The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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Padttcah; T
exas, Dec. 14, 1916.
THE PADUCAH POST
fFTtake
written test will be
It a Car
Christmas
This
meeting a written I
: given covering chaps, one to nine,
W" i ten inclusive. flnnko’i
b you been promising yourself and your family a car “some-
soon?”
Christmas season is the time to keep that promise. Make
iChristmas tours and joy rides in a—
BUICK OR CHEVROLET
in and let us explain the many fine points of these fine cars,
ig so stimulates the keen joy of living as a good car, and
Buick or Chevrolet you are in perfect tune to enter thor-
into the spirit of the glad Christmas season. And when the
\s are past and you get down to business, you will find it a
and money saver.
arroll & Carroll
i,.„ inclusive, Cooke's History of: STAGECOACH DAYS
Music. --
Program for Jan. 9th, 1917 I _ . „ „ . ...
■ History of Music,” Chaps. 151 Travel Often Spelled Misery Be-
am] 17—Haydn arid Gluck.
Haydn’s “Creation,” Paper
Miss Aline Godfrey.
Haydn’s Hymn from “Crea-
tion’V-Misscs Doolen and West;
Messrs. Watson and Todd.
Haydn’s “Gypsy Rondo,” Pi
ano. Miss Rena Moody.
Gluck’s Iphigenie en “Aulede’
Paper—Mr. Bo wan an.
WEST TEXAS, THE LAND OF
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS
FARMERS
given their bales by buyers. Em- billed, five months. Figure up
phasis is also placed on the eco-; VOur cost of board and tuition and
nomie importance of securing the j wi]] be surprised to find out
proper ginning, adequate baling "
nt out hunt-
st week mid
cks, the limit
of the big fine
iety and when he got
id that he had a duck
band on it, such as
and covering, and proper storage.
i how little it will cost you to ob-
CARD OF THANKS
tain a cash producing education
that you can use for a life time.
It will be a Christmas present that
We wish to thank our friends y011 will always appreciate, be- ............_......... „„_____„
u Jt ar) for the kindness shown us dCtr- cause you will never cease using ]an(] ;s the queen shipping point
Department ’ of Agri- ing tlle sickness and death of our it, it is something of every day j 0f the county. During the seas-
In times past West Texas bore
the derision of editors of East
Texas, who took keen delight
in referring to this section as a
drouth stricken country, fit only
for the long-horn cow and the
man with the lariat.
Time has changed all of this.
With the advent of the mule and
the man of brains and brawn,
skilled in the treatment of the
earth to show results, this vast
expanse of so-called desert waste
has been transformed into a coun-
try of fertile fields, fine schools,
churches, prosperous towns and
villages arid fine homes surround-
ed with the comforts of life, and
today the West offers greater
inducements to men of small cap-
ital than any section we know
of.
Childress County leads the Pan-
handle in cotton production this
year; has more registered live-
stock than any county in Texas of
equal area and her hank deposits
are almost as large as any coun-
ty in Texas with equal area and
population.
The beautiful little city of Kirk-
fore We Had Railways.
TALE OF A WINTER JOURNEY.
a useful
it is something of
cultfre sen! out notice to watch I dear father and brother. These need, it makes of you
cks around Salt Lake dark hours come to every oen. (citizen.
•ere being destroy-1 May God’s blessing rest upon If you or your parents, as the
plat cd legb mils on them,
ersi all ovc
we»o rcque ;
pidemie that had >it-
and the Government
treated the ducks and
Ilunt-
the United States
ited to send the leg-
baijlds to the Bureau of Biological
Survey at Washington with state-
man as to where the duck was
kiRled and as to its condition.
,1’he duck with the legband was
a jiig healthy one and Dr. Bran-
V ham has sent the band with the
•'Rfbrinsitioii to the authorities.—
Shtonite.
each and every one is our prayer, i case may be, haven’t the cash to
HAZEL AND IRA CRUCE,
JOHN K. CRUCE,
LUCY STOKES,
FANNIE BEAVERS,
DUFF DAVIS.
APPROPRIATE
MAS GIFT
HACCURATE GRADING
COTTON
pay for the entire course, we
have a note plan, we also have a
loan fund in connection with our
Endowment Association that may
be participated in. The old say-
_ ing is quite true “Wherever there
CHRIST- a will, there is a way.” . If
you can’t get the money to pay
_ board, do what thousands of crtli-
Young folks, have you ever ('rs are doing; take a correspond-
wanted a certain present as a enee course until you can enter
Christmas gift, and when Christ- college for personal work. Hmi-
mes came you didn’t get it and dreds finish the entire coyrse at
went and bought it yourself? Well home and accept good office po-
1 that is just the way to do in this sitions, you can likewise get our
OF case, but first take the matter credit or note plan on the home
up with your parents. If you
study course.
_ present the matter in the right I See about this Christmas gift.
WASHINGTON I). C._That light, they can hardly turn you i Take UP and discuss it serious-
irises to cotton‘growers, in the down, for this is the best propo-; ly- Convince your parents you
Inited States probably reached sition you ever put up to them; are determined to make something
s,ven and a half million dollars it is a thing that will win your: of yourself.^ Write for^our^large
on of 1914 and 1915 her ship-
ments were: 97 cars of wheat.
lOfi ears of maize, 144 cars of
cotton seed, 44 cars of livestock.
7,779 bales of cotton, 52,400
pounds of cream, 13,637 pounds
of poultry and 700 cases of eggs.
On account of the extremely
dry season this year and severe
hails, eotton was cut short, how-
ever, Kirkland will receive at
least 4,000 hales.
Kirkland has a population of
500 and is located on the Denver
Road and is nine miles from the
County Seat, Childress, which is
a fine town of 5,000 inhabitants.
Kirkland is located in one of the
best fanning sections of the coun-
try, having the largest trade ter-
ritory of any town in the coun-
try and does a busines hardly
equalled by any town in the State
of the same population.
The writer has recently visit-
ed most every section of West
fiite of "a""tendency toward ini-! College of Tyler, Texas, Ameri- j Name ..........
lfoved conditions since the pro- ca’s largest school of Bookkeep-; ress ........
alligation of the official eotton ing, Business Training, Shorthand, Course interested mi.
aandards of the United States Steno-Typewriting, Cotton Class-
ic losses .iuo to inaccurate grad- ing. Telegraphy, Business Admin-
fig are st." great, are statements istration and Finance—the school
if specialists of the Office "Mar- that not only prepares its stu-
ALLEGRO CLUB
On the evening of the 5th
Misses Doolen and Willett were
lets and Rural Organization of dents in a very efficient manner Misses Dooten and Willett were j u
the U. S. Department of Agrieul- for the best positions in the larg- hostesses to the Allegro Club, j,
lure, in Department Bulletin 457, est business offices, but secures
Recently published. The bulletin these positions for them,
is based on a field survey of cot- The cost of a life scholarship
ton marketing in representative; in a course of Bookkeeping is
towns in the nine principal tot- >rG0, Shorthand $50, or the two
tton-producing states of the South $95, Telegraphy $55, Cotton Class-
J and Southwest, in all of which a I ing *50, Business Administration
j general failure adequately and i and Finance. Board and room is
consistently to recognize grade > from $11.50 to $15 per month,
j difference was found payable monthly. The average
The specialists point >ut that! time for completing our Short-
cotton producers themselves cau j hand or Steno-Typewriting course
have a large share in improving is three and one-half months, our
small means to secure comfort-
able homes at a small sum with
long stretched out payments; land
selling from $20 to $35 per acre
There are more men in this sec
tiou this year who have made
money enough to buy themselves
home than any other section
hi tlie State of Texas. These
giving a delightful evening of so-1 lands show equal production of
these conditions. The growers
arc urged to familiarize tljem-
seves with grades and to insist
that the proper classification be
Telegraphy or Bookkeeping four
months, Business Administration
and Finance five months, our
Bookkeeping and Shorthand com-
OUR SIGN
is an indication where you
can get the best and most
dependable Groceries in
the vicinity. It has al-
ways been such a guide
and always will be, for
the reason that we never
handle anything but the
best qualities, and yet our
pfTces are always mode-
rate. We have built up
a reputation for giving
uniform satisfaction and
we hope to continue the
good name.
cial entertainment to the mem-
bers.
Twent-four Club members were
present, aud Messrs. Curry and
Miss Curry of Henrietta were vis-
itors.
On entering, the guests were
served with delicious punch, af-
ter which they were assembled
at six tables for an interesting
series of progressive forty-two.
After the games two interesting
contests were given, one a musi-
cal medley, played by Mrs. Bow-
man, in which fourteen selections
were modulated together and
played rapidly, while the guests
wrote down the titles. In a eiu
by the three successful contest-
ants, Miss West won the prize,
a dictionary of musical terms.
In the other contest a member
was blindfolded and seated in the
center of the room, and sang
short excerpts from English and
Spanish songs, which the guests
pointed at. by the blind folded
member were required to repeat
or pay a forfeit. The forfeits
were afterwards redeemed by a
series of laughable penalties.
A delicious salad course was
| served at the conclusion of the
i contests.
Miss Pressley rendered Listzt’s
“Consolation,” and several other
| classical piano solos. Miss Doo-
len and Mrj^Smith sang several
good selee;
entert
eotton with the black lands 0*
Central Texas. We have many
fanners from black land sections
who will qualify for this state-
ment.
Conditions that make the low
prices of these, improved farms1
varying in size from 80 to 320
acres, is that they- wrere bought
many years ago when land could
lie had for only a few dollars
per acre, so the present prices—
$25 to $35—offer a tempting prof-
it and.the owners of small farms
are disposing of them and buying
larger tracts, realizing that the
time is not far distant ■when these
1 ’ productive farms will be
selling at black land prices.
This section offers a grand op-
portunity to the East and Central
Texas renter, who has by reason
of the high jiriee of eotton, made
money''enough to make a payment
on a nice little farm. After mak-
ing his first payment he need not
worry for, as many here will tes
tify, two good crops—and fre-
quently only one—with fair prices
for products will pay for the
place.—By a New Comer in Kirk-
land American.
The fellow who thinks- talk
is cheap needs a censor for his
mouth.
Perk up, dad 1 Christmas will
Ci3comforts and Hardships That Had
to Bt Endured by the Passengers In
an Old Style Trip Across the Alle-
gheny Mountains In 1846.
How traveling is metamorphosed
these days, to he sure! Vet some men
"f< nd of handling the ribbons” and
some women who “want to see the
scenery at their leisure' still regret
"the spanking bays and rocking stage-
eoacli uf the past.”
Here is the way the Allegheny moun-
tains were crossed in 1840;
"It was midwinter when we arrived
at Wheeling, and as the stagecoach
was to start at 5 o'clock In the morn-
ing no one thought of going to tied, so
we took our way through the frozen
streets to secure through tickets to
Philadelphia it was pitch dark and
bitter cold — the damp, penetrating
weather that reaches the very marrow
of our bones.
"The little den, called by courtesy
the office, was filled with passengers
as damp, cold and il! matured as our-
selves. There was a handful of coal
burning in a small grate, and around II
were grouped the round shouldered,
unsympathetic people who were to I.,-
our fellow passengers. They glanced
at us and closed up all the open space
near the fire, as if to say: 'You don't
get in here, we can tell you. You have
no right to travel in our coach, any
way!’
“At one side stood a table, and on it
was a coffee pot and cups, some sau-
sages frozen stiff and an unattractive
loaf of bread, over which presided a
tail darky, who leaned against the wall
fast asleep. We were told that we
could get a good breakfast twenty
miles away from Wheeling.
"At the appointed time the heavy
old coach came up. and we all clam-
bered in and stowed ourselves away
pell meil. A short way from town
there- was a long hill, up which the
horses toiled, so this gave us all time
to settle down for a quiet nap. One
snore after another announced their
success; in a few minutes six out of
the nine passengers were oblivious of
their misery.
"Not being sleepy, I studied the snor-
ers. A large fat man opposite me had
a short, angry snore. lie snored so
loudly that he woke himself up and
glared about him impudently, as
though lie hoped they wouldn't make
that noise again!
"The old lady who was crushing me
up In the corner snored deeply and con
tentedly.
“Some one off in a dark corner had a
genial way of joining in ns though be
snored merely to oblige the passen
gers; but the grand musician of the
company sat opposite me. 1 never
heard anything approaching him either
for quality or compass. It was a back
action snore that began in a bold agi-
tato movement, suddenly brought up
with a jerk and ended w ith a whistle.
"The whole band was in full play
when we stopped with a tremendous
jerk, and everybody woke up with oaths
or ’Pshaws!’ over a bad jolt. The sum-
mit gained, there was a sharp crack of
the whip, the horses started, and ev-
erybody was jerked violently back-
ward. Soon tlie chorus began again,
however, and 1 joined in till the coach
came to a full stop at the table where
the horses were to be changed.
“Stiff and sleepy and cramped from
sitting so long in one position, the sun
now rose and came in at nil sorts of
places, waking and blinding every-
body. What a discontented lot we
were! And we all hated each other!
“At last, breakfast—ah, hot coffee,
ham and eggs and buckwheat cakes:
The meal was not half over before we
were a band of brothers. We could not
do enough for each other All was har-
mony and peace.”
Nor was that all, for they drove into
a severe mountain storm ami intense
cold, darkness: the horses fell on the
icy roads: the stage rocked wildly in
the wind and nearly blew over. Twen-
ty-four hours of this, a driver frozen
stiff mid assisted down from the box
We do It now in six hours in a com-
fortable bed. In a warm, well lighted
car. Some “modern Imps” are mighty
good angels.
Our chief loss has been the great
cheerful, roaring open fires that people
had in those days The domestic vir-
tuea began to decay when people were
reduced to sitting around a hole in the
wall or a gloomy mct il register, with-
out armchairs, stories, songs, grand
parents and little children roasting ap-
ples or popptng corn—friends and stran-
gers dropping in end getting a warm
welcome, a place In the circle an 1
what Spaniards -all “the loro of the
ire.”—Baltimore News.
FAME IN A FEW WORDS.
| Authors Who Are Now Known Only
by a Single Work or Passage.
Philij) James bailey wrote “Festus”
when he was twenty-three and lived
to lie eighty-six without adding appre-
ciably to his early laurels. His “Fes
tus” was compared by enthusiastic ad-
mirers to the works of Shakespeare
aud Goethe. No one reads "Festus"
now, but its memory survives 1;, one
fumillar quotation, a cue time favorite
for use in autograph albums:
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts,
not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throb*
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest acts
the best.
Bailey is very far from beiny th •
only author to live in men’s minds b>
virtue of a single line, stanza or i h -
sa#e. It is a narrow mar*; ;i by which
to escape oblivion, but it serves. True
it is not the writer himself that is rt
mein bored, but as ion," a- .--‘Une sjGjr..
from his brain still *r]i miners he K no-
totally dead. It may bo a line f.inn a
song. "Meet me by moonlight a tone '
and "Don t you remember sweet A lift
Den Dolt?” are repeated as catchword
by thousands who never heard of .1
Augustus Wade «-r Thomas Dunn Eng
lish. Very often, bov»ever, the lint
that survive an* <>i hiah iiierars value.
Theodore O'Hara, soldier of lortun
wrote:
On fame's eternal campiri- ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
By these four lines he won for bin.
seif admission to the eternal campn..
ground of poetry.
William Knox, a Scotch versitii
(1789-1825), owes iiis fragine:.!ar sur-
vival not so much to any g t j.
merit in his mortuary couplers as t
the indorsement of Abraham Lincoln
who loved to repeat:
Oh, why should tlie spirit of mortal t-
proud?
Like a fast flitting meteor, a fast Ilyin
cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of tie
wave,
He passes from life to rest in the grave
—Philadelphia Ledger.
SAVAGE DISCIPLINE.
The Way Unruly Indian Boys Wen
Punished In Former Days.
My grandmother bad twelve chil-
dren, and one uncle undertook to teach
me the art of worship. lie used 1,
lead me to the sandbanks of - M
souri river, where lie would set dit-
to a pile of driftwood, and then, tab
ing me by the hand, sing sacred songs
to the fire and river. In the mean-
time he threw into them offerings of
tobacco, red feathers, and sometime*
oak twigs. 1 never knew the meaning
of these offerings, but 1 always felt
that some living thing actuated both
the fire and the river.
Another uncle came to visit us peri-
odically. and every time he came iny
brother or I suffered at his hands.
Sometimes he would rush to the
spring, carrying mo horizontally under
his arm and would plunge my ln-ad
into the water until I almost suffu
cated.
His common form of discipline was
to let me hang by my hands < n th
cross poles of the wigwam until my
arms ached. M.v body writhed before
I dropped. This uncle seemed to like
best to command my older brother to
tie n:y hands and f rt "O.
Then he would order me to resist—
an ordeal that would make us both
cry. In the winter he would also
sometimes roll ns in snow naked. \
The punishment of Indian children
is usually in the hands of some uncle
rather then the parents. Our punish-
ments were inflicted generally be -iuse
we had disobeyed grandmother by
falling to get wood at evening, had
resisted fasting, had fought some In
dlnn boys or had cried without suf-
fi-lent cause.—Southern Workmen.
Quinine Not a Preventive.
Dr. E. Halford Boss in a letter to the
London Lancet ridicules the attempt to
prevent malaria by administering qui
nine. This cures malaria, but does not
prevent it. just as diphtheria is cured
with antitoxin, but not prevented. He
cites the utter failure of five years of
quinine administration to prevent ma
laria in Egypt and of the marked re
ductiou in the disease that immediately
followed the enforcement of anti-mos
quito measures.
Quite a Change.
Twenty-tiro years ago a young hus-
band’s wife Went away for a two days'
visit. Wheti she returned he met her at
the deiiot and embraced her and kissed
her.. The other day site returned from
Public Streets.
Under the Roman-Dutch civil lnw
the title to a public street was in the
sovereign, and this rule obtained in
New Netherlands until the country
now comprising New York city was
taken over by the English in lt!(54.
The English common law. on tho
other hand, left the tijle to a public
street in the owner of the adjacent
land, with only “the right of passage
for the king and his people.”—New
York Times.
On the Fly.
“So you want to know where flies
come from. Tommy? Well, the cyclone
makes the housefly, the blacksmith
makes the firefly, the carpenter makes
the sawfly, the driver makes the horse-
fly, the grocer makes tlie sandfly, and
the boarder makes the butlerfly.—Chi-
cago. Herald.
For Qroasy Woodwork.
Paint or woodwork that has become
greasy should lie cleaned, with a cloth
dipped In turpentine. Then wipe with
a cloth (llpiiod in water to which a lit-
tle -kerosene has been added.—New
York American.
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