The Nocona News. (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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THB NOCONA NEWS, FRIDAY AUGVFT *€TH !«W.
Cards
Professional
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
The Accounts of
Conservative Men
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Farmers & Merchants Nat’l Bank
ADVERTISING RATES
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BURBANK, PLANT WIZARD
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NEW PROHIBITION LAW
Phone 99
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Lodge directory
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DEGENERATE TIMES
M. W. A.
DISCONTENT
of certainty
COURAGE
The greater part of the courage
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WAS PAPA DELIGHTED?
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
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George, dear. I’m going out for half I courage to live honestly within our
means of others.—Cleveland Bulletin.
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DISEASE
DELAYED
A WORLD IN NEED
J. B. MARCH
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they did fifty years ago.
UNDERTAKERS
Subscribe for
Chinese Widows Seldom Marry
The Nocona News
be
can
Published Weekly
Full line of Caskets and Burial
Rates:
Robes. Embalming.
WOULD APPEAL TO THE YOUNG
75c
NoMie Grud.
BEYOND COMPASS OF ONE MIND
50c
FRAMES 500 YEARS OLD
5c
Motor Hearse Service if Desired
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When you need any-
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„ . And the deepest of all mysteries
preparation, con- connected with one or any of these
leas
The
When your wife skips the latest,
divorce scandal and reads the ad-
vertiseing pages its a sign you sre1
about to lose some money.
In China the remarriage of widows
is regarded as an impropriety, and
in wealthy families is seldom prac-
ticed, but among the poorer classes
necessity often compels a widow to
seek apother breadwinner.
General
Bowie,
Fry & Hili
Tinners and Plumbers
Nocona, - Texas
Meets 2nd and 4tb
Saturday nights.
W, F. Leonard,
Clerk.
CAPITAL $125,000.00. SURPLUS $25,000 00.
Hugh Garson, Cashier. Nocona, Texas
In Good Years and Bad The Farmers A Merchants
National Bank will Stand By its Customers.
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TELEPHONE NUMBERS
The News office
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; Office Over Bowdry’s Drug Store
1 Nocona, Texas
1. R. STUMP,
MRS. T. R. STUMP,
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Night Phone 18. Day Phone 47
Tex^s
Specialty
newspaper advertising near baby’s crib
him from crying by singing
lullabys while I’m gone.”
The subscription
rates are the same to
all alike regardless of
where you may live.
One year $1.50
Eight months $1.00
’ Six months
Three months
Single copy
Jud Tunkins says every boy would
be keen for the classics if ector and
Achiles had put on thp gloves and
had the kind of mixup that could be
described on the sport page.
are you
“Sending
was the
some new
The Trouble Collector figures that
Everybody is trying to Put Something
Over o«i nim and so goes Around with
his Suspicious Mind hunting Trouble
and Always Finding it. In a World
so full of Everything, we can General-
ly find ’’■bat we are Looking for,
whether .To* or Sorrow.
The first gets what it that is needed in the world is not
wants and the second loses what it:cf 8 heroic kind.
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of deaths of celebrated
has
Entered as second class matter June
Mth, IM*, at the poet office at
Nocona, Texas, under the Act of
Congrss of March Srd, 187®.
i^GOOD ACTIONS BRING REWARD
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No. MS
Meets every Thursday night.
HUGE CARSON R. F. HHBB
All display advertisements 25 cents
per column inch for each insertion.
Readers and locals 5 cents per line
for ach insertion. Legal notices,
sue? as citations, etc., 1 cent per
work for first week, and 1-2 cent
per word for each consecutive inser-
tion after the first week.
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Prof. J. J. Sylvester, the English
mathematician, who died in 1897, is
said to have been the last man who
ever thoroughly familiarized himself
with all branches of mathematics
as known in his day. The subject
is now so vast that no human mind
could possibly master the whole of
it.
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IT IS not correct to use the word
E. "nt” or the word "to'* after the worn
fwliere,” us In the sentences. “Where
here you at last Sunday?" and "Where
here you going to?” Say, instead,
"Where were you last Sunday?” and
•Where were you going?” This is
fine example of many in English In
which the speaker or writer uses toe
far, failed to solve j
It is not yet even
equipment for making any such li-
quors, or to receive, or transport. lur j
the purpose of sale any such liquors
herein prohibited. Providing that it
shall not be unlawful for any person
to manufacture, sell, barter, ex-
change, transport, export, deliver,
solicit, take orders for, furnish,
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tut Motona Mew®.
NOCONA LODGE JL
A.F.& A.MA
NO. 733 •
Meets Friday night on
or before full moon.
S. A. Barron, W. M., N. R. Beal, Sec.
o. E. s.
NOCONA CHAPTER NO. 02
Meets on or after full moon of each
month. Mrs. Edith Paine, W. M.
Mrs. Ninnie Carmichael, Sec.
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HOMER B. LATHAM
Attorney-At-Law
Practice in all
The Nocona Newa and the Dallas
Semi-Weekly Farm Newa together,
hi Texas and Oklahoma, are $2.00
pwr year. The Nocona Newa and
the Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm News
In all other States, when clubbed to-
gether, are $2.25 per year.
Framed pictures date back 500
years, when monks nailed wood
around their pictures to separate
the subjects.
SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES
One year, $1-50; Eight months $1.00;
Six months 75 eante; Three months
50 eents; Single copy 5 eents. The
subscription rates are the same to
all alike regardless of where you
may happen to live. Tbeee sub-
scription rates are of effect as from
November 1st, 191®.
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W. j. Maples,
Secretary.
The Nocona Newa and the nrn—
Smni-WMklg Nawa, tegMter tor ma
your only tS.0*. Subeeffte new.
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9 Aaertan Ymms
W no. nava
F Meets every 1st and 3rd
Tuesday nights at the T. F. B. hal
J. E. HALL T. b, STUMP
Foreman CamgufrM
T. F. B.
LODGE
Meets every -W
, - first and third
.</ •; FRIDAY
fqto ' nll[htg at their
hall in the T
F. B. building.
W. r. Russell.
President.
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How to Avoid Them j |
"WHERE AM I AT?"
THOS. C. TRIPP
Attorney-At-Law
Notary Public, Real Estate, Loans A
and Rentals '
Building, Nocona, TexM
Although seventy-four years old, Lu-
ther Burbank is as hale and hearty as
a youngster of forty. The wizard of
the plant world finds no day complete
without spending some time among
the plants he has created and knows
so well. He once said that some day
he would evolve a spineless cactus.
The world laughed. He Just chuckled
and said, “Waft and see.” Here is the
result of his experiment with the cac-
tus. A real spineless cactus at last.
; See hint rub his face on It.
sess or receive for the purpose of the great mysterids of the world’s
sale any such liquors herein pro- history. D
; with uncertainty.
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful Though it is generally believed
or indirectly, that there was moye than one ice
barter,
One curious point which is shown
in insurance tables is that those or-
A little boy was beatting a rug in I Kttn>c diseases which are so frequent
back yard with all his might. |in middle life develop at a period
w. o. w.
NOCONA CAMP
NO. 44S
Meets nttheirballin T.
F. B. building, 1st and
3rd Monday nights in each month. Vlsi
tors cordially inaited.
L. C. Strouder, C. C.
M. A. Mcln*;«e. Clerk.
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Ample Evidence That It Existed,
But the Question Is, When Did
It End?
DRS. HUMPHREYS & DAVIS
» II ’Urs 9 to 11 A. M., and 2 to 4 P. M
Office Phone No. 31
Dr. Humphreys Phone No. 51
Dr. Davis Phone No. 142
Nocona, ------- Texas
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After each stroke he gazed up into ^r°m five to ten years later than
the sky. “What on earth
doing? asked his mother,
some dust up to God,”
reply, ”so’s He can make
people.
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possess, or receive for the purpose
of sale, barter, exchange, transport,
or deliver, spiritous, vinous, or malt
liqours, or medicated bitters, after
permit has been duly authorized and
given by the proper authorities, for
medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or
sacramental purposes. Providing fur-
ther that the purcaser, transporter,
or possess of any of the liqours
herein prohibited shall not be held
in law or fact to be an accomplice,
Providing further that no person
over twenty-five years of age con-
victed under an ofy the provisions
of this Act shall have the benefit of
the
dclaring an emergency.
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There arc two kinds of discontent
in the world: The discontent that
works and the discontent that wring''
its hands. ’
We strive to conduct this
bank along such lines that the
conservative business m e n
who want to be absolutely
certain of adequate facilities
and careful attention will un-
hesitatingly select it a s his v
bank
deliver, solicit, take orders for, or ini? intoxication, or any other intoxi- before it ends in another,
furnish spiritous, vinous, or malt cant whatever, or any eqiupment for
is remarked that the number
men this
year has been exceptionally low.
It is absolutely hedged in! ™8, SUfKe*t8 ;° Us a’so that not a
single birth of any famous perron
has been recorded during the past
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pose of sale any such liquors herein for any person, directly or indirectly, tn«t there was moye than one ice!
prohibited; declaring that it shall to manufacture, sell, barter, ex- «8*, no one can say with any degree'
be unlawful for any person directly change, transport, export, deliver, so- of certainty whether there were
or indirectly to manufacture, sell, licit, or take orders for, or furnish three, four or six, orr a dozen, for i
barter, exchange, transport, export,' any spiritous, vinous or malt liquors, the matter of that,
deliver, solicit or take orders for, or' or medicated bitters, or any potable
furnish any spiritous, vinous or malt liquor, mixture
directly, to manufacture, sell, barter, to a cold, temperate climate,
caption to conform thereto, making exchange, transport, export,
it unlawful for any person, directly solicit, take orders for er
or indirectly, to manufacture,
transport, export, or deliver spirit-
ous, vinous or malt liquors or med-
icated bitters for medicinal, mechan-
ical, scientific or sacramental pur-
poses, subject to the provisions of
this Act.
Sec. 2b. Thh manufacture, sale,
barter, exchange, transportation, ex-
porting, soliciting, taking orders for, I
furnishing and possessing of any of ■
the liquors mentioned in this Chap-
ter, if done for medical, mechanical,
scientific or sacramental purposes,!
and after a permit has been duly I
authorized and granted by the proper
authorities, shall not be punishable
under the terms of this Chapter.
Sec. 2c. Upon a trail for a viola-
tion of any of the provisions of
this Chapter, the purchaser, trans-
porter, or possessor of any of the
liquors prohibited herein shall not
be held in law or in fact to be an
accomplice when a witness it any
such trial.
Sec. 2d. No person over twenty-
five years of age convicted under
any of the provisions of this Act
shall have the benefits of the Sus-
pended Sentence Law.
Sec. E. The crowded condition of
the calendar and the fact that this
is a special session of the Legisla-
ture, create an emergency and an
imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to
be read upon three several d#ys be
suspended, and such rule is so sus- |
pended, and this Act shall take effect |
and be in force from and after its j
passage, and it is so enacted.
tunny words to express his meaning
The sentence, “Where uni I at?” at
rncted much attention about 20 yean
rgo when it was used by a speakei
In the house of representatives. Th«
ktenilier was making a long speech,
llleil with long sentences. Not mucli
■ttenthm was being paid to him, and
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liquors, or medicated bitters, or any taining in excess of one per cent of I icy periods is what was the cause °f
Both geologists and astrono-, haR There's no cure for the first! displayed in every day life
, so far, failed to solve j but guccess. Wld there jg no cure at as on historic fields of ction.
all for the second.—Gordon Graham.' common ned is for coirage
DR. N. W. CRAIN
Office Over Bowdry’s Drug Store
Office Phone 301 R esidence 75
Our Drug Store 91.
Nocona,
When did the glacial period end I
Suspended Sentence Law, and Was it, an American scientist perti-l
nently asks, when me ice began td
Be it enacted by the Legislature of disappear, or had half disappeared!
the State of Texas: | or had entirely disappeared?
Section A. That Section 31 of i If the last mentioned, then we are
Chapter 78 of the Second Called' still in the ice age, for Europe has
Session of the Thirty-sixth Legisla-1 glaciers, and so hace Labrador,]
ture shall be and the same is here- the Rockies, Alaska and islands in
by repealed. ' the artic regions, and, as every
Sec. B. That Sections 1 and 2 of schoolboy is aware, Greenland
' Chapter 78 of the Second Called nearly covered with an ice cap.
I Session of the Thirty-sixth Legisla-'
'ture be so amended as to hereafter reference to climate?
1 read as follows.
Section 1. That
Horace W. Hunt Herbert S. Calaway
HUNT & CALAWAY
LAWYERS
Montague
Probate
potable liquor, mixture or prepara- alcohol by volume, or any equipment them. P
tion containing in excess of one per' tor making any such liqours, or to ■ mers have,
cent of alcohol, by volume, or any possess or receive for the purpose that problem.
’ of sale any such liquors herein pro- agreed as to what extent the ice cap
transport for. hibited. covered the globe.
Sec. 2a. It shall not be unlawful,
for any person to manufacture, sell, .
barter, exchange, transport, export, ]
deliver, solicit, take orders for, fur-1
nish, possess prr receive for the daily habit, i
purpose of sale, barter, exchange, reaches each day virtually all who
___I buy.
I Newspaper advertising is the life
j blood of local trade because it
touches all consumer sources in every
i community.
Newspaper advertising cuts selling
costs because it entails no waste in
locaality of circulation.
Newspaper advertising insures
quick, thorough and economical deal-
er distribution and dealer good will.
Newspaper advertising enables
manufacturers to tell where their
products may be bought
Newspaper adi*ertising
started or stopped over night.
Newspaper advertising enables
manufacturers to check advertising
results and costs in every market
they enter.
Newspaper advertising costs
than any other kind.—From
Fourth Estatae.
1 offer to the world the fragance of I
it shall be unlaw- ■ Ontario region at the beginning of lovab,e Personalities when we go
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I fragance, too, that will linger after
\ deliver? Probably the point is best settled we have Pa88e<1 to the «reat beyond.
i for or furnish by making the glacial period a pro-; Grit,
or indirectly, to manufacture, selF, spiritous, vinous or malt liqours, or gressive event, regarding it as end-
barter, exchange, transport, export, medicated bitters, capable of produc-|>” one^ region perhaps thousands
Without doubt, this far off epoch!
AMiiiiai* viaavMo, v* » w • * i a •
liquors, o medicated bitters capable' making any such liquors, or to pos- of thick ribbed ice constutes one of
of producing intoxication, or any
other intoxicants whatever, or any
equipment forr making such liquors, hibited.
or to possess or receive for the pur-
Courage may be
• as well
. The
, —......... ned is for coirage to be
' honest courage to resist temptation,
j courage to speak the truth, courage
| to be what we really are, and not to
I Wifey (telephoning to hubby)—! Pretend to be what we are
Newspaper reading is a universal an hour, but I’ve put the telephone' means and not dishonestly upon the
so you can keep
some
Below we give the full text of the
new prohibition law of the State of
Texas. It will be noted that this is
calculated to discourage the poor,
harassed bootlcgers. They do not
known when they are selling to
some one who is especially out to
make life miserable for them, or
who might “turn state’s evidence”
and be a witness against them. The
text of the law is as follows:
“A Bill to be entitled An Act to
repeal Sec. 31 and to amend Sec-
tions 1 and 2 of Chapter 78 of the (
General Laws of the Second Called
’"and' to'^d^'^erX^Se^Tta, ™ any person, directly or in- Lake Iroquois, for its trees belonged | down^the western ^pe^of Jife;
2b, 2d, and E, and to amend the directly, to manufacture, sell, barter, ?o cold, temperate chmate.
Can the question be settled by a, If in y°uth we build years of help-
> If g0 fben I ful, friendly, neighborly acts, we will |
the glacial period ended for, say, the,
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The Nocona News. (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1921, newspaper, August 26, 1921; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1372576/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.