The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1927 Page: 5 of 16
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THE MINE6LA MONITOR
HOMER CHAPPFLL, sociated Press news, stated this*
ELECTED OFFICIAL, i week that ilr. Chap^eH was now in
" jWftshirtgton arid Rw York-City, con-
1 ferring with capitalists concerning
The following article was cTippeH i the proposed railroad-. '
from the Grandfield Enterprise of The next hearing will be held at
Oklahoma and concerns one of Min- i Vernon, Texas, if the Interstate Com-
eola's boys which will be of interest merce commission grants the request
to many people in this section. ! of the compaTiy.
A change in the personnel of the* ,
Ardmore, Vernon & Lubbock Railway j At th* Fort Worth hearinS when
company has been made, an election j the attorneys for the company asked a
having been held in Vernon, Texas,; postponement of the hearing, on the
last week, at which tipie Mr. Porter groun(]s that the company did not
of Caney, Kansas', was made general ^ aI] of data complete> Mr.
manager and Mr. Chappell of Dallas, .
_ ... ; Chappell, who has been associated
Texas, assistant manager. ^ '
Mr. Porter is a railroad promoter | w'th Mr- Porter in railroad work, took
with many successful roads to his issue with the attorneys and showed
credit and his assistant Mr. Chap-:that despite the findings of the law-
pell, is one of the shrewdest young; yers that the company was ready,
engineers in the South, having won; , ,
. , , , . , ,. . and now under his direction the next
the stockholders and directors over
when they met at Fort Worth, Texas, jtime a hearing is called it will not be
recently before the Interstate Com- i postponed at the company's request,
merce comission. He ^howfed that o
body that he was familiar with rail- , Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Nelson and chil-
road construction work, and it is now: dren and Miss Eva Mae Runnels of
hoped to be ready when another hear- ^ Dallas spent the week-end with Mrs.
ing is granted, which will be within j Nelson's sister, Mrs. Clarence Alex-
the next few weeks, sometime about ander and family. Miss Runnels re-
December 1. . jmained for several day's visit before
A comunication appearing as As-'leaving for Shreveport.
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SELECT THEATRE PROGRAM
FRIDAY NOV. 4 MAT. 5
TOM TYLER
"SPLITTING THE BREEZE"
1 Bill Ginnes "The Midnight Son"
10—25 1
SATURDAY NIGHT ]
"THE LIFE OF RILEY" |
GEORGE SIDNEY—CHARLIE MURRAY |
jg Comedy " Cash and Carry." 10—25 §j
| " MONDAY NOV.7 |
"THE FIRST NIGHT" J
BERT LYTELL and DOROTHY DEVORE |
1 AIsg Good Comedy— News Reel 10—25 1
| TUESDAY NOV. 8. |
"RISKY BUSINESS" |
VERA REYNOLDS—ZASU PITTS—ALAN HALE |
j§ Comedy, "Wandering- Papas" , , 10—25 jj
| WEDNESDAY NOV. 9 |
"A SAILOR'S SWEETHEART"
| LOUISE FAZENDA—CLYDE COOK
= Also Good Comedy 10—25 gj
| THURSDAY NOV. 10 |
| "THE GINGHAM GIRL" §
LOUIS WILSON—GEO. K. ARTHUR |
Fox Comedy 10-
| FRIDAY NOV. 11
An Armistice Day Program.
"LOST AT THE FRONT"
| GEORGE SIDNEY— CHARLIE MURRAY
(A Comedy Team)
1 MATINEE STARTS AT 10* A. M. ' ,10—25
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When die Boys Got the Joyful News
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Nine years ago, November 11, 1918, much of the civilis:ed world forgot
nearly every other emotion except an unbounded joy at the news that an
armistice had been declared in the World war. Photograph shows a group
of men of Company M, Sixth Infantry regiment, Fifth division, stationed
near Remoiville, France, upon receipt of the news.
NOW THAT NINE
YEARS ARE GONE
Armistice Day Is Largely
a Time of Personal
Remembrance.
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* TO THE
Gas Consumers
of Mineofa
A few weeks ago I came to your city for the purpose
of installing gas in your homes in as practial a
way as my 12 yeats of experience has taught me
and I am more than pleased with the cooperation
c<nd confidence that has been placed in me by some
of your best citizens.
ihere is a report out that I am leavhng soon and
I have heard that I had already gone but I am
still here at the same location in the Knarry Lank-
ford Building where I first located and have no
notion of leaving as I figure tliat the work Jias
hardly begun I would be pleased to figure with you
in converting your old water tank into Automatic
heaters also in solving your hot water problems as
I have a line of burnres and hot water heaters which
I think can notbe excelled.
MINEOLA PLUMBING & HEATING CO.
G. S. BOSWELL. Prop. .
Nine years ago the armies of tlie
aiiles and of Germany were engaged
in the last battles 'if the World war.
The armistice called on November 11.
19IS, lias as yet been only an armis-
tice—a stacking of arms—with pence
on earth existing precariously at times
and in various localities.
By custom Armistice day has be-
come- a day of remembrance. We
stand for two minutes silent, to re-
flect on those years. In ail the con-
fusion. distress and poverty, left as
its aftermath, the purposes for which,
presumably, the war was waged have-
been pushed aside by more immediate
pressing problem's of national intwests
caused by the war.
There have been riddles of econom-
ics, politics and national and persons!
ambitions, io add to the confusion.
Combined, these clashing forces have
rendered impossible the fulfillment of
our war aims and much of the timo
have so obscured them that we forg< •
what they were, or that we ever hao
any.
Desire to Forget War.
Americans !i:Yve had another ofr-
f.facle to a clear understanding of
the war. The battlefields are in Eu-
rope, inacccssilrte to us. except for
tourists, but a constant reminder on
the European's doorstep. Save for fam-
ilies'and friends! directl-y, interested
we" see little trace of the effect of
the war upon our men. We have been'
prosperous. Our skins were hardly
scratched by the war. And we re-
covered fjuickly—so quckly that the
war seems like a bad dream we wish
to forget as soon as we may.
The shouting arid tumult have died.
Armistice day has become a time of
personal remembrance, dedicated to
the individual. We lay our offering
of respect at the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in an effort to demonstrate our
admiration for the endurance, courage
and determination of common mem
We do not send up paeans for our
glorious victory, for we are sure nei-
ther of the glory nor the victory. Re
joicing at the end of a dreadful night-
mare was the general emotion at the
close of hostilities and it has re-
mained the common sentiment.
Now the world is recovering slowly
from its shell shock and we begin to
see the war in perspective as the thing
of horror it was. After the armis-
tice it was safe to assume that those
soldiers who had, had most active
service, talked least of their expe-
riences. There was nothing they could
say, except to tell the things they were
trying to forget. Memory of war to
them was mental anguish.
Memories of Horror.
The sergeant of infantry who re-
marked. "I never thought, back in
Eos^m. fh:!f 1 could ever bayonet a
man, but then 1 had never i.e«l a
platoon rgalm-f a •: chine g:jn "es!
and had half (if (!. :n knocked off."
Tr*0 Hour
Ifi s < n s\ rff j
does not like to recall the face of the
German machine gunner as the bay-
onet pasesd through his rhroat. All
soldiers who had any considerable
amount of combatant service have
similar memories. They might be
the scream of a mule on a sheli-
wrneked road; the ludicrous turn
bling of a man blown in the air by
a high explosive shell; the face of a
stricken comrade gradually turning
black from a hemorrhage; the feeble
struggles of a mortally wounded sol-
dier trying in vain to get on his feet,
or the hammering of the barrage in
his head, or aching fatigue.
Whatever the memories, they were
of incidents the soldier would like to
forget. Multitudes of them were in the
WHEN PARIS KNEW
OF THE ARMISTICE
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minds of soldiers when the armistice
was called. That was why, when
they climbed out of the slimy mud
of shell holes and stood erect on No-
vember I], 1918, there was nothing in
their hearts hut a boundless gladness
that at last the infernal thing was
Dver.
Perspective Now Possible.
'With such thoughts fresh in his
mind is it surprising the veteran sol-
dier did not like to discuss the war
with folk who spoke of going over
the top as of a game? But nine years
have gone by and slowly tongues that
were bound have loosened. War is
not all horror. Little by little the
amusing incidents began to be toid,
the man who went to sleep while put-
ting up barbed wire in No Man's land
and had to be hunted for; the hlithe-
ome details of the first and second
A. W. 0. L.; evenings in Grandmei'e's
kitchen; the squad sent out to sup-
press a, machine gun that- found it-
self in a patch <>f ripe blackberries,
and stayed there.
Time blurs the sharp edges of hor
•;or and the mind recalls the lighter
things. So with the war. It is only
recenHy it has been talked about
again. First the amusing happen-
ings and lately the realities have been
iofd.
Not merely the soldiers, but ?J( the
peoples engaged in it never wanted t<>
hear the word again, when the war
ended. But the parade of years ha--
placed the great conflict far enough
it way from us to be seen. Stor;;:- <>f
Ihe war appear in magazines. in iwn i,-
uii t her stage and in the movies, an-
: very/ here the effort has bee::
:ichif ,e realism. The literature <•*' ii;
war is grisly literature. There
;i!?je in it for tSie pois;i:::ms i
iicisrn that seeks to gh . ir.v "
ihe natural test of nnticm:!
— Boston Globe.
EPWORTH LEAGUE PRESENTS
PAGENT SUNDAY EVENING
Aoting as ftostess , .Sunday
noon to the District Epworth+ Leagues
of Tyjer District of .the Methodist
Chureh, the Mineola chapter enter-
tained some 125 members and- visit-
ors with a luncheon and presented a
pageant that was par excellence.
These oung people deserve extra
credit for the pageant for they pres-
ented it without the services of any
coaching from other than those be-
longed to the local chapter an dthey
do their parts with the touch of ex-
perienced players.
At the night service the Epworth
Leaguers presented the same pagent
at the church services taking the
place of the regular preaching servi-
ces- A large congregation was pres-
ent.
•KH*—
HALLOWE'EN FROLIC
— — —BY CALLOWAY CL
Gas Stoves now ready for your
inspection, both heaters and ranges.
Come i nand see them Warreh"s Var-
iety Store.
r\ The "Goblins*, were abroad Monday
night in full force and made * TT"*Wi
call to the^ Callaway Class of the
Baptist Church as it held' 'open <beoae
in the basement of the church. Some
83 members and visitors were present
to enjoy the festivities that nigjht Am
each person arrived he was preseaUi
with a mask of a comical desjgn ani
wore it during the party.
Among the other features aI tW .
occasion were speeches deliveceS ih^
JJudge Warren, District Attore*jf
Walter G. Russell, County Attorney
Wilkerson and District Clerk VergS
Shaw.
The refreshments were in keepn^
with the occasion.
JERSEY COY/ FOR SALE:—
second calf $50 cash gets this
bargain. Also Jersey bull about
N. T. Ring, Mineola, Texas
Route 4 3te 31
Typical scene in Paris at the Place
de la Concorde, showing the statue of
Strasburg in the background and a
youngster perched on the muzzle of
a captured gun, when the signing of
the armistice was announced.
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The simple words of man refuses to be grouped to
fittingly express the feelings of the great nations
of the world on November 11, Armistice Day.
Throughout the length and breadth of every land,
however, in every wayside hamlet, the day annual-
ly brings memories to the citizens, and they pause
to pay tribute to those brave souls who gate up
ail in the great struggle.
Here in Mineola we join the nation in observance
of the day, forgetting not our state's loyal sons
who upheld the traditions of Americanism, equal-
ling and surpassing all great deeds of battle, ask-
ing no quarter nor giving none—satisfied with
nothing less than a complete victory-
To the gallant dead—We pay tribute.
MRS. H.O. ROGERS
MILLINERY
THANKSGIVING
EXCURSION
TO
EL PASO
$17.25
THE BIG EXCURSION OF THE YEAR— ^
ROUND
TRIP
Spend Three Full Days in El Paso,
Visit Jaurez, Just Across the River
s LEAVE: 4:58 L M.
Wednesday, November 23rd
Sp
eciai Train
Standard and Tourist Sleepers, Chair Cars and Diner
ARRIVE EL PASO 8:00 A. M.
THANKSGIVING DAY
RETURNING
Leave El Paso Saturday, Nov. 26th, 9:00 P. M.
MAKE YOUR PULLMAN RESERVATION
n.
Armistice da/ marks the celebrs
ticn of the clos rig of the World war j
—11 minutes aiter 11 o'clock, morn '
ir.g of eleventh csy cf c!: > "-•'i rni ~'t'
1918.
Thought for the Day
Armistice day! Just one v. iau'.e
we s;ive that day ... to those who
giive eternity.
pAciy
HiiLWA Y
W. E. MORGAN, Ticket Agent.
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Carraway, R. H. The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1927, newspaper, November 3, 1927; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth286036/m1/5/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.