The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920 Page: 2 of 12
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THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE—100 Per Cent Arnerican
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Good load of wood wanted by Enterprise
Editor at Olney, Texas.
WANTED: To buy headed feed such as
maize, kaffir or feterita. Will pay the mar-
ket price for two or three loads. See Editor
The Olney Enterprise.
Good load of wood wanted by Enterprise
Editor at Olney, Texas.
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
You may want to move to Olney before
school opens. See me for houses as I have
some bargains, also some good farms worth
the money. I have 20 acres close in worth
the money. W. C. NOAH, Olney, Tex. 2tc.
If you are in the market for a nice home
in Olney we have two or three of the nicest
homes in town that we can sell you much
cheaper than you can build. Cooper & Eagan
Land Bargains: If you are wanting to
purchase land before the price advances can
show you farms from 80 to 640 acres that
are priced very reasonable, well located.
Pertle & Anderson, Megargel, Texas.
A good residence in Olney is a safe in-
vestment, and we have a few good ones that
are worth the money. Cooper & Eagan tf.
Land Bargains: We have several well im-
proved, well watered farms for sale, well
worth the money, located in and around the
town of Megargel. Pertle & Anderson, tf.
LEGAL NOTICES
Notice:. I will not be responsible for any
more of my wife’s debts. M.L.Etherington.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES
We carry a good line of Phonographs and
keep all of the newest Columbia Records,
tf. Harmon Bros., Graham, Texas.
Remember those FREE INNER TUBES
at the City Garage this month with every
Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup Casing we sell.
We have a new 10-ton pair of -scales and
we want you to weigh with us. These are
the best scales we could buy. Charge 20c.
for Wagons and 85c. for -trucks.
tf. C. Moore’s Feed Store.
I have the agency for the Sherman Steam
Laundry, the biggest and best Laundry in
the South. Basket leaves Tuesday and gets
back on Friday. J. E. Bowden at the Hotel
Barber Shop, Olney, Texas.
ATTENTION WHEAT GROWERS: Save
wheat for your bread. Our mill has been
overhauled and we are ready for custom
grinding. Flour guaranteed to be as good
as money will buy and we have plenty on
hand to exchange at all times. Good Flour
and a square deal. Hallman Milling Corny.,
Olney, Texas. 16-2tc.
MEN AND MONKEYS
We do welding and make Ford mdtor ov-
erhauling a specialty. City Garage, tf.
Sonora and Columbia Phonographs and
Records are the best on the market. We
have a machine at the price you want to pay
_Harmon Bros., Graham, Texas, tf.
FOR SALE
New Ford to Sell: If you are in the mark
et for ,a new Ford touring car with Starter,
Etc., see me at once. Dr. L. F. Gragg, tf.
LOST OR STRAYED
LOST: Yale Key No. 21109. Finder please
return to Enterprise and receive $2. reward.
$10.00 Reward: David Colderson has
stray sorrel or light bay horse mule, 14
14% hands high, has been gone about two
weeks. He has a little white on his shoulder
from collar scald. Finder or holder of this
mule please ’phone or write David Colderson
Round Timbers, Texas, and receive $10.00
reward. 15-2tp. •
Diamonds are among the best investments
and we keep .a big stock for your selection.
Harmon Bros., Graham, Texas, tf.
PROMINENT MERCHANT FOUND LAST-
ING RELIEF
In a South Carolina county seat a promi-
nent merchant suffered for years with ecze-
ma. Money was not a consideration if he
could only be relieved of the terrible itching
burning and irritation. He scratched his
back at nights until it bled, but the soreness
only became worse. He visited the Western
Springs and consulted various physicians,
but never found a permanent cure until a
friend brought Zemerine to his notice. He
tried this great treatment and now sings its
praises highly. Zemerine is a wonderful
treatment for diseased skin, especially ecze-
ma, tetter, rash, itch and similar disorders.
It is sold upon the fairest basis imaginable
---your money will be returned if it does
not help you after a fair trial. If you can’t
get Zemerine at your druggist send $1 or
50 cents to the Zemerine Chemical Co.,
Orangeburg and a jar will be sent you direct.
THE DEVIL IS BUSY
While the Lord made the world,
the devil has been busy ever since,
and is now, putting the finishing
touches upon it. We have had
ample proof of this in the great
world’s war, and are now getting
some more proof of it in the devil-
ment that has been and is going on
in politics, industry and many
other walks of life right here in
our own beloved country.
The devil had a finger in all
three of the political conventions
that have been held, and anybody
who doesn’t know that don’t
know much of anything, and
is espeially ignorant in politics
That old devil is always
busy. He never stops or
gets tired, and as soon as we knbck
him out in one thing or at one
place he bobs right up again in an-
other, and keeps us busy all our
lives trying to circumvent him. He
commenced on the first woman
and has been playing schoolmaster
to her sons ever since. We must
all give him credit for being per-
manently a success in his chosen
business. He is playing a danger-
ous game against omnipotent pow-
er and, judging by present world
conditions, is ably holding his own.
He sat into the game with a cash
capital of one snake, and now it
looks as if he had about half the
globe grabbed and an option on the
other half.
There are politicians in high
places in this country, and all over
the world, and also men engaged in
SOME CHEERFUL CHATTER
One reader writes in to know
how it is that we can keep so cheer-
ful and optimistic when times are
so hard and everything shot to
pieces because of conditions brot
about by the great world war
Why, friend, times are not hard
and things are not shot t-o pieces
because of the great war or any-
thing else. All that sort of thing
is largely a state .of mind, or, at
least, brought about by a state of
mind. Times are a bit dull in a
business way, because this is the
vacation midsummer season, and
business, generally, to use a farm-
er ’s expression, is between hay and
grass, neither exactly one or the
other, but nobody is getting hurt
and it is but a temporary lull that
is always noticeable at this season,
and one which will be over and
forgotten in a few Weeks. Business
men and people generally are in a
way like the plants, and even the
plants need a short rest season, so
they can strengthen at the root
and not kill themselves off by
flowering and fruitage and too
much exertion. Everything and
everybody in this world must have
some rest or die of over-exertion.
Nature requires it, and Nature is
always right.
International problems are also
to be adjusted before everything
can get back to its pre-war normal
condition. That is only to be ex-
pected, but it is progressing rapid-
ly and sanely and adjustment will
be made sooner than might have
gigantic business buncos, for whom been expected, under the terrible
we have less respect than we have strain to which the world has been
for the devil, bad as the old imp is put for some years back. It will
j i” mi all come out right and clean in the
Doubtless many members of the
Socialist party are good Christ-
ians, but some of them are not,
and from what can be gathered
about what is going ou in Russia,
the home of Bolshevism, the votar-
ies of that cult are downright infi-
dels. In Petrograd and other pla-
ces the churches have been turned
into play-houses, dance halls and
the like. All manner of religion
and everything religims is scof-
fed at.
Our Bolshevik neighbors may
take take unto themselves the flat-
tering unction that they sprang
from monkeys if they want to, as
that is their privilege if they feel
that way. Some of them act like
it and a few look' like it. But as
far as this scribe is concerned he
refuses to consider any such stuff,
and is sorry anybody else does.
We have Darwin’s complete set
of books on our shelves and have
read them all, and passed the
monkey evolution theory up as
being unsound and unworthy the
credence of anybody who studies
or thinks.
You may travel all over the
earth, and gather up monkeys by
the hundreds, or tens of thousands,
whereever you find them, as many
people have, and nobody yet has
ever found one that was anything
but a monkey. He is not evoluting
up or down, one way or the other—
he is just a monkey. If he evoluted
into man before why doesn’t he
continue to evolute into man? No
missing link or betwixt and be-
tween has ever been found, or ever'
will be found, though it must be
aknowledged that Lenine and Trot-
sky are quite close to it.
Hod made you friend, and will
see you through, if you behave
halfway decent and merit it, but
the more monkey business yon in-
dulge in the farther away from
God you are going to get.
If one has not belief in immortal-
ity it can readily be seen why he
does not care much how he behaves
or misbehaves while here. If we
are but monkeys and other animals
we may as well eat each other up
the sam'e as other animals do; and
if half what one hears from Russia
is true that is just about what is
going on over there.
It is not much harder and cosls
no more, to be a Christian and a
gentleman than to be a Bolshevist
and a monkey.
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A CAST-IRON NERVE
LEGISLATION
OPTIMISM GOOD MEDICINE
Accoidmg to Lady Astor, “the. We do not pretend to know any-
great trouble with women is that thing about Christian Science, not
they seem to think legislation will, even enough to judge whether it is
do ever\ thing. The trouble with either Christian or science, but we
many men is their expectation j do believe in the power of the
that legislation will accomplish ; mind over matter, and in this res-
little or nothing.—Amarillo News, peet further believe that optimism
supposed to be. There are many
men in this old world who could
not climb up to the devil’s level in
a lifetime if they tried, or any
more claim kinship with him than
can a mangy coyote with a royal
Bengal tiger. They are not fallen
angels; they are risen vermin.
They did not come idown from
thrones in heaven like falling stars
but crawled up from holes in the
earth like tumblebugs and pismire
ants.
Without mentioning any names
or any political party or faction,
we must opine, after a perusal of
all that has been done in conven-
tion assembled so far this year,
that if some of the participants
ever dodged the quarantine of-
ficers and got into hell among the
erstwhile angels now peopling the
dark regions of the damned, the
decision there would be that they
were cholera morbus or itch bacilli,
and the black abode would be
ordered fumigated.
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How nice it would be if one was
as superior a person as a young
and newly uniformed army officer
feels.
We notice that most of our very
good friends want us to work for
them in one way or another for
nothing.
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The Tribune tells us that in New
!k tile g'i'eak Gtg'fiTeTt^war "hasT
ed and price-cutting ha s stop-
We suppose the war we are
ping for will never come off.
t’s One in which the corned beef
d cabbage purveyors will
apple each other in a death
ggle.
wash. Have a little patience and
in the meantime do your own little
bit by keeping right on at work
and sawing wood.
Work and industrial wood-saw-
ing will solve any old problem.
Pending adjustments of exports
imports foreign exchange and cred-
its, money naturally lightens up a
little, but that will not be for long.
The two greatest cowards on earth
are a henpecked husband and a man
with a whole lot of money. Both
hide out upon the slightest prov-
ocation. Whenever there is a small
cloud on the financial horizon gold
crawls into a hole like the miser-
able coward it is. This is caused by
the possesssor. He is afraid—
afraid of shadows, afraid of his
fellow man, afraid of Almighty
God, and hugging his sordid
wealth to his shriveled bosom he
slinks into the shadows, leaving
the battles to be fought by real
men, men who have heart and soul
and mind and brawn, and who see
other things than the stamp on the
guinea.
Europe has been badly hurt and
crippled, but Ameirca has not. We
are now the creditor nation and
must supply the rest of the world
with everything a world needs in
its business. In doing this we as a
nation are amassing and must con-
tinue to amass great wealth, aud-
^Imt^^jrtTAveaith must get out,
more or less, among all classes of
people, enabling us all in due time
to buy and build up homes and en-
joy prosperity and happiness.
Cheer up! Cherries and lots of
other fruits, including the forbid-
den, are ripe!
We admire a man with nerve,
but there is such a thing as even
overdoing that, and turning the
nerve into downright * ‘ cheek. ’ ’
Everybody ought to know that the
advertising space of a newspaper
is the only merchandise it has to
sell, and unless it sells it the^paper
is going bankrupt. Anybody who
does not know this does not know
very much. Yet nearly everybody
seems to think that it is perfectly
legitimate to ask the use of the
space and the gift of this mer-
chandise free. The average pu-
lisher gets that sort of stuff every
day of his life, until at times he
gets to looking at the world as com-
posed of, grafters to a very large
extent. No one who is going to be
benefited financially by the use of
the space has any right whatever
to ask for it or expect it free, and
those , who continually do so are
exhibiting a cast-iron nerve that is
not to their credit.
Legislation will not do every-
thing. But it will do a great deal
Legislation is like the littler»drop of
water that wears away the stone.
Its effects may be slow, but if the
drip continues the result is certain
No matter how unpopular propos-
ed legislation may be in the begin-
ning, if it is continually offered
and advocated by a legislator it
will sometime get a respectful
hearing and later be adopted. And
after its adoption, if the law is
adequately enforced it will be ac-
cepted in due course and approved
at last. Every law is unpopular
with the lawless. Every restriction
is resented by the jungaleers. As
for Lady Astor, she has become an
opponent of what is called divcrce
reform in England. She opposes
certain amendments in the British
divorce law which would make the
legal separation easier for certain
husbands and wives. But Lady
Astor herself is the beneficiary of
the rather benevolent divorce
statute which prevails in New
York. She readily obtained her
freedom from her first husband.
She should take into consideration
noAV that she is a member of Parli-
ament, that perhaps there are
wives in England today who are as
much entitled to be rid of their
worse halves as Lady Astor was to
be rid of Mr. Shaw when she was
Miz Shaw. There is no intention
here to imply to Lady Astor a lack
of legislative sincerity. She is
afraid to liberalize the British
divorce statute lest she be instru-
mental in weakening the founda-
tion of the British home. But in
her own case, has she not a better
home now, with her second hus-
band? Are there not other ladies
who might go and have likewise ?—
State Press. -
is-good for the general health and
pessimism proportionately bad.
There is always something the mat-
ter with a pessimist. 'He is either
mentally or physically sick, and
being so he easily accumulates a
perpetual grouch. He may not be
an invalid, but upon his feet and
moving about, but he is seldom
free from ailments and complain-
ings. His pessimism is not so
as
because of his
much because of his ailments
his ailments are
pessimism;.
Pessimism is as destructive a
force in one’s health as it is in
one’s purpose and performance.
The average pessimist seeks the
shadows and wilfully deprives
himself nf the life-giving sunshine.
The sun, the flowers, the trees and
the green foliage of the glad earth
smile at him in vain. The trill of
the birds, the murmurous whisper
of the brooks, the organing of the
wind as it comes cavalierly
through the forest, kissing the sil-
ence into song, are all dead to the
dulled ears and jaundiced eyes of
the pessimist.
USE
OLNEY BEST FLOUR
Every Sack Guaranteed. Order it
from your Grocer.
Hallman Milling Company
Olney, Texas
JUST GOT OVER A COLD?
If people looked like the pictures
of the tailors’ fashion plates and
dressmakers ’ models they would
all be in the bughouse.
Look out for kidney troubles and
backache. Colds overtax the kid-
neys and often leave them weak.
For weak kidneys—well, read what
a grateful user says:
A. M. Gross, retired farmer, 306
Lee St., Wichita Falls, Texas says:
“I am always glad to recommend
Doan’s Kidney Pills. Some time
ago my back and kidneys got in
pretty bad shape, caused by a cold
settling in my kidneys. .My back
was sore and lame across the small
part and I could hardly do my work
Whenever I stooped over, such
pains would catch me in the small
of my back I thought it would
break. Sometimes I would get so
dizzy and weak I would have to sit
down to rest. I tried all kinds of
kidney remedies but found no re-
lief until I bought Doan’s Kidney
Pills. I used a few boxes of Doan’s
and they cured me of this attack. I
use Doan’s off and on now as a kid-
ney regulator.”
60, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 3
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Nature and editors never take a
vacation—too busy.
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A North Carolina minister says
the world is headede tb time
when there will be no more need of
courts, jails and sheriffs. We are
glad the brother is so optimistic,
but we fear it will be a long time
yet before the poitieians disappear
entirely.
MATINEE on SATURDAY’S
TWO SHOWS ON FRIDAY AND SATUR-
DAY NIGHTS
We will run two shows on Friday and Saturday nights, the
first show will start promptly at 7:30, and on Mondays and Tues-
day nights will start at 8:00.
Following is the program from tonight until next Saturday night
inclusive:
FRIDAY, 6th:—Corinne Griffith in “The Climbers,” a Vita-
graph Picture. Also the Eighth Episode of the “Moon
Riders.”
SATURDAY, 7th:—“Mints of Hell,” featuring William Des-
mond. A Robertson-Cole Production.
MONDAY, 9th:—A Selznick Production, featuring Elaine
Hammerstein in “Greater Than Fame.”
TUESDAY, 10th:—Wallace Reid in “You’re Fired,” a Para-
mount Production. Also a Mack Sennett Comedy, “His
Wife’s Friend.” * y>
FRIDAY, 13th:—Alice Joyce in “Slaver of Pride,’
Episode of our serial, the “Moon Riders.”
and Ninth
SATURDAY,
Walls.”
14th:—William Desmond in “Whitewashed
ADMISSION
Tuesday and Monday Nights____________________15 and 25c.
Friday and Saturday Nights--------------------15 and 30c.
Saturday Matinees---------------------------- 15 and 25c.
New Queen Theatre
Frank and Calvin Jones, Props.
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920, newspaper, August 6, 1920; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113683/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.