The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 18, 1918 Page: 4 of 4
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CONDENSED STATEMENT OF THE
First National Bank
OF MESOUITE, TEXAS f
At The Close of Business, Dec. 31,1917
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
U. S. Bonds
Liberty Bonds
Stock in Fedeaal Reserve Bank, Paid.
Banking House, Furniture and Fiutures and
Other Real Estate .....
Cash in Vault and With Other Banks ..
Total
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Surplus and Undivided Profits
Circulation
Total Deposits.
Total
$273,850 00
25,000.00
29,400.00
1,900.00
12,809.00
193.812.72
$536,831.72
$50,000.00
20,664.38
24,700.00
441,467,34
$536,831.72
A Correct Statement
R. S. Kimbrough, Cashier
Wanted All The Spoils ^
An old colored man charged
•with stealing chickens was ar
raigned in court and was incuui-
inating himself when the Judge
said:
"You ought to have a lawyer.
Where's your lawyer?"
"Ah ain't got no lawyer,
Jedge." said the old man.
"Very well, then" said his
"Oh, no, sub; po suh! Please
don't do da'.!" the darkey beg-
ged "Why not?" asked the
judge. "It won't cost a cent.
Why don't you want a lawyer?"
"Well, jedge, Ah'll tell you,
suh," said the old man, waving
his tattered old hat confidentially
"Hilt's dis way. Ah want to
enjoy dem chickens mahse'P
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be located in same brick build-
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Many Schools Get
Aid From State
The State Department of Edu-
cation has announced that thirty-
one schools in Dallas county
have been granted aid from the
State fund for the aid of rural
schools. Last year only eleven
schools in this county received
such aid. The total amount ap-
propriation for .the Dallas county
schools is .$11,000. This is in
addition to the regular State
school fund. The schools to re-
ceive aid pnd the amount each
will get follow*:*
Balch Springe $500, New Hope
His Opinion of the War
It was during more or less se-
cret conference in Washington
early last spring, just before war
was declared. Many prominent
men were present, both from the
north and south. The newpaper
naturally were anxious to get
opinious first hand from the mem-
bers of the different committees,
but found it a hard job.
One reporter finally cornered a
courteous Southerner—an elderly
man of the ''old school."
"Mr. Blank," said the reporter
persuasively, "I would like to
have your opinion of the war,J'
"Well, sah," replied Mr. Blank
"I haven't thought of it much
latelv, but I've always been of
the opinion, Hah, that Lee should
not have surrendered. Good ev
ening. sah."
And he left behind him a thor-
oughly dazed reporter.—Ex.
$850, Rose Hill $300. Pleasant
Grove $">00, Pleasant Valley $300,
Vickery $300, Bear Creek $400,
Wheatland $250, Duncanville
$450, De Soto $400, Estelle $350.
| Rawlins $225; Houston $400,
Vickery Place $375, Florence
I Hill $200, Mountain Creek $280,
Naaman $100, Addison Indepen-
dent $350, Cement City Indepen-
dent $500, Christian Valley In-
dependent $450, Farmers Branch
Independent $325, Garland In-
dependent $500, Richardson In-
j dependent $500, Kleburg $350,
| Eagle Ford $500, Carrollton In-
dependent $500, Bonnie View
$450, Walnut Hill $400, Cockrell
Hill $400, Lawson $200, Scyene
8195.
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If you wish to buy a Jiome close to
town and well improved, phone or see
us about the 1041-2 acre farm one
mile east of Mesquite.
This farm is rented *if not sold by
Jan. 25th. We wish to dispose of it by
this date and will make the price and
terms very attractive if sold at once.
JOYCE & ALEXANDER
OWNERS
GARLAND, - 1 - TEXAS
Meatless Days
There are a million luckless
jays who rre observing meatless
days six times a week or more;
deserving men, who lack the
price to buy a pork just off the
ice, at any butcher's store. And
countless people go their ways
who find some thirty wheatless
days in every month that fiies;
hard luck and sickness and de-
spair have stripped their hum
ble larders bare of doughnuts,
loaves and pies. And tbey must
heave a sickly smile when they
observe the buoyant style in
which we make our boast, that
once a week, with martyr zeal,
we cut our mutton, pork and
veal, and shoo away the roast.
And they must shed a weary
sigh when we inform the passer-
by how we. with courage high,
eschew the loaf of snowy bread,
and fill ourselves with bran in-
stead, and make the corn cakes
fly. (Cheer up; The worst is
yet to come! Before the voice of
war is dumb we may be eating
hay; we'll doubtless know wha
grief is then, and wish we might
observe again the old time meat-
less day. For meatless days
don't represent a sacrifice to
any gent in this, my neighbor
hood, man passes up the "red
meat" dish to eat a turkey or a
fish, or something just as good.
Walt Mason.
THING THAT COUNTS
By EARL REED SILVERS.
I'
No. 75
Official Statement of the Financial Con-
dition of the
First State Bank atSeagovllla
State of Texas, at the close of business on
the 31st day of December, 1917, pub-
lished in the Texas Mesquiter a newspaper
printed and published at Mesquiu, State
of Texas on the 18th day of January
1918.
RESOURCES
Loansand Discounts, personal
or collateral $100,639.37
Loans, real estate 4,183.97
Overdrafts 192.83
Other Real Estate 4,490.00
Furniture and Fixtures .. . 2,900.00
Due from Approved Reserve
Agents, net 47,450.72
Cash Items 101.72
Currency 11,350.00
Specie 1,843.78
Bills of Exchange (Cotton).. 15,271.33
Interest in Depositors' Guar-
ty Fund 1,520.94
Other Resources as follows:
Collections in transit 216.67
Total $190,161.33
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock paid in 16,000.00
Surplus F nd 8,000.00
Undivided Profits, net...,,.. 5,038,50
Individual Deposits, subject
to check 157,775.89
Time Certificates of Deposit 1,746.94
Other Liabilities as follows:
Dividends unpaid. 1,600.00
Tout...... .$190,161.33
STATE OF TEXAS, County of Dallas.
We, S, J. McFarland, as president, and
T. C. Andrews, as cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of our
knowledge and belief.
S. J. McFarland, President
T. C. Andrews, Cashier
Subscribed an.t sworn to before me, this
9th-day of January, A. D. 191?.
Gus B. Moore, Notary Public
Dallas County, Texas
Correct—Attest
Luther Bowers
It. C. Hawthorne
H. Randerson
Directors.
They beared Burial Alive.
The dread of prematura burial||Mt
ed Harriet Martlneau, who would cer-
tainty not be classed as a fanciful per-
■on, and «b« bequeathed £10 to her
doctor to eee that bar body was de-
capitated before burial. Edmund XatM
In bis will atipuiated that hla Jugular
vein should be severed and left £20 to
pa.r for the operation
Lady Burton took even atronfer pre-
cautions. she strictly enjoined that
her heart ahould be pierced with a
needle before any etepe were taken to
certify her death and that her body
should afterward be submitted to a
pOttBOrtem *:<8mtiiatt(m. — London
Uiregicle.
"It isn't so much what a feller says
that matters," Jimmy Barrett remurk-
ed casually to Mildred McAdams. "it's
■what he does that really counts."
Mildred looked up at him with rath-
er wistful eyes. They were rather
pretty eyea, too, as Jimmy had more
than once noticed; and bidden in their
depths was a light which, if Jimmy
'bad been a little wiser, would have
told blm something wblcb would have
made his heart miss a beat or two.
They had grown up together. Ever
since the new Uttle girl next door had
■tuck out her tongue at blm Jimmy
had felt a rather proprietary Interest
In Mildred, perhaps as the years wore
on and Mildred grew into the prom-
ise of womanhood, she wondered if
Jimmy's interest would ever be other
than neighborly. But, whatever her
thoughts, she kept them strictly to
herself. And so, until the Assembly
ball at the Country club, Mildred and
Jimmy pursued the even tenor of their
ways.
And then John Hastings appeared.
He was sitting on the porch of the
club when Jimmy's car drew up, and
as soon aa his eyes dwelt upon Mil-
dred a smile of Joyful recognition over-
spread his features. '"When Jimmy re-
turned from parking tbe car he found
Mildred in animated conversation with
a good-looking young man who was
evidently a stranger in Bridgetown
"Oh, Jimmy!" she exclalnied, hap-
pily. "This is John Hastings, whom I
met last summer at the shore. You've
beard me speak of him, I'm sure."
Jimmy had heard her speak of him
a good deal, and he regarded the new-
comer with interest.
"I'm mighty pleased to meet you,"
he announced In a voice which seemed
perfectly sincere. "Mildred has told
mo about your good times last sum
mer."
"Oh, yes," the man answered. "Mil'
lie and I enjoyed eurselves very
much."
Millie! A sudden unreasonable Jeal
ousy smote the heart of Jimmy Bar
rett. What right had that fellow to
call her Millie?
From within the club the orchestra
.struck up a onesteP and Hasting turn-
ed to Mildred.
"May I have the pleasure?" he ask
ed.
Mildred, with a glance at Jimmy's
unexpectedly frowning face, dimpled
mischievously.
"I'd be delighted," she answered.
When they returned from the dance,
they found Jimmy standing where
they had left him. During the five
minutes in which Mildred had danced
with Hastings, Jimmy's heart had re-
pealed Itself. Watting In the shadows
of the porch, under the lure of soft
music, Jimmy suddenly discovered
that Mildred McAdams meant more
to him than anyone else In the world.
He tried to smile when the other
two returned. Hastings, his face rath-
er flushed, nodded absently to Jimmy.
"Millie is Just as perfect a dancer as
she ever was," he announced. Then
he turned to the girl. "I hope thafeyou
will give me a_good many more dances
tonight."
Mildred glanced at Jimmy, who was
glaring at her almost fiercely. Some-
thing in his eyes made her catch her
.breath sharplf; and her heart sudden-
ly threatened to ran away from her.
"You may have the third one after
this," she said to Hastlngs;*"and after
that I'll think about it."
Jimmy claimed Mildred as his part
ner for the second dance. He didn't
say much, but the girl Imagined that
he held her Just a little tighter than
was necessary. When tbe dance was
over he led her out into the farthest
recess of the porch.
"Did you have very much to do with
Hastings this summer?" he asked
abruptly.
"Not so very much. Why? Don't
you like him?"
"He seems like a pretty fair sort of
chap," Jimmy answered honestly. "But
I hate him Just the same."
Mildred regarded him with startled
eyes.
"Why, Jimmy," she said. "I didn't
think you'd act like this."
"Can't I hate a man If I want to?"
Jimmy demanded. "Do you like blm
very much?"
"Yes; very much."
"Oh t" >
The bottom of the old world sudden,
ly fell out under Jimmy's feet. Mil-
dred's calm statement that she liked
Hastings very much left him gasping
for tfreath.
"Let's go back," he suggested life-
lessly,
"Why?" she asked. ;*!*
"Because," Jimmy answered, "if you
like him very much, yon must want to
j be with him. So I can turn you over
' to him and beat it home."
"Do you want to, jimmy?"
There was a certain wistfulness In
her voice.
"Don't you want me to?" he asked.
"No," she whispered.
"But you said you liked him very
■uch."
"Maybe I Just did it to make you
Jealous," she suggested. Then a tWln-
kte came Into her eye. "It isn't so
much what a felter says that matters,"
she quoted. "It's what he does that
really counts." k ■
And then she leaned over and kIdled
Jimmy fairly on tbe Hps.
And Jimmy, the world suddenly
4>right again, reached out his arms to
ier.
*1 love you," he said,
Copyright, i ij, by the McClure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
Cracks at the Crowd
Claude Callaa in Kansas City Star
In-
flow's This?
We offer One Hundred T>oIlars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Chrney for the last 15 years, and believe
htm perfectly honorable In all business
transactions arid lliiani'lully nblo to carry
out any nbllirntloti* made by I■ in Arm
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCES,
„ .. _ Toledo. O.
Halls Catarrh Cure In tnl< n Internally,
acting directly upon tli* blood and mu-
ootl* sin faces of the system. Testimonials
sent tin'. Price 71 cents per bottle. Sold
Isjr all Druirriets.
Take Hall's family Pills tar fSMilvMlaa.
The Jewelry show cases that
oace was in the Jaggervilledrug
store is now in a cleaning and
pressing establishment, Tne
old showcase means nothing to
i younger generation,-" but
when one of-the "old timers"
sees it he lives for a moment in
the Jsggervllle of the dear old
days. Twenty years ago there
was not a young man or a
young lady in the town who did
not spend many December hourp
front of that showcase. Some
of tbe young men didn't care
who saw them make purchoses,
while others wouldn't go near the
Jewelry case when anyone else
was in the drug store. There was
the young man who spent two or
three weeks buying his gift. He
walked up and down the opposite
side of the streeet until he saw
that he hurried over and took
another look at the locket and
bracelet. The druggist tried to
help him. The druggist said
that we liked the bracelet bet-
ter when we looked as if the
young man was favoring the
bracelet, and when.it seemed the
young was man about to decide on
the locket the druggist switch-
ovei and took tbe locket's side.
Young ladies spent much time at
this showcase, and when some
thing real pretty was missing,
each of the girls wondered who
bought it. When a girl happen-
ed into the drugstore while her
fellow was looking at the jewelry
she brought a package of envel-
opes or. the other side of the
house and hurried out of the
store without seeing the youug
man. The druggists not only
helped bis customers make selec-
tions, but they all trusted him,
and he never was known to tell
what anyone bought. For many
years every love affair in Jagger-
ville found its way to that jewel
ry showcase. The fine new case
that the new druggist bought
may look better to the young
people but the "old timers
would prefer the old case that
they had learned on years ago.
Martha didn't realize how self
sacrificing she was until about
five years after we were married.
One day she was downtown with
another woman, and when she
said she would have to go home
and cook dinner for us, the oth-
er woman remarked: "You never
think about anything but your
husband and children." Well,
Martha enjoyed what the lady
said. For the first time she
realized that she was self-sacri
ticing, and she liked it. When
she was with other women she
found an excuse for saving that
she would have to go home and
do something for her family
Sometimes she would go to
places just for the purpose of
returning to her husband and
children. She reached the point
where she didn't care for any
thing except for people to tell
her that she was self sacrificing
She told us what everybody said.
She thought we might be in
terested in what a good wife we
had. She told the children, and
she was just as happy as anyooe
cared to be. But it was happi
ness that couldn't last. In t
short time she came to the con
elusion that she wasn't appreci
ated. Then she decided that we
were spoilt. She had been doing
she saidi too much for us-- more
than any other woman did for
her husband—and instead of ap
predating it, we just looked uf
on it as a matter of course. And
the children are just like us. She
is beyond question the worst im
posed on woman that ever was
married to a man. "What do
get out of life?" she sometimes
asks us, in an effort to cheer
up. Those were happy days when
she cared for nothing except the
reputation of being self sacrific-
ing, but now she feels that she
has done to much for her hus-
band and children that they nev-
er can do enough for her to get
even.
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Weather, Few Out
The above heading tells the
story of the musical entertain-
ment by the Royal Hawaiians,
under the auspices of the Mes-
Lyceum committee Friday night.
With a big snow on the ground
and the night the coldest in
many years, the attendance was
of course very light, but those
present say that the program
was very enjoyable. It was cer-
tainly a misfortune that the
night happened to be so bad,
otherwise a large crowd v^ould
undoubtedly have beet^ present,
and it would have helped finance
the lyceutn course, which will
probably come out in the hole,
with a loss to be put up by tbe
guartntors.
grows everything to eat. IV
is lots of wood and water ani|
are certainly burning some
now, as the ground is cov^
with snow and ice at this
ing.
There is a good deal /aJ
provement going on here I
the weather permits. Healjpnd
generally good.
Morris Moore said that h<
satisfied now. He has m
back to where he lived five yfiel
ago. J. E. Moore lias beeng d|
proving some. He seems wj
contented. Mrs. J. M. Be e^
has been on the sick list
was able Sunday to visit
as
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Sigh uf Relief.
A woman always heaves a sigh of
relief when her husband has writ-
ten cut the checks his monthly
bills, because she knows that she is
free to hurry down town and run up
a few more.
Notice of Appointment of Temporary
6uardian
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THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To all persons interested in the welfare
of the minor Verda Brawley:—
On the 8th day at Jan. 1918 the Honor-
able County Judge of Dallas Countyt
Texas, appointed Theadore A, Moss
Temporary Guardian of the estate of said
Verda Brawley, Minor.
Said cause will be heard and acted upon
at the next term of said Court, commencing
on the First Monday in March, A. D.
1718 at the Court House in the. City of
Dallas, at which time all persons interested
in the welfare of said minor may appear
and contest said appointment if they so de-
sire. If said appointment not contested
at said term of court, said appointment will
be made Permanent, the number of said
canse on the Probate Docket of said Court
feeing 7056.
Witness B. F. Cullom, County Clerk of
Dallas County, Texas.
Given under my hand and seal of said
Court at office in the City of Dallas, thi
"8th day of Jan., 1918.
B. F. Cullom, County Clerk,
Dallas County, Texas.
By Fred Patrick, Deputy.
From Ravia, Okla.
Kavia, Okla.. 14, 191&
Dear Old Texas Mesquiter: As
I have left Texas and come to
Oklahoma, I still want to read
the paper and^hear from Mes-
quite and my friends where I
lived for a number of years.
This is a good little town and
there are lots of good people
here. Everybody is friendly and
have plenty to eat, for they have
corn and meat j&t home and raise
lots of garden "stuff, and when
you go to' their tables it looks
like prosperity,
This country is somewhat
mountainous. There is some
good lantf and anrno not so good.
The soil is a sandy lonm and
W, P- Bennett and reporttj
nice time. Riley Hensh?
poorly; has been in bed for ITJ
litae. t„f
The farmers haven't
much farming yet, as the weijjal
has not permitted, as it has n€
below zero, and that looks >
to me.
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