La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1921 Page: 7 of 8
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THE LAGRANGE JOURNAL
PAGE SEVEN
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emergency by Authorized Buick Service.
Model
22-44
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22-46
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Old Price
$1795.00
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2585.00
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New Price
$1495.00
1525.00
2135.00
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Model
22-48
22-49
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Old Price
$2985.00
2065.00
3295.00
New Price
$2325.00
1735.00
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LaGrange Buick Co.
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NEWSY NEIGHBORHOOD ITEMS
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Attention Ford Owners
We have just received a large shipment of GOOD-
RICH and FIRESTONE Casings and are selling
them at a very close figure. We are offering these
casings to our customers at the following prices:
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GOODRICH
30x3 Plain
$ 10.95
30x3 1-2 Non-Skid
$14.50
FIRESTONE
30x3 Plain
$ 10.95
30x3 1-2 Non-Skid
$ 13.95
These casings are guaranteed to be of first grade
and guaranteed for 6000 miles by manufacturers.
LaGrange Motor-Co.
Ford Authorized Sales and Service
KU KLUX NOTICES CONTRARY
TO LAW
Judge Saya Prison Term is Provided
by The Texas Penal Code
The Journal—$2.00 per annum
J. E. Gary of this place and his
sister, Mrs. Buchanan of LaGrange
left here Sunday morning for San
Saba, going through in his Chevrolet
car.—Smithville Times.
Miss Elsie Wessels of Plum and
Miss Edna Eck of LaGrange left the
latter part of last week after spend-
ing several days in the city as the
guests of Mrs. Billie Hand.—Smith-
ville Times.
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Paul H. Brunner of New Way
Grocery Company returned from La-
Grange where he had gone the pre-
vious Saturday to spend Sunday with
his family. Mr. Brunner is in hopes
that housing conditions will soon be
improved in Smithville and that he
will be able to rent a cottage and
move his family to our city.—Smith-
ville Times.
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Mexican Arrested For Theft
A young Mexican employed in the
Live Oak section was placed under
arrest the first of the week on the
charge of stealing a gold watch and
pistal from the home of Robert Miles
of that community. The arrest was
made by Marshal Taylor, Deputy
Sheriff Herder and Constable Miles.
The watch was discovered and identi-
fied, but the pistol is still missing,
the Mexican was turned over to
Sheriff John Wegenhoft and placed in
jail at Columbus.—Weimar Mercury.
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Kills Another Snake
A few weeks ago H. R. Gohmert
killed a huge snake of the adder va-
riety in the wood pile at home. It is
an old saying that snakes never live
singly and, where one is killed, its
mate will eventully turn up. So it
proved in this instance; for last Fri-
day at noon, snake number two, a
large spreading adder, appeared on
the front lawn of the Gohmert cot-
tage. With a few well-directed
shots from a rifle H. R. put the finish-
ing touches on Mr. Snake. These
reptiles are very poisonous and It'is
a wonder that more people are not
bitten.—Yorktown News.
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Kansmen Pay Visit
Members of the Ku Klux, wearing
the white robes of the order, visited
a number of houses occupied by negro
women in the vicinity of Bonus on
last Friday night. The Klansmen,
so it is reported, appeared at the
homes, went inside of the houses and
looked through all of the rooms, look-
ing under the beds and in all places
where any person could have been
hidden from view. No words were
spoken by any of the klansmen. Who
they were or what the were
ooking for has not been learned, as
the klansmen made no statement as
io the motive of their visit. Where
the klansmen came from has not been
learned.—Eagle Lake Headlight.
WTiat One Man Did
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C. C. Elliott was in the city from
his farm yesterday and talking to the
Spectator man said that he had seven-
teen acres of young com that he felt
would make not less than 40 bushels
to the acre, now since so seasonable
a rain has fallen upon it. On this
same seventeen acres he gathered 137
bushels of marketable Irish potatoes
just a few weeks ago, for which he
received $2.45 per hundred pounds, or
approximately $3312. Figuring corn
at 75 cents per bushel, he will gather
$510 worth of corn from the patch,
making a revenue of over $225 per
acre off the land. That’s not bad
showing and goes to prove that small
farms, well attended to, yield far bet-
ter results than large places half
worked.—Wharton Spectator.
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Arrested For Bootlegging
Saturday night about 10 o’clock
Sheriff A. B. Carnes aressted two
men near Pershing Theatre and
locked them in county jail. They
were driving a Buick roadster and
were thought to be members of a
party wanted on a charge of boot-
legging. A wire came from Alice to
arrest them. Two other men, driving,
a Dodge car, eluded the officers and
went on to San Antonio. Jt is said
the parties buried a large quantity of
“hooch” near Green, Karnes county,
when they thought they were being
trailed. The San Antonio parties are
said to have gone back Sunday for
Austin, Tex., June 28.—Posting
anonymous notices intended to in-
terfere with the rights of citizens, is
made a crime under article 1189,
penal code, which prescribes a pun-
ishment of from two to five years.
This article of the penal code is the
one under which District Judge
James R. Hamilton of Travis Coun-
ty, gave his charge to the grand
jury to investigate the posting of Ku
Klux notices in Travis county.
If the aricle in question is not
strong enough the governor may
ask the special session of the legis-
lature to strengthen it. He is known
to be opposed to mob methods, and
so expressed himself in his speech to
the soldiers at Camp Mabry.
Article 1189 reads as follows:
Any person who shall post any
anonymous notice or make any
threats or signs, or skull and cross
bones, or shall, by any other method,
post any character or style of no-
tice or threat to do personal violence
or injury to property on or near £he
premises of another, who shall cause
the same to be sent with the intention
of interfering in any way with the
right of such person to occupy said
premises, or to follow any legitimate
profession or with the intention of
causing such person to abandon such
premises, or precinct, or county, in
which such person may reside, shall
be deemed guilty of whitecapping,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be
punished by confinement in the peni-
tetiary for any period of time not
less than two years nor more than
five years.
The foregoing article was constru-
ed by the court of criminal appeals,
in affirming the case of Dunn vs.
State of May 1, 1901, carrying a sen-
tence of two years. The conviction
was sustained.
Preserving the Salmon.
Completion of an Improved $40,000
salmon hatchery at Madison, Conn.,
for restocking eastern streams with
the valuable food fish that disap-
peared from that region practically
a century ago, Is awakening renewed
Interest in the cause of that early de-
pletion, according to Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. The too common
construction of dams without proper
fish ladders, blocking the seasonal as-
cent of the salmon from the sea, ex-
plains the Impending loss of this
great natural resource, a condition
often technically difficult of correc-
tion because many of the streams are
not listed as navigable waters.
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Gum Arabic With Siarch.
To give n beautiful gloss to collars,
procure two ounces of fine white gum
arable and pound It to powder, put
It Into a pitcher and pour on to It a
pint or more of boiling water, accord-
ing to the strength you desire. Cover
and let stand overnight. In the morn-
ing, pour It carefully from the
dregs Into a clean bottle, cork, and
keep for future use. A teaspoonful
of gum water stirred Into a plht of
starch made In the usual way will give
a beautiful gloss to collars, and to
lawns a look of newness. It Is also
good for dresses and all kinds of
laces.
Fixing Stocking “Runs.’' ‘
Here Is a satisfactory method for
repairing “runs” which work such
havoc with stockings. Use a fine cro-
chet hook, pick up the dropped stitch,
draw the next loop through It and con-
tinue the length of the run, picking up
every stitch or thread In turn and
drawing It through the stitch on the
needle. At the end fasten securely
with needle and thread. In case of
a wide run, where two or more
stitches have been dropped, take each
stitch and work In a straight line. If
carefully done the mending will not
be noticeable and the atocklng will
be given a new lease of life. It Is
better to take the ran as soon as yon
see It has started.
• Sell Many Door Locks.
The crime wave Is resulting In much
new business for the hardware store
map these days. Padlocks, heavy
chains and burglar alarm devices are
being sold like hot cakes, and persons
who never before thought to lock
their doors are now taking double
measures against Intruders.
“Until a few months ago,” said •
hardware man, “we sold door chains
ooly occasionally. Now we can’t sup-
ply the demand. New Yorkers, as a
rule, are careless, but I think that the
pieeent activity of the crooks will
tescb them s lesson. My advice to
persons living In apartments Is to
keep their doors well chained. Pro-
fessions! crooks will get Into almost
any place, but extra pi^cautlons on
hall doors will keep the sneak thief
out."—New York Bun.
JUST A LIFE INSURANCE AGENT
“Oh, you are just a Life Insurance
Agent, are you?" Thus spoke the la-
dy to E. G. Blume, who called, repre-
senting the Amicable Life Insurance
Company. “I beg pardon,” said MY.
Blume.
“I say you are just selling Life In-
surance.”
“No, no, I am selling food, and
clothes and shelter for future deliv-
ery. I am contracting to pay off the
mortage, educate the children, pay
the taxes, and prevent the gnawing
of debt, and doubt and despair that
so often comes to the household when
the head of the house has been called
away.
“I am selling sunshine, and happi-
ness and freedom from want and
worry. I am contracting to make
boys and girls worthy members of the
community, and a source of joy and
pride to their widowed mother. I am
selling a guaranty that these little
fellows will have an even chance with
others in the contest for place when
serious concerns of life are underta-
ken. I am—”
“Excuse me, here’s my husband,
just come in John, this is Mr. Blume.
I thought he was a life insurance
agent at first, but I want you to lis-
ten to him talk, and then I want you
to secure one of those guranties that
he has been telling me of, I want our
three children to have a fair chance in
the world, whatever may happen to
us, and our lives will be worse than
failure if we fail to provide for them.
Now sit down in this rocker and let
him tell you, while I go and fix
dinner.”
The- above might have happened.
However, catch the idea, and see me.
E. G. BLUME.
The Amicable Life Man
(Advertisement) LaGrange, Texas.
W. Colly resigned his position as
station agent for the Katy at La-
Grange, and his position, tempora-
riliy, is being filled by E. B. Moore
from the freight office.
their wet goods and upon being in-
formed by a negro, on whose place
they buried the bottles, that it had
been confiscated by Karnes county
officers, they proceeded to give the
negro a severe beating and ran away.
The twp men arrested here are still
in jail.—Floresville Journal,
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Monster Alligator Killed
Messrs. L: D. Roberts and Chas.
Von Lengerke killed a dozen or more
alligators in the lake here Thursday
afternoon.Nearly all of the alligators
sank out of sight in the deep water
after being shot, but they succeeded in
getting three of the dead ones out of
the water and brought them to town
on the running board of their car.
Two of the alligators measured about
seven feet. The largest was thirteen
feet long. They state that they kill-
ed some that were even larger than
the biggest one brought home, but
they sank to the bottom and were un-
able to be gotten out. Just after a
big rain when the lake is up and full
of fresh water the alligators can be
seen swimming every where in the
clear water and it is at these times
that alligator hunting is good. The
alligators were killed with a 30-80
army high-powered rifle, with soft
nose bullet. Each one was struck
squarely in the head to pieces as if
the alligator might have been struck
a terriffic lick in the head with an
axe.—Eagle Lake Headlight.
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Rrakeman Injured
Extra South Bound Engine No. 784
with Conductor Wadley, Brakeman
Whitworth and Brakeman Frank
Mayfield head man, left Smithville
11:30 a. m., Tuesday at South end of
yard. Engine became uncoupled,
air brake went into emergency and
the sudden stop jerked Brakeman
Mayfield who was on the head car,
off top of car, falling to the ground,
striking on his head and shoulder,
four ribs were broken and it is feared
his skull is fractured, he is in a criti-
cal condition, we ran a special train
to Temple to get him to the sanita-
rium there. Conductor Turney, Brake-
man Callahan, Dechered and Bryant,
Engineer Dick Tolbert with Fireman
Roy Delaney all voluntered their ser-
vices to man the special to get the
injured brother to the hospital. Mrs.
Mayfield accompanied her husband.
Reports stated at mid-night that he
was too weak to stand an X Ray
examination but as soon as he re-
gains his strength an X Ray examina-
tion will be made to ascertain if any
injury to his brain was done.—Smith-
ville Times.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1921, newspaper, June 30, 1921; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006746/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.