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ha* been signed by Jean Perler,
French Minister, and Alberto Pani,
Mexican Secretary of the Treasury.
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investigation
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The great art of superiority is to
get hold of people on their best side.
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bonated beverages increased
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MRS. HARDING’S END
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business
time.
Admiral Lord Beatty will resign
his post as First Lord of the Ad*
miralty at the end of the year.
In order not to compete with pri-
set-
citi-
jamages
State Health Officer Malone Dug-
gan conferred with City Commission-
ers at Waco on the sewage treatrent
by
st
the present time is $1,826,245
cording to figures made public by
8. L. Staples, State Treasurer.
As a direct result of the imposi-
tion of a 15 per cent ad valorem
the call customs duty on imports into ths
Pres State, sixty additional workers
have been empleysd by a Cork firm
of boot manufacturers.
The Labor Minister of the Raich
has issued decree* intended to aid
the unemployed. They provide that
State pnd community funds shall be
used for public emergency works
when the number of unemployed in
a community passe* the M per cent
mark. •
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works proposed to be insulin:
that city the imprtmir ent to
8350,0'h.
cent.
Capt. Harry H. Marmaduke, mem-
ber of the Confe’derate Navy and of
the Missouri family once prominent
in the Government and Education of
that State, died in Washington re*
cently, 82 years old. He was the
only known survivor of the officers*
personnel of the Confederate Iron*
clad Merrimac which
Federal cheese box. Monitor, in what
was one of the important sea en-
gagements of the Civil War.
Wars in which the United States
has taken part since 1790, exclusive
of the World War, have co-t the
Nation more than 86,836,000.000 in
pensions. Pensions for the Civil War
totaled about 86.427,000,-000, while
those growing out of the Indian wars
amounted to 125,000,000. Pensions for
other wars included 846.000,000 tor
the War of 1812, 870,000,000 for
the War of the Rettplut'on. 856.000.-
000 for the Mexican' War and $126,-
000,000 for the war with Spain.
State Supertt»tend-
luslt ucrion, attended
meeting of the Texas
Parent 1 eacbnr Association at Wichi-
ta Falls, and also attended the gen-
eral Baptist convention at Dallas.
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TREATY NEGOTIATED BY LABOR
GOVERNMENT IS
REJECTED.
Dr. Malone Duggan, State Health
Officer, has assigned E. B. Hopkins
and Ed Whedbee. engineers for the
State Board of Health, to make a
study of the Trinity River in so
far as it concerns the complaints
with reference to damage to stock
growers, stock farmers, oyster beds
and drinking water. An extensive
study of the situation covering sev-
eral weeks will be made by these
engineers.
Assistant Attorney General Carl F.
Gibson, in charge of the bond desk
in the Attorney General's Depart-
; ment, has consented to remain in the
department under Attorney General
Dan Moody until the latter finds a
man suitable for that highly impor-
tant and responsible work. Judge
Gibson has already completed ar-
rangements to practice law in Austin,
but will accommodate Mr. Moody to
, the extent stated.
A consolidated statement of con-
dition of all State banks numbering
•41 of Oct 80. reflects very sat-
isfactory condition ar compared to
conditions as of the date of the pre-
ceding official call, June 80. ISM,
according to the State Department
of Banking. Loans and discounts
show a decrease of 813.000.000; I nds
sad stocks, an Increase of more than
a half million; cash aad exchange I
of approximately
aggregate increase
assets of spDroxlmately
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Aged Apple Treei
The apple tree is the longest-lived
of American fruit trees. In many
parts of the East it is not unusual to
find trees healthy and bearing fruit at
the age of 100 years.
Far be It from Santa Clans to fail
to bring rag dolls and puppy dogs to
nil the llttlf people who lore them so
much. We should all turn tn and help
old Santa out by making them nt
home of stocking legs or other elastic
fabrics. Patterns enn be bought for
them and for all sorts of nnimula.
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The Attorney General
the following bonds: Waco
improvement 8250,000, Waco Public
school improvement 8100.000, serials,
5s; Blooming Grove waterworks 842,-
000. and Blooming Grove sewdr $28,-
000, serials, 6s.
planes leave Prague, Austria, in the
morning, arrive at Bucharest at night
und leave there the next morning 101
Constantinople, where th.ey arrive
at uoon.
On the ground that solicitation of
funds from guests is “Incompatible
with the best ideas of hospitality ano
entertainments,” hotels, members of
the hotel association of New York,
have forbidden the American Red
Cross to use their lobbies in the an-
nual roll call.
American interests have a promi-
nent part in a company organised
to take over all telephones in Spain,
a feature of which is that Govern-
ment representative* will sit on the
board of directors with special au-
thority regarding .ates and other
matters of public interest.
Automobiles in the United States
outnumber farms more than two to
one. There are only six states with
more farms than automobiles, and
; all these are in the South. For the
! entire country automobile registra-
tion total* 16,509,840 ,and the total
census figures show 6,448.343 farms.
Five thousand miles of State roads
have been built, are under construc-
tion, or have been approved for con-
struction in Texas. These roads,
when completed, will have cost near-
ly $73,000,000 and the part which the
Federal Government has expended or
will expend on them is nearly $32,-
000,000.
In a campaign to reduce motor
accident fatalities in Chicago more
than 3,500 arrests of spe*4ers and
traffic law violators .ave been made
within ten days and $75,000 m fines
han been paid. Since January 1. 500
persons have been killed in acci-
* dents, seventy-six of them in Sep-
tember.
United States Army aviators flew
9,098,360 miles during 1923 with a
lose of only eighteen lives, accord-
ing to statistics at McCook Field.
The number of mile* covered by
the airmen is based upon the speed
of the slowest airplane, the De Havi-
land, which ordinarily travels at a
120-mile-an-hour speed. -
Her Death Follows Thst of Lat*
President Harding Only Fifteen
Mentha.
English Conservative Regime
firm* Authenticity of th*
“Zinoviev Letter."
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to the Appellate Court bench
the general election Nov. 4.
J1 re'adi
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Tbs tormenting, insistent pain of a
^un? °f J!Sald *■ subdued by
t iw cooling ingre-
hasten the heahng.
well with ReshoTa _
•oft gauze. In severe bums or scalds
covering a large surface always ee
far a doctor.
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istta, Texas.—Total approprta-
a recommended by the State
vate storage enterprises the public
customs warehouse* of Vienna make
their rate 16 per cent higher.
Great Britain is spending in the
four years beginning with 1921 more
than $11,000,000 in land drainage,
forestry and similar bchemes to pro-
vide work for its unemployed.
A convention providing for
tlement of claims by French
sens against Mexico for
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comes n necessity. Here Is one thut
It mny be iniule of
unbleached cotton, white oilcloth or
alature sggregate $31,306,- ed the highest point In
impared to requests total- ’i --- — •
$43,008,000. In th* amount
led I* $1,407,330 for five
ation* creatod since the *»>
IS of ’two years ago. iuclud-
furrn relief
be pressed for enact-
next session of Congress,
(Rep.) of Oregon,
measure' said upon
to Washington.
Appointment of G. I. Christie,
Secretary of Agriculture has been !
recommended to President Coolidge '•
Barry Miller, successful Democrat-
ic candidate for Lieutenait Govern-
or, filed affidavit with the Secre-
tary of State that he had spent
nothing in the campaign preceding
the election of November 4.
No ugly, grimy streaks on the
clothes when Red Cross Ball Blue is
used. Good biding gets good results.
All grocers carrv it.—Advertisement.
Frank Criticism
She was in a hurry to keep an en-
gagement and hastened out of the
house a few steps ahead of iter hus-
band. Footsteps sounded behind her,
and, thinking Jim was approMchlug,
she turned abruptly, grusped a manly
coat sleeve, and. asked breathlessly:
“Is the powder on straight V
“It is not.” answered u man she had
never seen before.
A Raw, Sore Throal
JEaeee Quickly When You
Apply a Little Murterole
And Musterole won’t blister like the
old-fashioned mustard plaster. Just
spread it on with your fingers. It
penetrates to the sore spot with a gentle
tingle, loosens the congestion aad draws
out the soreness and pain.
Musterole is a dean, white ointment
made with oil of mustard. It is fine for
quick relief from sore throat, bronchitis,
tonsillitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma,
neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleu-
risy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and
aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore
muscles, txuises, chilblains, frosted feet,
colds on the chest. Keep it handy
for instant use.
To Mothers: Musterole 1* also
made in milder form for
babies and small children.
Ask for Children’s Musterole.
35c and 65c, iara and tubes; hoe-
pital sixa. 83.00. ^*,
Action of State Superintendent
a? Public Instruction S. M. N. Marrs,
, in canceling a teacher’s certificate
suffered'’”in” consequence "of "revoiu” ! ,be°n„JBUBt8,,ned. „by . th\ St.ate
tlonary activities from 191® to 1920 . Board of Education following hearing
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: ter may be taken into the courts to
' test out a contention that the super-
English railroads are to adopt the «’ without authority to
automatic couplings as used in the cancel B Bch001 tPa<’her’
United States and throw over their
present system of coupling
heavy iron chains which have fas-
tened together English cars since
Victoria’s youth. Installation of auto-
matic couplings will cost the Eng-
lish railroads about $1,250,00®.
The British Government will con-
sult President Coolidge’s Administra-
tion on the subject of interallied
debts and on ths question of adopt-
ing the security pact of the League
of Nations. It to learned from high
sources that ths British desire the
opinion of the American Government
of these questions before the British
program is devised.
The deficit in the general fund at
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A stay to prevent destruction of
the battleship Washington as e navy
target ha* been denied by the court
or appeal* of the Dirijict.
John Fields of Oklahoma City has
been recommended to President Cool-
idge for Secretary of Agriculture by
Senator Harreld (Rep.) of Oklahoma.
A further hearing in the interstate
Commerce Commission's Southern
class rate Investigation was an-
nounced by the commission for Dec.
15, at Atlanta.
William M. Jardine, president of
the Kansas Agriculture College, was
appainted by President Coolidge aa
an additional member of the Presi-
dent's agricultural commiaaion.
The substitute proposal for the dis-
position of Muscle Shoals will be
offered in the senate when it to
called up for the first ordar of bus-
iness of the short session.
An agreement for funding the
Polish debt to the United States,
amounting to $190,009,000 has been
signed at the Treasury. It follows
practically the same terms accord-
ed Great Britain.
The Mt Nary ilaugen
bill will not b. press
ment at th<
Senator McNary
coauthor of the
his ret uni
fntendent is without authority
cancel a school teacher’s
cate. Mr. Marrs alleged this certifi-
with ' cate bad *)e^n obtained in an ir-
regular way.
Americans -are eating more butter.
The Department of Agriculture has
announced that 60,000.000 pounds
more were consumed in the first
Dine months of this year than in the
same period last year. The total for
the. nine months was 1,516.690.000
pounds against 1,487,048,00<» for ths
same period last year.
President Coolidge has appointed
John Van A. MacMurray of New
Jersey an Assistant Secretary of
State. Mr. MacMurray has been for
a number of years at the head ct the
department's Far Eastern division,
and to a recognised authori.y on
(mentions of ths Orient. He has
served in ths diplomatic corps both
at Pekin and Tokio.
Maj. Gen. Walter A. Bethel, after
forty years' service tn th<> United
States Army, has retired us Judge
Advocate General of the armv be-
cause of failing eyesigki He is suc-
ceeded by Col. John A. Hull, senior
edlonel tn t&e army, who will have
the rank of a major general. During
the World War General Bethel was
Judge Advocate General of the A.
WFThe Remedy
- You
Need
the Year
Round
in Your
Home
Texas has 1.321.600 school ch'ld- V.".. „ 7...L,
ren, an increase of 17,000 over last 1 at the table a bib of some kind be-
year. according to the State school r----- - • - -
census, just .completed. The final will please him.
figures indicate a distinct trend from
the country to the cities, as most of : linen, cut in the semblance <>f a rabbit.
Oilcloth may be painted, but usually
cotton floss is ured to oatline the fea-
tures ami the edges of the figure.
M. J. R. Jackson of Amarillo has
been appointed by Governor Neff as
Associate Justice of the Court of :
Civil Appeals to fill the unexpired
term of William Boyce, recently
resigned. Judge Jackson was elected
In
South Africa are
United States
George B. Terrell, Commissioner
of Agriculture, says that be will not
make any changes in the personnel
of his office force beginning with
his new term on Jan. 1, 1925.
the increase to in the city districts.
lAst year the two- were about bal-
anced The greatest loss in ths
country has been in older oil coun-
ties. The State school funds are
apportioned on the basis of this
census.
With total resources on Oct 10,
ef $23,823,061,000, the national banks
Of Control to be made by tne ®T the country on that date resch-
i resources
’ since Nov. 15, 1930, it has been
1 announced by the Comptroller of the
’ Currency. Th* banks Included tn th*
total numbered 8,074. The results
« STm “ taercaae of fe-
w caU of Sept.
soldiers, It was disclosed in the
nual report of
General made public amounted
only 31.65c for each nian.
The popularity of near-boer
falling off. according to census fig-
i ures which report the value of cereal
beverages produced last year at
$75,000,000 against $122,000,000 in
1921,'a decrease of 37& per cent.
Soda pop drinking to increasing, ac-
cording to the figures which show
car-
from
in the
two years, an increase of 31'4 per * employes in the Houston section. I
He said that he has been strongly :
importuned to establish the publ'ca- <
tion and he will probably take fav-
orable action.
The shifting of shoals and sink-
ing coast line on Chesapeake Bay
make* it necessary to
coast.
Nearly all electric-lighting fixtures i
used in South Africa are shipped
from the United States or the
Unit.id Kingdom.
Gen John J. Pershing returned
from abroad on the steamship Paris I
after visiting his son, Warren, at a by Representative Wood of Indiana.
Swiss school. 1 chri8tje is now connected with Pur-
Twenty-eight states in the Union due University, Layfayette, Ind.
A per capita payment of $50 to
the Apache, Kiowa and Comr.nche
Indians of Oklahoma has been
the Secretary of
nment where in the Socialist Govern-
ment of England pledged itself to
guarantee a loan to the Soviet Ur ion.
It was thia guarantee clause that
aroused the greatest opposition to
the treaties. When the negotiations
were under way last summer the
Soviet Union demanded a loan guar-
anteed by the British Government.
When the treaty conference had been
terminated with both sides admit-
ting their inability to agree, Mac-
Donald authorized his representa-
tive* to grant the Soviet demand for
such a loan.
Chamberlain’s double blast at the
Moscow Government marks the re-
turn of the Conservative policy of
refusing to grant concessions to Rus-
sia in exchange either for trade or
•ood feeling.
Influenza heads the Ijst of com-
municable diseases reported for thlF
week ending Nov. 15 by Dr. Malone
Duggan, State Health Officer, to
engaged the Hugh S. Cummings, Surgeon General
! of the United States Public Health
Service, with seventy-one cases. Tu-
berculosis dysentery and scarlet
fever rank second, third and fourth,
I with thirty-six, thirty-four and thirty-
three cases, respectively.
A funny sprite for the Christmas
tree—looks as if lie were dressed in a
chrysanthemum. He stands guard
i over a little box whose contents are
a sweet secret.
Wire wound with crepe ptper makes
' his long arms and legs and supports
i his head of painted cardboard—and
London.—Great Britain, through
the medium of the new Conservative
regime, has repudiated the Anglo-
Russian treaties negotiated by the
late Labor Government of
Ramsey MacDonald
Aeatein Chamberlain.
Minister of the Baldwin
■tent, ha* dispatched a note to Mos-
cow, advising the Soviet Union that
the document hns been reviewed and
rejected. Simultaneously, Chamber-
lain sent a second note to the Rus-
sian Government, affirming the au-
thenticity of the “Zinoviev better,"
and refusing to accept the Russian
» xplanation that the letter was a far-
gory and sent without, the knowledge
or consent of the Soviet Union.
“I have the honor to inform you,”
Chamberlain wrote to Christian Ra-
kovsky, Soviet Union representative,
in London, “that after due considera-
tion Hla Majesty’s Government find
themselves unable to recommend the r
treaties to the consideration of Par- have adopted the definite policy of
liament or to submit to the King regulating motor vehicles engaged
for his signature.” in common carrier service. The reg
Thus passes the international doe- ulation involves routes, service and
rate8‘ Interior. The total amount to be dis-
According to the schedule of the I tributtd will be a little short of
new airplane transportation service. I $100.0000.
It coet the United States slightly
less than 10c a meal for Its soldiers
during the fiscal year ended last
June 30. The daily cost of feeding the j
1 *$ »•«.» I* Ain—i an Al)*
the Quartermaster
to
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■J he requirements of luah-Jongg are
met by tills tuiili t end-pencil set, in
which the tablet Is covered with black
oilcloth, witti adornment of painted
flowers and lettering in vivid colors.
. The pencil is white with a band in
bliiek and tiny flowers—to match the
approved tablet. Long ribbons attached provide
street 1 * means of mooring it.
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Upon the. advice of the Attorney
General State Superintendent Marrin
has had a blank form prepared fir
a certificate to be filed by textbook
bidders showing that they have paid
; the Texas gross receipts taxes since
1905, provided they have been doing
that length of
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Labor Commissioner Joseph
Myers, says he is contemplatinj the |
establishment at Houston of a Jour-
nal tn the interest of the railway
In
crepe paper provides his rukish cap
and outstanding skirt. He will sug-
gest other grotesque nn 1 amusing
figures—to be made in the same way.
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< Marlon. Ohio.—A little stone tomb
<tn Marion Cemetery was the
scene of the final meeting to part
no more of Mr. and Mrs. Warren G.
^larding.
: Mrs. Harding died early Friday at
the home of Dr. Carl G. Sawypr, son
Of the late Dr. C. E. Sawyer, Presi-
dent Harding’s physician. She had
been critically ill for several weeks
at White Oaks farm, the Sawyer
home, where she had been living.
|Hsr body wee placed in the tomb
to Marion emetery beside that of
her husband. -
, The end cams peacefully to the
(widow of ths late President of the
United States at 8:55 a. m. while a
(brother and close friends stood by.
' Only fifteen months ago Mrs.
(Harding, leaning on the arm of
(George B. Christian, Jr., private sec-
retary to President Harding, follow-
ed the bier of her husband to the
little tomb end saw it placed ten-
derly inside there to await her
coming. Rows of soldiers stood at
attention as their commander in
chief had been consigned to a ,tem-
porary resting place in the tomb.
Four weeks ago Fridfy Mrs. Hard-
tag visited the tomb and talked with
•very member of the military guard
(which has been on duty there dur-1
tag the months of waiting for her
Ktaal visit
Monday afternoon that little hand-
ful of men was drawn up with pre-
sent arms by Lieut. Walter Lee
Sherfey while the body of Mrs. Hard-
tag was placed beside that of her
husband. Taps were sounded and ths
little military band of twenty-three
men of the Tenth United States In-
fantry. Fort Thomas, Ky., assumed
the double duty of guarding the
eternal sleep of a former President
and his wife.
The Rev. Jesse Swank, who con-
ducted the funeral services lor Pres-
ident Harding, conducted similar
rites for Mrs. Harding in the Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal Church,
of which he to the pastor, and tn
which Mrs. Harding held member-
ship stoee girlhood. Assisting ths
Rev. Mr. Swank was ths Rev. George
M. Landto, pastor of Trinity Baptist
Church, of which Mr. Harding was
a member, and who also aided the
ilev. Mr. Swank in conducting the
funeral services tor ths late PrssL
The Head Stopper
M.'in is like a tuek -useful if lie bns
I (i goml hem) on him poimed in the
i right direction, hut even though be
is driven lie run go only us fur us his
head will let him.-—Si ience.
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