The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1924 Page: 4 of 10
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THE ©LNEY ENTERPRISE
Friday, August IS, 1924
Adequate and Reliable
Service
—above all else, builds the reputation
by which a bank is favorably known.
We seek to bring the Personal ele-
ment into banking; to have each and
every one of our customers feel at home
here.
’tsOSAAL •BOMKC,
SYSTBM
The Farmers State Bank
‘OLNEYS BANK OF SERVICE”
a word of it. Our first guess the
receipts for the year at the l\scal
cotton yard is that we will get lftot
less than 10,000 bales, and if rrlin
comes in the next ten days—we
mean a real rain—we reserve tlie
right to revise our estimate to as
high as 12,000 to 15,000 bales. Our
reasons for this are many. Last
year the crop was in much worse
condition at this time of year and
the arceage was 15 to 25 per cent
less than this year, yet we got 7,500
bales of cotton. See if we are not
nearer right than the howlers.
Mrs. A. B. McCloud, grand kleagle
of the shemale KK’s made a speech
in Wichita Falls Tuesday night in
which she said that “no one will vote
for Ferguson but the ignorant, boot-
leggers, soreheads and broke politi-
cians.” These and many other un-
ladylike remarks are credited to this
high official of Klandom in the re-
port of her speech in the Wichita
Falls Record-News. The Enterprise
editor may be ignorant, soreheaded
and broke, but he darn sure ain’t
no bootlegger. : If the Enterprise ed-
itor had whiskey he’d sure never
sell it, no sir-ree! Anyhow, there’s
one thing she didn’t call us Ferguson
supporters, and we can take almost
anything else so long as she don’t
call us Ku Kluxers.
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K .Established in 1910, and published every
Friday at Olney, Texas. Entered at the
Pdst Office at Olney, Texas, as second
Class mail matter, under Act of Congress.
R. {SHUFFLER, Editor. Owner and Publisher
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Political Announcements
For Representative 109th. Dlstricti
W. D. McFARLANE
For District Attorney, 30th. Judicial Dist.
JAMES V. ALLRED
For District Judge, 92nd. Judicial District:
WALTER F. SCHENCK .
For Tax Collector:
W. E. STEELE
For Tax Assessor:
- SAM COPELAND
For County Clerk:
W. H. KENNEDY
For County Judge:
W. F. PARSLEY
For County Treasurer:
W. W. (BILL) MARTIN
For County Surveyor:
WILLARD G. MOBLEY F,L
For County Superintendent:
H. H. AVANTS 1
For District Clerk: ^
WILLIE RIGGS
For Sheriff:
J. B. FOSTER
For County Attorney: ’
JOHN B. RHEA
For Commissioner Precinct 3l
SAM BIRD
For Public Weigher, Precinct 31
DUDLEY MYERS
J. W. JACK
In baseball third base is called
the hot corner, but in politics, most
any corner is a hot corner from
now until August 23.
The question to settle on the 23rd.
is whether the Ku Klux shall be en-
shrined in power in Texas for many
years or we shall have a woman for
Governor for one term. We prefer
the woman.
Dreaming dreams of cool Colorado
and wishing for a day or so along
some limpid stream in shaded nooks
where crappies bite—but what’s the
use? We can’t make a living that
way, and besides that we have to
save the dura country every Friday.
Vacations are the order of the
day, and it seems to us that every-
body except the editor has managed
to save enough money to take a va-
cation. We are promising ourselves
to do better before another summer
If owners of vacant property will
hire a nigger for a few hours and
cut the weeds off of their property
it will add materially to the health
and comfort of the community as
well as beautify the city considerably
at small expense.
Our advertising patronage this is-
sue was too light for 12 pages and
too heavy for 10, but we have crowd-
ed it into ten in order that we .may
make a little profit on it. Per-
haps next week we will get more
business, and if so you will get more
paper.
The people of Olney ought to
spend their money with* the mer-
chants of Olney. A town . that’s
good enough to live—or make a liv-
ing—in is good enough to, buy in.
This applies to merchants and bank-
ers as well as to farmers and la-
borers. It’s a poor rule that won’t
work both ways.
Orville Bullington made the key-
note address at the Republican state
convention. Among other things he
pointed out that in case Mrs. Fergu-
son were elected, Jim would be the
real governor, and if Felix Robert-
son were elected, “the aerl governor
will be the—I forget what you call
him—of the ku klux klan at Dallas.”
Probably he’s right, and if so, we are
for Jim, strong as horseradish.
And the more we learn about the
opposition the stronger we get for
our petticoat candidate for Governor.
Miriam has made several talks that
sounded almost human, but Felix and
his hooded followers put their foot
in it every time they open their
mouths. She’s gaining support in
unexpected quarters every day, and
is as certain of election as the day
for the primary comes.
THE CAFE
When hungry and hollow I go
every day, some victuals* to swallow
at Doodle’s Cafe. The tablecloth’s
spotless, and so is the ware—not
heedless or thoughtless the manage-
ment there. No flies pirooting
around while I eat; the owner’s been
shooting the pests off their feet. The
napkin is cleaner than snow on the
lea; I order a weiner and beaker of
tea; I order a herring, a chicken’s
hind legs, and call, greatly daring,
for nine scrambled eggs. The ladies
in waiting attend my behest, and
strraightly go skating for grub of the
best. The’re patient and pleasant,
they smile when they bring a .dish
with a pheasant or ostrich’s wing;
they’re trained to be gracious and
sweet and polite, no manners auda-
cious they spring on a wight. The
cook is a dandy a prince among men,
there’s no one more handy at frying
a hen. The prices are modest and
when I depart my smiles are the
broadest you’ll see in the mart. I
say to the-voters I meet on my way,
“Just try the fried bloaters at
Doodle’s Cafe!” I cry in all places,
I cry every day, “Oh friends, feed
your faces a Doodle’s Cafe!” And
Doodle is feeding the crowd with his
fare, and people are pleading for
meal tickets there; while restaurant
owners infesting the grad are grunt-
ers and groaners, their trade is. so
bad.—Walt Mason.
The oil fields in and around the
town of Olney are gradually but
surely spreading out and the proven
territory is being extended rapidly.
Some of these days, before many
moons, the oil business is going to
get back to a normal basis, and then
Olney is going to witness the most
rapid and substantial period of real
growth in its history. We think we
have a good town now—and we have
—but the future holds more in store
for lis than many of us even dream.
The Enterprise editor offers a hat
to anybody who will persuade either
of the other Young County newspa-
pers to openly declare themselves on
any issue—regardlless of what it is
—from the preservation of the saints
to the extermination of the boll
weevil. Either they idon’t think, or
they are too dura modest or scared
one to put their thoughts into print
on the editorial pages of their pepars.
Some people paraphrase an old say-
ing to read “Policy is the best
honesty.”
We have had it said to us that
our friend Will C. Edwards, of Den-
ton, was a Klansman, and have been
shown what purported to be Klan
ballots which carried Edward’s name
on them. This week we are carry-
ing a statement from Mr. Edwards
which denies any connection' what-
ever with the Ku Klux Klan. Will
Edwards isn’t radical on anything
—not even the Klan issue—but he is
firm in his convictions and if he
believed in the Klan he would be a
member of it. We still think he is
head and shoulders above his peanut
politician opponent Barry Miller, and
urge our friends to rally to his stan-
dard on August 23.
Calamity howlers will tell you that
Olney will not get any cotton this
year to speak of. We don’t believe
“I like to see a man proud of the
place in which he lives. I like to see
a man live in it so that his place
is proud of him.”—Abraham Lincoln.
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An American agent for a British
company was mux*dered on the up-
per Yangtse by pirates operating
from junks. The commander of a
British gunboat executed a summary
justice by insisting that the heads
of the junkmen’s 'guild which com-
mitted the outrage should be shot
on the beach where the American
was attacked. This was done.
The pearl diver in the Persian
Gulf, wearing only an amulet for
protection against the sharks and
carrying a small net, is lowered over
the side of the boat. A forty-pound
stone and a rope is attached to him.
He fills his lungs, clasps a clothes
pin on his nose and dives down. In
about sixty or eighty seconds he
reappears with his net filled with
oysters.
Why Bake Cakes?
When you can buy as good a
Cake made from pure, whole-
some ingredients and light as
a fedther for less money than
you can bake’ it to say nothing
of the work you save—why
bake Cake?
Olney Steam Bakery
GENERAL M. M. CRANE OF DALLAS
Will Speak at Wichita Falls Friday,
August Uth, 8:00 P. M.
He is the man who prosecuted the Fer-
guson impeachment charges^
Now he is supporting Mrs. Ferguson
for Governor.
His speech will be worth hearing.
WICHITA COUNTY FERGUSON CLUB
WILL C. EDWARDS ,
ISSUES STATEMENT
Denton, Texas, Augst 12—Will C.
Edwards, Denton newspaperman who
will, go into the run-off with Barry
Miller of Dallas, for the lieutenant
governorship today gave out the fol-
lowing statement:
“I am seeking the nomination for
lieutenant governor for the honor
and opportunity for service it gives.
I entered the race in the belief that
Texas Democrats would react favor-
ably toward a candidate who had es-
chewed all factional groups, whose
only purpose was to serve, and who
would be pledged only to the people
as a whole. After advising with
friends I announced my candidacy
without seeking the endorsement or
consent of anybody or any group.
“Returns of the first primary acts
as to give me, with the support of
my friends and their friends, a place
in the run-off, which is between
Judge Barry Miller of Dallas and
me. Judge Miller has said the only
reason he entered the contest was
he was drafted by the Farm-Labor
bloc. He has their support and their
platform has his endorsement.
“As for me, I shall run in the
second primary as in the first—in no
alliance with any group or bloc or
candidate, still holding to the belief
that there are enough Texas Demo-
crats unswayed by radicalism, fac-
tionalism or predjudice to constitute
a majority. If I am mistaken I
shall be content, for I am wholly sin-
cere in the determination to go into
office my own man, with my only
pledge to be fair and just to all
and to give the very best service of
which I am capable, or stay at home.
“I have tried sincerely to avoid
the injection into my campaign of
the klan issue. But I am forced to
realize there are those who are mak-
ing it their political shibboleth.
Therefore I say, without reservation
or equivocation, that I am not now
and never have been a member of
the klan. I have never applied for
membership in the klan nor paid any
fee to the klan. This is my answer
to my opponent’s unfounded charges
in his speech at McKinney. I am
not and never have been a mem-
ber of the Fai'm-Labor Union or any
other organized bloc. I am simply a
Democrat who has taken his demo-
cracy straight and who has never
bolted but always supported every
Democratic nominee.
“I am wholly tolerant of other
men’s views—political, religious or
otherwise. The only thing in return
I demand is that they accord me
the same freedom of thought and
action I cheerfully accord them.”
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There are three golf courses on
the Belgian coast.
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Grapefruit, entirely unknown to
the average Britisher before the war,
now forms a regular part of the
early morning diet in thousands of
households in Great Britain.
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Edward Fitzgerald sent 500 copies
of his translated Omar Khayyam to
a dealer in Hempstead, who tried to
sell them at sixpence apiece. Failing
to dispose of them he asked Fitz-
gerald to come for his books. Those
first autographed volumes are selling
today for anywhere from $300 to
$1,000 each.
jr'
Does Your WATCH Keep Correct
Time, Every Day? OUR'S DOES!
Woods Jewelry and Optical Co.
OLNEY AND GRAHAM
At Rexall Drug Store, Olney
A COW WANTS-
good clean Feed and you want full weight Packages.
We have both.
We are prepared to give quick delivery on any kind of
feed you wish, whether it is a mixed sweet feed or
plain feed.
For the Chickens we have any kind of Grain; whole or
ground. Also mixed.
Any of the Checkerboard Feeds.
Prairie, Johnso Grass and Cane Hay.
We are as near as your telephone.
Call us for your next feed order.
Thirty day accounts invited.
HALLMAN MILLING COMPANY
Telephone Number 56 Olney, Texas
Here is a tale of the Sea and Treasure Ships, with
the kind of adventure you’ve always wanted to live—
always longed to see! It’s a First National and
full of thrills! It’s a Maurice Tourneur Production.
“The Isle of
Lost Ships”
Wednesday and Thursday
August 20 and 21
Some say it is a sailor’s myth—this Sargasso Sea—
yet the atlas shows it at the Gulf of Mexico’s very
door.
And here our story is told—a tale of adventure on
an island of derelict ships.—some centuries old—
locked together in a tangle of seaweed and peopled by
a colony of men and two women—which is ruled by a
giant brute with the strength and soul of a pirate
sire!
A beautiful girl, a detective, and his prisoner, man ac-
cused of murder, sole survivors of a shipwreck, cast-
aways in this strange place, where every woman, by
community law must choose a mate from among its
population. Two men want her—the brute who is
czar of this empire of ghost, ships—and the man ac-
cused of murder! And with the woman-hunger
strong in them they fight for the prize.!
EEN THEATRE
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1924, newspaper, August 15, 1924; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113671/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.