The Gilmer Daily Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 299, Ed. 1 Monday, February 27, 1928 Page: 2 of 4
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LIFE
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SHOE SHOPS
CAFES
Re-
FILLING STATIONS
WANT ADS
Your Car
This Week
SALEA good mat* at a bargain.
B. A MU lot.
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for
T. J. Bradley.
$1.50
PHOTOGRAPHERS
We Will CaO
For And
Deliver Your
RADIOS
LIGHT TESTING
and to stand up for an absent
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But it always pays.
Telephone 14.
Use Your Phone
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Weather Bureau standards is a State Capital, and the land it
expert attention. Special atten- • neighbors dwell, and where •
* loyalty.'It supports me and I *
INSURANCE
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support of the publication in put
ting it over. It leaves the ques-
tion of particulars for future con
sideration, to be settled equita-
bly to every interest concerned.
occupies is the property of the
State of Texas. Bunker's Month-
ly proposes that the county shall
TUCKER & LASHINGHR
. GEO. TUCKER. -
R. H. LASCHINGER
GEORGIA LASCHINGER
person who is being abused.
Not to bend the knee to pop-
olar prejudice, but to stand firm
ly erect while others are bowing
and fawning for praise and pov-
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Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 24.—
The proposatto convert the Trav
Is county jail nt AUSTin. Texas,
into a nTemorial for William Sid-
ney Porter, known throughout
tft i* world as O. Henry, short-
storywrjter, the most famous
AUTO TOP AND REPAIRING
I have employed an expert top
and upholstery man out of Wich-
ita Falls. We will be prepared to
do all kinds of top and up-hol-
stery work, and also build cabs
and bodies. Located in Silver
Alley. ______
N. JEFFERSON HIGHWAY
pen for any medical-or surgical
walls, is seriously made by Bun-
kora Monthly, the Texas maga-
zine published at Fort Worth, in
its March issue, which is just
from the prss.
“The last roof which sheltered
fHl* ’ "
Porter served three yearsand
T. E. Graves
Ticket Agent
Phone IB
When it is noon in New York
it is 6:30 a m. in Honolulu, Ha-
waii.
in trade.
To stay home evenings and im
prove yourself when your com-
rades spend their evenings hav-
ing a good time.
To remain honest -in poverty
FOR
Mrs:
< > Men’s Leather Heels.-- ---
3! • Ladies Military Leather Heels
<! Ladies Military Rubber Heels
Other Prices Same as Before
Our Motto—“Good Leather--Good Workmhship"
your time for sorrow,
Be ready for grief; it may find
you tomorrow. .
bing fer La-
dies and Chil-
dren.
SANITARY .
BARBER
SHOP
The Gilmer Mirror and the
Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm News
|1.75 per year. • - 4-.,
H.D. (Chick) Petty
General Plumbing Work
Prices Reasonable
The House that Quality and
Workmanship Built
We Treat You Right
JUST-RITE SHOE SHOP.
MARVEY Mt ICKLEROY. Prop.
Let Us
Wash and Grease
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eould easily use yourself.
To refrain from gossip, when
Plan O. Henry
Memorial
Proprietors
Editor
Business Mgr.
. Adv. Mgr.
J. F. LOVELL
Phone 174
. GILMER COFFEE SHOP
The best Hamburgers in Town
Pies, Cakes and Candy
SHORT ORDERS
Come In and Eat with us
MRS. R. H. WILLIAMS
wind of sixty or more miles an
hour.
itentiary, at Gelumbus, Ohio, to
which prison he was sent from
Feeding and
Care of Baby Chix
Oak Lawn
Sanitarium
Now prepared to take care of all
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL
CASES -
For the regular physicians of
'the County.
X-Ray, Fluoroscope, Ultra Violet
AUTO PAINTING
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Refinishing. Top and Seat
pair Work. "
J. W. PROCTOR
" **".......... find another site for a new jail
J. N. ALDREDGE,
Attorney-at-Law
Office in the Crosby Building.
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PALACE BARBER SHeP
FEANKHARTT, Prep.
We give every customer careful.
• MENT. TWO DIATHERMY
«ACHINES AND THERAPEU-
TIC LIGHTS.
pen for use of any regular
racticing physician or surgeon.
J, Men's Soles .
1, Ladies Shies
SMITH FILLING STATION
Pennant Oils and Gas
Prompt Service • Courteous
Treatment
The General Tire goes a long
ways to make friends. ...
The official language of Brazil
is Portuguese.
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A hurricane by United States
HOME KITCHEN
■appy Jack Wiliama, Proprietor
Ever Ready ami Anxious to Feed
the Hungry with the most appe-
tiring things the market affords.
... 1155
. LOO
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Equipment for the treatment at
Diseases.
Modern Equipment—Ample
Room—Courteous Treatment.
MRS H. J. CHILDRESS (
” In Charge.
Magnolia Filling 4
Station
MALCOLM SMITH, Prop.
Where SERVICE Comes FIRST
Car.
Just Phone 175
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famous prisoner ever confined
HORACE V. DAVIS
First National Bank Building
Gmer, Texas
THE GILMER DAILY MIRROR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1928.
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WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO
EAT TODAY?
At the Hot Link Stand, where
. . they all go.
You can get more for your mo-
ney there and a good hot fire to
warm by, and good Maxwell
House Coffee to drink.
GEO. MATTHEWS
tinguiehing charcateristic. And
what a human thing to do, to
lake this building, the erection
of which was made necessary by
human frailty, and human pas-
sion—a jail!—and convert it in-
to the memorial of a man who
possessed, as few others, an un-
derstanding,of human weakness
and al tolerant charity towards
human shortcomings a man who
saw 6chroHi"The'foibles of all
aorta ..and eonditions of men a
common humanity1. What a hu-
man memorial it would be.
Bunker’s Monthly makes the
proposal in formal fashion. ip-
• partisanship; friendliness, •
• not offishness; co-operation, •
nocent of ay wrong doing in
that bank matter, except mo far
as foolishly keeping a position
that I could not successfully
IT TAKES COURAGE
To live according to your con-
victions. To be what you are,
and pot petend to be what you
are not.
To live honestly within your
means, and not dishonestly upon
the means of others.
To apeak the truth when by a
little prevarication you can get
some special advantage.
To refuse to knuckle down and
bend yeur knee to the wealthy,
even though you are, poor. .
When mortified and embarras
nd by humiliating disaster to
seek in your ruins the elemients
at future success.
Te-refuse to do a thing which
is wrong because others do it, or
Fire, Tornado, Hail or Crops, ♦ want, citi/enshiu net •
Live Stock, Burglary, Accident. ‘ cttenshP net
We Can Write Your Bond.
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NOTICE! |
TO OUR CUSTOMERS
Owing to the high advances in leather we are forced ♦
’ to raise the prices on somte articles . . .
Make your Phone work for
you by saving you steps and
shopping trips. You can do
alfyour grocery shopping by
phone if you will just call us.
We will give your, order the
same careful attention you
would receive if you came to
our store. Call
• law and order, trade, • •
• friends, education, morals. • Hmwood Sanitarlum
" . , Cases.
• COMPLETE MODERN EQUIP-
SUBSCRIPTION BATES be permonth. In arivance, vet RULuin.
DR. J. C. WINN.
.. BEDS. REDS.
Save Money by having yeur
old Bed made new. We will take
Ribbon Cne Syrup For Pay,
GILMER
MATTRESS FACTORY
Gilmer, Texas
The sorrows of life are as sure
as its pleasures,
And each in his turn shall drink
out of both measures.
Drink deep of the sweR when it
is your day for sweetness.
Don't rail at your God when it’s
your day for sighingv
And don't lpse your faith when
"1 "your solo He is trying.
SAVE MONEY ON YOUR
GROCERIES
By shopping for your own gro-
series and paying cash you can
save meney on your grocery bil
here. Complete line of fresh gro
ceries. Your Dollars will stretch
here.
*0. L. NATIONS CASH
GROCBRY
be worth face value in the pur
chase of a handsome set of
Oriental China.
Trade at this store and save
your coupons for this hand-
some fine quality china. It
can be purchased one piece at
a time just as you accumulate
the coupons. •
New Millinery -
We have, a handsome display
of new ready-to-wear spring
hats for bqlh ladies and child-
ren. Godri looking styles,
moderate prices. Priced
$1.50 to $5.00
CRAWFORD’S
Eash Store
N. Jefferson Highway
this store you will be given a
merchandise coupon that will —
Travis County Jail. and it was
Rhara about you delight in it. there he began to write under
tion givn ladies and children’s • my life is chiefly lived. It is •
bobs. Srt - * -- -
Shampoos f Scalp Treatment
HAVE YOUR SHOES REPAIRED NOW
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Test Your Own Eyes
With a special. machine
which we have installed in
our store you can test your
own eyas aad have them
fitted up with glasses at
most reasonable prices.
colutely innocent df wrong do-
ing.‛ tHis humanity was his dis-
with fresh water. If you are sene burners, in hot weather es-
feeding milk provide a new Mip pecially, the burner needs watch-
ply of milk in clean containers at ing to keep flame from creeping'
this time. ’If possible keep sour: up too high and causing trouble,
milk or buttermilk before the Alsu examine feed troughs and
chicks all the time. Feeding milk water vessels. Use your eyes,
spasmodically is not as satisfac- look for dirt and trouble, but
tory as keeping it before them don’t stop there, remove it.
all the time. It is beat to feed About the middle of the after-
all milk sour and in containers noon another round is made to
not made out of galvanized iron, all the houses, feed hoppers and
Mjl k is a wonderful drink for drinking vessels are cleaned and
baby chicks and growing chick 1 replenished. Note the heater.
At noon or twelve o’clock we flame, etc. At six o’clock the
make another trip around to all; windows or shutters are lower-
the houses. if the sun shines and ed, to keep inside of the house
the windows or shutters have comfortable. The hover is ex-
not akready been opened all the aminedtobesureit is capable of
way back. we do so, becatse we k eeping the chicks warm for the
want the direct sunshine .totmight. At this time also burner
strike the chicks. We again ex- and wick are cleaned and fuel
amine the heater in case of kero-, tank is refilled. Keep every-
_ . solemnly t
because it is customary and done -jury’s ver
I, and dedicate the present build-
31 ing"o the memory of the most “
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; The Merchants and Business Men listed below, all reliable home men. ask your consideratien.
augurating a movement to ac-
O. Henry within the borders of complish it, and pledging the
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Newest Styles
_ in Hair Bob- * If everyone was loyal to
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hat in spite of the
det tin absolutely in-
Texas was the Travis County
Jail," it declares in its leading
editorial, "and it ought tn be con
verted Thtano. Henry. Memor-
ial Library*
In February and March, 1898.
Just thitty years ago, Will Por-
ter, who had been a citizen of
Texas for fifteen years, ocupied
a cell in that jail as a Federal
prisoner, charged with embez-
aling a few hundred dollars of
the funds of a National bank.
And it was in that jail that he
wrote:
- “Right here I want to state
GILMER FILLING STATION
W. F. GLASS, Prop.
GOOD GULF GASOLINE AND
MOTOR OILS.
“ Tires Tubes Aecessorles "
Bring your battery work here
far cars and radios. *
All Repair Work Guaranteed.
while others grow rich by ques-three months in the Federal pen
tionable methods which you
• not dissensieni sympathy, ' In case of (sickness or accidents,
•support, not indirerence. • -ome here and call your family
We are now prepared to teat
lights. Miller’s Battery and
Radio Shop.
the heme spotfor me. My • Ray, Zoalie and other Electrical
• town has a right to my civic • J '
* better it would make your •
• home town. Some one has •
• aptly said:
• “My home town is the •
• place where my home is •
* founded; where my business •
• is situated; where my vote •
• is cast; where my children •
• are educated; where my • •
PAGE TWO
HIRGILMER DAILY MIRROR
• recreation and the rights of •
• a freeborn American. I •
thing in and about the burner .
Clean, free from dirt, dust or-ker
osene. Two things cause fjres,
one is to turn burner up too high
and the other is to keep burner
dirty and kerosene spilled all
around the burner. At nine
o’clock we make another trip, we
glance at rhe burner. note the
size of the flame and also the
amount of kerosene in the tank,
a good look at the chicksi to see
to it they are comfortable. They
should hover around the outer
edge at the hover all the way
around the hover. We are now
ready to lock up the house for
the night.
hoppers should never be allowed
to go dry for even a f^w minutes
if the chirks crowd around the
feed hoppers, provide more hop-
pers. provide more hoppers.
Keep hoppers clean. At eight,
examine all water dishes, clean
all drinking vessels and refill
. > •
! JUST-RITE SHOE SHOP
3 ’ Harvey Muckleroy, Prop.
Et-qpnorerncss
Truth, Sineerity, Thoroughness, Merry, Kindlinesa and Moderation.
— Entered ot the post offiee at Gilmer, Txan, a4 socond class mail amnattet.
Subser ibers deairing the address of their paper changed will plense atte both
tle old and the new address. It thia publieation doos nut reach you in the um 1
time,a Utter wquld, please repott the matter to your pestmaster. n
MRS. R. R WILLIAMS
CASH SHOE SHOP
within its walls.
“It would be deeidedly the
kind of a memorial that O.
Henry would appreciate," it de-
t lares. "The poetic justice of it
would appeal to him strongly,
and one can imagine him chuckl-
ingeveF it, out there across the
Great Divide in whatever Celes-
tial Bagdad he may now reign
as Caliph. It would.be a real ().
Henry ‘unexpected ending’ to
the storyof Will Porter’s trial
i nd convic tion, when he was ab-
FOR SALK -Eountry wood and miN
slabs. Call Ed Glezen. . 222 tf.
By F. W. Kazmeierr-Tryn, Tex.
. The chicks ate in a well built
brooder house, with a wood floor
equipped with a good brooder,
that will keep them warm’ in the
coldest weather.' We hve nice
fresh and clean litter on the
floor, and the chicks are healthy
and doing well. Our next prob-
lem is to keep them healthy, vig-
orous and strong. Feed hoppers
and drink ing. vessels have been
provided a good commercial
baby chick starter is being fed.
Daily Routine
Early in the morning, about
six o’clock, examine The heater,
replenish fuel supply and make
sure--ehicks are. comfortable.
Raise the hover, remove all’ lit-
ter, dirt and droppings and re-
place with fresh material. Note
the chicks closely, kill weaklings
or sick ones. "Ermine the feed
hoppers and be sure they - con-
the nom de plume of "O. Henry.”
He was released on . July 24. -
,1901. and went to New York in
the sprins:of 1902. Eight years
later, on June 5. 1910, he died in
a New York hospital, but in that
short period he had made him-
sell the most widely known and
best loved story-teller in the
world.
The Travis County Jail stands
opposite thegrounds of the .
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Also Bibles with latest helps.
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~ FARM LOANS
FEDERAL FARM LOANS
Five Percent Interest
Easy Payments . ,
School Supplies Notary Public
Office days: Mon., FrI. Sat.
A. L. BRADFIELD
Office over First National Bqnk
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FOR EENT -Myvhome in northwestern I
part of the city. Seven room*: Cull 24.
Tom Eaxter k - 299 d3te
FOUND —1 Yale key-, with small
ring. Ownr ean wret nme by euliing
4 office and payina for this ad.
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LOST—Two mules, one iron dkay horse,
and one black mare. Each aboue year*
old. Notity W. E.Buneh,Lomxview,
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Daily Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 299, Ed. 1 Monday, February 27, 1928, newspaper, February 27, 1928; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1441992/m1/2/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Upshur County Library.