Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Signal Pub. Co. - Publishers
I. H. Lowry - - ■ Editor
Our understanding of the feel-
ing of our government toward
Germany and Great Britain is
that we are mad at both nations
and very anxious to whip them,
and would do so in a minute if
we could whip them without go-
ing to war.
Galveston stood the storm very
well and is still on the map look-
ing at the gulf from one of the
prettiest beaches in the world;
but we expect to do our visiting
in Galveston henceforth during
the season of sunshiny days and
moonshiny nights.
Weather Prophet Foster pre-
dicts a drouth for the latter part
of August and September. If
Mr. Foster can hold the valves of
the skies in place for eight weeks
he’ll be more popular in North
Texas than President Wilson or
the best southpaw that ever
caused a batter to saw the air.
The mayor of Atlanta warns
ex-Governor Slayton to stay away
from Georgia, intimating that he
will meet the fate of Leo Frank
if he returns. It appears that
Georgians are determined to act
the fool to an extent that law-
abiding people everywhere will
have to swear off from eating
Georgia goobers.
Grape juice is no longer our
national drink. Mr. Bryan served
the insipid stuff to diplomats and
plenipotentiaries when he was
Secretary of State. Of course no
diplomatic triumphs could be ex-
pected when grape juice had to
furnish the inspiration. But—
horror of horrors—Mr. Lansing,
the new Secretary of State, is
serving real wine at his official
dinners! Some day a man who
knows of the virtues of the de-
lightful acidulated lacteal fluid
will head our department of state,
and then our diplomacy will make
the tight little nations of Europe
sit up and declare that a greater
than Solomon is guiding Uncle
Sam’s international affairs.
Life is but a series of disap-
pointments. Even the beautiful
and sacred institution of mar-
riage, that promises rapturous
rapture and joy unspeakable, fre-
quently turns to bitter on the
lips. A few weeks ago a Chicago
dude wedded an heiress worth
$30,000,000 in her own right.
Hubby literally reveled in joy
over the prospects of spending
the princely sum in two or three
years, but after the ceremony
had been performed and there
was no opportunity to renig, the
sad truth came to light that his
bride can receive only $150,000
a year of her estate. Those who
extended congratulations should
hasten to substitute commisera-
tions.
Uncle Sam has decided to take
a step in the punishment of in-
grates that he prohibits his sub-
jects from taking. When war
broke out in Europe many Amer-
ican tourists were on the other
side of the Atlantic seeing the
sights. Of course they were
scared within an inch of their
lives, and the American govern-
ment, at heavy expense, pro-
vided means to get them home.
Many of the tourists have not yet
paid their government for the
expense thus incurred, and pay
no attention whatever to invita-
tions to remit. Uncle Sam is go-
ing to publish the names of these
ingrates to the world on Octo-
ber 1. Such a course is not open
to‘Uncle Sam’s subjects, but it
ought to be. We heard of an
editor some years ago who tried
to help collections by printing
the names of his delinquent sub-
scribers. The first week he re-
ceived three whippings, was
sued for damages and thrown
into jail on a charge of criminal
libel.
DENISON WOMEN WEAR SOX.
Many a man who is shocked
and disgusted when he be-
holds a lady so thinly clad
that if she happens to pass
between him and the sun, the
outline of her lower limbs is
plainly visible, will calmly
wear palm beach trousers,
‘ ‘with hiatus of undies ’twixt
ankles and knees,” making
equal exposure of his own
person under similar circum-
stances. This question of
clothes is a perplexing sub-
ject, anyway. It is not al-
ways easy to say just where
modesty ends and indecency
begins. After all, the final
decision seems to be up to
the police judge.—Browns-
ville Herald.
The gentleman from Browns-
ville has the wrong idea. Who
ever would care to watch a speci-
men of the noble biped simply
because his palm beaches were
not opaque! As for the ladies,
it is inconceivable that any self-
respecting police judge would as-
sess a fine against any daughter
of Eve simply because she was
trying to keep cool, or to outdo
her sisters in the matter of ab-
breviated costumes. Why, right
here in Denison, there are sev-
eral young women who wear sox
—not stockings, but real, honest-
to-goodness ssox, like the men-
folks. They say it’s done for
comfort’s sake, and comfort in
hot weather is the main thing
after all. — Denison Herald.
Having listened to the thunder
tones of Mars and determined to
become a great military power,
Uncle Sam now finds himself up
against a program, the carrying
out of which will grate harshly
upon the feelings of free and in-
dependent Americans. One of
the numbers that must find a
place upon this program is com-
pulsory military service. The
word “compulsory” is itself very
distasteful to Americans who
have been built and trained along
the lines ©f “freedom to pursue
life, liberty and happiness,” and
when the word is coupled on to
military service, giving colonels
and majors power to enter the
home and drag the flower of the
family away to military training
camps, it becomes positively hate-
ful. But there must be compul-
sory military service before the
United States can become a great
fighting machine. The program
of preparedness must include a
great reserve force and each re-
servist must have a knowledge
of military tactics and know how
to use the weapons of war. Men
high in the councils of the war
department say we must cross
the bridge of compulsory military
service or abandon our move-
ment for army preparedness, and
the Secretary of War will urge
such service in his recommenda*
tions to the President and Con-
gress. The adoption of this pol-
icy would soon give the United
States the greatest reserve army
in the world, which, added to a
standing army of 500,000 (already
demanded by military experts)
would make Uncle Sam a won-
derful fighting machine. It
would be glorious of course to
havef our martial airs make the
nations of the earth tremble with
fear and the tread of our armies
shake the planet from center to
circumference; but, is this the
kind of glory we want? And
would it be worth the price?
COTTON MADE CONTRABAND.
Cotton has been declared con-
traband by Great Britain and
France. This means that these
nations will not let any American
cotton go to Germany, Austria or
Turkey if they can prevent it,
and since they virtually control
the seas, it is not likely that any
of our great staple product will
find its way to the shores of the
countries named. Barring cotton
from.three great nations will run
the price of cotton down, if some
steps are not taken to prevent
the decline which naturally fol-
lows the narrowing of a market
for any product, but England
and France have announced that
it is their intention to stand be-
hind the cotton market and see
to it that the price does not
break. What England and France
mean by this we are not sure,
but it will be interesting to watch
the steps they may take to up-
hold the cotton market. If Eng-
land and France put a reason-
able price on cotton and buy all
the United States has to sell,
there will belittle protest against
their action, but if they offer a
low price and then refuse to let
our cotton go to other countries
in search of better prices, a howl
will go up that will be heard
around the world.
If the nations mentioned suc-
ceed in making a stable price for
the fleecy staple they may do the
South a real favor. The people
have never understood why the
price of cotton should undergo
daily changes, and they are
grounded in the opinion that such
fluctuations are the result of
manipulations rather than of
natural causes. They understand
of course that supply and demand
exercise large control over prices,
but they know that neither the
supply of nor the natural demand
for cotton changes three or four
times a day.
There is comfort in the fact
that the present season finds the
cotton market firmer than it was
a year ago. And the feeling is
general that prices will be better
throughout the season than ob-
tained last season. There has
been a material reduction of the
acreage and a better adjustment
of conditions. Consumption of
cotton in the United States has
increased; Canada is using more
cotton than heretofore. So also
is Japan, and England and France
will need perhaps a greater por-
tion of our crop than heretofore.
All things considered, the out-
look for cotton prices is not bad,
the contraband proclamation
notwithstanding.
It is foolish for fashion to
say that a waist must have
thirty-six buttons up the
back. The number should be
according to the woman’s
height. If a lady has a dainty
bean-pole form she can easily
consume thirty-six buttons,
or even more, on her waist.
But her sister, who has a
form like a pumpkin, cannot
find room for so many unless
she has two or three rows.—
Claude Callan.
No woman has a bean-pole
form, and such a slander is
worthy of death and bonds. A
bean-pole is nothing more than a
stick, and who is mean enough
to call a creature who can wear
waists and skirts and many other
things so becomingly “a stick?”
There are women who are tall,
and have willowy, graceful,
sylph-like forms, but we dare
any man to stand before us and
say any woman has a form like
an old splintery, knotty bean-
pole. Neither has any woman a
form like a pumpkin. A pumpkin
is squatty and ridgedy, and how
cruel to make it a descriptive for
lovely woman’s form. Every
woman has either a willowy,
sylph-like form or a symmetrical,
majestic form. There are only
two kinds of forms in feminine
architecture—and don’t you for-
get it. _
In another column is an item
telling of a new decree issued by
the postal department to the ef-
fect that a married woman, who
is not living with her husband
and has not obtained a divorce,
may not hold a position in the
postal department. Such edicts
as this give women just grounds
to complain of the treatment of
their sex. Nothing is asked a
man regarding his family rela-
tions when he seeks employment
of the government, but a woman
who is married, or who is not
living with her husband and has
not obtained a divorce is barred
from the service, no matter how
much she may need work or how
competent for the service sought.
Under recent rulings the mar-
riage altar closes the door of hope
to women in the postal service,
and the divorce court is the only
thing that can unlock the door.
No man can say that women
workers are treated justly when
the competent and worthy are
denied employment on account of
connubial felicity or infelicity.
Excuse us for mentioning it,
but when it comes to getting into
the big war the Balkans are do-
ing a great deal of balking.
Cotton has been declared con-
traband by England and France.
Isn’t this America’s opportunity
to prepare for war quickly? How
would it do to make all the cot-
ton our home factories don’t
want into gun cotton? With all
the gun cotton in the world in
our possession we could make a
line on the ocean and dare
Europe to come across.
THE MODERN WOMAN
knows there is no econ-
omy in inferior food ma-
terials. In flour particu-
larly she knows the best
is the cheapest. That is
why so many up to the
times women use our
flour exclusively. A trial
will tell you why in un-
mistakeable terms. Order a sack today. Ask your grocer
for our products—they are as pure as the purest and as good
as the best.
STEGER MILLING GO., WAREHOUSE
Honey Grove, Texas
Two things regarding the sink-
ing of the Arabic puzzle people
who give them a thought. The
first is why should Germany
want to sink a British passenger
boat headed for America. The
other is why should Americans
take passage on a British boat,
knowing there is danger, when
they can ride on American boats
for the same money?
A coroner’s jury has rendered
a verdict in the Frank case to
the effect that ‘ ‘Leo Frank came
to his death at the hands of par-
ties unknown.” The world looks
on with interest and wonders
whether those responsible for
the awful crime against law and
humanity will be brought before
the bar of justice. It is not like-
ly that they will, and if not a
very black spot will mar the
escutcheon of our sister state
while the years roll on.
TO MY SON.
Do you know that your soul is of mine such a part
That you seem to be fibrq and core of my heart?
None other can praise me as you, son, can do;
None other can please me or pain me as you.
Remember the world will be quick with its blame,
If shadow or stain ever darkens your name.
Like father like son is a saying so true,
The world will judge largely of “Father” by you.
Be yours the task then, if task it shall be,
To force the proud world to do homage to me.
Be sure it will say when the verdict you’ve won,
He reaped as he sowed, Lo this is his son.
—Selected.
A Tennessee girl, while pack-
ing a case of eggs for shipment,
wrote her name on one of the
eggs. The egg fell into the pos-
session of a young man whose
home is in Georgia. Letters
were exchanged and the young
people agreed to marry. The
young man started on the jour-
ney, but had to change cars
when a few miles from home and
spend the night at a hotel. A
young lady was the clerk at the
hotel. She smiled sweetly and
talked sweetly. The young man
got no further, but stopped right
there and married the home girl.
There’s a splendid lesson in this
romance for home business men.
Foreign concerns are getting the
lion’s share of the business be-
cause they advertise for it.
When a home merchant gets into
the advertising game he stops
business that would have gone
further from home. If the
Georgia girl hadn’t smiled sweet-
ly the Georgia young man would
have gone further for his life-
partner—and might have fared
worse.
Germany hrs given the United
States further cause to protest
against a ruthless trampling un-
der foot of our rights by destroy-
ing a passenger ship on which
Americans were passengers.
Great Britain has given the
United States further cause to
protest against unfair treatment
by declaring cotton contraband
and thus closing some of the
world’s markets to our products.
But there will be no war between
the United States and either of
the countries. If we were a war-
like nation and were hunting a
scrap we could easily find cause
for war against both Germany
and Great Britain; but, thank
the Lord, we do not want war.
We have learned the great les-
son that all nations will learn in
the fullness of time, that it is
better to bear slight ills than
plunge into something that will
bring greater ills. In the affairs
of men and nations the price of
peace is the bearing of some
things unkind and unjust and
the abandonment even of some
rights held dear, and blessed is
the man or nation that is brave
enough to make some sacrifices
for the sake of peace.
The latest war news is that
Russia is preparing to put eight
million men in the field. If the
recruits sustain the record of the
Russians already in the field for
running they’ll soon trample to
death all the vegetation between
the Ural mountains and the
Black Sea. _
Plucky Galveston! The Island
City refuses to be placed on the
beggar list. In spite of destruc-
tive winds and waters that city
represents to the world that no
need exists for a general relief
fund to alleviate distress. That
there is destitution is admitted,
but Galveston people say they
can and will meet every need. In
the face of relief calls from al-
most everywhere the Galveston
declaration is an exception that
is refreshing.
Teddy has spoken again and
has lifted his voice a little higher
for war than ever before. Teddy
has been eating raw meat, and he
has been reading reports of the
great battles, and the odor of
blood comes to him from beyond
the Atlantic as sweet incense.
The Strenuous One wants to go
to war, and go right now. He
would doubtless be willing to
swim the Atlantic, and then bust
a German 42 centimeter gun with
his fist.
friends sorrow because his stay
upon earth was not longer, but
they will carry the big-hearted,
affable man in memory until
memory is but a fading shadow;
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My mail hack now leaves
Honey Grove at 7 a. m. Ar-
rives at Monkstown about
11;30; Leave Monkstown at
1, arrive at Honey Grove at
6 p. m. I take passengers.
Have a boarding house on
West Market Street, Honey
Grove, and will be glad to
have your patronage. Clean
beds and good fare.
Telephone No. 136. Will
pay your car fare from town
to house. For car phone 439.
J. I. GRIFFIN
Star Route Carrier.
SELECT CORSETS NOW!
During the terrible storm at
Galveston a white baby turned
black—black as the ace of spades.
This is not a fairy story, but a
verified fact—many persons saw
the child after the natural color
had turned to darkest hue. After
commenting on the wonderful
phenomenon for a time the won-
dering witnesses decided to make
some investigations. They found
that the baby’s face was covered
with soot which had been forced
down the chimney by the winds.
There is deep sorrow in news-
paper circles over the death of
Col. F. B. Baillio, of Cleburne.
Col. Baillio was one of the oldest
editors in the state. A truer-
hearted man or more genial gen-
tleman has not lived on the earth.
He lived to a ripe old age and
has gone to the other shore with
a record for charity and deeds of
nobility made by few men. His
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915, newspaper, August 27, 1915; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth621429/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.