The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1915 Page: 3 of 4
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A VISTA FROM LAKE AUSTIN
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Fred Shaman brought to our
office Wednesday ar> open boll of
cotton picked from his patch.
This ia the first open boll
liave seen this season.
rillie Stalls returned
From University of Texas property, on aouth shore.
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The completion of the gigantic dam across the Colorado River
near Austin, supplies the one thing needed to make ideal the loca-
tion of the State's greatest institution of learning, the University
of Texas. The lake runs back winding among the evergreen hills
of Edward’s Plateau for 35 miles, offering students who arc dis-
posed to take thtir recreation out-of-doors, such wholesome sports
as rowing, fishing, motor-boating, swimming, sailing and so on
A large part of the land bordering the lake near Austin is owned bj
the University, and the students have erected a boat-house at ;
convenient place where their canoes, rowing and motor-boats are
kept at a nominal charge.
Local News
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T. N. Allen has purchased a
new Ford car.
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Miss Nola Elliott of Paris,
came in Sunday for a several
days’ visit with Mrs. Prella
Grant.
Mrs. M. H. Grant is visiting I
in Detroit this week.
Splendid rains fell at Cunning-
ham last Friday and Saturday.
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J. 0. Bratcher left Wednesday
for a two weeks’ visit to Leitch-
field, Ky. ,
Right now is a mighly good
time to select seed corn for next
year’s planting.
Sam H. Craven and wife of
Rugby have gone to San Saba to
make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Iv. Janes jeft
Tuesday for a ten days’ stay
with relatives at Cooper.
Chas. Hill and wife of Milton,
left Wednesday for Anson to
visit Joe Dillard and wife.
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LittJe Myrtle Evelyn Holloway
was taken to Paris Thursday to
have her adenoids removed.
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J. T. Tucker of Clardy, spent
Saturday in the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Roy Ausmus.
We have about three hundred
No. 3 fruit cans for 3 cents each.
Deport Hardware Co.
Mrs. H. S. Allgood of near
Milton, has gone to Ellis County
to see her daughter, who is ill.
Mrs. Sam Stone of Chicago, is
expected be in Deport within
few days for a visit with friends
T. F. Snell of Dallas, and M.
M. Reid of Reno, are guests in
the homes of D. L. Snell and O.
E. Hayes.
J. M. Shelton left Tuesday for
a three weeks’ visit with his
daughter. Mrs. Ernest Holloway,
at Denton.
Misses Agnes Edwards and
Doris Rush of Paris, are guests
in the home of Miss Mary
Thompson.
Mrs. Wood Murrell was car-
ried to Paris last week, where
she was operated on Saturday at
a Sanitarium.
Monard Hayes was in Valliant,
Okla., last week in the interest
of his invention, a numerical
animal brdnder.
While at the ball game Tues-
day Prof. Ross Houghston was
struck on the arm by a thrown
ball and painfully injured.
Jno. G. Wright is remodeling
a cottage on his faifin east of
town, and will move to it as soon
us the work is completed.
Mrs. V. C. Oliver, who was op-
erated on in Paris two weeks
ago, is getting along nicely and
is expected home next week.
Miss Bertha Norrell was a!
guest the past wCek of Dr. and
Mrs. M. C. Andrews, in Paris.
Ed Scaff and mother of Ful
bright, were guests in the home
of Sam Grant and family last
Friday.
Twin girls were born to
and Mrs. Sidney Wright Mon-
day night. One weighed four
and one quarter and the othe^
■ive pounds.
home Wednesday from Pam pa
She was accompanied by her sta-
ter, Mrs. J. W. McConnell and
sons, Earl and Russel.
Dr. S. H. Grant and W. L.
Baughn made a trip to several
places along Red River Tuesday.
They report very, very sorry
crops along the river.
Mrs. J. W. Cunningham and
Miss Ophelia Mason 'returned
Saturday from the Panama Pa-
cific Exposition. They report a
very pleasant trip.
Hoi ace W, Vaughan of Texar
kana, former member of Con-
gress from this district, announ-
ced that he will be a candidate
for the office next year.
L. J. Gray left Saturday after-
noon lor Caldwell, Burleson
County, in response to a message
announcing the illness of his son-
in law, Henry Womack.
The superintendent of the
State Fish Hatchery at Dallas
has resigned and Sam C. John-
son, formerly of Paris, will be
appointed to fill the vacancy.
Bob Harmon of Chicago, sent
The Times four scenes of the
great Eastland disaster, which
occurred in the Chicago river on
the 24ih ult. Over 1000 people
were drowned.
While Boyd Roddy of Milton,
was working at a hay press near
town last week he stepped on a
bale of hay, which rolled over
and twisted his foot, fracturing
a bone in the ankle.
John Thompson, who has been
attending a cotton grading
school in Paris the past month,
received the highest grade of
the class. John’s friends will
be glad to learn of his success.
Rev. Minor Bounds has been
conducting a meeting at Hoover
for the past two weeks. On Tues-
day nineteen conversions were
reported. It is probably the
best meeting ever held at that
place.
Uncle Nathan Grant informs
us that he saw the report of
Geo. W. Grant’s plum twig and
wanted to go him one better. He
gave us a twig four inches long
that contained fourteen yellow
plums.
We are requested to announce
that the Rev. McMurry, a Chris-
lian minister of Greenville, will
preach four sermons at the tab-
ernacle on next Monday, Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings.
>ouq<
)e singing school at IVKMbn
continues to be a drawing card.
About fifty pupils are enrolled
and th„ school will continue this
week and next.
I am agent for the National
Steam Laundry and will appre-
ciate it if you will give me your
laundry bundle. Phone me at
the Cash Grocer. Bundles call-
ed for and delivered.
* Knight Lari more.
WHEN A QUARTER OF A MILLION OF PEOPLE INAUGURATED
THE VAST PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT SAN FRANCISCO
Transportation reports show that every state In the United States and moat of the nations of the world wars
represented in the great throng of 250.000 people who Inaugurated the Panama-Pacific International exposition
San Francisco on February 20. This picture, ahowlng the mighty South gardens, gives a glimpse of n small fra©-
tton of the opening day throng. In the first Ore days of its progress the exposition had an attendance larger than
the combined totals of the Chicago and St Louis Expositions and tha ratio continues in n degree to Justify predl©
tlons of the moat spectacular success for the exposition.
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A Fortune
Telling System
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By F. A. M1TCHEL
A table was between them. They
had been playing euchre. She suggest-
ed a game of hearts.
“No, thanks,“ he said, “I am not ao
stupid aa to play a game of beans with
a coquette. Your victims are already
sufficiently numerous without adding
so unwonhy a person as myself.”
“You know very weU what 1 mean.
You simply wish to say something
smart."
She was shuffling the cards, hut her
mind was not on them. What her
mind was on, or, rather, what was on
her inlnd, did not Interest him. 8he
was right In Inferring that hla remark
waa Intended for something swart.
While she was listlessly shuffling the
cards she loaned forward ao that the
perfume of a flower she wore in her
corsage was perilously near his nose.
Her red lips were still nearer his. She
was looking down at the cards, but
presently raised her eyes. They met
his resting upon her admiringly, but
sbe dropped them at once.
“Shall 1 teU your fortune 7" she
asked.
“He.”
Sbe began to distribute the cards on
the table In four pllea. Whenever sbe
put a card on the fourth pUe sbe
paused and studied It. He asked her
what process sbe was using and she
told him It was one sbe had learned
from a fortune teUer. A spider laying
for a fly Is not expected to speak the
truth.
She put down four cards,«then an-
other four cards, the second fourth
card being the knave of spades.
“That’s you,” she said.
“I’m no knave.”
"But you’re awfully smart You
scintillate with bright sayings.”
He swallowed this little bit of pre-
liminary bait, and It made blm hungry
for more.
Presently the ten of diamonds fell on
the second pile of cards.
“That's a wealthy girl who Is angling
for you,” said the fortune teller.
“What’s her name?”
“I know her name, but I’m not going
to tell you.”
The two of spades fell In the first
plla
“A black deuce Indicates that sbe Is
crafty. Better look out for her. Shu
will make you a lot of trouble.”
Tbe ten of hearts fell on the first
pile
“That's tbe girl who really loves you.
Sbe Is true hearted, and If you return
her love she will make you very
happy.”
“I don’t quite understand this
scheme under which you are working
all this out,” he said, with u puzzled
expression. “I don’t see why tbe ten
spots are a couple of girls or why you
Infer those things, no matter what pile
they fall on.”
“Of course you don’t What kind of
fortune would It be If you did?”
By this time sbe had deult all tbe
cards and, putting them together
again, shuffled them and began unew,
this time laying them In six rows,
placing one card beneath another, so
that all were exposed. Tbe third card
In the first column was the ten of dia-
monds, and the fourth cord In tbe
sixth column was the Jack of clubs.
“Too bad!” exclaimed tbe fortune
teller. "The expected has happened.
The rich girl has thrown you over for
a man who Is brutal.”
“That’s the queerest fortune telling
system to understand I ever came
across,” he said.
She continued to deal the cards very
slowly. They were both wntchlng them
Intently as they fell, gradually bending
lower and lower over them. At last a
rebellious strand of her hair grazed
his forehead. A fine wire Is sufficient
to carry an electric curreut, and a few
hairs may carry a love current. The
ten of hearts fell at the bottom of the
fifth column. She left her hand on
It, and, putting bis hand on It at the
same time, be touched hers. She did
not withdraw hers, and he maintained
his position.
“Don’t go any further till you have
explained to me why this card falling
at the bottom of the fifth column means
that the girl who loves me Is”—
“Is what?”
“What you’re going to say about
her." > 7 —
"What am I going to say about her?"
This dialogue, spoken slowly and
softly. Is not especially brilliant, but It
was quite sufficient to serve tbe pur-
pose of these two—that Is, keeping their
hands In touch. She raised her lashes
and looked Into his eyes with some-
thing that might have been reproach-
ful; It might have been Inviting: It
might have been anything he chose
to Infer It to be. Meup while the fra-
grance of tbe Bower mingled with her
breath, circled about his nose and per-
meated through It up Into his brain.
It would be sacrilegious to follow
further the blending of these two
young hearts. Besides, It would be a
repetition of whnt has occurred since
Cupid first began his pranks. And yet
the little rascal hns an tnfluKe variety
of ways of practicing his profession,
and nothing Is achieved In life In so
many different ways as the drawing
together of a pair of levers.
“I say. mummy,” be said when their
laughter was receiving attention from
1 desirable parti, “you’4 better tench
her that fortune telling game you
ight mo3 , ,<
It la ndt neceaaary." replied tbe
wife and mother, with dignity.
“Humph! That's about as Intelligi-
ble ae your fortune system."
The Reason Wo Haven’t Changed
Our Ad, It Is—
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THAT’S ALL
W. P. EVANS & SON
How a College Man
Was Reformed
By EVERETT P. CLARKE
Pear Mater—I received your last remit-
tance of Ilfty yesterday. We are within
a week of examinations, and I am study-
ing very hard. I note what you eay about
Lucy. I am very glad that you have In
mind what I have In mind. Lucy la a
lovely girl and I'm sure will make me an
excellent wife, but you know I'm’ still
nearly a year from graduation and there
will be more years while I am study lug
my profession. This seems very long to
me, since I'll not be able to claim Lucy
until I am through with studying. Tha
cool weather will be coming on soon and
I’ll need a new overcoat. I trust It won't
Inconvenience you to send me 1100, for
I’ll need some other tilings besides the
overcoat Ta ta, mother dear; don’t wor-
ry about my getting Into bad company
or neglecting my studies or otherwise dis-
gracing myself. With loads of love, your
dutiful son. EL1HU STEVENS.
When Mrs. Stevens received a let-
ter from lier-dutlful soil, or, rather, an
ruvelope purporting to come from blm,
being an old lady with weak eyes, sbe
turned It over to ber ulece, Miss Lucy
I’ennlugton, to read to her. Lucy took
out (he letter, and when she saw tbe
first word In It sbe started. Then, tell-
ing her aunt that she would be back In
a few minutes, she ran out of the
room, opened a desk In which her
aunt kept her son’s letters, took out
one dated several months before, re-
turned with' It and read It to tbe old
lady in place of (lie one Just received.
Tbe letter she read Is printed above.
This Is the letter that came In tbe en-
velope:
Dearest Brownie—My last remittance Is
here, and I am again In funds. I shall
be over to see you In my car on Saturday
afternoon, and 1 hope you will again be
able to foot your duenna and meet me nt
(he old spot in the woods for a ride.
Mother writes me that she has set ho:
heart on my marrying—after I get my
profession, of course—my cousin. Lucy
Pennington. Lucy Is a good girl—too good
for me—but there isn’t the snap about
her there Is In you. She would think It
very wrong to meet a young man as you
meet me, fooling some one In order to
do It and having a high old time. She Is
rather too much on the Sunday school
order for that. Ooodby. I shall expect to
see you at the hour and place appointed
Vour lover ELIHU.
The next letter Mr. Stevens received
from bis mother was a forgery. Miss
Lucy Pennington had written It, Imi-
tating her aunt’s handwriting. It
warued Ellbu to take especial care of
himself when the weather turned cold,
to always wear his rubbers In wet
weather and not study so hard as to
Injure his health. There was one para-
graph which arrested Elibu’s earnest
attention. It was tills:
I am sorry to say that I fear my plan
with respect to you and Lucy le not likely
to be carried out. Lucy has been receiv-
ing attention lately from a man at least
ten years older than herself, and a vary
steady business man. She doesn't sesm to
be Interested In men near her own age
and looks upon college boys as Juvsnlle.
So we shall have to give that matter up.
Mr. Stevens frowned. He was very
fond of his couslu. Indeed, when he
hail left home for college she had
been his sweetheart, and he had since
Intended when he returned that she
should still lie his sweetheart If she
would. His mother’s plan had met his
hearty concurrence. He was feeling
dumpy about this change In ber when
be noticed another letter lying on bis
table. Opening It, be read: 7
Mr. Ellliu Slovens
Dear Sir-Please take notice that the
little affair that has been between us Is
between us no longer. I regret that 1
have so forgotten myself as to neglect
my studies and deceive the pr» fa to go
meandering about with a young man who
has been deceiving ms. Yours respect-
fully. ' BROWNIE.
Thera were two girls who had given
him the cold shoulder at the same
time. How could It have happened?
He thought tbe matter over, aud It oc-
curred to him that when he had writ-
ten to hie mother or to Brownie he had
been suddenly called by the college bell
Additional Local News
The annual reunion of the
members and friends of John U.
Burks Camp, United Confeder-
ate Veterans, will be held at the
Old Soldiers’ park, one mile
ndrtheast of Clarksville, begin-
ning August 12 and ending on
the night of August 13.
S. R. JeiTus came near getting
his eye knocked out one day last
week while feeding a calf. He
had placed too much feed in
it’s trough and stooped over to
take some out, when the calf
raised it’s head and one of the
short, sharp horns struck Mr.
Jeffus in tne left eye. >
Four big reels of pictures at
the theatre on Friday and Satur-
day nights. “The Bandit King,’’
in c.ie reel. “The Arabian Dag-
ger,” in one reel. “Tragedy of
the Arena,’’ in three reels.
“The Baptism of Fire,” in three
reels. We try to siiow pictures
that please you. Deport Theatre.
Plenty of Meal and Hulls
Plenty of cotton seed meal and
hulls for sale. Meal $1.25 per
sack; hulls $5 per ton.
Detroit Cotton Oil Co.,
Jno. Harvey, Manager.
Detroit, Texas,
For Sale
Scholarships in the Paris and
Tyler Commercial Colleges, at
prices less than you can buy them
from the schools. The Times.
to n lecture and had hurried the two
letters luto envelopes. He suspected
that he had slipped each Into the en-
velope iutended for the other. Then
he scrutinized tbe handwriting of his
mother's letter and caught tte forgery.
ne was In a hole. lie surmised that
his cousin Lucy had written the letter
purporting to come from his mother,
that the steady niau ten years her senior
was a myth and that she had written
It In order to appear to turn down Ell-
hu rather than submit to be turned
down by him.
lie would have eaten humble pie at
once If It would have done any good,
but It wouldn’t. He wns down on cold
paper as preferring Brownie, and noth-
ing he could say to Lucy would undo
what had been done. His only chance
was to live It down and by reforming
bis habits and years of decorous treat-'
ment of bis cousin to win her by the
time he bad finished his education.
Fortunately at the coming of trou-
ble with Lucy tbe temptation to go
browsing nmong Inferior girls was re-
moved. Miss Browule was not a reti-
cent young lady and hnvlng a great
many confldcntnl frlcuds, complained
to each and every one of the way Ellhu
had deceived her. Each friend bad
her own circle of friends and the mut-
ter soon became common property.
The consequence of nil this Ellhu dis-
covered that so far as couquests were
concerned he might n» well devote him-
self to hla books, for during the rest
Df his college career the girls were >11
ihy of blm.
The Incident made e near mb of
him. He devoted himself to hte stud-
ies. end when be had served seven
yes re for I.ncy he found that she bed
committed the forgery to bring him
back to tbe path from wblcb be had
strayed.
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The Deport Times (Deport, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1915, newspaper, August 6, 1915; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158864/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.