Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER
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A theater of the second century
calling session and traveling over the with resinous stumps. now lying idle
because it costs more to remove the
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make the
A movement is on foot to get the
News.
The ex-students of the State Uni-
And if its
pelagic sealing in the North Pacific parylized by the same tyranny which
the estimated number of fur seals destroyed the liberty of the press.
The Messenger is the oldest and most widely
circulated publication in Wise county. It is the
best paper; popularity attests its superiority.
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hundred thousand. Before white men
depleted the herd in the nineteenth
harvested will be worth thirty cents.
The estimated increase from forty to
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The Chinese bandits who captured
and tortured a number of American
and British citizens, have been prom-
ised standing in the Chinese army by
to perform,
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The senate of Florida has taken
action against the whipping of con-
victs and the lash has probably killed
its last victim in the prisons of that
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abolish the trap from convict camps
and prisons.
The large crowds being drawn to
Decatur on Saturdays prove that the
farmers appreciate Decatur’s unsel-
fish plans for our visitors.
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Motor Cop Dalton has put a halt
the reckless auto speeding in
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capitol will be sixty-five hours and
the fare about twelve hundred dollars 1
a passenger.
Messenger subscribers get the best, newsiest
publication in Decatur. If you are not a sub-
scriber and contemplate subscribing for a local
newspaper, get the best for the price you would
pay for the other kind.
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days, and the company receives three
hundred and fifty dollars for this
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Mntered at the Decatur, Texas, Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter
Boosters from Decatur have visited
several communities and towns in the
county this week, and at every place
were met with a hearty welcome.
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• Bowie, visited their brother, Mr. Nob
***** Moore, Sunday.
Collins & Smith
DICK COLLINS and MARVIN B. SMITH---------Editors and Proprietors
stumps worth fifty dollars a cord, it
would pay to clear and cultivate the
to listen to the mocking birds and at ■
universe revolved around that town.dusk out over the wide prairie to
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During the trial of
Miss Emma Riley, who has been
visiting in Alvord, returned to her
Mrs. Tulina home in Greenwood last Sunday.
The alleys behind some of our
business houses badly need another '
number of people in Mitchell county or forty dollars. and believes that in
six or seven years every tree that is
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An old maid who once was antique.
Daubed lots of paint on her cheek;
But by mistake
She made a break
And spread it all over her beak
And the people who saw the streak
Laughed until they all grew weak;
The oil maid soon saw
Why the got the haw-haw,
And she vanished away with a shriek.
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There is a unity of spirit and action
prevailing among Decatur business
men that has never before existed.,
; We have at least learned (hat there
is no room in this good town for
| strife in business circles when the
development of the town and com-
Ask the Man Who Reads the Messenger!”
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:
Any erroneous renections upon the character, standing or reputation
of any firm, person or corporation which may appear in the columns of
the Messenger will be gladly corrected upon its being brought to the
sytantinn of the publishers.—Collins & Smith, Publishers.
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Bob Thompson, Ed and Tal Lively
the fistic arena but this we know: He
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The difference between America’s
capitol and America's capital is that
one is in Washington and the other
in tax-free securities.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
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County Clerk T. J. Dillehay and
family visited in Greenwood Saturday
and Sunday.
HOGWASH ITEMS
By Skygak.
Nor does it make an difference
The state senate has voted to which takes an employe one minute
crossed the Alps,
won fair lady.”
never clean up
Turning from trials of speed, the! southwestern oil fields—just to rest
army air service is planning a four- and to think, for the twilight of life
stop route between New York and is a time for reverie and remem-
Peking by way of Nome and Bering brance. No, public life is not the
Strait. It figures that the flying time highest career of a woman Her hap-
between New York and the Chines” piest place is in the home."
pressed air today for Miss Mamie left Sunday night for a prospecting
Tripe, he said to her: "Do you feel tour in Sherman county.
Letting a man follow the wrongwell protected.
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These non-stop dancers must be
strong and vigorous people—from
Why spoil a good governor by
making him president of the State
University?
he is; don’t know a thing in the
world about the fellow’s science in I
Lawrence Jones came over from
Bridgeport .Sunday.
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Albert Fox of Morris Branch, was
in Decatur Tuesday.
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Electric lights have been put in
the Baptist College chapel.
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Miss Julia Bishop returned Mon-
day from a visit at Fort Worth.
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Green McCarroll and Marion Mun- %
cey of Slidell, were in Decatur Mon-
day.
cents to the gas company for a service 1 >3
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present number at six tion
the new process would
Misses Ida and Lura Moore of
company for this fee, and our city
council has joined with several other
I towns in a suit to stop the practice.
There is no justice in paying fifty >
While the Bingville dentist was
cleaning a hollow tooth with com-
to insure that freedom—we rejoice
that they go as willingly and as
uncomplainingly as our colleagues In
‘ the south have gor-.
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with the editor of the Jayton Chron-
icle. and it appears that the Albany
pencil-pusher is mad thru and thru.
We’ve never seen the Jayton editor;
don’t know how powerful physically
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MEMBER TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEMBER WORLD PRESS CONGRESS
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said when he fifteen hundred dollars may be too
The Henrietta chamber of com-
merce is howling about the meter-
reading fee of fifty cents as charged
. by the gas company, and claims to
be the only town paying for the privi-
lege of having meters read. You are
wrong, brethren! Decatur has for
some time been held up by the gas
thickly settled region Christmas and
nursery trees can be made a profit-
able crop.
A disastrous cyclone visited West
Texas Monday morning, killing a
hundred and ninety-six
pie to Decatur. Keep the good work
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When in 1911 the United States not ofcrime. If newspaper freedom finger-prints of the nation. iv no
made a lift. en-ye ar treaty with Great he lost the courts may continue to collect all the old telephone director^
Britain, Japan and Russia to prohibit function—but they will quickly be les and simplify the work ■ a> on
had better "lay off”
was one
thousand.
places the
A man can probably
has been unearthed. The demand for
What Europe needs is more miles
of progress to the gallon of excite-
ment.—Detroit Free Press.
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An optimist is one who believes
everything he reads on the jacket of
a new book.— Milwaukee Journal.
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One trouble about this world court
idea is that it makes the G. O. P. look
like the defendant.—Dallas News.
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Most of us still prefer the tele-
graph. They don’t send bed-time
stories over that.—Wall Street Jour-
nal.
In winter time the
Fields are still
And cold and Flot
and white —•
In summer little
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As Sam Houston
action, executive order or judicial
decree. The press can function hon-
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Let the young lady who would be
"pretty as a picture” beware of an
ugly frame of mind.
over to Chico Monday evening, pay- ■ woman, closed her congressional changed.
.... . . ... .... • ii” c a ties of the business men and citizens
Most Widely Circulated Paper in Wise County prove that the old town is alive to
' some of the opportunities which have
It is the only all-home-print paper published in
Decatur. It is the only publication in Decatur
with a bona fide paid-up subscription list. No
free list; no padded list to mislead the adver-
tiser; no delinquent subscribers.
protected and only the surplus males
are killed, as at present, they may in
time become as numerous as they
ever were.
’ journalistic experiences should have There will never we a war between
A process on which the chemists happened almost simultaneously in the United States and Canada. The
are still working will, if it succeeds, adjoining states of the south. Such bootleggers would never allow it.—
extract the resin from waste pine instances of newspaper life are not New York American.
wood and make the wood itself avail- rare. They happen frequently when 1 o
able for pulp. In the south there are over-zealous judges thing that their’
four million acres of land covered ideas of justice would more easily
She said: "That air
A forester in New Jersey proposes
to set out forty acres of otherwise
undesirable land to earzstmas trees.
He will plant about five thousand
trees to the acre, at an estimated cost
The citizenship of the Delightful
] Town is beginning to respond to the
call of Chairman Gus Hughes of the
chamber of commerce tor the expen-
diture of one hundred per cent energy
in the progress and upbuilding of the
town and community. Recent activi-
Moral: Not-distinguishable.
versity are out with a statement in
which they say Governor Neff is not
wanted as president of that institu-
tion. The ex-students' association say
the governor is not fitted for the
place. In the meantime the governor
is saying nothing, but Is patiently
awaiting the call to the position.
Madilene Obenchain remarked as her
toilet water was taken from her. was
handed us this week when a sub-
scriber remarked that if the Hunter-
Scott well had the Messenger suppiv
of gas on the other side of the oil 2
mighty gusher would startle the
natives for miles around.
service. Everybody knows the price
paid for gas by the consumer is high
enough, without being hi-jacked out
of fifty cents extra.
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Miss Robbie Donald is at home
from Bridgeport, where she has been
teaching, the school having closed
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Gus Pickett returned this week
from St. Louis, where he went to
see about the roping tournaments at
the world’s fair.
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The Oak Cliff school board met
May 7th and unanimously elected
Professor W. H. Adamson superin-
tendent of schools, and fixed bis
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Sile Kildew, who was being tried
this week for stealing a dog, got a
continuation of his case on the
ground that the judge had one ear
stopped up and could only‘hear one
side of the case.
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Susie Sapp of Scratch Hill com-
An estimate this year what the instrument of that destrue-
23.253,854 persons, the Baptist reck- 12
on their at 22,869,098, the Lutherans E?
their at 7,000,000. tho only 2.500,000 | 2 |
are church members, and the Presby- E
terians place their constituency at
more than 6,000,000. There are E I
[about 3.300.000 Jews in the United | 5 |
States, but not all of them are J.
that flannel- orthodox.- Youth’s Companion. E
The governor is threatening to call
another extra session. The chief
executive is kept busy these days
the captives. The Flowery Kingdom
will have a stalwart army when all
the bandits of that country are uni-
formed and drilled under the dragon
flag. And the government will be
that the land is worth. As
n.unity is at stake. United action
will bring more trade and more peo-
------- ---- land. The process would produce not newspapers because it will not bow
The unkindest cut of all. as only pulp but valuable by-products to their censorship or their dictation.
state on speech-making tours. By
the way, if Pat is paying the regular
fare, the railroad companies are get-
ting a princely sum of that $1,000
per year salary.
Messenger does inot question the
honesty of Decatur's ice dealers, for
we believe they are all honorable
men, yet it seems that the practice of
selling blocks of ice by guess-work
to the consumer should be stopped.
According to the state weights and
measures law, the ice should be
weighed at the consumer's door and
charged for accordingly. The plan
as followed by ice men in Decatur for
years is to divide the large blocks
of ice into so many parts, which are
sold to weigh twenty-five, fifty or a
prerail if the freedom of the press
were shackeled or destroyed.
Often such judges mean well. They
resent publicity because, for the
moment, it hampers their own free-
dom. They object to the activity of
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Henry Ford has $200,000,000 in
cash. Henry's not a counterfeiter,
but he certainly knows how to make
dollars out of tin.—Nashville Ten-
nessean.
a cold-footed guy
in a wild-cat test.
been presented. You who are not
taking a part in the work of boosting
Decatur and the Baptist College,
should fall in line. It is enjoyable
work and will bring desired results.
Editor Dick McCarty of the Albany
News is having a hot controversy
may be—whether legislative
century it numbered perhaps five estly only if it be free.
million. If the seals continue to be editors and reporte must go to jail
that air?”
what?"
more theaters is simply irresistible.—
New York Evening Post.
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Russia offers to participate in the
"naval disarmament" and will build
something to disarm if we will lend
her the money. Wall Street Journal.
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munity. made a record of nine days salary at $1300.
dancing today noon and was feeling O
fine till her mother asked her to dry .On last Saturday afternoon Mr.
the dishes. At this simple request 'Arthur Boyett and Miss Olevia Snapp.
The federal council of churches
has published some cheering figures
about church membership. During |
1922 the churches gained no less ।
than 1,220,428, which is the largest .
number of accessions ever reported
for a single year. The Roman Cath- l
olic church, which counts all baptized |
persons, numbers 18,104,804 adher-
ents. The evangelical Protestant
churches, which count only communi- l
cants, report 27,454,000. Of that
number more than 8,000.000 are
Methodists of various connections,
about the same number are Baptists,
and more than 2,000,000 are Pres-
byterians. The Methodists figure
that they have a constituency of
if you are interested An the growth Baseball has not only kept alive bundled pounds, as the customer may
and prosperity of Deatur, help fill in France since the American army call for. What is supposed to be a
the Baptist College dormitories next came home but has grown. In Paris fil ty pound block of ice varies in size;
fall. Three hundred boarding stu there is an active city league of eight sometimes it mya weigh more than
dents will mean $60,000 spent in clubs that play almost as wel as our fifty pounds, and sometimes less.
Decatur during the school year. semi professional leagues, and in the They are not always the same size.
-------» north of France the cities of Roubaix yet the customer pays for fifty
One reason why farm products are Turcong. Lille and Louai have teams: pounds whether he gets forty-five,
not so high-priced as other things is so do Tours. Le Mans, Saint-Nazaire fifty or fifty-five. Other commodities
that the demand for most farm prod- and Bordeaux, which were formerly sold from stores are carefully weigh-
ucts is not comulative. People can American army headquarters. The ed and charged for accordingly, so
not put off eating till another year French players are fast base runners why should not ice be sold the same
rnd then come to the table with a ai.d often field brilliantly, but at bat way? That is the only way in which
double appetite. ' they are still shy of fast balls. the consumer can get what is coming
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judge to censor the columns of their : pilot.
paper. •
In Augusta, Georgia, another news- The trouble with speed maniacs is
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two popular young people of Chico,
came to Decatur and were married
by Esquire Allison in the county
clerk's office, after which they re-m aA.
to their home. “1 4
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The citizens of Decatur and sur-" V
rounding country are called to meet
at the court house today at four
o’clock to consider the question of
securing a railroad from McKinney,
thru Denton to Decatur and on west,
on the proposed route of the old
east line.
in the shape of turpentine and resin. They are wrong. Newspapers are
ing a neighborly visit, and. just as . career by sayring: "I want to go home -------• the neck down—Nashville Tennes-
predicted. and promised, by Marcus as soon as possible. I am going back T ihertv nf the Press
Marshall, citizen extraordinary and to my old arm-chair. in the garden1 --e- I
Fona‛atonssderabicpporthon"orttengbertaheftoganockingbiraloomnat I Birmineham. Alabama, three France contends that her recovery
to st D newspaper men served a jail sentence from war depends on her recovery
because they refused to permit a from Germany.—Norfolk Virginian-
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paper man has been sentenced to jail that their cars are too heavy and
for refusing to testify concerning an their sentences are too light.— New
interview he had written. York Tribune.
It is only a coincidence that these O
One Tear—>1.50. Six Months— >1.00. Three Months—50 Cents
Potlegs todya for cutting her hus-;
band’s head off with an ax, the judge
asked her why she did it. Mrs. Pot-
legs said she did it to cut her ex-
penses down.
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