The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1917 Page: 2 of 6
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THE ALBANY NEWS
MfUBD EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
Mekari H. McCarty. Ed. and Publisher
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SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR
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PRIIJAY, FEB. 16, 1917.
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But Alleys, ain't it glorious
itbo? '
I told jou so—it always does
• rain in Ais county.
Let's itart a campaign of buy-
it-at-home. When you send your
money away from home you kiss
it good bye.
J. L. Landtroop met us on the
street this week, and handed us
the price of The News. And
still they come!
A. Glesk wants The News to
float a daily. Just wait, Glesk,
ufttil we strike oil, then the
daily will come.
Be sure and read all the ads in j J®®k Robert was in from the
The News this week, and then ranch Tuesday. Jack handed us
go and trade with the men who a dollar and said send him The
make it possible for you to have News. That s the idea, all well
a good live newspaper. regulated families take The
Jesse L. English, the new
Deputy County Clerk, came in
this week and subscribed for the
Albany News. Watch our sub-
scription list grow! We are go-
ing to make it cover the earth-
and then some!
News-have to, to prosper.
Judge J. A. King returned
from Fort Worth this week.
Judge King says the State meet-
ing of county judges was a
grand success, and much good
was accomplished at the meeting.
The wave of prosperity is here
—get aboard the ship, spread
your sails and let us head for
deep water.
Oh! look at those green wheat
fields and watch the farmer
smile. But who wouldn't smile
when wheat is $1.90 per bushel?
Let everybody patronize their
home merchants. This thing of
buying goods from the catalog
houses is an injustice to your
town and your home merchants.
Look at the green grass anil
waving wheat fields. We can
smell the fragrance of the wild
roses, hear the song of the cur-
W. H. Cook returned from
St. Louis this week. W. H. is
enthusiastic about the outlook
for the future. He says that the
lew and the murmur of the rip- wholesale people of St. Louis are
pling brooks doggone, if we j very optimistic about high priced
had time we would write a spring i cotton and good times tor the
poem.
I South.
The oil boom is on again in
Shackelford county; the woods
are full of surveying corps, and
prospectors are coming every
day. As we see it, Albany is
liable to develop into a great oil
field.
Lawrence Frierson fell into our
George Conrad was down from 0^ce (his week, and gave us a
Chimney Creek ranch this week, j check for one dollar, and said
George says that everything is sen(j ^im The News. Many
all 0. K. out his way except that thanks, Lawrence. We want to
it is a little dry. Well, George, ^ej| y0U f0]k8 that the subscrip- i
just smile and look pleasant and tion list to The Albany News is j
old J Pluvius will come our way jrr()Wjnjir- it is our purpose to
some of these days, and the Lord ma|4e jt COver Albany's trade
a mercy how things will come territory like a saddle blanket.
the creeks will run, the grass
will grow, the flowers will bloom Some of these nights or days
and the birds will sing and the
population will be happy.
the whistles are going to blow,
the bells are going to ring and
the people of Albany are going
Anybody can soil the reputa-; wake up and rub their eyes, and
tion of any individual, no matter; crane their necks, and wonder
how pure and chaste, by utter- what on earth has happened,
j ing a suspicion thut his enemies And out yonder at the Reynolds
will believe and his friends never well the black crude oil will be
hear of. A puff of the idle wind spouting over the top of the der-
Laying all jokes aside, this can take a million of the seeds of rick and Albany will be in the
rain has put a different phase on the thistle, and do the work of midst of a great oil boom. Now,
the proposition and things are j mischief which the husbandman some fellow will jump up and
going to hum now. Yes, we must labor long to undo, the say. "That's another day-dream
have a good season in the ground , floating particles being too fine, 0f a Country Editor." Well,now,
and prospects are good for a j to be seen and too light to beiSon; are you aware that Cyrus
bumper crop. 'stopped. Such are the seeds of
slander, so easily sown, so diffi-
cult to be gathered up, and yet
so pernicious in their fruits. The
Some'fellow asked us when we
were going to have another day
dream. In reply will say, just j slanderer knows that many a
as soon as the grass greens and mind will catch up the plague,
the flowers bloom, we will take
a stroll up Hubbard creek and
sit down on that old log as in the
days of yore, where the water
ripples by in eternal melody, and
if the muses will come and wake
up the babes of our mind, we
vill dream again of Albany and
Shackelford county.
TRADESMEN
can reach fAcir country
customers easily by step-
ping to their Bell Tele-
phones.
Patrons living out near
the town limit % are also
brought asclose, through
Bell Telephone Service,
as if they had come to
the store in person.
The Bell Telephone serves
both "buyer and teller equal-
ly well.
THE SOUTH
WESTERN
TELEGRAPH &
TELEPHONE
COMPANY
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and become poisoned by his in-
sinuation, without seeking the
antidote. No reputation can re-
fute a sneer, nor any human skill
prevent mischief.
W. Field dreamed until he put a
surcingle of electricity around
the world? Napoleon dreamed,
and Kingdoms and Empires went
down before the tread of his in-
vineible armies. Yes, it is better
to Dream than to Knock.
Ten thousand dollars a year
is more than Texas should pay
her Governor, just as four thou-
sand dollars is less than we
should pay. Why not hit a happy
medium, and pay $0,000, the
equivalent of $500 per month
iwhich, with all the "free"
things that Texas furnishes,
would appear to be just about
i riv.ht. Where men spend large
sums to attain election, as
Mr. Ferguson spent, there is no
thought of profit to say nothing
|of "breaking even"; so it would
be useless to try to meet that
.sort of figuring. Six thousand
dollars a year is not a big sal-
ary, of course; but there will be
no trouble to get our best men to
j run for Governor at the pay. It
' is not hard, neighbors, to get the
Take It in Yellowbacks
The United States is accus-
tomed to tying its gold coin up
in sacks that contain $5,000 each.
Such a sack weighs nineteen
pounds. It takes 200 of these
sacks to make a million dollars;
and this amount of money weighs
3,800 pounds, or nearly two tons,
and is a good load for a two-
horse wagon. So, the $2,000,-
000,000 of gold in the Treasury
would weigh 7,tiUO.OOO pounds,
or sot) tons. It would take
about 1,000 hordes in a proces-1
sion thirty miles lung to move it.
If it were to be packed on the
backs of the American army,
and each man carried fifteen
pounds of it, there would be the
necessity of increasing the army
i to half a million men that it
might be borne.
If it were loaded into freight
cars, it would require 120 cars.
best iiiei: out with the salary at ,.arryirn{ capacity weight to bear
$4,000. The swelling wave of it.
1 berality ' that is at the pros- Four hundred thousand of Un-
ent time sweeping the country c|0 Sam's sons and daughters
ami causing the people to hand might be handed these nineteen
out from seven to eight hundred
tho isand dollars to the Univer-
sity: like sums to other Stiile'in-
stitutions; and to want to raise
sdaries to double their present
siz ' could get us in a bad lix in a
short, time. It's best to use our
hea I a lit tic.
pound sacks of coin, each con-
taining $5,000, before the Treas-
ury would be emptft'u.
It would take a single file of
these gol 1 bearers eight days to
pass a given point, even if they
were able to excel in speed the
Nation's best m irching troops.
THE HOUSE OF QUALI
WATCH THIS SP
From Week to Week
For Bargains in
Dry Goods
I
Big Reduction in Price 01
all Winter Goods 5
FOR
Spot Cas
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New Spring Goods Coming
in Daily
SEDWICK & COOK
ALBANY, TEXAS
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1917, newspaper, February 16, 1917; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393628/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.