The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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Strephon's Picture-Puzzle.
So many times his heart was broke,
It came to be a sort of joke.
Prue was the first to fracture it;
Then fair Perilla chipped a bit
From off its left hand side when she
Decided that no bride she'd be.
A crack along the upper rim
They say Myrtilla gave to him,
And at the point down at the base
Dear Phyllis smashed it when, her face
All icy and her eyes aflame,
She squrned his hand, his purse, and name.
The other dozen lines we find
Across its surface bring to mind
The careless handling of it by
The charming Miss Susanna Bly,
Who took it with a deal of glee,
Then dropped it very suddenly,
So that it looked—or so they say—
Much like a piece of cloisonne,
So many lines of cracks it showed
Where once with passion it had glowed.
Yet he's not downcast! He has made
A photograph, each crack displayed,
And with a jig-saw cut it all
In pieces* middling large and small;
And this, a picture-puzzle fine,
He's sending all along the line-
To Daphne, Susan, Maude, Jeanette;
To Mary Jane, Kate and Babette;
Himself the prize awarded when
Some maid hath made it whole again!
Carlyle Smith
editorial after getting through
with the washing, but washing
clothes hurts my back and I am
afraid that my writing on that
particular day would show signs
of spinal affection.
With best wishes for the En-
terprise, and asking you to com-
mand me when I can be of ser-
vice to you. Your friend,
Joe Sappington.
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Joe Sap Writes Personal Letter.
Editor Ransone, of the Cle-
burne Enterprise, inaugurated
*i V the unique plan of having dif-
s ferent editors over the sfate edit
his paper for a day. Among the
on the leading issue of the day
number vtfho responded to the re- —th# prohibition question, I
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them. After pondering over the
matter I fiave decided to write
nothing that will arouse the an-
ger of your subscribers. Of
course if I knew how you stood
Telegraph and
Telephone Lines
THE STATE OF TEYAS \ J.S.Coghill
Shackelford County I W.I.Cook
To the Honorable County Com-| Frank Easter
ntissioner's Court, of Shackelford G.A. Howsley
C.FISmalley
U.J.Durham
C. Halford
J.E.Dodson
J. B. McDonald
J.T.Lowery
Chas.Kenchalo
J.H.Reynolds
To save time is to lengthen life, and
lie greatest time saver of the age is the
elegraph ~r.d telephone. According to
.lie report of the Tax Assessors there
ire 27,l')2 miles of poles over which
telegraph and telephone wires run in
I'cxas. This .nileag.?, single wire, is
• ;tial t) 450,000 miles, and .s sufficient
to encircle the glohe eighteen times.
The scientist i:i giving the farmer im-
proved varieties of products, and the
inventor i:i giving us machinery that
reduces the cost of production, has per- q Tidwell
formed a great service to the farmer,
out the telephone, warm 'from the cre-
ative mind of the inventive genius, is
destined to companion in utility and
convenience all human accomplishments
for the intelligent promotion of agricul-
ture. The telephone is the improved
public highway of information and is as
valuable to the farmer in selling his
products as good roads are useful in
hauling his products to the market. The
:ut below illustrates the farmer phoning
ihe markets of the world for prices on
his products:
county, Texas, greeting:
. We, the undersigned resident
citizens of Shackelford County,
Texas, believing it to be the
best interests of the citizens of
said county, hereby respectfully
petition your honorable body, to
place fifty cents (50c) additional
on the bounty on wolf scalps,
making bounty on same the sum
of $1.00 per scalp, for each wolf
killed within the limits of said
Shackelford county, Texas.
Respectfully submitted,
Jno. F.Sedwick
N.E.Sherrard
Eli Meyer
G.C.King
J.C.Taylor
I.P.Mitchell
Seth Burleson
J.M.Minton
S. L. Hodges
W. A. Tabor
W.R. Hammer
L.H.Harrison
W.G.Webb
Oliver Palm
T.W.Wilie
F.K.Sterrett
Jerry Hollis
W. A. Crow
O.C. Brush
Paul Raschke
Lai' ;
quest was Col. Joe Sappington of
"Smiles," of Temple. Col. Sap-
pington also accompanied his
copy to the Enterprise with the
following personal letter, which
in itself contains much rich
humor:
Temple, Texas, July 18, 1910.
Dear Bob: Responding to your
request of a few weeks ago, am
mailing you this day under sepa-
rate cover a little editorial matter
for the next issue of the Daily
Enterprise. I am not sending
very much stuff for tne reason
that a little of it goes a long
* ways. A peculiar thing about
my editorials is that they last so
well and bring about such splen-
did results. I wrote Bill Hodges
a two column editorial for his
paper—the Trumpet—in 1894
that he is still getting results
from. The Trumpet was Demo-
cratic to the core and Bill got me
to write an article against the
Populist party, that was then in
the very zenith of its power.
The ink had not dried on that
editorial before it began to bring
results. He and his devil had
nine separate and distinct fights
with members of the Populist
party in less than forty-eight
hours after my editorial appeared
in cold type. Bill claimed that
he pulled -out enough Populist
whiskers within twelve months
after it was published to stuff a
chair. His person still shows the
effect of the editorial and it is
the direct cause of his having
but one ear, as the missing one
was chewed of during one of his
fights. He told me just a few
days ago that he was still having
results from that editorial, not-
withstanding he has been out of
the newspaper business since
1896.
Bob, I only mention this inci-
dent in order to show you how
strong my editorials are and how
careful you should be in using
would write a strong editorial for
the Enterprise. I am in a posi-
tion to write on either side of
this question as I have been on
both sides of it off and on for
the last ten years, and am astrad-
dle of the fence at the present
writing. I know how you stood
on prohibition at Marlin last
year while attending the Texas
Press Association, but that was
no place to judge a fellow, for
Jim Lowry, the buttermilk apos-
tle whose editorials against
strong drink have gone thunder-
ing around the world, always
drinks a little beer on these an-
nual occasions.
I am sending you an article en-
titled, "What Ails the Demo-
cratic Party," that I trust will
give offense to none of your sub-
scribers. I picked out this sub-
ject on account of it being one
that I knew nothing about. I
can write much better on sub-
jects that I am not familar with
than I can those that I know all
about. I am also sending you
some pithy paragraphs that I
think are pure gems.
Bob, there is but one request
that I have to make of you, and
I hope you will grant it, and that
is if your subscribers don't like
my editerials please say nothing
about it, for I am so easily dis-
couraged. Had it not been for a
lot of adverse criticism directed
at my first attempt to write poe-
try, I might to-day be known all
over for my verses; Jbut alas, the
cruel shaft of criticism pierced
my young breast and dried up
the poetic fountain. If my style
of writing suits your readers,
just let me know and I will con-
tinue to edit your paper and it
will not cost you a cent I can
send you an editorial every day
except Friday, that being the
day I do the family washing.
Of course it might be that I
would be able to dash off a short
Farmer Phoning Market.
The telephone eliminates time and
space and enables the farmer to per-
sonally visit the markets and talk with
buyers without the inconvenience of
travel or loss of time.
To talk with the weather man as he
listens to the clouds whisper their plans
for the future is one of the startling and
valuable uses of the telephone. Advance
intelligence enables the farmer to suc-
cessfully combat the Frost King and to
shelter his products from the storm and
rain, and the telephone is a powerful
allv of the farmer in dealing with the
elements of Nature. The following cut
illustrates the use of the rural tele-
phone in battling with -Jack Frost.
J.A.King
W.M. Biggs
Chas.Flippen
M.J. Leech
Alex Spears
J.S.McComb
W.M.Sanders
W.E.Muse
J.P.Vickers
M.W. Keen
H.M.Lenoir
J.H.Friedly
W.S.Horn
L.C.McKelvy
J.W.Ivy
S.S.Diller
Sam Jackson
J. W. Crow
D.P.George
H.W.Moberley
A. W.Reynolds
J.C.Renfro
Wm. Hatcher
H. P. Burkhalter
J.H.Greer
W.M.Broyles
W.A.Williams
G.E. Waters
W.E.Williams
T.A.Deats
L.H.Martin
L.F. Hatcher
L.C.Huskey r
Jim Hayes
J.A.Isabell
Willis Johnson
J.W.Clausell
J.B.Ceorge
S.E.Ezell
W.B.King
David Diller
Agricultural Facts.
One hundred pounds of good
hay for stock is equal to 429
pounds of rye straw.
The leghorn hen lays 200 eggs
a year, while the buff cochin lays
only 120 eggs a year.
Potatoes yield 200 bushels to
the acre, while corn yields only
35 bushels to the acre.
The cost of producing 100
pounds of pork on corn at 75
cents per bushel is $8.91.
Twenty-four ounces of turnip
seed is enough to plant an acre
and will produce ten tons or
20,000 pounds of turnips.
Sheep fed on peas will produce
fourteen pounds of wool, while
sheep fed on potatoes produce
only six pounds of wool.—Con-
tributed by C. H. Lister.
All Druggists sell Dr. Cox's
Barbed Wire Liniment, 25c, 50c
and $1.00 bottles. Guaranteed
to heal without leaving a blem-
ish, or money refunded.
i4pr
jar
Information About Jack
Frost.
lias proven that human
:k1 ingenuity can ward off
of weather and minimize
ie loss vi icb annually occurs to the
i'.vmcr through the eccentricities of
\ature.
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loss
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A New York City beggar
manages to exist on $32 a day,
which he collects from a sym-
pathetic public.
The Best Hour of Life
Is when you do some great
deed or discover some wonderful
fact. This hour came to J. R.
Pitt, of Rocky Mt., N. C., when
he was suffering intensely, as he
says, "from the worst cold I ever
had, I then proved to my satis-
faction what a wonderful Cold
and Cough cure Dr. King's New
Discovery is. For, after taking
one bottle, I was entirely cured.
You cant say anything too good
of a medicine like that" It is the
surest and best remedy for dis-
eased lungs, Hemorrhages, La
Grippe, Asthma, Hay Fever or
any Throat or Lung Trouble. 50c
$100. Trial bottle free. Guar-
anteed by G. L. Gregg.
The best Flour, <
The best Corn Meal,
The best Wheat Bran,
The best Corn Chops is made by
The Burnis Mill and Elevator Co.
of Fort Worth, Texas.
SEOWKKI COOK.
The above is sold and
fully guaranteed by
Sow Your Money in a Fertile Proposition
STOP PAYING RENT
We will aid you in Buying or Paying
Off mortgage on your home by allow-
ing you to pay for it in Small Annual
Installments
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Our Return Payments Are
Only $15.00 a Year
On each $100.00 borrowed, which will pay up the entire
amount of loan and interest in 9 years, the privilege, how-
ever is given of paying up at any time interest only being
charged for number of years that loan is retained.
$ 60.00 per year will pay back a $ 400.00 Loan in 9 Yrs.
$ 75 00 per year will pay back a $ 500.00 Loan in 9 Yr».
$150.00 per year will pay back a $1000.00 Loan in 9 Yrs.
$300.00 per year will pay back a $2000.00 Loan in 9 Yrs.
Like ratio on loans of other amounts. ^Reliable repre-
sentatives wanted in every county.
The Jackson Loan & Trust Company
JACKSON, MISS.
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The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1910, newspaper, August 12, 1910; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth416537/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.