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DONNA, TEXAS
We Want Your Business
I WITH OUR CHURCHE& |
Catholic Church Notice
Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Masses at
7 and 10 a.m.; Rosary and benediction at
7:30 p.m. every Sunday. Oblate Fathers.
Methodist Church Notice
Sunday sehool every Sunday at 9:45 a.m.;
preaching service morning and evening on the
second and fourth Sundays of each month;
Epworth league every Sunday at 7 p.m. You
are cordially invited to meet with us.
Baptist Church
Preaching at 11 a.m. and 8:15 p.m.; Sun-
day school, 9:45 a.m.; Sunbeams, 5 p.m.;
-J~ Junior B. Y. P. U., 6 p.m.; Senior B. Y. P.
U., 7 p.m.; prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening at 8 p.m. A cordial Invitation is ex-
tended to all to attend these services.
La Primera Iglesia Bautista de Mercedes
Preaching every third Sunday and every
Thursday night by Rev. George B. Mlxlm of
Brownsville. Sunday sehool every Sabbath at
9:35 a.m. The publie generally Is cordially
invited to attend all services.
L. S. ISSUES REVIEW OF I of devastated Poland comprehends
“GERMAN WAR PRACTICES” | foe monstrous woes inflicted by the
Prussian systfem upon those defence-
Some of the blackest pages in all I le®s Pe°Ple-
history, comprising a documentary a statement prepared for the
record of “deeds that make one de- boo^> Vernon Kellog said: “I went
spair of the future of the human Belgium and occupied Fran6e a
race,” are found in a book named neutral, and I maintained while there
German War Practices,” which has a steadfastly neutral behavior, but
just been issued at the government ^ came out no neutral. ... I
printing office by the committee on werd in also a hater of war, but I
public information for free distribu- came out a more ardent hater of
tion. It is edited by Prof. D. C.'war; but’ also 1 came out with in
“GIVE FARM TO EACH
SOLDIER AFTER WAR.”
U. S. Senator Harding’s Plan to Fill
“Greatest Need of the Nation.”
Munro, of Princeton, and other schol- | eradicable conviction, again, that the
only way in which Germany under
The dumbfounding evidence which
this book presents to the jury of
mankind is drawn mainly from Ger-
[ its present rule and its present state
of mind can be kept from doing
what it has done is by force of
man and American sources, and in- arms-
eludes official proclamations and ut-
terances of the responsible heads of
The book gives excerpts from the
diaries of German soldiers of which
Evangelical Lutheran Church
“I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let
us go into the house of the Lord.’ ” Ps. 122, 1.
Services: German, every Sunday morning at
10 o’cloek; English, seeond Sunday of every
month at 7:30 p.m.; parochial dally sehool:
Religion and German taught In addition to
the usual subjects, no tuition fee. Bible class:
Adult English, seeond Wednesday and last
Sunday of every month at 8 p.m.; ladies’ aid,
first Sunday of every month. Paul G. Blrk-
mann, pastor.
German Lntheran Ebeneser Church
Remember all Germans that we hold ser-
vices every Sunday at 10 o’clock a.m. Every-
body welcome. J. Herslg, pastor.
Presbyterian Church.
Mid-week prayer meeting on Wed-
nesday night at 7:30 p. m.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Morning service every Sunday at
11 a. m. and evening worship at 7:30.
The pastor Rev. Jas. T. Pharr will
jach at these services.
meeting of the Young People’s
night at 6:45 p. m.
ildiers and strangers
hearty invitation to
lip at this church.
snic Lodge
-No. 1010, A. F. & A. M.,
E fourth Tuesday nights at
kg Masons cordially invited
JOHN LANGE, W. M.
T. J. FIKES, Secretary
NOTICE.
of directors of Donna
)istrict, Hidalgo County
Pat its meeting to be held
Ice in Donna, Texas, on
21, 1917, receive bids on
ion of laterals for its irri-
I’stem, including about 150,-
fc yards of earth work, 100
Jirds of concrete work, (gates
leek gates), and 100 acres of
rinsr and grubbing, and for con-
ation of other irrigation works,
?er report, plans and specifica-
Pns of its engineer on file in its
pice, of which a copy will be lur-
ched to any intending bidder, at
fee of $5.00.
[Bids must be in writing, sealed and
|led with the secretary of the board
Bfore 2 p . m. of said date, and
lust be accompanied by certified
peck, drawn to order of the presi-
[ent, for five per cent of the bid, to
forfeited to the district if the
Ider should refuse to carry his
1; if accepted, into proper construc-
bn contract, otherwise to be return-
to bidder.
The district and said board re-
serve the right to reject any or all
bidsi at the sole discretion of the
board.
Payment will be made to the con-
tractor in bonds of the district.
Done at Donna, Texas, November
22, 1917.
G. B MERIWETHER,
|Attest> President.
W. N. Baker,
Secretary._ 41-4t
the imperial German government, let- these are specimens: ^ “In the night
ters and diaries of German soldiers, August 18-19 the village of Saint
quotations from German newspapers, Mauriee was punished for having
and material drawn from the archives Gred on German soldiers by being
of the state department which lay burnt to the ground by the German
bare' the story of inconceivable Ger- troops. . . . The village was
man atrocities. surrounded, men posted about a yard
The purpose of the book is to show trom one another, so that no one
that the system of frightfulness, it- c.ould 8et out. Then the Uhlans set
self the greatest atrocity, is the de- fire to house by house; neither man,
finite policy of the German govern- woman or cbild could escape; only
ment, so sinister that German sol-1 ^be greater part of the live stock
diers have themselves at times re- we carried off, as that could be used
volted. Individual acts of wanton Any one who ventured to come out
cruelty and barbaric destruction are I was shot down. All the inhabitants
cited only to illustrate the operation ^be village were burnt with
of the remorseless system. the houses.
The book supplements the Bryce A horrible bath of blood. The
report which was the first official whole village burnt, the French
survey of the path of horror, ruin, thrown into the blazing houses, civil-
and death left by the German army *ans with the rest,
on the land of innocent and defence- Tliat the rei&n of frightfulness
less people. The book is supplemen- was the definite policy of the Ger-
tary also to the official reports by maa government is testified to by
the Belgian commission and the an amazing collection of documents
French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and utterances Qf German official-
and it reaveals more of the damn- dom- Herewith are excerpts from
ing German war philosophy as ex- documentary proof furnished by Ger-
pressed in the German white book man records establishing the truth
and various official utterances, ex- heyond question
tenuating revolting crimes on the . As soon as you come to blows
grounds of expendiency and the ad- with the enemy he will be beaten,
vancement of that “kultur” which No mercy will be shown! No pris-
now mocks its own name throughout oners be taken! As the Huns,
the civilized world. The humanity under Kin« Attila, made a name for
of German soldiers was so torn by I themselves, which is still mighty
the system of brutality that they in traditions and legends today, may
cried out in letters to Ambassador tbe. name of Germany be so fixed in
Gerard, one expressing his protest China by your deeds, that no Chi-
against the slaughter of the Rus- nese sba11 ever again dare to look
sians in the Masurian lakes and a^ a German askance. . . . Open
swamps by saying, “There is no God, tbe way for. kultur once for all.
there is no morality, and no ethics ^rom the kaiser’s speech to the sol-
any more; there are no human be- d*ers °.n the eve °f their departure
mgs any more, but only beasts.” • China in 1900.
The illuminating reports of Brand “Whenever a national war breaks
Whitlock, minister of Belgium, tell °Ht’. terrorism becomes a necessary
of miseries inflicted upon the Bel- I military principle.” — General Von
gian people, Mr. Whitlock saying
“One is so overwhelmed with the
horror of the thing itself, that it has
been, and even now is, difficult to
write calmly and justly about it.
Hartmann.
“The city of Brussels, exclusive of
its suburbs, has been punished by
an additional fine of 5,000,000 francs
on account of the attack made upon
Herbert Hoover, writing for this a Germau soldier by Ryckere, one of
book of his experiences in Belgium, police officials.” Baron Von
says: “The sight of the destroyed Laettwitz’ governor of Brussels,
homes and cities, the widowed and Z*1 am Bursty; bring me some beer,
fatherless, the destitute, the physical g*n> rum-” “If you lie to me I will
misery of the people but partially bave you sbot immediately.”—These
nourished at best, the deportation Qf sentences are taken from a phrase-
men by tens of thousands to slavery book supplied to German soldiers,
in German mines and factories, the | according to Minister Brand Whit-
execution of men and women for
The Swedish minister, departing
from Buenos Aires, “did not make the
customary farewells.” An exchange
of insincere compliments would have
been embarrassing to both sides.
paltry effusions of their loyalty to
their country, the sacking of every
resource through financial robbery,
the fattening of armies on the slen-
der produce of the country, the
denudation of the country of cattle,
horses, and textiles; all these things
we had to witness, dumb to help
other than by protest and sympathy,
during this long and terrible time,
and still these are not the events of
battle heat, but the effects of
lock.
“One cannot make war in a senti-
mental fashion. The more pitiless
the conduct of the war, the more
humane it is in reality, for it will
run its course all the sooner.”—
General Von Bernhardi.
The innocent must suffer with the
guitly. . . . All this must not
in our eyes weigh as much as the
life of a single one of our brave
soldifers—the righteous accomplish-
ment of duty is the emanation of a
grinding heel of a race demanding bigb kultur, and in that the popula-
the mastership of the world. All tion of the enemy countries can learn
these things are known to the world a lesso.n .from our armies.”—General
—but what can never be known is Bissing.
the dumb agony of the people, the How to get the book:
expressionless faces of millions Address: Committee on Public In-
whose souls have passed the whole formation’ 10 Jackson Place, Wash
gamut of emotions. And why? Be- in&ton> D. C.
cause these, a free and democratic' ReQuest one copy of German War
people, dared plunge their bodies be-
fore the march of autocracy.
Frederick C. Walcott’s description
Practices.
Dr. Frank E. Osborn
Proprietor
C. D. Moody
Manager
THE
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J* soldier friends with a Xmas
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we have.
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On All Kinds of Work.
DONNA and MISSION, - TEXAS
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A Regular Take-Off.
* War calls for sacrifices. Think
what it must have cost John Philip
Sousa to unwhisker himself.
Warren G. Harding of Ohio, one
of the Republican leaders in the
United States has come out in favor
of a conversion of swords into plow-
shares when the war has run its
course and the American soldiers re-
turn to peaceful pursuits.
That every United States soldier
when he returns from the war should
be given an opportunity to become
an owner of a farm was urged by
Senator Harding in an interview on
his return to Washington. The Ohio
senator advocated that the distribu-
tion of land to the veterans he part
of a general plan to convert the
maximum number of citizens into
productive farmers. The senator
said:
“Every thoughtful man realizes
that the proper distribution of the
land is the very basis of national
well-being. The land should, so far
as possible, be in the possession and
ownership of the men who work
it. A nation of owners of small
farms which support sturdy families
is the ideal. The magnificence of
France when the supreme test came,
has been due largely to the sturdy
folk of her farms. These were the
people who paid the price of the
loss of the Franco-Prussian war. But
for the solution of the land question
and its partition into small divisions
in the ownership of the people,
France probably would have ceased
to exist before this.
The weakness of England, the ina-
bility of that nation to feed her-
self in the present crisis, the internal
unrest, the growing masses of the
independent classes, the “Hooligans”
of slums of London, have been ad-
mittedly caused by the ownership of
the land by the few.
“In the United States the drift of
the people to the cities, the drift of
the farms into operation by tenant
farmers, into ownership in large
acreage by absent landlords, has been
recognized as a dangerous tendency
of the times. The stress has not
been such in the past that action
has been forced. The man on the
street will appreciate his rights more
clearly and will be more ready to
demand them. Among his most prob-
able demands will be his right to
the land. The quicker and stronger
he makes that demand the better for
the nation.
The situation in the United States
today is about this: Vast quantities
of good farming land near the best
markets in the world are not culti-
vated. In New England there are
30.000. 000 acres of unused land that
might be growing crops. There are
35.000. 000 acres in the middle states
that might be farmed, but which are
lying idle. In the Pacific coast states
there are 180,000,000 acres of unused
but usable land. In all 500,000,000
acres or thereabouts are lying idle,
to say nothing of that which is in-
adequately farmed. This would make
five-acre farms for a million fami-
lies and this little-farm life is the
greatest need of the nation.
“When the 2,000,000 men to be
trained for the war come out of the
ranks there will be an unparalleled
opportunity to work out this scheme
on a wholesome basis. Not every
one, possible not 25 per cent, would
want to go on a farm, but 25 per
cent would be 500,000 farmers, 500,000
farmhouses for the future, where
there were none before. If only 10
per cent wanted to go on farms there
would be 200,000 farm homes estab
lished. This would be no mean as-
set to the nation.
“In the meantime, the experiment
might be tried of placing the depend-
ents of soldiers on the little farms.
The mained soldiers who will soon he
returning must be placed on the
way toward being made self-support-
ing, and these, wherever possible
should be sent to the farms.
“As a war measure a beginning
should be made upon this great task
of the nation.”
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Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Call British Tanks "Willlea”
During the summer of 1916 ah en-
emy agent, trying to tap the wires in
England might have been mystified
to pick up such messages as: “Twelve
Willies reach you today,” or “Send
!tails for six females,” writes Col. E.
;D. Swinton in the World’s Work,
“Willie,” a pet cognomen adopted as
[suitable for the telephone and obviat-
ing the use of a code for telegrams,
was suggested by the fact that the
first experimental “Landship” com-
pleted, though equally malevolent, waa
smaller and less powerful for evil than
Its immediate successor, eventually
the type adopted. When'1 the two crea-
tures were togther they gave the ludi-
crous impression of being child and
parent of a monstrous and evil brood.
Hence, naturally, “Little Willie” and
!“Big Willie.” The “Big Willies” were
also somewhat unbiologically classi-
fied as males and females, according
to their armament. Incidentally, to
help to conceal the destination of the
’tanks at the stage when any illusion
!as to their purpose was precluded,
.they were painted with the inscription,
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“Y. M. C. A. Wants 400 Men.”—
Headline. They also will enlist to
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Sleepers on Nos. 3 and 4 between San Antonio and Corpus Christi
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6:45 p.m. Kingsville 9:40 a.m.
9:45 p.m. Harlingen 6:25 a.m.
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1917, newspaper, December 14, 1917; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1062752/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.