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DOWN GO THE PRICES ON CLOTHIN
In order to reduce our Clothing stock, we have decided to make some prices that will move them. We have gone through our -stock and selected three , ,
that we have put the knife into good and deep. They are bargains and will go pretty rapidly, so in order to get your size, you had better come early.
Lot No. 1
In this lot we have suits, former price from
$12.50 to $15, which we will sell at the ridicu-
lous price of
$9.90
Lot No. 2
In this lot there are Suits ranging in price
from $15 to $18.50—good Clothes, too—on
which the price has been raised to
$12.10
Lot No. 3
This lot contains a line of beauties, which were
cheap at the price formerly asked—$18.50 to
$25. They are now offered at
$14.85
These Suits are absolutely uptodate, full length and full styles in every way, including some Alfred Benjamin and other good makes of Clothing. Our object
is to unload. The terms on this sale are regular, that is, if you have an account with us we will charge at the deduced price. :: This is the chance of a
life-time to buy good, clean, uptodate Clothing right in the heart of the season at unheard-of prices. :: :: :: :: - « -
Good Goods
WILKINS, WOOD & PATTESON
Low Prices
Y////.
The Southwestern
Telephone Betters
Farm Life
The U. S. Census Bureau Reports:
“No single factor has. played so
great a part in the amelioration
of the conditions of life on the
farms of the United Statps as has
the telephone.”
Are you receiving the benefits of
Rural Line Service? If not, write
today.
• our nttreit Manager or
The Southwestern
Telegraph & Telephone Co.
Dallas, Texas
A GRATUITOUS INSULT.
The Signal editor, who is also
chief exploiter of the virtues of
buttermilk, acknowledges receipt
of a gratuitous insult from one
away by a malady with which
the mind of man has long been
grappling. Only two weeks ago
the announcement came that a
cure for typhoid fever had been
of the big distilleries. This dis- found, and if Mr. Wright had
lived another year or two he
would never have died from this
disease. It is easy to get a les-
son from the fate of this man
who did so much for the world
in the work of navigating the
air; and that lesson is the great
lesson of our duty to our fellows.
While others work for us in one
department of toil we should la-
bor for them in another. The
tillery well knew that we were
wedded to the acidulated lacteal
fluid, and also knew that we
were making great sacrifices in
order to push this delightful bev-
erage to the place it is entitled
to in the affections of the people,
yet it had its advertising agent
indict a prose poem in honor of a
special brand of fire water and
forward same to us by mail. To
show the width and depth of the wor}J and the people of the
affront, we here give space to wor^ need all the possibilities
the communication received by i wrapped up m our lives.
us, which is an apostrophe pen-; ~ “ “7, ,
ned to one of buttermilk’s sau- The Attorney General sdepart-
ciest competitors and deadliest e _ , ^1^,n J*nmar_
enemies:
M
HOIEY GROVE
SIGNAL
PUBLISHED every
FRIDAY.
Signal Pub. Co. - Publishers
J. H. Lowry - - -
Editor
THE LIGHTNING ROD MAN DEAD.
A few days ago there passed
away, at his Missouri home, John
Cole, the inventor of the light-
ning rod. It hadoeen some time
since our mind had drifted light-
ningrodway, and we had not
even missed the rods and their
ornaments from the homes of
our town and land; but when the
news came that the originator of
the lightning rod was dead we
looked about us, and lo, the rods
were gone.
One of our earliest recollections
is the fear of lightning that made
so many of our youthful days
miserable. We had heard much
of the awful work of the electric
fluid, and in fact had witnessed
the killing of two cows by it one
spring afternoon while the storm
king reigned and raged;, so,
whenever lightning plunged its
keen rapier into the bosom of
the sky or clouds and streaked
the heavens with ribbons of
gold, it was under a bed in a
dark corner for us, no matter
how earnestly we were assured
we wouldn’t be hurt.
One day a man drove up in a
long-bodied red wagon, and he
proved one of the best friends we
ever had. He was a lightning
rod agent. He approached father
with a proposition to rod the
house, but father belonged to
that tribe of pioneers that didn’t
believe in any new-fangled do-
ings—in fact he was very strong
in the opinion that “what is to be
will be,” and that if it was fore-
ordained before the foundation
of the world that lightning should
strike his house, all the devices
of men and angels couldn’t shoo
the lightning away; moreover,
he poopoohed the idea that an
iron rod could exert any influ-
ence over such a great force as
lightning. It was a contest be-
tween religious conviction and
backwoods philosophy o n one
Sturdy Old Age
require* special nourishment of
easy assimilation. *
Scott’s Emulsion
contains these vital properties
in concentrated form and dis-
tributes them all over the body
without taxing the digestion.
Scott & Uowne. Bloomfield. N. J.
12-12
side, and a smooth agent’s arts
on the other; and the latter won,
to our great delight. That agent
first explained the affinity of
metals, then took up the conduc-
tion of heat and light,* and show
ed how the platinum tips wardet
off the current, but even shoulc
the fluid rush by this guard its
force would be broken by the
copper connections and it woulc
go down the twisted rod and into
the ground without doing the
slightest injury to the building
or its occupants. Times were
pretty hard, but a trade was
soon closed, a cash payment
made, and next day the house
was covered with the protecting
rods, with bright silver and gold
en balls at intervals that were
quite ornamental, whether useful
or not. We do not know wheth-
er the head of the family receiv-
ed any value for his money or
not, but we do know that we
were repaid a hundred fold, for
lightning never again troubled
our youthful mind. When the
guttural notes of thunder were
heard and lightning threw its
zigzag ribbons upon the arched
vault we rested securely under
the sheltering wing of that light-
ning rod and not a wave of fear
rolled over our youthful breast,
whereas before we had fancied
untold dangers and died a thou-
sand deaths.
But the originator of the light-
ning rod is dead. He lived to a
ripe old age and amassed a great
fortune from his patents. For a
time every house and barn in the
land were rodded, but the light-
ning rod age has passed and now
a rodded building is a relic. We
do not know whether the rods
afforded any protection from
lightning or not, but we do know
that they calmed the fears of
many, and in doing this perhaps
they gave far more value than
their cost. To-day, as the clouds
gather i n the southwest and
fears of a cyclone creep upon us,
we sincerely wish that some fel-
low would invent a cyclone rod
and convince us that it would
drive away cyclones.
‘ ‘Do you know the grate-
ful gurgleofa ‘-Smash?’
Its temperate use during
tropical weather insures an
even pulse, clear eye, good
digestion and sound sleep.
“Add an ordinary drink of
fourteen year old ‘----’ -
to the juice of half a lemon,
a little water, sweeten to
taste, place in a glass filled
with cracked ice, pour this
liquid happiness down the
esophagus and feel new am-
bition creeping under your
jaded wishbone.
“You will never kndw real
comfort until this kindly
balm percolates your inter-
nal arrangements. ‘—-—’
is the real booster beverage
that goes to the spot—re-
duces friction, fuss and fraz-
zle and frees the mind from
doubt.”
Answering the above, we say
emphatically, “no; we know
nothing of the grateful gurgle of
a ‘Rose Smash.’ We are not
hunting “smashes” of any kind,
and we might add that all the
smashes that ever came our way
were ungrateful. Against this
“Smash,” for which you claim
so much, we gladly pit the won-
derful product of the churn.
This satisfying beverage is of
itself a cocktail, a julep, a high
ball and a fizz. To it you add no
juice of lemon, no water, no
sugar, nor no cracked ice. When
the churn dasher has done its
perfect work by turning the
acteal fluid into kermiss, the
wonderful beverage bubbles
from the churn far superior to
any nectar ever served the gods,
and as far above your “smash”
in health-giving apd body-build-
ing properties as a lofty moun-
tain is above a toad stool. O,
you, who have sought happiness
in the worm of the still, behold
the pitcher of buttermilk, the
real oil of joy. Give it right of
way through your goozle and it
will lend a smile of gladness to
arynx and pharynx, make the
thorax pulsate with new ambi-
tions and fill the diaphragm with
joy ecstatic. Beware the
smashes, the cocktails and the
highballs—they are the upas
trees and the adders’ stings
which line the pathway of men
robed in tinsel that glitters and
wooing with the song of a siren.
he churn dasher is the hope of
the world.
There’s more comfort in one
pitcher of foamy, oily buttermilk
than in a dozen bottles of the
stuff from which your Rose
smash is compounded. If you
c on’t believe this, send a dozen
Dottles of your stuff prepaid and
we’ll have the test fairly made.
The steam roller is a treacher-
ous machine. Two years ago it
rolled over Cone Johnsori, Cullen
Thomas and others of note and
mashed them so flat that the
prediction was freely made that
they would never regain their
shapes. But last week Cullen
was the driver and Cone the di-
rector, and the roller passed leis-
urely over Uncle Rienzi John-
ston, Col. Sheb Williams and all
of their helpers of two years ago.
Miss Politics is very fickle, and
just about the time a wooer feels
that he has won for' all time, she
gives him the marble heart and
all her smiles go to another.
Signal and Dallas News, $1.75.
ried woman can hold office in
j Texas but a married woman can-
I not. We would not for a minute
j think of taking the side of an
I unmarried woman against the
i boss of the family, and yet it is
j consoling to know that there are
I some things a married woman
j cannot have her way about. We
are not advised, and cannot speak
of our own knowledge, but we
are willing to wager our lawn
mower against anything of value
that the Attorney General who
gave out the opinion mentioned
above is not a married man. If
he is, may the Lord have mercy
upon him.
Gov. Colquitt has announced
that he has already granted a
deficiency appropriation to re-
build the A. M. College buildings
which were destroyed by fire.
The A. & M. is one of the state’s
most important educational im
stitutions, and it is indeed for-
tunate that the work is not to be
crippled next year on account of
lack of buildings. The school
has twice been the victim of
fire recently but in each instance
the Governor came promptly to
its relief.
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We are now offering a fine farm
that we consider the best bargain
for a man who wants a home that
we have ever had on our list. ::
There are 213 acres of good black
and black sandy land, nearly all
in cultivation, two sets of splen-
did improvements, good water,
near school and church, in four
miles of Bonham and about as
near to Dodd City. Land fine
for cotton, corn and grain as
well as other crops. 35 acres in
oats, 80 in cotton and balance
corn. If sold now purchaser gets
all rents but on oats. If not sold
now will not be for sale at this
price. :: :: :: :: ::
Evans & Pritchett
Bonham, Texas
In Bonham News Building
Wilbur Wright is dead. He
was one of the pioneers of aerial
navigation. For a long time the
world called him a dreamer—and
le was—but he was more. He
was a student and a worker.
While the world shook its head
and said “impossible,” Wilbur
Wright worked on, saying to
himself, “there are no impossi-
jilities save conquering death. ’ ’
! Je gave to the world a vehicle
which, though heavier than air,
will float in ether’s realms and is
as easily guided as a bicycle. A
few weeks ago he fell a victim
to typhoid fever, and last Friday
he passed away. Unfortunately
for him and for the world, other
branches of science had not made
as great progress as that of aerial
navigation, and he was taken
Madam, this is the TRUTH
It does not take an expert to
save two hours of kitchen drudg-
ery, every day an(J at the same
time save 40 per cent of the fuel
bills.
Thousands are doing this very
thing everu day with a Calorib
ST A TESMANSHIP.
We read in the daily press
that Hon. Morris Sheppard
spoke at Honey Grove the
other day, and that he was
introduced by the Hon. J. H.
Lowry. We have read that
Hon. Jake Wolters visited
Honey Grove and was intro-
duced by Hon. J. H. Lowry.
We have learned from relia-
ble authority that Hon. C. B.
Randel always gets the front
spare bed room in the home
of Hon. J. H. Lowry when
he visits Honey Grove. Still
other information is to the
effect that when Hon. W. F.
Ramsey visits the second
city in old Fannin he is in-
troduced around town b y
Hon J. H. Lowry. Then
when Gov. O. B. Colquitt
delivers an address from a
Honey Grove rostrum the
man who sits beside Jiim,
wearing a white vest and
having for his duty the re-
filling of the water pitcher,
is Hon. James Lowry.
Joseph of old, wore a coat
of many colors, but he had
nothing on James H. Lowry,
of Honey Grove. — Dallas
Times-Herald.
world the beautiful sentence that
‘ ‘the roses which grow over the
walls of our party divisions are
the sweetest flowers that bloom. ”
The popular political notion is
that a man should lionize and
even deify the candidate he is
supporting and put in the balance
of the time thowing rocks at the
man he is not supporting. Such
a doctrine will never find a sup-
porter in the Signal sanctum
until there is a change of editors.
It’s a time for the blues, gen-
tlemen; it’s a time for the blues.
There’s nothing of promise in
this country save a 60-bushel
oat crop, a 25-bushel wheat crop,
an alfalfa crop which must be
cut every three weeks, a bale to
the acre cotton crop and a 50-
bushel corn crop. A man works
hard until noon, goes home to
dinner to find nothing on the
scanty board except beans and
peas, beets and cucumbers, on-
ions and squash, potatoes and
lettuce, beef and bacon, straw-
berry short cake and dewberry
cobbler, and nothing to wet his
throat but coffe, tea and butter-
milk. And what does the near
future hold out? Only striped
watermelons, big tomatoes,
cantaloupes, roasting ears, black-
eyed peas, yam potatoes and
red-cheeked peaches. Truly, it’s!
a time for the blues. Should we
not make preparations to emi-
grate to Western Texas or Okla-
homa?
The New Standard Mow
The Only Mowing
Machine that carries
tlie cutter bar on the
drive wheels instead
of dragging
it on the
ground.
GET OUR SPEClAlj
MOWER Bl
Buy the Mower that’s Easy
Your Horses
We’ve solved the draft and the handling problems. You can mow all day with
a 4y2, 5 ft. or a 6 ft. New Standard, and it will be as easy for your horses as
though you were plowing corn and a lot easier for you. It is absolutely all right. It
is light draft because the weight is carried on the wheels—no neck weight, no side
draft, no sledding of the cutter bar.
WE WANT TO SEND YOU SOME PROOFS
of New Standard superiority. You ought to know how the New Standard dis-
tributes the strain, about the’ roller bearings, about the continuous knife-bar
bearing, about how the mower is thrown out of gear when the cutter bar is folded
up, etc. Our book explains everything. Write for it today, and ask also for
book in which to keep your farm accounts.
Emerson Braniingham Plow Go.
DALLAS, TEXAS.
For sale tby JNO. L. BROWN, Honey Grove
The Republican troubles began
yesterday, when the National
Committee entered upon the
work of settling contests. A
complete list of fatalities will be
published next week.
Political Definition—A progres-
sive is a fellow who does not hold
office but wants to break in; a
conservative is a fellow who holds
office and is not willing to break
out. •_
Do You Like Coffee?
Do you like tea, cocoa, and
Coca-Cola? Do you know what
it is in these beverages that
makes them so refreshing—that
helps you so nicely over the
rough spots of the day? Scien-
tists tell us that it is the caffeine
which they contain.
As a learned Chinese said of it
In the above bit of pleasantry more than two thousand years
the Times-Herald has made an
opening for a few things we are
glad to say. In order to make
its editorial more entertaining
the T.-H. overdrew its picture
somewhat, and yet there isn’t a
line we object to, nor a state-
ment that wouldn’t be true if
there had been an opportunity
for carrying out the programme
o f courtesies mentioned. W e
ago;
‘ ‘It tempers the spirit and har-
monizes the mind;
Dispels lassitude and relieves
fatigue;
Awakes thought and prevents
drowsiness;
Enlivens or refreshes the body
and clears the preceptive facul-
ties.”
In all nations at all times the
Burned Her Money.
A negro woman named Jennie
Davis, who lives on the hill west
of town, is probably a convert to
banks the safest depositories for
currency of the realm. Jennie
is a woman of thrift and has
formed the habit of laying by in
store against the proverbial raj,
day, which comes sooner or
to all. She recently accumu
a roll of bills of various deno*
nations, the entire roll reaching
the neat sum of fifty dollars.
She had placed the roll in various
places for safe-keeping, and
Saturday she concluded that
there was no safer place against
pilferers than the oven of her
cook stove, and she deposited the
bills there. Like nearly all other
mortals, Jennie is forgetful. She
forgot that she had stored the
bills in her cook stove, and at
dinner time Saturday she hurried
into the kitchen and kindled a
fire in the stove. The blaze soon
grew into a flame and the oven
was heated to the proper tempera-
ture for browning biscuits. Then
Jennie remembered her money.
She plunged into the oven, but
the fire had done its work and
the bills were but crumbling
ashes. Fortunately the numbers
were not destroyed, and it is be-
lieved the burned billswill.be re-
deemed by the government.
Children’s Day Program.
The following is the program
for the Children’s Day Exercises
at the Methodist church Sunday
evening, June 9. Subject, “The
Children’s King:”
Processional—Children’s Day........School
.....Pastor
Mr. C. C. Johnson, who holds a
responsible position in the general
w x wuiitsjito 1UCUWUUCU. TT -_____ -___ offices of the M. K. & T. Railway
were out of the city when Col ca^eine containg beverages have) at St. Louis, came in yesterday
Jake Wolters spoke in Honey keen h^ly valued for their re- to spend several days with his
Johnson, three miles northwest
of town.
Fireless Cooker.
Think how much embroider-
ing, sewing or shopping you can
do while the meal is cooking
unattended jn the Caloric.'
It is a silent, efficient, econom-
ical servant, more necessary than
the Piano.
It will actually Roast and Bake,
as well as Steam, Stew and Boil
cook all foods from their raw
State, never burns, never fails.
The latest improved Caloric
has Porcelain Enameled cooking
compartments — Real Aluminum
covers, Patented Ventilating Valve
all of them being real points
of superiority, not to be had on
any cheap, makeshift, so-called
“Cooker.”
For Sale By
Wess Reed
Grove, and while we will not j fishing qualities. What ginger
vote for Mr. Wolters, we know! Is to £he Singer cake, caffeine is
him personally and like him, and! tea> cocoa, and Coca-
would have been glad to have! , Coffee without caffeine
shown him any courtesies within! would not be coffee. Tea with-
our power during his stay in our | outcaffeinewouldnot be tea. Coca-
pretty little city. It is also true! C°Ja wj^oout caffeine would
that Col. Randell can have the j n0J; ke Coca-Cola. You would
front room in our humble shanty, benefit from them. \
and will be gladly welcomed at They would be flat, stale, and
atherine Wood
.............School
mg............Mabel Davis
Martha W all Herring
When Jesus Was a Little Child........
..........................................Mabel Davis
In the Temple..........Isadore Bershansky
Two Little Friends....Louise Cappleman
The Savior and the Children..............
......................................^.....Alyne Joiner
Cradle Roll Reception—Cradle Roll
Song.......................................Primaries
Welcome to Cradle Rollers....Inez Neb-
lett, Elizabeth Davis. Doris Neblett
Jesus, Our Helper......Six boys and girls'
Sunbeam Song....................................Buena
James, Thelma Neblett, Lilian Gilmer
Seven Heroes............................Seven boys
Floral exercise and song............Six girls
The Mission of Jesus as Shown by
His Names........:...........................School
Recitation, selected........Miss Buchanan
The Debt of Love..................Lilian Scott
The Dawn of Hope............Chapel Hardy
Song—The Glad Message, Leah Norwood.
There is no King but Jesus..............
............................Georgia Lane (j
Pastor’s Word. Offering. Dox
Benediction.
A fine assortment of books,
ledgers, day books, journals, etc.
at very reasonable prices.—Black
& Little.
The Mexican woman who
arrested last week on a charl
of brutally whipping her grarj
child, had an examining triaj
’Squire Damron’s court Fri/
and was bound over the Disi
court. The evidence shej
that the woman had cruelly
en the little boy, making
gashes on his back and arms]
is said the woman has fornl
dislike for the child and;
been treating him cruelly
some time. The court p|
the boy in custody of an|
Mexican.
Signal and Dallas News, $1
anytime he will consent to ac-
cept the simple hospitality within
our power to dispense. Our vote
will be cast for Hon. O. B. Col-
quitt, but we know Judge Wil-
liam Ramsey, know him to be a
high-toned gentleman, and would
delight to show him any courte-
sies within our power and assist
in making his visit to our town
pleasant. MVe will vote for Will
H. Mayes for Lieutenant Gover-
nor, but if Wiley Mangum Imbo-
den, a friend of many years
standing, comes this way we
shall claim him as our guest.
The game of politics, when play-
ed to the limit, is cold and
clammy, overriding, personal
friendship, and narrowing good
will and courtesy down to those
a man is supporting; we
do not play the game this way,
and trust that we will never be
a convert to such cold, cruel
methods. We do not even con-
fine our friendships and good
wishes to our Democratic family.
If Col. Atwell, or Dr. Gray, or
Col. Phil Baer, men we know and
admire, should make speaking
appointments for our town, we
would be glad to show them any
courtesies possible, because we
k aow and like the men. It was
•President Garfield who gave the
unprofitable.
The old saying of caffeine is
“to cheer and not to inebriate.”
In fact caffeine, according to
medical authorities, is the only
true or natural stimulant, be-
cause it is the only stimulant
which does not call for ever in-
creasing quantities and the only
one whose regular use does not
produce disease of mind or body.
Caffeine is the . only stimulant
that is not only absolutely harm-
less but positively beneficial to
health.
Write to the Coca-Cola Com-
pany, Atlanta, Ga., for new
booklet telling of Coca-Cola vindi-
cation at Chattanooga. Free for
the asking. ______
The meeting at the Christian
church continues, with services
morning and evening. Good-
sized audiences greet the evan-
gelist each night, and the day
services, while not so well at-
tended, are helpful. Mr. Mar-
shall is a splendid teacher and a
close reasoner and in each dis-
course he is followed closely by
his hearers. The singing, under
the leadership of Mr. Harbison,
is inspiring. The meeting will
continue until further notice.
You are cordially invited to at-
tei^J all the services.
ETcr
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WOMEN
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PmMS&7
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Russia Calf
1
F"1 ^HE best of leather, supplemented by the best of
workmanship—that’s La France Shoe in a^ nut-
shell. La France Shoes are attractive in the
store window; they are beautiful on the foot. ^More-
over, a woman in properly fitted La France Shoes^knows
nothing of tired feet. They fit snugly andi yet are as
flexible as gloves. C.Let us show you this stout,’ ser-
viceable shoe, which makes walking a pleasure.
Williamson-Spelce Go.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1912, newspaper, June 7, 1912; Honey Grove, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth800392/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.