The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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Copyright 1909. by C. E. Zimmerman Co.*-No. /
WE HE CUTTING
PRICES
We are cutting Prices because we are going to close this Store out.
Each and every day since this important announcement this store has been
crowded with well pleased buyers. People are coming from far and near, buying lib-
erally and telling us never have they been so well pleased with their bargains. This
store will positively be Closed out as soon as possible. Early buyers get best selec-
tions. You owe it to yourself to come and see,
RUSSELL. GRAY & COMPANY
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plication.
but those who gerrymander 1
have their pencils in hand ready |
to carve out ooveted districts
which eliminate formidable riv- i
als by geographical processes,'
We now have sixteen congress-
men and our representation is
based on one representative for
195,000 population, but in all
probability the next congress
will increase the representative
bases to one representative for
225,000 population and on this
basis we should have an increase
of at least four congressmen in
the state. We gained three con-
gressmen ten years ago.
The Census Bureau has set-
tled for the next decade the vex-
atious question of which is the
largest city in Texas, the reports
showing that San Antonio leads
in population with Dallas ex-
changing second place with
Houston, and the Bayou city
taking third position. Ft Worth
occupies fourth place and in per
cent of increase of population
over the last census takes first
position in cities of its class.
There has been a phenomenal
increase in all figures so far
made public.
The representation in the state
legislature is based on one rep-
resentative for every 23,000 pop-
ulation, but our constitution lim-
its the House of representatives
to 150 members and unless the
next legislature raises the basis
of representation we will reach
the limit of membership in the
House. The constitution fixes
the state Senate at 31 members.
The advisability of reducing the
membership in the house has
been discussed during the past
few years and the next legisla-
ture can do this by increasing
the basis of representation or it
can goto the other extreme and
give the house 150 members. We
increased the membership in
the house five memb> nn years
ago, and we have rn 3 mem-
bers in the lower Hou,. .
The Federal Census reports
are being received with interest,
and the reapportionment of con-
gressional and state representa-
tive districts is being discussed
around the capitol. The reports
are not sufficiently oomplete to
determine the shift of population
with any degree of accuracy as
relates to political sub-divisions
From Near-by Towns.
Items of Interest Gleaned from
Exchanges and Other
Sources.
Hon. F. F. Hill came in from
Dallas Tuesday with a bunch of[
cotton pickers, being unable to
secure the needed help to gather
his crop nearer home on account
of everybody having all the work
of their own they cauld do.—
Aubrey Herald.
One day last week the little 3-
year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
B. O. Chaney living west of
town, crawled into a stone churn,
and becoming fastened could
not extricate itself. The cries of
the child attracted the attention
of its parents, who were forced
to break the churn in order to
release the child.—Valley Vew
Sun.
F. M. Morris was in town yes-
terday with a shipment of his
canned fruit to Hall County. He
said the order called for twice as
much as he had and he could
only fill it as far as his goods
held out. He says he has sold
now, upwards of $700.00 worth
of canned fruits this year and
has near $100.00 worth yet on
hand, which he is holding for
home use and neighbors,—Aub-
rey Herald.
Work on the new Baptist
Church was begun last week in
full blast with a full force of
men. The first shovel full of
dirt was thrown from the found-
ation by Rev. W. H. Carder to
insure the right and proper be-
ginning. The work is under the
supervision of Contractor J. D.
Fawks and he has the sheds
erected for the beginning of the
manufacture of the blocks.—
Roanoke News.
T W. Buell of Manhattan,
Kan., a graduate of the Kansas
State Agricultural college and
for the past several years con-
nected with the Kansas State
Experiment station at the place,
will succeed H. C. Holmes as
superintendent of the North
Texas Black Land Experiment
farm here, the change being
effective Oct. 15. Mr. Buell is a
former Denton county resident,
having lived at Roanoke up to
about eleven, years ago. Mr.
Holmes, as previously reported,
will take charge of the station at
Temple—Record and Chronicle,
(Hate of Ohio, City ot Toledo, /
Lucuh county, \8S-
Frank J Cheney makes oath that he it the
senior partner of the llrm of F, J. Cheney A
Co., doing buBlncas In the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said Urm
will pay the sum of ONK HUNDRED DOL,
I.Alts for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before Tie and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 188fl.
, ( A. W. GI.EA80N,
j SEAL | Notary Public
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfa-
ces of the system. Senil for testimonials,free.
F, J. CHENEY A CO., loledo, O
Sold hy Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
watched over by satan. Democratic Nominees
A barge crowded with about
one hundred sailors who were
returning from shore leave to the
battleship New Hampshire at
New York last Saturday night
was swamped and twenty-nine
of the sailors were drowned.
The Texas State Fair at Dallas
will open one week from next
Sunday.
The Dallas Semi-Weekly News
and Post-Signal one year $1.85.
Superstitions That Twin* About tha
Mandrake Plant.
The little plant the mandrake lias u
wealth of tradition centering round It
such as is seldom found in Uoral lore
Quite an insignificant little plant with
n spindle shaped root often divided
Into two or three forks and rudely re-
sembling the human form, it is doubt-
less from this latter fact that It has
derived its name. Langhorne In the
latter part of the eighteenth century
tells us to
Mark how the rooted mandrake wears
His human feet, his human hands.
while it was once believed that n per-
son pulling up a mandrake would iu-
stantly fall deud. This was said to
be because the mandrake had a human
heart at its root and when pulled it
would scream In such a fearsome man-
ner as to terrify the hearer to death or
else induce madness. Shakespeare
alludes to this where he says:
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of
the earth.
That living mortals, hearing them, run
mail.
And again in "King Henry VII."
where Suffolk, asked by Queen Mar-
garet whether he has not spirit to
curse his enemies, replies:
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's
groii n.
1 would invent as bitter, searching terms
As curst, us harsh, as horrible to hear.
From time immemorial the man-
drake has been associated with en-
chantments and has ever been be-
lieved to be one of the most powerful
charms of witches. Mr. Conway in a
County Ticket.
Local Representative:
F. F. HILL.
County ^Attorney:
CHAS. MAYS.
Tax Collector.
SAM HAWKINS,
Tax Assessor:
K. E. MILLER.
County Clerk:
O. T. BUTTON.
County Judge:
S. H. HOSK1NS.
Justice of the Peace Precinct No. 2.
E. C. BARTON,
For Constable Justice Precinct No. 2
J. It. McNABB.
Public Weigher at Pilot Point.
F, A. WEBB.
Commissioner Precinct No. 1.
J. C. SELMAN.
j paper on "Mysiic Trees and Flowers'"
; states that "by popular superstitions
In some places It is said to be per-
■ petunlly watched over by Satan, and
| if it be pulled up at certain holy times
and with certain invocations the evil
spirit will appear to do the bidding of
the practitioner." — Westminster Re-
view.
From the Mills to the Customer
Buy your Rues, Carpets, Curtains, Draperies and Furniture at Mill Prices this
fall, and keep one-third to one-half of the regular retail store prices in your own
pocket. When you buy house furnishings in the ordinary retail store remember
that the price you pay not only carries a profit to the manufacturer,
the jobber and the retailer, but also all the cost of traveling sales-
men, railroad fares and hotel bills, clerk hire, high renlals, and the
hundred and one other expenses of the ordinary method of retailing.
When you buy house furnishing goods from us you get the bright-
est goods, the newest styles and patterns, the highest qualities direct
from the largest mills and factories at about the priee equal goods
bring at wholesale. This means such a big saving to you that you
can't afford to buy a carpet, a rug, a pair of curtains, a piece of "fur-
niture of any kind until you have first seen our catalogue with ita
big stock of house furnishing goods at wholesale prices.
Write for a Free Copy of Our Rug, Carpet
and Furniture Catalogue
Just a postal card saying "Send me your new Rug, Carpet and Furniture
Catalogue," with your name and address, will get this fine catalogue by return
mail free and postpaid. It shows thousands of articles: everything almost that
you can thiuk of to add to the comfort and convenience of the home; wide
varieties, ranging from the most inexpensive for the homesteader on the west-
ern claim to the finest articles for the best city homes, and at prices you
can't equal anywhere else, quality considered. This complete catalogue of
more than 100 pages of house furnishing goods, splendidly printed, profusely
illustrated, now ready to send to anyone who will write for it is easily the
most valuable book of the kind ever published. If you intend to buy any-
thing iu Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Draperies, Furniture and House Furnishing
Goods this fall we urge you to write now foracopy of this free book. Address
us at the store nearest you—10th and Campbell Streets, Kansas City, or
Chicago Avenue Bridge, Chicago.
r&M
Montgomery Ward & Co.
CHICAGO AND KANSAS CITY
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1910, newspaper, October 7, 1910; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291137/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.