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THE ABILENE REPORTER, ABIL.ENE, TEXAS
J man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
Chinese
To an Anxious Inquirer
Abilene is a large, learned and lusty town locat-
ed midway between the North Pole and the Equator,
which gives it a fifty-fifty climate—fifty percent
beautiful and fifty percent perfect. It is the best
town in the civilized world, and while not as large
as New York or Waco it is growing so rast the city
commission meets twice a week to extend the city
limits. !
All the streets and alleys are paved except one or
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AFTER WISHING for IT ALWA’s -
two, which are kept as Awful Reminders.
The city’s coat of arms is a stork, chasing
Grim Reaper over a precipice.
It’s motto is. "I’ll tell ’em, don’t worry."
It has many manufacturing establishments,
eluding a new High School and three colleges.
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Abilene was named after a place in the Bible,
which gives it a religious atmosphere.
It is five miles long, two miles wide and 1.750
feet high. Fujiyama, the Sacred Mountain of Japan,
was upheaved as a result of Abilene people stamp-
ing their feet cheering the Abilene High school foot-
ball team. The imperial government has entered
a protest against this, on the ground that the Yel-
low Sea may become a Plateau if the Eagles keep
on winning. Abilene’s answer was for Japan to
move over into Tophet, which shows Abilene is
independent.
‘ Abilene people are the only folks in the world
who blush when they pay their water bills, they
get it so cheap.
, A pessimist went through town one day, but he
was riding a train that didn’t stop.
The town has changed some since it was born
• in 1881. Cowboys no longer shoot out the lights,
but shoot up the pike in a 60-H. P. motor car. old-
time cowmen wear wool clothing without a quiver.
It is considered quite de rigueur to drink sodapop
in plain sight of the populace. Boots lace all the
THE DISCOVERY OF ENGLAND
From the Westminster Gazette:
Had nobody ever thought of discovering America
we would have known less of ourselves than we do
now that the Americans are returning the compli-
ment and discovering us. They have descended upon
our shores in a swarm—a very welcome swarm—this
year, and with a very characteristic thoroughness
they are devoting themselves to the task of forming
impressions and of studying our manners and cue-
toms, our surroundings, and our mode of life. It
is comforting to find that they see some good in the
old country and its people. Of those who permitted
us to publish their opinions, one approved of our
“antiquity” and another of the "beautiful way” in
which we “speak the English language." A third
was surprised to discover that we have learned how
to be courteous without “cringing,” and a fourth was
amazed to find that although we have no glant statue
rising from the waves somewhere off the Isle of
Wight, and no eagle to keep company with our lion
and our unicorn, we have a conception of freedom
which permits speeches to be delivered and methods
of propaganda to be employed that would not be
tolerated in America. It is a popular belief, too.
that some of our visitors take an approving interest
in our attitude toward prohibition; but this is a
subject which we have not ventured to discuss with
them. On the whole, we seem to have passed muster
fairly well. It may be taken for granted that the
things about us which first impress the stranger are
those in which we differ from him and from his
fellow-countrymen; and they are things, apparently,
which he is inclined to approve. Henceforth, there-
fore. we must decline to admit that we are played
out.
LINK THE SCHOOL AND THE COLLEGE
From the Fort Worth Record:
The marvelous growth of the colleges of Texas
way up. Six-shooter shoot nine shots. One may makes the relationship of the secondary schools
wear a straw hat or derby in perfect safety, to these institutions a most important factor in the
son. A man in a local restaurant held his little ,___,
. educational system of the State.More and more
finger at a frisky angle while drinking coffee, and . . -
5 * - , . . young men and women are going to college and if
nobody protested. When he tried to drink from they are to make the most it there must be elope
co-ordination between the colleges and the schools.
There was a time when there was just ground
for criticism in the shaping of high school courses.
They were generally planned on the theory that
the graduates were going to college and the large
majority who left school with a high school diploma
found that their education was not well rounded out.
But there has been a vast change in this regard
during the past decade and now balanced high
school courses are open to all who must enter busi-
ness life at the close of the secondary school pro-
gram.
In this wide swing of the educational pendulum
there has been some neglect of the increasing num-
ber of high school students who hope and plan to
go to college.There has been a multiplication of
courses, an increase in electives and a tendency to
confuse the entering high school freshman as to
the choice of studies.
Right here in Fort Worth, where we have one
large university and one college for women, high
school graduates are continually presenting them-
selves with credits that do not constitute proper qual-
ification for entrance into any of the standard college
and university courses. . +
Sometimes these students have more than enough
his saucer, he was thrown out. A New York drum-
mer called a native a liar, and actually recovered
two weeks later, which shows our hospital facilities
are excellent. A circus band played Yankee Doodle
during parade, yet not a single tent rope was cut.
College students wear class caps unmolested. An
East Texan allowed that his ho ne county produced
the best ribbon cane syrup in the world, and nobody
contradicted him. An old-time settler walked down
the principal street smoking a cigarette in a fancy
holder. and was greeted politely by all and sundry.
A horse and buggy went down the street, and not
an automobile shied. It has been five years since
an Abilene citizen viewed his first airplane and re-
marked “there ain’t no sech animal." Manufactur-
ers of red paint almost went broke. when barns
went out of style, but the flappers saved ’em.
Abilene has three factions among her citizenship
—an abilene faction, an Abilene faction, and an
ABILENE faction. The only knocker was a wood-
pecker, which few away after eating up the last
hitching rack.
At five o’clock yesterday afternoon the population
was 18,765, but two census enumerators and four
doctors were still out.
Abilene is located in Texas, on the right bank of
Catclaw creek, 27 miles due east of Eskota, Con-
trary to general opinion, the correct spelling is Abt-
lene. It has two golf clubs and a number of use-
ful organizations, including the famous T. W. H. S. 0.
M.—Those Who Helped Set Out Mesquites. It has
so much water all the creeka were built so they’d
run north, away from the overburdened gulf.
In
credits so far as numbers is concerned but not
enough that are recognized. Such a condition leads
to disappointment. delay and waste of time.
It would seem that the colleges and the schools
should work closely together that the students en-
tering the high school should be informed as to the
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Lullabve. rockabye, here comes the
Dream man!
Bringing sweet dreams from the
village of sleep.
Fresh dreams and bright ones,
and lovely all-night ones!"
Hear his voice calling: “The
prices are cheap!
Come lock them over, dreams
sweet as the clover!
Dreams I am sure every babe
will enjoy!
Come while they last now. I’m sell-
ing them fast now!
Dreams for a girl and dreams
for a boy!"
Luilabye, roekabye, hear his bell
ringing.
Softly and sweetly, as evening
comes down;
Tust hear him calling as night time
is falling:
"Come, all you babies, the Dream
man’s in town!
"Dreams, old and new ones, and
lovely and true ones!
Dreams of enchantment
dreams of delight!
Dreams that will gladden you.
and
dreams that won’t sadden
you! ..
Wonderful dreams! Oh, “ who
wants one tonight?"
Lullabye, rockabye! Hush now,
my darling.
Listen! He’s crying his wonder-
ful wares!
"Dreams! They are dandy ones.
Cookie and candy ones!
Dreams about woolly ‘ dogs,
dreams about bears!
Dreams that are surely made,
dreams that are purely
made!
Dreams you can have if your
eyes are shut tight!
Dreams you can smile through and
sleep all the while through!
Dreams for the babies! Who
wants one tonight ”
(Copyright 1924 Edgar A Guest.)
Hats and Searfs.
Matching hats and scarfs are ex-
rected to be even more popular for
fall than they We re for spring.
And a debutante is disgraced ir
she can’t hug or can cook.
teTus HOPE SHE ALAN’S WEARS IT BECOMINGLY
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HATS ARE Prefry
MUCH OF A NUISANCE
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AbHene, . Texas
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MARS
4. If you have been wondering how
the scientists are able to tell so
much about conditions on Mara,
there is a sample: The Lowell Ob-
rervatory in Arizona recently found
that the temperature on Mars is 48
degrees, instead of below zero, as
had been supposed This was
1 learned by using the Coblenz radio-
meter, which is so delicate that it
accurately measures the heat of a
candle 100 miles away.
i Human brains that can make
: such a wonderful mechanism will
not be balked at finding a way to
. communicate with the people on
Mars, if any.
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The public used to ‘sneer and
guffaw when imaginative scientists,
far in advance of their time, sug-
gested that people may live on Mars
and other heavenly bodies besides
the earth.
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dwelling in Tickville Monday night
of this week. The coal house also . - ------... ...
caught on fire, and quite a num-bounds, fancied that the stars and
if their satellites far off in space ex-
listed only as tiny points of light =
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ber of citizens gathered to see ..
the coal burned so that they could
order some like it.
Dock Hocks has had it in his
mind a king time to invent a patent
steering wheel and emergency
brake for his mule, but he can’t de-
cide just how to start it. 1
Columbus Allsop went to Rye
Straw Tuesday and called for a
nubia to wear around his ears this
winter. The storkeeper said he
didn’t have any in stock as he
_ . .ha courses that should be taken to secure entrance to, yn AuenE mau Euren
spite of rumors circulated by rival towns, all the various colleges and universities, and that these facts Single. Copies 75 Single Copies
natural gas has to be piped in from € . may be kept before the students through their high ThreeMonths $1.75 Three Months $1.35
All in all, Abilene is a likeable sort of place, wit school courses. Both schools and colleges will bene- Sir. Months 160 Si. Months :: 17.70 never averaged one call a year for
a long way to go, but she’s traveling, son, she’s from a plan ——- them ent-
10c per month additional to all mail ed that it looked to him like ir no.
subscribers outside Zones 1 and a body ever bought any there ought
from Abilene. to be A for of them on
a long way
traveling!
Knowledge
A surveying gang in West Virginia ran across a
well to do land owner who did not know that Presi-
dent Harding was dead and had been succeeded by
Calvin Coolidge.
At first blush, we are inclined to pity his ignor-
ance, but on careful second thought, we reach the
conclusion that he’s not so bad, after all.
Knowledge is relative. Perhaps the West Vir-
ginia ignoramus knows more about mountain lore
than the entire surveying gang put together. Pro-
"bably he is more familiar with farming and timber
conditions in his immediate neighbohrood than any
other man alive.
The West Virginian does not take a newspaper,
which in this day and time is inexcusable. He can
read, but “never has time to read nawspapers." It
— is a familiar excuse to circulation men.
Taking time to read is not wasting time. It is
“improving the mind. The modern farmer takes one
to three daily newspapers, in order to be up to the
minute on market conditions. He likes news of the
world in general and of his own neighborhood in
particular. The average farmer is as familiar with
the day’s news as his city brother.
“out where the West Texas Fair was at.
The foot and mouth disease has struck Texas, and
may cost the state a pretty penny before it is stamped
out. Heroic measures have been adopted to control
the spread of the malady, with state, county and
federal governments cooperating.
The West Texas Fair has come and gone. It was
a distinct success. Attendance was larger, interest
keener, exhibits better. The fair has enjoyed a
steady growth, and la rapidly taking its place as a
major institution.
Philadelphia. that is a portion of it, wants to get
ria of General Smedley D. Butler, who was import-
to clean up the city. The general has done
pretty well, as clean ups go. but has antagonized
a considerable portion of the free and easy element
of the City of Brotherly Love. He declines to quit
without a protest, _ |
Man’s
egotism, knowing
no
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them, and then Columbus remark.
to be A lot of them on hand.
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Steer and Calf Fattening Feeds
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threshold of new discoveries in theE cialize in car lot shipments.
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Fixing the Blame
From Life:
Betty—How long have you and duddy been mar-
ried r
Mother—Ten years, darling.
“You two haven’t very good lawyers, have you?”
Larger Enterprise
From the Washington Star:
“Do you find that daylight-saving has helped you?’
“Net worth mentionin’,” answered Farmer Corn-
torsel. "What 1 wish they a do is to let the old clock
alone and tinker up the calendar so’s the mortgage
won’t come due so quick.”
‘ The Rent Collector
From the Weekly Edinbu Th Scotsman:
Pompous Mistress—Who is that man at the door,
Hannah?
New Girl—He says he’s the rent collector, ma’am.
“But, Hannah, we don’t pay any rent."
“That’s what he says, ma’am."
GEMS FROM BIBLE
♦
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.—
Isaiah 57:20-21.
THE REPORTER’S PLATFORM
For President: John W. Davis.
For Vice President: Chas. W. Bryan.
For Governor: Miriam A. Ferguson
A seat for Every School Child.
A perfected Water System.
A Continual Street Paving Program.
An Auditorium and City Hall.
For West Texas and Abilene Manufacturers.
Co-operation Between Farmers and Towns.
Connected Highway System.
Auto Tourist Comp in Abilene.
Common Point Freight Rate.
+
South Dakota boy set the woods
on fire. Almost as rash as candi-
dates who burn their bridges be-
fore. them.
They caught a pearl thief in
Paris. He thought the world was
his oyster, but it wasn’t
Finding pearls in oysters isn’t a
bit more difficult than finding
oysters in cafe oyster stew.
Hen’s teeth grow more scarce.
| Chicago dentists in session find
more women wearing false teeth.
That’s one punishment of a gos-
sip. She wears out her teeth
clicking them together.
Life in the open is good for one,
but don’t keep your teeth out in
the open all the time.” 2.
Main building of the New York
police recreation camp burned,
because cops failed to catch the
fire in time.
What will you do with your old
straw Jid ? Cut in pieces, roll in
flour and fry.
How about the summer under-
wear? Soak it in ink this winter
and use it for a bathing suit next
summer.
” Almost time to get all cleaned
up for the winter so you can put
coal in the bath tub.
Anniston Star, in Alabama, calls
bootlegge rs “lquorites.” but they
are more often “liquorongs."
A man’s rights to drink booze
are fast becoming his funeral rites.
There are American women who
have been married for years with-
out seeing a clothes pin or rolling
pin.
All the world’s a, stage on which
comedies have the longest run.
(Copyright, 1924. NEA Ser., Inc.)
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Tops, Tops, we make all our own
tops. Ree us before having your
work done. Western Top and
Paint Shop,(advertising.)
6 POLAR
€ Did you “catch” the new scien-
dific theory about freakish weather
this year? They figure that pock-
ets or funnels suddenly open in our
.atmosphere, permitting rushing |
6 We are glad to note that the wedges of frigid polar air to sweep
Parent Teachers’ Association \has down on us from up north,
again taken up the proposition of The cold breaks through just as
graveling the street to the high a river through a broken levee or
school building. It appears to us dam. Then the I
little less, than a shame that this pocket suddenly closes
has not already been done. We are warm again
can not jibe the erection of a The cause probably is connected
handsome school building and with our sun. which for several
providing no means to get to it. years has been on the sick-list. Now
Let’s get together and do this lit- it’s convalescing after a period of
tie thing before the bad weather of giving off 5 per cent less heat than
fall and winter sets in.—Rising normal 1
Star X-Ray, 1
C’lip and Comment
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We Are Busy All the Time BUT
—Not too busy to give Four orders the "BEST’ possi-
ble attention. Give us your "OCTOBER ACCOUNT
and let us prove that this is indeed a “BETTER
PLACE TO TRADE." - 3
1747—Two Telephones—1748
- * Use Them.
The best is none too good for
the school children. There can
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THE CITY GROCERY ‘
Everything That’s Good to Eat.’
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be no doubt as to that and any- precedent. A prodigal son, return- -
thing that is done for their con- ing home in New York, failed to .
veniende and comfort is much to find a fatted call awaiting him: IIHIII
be commended. Of course, Rising There was a warrant out for the E
Star is scing to Dave that. street. prodigal.
His father, a plainclothesman, E
served the warrant—took him to F
This is not without its note E
tragedy. Can you imagine the E
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FIGURES- . jmern
In 1922. there were 18,250,000,- jail
000 telephone calls in the United or Lageuy. onn you mnine ine .
Stater an average of 53,300,000 mental and spiritunt torture, this =
local and 1,700,000 long distance father went if
calls a day. Estimating local calls’L
at one mile average length, and
toll calls at 30 miles this meant
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about 10,000,000 miles of? travel all its employes under a so-million- =
per day over the wire route. Es- dollar “group contract” that requir- E
timates say automobile operation os no medical examination. E
costs 10 cents a mile: for 100,-1 It’s a wise provision especially E
000.000 -miles cost would Be $10.- for men who never saves especially S
000,000,000. A good walker travels Begins to look as it most of our E
three miles an hour: the telephone social and economic problems will E
saves 33,000.000 hours of walking be solved by corporations Instead E
every day, and all the time be- of government—in the far-off ru-LE
sides: at 30 cents an . hour this ture Business after all is the real E
would be $10,000,000 Practically government * 1 the 5° =
any Bell telephone can now reach A2222AAAAAAAAAoAa
15,000,000 subscribers.—Sweetwa-!
ter Reporter. € have as fine paved streets in the
The interesting and unusual part business section as can be found E "
of all this figures is not so much in any city. The light standards F
that they are true, but rather the for the street lights , have been :
fact that they have been “figured erected and the current will be:
out all those figures. Undoubt- turned on as soon as the switch is:
edly, the average person would received.—Roscoe Times,
not care to be bothered with them. West Texas towns go right ahead 5
--------- building and improving. What E
ADVANCING- Roscoe is doing in the matter of E
A little more than a block and paving and of installing streetE
a half of.concrete has been pour- lights is being done by many other E
ed on the streets of Roscoe. About places in this section and those S
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..... E cleaned up and ready for other responsibilities. We are
Northern Pacific Railway insures’E at your service.
BOSS
Abilene Laundry Co.
LAUNDERERS AND DRY CLEANERS.
Telephone No- 107.
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3 lb Maxwell House Coffee
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10 lbs Pure Comb Honey .....
10 lb Bucket Jelly ...........
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ten more working days should find which already have the electricLE
the concrete work on the entire street lights are making the lights E
five blocks finished. The con- that they have better.. This part E
crate work and the laying of the of the State keeps progressing ev-
brick is expected to consume about ery day and right now is show-
thirty more days, then Roscoe will ing its greatest. progress.
Tinnsoennonoannunv
We deliver for your convenience.
R. L. Howard Grocery Company
W.’J. CONNELL, Manager.
North Second Street— Opposite Mobley Hotel.
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