The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1924 Page: 6 of 10
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Pag* Six
THE OLNE"
Friday, August IS, 1924
Suits Made to Fit from $20.00 to
as High as $50.00 Each
After you have once enjoyed the well-
dressed feeling of a Suit made to fit
you, then and only then will you realize
the pleasure of being a Tailored Man.
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Telephone No. 114 for better cleaning
and presing service. “We deliver the
goods—not excuses.”
Jack Wynne’s Cleaning & Dying
will be found to put it into a small
hood and sell it for $220 f. o. b.
Detroit.
WORDS AND MUSIC
Though the silver-tongued orator
made the most eloquent and flowery
speech that lips ever uttered, and an
artist on the violin came along and
played “Home, Sweet Home” across
the street from where the orator was
pouring forth eloquence the musician
would steal the crowd, leaving the
silver-tongued orator speaking to
the empty air. A speech, no matter
how flowery and eloquent, enters the
ear, and like a homeless tramp walks
sluggishly down the byways of mem-
ory, knocks at the door of the heart,
is refused admittance and dies on the
way to the graveyard I of forgetful-
ness. But a song like “Silver
Threads Among the Gold” comes
slipping along, with her apron full
of flowers, jumps into the pathway
of memory, and throws roses right
and left and kisses to the birds, un-
til she grows weary with her frolic
with human nature, then passes in
front of the mansion of things to be
remembered and knocks at the door
of the heart, goes in and lives there.
“Home, Sweet Home” will live long
after the most powerful, speech ut-
tered by the lips of man has been
buried' in the minds of men and
forgotten.
| House Winng
That Will Pass
Inspection and
Give Satisfaction.
%en you have electrical wiring
done you want it done RIGHT, so that
there will be no danger of fire and so
you will get satisfactory service.
We Guarantee
any job of wiring we do to stand up and
meet the test of inspection anywhere,
and our prices are reasonable. See us
for all kinds of electrical appliances
and electrical repair work.
The Security Electric Company
Phone 209
FLIVVER
SAM
Still, crossing the street is about
as safe as crossing the wife.
Correct this sentence: I have
been in many traffic jams, said he,
without once desiring to slay the
drivers in front of me.
A certain slightly stout Olney
man recently purchased a Ford
coupe. He has come to the con-
M- elusion, after his first attempt at
entrance and exit, that the left hand
if doors are made for skinny people
only.
George Roach thinks the garage
man is a gentleman. When he fixes
one part, he never charges for the
other part he gets out of fix.
Our cynical friend notes that
scientists are trying to lengthen
life and speed fiends are trying to
flatten it.
Mr. Miller thinks people who don’t
believe in luck have never watched
women drivers at an intersection of
streets.
Nelly Bly—I thought you said
you were a good motorist! Why only
yesterday you ran into a cow.
Sweet Adeline—Well, my dear,
the cow was on the wrong side of
the road.
Another motor car looking at the
scenery instead of the road is now
a part of both, is the delicate way
one newspaper reports a casualty.
In baseball it is quite all right,
To throw a drop, you know;
But it isn’t just the proper thing
For one to drop a throw.
Here is a little advice from one of
our leading garage men: If your
brake bands are loose tighten up on
your life insurance.
The oil scandal, mussy and much
detailed as it was, in the daily prints,
didn’t interest the auto owner half
as much as his ability to tell others
how many miles he had made his old
bus go on a gallon of gas.
Col. Lowe says that one of the big
troubles with the present day youth
is that so many woodsheds have been
transformed into garages.
Demand for near-sighted chaper-
ones is only exceeded by the demand
for stiff-necked taxi drivers.
He says what he knows about driv-
ing would fill a book.
Yes, and what he doesn’t would fill
a hospital.
Say, that’s a fast looking car you
have there. What’s the most you
ever got out of her?
Five times in a mile.
Why is it that it takes two people
to drive a car with one hand?
Have a nice vacation?
Yes, but its nice to be back to
work where a fellow can catch up
with his sleep.
Even if women do have more sense
than men you never see a man wear-
ing a shirt he can’t button himself.
Science has found the midnight
kiss the safest, although young suit-
ors should be well on the way home
by that hour.
It is predicted that science will
soo'n harness the atom. Science prob-
ably, will not harness, literally, the
atom, and put it in shafts, says Char-
lie Hunt, however, more likely a way
THE AUTO AS A LEVELER
There are no strangers on the
open road. Therefore it is good for
everyone to occasionally cast aside
business and take to the road. The
automobile has made this mode of
recreation within the reach of all.
There are few so poor but they can
command the price of a motor car-
be it nothing better than a second-
hand and dilapidated flivver. The
shining motor car of the millionaire
and the humble bus of the lowly
tourist are parked side by side in
the open spaces. They touch elbows
for the time and for the time are
brothers in fact. Each gets an in-
sight into the others point of view
and a fraternity is established.
On the open road the troubles of
one are the troubles of many. Few
there be who will not halt to lend aid
to a fellow traveller in distress. It
is a free masonry born of an idea
that possesses all to get away from
the conventional and for the time be-
ing be again a normal person, living
a normal life and thinking normal
thoughts.
On the open road the trouble of
civilization are cast aside and those
who take to the road are revealed in
their true character, stripped of the
things they pretend to be.
Should you doubt this world is yet
a friendly old place, just wheel out
the old bus and take a flier into the
great outdoors, equipped with only
a frying pan and a bit of canvas.
You will find that there is still such
a thing as hospitality in the land.
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TAXATION TAKES PROPERTY
That any state should confiscate
all farm lands and make tenants of
the occupants would seem unbeliev-
able. But the process is under way,
and at the present rate of progress
will be accomplished within the life-
time of the present generation.
Dr. R. T. Ely of the University of
Wisconsin, shows by official tax
records of states, and also figures
compiled.by the bureau of economics
of the Department of Agriculture
that the states will soon absorb by
taxes all the incomes of farm lands.
It is a principle of law that to
take the income. from property is
practically the same as to take the
property itself.
In Ohio farm lands between 1880
and 1920 increased in value from
$45.97 to $113.17 an acre, while
taxes from 1913-1921 increased 177
per cent. In Kansas values increas-
ed from $10.98 in 1880 to $62.50 in
1920, and taxes 271 per cent from
1913, to 1921.
Since 1920, land values have de-
creased at an average of 20 per cent.
Taxes, on the other hand, have
shown the opposite tendency. A sta-
tistical chart of taxes and farm in-
come would show the line of taxes
as steadily curving upward the past
eight years, and now near to the line
of farm income. When it crosses
that line the work of confiscation is
complete.
“The power to tax is the power
to destroy.”
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Sunljght develops an antiseptic in
our blood which kills germs very
quickly. People who live in darkness
do not possess this “antiseptic”
blood.
Hence, every town has its l The plainest courses known are the
... .of young men loafers j General Secretarial, General Bank-
ney has its share of them— j ing, General Railroad and Western
growing up in idleness and j Union, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and
g everything but how to do a j Typewriting, Cotton Classing, Civil
work, and live within their
The fault is not always the
man’s. It is often with the
The parent who permits his
lounge about home, doing no-
w
lejJ
day
mea
youn;
father,
son /to
thing, and learning nothing—except
some things they had better never
know—is not doing right by him. If
the parents were a little more strict
in this matter, there would be less
controversy between labor and capi-
tal in coming years, and we would
be a happier and more contented
people.
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IN ALL BUSINESS”
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that youth has a limitless ambition,
that young men apd young women
reach for the stars, that they are
hungry, insatiable for life with its
rich experiences and sensations, that,
for youth, life in all its fullness
lies AHEAD. By doing this, the
book has helped thousands, and it
can help you if you will let it.
Experience and profits of teach-
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has long been known that the big-
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tunities are to be found in the field
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young women often achieve greater
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many men achieve in other callings
in a life time. But, so far as any
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telling why, other than ACHIEVING
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The courses which are known to
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Tyler Commercial College, Tyler,
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school. It has more different courses
—more complete courses—than any
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Perhaps you know of some young
person who does not know that it
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the request that the book be sent
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today.
The late Mallory and Irvine of the
Mt Everest Expedition have at least
established the world’s record in
mountain-climbing. They were with-
in less that 800 feet of the summit
of Mt. Everest when last seen—a
height of 28,227 feet.
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In making estimates on the cost
of the air mail recently established
between San Francisco and New
York it apears that on the first
eastward flight eight thousand pieces
of mail were carried and $2,308.48
received. This netted a profit of
more than forty per cent, or, to be
exact, $539.68.
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DON’T DO IT TODAY
Our grandfathers and fathers had
an old-fashioned idea, that if they
could not get work at $1 a day it
was better to work for seventy-five
cents or even fifty cents than to do
nothing. The great majority of our
wealthy men today began life with
that idea and by hard work, dilligent
application and economy they have
attained success in their respective
lines of business. But this better-
half-a-loaf-than-none idea has gone
out of date and many, of the young
men and boys of today will not work
unless at fancy prices. Few of them
are disposed to share the hardships
their fathers endured, even at treble
Dr. Fred Harrell
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Office over new First National Bank
OLNEY, TEXAS
Res. Phone 85 Office Phone 89
and Mineral Wells
are in the Eastern
Markets to secure
their Fall stock and
by doing so will en-
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Merchandise • for
Fall. Watch our
store for New Ar-
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you to wait for our
display.
Olney, Texas
It is to your interst to investigate
this if you want to get a good posi-
ion, if you want to be well on the
road to success long before you are
thirty; if you want to acomplish all
this in less than half the usual time
and at less expense. Just send the
coupon below for the big, helpful,
illustrated book now. It’s Free!
TYLER COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
Tyler, Texas
Name__________________________
Address------------------------
See the editor of the Enterprise
for your scholarship.
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CITY PROPERTY
I have several desirable medium priced
residences, two brick buildings and
some good business lots for sale. Con-
ditions indicate that property values
will increase in Olney . during the, next
few months and any of these properties
should prove to be a profitable invest-
ment.
A. A. COOPER
LAND, LOANS, INSURANCE
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Simmons College
J. D. Sandifer, LL. D., President,
i Abilene, Texas.
All the Advantages of a First-Class College in the heart of
West Texas, Standard A. B. degree for four years4 work.
A Million Dollar Plant of seven buildings—Mens Hall in
process of construction—scientific laboratories and equip-
ment equal to the best in the state.
125,000 Fine Arts Building, one of the most beautiful in
the entire South.
A Faculty of Christian Men and Women of high scholar-
ship and finest character to instruct and lead the young
people.
Certificates granted for the completion of Freshman year.
One of Texas Best-Equipped College Gymnasiums.
Enrollment 1923-24 over 1,000.
Entrance Examinations September 12th and 13th.
Thirty-third Annual Session opens September 15, 1924.
Make your Reservations for Rooms Now.
For bulletins and furher information, address—
A. E. Chandler, Registrar.
UNDERTAKER
We have a complete line of cloth covered and Steel
Caskets — Children
and Adult Steel
Vaults.
Motor Hearse and Ambulance---
We have just received our Motor Hearse and Ambulance
For immediate service call us.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS—in case of death if you call
us you can rest assured that your every wish will be
carried out to the fullest extent.
The John E. Morrison Go.
Day Phone 25 Night Phone 59
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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/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.