The Wellington Leader (Wellington, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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FBIPAY. AHUL 1, iMt
ELECTION.
J. CLAUDE WELLS. Editor.
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I AL PRICES ON TALKING MACHINES
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Bargains in every department
of Quality. Price and
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created
-• under
■■ -ari rf- r;
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sympathize
e thev
women
the*1
few more
schiJol.
will do
needed.
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SHORT DIRECTIONS
for bi s> rrori r
To find a needle in a hav.-ta. k
sit down on it.
Constitution r. not pa.-x-ung
trictinc
it doe
THE DAY FOR REAL VALUES. COME SEE W H \T YOER DOI
in every department
We have a new line
Dollar Day
MONDAY, APRIL 4th
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Star-Telegram:
“The pre-ent Senate i-. so ever bal-
anced that there are districts in
West Texas and the Panhandle that
have three times us many qualified
voter- a- certain dr Tic’.-- ia East
Pumping f’.iound AA.i .«r‘
E' -at :ng lndei>t« :•><
It
and Illi
to mar
<.v ■- uuts tc
I 1'1 ll StO’
if he has
••ally cvnstituted that two-thuds of
the pn. ent '■ natoi., represent only
ine-half of the qualified voU-rs of the
■.ate. And to make matters worse
the district tiiat hx* lews representa-
tion than any other pays six time ■ as
any one of the nurubei of di - trict s in
you want
One i. <'■ 'i-
i> yimi-- .voij I
a per-un for
■i .J' a tutement i.-.
|>i ng i ■. jroi on «■ :
until |
. it.h ,
the
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ft
. __________ur trouufrs.—
! Remove the girl frqgt y»ur lap''
To plant a garden -Hire a planter
To rest quietly—Close the windows
for thi perpetrators of the rheme
buying it with German mark not<- t<>
conduct therr campaign. 1 hi is par-
ticularly true .it is slated, as to Ger-
man farmers. The purchases, how-
■ er, ai e made of
as Germans.”
Cotton grow i
should beware of
mark., at any pn
turpitud ■ -.f Gerri .
may nev<-i pay an
which is ran by
hman- escape.
In <.nc i t the man who aproarl-
tT < t y’t no -i.p-m-ib iity. Hi-
lt or need facts; He mi-re-
Jii-.pt r. The man with
v tie- n’t have to whisper.
! ho facts, lie can
taad In Sc of h
through
uia •. I covemmcAt can be cont n
c’i m 1. .... indefinitely."
oxfords and pumps
Be sure to see us .
before you buy
the situation up in fine shape in an
article recently published in the Fort
Worth Star Telegram aw follows:
“It will he an election, alright,
but not a political election. To vote
for the trustees is no moi" a
political act than to vote for the
president of the .Missionary Sue etv
or the Mother’s t'lub. Not une
You don’t object to saying whom
want fot president of the I iidits'
do you? Xor whom
president of your dub
ing ;♦ pe -on for a
other is choosing
work.
“And now in a
HAVE THE.PEOPLE
NO RECOURSE?
I’rd t’ above caption the Fort
Worth Stat Ti egram of March 17th
■untamed a very strong editorial of
over one thou-ands words giving the
legislative salons a .--'athing review
for their refusal to redistrict the
tat.- according to the constitution,
which provide.- that this mu t Im- done
Foreign Adveru.ing Repi eaenuativr
THE AMERk AN PKE-* ASSOCIATION .
— —— - -1 — —— ...... . —1—
“I. t v.-at n 4our town on one
roU'd !"■ h....ed to hold the loot
election until late in the afternoon
• ■ ■ • .*• o’ with n.. f • .
no inte.e in the school and n- 'lung
ei e ,t. d > ami 1* wa prt-iailed upon
tn "open t-r- pn! ■ ' and hold *he
.ehod election. About that turn: a
fine northei struck town. There w. re
fou. school tiu tee- to Im- cho-< ■ in
an ndepe-ident di- ' < t icpn-s. nt civ
'(..■I school childt>-n There were .on
or eight name the ticket -to
nrht to trip build
schools they
Women by the thou and
stood all
knew the needs of our pul
from the
p atfnrm;
prep-trr them.-
hud made a study of d d 1 fc and
undei tofsl the boy and girl prob-
lems. knew how to
gtiod teacher, and.
the poor teacher becaus
been both. All such t
barred from oui .-whom
very few dav< the
will again choose
the men and women whom they want
t i direct th. educational interest.-, of
■ ic-i, towns and cities anti rommutu- ■
’ ■ ■ r year <>r two. On thi'-T^ l,f 1 TonucitTer 'pat r’5U.- uu 1>yt
paying her jxill ta> may hav. a \-o c.-j
m the school election and registe,
her choice for trustee?.
“Some of you may n >t ,eahz< what,
this means to our school-. The n ■ ing
and I
anil all other.;
luy.rv German
co, for the moral
any is -uih that it
h’me-t debt out of
any ruanne' of
The purpose of this communication
i to give formal notification of the
i-meigen-y suspension of the • ei
• '.t n. i-ease in livestock rates w'u ii
■ ordered la.-t Augu-t. This rv-
riu.tio nis effective
July lath, inclusive,
covers all teir.torie.
tare movement take
feds both cattle and
movements except shipment
k. t points.
This measure was recently
by our president. Mr. A S Stinnett,
who appeared last week before the
Interstate Commerce Commis ->n at
Washington and ph-d for his relief
I he granting of the game establishe-
a pn-codent for the Commission,
whu-i is an inescapable complaint to
oui president, and brings vou and
a'! r.f u-- a tet of that is computable
n dol -ii arc rent if we are
quainted with extended f cures,
will siiwe to tile Panhandle-!' am ?
gion thousands and thousands of <>jl
Ini and may be the means Jf a n-
lief undreamed of by u
Unselfish devotion is evidenced in
t1 is effect ve work bv Mr. Stinn-tt
tn that he brought simila results V>
Kan-a . Oklahoma Texas. New Mex
tco and all states
movement . f cattle will be necessary
Shippers should place
thr-'Ugh ii-gular railroad
and at the ame time notify thi- uf
fire so that we may be of further
tanse if po-eible
GERM AX AGENTS REPORTED
AS BUYING TEXAS COTTON
AAITH GERMAN MARKS.
“G.rman agents are traveling
o er Texa making contracts with
fa.Tners to exchange theeir cotton for
mane note It is alleged that _the
value of thc-e notes is being misrgp-
re ented. According to Charles H
Alvord, agricultural agent of Bexar
county, formers <if that county have
cui 'iacte. for the ale tif more tnan
100 bah o* cotton to these agents
for two lOOC-mark notes each Mr.
Alvord charges that in theme -ales
the farmer- have been swindled. He
al -o says that there r.- a state wide
«leme on the part of the Ge man
.o purchase «• tton by this
He cautions th., farmers v
that the
secondly to
of the mark,
an < nonnops
in the hands
pnmer to the y
i ad stud <-.j for
for srhi
H)UR ,
TIE'M.lHi8TlM <rfh bS* '\tUc£’Pi?d£ ’ SATl Rn " TRUSTEE^:
---------.—--->—.1 x .z....—stock stock market, or people who '
hare forgotten how to sell and need: u It >s very important to elect the
eossin to keen alive, is more than un- right people for trustees of the
(Printers’ Ink!
Ti e poison gas <>f wartime was agents
made by chemists. It cau.Mil. untold method.
-u: :. rn. It wa. unfair. 1 he ix>i ,or; fl'-t al -fv them-•■ha
ga. of • ot’ini. ire i.- mivle by thought’ note an genuine, and
les and ’.vzv jieople >r men with learn th-- exchange rate
, 1 '. Tt ii.,o cau-M*H t-uf- Tin- f.:<: that there i,
upjdy of cotton still
lotai Liidnhtm
Exce-
This
April 1st
:hi- year,
in w}_
place,
sheep
jgn.qqq no
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JAM 6d
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“If -'me citizen of the Panhandle
■••ere tn apph- tn the courts for an tn
unction restraining a tax collector
Jom attempting to collect State
axes on the ground that they w>’ie
being illegally appropriated by an il-
legal body, and were to contend tiiat
t);c present law fixing the districts of
the Senate is uncm-titut.'’>nal. being
• n plain violation of at least thre s«s -
t.vn- of that document, the member-,
' ih. I gislature tin .'mbtedly would
'fee'. Jo Im- -urpri cd An.1 yet ti re
would be at least common send- in
that contention, whatever the courts
might finally decide. For the pres-
ent law < in violation of the Consti-
tution. Two decennial census periods
ha- e pa a-d and the Constitution ha
not been complied with. In the light
common . nse, the pne-ent Senate
.s not legally constituted Does not
common sense prrsump that the peo
pie must have -x>mw recourse at law?
I’- not, would it not then be the powei
of the Senate to perpetuate the pro-
em illeg.i . ui"U moct.itir and unju t
■ifndition ?
Suuuo;>i the re .'.stri uag hiil i .
nut pi. se.f at the 4M>cial sesaibn,
what then '.’ .Must ti>e people of half
the State - ontinue to be .Fxminated in
: n<- Senate L>v the people of the othei
’ ■ f, because of the disparity of th“
.. in th ■ S' nata
■ ’>: ng is certain, and it may
r tc!I b>- mainly said right now
wnile thi '-e is still some hofie tiiat this
■ ■ will' be 1 -■misio-'l. i t,. i•• wi'
n< t h mother election ti<-ld in Texa
urof >■ p--'sent law fixing the
Senai r ai ii .■ tncU unle.,.> the court,
ieciile that the p.z>ple an- without
rncour e and at Che mercy of the
! ,L.e I eglh ature Ignored the
a redis-
-.1 the tegular ,. ion. If
not do better at the special
then the effort must i>e made
• > e courts whether such de-
pt rui.
“N‘.w v. it an- you going to
about • " A.- mean the women
Texa Mi know what the men will
do Unit ■- -omeone is running
i i .' I; . t.-e whom thev do XOT
w ant t • ' a at. I.ome and work
oi wf-.itt i as i. then natuial eu m
■ •; -hs n'ect on day.
total of nineteen votre eaat It wu
so complicated that it looked for a
while like another election would
have to be called town ttff the tire.
What a school spirit! What depth of
interest! And how proud the new
trustees felt, to lx- elected by such
large majorities! If such a minority
vote had been cast on a pig contest
or for the prettiest girl in town the
whole election would have been call-
ed Illegal and nv.t representing the
w ill of the people But^ its was just
a school eleetietL Merely selecting
some trustees to keep the m hoi alive,
hire the teachers, sign the vouchers,
pav the bill- buv the p..al. emp'ov a
janitor an I loot, aftei
incidental*, relative to u town
T hat > the idea. Anybody
that will do it N<> experience
Qual fii-ation uhnece.-s iry
“This has been the pi i t
people toward their sdhool.- for
i-.nd years, and an aunts today
than anything else for the low
flanks of our schools in 'Texas.
"But there i., a «iiffen*nt eondit *.n
of affair thi- year. One never known
in I'axa befor< .-At our next -• hool i
election women w ill nr t only Im- eh- 1
glide a trustees but everev ;>ne who’
Vvatei VAork > -ter.
Dumping Ground
I ibr rtv B'.nd.-
Bond Sinking 1 unds
W_a±ranl 1 uu<_
paruular day about 15,000 new trus-
tees mu t Im- elecU il for a two year
term. But you do not have to worry
over the whole 15,000. All you have
to <||. is help elect one, tWV. three or
fou n oil' • n i.iol t,» tak. the of the ballot tn the <’••-»* ‘i"
x-(hundred of thousands < f •• ,
| teachers of our State and Xation
do was one of the greatest e<lu<ati.inal
moves ever made. Almost '(> per
••ent of our teacher today are women
More than 75 per cent of pur
teachers are women. But w.t
this year could these women
fenug—it i.- equally unfair. It con- _______
sit: in Ahiipering store about >>l lexa., farmer-- and that the mar-
compame- .r people without founda- ket conditions at this time are do-
tion > f fact. It is boanr.g false wit- pre -e<| makes it comparatively easv
no- < means umle.rwibining confi-
dence. D ha- no i-elati'in U< the
frank a; o u|i> n exp.'>-av of rotten con-
I Ft. JAMISON.
Sec rotary - M an ar - r.
STONE
&COMPANY
WELLINGTON. TEXAS.
Statement of th* I inancial 4 ondition of *ht
CITY OF WELLINGTON
But anything, anybody, just so it wa.«1 To remore atulns Trem • eharneter
they left the .schoolroom and took up —Marry money. x f
the work of a home and a family.) To enjoy yowkeMJNb your wife s
a man. would do for a school true- dinner party—etay M»y- •
... m. c i i To keep creases in -your troue**-*- —
“But that day nt past The school p„m<1VA the eirl from V»Ur iap\
training of *11 the years is open to!
the schools Women and men alike.
may use their ripened experience to " v ''“'Ju7 „'7
correct the mistakes of the past an'* turn on ™ w«.-k hard
rather than duplicate them genera- accumulate mon ■
tion after generation, and women with an'*_ spend not hi g.
vision may east them wishre into ..ur ' o the early bird U> Che worn,
educational affairs and give to nui ^ta> UP 11 n v'
schools the benefit of their long
years of school work Isn't it .ry-jc-on
able to expect some new light and
somi- neded heelp along our educa-
tional lines’"
th.- truth
To see better, t rm ah< Drink
a quart of hood
To l.o happy th >ug n lined
BY THE LEADER PRINTING CO. ^s,ip7o keep a’lTve, is more Than un-| right people for trustees uf the
fair—it is foolish. schools and the losader would be glad
Every* man who is not a parasite , to see the citizenship of Wellington
in the economic structure has .some- get into line and put in men who are
Entered as second-elans matter Aug- thing to sell. It may be an idea— ^capable of looking after affairs in a
26, 1«M», at the post office at Welling- a cn-ed-or a washing machine. *ftV. and cut Put pohtire.
-I’— •*... *„• M.~.h Mar" ,nen have fontotU’n how to Mrs. Ihebe Warner of Claude sums
ton, Texas, under the Pct of March d| They are busy whispering. ’
3. 1879. But the man who wants to sell his
prj(|U(.( jias fo ahove a whisper.
C9 AA fncs MOM Vnns A,i'1 ,ie has *<ot f" think “l»OUt his
uasn per lear bu<m< He can go out ria*
now and get orders for goods, space,
"I "or whatever he is selling, in the time
’,i- takes whispering alsiut a rumor
o worrying about a cancellation.
’The engineer of a train, when he
comes for a moment to the valley be-
k.w th.' hill ahead, doesn’t . top She
train. He doesn't invite the conduc-
tor to -it down v. .th him beside the
track while he tells him hollow-toned
glio-it -torie-;. lie gets his f ie well
coaled,-puts his hand on the throttle
and turns on the steam
It is exactly the right time for all
American business to take a hitch in
it tiuuser.s and go to it. It's time
' e - '1*11*' v ft1 - [-1- i hr tT'— 1 'in- -
turn oft' the pqison v:.y.- and turn
Jtie
To be<ome famous
Write a
naughtv storx
To be President
Go
to -leep and
dream it.
To get am- t«d
Lr!
Vf’UJ V* H‘
dr vp the rar.
To I*" th. .. ht a
liar
A1 w a \ - U*l ■
Men’* heaw blue Overalls for
$1.00
Ladies' $1.50 Phoenix Silk Hose, per
s pair Men’s black Sox for
1.00
pail
$1.00
1 pair Men’s black Lisle Sox for
LOO
0 pairs Ladies’ Black Hose for
1.00
Special lot Men’s Hats, $2.50 values
10 halls .1. & P. Coats Thread fot
1 00
for
1.00
Special lot Silk Taffetas. Satins, etc..
Special lot Boys’ Hats, $2.50 \a!ues
per yard
1.00
for
1.09
SpeciiiJ !<>t 'Jen’s Dress Shirts, each
for
1.00
Special lot ( hildren’* Ginghanr Dresses
choice
1.0!)
• 1 . •
2 1-2 rd- 10-1 Shectini; for
. 1.00
I
> a ards good Ginghams for
1.00
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Wells, J. Claude. The Wellington Leader (Wellington, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1921, newspaper, April 1, 1921; Wellington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1187301/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .