Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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HUE! GBOTE SIGNAL
PUBLISHED EVERY
FRIDAY
Signal Pub. Co. - Publishers
J. H. Lowry - - -
Editor
An effort is making to have
switches removed from the pub-
lic school rooms of Dallas. With-
out explanation the word switches
leaves one to flounder around in
doubt, since there are switches
and switches. One kind a fellow
gladly welcomes to his breast,
the other kind gets a chance only
at a fellow’s rear side and then
usually has to catch him on the
run. —sssb—ss—SSSS.
Bob Williams, the new gov-
ernor of Oklahoma, has stirred
up trouble in Oklahoma office-
holding circles, and forever ruin-
ed his popularity. Governor Wil-
liams says every state employe
must work—work full hours ev-
ery day—or get no pay. The Ok-
lahoma governor is cruel. The
only duties of an office-holder
should be to manage a clerk and
draw his salary. If an office-
holder must really work, why an
office? __
There may come to this coun-
try again conditions as bad as we
have now, but never again will
bad conditions find the people,
especially the farmers, in as poor
shape to meet them as this year.
They have learned a lesson and
learned it well. That lesson is
that the one-crop plan is ruinous.
Our people will not need to be
taught further that there must
be grown at home most of the
food for people and stock. Of
course there will be failures in
some of the food crops, failures
that will discourage, yet they
must be grown. There’s safety
in no other plan. The lesson we
are learning is a bitter one, but
it will be worth millions in the
years to come.
Four Kansas City land agents
have been convicted on charges
of swindling and must serve
terms. These energetic boomers
sold a large portion of the ever-
glades of Florida. They repre-
sented the land as level and very
fertile. It is. But when the
purchasers thereof went to look
at their farms they found that
they could see the land only from
boats—the land was four feet un-
der water. The purchasers com-
plained, the sellers were arrest-
ed. On trial the promoters con-
tended that the land was just as
they represented—level and fer-
tile—that they hadn’t represented
it to be free from water. The
courts held, however, that the
men were guilty of swindling.
After all, the strange feature is
that people bought land they had
never seen from men they didn’t
know. __
A death around which gathered
much to arouse one’s sympathies
and cast a deep mantle of sorrow
was that of Albert Sullivan at
Bonham last Friday. Albert Sul-
livan was the young man who
was adjudged insane some three
weeks ago at the county site, an
account of the sad affair being
published in these columns at the
time. Only a few weeks before
the young man, who was only 22,
had been granted a certificate to
teach school. The physicians say
his mental troubles were caused
by hard study. Ambitious to
equip himself for service the
young man had studied by day
and far into the night, but just
as he reached the goal of his am-
bition his mental faculties gave
way and his once bright and hap-
py mind was clouded forever.
Truly, a tragedy sorrowful to
gaze upon! Disease then came
to the young man’s body, and
last Friday life’s silver chord
snapped; Death is not always
unkind. It was not unkind to
Albert Sullivan, who, bereft of
all that he had striven for, all
that he had hoped for, passed
from a scene in which he could
have played only a useless, a pit-
iable part.
ANARCHY NEAR US.
Every just person must and
does sympathize with people who
are without employment and
without funds to provide the
necessities of life, and yet every
just person must say that the
meeting of Socialists and unem-
ployed of Dallas Tuesday night
was a disgrace to the state.
Newspaper reports say that
men stood up in this meeting and
advocated a raid upon the stores
of the city—actually counseled
the breaking down of doors and
windows and the taking of the
goods therein.w Truly, this is an-
archy run mad, and right in our
beloved Texas at that.
Every effort possible, we are
confident, will be made to relieve
the unemployed of Dallas, and
no one will be allowed to go hun-
gry, but no man should hesitate
to say that every attempt to de-
stroy and take the goods of oth-
ers, as well as persons counseling
such acts of anarchy, should be
punished to the limit of the law.
No doubt there are many
worthy people among the unem-
ployed of the city, but there are
also many who squandered their
substance on drink when tidies
were easier, taking no thought
for the morrow or the conditions
it might usher in. At any event,
sympathize with the unemployed
as we may arid ought, our gov-
ernment and people cannot af-
ford to temporize with anarchy.
Encouragement of lawlessness
means ruin to any people who
give it. __
Fencerail Smith says he’s
figured that an ordinary hen
will cost about 48 cents to
maintain on the farm, and
any old year she’ll produce
as much as $1.50, leaving a
net profit of $1.02.—Mineral
Wells Index.
Fencerail has done a neat
job of figuring and we honor
him for what he has done. How-
ever, it won’t do to carry Fence-
rail’s figures too far or bet on
;hem every time. The great mis-
take many of us make is in get-
ting a toehold on a small corner
)f truth and piling up figures
therefrom that will put us in Mr.
Rockefeller’s class. According
;o the figores submitted, every
nan in the United States could
;arn ten thousand dollars next
fear in the poultry business; to
lo this it would only be neces-
sary to raise ten thousand hens.
But the scheme wouldn’t work,
for hens would soon drop to the
Drice the writer sold them at
;hirty-five years ago—10 cents a
jiece. This would be below the
3rice of production and all would
?o bankrupt. Another thing in
;he way is that every chicken
latched out doesn’t make a hen,
>r a rooster. We made arrange-
nents once to get rich from the
poultry business and had as fine
i yard of chicks as ever tempted
;he appetite of a hawk. But in
:wo short nights the minks and
:he pole cats got ninety per cent
if our capital stock. Fencerail
leeds to be taught that there are
ither things guarding the road
to wealth than boll worms and
cotton market bears. Chickens
have the roup, turkeys die with
the sore head and the straddles,
hogs have cholera, dogs catch
sheep, colts hang up on wire
fences, greenbugs eat wheat and
cattle have the foot and mouth
disease. The only thing that’s
never destroyed by parasites or
disease is the crop of weeds. For
a sure route to wealth build up a
market for them and then grow
weeds.
MONUMENT FOR A DOG.
While shells are flying thick
and fast on the gory fields of
Europe the soldiers have turned
from their own fears and sorrows
long enough to raise funds for a
monument for a dog. And in do-
ing so they are doing a beautiful
work—a work that breathes grat-
itude for faithful service and
honors well deserved. Here is
the story as cabled from France:
“Dunkirk, France, Nov. 29.
—‘Marquis,’ the regimental
dispatch dog of the Twenty-
Third French Infantry, has
been mentioned in the orders
of the day, having fallen on
duty at the battle of Sarre-
bourg. At this action it be-
came necessary for an officer
to send a report immediately
to his superior, but at the
time the German fire was too
intense to allow a man to
cross the fire zone and ‘Mar-
quis’ was charged with the
mission. Off he ran, across
the fire-swept zone, and ar-
rived nearly at the objective
point, when a German shell
struck him in the right side
and brought him down. He
struggled to his feet, though
losing a great deal of blood,
and dragged himself up to
the position where the officer
was directing a section of
machine-guns. He let fall'
the order, reddened by his
blood, and breathed his last.
His soldier comrades are ar-
ranging a fund for a monu-
ment on which is to be
inscribed: ‘Marquis, killed
on the field of honor.’ ”
This service, had it been per-
formed by a man, would have
been a subject for many beauti-
ful lines of song and story, and
monuments would have been
reared in his honor in many of
the cities of sunny France. It is
well that the soldiers stopped
long enough to pay tribute to the
dog that hesitated not when call-
ed upon to do a service they
dared not undertake. “Mar-
quis” is not the only dog that
has proved his faithfulness—he
is not the only one that has giv
en his life to serve those he
loved. If all the heroic deeds
performed by lowly canines were
recorded m a book the volume
would thrill the great heart of
humanity and win from the read-
ers thereof everlasting friend-
ship for the noble, faithful dog.
There are those who find de-
light in kicking a dog that asks
nothing more than friendship, or
in hurling a stone at the dog
guilty of no greater crime than
searching for a bite to “eat. And
yet that dog so cruelly treated is
capable of a friendship true as
steel, of a devotion that would
dare all and do all. And ’tis far
more noble in man, to whom God
gave dominion over the lower
animals, to win the friendship
and develop the beautiful quali-
ties of the wretched dog than to
add to its miseries by a kick or a
stone.
In Portland, Ore., automo-
bile speeders are sentenced to
the rock pile; no fines are ac-
cepted. Portland has 300,-
000 inhabitants and has not
had an accident during the
nine months the law has been
in effect. —Clarksville Times.
A very good plan, no doubt,
o put a check on speeding. But,
peaking of speeding, we used to
oppose it, but now we say just
et any automobile get right out
>n the streets of Honey Grove,
>pen its muffler, throw itself into
ligh and run its blamedest. We
iren’t afraid of any automobile
■unning over us now.
Cracks at the Crowd. ^
j^Claude Callao in Star-Telegram^J
The Beaumont Journal has
learned that there are 23,251
single women in this country
who pay an income tax. Even if
the figures are correct, it is un-
wise to let the world know how
slow our boys are to see an op-
portunity when it passes them in
a lovely gown. If we were single
—which is by no means true-
one of those women who pay an
income tax would marry us or
we would be refused 23,251
times. We would offer our hand,
our heart and our debts to the
last one of them. If one had a
strong, business-like face we
would talk to her about lands,
cattle, bonds and investments
generally. If one appeared full
of life we would tell her how we
enjoyed globe-trotting, mountain,
climbing and all such things. If
we met with one of a sentimental
turn we would read poetry to
her until she went to sleep. We
might not get an income tax-
paying wife, but if we didn’t we
would have the world’s record
for proposing.
A broken-hearted wife would
be one whose husband gave her
a Christmas present that cost
only four times as much as the
one she gave him.
A woman always thinks that
her shoes are too large for her,
even if she can’t get them on.
In order to hurry him up on
buying the license why don’t you
remind him that people do not
live so long as they did before
the flood.
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We have too many stoves
and are making Special
Prices to move them out.
Come and figure with
us before you purchase.
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work. Finally people commenced
drifting in from the old states.
Many of them were from the
very best families and others
came to avoid the annoyance of
being hanged. Who would have
thought at that time that Texas
would one day be filled with hap-
py homes, mortgages, postoffices,
politicians, railroads and damage
suits?
The United States commission
on industrial relation will hold a
meeting in Dallas from Decem-
ber 14 to 17. One of the prin-
cipal questions to be considered
by the commission is land monop-
oly, and the testimony of rent-
ers, landlords and students of
the land question will be heard.
Taxation as a means of destroy-
ing land monopoly will receive
special consideration. This seems
to be the popular plan of break-
ing up land monopoly in Amer-
ica and it is believed that the
commission will recommend it in
its final report. In Texas the
plan already has many advo-
cates. A few years hence, no
doubt, we shall see such a heavy
tax laid on land in excess of a
family’s ability to cultivate, that
no man will care to hold surplus
land. Heretofore the contention
has been that a man may own all
the land he can buy, but we are
drifting, and soon there will be
laws on the statute making it un-
profitable for a man to own more
land than he can cultivate.
Don’t distrust a man in every-
thing because he says he takes a
cold plunge on winter mornings.
He may be absolutely reliable
about everything else. Almost
every fellow has some one place
in which he crushes the truth to
earth and spikes it down.
Says the Temple Telegram:
“Americans excel all other high-
ly civilized nations in the prac-
tice of murder.” Yes, and still
there seems to be no cause for it.
We always drag the accused
through a long trial, and it does
look as if this would be a warn-
ing to others that the man who
commits crime is certain to be
annoyed for weeks before he is
finally acquitted.
Except for the sentiment at-
tached to gifts we would be will-
ing to enter an agreement right
now to exchange all our Christ-
mas presents for one good coun-
try ham—or even for a shoulder.
Texas was discovered by mis-
take. La Salle didn’t mean to
find us. He was looking for the
mouth of the Mississippi, but the
water in the Gulf of Mexico
looked so much the same in every
direction that he couldn’t tell
which way to go. He reached
Matagorda Bay instead of the
river he had set out to find. This
shows how little things may have
a great influence on history. But
for the mistake of La Salle we
might be undiscovered to this
good day. Of course there is also
a possibility that we would have
been discovered. As the states
bordering on Texas went dry the
people would have commenced to
look for some place where they
could go for supplies, and in this
way they might have found us
even if La Salle had reached the
Mississippi river. For a long-
time after we were found we
didn’t amount to much. We con-
tinued to kill buffalo, instead of
going to the butcher for our meat.
We had war dances instead of
the tango, hesitation, maxixe and
fox trot. In those days our wives
did not go through the pockets
of our trousers—partly because
they were afraid to, and partly
because we didn’t have any
trousers. At that time we called
our wives “squaws,” and one of
their duties was to do all the
While we haven’t gained any
ground since the reserve banks
opened, we are holding our own.
We have not been able to make
any new notes, but we still owe
all the old ones.
In Pennsylvania a wedding
was called off because the groom
failed to put in an appearance.
Some people allow the most
trivial things to interfere with
their plans.
Do your Christmas borrowing
early. If you wait until the last
there will be such a crowd that
you can’t get to the window.
If the war in Europe ever does
end—which, of course, isn’t prob-
able—the North Sea will have to
be pumped dry before they can
get all the mines out of it, and
even then we would be afraid to
do much traveling over its sur-
face. It is bad enough to be sea
sick, but where there is danger
of being blown a thousand feet
high and losing everything out
of one’s pockets, we prefer to
remain on dry land.
A shipload of flour will go to
Belgium next week, a present
from the millers of America to
the hungry people of that war-
stricken country. A Fannin coun-
ty mill, the Steger Milling Com-
pany of Bonham, contributed
twenty-five barrels of flour to
the shipment.
Germany is soon to be a catless
country. By order of the Em-
peror all the cats in the coun-
try are to be killed and their
fur used to make linings for
the soldiers’ coats. This is a
cat-astrophe of the war that is
liable to bring about a cat-aclysm
among the old maids and may
prove a cat-aclasm to the Ger-
man powers. At any rate it
will send all the cats to the,
cat-acombs.
When the hands chap badly
and the skin splits on the finger
tips, every motion is painful,
Ballard’s Snow Liniment puts ap
end to the misery. One or twq>
applications heals all soreness
and restores the hands to sound
condition. Price 25c, 50c and $1
per bottle. Sold by Honey Grove
Pharmacy and Black & Little.
Signal and Dallas News, $1.75 f "‘
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914, newspaper, December 4, 1914; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621355/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.