The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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Buy Your Hardware From Us
When you buy a bill of goods from us you have the assurance that you are getting the BEST QUALITY of HARDWARE that money can
buy. We carry as large a stock as you will find in most of the larger cities. Our prices, too, are as low and often much lower. If you
are at all skeptical come in and let us prove this to you. WE WANT YOUR HARDWARE BUSINESS.
(?* 11 I 1 Cl if* |T| If you haven’t seen the McCormick-Deering New 4 Cultivator, Four
v and Six Plow, come and see it, for we feel sure you will be pleased
with it. It has many improvements that other makes do not have. The beams are strong and well braced. It is a fact that all Imple
ments have advanced 10 per cent and others are adding the advance, but we are carload buyers and pay cash for all our goods and by
so doing we can sell the best Cultivator for..........................................................................................................................$BfL00
Also just as good riding Cotton and Corn Planters, one seed drop for.......................................................................................... $50.00
See these goods—buy the best and save money. .
Our line of HORSE COLLARS is com-
plete from a cheap Duck Collar to
the best Leather Collar ever sold in
this country. Sizes from 15 to 24.
Collar Pads from 18 to 24.
BUY YOUR WAGON AND PLOW
HARNESS FROM US.
Ask to see our shop made Wagon
Lines with brass buckles. Ask to
see our Bonnet Blind Mule Bridles.
THERE IS MONEY IN THE
POULTRY BUSINESS
We have the poultry supplies.
Poultry Netting 1 foot to 6 feet wide
two inch mesh. Poultry Netting 1
foot to 4 feet wide, one inch mesh.
Incubators and Brooders, China
Nest Eggs—the large thick kind,
Chicken Fountains, Feeders, Leg
Bands and Rings. Prepare your own
chicken feed with the bone mills we
have. You can grind anything you
want on this mill. Be sure you see
it, and ask to see it operated.
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FOX & MILLS HARDWARE COMPANY
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TUB LAMPASAS LEADER
Published Every Friday
Z E Abney Herbert Abney
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Owners and Publishers
Sintered at the postoffice at Lampasas,
*?oxas, as second-class mail matter
Subscription Price
32 Months ..................................... $L50
& Months .......................................^5
ACCIDENT SATURDAY NIGHT
A rather serious accident happened
Saturday night near Kempner, when
a car full of young people was re-
tnrning home from a party. Miss
©adys Kensey, daughter f>f W. H.
Ujensey, and Lewis Rainwater, Jr.,
aun of Mr. and Mrs. Rainwater, were
sot on a barbed wire fence when the
sar they were riding in ran into the
jfpnt»p It seems that the steering
wheel failed to operate at a certain
^®rnt in the road and the car ran into
3&e fence. The young lady received a
deep gash on her limb just above the
afro® top, and Lewis, Jr., recieved a
1fewr scratches. The young lady is
getting along nicely and it is hoped
that no after effects of the wound
wiR he serious.
English White Leghorn eggs $1.00
gse 15; $5.50 for 100. Barred Rocks
eggs, $1.00 for 15. C. S. Gilliland, S.
W- Phone 909-F11. (wl9p)
i CARD OF THANKS
We take this method of thanking
•or good friends and neighbors for
jKo.v kindness and assistance during
the illness and death of our dear son,
Cep. Words cannot express our ap-
preciation. Also do we thank the
doctors and nurse for their assist-
ance.
H any of you ever have the sorrow
we have just had may the same kind-
ness be shown you that was shown us
^ our prayer.
'.&*) R. B. Parker and Children.
EXPRESSION OF THANKS
We want to thank every one for
their kindness and sympathy through
the family sickness and death of
wife and mother. These things will
never be forgotten. “Beautiful hands
are they that do.”
W. H. Handy,
A. C. Handy,
Mrs. Mattie B. Jones
(wpd) Dwight Handy.
Claud S. Shipp, sheriff of Burnet
county, took the train here Tuesday
night for Fort Worth to attend the
Fat Stock Show.
Mrs. Pearl Higgins came in Tues-
day from Izoro and will spend a few
days here with her sister, Miss Oda
Mae Dumas.
OLD FIDDLERS ROUND-UP
If you like old time violin music
meet the Dixie Fiddlers in Gatesville
March 14 and 15. All old tunes re-
quested will be played along with
the regular program.
Ed Fulton went to Temple Monday
morning to be with his brother, Jesse
Fulton, of Lometa, who will undergo
a serious operation in one of the hos-
pitals. He has been in the hospital
several days.
Twenty-one hundredths of an inch
of rain fell early Tuesday morning,
and was followed by a northwester.
However, the sun shown at intervals,
and signs of spring are beginning to
show in grass plots and trees.
Late Monday evening word was re-
ceived from Temple sanitarium that
Rev. J. F. Lawlis had stood the oper-
ation fairly well and had come from
under the anesthesia in good condition.
His leg was amputated above the
knee, where the original trouble was
located.
CO. TREASURER BILL PASSES
Austin, Texas, March 5.—The joint
resolution by Burkett, proposing sub-
mission to the voters of constitutional
amendment to abolish the office of
county treasurer and delegate the du-
ties of such official to the office of
county depository, was passed finally
by the Senate Monday.
$35 EACH PAID FOR
COMING YEARLINGS
San Angelo, Texas, March 5.—
Prices of $50 and $55 for coming three
and four-year-old steers, $35 for com-
ing yearlings and $27 for calves were
paid in the sale of 4,175 cattle report-
ed in San Angelo Saturday. Bred
ewes commanded $10, with some
ewes and muttons selling at $8 per
head.
These mark the first big livestock
deals of the year in this section and
frequent rains steadily improving the
range insuring conditions and spring
ideal for lambing, calving and kidding
are largely attributed to the activity.
Walter Mann of San Angelo sold
for G. R. White of Brady to Fred J.
Bowen of Lonford, Kan., 2,000 com-
ing 3 and 4-year-old Hereford steers
at $55 each, or $143,000. Shipment
will be made April 25 from Brady
to Kansas grass.
Will Drake, another live stock com-
mission man, sold to W. O. Shultz of
Paint Rock 500 3-year-old steers for
Ed H. Mertz & Co. of Eldorado and
350 threes and fours for Porter &
Whitley of Eldorado. All the animals
brought around $50. Mr. Shultz also
purchased from Fayette Tankersley
of Mertzon, through Mr. Drake, 225
coming yearling steers at $35 each.
The cattle were fed all winter on meal
ensilage and other ground feed and
are fat.
W. G. Murray of Lubbock purchas-
ed through Mr. Drake 200 coming
yearling steers from Pat and Wren
Jackson, who have Willis Johnsons
Crows Nest pasture, east of San
Angelo, under lease; 200 from Charles
H. Powell, cashier of the First Na-
tional Bank here, and 100 from J. W.
Westbrook, local cattleman. The
prices averaged $27 per head.
Will L. Miller of Ozona bought
from R. C. Ferguson of San Angelo,
through Will Drake, 1,200 bred ewes
at $10. The sheep are 3-year-olds
and have been delivered on the Llano
pasture north of San Angelo, where
they will remain for the present.
OLD TEXT BOOKS
TO BE RETAINED
Austin, Texas, March 5.—The sen-
ate sent to the governor for approval
or veto the Pope house bill, which
nullifies recent awards of the state
textbook commission, when it late
today adopted the conference commit-
tee report on the measure. The com-
promise adopted extends until Sep-
tember, 1925, the text-book contracts
in effect last Dec. 1, and authorises
the bQok commission to let new
awards if the old contracts are found
to be too high or detrimental to
school interests.
SECRETARY SUES
MISS ROBERTSON
Washington, March 5.—Miss Alice
M. Robertson of Oklahoma, whose
term as a member of the House ex-
pired Sunday was sued Monday in
the District of^ Columbia supreme
court for $10,000 damage for alleged
slander.'
The suit was, brought by Benjamin
E. Cook, her former secretary who
charged that Miss Robertson, in a
conversation, said he had sold her
automobile without authority and had
“pocketed the proceeds.”
LOST
Heavy truck chain between old 10-
mile post south of School Creek on
Hamilton road and Adamsjrille on
March 1st. Finder will please leave
at Key Bros., Lampasas, or Town-
sen’s Store, Adamsville.
(wpd) H. M. Townsen.
The State Veterinary meeting will
be held in Lampasas on March 28-29,
the Chamber of Commerce having ex-
tended the association a cordial invi-
tation to meet in Lampasas .
Miss Ruby Dockery, of Youngsport,
who has been visiting her sister, Miss
Ola Dockery, in the McCreaville com-
munity where she is teaching, left
Monday morning for heir home.
Mrs. J. H. Stapp, of Burnet, spent
Sunday here with her nephew, W. Ray
Lackey, and was also a guest of her
friend, Miss Dora Schlomach. She
Was on her way to Brownwood to visit
relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Faires and Earl
went to Bertram Saturday afternoon
and spent the Sunday in the home of
Dr. Faires* mother, returning home
Sunday night.
Mrs. Lettie Moses, of Bertram, came
in Monday and will spend a few days
here with her sister, Mrs. Leon Oliver.
THE LION DRUG STORE
MARTIN L GAFFNEY
Doctor of
SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE
CRYSTAL SPRINGS
LAMPASAS........TEXAS
DR. C. H. FAIRES
DENTAL SURGEON
Special Attention Given Plate and
Bridge Work. *
BLOCK ANESTHESIA
Office over Mackey & Ransom's Drug
Store, Lampasas, Texas.
PIT pC We cure any Case of Piles,
is LCD no matter how long standing
within' a few days, without cutting,
tieing, cauterizing, or sloughing, and
without detention from business ot
pleasure.
DR. A. HILLMAN
The Rectal Specialist
Shropshire House, 409 Fisk St, \
Brownwood, Phone 577.
W. D. FRANCIS, M. D.
Practice limited to
DISEASES OF EYE, EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT
Office over Mackey & Ransom Drug
Store.
LAMPASAS, 9—; TEXAS
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The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1923, newspaper, March 9, 1923; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth885511/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.