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The Signal Office is Head-
quarters for Legal Blanks
*eve> y description! Crop
and ohabtelmortgages,war
ranty arid quit claim deeds
vendors lien notes, deed,s of
trust, etcf always in stock!
HONEY GROVE SIGNAL.
VOL. 16,
Honey Grove, Texas, Friday, February 9, 1906,
NO. I.
The Signal Office is Head-
quarters for Job Printing!
We make a specialty of St
ciety Printing! W"e match
engraving in all the latest
scripts, stationers text, Ro-
man and old English•
HUNTING A Wife.
IRICES
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cream
Bakino POWOltR.
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Good health depends mostly upon
the food we eat.
We can’t be healthy if we take alum
or other poison daily in our food.
Dr. Price’s Baking Powder is abso-
lutely free from alum. It is made from
pure cream of tartar and adds to the
healthfulness of the food*
Price Baking Powder Co.’
Chicago.
Note.—Baking powders that are sold at
ten to thirty cents a pound, or a cent
an ounce are made from alum. Avoid
them.
THE POOREST SENATOR.
Pettus of Alabama, Does Net Believe in
Leaving Money.
Of late years the U. S. Senate
has been known as a body of
rich men, and it is. There are
several whose wealth reaches
above $50,000,000 and probably a
majority of the senators are in
the millionaire class. But there
are a few who are poor—who
have no other income than their
salaries and spend same with as
great regularity as the wage
worker who receives only ten
dollars a week.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama,
confessed recently at the White
House that he will easily take
rank in the class of poorest men
in the Senate, there having been
some gossip as to the poorest
man there. The venerable Ala-
bama senaior, 84 years old, call-
ed on the president.
“I agree with William Wirt,
who was attorney-general of the
United States, that industrious
"lawyers work harder, live better
and die poorer than any other
class of people.”
Senator Pettus does not believe
in leaving money behind him and
thinks that it encourages lazi-
ness.
•‘I have grandsons and great
grandsons and still another gen-
eration coming on,” said the sen-
ator. “I do not want to leave
them so they will not have to
work, for these men with millions
ao not have to labor and conse-
quently they do not work.”
“Is it true, Senator, as quoted
in the newspapers, that you said
if you had life to live over again
you would get out in the middle
of a big farm and stay there?”
some one asked.
“Well, I don’t remember say-
ing that, but I certainly have
thought it a number of times,”
was the response.
It is refreshing to find occa-
sionally a man who is not really
in love with money. We do not
mean by this the spendthrift who
wantonly wastes his means, nor
the man who is too lazy to earn
money; but the man who cares
only for sufficient means to ena-
ble him to live comfortably and
meet his obligations promptly.
Such a man was John H. Rea-
; gan, and such is Senator Pettus.
i The names of these men will be
j lovingly remembered long after
j the names of many millionaires
i have been forgotten.
A Bashful Bridegroom.
; A bashful young man living
near Vernon recently got married
and a few days afterward he de-
livered himself thusly to a sym-
pathizing friend: “You don’t
know how bashful I am,” he
murmured. “The gals just wor-
ry the life out of me. When I
' stood up to get married they all
giggled, and when the minister
asked me if I’d take this woman
!to be my wife, I said, “pretty
well, thankee;” and when he
pronounced us man and wife, and
said, “what God has joined to-
gether let no man rip apart?” I
broke down and bawled. Oh! it
was horrible. But that’s noth-
ing to what’s to come. ’Bout
eleven o’clock the old man sez,
ssz he: ‘Your room ’head o’ the
stairs.’ I was so sheered that
when I tried to- stand up my legs
gave away and fell, and I fell
over the dog and got bit in three
places. I waited .till everybody’d
gone to bed, then crawled up
stairs like a spoon thief. I was
afraid to go in, so I sat on the
stairs and shivered. It’s no use,
sez I, wot’s got to be hez. So I
tuck off my clothes in the dark
and shut my eves. Then I made
a break for the door, I found the
bed the bed and pulled the cover
over my head an’ laid on the
front rail. In the morning I peep-
ed through my fingers to see if I
could get up and dress and get
out ’fore she woke up and hang
me if I wasn’t in bed with the old
man an’ woman.”—Ex.
Agonizing Burns
are instantly relieved, and-per-
fectly healed, by Bucklen’s Ar-
nica Salve. C. Rivenbark, Jr.,
of Norfolk, Va., writes: “I
burnt my knee dreadfully; that
it blistered all over. Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve stopped the pain,
and healed it without a scar.”
Also heals all wounds and sores.
25c at Murry & Evans.
Blind Headache
“About a year ago,!
1123 Broadway, Auguj
blind, sick headaches^ -
no relief until I tried4
writes Mrs. Mattie Allen, of
suffered with
.and could get
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A Novel Arrangement Between a Farmer
and a Widow.
One day last week a farmer
living in the northwest part of
the county who is a widower
called on* a well known citizen of
Paris, accompanied by a friend,
and asked the citizen if he knew
of a good woman whom he could
get to keep house for him, stat-
ing that he was a widower with
only two children, both of whom
were grown. After a few mo-
ments reflection the citizen told
him that he knew of three or four
widows who had children depend-
ent upon them and who would
like to get work. He asked the
farmer how-much he was willing
to pay a housekeeper.
Before the farmer could answer,
the friend who had accompanied
him said: “The dickens, he don’t
want to hire a woman to work for
him as a servant; but wants to
get married.” The citizen then
remarked that that brought on
more talk, but said he guessed he
could find a widow for him pro-
vided he suited her. He then
described three or four widows,
told him about how old they were,
how many children they had,
etc. After hearing the different
ones described the farmer picked
out one from the description who
has four children. She is of a
good family and-is rather come-
ly, but her husband died leaving
her dependent and she has had a
hard struggle.
After the farmer Lad decided
that her description suited him he
asked the citizen if he would go
see her for him right away and
arrange for an interview, ex-
plaining to her that he was bent
on matrimony. The citizen agreed
and went to see her at once. The
widow said that if she could bet-
ter her condition by marrying
that she would gladly do so, but
that she would have to be assur-
ed that he was a man of good
moral standing and was able to
support her. The citizen return-
ed and reported the result of the
interview to the farmer, and as he
had never met him before he told
the farmer that he would have to
get testimonials as to his charac-
ter and ability to take care of a
wife.
Tfie farmer left the citizen’s
store with the statement that he
would be back in a few minutes.
True to his word, he returned in-
side of an hour with written tes-
timonials from nearly a score of
the best people in Paris certify-
ing to his character and that he
is in good circumstances, out of
debt. The citizen read the testi-
monials until he was tired and
gave up reading the others when
when he found that they all gave
the farmer the very Joest recom-
mendation.
The farmer was asked when he
would like to see the widow and
replied, right away. The citizen
accompanied him to the place
and after introducing them retir-
ed. The couple appeared to have
created a mutually favorable im-
pression, and as a result of the
meeting between them it was
agreed that the farmer should
come to Paris and take her to the
country to keep house for him
for a week, and that after she
has kept _ house a week for him
they are to get married if they
continue to like each other as
well as they did at first. The se-
quel to the romance is promised
after the week’s trial.—Paris
News.'
Sues the Knights of Honor
Over twenty-five years ago
J. T. Bass joined the Knights of
Honor, then he paid two dollars
per month assessment. That
assessment was gradually in-
creased till the last few years he
has paid as high as eight dolfars
per month. During last fall Mr.
Bass arrived at the age of 70
years when his assessment was
jumped to $15 per month, as
all other members who were 70
years old, but the younger men
here were not raised in propor-
tion. Mr. Bass said this showed
a discrimination and he refused
to pay anything but eight dollars
per month. They then suspend-
ed him from the lodge when he
brought suit for the money he
had paid during the last quarter
of a ceutury. Mr. Bass has
paid the lodge about 11,500 in
cash.—Daingerfield News.
Try a bag of White Frost flour
from Wilkins, Wood & Patteson
and you will be pleased with its
baking quality.
Signal and Republic $1.60.
The Democratic members of
the United States Senate have
decided to try the efficacy of strict
organization for a time and. the
party lash is being applied vigor-
ously. Two Democrats had re-
fused to act with the party on the
question of the Santo Domingo
treaty, which President Roose-
velt submitted to the Senate at
the last session, but was not act-
ed on. After congress adjourn-
sd the President took the bits in
his teeth and proceeded upon his
own authority to execute the pro-
visions of the treaty by pmrtf yDr six weeks to come will be bad
Bearing Fruit.
The Signal has only sixty sub-
scribers in Dallas, but a little
leaven frequently leavens the
whole lump, and we hope, ere the
cycles of time cease to roll, to re-
form that wicked city. To prove
that our efforts are! bearing fruit
we need only print the following
communication received this
week from a citizen of Dallas:
GROUND HOG SAW SHADDOW.
“Dallas, Texas, Jan. 31,1906.
‘Honey Grove Signal:—
“We notice in the Sunday Tinr.es-
| Friday Was a Fair Day Which Means
Much Bad Weather.
1 Last Friday was Candlnmas,
popularly known as ground hog
day, one of the lingering1 super-
stitions of weather folk-lore. If
he did not see his shadow on such
a day as Friday his lamps
were certainly bum. Scarcely a
clo®d passed over the horizon,
| and his hogship, arctomys mon-
ax, was given a.good field for his
Herald that Col. Lowry had taken no-
tice to the death penalty handed the
negro by the Dallas county jury ; also
of the packet handed the poor, friend-
less Dutchman, But as to the ques- j. •
tion when such a packet was handed a j f
murderer who had money or influent! enough on Feb. 2 to cast a
friends, of course that' was not j "shadow the ground hog sees his
prognostications, and according
to the popular idea, there will be
six weeks of bad weather.
n many parts of the country it
relieved that if there is sun-
answered and never will be while some
of the present officers have their say.
Dallas can boast of a boy only 14 years
old who is a first-class stabber, and Iris
victim lies beneath the sod. We know
of some officers and jurymen in Dallas
who have a through ticket to Hades
for some of their deeds done in the
name of law, but they have no return
ticket and every good citizen should
praise the Lord for that fact.
“Dallas Citizen.”
This communication is respect-
fully referred to Col. Fitzgerald
and the One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Club. It may be that
they are so anxious to build Dal-
shadow and going back into his
hibernating quarters remains for
six weeks longer. If he does not
see his shadow he does not go
back, and remains out, as spring
has come. But in most locali-
ties it is believed that the great
prognosticator sallies from his
winter nap at noon Feb. 2, and if
he sees his shadow it is all off so
far as pretty weather is concern-
ed, but if the day is cloudy he
remains out and winter is gone.
clubs devoted to its cultivation in
t£fe principal cities of Europe
(3,000 in Paris, for example) and
that there are about twenty-five
periodicals published in the lan-
guage. At a congress of Esper-
antists held in Boulogne, twelve
hundred representatives from
twenty-two nations were present,
and during the session, which
lasted a week, the resources of
the language for all purposes
from argument to flirtation and
from humor to religion were ful-
ly put to the test. The simplicity
of the language is indicated by
the fact that its complete gram-
mar occupies only four printed
pages in the official text-book,
and the writer in the “Atlantic”
(who is a professor modern lan-
guages and not a devotee of this
movement) says that, taking up
the text-book for recreation at 3
o’clock one Sunday afternoon he
could read fluently at four
o’clock, and after supper wrote a
letter in Esperanto.—Ex.
FROZE TO DEATH.
Go TO
CLARK & NBBLBTT
and see their line of Saddles which is
complete in every respect. Their har-
ness case ^ is filled with single and
double harness; also wagon harness.
They make all the harness and saddles
they sell and there is no shop in North
Texas better equipped for making har-
ness and saddles than theirs. They
also make all kinds of strap work and
keep on hand a good selection of col-
lars, collar pads, buggy tops, poles,
shafts, cushions, lap robes, whips,
hames, chains and everything carried in
a farness and saddle shop at prices tha*
are reasonable.
CLARK & NEBLETT.
Former District Clerk of Delta County Was
Found Dead Monday Morning.
Bob Bennett, a well known cit-
l izen of Delta county md former
It is astonishing how many | District Clerk, was found dead
people remember ground hog day,! early Monday morning. The
las’ population up to the 150,000 and
make themselves believe | body was found by Mayor Lane
mark that tluey will furnish the ; they believe in the sign. The j when he went to open his office,
return tickets which “Citizen”! supers ition seems to be deep-; It is not known how deceased
says the Dallas officials have fail- j rooted in many parts of the j came to his death but it is gener-
ed to provide themselves. ' We country, especially where the
are confident that Col. Fitzgerald ground, hog, or woodchuck, as it
has a strong pull with the fellow j is called, is found. In other
that issues tickets at the other j sections the bear, badger and
end of the line.
ing for the collection of San Do-
mingan revenues. Two Demo-
cratic senators announced that
they would sustain the President
in his willful contempt of the
Senate’s prerogative, and then it
was that the party lash was ap-
plied. The Democrats were call-
ed together and a resolution was
adopted to admit no Democrat to
the party caucus that refused to
abide by the action of the caucus.
It seems to have had the desired
effect and the insurgents will vote
with the party hereafter. It has
been said that it is impossible to
organize the Democratic party,
but after all this may be a mis-
take.
All Run Down
HIS is a common expres-
sion we hear on every
side. Unless there is
some organic trouble, the con-
dition can doubtless be remedied.
Your doctor is the best adviser.
Do not dose yourself with all
kinds of advertised remedies —
get his opinion. More than likely
you need a concentrated fat food
to enrich your blood and tone
up the system.
Scott’s Emulsion
of Cod Ling-Oil V
is just such a food in its best form.
It will build up the weakened
and wasted body when all
other foods fail to nourish. If
you are run down or emaciated,
give it a trial: it cannot hurt
you. It is essentially the best
possible nourishment for delicate
children and pale, anaemic girls.
We will send you a sample free.
other hibernating animals serve
the purposes of prognostication
instead of his hogship.
Whether persons believe in it
or not, they love to talk about it,
and prelend to have remembered
whether the sign held good or
not.
“There’s something in these
ancient superstitions which, err-
ing though they are, our fancy
loves.”
“If Candelmas Day be fair and clear,
Corn and fruit will then be dear. ’ ’
This popular couplet tells the
story. If the day is clear, or
the ground hog sees his shadow,
Be sure that this picture
in the fr-rm of a label is on
the wrapper of every bottle
of Emulsion you buy.
SCOTT & BOWNE
Chemists
409 Pearl Street, New York
50c. and $1. All Druggists
and the fruit crop will perhaps be
killed by a late frost. It will also
cause a late spring which will
prevent the planting of the corn
at the right time, and therefore
endanger the crop.
The history of the weather
bureau, however, is not very
friendly to the ground hog and
his great shadowgraph of the
weather.
Universal Language.
Not long after the confusion of
tongues at the Tower of Babel,
some enterprising Mesopotamian
who had been struggling for the
first time with the irregular verbs
of an ancient speech, in an effort
to regain communication with
some of his friends doubtless sug-
gested that some steps ought to
be taken toward a return to a uni-
versal language. We have no
historical evidence, but on gen-
eral principles it must have been
so. And from that day to this,
and more particularly since the
close relations of trade and
diplomacy between nations of dif-
ferent languages, there has been
a succession of attempts to create
and popularize a universal lan-
guage. We all remember the
rise and fall of Volapuk. Idiom
neutral was its lineal descendant.
The proposal to use a simplified
and modernized Latin has many
advocates. Teutonish is an arti-
ficial language whose name indi-
cates the guiding principle of its
construction. Realizing tha
is much easier to construct an
ideal language than to get it
one enthusiast has pro-
posed the calling of an interna-
tional congress of savants to form
a universal language, and the
establishment of a very elaborate
system of bounties to secure its
general adoption. The total es-
timated cost of this scheme is five
billion dollars, but what is that in
comparison with the magnitude
of the anticipated benefits, for,
says the zealous advocate, “Ig-
norance and mental slavery
would pass away, and the wars,
famines and pestilences would
vanish from the globe.” At pres-
ent, Esperanto is the most prom-
ising candidate among the inter-
national languages. It has at-
tained the dignity of a descrip-
tive article in “Atlantic Month-
ly.” We are told that this lan-
guage has already been accepted
by many influential persons and
societies, that there are large
ally believed that he went to the
office some time during the night
in an unconscious condition and
lay down upon the table expect-
ing to remain until morning, and
the night being so cold, he froze
to death.
Bennett was about 50 years old
and had been a very prominent
man in Delta county.
A Gold Brick Sold the Farmer.
The Caller asks every farmer
and stockman who reads this to
fix the memory of it in his mind
and then pass it on to his neigh-
bor who may unfortunately not
be a reader of your favorite pa-
per. In the lines that follow, if
heeded, there is a value greater
than the cost of the paper a life-
time. There are dozens of brands
of "’“condition powders” on . the
market purporting to cure dis-
eases of and fatten stock, make
hens lay, and all that kind of rot.
Now listen; half a dozen state
experimental stations have re-
cently tested and analyzed all
these preparations of note. They
are all essentially the same and
absolutely worthless. Whan you
buy them you are paying at the
rate of $8,000 a ton for a com-
pound of wheat bran, ground
corn cobs, a little pepper and a
sprinkle of common salt. Not
only this—in a number of in-
stances caretul tests were made.
A bunch of cattle, sheep or hens
were given the vaunted mixtures
and kept, in all other conditions,
exactly like a similar bunch mi-
nus the powders. Each and ev-
ery test showed the stock without
the stuff did better in every way
than did the bunch with it. The
hens laid more eggs, the stock
gained more weight, and so far
from having any value, the com-
pounds were shown to be abso-
lutely injurious.—Corpus Christi
Caller.
Gin Burns at Ben Franklin.
Ben Franklin, Feb. 5.—At 1
o’clock this morning fire was dis-
covered in the gin owned by the
Paris Cotton Oil company. The
fire had. reached such headway
that it was impossible to check it
as there'is no protection here
whatever.
operation
out several
nd whgn it was
no way in
which fire could have originated,
however such a thing is possible
that it could have caught acci-
dentally, but not probable.
Several bales of cotton that
were stored in the gin house were
also destroyed.
Fraud Exposed.
A few counterfeiters have late-
ly been making and trying to sell
imitations of Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, and other
medicines, thereby defrauding
the public. Thte is to warn you
to beware of such people, who
seek to profit, through stealing
the reputation of remedies which
have been successfully curing
disease, for over 35 years. A
sure protection, to you, is our
name on the wrapper. Look for
it, on all Dr. King’s or- Bucklen’s
remedies, as all others are mere
imitations. H. E. Bucklen &
Co., Chicago, 111., and Windsor,
Canada. Sold b y Murray &
Evans.
Running for Office in Texas.
A defeated Texas democrat
published the following expense
account which shows that demo-
crats even down in Texas don’t
have fair sailing:
“Lost 4 months, 33 days can-
vassing; 1340 hours thinking
about the election; 5 acres of
cotton; 25 acres of corn; a whole
sweet potato crop; 4 sheep; 4
shoats and 1 beef to barbecue; 2
front teeth and a considerable
amount of hair in a personal
skirmish. Gave 97 plugs of to-
bacco, 7 Sunday school books, 2
pair of suspenders, 4 calico
dresses, 7 dolls and 13 baby rat-
tlers.
“Told 2,888 lies; shook hands
23,477 times; talked enough to
have made in print 1,000 large
volumes size of patent office re-
ports; kissed 126 babies; kindled
15 kitchen fires; cut three cords
of wood; picked 746 pounds of
cotton; helped to pull 7 wagon
loads of corn; dug 14 bushels of
potatoes; toted 27 buckets of wa-
ter; put up 7 stoves; was dog bit
5 times: watch broken by baby
which cost $3 to have repaired.
“Loaned out 8 barrels of flour,
20 bushels of meal, 150 pounds of
bacon, 57 pounds of butter, 42
dozen eggs, 3 umbrellas, 13 lead
pencils, 1 bible dictionary, 1
mowing blade, 2 hoes, 1 over-
coat, 2 boxes paper collars, none
of which has been returned.
“Called my opponent a peram-
bulating liar—doctor’s bill $10.
Had 5 arguments with my wife—
result: 1 flower vase smashed, 1
broom handle broken, 1 dish of
hash knocked off the table, 1 shirt
bosom ruined, 1 handful of whis-
kers pulled out, 10c worth of
sticking plaster bought. Besides
spending $1,768.”—Ex.
Offended the Negro.
An Irishman and a negro were
engaged in work on one of the
tall buildings being built in Dal-
las. The negro was engaged in
mixing mortar in the basement of
thebu lding,and the Irishman was
carrying brick and mortar to the
brick-layers at work near the top
of the building. All progressed
harmoniously until the workmen
reached the fourth story. Then
it happened that as the Irishman
was emptying, a hod of bricks at
the top of the building one of the
bricks slipped off the hod and fell
down and struck the negro square
on the head and was shattered
all to pieces. The negro stopped
mixing his mortar, placed his
arms akimbo, looked up toward
the top of the building and yell-
ed: “Look here dar! If you
don’t quit spitting down here on
my head I’se gwine tell de boss,
sho. You heah me now.”—Sand-
wich.
Abandoning State Lands.
Information reaching Austin
from the western part of the stale
is to the effect that many home-
seekers who purchased state
land September 1 are abandon-
ing their claims and returning to
eastern states. They purchased
land without seeing it, that is
they paid the first payment,
which was 1-4 of the entire pur-
chase price, and had within 60
and 90 days to move on the land
and further establish their claim.
Of course, many of them are
trying to get their first payments
returned to them, but the state
cannot do this. The land office
is getting many letters request-
ing a refund of the money.
The people no doubt expected
to find improved farms with
fences and all outbuildings, close
to churches and school houses at
a low price. Failing in this, they
are pulling out and returning to
their old homes.
Man’s Future.
A lady clergyman tells us that
in twenty-five years women have
increased in stature two and one-
half inches and men have de-
creased in the same degree. If
the sexes are thus getting apart
five inches in twenty-five years,
it is not difficult to calculate how
long it will be before man will be
utilized by woman as a lapdog or
as a bangle for her bracelet.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Signal and Commoner $1.60.
y
The dose is one, just one pill |
at bedtime. Sugar-coated J
mild, certain. They cures
con sti pation. jj
52STS3S& liflsMiJXE
We have in stock all sizes
of Plows and Middle Bus-
ters in either the Moline
or the Oliver make. We
will give good terms on
them to early buyers : : :
UNDERWOOD
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 9, 1906, newspaper, February 9, 1906; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth496514/m1/1/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.