Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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Things Look Prosperous
We are Optimistic and Look for a Wave of Great Prosperity
During the many years we have been in business we have each
year set a higher mark for effieiency and achievement, and we
want to state in the most convincing terms that we are better
prepared to serve you than ever before.
Our store is already well filled with the choicest productions of
the factories and looms and” we are yet receiving almost daily
large shipments of Spring and Summer goods. Without hesita-
tion we can say we can show you the largest and best selected
stock of Dry Goods, Shoes Hats, Clothing, Millinery, Ladies
Ready to Wear and Novelties ever shown in Honey Grove.
This is an agricultural country, and everything that grows on
the farm is selling at a high price and getting higher. There is
plenty of money in the country to finance everything, and there
will be work for all. Foreseeing the good times ahead, due in a
measure to the war, we bought the largest stock of goods for
spring and summer that we have ever carried.
We are very glad to say, too, that we bought when goods of all
kinds were much lower than they are now. Many things now
in our store are priced below what the same goods can be bought
for in the wholesale markets. We are going to give our custom-
ers the benefit of this piece of good luck that has come to us, be-
lieving them entitled to it on account of their faithfulness to us
in days gone by.
WE WANT YOUR CASH BUSINESS
and all we ask of you is to compare our goods and our prices with those of any Store in North Texas.
If you go out of town to look you will find prices higher for the same qualities. ^
We realize that a satisfied customer is the best asset. If you are one of our satisfied custom-
ers come again. If you have any grievance come and tell us, and we will take pleasure in correcting
any error. If you havn’t been a customer, come and get acquainted, see our goods and learn our
prices and we are confident you will become one. An opportunity to serve you is all we ask.
Yours for more business,
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The Hurry of
Modern Lite
Austin Callan in Temple Mirror:
We are wearing ourselves out
speeding up. In the good old
days a fellow took his time for
everything. Ma’s brother was a
man who had the philosophy of
living down to a nicety; he never
hurried and never worried. I re-
member one time when he came
over to fix the sewing machine;
that was his trade and ma said
he was a natural born mechanic,
that eyen as a boy whenever
there was a broken leg to one of
the skillets on the place, it seem-
ed that he could always find a
rock just the right height to fit
under it. As well as I can re-
member it was an awful hot day
when Uncle Hez came to go to
work on the sewing machine. He
arrived just in time for dinner,
and I honestly believe he eat
more turnip greens and drank
more buttermilk than any man I
ever saw in my life. It seemed
to make him sleepy, and he said
that he guessed he would have to
take a little cat-nap before get-
ting down to work. Ma fixed
him a cot out under a big china-
berry tree and he spent the whole
afternoon there. We boys got
straws and tickled him on the
bottoms of his feet and behind
his ears, but we couldn’t wake
him up. About an hour before
supper he crawled off the cot and
ransacked the place looking for
some smoking tobacco, but could
not find enough to load his pipe.
He said he couldn’t get down to
work without taking a few jerks
at his old Henry Clay, so one of
the kids had to run away to the
store and get him some. By the
time he finished smoking, supper
was ready, so he just let the old
machine go, saying that he would
get an early start on it in the
morning.
Sure enough the next day
Uncle Hez got bqpy. He drew a
comfortable rocker up to the ma-
chine, gave the wheel a turn or
two, squinted up one eye and
sighted down at the needle to
see if it was threaded, tapped
his fingers on the arm, whistled
a few strains of “Annie Laurie”
and then leaned back in the rock-
er. “Well, what is the matter
with it?” asked ma. “I haven’t
been able to do a bit of sewing
for a week now without the
thread all knotting up and I just
must get some bodies made up
for the boys; you know the pho-
tographer is coming next week
and there isn’t a good picture of
any of them on the place.”
Uncle Hez studied a minute
and then he said that he was not
sure but that he thought it ought
to have another needle. “I will
examine it more thoroughly this
afternoon,” he declared, “but
this is such a purty morning I
believe I will go down and see if
I can’t catch a mess of perch if
some of the boys will catch me a
can of bait.”
It was the middle of the after-
noon when he got back from the
creek, wit a few little sun perch
no longer than your finger. Ma
gave him his dinner and then
while he was taking a cat-nap
again, she had us to clean the
perch. It made me awful mad
because I never did like to fool
with anybody’s old half-spoiled
fish. But ma said I ought to be
ashamed to show my ingratitude,
that my Uncle Hez was working
hard on the machine just to get
it fixed in time to make up clothes
for the picture to be taken in,
that really it was no love for the
work that prompted him to be
there, but only to help the fam-
ily out.
Well, to make a long story
short, I will say that it was to-
ward the beginning of winter
when Uncle got the machine so
it would sew; the photographer
had come and gone and none of
us were ready to have our pic-
tures taken. But he had several
severe set-backs on the job; his
tobacco gave out several times
and once an old chum of his came
along with a bottle of whisky
and the two of them got drunk.
He was a week coming around to
himself after this and was so
nervous that he couldn’t do a
thing. But the machine did fine
sewing and the bill was only two
dollars and six bits. Uncle Hez
explained why it took him so
long to do a job that ought to
have been done in a week, for
the shuttle was only bent a little,
but he remarked: “There hain’t
any sense hurrying through life;
all you can do is to die when you
get to the end.”
A Billion for Ships.
Leaders of both parties in
Congress have agreed to sup-
port the administration program
for the spending of a billion dol-
lars of more to provide an Amer-
ican merchant marine fleet to
combat the submarine menace.
Work is already under way on
both wooden and steel vessels,
and efforts of all American yards
are to be co-ordinated under gov-
ernment supervision to the end
that a maximum output may be
obtained.
This program is the most com-
plete and comprehensive ever
undertaken by a government,
and when completed will mean
the restoration of the American
flag as a dominant factor on the
high seas. We shall not again
live in the Yankee clipper days,
but we shall again see the Stars
and Stripes in every port of the
world, and American sailors
ashore in every city from New
York to Bombay, from Frisco to
Yokohama.
Once more American trade will
be handled in American bottoms,
and with steam and sail we shall
regain our long lost maritime
prestige.
Pratt & Lamberts Effect auto-
mobile paint in black, red, gray
and dark green on sale at our
place, prices ranging from 40c to
$1 60 per can. Satisfaction as-
sured.—Black & Little.
Roxton Man Found Dead.
Paris, Tex., May 14.—J. B.
Whipple, bookkeeper and mana-
ger of the Roxton Gin Company
at Roxton, walked into the office
of By water’s drug store at 7:3Q
o’clock last night, while Tom
Julian, the prescriptionist, was
waiting on a customer. Whipple
was later found dead in the of-
fice with the door locked. An
empty bottle that had contained
poison, was at his side. He was
31 years old and had lived at Rox-
ton all his life. He leaves a
family.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
MICHELIN
12 to 15% Extra Weight
TXTHEN you buy your next tire make this simple
VV test. Let us weigh a Michelin Universal
Tire in comparison with any other non-skid of the
same size.
You will find the Michelin 12 to
15% heavier than the average, the
exact percentage depending on the
size of the tires used in the test.
This extra weight represents extra rubber and fabric,
which means extra service.
W. F. GRAVES
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Wherever Ford cars have pioneered, Ford ser-
vice has kept pace. It is the factory which
strengthens the personal relation between Ford j
owners and the Company. To get the best possible
service from your Ford car, bring it here when it
needs attention and get the benefit of Ford super-
vision throughout. We use the genuine Ford parts
and give you the benefit of the regular standard
Ford prices. Touring Car $360, Runabout $345,
Sedan $645, Coupelet $505, Town Car $595—all f. o.
b. Detroit. On display and for sale by
HONEY GROVE AUTO COMPANY
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1917, newspaper, May 18, 1917; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth637875/m1/2/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.