The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 10, 1927 Page: 3 of 8
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irsday, February 10, 1927.
moment, brick after brick
Look!
survives.
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Special Sale
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Radium Silk
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Lincoln Practiced Thrift
Valentine
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PINK
DARK YELLOW
FLESH
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“Business is Good”
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Let Us Cut
Regular $1.50 Sellers,
Your Lumber
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—including White, Pink
and Green Pongees,
“IDEAL BUDGET”
GIVES FATHER PAIR
SHOES IN 2 YEARS
.xpects Only Small
Reduction in Cotton
Chesley Rutledge
CONFECTIONERY
Dissatisfied Clerk—“My salary is
not what it should be.”
Employer—“But do you think you
could live on it if it were?”
The incident
Recently an
FARMER WRECKS
WINDOWS OF BANK
THAT REFUSED LOAN
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L. LaRoe & Company
EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH
Genuine McAlester Coal Highest Quality Paints
FAIR PRICES—BEST SERVICE
Lilley Dry Goods Co.
“The Store of Personal Service”
were made. The Peoria papers print-
ed vivid stories of the discovery, but
during all these more than four dec-
ades this fine, upstanding Christian
gentleman has suffered under the
shadow of a sinister suspicion that he
had been a thief.
I am sending these two stories for
publication in the hope that all of us
hereafter may exercise greatest care
and thoughtfulness in accusing oth-
ers of wrong doing oi' crime.—J. B.
Cranfill in Dallas News.
have never seen him since. About a
year after this incident, in ransacking
my desk, I found those pencils, but I
was never able to find the innocent
lad. I have suffered in spirit through
all the intervening years on account
of my attitude toward this boy.
All of this came back to me when
I read in the Chicago Tribune of the
tragedy that came into the life of
Charles Burdette, who is now pastor
of a Baptist church neai' Springfield,
Mass. He was a brother of Robert J.
Burdette, the nationally known jour-
Today, the same rule applies. If
you would be successful, you too
must be thrifty.
$85 SOW PRODUCES
$3,000 WORTH OF HOGS
AND 150 MORE PIGS
a dozen peculiarly
They were flathead-
Lamar, Neb.—When he was re-
fused a loan by Rodney Davis, cash-
ier of the State Bank here, Al Mosier,
a farmer in Eastern Colorado, began
a warfare on the bank with bricks,
sending brick after brick through the
plate glass windows, damaging them
more than $500.
In a
First National Bank
Capital and Surplus, $200,000.00
Wash Satin
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old I
ma L.
was
sent to San Francisco to be repaiied.
It was old and gave evidence of many
decades of service. In the bottom of
it a letter had inserted itself under
the metl fixings which re-enforced
the pouch. It had slipped into this
crevice and thus had been utterly
lost.
It was the lost Peoria registered
letter of over forty years before and
—contained $2,700.
Of course, all possible amends
No Worms in a Healthy Child
All children troubled with Worms have an un-
healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a
rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance.
GROVE’S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly
for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, im-
prove the digestion, and act as a General Strength-
ening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and theChild will be
in Derfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottla
How Doctors Treat
Colds and the Flu
came smashing through the bank
window's and Davis, thinking robbers
were attacking the bank, ducked for
cover, but when he found out who
was throwing the bricks, he rushed
out a side door in search of the town
marshal. Finding him, the two men
went back to the bank and overpow-
ered Mosier, but only after he had
run out of bricks. He was taken to
the jail at Imperial, Neb.
Where good things to eat and the
the best people meet—Pierce’s Cafe.
Colds Cause urip and Influenza
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the
cause. There is only one “Bromo Quinine.”
E W. GROVE’S signature on box. 30c.
L_____
To break up a cold overnight or
to cut short an attack of grippe, in-
fluenza, sore throat or tonsillitis, phy-
sicians and druggists are now recom-
mending Calotabs, the purified and
refined calomel compound tablet that
gives you the effects of calomel and
salts combined, without the unpleas-
ant effects of either.
One or two Calotabs at bed-time
with a swallow of water,—that’s all.
No salts, no nausea nor the slightest
interference with your eating, work
or pleasure. Next morning your cold
has vanished, your system is thor-
oughly purified and you are feeling
fine with a hearty appetite for break-
fast. Eat what, you please,—no dan-
ger. I . .
Get a family package, containing
full directions, only 35 cents. At any
drug Store, (adv)
After touring a part of the Cotton
Belt for first hand information on
crop prospects, Joseph O. Thompson,
vice president of the American Cot-
ton Association, said while in Dallas
Friday that while there are indica-
tions of some reduction in the acie-
age for 1927, he feared that the re-
duction would be disappointing.
Regardless of the acreage this
year, he pointed out, the cotton mai-
We have a nice line of
Brown’s Candies pack-
ed in Valentine boxes,
from a pound up.1
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Having us cut your lumber to size,
will save you much hard work and
numerous mistakes, and we do the
work for very little over the actual
cost of the Lumber. This. applies
whether you are doing a little job
or a big job.
He practiced thrift because his
far seeing mind told him that it
was the only way in which he
could gain the goal he had set in
life.
Total production of soap in the
United States in 1925 exceeded 4,-
678 million pounds, an average
more than 40 pounds per person. Its
value was 230 million dollars, an in-
crease of 5 million dollars over 1923.
Hereford, Feb. 8.—It is doubtful
if a sow in Texas, representing an in-
itial cost of $85, has made such a rec-
ord for her master as has the old
foundation sow with which D. L. Mc-
Donald started his hog business in
1920. McDonald has already'sold
more than $3,000 worth of hogs from
this one pork producer, and now has
150 head of her daughters, grandsons
and granddaughters.
It is estimated that the 50 red gilts
and sows that McDonald sold to Deaf
Smith County farmers at auction
here February 5, will raise at least
500 pigs during the next year. This
u I is based on the average number of
pigs that Poland China sows produce.
Figuring the number of females from
these and the number that will stay
on the McDonald farm after the sale,
this sow’s increase will run into thou-
sands within the next three years and
she is still a producer herself.
Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 9.—Dr. Jess-
ice B. Peixotto of the University of
California Thursday announced com-
pletion of a model budget for a fam-
ily of five who live on a $2,000 an-
nual income. The budget allows fa-
ther one pair of shoes every two
years, a new overcoat every six years
and a haircut once a month.
Mother gets an afternoon dress
every three years and a pair of shoes
to go with it every second year. Fa-
ther gets $13 a year for tobacco and
mother $10 a year for incidentals,
including cosmetics.
The budget provides $394.99 for
clothes; $658.08 for food; $390 for
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
nalist and humorist who passed away
a dozen years ago while pastor of a
Baptist church in California. Bob
Burdette once humorously said:
“I was born in Pennsylvania, wean-
ed in Ohio, kidnapped in Illinois,
adopted by Iowa and married in Cal-
ifornia.”
In the old Peoria days Charles Bur-
dette was an employee in the postof-
fice and one night, when he was in
charge of the outgoing mail, a regis-
tered package disappeared. It con-
tained $2,700, which John Comstock
had mailed in payment of Kansas
land he had bought.
This package disappeared. Every
conceivable means of search was
brought into requisition. Charles
Burdette stated that he had receipted
for Mr. Comsock’s registered pack-
age, but beyond that he knew noth-
ing. All he knew wTas that he placed
it in the mail bag and that he never
saw it again. There was, of course,
vague suspicion that he had made
way with the money, but there was no
evidence to that effect and so the
matter rocked along until the clamor
died away.
Charles became a Baptist preacher
and went as a missionary to China,
but all of us know such an incident
There were always those to
think him guilty,
curred in 1879.
United States postoffice leather
pouch, re-inforced with steel,
$22.50 for vacations; $27 for enter-
taining friends at the home, and
$22.50 for presents, including Christ-
mas gifts.
PETRIFIED TREES IN
TEXAS FOREST KNOWN
AS WORLD’S LARGEST
Washington, Feb. 8.—The petri-
fied forest recently discovered in
Texas is the most marvelous known
to man, experts of the American For-
estry Association declared in a state-
ment today. Two geologists, Dr. C.
O. Gaither and Prof. S. I. Cade, are
the discoverers. The forest is situat-
ed in an almost inaccessible valley of
the Big Beild region of Texas, nearly
one hundred miles from the nearest
railroad.
Doctor Gaither and Professor Cade
state that they found tree trunks
standing to a height of 100 to 150
feet, and also many great trunks of
trees lying prostrate, of a size unpar-
alled in the world, both in diameter
and length. One tree trunk measur-
ed 896 feet in length. The upright
trunks are so large that they appear
from a distance to be great symmetri-
cal coulmns of natural rock.
Few white persons have visited the
valley, which is split by a deep ar-
royo leading into the Rio Grande. A
thick layer of volcanic ashes and
pumice stone covers the surface,
which evidently came from a peak in
the neighboring Chisos mountains.
Since the prostrate trunks are partly
covered with ashes it is evident that
this volcanic eruption occurred long
after the forest passed into its pres-
ent petrified state.
It is more than forty years now
since I employed a peripatetic boy as
printer’s devil in the office of the
Gatesville Advance, of which I was
then owner, editor, managing editor,
treasurer, cashier, reporter, printer
and bottle washer. The boy., whose
name I do not recall, was a live wire.
He was into every kind of mischief
and laughed his way through every
difficulty.
I had bought
shaped pencils,
ed like many of my subscribers and
odd enough to have been seated in
the Legislature. I took out one of
these pencils for use and stuck the re-
maining eleven in a pigeon hole in
my desk. A morning or two there-
after I saw one of those pencils safe-
ly hooked on the lapel of this office
devil’s coat. I went to my desk and
failed to find my remaining pencils.
I at once taxed the boy with having
stolen all of them. He protested his
innocence. All the joy faded out of
his little face as I raised the accusing
finger and taxed him with the crime.
He said:
“Dr. Cranfill, I know I am a bad
boy, but I am not a thief. I did not
steal your pencils.”
______ t_______ , I was so thoroughly convinced of
rent; $251.64 for house operation; his guilt that I discharged him and
Volstead Views
1926 as Best Year
ket is likely to be unfavorable be-
cause of the carry-over and world
competition. He declared that
America must soon have tariff pro-
tection on cotton because foreign
territory, occupied by sixteen hun-
dred million people, is adaptable to
growing cotton, including South
America, Australia, Southern Eu-
rope, Asia and Africa.
“Great Britain is spending mil-
lions of dollars to encourage cotton
production,” Mr. Thompson asserted.
“We are attempting to persuade
the farmer to first insure a food and
feed production adequate to his own
demands and then make his money
crop by diversification. This would
automatically solve most of the farm-
ers’ troubles.”
Minneapolis, Feb. 9.—Andrew J.
-Volstead, father of the enforcement
act that bears his name, believes that
1926 was “prohibition’s greatest
year.” z
Reviewing the law’s achievements
for the last 12 months, Volstead said
that “slowly, but very, very surely,
the country is becoming dry, and so
far, prohibition undeniably has prov-
ed to be a success.”
Now legal adviser to the North-
west prohibition administrator, Vol-
stead is now in intimate contact with
the workings of the law that he
wrote, and his faith in the amend-
ment js unchanged.
THE TRAGEDY OF BEING
WRONGLY ACCUSED
F or your sweetheart,
your wife or your moth-
er, this candy can’t be
beat.
Sell it with a Sun “Want Ad.”
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