The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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FAMILY DRUGGISTS.
LET US BE
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WASHINGTON,
a
immediately
For
Weak
Women
Commerce
Death of Irtfant.
Woods
it is claimed by several |
Mrs. E. A
Service
Safety
And
pound.
d service-
Safety
all that a b can
for the polic
offer—are yours rfor
that while th
writ.
the asking
“But how about the working man’
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State bonk of Commerce
Commerce. Texas
P. E. MALONEY, Cashier.
E. E. MALONEY, Pres.
4
V
■KS
DOW
______, urw
avoiding neriouB kids
PECANS SHIPPED
TO NEW YORK
fair want good goods.
Let's go back to Nov. j jng an i--------
■ ments would
time he had
to stop him
over to its iwner. Miss Young.
if Kidder bother* you—Drink
lots of water.
regularity
Price
80c
he
HAMILTON, Texas, Jan.
R. Taylor, a produc|
cf Hamilton, shippej
to New '--------|
was
Raymond Md
Meads of SulpV
Sunday visitinf.
GIVE “SYRUP OF FIGS”
TO CONSTIPATED CHILD
COMPLYING WITH
TREATY TERMS
. If
fever,
weaker
■ -—. 24.—c I From the Greenville Banner:
and coal dealer
a car of pecans
York City jthis week.
the first full
ped from here.
The pecans w<
pounds, worth b
$6,000. The pec
ty was the heavij
You can
Surely it v
what it hi
many th<J
women! f
. “i gu
-Jurt ohrf*
week
more.” The
faded, jadfci,
over- worked
woman, with
pains here oe
there,
should ask
tier neighbor
for advice.
Ten - to - oo®
was
'resno. Cal., aftei visit-
her parents, Mr. and
i overpowered him anti
per to <
bm he gave his name as
Ivey.
it Ivey had emptied the
{ the money and other
[ween 15,000
a crop in this coun-
it ever xnown.
The occupation of the '“.vy ny tne
allies, set fo^Feb. 8. is likely to be
days, according to the
Danzig adviefc
tie one’s I
l^Mcansj
cross /Nd
he|e yesterday.
• was near
dense;
tesher
In use forover40yearsl
Thousands ol voluntary
letter» from women, tell-
ing of the good Cardui
has done them. This is
the best proof of the value
of Cardui. It provesthat
Cardui is a good medicine
foe women.
There are no harmful or
habit-forming drugs in
Cardui. It is composed
only of mild, medicinal
ingredients, with ao bad
after-effects.
Drugs That Are Pure
AND SURE
BOLD ROBBERY
AT GREENVILLE
6V
had to work fifty-five and j
hours to earn
*11
and we were not,
the farmer received on an average
almost errt
the ingredii
list on the wr
liquid. Dr. Pierce?
Laat
most
husking
big and plentiful
While political led
to have the Presided
lie and to participal
paign meetings, the| President
not make any appei
for several weeks yi
on
rity;
irine
the South
We all remember ■
in the fall of 1914 the “Buy aj
on U- .
[rspx.n:
kfast fi
IL them
The first allied troops are expected
- Evacuation will be accom-
plished by zones, each of which will
patriotic send-off. i 1919,
oc-
continuing their in- ------——♦----------------;
LESS MEAT IF BACK
Mr and Mrs. Stone of Sherman
are visiting her sister. Miss Maud
Madden.
Have registe^d
years old. Will r
England'c Registe
gallons per daj^
sell for cash
work stock,
southeast
Smith, Cumby, Texas.
He stated
Farmers-
. Rela-
communicated
as said that they were
•eenville this afternoon,
are <
,f the case, which pre-
aspects from the fact
soon af- '
and during his first ;
was of a peculiar na-
duals who claim .to,
ert that he is mentally
; ing here wil
Mrs. L. W. Jutland.
I
TAKE -
CARDUI
The WonMn’s Tonic
I
£
narrow
$25 suit.
$
|H
eighed about 40,000 _
and; was ;obbed of her purse by a well
dressed young man, who tore the
hand bag from the young woman’s
grasp after demanding that she give
1 - him. Although/the victim of the
ir Springs were here ' purse-snatcher did /not
te at double pay.
Commerce \Drug Co.
o ) PHONE 33.
North Side Square.
i^wtrade !A
Price $150?
of Commerck—Arthur
-y, Ttw. ' *w5.
Claude Kelly Aas able to be down
town today for/the firet time after
a severe spell « pneumonia.
j! bladder
--1 of
uv good piarmacy .
I io a glM» of water
» a few days and your
fact fine. Tb« famous
>m the acid >t
combined with lithia,
1 for generations to
rs and ettanlate them
klao to aeuralize the
M it no Unger irri-
bladder dbord»ra
cannot injure anyone;
‘itful efferveeomt lithia-
j million. <8 men end
and then tr keep the
iry organa dean, thus
diUNL
of Flensburg,
in accordance
terms providing for
the plebiscite. The
sr&ssssil A COMPARISON OF I
M PRESENT DAY PRICES ',
Bother! If
breach, liver
ig at once,
less, doesn’t
s<jr is fever-
.oSi1’ sore
giving the troops a
Today a Danish demonstration
curred there.
Aly on Cardui.
ail do for you
[s done lor so
isands of other
It should help,
i taken sick,
,rs Mary E.Veste,
of Maison Heights, Va.
I down so weak,
hardly walk . • .
Official govern-
that the average I karly; the average
value of wheat on November ( —n—- «e shoe
bushel. The , whole country
who sold fifty bushels of
The four months ol
and Mrs. W. D. Wilkil
afternoon. The pari
sympathy of the comi
bereavement.
[the scene of the rob- , jan. 30.
Lyles had nabbed the remain under the interallied commis-
sion.
German preparations for the
per Silesia today, in accordance with
the terms t„w. ------- a-
rati rii
Dellclou* "Fruit Laxative" cant Mem
tender little Stomach, Llv*g
and Bowel*.
give w
had the terms that the movement begin
Lee within fifteen days after its ratinca-
At by George Lyles. t,on
I Street within less ’
the scene of the rob-
Jno. Jackson transacted business
in Cooper Monday.
. BERLIN, Saturday, Jan. 24.—Ger-
had happened she man troops began evacuation of Up-
pmposed to
robber, who
foing west on
in the year.
---- -~f or available man\in
fine $60 suit1 trade, not only\f(
week at regula*
where [ hours of overtim
"Is it any woi
for al) kinds of |
to enormous?
"Most people seem to think that I
clothes price* are high. Measured in I
the nu-nber of dollars it takes to pur-
chase a suit they are.
ed i
producer has to sell or in the wac»s
indicate that at one
>een an inmate of an :
asylum, alth, Jgh there was no way
to verify that fact.
Chief of I’Jlice Sam Polk declared
investigations are as
yet incompletl, the police authorities
are of the omnion that Ivey has no
, connection with any of the other j
j crimes of a limilar nature which
1 have been committed in Greenville
recently.
ii For Sale or Trade,
/Tow, seven
Feb. 10, by
lale. Gives 4
Jresh Would
>od heavy
Six miles
Look »t the tongue,
* . ■ ttW
and bowel® need
sleep, eat or act natumllT>
*. a - - ---
cold, ^iw •
la Syrup of
I all the foul,
down by U»
pains and ad—
gicnta of be-r
and was comply’./ cut®1 br
'1 ini that tenqierance tocc t>ade re®«
hour’s wild Urks and roots, as 1 1 “
I: years as Dr. I’icrcu’s Lavordo I’rc^np-
| tiox When a woman eomplamj of back-
[ ache, dizziness or pain—w’-ku every thmg
: looks thick before her eyes—a dragging
feeling, or bearing-down, with nervoua-
! n«s, she should turn to this "W™*
herbal tonic, known as Dr P1C"* 8 8 .
rite ITescription. It be^btamed m
drug store
ta arc [ rinl
ilenniss and Marvin , it to
t o__,__how, 1 n.lnu
realize just what
was sufficiently I
the alarm and thj
turned and was j
Street, was cauA
of 2005 Wesle/
than a block of
bery.
, As soon as 1
j robbar he wa.J joined by several oth-
er parties wh* overpowered him and German preparations for the eva-;
j turned him fver to Officer Arthur cuatiun of Danzig, which is to become
Woods, to wl
Robert Bruci
In his Hid
purse, puttil
valuables it (contained in his pocket
■ but Mr. Lyh s and others who helped
forced him to turn it
WILSON TO KEEP
OUT OF POLITICS
» V
Ian. 24.—Presi-
hourly pay of the I d<_nt Gilson will nit take an active
An political acti-
rld at the White
"I S
couli
just staggered around.
... I read ol Cardui,
and after taking one bot-
tle, or before taking quite
all, 1 felt much better. I
took 3 or 4 bottles at
that time, and was able to
do my work. I take it in
the *pring when run-
down. I had no appetite,
and I commenced eating.
It is the best tonic I ever
saw.” Try Cardui.
AH Druggists
».»
and«oard. In 1»19 w«e* went up
to * minimum of $40 and ran to
even $60 or $«5 in many instances.
The going day wage for harvest
hands in 1914 was $1.55. In 1919
they were hard to get at $5 a day.
"Workers in the cities do almost
I us well. The Baltimore bricklayer.,
.who in 1913 got 45 cents an nour, |
1 haa wain p
se a soil. G.v, -TS. But measu, I hours to earn money for a $25 suit I
in the prices of things wh 'h t’. e of clothes. Now he gets $1.00 an |
. —.11 ;n ten w«c»s hour and works sixty hours for a $60
£ paid for service performed they are ■ suit of clothes. 1— —
■ no higher than they7 were befoza -ne a ’lOt more c.-------- -
I war. In nu-ny instances, as a matt-r neariy so many days,
y of fact, they are not so high
II “Compare clothes j.r’..os, for • .-
3 stance, with that of the great
■ I American money crop In HR w
* ! Iowa farm -v had to h*u! ’if'.v bu»h"ls
■ lef corn I--------
Il 1 oney to pay for » »*- • *u,! * ■
i ,< clothes. Now he can get a $60 suit
1 and a $10 pair of shoes for his fifty
I? bushels of corn.
Ig “It may
IS' corn to
I* I hogs. <
save the producer from ruin.
"The price of cotton i..
1914 was down to 6 cents a
for a time, but that’s hardly
comparison.
1, 1913, when the average farm price
was 13c a pound.
had to market 193 pounds of cotton
to pay for a $25 suit. On Nov. 1,
1919, the average farm price was
36.5c a
pa(v
in the land and
jpj in plain Eng-
1. up in tablets or
f Jvalids’ Hotel, B«£-
xL-1 size forlO-cent*.
* -/K—-Going Ibra
gaf!i3?M » ’h heaV
Ills s >me friends «
I, trv Doator Pierces
on and I ''AS.n‘l5tt!7
JUl V lee 0 •• .» .... O
I relief than any a®'-
[ken. 1 came ',“ru
i,)t health; tao beat
Mieiu left me at once.
... .Livorno Prescription^
the good ‘‘did
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‘ COPENHAGEN. Jan. 26.—The fa
the German military and civil authorities
series of local robberies, and evncUated the town
bold ups, came this morning just at yichjegwijr, Saturday,
with the treaty
the taking of
“The Philadelphia hod-carrier was
content to work for 35c an hour six
but 70c is his wage now. I
----- ■*, If he' The Detroit machinists’ scale was |
•• December 30th, 1919,
,p price, he got $195 for it
enough to buy a pretty nice
even at present
: of the Chicago market he came with- an
i in $3 01 receivm —---,
‘ a $’,0 suit and there have been long |
i periods in the last two year*
1 he would have got f , - .—
j for his founr hundred pounds of hogs. I weefc,
( "If, on December 30th, 1914, he
marketed a thousand pound corn-i*ea
steer at I-----r .
market he got $91.50 for it.
marketed it on L
for the top 1
—money t-------
outfit of clothes
1! prices.
I “Wheat is raised in very wide sec-
I tions of the country,
j ment reports tell us
irm -— - — -
1st, 1914, was 77c
farmer u.._----...
got *:>«.ou, or just, aouoi. c..—— j
buy a $25 suit, a $5 pair of shoes, a
$3 hat, two or thrwe^gf
then some handkerchiefs'. Tl.*-
3 November
was $2.13 a bushel and
farmer who
home
enough to buy him
and complaint was
charging hii 1 with robbery,
statement n ade in the jail,
' claimed to h tve arrived in Greenville
early this m arning from Vinita, Ok-
lahonyi, but i
members of the police force that he home at
j was seen l.v--t
that his hor <■
vide on a 1 he to Josephine,
tives of Ivet’s were <~
! with and it wi
1 to come to (*i
The policeL
vestigations *
sents unusuiu
that the primer's conduct
t ter his arrei
hours in jail
ture. Indii
know him as
_ However, he gets in
overtime and is not idle
• , so he is rela-
tively better off than he was in
1913.
“The New Orleans blacksmith
1913 received 36c for an 1—
work when he could get work.
to market in >rl ’ to f -t rii‘ took him 70 hours to earn his $25
. ‘ Now he earns his $60 suit by
working seventy-five hours at
an hour and has all the work
wants, regular an dovertime.
“The Buffalo boilermaker
36.1c an hour in
---- The
Drugs may be pure and yet not sure. They may Ih'
it requires a remedy of certain strength to stop a r
or stimulate the heart, or to defeat any disease, a
remedy mav be no better than none at all. ....
We think of these things and make certain that our
drugs are both pure and sure. We buy the finest drugs
obtainable and we test them when they come to us.
All important preparations, syrups, tinctures,
are m«.1« in our latarulorr by gradual, pl.urinw.rfn. n»l
they have the fluent Suterials in the world to work w uh.
. 1
>■
I blwMer and urinary irritation.
The moment your beck hurts or kid-
neys aren’t acting right, or i
lot her. you, get about four miners
Jail Salts irnm
take • tob
liefore brV|
kidneys wi
salts ia n
and lemon jul
and has born
flush clogged
to normal acl
acida in thru
tatea, thus 1
.lad Sull
makea a A
water dri*
women ta®.
kidney, apd
a free city under the terms of the
treaty of Versaflles. had as one fea-
ture a final parade of the German
troops this mi rping. A Danzig mes-
sage says the )»rade was held amidst
an entbusiaalM popular demonstra-
tion with the Gurman colors on tnu
flagstaff of /various buildings at
Ivey was >laced in jail by Officer half-mast,
filed
In a
Ivey ^played seve1
dozen for them in 1919.
“The sheep raiser who produces
I for his money crop naturally
mold left Monday for has quite a keen interest in the price
----- r.-i of c)othes The government tells us
that the average sheep raiser all over
the United States got 15.5c a pound
for his wool at the country stations
on November 1. 1913. He had to sell
161 pounds to get money to pay for
a $25 suit of clothes. On November
1, 1919, the average price paid to
the producers for wool was 50.6c a
(pound. He only had to sell 118-1-2
I pounds of wool to get enough money
to buy a $60 suit of clothes.
On November 1. 1914. while
I Europe was at war
— ! | the farmer received on an average of
unbalanced, nd unconfirmed state Taks a glass of Salts to flash Kjdneyi -2 gc a bushel for his potatoes. Fif-
ty bushels left him a very
margin over the price of a
On November 1. 1919, he was get-
ting nn average of $1.53 per bushel
for his potatoes. The price of fifty i
other, uy. a well-known airtbirity, be- : bushels bought him a $60 suit. of (
c.um the urie acid in meat ei5‘V* th’ ( |othes and a fine pai rof shoes, and
’•« b"u • ,l,,llars f,,r ,iun<,ries; I
1
The farmer then '
, I stipation. a condition that poisons
p. averaxv ...... e— -! ‘h« blood and breeds diseaRe Prick'
pound and the grower could j ly Ash Bitters restores
pav for a $60 suit by selling only* 165 and puts the system in order,
fo’unds of cotton. i»«P"- ^tle. Cc=^-
I "The average price paid to the Co., Special Agents.
I farmer all over the United States for
butter on November 1, 1914, was
26.4c a pound, whil* on the same day
in 1919 he got 56c a pound for it.
For his eggs he got 25.3c a dozen on
November 1, 1914, while he got 54c
•
| wool
diatre®^ particularly backache and mia- . “But how about the working man.
rrj in the kidney region; rheumstic twin- [ et\ sturt with the man who husks
ge», severe headachea, .rid .ton Mb, am- f h Iowa farmer. Jn 1914
I ^eon;n.1^.rv,rr^>,'“““1 he got 2c a bushel for the work and
the crop w*as of sucn a character that
he dill well if he husked one hundred (
bushels a day. He had to work (
twelve and a half days to pay for a
$25 suit of clothes. Last fall he
demanded and, in most instances,
got 8c a bushel for husking com.
The ears were so big and plentiful
that it was no trick at all for him to
husk one hundred and twenty-five
bushels, earning $10 a day. It took
him just *ix days to earn enough to
pay for a $60 suit.
"The government tells us that the
average pay for farm laborer* hired
by the month in 1914 was $21.05
-_-j be that he doesn’t haul
> market but feeds it to his
On December 30th, 1914, he now. T
H j had to . ell four hundred pounds of ( building
ml hogs at the top price of the Chicago an ]
market to get the money ?o pay for 62.5c.
“ « $25 suit and a $3 hat. On Decem-
I ber 30th, 1914, if he sold four hun-
' • got
’ 1 1913 ; he gets 27.5c
unskilled laborer in the
trades at St. Louis got 25c
hour, six years ago; he now gets
In Jacksonville, Florida, the
carpenter who earned 31c then, gets
65c now. In Chicago. San Francisco I
> dred pounds of hogs at the top price and some other c------ -
- ’ Chicago market he came with- an hour> with $2 an hour for
of receivin gthe money to buy tjme; and so great is the demand for ;
$ ’.0 suit and there have been long I workers that he won’t work
*"*“**4 w’hen contractor permits him to get in
from $80 to $92 a KOO<1 raany hours of overtime
sex.
i
Eating mat regularly eventually pro-
duct? kidney trouble in eonie form ot
9 m ---- — .
the urie acid in meat excite® the
tnhldte lifp
glad I took thdrjdvlee for i»
more comfort anil
cine I had ever *1
chsnge in excelyi.
f a.-!i'“ and A:,JX rite Prescription"
I cannot I”-3'’ . ,1 did me at tb*L
too lushly for the g*" iuchabuoos.
critical tune.*—Maa. U.
K.S St. Napnieotl
falo, N.Y’-, will send
Baton Bovof/ L
--- 1 middle lifp I
cities he gets $1.00 faw|v»s and dizzy "1
over- | mine rdvised me
. ' Favorite I’resrrip
unless
The most sensational of all
recent
™«ll______
[r of pecan, ship- | Piyht o'clock on Lee Street in front
I ol e Banner office, when M’*s
, Juwed Young, of 2114 King S’. .
coated, your lit!
Drug when peevWi,
i'
isb, stomach sour, breath]
throat, diarrhoea, full of|
! teaspoonful of “Californ
, Figs,” and in a few houn---------
constipated, waste, undigested food and
sour bile gently move, out of ita little.
I child of Mr. bowel, without griping, and you have a
K died Monday well, playful child again. A* your
s died Monday dn) ' -for a baUle .-California,
nts have the gyrop of Figs,” which contains full
mnity in their direction for tafcie., children of all agei
land for grown-upa.
[ German residents spared no pains in ( value of wheat on
sold fifty bushels at his ! is demand
station received $106.50,
a 1.
and a big thick overcoat.
Let’s look at
they raise cotton.
how i„ »..« • —---- - | n
bal» of cotton" campaign was on to enormous. I i
■ , (alike have more^money,
in the fall of' tion, to spend fi
pound ■ than they ever
e 1__vwrsrx/'
a >•»•» | w»«e.«w ---«• - - •» 1
unusual detfcand for them.
a.______A------
Avoid irregularity in the bowel
movements, it leads to chronic con-
* poisons
lers are anxious
appear in pub-
■ tn early cam-
- ’" t will
trance in public
k, it was stated
the best authoritT.
When the President does appear,
j it is not likely it willlbe at a politic-
al gathering, but instead it will be
supplies ts I
and worker |
, in propor-
what they want
,d before. They
po, and are creat-
the top price of the Chicago years ago,
39c, but it is now 85c.
It's this way all over the country.
The Dallas plasterer and the Birm-
ingham plumber get $1.12 1-2 an
hour, with plenty of overtime at ,
double pay; the Boston sheet metal (
workers earns his 90c an hour regu-
larly; the average hourly pay of the --------
1 rollers of the sheet steel mills of the rt in preconvent|
! whole country is $2.57 1-2. and they , ]e>n]
it work ten hours a day. i ’ .
g’ot ’$38 50, or just about enough t. “The prosperity of the worker is House today.
B -- _■ - ■ - (no longer adequately measured by
’ood shirts, and his wage rate per hour. Five years
irnrlf was scarce; a large percent-
1st,! age>«workers expected to be idle
the ! many daXin the year. Now there
the service of every
i practically every
for 44 or 48 hours a
L pay, but for many j
ihe at double pay. >
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