The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PEARSALL LEADER, PEARSALL. TEXAS
"OLDEN ^ormer Dean of the Iowa Agricultural
College.
;a»' •
Slick-Tongued Lipp, Caught With
“the Goods,” Had to Pay
for Trick.
ADVENTURE COSTS $3
Cohen, the Cashier, Takes $11 From
Stranger Who hie Thought Had
Stolen That Amount
From Cashbox,
Wins on Your Farm, Crops or Weeds?
OF THE FARM
—a waste of time,
and. Weeds rob
<>d and moisture;
profitable crops
leapen our farms;
arbor insects and
•eds are the bandit
ev knock the cour-
heart, and drive
rermined husband-
-*-a reh of jobs.
-s department of
s the loss to the
:u damage to crops
Ui an $300,000,000
actual money loss,
!t does not include
reciated property,
jr wits against the
our heads in the
with us to stay,
e job ali the time,
of the weed is to
for itself, to per-
s best able to cope
e weed which sur-
nt seeders. A sin-
i’s purse may pro-
HX> seeds; squirrel
2,000; plunlin may
er plant; foxtail,
seeds; stinkweed,
issian thistle from
eds, and one mus-
: one-half million
Impure seed does not necessarily
mean seed which has been willfully
adulterated. Don't think just because
you grew the seed yourself uud did not
put any weed seeds into it that it is
any better than that which you might
buy. If you or your neighbors allow
weeds to flourish, there are chances
that your seed will bear a large pro-
portion of weed seed.
Weed Remedies.
The problem Is how to get rid of
weeds and keep them out.
First, rotate the crops; screen all
seed; cultivate frequently and thor-
oughly ; cut the weeds before they go
to seed, use smother crops; pasture
with sheep; and finally keep everlast-
ingly after them.
If your wheat field is weedy, seed It
to clover and blue grass; mow the an-
nuals and biennials before they seed,
pasture with sheep or hogs to keep
down the perennials; follow by a culti-
vated crop to kill any lingering weeds,
and you will have disposed of most
varieties. ,
Rotate, Pasture, Cultivate.
Avoid sowing weed seed. Fan and
grade all seed.
Prevent leaves forming. Cut just
under the crown and repeat the opera-
tion as often as the leaves appear.
Plants cannot live long in the growing
season unless the leaves develop. If
no leaves are allowed to form, the
plant root will starve.
Generally in dealing with biennials,
It is necessary to cut below the crown,
Chicago, HI.—There’s $3 waiting for
“Mr. Lipp of Columbus, O.,” at the of-
fice of a local clothing house. Maybe
he’ll have nerve enough to call for it.
Anyway—
Charles Cohen, office manager, was
putting away a line of fall models, 32
to 40. Saturday afternoon, when a
young man with “snappy” clothes and
an air of efficiency breezed in.
“Mr. Lipp been here?” he inquired
choppily. “Lipp of Columbus. Don’t
know him? He’s m’ father. General
store. Wants bill o’ goods. I’ll wait.”
Recalls That $400 Pay Roll.
Lipp, Jr., was in a chair when Cohen
strolled back to overlook the stitching
of a consignment of white duck pants.
He was just leaving the inner office
when Cohen, recalling a $400 pay roll
in a desk drawer, returned hastily.
Cohen halted Mr. Lipp and searched
his pockets. Twenty dollars. He ex-
amined the office. Only one cash com-
partment touched. He looked, over the
daybook. Balance, $11.
Cohen counted off tne eleven and
handed the remainder back.
“Now. git,” he advised. “You ain’t
even a first-class crook.”
Morris Snower. head of the firm,
came in later. On hearing Cohen’s
story he chuckled.
"Believing Is Nix."
“Believe me, Mr. Snower—” his ag-
grieved employee began.
“Believing is nix,” returned Snower.
“I know. This morning I bought three
tickets for the policeman’s benefit
RAISES STANDARD OF LIVING.
Miss Gertrude Yaile, executive sec-
retary' of the bureau of charity and cor-
rections, says in the Denver News:
“We have been asked many times
whether prohibition has had any ef-
fect on the work of the city relief
office. \V e feel that it has very great-
ly helped us. The number of fam-
ilies asking relief from the city office
has been about a hundred a mouth less
than for the corresponding month last
year.
“Most of that difference is account-
ed for in the employment problem.
We have had very much less trouble
with unemployment this year than
last. That may not be due to prohibi-
tion, but at least, prohibition ham not
created a hard unemployment prob-
lem. as some people anticipated. We
can recall only two cases in which re-
lief has been asked because the man
had been thrown out of employment
by the closing of the saloons.
“Men are using their wages more
for their faimilies. Among us all in
the office we can think of only two
cases since the first of last January
in which a woman has complained
that her husband did not bring home
his wages. Last year that was a
frequent and bitter complaint.
“Grocers tell us. without exception,
that they are better able to make their
collections, and that people are buy-
ing more and better quality of food.
One grocer commented that it was
worth a great deal to see the in
creased manner of self-respect with
which the women did the buying since
they could buy better things.
“So we are convinced that how-
ever much or little actual drunk-
enness may have had to do with the
poverty we meet, at any rate, since
the closing of the saloons people are
being better fed, and that will go far
to reduce some other cause of pov-
erty.
“They are doing better about meet-
ing their just obligations, and that
will go far toward raising their self-
respect and their general standard of
living.”
THE PERFECT CUM
Let us make you acquainted
with the new, luscious
flavor—
f
PROHIBITION BENEFITS MILKMAN
A Massachusetts man, investigating
the dairy business in Denver, found
that during the first four months under
state prohibition there was an increase
in milk sales of over $21,000.
One dairy had a milk route in a dis-
trict where 47 saloons had been its
best customers, and the proprietor ex-
pected to take that particular wagon
off. But with the closing of the sa-
loons came the opening of more lunch
counters and milk sales in that district
increased about $15 a day.
There has been little increase in the
better residence districts—Park hill,
Capitol hill and the well-to-do parts of
the North and South sides, where, if
people drank, at least they could also
buy milk. But a route around the
stockyards has an increased business
of $5 a day; one around the railroad
shops an increase of $G a day; one in
the district between Curtis and Lari-
mer street, an increase of $8 a day.
ngth of
ig up and
vcur live
xt spring
h flowers
the plant
ill thistle,
•oots live
examples
milkweed,
tread,
•hiefly by
iy, straw,
pro-
the
d in
seed
Soil Robber.
or the plant will quickly send forth
new shoots and perhaps seed close to
the ground, where ordinary mowing
will not reach it.
If cut off the first year, the root is
not so deep, is more tender, more
easily cut and more easily killed. If
prevented from seeding, sometimes bi-
ennials will appear the third year.
Watch for such sprouts.
Cut Before Flowering.
Another point which may mark the
difference between success and failure
in your weed campaign is to cut just
before flowering. While the plant is
, growing it is storing away vitality to-
ward the time when it shall need it for
fruit production. When it begins to
produce fruit, it draws on this surplus
stock. When It has budded it has used
a large part of this stored vitality and
is weaker than at any other time ex-
cept when it is very young. Now is the
time to cut. The seeds will not be
formed enough to live on to maturity,
the plant is at its wreakest and is more
readily killed. If in addition, the
weather is hot and dry, it is practically
certain the root will die.
If you wait until It blossoms, some
J of the seed may mature enough to
I ripen even after the plant is cut down
abd some seed will scatter for next
i year’s weed crop. If after cutting the
seed seems to be mature enough to
! ripen, the only safe way is to rake the
j “ eeds together and burn them. Some
I times seed which seems to be green
will mature after it is plowed under,
| lie dormant in the soil until conditions
j are favorable, then sprout.
Method for Perennials.
To eradicate perennials, the same
proposition holds: Prevent the old
plants seeding; kill the young plants
j as they appear; kill the root stock.
The most absolutely effective way to
kill a root is to dig It out. If yon have
; 'uiiy a small patch and the weeds are
i ally noxious, this may be the safest
way. If you have a large patch and the
roots are long and strong this is an al-
<>st impossible task. In any case it I*
| a tiresome one.
Searched His Pockets.
fund. I forgot to put it in the daybook.
Your friend, the burglar, is $3 shy. He
ain’t the only robber around here.”
“Well, I’ll show him,” said Cohen.
“I'm a good sport. I’ll tell the news-
papers. Maybe they print a piece and
Lipp comes back for his three dol-
lars, eh?”
“Maybe.” said Snower.
How about it, Mr. Lipp?
HIS BADGE SAVES POLICEMAN
BEER DRINKER AND HIS FAMILY.
“It is difficult to find a heavy beer
drinker 40 years of age with a normal
liver, kidneys or heart.” says Dr. D.
H. Kress. “These vital organs, from
the excessive burden that is thrown
upon them, wear out prematurely.
The beer drinker may have an abund-
ance of flesh, but it is of inferior
quality. Surgeons do not care to op-
erate upon him, because the chances
of recovery are minimized. Should
the beer drinker be stricken down with
pneumonia or some other febrile dis-
ease that taxes the heart and kidneys,
he would have bat three chances out
of ten to make a recovery.”
Bullet Strikes Shield When Officer Is
Shot at by Roommate and Makfis
Only Slight Wound.
Dallas, Tex.—His metal police badge,
! worn on the front of his blouse, saved
the life of Motorcycle' Officer Jared
McConnico early the other morning
when his roommate, John J. Gleason,
shot at him, thinking he was a burglar.
McConnico was entering the room
through a window to get some matches,
having left his key in his room. Glea-
son awakened to see the form of a
man at the window and seizing his pis-
tol. fired one shot. The bullet struck
McConnico’s badge and turned to one
side into his left lung. His condition
Is not serious, it was said at the city
hospital, w'here he was taken for treat-
ment.
THIS LINEMAN HAD BAD DAY
Nearly Electrocuted, Lost an Eye and
Found Wife Had Eloped With
Friend of Family.
Bethlehem, Pa.—David Hehney, a
lineman, narrowly escaped electrocu-
tion here when on a high pole when he
came in contact with a live wire carry-
ing several thousand volts. The fact
that he was strapped to the pole pre-
vented him from being dashed to the
ground. The end of the wire struck
him across the eye. destroying the
sight.
More hard luck greeted Hehney
when he reached home several hours
later and found that his wife had dis-
appeared. She is believed to have
eloped with a young man who was a
•« visitor to the Hehney home.
GOOD BEGINNING.
Alabama’s state-wide prohibition
law went into effect July 1. Saloons
in Birmingham closed their doors at
eleven o’clock the night of June 30.
A dispatch reporting the business of
the recorder’s court of that city for
the morning of July 3. says there was
not a single case of drunkenness nor
assault and battery on the docket, the
first instance of this sort within at
least four years and the clerk thinks
he is within the truth in stating that
tlie period is more likely eleven years.
It was the lightest docket that the
clerk can remember.
VOTE FOR MEN.
A woman with a drinking husband
used to wash for a living. When a
petition was presented to her. asking
that women might vote, the over-
worked woman cried out “Good gra-
cious ! Have we even got to do the
voting for the men?”
LAST AND FIRST.
The last to be hired.
The first to be fired,
The drinker.
DECREASE DISEASE.
Dr. Richard C. Cubot of Boston,
chief of the medical staff of the Mas-
sachusetts General hospital, ami one
of the most distinguished physicians
in the Fnited States, says: “Abolish
alcohol and you will cut disease Id
half.”
DRY TAX RATE.
“The tax rate of 11.5 mills in dry
Spokane does the work of 13 mills un-
der saloon rule. ’—Charles M. Fasselt,
Commissioner of Public Utilities, Spo-
bfino 'Voch
It’s all that
the name
suggests!
Wrigley quality—
made where
chewing gum
making is a
science.
Have a package of each
always In reach
Don’t forgot
WRIGLEY5
after every meal
IZ iVaii Distemper
CURES THE SICK
And prevents others having the disease no matter how
exposed. 50 cents and 91 n bottle. 95 and 919 n d—en
bottles. All good druggists and turf foods houses.
SPOHX MEDICAL CO.,
Chemists anil Bacteriologists, Goshen, InA, IT. S. A.
Possibly.
The Maid—I wonder why we never
hear of the dude any more?
The Bachelor—Oh, I presume he got
married And is now sub-dude.
Nothing Doing.
“Folks tell me that I have no sense.
But I love you,” he cried.
‘‘And I haven’t got a single dollar,
So cut it out,” she replied.
THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by
using “La Creole” Hair Dressing.—Adv.
Not Then.
“Didn’t you tell me that Jones is a
very pushing sort of fellow?”
“Yes.”
“Well, you ought to see him with
the lawn mower when his wife isn’t
looking on.”
Won't Hurt Them.
“The sultan is said to have written a
poem.”
“But he can’t make the enemy read
it, so wrhat good will it do?”
BREATH
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similar disorders. Remove the
esuse in its early stages, do
not allow the organa to get in
chronic state. A few doses of
DR. THACKER’S
LIVER AND BLOOD
SYRUP
will restore the affected organa
to a healthy condition.
It is a gentle laxative, pore*
iy vegetable, tonic in effect.
Search far and near and you
will not find a preparation to
equal this tried and true old
home tonic.
Get a bottle today—put up
In convenient sizes, 60c and$L
The Case Stated.
“Mr. Jones came home last night
and raised a racket about the dessert
his landlady gave him.”
*T suppose it was stewed prunes
again.”
“No. the prunes weren’t stewed; he
was.”
Dr. Peery’s “DEAD SHOT” is aa effective
medicine for Worms or Tapeworm to adults
or children. One doae is sufficient sad ae
supplemental purge
b Some Noise.
“I am cheer leader at the florist’s.”
“What do you mean?”
"I root for them.”—Froth
That's What.
“What Is an ultimatum, pa?”
“It’s when your mother says she
wants a new hat.”
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particulars.
GOHLMAN, LESTER A CO.
The oldest and largest exclusive
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Hudson, C. H. & Woodward, Roy. The Pearsall Leader (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, October 27, 1916, newspaper, October 27, 1916; Pearsall, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1096130/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .