The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1915 Page: 3 of 20
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December 23, 1915.
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THE PADUCAH POST
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w^want to just give you a little reminder again that our store is the store for good
goods at l£xtra Cheap Prices. The Winter Season is now on in full blast. You need winter
Merchandise, and you are going to buy it, too Why not get it at the place where you can get
the best prices? When you buy from us you absolutely get goods that will stand the test. We
let our prices speak for themselves.
OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Is complete. No doubt you are aware of the prices we are mak-
ing in this department. Below let us quote you our prices.
Marechal Neil Flour per cwt.
Spuds per bushel...........
25 pounds Sugar...........
Lard, 10 pound bucket......
5 pounds of Peaberry Coffee .
8 pounds of Flat Bean Coffee.
5 pounds of Arbuckle Coffee. .
1 case good Corn...........
1 case 3-pound Tomatoes.......
1 case 2 pound Tomatoes.......
1 case Salmon, 4 dozen........
Mary Jane Syrup.............
White Karo Syrup............
Red Caro Syrup..............
White Swan Ribbon Cane Syrup
Wapco Ribbon Cane Syrup.....
New South Ribbon Cane Syrup. .
If you have not been trading with us we ask that you call,
look over our stock and let us explain our method of doing bus-
iness.
If you have not been trading with us, we ask that you call, look over our stock, let us
quote you prices, and get acquainted with us and our service.
PRICES MEAN MONEY
$3.50
$1.00
$1.60
$1.10
$1.00
$1.00
$1.00
$2.00
$2.45
$2.00
$3.90
.45
.55
.45
.70
.60
.70
you. Money means prices to us.
We will carry everything in the
Fruit line for Christmas.
G. N. Roberfsoji
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toward the Wilson program, but|
if the spoken and written expres-
sions of the people afford any in-
dex to the situation, this district
is overwhelmingly favorable to
the President’s proposed meas-
ures. Congressman Stephens’ op-
position to the Defense program,
if based on some of the many
proper and commendable reasons
for opposing any great increase
in our military and naval estab-
lishments, would have excited no
comment and little, if any, oppo-
sition, but when he imputes im-
proper motives to the President
and assumes to speak for his dis-
trict without disclosing the meth-
od used in ascertaining the senti-
ment of his people we can only
feel that he has blundered.—Ver-
non Record.
HOLIDAY BULLETIN
TJie Holiday Season is again
at hand and with it comes the
usual need for vigilance in ord-
er fO safeguard property against
and protect the public from
jury in the Christmas celebra-
on usually observed by decorat-
ig Christmas trees in churches
id- homes, and stocks of mer-
‘‘"chandise, with highly inflamma-
ble materials, and exploding of
tire works.
Fire in winter always imposes
l iiardships on firemen. Frozen
l hands and feet are common in-
* cidents in fighting winter fires,
and sickness frequently follows
exposure of those driven by fires
out in the cold. Holiday fires in
stores, churches, and bazaars are
usually holocausts. Light inflam-
mable decorations make fires easy
to start and easy to spread. A
match, gas flame or electrical de-
fect may do it. Decorations may
be carried against a flame by air
currents. Watch the smoker. Do
"^m^permit ■ him to light his pipe,
cigar or cigarette inside your
building.
It is not the nature of Santa
Claus to sow seeds of sorrow.
Why not induce this dear old gen-
tleman to join the ranks of fire
preventorst Do not permit your
own neglect to be saddled off on
to Santa Claus. Don't permit a
Merry Christmas to wind up in
ashes and despondency.
In decorating Christmas trees
with paper, or any other material
use metalic tinsels or other non-
inflammable substances. Never
use cotton. If you must have
snow, use asbestos fibre. In ev-
ery little Christmas tree candle
there is danger. Candles are in-
tended to light, and if the chil-
dren can get matches they will
experiment with them. It is, there-
fore, better that common sense
be used for seasoning Christmas
cheer than to have the spirit of
the season made unsavory with
bitter tears of regret. A house
of merriment is better than a
house of mourning.
CONORMBMAlT
BLUNDEBED
Congressman Stephens’ state-
ment of his opposition to the Na-
tional defense proposals of the
President, given out in Washing-
ton on the eve of the opening of
Congress, was, in our opinion, un-
wise and not in keeping witty the
sentiments of bis district. In the
first place, the thinly veiled insin
uation that the President is in
some measure influenced by im-
proper motives, or to be more
clear, that he has “fallen” for
the platform of the munition mak-
ers, does not find a ready response
among the people. President Wil-
son, whatever mistakes he may
have made, has never been sus-
pected of being under the influ-
ence of the “interests,” and we
regard this part of our Congress-
man’s statement as particularly
unfortunate. The other reference
that the people of this section—
his district—do not approve the
President’s course, is, we believe,
far from the real facts. He does
not disclose the means used in as-
certaining a negative sentiment
Santa Claus’ Headquarters!
We have a message to the effect that Santa Claus will make his
headquarters at our store. In fact he has already sent a great
shipment of these goods in advance to this store. You just ought
to see the line of Toys that he wants the little fellows to have!
They are the prettiest ever, and the prices are so reasonable that
no mother or father could possibly kick at them.
Make the little folks happy. It will only take a few dollars to do
so. We have something in the Toy line that will please every child,
and we also have the more substantial Christmas goods that will
please any of the grown-up folks.
’ " ’ " “ ^ J “ ‘ ik of Holiday
ter make your
TIME TO PLAN AND DO
The time is opportune for us
people to get out of the rut and |
onto the high road of prosperi-
ty.
It is all right to say that this
thing and that thing ought to be
done, but the only action produc-
tive of results is to get busy and
do it. Much talk and little do will |
never get us anywhere.
We of this town ought to be
making plans right now for the
next year. We ought to be devis-
ing ways and means right now-
for increasing the output and ex-
panding the business of this city
and this agricultural community,
in order that we may take full
advantage of the good times that
are in store for the country the
coming year.
If we do these things right now,
if we make a start and accom-
plish something instead of sitting
back and waiting for each other
to make a move, we will be right
in the front rank of the prosper-
ous ones during the high tide of
the coming months.
But if we continue to look wise
and say nothing and do less we
may gather in a few of the loose
pennies that are pried from the
golden dollars as they pass us by
on their journeys to other peo-
ple’s pockets, but the dollars
themselves will hunt pastures
green and new.
Now we don’t want to be satis-
fied with the pennies. We want
the dollars themselves, and the
only way we can get those dol-
lars is to get out and hustle for
them a little harder and move a
Hrtle faster than the other fel-
lows.
Who wants dollars in this com-
munity? Who is willing to reach
out with both hands in a deter-
mined effort to bring them in with
a rush? Who is willing to do his
full share in an effort to make
1916 a banner year for this en-
tire community?
There are many ways, but one
man can think, plan and execute
them all. It needs the hearty co-
operation of every citizen—big,
little, old, young, male and fe-
male—and it needs that co-opera-
tion right now. It needs the best
brains of all of these people to
get us on the right track with full
steam to go right ahead.
We suggest the holding of a
rousing big meeting of all our cit-
izens for the purpose of talking
over plans for future execution.
Wp suggest that a number of our
leading and progressive citizens
call that meeting over their own
signatures, and that they invite
everybody to come primed and
loaded with some kind of a sugges-
tion to cast into the hopper of
community progress.
Then we can pick the wheat
from the chaff and use it for seed
with which to gather in more of
this wheat and better wheat.
Will our leading citzens call
such a meeting for some time dur-
ing the holidays, when everybody
is feeling good and is willing to
pass that feel on to others?
We are waiting to hear the call.
wan
(Texas Roasted and Blended)
There is something about even the aroma of this deli-
cious coffee that tells its tale of goodness. And when
you taste it—well, you’ll set down your cup with a great
big sigh of joy and say, “Ah-h-h—there’s the best cup
of coffee 1 ever drank”.
No wonder—the quality is there—selection, treatment,
roasting, packing and a sincere desire to give you your
money's worth in coffee produce that quality. You
won't regret it if you
Make Your Next Coffee Order White Swan Coffee
Full weight, air tight, one. two and three-pound
cans. Whole or ground.
WAPLES-PLATTER GROCER CO.
{Wholesale Only)
Denison, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Amarillo, Bowie.
Brownwood, Chillicothe, Dublin, Farwell,
Gainesville, Greenville, Hamlin, Lubbock,
Marshall, Stamford, Texas, and Ada, Okla.
WHITE SWAH
COFFEf
BRITAIN’S SEA LAWLESS-
NESS IS DENOUNCED
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 17.—
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, in
a denunciation of Britsh “lawless-
ness” in interfering with exports
of Americans’ cotton before the
Southern Commercial Congress
here today he suggested that a
conference should be held by the
American and British statesmen
to seek a solution of the cotton
export problem.
He later turned to a discussion
of efforts of the state deportment
to improve American commerce,
during which he declared he wa3
“not proud of the state depart-
ment’s begging through” certain
commodities. He was discussing
at the time the arrival here
from Germany several weeks ago
of ship loads of Christmas toys
and also of attempts to get
through cargoes of dyestuffs.
Platinum, although it lacks the
beauty of color that gold has, is
the costliest metal in the world,
says an exchange. It sells for
about $50 an ounce, troy, which
is about two and one-half times
the recent price of gold. The big-
gest supply of crude platinum
comes from the Ural mountains,
in Russia, the output of which in
1912 was about 300,000 troy oun-
ces, as against 314,000 from all
countries. In that same year the
United States produced 1,000 troy
ounces.
tions on the subject and request-
ing specific allegations upon which
the American charges are based,
is virtually identical with the un-
official text cabled to the United
States from London.
Slight changes, caused by dif-
ferences in translation, exist, but
the meaning, in its general sense,
is the same.
Secretary Lansing announced
that the Austrian reply did not
accede to any of the American
demands.
After President Wilson and the
cabinet had considered the reply
today, it was learned authorita-
tively that no decision had been
reached as to the nature of the
second note the United States will
send to Austria-Hungary. It is
certain, however, that this note
will go forward almost immediate-
ly-
AUSTRIAN NOTE REJECTS
ALL U. S. DEMANDS
Washington, Dee. 17.—The of-
ficial text of Austria’s reply to
the American note on the Ancona,
proposing further communica-
Washington, D. C., Dec. 17.—
Austria’s reply to Secretary Lan-
sing’s note on the Ancona, receiv-
ed during the night, was laid to-
day before President Wilson and
the cabinet and discussed more
than an hoar. The gravity of
the situation caused by Austria’s
rejoinder to the American de-
mands. which is considered eva-
sive and unacceptable, remained
unchanged when the meeting end-
ed.
The next step will not be de-
cided upon until some minor
points not clear in the official text
are checked up. The apparent
discrepancies are not important
and may be due to transmission or
translation from the state depart-
ment code, but they will be clear-
ed up before another move is
made.
During the present year $10,-
000,000 will be paid out to moth-
ers in the United States for the
support of their children in their
homes. This sum represents mon-
ey distributed in 25 states that
have adopted mothers’ pensions.
Forty-six thousand turkeys
were shipped to Northern mar-
kets from 17 Texas counties for
Thanksgiving, a record for any
state this side of the Dardanelles.
ITALIAN STEAMER DESTROY-
ED ON WAY TO ALEX-
ANDRIA
London, Dec. 17.—The Italian I
steamer Porto Said has been sank
is announced here.
The Porto Said, which had a
gross tonnage of 5,167, sailed from
Genoa Nov. 17 for Alexandria.
Changed Hands!
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We have bought the Blake A Goodwin Aackamith
Shop and wish to solicit your business. We do all kinds
of Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing, Wood Work, Etc. Ex-
pert Workmen in charge.
In connection with the shop we have a oorn shelter
and mill. We can shell
notice. Come in and
or grind your oorn
get acquainted with us
on short
and our
work. AU work guaranteed-
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Carlock, E. A. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1915, newspaper, December 23, 1915; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth756048/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.