The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916 Page: 4 of 10
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A Tender
Juicy Steak
There is nothing more
delicious nor more sat-
isfying than one of these
steaks that only our
chef knows how to
prepare.
Order it just as you like
it — medium, rare or
well done—and you’ll
enjoy every bite.
They’re all full of flavor,
served clean and ap-
petizingly, and the price
is moderate.
SLIM’S CAFE
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THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE
Entered at the Postoffice at Olney,
Texas, as second-class matter
Published every Friday at Olney
Texas. Established 1910
R. SHUFFLER, Ed. and Owner.
The State summer normal
board of examiners has adjourn-
ed at Austin after grading the
unusually large number of ten
thousand exam papers from the
normals over the state.
It is said that Great Britain
has arranged for another big
loan in this country, the amount
beipg $250,000,000, to be used
for munitions bought from
American manufacturers.
The West Texas Reporter says:
“There is one thing in Colquitt’s
favor; everyone knows where he
stands on all the public ques-
tions,” but admits that “Cun-
ning men are sure to get caught
at last.”
Receipts from telegraph ad-
ministration in China last year
amounted to $3,000,000, which
was nearly $1,000,000 in excess
of expenditures. The govern-
ment owns and operates its tele-
graph lines and is acquiring its
telephone service as rapidly as
possible.
William Jennings Bryan has
volunteered his services in be-
half of Wilson and Marshall on,
the stump from October first till
election day. This is the answer
of this great man to the slurs of
those who have been accusing
him of disloyalty to the party
and to the President.
The Fort Worth Record reports
that the sassiety girl guards now
encamped at Lake Worth near
the Panther City, have bathing-
costumes all colors of the rain-
bow, and that one Miss ‘ ‘appears
on the beach in an awning stripe
creation like Polly wears in the
funny papers.” Keep in line,
men, and stop your shoving.
When Will We Do It?
As will be noticed from an
article appearing elsewhere in
The Enterprise this week, the
city of Olney is practically out
of water, and it is absolutely
necessary that every economy
be practiced in connection with
the use of our water supply.
According to the present
custom, there is only one hour
and fifteen minutes out of
twenty-four hours when you can
get water at all, and then only
for absolutely necessary pur-
poses.
What will we do about it, and
when will we do it?
It seems to The Enterprise
that here is a problem which
deserves careful thought, and
one which we must find some
way to solve, and that soon.
Olney can’t grow much with-
out an adequate water supply.No-
body is going to give it to us, so
plans must be laid to buy and
pay for this water supply.
There are places within reach
of this town where by spending
a sufficient sum of money right-
ly, we. can secure a supply of
water that will answer our pres-
ent as w7ell as future needs. It
can’t be done with surface wells,
and we do not favor the expen-
sive experiment of a deep well.
It can be done by damming up
one of these creeks on either
side of town, and building a res-
ervoir and filtration plant. This
will cost a lot of money, we. do
not know how much, but it will
solve the problem.
If this incorporation is in a
condition such that bonds can be
issued, then The Enterprise
favors a bond issue big enough
to solve the problem, be the
amount what it may.
Press Pick-Ups
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The Albany News reports that
Jerry Lynch killed ninety rattle-
snakes in one den near Albany.
That’s some rattlesnakes, fellers.
“Skinny, bony girls have be-
come quite chesty, ” remarks the
Quanah Tribune-Chief. How in
the world did they accomplish
the metamorphosis, Harry?
L. B. Hammock has resumed
editorial management of the
Journal at Knox City, succeed-
ing Fred Herndon, who has pur-
chased the Carbon Messenger in
Eastland county. Pick-Ups ex-
tends his good wishes to both.
Another big jump Monday was
made in the price of newspaper
stock. If it keeps up at this
clip, sheets of blank news will
be as valuable as $1 bills—al-
ready worth more than Mexican
currency.—Hico News-Review.
Birmingham is the only city in
England where women are
licensed as taxicab drivers.
Pass up the business man who
refuses to contribute his share
to any movement to better the
town and business conditions.
He’s a detriment that should
be gotten rid of as soon
possible.—Valley View Sun.
Reports from Hereford say
that hundreds of gasoline pump-
ing plants have had to be install-
ed in that section, the wind hav-
ing been insufficient to furnish
the customary amount of stock
water. Never since records
have been kept has there been
so little wind in that section.
‘ ‘The visit of the Deutschland
has demonstrated that Uncle
Sam is willing to sell goods to
all who can manage to take them
home,” says the Quanah Tri-
bune-Chief. Yes, or rather to
all who can manage to come
after them. It is not yet record-
ed that the Deutschland will
take ’em home.
“Viewed from this distance it
appears that Rev. Norris nor
anyone else ought to ask that a
street be closed to traffic on ac-J
count of a revival meeting or
anything else but public safety, ”
says the Wichita Times, refer-
ring to the trouble in connection
with the Ham-Ramsey revival in
Fort Worth. “From this dis-
tance” one might ask why the
Times failed to criticise the
closing of one of the streets in
Wichita Falls for a dance re-
cently.
Mrs. W. A. Callaway, who for
twenty-five years had done no-
table literary work on the Dallas
News, principally over the
nomdeplume of “Pauline Peri-
winkle,” passed to her reward
August Tenth. Peace to her
memory.
An unique newspaper, unique
from the fact that its town has
only fifty population, is the Mc-
Kenzie County Journal at Charl-
son, North Dakota, established
in 1907. Its editor, S. Th. West-
dal, is a native of Iceland, but
he’s “hot stuff.”
The Goree Advocate announces
that “by premediated mutual
agreement F. H. Davis was slat-
ed in last week’s paper as having
been identified with the Socialist
convention at Benjamin last
week. The fact is, Frank is the
chairman of this Democratic pre-
dnm.” That was a pretty bad
bust to make by “premed ratted
mutual agreement. ’ ’
Democratic Nominees
all off. The dingfod releases the | To check a threatened run,
dudad, which in turn actuates a I caused by a malicious
fumdiddle that operates'a minute; rumor that the bank was in a For County Clerk:
skulox about the size of a j bad condition, an East St. Louis
delinquent subscriber’s soul, j bank piled half a million dollars
The skulox gives an impetus to a in currency on the paying teller’s
small trip, which steps to one
side and lets the mat slide down
a kind of a loop-fhe-loop con-
traption till it comes into its
place in the line, and when the
line is all up, it takes a jitney
over to the casting apparatus,
when on schedule time the
anguentem is squirted into the
mold and there you are, just
whatever the operator happened
to touch in his wild career across
the keyboard. So ypu see the
importance of touching the cor-
rect dingfod in the first place.
Etaoin shrdlu!
Watch Us Blush
counter Monday and told its
depositors to come” on if they
wanted their money. The ruse
nipped the run in the bud.Wfiich
reminds us of the Hebrew de-
positor who, fearing his bank
might be weak, rushed in cry-
ing: “Gif me my moneys, gif
me my moneys!” His balance
was promptly shoved out to him,
whereupon he pushed it back,
saying: “If I can get it, I don’t
vant it, but if I can’t get it, I
got to haff it.
- C. W. (LUM) HINSON
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For County Superintendent:
D. K. LYON
Motley County News.
The Olney Enterprise has join-
ed the linotype bunch, a Number
5 machine having been purchased
by Editor Shuffler a few days
ago. The News editor is glad
to see his old friend Shuffler
Just for a handful of silver
many a man who has heard in
his soul the divine call of nobler
things and felt within himself
the power to elevate mankind,
has forsaken the thorny path of
duty for the pleasant pastures of
financial ease. Just for the priv-
ilege of owning an automobile
and living in a coldiy beautiful
palace, hundreds of men well
qualified along the lines of art or
For County Attorney:
B. W. KIN.G
For Tax Collector:
HENRY GROVES
For Sheriff:
MAL WALLACE
For County Judge:
W. P. STINSON
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Fqr District Clerk:
WILLIE RIGGS
For Public Weigher Precinct No 3
H. WOOD.
For Commissioner Precinct No. 3
JIM B. REYNOLDS
For County Treasurer:
C. J. COOK
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prosper. He deserves all the - ~ _______ -
good things on this earth, and! industry that help mankind, have
incidently he is giving the busi-"
ness men of Olney a much better
paper than they are paying for.
How long he can keep up the
lick we don’t know, for the rea-
joined the gamblers of Wall
Street or sold themselves into a
business or profession of doubt-
ful character. Money and social
position are theirs, but that is
son that he has been .doing it for all the reward they will get; and
so long. Ralph has the knack of\ it’s a mighty poor one when you
making nine blades of grass | sit down and think it all over. —
grow where none grew before, ! Bridgeport Times.
and we do wish to glory that we j ==-~............
could get onto his combination, j We learn that within a short
I time three new brick business
For Tax' Assessor:
L. H. (BUD) HARRIS
For State Representative
DR. J. W. McCOMB
For District Attorney
LESLIE HUMPHREY
For District Judge
W. N. BONNER
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Many women are now fighting j houses will be erected in our
in the Slav army. [.city-“Newcastle Register.
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Sale at This Offici
Bob Johnson, of the Motley
County News, mourns and re-
fuses to be comforted, and with
good cause. Just listen; “The
dry weather has resulted in
Motley county’s melon crop be-
ing virtually nothing. This hits
us pretty hard, as we generally
get numerous treats of melons
about this time of the year. We
miss those treats too, and that
‘ain’t no joke.’”
We don’t see a thing in the
world to keep Editor Claude
Councill, of the Alvord News,
from being as happy as a big
sunflower. Just get this: “Johnie
Smith, the watermelon king of
Wise county, left one of those
big, nice, juicy melons he raises
as a present for the publisher
this week, and we appreciate
these favors. Saturday he pre-
sented us with a half-dozen
canteloupes. C. H. Luther has
our thanks for a bucket of fine
Elberta peaches Saturday.”
Tom Finty’s old friend and
side-pardner Col. Bill S. Crooge,
the mythical Nelson county
stockman and politician, gives
the most lucid explanation off the
defeat of the pros at Houston
that we have seen. Col. Bill
says we got licked simply be-
cause we did not mobilize a suf-
ficiency of qualified suffragans
there. Come to think of it, that
must have been the trouble.
We should not like to disparage
the political achievements of Dr.
Brooks, and probably could not
in any case. He has impressed
himself on the imagination of
Texas more deeply than any
man of recent years. He didn’t
win the election,, but he won the
respect not only of all those who
voted for him, but of, most of
those who did not. He failed to
get the/nomination, but scored
an intellectual and moral tri-
Pick-Ups regrets very much to
hear of the nervous collapse of
the editor of his home paper, the
Bridgeport Times. Editor Dil-
lard is on an enforceed vacation,
in an effort to regain his health,
and meantime has leased the
shop temporarily to Messrs.
Eugene Butler and C. A. Cole,
Mr. Butler taking the local news
end and Mr. Cole the editorial
and business departments
Pick-Ups trusts that Mr. Dillard
will speedily recover his health
and that pending his recovery
the lessees will succeed to the
utmost of their expectation.
EIGHT PER CENT
.. MONEY ..
The Olney Enterprise has
bought a linotype. The Herald
might get one too if the blamed
things weren’t such poor spellers.
—Graford Herald.
It all depends on the operator,
Bro. Defibaugh. If he, she or
We have an unlimited supply of
funds to place on farm and ranch
lands in this and adjoining counties.
Loans are made for terms of five
years, giving the borrower the privi-
lege of making payments on the
principal each year if desired. The
thing that is usually most dreaded
about procuring a loan is the long
delay and the “red tape” frequently
met with before the loan can be
closed. If your title papers are in
good shape, we can have your land
inspected and deliver your check
within TEN DAYS. This is not
guesswork with us; we know we can
do it because we ARE doing it. We
had some inspections made Friday,
June 23, and on Wednesday, June
28, we delivered checks in payment
of these loans. JUST FIVE DAYS.
Names of parties furnished on re-
quest. If you n‘eed money and do
not want to wait from three to six
months to get it, try us. We can also
handle good cattle loans.
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The Cooper-Minor Co.
LANDS LOANS INSURANCE
Olney, Young County, Texas
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916, newspaper, August 18, 1916; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103173/m1/4/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.