The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1919 Page: 4 of 4
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If 11,000,000 balee of cotton will bring
Sj the South as much money as 14,000,-
& 000 or 15,000,000 bales will bring, why
® raise the extra 4 or 5 million bales?
Would it not be good sense and good
business to cut the acreage of cotton
and raise instead, food and feed stuff
which the South has to buy every year.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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I CURRENT COMMENT §!*<> their shirts olT over their
s g | whiskers? Surely, it was a
T H LOYVRY 5 stunner. But thank goodness,
< slncvi'snniicr people a re just as
i cring hard questions
as at asking them. Another
newspaper quickly cleared upthis
troublesome matter by giving the
information that the Bolsluviki
5 In Honey Grove .Signal. ; newspaper . .
s S| good at answering nan
>lT tlu-ir shirts.
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Ino. Bevo and Grano are com-
ing back soon, all restrictions
having been removed from their
manufacture. But the real goods never takt
—never again. .
Old High Cost of Living re-
in days gone by teeming thous- reived a heavy jolt Monday when
ands of fellows have traveled the several articles of food that go to
double-track route of "wine and | niake up the list of essentials and
women" to destruction, but luxuries took quite a neat tutn-
henceforth the fellows who head hie, Ham has posed for several
for destruction must take the months as the aristocrat of the
single track line, for there is no;dining table, and only well-to-do
more wine. There are more wo- have been able to bask in the de-
men, however, than ever before, i lights of its flavor or aroma. Sel
— dotn indeed has there been such
Don't believe for a moment,; thing as the sale of a whole ham ;
brcthern, that this old world isn't: this precious commodity has been
going to move smoothly and j doled out by the slice# and patrons
gracefully henceforth. '1 here's jDf the meat shops have carried
not the slightest danger of the 'thir purchases in their vest pock-
old globe developing a hot box or >t or purses. The price of
rnstv in the bearings
growing
Knough oil has been found in
Texas to keep the axes of this
mundane sphere well greased for
ten million vears.
ham
dropped 10 cents a pound Mon-
day. There was also a heavy de-
cline in the price of brakfasf ba-
con, that streaked luxury that is
so rich in flavor and nourishment
that it is a real gustatory delight.
Eight cents a pound was dropped
from the price of bacon. This
first victory scored over old High
Price in two years is prophetic of
come.
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The continued wet weather will
doubtless make oat sowing later
than usual, y-t it is sincerely to
be hoped that this fact will not
stand in the way of a large oat better things t
crop one of the most profitable , rt.Call the fact that for year
grown, and there is now a greater (h(. firman armies pushd on and
need perhaps tor this grain crop ,mt om. ,jav the. Kaiser's
than the country has ever before ponies were turned back at
known. j Chateau-Thierry, and from that
'good day victory never again
A New York doctor is out with perched on the German banner,
the statement that the children Let us hope that Monday was
Of the poor are better nourished High Price's Chauteau-Thierrv
than children of the rich. It is a and that we poor, but honest folk
fact that the fount of sustenance will continue to hammer him un-
is more stationary in the homes til it will be opsible to get a fill
of the poor than in the homes of of respectable eats for fifteen
the rich. Elaborate wardrobes j cents. So mote it be.
mean much visiting and as a rule '
there is not a wealth of visiting Thpre s probability that
clothes m the home of the poor. C( s %vj)| < ;i , - , .
Hence the children of the poor jti ford ^trii lti„n' for a
get their meals with greater reg- tl.rm of yi,ars Th(. C-nited Statcs
U an " government has always welcomed
, , ,. .. c . people of other lands but mav
Judge Ham,.ton. of Austin. „ow fjnd jt necc8sarv to nlin,,
who has tried hundreds of diverse hnrs for a whi!(. ( jn ;iccount f
cases, says k.ssmg ,s the best and|the demobilization of our armies
quickest cure for the divorce evil.: t!u. !a)),,r sitliation js ,wl|v im_
\\e believe the ,udge is correct. selt|v<l. With the two million
If you feel, my brother, that ad,- m,n tun, )jack U) civjIi |jf
vor.ee suit is about to overtake therc w„ not ,)e imrm.diate em.
you, get out and kiss your neigh-:,,,„yInent for all. Millions of
bor s wife, and we guarantee that! pei>p|e wil, com, A j f
Vnl1 \I*1ll « ( ^ihl/ ♦ r, M << id f <
•,, . | wm aiini* to America irom
7 1 Europe if permitted to do so. and
ment of the ma r.monal yoke. thdr cotnj w|1, j sc (,jf_
You will be the hero of a first- fjcnlties of the situation. A bill
class funeral before the lawyers prohibiting immigration has al-
C:\Uiirnt thf> ttvnrw.vo rtmMf . . * * " '
can-get the divorce papers ready.
In ability to ask hard questions
we believe newspaper people ex-
cell all ot'jers. For instance, the
other day one of our exchanges
ready received a favorable com
mittee report and the prospects
for it to become a law are very
bright.
Once more the legislature is
STOMACH TROUBLE
.rasa
have pains and a heavy feeling after my meals, a most
disagreeable taste in my mouth. If I ate anything with
butter, oil or grease, I would spit It up. I beean to have
regular sick headache. I had used pills and tablets, but
after a course of these, I would be constipated. It iust
?!e^. °. my stomach all up. I found they were
no good at all for my trouble. I heard
THEDFORD'S
buck-drmight
The Turk palyed the war game
very much as hi* friend, the Hun,
only more bo. Here are two Armen-
ian orphans. Their father was one
of the thousands of Armenians
butchered in cold blood as a measure
of "military necessity", and when
the er.Ure Armenian population waa
later exiled to tha desert by tin
Turk, the mother died of starvation
anci brutal treatment.
To save the lives of four million
such refugees—Armenian*, Greeks,
and Syrians—the American peoplo
will be asked to give at least $3'),.
ODO.OOQ. The week of February 3-1 f>
has been set for the campaign in the
Southwest.
trying to find a way to limit ex-
penses for political campaigns.
This has grown to be one of the
great evils of our political sys-
tem, and as the years go by it is
getting worse. If a man is elect-
ed to a state office in Texas he
must spend a large sum of money
or others must build up a large
campaign fund. Both systems
are dangerous and wrong, even
though the money is spent for le-
gitimate purposes only. They are
wrong because they close the
door of hope to men who are not
wealthy or do not have the sup
contribute money
that these practices are wrong,
we do not see how they are to be
corrected. It is possible to know
how much money a candidate
spends and to limit his expendi-
tures, but we do not see how it is
possible to know how much
friends of candidates spend, or to
control their expenditures
STOPS THE TICKLE
HEALS THE THROAT
GORES THE COUGH
Its Soothing Healing Effect
soon gives relief. Price 35c.
Sold by all Druggists. If
your Druggist should not
have it in stock, he will
order it from his nearest
Wholesale Druggist
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| HAPPY HOGWALLOW |
= (By Dunk Bottss)
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The Wild Onion School teacher
says he hopes to see the day
when he can teach school in a
building like some of those shown
on the covers of the school writ-
ing tablets.
It is Reared Poke Tiazley has
caught the disease that has af-
flicted and killed so many of
Tobe Moseley's dogs. Poke's
eyes are beginning to swell and
his ears are getting sore. In fact,
he has almost al the symptoms.
The most alarming thing to Poke
is that so many of Tobe's dogs
died of the disease.
Sile Kildew says that he would
like to drop back half century to
the time when the deer, the bear,
and the wild turkey romped wild
in the hills around Hogwallow.
- , - — — —r He says the disappearance of
>rt of people who are willing to these had more to do with in-
nitribiite monev But admitting troducing work into this com-
munity than anything he knows
of.
The double primary system, for
which the state election law pro-
vides, and which was adopted by
most of the counties last year, is
by no means satisfactory. The
candidates do not like it, because
it lengthens and makes more ex-
pensive the campaigns; the peo-
ple do not like it, preferring that
ill contests be settled at one elec-
tion. A bill has been introduced
in the legislature for what is
known as a preferential primary.
Under the provisions of this pro-
posed enactment the voter, when
there are more than two candi-
dates for an office, expresses a
first and second choice, and from
the two expresions the result is
worked out. It would take some
time for us to accustom ourselves
to settling the contests in this
way, but the Signal believes 't
would prove more satisfactory,
when understood, than the dou-
ble primary system. It appears
to us tha* a fairer expression
might be had undei this system,
i d we know the shorter and less
expensive campaigns would be
more satisfactory to all.
recommended very[highly, so began to use it It cured
iifirPn. 5,Je h0,u!,e a11 A®tlme' 14 is the best
medicine made. I do not have sick headache or
liver
£°m.5h .frpubIe any more." Bfack-Draught "acts' on
throwinr Important work of
morrow'
morrow. I rice 25c a package. All druggists.
ONE CENT A DOSE
'.'.ruble frequently grows out
f the fact tin: there are not
ein uijh names tj give ench per-
joii name that is unlike that
borne by any other person. There
is much confusion of mail mat-
ter, which frequently produces
enihgrassing and sometimes dead-
ly situations. A prominent at-
torney of Decatr.re was recently
divorced from his wife, and the
divorced wife went to Waco to
reside. After a time the husband
wrote his wife, using many en-
dearing terms in framing the let-
ter. I here is a married woman in
Waco whose name is the same as
that of the divorced wife and the
letter was delivered to her. Re-
senting the insult, the woman's
husband hunted up the Decatur
lawyer, whom he had never seen,
and shot him to death.
It is known that two or three
members of the Loafer's Club
have an eye on the Postmaster's
job next time the appointment
comes around, but they are keep-
ing it pretty quiet as they know
if the Postmaster finds it out he
will stop their loafing at the post-
office.
A few more days' work at the
sawmill over on Gander Creek
and Tobe Moseley will have
enough money to pay the tax on
all his dogs. He is then expect-
ed to give up the job and depend
on what his wife makes taking
in washing. Tobe is going from
bad to worse. When they were
first married Tobe cleaned off a
nice place on the creek bank each
spring for his wife to do family
washing and was very good to
split wash wood for her. Now he
does none of these things.
Miss Flutie Belcher is now try-
ing to plan out in her mind a new
spring hat that the Widow of the"
Calf Ribs neighborhood will not
.claim was copied from her last
spring hat.
The tin peddler says tha,t if
he is nc>t able to sell that wagon
load of tinware that rusted in the
rain the nigChXt he spent at the
still house on. Musket Ridge, he
is a "busted" merchant. He said
he had no, idea that liquor could
get a fellow down so quick.
The Postmaster has issued an
order to the Loafer's Club that
they must not in their arguments
raise their voices above the or-
dinary, as the stove pipe is get-
ting pretty shaky.
a;
S'unliKht is :i
(if Armenia, r'M
the I'•;ii and t!i>
Here art- m,;
strrv.i, r n. si'1 it'.)*
(he [.it. I illy small
tioiin fi nds for r
Mnoriesi by the Am i can
n>um of $30,000.0011 liaviitp
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The Strong Wlthatand the Winter
Cold fetter Than the Week
You must have Health. Strength end En-
durance to fight Colds, Grip and Ml—,
When your blood Is not in • healthy
condition and does not circulate properly.
^tSrwK " Un,W# 10 with,undth*
GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
acceptable to the most delicate stomach,
wMvn iwniiii iuvigoraung Lu6Cu ufftti
Thf strange disease left two
or three of Tobe Moseley's dogs
totally blind. Tobe saye he is
glad to save them in any state.
The Hogwallow to Tickville
Railroad company is ready to
sign over the road to Mr. Mc-
Adoo or his successor for five
years or as manv more vears as
he wants it. The stockholders
say somebody is going to have to
take it—-and that pretty quick.
The train killed a good cow for
Salem Barlow last week.
HIS REASON
A man accused of stealing a
pair of trousers had received a
favorable verdict, but when the
case was over he showed no
signs of leaving the court. At
last his lawyer asked him why h;
did not go.
The innocent man whispe^d in
reply: "The fact is, sir, I do not
like move till the witnesses
have left the court. You see, I've
got on the trousers what I stole."
—Tit-B t . i
They say love laughs at locksmith*.
It does. And It has been proved that
It also laushs at (fas bomb and shrap-
nel, bayonet and trench knife; ihe
depth of the sea and the tops of the
highest mountains, the ley terrors of
the frown North and bitter agony
of the desert.
But there Is one thing >eft. We shall
learn how love conquered that.
Betty Barstow was a very pretty
girl, but spoiled. Perhaps that was
why she merely laughed at Jerome
Gilbert, a young superintendent in her
father's mill, when he fell foolishly,
desperately, pitifully In love with her.
"Betty." he plead, "no one ever loved
as I do. You see It's the only thing I
live for. Other people have been In
love, or thought they were, but It waa
nothing to this. Can't you feel It?
Don't you see It, that I can't live with-
out you? You'll find It out some day.
why can't you give me a little hope?"
Betty laughed. "Eventually, why
not now?" she quoted from an adver-
tisement.
Jerome colored. "You're cruel, Bet-
ty. You don't mean It, I know, but It
hurts awfully. I can't stand It any
longer. I—I'm going to enlist and I
hope I get killed."
But Betty had henrd that beforfi
and It worried her not.
He did enlist In the aviation corps.
! That was the nest thing Betty heard
of him, and he was gone without say-
ing good-by.
Then she grew thoughtful. Perhaps
she had been n little unkind. She
really hadn't Intended to go so far.
She had only meant to tease him a
little and make it up the next time
he came.
"He doesn't deserve any credit for
going," she said to her father one
morning. "He went because—because
he was cross about something, I be-
lieve."
"I don't think so." returned her par-
ent. "He confided to me a couple of
months ago that as soon as we had
certain Important work done In the
mill he thought he would go."
"Oh!" Betty's eyes filled with tears
of humiliation and she left the break-
fast table hurriedly.
For the first time In her life Betty
had a rebuff, and with characteristic
wilfulness, fell In love with the unat-
tainable. And then she discovered that
she had really been In love with Jerry
all along.
Then her mind being serious for the
first time In her life, she began to
think earnestly of the war and of what
she could do to help. She went In for
Red Cross work for a while, and work-
ed tirelessly in the Woman's Motor
corps.
But there were others who could do
her work and she wasn't satisfied. She
wanted something distinctive.
Then one day she read how carrier
pigeons were needed in France, and
how difficult it was to get people to
train them. And Instantly she decided
that that was her work.
She went out to their house In the
country, with only the caretaker and
his wife for company, and started out
with twelve birds.
It was Interesting work and kept her
busy. She would take the birds n
short distance away from the farm at
first, In her motor eai and let them fly
back. Then gradually she Increased
the distance, letting the birds fly alone.
At last it got Impossible for her to
take them herself, as the distance grew
greater, and she would ship them to
friends In different cities to release.
They came back unfailingly, always
with their little brass tubes containing
a friendly note. White Wing was the
swiftest of them all. Betty was very
proud of him.
One day she sent a message to her-
self, or rather to Jerry. She had been
so lonely all week, and the solitude of
the country gave her plenty of time to
think.
"Oh, Jerry, Jerry, If you would only
come back." she cried nightly on her
pillow. "I'd never let you go away
again."
The next time she went to the city,
her father was shocked at her appear-
ance. "You're working too hnrd with
those birds," he said. "Pack up and
we'll both go to the seashore for a
week. They can get along for a week
without you."
So Betty went, but she took her
birds to test them In a five hundred
mile flight home, the longest they had
ever made.
And that was when she sent the
message to herself, or rather to Jerry,
for on the little slip of paper she tuck-
ed Into the tube on White Wing's leg
was written: "Oh, Jerry dear, come
home. I do love you. Betty."
Now arctic Ice, and burning snnds,
gas bombs and trench knives not hav-
ing baffled love, such a thing as a few
hundred feet in the air was not going
to get the best of the Wily little fellow.
Jerry was out on a trip, flying low,
when suddenly something hit him In
the brenst. There was a flutter of
white, and behold, a pigeon lay stunned
by the Impact, In his lap. Here was
romance! Jerry, keen for adventure,
spied the tube and extracted the note,
and thus received by Dan Cupid's spe-
cial delivery Betty's heartbroken mes-
sage.
Jerry's leave of absence came Just
when Betty arrived home. There was
no preliminary. He just gathered her
In his nrms and kissed her.
"TTw d'd jot! Know, dear," she ask-
ed eur!":'!y.
"A lid! i M : i.,e," he confessed.
A Tonic Laxative
thst will t*mw the blla from the Urn and
eWnwthcSyMMn thoroughly without arlplng
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LAX-POS WITH PEPSIN
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Bread, 10c—3 Loaves 25
Cakes, 10c per doz.---3 dozen for
Patronize Home Industry—fiJ
Mesquite Bread
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the necessity of life left to the i
1 ,tl:er rtaitern countries which havel
<vrian children, emaciated on the peist :1c
in the sun. trying to keep body and 1 '
o1 ■, n lo-Aed tiu m hy Insufficient reliefs
vlnn thee victims oi war and famine
CmnniiMee for Relief in the, Ntaj|
hei n pledged to this work.
The woek If 1 ' lii'var;. 3 10 h:i- 1 > a set bv S0.1t
rector.- 'or raisleg th-ir <1 iota of the $:5<MW< ,000.
The Sole Survivor
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Russian Caucasus or.e of the regions- ;if the Near East, -
and Turks have converted a rich country into a land of I-'ISWwHnH
America will he asked to give Ott.'tOO for the telefjp* "•
str.cken a eampiiyu fo- that purpore having beta 1
American Committee for Relief In the Near East. The <toT
west will take place February 3-10.
Virginia ci 1 • Into tln> 1; ■ si-
ns If her heat'! wis - :t.
questioned n« t-> tvletl lim! he
she answered lieit sie and lie:
Hobby had I,--'ii 11 tr!,• > 11ic a*-?
had lilt her. "Ami what wt
ing when 1." hit y-iv,?'
mother." "I w, hitting i
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Hold a red-hot iron {.> (hr head e
he ."Tew for a s'mi t rn<! He u
it:" the s-rew-h iver v lille tl • screw
• still hot. It can he remove:! cmily.
Not Unhealthy I
There seen.' lo h.
ahionil Unit the climate
can reriiihllcftn Is hot. '"feller
In-aHliftll.
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dm ; as tiie rnVrhile of
perature even In
reaches Ml decrees F
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I |>le,i,kant. The eliina'-
I the trade wind*. wln-Ii I
I eonMnHMisly durlre.' iti"
j nltrht tin' land br« ;■,• ffney,
tnlns ; qtu'il.v re fr iti'rj of tov|
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Although 't W'ycSl
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Pale Facrid Wom;n Take Phosphates to Make R
and Beautiful Forms.
Men Need Peosphatcs to Make Strong, Hi
Vigorous Bodies.
Atheletci increate their (trength, en ergjr and endurance 2H
more by (imply taking a few week* treatment of Argo-PI
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Atlanta. Ga. I)r. 1". A. Jacobson j the skin is pale, and rtts'I'luto
says that Phosphates are just as es-ja sinn of anemia. WhcnB
sential to any man or woman who ' phates «o from the
tires easily, is nervous, or irritable. | cheeks go too. The
worn out. or lookes haggard and!tone. They becomc n«r««
pale to make a strohg, robust, vigor-!hie. despondent, nicU«J
ous healthy body, as they are to cot-! brain fans, and the meflH
ton to make it grow. The lack of'Therefore if yon wish
I hosphates is the cause of all ane - your youthful vim. vigor
mic conditions and Ihe administra- to a ripe old age. you irfSllll
tion of 5-grain Argo-Phosphatc tab- the deficiency of Phospfi*1^* I
lets will increase the strenRth and in vour food hv using 40||
endurance of weak, nervious. care- phate the form of PhosP^^™
worn men and women 3(X) per cent, 'easily assimilated.
in two or ftirec weeks time in many NOTICE: Argo*Pho^P^1
'n«;^ces, and their continued use is reommended and prenj
will build up the whole nervious sys- physicians in all anemic
tem, and give new life, vim, vigor * secret or patent mediciwl
and vitality to the whole body. I al- > sold and reconiij
ways prescribe Argo-Phosphate to wp" known druggists ««■
patient? who are pale and colorlesn, i t,h.vsjcians are
without lhf.tr system is sufficiently; nervious conditions. Th«J
supplied wijn Plmsohateii. In rec- u,rers of Argo-Phoiphaie *j
ent interviews 'Wilh ohvsicians on '« any charitable jnstit t«*l
thev cannot treat attv msnfl
under 65 who lacks pho |
increase their strength
ance from lOO oer cent.
cent or more in one wc
if thev are free from orgs
tefCoidaOrtp | 'he grave knd
of a deficidjH
wnn physicians on
wri'-tas consequences
!>f Prosphates in the
WMwien and women,
effAaslted the fact
"Ml prescribe more
■PfiftflV 'Worn out hag- Free" samtile "mailed b
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1919, newspaper, February 14, 1919; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400769/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mesquite Public Library.