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Carbon Black Permit Denied
Just Arrived tor Easter
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PIGGLY WIGGLY
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Phone 254
SELLS GROCERIES FOR LESS
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Next to Battery Co. on "W. Oak, St.
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Denton High Opens Baseball
i Season With Gainesville Game
Many Noted Americans
Once Were Book Agents
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And here are such good
looking styles as has sel-
dom been th6 fortune of
the women of this city
to see.
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commiHHion.
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firmly
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Jackmjn performing
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In all the new strap effects and with heels for
all purposes from the flat to the Full Louis heels.
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SERVICE.
RUSSELL-GMY-JONES CO.
All Shoes Shined Free.
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with all the colors of ths spectrum.
Most of them are full-bloused styles
caught low on the hips with wide
I belts. ^Egypt. Persia, India, Japan
and China have contributed bril-
liant designs U» the silks and cot-
tons of Winch they are made.
Farm Bureau Plans Siring
of Colton Warehouses Over
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of»2
were
A •*<><• ln<r* Yrm I)hna\
Al’STlN, March 20—Hob
Is without Jurisdiction In
Commission
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Report On Hawaii Labor
Angers Japanese Press
VITAL. STATISTIC'S
Deaths
James A. Wheeler. Aubrey,
years, died March 15, organic heart
lesion and nephritis
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ph mile* <
more food
than any other plant.
](m yield Is about fifty times more
than fhe potato, and about one liun«
dred nnd fifty times more than
wheat.
vie it ed
porrln at
Erwinville
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Low heels make them very comfortable for walking.
The selection is so comprehensive, so complete with
value giving that (‘hooRnig will dertainly be
was here
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Ring 404, or call fit our store and be convinced.
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20.—Evan
her m«»th •
out on ffi,000 bail each f*»r
perjury Charite* growingr
out of the forrner’a eult uMaliiMf
young Whitney
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the fruit is not so
insB r> we at first
Loafer
car owner*
Texas
A rtird received from Mr*. K. D.
(’riddle, who is with Mr. Crid/flly
in Rochester, Minn , stutes that Mr.
(.’riddle is doing as Well a* can be
expected and that he Is undergo-
ing dally examinations.
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AVorth. Buick
S. Johnson,
ic. uoans.
HILL,
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104 E. Hickory
Dr. M. D. Fulfingtni will leave
tonight for HocheAter, Minn., where
he will d<» two week’s clinical work
in a l»ostgraduute doumv.
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' yelled
laid for
books makes for qualities that are
the fouhdation stones of success in
every line of work.”
e). mUady’s <
is outntted in the latest footwear.
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It was discover-
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The cherished honor of reigning as Queen of the Carnival at the
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MID-WEEK SPECIALS
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! 5-lb. pail Snookums Apple Butter
2-tb. can Rosedale Sliced Pineapple
6 No. 2 Jackson Hominy
2 A Fireside Apricots
3 glasses 8-oz. Pure Fruit Jelly
Fine Cape Cod Cranberries, quart ....
5-ft>. pail Acorn brand Peanut Butter
21 gallon keg Pickles .
1 quart Dunbar's Maple Syrup .’59c
1 pound Snowflake Shredded Cocoanut ... 32c
Just received fresh shipment Green Vegeta-
bles, 3 bunches for r 25c
Meats—The best that money can buy and
sold at prices you can afford to pay.
Pure Pork Sausage, per pound
Best Brick Chili in town, per pound
________ i-Betgit Drugi>
Sooth Side.
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There is the dining room table
that still bears the traces of hot
dishes—there is the dresser or bu-
reau- top petting shabby and the
rounds and legs of chairs showing
Prescription Druggists.
We give "S&tt” green stamps
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exclusive Knox School of Cooperstown, N. Y., was won by Georgiana
Buggies, daughter of Howard Ruggles of New Rochelle, N. Y. B
SUEDE, BLACK, BROWN OR WHITE KID,
PATENTS AND SATINS.
COVMTY COIHT
State vs. Karly Beasley, aggiavat
ed assault; plea, of guilty entered
tf> simple aaaaMit and punishment
r.Hseaaed at h fine of $5 and costs
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bjeaffitews
J. C. Jaiuen underwent antgpeva-
tion fop removal of his tonsils
Monday afternoon and tn reported
doing nicely. - «-
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$10.00
$2.50
$3.75
$1.00
$1.00
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53c
$1.19
$1.00
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$1.65
Er ? a rtood business looa-
;j ' ? THE CURTIS CO.
Kir.- In the ruJl of a chicken
hoiiHe at the home of W. A. Kiep-
per. 1104 Weal Hickory Street, was
responsible fur an a arm about a
o'clock Monday afternoon. A buck-
et brigade extinguished the flames
with only a small amount of dam-
age
of carbon black the tist»
wells when such gas can
kept In the. producing stratum.
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CHICAGO, March — (By Associat-
ed Press).—Many of the illustrious 1
men th Amerfanr hrwtnry nt one-
time in the early periods of their
Ilves were house-to-lioiis.i UuoH
salesmen. It was revealed here at
subscription book
survey, 4
ton, March 17. '2J. |3,«00.
G. W. Ritter and wife
Griffin and 8.
of B. H. Barksdale
acres of A. J.
Elm Creek
county, Jan.
consideration.
Lyon-Gray Lumber Co. to
bralth-Poxworth Lumber C
W < ek
hen I I :. gume,
announc'd Tuewdav.
administered
has Increased
the work of
yci i but
J to rive the
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Queen of the Carnival
XVIIIf. Muilth will leave f ‘_‘:
for Bochester. hlinn., where ha Will
undergo nn operation for the
.grafting of a section of bona Into
his left arm fo replace the gristle
growth developing since the acci-
dent over a year u^> when the bone
of his arm was shattered by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun
while duck bunting.
Before you let your contract for
tjn work Be® me._ „ .... .. „ . t
IVIk GUARANTEE SATISFAC-
TION AND REASONABLE
PRICE.
Another thing: You won’t havU
to wait two or three months to have
your work done. Try us.
Phone Number is 710.
GAY TIN SHOP
The day when a blouse was a
shirtwaist is gone forever. The
over blouse la the thing these days
except for sport wear. They glitter
Gal-
lois
3. 4. 6, 6. 7 and «. block 13. Krum.
"Mut^h 5j '23, 12.#00
that she had sixteen eggs
old nest and she brought
sixteen small chicks which
drop to the ground unln-
It A- Sledge of McClurkan & Co.
blrtli-
P wBr- Il
parents. Mr anil Mrs
r,' i*' m 1 si:,..... ii,
man.
Montgomery oil Company for
year permit to burn natural
for carbon black purpose*
portion of tfutrhlnson County lyintr
**«uth of the 4’?tnn0tnn rtver
ally known a* th«- Amarillo or Pan-
li; nflie kax field. The field i* ac-
cepted dm exclusively a k«h field.
The commi*hi«»n in (he order de-
nying the application fttateg that It
has heretofore held that If is
without authority under the pres-
ent laAv to permit in the ’Yhanufac-* st^R’estion about sowing
ture of carbon black ttlb ofJ 1 or thereabotit
gras wells when such gas ran be L
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mineral U'EI,LS, March 20 —
A. G. Gardener, president of th#
Carter Grocery Co.. Eort Worth,
was instantly killed when his au-
tomobile turned Over three miles
east of here.
HONOLULU# T. H .
report of the federal
which' recently investigated labor
’ conditions In the Hawaiian Islands
in connection with the resolution
pending in Congress to permit the
Importation of otherwise ineligible
allensMo <oiL|)tcract an alleged la-
bor shortage; was subjected to
■“considerable criticism by the Japa-
nese language newspapers here, ar-
cording to translations on file with
tiie territorial attorney-genera).
L The report said the commission-
ers* had found no labor shortage In
the pineapple or sugar industries,
but that a shortage was apparent
In the rice industry The Japanese
newspapt rs tf»bje<<ed. particularly
In their editorial*, (o the paragraph
of the report uhl<*h stated that kt-
tentKiti should be called “especially
to the menace <»f alien domination,
and that the present policy of pa-
rental adoption and the Importation
of ‘picture brides' by the Japanese
should be stopped because these
practices have defeated the purpose
of the 'gentleman’s agreement' to
< urtail common labor by augment-
ing the supply to such an extent
that it will soon overwhelm the
territory, numerically. politically
und commercially. The menace
from a military standpoint rim be
\eriiled fully • by referring to the
records of related federal depart-
ments If these islands arc to rr-
mntn Anwrimn. nn assured control
of political, industrial, commercial
, rtoolal and educational life must
i also be American.*' ♦
Bent.of all, you cab do it youraclf
at a trivial coat. A table ctpt be re-
finisbed for 50c—an average floor
for tl.50, while 30c wilt fnake a
chair' look like new.--
dries hard in 18 hours.
What are you doing With your
marred and worn furniture, floors
and woodwork 7
.shipped
I it distinctly
was not to
A story that vics with the re-
cent ' snake-in-a-girl s-stomach” bU$h(Mis<
atory comes from near Argyle. W..
C Frasher, living near there, tell*
the story, which pertains to a
I Blow n Veghorn hen that used a
I crow's nest for her own nest ana
I in which she raised a brood of six-
Been chickens The nest was in n
.tree, thirty feet from the ground,
} and the hen’s dally IllghtH to It at-
I traded attention. It was discover-
; ed that she
| the old nest
j a ble 1 o
|jurrd
mt. I.OI’IM RVMPDOWT OR< HF.MTHt
( . I. A. Auditorium, Taraday April
3rd. Wiutlnrr and ICvenlag, Keatw
on Milr <s*rrh»on Drug More. 1’17
Hiiiii.r PKlMlnarr t>l Gnrsn awl
Mias Marlon JaMda C.ola <>r Friaeo
were murried in
county JuiIri' Monday
Judge Brent
the ceremony.
157.732—A.
Ford
157.735
Ford.
157,737—J.
Point, Ford.
,TAR|ANT S(raMBS
TO PISTOL WOUNDS
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100 pounds pure Cane Sugar
25 pounds pure Cane Sugar v .
100 poundsrRed Mark Flour
20 bars Crystal White Soap
20 bars P. & G. Soap
12 cans -Lye
5 pounds pure Comb Honey
No. 5 pails pure Apple Butter ...
3 pounds Kake Kan Coffee
21 pounds Your Luck Coffee
4 pounds choice Rio Coffee .......
100 pounds fancy white Potatoes
1 peck fancy white Potatoes
1 dozen fancy Lemons
16-oz. jar Canova Peanut Butter
5 pounds Bacon Slices
We deliver.$5.00 purchases or over.
PIGGLY WIGGLY. INC.
221 West Hidrary Street.
EX1- ' " jncwroRT
JflFch 20.— Th* <,andli‘R atcund
L: ' Mt of a dead chi bl euuaed n
' ' yjftilh dent royid th. h"ni< cl H.
^jBltnTday and burned t.. dt.db
K('?,vMjree other chlldr. n
Women—the kuardlitit of your
l.onii e Feri aaul-j-tii ) KUAr<lluii of
your health. Keena fdckneaa aWu.y.
No hohie ahould be without It.
.Xtdrt bl The Curtis Drnu Co.
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AKFF’hN LACK OF Fl VON "W
A CRT IN. March 20.—Normal Col- ▼ 1
I 1<’K« heads < oiifcrred with Governor 1
| Neff In remind to deficiency ajipr.o-
lirialiona in lieu of the general
I '■mergt'iuy hill that failed In the
. a. fft*. —
tonaii'ii Shorlagi' of fuel funds Was"
J the iirlricipal item for which defl-
i l.jj, wiim souKht.
HEGIhTHATlOKM
Johnson, Foi t
much less tell tvhat it would <16
to that Tin Elizabeth.
1‘lease remember that spring
the best ttme to plant gardena.
Hostess;
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Ray Cruse of Frisco was here.
Miss Lillie McDaniel visited her
gyt awnL Mrs- Helen Dorris at I.loxd.
Oscar Dorris "f Lewisville vis-
:*tr" lt*tl friends here.
7 4 Glyd' Adair of Lloyd
r MIh« Eliza Morgan oi
F,T~T~~'~~ "W here
igjjfy?' h" ■'E. B Griffith visit'd i'
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V;.' The aevere freer.• ..f Sundae,, nd
BmV killed all the corn, gur-
Yrpil in tills community,
nmgpd th** <y«miig oats h good
arc busy rvpljinting
Bt^nx TO
—You will certainly want your feet “well clad” on
Easter morning. Bedecked in Spring’s latest appar-
el, mUady’s eoMttimr wtH not be complete unless ?fhe
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J'.'A,. .Smith anil Miss Jennie Carter wei-
1 ■ b‘'£,e toduv from Dallas,
k — jfr. gnd M—» Hrrtr- Barker
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AMI MOTHEH OI T OV
NEW YORK, March
Burrowea Fontaine and
er are out on
trial on
of
Olsen we
"The damage
dot s A’, si c ni *
apprehended."
here from Justin Tuesday.
Juxmcia nun believt Uie spring oats
were not badly hurt; Wheat where
was rank and in Joint aeetna to
haw been damaged somewhat, bukj
nearly u toturj nil
expected it
would be A lot of it. however, wgs
kitted by the Eebrunry trees?.
MAHRIAOE LtOKIVNE
Homer Plttslnger, Argyle,
Mias Marlon Jeaaie Cole, Frlaco.
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HEAL ESTATE TRAN3FEH#
XV. H. Haren and wife t<> W. A
Beeman, 59.07 aereM 6( ■ Henry
While aurvey on Elm Crttek. Mitrhh
17. ’28. 43,0410.
\ W. A. Beeman and wife to W H.
Haren. 38.10 acrea of Thor. Loving
miles northeast of Den-
S11N. Elm St
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marks of careless feet You need
not endure such shabbiness. The
original beauty and brilliancy can
be easily restored.
One of the greatest com-
forts of your physician as
well as yourself will come
from the knowledge that you
can depend on your druggist;
on the goods he sells and on
the prescriptions he fills—
their purity and accurate-
ness. You can depend on us
at all times.
had Mrs. Bob Beale
Mgren of Lloyd visited
Fra. Henry McDaniel.
Jt. M. McDaniel
:gre in Dy nt on.
'^4 —Fas Lillie McDaniel visited her
pl;'. '.,j|»M»t. Jtrs. Clara Beale, nt Llovd
^"’x aii^hded tli<' party at
' Mr. and Mrs Jim Allen s home i t
K’1 - Little Elm
4 , It A. Nik nntl little diiughter,
5 . ■’ 1 Mildred, hrfve bc<-n <pnto sick
6 ''h'Mrs. Andie Reynolds pud daugh-
- -ter. vlufted her parents. Mr.
... gild Mr* I>rvi \ix. at IJoyd
/j.m Beak* h.is g<»n<- to Dallas to
* iurk
Mr <;rlffnh of Salt Bmnrh
hl” *dn. E. B. Giiffith
. *f vtiKtf-r and iJlllc Smith w«
J)»!iton
Mr. and Mtr
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John non were in Litjh- Elm.
4L jfrud Reynold* was in DallaN.
|.:tt , ——and Mr* FMwhrH H»H an«l
Na\«> viMlt-d his parents
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ORIGINALITY IN FOOTWEAR
We’ve gained distinction for ability to create
lootwear fashions that we have found accptable in
»the eyes of all women. Particularly ft is true the.
Easter Season—when selections are the best we have
ever shown.
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J^Mwlanws J. L. Wulkcr und T E
Grabuni of Fori Worth drove up
—-to&y to visit the College of Tn-
duairial Aits Mmes. Barker end
iyjftmham are former Htudepta of the
. cojjpgc
—5.,, 4j. W. Martin and twn dau^ht•■♦•s,
CPnrga May and KaJtlw rim .
LdaV f<»r <lrr-»nvllle and Pitt*
Jggj, to npand u w<M*k ivlth r<la^
Henry !>. KobiHMon 1* *prn<llMK
'tS.OOO In thP repair and ext«n*Ion
<>f hi* home in Went Denton. Ter-
rill McCormick I* contractor.
hu b,«d diary
formed to
operatively
*y»tein for
of the rnemberw of the uwsociation.
It wa* stated.
At.»:i> < Hi PLE IM «\ TO ITEATM
AT It A MIER A
BANDLILX. Maith 20 —Mr. and
Mr* J M Boulware. 70, were burn-
ed to UoMth wImlu the hom*« of tbtoir
Fob -1 n - la w, AV I Ht • v»*jih, wum <|e.
*trov«/l by I re Mr. and Mr*. Ste-
b »by had nuTrow
T'nited I1 re an Diafntck —
DALLAS, AVrch 20> - Headquar-
terR for a string of rotthn wirrrs
housed Involving a total expendi-
ture of from I3.G00.000 t<» $5,000,000
to be erected by and for the bene-
fit of the Texas Farm Bureau Cot-
ton Assirtdatlon will tie loC: ted
here, H wsm authoritatively learn-
! ed today. In pursuance a policy
adopted at a recent meeting: of the
- board of director* of the body, a
orgi n.1*a»»on will be
operate co-
warehouae
and benefit
trr4*TTFL J. A. Tatr of Ennis wag here
. Nix vriiM in Aubrey.
BL. Guy Me Toe i ha* gone to Kanuax
dto A^ork
W. Nix and Hon, Robert,
In Denton.
Lillie Mae Adair viaited Mr*
^Bj^trlce B’dling and MIhh Verna
| If you’d look Springlike
Il amart and nice.
I You'd better take our
| | clothea-adviee.
' Look Over your ward-
robe and pick out the
garments that need
cleaning. Perhaps your
last year's spring suit
would »uit you to a "T”
if you have us change
its color. What do you
think?
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Denton High baseball team vs ill
open its -uKoii at norm- on Sat-
uroday of n« xt week u h< n Gaines-
ville Illicit eome* h« re for ;* game,
donrh Stanton ”*
Tile 15 to 0 defeat
to Sang/ r hint v« • k
t lie exp« f tai »<»rtN of
I he Denton I >-n in this
< eUinoR Vi th- i* e N pe< I <•
« rrTti
.'•'ULj.-Jtjom Modern < ottagc '< n
a- Ate St ’ .TuM cast of Lr-
KrlEIWtoiJ-^TtiiH plwr niaki'j. u dc*ii-
i-i'O a*!., hmm for smn,. family It l..T»
Ja room for ,4wo small families. 1‘ric*
J... ~Jl 4*ai< two dcuotable slarv rooms
F “* faciag aopth on West Oak at Cr-
totr- Hr* th.si rooms In new brick
’ 'abi building at this lo-
*Atlon. iAIjo the «mall store room
(lag BgeCJust north of them. This
| Will be completed and rya'li
wpancy about May 1st. rind
e<he roiihtB It cohtalmi will
< laud Attaway pienfled guilty
and paid fines in 'Corporation
Court Monday afternoon on charges
of drunkenness and reckless driv-
ing following a collision with the
rear of a Boren-Stewart truck at
Hie southwest ettritw ef the srtttare.
The rear wheels of the truck were
damaged and the radiator, fender
and hood of the Studebaker road-
ster Attaway was driving were
damaged No one waR Injured.
iloauer l*i<tHl»ger of Arfj le aud
Miss Marlon Jessie Cole of Frisco
married here Munday after* : j
Judge Brent C. Jackson of-
ficiating at the County Clerk's of-
fice.
News From Dixon
tJ-'Y DixON. March 2ti—Jess Cutes
Henry 8arg< nt of Garza were
Tom Nix and
!'*T* Tp Lillie Elm
Th j.
1.G..W.
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that It was cold he grunted
k jrtit on that wise air that a
man tries to tutHtiirl* when his
‘ttfTTs Him RoYhe’thi'ng' and allowed ae
how It was not much cold but po»-
I sibly the wind had got around In
the north. Hr just about hplf-dreBH-
ed and strolled out on the front
porch at.the northward corner to
look at the Arbuckle coffee ther-
mometer flint graces the pillar
next to the north pole. One glance
at that glass tube and Loafer felt
shivers running right down bls
spinal colyum It registered 20 de-
grbeg above «ero t.nd the wind was
coming ifight straight down the
line. He went "back fusteh than he
eritne and called T’uul Dunkle to see
if his thermometer was ^/iot gone
Paul allowed ns how
Mrs. Dunkle hail gone off and left
him...to starve &nd he wga haying
trouble of bls own trying to get
water to boil without . scorching
and to pry loose his breakfast food
from the side of the kettle where
he was trying to boll It When Loa-
fer told hltn what bls thermometer
Bald Paul allowed as how Loafers
thermometer was the most unre-
liable thing hr hud heard about and
promised to tell this Loafer that
the thermometer was not anywhere
near that low in i lea minutes ns
soon as he go, his breakfast ami
the rest of bls cle.nr, on. Pau!
. intimated that this tiling of get-
ting your own breakfast on Sun-
day morning was about the warm-
est J°b he had ^undertaken,
libmit hnlf an hour Paul called
and told this laiafer that hl* ther-
' mometer was wronger thi n Loaf-
er's for it was talking about 18
degrees above zero. Then Loafer
did get cold, he Suffered a lot more
1 then than he find before.
John Crain wmj a Job’s comfort-"
er and allowed that lie was not to
lame for it. Said he had not been
notified that It was coming until
late Saturday night when he was
told that it was «o «ne road but he
did not know that it "as comlns,
by airplane express hut thought
that they had shipped It by
freight. John •wanted
understood that he •
blnme for It
Loafer went back anlr sot him
down and thmlght This thing of
thinking Is hard on that thing
Loafer calls his thinker anyhow It
must be kinder weak but anyhow
tmlay denied the Application of the Re {bought of how last year He had
----- .. feller ”
FORT WORTH, March 20.—Cecil
Tarrant, who was Htiot Sunday night '
at Granbury by Ponstable C. A.
Marmichael, died in a saQltariu.il
here today. Carmichael mu id tint I
Tarrant tried to escape after ar-T
rest.
State to Cost S5.000.000 Boliiar Street Paiing Contract
Awarded to W. M. Jagoe Go.
Justice cannot bfi given to our showing at this
lime by description. Only a personal visit from you
will be proof. Whether you are interested in
ML PASO AXIXTOHS
DEATH
EL PASO. Man ti 2u.-- J,.v
pnbach and Kenmth Brown
K&Ey.;, fVv<- corps army airmen.
HE4 * bgrned tr» death when tii.tr pl..n*-
L is entairt to aarth In full view of hun-
«>< gpaotatora. - -
a meeting of
publishers.
GrtSrge Washington took orders
for books and delivered them him-
self on horseback, according to a
paper remi by R. S Branch of Chi-
cago. General Grunt sold Washing-
ton Irving's "Life of Columbus.”
the pi.per added, while Daniel Web-
ster derived-Darmouth college tul-
t+on fees from the ndtc of Weems'
"Life of Washington," and De Toc-
queville's "Democracy In America.”
".Napoleon Bonaparte. In his days
as a struggling Jigutcnant. aug-
mented bis pi.y, by taking orders
for L'Hlstoire de la Revolution'.”
Mr. Branch said "Still preserved In
the Lourve in Paris Is Napoleon's
book canvassing outfit and with It
a list of • 2qo , bScrIbers whose
names were signed on the dotted
line.
"When Washington -was twenty
years old he sold a book known
as Blydell's ‘American Savage.’ If
cost him $2 n copy nnd he sold it
at $3. His diary hIiowh that be Hold
more than 560 copies, riding long
distances to' deliver.
"Thomas Brackett Recd helped
his way through law school by
book selling. George Pealxsly, Ar-
thur E. Sheldon and Charles P.
Steinmetz sold Hooks at various
times, and Jay Gould obtained slk-
natilre,, for books before he learn-
ed to juggle fortunes In Wall
Street.
•'Apparently there were lessons
in selling books even for these per-
sonages.” said IJr. .^Branch "Per-
haps they learifed what our HUlea-
tnen <V> today—that the_Jdeais of
the subscription book Industry,
from the freeze
so bad as was at first
’ said t,. V Leuty.
"Most
RAMBLINGSOF LOAFER
“Onee upon a time." aa tha stories
; Bay. there was an old woman who
afWgya said "I tyld you so" when
anything happened. You have all
heard of that old lady and Of the
time when her gon ta® Into the
house and cried. ''Oh;' mother’ the
old briiidle cow Jumped over the
fjsnce Into the yard ami ate up tile
grindstone."
”1 told you—. Get
ypu ungrateful son,"
mother as the trap 1
dawned on her tnind.
Loafer Is somewhat like that old
ladS' about this garden business.
He told you folks Houle time ago
that spring wbb the time to plant
gardens and not in the winter time.
However, Roafer confesses that he
had not untlcipateo quite such a
storm a, we had nnd rhe thermom-
eter running down to hide in the
bulb.
Sunday morning when Mrs. Loa-
fer made him get up and told him
cold he grunted and
wise air that a fool
tuisunl' when bis wife
Contract for the paving of Boli-
var Street for a illstnncj of about
three-quarters of a mile from tin
intersection with flak Street north
war awarded by the property own-
ers eoHimitVee Tuesday courmng to
W M. Jagoe Co. of Denton. The fig-
ures of the bids were nut-uuiuiiui-
cert bitt members of the committee
raid the blds were hII close togeth
er liut that Jagoe of/erert thr -bet-
tor t-Nne The ohor IrtdderH war-w
Chas. N Davis und W F Maxey.
aided nnd abetted that feller Mc-
Dowell tn telling the farmcTH that
January was,the time to sow sweet
clover anti then get It ttH frosen
to fMttth on March I Loafer
though? he waR playing Hute ami
When anybody asked him this year
■, he said to how about March 1. Now
this thing had come on Minch 18
and 19 and that sweet clover was
out In the weather If anybody was
foolish enough, to follow Loafer's
It March
Is It has begun to
dawn on this Ixmfer that he don't
know ariythlng ahout It He pro-
pose^ hereafter to tell anybody
who asks him when to now sweet
Clover tn watt Until danger of
freeze Is over and then sow' when
they get ready. If he does tliat^
Somebody will accuse him of dish-
ing out advice without knowing
shut he 1h talking about and they
will be right too. The more a fel-
low thinks about thlx thing called
farming the less he knows about
it No man can tell what Is best
to do and if he does one way he
may wish he had tlone the other..
If he does nothing at nil lie will
not make anything at all and If
he does anything at all he may
lose the whole words Then Hom” ; - .. . ,,
feller who Hits around town trying "“'•"•"•Anahip and high-class
to get on the jury to keep from
working will up and say that the
farmers are poor managers.
Anyhow Loafer Is more
convinced Hum ever that
Is the best time To plant gardens.
He Is going to p)i nt bls soon -
if spring comes. Remember that
Loafer does not say that spring is
here. There Is a difference some-
times In springtime und spring.
Ever think atiout that?
It Is an' 'Ul. northe,- that does
nobody good. These dealers In au-
tomobiles pnd automobile accesso-
ries are doing u rushing business
tn cylinder heads and cylinder* -tails
—anything that lias u head must
have a tail don't it? Anyhow the
automobile owners went to sleep
Saturday night with plenty 'of
Witter In the radiators so that they
could get an early start Sunday
and tin t blizzard swooped down
and the water was fixed an* they
could not get it out and the grief
of the man with a flivver was
genuine and expensive. Saturday
night busted more Cyllmlers and
radiators In North Texas than ever
recorded before Loafer symp.'i-
tblzos with tlie ear owners who
Could not foretell Texas weather
to J. A.
H. Griffin, 40 acres
survey; 7U
Chownlng survey, on
in southeast part of
12, '23, $10 ami other
I When the presidential party arrived at Ormond Beach, Rreeidont
■ Harding went golfing and Mrs. Harding (left) took a quiet cruise with
■ her hoetess, Mrs. Edward B. McLean of Washington, D. C. Here hoeteM
• M<J guest are shown on board tho yacht Pioneer on Indian river.
PERSONAL MENTIONS ROUNDABOUT TOWN
erect and
the PC w
the profit
it
«nrt
W. D. Milliken <,f
uttciidi.ig court
MWffnea -i I*' 1'"I limi
_4 ' Yarllck of Du!la* <
r* Ttte*4« y h»4*« ♦» irtK ■
j ,Mtf. Henry <’.i‘<ni <>f \\’F»it t slmr »
Mfm. W. B. C'rtis*»ft
HS rtatitnut •s^" t
'F. <'<>rily <>f
I kAT* y'cstiYday
4 1''-Jk T- >'"l’ii> v.
BE?» day from Sanger.
, y Mrs. AV <> Caddell of Argyle was
L- here Suturdax
gt&.—Mrs T. <‘. Wurrcu of Fort Worth
jt*1"' wig "tn Dm ton tsntnrrtsy
Mrs. Rare Odam am’ Mrs Klssln-
' ger Of Prosper were here Monday.
Mrs W. E. Connally of Aubrey
“? wm here.
jj Hoilter Curtis. Texas I' stwdeiit.
Is at home fot a few days with bls
..o M Curtis
L. t4Jklan«r, Hebron business
was here today.
L. Donald of Le wissvtlie' was j
here on btiHihess today
W. D. Milliken of .Lewisville is
KugL. ...JI............. . ■■ u jurwr.
rnd James
< in I>en- j
j crlebrf.ted his forty-seventh
day Tuesday with a dinner tender-
ed Viim by Mrs. Htertge. /'
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Edwards, W. C. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 187, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 20, 1923, newspaper, March 20, 1923; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1237603/m1/4/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.