Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 1927 Page: 4 of 10
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Every man who handles an article
miiat have a profit and there’e no rea-
son why things can’t be bought here in
Stephenville as cheap as they can be
bought _ through mail order houses. 1
am giving this a trial, as have bought
100 casings straight from the factory
at Des Moines, Iowa, and it will sur-
prise you how much cheaper I can sell
you casings than if I had bought
through the jobber. The 30x3 V4 cord
casing I am selling for
$6.45
weighs exactly 14 pounds..
cord.
29*4.40
$835
weighs 16 pounds. It will surprise you
at the quality of these casings at such
a low price.
Come and examine them, compare
my prices with others, not only here
in town but with mail order houses
eysewhere.
Stephenville
Used Auto
Parts
J. M. SIDDONS, Prop.
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♦ OUR OLD HOME TOWN ♦
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♦ Albany News ♦
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To us, it’s the greatest town on
earth, seems to us like it's located in
the most ideal spot on the globe, and
in t’ne thirty years that we have re-
sided here, we've never hud a falling
out with it, and it just makes us so
doggoned mad when we hear the
knocker sound a low note about it. It
seems to us like the hills and the val-
leys and the creeks, the gorges and
ravines are all sacred, especially de-
signed by the Master Architect. It
seems to us like the grass is greener,
more luscious, yes, it seems to us like
the flowers are more fragrant, the
birds sing sweeter, the .skies are bluer
and the air is purer than any other
place in the world. In other words, we
are perfectly satisfied with the coun-
try and the old home town. It seems
to us like the best folks on earth live
here, seems to us like we have the best
schools, the best churches, the hand-
somest men and the prettiest women,
the cutest babies, the fattest beef and
the plumpest pullets, the juiciest
laches and the winest grapes, the
st -yellow yam potatoes and corn
ne, the sweetest lasses, the whitest
scuits, just fairly melt in your
mouth, etc. All these are the back-
ground of the old home town, hence
wo are stuck on it, don’t want to move, Miss Winnie Dotson spent Sunday
don t want to sell out, perfectly satis- with Mi8!ies 0la and Mamie Huffman
fled in e very particular. Of course we Mr Mr. W J White visits
pea
nes
pon
bis<
We had a big rain here Monday.
Calvin Moss of this community was
buried at East End cemetery Thurs-
day. He had been in ill health for
about a month and gradually grew
worse and was carried to the Gorman
hospital the first of last week; where
he died Wednesday morning at 3:00
o'clock. , The malady from which he
was suffering was diagnoaed as spinal
meningitis.
He leaves a wife and tvto daughters,
a father, four brothers and four sis-
ters, and many other relatives and
friends to mourn his loss.
Aunt Lilie Thornton returned home
Saturday from Gorman, where she
had been visiting her nephew, Jake
Stanley, for the last three weeks.
Mrs. Dixie Brandon is still in the
hospital. She is improving nicely.
Joe Dover of Highland community
visited his sister, Mrs. Alden Crank,
Sunday. Stark Dover and family of
Breckenridge, ppent Saturday night
and Sunday with Mrs. Crank.
A heavy rain and some hail fell
here Monday night. Farmers are get-
ting behind with their work.
Miss Bettie Wilcoxon returned home
Sunday after several weeks’ visit with
her cousin at Eliasville.
ROUGH CREEK GETS MUCH
NEEDED RAIN MONDAY
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$2.50
to
WACO
And Return
SUNDAY
JULY 3RD
Tickets on Sale July 2nd and 3rd
Returning July 4th
Via
See Waco
Play San Antonio
Visit Beautiful
Cameron Park
Phone .
J. D. KILLOUGH
Cotton Bolt Tick Agent
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know it tain’t New York nor London
town, in territorial scope or numbers,
but to us, it’s the greatest town to the
square inch ever bu Sided. True, we
ain’t got no sky scrapers, art galleries,
museums, big town halls, boulevards,
artificial parks, city prisons, police
guards, have no slums, no hell’s half
acre, no gambling resorts nor houses
where the soiled doves hifng out their
signs, don’t have any riots nor bread
lines, but just a good old-fashioned
homey town, where we know every-
body, and everybody knows us. No,
the dang of street cars, the whistle
of the factories, the rumbling of a
vast commerce over cobble stones do
not disturb us, and when one gets sick,
the whole town knocks at the front
door to make inquiry, offer words of
condolence, then when a fellow dies,
the whole town turns out to pay their
last respects and to lay sweet smelling
roses on his new made grave. Yes, in
the old home town individuality counts
for something, hello Dick, how are
you John, good morning Miss Mary
and how are your aches and rheumatic
grandma and grandpa? Just one big
family, and we are all concerned about
each other’s welfare, the weather and
the crops, and when anyone comes
around us knocking the old home
town, we don’t like ’em a dura bit.
MORE CALAMITY SEEN FOR 1927
Washington, June 20. — Herbert
Janvrin Brown, long distance weather
forecaster, who accurately prophesied
violent weather disturbances for 1927,
now predicts further destruction for
the remainder of the year.
An early winter, preceded by killing
frosts, more tornadoes, a series of vio-
lent West Indian hurricanes, some of
which may rival in intensity the Flor-
ida hurricane of last September, se-
vere hail storms, cloudbursts, more
floods, and a markedly cool summer,
are among Brown’s predictions.
The period from June 28 to July 2
will see heavy frosts in portions of the
corn belt, and (is far south as the
Ohio and Potomac rivers, extending
to the Atlantic seaboard, Brown
warns. This will be followed by “very
dangerous frosts” from July 7 to July
11 over the same sections.
Brown prophesies the corn crop for
1927 probably will be the worst-on
record; the apple crop will be the
smallest in many years; the late
spring frosts, and other severe weath-
- abnormalities, will cause great
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. White visited
her sister, Mrs. Cleve Ward of Fort
Worth, Friday. Marguerite and Lou
Ida Ward returned home with her to
.-.pfcnd the week.
Everybody is rejoicing over the good
rain that fell Monday afternoon and
Monday night.
Mr. and Mrs. William Howard and
little daughter, Davis, were shopping
in Stephenville, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Sarah Dotson and children
spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs.
Jim Brown of Chalk Mountain.
Robert Huffman and Arthur Hyles
left Sunday afternoon for Elmer, Ok-
lahoma. >
Mrs. William Howard and little
daughter, Doris, spent Monday night
with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Dotson.
Miss Winnie Dotson attended sing-
ing at Pony Sreek, Sunday night.
Mr, and Mrs. William Howard had
as their Sunday guests, John Thurman
and nephew from Ranger.
Willie Dotson had the misfortune of
spraining his ankle Sunday afternoon.
NEWS OF THE PAST TWO
WEEKS FROM SHELBY
We are still having showers that
make grass grow and people work.
The biggest rain of the season fell
Monday night and early Tuesday
morning.
Rev. Norman of Best, spent Tues-
day night with R. A. Hicks and fam-
ily.
Mrs. S. A. Knight and son, Fred,
spent part of last week in Dallas with
her mother, Mrs. W. B. Bird, and sis-
ter from Arkansas.
John Ellison and family of High-
land spent Sunday with Jim Wells
and family. .
S. R. Hicks and wife were in Gor-
man, Friday.
Lewis McCluskey motored to Cres-
son, Sunday to meet his sister, Mrs.
W. B. Seals and daughter from Dallas.
They are spending several days here
with him and other relatives.
Arthur Byers and wife are the
proud parents of an eleven pound boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Edgmon spent
Sunday with their son, Jeff of Lingle-
ville.
Mrs. Fay Moore'of Big Spring is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Neve.
Mrs.' F. H. Bostic invited about 25
guests to help Mr. Bostic eat his 38th
birthday dinner the 19th.
Miss Tina Wells, and Otis Greer
and family spent Saturday and Sun-
Rev. J. A. Bays will preach at the
Pony Creek church Sunday morning
at 11:00 o’clock and at night.
Little Audrie Beach from Selden,
spent the week-end with Mrs. Nola
Rigjs. .
Little Dessie Jones from Cedar
Point, visited her aunt, Mrs. Ben Ay-
cock, last week.
Jack Ramsey visited his sister, Mrs.
Oscar Walker, and family, last week.
Oliver Henderson from Fort Worth,
visited his father-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Powell, and family, Saturday. He re-
turned home Sunday accompanied by
his niece, Winong Davis.
Master Dol Hurley from Fort Worth
came in Saturday to spend several
weeks with Aunt Mary Hurley.
Miss Ina Aycock and Dale Poe en-
tertained a large number of friends at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Aycock,
Saturday night, it being both Dale and
Ina’s birthday. Cake was served to
all.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Starnes spent
Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Jaokson
near Bluff Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd. Wakefield and
children from Corsicana visited in the'
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Hurley. Joe Hurley and family from
Stephenville also visited his parents
while his sister, Mrs. Wakefield, was
here.
Singing at the church Sunday night
was well attended.
Mrs. Jesse S. Waggoner from Ever-
green and Myrtle Hubbard from Fort
Worth, were also Sunday guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hurley.
Mr. Casey and son, Citchel, Ben Ay-
cock and son. Richard, Jessie Dodson,
Fd Butler, Elvis Riggs, Dugan Ay-
cock and Jack Williams left Monday
morning to go to work at the thresher.
Mrs. Jessie Morris and babies re-
turned to her home at Olney, Texas,
last Saturday.
Miss Winnie Dodson from Rough
Creek, visited at her brother, Sunday.
Mr. end Mr<. Garfield Beach of Ste-
nhenville, visited Mrs. Mary Hurley,
Sunday.
It's a far cry from the ice-clinking,
amber-clear liquid which U the fa-
vorite summer drink of Americana, to
the “tea soup" popular in parts of
Asia. In Thibet the natives make a
sort of broth by boiling tea leaves
with rancid butter and balls of dough,
adding a little salt, and straining. The
resulting mixture is drunk all day
long, as we drink water.
Russian peasants ' also consume
much tea. In their homes the samovar,
or urn for boiling water, is always in
evidence. Their poverty causes them
to prefer varieties of tea that make a
strong, dark liquor—from which an
indefinite quantity of tea-colored
liquid may be produced by constantly
adding water. With this are taken
sugar and a flavoring of lemon.
The Chinese and Japanese prefer
their tea “straight” without flavoring
of any kind. In Japan, the better
classes consider the serving of tea a
fine art; and school girls sometimes
devote much time to learning its mys-
teries.
But the British lead the world in
the consumption of tea and in its so-
cial use. The English “afternoon tea’-’
is famous. Tea is also often drunk at
regular mealtimes, before breakfast,
and on retiring. The English climate
makes pleasant the use of hot tea the
year around, whereas we in America
must substitute iced tea in summer.
There is no more cooling, invigorating
drink, -say the Waples-PIatter Grocery
Co., than a tall glass of White Swan
Tea, iced. This blend ia especially
strong and fine-flavored, and is par-
ticularly adapted to the making of de-
licious, full-colored iced tea.
Early heat records point to a liberal
use of White Swan iced tea in our sec-
tion this summer—and its manufac-
turers are stimulating demand with
another “Drives Fatigue Away!” ad-
vertising campaign in this paper.
THIS COUNTRY BOY ANXIOUS TO
LEARN
£
Suffered
weaK, nervous
“T WAS in a very weakened,
run-down condition, surely
in need of a tome and build-
er,” aayB Mrs. J. It. Wrenn, of
Anna, Texas. "I was so weak
I had to go to bed, end kept
getting weaker.
“I suffered with my back so
much. I was very nervous,
couldn’t rest good at night, I
couldn’t eat anything—I just
wasn’t hungry.
"I had read bo much of
Cardui, I thought best to use
it: I took Rcvcn or eight bot-
tles, and by the time I had
taken them I was stronger
than 1 had been in several
years. I can highly recom-
mend Cardui.”
Thousands of others have
found that the tonic effects of
the purely vegetable ingredi-
ents of Cardui were just what
they needed to help restore
their appetites, to help bring
them easily and naturally
back to normal health and
strength. It has been found
of great benefit in so many
eases of weakness, that you
should surely try it, when In
need of a good tonia
Bay R at your druggist’s.
CARDUI
A Vegetable Took
11 ui-u-uag
I I. * yw a tj ^ v i spss/ n ii CllIvLi U j ,
| the Mississippi Hoods before the House I *
er
ddnuijTG to other crops. dav in Rincer with Henrv Roberts
“There will be abnormal heat, par; Fred Whftefldd and families
tiemarly and briefly during .Tilly and I Jim ,Wena an(] famillv and J. W.
August; but for the larger areas of ,w*ns visi,..d E Carneal and wife at
the United States and Canada for a Hudkabay Sunday
\'Zl " "}.aV ity ■"! thTir Inflation, h Allen Patton and family were visit-
r.JJY will he written down as a me- \\na ■ SrniHnv
mo: able cold dry year.” he foreeasts. T< j. Mc( lanahan has the sympathy
I.l short, Brown predicts the lowest l f a„ in the (k>ath of hU motber at
productive agricultural year n the, Breckenridge, last *eek.
f* S’, r and aeeopduigj S. R. Hicks and J. D. Knight are
to IT. S. Department of Agn< ulture, juror>. tM* week at Stephenville.
crop reports, his foreeasts are run- ..... — .. r .
niin- true.
Wirt Rogers, wife and daughter of
Amarillo
Ogers
piis,--
6d through this’county
,• V; £p.: rtmeht’s rrpo.t of Tunc » last week, going to DAsdcmona.
sta'ed the '-peach crop would be 51.8
per ent normal; early potato crop
*58.1:6 per cent normal,’iy pie crop 57.2
per cent normal.
(LateM figures indicate the corn crop
for.' 1927 w ill be approximately 02 per
cent good, the lowest in many year*: vj|le, spent Sunday with B. A. Wells
four years ago, Brown predicted ,.lrld wife. y
Several people enjoyed the singing
at Floyd Rice's, Sunday night. v'
Mr. and Mrs. Byer ’of Dublin, spent
Sunday with their son, Arthur, and
family. «
M. E. Moss and wife of Stephen-
Commi,l“ S. iFORMER OAK DALE CITIZEN
year he foretold 11*27 “would Witness a
return of the conditions of 1916,” his-
torically known ns “the year without
n summer.” (■'
How his prophesies have earned him
the title or "champion long distance
weather forecaster” is best shown by
the steady decline of the corn crop
since his remarkable prediction of
1923 before the House Agriculture
Committee.
WEEK’S HAPPENINGS IN
. THE PIIRVES COUNTRY
A good rain fell in this-community
Monday and Tuesday of last week.
Miss Dolores Hancock visited her
parents Tuesday and Wednesday of
last week.
There was a party at the home of
Carl Gilbert Tuesday night.
The Purves basebnll team played
ball at Alexander, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ad Cook visited in
Desdemona, last week.
Mrs. George Johnson, who has been
visiting her daughter in Fort Worth,
returned home Saturday.
J. S. Clendenin was a visitor in this
community, Saturday.
Next Friday night is singing night
Everybody come and bring somebody
with yon. _
Kerosene is also excellent for bath
tubs and porcelain ware.
DIED AT PLA1NVIEW, TEXAS
A large rain fell here Tuesday
morning which put the Bosque higher
than it has been for some time.
Bon Hicks of Lorenzo, Texas," was
here visiting relatives of the com-
munity the past week. He returned
home Wednesday. .Miss Lucille Will-
iams, who has been attending school
at Tarleton College the past year, re-
turned with him. also her grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Lindy Johnson.
Mrs. W. F. Upham of Alexander is
here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Coke
Lidia,, this w^ek.
Grandmother Stewart visited her
son, Rev. W. I. Stewart of Carlton,
last Wednesday and Thursday. She
reported him getting along nicely.
R. C. Lidia and family took dinner
in the hrnne of Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Fowjer, Sunday.
Several from this community at-
tended the funeral of Marvin Wood at
Stephenville, Sunday afternoon.
Next Sunday being our regular
singing day, everybody is invited to
come and take part in the singing.
We have just received the sad news
of the death of Lonnie Johnson. Mr.
Johnson was bora and reared in this
community, and is a son of Mrs. Lindy
Johnson. He died Sunday at his home
in Plainview, Texas. Carl Birdwell
and his mother left at once to attend
the funeral.
Listen boys! " «
Here is a story of a poor boy as told
by Farm and Ranch.
He grew up on an East Texas farm
in Wood county. It was a good many
years ago, and the poorest school in
your county is probably better than
those were in this boy’s community.
We will call him Jim, because that
was his everyday name. Well, Jim
had a great hankering for knowledge
and the few and simple textbooks of
the times were mastered. In such
hon|es as his there were few other
books than the Bible, and newspapers
were likewise scarce. Because it oc-
curred to him that a newspaper office
offered some kind'of mysterious con-
tact with the great world of knowl-
edge, Jim quit working as a fftrm
hand and became a printer’s devil.
The average farm home at today
has more books, more and better news-
papers, and in every way more facili-
ties for acquiring knowledge than the
most prosperous of those days. Were
Jim a boy again today, he would be
able to have a large library of free
books and several high class papers
and 'magazines for the price of a
week’s work. It was not so then, and
to the ambitious and knowledge-hun-
gry Jim. the great stock of Exchanges
in the little country newspaper office
must have seemed a treasure greater
than LaFitte’s.
So Jim learned to be a printer, that
he might be in reach of reading mat-
ter. lie'borrowed books when he could
and eventually decided to be a lawyer.
He became the owner of the irttie
country print shop, and continued to
study. Law books were also scarce,
and few lawyers had great stacks of
sheep-bound volumes such as you see
now in nearly every lawyer’s office.
Attending court at Quitman, where
Jim had his home, a great lawyer
from another county became interest-
ed in the young man’s ambitions and
told him that he would lend him books
if he Mould come after thetri. The
great lawyer’s home was at Rusk.
I.ook up Rusk and Quitman on the
map and you will find that Jim had 65
Or 70 miles to go to get those books.
That ■*wvmM"'hr> a small matter these
days of automobiles, maybe three
hours, hut Jim didn't even have a
horse.
Well Jim had enough money to buy
.a railroad ticket to Rusk, so he went
for the books. A few days later one
of the few travelers who in those days
passed over the roads, overtook Jim,
the books slung over his shoulder in a
gunny sack. Not having the money to
rido hack on the train, he wps walking
and lugging’ the coveted 'books on his
back. How long would you think it
would take him to walk from Rusk to
Quitman with a gunny sack of books
over your shoulder? Jim must have
wanted those books mighty bad, you
think. Well, he did, for he was de-
termined to fit himself for the big job |
of life in his chosen field.
No, this is not a fairy story. Jim
was a real boy, and because he had a
vision and a determination to make
the most of his talents, he became a
real man; so real that the people of
Texas eventually called' him to the
biggest job they had. They tried him
out as a justice of the peace in his
homo town, and before him came two
men quarreling over whether a certain
ditch had been dug according to con-
tract. Jim adjurnea court and measur-
ed the ditch, Which settled the argu-
ment. They can still show you the
ditch at. Quitman. They then tried
him aut as a district attorney, and his
ability and honesty in enforcing the
law won him friends over a wider
range. And then Texas put him in the
governor’s chaff.
His full name was James Stephen
Hogg.
Glass of pictures anil showcases is
'cleaned with alcohol. Wring cloth
from hot water, dip in alcohol and
polish. Wipe glass immediately with
tissue paper.
Tough meat can be made tender by
placing it in vinegar for a few min-
utes before cooking.
Rations
sentimentalities auu yauvmry ....... i
psychological observations, beware of
platitudinous ponderosity. Let your
conversation possess clarified concise-
ness, compact comprehensiveness, co-
alescent consistency and concatinated,
flatulent garruity, jejune babblement
and asinine affections. Let your ex-
temporaneous decantations have intel-
ligibility without rhodomotade or
thrashonical bombast. Sedulously
avoid all polysyllabical profundity,
pompous prolixity and ventriloquil
verbosity. Shun double entendre and
prurient jocosity. In other words,
speak naturally, truthfully, clearly,
purely) but don’t use big words.”
METHODIST CHURCH
Next Sunday is Missionary Day in
our Sunday school. All departments
will meet in the main auditorium. The
men will have charge and will render
the following program:
Song No. 32—Come Thou Almighty
King.
Song No. 246—Rescue the Perish-
ing.
Prayer—M. E. Hodge. /
Scripture reading—Luke 12:22 to 34
—J. J. Jarrott.
Song—J. E. Lightfoot.
Announcements—Superintendent.
Our Work in Belgium —John D.
Deane.
Quartette.
Dismissal to class rooms.
We will begin promptly at 9:45.—
T. L. Davis, Superintendent.
HAMILTON VOTES TO PAVE
THREE AND HALF MILES
Hamilton, Texas,, June 22_.—In an
election Tuesday Hamilton voted by a
majority of 3 to 1 in favor of a bond
issue to pave about three and one-half
miles of streets, including the public
square. Friends of the proposition
regard the voting of the bond issue
as the beginning of a new era in the
development of Hamilton.
SAFETY
this new Tread
PINCHES
the Road
Safety, in the NEW Goodyear All-Weather Balloon, is in
its ability to grip the road and stop. This tire, when you
apply the brakes, grabs hold of the road and STOPS—
then and there.
A simple way to demonstrate its gripping power is to place
the palm of your hand flat on top of this tire and press
down firmly. You’ll feel the tread grip the flesh of your
hand—actually pinch it. And it grips and pinches the
road ever so much harder.
Come in and demonstrate this yourself whether you need
tires now or not. We want you to see WHY this is the
World’s Greatest Tire.. . ^ v-_._
Cole’
Battery & Supply Station
Several sanctuaries have Wen estab-
lished in Alaska where wild animals in
danger of extinction will be preserved.
A giant strawberry has been discov-
ered in China, growing on trees that
produce several crops each year.
The meat you are serving is free of germs that might cause
your entire family to be sick?
Doctors are advising to eat less meat these warm days for
fear of getting contaminated meat.
You Need Have N6 Fear If You Get Your
Meat Here for We Can Assure You That
it is as Pure as the Air You Breathe.
For the protection of our customers we have installed two
of the LATEST TYPE FRIGIDAIRE MACHINES giving
you the CLEANEST, SAFEST REFRIGERATION to be
found ANY PLACE, regardless of size.
Come in and see our machines. You will understand better why
we say WE ARE PROUD OF THEM and feel that you will see
there is no danger in the meat we sell.
Our capacity for storing fresh fruits and vegetables is larger
than ever and we always keep a big stock.
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