Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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CREAM
UMMA
THE WATKINS DRUG STORE
14.003
(CoBtinu-ed from First Page)
Southern
MONEY TO LOAN
YEWS FROM DK K-SO.X
the
RHEUMATISM RECIPE
ing r
their
Lite
succe
Minn
sever
and
160
MONEY TO LOAN
this
AMERICAN CONSUL DEAD.
1908
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Fort
gun
gun
funer
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home
mile
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wedd
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friend* and
throughout
11 vaii
Okla
at h<
900
1.200
fur-
alid
child
day I
the i
cafne
many
inert*
ter tl
Itlag
Sund
$3 <0
100
100
1884
1885
1886.
18 87
says
was
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even!
pares
merci
make
Wrig
ning
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ed t<
progi
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has I
splen
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tng i
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count.'
use of
etry !i
3.000
4.00 0
3,04*6
clerk
! Tack
man;
nee.'
home
teach
mas
Total iSrtstae
Kxpeaare—
Hired man. ’4 00
4,000
12.000
Victims
1 5,000
10.000
5,000
12.000
1.00 0
um
timber land in Polk county for $$,* 2:2
000.090 and it is believed that a line
from Beaumont to Dallas is being :
projected
The t>oy hqg g
gun. plating —
on big foot,
was already
DENTON, TEXAS, DiX
■*x hundred dollar* on peaanta, and
haa ekgkUwa tOM Of hay wotb $!•
par tear, making a total of $780 The
•aagy laad fararera in Nortr and
DENTON COUNTY PEANUTb
From taanaon aerre of land
WHAT FORTY ACRES
, DID
j ucvme
4 "Ur ro t*
Lgei. ut.d
Butter
Krgit
Atta’fa ’
LATEST ESTIMATE
Of THE DEAD
DOES hubby snore? see
locality, which he aay» t“*®« to
located in the cc'.dai of what may
termed earthquake territory.
MAYS EARTH IB SINKING.
BALITIMORE. Md . Dee. 30.—Dr.!
Reid, profeasor Of geological physics
st John* Hopkins, attributes the
earthquake in Southern Italy to a
general sinking of the earth in that
foe \ othe is building a new house. ,
Mrt. W. .1 Chandler visited near!
Denton Sunday.
J. R. Chandler
itfhg hi« brother,
loti Saturday for his horn
Ok la homa.
at Reggio taa~L obtained. ' .Refu-
gees from Bagnara. another town in
the province of Calabria, say-that
half of that town was destroyed'and
many killed and wounded.
Tiflis. Transcaucasia
Martinique. Mont Pelee
Andijan India
Tinjo' Colombia
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Atacri-
can ' .Minister Cheney and his wife
are believed by the State Department
to be among the dead at Messina
We
a loan
We
telling
of a loan og your land
THE DENTON TRl'ST COMPACT
Per JOB L BLEWETT
FOUR ARE SHOT DOWN.
NAVASOTA. Tex . Dec. 30.—Oat
man with a Winchester shot down ,
four men at a sawmill camp at 0**
mer, Tuesday. .AaMM
in «S" ta»‘-rttnent .......
fax o® land _____... ....
mttsew!husr-'ju> naonao .........•..
I gave iutu lbs. of-meat
has
.lo wit
- M « V
A wej| known authority on rheu-
matism gives the following valuable,
tuough simple and harmless. pre
seription, which any one can easily
jpgeowre home:
•• rtttr.f Extract Dandelion, ons-todf
DICKSON, Dec. 26.—While o«tfl
hunting Saturday morning
the 12-year-old son of J. R.
With butter fat bringing 2&c lu„
pound, and with a mariet tSat'woald
be glad to get twice or three times'as
much as it is receiving, butter co
tinues to be brought here and sold
at from 12 l-3c'to 20c a pound, ’n
a pound of butter there is approx.-
mateiy five-sixths, of a pound o’l bu -
ter fat. so-those who seTT buGef al
12 1 2c a pound are not only losing
the-work reqqtre.! in making toe b"tr -
ter, but they are actually sellitjg
finished proiuct for from 1U to
a pound less than thhey can sell
same rnwunt of butter fat for
We can make you a Ioan on your
land at ? per cent interest -
We will make yop a loan for
t ime.
a payment on
you wirh and
you niak
Total expeoae ..... |l,32a
We have clear 11,40 V. 1 hear
some te!)o«, 'ren'-tbe lone ’
It 'an be done Cat mv income half
and r util) gals '50# per ©got T paid
my maa, furnished team and feed and
#1TT'*SL> !***»< tor hl« family.
Keep book*. and you will learn how
to farm and prosper instead of rais-
ing so’Umj aad "Memriag out” every-
body and grumbilag.
eon- vmteri rap 05 the affair
and *":■!*. 4*e4d a’**-- --orr; was r.i-
iit.c j .' se-i vp,-t<e weed# and
<-P eopp_j»jid weighed pounds
get
this loan, if you have an abstract.
- We know yatutiaanoL.gpsl.ws good
a loan’as this elsewhere. «
We want you to drop us a card
telling us what you w»ni in the way
of a loan on your land
THE DENTON TRUST- COMPANY,
Per JOE L BLEWETT
Denton
the
The
NEWS FROM NAVO. |
,NAVO. Ilec. 29.—Cotton picking; nt 1 1 *« US'irwovT IINE Wl
>« over ahd the farmers are-very busvi DALLAS-BEAL MONT LINK.
this tine weather preparing for theJ BEAt MONT, Tex.. Dec. 3A.—R. v. .5,7
next .crop Man,, are through withT^”’'^- representative tor B F. Yoak-;<
their plowing and say they are yearly um, has purchased 150.006 acres tAct
for planting. Tt is seldom that farm’
labor is so well advanced as at this I
time of year. Th? general outlook
seems quite favorable’and our people}
are anticipating quite a successful
year. Wheat is doing well and pas-!
turage is a great relief to the corn I
cribs. Christmas holidays passed Ott;
quietlyr No accidents
This morning about " o’clock the;
hdtel belonging to Mr. Manard in
Prosper, was burned. A coal oil can
DIREtTiONS TO PREPARE SIM
FJgt, YET REMARKABLE
HOME MIXTURE.
We further wish to thank our friends ai&
patrons for the patronage and support you have
rendered us, for we fully realize that we would
be utterly unable to continue in business without
your aid. We have used our every endeavor to
make our store what-you vvould maltcp Tn4-^g
feel that in a measure we have accomplished
this end, judging from the statements made by
our friends and patrons.
Again wishing you a happy New Year and
inviting you to make our store your headquar*
teFs when in town, we are
Very truly vours,
make you a loan on your
per-cent itner(ggt
make you « loan for.ten
- *) - C*~rie rhrougTFjfie ^gliT'loor 'TheIX
on t is lot penetrat’1 hjg foot and mad :
y-ou mb and rhe- ug]y wmind
t e < .n jou -aaki thought 4o be serious
stoppM—to reload hi
the barrel'”of the
not thinking the
loaded. He snapped the trigger uft
the. gun fired, with the result stated
above. : ‘
> Mitchell Nix had his badly cut.
while -sawing ffood t^ith a ~
saw Saturday. Medical attention wag 2
given the injured man, ana it to b«€*-.-2
thought that the wound ig a
ous one. ' ...... ' --28ffijgg
Miss Nannie Brown of Pilot Potol, r.
who is teaching school here, ca«»
baek Saturday to. resume bar work
here Monday.
jvanat’’'' M.
i*w»ay Tlial ’ TeMs Is among
losses for an agri-
no big cities One
this belief is the
part of more than
1878
1880
1881
1883
1883, Krakatoa and other vol-
canoes, thousands. ' (
1, Andalusia and vicinity..
i. Province of Granda. Spn
1, Charleston, S. C
Riveria and 1
Europe
1891. Japan ,,
4 893, Persia
1894, Japan
1896, Florence; Italy, and its
vicinity ..7777-.
1 899
1902
1902
1903
To Our (Friends and
Patrons:
'arm. He suljl
worth of fruit afie.
•'anted—tor hom<
ty acrer of a,UUig lour Ornes
The city is do ng a thing with
rhet and bridge fund taat
might well emulate
ts road and bridge fund,
spending its money" in
1 a- r m a n e n't improvements
buiidisg. iff partnership with abut-
tint .property owners. Xirai-class ma-
cadam streets,.. The cit>? j>hys one
third and ;he property .owners the
remaining two-thirds. The result is
that "the past six months nave peen
S.dbb feet of model macadam
street put in and the next aix month#,
the indications now ate. will see as
much more Some of the fund, of
course, w4R have to be spent .in .tem-
porary work—but this wilt be only
enough to protect the Jlrt streets
from further damage Toe greater
part of the fund, as stated, will br
spent fn putting in macadam streets
wherever the abutting property own-
ers are willing to pay for their share
Of the improvement. r i 2
years
You can make
loan at any time
-interest will stop the day
the payment.
We will have your notes sent to
one of the local bankg for collection,
.which saves you the trouble of send-
ing the interest off each year.
It will cost yon nothing to get
this loan, if you have *n abstract
know yo» cannot get as good
as this elsewhere
want you to drop us a card
us Wltat you want In the.wav
sjrioken districts, half naked and stu-
pefied from their terror and suffer-
ings. Thousands of demented sur-
vivors. they declare, are still wander-
ing about Messina, but few aYe able
to tell anything like a connected sto-
ry of the event.
At Cantanzaro refugees confirm
the reports of dreadful haVoc, but
it is difficult -to get any connected
account. They declare that at Reg
gio the disaster was as appalling as
it was at Messina, on the isiatpFTrt
Sicily, if not worse The lower part
of Reggio, they say-. Iras completely
disappeared and that practically all
structiwes in the cjry are nothing
now—^but crumbling heaps of ruins.
1 ii, <h*>^ ■ .1
dal wave. Then came fire- and Jjuji-! ' '
dreds who were pinned bene’ath the’
wreckage were slowly roasted to!
death
Quake Ix-ss than Half a Minute.
The duration of the quake was'less
than half a minute—the Messina ob-
servatory says 23 seconds, and iEwas
accompanied by strange atmospheric •
conditions. ThO air was fuH of ra-j
pit! flashej of flame which lighted
the heavens aad added to <*• horror /
of a horrible scene. The earth, ac- }
cording to survivors, seemed^sudden-!
Ty'to dYojp, with oscillations from]
side to side that threw the panic- j
stricken out of their beds or off their!
feet and crumbled buildings almost
instantly.
M«'r»t Catastrophe in History.
Histpry tells of nothing so terrible
as this in number of lives lost The
entire region in which the maximum
shock was felt has practically been
wiped off ths map aud_th“ .
‘CTJ'iLjfe we .today.
smoklpg ruins wlfK" thousands of
bodies beneat^t^eRt, !_7...
Throughout the province of Cala-
bria the ravages were frightful. It
rained torreirtd all! day yesterday
and last night and the survivors are,
apparently craaed With what they
witnessed so it Ts difficult to get a
connected story of what really hap
|M>ned. v
Aid Is Being Offered.
Neighboring countries, appalh-d
by the horror, are dispatching aid as
rapidly as tiossible Branches of the
lied Cross society were instructed to
ask for money contributions for the
relief of the sufferers France,, Rus-
sia and England have dispatched war
ships to'Messina to offer what assis-
tance ttiey can
The tidal wave has changed ths
channel* through the Straits of Mes-
sina and the Rock of Charybdis now
Mbeks the main entrance thereto.
Navigation is badly hampered.
Pestilence is feared on account ol
the many uuburted'bodies which tt
will be Tmpbsilbfe to inter for sev-
eral days. All sewerage and water
connections have been put out of
commission Thousands have been
injured and are now without food
or clothing in starch gt refuge
You ’ can makeTa pay
loan at any yme
interest will step
tiie payment. ,
We will have your notes #eiflF-to
one of the iocat banks for collection,
w hich saves you the trouble of’send-
ing tlie |in.tere-j ofijeach year,
you nothing to
if y_ou have an
e was
he ki-
>eed<. 1
I ter
ai«“3
colts, whaj sold f.‘
•owy.
• wbrtn of butter be-
used st aonie. and
bens he sold 11"
■ggs ie"Sid »s.
Tber* were abor^t
fruit tr-er p-un,
and apples, on th
hi* iieighiHi-s I12p
putting up aU be
use- and cut twen
ngcre-
ghtiug a tor, each ttn>e, put twenty
tens in the bar® u, feed it the barn
to fwed the; store furtUshed to work
on Hi*- t*»ni and sold sixty tome ,xt;
♦3*- pe* ton. RiHitf He raised eigiu.
teen aertt- <>f t-orn. sixty bushel* per
acrta-Ju*bushels, and ted mares.
! t'”"’v 011 2 bushel*, leaving btiv
pusheis s’ 5o< per bushel Vy
<J,d BOt sell aliy cart. J furnished
TIDAL WAVE FOLLOWS SHAKE.
23.—Report
and viilag
that serioo , .
. ! 190
by-ikc “arth^.„„_„
NEWS FROM HAWKEYE.
HAWKEYE. Dec. 29—We-Had a
little rain last night. Wheat is look-
ing very well, but some of it is a
v ry poor stand.
Ben and John Chandler were i»
Bolivar Monday. - "
. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. .Toe Vol he
ilE^ay- I>c. J.8. axiLL- - .. . .
TtnYTarhihf^ are busy plowing Cot-
..... aire"
Palermo, dc<
from all the towns
around Messina state
Has been don
quake and that number of vistimc
>» large. Tfoe greatest damage was
done to public buildings ahd <0 the
churcGes"“at Florida, Notre, Cha
monto, Vittoria. Patcrno, Terranova.
Martanopolo add Narro.
At Minot there were a number 01
shocks At Ansgusta. which once
before was destroyed by an eapc,
quake, the tidal wave yesterda
wrecked the great salt works o' the
government.
i be prisoners emplo,,ed ther,. Qjyw
tlnteif, but were finally suppressed-
TAI to fFi,'" sKoirk was fotiiTwipf
b> Kash"*0* “Bh-nlDg.
- w rouklit a t
Rardona and ten persons were kf
ed at Castronal and Montana*-
Prof. Joiecgo, director ot the
Mount Aetna observatory,
t-he center of earthquake
the volcano It H- pousibic that
ther shocks wTT] follow those o,
t rday. but these are expected t
or minor force.
Sanfti Maria college, at Alai, a lit
tie piac> between Messina and
hia. was destroyed, several ol
girl students being buried in
ruins.
The steamer Piedmont, ftfcordl
to word received-here, has nrrlveil at
Milazzo with 390 women,aad <hil-
Srn and f|fty rpen who were injui-
e,i at Messina i$fter transferring
the wounded the Piedmont started
back for the stricken city.
Tl'ieves Hop |t»*Hd and Dying.
There is no doubt that a large pot-
ttorr of Mesirtnamtg- beoft .lesltoyed”.
To add to the terrible effects 01 the
disaster, thieves were soon at work,
sitting fire to property, at various
points ami stealing^everything they
could lay hands on. even robbing the
he'plessly injured and the dead.
A squadron has been order.,] to
Messina, and will arrive ’Hiesda...
together with steamers of .the Ital-
ian Navigation company, carrying sup
p[iys and troops. The-troops will br
Sent to various points to keep dow
lawlessness Signor Barto) inj, (• •
minister of public works, left here
for the South, where he will represent
the government.
( Aiiother regiment ot infantry and
several compajplM of regulars al .0
left for the I- South. Altogether
3.01IU troops have been sunt >uth-
ward fronivTWt* city, While from oth-
er milllory posts about iSjXlu me.i
arc now on their way to Calabrta
and Sicily. ...
never be recovered from ther resting
The provinces of Calabria, in
the boot heel of Italy, and Messina,
on. the island ot Sicily, seem to have
been the centers of the' shock, but
erm new, two days afte. the catas-
trophe, it is impossible to give a com-
prehensive statement of the losses.
Following the quake seaport towns
VIRGINIA MINE DISASTER. 2,g
T- ROANOKE. Va . Dec. 30 —Four-
who has been Vis- teen injners, four of them dead. havk-'Ti
( handler. . . ' , . -. -e%
in Snyder ! been rec°vered from a mine at Lick
Branch and thirty-six yet remain en- . ...
tombed in the mime . 3-
Any •rron«ou» reflection upon tbs
sharectar, reputation or standing
at aay firm. Individual or corpore-
Mn which may appear la ths eol-
amaa of ths Record aad Chrotalcls
will be gladly corrected upon being
called to the attention of thepub-
1.3011
40.quo [ We can
2,500 . land at 7
inq I We will
IIBFI II— AT tATAMIA.
VATANU. ttre |B WefMto*. are
•»m yeurUui taio HHa »IU frem the
the leaders in fire
cultural state with
fact that leads to
expectation on the
a few under writers that several of
the larger companies will pull our of
Texas .the toBias-year. One of the
largest foreign companies reinsured
its- Texas -risks] some .time ago and
quit the state. Many of the fires iu
Texas, it is sad to state, are un-
doubtedly of incendiary origin. Bu
there are alarmingly few conviction!
for arson—so few, in fact, that we
believe that Deniou county has not
had one. In recent years, - if ever.
Hhere have been fires caused. • v*-ry-
body was morally certain, bv in-
cendiarism. Circumstantial evidence
that might have'led to moru>ldefinite
proof has existed n some cases, bat
the officers, knowing the difficulty
with which a person is convicted 01
such' a charge, have usually let the
matter go as it was with no prose-
cutions In one case where tae. evi-
dence was so glaring that au arrest
result and thenar rest was followed
by a written confession' there was no
conviction. Why? It was Impossible,
under Texas laws, It was stated, to
secure a conviction even with the
defendant's confession without cor-o-
boration. In another CMe Where a
man undertook to burn two buildings
and succeeded in one there was no
conviction, although the second house
wn« found thoroughly satui * . •hh
coal oil. the fire ready kindle,| in a
closet and the man himself afterward j
arrested with coal qii all over hi*
garments near the acene of the fire.
An Inquest developed other evidence,
but there was none to prove where
be bought the coal «U. And the
cane wan dropped Lawyers say It to
almost Impossible to secure a convtc-
Uon la arson except where witness w
suv the crime committed Such to
seMoas or never the eass. for la the
»«ry aatur» of ihlage it is an olfenae
committed generally at night and
Annoymous letters. It U said, have
been received by Governor Camp-
bell, threatening to t#ke hU lite for
his “pernicious” activity” in having
th> Baskin McGregor law enforced n
San Antonio. Writers of anonymous
letter* as a generaj thing do but oi<
thing—they advertise their recip-
ients.
Larkin Adamson of Chambersville.
Collin county, and Mrs Mary Beaty
of Aubrey were the guests of Mrs. C.
A Tiankins Christinas day.
Misses Daisy Hankins and
Adamson visited' relatives
Fbmr---------------
Ire moveuMvts ore usually men
Who muko tt a budaeas In
t« prottx by the efforts and ?x-
peadirures of their more retor-
prtslur feBew r’T’rcn- -ho
deHberetoly stay outoiMs or ?p-
pUre moiurenuTs of progreas in
ardor -• hare aa axcaae co a*'-
tonffhute to iWy enterprtre ’hat
i* nor dirertiy selftoh.'y person-
ally paying them t* deal* that
is why the Journal contends
with those who neither joix in
with organix*d effort*, favor pub-
lic eutrrprire nor even for them-
*tirM adrertiae their home ’ ity
lent in their efTort* benefit some
one else Ry the same token we
favor exclusively, the people who
advertise Arlington whereve »e
we Can. Some otherwise excel-
lent ttoopl* never assist any pub-
lic enterprise.
roiino^ Compound.Jj^jup
Pa*te. . —«•* ~
mix by shaking well >n a bottle,
land take in teaspoonful doses’after1
[each-meal and'at bedtime.
He states that the.Jngredients can !
be obtained from any good preserip-
■ tion pharmacy at small cost, and be-
ing <>t vegetable extraction, are harm
less, to taks.
This pleasant mixture, if taken reg
ul,.r)y lor a few' days, is said Io over-
come almost any case of rheumatism..
The pain nd sWeliinfl,' if atty/dimin-
ishes with each dose, untik perma-
nent results are obtained, and with-
out injuring the stomach While
there are many so-called rheumatism
remedies, patent medicines, etc.,
souie of which do give relief, few
really give permanent results, and
the above will, no doubt, be greatly
apprectetei by many sufferers here
at this time.
Inquiry at the drug stores of this
neighborhood elicits the information
that these' drugs are harmless and
can. be bought separately, or the
druggists here will tnlx the prescrip-
tton for our readers if asked to.
mutUr Aucuut 38. IMS. at Uu pout
otfluu. at Dntoa. Tuxau. uaBur act
at Oonsrem, Marek I. 1171.
> tba Wrekly
Record and Chronicle diecaaUaued
at azptrottoa, : -
place wee amld»t his suffering ehll
Jreu It was his firm intention to
order ini tractions be gWen for be-
ginning the journey, but hie physi-
cian* and those in attendance upon
him insisted that it was impossible
for him to undertske such a fatigu-
ing exp.ilU oti on account of hU
health.
At midnight a regiment of soldiers
left here for Calabria. Mpssina, next
to Palermo is the chief commercial
town tjl Sicily, wth more than bi).’
6000 inhabitants, and is situated on
strait of Messina, and is overshadow-
ed by a 1 a age of rugged, rocky pre-
cipes Messina has b?en the scene of
many battles and sieges and has been
so often devastated that there are na
Important rrtfes of antiquity.
zi, Italy .,t„.
1905, North India
1905. Calabria. Italy
19'.'5. Scutari, Albani ,a
1905, Tamazula, Mexico
I9o<>. Region about Vesuvius
1906. San Francisco . ... .
1W, VaipkraTso~and other
towns w
Kingston, Jamaica ..
tanagiu sst.h ......
pTATLSTICs (NIVKRING THE
L_. " LAST .SIXTY YEARS,
t' »Ear;hquakes and volcanic upheav-
-»is vesting serious loss of lifejgptfo
■ last sixty years were as follows:
■ Year
7851, Melfi. Italy
I 1857. Kingdom of Naples .
■ 1859, Quito
■ 1861. Mendoz, South Amer
j 1863, Manila
j 1869, Towns in Pern and Ec-
1—.Cjiador- __________
. 1872, Inyo Valley. Cal.
[1875, Region of Santander,
i- Columbia -
CUa. Venezuela -
Manila
Scio and several villages
'island of Ischia. Italy
> Arkansas Concern Has Devlte to fa-
sure Noiseless Slumber.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark . Dee 30.—A
' concern known as the Acme '"Hmm"
fracturing com^if.6. to’fadfe
I to prevent snoring, obtained, a chir-
1 ter from the secretary of state. I
The company' is eapitaUxed at?
S5.O00. of which $3,000 pf the stock
has been paid. ■
The company will manufacture.*^;
anti-snoring device at Hot Springs.'*’
nr the hands of a boy making * fj~
in the stove got in its natural *Bd
legitimate work. Insurance said m
be about 82,000, perhaps about one-
half of the value of the hnfMtv^
W H. Davis has just returned trow
Pilot An extended trip to West Texas.
ts convinced that Denton couafj to
an excellent, place to live.
■ups and l*as-i me be
' on* of tb»u . and l"l
f-r’al-b. th* same
’.r» Q-huudred and fifty
equsL 11 5 for one! an 1
► 1J ZL'C Nojk ter
It la reported that Reggio met
the same fate aa Mrealaa
A very sever ahocat. which
n»u<-1 damage,
sett*, a city of
create I a great Ma An *»»»< the h»
habitant* but ae owe wa» killed
The pup.' *M great iy *MMfwa«d kt
XKUh I HOM GRKkl.N VALLEY.
GREEN VAU.BY Dec 30 -
School opened Monday with full at
tendance.
Mr Thoma* aat funn, vhttei rel-
•livre •« Argpip •** week
Mrs V «
When are vl
krtrln* of the amtoreg < »*•» *M »i pre**
’I’rtrd lhe reo^le i. the Poe th He
MMmKVKLT MtNM FONIMMJtNt E
WASHINGTON. Qec W.— Prrel
dent Room volt Tueoday wired King
Km man u ■! as follow*.
“With all my country men 1 am
•ppollmi by the dreadful calamity
which haa befallen roar country. I
offer my uacareM sympathy The
American National Mad Crore tore >■
Without comment, which would
superfluous, the letter pt J. u Has
tand of Sherman, written to the D
la* News, ts reproduced below:
I will tell how I did with forty
acres of land: Twenty acres in al-
falfa, two acres in lots, garden and
orchard, and eighteen acres In'corn.
I hired a man and instructed h'm to
exchange labor with his neighbors v
. he could get hejp (Jo Buch wqr ■
as he could not do without help, iik -
baling hay, etc I gave >4 ) per acre
or $1,000 for the farm and gave
my hand $3.50 per day for 30‘> dajs
.J£0r.lL2Xi.IlaU4— i-furnished four
mares to work the crop with I
nlsh.Ud my iuau i.-aiu aii.i »ee<i
he paid all ,hiYed help Now-
will see if there ja any money ’C d.-
vefeTTR-atToh I qmt in TJr? ermtrart
that his children must go to achooi
at least six motithrum5’**
to do no field work. ! paid Urn,'.he
cash at the epd of each mouth so
he could buy books, clothes,
1 furnished teams anJ feed,
to furnish al, Lu uaetts. whici
ready had such tools as ti-
to run the farm, jts stated
sisbed^bitd ftnn—nrxrF**aiid- Bi
me four rteb
$2< 0. j furti:stu:d tarn
a*s 1 h--. Void I 1 ••
side,: »ha*
* com fou: JUZ.-X
» 0 rttt d* cm t * eue * and
w hgt ie- ' urt.rt
uut ..bund red
“ grape cream of tartar powder.
Makes pure, healthful, delicious
food. No alum, no lime phosphate.
There is an infallible test by which
b°U^\fe may de‘e<* the unhealth-
ful alum baking powders— -
The label will tell
Study the label. If it does not sav cream
o tartar the baking powder is made from
alum and must be avoided.
■ron-fe all picked here Fall Oats
looirtiMr^fiwpr”"—■* ■ ■
R. T., Sparks of near Denton
ite<] in Hawkeye Saturday.
W W Sparks of Graham is visit-
ing ij) Hawkeye.
Silas Koioer and wife of Krum vis-
ited .1 H„ Koiner Friday.
W .1 Chandler was in Gainesville
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