Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1918 Page: 3 of 14
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Wise County Messenger and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the UNT Libraries.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I
THE WAR’S RECOMPENSE
(
<
LXe
0
Billy Jones
f
b
I)
Ladies’ Shoes
Cur lee Clothes
2
ANY MAN TO ANY MAN
By GERALD STANLEY LEE
©
OUR TAILORING DEPARTMENT
Y
RS
58
nt
RIEGER BROS
ili
■
6
[lots.
0
I
H#H±F
«
E
i'
H,
H
ft
N,
H
E
i'
8
I
, 2
oils ab-
April 1.
|
i
A SCORE OF REASONS
FOR THE RED CROSS
H is Playing a Big Part in the
War for Democracy.
By
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
2’
Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart.
That God.has given you a pricelesa dower,
hm your •
That ye may tell your aons who see the light
High in the heavens—their heritage to take
I saw the powers of darkness put to flight
I saw the morning break.” ’
win this war.
hospital supplies employing 2,000
. women.
— ______and the i N •uncan, Gieorge
county of Wise for taxes and 1, -acy Duncan, James Duncan
(same lying and being situated in the "" "
[county of Wise and city of Decatur
land 1. state, of Texas, towit: Dot 3,'
to the
3*3*3**3333*31*33 gaKEKExEaEG*
THE NEW STORE
GENT’S FURNISHINGS
Has 400 motor cars and operates seven
We are always ready to serve you with courteous at-
tention and show you our goads whether you buy or not
,#
ft
H
3
"+
H+
,t.
H,
#
±
H,
H0
CITATION BY PUELICAnON.
But now we must all redouble our
efforts and sacrifices for onr Red Cross
because— a million mothers' sons are
going to carry the stars and stripes
to the greatest victory God has ever
given to men fighting for honor and
liberty.
With the help of your Red Cross
your boy will win.
I seal of
lefty of
rise, this
918. W.
I District
5-10-18)
eravelysrrigin found on an American soldler who
ana aa noBly died. The man is yet unknown.
Y who have faith to look with fearless eyes
Ayond the. tragedy Of a world at strife,
And know that outof death and night Shal nue
********
Our stock of Gent’s Furnishings is new and complete
in every detail. Here you will find the season’s Styles
reneaed in all departments. Come and select your
summer toggery—we can fit you from head to foot.
We also carry a complete line of Ladies’ Shoes and
Hosiery in the season’s newest offerings.
What does all this mean fn your
And I have told you but a fraction of
the work your Red Cross has dona
and is doing. It means that without
this ceaseless, heroic work of the
American Red Cross,
Give us a trial and let us convince you that
we have the suit you are looking for.
Billy Jones—maybe your son or the
non of a neighbor—was in the front
line trenches in France when the Ger-
man bombing party was driven back.
His enthusiasm to get the Bodies car.
Tied him over the top of the trench,
and at the edge of No Man's Land a
Hui bullet got him.
A comrade—maybe your boy—crawl-
ed out into No Man's Land and brought
Billy Jones back to the American
trenches.
Other comrades tarried him tack
through the maze of trenches to a
dressing station, where his wound was
cared for.
A medical department ambulance
carried him on to the field hospital.
I romn there Billy Jones was taken to
the base hospital, and there a Red
Cross nurse—your Red Cross nurse
is tenderly, carefully, smilingly nursing
him back to health again so that ne
may not have to pay the extreme sac
rifice that we—that you and I ane our
neighbors— may enjoy the I i< -sings of
freedom.
There are half a million of these
Mys of ours in France today and
more going “over there" every week.
They are there to wage the supreme
confict of the world with the brutal
forces of autocracy that democracy,
our heritage, may not perish.
We want these boys of ours to come
back to us, and It is the Red Cross men
and women—our Red Cross men and
women—who will bring thousands of
them back who would not otherwise
come if our dollars will but keep them
there to minister to these boys or oura
They are but doing for us what we
cannot do for ourselves.
The State of Texas and County of
Wise.. To Any Sheriff or Constable
of Wise County. Greeting: All per- ’
sons owning, or having or claiming !
onv in+a-act : - .1. * .
0
0
©
#
©
ua
Without your Red Cross Italy would
never have realized that powerful sup.
port of the United States in the hour
of need.
Without your Red Cross thousands
of French soldiers now gallantly fight-
ing for yon at the front would have
died of wounds, exposure and fack of
food.
What does it mean to you to know
that your America Red Cross:
Is supporting 50,000 French children.
Sends supplies to 3,423 French mili-
tary hospitals.
Provides 2,000 French hospitals with
surgical dressings.
Is operating 30 canteens at the front
line.
Is operating six other canteens at
French railway junctions, serving
30,000 French soldiers a day. -
Operates a movable hospital in four
units accommodating 1,000 men
is operating a children's refuge in one
part of the war zone, and in another
a medical center and traveling dis-
garages, making all repairs.
Has shipped 46 freight car loads of
assorted supplies to Italy from
I rance within two weeks after it any interest in thelandorlotshemj
began operating in the former conn- j-....... —5 1oLs nere-
try.
Had a battery of motor ambulance,
at the Piave front four days after
’he United States declared war on
Austria. ana state of Texas, towit:
Started a hundred different activitics block 15B. Devereux Addition
in Italy at the time that nation was city.or. Decatur Texas, which said
in its most critical condition.
Has established are hospitals
land and
pensary. both capable of a. commo-
dating more than 2,000 children.
Has opened a long chain of ware.
houses stocked with hospital sup- i re
plies, food, soldiers’ comforts to- H-
hacco, blankets, etc., all the way
from the seaboard to the Swiss
frontier.
Has warehouse capacity for 100,000
tons.
Without your Red Cross thousands
in Rumania would have starved to
death.
And that 120000 cases of supplies
have been received at the Paris
headquarters of the American Red
Cross from your various chapters
scattered throughout the United
States.
MoN.
Er Wise.
mr Wise
Mowaing
MreA in
scMed
Mhe
•• same
coun-
Mur. and
•No.
Eddition
which
Hi be city
Mie year
• sum of
Menalties
Eren leg-
• ndered
Mind the
End con-
Mst the
HDecatur
Er;
Ended to
Enorable
I, Texas,
Ereof, to
Id said
I. on the
■tlfi,the
I May. A *
B kkow
I netbe
■ he ad
ledonCre
mxes, in-
land all
■together
I general
lout and
(original
h the 15
Ie docket
train the
and all
r claim-
A MESSAGE FROM EDWARD N. HURLEY,
Chairman of the United States Shipping Board.
EVERY dollar that has been appropriated by the Ameri-
can Red Cross in this war has welded closer that
relationship between the United States and the nations of
the Entente, a relationship that will have a marked effect
upon the peace council that is coming.
If this work of spreading the gospel of mercy is to
continue, every man, woman and child in this republic
must give the American Red Cross his fullest support in
its second campaign for 8100,000,000.
“ Qur boys in Europe are looking to us to back them up
and I know of no better means of supporting them than
through the instrumentality of the American Red Cross.
The good it has already accomplished and the com-
forts and welfare it will provide later when the stress
of war becomes greater for the United States forces, make
it imperative that the second fund of $100 000 000 be a
spontaneous gift on the part of the American people.
Men’s Suit- 4 Cleaned and Pressed $1.00
Men’s Suits Pressed for.....................ase
Men’s Banta Cleaned and Pressed.........50
Men’s Pants Pressed.................. 20c
Men’s Coats Cleaned and Pressed .... 50
Hoy's Suits Cleaned and Pressed ___ 75
Hoys* Sun- Pressed______________ a.
< itation by Publication । CITATION E IT HLK ATKI.n’
Thesstateorrexas, conty Wise The State or Texas and County of
{.......abi.....Wise. Towsie sheriri or Any Con-
.........— - .... —, Youare hereby comanded to sum- All person swnSngnoz 'tew1-
matter decribed, the same being de- mon GeorgeH. Duncan, David Dun- clainming any interest in the land or
linqunt to the state oi Texas and the fanu A_____Duncan, George Duncan, lots hereinafter described, the same
unknown here-r Duncan and the being delinquent to the state of Tex-
IK owneheirs 01 each of ’be above as and county of Wise for tup. ni
tanped defendants by making publica- the same lying andbeingsttxaseand
n of this citation once each week the county of Wise and state of Tav
________ .... or four consecutive weeks previous as, towit: Block No 79 South
city of Decatur Texas, which said owthnretur n,day hereof. in some catur Addition to Decatur Texas
property is delinquent to the citv of rwsPaper Published in your county, which said property is dellhau.nxas.
, , Decatur and county of Wise for taxes 10.appear at the next regular term the city of Decatur and countv of
in Eng- lor the year 1907,1908,1909 19165 the.district court of Wise County, to Wise for taxes lor th" year °1907 9
.T? a workshop for 1911, 1912, 1913, 1912, 1915 910, he golden at the courthouse thereof. 0s. 1 909, 1910, 19112519120719-
----------- ‘ aggregating’the sum ‘17400 inaDesatur,,on the last Monday in 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, aggregating
ncluding interest, penalties and costs day of Mai 1918ame being the 27th the sum of $28.55, including intr
said taxes having benn legally levied answer a net x 18 ’«h inand there to est,. Penalties and costs, said taxes
assessed and rendered against said , a petition filed in said court having been legally levied aasewd
land and lots and the same being a on.t he 15 day of April. 1918, in and rendered against said ' andessnd
lawful charge and constituting a suit numbered on the docket of said lots, and the same being a lawful
prior bien against the same in favor court No. 4199, wherein Jake Kos ischarze an ^constituting a prior lien
of the City of Decatur, county of Plaintim and George H. Duncan. Da- asainst 'he same in favor of the city
Wise to secure the payment thereof- Nid Duncan, Alex Duncan. George o Decatur, county of Wise, to secure
And you are hereby commanded to Duncan, Lacy Duncan, James Duncan the payment thereof;
be and appear before the honorable and. the unknown heirs of each of the I And pou are hereby commanded to
district court of Wise county, Texas, above named defendants. and said pe be and appear before the honor, a*
at the next regular term thereof, to ' tion alleging that theretofore, on to- district court of Wise county orabi
be held aat the courthouse of said " it; April 1, 1918, Plaintiff was law- at the next regular term th^rLc.'
we could never ounty, in the city of Decatur on the ' siezed and possessed of the fol- be held at the courthouse of f to
last Monday in May. A. D . 1918 the owing described lands and premises county, in thecityorpeustironsaid
1 samebeing, the 27,h day of May, A. to-wit: part of the George H Duncan last Monday in May t D 1918 the
D,.1918, then and there to show survey in Wise county, Texas, begin same being the 24, day ,1318, the
cause why judgement should not be ning at the sw corner of the r< D.. 1918 then -th n/ or May. A.
rendered against you and the said Miller per-emption survey; thence N cause why han. and, there, , show
and and lots sold under foreclosure along 'he W boundry line of said Mil Cat i ) Judgement should not be
of said hen to satisfy said taxes, in- ler survey 936 feet stake for corner’ rendered against you and the said
terest, penalties and costs, and all thence W 150 feet to southwest cor- of ndandilo ts,soid. under foreclosure
court costs; all of which, together ner of a tract owned by Alva Stew said ea to satisfy said taxes, in-
with other and further relief, general ard; thence S 936 feet, stake for cor terest. Penalties and costs, and all
and special. being fully set out and ner; thence E 950 feet, the place of court cocts; all of which together
prayed, ror in thc Plaintiff’s original beginning, containing 20 acres of and special, being fully set out and
Petition filed in said court on the 15 land. prayed for in the original petition
day of April, and appearing on the Herein fail not, but have before , in said court on the 15th day
docket thereof as suit No. 1553, said court, at its aforesaid nextx roe o. April, and appearing on the dock,
wherein the city of Decatur is plain- ular 'erm this writ with your return et 'hereof as suit No 1552, wherein
tiff, and all persons owning or having 'hereon, showing how you have oxo the. city of Decatur is the plaintiff
or claiming any interest in said land cuted the same. and all persons owning or having or
or lots, defendants. | Witness w V Cunnin. , . claiming any interest in said anI
Given under my had and seal of of the district court of ngham, clerk or lots, defendants.
said court, at orfice" m 'he city of Given under myhorisa county; .Given under my hand
nth X V "H/Bof 18 aia syr dtureana stdepr
- to sr
We are representing the Celebrated Cur-
lee Clothing Company, and we have a
suit for the old and young, the rich
and poor. These garments are made
to tit and give perfect satisfaction to
the wearer. The fabrics are up to the
highest standard. A range of prices
from $6.95 to $23.00.
ts one of the beSt equipped in your city and equal to
those in any of the large cities. We have installed a
new Hoff-Man Press. Have your clothing cleaned the
new sanitary way. No scorching or burning. Our
prices are as follows:
' beautiful line of Ladies’ black, white and
brown Kid Bumps; black, white and
brown Lace Oxfords—the latest stles
and shapes of the season. We can
please you with a range of prices from
$2.25 to $7.50.
< hildren’s Slippers, all new styles and lasts
at from $1.550 to $3.25.
See our beavtifui Une „t Ladies’ white can-
vas pumps and oxfords before yon
buy. We can please you in this line
both in quality and price.
I DO not know how other men feel about it but I find
it hard, with all that is happening to the world today,
to look a small boy in the face.
» W hen a small boy looks trustingly up to me and
I see his world — the world he thinks he is going to
have, in his eyes, I am afraid.
The look in his eyes of the world he thinks he is
going to have cuts me to the quick.
I have always felt I had an understanding with a
small boy before.
But the last four years when he looks at me in that
old way and I think of his world—the one I see in his
eyes—the one I had myself—the one every small boy
has a right to. I see suddenly instead the one that is
being left over for him by me. by all of us. the one he will
have to try to put up with, have to live in, have to be a
man in, when you and I have stopped try ing.
Then when I face the small boy I want to go off
M a wide high place alone anti think and ask God. I
want to go down into the city and fight—fight with my
money and with my hope, go over the top with my
religion and then come back and face the small boy.
There are days during this struggle when my soul
is spent and all the world seems made of iron and glass
and all these crowds of people flocking through the
streets w ho do not seem to care;
it seems as if I would not turn over my head to save
a world to live in myself. ... It does not matter about
me—and some days the people I see go by almost
make me think it does not matter about them.
Then suddenly I go by troops ot school children at
four o’clock pouring out into the streets. . . . pouring
like fire, pouring like sunshine out into the streets 1
It is as the roll of drums for the Liberty Loanl
U I want to ring great church bells to call people to
the Red Cross!
My rule for a man’s finding out just how much he
should subscribe to the Red Cross is this:
Put down your name and address on the blank
and leave the amount open to think. Then try going
past a schoolhouse about four o'clock when the children
ere pouring out
Or in the evening when the house is quiet put
down your name and the best figure you dare on the
white paper.
Then go upstairs a minute and look in the crib.
Then look at your blank when you come down
once more.
‘adies* Suits Cleaned and Pressed s1.00
Ladies’ Skirts Cleaned and Pressed soc
Eadies’ Dresses Cleaned and pressed s1.00
Ladies’ Snits Pressed. 35,
Ladies’ Skirts Pressed „00
Long Coats Cleaned and Pressed s 00
Long Coats Pressed
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 17, 1918, newspaper, May 17, 1918; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1582052/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .