Devil's River News. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 1783, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 14, 1925 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 22 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
DEVIL’S RIVER NEW&
Harris Optical Company.
Dr. Edward A. Caroe
Optometrist.
kjM Ex-numei). Ulessee Fitted,
Telepliauc blS.
0 iC. lor jliif Adnoi, Han Angelo.
VOL 34
SONORA SUTTON CO.. TEXAS. SATURUSy, FEBRURAY 14. 1925
NO. 1783
L.:
E. F. VPDEf} STUCKEH-
IOTEfl CO^PEEY.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CRY ROODS AND GROCERIES
* ’ ‘
CROCKERY, HARDWARE, ETC.
WINDMILLS, PIPE AND PIPE FITTINGS
.
Libera Alvantsa Made] onJ]3haap and Goats.
Phones 53 and 190.
V
SONORA, TEXAS.
■r\
DEVIL’S RIVER NEWS
PUBLISHED WKKKI.V.
STEVE MURPHY. Publisher.
Entered at the I'oerofflce at Sonora
as second-class matter.
SOIISCKU’TION $2 A YKAK IN ADVANCE
Li nor». Texas. • February 14. E25.
All Resolutions ot Respect. Cards of
Thanhs. Notices of F.ntainments where
an admission foe Is charged. Etc., will
be. charged for at our regular adver
t sing rales.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
FOR
STATE ROAD AND BR1D3K
CONSTRUCTION.
Sealed proposals add -essod te Airis
Johnson County Judge, for the 1 in
provement of SeeMons A, 11, ar.d C of
F. A. P. 425. 22 05 mllea of State High
t ay No. 27. In Sutton County, will tc
received at the olHue of tiie County
Judge at Sonora, Tex a*, until 10
o’clo -k^A.M., February 17tb. 1025, and
then publicly opened and read.
DESCRIPTION OK WORK.
Section A, Length 7 SO tniles; grarlj
lng and draining structures, .MAfcVjjl
sur'acing 2.43 mlLs, and orusho^flLjr
surlaeing 4 45 miles. •'
Section H. Length 10 81 wllef ;grml-
Ing and drainage structures, and
crushed stone surfacing 5.03 miles.
Seotion C. Length ll.2> miles;’grad-
lng and drainage structures, grav.4
Surfacing 5.1? miles, aud erustud stone
surfacing turn miles.
Detailed olana and specifications of
the worlc m»v be seen for examina-
tion. and Information may bn ob ained
at the otlice of II. P. Stockton, Jr.,
County Engineer at Sonora, Texas,
and at the ollice of the State Highway
Department, State OdJce Building.
Austin, Texas.
A certified or cashier’s chock for
five [SJ.’per cent of the amount of the
bid made payable without recourse
to the order of Alvis Johnson. County
Judge of.Sutton County must ac-
company etch proposal, nn a guaran-
tee that the bidder, If successful, will
enter into contract and uiul:e bond in
accordance with requirements of the
specltlaatlons. The right Is reserved
by the county to reject uny and all
proposals or to walvo all tecbuiculi-
IIM.
Bids will not ba considered unless
the bidder submits b.ds on all sec-
tion*. Award of contract will bo
based on the total of the blda of any
on* b.dJer on the three sections, and
contract on the three sections will bo
awarded to one bidder.
Proposals shall be submitted In seal-
ed envelopes nnd marked. ‘-Bids for
the Conetiueilon of Sections A.B. and
U. of F. A.P. 425 In Muttou county.
All bids received will be retained by
the County.
A1.V13 JOHNSON.
78.8 County Judge.
Thomas Edison Makes
Forecast Worth Noting
The ne-xt great invention, Thionaa
A. Hfliaon slates in nn interview in
Collier’s, Will be the perfection of
the jielic'bptor.
“Man now has definitely accom-
plished flight,” Mr. Edison say:. “It
has conn* to stay and nerve the
.world. Hut the helicopter*—that de-
vice which, when perfected, will cv. ■
able men to .rise straight upward
from the ground nml, after having
reached a stated aPhudc, to hover
there without moving back or forth,
or up or down—after we get this
helicopter flight will revolutionise
our civilization. We shall srlievr
such tremendous speeds as are i.c
yoml us now and shall not need to
fly at great heights. Flying will
conic along in practical form in time
to keep us out of trouble. When the
need for some new thing becomes in
sistent men always find it.
“At the present moment the farm
cr is getting nil the worst of it. Tin
trouble is that, sinking roughly
half the population ia made up ol
farmers and the other half consist:
of manufacturers and middlemen. A
b|"vory simple plan would solve tlr
problems of the farpicr. All the gov -
ernment should have to do would la
to.store foodstuffs and do with them
whist it docs at present with its gold
nml 'silver stores—pass them out for
iw us needed.”
V
\*unaaa s Resources in
“White Coal” Immense
The Dominion water power re-
search, in-co-operation with the pro-
vincial bodies, has made ail analysis
of the wat,er-power resources of the
DimtinnSh and arrived ut the follow-
ing estimate: The power available
every 21 hours at 80 per- cent of
efliciwicy, at the ordinary minimum
flow, is equal to 18,255,300 horse
power. At the prdfhnry six months'
flow, the season of high water, it is
equal to 32,07.1,008 horse power, says
a report of the Department- of the 'jj
Interior.
The three provinces possessing the
greatest u.itcr power are: Qufcbec,
11,040,000; Ontario, 0,808,000, and
Manitoba, 5,709,000. The present
turbine installation is equal to 3,-
227,-114 horse power, Ontario lead-
ing with 1,445,480 horse power;
Quebec, second, with 1,110,398 horse
power, and British Columbia, third,
with 355,517 horse power.
No Mercy for the Rat,
Is Slogan in Denmark
That early rejairt of rottenness in 1
the state of Denmark was garbled,
perhaps, in getting around the
world. Ratt incss seat ns to have been
the impression intended. Up to the
year 1808, the rats of Denmark had
things j ret tv much their own way,
living the* life of Uiley—to draw an
innocuous parallel of luxurious liv-
ing. But the 25th of November,
1898. whs a dark day for the ruts.1
On that day up rose Emil Zuschlag
and told Copenhagen landlords that
“the only good rat is a dead rat.”
A* society was formed for the ex-1
termination of rats, him! bills were;
passed by the legislature to regulate
Official Frown Turned
on Pajamas in Belgrade i
They have been introducing pa- j
jamas in Belgrade and the puzzled
Jugo-Sla\s have not taken kindly I
to them, according to the 1-oiuloif |
Observer. This is partly because
the lunatic- asylum at the Jugo-
slav capita! long ngo adopted pa-
jamas ns the normal attire of its in-
mates, so that the ordinary citizen's
reluctance to don “modern night-
dress” was at least comprehensible,
writes the Living Age.
One hot night lust summer, how-
ever. one greatly daring youth ven-
tured out of his garden and u lit-
tle way down the street clad in the
novel night attire. A passing po
nml systematize the work of exterini-j Herman instantly arrested him as an
nation. Since the beginning of
the campaign miliious of rats have
been killed iii the urban nnd rural,
districts of the country. Every rut ‘
osripeij lunatic, his suspicions be-
ing continued by the fact that the
unfortunate prisoner—this also is
comprehensible—hud no identifli-a-
bcars a prize on his head—so many tion papers in his pajama pocket,
nits killed, so many kroner paid to j The young man spent the night
the killer—the premiums are set j in the cells, and when he was taken
down in the statutes, llut killing in to police court the next morning,
Denmark is big business. | wishing to avoid recognition, he
The ways and means of extermi-; begged that a waste basket be
nation are discussed in Kuiupcn mod, placed over* his lu-ud.
Rotterne—which just goes to show
that the rat is a rotter in any lan-
guage.—X ut ion's Business.
Modern Light at Lest
in Great French Library
Following the example of the In-'
ktitlito de France, the national li-1
brary'hus. for the first time iustullcd
electricity, Long the despai* of
scholars who were- forced to hunt by
flashlight among the lihfaiyV 5,00(1,-
000- books for the particular title
they desired, and jvho again and
again were forced to give up their
work because'of cloudy weather or
approaching darkness, the library is
now almost modern, cays the New
York Deruhl-vl’rihjuire, >
The installation of electricity cofct
50,000 francs, but tho responsible
authorities foci that this is n very'
reasonable expenditure, in view of
the increased .facilities now at tho
disposal of readers.
The s|K-ctack- of the alleged luna-
tic, clad in pajamas and helmetc-d
with a waste basket, solemnly
marched to court between gendarmes
armed with long and fierce looking
bayonets, greatly edified tho less
serious minded of Belgrade's citi-
zens.
FULL MEASURE
FAMOUS FORTS
IN U. S. HISTORY
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
WOOL AND MOHAIR
CHARLES SCHREINER, BANKER.
(UNINCORPORATED)
KERRVILLE. TEXAS.
Uakaa Liberal Advances on Sheep, Goata, Wool andMofcalr
Established 1869,
MORTGAGE LOANS
Unlimited Funds - - No Delay.
E. B. CHANDLER & CO.
102 East Crockett SL, San Antonio, Texas.
W. R. Stumberg. Agent San Angelo.
.li <
THE LEISURE CLASS
Mrs. Stocksanbonds—Such a pity
we haven’t a real leisure class in
America!
Mr. Htockrnnlxnida—You should
be at tho head of a big business of-
fice, my dear, to know better than
that. *
His Disappointment
“..Lre you hurt?” sympathetically
asked- a motorist whose ear had
knocked down ami run over a citizen
of the Slippery blap region.
“1 linin'! kill 'd, presizely,’* replied
lit,' victim, “but I'm powerful disap
p’itiled. 1 just had a row with hijf
wife, enduring of which she called1 cun, William Sublette*' Milton Sub-
The Fort on the Grfeat
/ Inland Sea
The story of Fort Asliley, Utah, la
the story of a Aehley-Suiltli explora-
tion, of two grout men to whom his-
tory has given hut smull measure of
tiie credit due them—William Henry
Asliley and Jededluh Strum; Smith.
That story goes buck to 1822 when
Ashley organized the Rocky Mountain
Fur company nnd svt out upon a
trailing and trapping expedition up
tlu> Missouri, lu that company were
luen whose names were to loom I .-tret*
in western history for the next half '
century—Andrew Henry, Duvfd Jnek-
Jilo a riQ-’emtnt cuss and smacked me
over tho head with the poker. T was
on my way to the creek'io j unip in
and put myself out of mv nliz’ry,
and now you come along wit!* your
infernnl automobile and smash me
up till I won’t be able to get to the
creek inside of a week.” '..1,
“Don’t talc it so hard, I’ll carry
you to the creek, if you like, and
throw x- u to.”
“Xec-ui’t to mind. I see a feller
coming ’round the bend there that’s:
likely to have a bottle of something
that’s good for my ease.”—Kansas
City Star.
An Extinct Species
Mrs. Oliver Ilarrimau, president
of Camp Fire Girin, said at the girls’
Fashion nnd Home exposition in
New York: “You see how pretty,1
Id to, Jededluh Smith, Robert rump-
hell, Thomas Fitzpatrick, J nines Brid-
ge r, Samuel Tullodi, lOtlenne l’rovost
(for whom the city of l’invo, Utah,
(3 named) and .Tunics Beckwourth. |
The expedition went up the
Missouri to the moulli «f the Yellow-
atone. The next year Aslgey led an-
other to the Arlkurn villages on the
Upper Missouri. In 1 SL’l Ids coinpnpy
pcnelruled to the (.Teen rWf Talley
and the next year to the great Salt
lake (-a whose hanks he Imlll the
little stockaded post which bore Ida
name. The next year lie made an-
other trip lo Ids post, bringing with
Idm some small cannons on wheels,
(lie first time in history that artil-
lery of nny sort ever penetrated this
Wilderness. •
Although l-’ort Ashley In Ilself nev-
er became as Important us n number
nf oilier ,fur trading posts In the
Rockies. IJtali enn ^uke tU'jdc, in offer-
ing It ns hyr most IftWuttoaKt fort
solely lie. .tijse of lu cuttueoilon with
. . the. name Ashley nndJll.i men, re-
yet. how modest, the ( nflip Fire peetaily JeilAdiuh Strong Smith, the
Girls’ fashions are. It is pleasant,1 "Wiun-l.-in Ulysses" xvhese explora-
im’t it, to get a-way from the French
fa-ihions of the day, especially from
the Intent French fashion, the trans-
I arent one.
“Fl-cneli fashions are beautiful—I
admit that-hut one of their moM
E. C. GARVIN,
BtJYS and SELLS
Live Stock & Real Estate
The Busy Lady
:‘T knew a lady, Mrs. Rebecca
Troit, by name, who was ns thin as ]r ^ '^iowm had to
n ahocstringi related ol.d Riley Roz- - - -
idew of i’etuniu, “and kindn stoop-
liouhleicd, and talk 'd so fast tlod
vi-hr-i) she got fairly unbuckle I and-
going at full speed, half of her words
bad to climb on the hacks of them
ahead in order to arrive in time to
be of any use. She wocM grow re v!
ixcitud and reJ on tho eMtek l>oiv»
oVtr how - .-tie f iler iliut wa-n t ia
any way minted t» her whipp'd his
w.ife oft-tier than perhnpa she n -id-
ed a licking, and when her brother-
in-law died sfic hunted a blood vessel
over the way the lodge brethren win
other night Hint die was shocked
tIcii her lilt! ■ (laughter asked Inrs
“‘Mothhr, wliat’: .1 (H-ttio.lt ?’ ”
Rubber Sk'n Saves Fruit
A practical new pro<v > for pre-
serving tropical frails, other than
haanfias and piiioa|'ples, so that they
may he ttshippedUaBg distanei-s re-
cently bps been di.. . -red, accord-
ing to I’opiilar Scioticj Munthlv. TIte
fruit, gathered n little before it is
ripe, is suicarcd with n thin touting
of rubber latex, which, wlicn coagu-
lated, forms u protective 'kin. The
SONORA. TEXAS. 1 J" ,m,ll,e>rm tn**] *"* of ripening IS slowed up, it
* , ovor t)l0 1Ugraln carpet. —Kunsa- ..hi L-, >u. r...;,
it’ito. Star.
is said, keeping the fruit in good
! euuditi jn.
thins much more richly ’ileaervc for
him'the title* of -The I'iUl#)n<li>r" thun
. do those, of (ion. John C. Fremont.
Ilorc (ire,some of the iiehlnvHincnti
, of Aahley ami his men: They were
the first ttlrite nun to travel the cen-
tral ovci-fate] route to tho I’aclf.c In
the winter, the llrst to use that vurln-
tlon of South pass, nil mod Itrhlger'a
p-o,.x, rft-'r i.n" of ttc.-lr nu. liter;
they were Hie llrct AiyFrlrrn-i to In-
v<ittivnte tlif mmmliilns of northern
! Colorado; they were the first to en-
| ter the tirent Divide husln; the first
i to criss almost the entire loe.xtli nf
i. lUthern Wyoming; nnd the I'.r-t to
nuvlgiuo‘the dnngerotM cnnyor-i 01
the Cireen river. Wh'-n Jededluh
HmiHt pushed on
\\m Ashley h“ v as the flr-.f Aineil-
ckn to rea-li ('allfernlu l>y laud and
he wits also the first «to trovers> the
foil length of t'nllfoi-niii anti Oregon
by land. With such u list of ' h'sior-
•eal firsts" to thp credit of the men
who founded Fort Ashley, It enn well
take. Its place In the froat rank u!
American forte.
t®. Hit. XV««t»rn Ft«-»y*y*r Cnl-.s.)
He—Why do yore .prefer Jack to
m’e ? ^
She—Well, ho always sends ino n
bushel of kisses when lie writes, and
you'only giv(» me a little peek.
High Degree of Praise
Laurctte Taylor, t|ic well-known
actress, considers that the most coin
plimentary thing ever said to hoi
e.-tuio from ft relative of hers, a nono-
genarian. Shu had lived praeticalh
ay her lift- in Ireland, auys Miss
Tcylor, of a very religious turn of
mind, and had never been inside a
theater till 3lie was persuaded to
come and see me play in “I’eg o’ My
Heart.” • u
. “At the end of the ploy | asked
her wliat slu* thought of my acting.
“'Is tlfat all you get your money
for?’ she exclaimed. ‘.Sure’, nml I
wouldn’t call that acting at all, nl
all. Why, Fvo seen hundreds of
young colleens behave just like tlint
.over in Ireland.’ ”-.sr*>au 1-raneisco
Argonaut.'
Peat as a Fertilizer
Every now nnd tli i some one puts
forth the claim that tiie nitrogen in
pout is comparable with (lint in com-
mercial fertilizers, but expennu-nts
in New Jersey, Indiana and else-
where liava shown the nitrogen iu
pent to have a very low rvailahilitv.
The value of pout lands lies more in
their crop-producing power tlinn
fr<)tn n fertilizer standpoint. Their
agricultural development l-.as made
gi.c^l progress iu the last decade. By
tfrniilnge and proper fertilization,
immense yieldn of crops nre obtained,
nnd they arc now bring developed
for general crop’s and pasture, as
wMl as for intensive crop*. 1’eat is
far more valuable a* a place for
crops to grow than hi a fertilizer
for upland soils.
WOOL GROWERS CENTRAL STORAGE
COMPANY, Sill ANGELO, THIS.
t 1
WOOL AND MOHAIR
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
IHt HOLLAND AU10 CO.,
R. S- (Bob) Holland* Phone 754.
19, 21 West Iwchig1 Ave., Son Ai-geio.Tejxa®.
STORAGE
Car Washing and Greasing.
Truck Tires, Mobile Oils.
YoUf Car and Contents ore Safe in tny Place.
r- -• V “ " ~ . ■ -' V- .- -- ~
CROWTHER SUPPLY CO.
.- - - ’
18 fi. Concho Ave, San An.elo,
Carries a lull line of John Deere Implements.
Peerless Fencing and Wire. Aermotor
Windmills, Pipe, Cylinders and Rods,
John Deere Wagons.
• t i * * »
"• " ■
The McDonald Hotel,
Mrs. Joeie McDonald, Owner#
Tates (3.25 Per ray. Qccd TiV.t ard fcivicc.
Comfortable, Convenient, Homelike.
Didn’t Worry
In one of the government build-
ings at Washington is nn old negro
who has Iicibi runuing the same ele-
viilor ever since anybody can re-
member. Yet lie seems hale nnd
to rnlifunVu^om Fenrtv and doesn’t look nearly as old
c« lie must be.
Asked one day how he aeoeunted
for hits remarkable vigor, he re;i’fL>d:
“1 thir.ii it s hceause I don’t let
my work worry me. f neier take it
to lied with mo. When I go home at
night I don’t think any more about
my work until the neat day.”—Col.
licr’a.
For All .the Family
G have used Black-
*w
w¥ Draught ever since
we have had a fam-
ily and that was ohortly
after 1874/' says Mr. E.
A. Brans tetter, of St.
James, Mo. “It is my first
remedy when any of us
gets side. . . . We use
Black-Draught for torpid
liver and stomach com-
plaints.
“When I get sluggish
and don't feel so good, I
take Black-Draught—and
you have to show me that
thero is a better medicine
in Missouri. I think it If
fine for indigestion or for
headache. It is a splendid
family remedy. My wife
uses it for any stotnach
ailment, indigestion and
biliousness. We never let
the houso be without it if
I know it We also give it
to the children for chil-
dren’s complaints, colds or
fever.”
Keep a package of Black-
Draught in the house for
all tho family.
Your dealer will sell you a
mammoth package, containing
five ot tha rcgular-siso pack-
ages. It’s cheaper.
Remember - -----
If H’s Hot Ti)8(M$, If* Hot
BLACK-DRAUGHT
Vegetable Urn MeMi
iDevJ’s River Ntws$2.oo a yeqr
. r »•
r ,» b. *
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Devil's River News. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 1783, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 14, 1925, newspaper, February 14, 1925; Sonora, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth979510/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .