The Devine News (Devine, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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You can always find the best in everything here
Come in and see for yourself
THE BEST MOWERS AND RAKES.
Every Farmer should own a Mowing Machine and Rake
and raise all the feed he can.
[Avery] before buying. These
A full and complete stock of
farm or in the home at our
See our Thomas Crown
are standard.
everything needed on the
store. -
LOGGINS & LILLY
The Devine News
Published on Thursdays
As Brother Dubose of the Devine
News did not show up at the Press
meeting at Carrizo Springs we sup-
— r posed he must be sick or out of the
W. L. DUBOSE, PROPRIETOR state, but on referring back, to his
paper that week we find that be a
was celebrating the sixteenth birth- 8
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. W. L. DUBOSE & SONS
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS
Entered at the Postoffice at De-
vine, Texas, as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER ANNUM
Tuuxsdat, Mar 16, 1912.
Smile, and the world smiles with
you; grouch, and you grouch alone.
Colorado had a ten inch snow this
" It was cool and pleasant
Just enough rain fell yesterday
morning to soften the crust for the
A farmer and not stop him long from
his work.—S
V there is snythiag nicer than
being "a sweet girl graduate", it b
to be a handsome boy graduate in a
class with four girls to one boy.
The Poteet Registra is out in a
splendid sixteen page special edition
in two colors. Poteet is booming
and the Registra is in the lead.
Briggadier General Joseph W
Duncan, ia charge of the Texas div-
bion of the U.S Army died in San
Antonio this week. He was a La
Salle county boy.
When farmers begin to build red
brick dwelling and gravel reads
and to ride in automobiles, as they
are now doing about Devine, it cer
tainly must denote progressiveness
and prosperity.
Frio has joined us on the south
in helping to put a first class gra-
velled and clayed road, through a
distance of six miles, st a coat of a-
boot $5.,000. Now, will Atascosa
join us in putting one through about
the same distance cost?
The general conference of the
Methodist church at Mineapolis re-
cently adopted a resolution favoring
the union of the Northern and South-
wings of the denomination and an-
other declining to elect to any gen-
eral conference any man who uses
tobacco in any form.
day thereof. We presume that a
birthday party holds superior obli- n
rations over even a press association N
and that his excuse is a legitimate Ne
one. We shall state in passing that *
the sixteen-year-old News is a ase
rattling good paper and deserves A
many more happy, prosperous birth
days.—Uvalde Leader-News.
We regret that a multiplicity of *
duties kept us away from the Prem *
Association nt Carrizo Springe, and *
will, also, the State Press Associa- A
tion at Temple this week. We are t
glad that Brother Getzendaner, of s *
the Leader-News, captured the presi $
dency of the South West Texas S
Prem Association, and we'll try to 5
make connection, later somewhere. S
We appreciate the Uvalde Leader-
News’ opinion of The Devine News. $
The writer posed for a picture th*
other day and when I saw my face. A
in the proof it looked so stern and a
hard that it almost frightened mor .
I have always,taken life seriously ar
and now it is hard to wear, at all
times, that cheerful smile I so much and
admire in others My face may *
have become hardened by the stern a
real battles of lite 1 have so far i
fought; but I know that my heart is W
softer than in .ormer years. I have | 4
freely forgiven those who have been *
bitter against me and I want to live
only tolove my fellow men.
The signal triumph of Woodrow
Wilson over the machine politics of
Texas, now in the saddle, has caus-
ed great uneasiness in the camps of
the enemy, it means that Texas is
Comp risons are sometimes odious
and when ye remember that Frio
and Atascosa Counties, had grand-
juries sitting recently, and no bills
were found in either county and
then our county grandjury met and
returned twenty bills the first week
it makes us think something is wrong
somewhere. We have our opinion
that the thousands of imported labo-
ers working on the big dams, canals
and clearing lands is largely respon-
sible. .
We now have a good read to
Moore, to Lytle, to Bigfoot and to
Zigz^gand oa to Hondo by a cir-
cuition route. Let's turn our at-
tention east and tie one to Atascosa
county. It will repay its cost in
two years and permanently bring
trade that now goes to San Antonio-
There is something good in every
human heart. Man was created in
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ths "image of God" and none have
. —---fallen so low that some of them
tired of the machine and that good! traits may not be found left. Let
clean men not controlled by the al-
ligned interests, can be nominated
in Texes.
A Bible house has sent use
booklet on “The Passing of the
old Revised Bible of 1611". We
live away out to one side and we
hadn't discovered that the "King
James Bible" was "passing." This
is the moot popular version in the
English tongue to-day; it is the ver- I
us hunt out these “images" of good
and help cultivate them and thus
lift up whatever of fallen humanity
we can.
The recent grand-jury went after
the pistol toter finding several bills
of this kind. The toting of * pistol
cost one Devine man recently $150
a lawyer fee and court costs. Any
man seen carrying a pistol ought to
--------------be promptly reported to the officers
sion our fathers and grand fathers and made pay heavily for it. Break
used. Others may be as good but it it up!
don't sound like the Bible our attend the sesmenE.
T.AL L . Attend DUSIRCSS mens meet-
fathers and mothers used to read to ing at the Opera House next Tues-
us and it is not "passing" with us. . day night and be a booster. .
we
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HOW WE SETTLE CLAIMS
The HERALDS OF LIBERTY settle claims in
the following manner, not merely to beneficiaries
but also to living members. The following let-
ter is self-explanatory and proves very conclus-
ively that if you are a Herald you won't have To
Die To Win, If You Live You Are Paid
And If You Die You Are Paid'. : :
Heralds of Liberty,
‘Philadelphia, Pa.
Gentlemen:
Huntsville, Ala. 25, 1912
. It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge receipt, through
MT: V. E. Hartzog, Manager of this, your Southern Office, of your
cheskfor $1,000. in settlement of Reserve Fund Distribution on my
certificates Nos 33838-40, Class 19, Division • I: issued to me
Nov. 21st, 1910, on which I have paid only $22.70
. 2Fo the information of our present large membership and all those contemplating joining un. 1 want to say that on Novem.
5e, 241910, I took out $5,000. of your most attractive insurance, and secured position No, 3 to start with and oa the 22 W
of the following April, on account of the death of Brother Willis McCullough of Ashland, Ky. who heldreminet 387274 day
my class and division, I was paid a Reserve Fund Distribution of 1,000 dollars at acost of only $5.68. Br IE 180.48, in
would have tone to one of my fellow townsmen, Mr. W. A. Smith, who held number one, chend of me. but hen.due ttement
certificate to "pee. Had Mr. Smith not permitted his certificate to lapse. 1 would not have rotten my crulieste unu now.
, When I received my first Reserve Fund distribution 00 Certificates 33834-36, 1 waain in at the hood of »
certificates, 33838.40-42, and now within twelve months, I am most agreeably surprised to learn that en Senest shame with
Brother Elmer F. Howard, of Devine, Texas, who held certificates 33850-52, asme class and division, I m eatitlad the death of
Reserve Fund distribution of $1,000. ee my certificates 33838-40. Still at need of chins with policy 33042.500 "
This should convince the meat skeptical that on your plan of insurance one does not have to die tobepala.
certificate to lapse.
I again take pleasure inhanding you my application for all th.
additional insurance allowed me by Company,
Yours fraternally,
Joseph J. Bradley, Jr.
Good Deputies wanted ' everywhere, claims
like the above being paid almost daily. We
insure men and women for from $1,000. to
$5,000., ages 18 to 55. Over Two Million
written in the past four months.
. R. C. HOWARD, STATE 1
DEVINE, TEXAS - - - MEDI
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W. L. DuBose & Sons. The Devine News (Devine, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912, newspaper, May 16, 1912; Devine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1663103/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.