West Texas Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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W. C. T. U.
To
to overthrow the saloon.
'<1 held it to
every person her work, and to
and then the tiny girl knelt down not be deceived, for the best are every mother her opportunity in
the W. C. T. U.
You say you
Buyers of Dry Goods
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and organized The Dealers Mercantile Company to be located on Elm St., in Dallas,
wholesale rate and prices for all these retail stores, eliminating the middle man and
doing away with the drummer and his big expense account.
All the merchandise that we buy comes to us direct from the factory, but
bers of this affiliation we are associated with some of the best and largest stores in
Waco, Greenville, Beaumont, Marshall, etc. and the Hudson-Davis Co. with nine big
stores in as many good towns.
week.
goods are now coming in and we are more than pleased with the results. Shipped
going to give our customers the benefit of this deal and if you will come in and allow
us to prove that these are facts and not an advertising scheme, but a legitimate and.
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straight business proposition that will save yon money. We want you to investigate
—this-new, before you are thinking of buying any fall goods. Let any clerk in our
store show you the merchandise, measure it, weigh it and compare the price.
This new buying deal will appeal to any man of reason, that the less men
that handle an-article the cheaper it can be sold.
These are real money saving facts that will save you from 10 to 35 per cent
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on your dry goods. You owe it to yourself to investigate our claims and if we cannot
prove that what we say are facts we will not ask you for your business.
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We will meet any mail order competition and ask you for your trade on a
Respectfully,
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—his fal—-
R. F. Short & Company
er room to
THE PRICE IS THE THING
THE DEPENDON STORE
' a vote of
persisted
create temperance Wallace Finlay is visiting his
woman
Will Benson of Olney
a
10.
to marry a
e it an ay*-
—i o
ivB
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Make that one so
true that your in-
ay showed a
of William
’oily— Polly
ead of thir-
Polly’s re-.
exchange as
n watering
nk. Thomas
t and threw
ct wan blank
I the fourth.
rs were not
ightmare—a
id not writ-
his head in
touched the
Mrs. Whitley of Newcastle was
shopping in Graham Monday.
little one,” replied the astonished
keeper.
II. Ward, of Graves & Ward,
has returned to his home in Jack
county.
and be a mother to your child.
A special case, you say?
S. W. Ratcliff and H. L. Sha-
han, of Finis, E. F. and A. C.
Shahan of Denton were in the
city Friday and called to pay
their respects to The Reporter
while here.
Dr. J. L. Williamson is in Cis-
co on business.
Tom Alford has the position of
nightwatch at the oil mill this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arnold who
have been visiting Mrs. Arnold’s
parents in Llano, returned Fri-
day night.
Miss Vera Norman returned
from Mineral Wells Monday.
FDGAR MLENDON,
Supt. of Schools.
tion house.
“Did you put i
jail?” she asked.
“Your mamma;
and then,
flies on the
nan dropped
I fell asleep
“But you did, sir,”
• the little ne.
At that moment the
church must preach against it;
the home must array itself against
it, and the state must also vote the city this week.
was in
k among the
on his bed.
in the lobby
revial of old
I”
red Thomas,
ash ions—old
n Gleason—
at had made
And so he
to his feet.
» no harm to
’oily—introf
iters of the
led over her
my mamma in
items for this column are
furnished by local Union.
why no, my
chap."
and childhood robbed of its ture in your home; inspire meet-
that the fol-
published a
his house-
ile he was
‘homas had
hen an idea
nmenced to
The lines
•n he re-read
and rewrote
ally became
was hot.
cotch within
liar were on .
was bound
to he wrgte,
lights racing "
He paused
Scotch or
Would that it were! A popu- rights? What more is needed to* ings by your presence; wear the
fluence will be felt. One with
have it set in its midst; the
way—he was
nan again—
blood cours-
and Polly—
as dashing
•ideacent, ir-
humanity,
vable.
er myself,"
measured a
t and set it
cigar. The
ceiling.
[ to his head .
empty. He
and prayed, “Now I lay me down among the victims. Young wom-
the State. The Graham-Jarrell Co. with 18 big stores, in such towns as Hillsboro,
his desk and
er, filled his
back and
hould she be
ivorcee? ’ It
uld she still
it be a tale
world! Rev. Mary I.
woman drew back as if ashamed, state. Hundreds fall yearly. Do
An Open Letter to the
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against it. As the friends of the
saloon use every means in its
favor, so must the friendsottem-
billed through our wholesale house so that we may get the jobber’s price. As mem-
to his feet,
floor. Not
them.
id trampled
fell on the
legitimate saving. All goods marked in plain figures.
With this outlet we can make very attractive orders for the miHs. These
direct from the factory, only one profit between you and the factory price. We are
MODERN merchandising calls for modern means and ideas. Realizing this, twenty-
two merchants, representing twenty-nine stores, met in Dallas, Texas in January
some mother knelt above her in
infancy, blessing and loving her,
never dreaming of such an end?
Ah, what mother dues , not look
into the future of her child over
whose pillow at night she has
lingered prayerfully? She may
not associat with that little life
her duty in the work of reform,
but will she not be glad some
day to have that child say,
“What I am I owe to my mother.”
It is not enough that the par-
ents be merely temperate, but
precept upon precept must be
Texas, to sell merchandise at wholesale exclusively. This enables us to get the net
God can put to flight a host,
demoralized, womanhood debased, Provide good temperance litera-
stir the latent motherhood of our white ribbon;
land? You ask. “What can lie sentiment, and thus help destroy sister in Wichita Falls,
done?” I will tell you:
Christian Endeavor Program.
Time 7:30 p. m.
Topic lesson from the Forests
and Fields.
Leader, Miss Minnie Ruben-
koenig.
Song.
Scripture reading, Ps. 104:1-35.
Prayer.
Object talks, followed by one
stanza of song.
Leader talk.
Prayer.
Song. "
One minute talks by H. P.
Rose, C. P. Hutchison, Richard
Price, Nat Price, H. L. Morrison,
Z. A. Hudson, Pat Tackett. F.
A. Kesseler, C. B. Jones, G. B.
Hall, Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Hudson.
to sleep,” adding the words “O'en as well as young men are: are only one.
God. take my mamma out of lured into vice and crime too ter- j strong Sind so
jail.” The next day the judge rible to be depicted. Is it not
A Mother's Opportunity.
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It has been said: “In the di-
vine economy, mothers and homes
determine the character and con-
i ditions of any people. Alike in
) heathen and in Christian lands,
as are the mothers so are the peo-
pie, or in other words, no people
rises higher than the mothers.”
To the mother in the civilized
lands comes boundless opportu-
nity to help the world. From
her own hearthstone she can rad-
iate an influence that will bless
not only her own home but other
homes. It is this sacred spot
that the W. C. T. U. seeks to
protect.
---------When we remember the terrible
pitfalls the saloon opens to the
children and youth ot today, and
recall the noble efforts of the W.
C. T. U. io save these same chil-
dren and youth from the snares
about them, there comes at once
-—arecegaitian of the mother’scall
into the great temperance reform.
I have heard of some mother's
boy who,•though wealth, good
parentage and innumerable bles-
tsings were his portion, fell into!
| wickedness and crime. When he j
Saas sommitted to prison he cried I
in despair, “The drink brought
me here," and later he confessed
to the chaplain, “I took my first
drink at my mother's table. ”
I hear some mother respond:
“I never drink intoxicants my-
self, my family never do; so you
see we are all temperance folks.”
Granted this be true, you have"
a duty that reaches beyond your
own home. Even though you
and all the members of yout fam-
ily be safe, there are others who
are endangered, and many others
have made the startling discov-
, ery that even their own were not
so secure as they supposed.
There is no telling just where
the insidious enemy may invade
a- the purity of home.
" Recently when a woman was
nicked up in the slums dead, some
little articles were found about
her that spoke of the refinements
of another life. Who knows but
lar journal tells us that women,
young and old, drink intoxicants
with their meals in restaurants
and hotels. The tired clerk
claims that it is a stimulus for
her work. Sad! Some day she
will cry, “I cannot live without
it.” The woman of wealth after
a few hours of shopping, calls
for wine with her luncheon.
Thus the enemy works insidiously
in society, in business, and in the
Make thesaloon’s influence. Bill Johnson of Newcastle was
Oh, for the magnet touch of. .. .. „ ..
• i. , ’ i i . 2102, . t m the city Friday.
community will lx* ashamed to < iod in the mother-heart of the • »
--- - -- - Moreland. Manager Vaughan has install-
ed a new machine in his popular
moving picture show and is giv-
ing the highest class of enter-
tainments. Don’t fail to visit
these nightly shows they are a
great treat.
nteresting r"
ed. A man
ill in thirty
vas still ap-
et,me, p,
lbbinmui/.unnania aclnnhcnd
‘'Mamma, why are you in jail?" ; home, and it is an avowed enemy I perance leave
questioned the baby, at which the of the church, the school and the te overthrow
no stone unturned
the saloon so unpopular that a
Strange Conduct of Mules.
Mules are natually queer crea-
tures and are capable of causing
a great deal of excitement at
times. This statement can be
especially vouched for by our
good friend, Joe Taylor, of the
Indian Mound community.
One day last week just after
the postman passed by Joe’s
place, Joe drove his team of
mules up to the house and pro-
ceeded to devour the morning’s
mail. In one of the letters was
a red label, bearing the words,
“Old Crow" or something simi-
lar, but Joe wasn’t interested in
this so threw it in a tub close to
where the mules were standing.
Joe went into the house and in a
few minutes looked out to see his
mules running away at about a
thirty mile gait. Joe says he
doesn’t know how to account for
the runaway unless the mules
got tipsy on the whiskey soaked
out of that label.
School Notice.
The Graham Public Schools
will open Tuesday morning,
Sept. 9, at 9 o’clock. There will
be a meeting of the teachers in
the school building Monday
morning, Sept. 8. A more ex-
tened notice will be given next
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given; effort upon effort made.
Little evils lead to giant evils.
Vigilance of the direst character
is imperative.
Mothers everywhere need to be
aroused for the sake of their own
sex. It is growing to be a well
known fact that the high as well
as the low use intoxicants, the
rich as well as the poor, and the
women as well as men. A few
years ago in a distant city, the
police were gathered about a
drunken woman who during her
arrest had spoken four different*
languages. Later a little girl,
so small the keeper had to help
her up the steps, came to the sta-
said to the woman. “Go homesufficient that we see manhood
The Priscilla Club.
The pretty spacious home of
Mrs. R. E. Bryan was thrown
open to the Priscilla Club and
several guests Tuesday after-
noon. Three contests were the
pleasant features of the after-
noon which were so out of the
ordinary of the regular club
meetings. The yellow and
white color motif was used dur-
ing the entire partv.' it being
used in the folders for the con-
test prizes and invigorating ice
punch which was served the en-
tire afternoon.
In the first contest the greatest
number of boys' names derived
from a certain number of letters
given, the prize, a guest towel,
was awarded Mrs. Rose. In the
second contest the one answering
the most questions to a list of
words containing “ice," Mrs. J.
W . Loving in a cut with Mrs.
; E. H. Morrison, received a lovely
dresser cover. Third contest, in
a cut with others Mrs. Hudson
won a pretty pin cushion in an-
swering questions as to the offi-
cers of the United States. In a
cut with everyone present Miss
, Allen was given a dainty hat pin
holder as consolation.
Piano selections were given by
different ones.
Guests were Mesdames Loving
of Jermyn, Allen of Hillsboro,
Rose, Morrison, Tankersley, E.
P. Stovall. J. M. Norman, Q.
Street and Wadsworth. Misses
■ Li>is Loving of Jermyn. Zella
I Allen, Vera Maurine and Lucile
Norman.
Mrs F. M. Burkett will re-
ceive the club next week.
called to the child froth her cell.
.4 Then the keeper understood and
wondered how the mother of so
beautiful a child could be in such
a state. In response to the child-
ish command, “Take me to my
T " mamma,” he led her through the
corridor to the cell, allowing her
to speak to her mother through
the grate.
and logke
remembere
the Mt
nd and arms . i
e turned to /)
he bunch of
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