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WEEKLY HERALD
Published Brery Thuriday by
N. P. HOUX,
Editor and Proprietor.
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"OUR FLAG."
'Forever may it wave."
WHAT GERMANY IS LIGHT-
ING FOR.
What Germany is fighting
for is fairly obvious. The sil-
ence of its statesmen on the
subject of peace terms, instead
of concealing, discloses its
ends. Germany is fighting for
'both territory and indemnities.
It is for these, as well as to en-
large the area of its domination,
that Germany began the war.
The only difference is between
the motives of then and now.
In the beginning Germany
sought territories ad indemni-
ties out of a sheer lust of pow-
er and profit. Now it seeks
them as an indispensable means
of economic and political salva-
tion. Ruin faces Germany, and
only victory can avert it. Ger-
many is bankrupt, manifestly.
Even if peace reinvest it with
all of its commerce, it could not
hope to pay the debts it has in-
curred. But of course peace
could not reinvest it with all its
'corn-mere's; certainly not the
peace of defeat. The enmities,
hatreds and distrusts which
German crimes have generated
will be barriers to its commence
in all parts of the world. Its
earning power thus diminished,
the unborn grandchildren of the
men who made this war could
not discharge the last, of the
stupendous debt it has fastened
on them. If the war should
continue a few months more,
the annual increment of its
people will hardly suffice to pay
the interest on this debt. It is
doubtful if it would do it even
now and leave labor and enter-
prise reward to sustain them.
Germany will be irretrievably
ruined unles it can impose all,
■or the major part of this debt
on its enemies in the form of
annexations and indemnities.
Thus victory, and a victory of
the Pan-Germanist proportion,
is indispensable to the financial
and economic salvation of Ger-
many.
It is hardly less so to the
Hohenzollern family. For while
annexations and indemnities
would argue for the vindication
of the men who brought on the
war ad enable them to retain
their autocratic power, the ruin
which must follow a peace with-
out annexations and indemni-
ties must condemn them even
in the docile minds taught to
reverence the Kaiser as the in-
spired viceregent of God. The
Hohenzollerns might, in that
event, hope to retain their
throne; but they could not hope
to retain their autocratic pow-
er. Thus Germany is, in a very
literal sense, fighting for its
economic life and the Kaiser is
fighting for the life of his po-
litical power. The desperation
«f their plight might excite
some compassion, if one could
forget that their plight is of
their own making.
Silence, in the circumstances,
is prudent, however embarrass-
ing. To state its peace terms
without explaining the need of
them would subject the Gov-
ernment to the charge of pro-
longing the agony unnecessari-
ly; while to explain the need of
them would illuminate the
abyss to the minds of the Ger-
man people, and might pro-
voke them into visiting their
vengeance on those who have
led them to its brink.—Dallas
News.
Reports from over the state
are to the effect that there will
be serious shortage in the corn
crop due to the drouth.
The Russians have commenc-
ed fighting again. And Uncle
Sam will soon be pouring the
hot shot into the ranks of the
Kaiser. Good night.
The new Agricultural and
Mechanical college provided for
by the last session of the legis-
lature will be located in Abi-
lene, the locating board having
decided on that city.
This is National Guard re-
cruiting week. Come in boys
and sign up and you will escape
the draft. It has not yet been
made and you still have time to
volunteer and not be a "slack-
er."
Travel from America to Eur-
ope is picking up, and some
twenty five thousand prominent
citizensfydf this country are now
in France for a several months
sojourn. Others will also go
over, and they may visit Ger-
many before they return to the
United States.
The machinery for drawing
about one million men for mil-
itary duty will soon be set in
motion. , If there be any who
think they can hide out and slip
by, or who can talk their way
by the draft, they have anoth-
er thought coming. If you are
drawn and cannot show up a
real excuse you might just as
well arrange your business so
you can hike out for the
trenches.
TWO YEARS IN BED
AND ROLLING CHAIR
Mrs. Wilson Gave Up Hope—
Gains 25 Pounds On Tanlac
And is Now a Well
Woman.
Last Saturday State Press
wrote a piece in which he pre-
dicted an early rain. The sun
was glaring at that moment
like a torch against a tin pan,
but Sunday the rain came, and
Monday came more rain. Still
some folks say S. P. hardly ever
knows what he is talking about!
—State Press.
Won't you please predict one
for this section right away.
We did not get much of the oth-
■ precipitation.
And now they are trying to
get up a row about the selection
of the place to establish the
West Texas A. & M. college,
and after the secretary of the
locating committee (composed
of five) had counted the third
ballot and declared that Abilene
had received three votes, three
members of the locating board
said they did not vote for Abi-
lene, thus leaving the suspicion
that some one had monkeyed
with the vote, and intimated
that the governor had put one
over the other towns. But
Gov. Jim stood pat and would
not reconvene the locating
board. And now the secretary
of the -board, who is a member
of the legislature, declares that
he counted the vote in full view
of all the members, and that
Abilene received three votes out
of the five cast and says he will
stick to it regardless of the
declaration of others. So what
might have been another polit-
ical cyclone proved only to be a
little puff of hot air. What the
object of the attempted stink
can only be guessed.
Mrs. T. D. Lewis came down
from Fort Worth Sunday after-
noon to visit relatives here for
a few days.
"For two years I spent all
my time either in the hospital,
in bed, or in a rolling chair, and
during that time I was given
up to die, and I don't guess I
would be here nov^ if it hadn't
been for Tanlac," said Mrs. E
O. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson is well-
known in Atlanta, her husband
having been employed by The
Constitution for a number of
years.
"I was a great sufferer from
chronic indigestion," continued
Mrs. Wilson, "and don't guess
anybody ever had to go through
with what I did. I was very
weak and nervous, and at times
had those dreadful smothering
sensations to the point of faint-
ing. I had dreadful headaches,
severe pains in my back and
over my kidneys and my joints
ached all the time. For two
years I had to live entirely on
boiled milk, toast and soft boil-
ed eggs, and even that didn't
digest well, and would sour on
my stomach. I didn't know
what it was to get a good
nights sleep. I took one kind of
medicine after another until
our house was almost filled
with empty bottles, but in-
stead of improving I was get-
ting worse all the time. Finally
they took me to the hospital
for treatment, and I lay there
for five long months, but even
that didn't make me well. It
was taking nearly every cent of
my husband's wages to pay my
doctor and drug bills—our drug
bill alone amounted to $14 or
$15 a month, and one doctor
bill amounted to $108.'
"It looked like everything
had failed to help me, and I had
about given up all hope when
one day my husband brought a
bottle of Tanlac home with
him and asked me to take it.
He said he had been reading
and hearing a lot of good things
about it, and didn't see any rea-
son why it shouldn't help me.
I was confined to my rolling
chair when I began taking it.
"Do I look like an invalid
now? I certainly don't feel like
one, and I have actually gained
twenty-five (25) pounds on
eleven bottles of Tanlac, and
feel as well as I ever did in my
life. I can eat anything I want
—such things as meat, turnips,
hard-boiled eggs don't hurt me
a particle, and I sleep as good
as I did when I was a girl in
my teens. 1 can get about as
well as anybody and just the
other day I walked down town,
and I am running around the
neighborhood calling on my
friends nearly all the time now.
I haven't a pain about me. I
believe I am the happiest wo-
man in Atlanta, and I think I
have a right to be. I think my
recovery is almost a miracle,
and everybody in our neigh-
bodhood thinks the same."
"Tanlac is sold in Mexia by
Mexia Drug Co., in Thornton
by A. P. Ellis, in Coolidge by
Coolidge Drug Co., in Kosse by
Munroe Brothers, in Tehuacana
by College Drug Store, in Far-
rar by J. M. Kennedy, in Ben
Hur by Ben Hur Drug Co., in
Prairie Hill by T. N. Moody, in
Callina by G. W. Russell, in
Munger by T. M. Ethridge and
in Personville by Personville
Drug Co." Advt.
THESE HAVE PAID UP
Mexia, Texas, July 5, 1917.
The following have paid sub-
scription to the Weekly Herald
since last report:
J. D. Gilmore $1.00
Miss Lee Etta Gilmore 1.00
E. E. Lightsey (new) .50
Mrs.JTom Winkler 1.00
D. C. Miller (new) .50
Mrs. Palo R. Daniels (new) 1.00
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Without hesitation I can recom-
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I can also offer a IO-year loan
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Either plan I have to offer will
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Before you place your loan, let me
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S. P. KNOX
Mexia,
Forest Glade Gleamings
Health of the community is
not so good at present.
Mrs. E. B. Ethridge fell and
hurt her arm very badly, but
the doctor doesn't think her
arm is broken.
Mr. Foster Winn has been
sick for the last few days.
Preaching at the Baptist
Church was well attended Sun-
day.
Mrs. Willie Upchurch from
San Jacinto, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Ethridge.
Miss Vera Brock spent the
day with Miss Kate Stanford
Sunday.
Mr. Brock Dorsett of Cool-
idge was in the community
Sunday.
From the looks of the weath-
er we will have some rain be-
fore long. Maby we will make
some corn after all.
Mr. Oscar Fife and family
motored over to Ben Hur Sun-
day in his Oakland.
Mr. Oliver Hatcher and fam-
ily spent the day with Mr. Lee
Dorsett Sunday.
Little Conrad Jackson has
been sick for the past few days
—hope he will soon recover.
Col. B. N. Barrow has. re-
turned to his home in Grippian,
Ga., after a few days visit to
his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Stan-
ford.
Come on all you good local
writers and make the paper in-
teresting.
Well as the grafts is growing
I will be going.
"Butterflies."
If you feel "blue," "No ac-
count," lazy, you need a good
cleaning out. Herbine is the
right thing for that purpose.
It timulates the liver, tones up
the stomach and purifies the
bowels. Price 50c. Sold by
Mexia Drug Company.
EVERYBODY DREADS
TO TAKE CALOMEL
—MM *
No One Is Compelled to Take it
Now. as Lemolac Takes
Its Place.
There is no longer any ex-
cuse for you to take this dan-
gerous drug, as science has at
last discovered a substitute for
it, which~is called Lemolac.
Lemolac is a pleasant tasting
as well as pleasant acting liquid
medicine that does not gripe,
sicken, salivate, or cause you to
lose time from your work. Lem-
olac is sold under a positive
guarantee to please all mem-
bers of your family. Even
your baby will like it. Price
50c. Your money pleasantly re-
funded if not satisfactory by
Mexia Drug Co. and all live
druggists.
P. S.—If you forget the name
spell calomel backward.
NOTICE.
All parties desiring to trans-
fer their children into the Mex-
ia Independent School District
should do so before August 1,
1917.
Leave the names and ages
with G. W. Perkins or John R.
Corley. 4w4c
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS IS
THE PRICE OF PEACE.
The terrible itching and
smarting, incident to certain
skindiseases, is almost instant-
ly allayed by applyng Cham-
berlain's Salve. Price, 25c.
For sale by Mexia Drug Co.
Texasi
NEW GARAGE HAS
BEEN COMPLETED
V
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Nuss-
baum and daughter Miss Hilda,
left Sunday afternoon for Ne*
York City, to visit relatives.
They will also visit other places
in the north before returning
i home.
Contractor R. L. Hastings of
Wortham, has just completed
the new $15,000 garage build-
ing on the corner of McKinney
and Commerce streets and no
doubt this is one of the best
garage buildings in the south.
The building is 50x115 feet
with concrete and tile flooring.
The fixtures for the office o$
the building are nice enough for
a bank and well arranged in or-
der to give first class service.
Mr. Knox has somewhere in
the neighborhood of $20,000.00
invested in the building, fix-
tures and stock. He states that
he will have no one but first-
class workmen and will guar-
antee all work done by them.
He also says that he will not
keep a bookkeeper, therefore
everything will be strictly cash.
He will appreciate your busi-
ness, either gasoline, oils, ac-
cessories or work.
r
Roy Akin, two children and
his mother, accompanied by
Misses Inez Lewis and Mattie
Steele left Saturday morning
in Mr. Akin's car for Galveston
to visit for a few days. Miss
Inez Lewis will visit relatives
in Navasota and Miss Mattie'
Steele will visit relatives in
Houston before returning home.
DIED.—D. W. Means died ats
his home on Ross avenue late
Friday afternoon after linger-
ing between life and death for
the past ten days as a result of
the accident when he fell off
the load of hay and the wagon
wheel passed over his head.
The remains were laid to rest
in the city cemetery Saturday
afternoon at 5 o'clock, after
funeral services were held at
the Presbyterian church.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1917, newspaper, July 5, 1917; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth302491/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.