Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1923 Page: 1 of 8
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When You Write Letters
Open at i a. m.
You ought to have the most suitab'e stationery you
can get, whether you’re writting for a job or accept
ing a proposal ol marriage, or simply sending a long
gossipy letter to a chum.
Our Stationery
"upply is composed of styles, tints and weight* to
please a variety of tastes. It makes writing a real
pleasure. And out pnees.—Your Money’s Worth.
SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY.
C. M. NIX
Registered Pharmacist
Close st « n. m
A FEW GOODBYE MORDH
Henry lord Spending Wisely
Henry Ford, the manufactur-
charge to all disabled veterans
of Michigan needing treatment
• “Disabled world war veterans
of Michigan have welcomed lhe
offer recently made by the Hen
ry Ford Hospital and already
more than fifty are undergoing
treatment al lhe big luatitutiuu.
“Arrangements for opening
the hospital services free of any
The Commissioners’ Court
has kindly granted me "Leave er of the little car sometimes
[I of absence” until July 1st, next, referred to as the “Tin Henry"
and I am leaving tor “Falacias is spending some ol his millions
by the Sea.” I have never ful- wisely as well as worthily, and
ly recovered from the attack of so far as we know, he is spend-
Flu I had in February last, and ing it all that way. Rut he is
my work ever since has not lieeq now doing some things which
what 1 wanted liecause of my the government has been failing
condition and recent heavy cold to do. We quote the following
has practicaly put me out of the from a news story sent out by
game. Twice liefore, under the • Fold .Motor Compucy,
similar conditions to those I am which shows a human side to
suffering under now, a two it;
weeks stay on the coast has
Wonderfully helped nie and I ain
hoping that 1 shall soon return
in real working order.
1 ami just getting a real in-
sight into the magnitude of niy
job as County Judge and Super-
intendent of Rains County.
There are many things needing
doing and some of them vitally
THE GROCERIES
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What a Patt AJ Ca*te
Readers of the larger maga-
llie .‘muiiv thing.
The officials of the District,and mean to say lat*j^h
nging convention announce A1Ull it UIMjerstou< IJr
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Willow
SANDWICH SHOP
FORDS
DON'T HE BLOWN TO RUN!
25c
Leader
They are
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FIRST STATE BANK
Texas,
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inis nans *vui not ue opened Monday June tui
In b<...or of Jefferson Davis’ Urth June F»d.
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Don’t forget tha' Saturday i«
the day we ar*- going to hand
I out another bunch of groceries.
Come on in and get yours.
OT1 K. MEAGHET.
Cogarette* of all kinds
BKAZ1EL MO I OK CO.
EMORY, TEXAS17 1-2c
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American Legion
Christian Herald
American
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11 Bank
how vanrai lmb
ON LAKE FORK
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Com -. to «e us and Jet's talk the matter over.
There is no reason wh> your family should not en-
joy the pleasure of a car.
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els have neen placed in tne wag •
on for the drawing. The tickets •
w ill lie gathered up at 3:30 ami •
lhe drawing take place immed- •
Niteiv, so put vour tickets in •
ary of the boxes to lie found •
around town liefore that hour. I •
Dr. C. J. Fimpson, P i
" 'lie, has an office
Reeves Drug Store and will
lieie each Baluiduy. Eptv.al at I
tention given to the treatment o* I
3,000 Pyorrhea and gum diseases. 24-tf
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singing convention annou
the following singing dates:
B. II.I.h.Ni, Muy T.lh.
Hogansville, June 3rd.
—leader—
Sheriff Orsl-om was severely
hurt Saturday night on the high
way Norf of Point when he
Menn,.I off nf s ninvine .az He
was in company with hi* son.
Gu« Jr who carried him to Lone *
Oak. where he remained until
able to be moved home. We are
glad to note that he ia fast im-
proving and will v-on he sole
to be around again.
—Leader—
John Reeves, Polk Plunk, J.. *
N Rraiiel, Marvin Alb " ’’enry ’
Bradford, W’ilburn Garrett, W. I •
F. Edward*. Eli Nix and Bailev I •
. Clendenin ambled to Mineola | •
Thursday to witness the ladl i •
game. L
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kanemljer we sell Fords for cash or on time, to
suit your convenience. And they are the moat
Vcrvicablc ear on the market fo-dsy
worth the money aii Uie time.
a* I of destitute families of former
may lie, lie laid la-fore them for | server m«-n their children need
I their consideration. | mg hospitalzation will lie treat-
There is much 1 want to aavi^i when lesignated by the Leg
1 ] ion Office.”
—Leader-
Two voting men were in tail
here the first of the week on
the charge of swearing falsely
to get. marriage Tcr-nsi'S. but
made liond to appeal' before Ha ’
grand jury and were teleoaed.
They were from Hunt county.
—ix-adei —
Will have a new car of Fords on the floor next
week. If you contemplate buying one soon you
should come in and see us now, for we can’t always
mnke delivery when we want to.
R > HURT
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in Point Friday night, June 8th. 1 at length in next week’s Ix-ader
Also, they contemplate serving j am working, ns beat 1 can, for
refreshments. The proceeds de- the people of Rain* County and
rived from this supper will l*|Our Commissioner’s are
used for the benefit of the Lone
Star cemetery. Everybody is
cordially invited to go
enjoy the evening and
out and
enjoy the evening anil help out matters affecting our interest’ ' pital whereby in extreme cases
in a good cause. | M H whole should, as far
- -leader—
NOTICE TO MINCERS
A repteae native of this paper
was on Lak* Fork th* letter
pal t of last week and found con
d-tions rood. On Mr. Gao. R.
Kerr » i»g farm we found • big
ciop of corn and cotton, the
com lieing in taaael and the cot-
ton l-eginning to put on squares
He has a)«ut 275 acres of com
and -•otton and if he fails to
make S <-ond cmj, nf luith well
miss our guess badly. Though
his crop ia looking fine, we
1 feu nd others Lioking good and
prospects never looked more Tav
or- t-le than tney de now. that
we can Call to m:K
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SHERIFF OKMi.)«
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Woman’s Home C*sn
pom on.......... «,Siio
Deiinen* or 8,000
People's Popular Monthly 2,(MK)
Sai.u'.ay Evening Pos* , ">"■ Greenville,
Dtarary Digest 4.600
Md all s Magazine .. 8,000
Cutter's
In connection with my •
Sand si< h am Cold DibA *
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tine* of national circulation of^ Hearst * Magazine ■ 1,850
wonder just what a page —Canton Herald.
Hnrm.isei.ient costs and often —I evder —
the gu< sm-» run into fabulous W)X m'PPER
figures. As a matter of fact
♦he most expensive advertisa-
tnenl fl?m the cost per page is
in thi4ll> >iiieator at $8,000 for
a shigic page in black. Colored
printed pages cost considerably
m<i«. The Saturday Evening
I’ost is next in cost at $7,900.
Thew gust* seem outrageous to
acme peep... yet they are good
investments made by the smart
est business men in America,
men who know by experience
tat it pays to advertise.
B Tile ■"•*« cost ui a iUUiJwi of
lending periodicals is given be-
Icw:
Ladies Home Journal .. $2,5oo
o uno
m ii**.cLiug KI A ecu AJbiu **•
Owsley, National Commander
of the American Legion, Henry I
Ford. Edsel B. Ford, President'
of lhe Ford Motor Company.
“The arrangement* for the
care of the disubled veterans
continue in ettect until Decern-
tier 31*t, 1823. If at that time
Congrea* ha* not passed neces
sary legislation to affmd hos-
pitalization of ex-service men
th<- matter will tome up for fur
ther disuuasion and the agre--
men rtmewed for another def-
inite pei "id.”
I “The ex-service m<-n are ad-
mitted following recommenda-
tion by the Welfare Offitv of
the American Legion in Detroit,
llie .value iniiig. 1 iieiiiie uiev Another arrangement aiev
people ought to know w*hat M’e’has lieen effected between the
are doing and trying Lu du and [j-gion and the Hemy Ford Ho*
There was a good crowd
town Saturday evening to take'
their chance at the groceries.
By actual count at a quarter to
five o'clock there was 83 cars,
1H> wagons, 31 buggies and
hacks, tieside* quite a numlier
of saddle horses. There was a
pretty good crowd and the mer-
chant* report a nice busineM.
Messrs. R. D. Slattar, J. T.1
Sylwrt and A. P. Lennon acted
as judges and Mr. Phillipa little
gir! drew out the coupons.
The winners of the various
prise* were:
Mrs. W. C. Ijiwson, of the
Goodnpe community, nral pnze
$15 worth of groceries. Good-
hope b near the Hopkins iounL
line.
The 2nd prize, $10 worth of
groceries, was drawn by Mrs.
II. P. Scott of lhe Daugherty
luiglilmhoud.
The other five prizes,
worth of groceries
drawn bv L. W
It your larm lies in the path of one
of the tornadoes which will sweep
across th,- country thia summer, you
wall lie helpless to prevent the havoc
•••h’-F the wind will play with your
property.
But you need not he h<rt»rle«« if you
have Tornado Insurance. Tin- destruc-
tion may not lie prevented, but the loss
will be protected.
The First National Bank i<-pre-
Sent* tha mn»f reliable romywnief and
w» will lie glad to write a policy which
will protect you Don’t delay. Get
this protection at once?
This bonk will he clnzjd
June 4th. Jefferson Davis’ birthday
85
each, wore
bv L. W Chapman
South of Emory; Dick Shipley,
of the Ginger community; Orvel
Herinrg. South of Emory and H
W. Campla-ll of the
Springs coininunity.
There ha* 1-,-en considerable
delay by ‘x-vple naiUi,* until.
the ticktds were carried out to •
the wagon for the drawing to^ •
place more tekets in the candy •
iiucket, and lhe management •
I has decided not to receive tick--*
eta in the future after the tick- . shop j has~ , -are line •
of Groceries:
2 cans Corn
2 cans 7'omatoes
6 Imrs Soap
1 cnrtnn Matches
3 pckg Soda
3 pckg L’ght House
Washing Powder I
1 can Maxwell House
Coffee
Bulk I«rd
iiut
..... .. ......and
i now. once for al), that I am not1
i criticizing any previous adminu
I tration or former official. 1 am
I studying the present looking to
I the future and trying to do the
thing that i* l-eal fol all.
Mr. O. H. Melton will have
charge of my office duihig lily
absence and wiU gladly serve
you in any way he can.
Sincerely,
J. M. SPENCER,
May ?Jith, 1828
j ut vur county. 1 can ue wuiarn*
at some of these by correspon
dence while I am away. In a
sense the Countys finance are
in I-ad shape, Just how bad, 1
am not tully prepared to state and Dr. Harkness, Slate Com-
hut when 1 get back I can. in a tnander of the American Legion
short time finish up some nves
tigiitions and I want to tell the
peonl firoi ’> the lx-ad-1 ,Mt
wl.eie we are at,’
I am in fator of selling our
*choo| lands in Hockley County
so that our children of to-day
may get some of the benefit of
the fund that will be acquired
The ladle* Of FOUlt Will have j j,y the sale of the lands But I
box supper at the lumlier yard mean to discuss this proposition
TRY A BOX OF
REEVES DRUG STORE
" 1 be Home 01 Fuie Lhug*
We Give ‘S L. H’ Green Stamps
NR Tablets
Nature’s Remedy
When you are constipated. Feel Dull.
Headachy, Tired and out of sorts or suf-
fer from Indigestion, Dyspepsia or Stom
ach trouble.
l he Organs of
Elimination keep
Your Body Healthy
RAINS COUNTY LEADER
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Hill, Tom W. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1923, newspaper, June 1, 1923; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1322644/m1/1/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rains County Library.