The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 24, 1918 Page: 4 of 6
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*FJie Ffatonia Argu
Published by the Flatonia Printing
Company
HENRY HUKR. Editor
NOTICE—All advertising will be run
and charged for until ordered discontin-
ued
Telephone 57
PRICE:
$1.60 A YEAR
This plant ia insured in the Printers
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arc nrfccd i rite to the fcamp
Puh’iejty eifice at Camp Travis,
giving a description of the va-
riety for gift and how much can
be seaurCd. Instructions for
shipjnent then will be sent.
When, bristling with bayonets
the khaki-clad Cactus Division
goes dashing into action, beside
the Stars and Stripes will float
a banner bearing the counter-
part of the suggestive Texas
cactus and the significant motto
“NOLLE ME TANGERE.”
Ami it will not take an advanc-
ed student of Latin to translate
this motto into its English eqiu-
valent—^‘Touch nre not.” . Like
the -‘Cactrts” 'designation for
the 18th Division, this motto
has been selected by Brig. Gen.
George H. Estes. General Estes
also proposes that the division
shall have its individual march-
ing song.
Public Dumping Ground*
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.'Commissioner R. C. Foitik
complains that people are using
the public highways in some
Buy War Sav- parts of the Beat for- dumping
rubbish and refuse. The ac-
cumulation of unsightly trash
Special—Dallas, Texas, Oct, piles which .afford excellent
19.—W. F. Skillman of Dallas, places for the breeding of in-
chairman of the Texas Finance sects and disease germs is not
Committee of the National I)em -only injurious to the appear-
ocratic Congressional campalign ance of our town in its ap-
this year, today announced the proaches, but is also very un-
appointment of chairmen for sanitary and dangerous to the
niany counties .in the State to health of the community
assist him in raising the $2f>,Q00 The city maintains what is
the party headquarters in New known as the “bone yard” for
York a few days ago called for. the dumping o'ftrajjh and refuse
through Gov. Hobby, as Texas’ A still better way to dispose
quota to help keep a Democrat- offt refuse as tin cans, glass
ic majority in Congress recepaeles, etc., is to bury them
If there was’ever a time when A shallot trench is sufficient to
the President’s hands should be | permit of these articles being
upheld, it is now,” said Mr. covered thoroughly, and the
Skillmam “It is vital to the danger of germ and insect
welfare of the* Nation that the breeding is removed.
Republicans be kept from gain- A little care will pay big div-
ing a majority in Congress; and idends. ■ ;
* * * This paper has enlisted
1 with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war...... *
Oct. 24-31 has been designtp-
ed as WSS Pay Pledge Week,
and all are asked to make a
special effort to pay their WSS
.pledges this week- whether they
are due or hot.
ings Stamps.'
must feel tempted to laugh. was dp,wn at the station today
And yet, for us in progressive and renewed my allotment to
America, the process is not one begin with September and to
of waste. Oui* young men will run for the rest of my enlist-
! return from France with a de- ment, and also bought another
<s veloped efficiency heretofore un- bunch of clothes that 1 need
'dreamed of. now. So 1 will let the chief
Have you ever read figurest busyness go for another trip and
giving details of the system of save nioney as it takes a lot
piping that carries water to the ^et UJ1 outfit,
battle-front? As the front1 Well, I will quit filling you up
changes the system changes, and
the new formations can never be
foreseen.* Here are problems
which our young engineers learn
to solve with a speed and pre-
cision never developed in time of
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Democratic headquarters sev-
eral days ahead of that time.
Therefore I request that the
people of Texas contribute this
at once.”
Remittances should be made
through county chairmen or di-
rect to W. F. .Skillman-, Chair-
man, care First State Bank, Dal
las, Texas.,
Mr. L. D. Brown of LaGrang,e
is chairman for Fayette'County
The Lone Stars Lead
on * his bayonet for tffff r_
French Tront today in a charge
against the GeriTian. trench.)
Above the fields of Picardy,
Behold another star,
Texas, the banqer Democratic
State, will, I*am sure, da. her
doubtful State's. ‘
■’"We-have been asked for only
|25,000. November fifth, elec-
tion day, will soon be hcre-and
.Jti. 4^1Uiv» th»t I
amount stated into National Acr(i88 the trencbes 8car^
And David Crockett’s spirit
rides
With Henry of Navarre.
Bright shines that star for sunny
France
O’er faces worn and wi n.
To blaze a Starry Banner’s * way
Across an ocean’s span —
And David Crockett’s spirit
rides
Besides the white Joan.
The Lone Star of the Alamo
Shines.o’er a fight again;
It glistens on a gory field
Amid the leaden rain —
And David Crockett’s spirit
rides
With that of Charlemagne.
And brighter stars in glory borne
Shall sweep across the sea
To follow in the Lone Star’s lead
The pathway of the free—
And David Crockett’s- spirit
rides
With that of Liberty.
(Contributed by Pvt. Wm. W
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Do You Think There is
No Competition?
If anyone thinks there is no competition amongst
the b*g packers he ought to go through a day's
work.with Swift St Company.
Ut him begin at. the pens when the live stock
comes in; let him try to buy a nice bunch of fat
steers quietly and at his own price without some-
body’* bidding against him.
Let him realize th4 scrupulous care taken at the
plant that not one thing is lost or wasted in order
that costs may be held to a minimum.
Let him go up into the office where market
reports are coming in,—and reports of what other
concerns are doing.
Let him watch the director of the Swift Refrig-
erator fleet, maneuvering it over tf^e face of the
country like a fleet,of battleships at sea.
Let him take a trip with ? Swift & •Company
salesman and try to sell a few orders of meat.
Let him stay at’"a branch house for ah hour
or two and see the retail meat dealers drive their
bargains to the last penny as they shop around
necessary.
Do you know that armored
tanks charge into battle with,
telephone wires laid out to keep
them in touch with the main
with my troubles and talk about
something else. I received the
birthday card. I had forgotten
all a'bout my birthday and
didn’t know whint the e?rd was
until I turned it around and
peace, because they were un-*saw “birthday, greetings” on
the other side. I was some-
where in mid ocean on the 22nd
but remembered it that day. I
figured up that day that I was
22 years old on the 22nd day
command? Field batteries alec, ° the "°"th “nd had exactl>'
manoeuvre without failing to Ket \f "!"nth,9 to.9er'„e m *h» N?v-v;
answer. to -'Hello. Central.'. ‘’J off °n the ,fnd
In scores of other way. yonnlr L -,rac,f. Kow lbal for c0.
Americans m France dadyj>-1 incidence? Do von realize that
chteve the .impossible. The;, wiJI „nl baV one m„rL, blrth.
fruits of them exnenence w,II be (lav ,,, 8pcmi in this Navy?
reaped in America— here in Fla- [ Tjme certainly flies, and soon
ton,a— when peace ,a declared. ,, wln b(, tbrml|,h „itb mv e.n
Many, peaceful trades are*! Hstment I hope the wards over
dangerous. „ 1 he half-built sky- by then and that I don’t bave^
scraper, the railroad, the ma-^ny liad luck like our gunner’s*
chine shop daily make work forlmate had the' othfer >day. He
the surgeon; but in half a cen- was to be paid off from his first
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tury surgery would never have
made the' strides that it has made
in four years of war. Even the
telephone wire is now used to. lo-
cate an internal wounds and this
is^only one of thousands of ex-
pedients lately devised for re-
lieving humafl pain.
Letter from Adolph Tauch
Norfolk, Va.
Sept, 4th, 1918 will-wait several days more be-
enlistment on the ninthtoi this
month, and Friday evening he
.fell down our after hatch into
the hold. He fell about thirty
feet and fractured his skull,
they think, and his elbow and
also some ribs. He -might be
hurt internally/too for all I
know as I haven’t seen him
since Saturday when I was at
the hospital. They wouldn’t
let us talk to' him much so I
fore going to see him agyin. All
that saved him from 'getting
Camp Publicity Office
Camp Travis, Texas-
October 18, 1918.
Camp Travis, Texas, Oocober,
—Offering a chance to gratify
patriotism, sentiment and ser-
vice in one act, Brigadier Gen.
George H. Estes, commanding
officer of the Cactup Division,
has issued a request for cactus
plants to be utilized as symbols
and in beautifying the grounds
of the great army cantonment
at Camp Travis, Texas- where
the division is now training.
In furtherance of the cactus
idea, General Estes is planning
to haye Camp Travis decorated
throughout with the native herb
age. 'Walks are to be bordered
with cactus, cactus will be
grown in window 'boxes and
bargains to the last penny as they shop around voyage. 1 man 1 get to wr
arrVdn* the ^dur»,’firSncfi "Souses, the wholesale ff to you from the’other gide.
half an hour in the accounting department, where
he can se* for himself on what small profits the
business is done. (Less than 4 cents on each dollar
of sales.) '
If he 9till thinks there is no competition in the
-meat business tt will be because hw*wants to think so.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Deaf1 Mother*
I have arrived safely on this
zide attain afte/ an uncxcitint-j kille, ^ , hliJai la
l~dldn't‘ gy tipyrith 0Y 0* Wfl alley. whfch haa
a round top, and glanefog off
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Burke)
Good Road to Freyburg
For late years our business
men have intermittently taken
up the subject of a good road
to the Freyburg district, bewail-
ing the fact that it was almost
Notice to Users
Of Electric Current
We have had numerous requests fdr electric cur-
rent on Saturday morning instead of on Tuesday or
Thursday evening.
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We have therefore decided to put it to a vote of
the patrons, So please advise us by phone or post card
whether you desire a change, or for the service' to con-
tinue as at present.
^ Respectfully,
Flatonia Ice & Electric Company
be said to be a first class road,
and it would j>ay anyone who
impossible for people of that (has not been but that way to
drive out and take a look at the
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Ht*.
other places where it will serve1 section to get, in here with their
as ornamentation. For this pur- produce and trade,
pose the adjacent territory wiJI1 The Argus man made a trip
be scoured for fare species. The to Freyburg last week in the
soldiers would not have to go Liberty Loan work and was per- land with its prosperous people,
far from their barracks to ob-Jfectly astounded to find that a there is every reason for our
tain a large supply of-the ordi- road had been built from the merchants to put forth some ef-
nary kind, but in various parts LaGrange road to Freyburg fort to encourage the trade to
of Texas and Oklahoma are to which is second to none in our
be found T*arer and more at-'county. This road is graded up
tractive varieties. Their ship- in excellent shape, and presents
to Camp Travis will be appre- not only the. finest appearance
dated. - , of any road we have seen here-
However, in order to prevent aboufs, but is standing^ip under
a deluge of any one kind and to1 the wear it is receiving.. The
prevent shipments going astray, three miles from the LaGrange
those who help supply the di-j road to the east end of Commis-
yision with the coveted plants (sioner Foitik’s beat can really
road.
With this good highway lead-
ing from that fertile stretch of
come to Flatonia.
A Liability—Or An Asset?
We don’t need to be told that
war is wasteful. We have al-
ready surmised it. '
If generals of all ages, from
Sennacherib to Napoleon, can
watch us from their present
habitation, they will take on an
increase of cynicism. They were
probably cynical 'enough before
they died.
- They learned the futility of
trying to create something by a
policy of destruction, and must
feel some disappointment at this
epoch. We have learned nothing
from their mistakes.
Jwe build cathedrals, and shoot
tnem to bits with cannon. We
raise and educate a generation
to make hecatombs of it.
Most of us have at least the
excuse that we are fihting to de-
stroy something that hoped for
aggrandizement out of CQnquest.
But it is absurd that such a
policy - should have survived
Sennacherib. Angels weep, the
poets tell us, but at times they
back anyhow. We had a long
trip and only stayed a short
time. We Went to Marseilles,
so naturally we went by Gibral-
ter and through the Mediter-
ranean. Marseilles is the third
largest city >of France, having
a population of 500,000, and
is some large town. I don’t
like it and its people though,
but like Bordeaux better; They
have some good shows and I
enjoyed a good vaudeville show
there. I also went through the
slums.
The slums are about the dirti-
est place I have ever seen, little
narrow streets full of rubbish
and crowded with dirty people
and children. It is worse than
Colon, Panama, and I thought
that' was bad enough. It is
pretty hot down there and the
people are somewhat dark com-
plected. The burg is full of
Algerians, Moroccans, and Ar-
abs, not to mention many other
nationalities, in fact, you can
find about any kind of people
there that you look for. I didn’t
take any pictures of the town,
so that he didn’t hit so hard on
wine, steel bars* in the bott'on;
of the hold. I sure hat.eci to'
see this happen to him as he,
was, a good friend of mine and
all of us like him a lot. We
made up a collection for him
and will go- to see him as soon
as he is able to be seen more.
In that picture of three fellows
in front of a green, house he is
the one on the right in the pic-
ture. ’ '
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They have sailors fighting in
the front line trenches so don’t
be surprised if I shouldv write
to /oil from over there some-
tijne and tell you that I am
fighting in the trenches and
maybe come back all shot up.
But I guess you would rather
sea me come back w^th parts
of me missing than to get
“spoorlos versunken.” However
you would rather see me oome1—
back after it is all over all
whole and sound.
They are doing some great
work over there now and the
Aniericans sure saved the sit-
uation. The Americans now
, , T ,. a have a. battle-cry over there
but I am sending you some post „ke ,hi or
card ptetures of it. I went out- bokejj by . afeaW’ which
they use whe?) charging the
Germans. Hoboken is the place
where lot of them embark in tTfe
states so {hat is where they get
that paft of it. I expect to see
a speedy finish to the war now
pictures of it. I went out
to the beach there one Sunday,
but didn’t go in swimming. The
beach isn’t much and the wa-
ter is cold, but some people
seem to enjoy the swimming.
There are lots of mountains
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around Marseilles, but I didn’t |that they have them running
go up to any of them as«I didn’t towards Berlin. One million five
get time- They have many pret hundred thousand over there
ty buddings and churches there now and .who got them oyer
and other things, but you can(there? And who sees to it that
see them all in the pictures I they get their supplies regular?
am sen ing you. j Hm 8endjng y0U a Lunch of
Anyhow I am glad to be back | pictures which I took on the
in the states again as I am just1 last trip. Don’t let the girls
about getting tired of France show them around too much
and its customs. I didn’t make ,or publish any of military value
chief last trip, and I am going as it might get me in trouble
to turn it down this trip if I can. | I guess I will quit for this
I am not quite ready to take time and save the rest for. the
it because it will take a lot of next letter. Write soon and let
money to get outfitted. I got me know how you are getting
H
my accounts straightened out
now and got most of my back
pay and I have also last month’s
allotment still^on the books. I
along so I’ll get it before sail-
ing. ^ Use the same old address.
1 Your son,
„,i* 4 Adolph.
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Hurr, Henry. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 24, 1918, newspaper, October 24, 1918; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113254/m1/4/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.