Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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LACE CURTAINS.--New stock re-
ceived this week. Prices range
from 75c to . . . $10.00
Art Squares of every
grade and price.
A Big invoice of new Rockers.
EXTRA SPECIAL
A roll-edge, biscuit-tufted mattress,
one-bat felt, weighs 44 pounds. This
mattress has always sold for $10. I
have just received a large invoice of
them and will put out 25 of them at
$6.50.
W
ESS REED
BOM GROVE SIGNAL
PUBLISHED every
FRIDAY.
Signal Pub. Co. - Publishers
J. H. Lowry - - -
Editor
A Denver newspaper man who
is a close student of intricate
problems has discovered why
hens never lay at night. It is be-
cause at night all hens are roos-
ters.
The clothing manufacturers
say the readjustment of the tariff
schedule will add $2.50 to the
price of every suit of clothes.
Another $1.25 a year added to
the expense account of every
self-respecting newspaper man.
The Democratic Congressmen
have one victory to their credit
this session. They played the
Republicans a game of baseball
last week and won by the neat
scroe of 42 to 26. The score is
sufficient evidence that Uncle
Joe Cannon did not umpire.
A white woman who was in an
automobile party with the negro
pugilist, Jack Johnson, was
thrown from the car and seriously
hurt last Friday night. It does
not sound well when said, and of
course nobody could express such
a wish, and yet it’s a pity the
woman wasn’t killed as dead as a
mackerel.
us that her husband left plenty to
care for her and educate his chil-
dren, but through some bad in-
vestments she lost heavily, and
she is happy to add to her income
by work. She asks that this
statement be made and we gladly
make it.
The Chicago ministers and un-
dertakers announce that they will
hold no more funerals on Sunday.
With such a strong combination
against them the Chicagoans had
as well make up their minds to
quit the ugly practice of dying on
Saturday.
The fellow who gets his facts
crossed always suffers. A Sher
man man, who was visiting in
Dallas, reported to the police that
he had lost three thirty-dollar
bills. Instead of assisting the
fellow to find the money the offi
cers fined the poor fellow three
dollars on suspicion that he was
drunk.
A Dallas man was fined fifty
dollars a few days since for har-
boring a vicious dog. Rather a
light fine for such a serious crime,
but it will do as a starter, espe-
cially since the dog owner was
warned that the dose would be
doubled if he failed to get the
dog out of town in five days.
Some weeks since the Signal
made some observations on an
advertisement for work in her
chosen line signed by Mrs. T. L.
Nugent, widow of Hon. T. L.
Nugent, for many years an able
judge,and candidate for governor
about about 16 years ago. The
advertisement appeared in a west-
ern paper, published at the home
of Mrs'. Nugent. The Signal’s
comment was to the effect that
Mr. Nugent gave largely of his
time to his state and people, and
died poor. Mrs. Nugent writes
The women of Colorado have
given out the announcement that
they will make a stubborn effort
to send one of their sex to Con-
gress next year. They have al-
ready settled upon Mrs. Platt
Decker as their candidate in one
of the Denver districts and have
begun their campaign. Several
noted women orators will go on
the stump and advocate Mrs.
Decker’s claims.
An Oklahoma exchange is
authority for the statement that
the old-time black-land Texas
chigger is invading that state
and has with him all his means of
producing disquietude and un-
rest. The exchange suggests
that Texas visitors carry the
chiggers to Oklahoma just as
Texas cattle carry fever ticks,
and urges that dipping vats be
placed on the borders and every
Texan be dipped before entering
the new state. To our mind the
Oklahomans have a way of skin-
ning strangers that will remove
all surface animals. Dipping is un-
necessary.
A Dallas physician recently
filed suit against a woman of that
city for $10,000, the same being
the physician’s fee for three oper
ations, performed in one year.
We have long contended that
Dallas is an expensive place to
live in, and again warn people of
moderate incomes to stay in the
country towns.
A negro who made an unsuc-
cessful criminal assault upon a
white woman in Tarrant county
last Monday was tried Friday
and sentenced to a term of nine
ty-nine years in the penitentiary
The people of Tarrant county now
think more of the law, and a few
more such trials and convictions
will make mobs unpopular.
Mrs. Margaret Hayes, daugh-
ter of Jefferson Davis, died at her
home in Colorado Springs, Col.
Sunday. She was the last mem
ber of the immediate family of
the president of the Confederacy
The remains have been placed in
a receiving vault, where they will
remain until fall,when they will be
interred in the family lot in Rich-
mond, Va._
An investigation of the peni-
tentiary system in Texas is now
on and soon the people will know
how affairs at the penal institu-
tions are managed and how the
convicts are treated. Already
some very ugly things have come
out in the testimony, but in fair
ness to all comment is withheld
until the evidence is all in. The
investigating committee is com
posed of five members of the
House and four members of the
Senate; Hon. C. E. Gilmore is
the Chairman.
WAGON TALK
The season for Wagons is now on
and we are very anxious for you to call
in and look over the Fort Smith wagon.
We feel that the Fort Smith wagon has
no superior; in fact, we do not believe
there is a wagon made that is its equal,
when you take into consideration its
light running quality, its strength, its
heavy ironing, its full clipped axles, in
fact its general construction, it is un-
excelled. Before you buy come in and
let us go over its construction, and if
we can’t prove it a superior wagon to
your entire satisfaction, then buy the
other fellow’s? wagon. The same prop-
osition applies to our line of buggies.
Come and let us show you.
Richardson-Blocker Hdw. Co
High Grade Goods Only.
IMPORTANT STATE FACTORY.
The last session of the Legis-
lature made an appropriation of
$100,000 for the establishment
and maintenance of a cotton bag-
ging and twine factory in Texas,
to be under the supervision of the
state penitentiary board. This is
one of the most important steps
ever taken looking toward the
manufacture of the state’s raw
material into finished products.
There is a demand for cotton
bagging and cotton twine, and
Texas has the raw material. The
.State suffers to-day and has long
suffered because her raw materi-
als are shipped to other states for
manufacture. If the state by
this experiment, shows that cot-
ton bagging and twine can be
profitably manufactured at home
it will have taught a lesson that
will be worth millions to her peo-
ple.
The State of Minnesota, in her
penitentiary, manufactures prac-
tically all the binding twine used
in the state. In doing this it
competes with no home interests,
as private capital would not un-
dertake the manufacture of this
product. In addition to giving
the people cheap twine and earn-
ing a neat profit for the state, it
keeps the convicts within the
prison walls instead of farming
them out, a system responsible
for nearly all the horrors attach-
ing to the conduct of peniten-
tiaries.
The factory will be established
at some point where there is wa-
ter power. It is estimated that
it would require 400,000 bales of
cotton to supply the demand in
Texas for bagging and twine.
SWAT THE ’SKEETER.
That the mosquito is man’s
greatest enemy is shown more
clearly as the light is turned on
more and more. Dr. Ross, the
eminent scientist who discovered
the malarial parasite, has not on-
ly charged, but has proved, that
the wreck of Greek civilization
was due not to wars but to the j _ ” '
insidious work of the malaria is now worth 25 cents per
mosquito. The eminent scientist pound and the plain old middling,
traces the decline of the isles of ^without streak of lean, sells for
Greece and shows that it began cents. The man who has a
with the appearance of the pesky hogs to sell can wear dia-
’skeeter, which sapped the ener- monds and ride in automobiles.
gies of the rural population, kil!- Congressman Randell has re-
ed off the fair-haired^ descendants introduced his bill seeking to
of the original settlers and left profit Senators and Represen-
instead the more immune and tatives in Congress from accept-
Cut Price Sale
on all
Men’s and
Boys’ Suits
We still have a nice assortment of the Al-
fred Benjamin Fine Tailored Suits, the
leading brand of Clothing in the United
^tates. As the season is advanced,we have
decided to make greatly reduced prices on
this fine clothing in order to close out this
season’s purchases.
1
No Finer
Clothing
was ever offered to this trade, and the
prices we will now make are the most at-
tractive ever offered here for this class of
goods.
COPYRIGHT 1909.
AAKERS
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Wilkins, Wood & Patteson
darker children of their captives
from Asia and Africa. This is
heart-rending, and every man
should resolve within himself tc
let no ’skeeter escape. It is com
forting to know that progress if
being made in the destruction o:
man’s deadliest foe. Our gov
ernment has already found a fisl
that destroys mosquitoes and b
shipping the piscatorial destroy-
ers to Panama in great numbers.
In New Jersey and Connecticu.
home of the wooden nutmeg aid
trusts, mosquito killing has beep
turned into a profitable industy
and the people are actually grow-
ing rich destroying mosquitos.
The pests are caught in greit
numbers, then dried and pressd
into cakes and sold for chickn
feed. Doubtless the little bals
will soon be placed on the ma-
ket and sold as the newest aid
most nutritious breakfast fod.
But the mosquito is doomed. Te
destroyer of Grecian civilizatin
must not, shall not, put out fee
fires of liberty kindled so lo g
ago on America’s altars and tun
the descendants of the pilgrm
fathers into a race of slaves!
Swat the ’skeeter.
WORK AND COST OF THE CANL
The total cost of the Panaia
canal, as now estimated by Chef
Engineer Gocthels, will be abut
$397,000,000, which includes ne
cost of purchase of the Frenh
company’s assets and franclne
—$40,000,000—and the $10,00,-
000 paid to the Republic of Pa-
ama.
This is more than double te
estimate of the government a-
gineers who made the survey ad
recommended the change frm
the Nicarauga t o the Panaia
route after the French compay
had agreed to sell its uncomplt-
ed canal at a mere fraction offcs
original cost.
The estimates of the cost of le
Nicaragua canal ranged frm
$125,000,000 to $200,000,000, ad
none of the many engineers wo
had made at least a partial sr-
vey of that route ever suggesld
a higher estimate than the lafer
figure. It was suggested by ie
the proponents of the Panaia
route that the canal then cold
be completed for about $100,0C,-
000, and so Congress was p>
suaded at the last moment, j3t
before adjournment and just k-
fore the final vote on the Nic-
raguara canal project, to adot
the Panam route and to purchie
the property of the French co -
pany.
The change from the Nicara-
ga to the Panama route, at ie
last moment, has never been st-
isfactorily explained. The t-
gineers had all recommended le
Nicarauga route. The Hoie
had adopted the Nicarauga ro;e
by practically a unanimous v.e
and the Senate was ready too
so, but a telegram came and ie
late Mark Hanna announce a
change. Then the route the i-
gineers had rejected was adopd
in a few hours. In order to )-
cure this more expensive routit
became necessary to stir up ai-
bellion in a friendly country id
make the rebellion a sucgs
with our warships. In additn
to this stain upon our natical
honor, we are now paying ie
price in dollars. And to this g*d
day who profited by this sudtn
change is an open question,
The price of hogs, which is
made a practice of breaking rj-
ords recently, gave all previts
records a big smash last Fricy
by jumping to $8.00 per hundd
for hogs on foot. Breakfast 1-
ing gifts or other favors from
corporations, or accepting em-
ployment at the hands of corpor-
ations while members of Con-
gress. This is the third time Mr.
Randell has introduced this bill.
The first time a vote was not
reached, the second time it lack-
ed only a few votes of passage,
nearly all the Democrats and sev-
eral Republicans voting for it.
We think of our country as a
very big thing, and it is, yet an
old man who has passed the al-
lotted three-score-and-ten walk-
ed across it, from New York to
San Francisco, in 105 days. The
old fellow was disappointed be-
cause he did not complete the
journey in 100 days, but heavy
rains, storms and swollen streams
caused a loss of full fifteen days.
The object of his foot-tour was
not to exhibit the smallness of his
country, but to show what a man
of 71 years, who has taken care
of himself, can accomplish.
Last week a Lamar county
man lost a mule, a horse, a cow
and a calf from hydrophobia. He
has two other mules believed to
have been Ditten by the dog that
bit his other stock and doubtless
they will die also. In addition to
this loss of stock, a little boy, the
son of a neighbor, who was bitten
by the same dog, was hurried
away to the Pasteur Institute at
Austin for treatment. Disasters
like this are not rare, but similar
reports are published nearly ev-
ery week. In the face of such
horrors how long can we tolerate
the dogs?_
The storm played a return en-
gagement in Galveston Wednes-
day. It was the same storm king
with all his fury, but it was not
the same Galveston. A mighty
sea wall had been erected and the
grade had been raised since that
fateful September day of 1900.
The mighty waves lashed the wall
of steel and concrete,but the wall
stood like a mountain kissed by
a summer zephyr, and the waters
returned to the sea. The only
damage was to boat houses and
piers; and to-day the Island City
rejoices over its safety and calm-
ly watches the white sails of com-
merce glide over the bosom of the
deep, determined to use the wa-
ters of the sea but not to be used
by them. But for that wall Gal-
veston Island to-day would be
dotted with the slain and Galves-
ton city would be but a memory.
Old Tom Platt celebrated his
seventy - sixth anniversary one
day last week. He celebrated all
alone, not one of his once-power-
ful friends dropping in to pay re-
spects or sending a note of cheer.
The incident caused the Dallas
Times-Herald to make the follow-
ing observations: . “For twenty-
five years he ruled as a boss and
for eighteen years he was a Uni-
ted States Senator who served
selfish interests and not his state
and who looked to the lining of
his own pocket and never to the
interests of the masses. To-day
he is old and tottering on the
brink of the grave, with none so
poor as to do him reverence.
Hoar died as poor as a church
mouse and the people, regardless
of party, mourned his passing.
Morgan passed away at a ripe old
age poor in pocket and rich in
the esteem of the American peo-
ple. Platt will die unhonored
and unwept. Hoar and Morgan
served the people long and loyal-
ly—Platt served the interests long
and slavishly and selfishly. Take
your choice. Money is not all
there is m this life.”
VOTE FOR THE AMENDMENTS.
Two of the proposed amend-
ments to the constitution to be
voted on Tuesday, August 3rd,
relate to public school interests of
certain sections, and in our opin-
ion it is important that both be
adopted. It will be remembered
that a decision was handed down
last year by the Supreme court,
which invalidated $3,500,000
bonds issued by certain indepen-
dent school districts; $2,500,000
of these bonds had been purchas-
ed by the permanent school fund
which would stand to lose this
great sum of money were it not
that the constitution provides that
all such losses must be made up
from the general taxes of the
state. The issue then, is simply
this: should the people who have
profited from the sale of these
bonds pay them, or should all the
people pay them. The people
who have profited are willing and
anxious to pay them and only
ask the constitutional right to tax
themselves in order to meet their
obligations. With this explana-
tion before him we fail to see how
any man can vote against this
proposed amendment.
The other school amendment
validates what are known as
county line school school dis-
tricts, these too being rendered
null and void by a decision of the
supreme court. For convenience
of patrons many districts have
been formed, taking in portions
of two or more counties; on ac-
count of location, creeks, rivers,
etc., such action was necessary
to provide convenient schools for
many communities. The Mc-
Clelland and Temple Hill school
districts,on the borders of Fannin
and Lamar, are among those
knocked out by the supreme
court decision. These districts
should be validated, and this can
be done only by the adoption of
the proposed amendment.
SIGNAL LIGHTS.
Missouri has a new law known
as the hotel inspection law,which
requires among other things that
the bed sheets must be nine feet
long. Muoh sport was made of
the bill introduced by a Texas
law-maker a few years since pro-
hibiting the use of sheets less
than nine feet in length, but it was
in fact a meritorious bill. It pro-
vided that the sheets be nine feet
long and that they be used but
once withoutchange. The author’s
idea was to guard against the
spread of contagious diseases, es-
pecially consumption, by having
the sheets long enough to tuck
under at the foot and to turn over
the other bed clothes at the head,
so that the sleeper would not come
in contact with the bed clothing
used by other persons. Mis-
souri’s hotel law also provides a
penalty for bad plumbing, ab-
sence of fire escapes, unclean
towels, bed bugs and other things
that make a traveler’s stay un-
pleasant or threaten him with
dangers.
Thirty-three years from last
Sunday—July 18th, 1876—the
first railway train to enter Fort
Worth pulled into the improvis-
ed depot. It was a Texas & Pa-
cific train, and E. P. Turner, now
general passenger agent, was
the first agent at Fort Worth
and L. S. Thorne, now vice
president, was a brakeman on
the first train. Eleven railroads
now enter Fort Worth and ninety-
four passenger trains and twelve
interurban cars leave the city ev-
ery day.
Visit the Walrus—drinks and
creams of the very finest quality.
Our object is to please you.—
Black & Little.
Special prices made on ice
cream for picnic and festival pur-
poses.—L. C. Hill.
Fresh sweet cream for sale ev-
ery hour of the day at Hill’s.
Signal,Record, and Chart $1,85
I care very little who is elected
Governor next year. I know per-
sonally a majority of the candi-
dates and do not believe the elec-
tion of either would cause the
state to grow up in rag weeds or
open the state’s strong box to
grafters and rogues. But every
time I see in the papers a bitter
attack upon one of the candidates
I entertain a kindlier feeling to-
ward the candidate. The day
when a man can be defeated by
abuse in Texas has passed, and it
is not infrequently the case that a
candidate is cussed into office.
The Bereans were more noble
than the Thessalonians, because
they searched the Scriptures dai
ly to see if the things preaehed
by Paul and Silas were true. This
is the statement of the Sunday
School lesson of last Sunday, and
it is a point that should not be
forgotten. The evangelist preach-
ed a doctrine that was gall and
wormwood to the haughty Jews
—a doctrine which destroyed
their pride of race and placed
them on an equal footing with
the Gentile dogs — a doctrine
which destroyed their traditions
and set aside the religion of their
fathers. If men should come in-
to our midst preaching equality
of the whites and blacks and de-
claring that the religion we were
trained to love and honor mU3t
give way to another it is doubt-
ful whether they would get a re-
spectful hearing anywhere. The
Thessalonians refused to hear the
preachers, but the Bereans were
more noble and more sensible.
They heard the evangelists, and
then searched the Scriptures to
ascertain whether the evangelists
were preaching truth or error.
Tolerance is one of the noblest
virtues, intolerance is the guard-
ian angel of ignorance and super-
stition. Whether in politics, re-
ligion or social questions the
only safe course is to hear and
investigate. A thing isn’t nec-
essarily true because we believe
it is true; conscience is a safe
guide only when conscience is en-
lightened. It is conscience that
leads us to dedicate our children
to the Lord, it is conscience also
that leads the Hindu woman to
drown her children in the Ganges.
“He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear.”
I find this item in the daily
press, a press that every true re-
former knows is corrupt and the
enemy of everything that is good:
Mobile, Ala., July 21.—As a re-
sult of drinking buttermilk pur-
chased from an old negro woman,
three men, three women and five
children, all white, were poisoned
here last night. The milk had
been delivered in a tin bucket.
Walter Mayberry, a member of the
fire department, it is thought, will
die. The others are not consider-
ed dangerously ill.
For ways that are dark and
hellish, the enemies of true re-
form could give Beelzebub, Me-
phisto and all the spirits of the
lower kingdom pointers that they
never dreamed of. How much
the disciples of Bacchus and the
advocates of cold water paid for
the insertion of the above adver-
tisement I have no means of as-
certaining,but the sum, if known,
would stagger humanity. It’s a
thorny road the reformer must
travel as he battles with the
world, the flesh and the devil, all
strongly fortified, but these
things only nerve my arm and
steel my soul for the conflict.
Since I began preaching the glo-
ries of buttermilk the venal press
has spread the report that a man
choked to death on the lacteal
fluid, that another quaffed a quart
of the churn product and bursted,
that it gave a child appendicitis,
that three men got drunk on it,
and that an entire picnic party
died of hydrophobia three hours
after drinking a liberal quantity.
The wicked Standard Oil compa-
ny has also joined the armies of
alcohol and the cohorts of cold
water in the fight against the de-
lightful beverage and is seeking
to prevents its use by buying up
all the sweet milk and thus pre-
venting the manufacture of the
acidulated fluid. Let no man be
deceived* by these false reports
published in a corrupt press. Re-
member, if you drink alcohol, it’s
delirium tremens, if you drink
water, it’s incrustation of the
liver, but if you drink buttermilk,
well-regulated innards, a sunny
disposition and a song of glad-
ness will mark your walk through
life.
We have had the biggest cloth-
ing trade we ever had, but have
several suits left. We are going
to close these out in order to start
next spring with a brand new
line. In order to close them out
we have put prices on them that
will do the work. If you need a
suit, now is your opportunity; if
you don’t need it, it will pay you
to buy and lay the suit away for
next year.—The Underwood Co.
All suits for men and boys at
greatly reduced prices. We have
yet a nice assortment of the cele-
brated Alfred Benjamin fine tail-
ored suits and the reduced prices
we have made in order to close
out this season’s purchases are
the most attractive ever made
here on fine up-to-date clothing.
—Wilkins, Wood & Patteson.
We have a client who wishes to
buy 50 to 100 acres of good, im-
proved black land, situated four
to six miles southeast, south or
southwest of Honey Grove. Come
and give me description and the
price of your property.—L. C.
LaMaster & Co., Honey Grove,
Texas. _
We have many pretty patterns
in men’s clothing, including the
famous Alfred Benjamin make,
which we are now selling at walk
out prices in order to make room
for our enormous fall purchase.—
Wilkins, Wood & Patteson.
Special prices, very attractive
prices, on all low-cut shoes. We
believe we have the best bargains
ever offered you on this class of
goods.—The Underwood Co.
WHAT REXALL IS
Some years ago several thousand druggists met and organized
the United Drug Co., which manufactures the famous Rexall line
of family remedies. There are something like 300 of these rem-
edies—one for each human ailment—and each one of them is
sold on an absolute guarantee to give satisfaction or your money
back. Each package of Rexall Remedies bears the following
GUARANTEE
“This preparation is guaranteed to give satisfaction. If it does
not come back and get your money; it belongs to you and I want
you to have it.” We will sign this guarantee.
BLACK & LITTLE
THE REXALL STORE.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1909, newspaper, July 23, 1909; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633983/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.