Winnsboro Weekly News (Winnsboro, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1925 Page: 3 of 8
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SALE OF FRUIT TREES
We are closing out our Fruit Trees at very close
prices. They are first class trees in every respect.
This sale will only last for the coming 30 days, and
all orders will be taken for cash only at these prices.
Prices on Peach Trees $10.00 per 100 or $75.00 per
1,000. Apples $2.H0 per dozen; Pears $3.50 per doz-
en; Roses $4.00 per dozen.
Varieties:
n:\< ! IKS:—Slappy, Elberta, J. H. Hale Elbert a, In-
i • iiv;. August Elberta, Hudnall October, Early
\\ I I r. Henrietta Cling', Mamie Ross.
AIM'i.KS: Early Harvest, Stark Delicious,
! I'>i -e. Arkansas Black. Hen Davis.
Red
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-Early Harvest, LeConte, Keiffer.
I:' is I S: Pink Radiance, Red Radience, J. L. Mock
ipiiJ ), White American Beauty, Red Cochet, Augus-
i.i Victoria white, Sunburst Cold, Pink LaFrance,
Mcllcliester (pink), Yellow Cochet, Marshel Neil.
Hidi'i' Plants:—Going onw for only $10.00 per 100.
NORTHEAST TEXAS NURSERY
H. C. Hudnall, Prop.
Pittsburg, Texas, R. F, D. No. 5
Open
'I he season will soon be here when you will enjoy
getting out on the country roads for a nice automo-
bile ride. Perhaps you haven't enjoyed the scenry
of the surrounding country for some time. Won't you
really 1m: glad when you can get out in the fresh air
and warm sunshine with the curtains down. BUT!,
you wont want you pleasure spoiled with car trouble,
punctures, etc. Bring your car around and get it in
tip-top shape for the coming season.
Winnsboro Quick
Fill Station
Service with a Smile
EDWARDS
JULIAN
WINN8BORO WEEKLY NEWS JANUARY 22, I 25.
yu Solving Your Building
Problem
It's a Big Task-Let Us Help You
flf it is a new building or juat remodeling or repair-
ing we are y°ur aRd ready to supply you
with anything you may need.
Lumber & Roofing Sashes & Doors
1,umber to meet any specifications can be obtained
here. We have the paint to finish the job, too
Scroggin-Drummond
Lumber Co.
The Season is
OAS RANGER GIVES FACTS IN CAS E
jf Wi>«i t "lln* man on l',e plains
|u jre,| |,l ,:S, 1 liv,'rt healthy
r'Ui first f l'urs j,ear* s°rve<l
hnmJ Jrrm*tiou ol the TexB*
lution imf? 1,10 a splendid const!
En; hnnl year name on, tha
Li in "'o saddle s.s-
kldopvn nn ira' 8to">ach and
Nr> 1 h J,Url2Pf th® Past five
both«* I Sl,"0r*d agonies. I
Kt4■"£*£ wlth
I oiiM n°thlng that
Ich 0u,d with my Btom-
f«i|fhVnr,iniP(!r*0\,B "rpoo't and lost
H. $nU,D0r y- I spent hun-
I1*1 noth.n^ ,',ar" seeking relief
II '"7 dniirffi.! mn any *ood un"
F"*' Iron TonleeCOmmend®d
r^^tat i!wi|d#d ?han*« ,or the
I C( ntinm>fi t.wi0* ^ "r,t * ottle.
^'ny It and today I
would not take one thousand dol-
lars for the wonderful good it has
done for me.
My Stomach Trouble is gone. ,„y
Kidneys never bother me now,
have regained 24 pound of my lost
weight, eat any thing with no dis-
comfort and sleep fine.
Although I am ttfl years of age it
Is surprising how Natures Iron
Tonic nas helped me."
The above statement is made for
publication by Mr. A. W. Fender-
grass, residing at Hubbard High-
lands, Kort Worth, Texas. Mr.
Pendergrass la well known as an
ex-Texas Ranger and frontiersman
of the early days.
Nature's Iron Tonic is sold and
recommended in Winnsboro, by
John D. Fowler. Large botlla $1.00
Thro#
Forty-Two
Br WILLIE BRINDLEY
(IB by WMt.rn Ual*a.)
KTAOINK sized him up at ence.
You bet. A girl doesn't wort
three years at tha awltchboard of an
apartment hotel for nothing.
He cuini In a taxlcab, wlUi two
handsome grips, nnd four trunks fol-
lowed later. Nadlne, from har perch
In the lobby, watched him enter tlie
elevator with the taxi driver toting
the grips, and when the car had re-
turned, Able Mpwurtx, the elevator
boy, winked wisely at Nadlne.
"I'll nay," lie called to her.
"I'll say," Nadlne called back.
On thut very Oral day, too, aa he
passed the switchboard on hla way out,
Three Forty Two gave himself away
some more by half atopplng and star-
ing at Nadlne. Nadlne atared back.
He wore beautiful clothea—no class,
hut you could tell they coat a lot, and
on hla left arm a band of crepe.
Pretty aoon, things would begin to
happen. There would be telephone
calla for Three Forty-Two, and theae
would be Interesting to listen In on—
guarded calls from ladles who have to
be careful. And ladles who have to
he careful would alight from taxlcabs
nnd snunter In and enter the elevator
In the most casual sort of way, and
get off at the third floor looking that
Innocent.
Meanwhile, he spoke pleasantly every
morning to Nadlne, as he passed out,
and again ns he returned from his
day lit whatever It was that occupied
him. And Nadlne spoke pleasantly to
Three Forty-Two. On the third day
he gave Able Ltpwnrtz a dollar.
"Sure, u dollar's all right," Able told
Nadlne, "but a dollar ain't anything to
make a guy blind. For five dollars,
maybe, I'd go part blind, and for twen-
ty dollars I couldn't see a thing."
"I'll say," said Nadlne, and smiled at
him.
On the fourth day, on his way out,
| he stopped and bad Nadlne get a nuiii
her for hiiri, stepping into the booth to
| talk, and gave her a dollar hill and
one of those "seen-y ou -w i ne where''
looks.
There was nothing in the telephone
conversation. Just an appointment
with a lawyer. Aide Lipwurtz, leav-
ing his cage to talk to Nadlne, which
Is strictly againKt the rules, reported
nothing didng in his department either.
"But he thinks you're the Ilea's
crutch all right. Maybe lie's going to
do a little home prospecting. Flowers
will be about his speed. And when he
does, I'll say."
"I'll say a plenty If be does, I'll say.
I beg your pardon, tnadam; I an-
swered the moment the light showed."
But nothing happened just yet, not
for several days. Then, on a rainy
morning. Three Forty-Two came down
line and looking a bit of all in. He
clomped over to his desk with Ills
stiff-kneed, wooden soldier walk, and
opened Ids mouth to speak, then shook
his head and turned nnd clomped out.
"What do you make of that?" called
Nadlne to Abie.
"(Jetting warm." Able called back.
"Getting warm, I'll say."
"And he'd better look out, I'll say.
1 am trying to get your number,
madam."
And then, an hour later, it happened.
Three Forty-Two came back, bearing
in Ills arm* a great long green card-
board box, which could contain noth-
ing but flowers. And even as lie ap-
proached, Nadlne could see that there
was a note tied to the cord which
hound the bundle.
He clomped up to the telephone
desk, laid the package on the rail,
gave Nadlne one of those "seen-you-
somewhere" looks and hurried over to
the elevator.
"I'p," be ordered querulously, so that
Able Llpwurtx, although racked with
curiosity, must obey.
Nadlne tore the note from the string
thut held It, ran a Anger under the
flap, shucked out the contents. There
was a note, and a brand new hundred-
dollar hill.
In a mounting rage she glanced at
the note.
"My dear," It started, "you are so
beautiful and sweet that—"
The trembly scrawl had come to the
bottom of the page, and without wait-
ing to turn the sheet Nadlne Jabbed
a plug Into Three Forty-Two. Then
something made her pause, and she
read on hefore she rang:
"You remind me constantly of my
daughter. I am so utterly alone now
that she has gone, and today would
have been her birthday. Always on
her birthday I gave her flowers nnd a
sum of money. Keep these, I beg
you—"
She read no more, hnt rung Three
Forty-Two.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry," she
cried. "I didn't know, and I thought -
hut I'm not sweet and beautiful. I'm
a bad. hateful girl, but It there's any-
thing I can do."
She turned from the dangling trans-
mitter, choked, pulled the plug. After
a long while she looked up from the
note. Able Mpwurtx stood by the rail,
elbow on It, leering.
•Til say," said Able. .
Nadlne snspped at him:
"I'll say, I'll say. I'll say. Is that
all you can say—I'll say? Oet back to
your cage In a hurry or what I'll say
to the manager wlti be plenty. A
person'd think that In maybe a hun-
dred years more you'd get so you
could tell a gentleman when yon Mw
ene."
The Heavenly
Mistake
By MARTHA WILLIAMS
an
Sim Spalding's
Vacation
By JANE OSBORN
(Copyright.)
comln' Jane I" Slat'
Almlry chirped.
"No}' Nothln' but a peddler I"
81st' .lane flung back. /
Julmlry, the composite namesake-
nleee, ran to peer through the tran-
som above the hall door, Haying wist-
fully over her shoulder: "Do please,
let him come in I I'm sick and tired
of everything, and everybody here.
Why! There's two—and one u wom-
an—a girl rather—with a suitcase, us
I live."
A knock, delicately deferential,
Stayed her speech. Ainnze at this re-
bellion had put 81st' Jane off guard;
she stood laxly a yard Inside the door.
Jalmlry, slid to open It, and face the
Intruders. They were not formidable,
despite the garish car—only Peyton
Saxby, next-neighbor's son, known
■Ince he was In arms, who for two
months pust had been haggling with a
composite agency house, and a girl so
tall and thin the alght of her was
painful.
"You — you — please don't — scold—
him," she gasped, nodding at Peyton.
"I made him—fetch me—here when he
said he—knew a place nobody—ever
came," she went on. "Please, say I
may stay a while! I'll puy—what-
ever you—ask," toppling at the last
word, to be caught and supported In
Jaltnlry's firm, warm arms.
Peyton said hushedly over her un-
conscious head, "She got off the train
—I was there to get my outfit—nnd—
Somehow -she looked so pitiful—I Just
couldn't go leave her.
"Hud trouble—and fever, pore cree-
ter!" Sist' Jane said grimly, as she
bathed temples and forehead.
A miracle came to pass In the next
fortnight -a miracle of renewing.
Amnlle l>rury had taken the household
captive. I have run away don't ask
me why yet." was all she said in ex
plnnotion liut her eyes bad been
eloquent >f gratitude, of trust, after a
Wldle of 11m11• • "t i' Ir needed :i good
tioil to 11:.ike yon!" site burst < ut to
the three of them when first they look
her till ai'"til the garden. sweet with
oltl-f 'Shhd flowi rs. Peyton hud
ceased -fl 1 in111incr-« a whole half
day t<f dliiire in thai great event. Me
had Ills I'e.v ifd in short speech. When
he said I ' v. she whispered, "I
understate! a little- -yon will tell rue
all. by nii'i i>\."
Yet when telling time came she
found Iter e|f voefnlly mistaken. His
heart wn- set ..n becoming a great urt-
Ist, instead of a fine farmer—it was
that urge which had Inspired the
agency adventure—he loved .Talmiry
with a comradely passion—as a pal
she was it wonder, as a model she
would be even more so. He had
sketched her furtively. In a hundred
poses, |KS| hi* be had sketched trees,
storm clouds at sunset, or creatures
of the pasture at rest or play. Atualle
open el wide eyes as sue examined 'lis
effort' her breath came sluiri. "Yen
ha\e ' ■ jrlft. OoPi'is!" she said.
Tha night she could noi slcp next
day s! cotlld not^ write the loiter she
was v d to dispatch, .fulmlrj wrote
It for er—when it was mailed Vinalle
fell t' veeplng bitterly, sayinv so lew
she t ught nolle could hear le'r -
"May1" I am going i" lose thi« heav-
enly I .von—but nothing matters
Peyton shnll have his chance."
.lain ry bad f>.e ears she bent
above the disconsolate girl, saying ttl
most roguishly, "the chance he wants
worst is—to lake care of you- al-
ways.
Three feverish days—no unswer to
the letter. Ainulie fretted so Jalmlry
took her for u drive In the ancient
hu«g.\ hut behind a fine horse. And
thus 11,ey come upon a sorely bewll
dered -trangor, with a smashed car.
and a hatlffeur all at sea. He forgot
nil that, however, when Ainalle, after
growing derfth white, turned the love-
liest 'se-red'. "I knew you would
come, lohn, little us I deserve such
kindle s," she said half sobbing. Then
and there John Moran lost his heart.
As though he had not his ene, Pey-
ton >eared on the scene, with his
baud.N car. Amalle demanded to he
taken .a it back to the (ioodwin home
stead lohn could ride with .Tnlmiry,
nnd e plain everything. This was not
hard. Vtnalie lie said, bail grown up.
betrothed to him—she had not rebelled
again-' the family arrangement till
some -it months before, iler father
had died then, her step-mother had
tric<l te force her into Immediate mar
rlage, with a result of driving her Into
brain, fever, from which she had come
out n 't wholly herself. In this twi-
light statp, she had run away hidden
herself past flndlnir. l'ntii then he
had known nothing of her reluctance -
else lie would have turned from lover
to brotherly friend, yet hoping finally
to win her.
"You didn't need to be told all this,"
bo tnded,
"What makes you say that?" Jalmlry
■mlled.
"Your letter," he said. "Otherwise,
how could you have put between the
lines, that Amalle, dear child, loved
her genius, even more than his genius."
"I didn't mean to," Jalmlry an-
swered flushing.
"Then—yon mnde a heavenly mis-
take,1' waa the answer. For by now
they were at the gute, where two stood
go wrapped in each other, they took no
note of anything else. Moran touched
Amnlie lightly on tlio arm, asking with
B twinkle, "How about a double wed-
ling?" •
"No objections anywhere," Amalle
crWd saucily— after one glance at hla
•yes and Jnlmlry's smile.
(Copyright, j
QI.MSON 8PALD1NO had worked
^ for the lirudiey Building company
for two years. He had done all the
tilings that are frequently said to
lead to eventual success, and so far
hod remained on the bottom rung of
the ladder.
For all bis Industry and serious-
ness. Him Spalding was something of
an office funny man, His comments
on office occurrences were never espe-
cially funny or clever when repeated,
but Immensely funny when uttered by
81m Spalding himself. Itoae At wood,
who was secretary to Mr. Itogers, the
president of the concern, found him
especially amusing. Slmson felt re-
sentful at this sometimes, and again
felt glad that he was able to amuse
her. Otherwise he feared she would
not have noticed him.
"Where are you going to spend your
vacation, Mr. Spalding?" she said one
morning In June. "I know yon will
be original."
Slmson Spalding looked up gravely.
"I'm going to spend ten days of
the two weeks right here. I shall
pretend for those ten days that I
am someone of consequence, enough
consequence to come In at half-past
nine, ten—eleven, if I choose. And
I shall take two hours for lunch, If
I like, and I shall read the paper at
my desk and use the office phone to
make dates for supper at the coun-
try club, and I shall knock off to
play golf any afternoon I like. I'll
1 have the thrill of pretending I
amount to something. 1 once thought
! maybe I would some day. But I
I guess it Isn't in me. So I am going to
pretend."
"Mr. Spalding," she said one day
shortly before Sim's vacation. "It's
none of my business, but I'm going
! to give you a bit of advice. You
aren't going to make a bit of hit
with Mr. itogers spending your vaca-
tion the way you said you Intended.
and
The Brook
MARTHA BANNING THOMAS
(ft. 1114. WMUra N*wap*p«r Ualom.)
<311 WAS New Year's Bve. Bright
Al moonlight lay on the hillside. It
shone softly on the little path that
led to the wee stone house at the top;
and It glittered like a million dia-
monds sprinkled over the brook. The
night was crystal clear, and every star
shone with polished brilliance.
"It was a night like this ten yeans
ago that he laat walked over me,"
spoke the path In a sweet, plaintive
voice. "I listen and listen for him
every New Yesr's Bve, but he has
never come again."
"It was a night like this ten years
ago that they both stood beside me
and said how beautiful I was In the
moonlight," said the brook in a dear.
bubbling voice. "I
wonder what has
become of him
and why he never
returns."
"She walks
down the hill
every day to the
the letter box, and
once I heard her
say: 'If he doesn't
write me this
New Year's, I'll
know he's dead.'"
The little path
grew quiet In the
moonlight. The
brook crooned
softly to Itself.
"What was it he
said to her that
last night ab'ait going away?" asked
the palli after a moment.
He'll think il
CJI use Volt W
sion on 111im.
of if. and he'
"That's uoi
nit to
He w
intii;
i >n't
doing It he-
■ an linpres-
see tie. Jok"
It
f'
11
•Tp
si|f-
"P. It he i ,a.v .«
i n::, ' v. a nn 'I r
"What dilTeivii
to \ oil " ;
i Ke
•ted
"lie said:
make ii idei
must il<
arid no
my pro
"Ah.
Utile pa
done >i
" ! at, I
She lia-
A kh in
the clou
'If I'm
. fresh
ever
t art
irointr to
In 11fe I
oil. dear,
I've kept
ifhed the
he had
in
liii*. i suppose." -.lie said.
>11'.-" tis|,ei| Sim Willi Hie
seriousness.
"None 11
And hi"'o;-e San could say any more
she had sped out of the room toward
lior little oliice beside that of Mr.
lingers.
Ilespite the warning, however. Sim
hognn his vacation ns he had snid he
would. lie lu*| n new suit and Tie
wore a white carnation In Ids button
hole, and even carried a w alklng st h k
and sucked an expensive hraiel of
■ i: a ret re. friend a inn-1 -i | at the
; 11 \ en ii e. him ii ti i ir 11 priced lie>
a as i lie i|i * i i ..on to'il S ' i ...n Sim -I
I.re
pal
>n-
11 ■ it.
• icrsf
fine CI
lines tip
oming: Whs
i. down i hit
followed the.
A girl's slight
i'd end
111. He
•ri re
in:.' offered i* :i-so, !.>:.-.
'|\\ o or t h dnj s had P
Sim was -still . .,i-r\ |<c„' oir hi-
liii'l lunched ' 111111 four and III
turned l>> his desk where lie silt read
ing the afternoon paper. \t iuilf past
five nearly all the office force depart-
ed, but he remained. So did Itose At
water and an office hoy to finish up
some late dictation, it whs then that
a distinguished looking middle-aged
rimn entered the office
"I want to see a member of the
firm." he demanded. "I am not willing
to wait. Ii is most Important. I
"At your service " snid .Mr. Spald-
ing with a side wink at the office hoy.
Thereupon the stranger s«t down
in close consultation with Mr Spald-
ing. He wanted to hiiiid a house and
he wanted to hiiiid it right away not
a mere house hut a sort of castle un
the outskirts of the city. Sim Spald-
ing forgot that lie was the office joker
playing u part. He caught the man's
Ideas promptly, made sketches, suu-
gesfions, talked prices and went to
dinner with the stranger. That eve-
ning In the moonlight he drm.
in lii" borrowed car,
eel of proper!.! owned by the >
otl tin* outskirts of the lily
talked as he lower knew lie con
111 111.
look at i par
in ern
ill
"1 lurk w I
"What is It
"I hoar sot
"I hear tw
can It mean'
; hill and one <
A man's figure slowly
j little path up the bill.
form came down
i like a w rait h.
They met where
the path Winds
nearest tlie brook
"You ?" said the
n>nn - voice, ami
It was tilled with
wonder
"Y on?" nuked
the girl "No. m>.
I'm n sleep and
dreaming "
The hr.Hilv and
Hie path held
their breath for
very amazement
"Ten years ago
tonight l left you
l>«' r e on N e w
Year's Kve." said
the man's voice
"You forgave my w rongdoing nnd t
went away to start all over again. It
lias taken all this time to reach the
place where I dared to come back I
was sure ynu would he gone, married,
nnd had forgotten me."
The girl gave a sharp, happy -tv
"We were s- young tlien dear, hardly
more than hoy and girl But 1 have
waited and waited and now I can
hardly believe you have come hack -
s man
They drew together and went in up
the path.
The moon shone brightly. The
brook bubbled with delight. The little
path led rhem to the door of the wee
slone house. New Year's Kve was the
new beginning for tw l|\es
1
list l,
stranger see rlo
■ already built.
ioo|i I he deal was cloned.
signed til,- contract for
of | i'.e porperty at 11 high
I liadv in copied a leuipo-
ni with Spalding f a- 11le
111 in -i d-1 boil--and dollar
making the
of his dream
Next after
The str,'illgei
I he purchase
valuation an
rury agreenn
erection of :
mansion.
Spalding carried the ileal to his su-
perior. Air Itogers.
"He wanted to see member of the
ffrm," he confessed. "1 beg pardon
for forgetting my position."
Mr. Itogers was looking over tl^e
tentative agreement with knowing eye.
"May, if you can close a deal like this
in less than a day I guess you ought
to be a member of the firm If you're
not. And say— what's come over you
—good clothes, flower In your button-
hole, fast car—why, you always acted
like a grubber until lately—"
Outside Mr. Itogers' door stood ltose
Atwood waiting to greet Hltn Spalding
when he came out. "I listened to what
he said." she said, almost tearful with
Joy. "I u as afraid he'd be cross. Oh,
Isn't It wonderful? But It wouldn't
have made any difference to me,
Him—"
"You mean you—you would have
cared for me anyway
"Anyway," said Rose Atwood.
Gold Common to Incaa
When the Spaniards first came tS
the highlands of South America the?
found many strange tilings being done
by Inhabitants who lived all tee way
from what is now Kctiador to th«
northern part of Chile.
These people, known as the In<*as,
smelted copper, wove cloth, built
houses of heavy masonry, embalmed
i dead bodies and used gold for house-
hold cooking, eating and drinking ves-
sels. This last w a their undoing, for
while they put a value on gold only
ss something to use like any other
! me&sl. the Spaniards prized It as we
to.
These people were—and their dea-
•endants are yet—Inveterate users of
coca, says the Hetrolt News. Tills Is
tesTcs from the tree of the plant from
which cocaine Is extracted. For long
feats of endurance they took a amall
ynckage of these leaves and constant-
ly kept a wad of them In their mouths
wrapped around a small hit of un-
slaked lime to free the cocaine and
other alkaloids contained In the coca
leaves. <
Turner Mercantile Co. felb
Foljrer'a world's finest ooffe«.
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