Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1925 Page: 4 of 8
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THE STEPHENVILLE TRIBUNE. STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
I8HED EVERY FRIDAY BY
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Office in Sfepbsaville, Texas
act of Congress of March 8,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
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Any erroneous reflection upon the
chsnicter or standing of any person
or Arm appearing in its columns will
bo gladly and promptly corrected upon
calling the attention of the manage-
ment to the article in question.
Stephenville, Texas, June 19, 1926
THE KICKER
Not long ago a wild mule from
Persia wus brought to the United
States to be shipped to a certani zoo
logical garden. But just before the
vessel reached port he took a notion
to kick. He wore himself out trying
to kick the ship to pieces, but all he
succeeded in doing was to make a few
dents on the vessel and in killing him-
self. Instead of burying the mule at
aen, the captain dumped him Into the
furnace. So he became fuel to help
the vessel on its way.
Every community has a human mule
that kicks at everything' He feels
called to criticise and find fault with
every effort made for advancement or
improvement. 8ueh a kicker has his
mission. He does some good in the
world, but it is after he is dead.
The knocker or kicker builds up
nothing. He is a parasite upon the
community, feeding upon the gifts^and
interests of others. But there is a
cheerful thought connected with the
kicker. He soon kicks himself clear of
the community. Give him a little time
and he will kick himself to death like
the wild mule from Persia.
There is no person less respected in
the community than the kicker. He
has but a few real friends, and they
are ashamed to have his name men-
tioned in connection with theirs.
The kicker stands in the way of all
progress. He is met with in society,
in business, in politics and in religion.
So each community should remember
that the kicker will always be there.
But be not discouraged, the kicker
helps you after all—for he magnifies
your faults so you can sec them your-
self.—Ex.
to five thousand people, need hut one
newspaper. Present-day methods of
conducting s business of this kind de-
msnd a large volume and where there
Is just so much business to be hsd
end two different concerns hsve to
split it—oftentimes at a price that
brings a loss to them—it makes the
proposition burdensome. One news-
paper should do well in Comanche and
the Tribune hero and now will tell the
world that we will discourage any man
to enter the field in opposition to the
new management. It ought to be
against the law. The new paper will
in all likelihood be a credit to Coman-
che, more so than was possible for two
others in the past.
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It takes a hundred men to make an
encampment, but it takes only the in-
fluence of one woman to make a home.
I not only admire woman as the most
beautiful object ever created, but I
reverence her as the redeemed glory
of humanity, the sanctuary of all per-
fect qualities of heart and head. It is
because women are so much better
than men that their faults are con-
sidered greater. The one thing in this
world that is considered constant, the
only peak that rises above the clouds,
the window in which the light burns
foreVer, the one spark that darkness
can not quench, is woman’s love. It
rises to the greatest heights, it sinks
to the lowest depths, it forgives the
most cruel injuries. A woman's love
is the perfume of the heart. This is
the real love that subdues the earth;
the love that has wrought miracles of
art; tliat gives' us music all the way
from the crudle song to the grand
symphony that bears the soul away on
wings of fire; is greater than power,
sweeter than life and stronger than
death.—Robert Ingersoll.
PENSIONERS DO NOT GET
RAISE UNTIL FEBRUARY
Prof. J. C .Wilkerson, formerly a
school man of strong repute and sup-
erintendent of the Clifton public
schools the past several years, has
purchased the controlling interest in
the Comanche Chief and the entire
business of the Comanche Enterprise.
He announces that the two papers will
be consolidated on July 1 under a sin-
gle management. This is fine. Co-
manche, nor ang other cit^ froni three
Austin, June 9.—Confederate pen-
sioners will not commence to get the
benefit of the increased tax until next
February, it was stated in the comp-
troller’s department. At the last gen-
eral election the people adopted a con-
stitutional amendment increasing the
pension tax from 5 to 7 cents on the
$100 property valuation, and the 39th
legislature passed a law last January
putting this increase into effect. This
law becomes effective June 18, and the
increased tax will be collected this
year, but the money will not be avail-
able until the quarter beginning Feb-
ruary 1, 1926, it was stated.
There are approximately 13,000
Confederate pensioners on the rolls
and these are now receiving $37 a
quarter, but next year under the 2
cents increase in taxes, these Veterans
of the Civil War will receive about
$50 each, per quarter. During the
past several years there has been a
gradual decrease in the number of
pensioners. A few years ago there
were over 17,000 pensioners on the
rolls.
We should think the boll weevil
would be having freckles by now.
M agnoIene
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Everything for a quick lunch—HOT BARBECUE, ROAST
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These Sunday dinners are proving popular with all who
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accessories.
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Mi] Favorite Stories
kqnvtatcoM
Tks Prim* 3—all of tko Circus
Harry Dickson, tks writer, probably
knows as nsnch about the southern
negro as —y white man can ever ex-
pect to know. But evoa so, In bis
search for local color and quaint
lines with which to Illuminate hi*
stories, he constantly Is striking q
new angle of thought or a new angle
of observation on the part of some
one or another of his dusky neigh-
bors, down in Mississippi.
Once upon a time Dickson was on
a hunting trip la Sunflower county.
While there, he met an old negro
guide, a bear-hunter of superior at-
tainments and a person of a quaint
and an original philosophy. Ail his
life the old man had been buried at
the back edge of the canebrakes.
Only once or twice had he been to a
large town. The dream of his life. It
developed, was to see a circus. He
had heard ®f circuses, he had talked
with persona Who had seen circuses
and he treasured a tattered program
of a circus performance which a
white man had given him. But the
marvels of the red wagon and the
white top never had revealed them'
selves to him.
Learning of the old man's ambi-
tion, Dickson had an Inspiration. It
was an Inspiration born partly of
philanthropy and partly of selfish
and mercenary motives; for he
scented a chance to get some prime
material for one of his stories. He
promised Uncle Jim that when next
the circus visited Vicksburg, he,
Uncle Jim, should see It.
In the middle of the following gam-
mer Itlngllng Brothers came along
with their show. Dickson sent Uncle
Jim money for his railroad fare and
bade hfm be In Vicksburg at daylight
of a certain morning. He met Uncle
Jim at the train.
That day was probably the most
crowded day and the moat eventful
In Uncle Jim's entire life. His patron
took him up Into the yards to see
the circus unload from the cars, and
took him then to the ahow lot to
watch the raising of the tents.
Under escort of Dickson the old
negro saw the street parade, tha
afternoon performance and the side-
show and heard the concert. He saw
It all—menagerie, hippodrome, freaks
and thV rest of It. HU widely
popped eyes and the look on hla face
testified to this enthrallment at be*
holding all these wonders, but not •
word either of commendation or ad-
miration fell from hla Ups. Harry
was rather disappointed. He had
expected a constant flow of “copy."
Still maintaining hla silence Uncle
Jim trailed Dickson to hU home when
the day was ended. He had dinner In
the kitchen with the servants and a
little later was to be taken to the
train which would carry him back to
bis home In Sunflower county. To-
ward dark Dickson went to the back
of the house to bid his guest farewell.
Uncle Jim, with his shoes off, sat
on the lowermost step of the porch i
easing his tired feet.
‘‘Uncle Jim," said Dickson, 'Tin I
afraid you haven't enjoyed your trip
very much.”
"W’y, Mist' Dickson," said Uncle
Jiiq, “whut meks you think dat? I
ain't hever gwlne furglt whut I seen.
today ex long ex I lives, an l’s always
gw’lne be grateful to you, suh.”
"But you haven’t said anything j
about the circus. What made you so
dumb?"
"Well, suh, my eyes beheld so much j
dat It seem lak my tongue forgot to
wag.”
“Oh, that was It? Well, of all tha
things you've seen today what im-
pressed you most?”
“Ail of It ’pressed me—from de
start to de finish.”
"Yes, I know, but there must have
been some one thing that stands out
In your mind above all the others—
something that seemed to yon more
amazing than anything else. Think
the whole day over, now, and see If
you can tell me what that thing la."
"Well, suh, Mist' Dlckaon,” said
Uncle Jim, after a period of reflec-
tion. "ef It cornea down to jes’ one
thing, I'd say de thing w'Ich hit me
de hardest was dat air beast w'Ich
dey calls de camel. Uh, uh-h-h-h—
dat camel I"
‘‘Why the camel particularly?"
asked Dickson.
••Mist' Dlckaon." said Jim, “he's
got such a noble smell I"
(Copyright hr tho McNoosht SyndlooU. too.)
MAN—FEEBLE MAN
Man, feeble man, in all ages has
found fault with the changing styles
of women’s apparel. He raised old
Billy Thunder when fashion decreed
that it was wholly unnecessary for
her dreaa to sweep the ground and stir
up the microbes as ahe walked, and
when ahe bobbed her hair and painted
her cheeks and lips, he clinched hia
fist, tore hia hair and swore that civi-
lisation was tottering to a fall never
to rise again. Juat what the average
man who has passed the hey-day of
life thinks of modem fashions for wo-
men is related moat idealistically in
the Marshall Messenger, in the follow-
ing story;
“There is a man in thia town who
got cured of one of his grouches the
other day for good and for all time.
At least he says he is. Here is the
way he tells it: T have been very
much opposed to the way our women
folks dress in these latter days and I
haven’t hesitated to express my oppo-
sition. I have especially voiced it
around the home and I haven’t the
least doubt but my wife and daughter
grew very weary of hearing me talk
on the subject. I was always harking
back to the sensible way women dress-
ed thirty years ago.
“Now it happened that I married
just about thirty years ago and I was
always talking about the modest and
sensible way the ladies dressed at that
time. I can see now that my wife had
become threadbare on the subject and
she determined to cure me. And she
did, completely. The other night we
were invited to a little social party
where there wa sto be about a dozen
men and their wives. I got home early
from my business, shaved, slicked
down what hair I had and put on my
Sunday suit. I took my seat in the
parlor and waited for my wife. I
g^ew a little impatient but finally she
came and in all my life I have never
been so shocked. She had gone into
her wardrobe and extracted therefrom
a costume worn by her on her wedding
trip to the World’s Fair in Chicago in
1893. There she stood without the
least smile on her face and announced
she was ready." I sat glued to the
chair. She had on a dress that drag-
ged the floor and it had some kind of
flounce on it that made it spread out
like a fan behind. And I had forgot-
ten all about the bustles. She had on
the largest one I thought I had ever
seen, although she afterwards declar-
ed she had worn the identical one to
the World’s Fair. And say, you should
have seen how she was laced up in
front. You could actually see the
ridge of the whalebone under a close
fitting basque. 1 reckon it was a
basque. And I could have spanned
her waist above the bustle.
You would have laughed fit to kill
to see how she had her hair fixed up
and a most ridiculous hat on top that
was sorter screwed to one aide and
such • neck piece as I thought hsd
never been on land or sea. But while
I was just getting ready to explode
one of our daughters came in and
handed me a picture of her mother
taken on our bridal trip. And I’m
the biggest liar in ten states if she
didn’t hava on the exact costume that
the picture showed ahe wore that day
down on the Midway when we paused
for our pictures. She was insisting
she was ready and that we would be
late for the party. But I didn’t budge
an inch and I never would have budg-
ed an inch if she had not seen that I
was cured and left the room. The
girls helped her and she came back in
a few momenta with a dress just strik-
ing her shoe tops, a pretty little hat,
her lips had a touch of rouge, there
was just a suspicion of paint on her
cheeks, and I told her I never saw her
look prettier in my life or more tastily
dressed. I’m off the old style way of
dressing.”
FRED E. MORRIS IS GIVEN
GAME WARDEN COMMISSION
Fred E .Morris, who made the race
for State senate in this district on the
Ferguson platform has recently been
awarded for his support with the ap-
pointment of game warden for four-
teen counties in this section of Texas.
The place carries a handsome salary.
In a statement to the people of Bosque
county Mr. Morris has stated that he
will immediately begin to get himself
acquainted with conditions in the dis-
trict and render the very best of ser-
vice and attention to hunters and, fish-
W. P. PITTMAN will do your truck-
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Much interest is said to be mani
in the building of a new modern 3<
room hotel in Glqn Rose. Outside
capital is being drafted and the site
for the building is being sought. The
large increase in the number of tour-
ists coming to that city has prompted
this action and according to good
good authority the new hostelry will
be a reality within the next year. The
present spring and summer season has
found Glen Rose swamped with visi-
tors from all sections of Texas.
DESDEMONA PLANS TO
IMPROVE ALL STREETS
. The Desdemona city council has
adopted plans to grade and gravel all
of Desdemona’s streets other than
those already graveled.
According to Mayor Goodson H.
Rieger, a graveled highway will also
be constructed from Desdemona to
the Eastland and Comanche county
line, located one mile south of Desde-
mona. With the completion of thia
road De Leon and Desdemona will be
connected by 14 miles of graveled
highway.
Celebrate
July 3rd and 4th
HANDY'S PARK
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
Good Swimming
Good Entertainment
Good Shade, and
Plenty of Room
Bring your lunch and spend both days in celebration and enjoy-
ment. We will have the best rodeo that has ever been in this coun-
try; baseball games, and many other shows and devices to enter-
tain you.
Handy’s Park is the Best Place in
Texas to Cool You Off!
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1925, newspaper, June 19, 1925; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1134784/m1/4/?q=morris: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.