Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1923 Page: 2 of 4
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Published every Friday
Entered at the Palacios Post Office
as second class mall matter
J. W. DISMUKES — — — Publisher
MRS, EARL GRANT, Local Editor
Ine year 91:60 Six months $1:00
Trespalacios
Toe Prints
(By Sam R. Smith)
Quite a heavy rain fell in spots
in these parts Tuesday.
A. W. Smith was drawn on the
Grand Jury for the present term
of court, but was let off and
came home Tuesday.
Wm. Ortes has moved his fam-
ily to town to have advantage of
school. He will farm in the Wil-
son Creek locality another year.
A Mr. King and family, of
San Antonio, was here this week
looking over this part of the cit-
rus fruit belt with a view to buy-
ing a farm.
H. L. Burns and wife were
over from Collegeport Sunday,
calling on their former neighbor,
M. M. Johnson, and wife and
other friends.
We saw ,S. J. Hill and wife
from Dunbar in Blessing Tues-
day. They got caught in the
rain and cold snap, without plen-
ty of fur coats and wrappings.
H. L. Burns will have a pub-
lic sale of all his goods and be-
longings at Collegeport, Satur-
day, the 6th inst. They are go-
ing to drive through to Los An-
geles, California.
We have a peach tree in our
yard covered with bloom, and
young peaches as large as mar-
bles. We are afraid they will
get caught out some cold night
and get their bare toes nipped.
Mayor Holcombe, of Houston,
was re-nominated after the nas-
tiest fight we ever saw put up
against any man. We don't
know either Holcombe or Jones,
but really are glad to see the
blatant mouth of Jones and his
crowd receive a decided slap, for
a sensible man who will put up
Buch a campaign as he put up
ought to be politically buried so
deep that he could never hear
Gabriel's trumpet calling him to
better- things.
The body of Mrs. B. B. White
was brought from Houston Tues-
day, where she had been taken
to a hospital for treatment and
died there. She leaves a hus-
band and several grown children
to mourn her departure. As man
measures time, her life was full,
rounded out, and replete with
. deeds of love, kindness, and
charity, but as God reckons pro-
gress, she has just begun to reap
the reward of a beautiful life and
character. The relatives have
the tenderest sympathy of their
friends and neighbors,
Satsuma Oranges.
The Epitome family began its
holiday feasting a little early this
year, made possible by the re-
ceipt of a large box of fine Satsu-
ma oranges the first of the week
from our old Palacios neighbors
and always much esteemed
friends, the family of M. M. Mill-
er, of the Matagorda county coast
resort. The Satsuma is the fin-
est orange grown, and is a vari-
ety entirely peculiar to itself.
The fruit grows to great perfec-
tion in the Palacios section, and
is quite generally grown there.
What makes the gift from our
friends, the Millers, all the more
enjoyable, is that the fruit is of
their own growing.
A card telling of the shipment
of the oranges contained the fol-
lowing very appropriate verse,
and we can say that the fruit was
most delightfully "fillin!"
A few Satsumas to you we will
send;
Punch your finger into the blos-
som end,
Remove the bastings and a rind,
A good sweet orange I'm sure
you'll find.
We call "these things" pretty
good fillers—
They're from your friends the
"Milo Millers."
The "Milo Millers" will please
accept our best thanks with the
assurance that they have made
our Christmas doubly enjoyable.
—D. L. Stump's Lone Star Epit-
ome.
Notice.
The next regular meeting of
the Library board will be Satur-
day, Jan. 6. All members of the
board- and of the recently ap-
pointed committees are asked to
make a special effort to be pres-
ent that the year's activities may
be outlined.
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Palacios Nnrsery.
Has a few Orange trees for the
local trade. Palms, Roses and
Ornamentals in abundance.
49-4wp J. M. Stephens, Prop.
FOR SALE—At Francitas 15
acres with 5 lots. 10 acres, no
2240—5 acres, no 2360 and 5
Francitas town lots, all for $1000.
Address Loreta Bove, box 100,
Brilliant, New Mexico. 42-8t
Notice.
Just received a car load of 4in.
and 6 in. Sewer pipe and fixtures
for houst connections to Sewer
line. Call in and get our prices;
they are right.
J. L. Pybus Planing Mill.
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QUEEN THEATRE
ONE WEEK, BEGINNING
MONDAY, JANUARY 8
Roy E. Fox's
Popular Players
Change of
Entire Program
Each Night
HOW
NNECTION
Company of
Talented Artists
in Latest Plays
BIG DOU
REGULAR PICTURE PRO
MATjNEE SATURDAY AT 2:30
v Admission, 30-55c, deluding Tax
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BETTER
ROADS
6afe width of hard roads
Bureau of Public Roads Makes Recom-
to Pfe
mendatlon of 1B Fjpet
Good Olearance.
rovldo
tfcte* Do part meat
(Prepared by tbo United
of AfHcult'
A minimum Width of 18 feet for
hard-surface roads Is recomnierided by
the bureau of public roaAs or the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. The maximum width of truck
body generally permitted la 8 feet, and
5^4 feet Is the ordinary clearance
m i
Traffic on a 16-Foot Pavement.
width of automobiles. At an average
speed of 30 miles an hour It Is unrea-
sonable to expect the driver of an
automobile to drive with the wheels
closer than 1% feet to the edge of the
pavement, says the bureau. For trucks
at an average speed of 15 miles an
hour, this distance should not be less
than 1% feet on account of the great
width of the rear wheel. Three feet
seems to be a minimum safe clearance
between bodies. Inasmuch as a cer-
tain amount of truck traffic is to be
expected on all main country roads,
the minimum width of surface should
be 18 feet to provide these clearances
when an automobile meets a truck.
Where the frequency with which
trucks pass each other becomes a big
factor, as in the neighborhood of large
cities, the minimum width of pavement
should be 20 feet to provide a clear-
ance of 3% feet and a safe distance of
wheels from edge of pavement.
GRAVEL FOR ROAD BUILDING
Simple, Portable Apparatus Devised
to Test Its Suitability
for Highways.
To aid the bureau of public roads,
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, in giving particular attention to
the use of local material for road
construction wherever possible, a 8amJ
pie portable apparatus has been de-
vised for testing gravel to determine
its suitability for concrete. The de-
vice consists of two steel balls ar-
ranged so that a piece of gravel can
be placed on top of one of t' -i balls
and the other ball allowed to fall
from different heights and strike the
gravel. The height of fall required to
break the gravel is an indication of
Its suitability to withstand the blows
of traffic.
Heretofore there has been no satis-
factory test of gravel as there has
been for stone, with the result that
In some instances more costly mate-
rial has been used when a suitable
gravel was available close at hand.
Along this line the bureau is conduct-
ing wear tests on concrete made of
many different materials to determine
Just how far it is safe to go when the
quality of material is doubtful.
Palacios Home Laundry
is prepared to do your washing
and ironing also your blankets
and quilts. Prices reasonable.
3rd door east of Baptist church.
A Run of Luck.
"The clesost call I ever had," satd
the ruddy-faced passenger, "was out
In Arlsona. Our train ran onto a
bridge where the supports had been
washed away by a flood."
"And the train fell Into the river?"
"No; as good luck would have It,
Just at that moment It was being held
up by train robbers."
Maintenance.
"Which do you prefer, a horse or an
automobile?"
"When all is said and done," replied
Farmer Corntossel, "gimme a hosa.
You can raise enough hay to feed a
lot o' hosses, but to keep a flock o'
flivvers goln' you've got to discover
an oil well."
Hint on Dancing.
She—You should change your style
of dancing a little.
He—In what way?
She—You might occasionally step on
my left foot—Irish Independent.
A Delicate Child.
"Do you meun to say you have had
a bath already?"
"No, mamma, the tub was all full,
a fly fell in, then I was Just simply
disgusted."—Life.
Not All 8o Bad.
Unusually candid is an advertising
merchant In Lennox, S. D. He says:
"We don't claim that other people
are cheats and liars. We don't Judge
everybody else by ourselves."
Real Cave-Man.
"I was mad with George last night,"
said a girl of her sweetheart.
"Yes," said the Ill-natured brother,
"I noticed when I looked In the par-
lor that you were up In arms."
Only a Burden.
"I'd give a million for your stom-
ach," said a dyspeptic Croesus to a
mendicant.
"You might as well have It," replied
the other. "I don't use it much."
VERY 8LOW
Mlaa Wrlat Watch: Mr. Water-
bury you are entirely too alow to ault
me.
Bam i
My bonnie leaned over the ffaa tank,
The height of Its content® to aee.
And lighted a match to asalst him,
Oh, bring back my bonnie to me.
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Yea, Bo!
The visitor had Just foozled and
mash ted a hole In the turf, which
flew over his head In a cloud.
"I see," said the broker, "there Is
a change in the market. Real estate
•hows a decided upward tendency I"
money for colorado roads
Secretary Wallace Approves Encpendl*
ture of $586,000 for Highways
in Forest.
Expenditures totaling 5580,000 of
national forest highway funds for the
construction of 100 miles of roads In
Colorado have been approved by Sec-
retary of Agriculture Wallace. This
money wad made available for roads
of primary importance £o the state,
counties or communities within, ad-
joining or adjacent to the national
forests.
give dirt roads attention
Farmers Enabled to Haul Larger
Loads With Less Strain on Har-
ness and Equipment.
Many communities have found It to
their advantage to keep their dirt
roads smooth by dragging, dividing
the work among Individuals during
different months of the year. In such
communities farmers are able to haul
heavier loads with less strain on har-
ness, teams and equipment and the
saving in the cost of transportation
more than pays for the little time
each one has spent on the roads.
Expert Criticism.
Perdita—-How do you like Ferdinand
as a sweetheart? I always thought hla
love-making rather cold.
Phlllppa—It Is somewhat repressed.
But Isn't his technique great?
.CHEMIST DISCREDITED
Professor Fisher of Yale, who has
been abroad investigating the report-
ed production of synthetic gold by a
German scientist, and who at first
credited the story, is assured by a
genuine German scientist that the
gold-maker is a fraud with a prison
record. Professor Fisher's investi-
gations disclose the fact that the
government at one time made seri-
ous attempts to produce gold in new
ways and did, in fact, succeed in ex-
tracting it from sea water, but not at
a profit. These attempts have ap-
parently been abandoned.—Scientific
American.
TOO LAZY TO LIVE
Judge Gary said at a dinner in
New York:
"Grumblers are generally lazy.
Not lazy about grumbling—oh,
dear, no! Lazy, I mean, about work.
"When it comes to a question of
work, the anarchistic, bolshevistic,
socialistic, communistic grumbler is
well represented by the Oriental
proverb—the languorous proverb
that 6ays:
"' It is better to sit than to stan<^,
it is better to lie than to sit, it is
better to sleep than to lie, it is bet-
ter to die than to sleep,'
"Too lazy to live, in other words 1"
A
WORRIED
"She's dreadfully worried.
"What about?"
"Her daughter. She doesn't want
her to have her hair bobbed, and
she's efraid the child is going to
grow up into one of those unpopular
Women."
LODGE DIRECTORY
Stated meetings of
PALACIOS LODGE No.
990, A. F. & A. M„
meets on Friday night on
or before full moon in each
month.
[Stated meetings of
PALACIOS CHAPTER
NO. 135, O, E. S.
are held the first and
third Tuesday .nights
at 7:30 o'clock. Visit-
ing members welcome
Eva S. Cairnes, W. M.
Susan B. Feather, Sec'y.
BUNGALOWS ON HOTEL ROOF
On the roof of a hotel to be erect-
ed in Chicago five bungalows will
be built, with gardens and tena*
and handball courts.
M
THEATRE
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ROY E. FOX'S
Popular Players
For Week Commencing
Monday, January 8
Monday. Jan 8—
"What a Woman Will Do
Tues., 9th—
"The Call of the North"
Wed., 10- "Within the Law"
Thurs., 11— "Over the Hills"
Fri., 12— "Ku-Klux-Klan"
Sat. 1!!—MATINEE at 2:30-
"The Truthful Liar'
Sat. Night—
"When Tobie Comes to Town'
"In the Days of Buffalo Bill"
Episode No. 4
Read Beacon advertisements.
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Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes j
SOLD FOR LESS
AT
Brandon's Cash Store
A fine line ofSff AR BRAND Spring
Shoes have arrived. Come in and
look them over. "Star Brand Shoes
are Be&er" They are made of All Leather
Best Goods and Lowest Prices---
FOR THE CASH
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1922
Road Building In France.
In France, because of the Increased
strain ou the highways caused by a
larger use of motor traction, the
French minister of public works lias
outlined n program of road building
on a large scale.
Children Can Attend School.
It is the condition of the highway
which determines whether our chil-
dren shall go to school every day dur-
ing the school year or whether they
shall have to stay at home to bother
their mothers part of the time.
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To Our Friends:
We wish to express our appreciation for all
the business you have given us during the past years.
We seek to merit a continued confidence.
We wish you a Happy and
Prosperous New Year
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Curtis-Sisson Grocery Co.
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Grant, Mrs. Earl. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1923, newspaper, January 5, 1923; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411688/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.