Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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MONEY IN BUNCHES
FOUR MILLION DOLLARS TO LOAN RIGHT NOW
Farm loans 6 per cent—City loan plan will pay out 6 to 8
months sooner than any contract being offered at the same
rate per month. We make our own inspections. We also
make loans in adjoining towns. We buy and sell real estate,
list your property with us. We also write General Insur-
ance and Automobile Accident Insurance. -We have paid
several hundred dollars for personal injuries covered by our
policies. Come to see us and we will take care of you.
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[The items printed below were re-
written or copied from items printed
in the Signal September 22, 1893—
thirty-three years ago.]
Mrs. Lula Graves had accepted the
position of manager of the millinery
department of Williamson-Blocker &
Company.
Sells Brothers circus was advertised
to exhibit in Honey Grove October 17.
Rev. J. H. Taylor, of Mississippi,
had accepted a call to the pastorate of
the Baptist church.
M. A. Galbraith’s gin, two miles
west of town, was burned Monday
afternoon. The gin machinery, house
and about 150 bales of cotton were
destroyed.
Local option elections were held
Saturday in the Ladonia, Dodd City,
Leonard and Savoy precincts. The
pros carried Savoy, but Ladonia, Dodd
City and Leonard voted “wet.”
The army' worms were working in
the cotton and had done much damage.
Sam Jones, his partners, George
AN AMERICAN MIDAS, WHO
FOUND WEALTH, AND LOST IT
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Paris
Congress Will Probably
Regulate Radio.
Radio broadcasting enjoys a
curious status in relation to the
public. At present it is virtually
unregulated, being subject only
to the rules which station owners
are willing to impose upon them-
selves. At the next session of
_ress a determined fight will
oe made to secure Federal regu-
lation of the industry. Nearly
all the stations now in use are
owned by private corporations
but operated for the benefit of
the. masses. The two most im-
portant groups of owners are
.electrical and radio manufactur-
ing concerns, intent upon fur-
nishing good programs as a
means of increasing the sale of
receiving sets; and various large
daily newspapers, which look
upon radio as a useful extension
of their service to the section
which they represent.
Bring in your old auto tops.
We can make them look like new.
—Clark’s Harness Shop.
Stuart and E. O. Excell, were
to begin a revival meeting in
October 8.
Yellow lever was epidemic at
Brunswick, Ga., and there was great
excitement.
Hundreds were passing through
Honey Grove headed eastward. They
had been to the opening of the Chero-
kee Strip. About 1 out of 5 secured a
claim.
Frank Black died in Honey Grove
Sunday following an illness of 61 days.
A. S. Greenlea and family, long res-
idents of Honey Grove, left Wednes-
day for Mason, Tenn., to make their
home.
Dr. Tol Smith had returned from
Arlington,- where -fee looked after Dr.
Page’s drug business for a time. The
Doctor’s health was failing.
Mrs. T. H. Ligon left Monday for
Glasgow, Mo., to spend the_ winter
with her daughter, Mr a. Harrison.
Saturday 210 bales of cotton were
received in Honey Grove. Prices
ranged from 7 to 8 cents. Receipts
for the season were 1000 bales. The
price of cotton seed was $12 per ton.
Uncle Billy Trout, of the country
northeast of town, had purchased a
residence on Hickory street from Dr.
Meyer and was making preparations
to move to town.
Permission had been asked of the
City Council to erect a band pavilion
in the center of the square.
A new daughter was stopping with
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lane.
J. J. Nesbitt returned Friday from
St. Louis, where he went to purchase
goods for his store.
D. E. Taylor and wife and J. B. Mc-
Kee and wife returned Friday from a
visit to the World’s Fair at Chicago.
The best Colorado lump coal was
advertised by local dealers at $5.75
per ton.
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Austin to attend the University of
Texas.
School Supplies
WE HAVE THEM—EVERY-
THING NEEDED IN THE
SCHOOL ROOM EXCEPT THE
TEXTBOOKS. ,
A BIG LINE OF TABLETS
THAT WILL PLEASE ALL.
THE VERY BEST PENS, INKS
AND PENCILS.
NOTE BOOKS AND MEMO-
RANDUM BOOKS OF EVERY
KNID.
FOOT BALLS, BASKET BALLS
AND ALL ATHLETIC SUP-
PLIES.
WE WANT YOUR TRADE
PALACE DRUG STORE
G. W. WILSON, Proprietor
Out in the Washoe Valley of
Nevada, neap the. little town of
Gold Hill, stands a building
which at one time was the big-^
gest house, both in size and
adornment, in the whole country-
side. It was the mansion built
by a lone prospector for gold,
who suddenly “struck it rich”’
and, as a monument to his good
fortune, expended $407,000 to
create an abode which was cal-
culated to put any palace of the
Arabian Knights to shame. To-
day, its glory faded, its treasures
of gold and silver and precious
gems gone, it has been turned
into a hotel so that those who
pass that way may be reminded
of a fortunate man and his
money and the bad luck that
finally overtook him and his
equally fortunate wife.
... The . name of ^interesting
person who built the wonderful
mansion amid a clutter of min-
ers’ cabins was Leon Sanford
Bowers, or “Sandy,” as he gen-
erally was known to those who,
in the early ’50s, staked out
their claims in the Gold Canyon
nearby, hopeful of such wealth
as came to Sandy.
Robert L. Duffus, in Collier’s,
gives an account of Sandy’s
astonishing career from poverty
to riches, and sums up the
events that produced a story
which reads like a fairy tale
from folklore.
“In most ways,” writes Mr.
Duffus, “Sandy Bowers was like
hundreds of other miners and
prospectors who hot-tfooted it
over the hills of California in
1849 and through the deserts of
Nevada ten years later in pursuit
of the flirtatious goddess of luck.
All he knew about prospecting
he had learned not in any school
of mines, but by tickling the
earth with pick and shovel. He
was poor and ignorant and as
hopeful as a dog chasing a flea.
“He differed from the others,
however, in one important re-
spect. He played the role of
which all prospectors think
sometimes as they sit about
their fires on lonesome desert
nights when the coyotes howl
and the sky is full of a million
stars. He struck it rich; he
madejxis. pile.
“A house in that region where
log hut had but recently be
considered the height of luxur
Mr. Duffus continues,
showiest thing a'brand new
lionaire could think of. Sandy
and Ellen (his wife) set out to
build what was, by their notions
and those of most of their neigh-
bors, the most remarkable house
in the world. It had windows of
French plate glass, door knobs of
solid silver, marble baths filled
from hot springs, a cellar full of
the rarest and choicest wines,
and grounds planted with ever-
greens, boxwood, laurel and im-
ported shrubs and flowers, with
a fountain playing in the center.
“When Sandy totaled up the
cost he was a proud man. He
had spent $407,000 and the
Bowers mansion was the biggest
A. Galbraith/ Ji-^ Uad- g-one t©- -tiring in Nevada, with the excep
“ ‘ ' tion of Mount Davidson and the
Comstock lode itself.”
The Ellen mentioned by Mr.
Duffus was Ellen Cowan, widow
of a Mormon ranch owner of the
community, who had left her to
gain a livelihood as best she
might, while he returned to Salt
Lake * City to help Brigham
Young chase out the. United
States troops then threatening
the newly created Mormon state
of Deseret. The romance that
sprang up between Mrs. Cowan
and the adventurous Sandy Bow-
ers is interesting in that it
points out the progress of two
very fortunate beings from a life
of precarious existence to one be-
yond their most sanguine
dreams.
. While Sandy was digging dili-
gently into the. rock ribs of Gold
Canyon in a vague hope of gain-
ing wealth, Ellen Cowan was
striving to keep-herself in funds
by managing a rooming house
and taking in washing. She
harkened to the call of gold and
staked out a claim on the hillside
next to Sandy’s. It was this
that helped Sandy to become bet-
ter acquainted with the fair lady
and in due time' they were mar-
ried.
Then the miraculous occurred.
Sandy’s pick opened up a vein of
ore that set the whole country-
side to -talking in the wildest
terms. Sandy had struck what
later was to be known as the
Comstock lode. He didn’t know
it at the time, but when $1,000 a
day and later $10,000 a day be-
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gan to pour into whatever de-
positories he had at his com-
mand, some inkling of the enor-
mous wealth which lay buried
there came to light and great
throngs rushed to claim little
patches of the treasured ground.
Of course, Sandy kept on dig-
ging and amassing his gold nug-
gets. For what was $10,000 a
day when there was every indi-
cation of his getting more ? Be-
sides, Ellen Cowan’s claim now
was Mrs. Bower’s, and that lady,
who had taken the sturdy pros-
pector for better or worse found
she had done wisely, for the
claims of both enabled the won-
derful riches to continue coming
their way.
After building his mansion
and setting himself up as a sort
of count of Monte Christo, who
lavished money with both hands,
Sandy decided that Europe
should know what an American
could do with a fortune. His
farewell banquet to his friends
was a spectacular affair that
cost him $5,000. But he didn’t
let the expense annoy him in the
least. He made a speech in his
rough way, which Mr. Duffus
quotes in his article and, at the
conclusion of it, said:
“Me and Mrs. Bowers is agoin’
to see the queen of England and
the other great men of them
countries, and I hope you’ll jine
in and drink Mrs. Bowers’s
health. Thar’s plenty of cham-
pagne and money ain’t no ob-
ject.” No; money was no object.
And so the Bowerses made their
grand exit amid the plaudits of
an awed populace.;
They took $200,000 with them
to defray “little expenses” of the
“foreign picnic,” as Sandy called
it: But they soon had to send
back for more. They remained
away three years, and during
that time Mrs. Bowers collected
more than a peck of diamonds
and jewels. One necklace alone
cost $65,000. And the raiment
she brought back with her would
have made an empress turn
green with envy. The Bowerses
had shown Europe what rich
Americans can do.
But this could not last forever
One cannot eat one’s
have it, too, as the old saying
goes. Gradually the immense
fortune dwindled and, although
at-Sandy’s death in 1868, there
still* was $680,0s)0 left, it repre-
sented only a small part of what
he had amassed. Then Mrs.
Bowers determined to spend
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The Exiles of Erin.
The new census showing the
population of the Irish Free
State as 2,972,802 would indicate
;hat the flow of emigration is
still steady and strong. To the
United States it is now re-
stricted by quota. To England
and Canada it has always been
and remains considerable.
Very unusual in the. history of
modern nations and people is the
record of Ireland’s progressive
cake and depopulation. Its numbers were
estimated at 1,320,000 in 1672;
at 4,200,000 in 1791. But begin-
ning with 1821, when it was 6,-
801,827, we have the more exact
census figures for citation. By
swift increases the count rose to
8,196,597 in 1841. Then followed
reached. Since then there has
been a slight decrease in North-
ern Ireland but a greater decline
in the Free State, so that the
total for both is about 100,000
below 1911, and not much more
than half the maximum before
the famine.
This makes possible a curious
comparison. In 1920 the num-
ber of inhabitants of the United
States ascribed by our census to
Irish stock was 4,136,395. Both
by birth and immigration that
number has since increased. By
now there must be in the nation
more people of the Irish race
than in Ireland itself.—New
York World.
the potato famine and the emi-
-tof that" "investing the Vest gration to which that calamity
in mining stock. This venture
was not like the first. She lost
what she had invested and the
remainder was squandered.
One day in August, 1901, a lit-
tle old lady, bent with age, fal
teringly stepped into the receiv
ing room of the Washoe county
poorhouse in Reno, Nev. It was
Mrs. Bowers. “It is all ended,”
she murmured. “I am ready to
die.” Back once more to the
scenes of her former glory she
passed away not long afterward
in the shelter of the poorhouse.
Gone were her millions, gone
her pleasurable days in the fine
stone mansion on the hillside.
Gone were her jewels and her
fine clothes. She was _ just
poor, tired creature, asking for
the protection of charity near
the place where fabulous wealth
had once joined her. And today
even her mansion has gone into
other hands, only the husk of its
former self. It is the last chap-
ter in the Fairy Tale of a Pros-
pector Prince and his Princess
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Ladies’ garment prices ana
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Automobile Loans.
Are your monthly payments
larger than you can conveniently
meet? We make loans on .1925
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Frank Robertson & Co.,
Paris Texas-
c o ii t ributed. Thereafter kin
across the sea called powerfully
to the Irish at home, and the
drain continued. Each decennial
census showed a decline until, in
1911 the figure 4,390,219 was
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Signal and Dallas News, $2.25,
All the new choice things in
Ladies’ dresses—our prices on
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larger cities.
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Signal $1.50 a year in advance
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1926, newspaper, September 24, 1926; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth648148/m1/2/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.