The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1921 Page: 3 of 8
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TO SAVE PROHIBITION
ITS YOUR JOB
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The following from the La-
dies’ Home Journal, and print-
ed in the Teague Chronicle
last Week, is published by re-
quest :
The Ladies' Home Journal
believes it cannot start the new
year in any better way than by
appealing' to every one of its
vast family of women readers
to save prohibition. The women
oi the United States, now that
the franchise is theirs, can do
niore than the men in behalf of
prohibition.. They have the will
to do more. The benefits of
prohibition come more vitally
home to them than to the men.
Women through the ages hrfVe
suffered more through the
curse of drink. They have seen
gentle natures become bestial
under its poisonous influence.
They have watched day by day
the terrible slow process by
which drink has broken the
strong and transformed homes
which were blessed with love
and many comforts into mis-
erable shelters where fear and
terror lurked by day and an-
guish was each night’s reward.
This is an old story that was
oft retold during the years
the great fight was on to break
the power of whiskey-throt-
tled politics and compel the
states to vote on the Eighteenth
Amendment, but it is a story
we are not done with yet. Pro-
hibition by Federal amend-
ment we have but prohibition
that thoroughly prohibits we
have not. The Volstead act is
a law with some teeth in it,
but not enough; nor or they
sufficiently sharp. A great
number of the vilest sort of
parasites to be found in our
population are skillfully evad-
ing and dodging and accumu-
lating great wealth under the
Volstead' Act. Rum is being
sold wholesale and reatil
where ever money geeks it. In
many cities bootleggers—deal-
ers in concealed supplies of
liquor—solicit business openly
on the highways. The mayor
cannot enforce prohibition
without one hundred per cent
co-operation from the com-
munity. It would be a task
requiring the services , o f
hundreds of thousands of Fed-
eral agents-—all honest, un-
bribable, to a large extent
supermen—an organization so
big and no unwieldy and so un-
certain that it would become
an impossible burden and,
like all overdeveloped policing
organizations, it would be-
come enormously unpopular.
Public sentiment would rise
against it and, in getting rid
of it, would overthrow prohi-
bition itself, and all the good
that may have come from it.
But your community, small
or large, is so organized that
with very little effort its police
officers and officials higher up
can give the Federal agents
provided under existing Fed-
eral laws, all the aid necessary
to drive out the rum-selling
parasites or send them to jail.
Under the Eighteenth Amend-
ment and the Volstead Act
the women of any town in the
THE RAIN MAKERS
(Joe Sappington ift Wills
Point Chronicle.) ,
Within the last 25 yqars the
world has produced maby rain
make^ST‘For a while it was
thought to bombard the sky
with high explosives would
cause it to rain and lots of
powder was wasted in the
causes
The last rain maker to bob
up promises to do the work by
squirting air into barren clouds
by aid of a flying machine. If
his theory proves successful I
fear it will cause lots of
trouble among farmers, as it
would be next to impossible to
find all of them in any com-
munity wanting rain at the
same time. But if they did all
need it at the same time they
could not agree upon the quan-
tity, for one fellow would want
a ground soaker, another an
inch and still another would
think that a gentle shower was
the proper thing; and in all
probability, every rain would
wind up in a free-for-all fight.
In my mind’s eye I can see
United States can compel Parmer Jones just after he has
their town to respect our Fed-
eral Constitution and our
Federal statutes. Your fathers
and husbands and sons will
hesitate before taking . the
initiative, but they will follow
and support. No decent man
of any business or calling
would care to be placed in the
position of taking sides with
the bootleggers, the rum run-
ners or the sordid semi-crimi-
nal stripe of politician who
accepts graft from them.
If you want to help directly
and immediately hunt up the
representatives of the Anti-
Saloon League and the Wo-
man’s Christian Temperance
Union in your community. Ask
your pastor to put you in
touch with these organiza-
tions; or.,, if he cannot, write to
us and we will put you in touch
with the headquarters nearest
to you.
There must be jio let-down
in prohibition sentiment or in
the active support of these
of our greatest city is reported worthy organizations that
to have attended without dis-
approval an alcoholic orgy in
a restaurant that for half cen-
tury was widely known for the
voluftie of drink, its patrons
consumed. Few, if any, women
have any contact with or
knowledge of this traffic until
it is brought home to them in-
directly in the usual tragic
way that drunkenness invades
a woman’s life. But individual-
ly and collectively they should
know more of it and prepare
to exert all their combined
strength and force to combat
it. The women of America won
prohibition as a Federal enact-
ment riveted out of our Con-
stitution, but the force and ef-
fectiveness of the enactment
are becoming a mockery and
a byword. If it is the will of the
women of America to make
prohibition serve as the great
moral force it was intended
*to be, they must exert their
will in manifold ways.
To begin at the very bottom
of things, the woman must
start at home in her own com
munity, no matter what its
have borne most of the burd-
en of the fight in years past.
The wets, so called, meaning
chiefly the beer and whiskey
interests, who yearn for the
golden days past when they
freely and legally dug drunk-
ard’s graves with a golden
spade, as the saying was, are
still powerful and wealthy.
They number among their
friends and co-adjutors thous-
ands of politicians. They are
supported by some great news-
papers for reasons of policy
best known to their proprie-
tors. They make great sport
of the drys—be they men or
women—-as cranks and fanat-
ics. They juggle and garble
statistics, invert and distort
facts, overlooking always that
great and blessed essential to
the well-being of the huma i
race—a happy and contented
home for every member of the
family. There are twenty-five
million such homes in our
c» untry, and not one of them
ever had happiness or conr
tentment come to it in the
shape of alcohol. This every
lain his com by, casting about
for a likely looking cloud that
has not been milked. I can
ajso see Farmer Brown, whose
farm adjoins that of Farmer
Jones, approaching the latter
while he is shying his weather
eye skyward and when they
meet me thinks the following
dialogue ensues:
Farmer Brown: “Bill, what
you fixing to do; you shorely
aint going to make it rain un-
til I get my oats cut air you?’’
Farmer Jones: “You guessed
it the first time you opened
your head, fur that’s just what
I’m going to do with the first
cloud that meanders over my
field and don’t you forgit it."
Farmer Brown: “Bill, I warn
you not to fetch that rain until
I git my grain cut, fur if you do
I’ll git even with you if I have
to destroy everything in ten
miles of here; do you hear
met"
And so it would be all over
the country if we had control
of the elements.
If man had the power of
making it rain, it would caqsc
feuds among neighbors that
would make .Kentucky feuds
look like an old ladies’ quar-
rel at a country quilting. It
would be the most terrible
weapon ever plaoed in the
hands of an enemy. If a fellow
fell out with hfs neighbor and
wanted to do him a great in-
jury and escape the conse-
quences of the act, all he
would need would be a jug of
liquid aid and a flying machine
and when a large fat cloud
floated over the home of the
object of his hate all he would
have to do would be to sneak
up on the blind side of the
it, let every woman keep in
the fight to save prohibition to
the only country in the world
that has had the moral courage
to write prohibition in its Con-
stitution.—Ladies’ Home Jour-
nal.
cloud with his airplane and
pour the contents of his jug in
it and then get behind some
neighboring clouds and watch
it tear things to pieces down
below. 1 '
Bob Walker and I have
caused Cave Creek to over-
flow its banks more times than
I’ve got fingers and toes, and
we did it by the simple process
of hanging snakes in trees and
bushes. We brought on most of
these .overflows during cotton
chopping time so we could go
fishing. I will never forget the
Sunday that we strung those
dead reptiles all up and down
Cave Creek and the'awful rain
that fell that night. That was
the rain that washed Aunt Sal-
ly Jenkins’ wash kettle away
and drowned old man Lee’s
mule.
I called on Bob a few days
ago and asked him if he re-
membered that terrible flood
on Cave Creek. He remem-
bered it very distinctly and
also recalled that other big
overflow we caused on Cave
Creek that broke up the worst
drouth ever known to the old-
est citizen. Bob figured that
we must have used first and
last at least 100 snakes to pro-
duce that rain; he is the same
boastful old Bob that he was
more than forty years ago and
still claims that if it hadn’t
been for him the rain would
have gone around Cave Creek
I told Bob about the fel-
low’s liquid air patent but he
didn’t seem to put much faith
in it. He said there was only
one way to make it rain artir
ficially and that was by the
use of dead snakes and that he
was the only living man that
knew the art of hanging them
up scientifically. He claims
now that he had to hang up all
of my snakes over when we
were partners in the rain bus-
iness on Cave Creek.
No. 1368.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF LOUISA R. HUGHES
DECEASED. NOTICE OF AP-
PLICATION FOR PROBATE OF
WILL
The State of Texas, County, of
Freestone. To the Sheriff or any
Constable of Freestone County—
Greeting:
You ure hereby commanded to
cause to be published a copy of the
following notice, at least once each
week, for ten days exclusive of the
day of the first publication before
the return day hereof, in a news-
paper of general circulation, which
has been continuously and regular-
ly published for a pfenod of not less
than one year next preceding the
date hereof, in the County of Free-
stone and State of Texas, to-wit:
The State of Texas, County of
Freestone. To all persons interested
in the estate of Louisa R. Hughes,
Deceased, Mrs. Nettie Anderson has
filed in the County Court of Free-
stone County, on the 28th day of
January, A. D. 1921, an application
for the probate of the last will and
testament of Baid Louisa R. Hughes
deceased, and for letters testa-
mentary (the said will accompany-
ing said application), which will be
heard and acted on at the next reg-
ular term said Court, commenc-
ing on the Third Monday in March,
A. D. 1921, the same being the 21st
day of March A. D. 1921, at the
courthouse thereof, in the city of
Fairfield, at which timfe and place
all persons interested in said estate
may appear and contest such appli-
cation should they desire to do so.
Herein fail not, but have you be-
fore said Court, on the first day of
the next term thereof, this writ
with your return thereon showing
how you have executed the same.
Attest Tom Lindley, Clerk of the
County Court of Freestone County.
Given under my hand and seal of
shfd Court, at office in Fairfield, .
(SEAL) this the 㣤th day of Jan-
uary, A. D. 192.).
6f - - TOM LJNDLEY.
Jplerk of the County Court of Free-
stone County, Texas.
By L. O. Miller, Deputy.
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
(Real Estate.)
By virtue of an order of sale is-
sued out of the Honorable District
Court of McLennan County, on the
27th day of October, A. D. 1921, in
the case of E. C. Street versus
Louis Borchers and wife Mrs. Louis
Borchers, No. 25075, and to me, as
Sheriff directed and delivered, I
have levied upon this 21st day of
January, A. D. 1921, and will, be-
tween the hours 10 o’clock A. M.,
4 o’clock P7~ M., on the first Tues-
day in March, A. D. 1921, it being!
Talbott, Minor, Mrs. Celhe Talbott'
has filed in the County Court of
Freestone County, an application
for Letters of Guardianship upon
the estate of said Minor, which will
be heard and acted upon at the next
regular term of said Court, com-
mencing on the ThirdMonday in
March, A. D. 1921, the aaia£ being
the 21st day bf March, A. D. 1921,
at the Courthouse thereof, in the
city of Fairfield, at which time and
place all persona interested in said
estate may appear and contest such
application should they desire to do
•o. . * «
Herein, fail not, but have you be-
fore said Court, on the first day of
the next term thereof, this writ
with your return thereon, showing
how you have executed the same.
Attest Tom Lindley, Clerk of the
County Court of Freestone County.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office in Fairfield,
(SEAL) this the 31st day of Jan-
uary, 1921. *
TOM LINDLEY,
Clerk of the County Court of Free-
stone'County, Texas,
if ' By L. O. Miller, Deputy.
$I6C Reward, S1C0
be
least
one dveaded disease tost science has
been able to ouzo In all its iuftt and
that la ca ra. Catarrh betas greatly
Influenced rstitutlonal conditions
requires cm ,., ml treatment. Hag's
Catarrh Jlvuieine *■ ’..‘ken internally and
acts thru the Blood the Mucous Sur-
faces of tor System tr-cr-by destroying
'he foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by bJildiag up the con-
stitution and assistin ' nature In doing its
work. The proprrtors have so much
taitb in the curative power of Hairs
Catarrh that they «!?»• Ons
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Semi for list of testimonials
Address F. i. OHENZT A CO.. Tolstkv,
Ohio. Sold by cU Druggists. Sc.
the .first day of said month , at the , ?, £ d^uSHe Z*
Court House door of said Freestone ’
County, in the towh of Fairfield,
proceed to sell at public auction to
the highest bidder, for cash in hand,
all the right, title and interest
which Duke Phillips. Louis Borchers
and Mrs. Louis Borchers, had on the
9th day of March, A. R. 1914, or
any time thereafter, of, in and to
the following described property,
to-wit:
Lot 11, Block 175; Lot 11, Block
197; Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Block 205;
Lots
143; Lots 5 ana o,
4 and 5, Block 115; Lots 1, 2, 6
and 11, Block 118; all of which
property is lying and situated in
the County of Freestone, and State
of Texas, according to the map of
the City of Teague, drawn by W.
W. Page, and recorded in Vol. 23,
page 240, of Freestone County
Deed Records, said property being
levied on as property of Louis
Borchers and wife, Mrs. Louis
Borchers, to satisfy a judgment
amounting to $989.61, in favor of
E. C. Street, and costs of suit.
Given under my hand, this the
3l8t day of January A. D. 1921.
H. M. MAYO,
5f Sheriff Freestone County, Texas.
No. 1297
CITATION ON APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS OF GUARDIANSHIP
The State of Texas, To the Sheriff
or any Constable of Freestone
County—Greeting: ‘
You are hereby commanded to
cause to be published a copy of the
following notice, at least once each
week, for ten days exclusive of the
day of the first publication before
the return day hereof, in a news-
paper of general circulation, which
has been continuously and regularly
published for a period of not less
than one year next preceding the
date hereof, in the County of Free-
stone and State of Texas, to-wit:
The State of Texas, County of
Freestone. To all persons interested
in the welfare of Dan Wadkins
It la a powerful and
combination of sulphur and other
healing agents for the relief and
cure of diaeaaea of the akin. R
la especially effective in the
ITCHING VARIETIES; giving
instant relief from the Itching
and smarting sensations and by
its germ-destroying properties it
exterminates the microbe which
is the cause of the eruption, thus
curing the disease completely.
Littell’s Liquid Sul phut Com-
pound Is used In all cases of Ec-
zema, Tetter, Barber's Itch, Pso-
riasis, Herpes, Rash, Oak and
Ivy Poisoning, also for relieving
the annoyance caused by cblg-
gers and mosquito bites.
In the treatment of ECZEMA
—the meet painful and obstinate
of all skin diseases—It la one ef
the most
known.
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size. Our national government woman knows. And, knowing
Flour and Mill Feed \
We have Money for long time
loans on Farms and unim-
proved lands.
If you are in need of money
write us what you want with a
description of your security,
and we will secure same for you
REMEMBER
WE STAY WITH
THE
MARKET
On everything we handle.
If there is a decline you
will find it out quick-
er by trading
with us
Parker’s Garage
W. A. PARKER. Prep
Fairfield, Texas.
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1921, newspaper, February 4, 1921; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109300/m1/3/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.