Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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FINALLY THE FIGHT BEGAN
NEW USES FOB OLO GLASS
Kentucky Mountain Woman's Descrip-
tion of the Preliminaries That Lad
Up to Real Contest.
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A1TD PERSONAL
Cyoloue Davis addressed a
crowd estimated at 550 at Provi-
dence church Wednesday. There
was a barbecue end picnic there
ill honor of the occasion and u
good attendance from here.
For sale—One upright Kimble
piano in Al condition. Apply
at Ledger office.
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Little Henry Nix got up in his
sleep one night this week and
while walking around in the
house stumbled ov- r a trunk,
fell and sprained one wrist, but
was hot otherwise injured.
Misses Kathleen Cad« and
Na'.ilee Simpson returned this
week fiom Payler Iriversity.
Miis Ca'le received her diploma,
she graduating with honor. Mis>
Simpson ii«~< to go another vcar
betore she finishes.
Planters in thin comity now
have their crups worked out ani
in fairly good shape, but the hot
weather <>f the pa«t week lias had
a damaging effect on the com—
cutting th«' yield short about one
half. Cotton however, is look-
ing well and growing nicely, but
is-needing ruin.
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A oetition was em ula ted (his
Week and forwarded to the coun-
ty judge praying for an election
to be called to vote upon the
fjwstion of incorporating So ra-
erville under the commission
form of government. It did not
WKjuire much canvassing to se
cure the r«*<|iii ate number of
signers. There wiil, of course,
be opposition to this movement,
"V as ther 'always is to any ques
lion that comes up arel has t* b<
settled at the ballot box, but
ire seems to hu very little
doubt Sbuut incorporation carry
Nig. IVople who a year ago
were opposed to incorporating
the town have signal the peti
lion and will vote for incorpora
tion, believing that the time has
arrived when the town should
have a system of waterworks,
sanitary regulations and other
betterments for the town that
cannot be had until the town is
incorporated. -Somervillo Ad ver-
User.
Officers Electcd.
Bishop Wood bridge of Kentucky
was discussing the southern moun-
tineerv, among whom he has lived
ami worked for many years. The
question of family feuds was brought
up and the bishop related the follow-
ing anecdote:
"A certain family had attended a
reunion, which terminated in a free-
for-all fight. The offenders were
taken before the local justice of the
peace, who questioned an old woman
as tn the particulars of the fight. Her
ib si r i pi ion was typical of the moun-
tineer's attitude toward strife and
bloodshed.
" 'Well, judge,' she said, '.Tew Lew-
is got into ¡in argument with llnnk
Budds. Hudd smashed Jem over tin
heail with a stick of cordwood, bust-
ing his head open. Then Jem>
brother slashed Hank up with f
butcher knife, and Lou Barry shot
him through the leg. Larry Stovet
went ai Lou with an axe, and then
judge, we jtisf naturally got to light-
ing.' " Philadelphia Times.
USE FOR BABIES.
A comedy i f babies was enacted ir
a Dublin (Treland) court the nihe
morning. A number of young wom-
en fish dealer- were .summoned foi
exposing fish for sale on the public
thoroughfare. The first batch al
appeared with babies in their arm-
and were discharged with a caution
When the second batch of defend-
ants appeared and each had a bain
ip. htr arms his lordship wus bewil-
dered, as he recognized several of
the chubby youngsters who had ap-
peared with different mammas. Tlu
practice of lending a baby to exciti
tin -■ rnp.-ithy of the court appejir 1c
be common on sir b occasions and
one baby often appears repeatedly
in different arms before i he magis-
trate.
REMEMBERED LESSON.
Judge Joseph Buekner Lamar of
Georgia, who lias recently bee ap-
pointed to the supreme bench, tells
the following story: When his chil-
dren were young fhev were often
warned against playing on the lawn
when il was damp. The frequency
with which this warning had to be
repeated weined to indicate that it
had made very little impression upon
the youngsters, until one day when
his little son was learning the (told-
en Text for the next Sunday school
lesson. "Pat off thy shoes from off
th\ feet." the hoy repeated to his fa-
ther, "for the ground whereon thou
standest is is "Is what, son?"
said the judge, "Is damp," suggest-
ed the little hov.
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Tuesday n'ght the Odd I el
W>,vs elected officers as follows;
L. F Mueller, X. G.
Joseph Wondrash, V. '
tii i, M. .lohnsfon, S.
8. R. Philp, T.
Alex IKu'k'vorth, T.
L. Scigle, C.
H' l.ieberman, W.
I). W, Burns. I. G.
H. C. Broudduf, O. <
W. C. Dunawav. C.
Dr. P. A. Sherrill, H. S. N. G.
j, W, Norcross, L. 8. N. G.
Alex Duckworth, R. S. S.
t! il WhiUington, L. S. S.
J. ii. Herring, II, 8. V. G.
Jim Dean, L, 8. V. G.
The lodge will have a bsrbiicue
and picnic at Cookes Point on
Tuesday, June 2ttth, and Dr. J.
11, Hubbard, Past Grand Master,
of Kaufman, Texas, will deliver
an address. Koch member of the
lodge is entitled to Imite three
families.
LONDON' LARGE BALLROOM.
Loudon is to lune an immense
ballroom, ill which fc.000 persons
will be able to dance. After the close
of the skating season at Olvinpia the
skating surface, which is of maple,
will be scientifically treated bv a Vi-
cuuese expert, and the floor will be
made the finest for dancing in the
world.
Common Window Pants Long Exposed
to Woathor Art Wanted by a Maker
of Sun Spectacles.
'Tntil recently," said a man in
the house wrecking business, "we
never paid much attention to the
window glass of the old houses we
pulled down. Píate glass windows
were saved, but the little square
panes of ordinary glass were ruthless-
ly smashed as not worth removing.
But the other day an optician came
to me and offered a good price for
them, provided only he coulá first
look over the house about to be de-
molished and select whatever panes
would answer his purpose. This was
his explanation:
"Smoked and green eyeglasses are
now discarded, since it has ffecn
proven that the only real relief from
sun glare ¡s a certain pale violet
tinged glass—a discovery made by
our naval oculists when they were
trying to lis up the sailors' eyes for
target practice down in sun-scorched
Ouantanamo. This violet glass is
difficult to make, but common win-
dow panes that have been exposed to
the u ath'T for "¿0 year.- or more
sometimes take on that exact shade
of violet or mauve that will modify
tropical sunshine to the human eve.
That is whv, as a maker of eye-
glassev. 1 winit to examine all the old
places von are commissioned to pull
down, and am willing to pay a good
price for whatever panes I may find
available."
NO TROUBLE AT ALL
' W. •> % 4
The fori (offended)—But you
had no business to kiss me.
The Man But it wasn't business
—it was pleasure.
EVEN THEN.
Captain Kidd Wharf's the trou-
ble? Can't you male the prisoner
w a ik the plank ?
Lieutenant No, cap; he absolute-
ly refuses to be a part of the spec-
tacle unless we guarantee him a per-
centage of the moving picture re-
ceipts.- Puck.
IN CAT cuwi *uiivic.e« i.
Mrs. T. P. O'Connor in "f My-
self" writes: Another literary man
who was very neat and methodical
was Sir Kdwin Arnold. lie told me
that on one occasion in America a
newspaper reporter had extracted a
long interview from him, and just at
the end said, 'Now. Sir Kdwin. what
is your opinion of the American
woman?' 'An exhaustive subject,'
said Sir Kdwin, 'but I can dispose of
it in one word. "Afrin.'" 'And
what,' said the reporter, 'does that
mean?' 'It is Turkish,' said Sir Kd-
win, 'and means "Oh, Allah, make
many more ef thsm."^"
SWIMMING BV MACHINERY.
A ten-pound swimming machine
that may be packed in a suit case is
the invention of a Frenchman. It is
a safe and rapid seinicraft for the
man who swims oj* iho man who
doesn't. At the front of the appa-
ratus is a cylindrical metal float,
with conical point and a depending
rudder. At the rear is another metal
float, with stirrups acting upon a
propeller, the two ends connected by
a wooden bar. on which the swimmer
lies ¡is if on the water.
Kicking with hi> feet and alter-
nately pushing and pulling with a
cross handle bar just back of the
forward float the swimmer on the
«wimming machine gets a maximum
of exercise while making a speed im-
possible ti the ordinary swimmer on
the open water.
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List of Prizes
To be Given at the
NO NEED TO ASK.
"Docs your wife ask you fo:
things she known you cannot af-
ford ?"
"She hasn't asked me for a thinj;
since we were married."
"Oreat! How do you manage it?"
"When she wants a thing she doe
not ask me; she tells me."
FITTING TRAIT.
''Young Biffins' infatuation fot
pretty Miss Gladys is merely puppy
love."
"I suppose that sccounts for hia
doglike devotion." t _ k ,.
County Fair
To be Held in
Caldwell, Texas
JULY 4th
Farm Products I&nd2Pritt;
Best general display off one farm .. .$10.00 $2.50
Best 5 ears corn 2.50 1.00
Beat stalk cotton 2.50 00
(test bundle oats 150 1,00
Best bundle sorghum, for b.yrup 1.50 1 00
Best vine peanuts 1,50 1 .«>0
Hest bundle alfalfa L50 l.()0
Best irish potatoes | 50 1.00
Best sweet potat oes 1.50 1 00
Best dozen tomatoes s.00
Best dozen stock beets I.'jO
Best dozon table beets 7.00
Pest dozen peaches 1.00
Best dozen fius ] ^.00
Best dozen pears ' /.DO
Pest watermelon 1 (qo
Best 5 cantaloupes 1.00
Best head cabbage ; 00
Best, pumpkin ' 1 00
Best cas haw l.'oo
Best bundle cow peas ] 00
Live Stock PríiáC
Best pair farm horses 5 (¡o
Best pair farm mules 5'.00
Best mule colt, 2-year-old 2 50
Best mule colt, 2 year-old and under.. .... .. 2.50
Best horse coit, 2-year-old 2 50
Best horse colt, 1 year old and under .!.!!!. 2.50
Pest Jersey Bull, (registered) 2.50
Beat Jersey Cow, 1st prize 5.00
2nd prize 2 50
M > * • •1 j .
r> i -*rd prize ¡.50
Best brood sow, pure bred, any breed 2.50
Best boar, pure bred, any breed 2 >0
Best pig, 2-mos old and under, pure bred.. .. Í.50
" ' " " " " '"....I V)
Poultry 1 *nd 2 P^jzc
Best pair Barred Plymouth Rock.. . $1.50 Si.00
Best pair White Plymouth Rock 1.50 1.0O
Best pair White Leghorns 1.50 l.oo
Best pair Brown Leghorns j 50 3.00
Best pair Rhode Island Beds 1.50 l oo
Best pair White Wyandot es 1,50 1 On
Best pair (jame i..,o 1 00
Beat pair Buff Cochin 150 1
Best Trio Chickens—l rooster and 2
hens, pure bred, any breed 2.50
Best pair Turkeys 1.50 , )o
Best Gobbler
Boys Corn Club Hwc
Best 5 ears Corn, 1st prize <7 50
" " '' 2nd " 5.00
" " " " 3rd 2.50
Ladies' Departments
Prizes will bo given on displays of fancy work
♦ piilts, drawn work, etc., and on home canned and
preserved fruits and vegetables. This will be in x£
charge of a committee of ladies.
There will be speaking by some prominent .git
culturists on dairy farming and other subjects, ol'
interest to the farmer. No politics,
CJ* ————
There will be a cream separator display ami
TrY demonstration by an expert at 1 o'clock.
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Summer Drinks |
We serve all kinds of
Cold Drinks usually found
at any tount. Everything
to be had in pure and fresh
Candies.
D. L. Afford
CALDWELL CITY
BARBER SHOP
AVTRCY & BIRVS Prop
Pir8tClassTonsori.il Work
Hot and Cold laths,
Cleaning-Dyeing-Vrossiog
'SC^aBEi
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Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911, newspaper, June 30, 1911; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168752/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.