Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 16, No. 217, Ed. 1 Friday, December 28, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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PALE8TINE DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917.
C0NDEN8ED OFFICIAL STATEMENT
6MRANTY STATE BANK OF PALESTINE
PALESTINE, TEXAS
Made to Commissioner of Insurance and Banking
At Close of Business November 20, 1917
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts ..$326,796.13
Bonds, Stocks, etc......... 108,915.25
Furnituro and Fixtures.. 1,500.00
Real Estate ___________.... 10,390.80
Interest in Gu’ty. Fund.. 5,516.37
Advances on Cotton ______ 58,868.78
Cash—
In vault and with Banks 233,648.56
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock _____________$100,000.00
Surplus and Undivided
Profits __________________ 77,954.11
Reserved for Taxes _____ 3,500.00
DEPOSITS ___________________.. 564,181.78
Total ---------------------------$745,635.89 Total ............................$745,635.89
Some Clippings
And Some Comment
KILL MEN AND WOMEN
P. H. HUGHES
REAL ESTATE, FIRE INSURANCE
AND RENTALS.
We make a Specialty of City Property; Managt
Estates, and Estates in Trust for Minor
Heirs. We make all kinds of Bonds.
Royall National Bank Building. Palestine, Texas
Massacred in North Sea Battle
by the Germans.
MOORE GROCERY CO.
WHOLESALE GROCERS
TYLER, PITTSBURG, PALESTINE AND LONGVIEW.
Just Smile.
When on our face a amile breaks outs
That bubbles up from deep within,
It makes us look as if about
A score of years had never been;
It matters not how years may pile,
We’re never older than our smile.
Your hair may be all snowy now,
Or scarcer than a biddy’s teeth,
Yet, if you smile, upon your brow
Is resting youth’s immortal wreath;
Though years may pass in long defile,
You’re yet a youngster—if you smile.
If you would have folks deem you
young,
Then get them guessing when you
laugh;
They’ll miss your place upon the
rung
Of life’s long ladder, more than
half;
The brightest guessers are beguilded,
Who count your years when you
have smiled.
Norwegian Papers Tell of Attacks on
Lifeboats and Firing on
White Flags.
his wrist there was a general rush
for the woun.led man by the ambu-
lance corps, and by the time they had
finished with him he usually looked
like a cross between an Egyptian I London.—An appalling story of cold-
j , .. blooded massacres by Germans of the I
• an outPatient at a hos- crews of British North sea convoys In
a recent battle is told by the Norwe- j
glan papers.
pital.
All this, of course, was valuable
practice, and after many months of
h^rd work in the class an examina-
tion was held.
“Suppose one of your mates should
be badly frostbitten, how would you
treat the case?” asked the examiner.
“Why, rub him with a man who’s
had a touch of sunstroke. That d
bring ’em both around.”
AN EVENYBAY BANKING SYSTEM
The Federal Reserve Banking System is not merely an emergency
system, a financial fire engine to extinguish occasional fires.
It is much ihore than this. It is a vast res-
ervoir through whose member banks its ser-
vice reaches into every mill, every farm and
every store in the country, supplying at all
times not only the best banking protection
but the best banking service the country has ever known.
ROYALL NATIONAL BANK
PALESTINE, TEXAS.
TOTAL RESOURCES OVER $1,500,000.00.
They Oidn’t Forget.
“He’s perfectly quiet, ladies,” re-
marked the job master to the two
girls who were about to hire a pony
and trap, “only you must take care
to keep the rein off his tail.”
“We won’t forget,” they replied.
When they returned the job mas-
i ter inquired how they had got on.
Then toss aside your ancient* look, ( Splendidly, they exclaimed. “We
And spread bright youth o’er all j one roller sharp shower, but we
your face, t0°k *n turns to bold the umbrella
Till not a single tiny nook °' er ^be horse s tail, so there was no
Of crabbed age shall bear a trace; j rea^ danger. Answers.
Throw off Methusaleh awhile
And join the cherubs—with a smile.
A smile is more infectious far
Than measles, to the human face;
Then let us smile where’er we are,
Till we inoculate the race;
And then a smile will be the style
Failed to Bring It.
“What is the matter?” asked the
mother of a 6-year-old-girl as she
came home almost in tears after her
first day in school.
“I don’t like the teacher,” said the
That foks will follow all the while! i little one.
A Greeting
-We like to-feel that in a way our customers are our
partners, that our success is but the reflection of theirs.
So on the eve of the coming year we extend to you our
hearty good wishes with the sincere hope that nineteen
eighteen will bring you greater prosperity and happiness
than ever before.
Herman Schmidt &Co.
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SEWING MACHINE
With An
ELECTRIC MOTOR
And make sewing a pleasure.
You can obtain any rate of
speed by pressing on the foot
control. Only uses ns much
electricity as a 25 watt lamp.
♦ Price $15.00 complete.
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MONUMENTS
4 la stock and made to order. 4
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Will Close On Tuesdays
Because Tuesday has been desig-
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8YCAMORE WANTS 1000.
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Sycamore Camp No. 26, W. O. W..
accepted sixty-four applicants in De-
cember and is still going some.
Sycamore No. 26, organized 26 years,
826 members, 1000 wanted. Ten cents
monthly camp dues pays for $100.00
funeral benefit, protected by $8,000
reserve.
The W. O. W. is the strongest fra-
ternal insurance society: assets over
$35,000,000 Join today.
Bonner Frizzell, C. C.
J. E. Britton, Clerk.
12-28-tf Adv.
nated as meatless day, and
cause I want to do my “bit"
helping to conserve the food sup-
ply of the country, I will close
nyr market every Tuesday here-
after until further notice. Other
days I will appreciate your busi-
ness.
BRAUN’S MARKET, MAIN
12-17-lm Adv.
ST.
If you have a bad taste -in your
mouth, if your tongue is coated, and
you have spells of dizziness, the trou-
ble is in your stomach, liver and
bowels; they are clogged with bilious
impurities. Prickly Ash Bitters clears
out the obstructions and restores
healthy conditions. Price $1.25 per
bottle. J. D. Smullen & Co., special
agents. Adv.
—-Louis M. Waterman.
Spinning a Yam.
An exchange tells this one:
You don’t know where Akra is. toay-
be you were like us, up to a moment
ago when we heard about it, imagin-
ed from the sound of the name it was
in Africa, or may be in Italy. Well,
is isn’t either on the continent or in
the country surmised, it is in North
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Dakota, and lies right on the Ci
dian line in the great sheep hen
belt, says the Portsmouth Times. In
size it isn’t much of a place, but for
it is today luminous as the banner
Red Cross town in the world.
When the war. broke out Akra form-
ed a Red Cross society and all the
women, married, marriageable, old
maids and girls that could ply a
needle worked. It wasn't long before
they ran out of yarn. Headquarters
couldn't supply them and committees
sent to Fargo and Bismark returned
with the sad word that no yarn was
to be had anywhere. Were the wo-
men and girls—let us not forget the
girls—dismayed by this condition, or
did they use it to take a "good rest?”
Not they. Immediately they called a
council of war to circumvent another
German machination. After due de-
liberation an order went forth to the
husbands and sweethearts that wool
must be had' or they would know the
reason why. Every man was ordered
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l to shear a sheep or oring in the clip-
ping of the average one to the society.
There were no traitors and no slack-
ers. The wool just rolled In. The
grandmothers got out their old spin-
ning wheels, spun the wool and the
production of sixty socks a day from
sheep to soldier went blithely on.
The women, God bless ’em, they
have their way because their will is
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Killing Two Birds.
So many accidents had happened
in the mines that a number of miners
determined to join the local ambu-
lance class. When one of their mates
happened to cut his finger or sprain
•^Siy, you hardly know her. What
has she done to you?”
“When I went in she said: ‘You sit
here for the present,’ and she never
brung it.”—Indianapolis News.
HENEY TO PURSUE “MEAT
TRUST” IN LONE STAR STATE
The Tidenstegn said the ^German
crnlsers were observed at six" o’clock
in the morning and were thought to be
British vessels, but at seven o’clock,
when there was more light, they sud-
denly began shooting and the convoy
was terrified to see the British de-
stroyer at the stern of the convoy be-
gin to sink, although It fought to the
end.
The German cruisers, after signaling :
the vessels to stop, advanced on each
side of the convoy, which they swept
with all their guns at a range of less
than two hundred yards.
The German destroyers came up and
helped to spread death and destruc-
tion on the defenseless ships, shells j
falling thick and fast The Germans
were not content to sink the ships, but j
shelled the lifeboats, and every living
thing coming their way was merci-
lessly slaughtered. The survivors
owed their lives to the high sea which
was running, making the boats a diffi-
cult mark.
In the midst of the massacre an-
other British destroyer came up and
Immediately attacked, but was soon
sunk In the unequal struggle. The Ger-
man flotilla then cruised backward and
forward along the sinking steamers,
pouring a fresh and terrible rain of
shells at a range of 100 yards.
One shell went through the Swedish
ship Wirndar, exploding in the life-
boat on the other side and killing all
Its occupants, fourteen men and three
women.
The other lifeboat rowed back to
rescue the captain and two waitresses
from the wreck. A shell struck the
boat and killed five of the occupants,
only the mate escaping by swimming.
The Wirndar was a mass of flames
and the two girls jumped Into the sea.
The captain was saved by clinging to
wreckage. As the two young women
were sinking an English ship hoisted
the white flag.
The answer of the Germans was a
shot which killed both girls. Twelve
men of another ship had just got Into
the lifeboat when a shell killed them
all.
Clothing
Choose your Clothes as
you choose your associates
—the kind that have a
known reputation for in-
tegrity and dependability.
“SOCIETY”
Brand Clothes
W’lt Stand the Test.
W. B. FLANAGAN
THE ONE ORICE CLOTHIER.
SOME CAMOUFLAGE
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Oar Want Ada are used by those
la aeed of something. Try them.
The Herald Want Ads are the re-
mit finders. Try one.
CASTOR ia
For Infaatrand Children
In Um For Over 30 Years
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Washington, D. C Dec. 28.—Fort
Worth is to be one of the places
where Francis J. Heney, special trust
investigator for the federal trade
emmission, will hold an investiga-
tion to prove that a mammoth food
trust, whose control extends not
only over the whole meat market,
but also poultry, eggs, lard products,
leather, animal feeds, grain and can-
ned vegetables and fruit exists.
Heney, who last Saturday showed
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what he declared was the complete-
ness of the meat monopoly through
the fact that every stock yard in
the United States is controlled by the
big Chicago packing triumvirate.
Armour & Co., Swift & Co., and
Morris & Co., has decided definitely
that a hearing will be held in Fort
Worth and members of the Texas
Cattle Raisers’ Association and the
Panhandle and Southwestern Stock-
men’s Association, given a chance to
testify.
From Texas has come some of the
bitterest complaints against the ex-
istence of a “meat trust.” These
complaints have charged that the
man who works the year around to
prepare beef for the market is at
the mercy of the packers. A hear-
ing is also certain to be held at
Wichita and Oklahoma City, and
there is a possibility that Amarillo
or Albuquerque may be visited.
Heney considers that Frederick
W. Croll, treasurer of Armour & Co., j -
gave some valuable information when Ente"te Force8 in Salonlki Virtually
Free of Disease, Say Health
he admitted that Armour & Co. had Authorities,
lareg interests in cotton seed oil mills
in Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee,
and that Armour and Swift were in-
terested in cattle trade papers in
Denver and Fort Worth.
Members of the federal trade com-
mission look upon the hearing to be
held at Fort Worth as of as much
importance as the one just held here
It Is likely to be held in January.
Th’ Sarg can be all peevish,
Or th’ Cap kick up a row,
But we forget them troubles
When the bugle blows for chow.
We got the greatest cookee
In all th’ camps I’ll vow,
Y’oughta see the way that
He can camouflage th’ cbow.
Tho’ beans is beans most anywhere.
You’d never know ’em now.
I’ll tell th’ world that prunes taste fine
When th’ boys line up for chow.
Sometimes a fellow’s homesick.
But It’s a wonder, how
It smothers all your worries
When th’ cookee hands out chow.
NEW TYPHOID SERUM FOUND
Automobile Experts
In Government Service
Great Lakes, 111., Dec. 28.—If your
garage cannot make immediate re-
pairs on your car these days, blame
the war, for Uncle Sam is taking the
best automobile mechanics of the
middle west to fill the world's largest
ground aviation school which is be-
ing established at Great Lakes Naval
Training Station. Recently the firs'
week of recruiting for machinists,
woodworkers, coppersmiths, black-
smiths and quartermasters ended with
the goal of 2000 almost reached.
Lieut. DeWitt C. Ramsey U. 3.
Navy, is in charge of the organiza-
tion of the school, co-operating with
Lee Hammond, lieutenant, junior
grade, of the reserve force who has
been at the head of the Great Lakes
flying corps since last spring. Re-
cruiting Is being handled by Boat-
swain (aviation), L. C. Fisher, chief
machinist's mate (aviation), L. C.
Pitzzer, machinist’s mate (aviation),
B. H. Heim, quartermaster (aviatig®)*. /
Chester Foust and Yeoman Morrow*.^.
Headquarters for this work
been established at room 41, Adsolil-
istration building, Great Lakes, where
applicants should appear for enlist-
ment.
There are vacancies for men who
have had experience with gasoline
motors and woodworkers, black-
smiths, coppersmiths and fabric work-
ers also are in demand. Men are en-
rolled in the United States Naval Re-
serve Force for the duration of the
war. Machinists are rated landsmen
for machinist’s mates 'fid paid $32.50
a month to start. This is the same
rate of pay as in the other branches.
The government makes an additional
allowance of $15 a month for married
men.
The school will be opened next
month and after preliminary course
every man will take an examination,
promotions to be made In commen-
suration with the ability shown by
the bluejacket There is no limit to
the rank to which a man can rise in
three months. Men liable to the next
draft should bring to Great Lakes a
statement from their exemption
boards that they have not been call-
ed and are not needed for the next
quota.
London.—It is announced that the
health and sanitary condition of the
entente forces in Saloniki are better
than ever before. There is no epi-
demic, no plagues and no typhoid.
In the suppression of typhoid use
has been made of a new serum based
on oil, which has given very satisfac-
tory results. A French army report
estimates that for the whole French
army the average number of typhoid
cases has been reduced to less than
thirty.
A Flue Fire.
A flue fire about 8 a. m. today
called the fire department to Swantx
street, in the southwestern part of
the city. No damage.
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Notice of Stockholders Meeting.
The annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the First National Bank of
Palestine, Texas, will be held on
Tuesday, January 8, 1918, for the pur-
pose of electing a board of directors
to serve during the current year.
C. L. Hufsmlth, Cashier.
12-5-1 m Adv.
Let the Herald job department
print your stationery—printing that la
classy and distinctive.
Estranged Forty Years.
Findley, Ont.—William A. Mellen,
aged sixty-nine, of Lima, and Miss Sa-
rah E. Rhodes, aged fifty-six, of this
city have been married here. They
were lovers 40 years ago, but became
estranged. In the meantime Mullen
had twice married. Miss Rhodes never
forgot her first love, and recently met
him for the first time since they part-
ad. Past differences were soon patched
up and proposal, acceptance and mar-
riage pood followed.
BLOOD POISONING
Hamlin’s Wizard Oil a Safe First M Treatwt
How often lockjaw and blood
poisoning result from the neglect
of a slight scratch or little cut! Ham-
lin’s Wizard Oil is a safe and effec-
tive first aid treatment. It is a pow-
erful antiseptic and should be ap-
plied immediately to wounds of this
kind to prevent danger of infection.
It is soothing and healing and
quickly drives out pain and inflam-
mation in cases of sprains, bruises,
cuts, burns, bites and stings. Just as
reliable, too, for stiff neck, sore feet,
cold sores, canker sores, earache and
toothache.
Get it from druggists for 30 cents.
If not satisfied return the bottle and
get your money back.
Ever constipated or have tick
headache? Just try Wizard Liver
Whips, pleasant little pink pilla, J$
cents. Guaranteed.
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Hamilton, W. M. & Hamilton, H. V. Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 16, No. 217, Ed. 1 Friday, December 28, 1917, newspaper, December 28, 1917; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1024814/m1/3/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palestine Public Library.