Denton Record-Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 140, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 24, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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25 DRESSES AT
when
ONE-HALF PRICE
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HATER
One-Third Off Suits
SC.lt
for9 sedi Mary Watkins. and I
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These prices are gxtod for one week.
Raid
t he
GOOD BARBERS
VERABEST
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AT OUR SHOP
weather
on
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We have employed the service* of
Try a Sack Today.
ED ROBERTS
and
BABE FRANKLIN
to
Your Grocer Has It.
DENTON MILLING CO.
E. M. (RED) WOODS
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EVENTS AND COMMENTS
TROUBLES OF LOAFER
BY H. F. B
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WHY NOT INSTALL A
A
DELCO-LIGHT
PLANT NOW?
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Denton. Texas.
South Side Square.
H. W. DAVIS. Dealer
ject but not
New
BOOWALLOW NKMR
FREE SEED CORN
Dunk Batt*
Mr.
and
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TO THE MEMBERS OF BOYS CORN CLUB
who BvM
haR womft
PHONE 71
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VAUGHN PLUMBING CO.
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PAINTS AND VARNISHES
POLKADOT CORN FEED
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GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
to
TEASLEY & GRAHAM
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SANITARY PLUMBING
DENTON, TEXAS
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THAT IS SANITARY
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economize.
IT’S ALL THE NAME
IMPLIES.
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not
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and kept
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PHONE US YOUR ORDER
TEASLEY-GRAHAM CO.
PHONE 174
OUR WORKMEN ARE
PLUMBERS
the
17.
wan
on
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WE CAN MAKE IMMEDIATE
DELIVERY.
We cannvt make free alter-
ations at these prices.
JAGOE ABSTRACT COMPANY
Established 1874
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V. W. SHEPARD
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Side Talks
(By Ruth Cameron)
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THE WILLIAMS STOBE
Ask for the smallest item.
w* i
■ Your Insurance
Policy is Written in
Technical Terms.
i
eome*
he
w rote
a crowd la
restaurant
and humanitarian, born at
62 years »ko tod|y.
has
prope.nsl'1 lew
Luafi'r
The Park
W eather.
your? inside
Exter? ~
Collision ’’
We
the
deans ajar,
na -
a
not
from
the
Intrlstlng
!,<• w
m I n n i t s
tvetch
Simmons
v. . k
w here
Mostly Satins and a few
Taffetas. All are good
stylea. Many are aa good
styles as we have bought
for Spring, but we need
the room.
LGRAY U
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12.60
16.00
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Rippling Rhymes
By Walt Mason
HOME OUTFITS
We are well prepared to furnish your room or home from our
big stock of Home Furnishings.
WE HAVE EVERYTHING FOR YOUR HOME
i JpffricH
a n o w
Clara
< !■■■*■ iLsi — i^adi — tnw.
Little Benny’s Note
Book
By Lee Pana.
pared
s| < nt
mation he received
led to an ‘ '
maritime
meteorology.
Tn the Civil War he fought for the
South and Invented an electric tor-
pedo for harbor defense. He- also serv-
ed for a while with the Unfortunate.
Emperor Maximilian and Mexico.
Ing
fact
who lost. It is
that spreads the
m :w •<
Journal)
Horn to
We Appreciate Your
Business.
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B. H. 8HVfNK)RT & CO.
fe. . . tesmuNCB
Tnar
IMS.
need
regarding
distributed
books to
||US=S
A modern
folks wear
and drive
1st*, he
parents.
and
the
lo r w
We will distribute FREE of charge a sufficient amount
of this corn to plant an acre of ground to each member of
the Boys Corn Club of Denton County. There will be no
charge whatever and all that is required of the members
is to plant the corn according to the directions of the club,
cultivate it and keep a record of the work, cost and result.
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The corn should be planted on an acre of ground lo-
cated away from other corn so that it will not mix. Re-
member this in selecting your land for planting the corn.
Assuring each of you of the interest of this bank and
' its members in your work, you are requested to get in
touch with County Agent Frank R. Phillips and qualify
to get your corn.
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• Is at
r»-lH f i V»»M
xv ent al:
xislf.'d in Rixerfll
to BnkerMfh.bl and
a \v ax- xvith dim at
If you will select your Furniture now you will save money.
Let us furnish your home—For cash or easy payment.
WE HAVE RECEIVED A CAR
OF
R7
Our Insurance Service is oper-
JptadXor that purpose. It is to
■Mlke’you sure that you are in-
•ured as you think you nre—as
jrou wish to be.
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rIx < d at
We have secured a quantity of specially selected seed
corn adapted to this climate. This corn is the best we
could find anywhere.
SUBSCRIPTION
Ilaily
L. . On* Month, delivered
------Months, by mall (In advance)
One Year, by mail (In advance) ..
her home hir*
one lommln and
hIro preRent
In The Lit-
W«R
**< k ih Dalian to Mirr
WpRter of F< rrlR They
their future home nt Mil-
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Sometimes these arc
understand—often
understood.
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This bank will hold a corn show next fall and each
member is requested to bring us ten ears of corn to be en-
tered in the show. The best ten ears will be awarded a
Other premiums will be awarded as decided
by the judges..
Alexarubr Moseley, who
kind of a law nqlt over at Pumpkin-
vllle. Hays the oth<*r Ri<ie haa a lawyer
who looks a? though he does not have
much sen^e. yet he has already canned
him a g»o<l deal of trouble.
at Ion of Independen tR.
Siaaletv. MIrr Mary Watkins served
lemminade and cake at
Sunday by meen« of
2 ginger snapR. Those
whh Mi sr Maud Jonson.
course,
but the
cause a
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Admiral Sims seems to have count-
t •d'verjr cleverly on the fact that the
x*44 *Bti-ndministration party was in the
Mfarity in the Senate, and the vote
C. > 4 of 33 to 30, by which a resolution cen-
£ ‘owing him for disclosing information
of a "eonfidefitial character” was de-
feated was on strictly a partisan basis. |
It appears, however, that the state-
1 ment which Sims said was made to
' Mm Jost prior to his departure for |
England—that “we had just as soon
v - Aght England as Germany”—was not
weda by Saceretary Daniels or any-
body else in authority but. if made at
all, was from some underling official
— who. at that, had some right to expect
that even Admiral Sims would have |
■officiant judgment not to blab it for
the world to hear. It is unfortunate
that questions involving the conduct
of the war cannot be decided on a basis
Of truth rather than of partisanship,
the people as a whole are very I
Mtf j ~ -WIM~h more concerned, we think, in
getting at the real ti*ath than they I
wife are enter-
t their home.
nas been 111 the
E. O'Neill Is teach-
Men who have had many years
experience in the barber business.
Princess Charlotte Ailelsonde.
new ruler of Luxemburg, norn in l.ux-
etnburK. 24 years ago today.
Maj. Gan. Henry I’. McCain, former
ailJntant gciiera 1 general of the Uni-
ted States army, born In Carroll Co .
Miss., 59 years ago today.
Dr. Ezra S. Tipple, president of Drew
Theological' Seminary, born at
den. N. J.. 59 yeads ago today
THIS IS THE BIRTHDAY OF
Sil,AS conn
January X'l. lkl'2
Sila* Cobb was one of the early
"capitalists," and one of the "fathers”
of Chicago
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Denton citizens ought to be inter-
—BBted in there being a full count of
the city's population; but we appre-
hend that unless the citizens aid the
enumerators, their wishes are apt to
diiappointed. Every Denton citi-
MB who has not been counted or who
knows of other citizens, either acci-
dentally overlooked or temporarily out
■f the city, who have not been count-
ed owes it to himself Uhd Iris home
v city to notify the proper authorities.
And if you have any difficulty in get-
ting access to the proper authorities,
notify the Record-Chronicle, and
will see that the information
where it will do the most good.
; . ' x Attorney General Palmer seems to
have been misled into endorsement of
the Sterling and Graham anti-sedition
- bitts; he seems to have formed his
Impression of them more from their
avowed purpose than frofti their real
contents, just as a lot of others had
<tena. We think all will agree that an
Mfoctive means of punishing the
r. . - hone-grown reds should be provided
‘; ■ • by law, and that this should be broad
enough to include the parlor Bolshe-
vists who are more inciters than doers
-----at radicalisms. But this can be done
without abridgment of the right of
free speech or of the right of assem-
blage, aa it is charged the Sterling
E& pnd Graham measures both do; and
the line between hindering free speech
PT"4* and checking revolutionary utterances
is so narrow that it will be well to
consider carefully from both direc-
tlona any measure seeking the latter
and that it may now also effect the
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OBMTON. TWI, W,COBD-CHSOXICLK,U1<MAT,.-
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sent I fildent know I had’
About
and Tz*‘W DavlR
20 mlnnitR laar
to tr-etrh Samn
granmoth»*r« poll parrit to way D<M'Tar-
Some fallow haa stated roerntty that
people who are
are killed. Clad
not
a ii y
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< ■ Any carried over suit at these prices. Tricotines,
; J Serges, Silvertones, Poplins, Men’s Wear Cheviots.
I I Most of them are in Navy.
i > *This is an opportunity
J that thrifty shoppers
< . will not overlook.
It’s easy to remember. It’s the
number to call when you want
things in the Grocery line. Al-
ways ready to serve ybu, always
ready to please you.
your poll
If you <lo
as w,l Ibf
<nndi<lM<* will shun
BETTER DAIS
A better time Is coming—I am
quite sure of this — when you will
see me thrumming my lyre In per-
fect bliss; the Reda, who claim at-
tention. will be too scarce to men-
tion. the serpent of dissension will
be too weak to hiss. We all are
growing saner wltn ever passing
day; the evidence grows plainer
that pipe dreams fade away; amt
soon we ll stand and wonder why
In the name of thunder we tried to
tear asunder the things that ought
to stay. You’ll site us backward
gazing and viewing, with a tear,
our antics most amazing, in one
unholy year, when we were all
demented, distraught and discon-
tented and every day Invented new
kinds of doubt and fear. And. on
the heights of reason, we'll mut-
ter, “Can It be, that through one
godleaa season no dome from hats
was free? O. can It be we ranted
ami clamored to nave planted In
this falf land enchanted, fake kinds
of liberty9" Slow, slow has been
the waking frqm wild and bug-
house dreams, hut now the morn is
breaking and sunlight on us
streams, and as the morn advances
we'll corm forth from our trances
while yet our agile Frances and »
fills the air with screams
*2mu1Cm>w*imv’hwv1os
Bryan was het
town Monday
the bedside <
who died
after an
Beatrice Harraden, celebrated Eng
Ifsh novelist, born at Hempstead. Eng
land, yaars ago today.
Dr. Tiate Waller Barrett, physician,
sociologist, :
Clifton. Vk.,
Mrs. Edith Wharton, author’of num-
erous popular novels, born In
York city. 58 years ago today.
Marcus A. Smith. United States sena-
tor from Arizona, horn near Cynthiana.
Ky.. 68 years ago today.
Me an Fqds Slinkins was tawktng to
Mary Watkins outside of her house
and all of a suddln gome gerl as prlt-
ty as vpythlng with red tomnier sban-
ter came up the street and started to
wawk in the house rite next door to
Mary Watkinses, saying to Mary Wa<
kins. Hello.
(I. did she jest move in? I sed.
1 don’t know, I bleeve so, sed Mary
Watkins with a Jellus fxpresslon and
I’udp Sell. Sh*'B prltty. alnt she?
Some people mite think so, I
help it If people dnnt know eny
ter than to think so. she's got freckle*
on her nu*e, »ed Mary Wat kins.
Not me. 1 dont think so, 1 think
she's prltty ugly. I sed.
So do I. she alnt neer as
wat you are, did you take
the freckles on her nose?
Maybe she
Mary Watkins, she
did, enyhow.
Its good
will you I
out agon?
Wat
sed. O jest for curiosity.
Jest meer curiosity, sed Puds.
Curiosity killed a cat. sed Mary Wat-
kins. Ami prltty soon she went and me
and Puds kepp on standing there, me
saying. Maybe she'll come out aj^en,
if we wait a wile. Meenlng the new
gerl. And we kepp on waiting anil
after a wile Mary Watkins opened her
parler window and stuck her heel out.
saying. Wats you watting for boys?
O, nothing. I sed
Nuthing. sed Puds,
as
spehil, and
away
Burglars and thieves robbed the peo-
ple of New York of money and valu-
able articles td the amount of (25.000.-
000 during the year 1919. Well during
the same time thu credulous people of
Texas lost more than that sum
buying oil stocks lint they a
no paftii'ular howl about
you hardly ever near of the
lost. It is tile fellow who
he w s
YEAR AGO TODAY
THE WAR
meins
You save
money Fy buying the
best Paint. Everyone
knows that S. W. P. is
the best.
-
of very poor
i in Montpei-
17 according
time, he was
trade. Tn thia
Seems like
> play the
Fw,
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That tile full dinner pail I* to lose
Its significance. In politics Is forecast
by the statement that factories are
rapidly inaugurating cafeterias where
working people can get hot meals at
cheap prices. The result Is reported
to tie very satisfactory indeed
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rtenw"record-
1 hu tn body thinks
interdoose us If
I'ormcd by you buying one of our
good farms, and we have several
of exceptional values to offer, and
the Federal Land Bank loaning
the money at 5*.<i per cent interest
and giving 35 years to pay it
back You have the privilege of
paying it sooner if you like.
Think what it' means to be in
partnership with the greatest
Government on earth. Nothing
like it in rates or options. If you
•ell, the loan is transferred and
nobody is scared of a Government
loan.
We are writing Fire Insurance
'for a long lift of the best people
in Denton and Denton County and
would like ever so touch to add
your namo to that splendid list
Ll
The tlrnn for paying your poll tax
Ir drawing to n eloHf. If you do not
pay It you might as va»-I lb»- n < hlna
man The candidate will shun you
The country will regard you ah a sub-
a citizen.
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prltty aa
did you take notice to
on her noHv? aed Pu(1b?
thinks she’s pretty,
wawks as if
P»«-Hid*- nt Wil won v»
M 111 a ’ I ‘.t in • i• to a <11 w t i n
•’ll*.’ ' ■ f i HU.
Xnm.UH. ,.,1 that Chins would nsk flu- I
Tcacc Conference to revise the treaty!
11. t * * \ i,ii' i n
- f returning troop* ar
York f rom Fra n<’»*
of Prealdent WIlHon’s
it <’bateau Thierry
pay
choloicUuU reason for man's greater re-
luctance to let go anything he has ac-
quired, it Ir found in the fact that he.
as the producer, fears he maj’ not be
able to replace it.
On the other hand, it is quite as easy
to motivate the woman's willingness
to get rid if a few of the mapy pos-
aessionH that fill her house—because
to th me woman, an unused article is
only “one more thing to dust.”
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rOWL.BR Advertising 1
. Telephone 64
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teat. Taxga, every afternoon except Sun- ;
4bty by the Record-Chronicle Company
.."'itentber of Associated Preas. which t"a
•xelualvely entitled (o use for republi-
ettlon of atH news, accredited to it or
lrate| etherwlae credited, and also the
MNMt) news published therein
BAlered aa second-clasa mall fn|lt*er
■m-A Denten. Texea.
MBF?. : ■ NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the
Z' ' 1 Otecter. reputation or standing of
y- I fhrwi Individual or corporation will
be jflaaly corrected upon beTng called
to the publisher's attention
N«»w rnrncs one. Gaylord, who Is of-
f” ’iallv an HRsistant chief eomin isson -
»r and savn ami Avers that It will he
y. ars before the United States is
Aft*-r that he flvur<<H that uill lu.
r« a 1dry \\ « can l<>Mat <>f the drouth
starting In In-nton.
Pub Smothers has for a long time
had the enviable reputation of being
able to drink water with a chew of
natural leaf tobacco in his mouth. He
is now in danger of having pride
shattered by (rape Allsop who Will on
next Friday attempt to eat a full meal
with a chew of the same kind of to-
bacco in Ms mouth. Quite
expected to gather at the
to see him do it.
from his place
Mr. Bryan a t -
f his brother. H
nt a sanitarium
e* t »• r»ded per lod
HUM O
< From
FRISCO, Jan
Mrs. Hart Sprouse, a gtrl
Owen Jpf fries and
tained a new girl nt
MIrr Clara Keith 1
past week Mrs. M
Ing the fourth grade until Miss ‘■’L.ra
i et urns.
Rentz FFWTfii,
fie b’lm community, for some time
married last \x
Margaret Jane
will make
ford.
E <;
east of
tended
Bryan,
Dallas
lllneMH.
J. R Simmons notifo-d us the first
<>f flu* work to changH h|s address to
Prosper where he -has purchased a
farm His oldest box’ Henry, will man-
aged the farm south of Fris.-o.
We h i\ e a < • r I from ! »r. R E
lass, xx ho Is nt Bakersfield. California,
visiting relative** Mrs Uotiglass anti
the lioxs xvent also. The doctor states
that they visited jn sexerfll cities on
their ua\ to Bakersfield and they are
carried a \x a x‘ xvith climatic comliflons
land t he
Iprh than half tlwx people who
atruck by lightning are killed. '
to learn it T>ut ijome how we do
expect it to make being struck
more popular.
wo -
the check and
the washing to
received 12.00. My
I /eel that I
hern badly done by the elastic
scale of prices fnr washing. Of
it does not amount to much
principle is one that would
man to go on a rampage.”
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Making room in onr
READY-TO-WEAR DEPARTMENT
for Spring goods.
From a Houston Post editorial head-
od, “Unseemly Arrogance in Places of
Authority,” one might infer that the
Post is not pleased with the attitude
Kt-,, of its city administration. Further
support of the inference might be
r gleaned from the concluding para-
in the editorial—“Swellhead
Eg-*' r/. and pouter pigeon strutting may be
Et;4. Well enough where there is something
te swell and strut about, but it is not
- becoming in a democracy and those
chosen for the public service ought
ive too much sense to indulge in
And he yawned
if he "wHBcnt thinking of enything
ho did 1 and we wawked
those responsible for that conduct.
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S12LLJ1L' 1,. yapanhagen haw thf lark» ht « :<< l<>s* d
ftJBsZLj; deer park of any city <>f the world. Its
ere* Is about four thousand two luin-
acres.
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H. F. SCHWEER, President.
L. H. SCHWEER, Cashier.
W. F. WOOD WARD JAss’t Cashier. , . . . : v ,
Mayor Bitt DnvtH of Fort Worth Ih
tn a fight with the gas people He
threaten* to enjoin the ga<< companion
from furnishing more cities with gan
no long as Dalian and Fort Worth are
not nupplled. The *nn compnny re-
pHen by Haying that Fort Worth must
pay more. If she gets more,
the gas trust In trying
game of hold up
I.ike niogt of our AmerlcarJ capital-
wan the
He wan
when he
to the custom* of
apprenticed to learn
case it was to a harne»H maker.
But the spirit of adventure was
his blood—and In those day* xldven-
ture lay In the West. When his up
pren tieenlilp was over. Cobb went
west—a* far a* Chicago, then a nmall
town of mud and log huts Hl> began
trading with the Indians, and dealt
in hide* and leathers, since ho knew
them from ills apprenticeship days
I'etib had vfbicn enough tv H« e that
a great city would grow where the
little t< wn van. so ho be-.-ua to buy
lan ’. He '.ad made some monej tn H o
b >o’ and shot trade. The city gr»w.
his holdings Jumped in value. Small
businesses grew to big corporations,
in which Cohb had a voice. Railways
were run to neighboring states and
cities, and Cobb had a hand in these
Buildings of imposing height were
put up, and in these, too, Cobb had
an Interest.
He became a philanthropist, and
gave liberally to religious and educa-
tional institutions. Cpbb Hall at the
University of Chicago is one evidence
of his generosity.
Ho died in 1888.
Injustice to the socialists as well
know them In this country It should be
known that the Bolshevik! are a <
ferent kind of s bird altogether.
Bolshevik! is a fellow who plans
rule by the minority To grasp
government and terrorize the masses
by deeds of brutality. He is tn other
words an anarchist Amerela lias no
| need for him or his ilk
in either protecting or condemning .
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MAKING A HIT
A friend whope name I do not
mention hjid trhd for years to Kain
renown; he tried all ways to win
attention and set folks talkiriK In
the town. But all the rhaneva seem-
ed against him. nom- yielded to hfs
vr lure, the ‘pent-up Uticas.
rented him, and kept him
painfully obs**ure. He wrote fine
odes and none would lead them,
men only laughed to see him soar;
he made high talks and none would
he«’d them, and people voted him a
b<»re. And when he„‘d failed in
projects twenty and, was to humble
walks resigned, famo came his way
and came a plenty, am! now hr’s
In the Public Mind. He Ir the pride
of every voter and men discuHS
him near and far—the man who
does not own u mo(<»rt the guy
who has no choo-choo car VVh**n
strangers visit in our city, we
show th<» pest house and the jail, ye
editor, so wise and witty, the ban-
Hh his bunch of kale.
the local IfcKlflAtUre,
courthouse, with its
and thru produce the fii-ak of
turv, the man who doesn’t own
car.
Ave. News.
Depending
or out.
Puds Simkins Takes Part in
a Collision’’ Puds Himkins was lean-
ing against a w’all last Satidday morn-
ing and a iclckle dropped off a win-
dow sill and hit him a fearse crack on
top of his bed, the most damldge be-
ing done to the Iclckle however.
Spoarts. Benny Potts, Artie Alix-
aner. Sid Hunt and Ed Werntck were
pracktlclng standing on their hands
with their feet agenst the wall all at
th© same time in frunt of Benny
Pottses house last Ttiersday after
Mkool, and some old man going past
with a long mushtash and a bundle
was ro serprtsed that he droppea tT*.*
bu ndlo.
I*ome by Skinny Martin
Will Miracles Never Cease?
The rain was falling outside
And I was feeling awfll sad.
Weh wat did I find in a old pair of
pants
But a
Int risting
People. Sam
wasted more
Wednesday
u. ! GAS FITTING AND REPAIRING
PROMPTLY DONE.
PHONE 178
mystery. Hew ran some
fur coats and some othorn
pensix« automot»ih s ’
..fa,.—,, —
It seems that J. A. Minnis is
th«; only one who has suffered 1
the profiteering propensities of
family wash woman. Loafer met
W. A.Jones and learned that he had
been held up. too. In speaking of the
mstter. Dr Jones said
"I took the wash-tx> the home of the
washwoman and she told me that It
would be 42.50. When 1 went back af-
ter the wash she only had a part of
It done. The remainder was not yet( J
dry so she told me that the bundle wtic
had completed would he 41.50 and that !
the remainder would be 11.75. I re- 1
minded her that she had tbld me that. '
the whole washing Would he |2(S0. 1
She did not deny this, but said that
expenses wore so great that she would (
have to charge me the extra seventy-
five cents. Before I could go back and
get the remainder of the wash I was
called to Dallas. I gave my daughter !
a check for the money to pay the wash
and she sent down after it. The
man refused to take
also refused to allow
go unless she
daughter paid her. but
have
IS YOUR MAN LIKE THIS .
What 1* it that makes men such ter-
rible hoarders of clothing and other
household article*?
There wa* a time when I thought
that it whs only thy mon of my fam
Uy who had this peculiarity. Rut the
other day. plans fol s rummage sale
being in the air, a group of uh f<;ll
to talk hit}, tin tt^e way homefroin
Church, about what we could contri-
bute; and in the course of the conver-
sation, 1 received some intimations
that this habitiual reluctance to part
with things and especially with any
article of clothing they have once
worn, is a common trait of masculine
fol k h.
Some one said that there \Vas<a JUje-
cial call for men's shoes—and that
opened the flood gates
Ten Pair of Nhoea Aad Net A Shoe To
Mpare
"I believe my husband has 10 pairs in
his closet," said one woman, "and he
doesn’t wear half of them and yet If
I ever want to give one away he
makes the greatest fuss. Isist house-
cleaning time I went over them with
him and how many pairs do you sup-
pose I got out of him?—one! and a
pair of leaky rubbers—Every pair I'd
pick up. he'd say: T might want to
wear those fishing.' or T might put
those on when I sift the ash, s.'
"I counted 11 pairs this fall that my
husband has.” said another woman,
"and he did finally gtVe me two pairs
and then, after I had given them away,
he insisted that he didn't have a thing
to wear tramping ano that tied never
give any away again ”
She Made Him Give tp An Old Sult
"My husband isn't qutte so biyl, about
shoe*." said tiie third member of our
group, "hut he hasn't given away but
one suit since we were married, until
tills last winti r. Then I simply made
him give up an old suit and two coats
of which the pant* had worn out. for
the Belgians. And the runs he made'
'They’d be nice to wear around the
house for house coats some time he
said He never would wear them tn the
world, you know."
Don't You Pity Evef
And then the five of us
the eternal dictum—fHow Eve
have grieved that she hsd no <
say it to!) "Aren't men queer9”
I suppose if you search for a
THIS IS THE BIRTHDAY OF
W1TTHKW MAURY
January 24. iso*
Matthew Maury began his career as
an American naval officer and ended
it as a professor of meteorology. His
life work lias been of great benefit to
navigation.
He was horn in Virginia and en-
tered the Navy as a mid shipman
when lie was 19 because he wanted to
see the world. Shortly after lie went
in service, he obtained his wish, for
he circumnavigated the globe in the
"Vincennes'' during a cruise of four
years.
Ten years after he entered the Navy
and before he himself was 30 years
old, he wrote a book on navigation
which was considered a remarkable
achievement for anyone so young An
accident resulted In lameness and un-
fitted him for ai-tlve service. He was
then put in charge of the Depot of
Charts and Instruments, out of which
grew the great United States Naval
Observatory.
Feeling the need of scientific
formation regarding winds and
he distributed specially
log books to all vessels
nine years compiling the Infor-
from them. This
international conference of
nations regarding ocean
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