so stupid as
when they considered themselves
as being the only intellectuals.
international relationship fo
them is the heaviest of all im-
portant questions, but to us it is
simplicity itself.
largest words, culled Notice to Debtors and Creditors. Hobart McDowell is in Min-
heaviest dictionary. The State of Texas, eral Wells taking the water
County of Val Verde. treatment and is sai<^ to be im-
To those indebted to or hold-,Prov'n£'
ing claims against the estate of —1-------=gg.usjgi~i------
Rube Holmes, deceased, greet !
ing
The undersigned having been
appointed administrator of the
How are we to get along with- W , f R , Holmes deceased
out world neighbors. The ans-
wer is easy, just as we get along , c c «elcher iudire of the
S2L Mrr- h Brrn .Mr* courtJS SA «
‘‘f!, .|,<U >ann0, the 30th day of April, 1919, dur- ,mu umu »u«
whose line fences touch ours, we a ^gUiar term thereof, here- "pot oi ground. In
Weekly Health Talks
The Many Mysteries of
Nature
BY L. W. BOWER, H. D.
You ran take an onion need and a paiuy
•cod, and plant them side by aide in the
one oaae, you
notifies all persons ;iideht('fi
so there is something to which
... ... 'to said estate to come
we must shut our eyes. We car. and make settlement and
see each others front yards and .having claims against
we must Praise what we see;tate t0 nt them
there. W hen Mrs. Swartz spareslhis regidence in Del
her son —
mvv mii wiuuii| nun iiij pvcuuu
» , odor, and in the other you get i
forward rare beauty. ”
those and g ‘
said es- , drag), or you can pk
. . • ... get Bomething that helps constipation,
tonim at acientiat, living or dead, can explain
KlO, Va! these mysteries of Nature. Behind the
in the woodshed I must Verde County, Texas, where he invisible hfe germ in each seed is hidden
pretend not to hear, knowing i-PPPivPu hi< mail the deep seertt that nobody understands,
that she will also be deaf when1 on‘th ‘in'.q j Everything growing out of the ground
discipline must I* udminioUmd GARLAND OWENS, I
<>■»"* Plumes. I Administrator of the Estate cf N. Y.. long since found out what is
" hen Of - It......Il»l—. Decease,!. 8-4t
• ,, i _ - °— — ! of cases. The result of his studies was a
any kind of rejoicing at Mrs.]
’ 0 ns my best roses must uc Last Saturday M. E. Woolf, medicine called Dr. I’ierce’s Favorite
sent over, and perhaps some of xt Holland an/1 Geortrp NJW -1 Prescription. This medicine is made of
my best silver and rnv dining ton UPnt Si,n » • t ‘i t. vegetable growths that nature eurely in-
111* Ho a* I Wn went to San Antonio to look , for backache .headache, weakening
‘ over the Stokes-Leonard hold- I drains, bearing-down pains, periodical ir-
ings in the Somerset oil fields. [ r clarities. ]>elvio inflammations, and for
Tbey say that they had the j
time of their lives which in- J Proscription ia made of lady’rt slipper root,
eludes “everything.” They in-1 black cohosh root, unicorn root, bluo
tended to come back in an Essex r,ohosh r®?4 a™1 Oregon grape root.
Mecount of honvv rninK Women who tako thw standard remedy
account oi ntavy rains know that -m Dr_ piprce>s Favonte Pre-
best silver
room chairs—she will
much for me. When there is
sorrow at Mrs. Garbarino’s 1 can
go through the l>ack gate and
find the old lady and pat her
hand and murmer some of my
\
You have doubtless noticed
x the growing preponderance of
^[uited States Tires.
&*^ry one is asking for tires
of kacVn value and proved
dependability.
And that is precisely what
United States Tires represent
in the minds of motorists here
and everywhere.
The idea back of United
States Tires — to build good
tires—-the best tires that can
be built, is appealing to rapidly
growing numbers.
We can provide you with
United States Tires to meet—
and meet exactly—.your indi-
vidual needs.
United States Tires
are Good Tires
_____ _ ____ __ IM
sh,. will understand! rnd wha! j trata "hoilw h* took ,he | 3*™ $3
my time qf sorrow comes, she ___0_ ] BcU it.
will not fail me. I C. A. Chastang added a sleep-1, Prescription shoul<* h*vo the
So here is the answer to the in* porth to the residpnce next
international ]aundry on Broadway and narcotic. Dr. Pierce knew, when ho first
improved and em- • made this standard medicine, that whiskey
great question of
rHat-ionship----just use the name otherwise' ............. -----------------------------------
j Buffalo, N. Y. for tnaiipkg. Tablets.
A. MADISON’S GARAGE
We know United States Tires are good tires.
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That’s why we sell them.
SWCS Dr. IW. Inv.lidl1 U.UJ.
names are here mentioned—and now |-t»siclo there ---- - - — - -
1 am sure you will have develop-____
ed a sound principle of world!
IHilitics. Adjusting ourselves to
our neighbors at home and in-1
ternationally requires just three
things—mutual forbearance, mu-
tual helpfulness,
mutual regard.
and aliove all,
Notice to Creditors of Estate of
George Dewey Henderson, I)e-
ceiused.
Notice is hereby given that {
original Letters of Administra-
tion upon the estate of George
Dewey Henderson, deceased,
were granted to me, the under-
signed, on the 2nd day of April,
1919. by the County Court of Val
Verde County, Texas.
All persons having claims
against said estate are hereby
notified and required to present
the same to me within the time;
prescribed by law.
My residence and post office
address are Del Rio, Val Verde
County, Texas.
This, April 26th, 1919.
8-41 S. H. HENDERSON,
Administrator of the Estate of
George Dewey Henderson, De-
ceased.
- —........ o.....—.............
Will D. Throopj of San An-
tbnio. a Huccessfu^traveling man.
here last week on business
was
and was the guest of his father.
Judge B. B. Throop.
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