The Decatur News (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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DON'T WORRY THK COOK
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id <on are here
nd father, Mr.
WELCOME STRANGER
Bertha
What’s
North
Fort
Worth
you,
TRUE, IF UNPLEASANT
Ths oflee devil says to make the
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Rain and Wind at
Bridgeport Friday
What Every Mother Knows.
“Pa," said Clarence, “when la moth-
er a day?*’
“Every day, from sun up ’till mid-
night," growled ma, who had just fin-
I lahed the dishes and was sitting down
I to the family mending.
“rve heard you made a very un-
pleasant remark about my hair, and
I want to toil you it’s false!"
"Weil, then, my remark was at
least true if uaptaaaant"
“She must be on the warpath."
“Why?"
“I see her stringing her beau."
Swnwwor Hotel.
"Thia room Is small and seems poor-
ly tarnished ime chair and a folding
bod."
That str, la the telephone booth." .
Eafe-,. toe
Mr. JJregory, J. D. Portwood, Law-
‘ith, L. C. McKinney and Roy
r near Azel this
RUSH CREEK
Aug. 6.—Miss Laura Flannery of
New Harp, was the guest of Miss Kit-
tie Skaggs Sunday.
Several from this community at-
tended preaching
day morning and
Alternate Insomnia
“You look tired this morning, Bill,"
Mrs. Sububs—How did she take It?
Mrs. Oadups—If you mean the china
sot, qpe took it in her suit case, and if
you mean the lecture—she didn't.—
terest in the 21 counties of the dis-1 Columbia State,
trict, and made especially impressive' ■— — - —
by the boy or girl representing, in ap-
propriate attire, the different products
of the several counties. The News
readers are always glad to see any-,
thing from the pen of Mr. Caates.
We have often been told so:
As you’ve nothing to do tonight.
Suppose you take a trip with me. j
to
Weekly.
STRINGING HER BOW
Misplaced Sympathy.
Mrs. CTabshaw—I don’t approve of
your going after trout. I can’t help
thinking of the poor fish.
Crabshaw—Tm the poor fish, my
dear, I didn’t get a bite all day.
Signs of Wear.
"What do you think of your new
mamma, Elsie T”
"Well, papa, If you took her for
now, I fink you got cheated.”
Away Ahead of Him.
Phelton—Did you ever try making
a comrade of your boy?
Phogle—Yea, but it didn’t work. I
Sound he was too old for me.
'Doing Well.
A news item says that American
women spent >160,000,000 last year
on cosmetics.
"Her face is my fortune," says the
manufacturer.
Messrs. Ruel and Paul Beasley, Ber-
Roberson, Robert Pope, Vester
. Hall and tbe Misses Inman, of Fort
I Worth, werw'here Friday night for the
__A number of the girls from the can-
Of course, ning dub here are going to attend the
Insuring Turtles.
Miss Howell—Do you insure auto-
mobiles?
Mr. Powell—We do.
Miss Howell—Is the Insurance in-
validated if the automobile turns
turtle?
BRIAR
Aug. 7.—The infant son of R. M.
Vandiver is sick this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Rube McGoolwin
moved to Decatur this week.
The cream supper at J. D. Port-
wood was enjoyed by a large crowd.
Miss Mary Porter of Decatur, at-
tended the cream supper at Mr. Port-
wood’s Friday night.
WIMUUUH, ttira UKi one can maKe me m^eriaHzp^ Satnrdnv th°
trfp over there in about thirty mi^^^^ f h
Some of the roughest places have been
made smooth, the places where the
rocks were, were the worst. w* orm, visiico i
Since July 18th, Adcock A Brown Saturday and Sunday.
I ™ «
These cars
SHILOH
Aug. 6.—Quarterly conference was
held at Shiloh Sunday afternoon.
A few from thia place went to the
fifth Sunday singing at Oliver. Creek
July 29th.
Sam Boydston and family of near
Chico, visited relatives here Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Fennell, of Burk-
burnett, spent Monday with Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Young.
Mrs. Leslie Miller of Burkburnett,
is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. (I.
W. Boydston, of this place.
A number of relatives from here at-
tended the funeral of Mr. Sim Cara-
way Monday at Sweetwater.
Singing was well attended here the
fourth Sunday. Had some splendid
.singers with us from about the county.
A large crowd attended the party at
W. H. Dunaway’s in the Bethel com-
munity Saturday night. All report-id
an excellent time.
W. H. Lee entertained the young
folks with a party Thursay night A
large crowd attended and everyone re-
ports a nice time.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walker of the
Corinth community spent Saturday
night and Sunday with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Young.
The next fifth Sunday singing con-
vention will be held at Shiloh Sept.
30th. Everybody in invited to come
and bring some one with you.
Mrs. Robie Johnston and daughter,
Velma, returned to their home in
Temple, after a few months* visit with
her stater, Mrs. Marvin New, of this
place.
players were absent.
Robert Pope and Paul Beasley izo.n
ort Worth, visited * homefolks here
SLIDELL
Aug. «— Miss Mollie McClary, of
Deeatur, to spending the week with
her sister and brother, Mrs. George
Veal and George McClary near Slidell.
After spending a short visit with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Hayes and Mr. and Mrs. Asker, of
The Christian meeting began here
no last Friday night. We are sure hav-
m finding thia ing some fine preaching, and large
I crowds are attending.
3j Tom Vandiver and family, of Fort
’• Worth, visited his mother, Mrs. E. C.
n Vandiver, and brother, R. M. Vandi-
Keeplng Young.
"Your account Is getting old."
"All right Suppose I put a little
young blood Into It by adding a few
new purchases.”
A refreshing rain fell here Friday
* evening and while it was not general,
it covered a considerable scope of ter-
ritory. It came at an opportune time
and aside from allaying the extreme
1 heat, it was 'a benefit to the cotton,
late corn and other crops.
The rain was accompanied by a
severe wind twisting around in spots,
and some trees were blown down in
town.
Some sheds were unroofed at the
new brick plant on the west side and
other damages sustained in that
locality.
The wind also did considerable
damage to trees and orchards on Dry
Creek and the storm extended to
Paradise where windmills and fences
were blown down. The Baptist church
building there was moved from its
foundation and almost wrecked. Oth-
er minor damage was sustained at
other points, but so far as learned no
one was hurt in the storm.—Bridge-
port Index.
BRIDGEPORT
(Index)
Owen Funk has resigned his posi-
tion as local manager for the Hardin
Lumber Company at Paradise and is
contemplating an extended vacation in
New Mexico.
Crop prospects in the Bridgeport
country are better than for several
years and cotton picking will begin
the latter part of this month. There
will be an abundance of corn made
and all feed crops are splendid.
The big two days* picnic, under the
auspices of the Farm Labor Union was
pulled off Thursday and Friday of
last week and was one of the most
pleasant and successful occasions of
this nature ever seen in Bridgeport.
Notwithstanding the excessive heat,
the people were here from all points
of Wise and adjoining counties.
The Olney base ball club came to
Bridgeport last Thursday to play the
return games with our boys. A couple
of weeks ago Olney “poured it on”
Bridgeport at Olney in three straight
games, but they fell down here in the
first game by a score of 4 to 1. The
second game was stopped by rain
when the score was 2 and 2 at the
first of the seventh inning.
SYCAMORE
Aug. 6.—Charlie McDaniel was in
Denton Sunday night
W. S. Earl and family moved to
Greenwood this week.
Mias Bertha Weatherby is visiting
friends in Amarillo for a few days.
Mrs. Earls and family, of Green-
wood, were visiting relatives here this
week.
Murtin Hayes, who has been in
Kansas for some time, has returned
home.
Fred Earls and Charlie Clements
were in Fort Worth Wednesday on
business.
TEXAS
(Sing to the tune of Old Oaken Bucket)
How sweet are thoughts of our bonny
land, Texas—
It’s people, it’s hills, it’s dales and
it’s dells.
It’s tiie land of few troubles—where
care rarely vexes.
Land where the Blue Bonnet and
Corn Flower dwells.
CHORUS
Fair land of Texas,
Flower decked Texas.
Home loving Texas,
The land of my choice.
How much wo all love you, sweet land
of bravo men.
How dear are our women, how we
do love them, Amen!
May you ever go forward. May you
•ver progreos.
May your name ne’er be tarnished.
May your fame be no leas.
val, eon-
ana their
tt, which
IMSttWO
Mn. AMBv JUUm »nd
rvisft/ng her mother ai r___
and Mrs. McDaniel.
Mrs. Maude Hurdt is visiting her
father, Mr. Jim Gage, who has just
returned from Oklahoma.
Misses Eula Mae Watts and Zoah
Baits of Decatur, took supper with
Miss Bertha Weatherby Tuesday
night.
And Collin with her fruit and can-
ning crowd.
Then there’s Little Baby Rockwall,
She’s mighty little, but mighty loud.
Do you want to see more live stock,
Small grain and cedar brakes?
Do you want to gather peanuts and
pecans
And bathe in sylvan lakes?
Then let’s go down to Bosque,
To Hood and Sommervell.
We’ll show you health esorts
That will give your heart a thrill.
Let’s have some more cotton, _ ________________
Some short horns and registered: succeed it will be some Item for the
swine;
Uu-to-date agricultural organizations.
Let’* go through some Texas counties,
Just to see what we can see.
Let’s go see the poultry, grazing,
fishing,
Better than poets ever sung.
You’ll find them in abundance
In Montague and Clay and Young.
See the Boys’ and Girls* Club Work
Centers,
See their livestock on display;
See a happy, hustling people,
In Young, Montague and Clay.
Let’s go drink some mineral water,
A cure for all our ills.
Let’s view the countless cattle
Grazing on expansive hills.
Let’s go where flowers call us—
Fairest land 'neath Heaven’s skies;
Where nature grabs your heartstrings;
IPs Palo Pinto, Jack and Wise.
See Cook, with all her fruit
And her happy rural life.
See Grayson’s wheat and cotton,
With a people free from strife.
See Den ton with her schools and wheat;1 M]<] the head bookkeeper to one of
the office clerks. “Don’t you sleep
wall?"
“No. My wife and I suffer from
alternate Insomnia!”
“Alternate insomnia! What Is ItY*
“Whichever gets to sleep first keeps
the other awake all night.”
Others Were False Alarms
Mrs. Crabbmoore—Why are yon
home so late?
Mr. Crabbmoore-—I played a band
of poker at the club, dearest.
Mrs. C.—A hand? You’ve been gone
more than six hours.
C.—Well, dear, it took me that long
get a hand.—American Legion
at New Harp Sun-
night.
Mrs. Rom Phillips, of Sandy Hol-
low, was the guest of Mrs. J. C.
Skaggs Friday afternoon.
Mias Ellon Skaggs, of this commu-
nity, is visiting Miss Leatrice Free-
man of New Harp, thio week.
Allen Bilbrey and sister, Miss Clar-
ice, returned to their home in Audu-
bon Wednesday night after having
assisted in the song services here dur-
ing the meeting.
A Real Event
"I have a mind to give yon a whip-
ping,” exclaimed the exasperated
father.
“Well, dad," replied the athletic
youth, “maybe you can; but if you
>104.00. It Is a eight to see the melon
wagons i ‘
loading them on to cars.
.'X - -.T ______________
as cotton' but melons are a lot easier Wednesday and Thursday.
to raise and gather than cotton, and
have both, there is not
crops. Come to
On Wednesday morning, August 1,' cream supper,
nt eleven o clock. Miss Lois Peyton | tv . , .
and Mr. Arthur Stafford were united' . ?c,1,001 h?u’€ u
in marriage at the Deeatur Bantist comP',t*4 and is certainly an addition
• aaa T* 1 t.A F.HV /’AWIfWtinil V TA la
After the ceremony, they
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a bountiful dinner wan served to a
number of relatives and friends. The
bride was beautifully attired in a gray
canton crepe with accessories to
match. Mr. Stafford is a young buai-
nesa man of Iowa Park, and we under-
Saii'SUi” *m ”‘k'
it Grove
Revival Closes
With crude oil in the line.
If you want to see these things—
And, of course, I know you will,
We’ll find them all in Ellis,
In Navarro and in Hill.
Let’s go down to Johnson
And see her Jersey cattle.
You’ll see a happy people
Who’ve won an economic battle.
Then there’s sandy Parker county
If you’ll think a little bit,
You’ll remember those big melons
That take an axe to split.
Limestone’s full of Standard oil.
See Freestone’s black-jack trees,
Jiaplnaaa and contentment
Float in on every breeze.
If you want the city’s ways,
You’ll find it quite apparent,
That your feet will surely lead
To Dallas or to Tarrant.
Dallas not only holds our chie< city,
It also has our greatest fair.
It’s long on live stock and dairies
While lots of poultry’s hatched out'
there.
Poland Chinas without number,
Duroc Jerseys, too, I ween.
Short horns there are a plenty,
Ditto, too, the big Holstein.
Rinkety-blinkety, c’.ickety-clankety,
Taint no time or mirth.
Hold the seat you're sitting on,
Worth.
Goodness! Gracious!
smell ?
It’s that
atomizer.
They’ve filled it full of smelly things,
Mixed up with fertilizer.
See tbe great, big packeries
Holding meat by loads and loads.
See their many manufactories;
See their miles of surfaced roads.
Attend their Rural Life Conference;
Ride their rails to every part;
You’re always welcome, down in Tar-
rant,
They always take you to their heart.
No matter where you want to go,
Nor the hurry you are in.
You’ve got to go to Fort Worth
Before you can begin.
After summing up these counties,
And all is said and done,
There’s not a bad one in the lot.
No, Sir! Not even ONE.
They form a modern empire
Where all the good things are.
You can die in any of them
And leave it without a scar.
It’s here the flowers greet you,
From wood and dale and hill.
Where the mocking birds awake you,
Sung to sleep by the whippoorwill.
The Father up in Heaven, .
Made the world with muniflcient
hand.
He made no fairer country,
Than our own dear, Texas land.
TEXAS
As stated in last week’s News we 1 Mrs. Gadupe—I gave the cook a lee-
publish herewith the poem that was ture about stealing today. Why, she
composed by The News Poet, Jack off w!th . flne of china the
□ . w“Kh re•“ ano other day, and I sure told her about
dramatized by our efficient and popu- | H .
lar home demonstrator. Miss Jewel -- ' - . . _ ... . . ...
Taylor, at A. & M. College last week
during the Short Course. It was pre-1
rented to a large crowd. The poom
you will note, brings out the chief in- <
LllWJV ... ** V* VUV U,o— .
i..f unJ a Ia
The Nurse—A little boy has just ar-
rived.
The Father (who Is an absent-
1 minded office manager)—Take his
„ , name and address and put him to work
WeVe on the Interurban to Fort at once. We need help badly.
that ‘
City, Kansas. They also visited their
sisters, Mrs. Pink Taylor, of Allison;
Mrs. Gene Young, of Sycamore; Mrs.
Jim Friels, of Oliver Creek, and Mrs.
George McClary, near Slidell. Mr.
Hayes and family wefe former resi-
dents of Sycamore, living here about
six years ago. Mr. Hayes now is em-
ployed with the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company, at Kaansas City, Kan.
ALVORD
(News)
Mrs. I. N. Elrod and daughter, Mrs.
Ruby Auttenberry, left Tuesday morn-
ing for Houston where they will visit
their daughter and sister, Mrs.
Laurene Lincoln. They will also visit
in Galveston.
It is stated that the road between
here and Decatur is now in excellent
condition, and that one can make the
trip ever there in about thirty r________
Some of the roughest places ha
rocks were, were the" worst.
have Shipped 30 cars of watermelons. T~ “ ~m aq , a—W
Fort Worth, spen£ the week-end with
has been paid for melons that have
consumption. This’ money'!* circulated ™nce Smith, t. C. Mcl
among the farmers of this community.1 Seaver are baling hay
To have a ready market for this kind i weck-
of product m very necessary to the.
farmers and they have had r
trouble whatever ‘
market,
Wilse Mitcham, who lives about 11 ~ — -
milM north of Alvord, on Route 4,
here^Wed^neJda^whito ■ ’**‘,a,ver’ arK1 oroiner, k.
wagons coming to town every day,
loading them on to cars. C2______ ______________________
there may not be as much tn melons encampment at Cump 44, Lake Worth,
c: “tt", t_t __t_____ „ ;w. , —■"-----’
to raise and gather than cotton, and
where you have both, there is not rv
likely to bo a complete failure in both jf,
Wise county. i w,
leeday morning, August 1,
o’clock. Miss Lois Peyton
rthur Stafford were united
. J*. L? Ward^offidating I J® l’« on« of
®ony, toey returned to ".^>^’t*nd,.rno8t “odern
me, near Alvord, where/"0®1 hoo,M county.
MARRIAGE^ LICENSES
Arthur Stafford and Miss Lois Pey-
ton.
Bonnie B. Davis and Miss Nannie
Ince.
^orge Hill and Mary Shelton.
W. A. Bird ami Mrs. Edna E. Hile-
man.
G- R- Paine and Miss Evelyn Hurley
A FORMER DECATUR ROY
A PROUD FATHER
News come* to relatives in the eity
birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs.
Lois Lively, of Bonham, Texas, on
Monday, August«, IMS.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Lavender, from
to the car, making >8,000.00, which her mother.Mre. Beasley,
nmm Kmmu oe*4«e am a a L. a I _ _______ .
been shipped out, besides the’home
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unday, Aui
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* Come in and talk it over today.
MAN & CHRISTIAN
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THIS New Edison, possessing all the superior
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Masonic Building Decatur, Texas
$24»25
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T. J. ELDER,
East Side
KELLY SPRINGFIELD TIRES
Fabric
$ 8.75
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(Over size) $12.35
$15.85/ $20.85
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Our Summer Sale begins August 4th and ends August
11th. We are closing out these particular folders and here
they go at the lowest prices we have ever made. No sale
for less than one dozen.
1 dozen Delco Folder, was............................$4.00, now $2.75
2 dozen Kohinoor Folder, was...................... 6.00, now
1 dozen Pennant, was.................................... 4.50, now
2 dozen Pennant, was.................................... 3.50, now
2 dozen Portland Easel, was........................ 6.50, now
3 dozen Alameda, Was..................................12.00, now
dozen Elden, was.................................... 5.00, now
2 dozen Loretto, was.................................... 6.00, now
1 dozen La Fayette, was.............................. 9.00, now
2 dozen'Art Proof, was................................ 5.00, now
2 dozen Academy, was.................................. 3.00, now
Come early and get first choice. You may have sitting
any time during August, but work must be paid for now.
THOMPSON’S STUDIO
ELDER & RENSHAW
~ North Side
DECATUR, TEXAS
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