The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 54, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 8, 1917 Page: 4 of 4
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A
ffiE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
J. H. ABNEY HERBERT ABNEY
J. H. Abney& Son
Owners and Publishers
Entered at the Postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Payable in Advance
One week.....................................-.....-
One Month........................................ 40c
Three Months................................ $1.00
One Year.----------------------------- $4.00
J. C. Matthews W. H. Browning
Matthews & Browning
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Lampasas, Texas
Office over Peoples National Bank
Will Practice in All Courts.
Palace Barber Shot)
Everett & Berry, Proprietors’
Sanitary Barber work
and Baths
We solicit your patronage
W. B. ABNEY
ATTO RN E Y - AT - LAW.
Civil Practice Exclusively
Lampasas - - Texas
DIRECTORY
District Judge—F. M. Spann
District Attorney—M. M. White
District Clerk—C. G. Bierbower.
County Judge—J. Tom Higgins
County Attorney—W. H. Adkins
County Clerk—J. E. Morgan
Sheriff—A. R. Mace
Assessor—E. T. Jordan
Surveyor—W. H. Fountain
County Treasurer—G. W. Tinkle
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
H. & T. C. Trains Leave
For Burnet and Llano...... 7:40 a. m.
For Burnet and Austin......12:50 p.m.
ARRIVE
From Austin and Bumet..l0:50 a. m.
From Llano and Burnet 4:00 p. m.
SANTA FE
TRAINS ARRIVE........
From Temple going west.. 6:30 a. m
From Temple going west..5:28 p. m
From Temple going west.. 6:00 p. m
FROM WEST
Going to Temple................10:18 a. m
Going to Temple................10:08 p. m
Going to Temple................10:44 p. m
To Raise Nine Regiments of Engi-
neers to Go to France.
Washington, May 7.—The war de-
partment announced today that or-
ders had been sent out for the rais-
ing of nine regiments of engineers
for duty at the earliest possible mo-
ment on the communication lines in
France. The troops will be in addi-
tion to the forces contemplated in the
administration’s army plans.-
Recruiting points for the regiments
will be New York, St. Louis, Chicago,
Boston, Pittsburg, Detroit, Atlanta,
San Francisco and Philadelphia.
The department’s statement fol-
lows:
‘The war department has sent out
orders for the raising as rapidly as
possible of nine additional regiments
of engineers which are destined to
proceed at the earliest possible mo-
ment to France for work in lines of
communication. It is requested of
the press that no speculation or. rum-
ors regarding this force be carried
other than that given out. All de-
tails regarding the force will be given
out as fast as compatible with the
best public interests.”
It was explained that these engi-
neer forces were not in any way con-
nected with the army organization
planned by the department and made
known. In effect the regiments will
be additional technical units of the
army which the administration bill
authorizes the president to organize
in whatever numbers and on what-
ever plans he deems best. The
strength of an engineer regiment is
approximately 2,000 men, which
would make a total of 18,000 men to
be assembled in the new force. As it
is specified that the troops are for
use on communication lines, presum-
ably on railways, highways and tele-
phone and telegraph lines, it is as-
sumed that the men will be drawn as,
far as possible from railways em
ployes and the forces of the telegraph
and telephone companies.
Additional officers to supplement
those detailed from active list of the
army or from the officers’ reserve
corps probably would be sought
among the engineers now engaged
with work of the same character as
that which the troops will be called
upon to do in France.
Obituaries of less than 70 words
will be published free, all above 70
words will be charged for at regular
local advertising rates. Cards of
thanks, resolutions of respect, church
lodge and society notices of events
which an admission fee will be charg-
ed, will be published only on payment
of regular local advertising rates.
A NERVOUS WRECK
From Three Years* Suffering. Says
Cardui Made Her Well.
food shortage and conserve our pres-
ent supplies, Dr. Tait Butler, editor
of the Progressive Farmer, said’ cot-
tonseed meal was really worth to
feeders of live stock close to $100 per
ton at the present time. He drew this
deduction by making comparisons of
the feeding units in cottonseed meal
and those in grain, and the price per
feeding unit for each.
Others pointed out that foreign im-
porters were willing to pay $80 to $90
per short ton for cotton seed meal
delivered to their countries.
Dr. Butler stated that in the 11
cotton states there- are 6,500,000 head
of horses and mules. If each of these
were fed two pounds of cottonseed
meal per day, he said, it would release
four pounds of cornmeal to each, and
figuring on 200 days of such feeding,
this would mean the releasing of
100,000,000 bushels of corn for hu-
man food and the mules and horses
would be benefited by the change.
Four pounds of corn at $1.60 per
bushel cost ll%c; whereas, two
pounds of cottonseed meal at $45 per
ton cost 4% cents.
The feeder, therefore, would save
7c per day on each head of stock, and
at the same time release for human
consumption a very valuable human
food. In other words, he recommend-
ed that grain rations for horses and
mules be reduced by four pounds of
grain and two pounds of cottonseed
meal be substituted, which would al-
so mean an enormous increased de-
mand in cottonseed meal.
Mr. Vrooman, assistant secretary
of the department of agriculture,
stated that he was very much im-
pressed with the possibilities in cot-
tonseed meal and that the govern-
ment could be depended upon to o-
operate with the South in seeking
further marketing for the product.
He stated that his department was
open to any suggestions the cotton-
seed meal people cared to make them
and that such suggestions would re-
ceive that department’s careful con-
sideration. Mr. Vrooman is very
much interested in increasing human
food supplies and seemed to be very
much impressed with the possibility
of the substitution of the corn by cot-
tonseed meal, by feeders of live
stock, especially horses and mules.—
The News Scimitar, Memphis, Tenn.
Falls County Woman Rural Mail Car-
rier Twelve Years.
Mrs. Mary Eddleman of Rosebud
has delivered the mail on a rural
route for more than twelve years.
During this service she has regained
her health, reared and educated her
several children, provided and cared
for her invalid husband, built and
paid for an elegant home, and makes
a trip during her summer vacations
out of the surplus which she is able
to lay by each month.
It was up on the third floor of the
Falls county court house at Marlin
that this frail little lady, the only
woman among twelve applicants,
made the grade that elected her to
this living making job. Since that
time legislation has been passed
which prohibits women from apply-
ing for rural routes, but this did not
interfere with those already in. After
she handed in her paper she came
home and resumed-her regular busi-
ness, and it was not until several
weeks later that she received notice
of her appointment.
“It was on the morning of Sept.
15, 1904, that my work as an R. F. D.
carrier began,” said Mrs. Eddleman,
“and a happy day it was for me, for
Texas City, Tex.—In an interesting
itatement, Mrs. O. H. Schill, of this town,
jays: “For three years I suffered untold
agony with my head. I was unable to
do any of my work.
I Just wanted to sleep all the time, for J it~ proTeTto be'the onlf thing"' that 1
that was the only ease I could get, when 1
I was asleep. I became a nervous wreck |
lust from the awful suffering with my
head.
I was so nervous that the least noise
would make me jump out of my bed. I
had no energy, and was unable to do
ever had which provided an ample
support for ,my family and did not
keep me away from my invalid hus-
band, who, although a rheumatic
cripple, wras made my substitute and
could go with me whenever he liked,
anything. My son, a young boy, had to
do all my household duties.
I was not able to do anything until I
took Cardui. I took three bottles in all,
and it surely cured me of those awful
headaches. That has been three years
ago, and I know the cure is permanent,
for I have never had any headache since
taking Cardui. ..
Nothing relieved me until I took Cardui.
(t did wonders for me.”
Try Cardui for your troubles—made
from medicinal ingredients recommended
In medical books as being of benefit in
(emale troubles, and 40 years of use has
proven that the books are right. Begin
taking Cardui today. NC-134
Remember
and the long drives through the pure
fresh air, no doubt, prolonged his
days.”—Mrs. Fannie J. Anderson in
Dallas News.
That every aided sub-
scriber helps to make this
paper better for everybody
Food Situation Serious Says Clarence
Ousley.
In regard to present high prices
and the seriousness of the food situ-
ation, Clarence Ousley, recently re-
turned from St. Louis where he at-
tended the conference of the United
States Department of Agriculture
officials, said:-
“Present prices are not due to spec-
ulation; they represent a real world
shortage of all things eaten by man
or beast, and they will go higher if
the supply is not increased and if ex-
travagance and waste are not curb-
ed.”
At a meeting of prominent South-
ern men held in Memphis, Tenn., a
few days ago, in discussing ways and
means to alleviate the impending
Food hoarding will probably inflict
its own penalty, so that it would be
in the nature of an excess of punish-
ment to expatiate on the disolyalty
of those who engage in it. The indi-
cations are now that Nature and
some thousands of industrious men,
women and children will provide oc-
casion for all the remorse it is fit
the hoarders should suffer. Almost
every back yard is a garden this
spring; the acreage in foodstuffs has
been vastly increased, and the weath-
er has become benign. These make
a conspiracy of circumstances fore-
telling abundant supplies of food-
stuffs before very long. In that case
the hoarders will have hoarded in
vain. Prices will be less than they
had to pay for their excess of sup-
plies, and the surplus on hand will
represent a loss and not the profit
which they sought to make. Selfish-
ness usually overreaches itself, and
that is apt to be proved in this in-
stance.—Dallas News.
New Sorghum Varieties Risky.
Washington, D. C., May 5.- -Farm
ers on the Great Plains who are inter-
ested in new varieties of sorghum are
being advised by the specialists of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture to
test out the novelty on a small ex-
perimental acreage before they dis-
card a standard variety. Cross pol-
lination takes place readily between
different varieties, and as a result
new strains are constantly being
found. Some of these doubtless are
promising but the average farmer
can scarcely afford to conduct exten-
sive experiments at his own risk. The
State experiment stations and the U.
S. Department of Agriculture are
conducting this work on a large scale
and individuals who are tempted to
plant new sorghums heavily should
communicate with the specialists be-
fore investing largely in sorghum
novelties at high prices.
Recently a number of inquiries
have been received by the Depart-
ment in Washington in regard to
Schrock kafir which was discovered
at Enid, Oklahoma, in 1912. This
plant is believed to be a hybrid be-
tween some kafir and a sweet sor-
ghum. It was at one time believed
that it might be found valuable for
both grain and fodder but tests show
that the tannin in the seed lessens
its value as a grain crop.
-and now try
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—to replace worn gears, chains and sprockets. That
is why you will appreciate this great gear lubricant
and the expenses it saves for tractor owners.
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protects and lubricates in spite of flying dust, grit
and sand.
At the close of a long working day, though the
gears may be coated with dust and grit, you can run
your finger on any of the teeth and feel the pro-
tecting film of lubricant under the dirt. That s TEX-
ACO CRATER COMPOUND. That’s how it saves
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War Times and Good Times.
To All to Whom These Presents
Shall Come: Greetings—A consist-
ent perusal of many Texas newspa-
pers, emanating from all quarters of
our dearly beloved starte, as well as
his personal mail, convinces State
Press that quite a lot of people in
grand old Texas are permitting
themselves to view these war times
with a faulty perspective. This coun-
try is engaged in conflict with Ger-
many, or about to be engaged, and
such conflict will be in some measure
what war always is—bad for one or
the other or both parties. But in my
event, under any conceivable circum-
stances, the war will affect this coun-
try not as wars of invasion and con-
quest do or would do, but rather as
wars of the sea, wars of sentiment,
wars of statemanship, wars of eco-
nomic pressure. Many of us take
our ideas of what war is by the things
we have heard from the lips of our
parents and friends who, -in the South
experienced under the Confederacy
the pains and penalties of defeat and
invasion, with their attributes of de-
privation, wounds, broken spirits,
poverty and depression. In compara-
tively small areas of Europe that
sort of thing, though much worse, is
in effect today. But bloody, pitiless
as the European war is, only a frac-
tion of Europe is under actual physi-
cal punishment. For this country
there can be nothing of actual war
oppression. The few soldiers we
may ultimately send to Europe will
be hardly more than the tourist
crowd that went annually before the
war. Our main business, despite all
the alarmists, all the foreboders, all
the pessimisers, will be to supply es-
sential raw material to those Euro-
peans who are at grips with the com-
mon enemy. But even though we
should send a total of a million men
within the next two years, which is
altogether unlikely, the effect upon
the total of our population would be
barely perceivable, except to the
friends and kindred of each expedi-
tionary soldier. This Republic is so
incomparably rich in resources of
money, materials and men that it
could go on always, a self-contained
nation, even though the whole world
were leagued against it. These con-
siderations are worthy of recapitula-
tion at this time because of the ob-
vious fact that many of our people
are thinking abnormally and acting
the same way. They have taken
fright over the supposed food short-
age and are hoarding groceries.
They are foreboding a return of such
conditions as they have been told the
old South went through at the break-
up of the Confederacy. Now, dear
folks, all that sort of thing is non-
sense. The simple facts are that the
primary sources of wealth in America
—the farms—never before in the
history of the world were so well pre-
pared, so enterprising, so competent
to enrich their tillers as they are to-
day. With billions of hew dollars
being expended in this country for
war materials, every scrap of agri-
cultural produce is commanding and
will command astonishing prices.
Right there, then, we have the foun-
dation stone of such a national pros-
perity as never was dreamed of be-
fore. With the farmers rich, every
line of business will thrive as never
business thrived since the world be-
gan. This is not an overdrawn pic-
ture. It is a conservative statement
of positive conditions.—Dallas News.
Governor’s Salary May Be Made
$8,000.00
Austin, May 7.—With seventy
signers, a bill will be introduced soon
in the house providing for the pay-
ment to the governor of a salary of
$4,000 per year for ex-officio services
as a member of various state boards.
This amount Avith the 4,000 allowed
by the constitution, would increase
the salary of the governor to $8,000.
Williams of Brazoria is the author of
the bill.
ily Leader, Three Months, $1.00.
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