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DRAINAGE IS VERY BAD
United States Engineer Kipp Saye?
Even the Texas Law Is Inade-
quate for Problem.
Houstor ’ex.—That nearly every-
thing connected with fhe Texas coast
drainage operations is bad and that
little about it is good, not even the
Texas law that governs the issuance
of bonds by drainage districts, is the
opinion expressed by H. A. Kipp,
United States drainage engineer, who
is stationed in Houston for the pur-
pose of giving the people of that sec-
tion the benefit of expert drainage
advice.
The only thing that Mt. Kipp thinks
is commandable about the drainage
situation in the Texas coast country
is the growing desire of the people
for drainage, but he said that even
this is being thwarted by a combina-
tion of circumstances, that the mere
7 issuance of bonds does not provide
drainage, although many people are
now being taxed to pay for drainage
that they have not and will not re-
Jj. ceive from the bonds that have been
r issued. 1
In other words, he claims that the
hundreds of thousands of dollars that
have been raised by bond issues for
drainage in Harris and some of the
other coast counties of the state have
been practically thrown away; that
the work will all have to be done oyer
again and properly before drainage is
obtained.
Harris County, like several other
counties bordering on the gulf, has
• made a start to drain some of the flat,
level prairies within her borders, but
he frankly says that these lands will
never become thoroughly drained if
the present methods of laying out
drainage districts and constructing
small, inefficient ditches is continued.
The boundary lines of these districts
do not conform to the natural lay of
the ground or watershed basins. Po-
litical or property lines have been
made the boundaries of most, of these
districts, regardless of the watershed
j|-: of which each district, is a part. One
of the fundamental principles of good
drainage is to organize each drainage
district according to the natural
watershed iy>ii\idaries, so that each
drainage system will be complete in
itself, and will not interfere with or
be hindered by any adjoining district.
In order to determine the logical
drainage units or districts in any
county he says it will be necessary
first to make a. complete topographi-
cal survey of the entire county. (The
V county commissioners court of Harris
* '-^^fjj^Jias recently set aside $35,000
Sit/ypose.)
/icy in Seventieth District,
n, Tex. —Governor Colquitt
ised Friday of a vacancy in
ntieth representative distinct
filled by G. A. Heilig of La
’ayette county. The govern-
!U a special election to fill
:yl*<The date has not been
is vacancy makes fourteen in
house.
THE VALUE Of 0368
ROASS TO FARMERS
TEXAS INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS
PRESIDENT TALKS ON
GOOD ROADS.
The Benefits of Improved Roads Are
Numerous and Extensive.
What to Do.
Work and worry.
make women old be-
fore \ their time-“Stop
both. Use RUB-NO-
MORE WASHINGl
POWDER. It loosens
dirt instantly — saves
PAPER ITSELF WAS EVIDENCE I WANTED TO EXCHANGE SEATS j1 Water Is Good Medicine
Wheat Movement Is Large.
Temple, Tex.—The movement of
wheat from the North to the gulf has
again been resumed by the Santa Fe
railway through Temple for Galves-
ton and all of the 400 cars that were
stored during the life of the embargo
have been moved onward to destina-
tion.
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First Bale Reaches Center.
. Center, Tex.—The first bale of
Shelby County cotton was brought
into Center Saturday by H. O. Lane,
who lives four miles north of Center.
The highest bid was 8c and Mr. Lane
refused to sell. A premium of about
$30 was made up.
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Four Outi«-«s Killed.
El Paso, Tex.—In a running fight
between five horse thieves, said Ctr uv
Mexicans, and Texas cowboys near
• Sierra. Blanca, in El Paso County,
Wednesday, four of the outlaws were
killed, and the other wounded so that
he probably will die. ^
E. W. Kirkpatrick, president of the
Texas Industrial Congress, with a life-
time’s experience in farming, made
the following sensible explanation of
the good roads proposition, as it con-
cerns the farmer, in an address be-
fore the midsummer session of the
Texas Good Roads Association at Gal-
veston last week:
“The value of improved roads de-
pends upon strict compliance with the
law of economy. Dense population or
heavy traffic only will justify expen-
sive roads. The most valuable road
for average travel is that which gives
efficient permanent service at lowest
possible cost. Sand-clay roads, when
properly constructed and saturated
With petroleum or petroleum by-prod-
ucts, often give better service and are
more valuable to the farmer than are
expensive systems of roadmaking.
“The benefits of improved roads
are numerous and extensive. The ele--
ment of time enters into the cause of
all failure and disappointment. Im-
proved roads give us choice of time
and enable us to save time which
otherwise would be lost. With good
roads we can choose most advantage-
ous times for marketing or other
travel. We can choose weather un-
suited for farm work, wet or dry, light
or dark. We shorten time by greater
speed; fewer teams, wagons and har-
ness are needed; and this lessens ex-
pense of maintaining. Smaller capital
Is used—interest, insurance and other
expenses hre reduced. The value re-
ceived by farmers from good roads
is aiso reflected in the increased value
given to his farm. This increase in
value often amounts to more than
the total cost of the road.
“Dismissing consideration of all
these economic values to farmers,
Which arise from improved roads,
there is another class of benefits and
advantages accruing to farmers and
to all other classes of population
which should appeal to us more
strongly than the economic class of
benefits: the educational, profession-
al, ethical and social interests are
very materially influenced by the con-
dition of the common roads. The ef-
ficiency of rural schools is dependent
upon good # roads. With good roads
several inferior schools are concen-
trated into one superior school at re-
duced expense. Churches, fraternities
and other organizations are affected
similarly. Indeed, nearly all schools
could, by aid of large motor vans, be
concentrated in village or town where
classification and increased efficiency
could be had at reduced cost. Fre-
quent urgent professional service of
physician, surgeon, officer or minis-
ter, the value of which is often be-
yond measure, depends largely upon
conditions of roads.
“The farmer situated five or ten
miles from .city or town, who has the
advantage of improved roads, of mo-
tor vehicles, tojjjK^^gWith telephone
and free rural 1 enjoy
nearly all .the advantages of city life;
and in addition, many special privi-
leges and luxuries denied to those
living in the city. In the presence of
these conditions, country life'Will be
so attractive and desirable that it will
draw to itself the best quality of citi-
zens from the city and from immigra-
tion also. And it is this quality of
citizens that gives value to property,
and bring happiness, contentment and
prosperity to a community.
“It is not too much to say: A gen-
eral system of improved roads, to-
gether with modern methods of com-
munication, transportation and educa-
tion—then the world would live in
peace and wars would be no more.”
you — siaves your
clothes. 'Makes them
like new again.
RUB-NO-MORE
WASHING POWDER
is a sudless dirt re-
mover for clothes.
/It cleans your dishes,
dinks, toilets and
cleans and sweetens
your milk crocks. It
ki|ls germs. It does
not need hot water.
RUB-NO-MORE
Carbo Naptha Soap
■All Grocers
The Rub-No-More Co., Ft.Wayne, Ind.
RUB-NO-MORE
Washing Powder
Five Cents -
In This Case Examiner Required No
Pledge that Student Had Done
the Work Himself.
At. a certain college custom ordains
that at examination time each of the
candidates shall write the following
pledge at the bottom of his papers:
“f hereby declare, on my honor, that
I have neither given nor received as-
sistance during the examination.”
One student, after handing in one
of the papers, suddenly remembered
that in his haste he had omitted to
write the oath. On the following day
he sought out one of the examiners
and told him that he had forgotten
to'put the required pledge on his pa-
p^r.
The examiner looked at hjm over
the top of his glasses and dryly re-
marked:
“Quite unnecessary. Your paper in
itself is sufficient evidence. I’ve just
been correcting ill”
BY NO MEANS A STRANGER
Not tne First Time Lawyer* Had Slum-
bered With the Companion of
His Travels.
The new senator from. Alabama
Francis Shelly White, is a lawyer and
has a large practice in ' his state.
Sometimes his work takes him out in
the interior, and on one of these
trips he was accompanied; by his cli-
ent, and client being a picks man, a
deacon in the church to which White
belonged.
It was late at night when the darky
pulled up his span before the doors of
the inn, which was presided over by £
lady of generous heart and equal pro-
portions. When he went to the desk
to engage a room White was apolo-
getically told that it was impossible,
on-account of the influx of visitors,-to
give him a separate chamber.
“I guess I can get a separate bed,
then,” said he. But to this the reply,
was the same.
“May I ask who is to be my bed-
fellow?” asked WTliite, who did nSt
relish t-he idea of sharing his couch
with a stranger.
“Why,” replied the landlady, “it will
be the gentleman with whom you
came.”
“Oh, that’s all right, then,” said
White, with a sigh of relief. “He
and I are both deacons in the same
church and have been sleeping togeth-
er during the 11 o’clock sermon in the
First Baptist church for 20 years.”—
Providence Journal.
' Many a misguided fellow thinks he
could support a wife when he couldn t
even pay for her complexion.
Man Sitting in Draft Had Reason
for inquiring as to Presence of
Christian Scientist.
Dr. Henry Moskowitz, president of
the New York civil service commis-
sion, tells this story.
It happened at the state convention
of the Progressives at Syracuse.
“A quiet-spoken man near one of
the doors arose and inquired if there
happened to be a Christian Scientist
among the assemblage.
“In answer to liis question a lady
left her seat and wended her way to !
the man.
“ 'I am a Christian Science teacher,’
she'said. ‘What can I do for yoh?’ -
“ ‘If you do not mind changing seats
with me, I would appreciate it very
much,’ hesitatingly replied the man.
‘This draft is not very good for my
cold.’ ” , v
In Time of Domestic Stress.
Knicker—What does your wife do
when words fail her?
Bocker—She issues emergency cur-
rency.
Many people who have wenlc kidneys fail
to appreciate how mnch water c-a.n do for
them—-hut while it is pood to drink water
freely, it must be pure water. In many
sections, the lime or alkaline water starts
kidney tremble of itself.
ost-reliable rein-
Doan’s Kidney Pills are,successfully used
all over the civilized, world and publicly
recommended by thousands.
A Texas Ca6e.
_____—: D, O. H. Coston,
je^nrmanufacturer of niu-
IwJaULsleal Instruments. P.
O. Box 270, Bay
; . -7-City. Texas, says:
Joints were stiff
^*snd lame and my
-limbs teriilbiy swol-
len. Often I was
confined to the bed
and. m'y kidneys wete
In awful shape. As
goon as I used Doan’s
Kidney Pills, the
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pains began to leave
and It wasn't long
before I was cured.
During the „pa8t
three years I haven’t
m —j had one sign of the
old trouble, and I know that my cure la
permanent.’’
Get Doan’s at Any Store, 50c ■ Box
DOAN’S kpiidJLesV
FOSTER-MELBURN CO.. BUFFALO, N. Y.
FROM ECZEMA AND RINGWORM
You can obtain instant relief by us-
ing Tetterlue, also the best remedy
known for Chafes. Bites of Insects,
Tetter Itching Piles. Burns, Chllblai 11s,
old Itching Sores, etc. Because you
have spent hundreds of dollars and ex-
perienced no relief for your itching
skin troubles, besides devoting a great
deal of energy scratching and pawing
at the plague spot until the blood is-
sued forth, don’t despair. Nature wisely
provides a remedy for every ill that
flesh is heir to. Tefterlne will cure you
permanently, positively and completely,
nothing else will. „ „ r.
Sold by druggists or sent by mail for EOc.
by J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah. Ga. • Adv.
Your Baby’s Life
It is more to you than your own. Then why try any other
remedy than
Fletcher’s Castoria
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Unless Your
Physician prescribes it?
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- Remember there is nothing injurious In CASTORIA if it bear?
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Farmers Are Selling Little Cotton.
Cuero, Tex.—More than 100 bales
of cotton were brought in Wednesday
to be ginned. The price paid for good
middling was about 7%c, though most
of the farmers are holding for better
prices.
$10,000 Fire Loss at Belton.
Belton, Tex.—Fire destroyed the
Bock Alliance building Thursday
night and contents, with a loss of
$10,000.
Nearly $3,000 Collected for Wounded.
Houston, Tex.—Nearly $3,000 has
been collected by the German-Ameri-
can relief committee of Harris County
for the relief fund for German and
Austrian soldiers wounded in battle.
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Grain Is Moving From Cleburne.
Cleburne, Tex.—The several hun-
dred .cars of grain held at Cleburne
and along the division of the Santa Fe
following the outbreak of the Euro-
pean war have, begun to move toward
Galveston.
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Police Force Is Cut Down.
Houston, Tex.—Twenty-one mem-
?rs of the Houston police force Wed-
Tuesday were notified that their serv-
ices would be desired no longer than
“ent. 1.
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Nation’s Business Compiled.
Washington.—Merchandise import-
ed into the United States during July
amounted to $160,188,133, the depart-
ment of commerfce announced Satur-
day. Imports in July, 1913, amounted
to $139,061,770. Merchandise valued
at $154,082,225 was exported last
month, as compared with $160,990,778
in July last year.
Pure Food Suits to Be Filed.
Austin, Tex.—Suits were ordered
filed Friday by the pure food commis-
sioner agaihst two meat dealers at Bel-
ton and one each at-Waco and Tem-
ple for the alleged violation of the
pope food laws.
Bumper Apple Crop Forecast.
Washington.—An apple crop of 210,-
000,000 bushels is forecast Monday by
the department of agriculture, which
bases its estimate upon its latest re-
ports. That is about 65,000,000 bush-
els more than last year, but 25,000,000
bushels less than in 1912.
The Cost.
Owner—What’ll it cost to repair
this car of mine?
Garage Proprietor—What ails it?
Owner—I don’t know.
Ghhifcf' Proprietor—Thirty-four dol-
lars and sixty-five cents.—Puck.
Insured Against Loss.
No one ever doubts the curative
powers of Hanford’s Balsam after
once using it for external ailments on
man or beast. Countless unsolicited
testimonials from users of this valu-
able remedy show what it has done
for them, and the manufacturer’s guar-
antee insures your satisfaction or the
return of your money. Adv.
Proof Positive.
“Hold on a minute,” said a man to
his party over the telephone, “central’s
on the line.”
“I ain’t, either!” exclaimed the in-
dignant central.
No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX
This is a prescription prepared es-
pecially for Malaria or Chills and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case, and if taken then as a tonic
the fever will not return. 25c.—Adv.
Sold only in one size-bottle, never in bulk, or otherwise;
to protect the babies.
The Centaur Company,
Pres’t
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His Two Dollars Wasted.
They met at the crossroads.
“What is Sile looking so glum about
these days?” asked the farmer.
. “Gosh! He thinks he’s been bun-
koed again.” drawled the railsplitter.
“Do tell!”
“Yeas. By heck, he paid a dollar
for a bottle of stuff that was adver-
tised to make yeou live 200 years an’
now he’s discovered that some one has
predicted that the world will; come to
au end this year.”
We know of no liniment that equals
Hanford’s Balsam in its healing prop-
erties. Adv.
The Movies.
Teacher (meaning the scholars t©
answer about the moon and stars) —
Now’, children, what is it we can see
in the darkness that we cannot see in
the daytime? ,
A very small voice—Please, teach-
er, the moving pictures.—St. Louis
Post, Dispatch.
Steps are sometimes taken for a di-
vorce at public balls.
kmm COMPLEXION
GUARANTEED. USE Z0HA POMADE
It is said that distance lends en-
chantment to the view—but not to a
man’s view of the almighty dollar.
Double Supply Needed.
“Maud spends an awful lot of money
for complexion powder.!’
“Naturally; the two-faced thing!”
the beauty powder compressed with healing
agents, you will never be anuoyed by pim-
ples, blackheads or facial blemishes. If
______ DOt satisfied after thirty days* trial your
DICKEY’S ODD RELIABLE EYE WATER ’ dealer will exchange for 50c in other gooda
l’or sbre eyes. Doesn’t burn or hurt. Adv. ! -^ona has satisfied for twenty years—try it
------—- at our risk.
“Faithful are the wounds of a
friend”—and frequent.
At dealers or mailed, 50c.
ZONA COMPANY, WICHITA, KANSAS
Garibaldi Assembled Volunteers.
Paris.—Captain Ricciotti Garibaldi,
the Italian soldier of fortune, and his
three sons, headed 2,400 Italian vol-
unteers who assembled Wednesday
on the Boulevard Des Invalides.
Len H. Lowrey End*d Life.
Rosenberg, Tex.—Len IT. Lowrey,
aged 24, a prominent young business
man of Guy and well known through-
out Fort Bend County, cotnmitted sui-
cide Thursday by drinking' carbolic
acid. •
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Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won’t Cure.
The worst cases, no matter tf how long standing,
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves
Pain and Heals at the same time. Z5c, 50c. $1.00.
Every time a widower looks tvv^ce at
a woman the gossips have something
to interest him.
7VlNGHh STl It
How To Give Quinine To Children
FEBRILINE is tha trade-mark name given to an
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Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
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cause nervousness nor ringing in thejiead. Try
it the next time you need Quinine for any pur-
pose. Ask for 4-ounce original package. The
name FEBRILINE is blown in bottle- as cents*
Imaginary troubles
worry than real ones.
cause more
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Winchester rifles are not the choice of any one special class, but of all
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be dissolved in water as needed.
As a medicinal antiseptic for douchesS
in treating catarrh, inflammation or
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caused by feminine ills it has no equal.
For-ten years the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co. has recommended Paxtine
in their private correspondence with
women, which proves its superiority.
Women who have been, cured say
it is “worth its weight in gold.” At
druggists. 60c. large box, or by mail.
The Paxton Toilet Co,, Boston, Mass.
W. N. U., HOUSTON, NO. 36-1914.
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Habermacher, J. C. & Lane, Ella E. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1914, newspaper, September 3, 1914; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1136883/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shiner Public Library.