Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1917 Page: 5 of 6
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
PAGE FIVE
DQNNA NEWS ITEMS
John Pilkey is very seriously ill
with, pleurisy.
Alfred Lissner is on a. business trip
to Houston and Beaumont.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hooks are the
parents of a baby girl born yesterday
afternoon.
F. L. Hannum, J. S. Latch, Eltweed
Pomeroy and son, Eltweed, Jr., spent
Saturday in Brownsville.
John E. Norwood and O. J. Ander-
son with their families will leave Sat-
urday on an automobile trip to San
Antonio and other state points.
R. J. B. Lister who has conducted
a general mercantile business in Don-
na, for the past four years, has made
an assignment for the benefit of cred-
itors and the store was closed Tues-
day.
The many friends of R. P. Boeye,
who is undergoing treatment at the
Van Ormy Sanitarium near San An-
tonio, will regret to learn that his con-
dition is gradually growing worse and
hut small hopes are entertained for
his recovery. Mrs. Boeye left Tuesday
to be at his bedside.
Chas. Volz of Mission, known as the
“onion king’-’ of the Lower Valley, has
leaded the Harper plantation of 240
acres, one mile north of Donna, and
will plant it all in onions this fall.
This will be by far the largest single
acreage of onions in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley. B. H. Hooks and S. A.
Barnard are intersted with him in the
enterprise.
Minor Auto Accidents
W. M. Wilson, night watchman at
the ice plant, while clipping along at
about twenty miles an hour with two
companions in the car, struck an ob-
struction while approaching the bridge
over the arroyo, known as fueste,’ lost
a tire off his machine, skinned his
arm rather badly and bruised the face
of one of his companions. The acci-
dent was brought about by Mr. Wilson
trying to give the road to an approach
ing car and the brakes failed to work
when he tried to apply them. The car
was put out of commission and it was
necessary to get a horse and tow it
into town.
Miss Emmons, the young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Emmons, resid-
ing in the West End addition, ran her
car against a tree Tuesday afternoon
while trying to make a turn on West
Third street. The street at that place
is hardly more than a trail and there
was not room to make the turn which
she sought to do. The lady was not
injured. The car received some minor
damage.
Colonel Roosevelt, in his speech at
the reception to the Russion commis-
sioners, emphasized one of his points
by slapping Samuel Gompers on the
shoulder. Being near-sighted, prob-
ably the orator imagined he saw a
chip there.
Operators agree to lower prices.—
Headline. The question now being
how long it will take them to change
“lower” from a verb to an adjective.
A poor appetite is a good thing—
for the boarding housekeeper.
CORPUS
CHRISTI
And Return
$4.40
Tickets on sale
A
Fridays s Saturdays
good returning following Monday.
G. K. RIESS, Ticket Agent.
MEETING OF CITY COUNCL
Street Grading Ordered and Other
Matters Acted Upon
An unusually interesting meeting of
the city council was held Monday
night. Among the principal subjects
were discussed a cleaner Mercedes
and the decision to grade and provide
drainage for ten blocks of the city
west of Texas avenue was reached.
That the city council means to have
a cleaner city is evidenced by the fil-
ing of complaint againts one of our
citizens for failing to keep his prem-
ises clean. It was pointed out that the
Tribune had several times appealed
to the civic pride of the people to
attend to this matter, but the polite
requests had not met with the re-
sponse expected, and it was resolved
to now try the merit of court proceed-
ings and compel obedience to the ord-
inance covering the case.
The city is being inspected quietly
by the proper officers and complaints
against all delinquents with subse-
quent and vigorous prosecution will
follow.
The grading and drainage work con-
templates improvements to four blocks
on Second street, four blocks on Third
street and the cross streets. These
thoroughfares are to be crowned and
side drains provided. Work has al-
ready begun on this.
It was also decided to re-establish
the fee system so far as it relates to
compensating the city marshal for his
work. The city marshal has been re-
ceiving a regular salary of $50 per
month, but in the interest of economy
the city has decided to adopt or re-
adopt the fee system in this case, that
being the method when the town was
first incorporated.
Ben Brooks, Jr., was appointed fire
marshal for the city.
A number of bills were allowed.
Manager Cage of the Queen theater
announces his engagement of the first
Douglas Fairbanks picture to be pro-
duced for the Artcraft pictures corpo-
ration “In Again, Out Again.” Un-
doubtedly the most popular screen
star among the male contingent,
“Doug” Fairbanks immediately wins
the support of anyone who views his
work through sheer personality. The
scenes of the photoplay are located in
and about New Jersey and present a
story dealing with the romantic and
spectacular career of a young blood
who goes through many trials and tri-
bulations to win the girl of his choice,
portrayed in the typical Fairbanks
style. Strange to say this young man
finds it more difficult to keep in jail
than out of it, and many surprises are
evolved during the course of the
story. It is readily felt that this will
prove the greatest of all Fairbanks
triumphs on the screen.
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All things may come to a man who
waits—providing he has sense enough
to wait in the right place.
Some girls fish for husbands and
some buy them in the market.
AS AN AUTOMOBILE PURCHASER YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JUST SIX THINGS:
APPEARANCE, REPUTATION, DURABILITY, PERFORMANCE, SERVICE AND PRICE
APPEARANCE
REPUTATION
DURABILITY
PERFORMANCE
SERVICE
PRICE
The Oldsmobile Eight is as neat and trim as a deer. It is distinc-
tive in every line; it attracts attention everywhere. Its 17-coat
luster finish, beautiful trim and luxurious upholstery make it a car
you will be proud to own.
The name “Oldsmobile” in itself is a guarantee. The car is built by
a factory organization of trained men, many of them nineteen years
in Oldsmobile service, who have a knowledge only of the construc-
tion of a high-grade car. By reason of increased production and the
elimination of well known extravagances, over one hundred high-
grade automobiles are created daily under the same rigorous stan-
dards and inspection which have always been associated with the
name “Oldsmobile.” Where else, indeed, would one look for a car
enjoying the continuous favorable reputation accorded the Olds-
mobile?
The same high standard of material and workmanship exacted
through all these years of quality building enter into the Oldsmo-
bile Eight.. Oldsmobile reputation is a. veritable bond to you for
honest product and durability. Its prestige is built on years of
creditable road operation.
Remarkable flexibility, fascinating smoothness of overlapping power
impulses, abundance of reserve power, rapid acceleration from
snail’s pace to limited’s speed, freedom from vibration—all charac-
teristic eight cylinder construction—are perfected to highest de-
gree. The comfort of the car is a revelation; the resiliency of the
springs and Marshall cushion comfort upholstery contribute riding
qualities unknown in cars of the same price class.
A twelve months’ guarantee is back of each Oldsmobile. Service sta-
tions will be found everywhere. The accessibility of the eight-
cylinder motor enables quick access to working parts and at a
minimum expense. Likewise all mechanical units are readily get-
at-able.
Not several thousands or some other prohibitive amount, as demand-
ed for most cars of its quality class, but simply $1,467, f.o.b. Lansing
OLDS MOTOR WORKS
LANSING, JVIICHIG iN
• - Established 1880 Incorporated 1899
HENRY S. EVANS
Box 495 Mercedes, Texas
19th Year
MILITARY NEWS ITEMS
Wednesday was payday at the camp,
the disbursement totalling something
like $32,000.
Captain Lawrence W. Kessler of the
quartermaster officers’ reserve corps,
Fort Sam Houston, has been assigned.
to duty here as quartermaster of this'
station.
Colonel Anderson, ranking officer
here, left Monday for Fort Bliss (El
Paso). He is succeeded here by Major
Kirkpatrick as commander of the regi-
ment and post.
The Sixteenth cavalry band has re-
turned from a protracted visit to
Brownsville, where it has been sup-
plying music at district headquarters,
and announcement is made that it will
resume its semi-weekly concerts here,
playing at the city park Wednesday
and Sunday nights.
Captain Reynolds, commander of
the supply troop, has been detailed as
aide on the staff of General Morton,
formerly commander of the Browns-
ville district, but now in Syracuse,
New York. Captain Reynolds expects
to leave tomorrow to join the general.
Captain Reynolds will be succeeded
here as; quartermaster supply officer
by First Lieutenant Edmond De T. El-
lis, formerly commanding troop I,
Sixteenth cavalry, at Fort Ringgold.
There is a wide belief among civil-
ians as well as military men,_. that
General Blocksom will be placed in
command of the Brownsville district,
General Morton having been assigned
to other duty. The belief seems to be
well founded because just at the pre-
sent time it appears there is no other
officer of the rank of general
available for the work. JShould
the belief prove true, it will be an es-
pecially fortuitous realization, for as
colonel of the Third cavalry, General
Blocksom spent several years on this
section of the border, many months in
Mercedes, and throughout the district
warmest of friendship among all clas-
ses was established and still exists.
He will receive a royal welcome
should he be returned.
Captain Evensberg Marries
Captain Eugene Evensberg, L. com-
pany, Second Texas, stationed at Mer-
cedes, was married yesterday at Bren-
ham to Miss Edna Buck of that city.
Both are members of prominent fami-
lies of that section of the state.
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NO PASSPORTS FOR WIVES
OF OFFICERS IN EUROPE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The war de-
partment is going to ask the state de-
partment not to issue passports to
wives and other female relatives of
officers and other soldiers at the front.
With the crossing of the sea by
Pershing’s expedition the war depart-
ment was bombarded with petitions
by the wives, mothers and sweethearts
of the men for information as to how
best to proceed to be near them In
France. Many hoped to live in Paris
so that their menfolk could visit them
while on leave from the trenches.
The war department made it plain
that it disapproves of this practice and
will do everything possible to prevent
it. No person can enter any of the
warring countries without passports
to identify him and the state depart-
ment will be asked not to issue pass-
ports to persons merely going abroad
to be near the troops.
The same thing will apply to the
national guard and draft forces when
they go to France.
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MERCEDES FIRST BALE
(Continued from page 1)
ing from 60 to 75% of the prices cur-
rent a year ago. Dome'stic cotton
goods rule very firm. Gray cloths for
printing and converting showed a
slight easing in price.
Prints and percales rule very firm.
Bleached cottons are unchanged in
tone. Ginghams of all kinds are very
firm. Prices quoted at the week-end
were as follows: Print cloths, 28-inch
digo, 27V2; tickings, 8-oz., 35c; prints,
64x64s, 11c; brown sheetings, South-
ern standards, 16c; denims, 22-oz. in-
digo, 27y2; ticings, 8-oz., 35c; prints,
10c; staple ginghams, 13c; dress ging-
hams, 15Y2s.
Compress Makes Cotton
Bales Smaller
By compressing cotton bales to a
far greater density than has been com-
mon heretofore, it is now possible to
increase by nearly 50% the capacity
of freight cars, warehouses and steam-
ships as regards cotton.
A powerful press of a new type, de-
scribed and pictured in the July Pop-
ular Mechanics Magazine, has shown
during recent tests in New Orleans’
huge new warehouse that it can easily
compress cotton bales to a desity of
34 pounds per cubic foot, whereas
with the older process 20 to 22 pounds
per cubic foot was the limit.
The new equipment is said to be
capable of increasing the density to
as much as fifty pounds.
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VAGRANTS MADE TO PROYE UP
Authorities in West Virginia Insist
That Every Man Serve Nation in
Gainful Occupation
CHARLESTON, W. Va.—As a war
measure, West Virginia is demanding
that all her male residents between
the ages of 16 and 60 years of age
make theipselves of service to the state
and nation by engaging in some gain-
ful occupation, and is emphasizing
this demand by rigid enforcement of
the new state vagrancy act. ,
Twelve men charged with violating
this law began serving thirty-day jail
sentences and are to pay fines of $50
each. While other convictions have
been reported from various parts of
thte state, these sentences are the most
severe yet imposed.
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A Galveston widow says that the
latest proposal she has had was from
a beach rubberneck, who said he had
admired her ever since he noticed how
inexpensively she dressed for the
water.
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Corn is hound to be high at harvest |
as the wheat crop will be short 1
We have on hand a good stock of I
MEXICAN JUNE SEED CORN I
Hampers and 1-3 bushel boxes \
for beans.
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Rio Grande Grain Co.
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RULES THE LAW IS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Holds Tliat Attempt Was Made by
Legislature to Employ Other Than
Proper Officials
AUSTIN, Texas.—The attorney gen-
eral’s department, in an opinion given
Controller Terrel, held that chapter
166, acts of the thirty-fifth legislature,
relating to the collection of inheri-
tance taxes, is unconstitutional and
void for the reason that it is an at-
tempt on the part of the legislature to
authorize the controller to employ
some person other than the officials
designated by the constitution to sue
for and collect taxes due the state.
The opinion holds that the constitu-
tion makes the attorney general and
the county and district attorneys the
exclusive representatives of the state
in the courts of the state, and that the
act in question has for its primary
purpose the appointment by the con-
troller of persons to represent the
state in suits for the collection of in-
heritance taxes other than the offi-
cials designated by the constitution,
and is therefore unconstitutional 'and
void.
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CHINESE EMPEROR ABDICATES
Dispatch Goes to London From Pekin
Announcing Withdrawal of Hsuan
Tung* Young Ruler
LONDON.—A Reuters Limited dis-
patch from Pekin announces ...that
Hsuan Tung, the young emperor, has
abdicated.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—The young
emperor of China, Hsuan Tung, has
been marked for death by military
leaders of the republic’s forces, ac-
cording to cable advices received here
by the Chinesee Nationalist League.
The troops of the monarchy are re-
treating, closely pursued by the repub-
lican army, the report stated. Sun Fo,
son of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first president
of the Chinese republic, has arrived in
San Francisco, presumably on his way
to China to take part in the fight for
the preservation of the democracy.
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TEXAS STANDARDIZATION
LAW NOW IN EFFECT
AUSTIN, Texas.—The new Texas
law providing for the standardization
of fruits and vegetable shipments for
markets went into effect last week. It
provides for standard containers and
grades and pack and prescribes the
dimensions and cubical contents of
such containers and requires the ma-
nufacturers of such containers to con-
form to the standards prescribed.
The standard bushel basket, it says,
shall contain not less than 2.150.4
cubic inches. It also fixes the dimen-
sions of the standard four-basket
crate. The standard folding onion
crate, it says, shall not be less than
19% inches long, 11 3/16 inches wide
and 9 13/16 inches deep with inside
measurement not less than 2,150.4
cubic inches.
In fact, it deals with all manner of
fruit and vegetable crates known to
the produce trade and fixes a penalty
for a violation of the law, describes
the packages and arrangements for
pack, giving illustrations.
The new law will require a great
many employes to make it applicable
and as a result the) state department
of agriculture is receiving many appli-
cants from truck growing districts
for appointments as inspectors.
Standard Apple
Law in California
SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The “stand-
ard apple act,” which supersedes the
law of 1915 governing the packing of
apples becomes effective in California
this month. It will be a law in time
to apply to the shipment of the big
bulk of the apple crop in California
from the Sonoma and Santa Cruz
county regions.
A porter in an Atchison (Topeka)
barber shop predicts confidently that
the war will not last longer than two
weeks. He says his brother has en-
listed and he never held a job longer
than two weeks in his life.
An unusually drastic gag has been
put on the German press by the gov-
ernment, indicating the presence of
considerable news unpalatable to the
Wilhelmstrasse and not considered as
good for the people to take on an emp-
ty stomach.
Classified
Make your wants known in this
column. 1 cent a word—
Cash in advance.
FOR SALE ~
HORSE, BUGGY AND HARNESS, HORSE
absolutely safe for women or children; five-
passenger Ford car. W. C. Deke, Mercedes,
Texas. ' s21-2tp
NEW RHODES GRASS HAY, CARRYING A
full crop of seed. $15 per ton at barn.
Marioiv A. Moore, LaFeria, Tex. s21-5tp
AT A BARGAIN No. 2 JOLIET SHELLER
and traction engine. Ready for use. Apply
to T. H. Poag, Mercedes, Texas. s21-lt
JERSEY COWS, FRESH IN MILK. APPL"Y~
T. H. Poag, Mercedes.___s21-lt
WANTED—TO BUY OR RENT
ABOUT FIVE ACRES CULTIVATED LAND
with house, close in ; must be cheap and on
reasonable terms. Particulars state fully.
Address P, O. Box 345, Mercedes.
WANTED
IF YOU HAVE LAND FOR SALE UNDER
the Mercedes canal, give me your best price
and terms. Mr. Merchant, 408 Gumbel Bldg.,
Kansas City, Mo.__w21-tf
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
FOUR HEIFERS, ONE DAIN HAY ȣlER
perfect condition. Ben OldemeyyY/ Merce-
des, Texas._ y sx21-2tp
HARLINGEN MILL I S/REST ROYED
Plant Tallied a|^05O,OOO Is Complete
Loss—No Insurance Carried
H4RLJNGEN, Texas. — The Hill
sug'ar mill, valued at $250,000, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire.
■When the blaze was discovered it
had entirely circled the frame struct-
ure and though there was but little
wind, a large number of men worked
desperately but with no avail in arj.
effort to save it.
When it was seen that it would be
impossible to save the structure, or
even a part of it, the work of the vol-
unteer firemen was directed to confin-
ing the flames to the burning building.
These efforts were more successful, as
the Lon C. Hill residence close by was
not damaged.
The building was a complete loss.,
as no insurance was carried.
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W IFE SAYS HUSBAND HAS NO
CLAIM FOR DRAFT EXEMPTION
ALBANY, N. Y.—Not all women in
New York state want their hubbies
kept off the fifing -line. Mrs. Mildred
I. Mount, postmaster of Olcott, Nia-
gara county, doesn’t, for one.
The adjutant general’s office has-re—
ceived a communication from Mrs.
Mount, in which she takes issue with
her husband, Harry Blosser Mount, on
the matter of dependency.
Postmaster Mount declares that her
husband registered on June 5 and
claimed exemption from military ser-
vice on the gifounds that he was an
assistant postmaster in the service of
his wife. This, according to Mrs.
Mount, doesn’t jibe with the facts. Her
husband, according to> the letter, has
been employed on the International
railway for about two months prior
to registration and had in no way as-
sisted her in the! office.
“I am perfectly capable of caring for
my two children and myself,” the post-
master wrote, and, to clinch the case,
adding, “and am in no way dependent
upon him.”
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NEW YORK’S LAST HORSE CAR
GONE FROM AYENUE C
NEW YORK.—Well, another poke
has been stripped from the decreas-
ing stock of the vaudeville comedians.
Noi longer will they be able to relate
the yarn about horse cars in New
York. The reason is simple. There
are no horse cars in Manhattan any
more. \
This is positive. Also absolute. Like
wise final. The last doddering relic
in which horse and car supported each
other along the weary path from Ave-
nue C along Chambers street, has
gone. Storage battery cars have re-
placed them, and although they lack
the fragrance of the stable, they are
acceptable 'despite the fact that they
travel a trifle quicker.
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Great Britain will be finished in two
months, according to a German ad-
miral. This is a generous extension.
The time was up June 1.
Secretary Baker says we can win
the war up in the air and congress
seems to think so.
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