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VOLUME VIII
PALACIOS, TEXAS, FRIDAt
LCEMBER 8, 1916
NUMBER 49
Guaranty Fund Bank
Palacios state bank
PALACIOS, TEXAS
Capital and Surplus, $65,000.00
Statement of Condition
At the Close of Business Nov. 17th, 1916.
RESOURCES
Loam and Discounts............................—$174,498.43
Real Estate and Banking House —................... 18,612.92
Furniture and Fixtures................. 4,856.38
Interest in Guaranty Fund................-......... 3,339.62
CASH AND EXCHANGE........................ 93,681.74
$294,989.29
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock........,............................ $50,000.00
Surplus Fund__________________....—............ 15,000.00
Undivided Profits................... 7,274.85
DEPOSITS................... 222,714.94
$294,989.29
The above Statement is true and correct.
J. F. BARNETT, Cashier.
-The Diphtheria Situation.
There still seems to be a little mis-
understanding among the people of Pa-
lacios concerning the diptheria situ-
Y ation, and considerable fear as well as
misunderstanding among our neighbors,
especially those across the bey. Dip-
tberia cases exist at present in most all
the towns in this pert of Texas, as the
State report shows, but the reason that
r ara not generally known, is that
not spoken about, nor tha sit-
I as rigidly as it ha* been
^jormerly, when we had no coaven-
_____method to determine the presence
r. of diphtheria germs in the threat, the
5 method of quarantine was more or less
• hit or miss game; that in, the schools
team closed, the families isolated for an
arbitrary length of time, and the houses
fumigated. The results of this method,
which ia now prevalent over Texas and
moat of the United States, are now ap-
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parent, because we know that with it
diphtheria continues to spread. Pala-
cios ia now the second town in Texas,
according to a statement made by Dr.
Davis, secretary of the State Board of
Health, to take up this modern method
of quarantine, which consists in the
taking of throat cultures of all suspects,
and not allowing those affected or those
in contact with the diseaie out of quar-
antine until their throat cultures show
an absence of diphtheria germs. This
method was used by the U. S. Govern
ment to control an aoidemic in Manila
in 1915, with great success. Further-
more, Palscioc has had to stand the ex-
Apse of this work, because our State
legislature does not appropriate enough
money to handle the situation in this
manner.
Although we have had many cases,
we feel that the people of Palaces and
their friends can feel as safe if not safer
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in Palacios than in any other town fn
We, therefore, ask that those who
ate unfortunate enough to have to go
tinder quarantine, will be lea* complain-
ing to those in charge. It is not a per-
sonal matter, and we do not desire to
kaep up a yellow flag any longer than
necessary; but, on the other hand, we
consider it dangerous to allow anyone
free, who still carries the germ. One
such can undo all the work we have
done. The dipbtharia germ has it*
own manner of growth, and its own
farm, so that it can be recognised un-
' - dar the microscope. Whan we state
that a cast is positive, that is, that the
was* still curries the germs in its throat,
^ have definitely identified the germ
under the scope and the slide is kept
far proof. Because a person continues
to carry tha farm longer than ethers ia
not our fault, but probably due to
tome abnormalities in hia throat Wa
wish ill, those in quarantina as well as
those out, to feel that our work ia for
their own safety as well a* for tha pub-
lic. We with our neighbors to feel
they can come and go in safety, for tha
disease ia carried by personal contact,
not by air or dothas.
Now as to bur offices where the
work ia dona, Wa consider them
ads because tha diphtheria farm is
vary short-lived whan dry. They are
always handled on a sticky moist madia,
cannot blow away, and whan thay ara
dried they ara burned. Anything
touching them is immediately burned
or disinfected befors it can touch any-
ig else. Tha routine of the work
i bactsriologist, who haadles all
ilijfiUlBc of pnuk rack that ho la raft
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as well as hia friend. Our hands are
continually in disinfectants, and we
take other precautions for our own bcn‘
efit is wall as for our patients.
In conclusion, we wish to state, that
if there are any further misunderstand'
ings, wa shall be glad to straighten
them out, and we trust that the people
of Palasios and Matagorda county will
help us in our present work and appeal
to the Legislature for better quarantine
regulations in Teus, to make a State
wide fight against such a disease ss
diphtheria. Health
Dunbar Pots.
O. B. Vlets and family spent
Thanksgiving at the Paliskia home.
Wo are glad to learn that Geo.
Harrison and family will not leave
the south.
John Carter’s moved to their farm
Monday. We weloome them.
J. W. Spencer ie the prond owner
of a new Overland and Bays he thinke
he will have better times now, even if
Wlleon le President.
E.J. Hill sold some fine dairy cattle
to Mr. Price of Palacios.
Dunbar Sunday school at 2:30 p. m.
and preaching at 3:30 Dec. 10th,
Mrs. B. L. Bonnett and Mrs. E. I.
Johnson spent Sunday evening pleas-
antly at the home of John White.
Mr*. G. Anderson le expeoting her
granddaughters, Lena and Lilian to
make their hdme with her. They are
now in Buffalo, Kansas.
E. I. Johnson and family were the
guests of Prof, and Mrs. H. L. Brown
at Wadsworth Thanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Bonnet were
Oollegeport visitors Monday and
Tuesday.
Mrs. B. L. Bonnet gave a party in
honor of her huaband’s 77th birthday.
Tbelr neat oottage was taatefully dec-
orated with ferns and flowers. A
three course lunobeon was served by
the hostess assisted by her two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Geo. Hill and Mrs. Rob-
erts, and all got to enjoy the flue
not cake sent from Iowa by Mr.
Bonnet’s daughter. Just near neigh-
bor* and relative* got to enjoy the
delightful evening of Deo. 1st.
Transmuting Copper into Gold
Alchemists of old searched in vain
for the philosopher* atone which in
their imaginaton would trinemute
everything it touched into gold.
The modern philosopher's atone ia
the savings bank. To find this atone
require* no diligent search, neither ia
special knowledge required to utilize its
compound power.
Take 825 copper cents, or its equiv-
alent, each week to a saving bank pay-
ing four per aint compound internet,
for a period of twenty years, and the
bank will at the of end that tima turn
over to you $10,000 in gold. In the
twenty yean you will have deposited
6500, piece* of copper, which in United
States currency would be worth $6,500.
It takas time thua to turn copper into
gold, hut there ia money in it.—Haroce
H. Parker, in American Magazine.
Farm Loans
On Improved and productive farm*
in Matagorda County,- Long time at
reasonable Interest. A. W. Bates,
Manager, American Mortgage Co.
Bear room Palacios State Bank.
When Will the Democratic
Party Die?
(By O. H. Mulllcan, Maoy.)
When the white polar bear eats grass
like an ox,
And the fish-worm swallows the
whale;
When the mud turtles sit and knit
woolen sox,
And the wolf Is out run by the
snail.
When “garter snakes” walk upright
like men.
And potato bugs hop like a frog;
When grasshoppers start to weaving
wire fence,
And feathers will grow on the hog.
When “Thomas Cats” swim around
in the air.
And “Elephants” roost In the trees;
When ineecte in summer get to be
rare,
And snuff won’t make peopleeneeze.
When fish walk around on dry land,
And cows on tho bicycle ride;
When foxes lay eggs in the red-hot
sand,
And women In dress don’t take
pride.
When the Dutchman no longer can
drink any beer,
And crows go to preaching on time;
When Billy Goats start to butt from
the rear,.
And treason le no longer a crime.
When the meadow lark bray* like a
hungry ass,
And limburger smells like cologne;
When axos we use are made out of
klase,
And the hearts of the Christians are
stone.
When ideas grow Inside of drum heads,
And wool on a hydraulic radl;
The “Democratic Party” then will be
dead,
And tble conntry won’t be worth a
-D--
Here’s a chance for some young
woman in the rice belt to play an im-
portant part in advertising rice and
earn $50.00 in a pleasant way, beside*.
The Southern Rice Grower*' Associa-
tion i* prs iiftag for puhiidatioa.a
God Booktosatisfy the universal
mind for standard rice recipes. For
the cover page of this book the Associ-
ation wants the portrait of a rice belt
girl in a poee that will suggest the use
of rice. No conditions of any kind
will be imposed upon contestants for
the honor and the prise except that
they must be residents of Louisiana
parishes of Arkansas and Texas coun-
ties in which rice is one of the impor-
tant crops.
It will be up to the contestants them-
selves to work out the idea of combin-
ing rice with personal pulchritude to
the end that the cereal may find favor
with the consumers as a result. They
may pose in a rice field, in a kitchen,
in a rice mill, in a rice warehouse—
anywhere in fact, provided the motif
of the picture is rice featured in a man-
ner that will create a desire to try the
cereal. It will be left to the contest-
ants to arrange the details, the idea be-
ing to make use of the artistic attain-
ments and practical training of the
women of the rice belt in the matter
of finding a striking feature to attract
attention to and fix attention upon the
new Cook Book.
The photographs are to be mailed to
1L A Eignus manager Southern Rice
Growers' Association, Beaumont, Texas,
and must reach him on or before
December 20, 1916. The winner will
receive • check for $50.00 on Christ-
mas day.
rfiALaun-^p-Jiienro
$830.70 Paid for Turkeys
A carload of turkeys were bought
here last Friday by the New York Buy-
ers Association of San Antonio, fur
which was paid $630.70. There were
382 birds in tha lot and the market
price paid was 10c per pound.
The carload was shipped to San An-
tonio, whare they will be dressed and
shipped to northern markets.
As far at w* have been aU* to learn,
the highest price paid for any on* bird
was $7.60, which was received by Mr
J. C. Lohnes, for a gobbler weighing
40 lbs.—Blessing New*
fRAtBBC
Germany to Buy Fr
Texas After War 1
Austin, Texas, Nov. 23.*
Davis, State commissioner
ture, it in receipt of a le
V. Dittlinger, a former
Texas, but now in Berlin,
At one time Mr. Dittlinger ii
ber of the extension commit!
Roads and Corn Growers'i
Texas. In August, 1913,
report to Ed R. Kone, then
sioner of agriculture, as to
conditions in Germany. Tk
ceived by Mr. Davis dated
18, was received yesterday.
In his letter Mr. Ditthc
will return to Texas as soon A
is over and expects to tgti
question of saving waste frulj
fruit belt of Texas by conv
into jams and preserve*,
the growers will take ins
the matter a uniform
and preserves,, in be produci
will fill the dertulnds of the
The best results are obtained i
of more that, one kind of
says that he ha; dealers indj
who will agree to take all thq
in this line. Previous to the^j
German market for jams
serves was supplied from EnJ
cording to Mr. Dittlinger.
ket in Germany it now
Dittlinger thinks the fruit th
measure up to market standi
now it often times a loss to
ers may be made worth son
using it for jams and pre
According to Mr. Dittlinf
wijl be heavy immigration!
to America when the war it i
■ from
W.
agricul-
>m N.
,lnt °f
iermany.
fa mem-
sfGood
ition of
lade a
imii-
cotton
itfer re-
tember
Woman’s Column.
MAHIE ENGLE-JOHNSON
PHONE 38
CULTURE
We think of Jesus as meek and
lowly; but bo was also stern and om-
plintio and mightly self-assertive.
We love to think of tbe love of God;
but that love haa two poles, and Its
negative pole le an eternal disap-
proval of wrongdoing.—The Advance.
To Reduce Postal Rate
Washington, Nov. 27th.
are now being greased for th
ing of the movement for th*1
ment of the postal rates in
session of Congress. This i
to have been taken up in thu i
•ion but had to be deferred oa
of the consideration roquirad j
way mail pay. Since this biffi'
posed of the committees are
to take up the matter of
A son* system of rates 4for
class matter is being prominently urged
to take the piece of tho prUteat fiat
rate which waa adopted nasal* forty
ate'hat for
When you have left over rice, and
eggs are scarce and high, try these sim
pie and appetizing patties. Pat the
rice into round cakes, dip in flour and
brown in fryings from fresh pork or
bacon. These are good as a vegetable
with meat and gravy or as a desert with
cream and augar. Let us eat ^jpe un-
til soma grinning “ring” gets it cornered.
Let's eat rice to bust the trust!
If you are not sure of the store
bought food you are using for your
cow and poultry, send a sample of.it to
the A and M. for examination and
scandalixation. By-the-way, the experi-
ment station has given out information
that fall cut prairie hay is as nutritious
and digestible as the earlier cuts. That's
another “news” to most green feeders.
There's nothing like finding out the
truth about things, is there?
A Houston Post special says that
“burglars at Thrall blew open a safe
and stole a load of cotton seed." The
cautious people of Thrall should have
been more cautious still. They should
have had the safe guarded.
A very late style of evening frock
calls for one sleeve only—however,
that ona sleeve must be very long and
very fluffy and very full That re-
minds us of two sitters we once knew;
on* di4 all tha work and one did all
tha retting. Home dress-makers might
mall#'ton of this one sleeve
Study Food Values
Food provided for the family table de-
serves the careful thought of every house-
wife. Do you use thought when buying
baking powder?
The quality of cake, biscuits and all
quickly raised flour foods depends largely
upon the kind of baking powder used.
Royal Baking Powder is made from
cream of tartar derived from grapes. It is
absolutely pure and has proved its excel-
lence for making food of finest quality and
wholesomeness for generations.
Royal Baking Powder contains no alum
nor phosphate.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.
New York
and inspiration is the one you call
The Bible.” Another very excellent
book, in other ways, is “the dictionary."
You can never read those books enough,
let alone too much, and what's wonder-
ful you never tire of reading them over
and over. They are the base and basis
of all the printed world.
LIOHTS
How lonely the world must have been
at night
Before tbe dawn of a candle light—
Before the Mazda'—when all the beams
That lighted the world were from
stare, It seems
No wonder to me that wild things eye*
Contained “the makin’s” of every
size
Of light in the whole wide nnlveree,
Dynamoee, wirings, and Juice.
What’* worse
—■zacofll
Tbe peanut hai taken ite place with
eotton as a "money crop." Th* ume
it true of sweet potatoes when stored
in curing houses. Other "patch” crop*
will become staple money crops When
their production and marketing have
been standardised according to methods
lormuUted and taught by the Exten-
sion Service. This Service it free to
farmers who will organise themselves
into groups for study of their problems.
'The closing of the ben in Alberta
its improved the moral tone of every
city and town in the province. There
is considerably lest crime and contrary
to the arguments of tha liquor inter-
ests, business has not suffered,” says
Mrs. W. A Doyle of Edmonton, Al-
iens, former Liquor License Inspector
years ago. The present rate *
some time been regarded as a discrimi-
nation against tbe newspapers in favor
of the great national magasineg. Like
the parcel post the proposed zone rates
would be based on tbe length of th*
haul
The postal committees have been
besieged by petitions bearing 'millions
of names and several hundred tkauaand
letters from individuals urging a read-
justment of posts] rates with a view of
making possible one cent letter pottage.
A survey of the situation indicates that
sufficient changes will be made in th*
various rates to permit the granting of
11 cent rate on local delivery letters
in the next session of Congress.
Brief Items.
Birds migrating at night average
longer flights than the day migrants.
The laxative properties of fruits and
vegetables are not destroyed by canning
them.
By the use of hopperdotert at many
tt 300 busheliofgratshopperthavnbeen
collected on 100 acres of alfalfa.
The nighthawk performs the longest
migration journey of any land bird.
Its trip is 7,000 miles, from the Yukon
to Argentina.
A way of making a delirious table
sirup from muscadine grapes it an-
nounced by the Uuited States Bureau
of Plant Induatry.
The files of th* United State* De-
partment of agriculture contain* more
than 1,000,000 cards concerning th*
distribution and migration of North
American birds.
Thor* has not been a-serious gtnir-
tl outbreak of the Rocky Mountain
locust since 1880. and this particular
grasshopper has cessed to be a pest of
any great importance.
The juice of grapes, apples, and
msny other fruits can be concentrated
without heat by means of th* batting
method developed by tbe Spited
States Department of Agriculture.
The Arctic tern holds all records
for length of migration. When th*
young are full grown' thu untiro family
leaves th* Arctic regions and several
months later an found skirting tha
•dga of the Antarctic continent
Booze and Leather
A New England factory advertises
shoes with wooden soles for use in
breweries, distillsriss and bottling works.
Why woodon soles for use ig such
places? Because liquor eatath* roughest
leather. And yet they call it "liquid
bread.”—Home and State.
Complete flat of the MoKlf
cent shoot musto always In t
for the government of that province. I the Beeoon office. *
Things do stem "kind of on* tided
and tha "off" sleeve, the absent one
is merely an accent on one syllable of
th* situation.
We are told that President Wilson's
book “On Being Human” is still on
the list of the best selling non-fiction
works.
Behold the West and South leading
and teaching the North and East in
prohibition, in suffrage and in other
progressive ways. Mr, Bryan says that
prohibition will be a vital issue in 1920
unless constitutional amendment ha*
been submitted by Congress to the
states before that time. Some south-
ern whiskey dailet, Democratic (so-
called) dialikt Mr. Bryan for hit prohi-
bition ambitions for tbe party, but it is
noticeable that wherever he lectured
th* people voted for Mr. Wilson, real
man and Democrat, and against Mr.
Booxe, despot tryant. And we sty it,
as wc'ye said it all our natural life, well
nigh, “Hurrah for Bryan!"
Every municipality should own its
public utilities—water, heat, light, sew-
er, fuel, food and all transportation
lines, shops, picture shows, more or
lets, and to on. What a fine and funny
city ours would be. In such a esse we
could make it worth our city fathers'
while to preform as th* shock absorb-
ers of the community.
Some vacant corner lots are fairly
screaming for suitable apartment houses
to be built upon them. Oat especially
good location it “beautifully near” the
►B. Y. P. U. park and town, and th*
widest sweep of the bay—th* corner
where th* Baldwin bungalow stood
They say that the seven cent loaf of
bread hat been caused by the ten cent
loafers' protracted spell of loaf—ing.
CHILDREN.
Have you written that letter to San-
ta Clsus? Here's ours:
“Dear Santa Glaus, we need a pen—a
fountain pen, oh myl
For, don't you know, before we
know, tbit hare one haa gone drv
While we go torlbbllng on and on and
leave uo word* behind—
Than wo fill In the bast we oan
where those blank tpota we find.
The new words do notelweye fit, they
herdly ever fit—
But friends and typo* go right on
and make the best of It.
And as usual th* long suffering pub-
lic pay* thu price.
Whet'* Dongolu? What's Gondola?
Speaking of Good Book week—tho
butt book in all the world for culture
• patch—
Of forest? It wouldn't do I
So they make their light* all inside.
Would you
If you could? So the kilowat
Concerns tbe cat not a tlt-tat-totl
Try brushing a oat la tbe dark some
night,
And see the sparks from her coat
alight.
Be gentle about it, or wires get
crossed—
Short olrcult the cat ana her lights
get lost.
Cats wear spiked boots and cau al-
ways climb
Any polo on earth in the shortest
time.
Cats are real’lectriclans. They fix
the lights
In their heads for scooting around
of nights.
Some men we read of had lost their
way 4
In the mountains—so, obllllng, they
had to stay
Right Where they were—never budge
one Jot,
Or over the cliff they’d tip. Wbat
rot!
Why, even so small a thing at a oat
Doesn’t need to do auoh a thing as
that.
By limply starting her dynamos
She lights her lamp* and ahead she
goes.
Still being a cat Is not paradise—
There's things aa good as self-light-
ed eyes.
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
|j Bchf Constantly Supplied Witk
Thedford’s Black-Draught,
•tomacb trouble.
Tea yean ago a friend told me to 1ry
Thedlord's Black-Draught, which i did,
and 1 found it to be the beat family medi-
cine for young and old.
I keep Black-Draught on hand all the
Ume now, and when my children (eel a
little bad, they ask me tor a dose, and it
docs them more good than any medicine
they ever fried.
We never have a tong spelt of sick-
ness In our lamlly, since we commenced
using Black-Draught.” .
Thedlord’s Black-Draught Is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu-
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomach, and umilai
•ymptoms.
It has been In constant use tor more
pisn 70 years, and haa benefited more
than a mutton people.
Your druggist Mils and recommends
BUck-Draught. Price only 25c. Oet a
ige to-day. Mem
For instance, some cats can swim!
We’d one, and we practiced on
drowning him!
He did not drown, did not even sink—
But he changed his home I So you
needn’t think
Tbat being a cat is always fan.
Be glad always that yon are not one,
Or two, or three—for they miss a lot
Not trying to save on their kilo-
wat.
A high board fence is a glorious place
For a cat to sit with be-lighted face.
Did yon ever meet one yon didn’t
know
With a sinful cat-Iit-face, and so
Flee all the way to y our mother’s door.
And hear her wonder. “You ran?
What for?”
While you ran, did you feel like your
shrinking hides,
Were full of arrows—and things be--
sides?
IffimStfid^tSulnir a cog Or
two?
Oh, yes, and didn’t your spinning heels
Burn with the breath of a ghost? It
feels
Like it mavbe does to be bung at
night—
This meeting a cat with her eyes
alight.
It's queer that a cat is all fixed so’s
Wherever she travels, her light
goes.
And her lights burn bright till the dark
is not,
And she pays no mind to tho kilo-
watt.
| —-jLlalum j
TOO MUCH FOR THE WORM
Combination of 8ilver and Copper
Makes Its Imprisonment a Most '
Effective One.
A strange and amusing experiement
le described by G. Hugo In tho Eleo-
trlcal Experimenter, as follows:
Place a copper coin on a silver coin;
the former should be at least three-
sixteenths of an inch smaller all
around than the latter. A cent and
a half-dollar will do; an English half-
penny and a silver dollar will do bet-
ter, because they are larger. On the
copper coin place an ordinary earth-
worm and watch It try to crawl off.
It cannot do It, for the instant ita
damp body, which is in contact with
the copper, touches the silver it starts
a current of electricity that gives It
a shock. The ahock makes the worm
recoil. It tries again, but each time
Us head touches the silver It gets the
shock and soon finds It Is more com-
fortable to atay on tbe copper coin.
Of course the current thus produced
Is very slight, but It U quite enough,
for the worm.
Problem for the Court.
A perplexing problem in bovine Jo-
rlsprudence recently taxed the legal
attainments of local Jurists, says the
Portland Oregonian. A bull and an
automobile tried to occupy the same
space at the same time, In conse-
quence of which the bull went to hi*
final reward to appear before the
great high court whence no appeals
He, while the owner appeared before
a more mundane tribunal, claiming
damages. The theory of the defenae
was that the collision having occurred
at night the bull waa guilty of contrib-
utory negllgenoe In not having lights.
The plaintiff promptly pointed out that
th* bull had no horns to. serve as chan-
deliers. Thereupon the defendant In-
sisted that tall lights should have been
furnished. Charles J. Schnabel and
J. n. Ofner, attorneys for the plain-
tiff, immediately called the court's at-,
tentlon to the fact that the bull had
two bull’s eyes, which served the same
purpose, in which view Judge Joseph,
H. Jones concurred. I
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Stump, D. L. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1916, newspaper, December 8, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725732/m1/1/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.