The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 21, 1926 Page: 2 of 20
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Diversified farming has been found advantageous
by a man in Dallas county, who this season decreased
his cotton acreage and planted a nice patch of sorghum.
While cutting his sorghum the other day he discovered
hidden in the field 560 bottles of real beer.
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Horses used to fear automobiles; now they shy at
another horses hitched to a buggy.
That’s not a bad record,
haven’t done any wrong
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LIFE’S MIRROR.
Reflections by Panne.
To know the worst
Yet believe the best
To expect the east
And give the most.
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NOT HER.
Police Captain:— “I think we have
located your wife, sir!”
“What did she say."
“Nothing."
“That’s not my wife.”
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AT THE BALL GAME
She:— “I don’t think you should
encourage that pitcher, John, he’s
dishonest."
“Why net?”
<fI just heard the man here say
he pitches underhand.”
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New Battery Station—Expert bat-
tery and generator work. 200 East
Cleveland aver, i” Ki’patrick Service
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Dr. N. E. Leonard, chiropractor,
has returned from an extended visit
in Denver, Colo., where she has spent
the summer, taking a post graduate
course at the Denver Chiropractic
School and also attending a course
of lectures. Two years ago, Dr.
Leonard took a post graduate course
in a Chiropractic College in Daven-
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THAT EXPLAINS IT.
Judge:— “How many times
you been in court?”
“Only once yer honor!”
“How long has that been?”
“About twenty years ago.”
“Hm.
And you
since ?”
“No sir.”
“Whern have you been?”
“In jail!”
. Hats Off to Jim and Harty.
The Electra New§, with great pleasure and with
pardonable pride, presents in this issue the announce-
ment of the opening in Electra of the new Totten
Brothers funeral home. The pleasure of the announce-
ment comes from our rejoicing at this forward step on
the part of this progressive Electra institution; the
pride is due, perhaps, to a bit of vanity which makes
us feel that we have some part to play ,in every move-
ment for the progress, the upbuilding, and the advance-
ment of the community. Surely this should be the
function and the mission of a newspaper.
Our readers will note that we have given consider-
able space in this edition to the announcement of the
opening of the new funeral home. In newspaper offices,
the amount of space given to an announcement should
be determined by its importance, its news value and its
interest to the community. We feel that we have not
overstepped ourselves in giving liberal space to this
announcement of the Totten Brothers, because it re-
presents a real forward step in the life of the’ com-
munity.
To some persons, it will seem strange that Totten
Brothers, the only funeral directors in Electra, should
see fit to give to this city a modern and beautiful
structure of service, when their old accomodations
might have served the public “well enough.” But the
Totten Brothers never have been content to give to
their patrons only good service. Always, they have
assumed the attitude that the best was none too good
for their patrons.
To be sure, the Totten Brothers have served Electra
faithfully, honestly and efficiently as funeral di-
rectors, in their former mortuary department. But
they felt the desire to give a better service; they sought
to give the citizenship of Electra and vicinity the best
mortuary service possible. So they have built in
Electra a funeral home second to none in a city twice
the size of Electra, anywhere in the state, and they
have dedicated it to a high type of service which has
made their name locally synonymous with superior
mortuary service.
By moving their mortuary department from their
furniture store on North Waggoner street to their
modern funeral home on West Roosevelt, the Totten
Brothers are enabled to render to the public a better
service. This is the spirit which lends dignity and
honor to the profession in which one is engaged. This,
it seems to us, represents the true spirit of service.
To Jim and Harty Totten, we say, “Hat’s off! You
have the right spirit. We commend you highly.”
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Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but it didn’t
keep two University of Pennsylvania students out of
jail. They were arrested when found taking a bath
in the home of Judge Starbuck of Philadelphia, which
they had entered without permission.
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Orville Wright recently declared that many people
who have no reason to fly except the desire for a thrill
are afflicted with a disease, according to a Canadian
newspaper. Some call it by such names, as “flyphoid
fever,” ‘inflewenza,” and aerosipelas.” Mr. Wright
suggests “skyatica.” I
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The Editor’s Opinion '
"Entered as second-class matter. August 2,
69C7, at the post office at Electra, Wichita
County, Terras, under Act of Congress of
ilarch 8, 1879.
txclu&we local aqents
for finest Stationery tnqravinq
made by
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Americas Leading Engraving Houses
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' ' ' SPECTACtTLAR CINEMA
Buried alive in the Tomb of Love
amid ' sounds of feasting, and gay
music!
Such was the fate meted out to
William Collier Jr. and Greta Nissen
in <<The Lady of the Harem ” a.
spectacle production directed for
Paramount by Raoul Walsh, which
comes to the Liberty soon;
/‘The Lady of the .Harem,” adapt-
ed by James T. O’Donohoe front, I
James Elroy Flecker’s stage produc-
tion, “Hassan,” is- a story of ancient
Persia filmed on a scale of tremen-
dous magnitude and lavishness x with .
its plot woven around a cruel Sultan
a kind hearted confectioner and two
lovers.
Briefly, the story is this
The glittering city of Khorasan
suffers countless cruelties under the
rule of an oppressive Sultan,
amid the oppression there is
who lives tranquilly—Ernest
rence, the confectioner.
William Collier Jr., from the hills
beyond Mosul, comes in search of
his sweetheart, Greta Nissen, drag-
ged away from his by the tyrant’s
soldiers. In the brilliant, exotic
slave market he finds her, only to
realize she is being purchased for
the Sultan’s harem.
That he may save -her, Collier
joins a band of citizens who have
been reduced to beggars by unrea-
sonable taxations. They pledge al-
legiance.
Disguised as merchants the Sul-
tan and members of his court gain
entrance to the beggar’s rendezvous
and discover Collier as the leader.
Among the scenes that follow are
a tremendous oriental bacchanal, the
swimming of a wide river by three
thousand men and a mighty mediev-
al battle scene—all leading up to a
tremendous climax that for genuine
thrills and beauty has seldom bepn
equalled upon the screen.
NOTICE.
I am back in my Beauty Shoppe
after a long illness and will be glad
to have all my old customers and
friends call and see me. Pearl
Frost, La Pearl Beauty Shoppe,
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A Loose NUT AT EITHER
EHD o'TH' STEERING
V4 HEER CAUSES’ MOST
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The Farmer** Lettered Lot.
The farmer leads no E Z life,
The C D sows will rot;
And when at E V rest from strife
His bones will A K lot.
In D D has to struggle hard
To E K living out;
If I C frosts do not retard
His crops, there’ll be a drought.
The hired L P has to pay
Are awful A Z too;
They C K rest when he’s away
Nor any work will do.
Roth N Z cannot make to meet,
And then for A D takes
Some boarders who ^o R T eat
& E no money makes.
Of little U C finds this life;
Sick in old A G hes;
The debts he O Z leaves his wife,
And then in P C dies
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WE BELIEVE IT.
Father:— “Here, here! Don t
that lanquage! Don’t you know what
becomes of little boys who use bad
language when playing marbles?”
“Yes sir! They grow up and play
golf.”
. Dr. .and Mrs. J. F. Burton have
maved to their hew home on North
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Robert Scotti so ofn Dr. and Mrs.
J. R. Scott, who recently underwent
an- operation at, the1 Stamford hospL
You’ll find nothing grudging or
forced in the manner in which the
executives of this bank take hold
of the problem or need you bring
to them.
You’ll find, rather, an eagerness
and a cordial willingness to be
useful.
QUITE A LOT.
An inquisitive and curious neigh-
bor woman had tried al means to
find out how much rent the woman
next door paid.
One day she met the woman’s
small son; seizinz the opportunity
by the horns she said: “That’s cer-
tainly a nice flat you folks live
in Thomas!” s
“Yes, mam.”
“How much does the landlord ask
your mother for rent?”
“He asks quite a lot.”
“Haven't you any idea how much
he asks?”
“‘Well, he asked three times last
month!”
Tufesd^’'September ^1, 1926.
tai, has" returned to his home
Electra. He is accompanied by his!Bl
mother and sister who have been at-
tending him during his illness. '‘Mi
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Meyer, Ben F. The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 21, 1926, newspaper, September 21, 1926; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1219682/m1/2/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.