Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 9, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CHEERFUL CliRUB
COLLINS & SMITH
When a Winchester Speaks
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DICK COLLINS and MARVIN B. SMITH..
Editors and Proprkeetors
It Means Business
Friday Morning, September 9. 1921.
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Three to one!
Lake Decatur!
Just like that!
Congratulations, princely patriots*
WOMAN IS A WITCH.
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We certainly are.
have talked his victim to death.
unless there is something the matter
it is interesting to read the
sponsibilities are mounting high.
FROM OUR EKCHANGES.
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is to make it hot for the immigrant.
Pencil No. 174
in the high cost of living.
Tarrytown Daily News.
For Sala E: your Dealer
Made in five grades
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mistake.
It tailed to forbid
Germany to undersell those who lick-
one fights
well-known officer was recently shot
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rides in automobiles.
MICKIE SAYS—
nanciers.
the after-mathematics of the war.- —
to compensate the workmen for Joss
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can afford to buy the bootleggers*
such spirited writers - London Opin-
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we feel confident that the services
of one of the many can be secured.
per hu
pany.
I from day to day, just to note what
tarnation idiots some people can be
Albany Times-Union.
The high cost of killing is a big
The trouble with
family trees is that
so many of them
are shady!
Columbia (S. C.) Record.
The Leavenworth Post has figured
cut one thing in favor of prohibition.
spring from economy. Chinese Max-
im.
When wisdom entereth into thy
heart, and knowledge is pleasant to
Earl
Worth.
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Men's
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big cons
Miss
week fi
miliarity also breeds contentment.—
Passaic News.
Denying beer to ‘he sick as Con-
gress proposes to do no doubt comes
under the head of health legislation,
since it will prevent a lot of illness.
—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Things would be helped by a little
less pathos about the aftermath of
the war and a bit more attention to
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Ellis
Worth
Thos. L. Blanton writes the Mes-
senger that he will become a candi-
date for United States senator pro-
vided the citizens of Texas solicit
him to make the race "in sufficient
quantities."
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Plenty of pure water and a sewer-
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It is now up to Senator Culberson
to announce.
The Wonderful County was soak el
with a good rain thia week.
How poor are they that have not
patience!—Shakespeare.
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Now, let’s all pull for a Bigger an 1
Better Decatur.
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—There he comes—the fastest bird to shoot
—the dove—darting here and there.
—It takes a perfect pattern and a good
shot to get him.
i which it is very difficult to borrow .
money to buy things you don’t need
Fremont Tribune.
Germany failed to undermine civ- ‘
ilization, and now the hateful thing
seems determined to undersell it. i
— Dove season opened on last Thursday,
September first. Fifteen birds per day is
the limit. Have you gotten yours?
—Get a Winchester and start the season
right!
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Most Widely Circulated Paper in Wise County.
MEMRER TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATOS
MEMBER WORLD PRESS CONGRESS
thee, and understanding shall keep
thee.—Solomon.
some shirkers in those days, to he
sure, but they didn’t boast of it. The
shirker tried to conceal or excuse his
Shiftlessness and lack of ambition.—
Thomas A. Edison.
The uplift movement needs more
block and tackle.—Ashville Times.
Having been appointed a delegate
from the Texas Press Arsociation to
Winchester guns and Winchester shells
are the standard the world over and give
perfect pattern.
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EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK
There is no other passion that so
THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER.
ESTABLISHED 1880
Official Publication for the City of Decatur.
Eatered at the Decatur, Texan, Postomce As Second Claes Mali Matter
Hon. Clarence Ousley says he is a
candidate for United States senator
to succeed Senator Culberson.
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tize anything that wears pants, from
the prince at his gi. ded poker gam. Now that President Harding is a The Sheppard-Towner Maternity
to the peasant picking bugs from tha stepchild, he knows how a democrat : Bill suggests that Congress aspires
potato plants, as Solomon himselt j post mast er feels. Dallas News to be the nation’s mother-in-law.—
could testity if he could come back. Ireland seems to have as many J Norfolk Vireinian-Pilot.
or an. and all of the multitudtbous i strings to her harp as England has' That Versailles Treaty made one
husbands of Lillian Russell. Being I to her bow Norfolk virginian-P- ■ fatal mistake. It failed to forbid
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afoot to dam Bering Strait to hold able to buy in the products and serv-
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These six things doth the Lord
bate, yea, seven are an abomination
unto Him: a proud look, a lying
tongue, and hands that shed inno-
cent blood, an heart that deviseth
wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief, a false
witness that speaketh lies, and he
that soweth discord among brethren.
—Solomon.
LIFE WISDOM.
This can be said about he sewer the wage earners tor they are the
bond issue, more first-ci=e civil en- larger part. It follows, therefore
neers were developed in Decatur dur- 11 hat in the discussion of wages it is
ing the past two weeks than has been I not an issue that involves no one
turned out by the best schools in the | except the direct employers and em-
country this season. Wonderful: ptoyes but that the public is chiefly
And, along with the crop of civil en- concerned and belongs to both sides
gineers came a goodly number of fi- I of the controversy.
down on the streets of that town
stuff.—Kansas City Star.
Fountain-pens figure among the
utensils confiscated in America for
containing illicit whisky. No won- taine
der some of these Americans are
gent Fitzgerald. The old town's re-
I which meets in Honolulu, we are re-
ceiving guide books, maps and direc-
Madame Fashion states the skirts
are to continue short this winter.
This will be hard on the calves, if
the winter is as severe as the weath
er prognosticator predicts.
that the public is the paymaster. To
j speak of the public is to speak of
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The direct employers is merely one
---- who organizes industry and contracts
bird that never to pay certain wages but he cannot
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down to this day?
Wichita Falls now has Hugh Nu- with us.
builds its own nest, but always lays long continue in business if the pub-
its egg in the nest of some other , lie refuses to reimburse him for his
bird. Our country is crowded with services and expenses.
ing up, up. up around and around.
A wise ignorance is rich soil from
which the seeds of knowledge will
bring forth fruit, a hundredfold. “I
do not know:” this is the beginning
and the end of wisdom. One who
has never learned to say "I do not
know,” has not the ABC of educa-
tion.—Harold Bell Wright
divorce proceedings in the papers
hypnotized by a woman is like tak-
Tishomingo, Oklahoma, is now it: ing either from a demist
the throes of a big murder trial. A
.It is said that Barnyard, Arkansas, when they try real hard. We note
will draw on Delightful Decatur for , one prominent trial now going on in
a number of our non-progressives. which the man claims he married the
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Nagging may drive a man to drink, by her into so doing. The opposing
but, being a rule that works both counsel declares this to be impossible
ways, his drinking may drive his wife but he is entirely wrong. It is not
to nagging. ; only possible, but a fact, and it has
of purchasing power and higher wag-
es were paid.
Today another condition exists.
men from their
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Now that the gentle bird of peace
has reached its annual period of vica-
rious slaughter it would seem that a
set of hunting rules is in order for
ion.
There is one automobile to every thy soul. discretion shaft
fourteen persons in the United States
young men of fifty years ago had
I will repay, been afraid they might earn more
than they were paid. There were
Vengeance is mine;
saith the Lord.—Moses.
not armed themselves against doves
since twelve months ago.
After seeing Dallas marksmen n
There is an English church where
a box hangs in the porch. It is used g
for communications for the pastor.
Cranks put their notes in it, but oc-
casionaly it does fulfil its purpose.
Recently the minister preached, bv
request, a sermon on “Recognition of
Friends in Heaven,** and during the
week the following note was found
in the box: “Dear air—I should be
much obliged if you could make it
convenient to preach to your congre-
gation on ’The Recognition of
Friends on Earth/ as I have been
coming to your church for nearly six
months, and nobody has taken any
notice of me yet.”
ing power reduced and his standard
of living lowered. Labor is fighting
to raise its standard of living at the
expense of the farmer, not intention-
ally perhaps, but that would be the
effect. This does not bring antici-
pated benefits to the wage earner,
since it has disrupted exchanges and
A cuckoo is
the surging waters of the Aclic oc i ices of others.
ean. Messenger rises and recom- Money being merely a medium of
mends any one of the civil engineers .exchange. wage increases were asked
who have developed with such rapid- when prices were advancing in order
“ ity during the week preceding the ta en mnenen ta +he — e— 1---
vewer bond issue election in Deca-
tx The crop is magnificent, and
We see where a New York barber
is charged with murder. He must
, , and in another minute he don’t know
and from the evidence it seems that whether he is going up or down or
the shooters planned the killing in around. and don’t care a dem Ex-
true border-line style. change.
The cost of commodities has decreas-
And, should the promoters of the ed and the farmer sees his purchas-
Bering dam be in need of expert fi- • - -
' Pittsburgh Ga: ette-Times.
Governor Small would probably be
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Rube Geers says a great change
has come over the country. Mothers
about a Homer.— Little Rock Arkan- from the spirit that will insure ev-
sas Gazette. erlasting peace until you watch the
When one observes how little thacrowd when the umpire makes a
people are shocked by tales of gov- 1 close decision in favor of the visit-
ernment waste, he suspects that fa- ing team.—Minnesota Star.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:
Any erroneous reflections upon the character, standing or reputation
of any firm, person or corporation which may appear in the columns ot
the Messenger will be gldly corrected upon its being brought to the
attention of the publishers.—Collins & Smith, Publishers.
tion for services based on the value
of those services and the profits they
will return to the employer. They
should also be calculated to provide
the wage earner with certain neces-
sary supplies and certain standards
of comfort. As money is worth only
When a batch of Pilgrim ignora-
muses arrived at Salem from Eng-
land they soon declared some women
were witches and proceeded to burn
them for so being. They have been
blamed for this ever since, but the
sentence should be modified, to in-
clude only the burning, and not in
rinding that woman is a witch, for
that is what she is, always has been
and always will be. Ain’t all of we
male bipeds bewitched by her right
Honors come by diligence; riches
That lawyer who claims that wom-
an cannot hypnotize man ought io
Fo to night school she can hypno-
happened to all of the rest of us,
I from which we have never waked up
yet and don’t want to. Eve hypno-
tized Adam and made him cast awav
the empire of the earth for a scrub-
by apple, and ever since her fair
daughters have been emulating that
much transports
right judgment
The “Invisible Empire” is losing a
number of its citizens. The gentle-
men slate the life s too strenuous
and not up to the standard of law
and order.
cuckoos, all very busy laying eggs.
They meet and plot. They harrangue
each other. They curse the house
It is right for him who asks for-
it is killing off th* idle rich, whokivonesrsfoghrsacofenses to Krant it
government for an 380,000,000 ni-
trate plant to oppore the view that
Henry has the makings of a real fi-
remains except for the voters of the nancier.Marion Star.
city to coalish.—Boston Transcript. Those keen Eastern business men
It is no surprise to us that Henry ; learn something every day A can-
Ford. having gone into the railway dy-storeoperator whohasbeenmak-
transportation business, is shaking in ars00per cent proft 8ays he can
things up.—Columbia (S.c.) Record.pronricsseintiharinand make a
Times have certainly changed! A
few profiteers now would help the Newspaper item says, "Telephone
government mightily in solving its communication across the Atlantic
taxation problems. — Columbia fS. Ocean possible in six months.” Only
C.) Record. about a month longer than it takes
We read that a form of baseball toKewayonnetimnsonsthis continent.
was a favorite sport among the ) Me" York Evening Mall.
Greeks. We do remember something You never realize how far we are
It is a mistake to assume that the
standard of living is fixed in the
wage scale. Wagec are compensa-
action on the country roads during
the past few days these rules are 1 -
spectfully submitted to aid all your
men who aspire to waste leaden pe
lets on thin air or in scattering ta
leathers.
1 .—Load your gun before
leaving home. You might see a
dove on Main street.
2 .— If you own a pump gun
or an automatic, proudly demon-
strate its mechanism in the au-
tomobile. Point the barrel di-
rectly at the head of the driver
while monkeying with the trig-
A fourteen-year-old bandit broke
out in Parker count' one afternoon
recently and as a result a jitney driv-
er who gave the boy ”a lift” along
the road near Weatherford is in his
grave. In his confession to the police
the boy stated that he wanted the
driver's car to make a trip into
Colorado. Possibly a devotee of Two-
Gun Hart and Pick-Pocket Pete.
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What would have happened?—To-
day I am wondering what would have
happened to me by now, if fifty years
ago. some fluent talker had convert-
ed me to the theory of the eight-
hour day and convinced me that It
was not fait to my fellow-workers to
put forth my best efforts in my work
I am glad that the eight-hour day
had not been invented when I was a
young man. If my life had been
made up of eight-hour days I don't
believe I could have accomplished a
great deal. The country would not
amount to as much as it does if tha
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After the parley November 11 will ; [3
Indianapolis Star Disarmistice day.. tSlgl^MJlSlSlSlSlglSlSl^
About all the melting-pot does now ' ------ —— ~ — - .. . . -
—Get your gun and shells here. We are
sporting headquarters and always carry
a large stock!
Black-Sox jury Dallas News.
willing io leave his case to the.i
paralyzed industry. — Fort Wortr
Record.
nanciers to handle the momentous
money questions that may arise in
the transaction, they can be supplied
from the ranks Decatur has recently
filled. While they opposed a dam
for their home-town, we feel confi-
dent they will readily see the need
of impounding the waters of the pol-
ar ba‛rs‛ swimmin* bole.
Progressives vs. non-progressives.
Where were you?
tions anent the route the delegates
are to take. We are assured that a
royal good time awaits us from start
to finish. Quebec, Canada, promises :
great things and Portland, Oregon,
says the old town will put the big
pot in the little one Tokio, Japan. j
promises to do the handsome, wich
Bombay, Idia, yet to hear from Witn
just one oil well in we shall attend
the festivities.
Vhet can I leave them
vhen l die.
Those people coming
efter me ?
I cant vrite Femos
Kocks and so
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of Uncle Sam. They ask: “Who
was George Washington, anyhow?”
They tell each other that private
property is highway robbery . That
is merely because they haven't any
and want yours and mine without
working foi it. Owen Wister.
3 .- Enroute to the selected
hunting grounds miss no chance
of taking test shots on the road
at turkeys, chickens or swine
h will add to the entertainment
ol your companions if you aim
directly between their heads.
4 . Swing your fowling piece
nonchalantly about your head
preparatory to taking the field,
remarking how light the gun is,
telling the exact charge with
which it is loaded, etc.
5 . Should a companion fire
at a bird, shoot quickly in his
direction and at once claim the
game as yours.
6 .—In going thru a wire
fence, do not point you gun tow-
ard your own stomach. Point
it at your friend’s.
7 .—If you are a golfer shout
"fore” before yon shoot. This
adds class to your performance.
By observing these rules you will '
undoubtedly become one of the best
known and most popular sportsmen '
in Dallas county.
Your friends’ cars will be lined up j
in front of your residence to take ,
you shooting after dusk. Dallas
Times Herald.
who used to oppose their daugh- ----
ters taking afternoon buggy rides Money must be valued at what it
with young men are now smiling con- will buy and without considering who
sent for their daughters tc take night the employes may be it is certain
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were it
lot.
Eventually everything' will get
back to the prewar level except Eu-
rope’s upper class. Richester Times-
Inion.
The only oil the nations seem will-
ing to share with their powerful
neighbors is turmoil. Buffalo Eve-
ning’ News.
If the purpose is to annihilate tax-
payers, the merchant ship is about
as deadly as the battle-ship. Illinois
State Register.
We shall see better times when ev-
erybody puts a little more emphasis
on the “try*’ In industry.- Columbia
(S. C.) Record.
“Red” theories will make little
progress in a country that has learn-
ed a profound reverence for red tape.
—Lincoln Star.
ed her. Baltimore Sun.
"Disarmament Conference May always in the way of the one automo-
Bar Gas.” Headline. But not from bi'/Vveninet interse ctions. —New
the disarmament conference. Chica- J ork EveninK Mail.
go Journal of Commerce. That moaning sound to the east-
The chap who said truth is strang- ward is the lamentation of the Paris
er than fiction died before fiction hotelkeepers who have discovered
reached its present state of develop- thatthe.disarmament conference is
ment.—Elmira Star-Gazette. tbeheld in America.—Cincinnati
The administration has discovered
that a great many of the expenses it : There is nothing’ about Henry
promised to cut off are capable of Ford's offer of $5,000,000 to the
voting.—Columbia (S. C.) Record.
example. We are not blaming or
censuring them, but only stating .. .
facts very delicious facts, at that. * '
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Hard times: A season during’
Cotton is taking a substantial
boost, but who has the cotton?
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