The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1903 Page: 3 of 8
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trouble he would be glad to consult with you.
Cross=eyes Strai^lhiteinedl Free
New Shaving* Parlor,
fr" HOI AND GOLD BATHS;
f NEW if DRfllf 16 6MIRS.
!*■ GLfiy flULING, * * * Proprietor
We keep the best help and give prompt and courteous attention to hair-cutting, shav-
ing, shampooniug, etc. We are conveniently located on .the east side of the square,
just north of the Little Mercantile building, and make a specialty of cutting ladies and
children’s hair in all the latest styles. We also keep Coke Dandruff Cure] and Hair
Tonic. Every bottle guaranteed.
Yovr Patronage Respectfully Solicited. ^
WRffji A LETTES?
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RECEIVE^FULLINFPJ?”
MATSON REGARDING ANY
CONTEMPLATEDPOURHEY.
THE KATY ELYIR
FOR
Cooking Stoves, Pleating Stoves, Han-
cock Rotary Disc Plows, Studebaker
and Moline Wagons, White Elephant
Buggies, Hardware, Tinware, Glass-
ware, Queensware, etc.
LAMPASAS, ^ jt & TEX
Dr. W, D. Francis
Eye Specialist
Office over First National Bank, Lampasas, Texas,
art won
apron V
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Advertising pays. J. L. Ruck-
er handed in a notice of a farm
to rent Friday morning, and Sat-
urday afternoon rented the place.
It pays even to be polite to the
^ printer.
WANTED.—200 men, women
and children to hear Luther Man-
>ship, January 19. An eminent
lecturer of the finest type. You
j.nd your children can ill afford
hear him. Ask Bob Mar-
ian about it.
Charley, son of Mr. T. D. Har-
ris, is at home for a little while,
owing to the short quiet in the
shipping of express matter. He
will be out again as soon as the
company can find a place to use
him, as he is worthy and reliable.
He was brought up at that busi-
ness, and will make a specialist
by the time he is as old as his
father. Success to you, Charley.
Luther Manship, who was in
the lecture course here last year-,
will bs here again on the 19th of
this month. Those who heard
him last year will surely hear
him again. The Leader thinks
he was decidedly the best one in
the lot during the last season,
neither Bob nor Alf excepted.
Kellis Elder is doing some
needed work on the first section
of the Lampasas and Nix road,
and the commissioners court
could receive hearty thanks by
making a liberal appropriation
to keep this work up until that
road could be traveled with com-
fort in any kind of weather. The
superintendence of the roads is
the most important part of the
duty of the entire commissioners
court. The people who pay the
taxes are entitled to good roads,
and the court should see that we
have them.
B. H. Bennett, who has bee
wandering around in eastern
Texas and Arkansas for the past
several months was here this
week to see his wife, formerly
Miss Sweety Hewitt, and left
me prize lor me oesb aqwing, aau
Mr. Eby .Daniels won the booby
prize. The crowd dispersed quite
early after partaking of the good
things to eat.
Mr. J. T. Edward, who has
been visiting at the home of I.
N. Loveless during the holidays,
will return to his home at Daw-
son, Texas, the 20th. We were
glad to have him in our midst,
and hope he will pay us another
visit in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ramsey
are visiting the parents of Mrs.
Ramsey for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Loveless,
of Gleam, Texas, came in Christ-
mas day to make this country
their future home again.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Daniels
visited the family of M. W. Car-
ter, Christmas day.
Well, I can think bf nothing
more to write at present, so will
quit and try to write more an-
other time. MAE.
Some Postoffice Hints.
W. P. Cochran, postmaster at
Marble Falls, Burnet county,
gives out the following hints to
people who patronize the post-
offie. They apply everywhere.
Read them, and, as he says,
“paste them in your hat!”
The mail of minors, for exam-
ple, boys and girls under 21 and
18 years, respectively, parents or
guardians may absolutely control
this mail; but, unless they de-
mand this right of the postmaster,
then a minor of whatever age can
rent a box, or, in any manner,
have his mail kept absolutely
separate and given to him alone.
And, what’s more, the postmas-
ter not only gives information—
he must not give information re-
garding mail matter. Thus were
such a thing libel on its face,. a
plot for an elopement or any
other conspiracy might be laid
on postal cards, the postmaster
might know it all, and it might
involve the happiness of his best
friend, and yet he would be for-
bidden, as I am advised, to di-
vulge the secret to any one.
Therefore, let no parent or guar-
dian blame a postmaster for any
secret correspondence of their
children but, if they wish to con-
trol this mail, let them so notify
the postmaster.
And still the postal rates, mon-
ey orders, et ~ 1 the people.
Paste theSi_ hat: Let-
ters sealed or unsealed cost two
cents an ounce if sent away; if
“dropped,” one cent an ounce,
and fractions count the same as
whole ounces. If you letter costs
more than two cents, it costs four
cents—never three cents. (I use
the expression “cost” to make it
simple). All sealed matter is
charged for the same as letters.
'Newspapers cost one cent for
four ounces.
Books, photographs, circulars,
seeds (not nuts), cut flowers, and
ts cost one cent for two
ounces.
Essentially all else costs one
an ounce.
can now write a line of
lication in a book without cost.
?he face of, a money order must
signed at the postoffice win-
v by the person receiving the
ey-
f you sell your money order
hand it to a neighbor to col-
t, write across the end of it on
5 back, after the words “pay
his name and, on. the line
dw write your own name ex-
ly as it is on the order.
[eep your pencil away from
ir money order. Nothing but
i-n-k ink, counts, and you
re your labor for your pains if
i write on it with a pencil.
I special delivery stamp pays
messenger boy for delivering
letter, it does not pay for
mailing it. Put the other stamp
on too—12 cents in all for an or-
dinary letter.
Call box patrons should merely
tap on their respective boxes to
get the mail.
Only stamped parcels have any
place at the postoffice, don’t ask
the postmaster to handle others;
it’s painful to have to refuse.
Don’t try to cheat Uncle Sam
by slipping writing into a pack-
age for, if you do, look sharp for
the deputy U. S. marshals—
they’ll likely get you.
Under the present rulings no
package or paper can be sent
away till full postage is paid; it
cannot be paid at the other end
any more.
Box rents must be paid prompt-
ly or the postmaster must close
the box or have his career closed
by an inspector.
Mrs. W. A. Skaggs made us
a pleasant call Monday, ordering
the Galveston News along with
other reading matter.
W. C. T. u. ITEMS.
[Matter under the above heading is furnished
by the local chapter of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, and published at their re-
quest.1
The W. C. T. U. will meet at
Mrs. Proctor’s during the winter
months, at 3 o’clock p. m., every
second and fourth Monday. All
members and all interested and
visitors are cordially invited to
meet with us.
Begin the new year by determining
to do more good deeds than you did in
the old; begin by believing that you
can cure yourself of your follies. It is
only cowards who say that good reso-
lutions are always broken. Brave peo-
ple believe in their ability to control
their characters; they are the people
who do control them. In every temp-
tation, in every struggle, victory is as-
sured if reliance is placed on the omnip-
otent power that God gives to ail who
trust him.
An acquaintance of the writer was
recently calling on a neighbor in a cer-
tain New England city While they
were conversing the daughter of the
house came into the room, a high
school girl of, perhaps, eighteen. She
appeared to be searching for some-
thing, when the father inquired, "What
is it, daughter?” "Why, I am locking
for those cigarettes,” replied the girl.
"Well,” said the father, "I am sorry,
daughter, but I forgot them when I was
down town this morning.” "Forgot
them,” said, the daughter in despair,
‘•well, how do you think I am going to
get my lessons without them?” and she
left the room in apparent anger. The
father was greatly distressed, and the
host as greatly astonished, And, we
are told that the tobacco habit, in its
various forms, is rapidly increasing
among many clashes of women.—Union
Signal.
A petition has been presented to the
British Parliament, from Edinburgh,
asking for the enactment of a law pro-
hibiting the sale of tobacco to any one
under twenty-one years of age.
When the question of license or no
license was submitted to a suburb of
Cleveland, Ohio, for a popular vote,
the directors of the Lake Shore railroad
announced that if the result was no li-
cense, they would invest a million dol-
lars in the erection of. construction and
repair shops at that place. The di-
rectors were anxious that the men to
be employed in the shops should be
free from temptations to drink. The
voters decreed, no license.
Lima, Peru.—The Anti-Alcoholic
Congress opened on the third of
month, with a large attendance of lead-
ing persons. It is hoped the congress
may be able to outline plans to imp de
crime and degradation produced by al-
cohol in Peru.
The Herald’s . Washington special
says; Crime is increasing the world
over, despite the great strides m edu-
cation.
"Fifty years of real prohibition
would result in a greater bound for-
ward in all directions than is possible
in a cycle of rum rule. The greatest
single impediment to . human progress
today is the liquor traffic. ’ ’
"Woe unto him that gives his neigh
bor drink.” We do that when wp di
rectly or indirectly authorize anothex
to do it.
him.” The recruit soon gained
entrance to headquarters and
stood in the general’s presence.
“What can I do for you?” said
General Grant. “I was directed
here by a couple of soldiers.
They told me that you did wash-
ing, and I have a bundle here.”
General Grant’s imperturbable
face did not relax. He simply
asked the question : “Could you
identify these men again?”
j “Yes, sir.” Very well; you
; shall have the chance.” Turning
; to an orderly he directed him to
i call a guard, go with the recruit
to where the jokers were stand-
ing ready to enjoy his discomfi-
| ture, and let him identify them.
“Take the men to the guard
house, give them this man’s bun-
; die of clothing, and make them
I wash it thoroughly. See that
i the work is well done.” We are
| told that the general was obeyed
; to the letter.—Rock Springs Rus-
i tier.
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* J. F. Smith, Proprietor. *
* LAMPASAS, TEXAS. *
*** , We are prepared.to do your family washing better and cheaper *>
* than yon can hire it done elsewhere, and to call for and deliver it on time •>
.j. tut we must have it by Wednesday mornkxg of each week, otherwise we
♦> cannot deliver before next week. No bundle taken tor less than 10c- ♦>
* Short Order Work A Specialty. *
. Collars 35c a dozen. We Launder anything that is capable of
j, being washed. Your orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. *]*
Is now prepared to treat all diseases of the eye and to perforin
any operation necessary in such treatment. For two years he
has made the study of the eye a specialty and has had plenty of
experience in this line of practice. If you have any kind of eye
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Mistaken in the Washerwoman.
It was stated that during the
civil war several northern sol-
diers were talking together just
before the advance upon Corinth.
A raw recruit stepped up to them
with a bundle of soiled clothes in
his hands, and asked: “Do you
know where I can get this wash-
ing done,” “Oh yes,” said one
of the two practical jokers, “we j
know. Just go up there with !
bundle,” pointing to the head-
quarters of General Grant; “you
will see a short stout man”—de-
scribing the general—“who does
washing. Take your bundle to
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1903, newspaper, January 9, 1903; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth876588/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.