The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 17, 1928 Page: 7 of 8
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SatuHav, November 17, 1928
THE BIG LAKE WILDCAT, BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TEXAS
PAGE SEVEIf
THE MAIL BOX
-II M l. BIG LAKE POINT
Till WAV FOR AIRMEN?
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/-SO YOU'D LIKT' TOMAVKy
\mv DAUGHTER' rn-'w t L
\ HAVE yOU TAK&M I ER»
PAMU.y ISiTO
C0NSIDEC3AH0U r
I MAV£ £iE, AND 1 LOVE yOUK
DAU<5T4TEC so MUCH-I’D
BE VILLIWG TO PUT UP
wrv: AKIV THING#
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UiisWeek
"'I . ( limit’ made hi- mistake when he
went to I ngland. I lir\ will hang him
in a few duv-. in •«|>iI«* of liis ingen-
ion- -totv, about mvsti'iiou- Oiittit.il
a -a**in* eommitling tin* crime.
By Arthur Briabane
The Creates! Neu%.
™ FIFTEEN BILLIONS 01 ER.
REUcun s ifn ilism.
ENGLISH Jl SLICE.
The most imjiort.mt new* in the
world has nothin;: :•> do with the *der-
lion, or the intelligence of the ‘mod-
err "flapper" highly prized bv edu-
| rational authorities. The year's im-
portant new- tells of a giant telescope
I .el n- see w hat happened
Railroad freight loadings have -ct
records. It ha- hern a \ear of hump
er crops, and. in the main, lavoraidc
markets, I he auto industrv has hecn
on the upgiade, e-taldi-hmg new rec-
ords. Building operation' have hecn
alone normal. Retold earnings have
over. hern reported by the steel industry.
o - Sign- for .i prosperous 1020 are
In the Rig war. when airplane- evident more than were sign- for a
raided London and Paris, the inhahi- ipiosprrous I02o. It seems quite err-
lants were warned by the noise of the lain that we ran confidentlv It. >k
In England when von kill anvhody,
tluv hang vou without loss of time
excuses and explanations are not ae
<epted. It i- in this eountrv that
murderer' in great numliers go tree
.id even those caught and convicted
have two oi three vears to think it
Dallas, leva-. Nov. 12.
I ditol W dtlt at
Rig Lake. Texas.
Mv Deui l.dilor and I* fiend:- A-
v iee-eoimnandei of the \tnetieaii Le
gion Department of leva*. I have mi
dertaken a hig jolt for the vear 1020.
Aviation i~ the topic id today, and
as you know, I have had aviation .it
heart for some ten years.
I have gotten permission from -r\-
eral of the tailway companies, agree-
ing to paint the name of the town on
lop of the depot at cost, whit h woilhl
be a very small sum. II you will pub-
lish this Icier, and at the same lime
see the ( liamber of Commerce and
•er if they will underwrite this -mall
cost of painting the name of you.
town oil top of your depot, so •in-
flyers call -ce where they are when
in the air. I his is as important as a
sign on a highway,
I hanking vou for past favors, I
remain,
Yours very tiuly,
AA I FASTER WOOD, JR.
t IIIUSTOA \| ID Cl I Fit.II I
\NI> pnw I R SKRV H I SOON
San Angelo, Nov. Li. I welve
; miles of Mi.tMMi \n|t transmi-sion
lines are now being constructed to
extend to ( hn-toval foi the ele tii-
liration of th.it town. * omplction o|
they might create one prematurely. j ')'•' ,w,’r|k ",M ,1"’ a,l,,i,ion
llir 11>41h town to thr |>ro|H%rtio cl
the West lex.i« I hlilir- ( uinplliv
"N town and is located south of this rhy
I in Tom Green county. It is expected
J that the West Texas l tilitie# Coni-
J pany will serve iipproximately I2'>
i u-lomei - in the tow n.
It i- anticipated that thi- line -non
will Im- extended to Eldorado and
Sonora to take care ol pipe line lead-
in that territory.
A. T. JOHNSON
Water Well Driller
MIC LAKE, TEXAS
Equipped with good machin-
ery and good drillers. lad
me figure with you on your
next job.
MAN •/Hfr OSF.SicV
YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED
CITY BARBER SHOP
WEST SIDE MAIN STREET, BIG 1JAKE, TEXAS
Good Workmen Courteous Treatment
A Modern, Sanitary Shop
7 T f * t
r. O..OOM
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L\(h2j
San Angelo Moraine:
qlienee would Ih* the -Iml ing down
ol many ol the steel mills.
Perhaps the onIv reason they did
not predict a panic wu« the fear that
engines. Thin will not he warned in
tin next war. for a device i- shown
making an airplane engine absolutely
noiseless.
ahead to
year.
e can
an unusually good l>u*itv
THE TEST Ol \ MAN
I lie place to take the true measure
.......... ................. ol a man i« not the forum or the
with a 200-inch mirror that will re- field, the market place or the amen
veal to the eves of men hundreds ol I corner, hut at hi- own fireside. I here
tn’llions of new -tars and distant he Jays aside hi- ma-k and vou may
‘ universes." judge whether he i- imp or ang* t.
~o— \ ing or cut : hero or humbug. I care
not what the world says of him;
whether it crown him with Ray, or
pelt him with had eggs; I care nev-
vi-i a copper what hi- reputation or
teligion mat Re; if Ri- Rallies dr-”id
lii- homecoming and hi- better hall
has t<
• In has to a-k him for a five-dollar
loll, he's a fraud of the first water.
i^^ppalling '.o matt - leeldr intel-
SB j- a thin instrument that will
nuiig within reach of our eyes the
light of nebulae in a far off imivci-e.
light that has been traveling through
space one billion years, at a speed of
106.000 milr- a second.
Mr. RasroR, ft brilliantly able bus-
mess man, 'aid probably out of po- ^H^.rida, k^Mhe fae.^lml howl'
htenessto please political assouate.. ti|| M|
I It,II riNC I.IoNn
Detroit. Nov. III. 1 wo enraged
lions lotiglit a light to the death at
the new zoological park Reie. Leo
a ferocious beast, who bad a-sumed
the attitude of a km!.1, wa« being duv
cm to his cage in an outdoor den,
when Melenik. a smaller lion, who
seemed to resent !/•«’* snarling man
per. tin list his paw under the sliding
door.
In a flash Leo seized the paw. the
doot slid iqi and the two met in a
light. It ended on I v when Menelik
fell dead, his throat torn l>\ the oth-
er’s fangs. Attendants fired blink
-wallow Iter heart every lime ; cartridge', poked with huge iron bar-
and finally tinned on the fire ho--,
hut were unable to stop the struggle.
hills. Rut tl his children rush to tin
that our prosperity is not genuine.
The General Motors (jomp.my for fi.||n| , ,lim< am| |„VeV
wh.eh he has done good woik, set r ^ jm. i||llininutes the face oi
|l Si ll I> I \N IRA ( \N I'd 1
Nol FOR FEE. IS DECISION
r.ot to share his opinion, judging b'
the price of its stock and the size of
i.- earnings.
—o—
Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the Treas-
ury, thinks our prosperity is sotim.
enough and so do other* of financial
ability Mr. Frederick Eckcr. vice
president of the Metropolitan Life In
\ii-lin, Nov. 12. Justices of the
l’i are in Texas have autlmritv to try
his wife when -he hears lii- footfall ,my criminal ease in which the pun-
you mav take it for granted that lie i i-bment is by line only not to exceed
i- true gold, for Ins home - a Heaven, S200, but are not authorized to charge
end the humbug never get- that mar
the great white throne ol Cod. I can
forgive much in that fellow mortal
who would rather make men -vm.i
tinin women weep; who would rathe
have the hate of the whole be-wcild
surance Company, says the main eb- |jjun ,.on|rmj)t of hi- wife; wii
merit in prosperity is the wage earn-
i r’s "back log."
—o
Worker* in this country earn about
ore hundred billion dollars a ve.-.i.
There is a good deal of extravagance
aid vsa'te. but in vpite of that, n-»l
would rather cull anger to the eyes
of a King than fear to the fare ol a
t Lil<l. AA illi.im ( ow pet Rrann.
Ol R l AST SCOK II JOKI
\\ e are off Scotch jokes, but mu-t
an
it x
' . o- I f it,,* e irniip'- tell about the partv arranged bv
more than 85 ,M-r cent of the earnings . ^ ( .......^ ,n» _ ^ ^ , ^Ii.rn
is spent. This means that the people
furn each year fiftwn billions moti
than they s|»end.
Every yeai, alter paying their liv
the people have left
ex barteinlei in a certain Eastern
reientlv, *ays ail exchange.
A brace of Irishmen, a Hebrew
men bant and the usual canny -V| *t
wt ie present when arrangeinens were
made.
"Each ilong a little something and
ing expenses, the peopn ..........
cxer fifteen thousand miHion Tolb.rs; ^ ^ ^ „ran<1 atl(| glorious time
p« i "ill nmn ,i ir bv this tomorrow night," suggested the foi-
sum lent to T.urope m the war t»v mi e
«ountrv Tins "sm ial surplus" me, dispenser of we goiwls.
Tit it is a suh I bey met the following evening.
(If mur.-c the Irishman hr ought hi*
or (< olleet anv fees for M*rviee* in
living the i i*r, A-sistant Attorney
General II Cradv Chandler ruled in
an opinion given Satuiday to (.ounty
Ailornev AA. J. Holt of A1el.enn.in
eounlv, who had asked for advice a-
to the proper prisedure in tile trial
of misdemeanor ease* in the juUic*
courts since the decision by the
Court of Criminal Appeals in the
Killv case Irom Nueces county. I he
appeals couit held that Justice* ol
the Peace weie disqualified front trv-
in; ruses where the justices had a
pecuniary interest in the conviction
and held a* unconstitutional the fee
«v stern a* it has Itch applied for
years.
The effect of the higher court's >le-
i I'ion i* that Justices ot the Peace
are not authorized to charge any fee*
lot the trial of a criminal <n*c.
served bv the net work ol morn than
2.IMHI miles of liighline.
I In- company also will cm i at
Cliri*tov.il ,t Mi 12-2 I kv sub-lot'- n
and a three phase 2. UMI volt distnb-
ution system. I lie new transmission
lines will tap the tiii.dlHI volt San
Angelo-Mertzon line.
Christov.il i- a -ummer resort
G. B. MILLER
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
OFFICE: BIG LAKE DRUG CO.
RESIDENCE; NORTH MAIN
BIG LAKE, TEXAS
m*
iPies
iMorntn" rft!*l«n of the Fan Angelo Rtandnrd>
Daily and Sunday
One year By Mail in
West Texas
—Printed at I a. m , the Morning Times regularly
publishes more news of interest to West Texans than
nny.other newspaper, and reaches its subscribers
First With the iMtest Xeu s
—West Texas today is developing more rapidly than
any other section of the United States. There are
railroads to he built, new oil pools to be discovered,
and innumerable other things going on. Send in
vour $4.70 today!
Keep lrp With the Times
With the Times
To Our Patrons
and Friends
CURTIS
As a special inducement
dime* in every year. Dial i*
stunt in I "back log” t<- keep the pr«-
piritv fiie« burning.
John I). Rnckefellei, Jr., in mem-
ory of his mother give# to the l ni-
vciMtv of Chicago $1,000,(MMl l"
ptomote the religion* idealism of
atudent* of the university."
—-o—
Those, unfortunately numerous,
that do exi«t w ithout rrligioii* ideal
i*m, never lilting their eye* from the
ground to contemplate and quest i >n
share of the ne«e*-ar\ liquid refresh-
ment*. The Hebrew brought .i drink*
ing gla*> and the Scotchman
bn tight hi* brother,
All
prove
Locking i oraa abd
prediction* that P>28
a Ir-* pnrqierou* vear than
IC27 have already l«en confuted by
the fact*.
The List few week* of 1028 will no
doubt put thi* year far ahead of P>27
BONDS TORT KITED IN
RANK M AA ING C AN
Austin, Nov. 12. I wo bond* of
$2,5tM) each were ordered forfeited bv
I list rot Judge J. R. Hamilton Mon-
day when J II Duma*, I.uhbock,
j failed to iipjTar at call of hi* < a»e,
! involving charge* of murder and con-
•piracy to murder in connection witii
ould j the killing of two supposed bank rob
l>er* at Rankin in an allegi-*! nrhemc
to collect the lex.I- Banker* A**o<■ •..
tion $5,tMMI reward for robber* killed
Wildcat ad* get rrwult*.
jM -iven* and the glory that th -y in hu-ine*, volume
ilitr ■*rr l,kr thr '4M u' whal a v,',r
▼■ItB.’s raxe, their hark* to the light. I ago.
knowing ik.Iv shadow* on the watl*. The prrpelu pe**,mi*U had forc-
0 j boding* that till* wa* to It a nan ;
Young Mi. Chung Ji miao. Cbinr*e , vear for the railroad-, that there j
law student, married VAai Jung Sui. j would It a building slump and that j
daughter of a rich merchant, took her the auto industrv would reach the *at
U> England and there murdered hW. uration point. They Mid the con**-
1.0.0. V. LODGE
Regular meeting every We<hre*«layr
night. Degier practice each
Monday night.
AH E DOWNING, Secretary
Wo A\i>h to announce that in thr future our Tailoring
Department will he under the management of Mr.
POYNOR
for a on In become acquainted
an ith the (pull it a A\ork and ser\ ice Mr. Roynor Avill render
we art‘ offering to the trade for an indefinite period the
followin«r prices:
Suits Cleaned and I’ressed.........SI.IHI
Trousers Cleimed and Pressed.........-ille
SPECIAL It EDI CIIONS ON All.
I.ADIES WORK. DA KINO. ETC.
Mr. |\>a nor comes to u** a^ one of the |>est tpialil ied tailors
in the stall*: ha\injz had \ears ol experience a\ ith tin* larp-
(*^t Cleaners and Ihrr^ in the South.
Special attention will be given to Scientific
The most delicate fabrics and nlk*
w ill he Skillfull I >r\ Clean<‘fl
l)A(*ing.
Try Us-We Know How
R. THEIS & SON
DM' KS AND DRY CLKANERS
BIG LAKE, TEXAS
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Hibdon, John. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 17, 1928, newspaper, November 17, 1928; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633712/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Reagan County Library.