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E. DAVIS
MESQUITE, TEXAS, MARCH 21, 1919
YoL XXXVII. No. 37
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■L a complete line of DRUGS and PROPRIE-
TY MEDICINES, we carry a full supply of
oilet Preparations
tationery, Pens, Ink
Rubber Goods, all Kind
ant to furnish you anything you need for on intel-
care of the health and beauty of your person.
Interesting Letter
From Marlin Davis
Judge Riddle Speaks
On Oil Investments
can afford tofiose the
>M>ney he^n vests in oil stock it is
The Regular Session I PLANT MORE FOOD AND FEED STUFF
of Legislature Ends
(By John E. Davis)
Austin. Texas, March 18.-
Be-
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PALACE DRUG STORE, MESQUITE, TEXAS
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enry at, hour later. ; Arkansas Paper.
I'lisIlM it ?" shouted 1 >nek the
New Disease
Bay rum seems to be the favor
ite beverage now, with a green-
colored hair tonic running a close
second. Several of our Beau
a severe
liver.—
Mendt. Germany. Feb. 21, 1919.
To the Texas Mesquiter:
thi !^riUnt|rneCfed a Cim>i a,Wri&hU° the investment, i fore this appears in~the Mesquit
the paper and notice you have ajhujLtf he cannot afford to lose it! - * -
",.'UI"n lJ[u' PaP$r * entitled he had better steer clear of the
"With Our Boys." I notice
lice. "I haven't found
tsburgh Chronicle.
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Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic
i restores vitality and enerlly by imrifylnit and en-
| rlchiog the blood. Yon can soon feci its Strength-
I euinS, Invigoratiuti Effect. Price COc.
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in a Mealtliy Child Answered
"Doctor, why is it that some
^^■feomach disturbance, people who are perfect wrecks
JMMONicgiven ri-sutoriy |jve longer than others who arc
■MMnrlih the bhx/d. iin- * , .,
trong and well?
'Er—Well—you see, the others
lirst."—Boston Transcript.
L. iHgW^fbdact as a General St re n tit h
® Mul.irhale system. Nature will then
the^H
<Usp«: i the w« t :n , and the Child will
salth. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle. i ulC
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The day of hull bui/ding is passed. For today even
t inexpensive cottage or bungalow may be mod-
d attractive without adding to its cost.
The construction of attractive homes in this com-
■U made possible by our improved service, for we
P|||r':^ans and specifications—the designs of fa-
s architects for their modern homes.
A selection for your home is made from actual
itographs of both interior and exteriors. Build now—
ay will cost you money.
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during the
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Calming Him Down
Mr. Blinks—Here's a fifty dol-
lar milliner's bill I've just paid.
Another case of a fool and his
money soon parted.
Mrs. Blinks—I know, deftr.
but just think how fortunate it is
that you are one of those who
have money.—Boston Transcript
hone M'MllPlPly collar, and destroys ami expels
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A child that has intestinal worms
is handicapped in its growth. A few
of WHITE'S VERMIFUGE
the
and
Culloin
fnr appearance child immediately improves
Tell me, thrives wonderfully. Sold by
iSt Porter.
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to Meet the Needs of Our Patrons.
xide Storage Battery
Y CHARGING, ELECTRIC STEAM
Iffice
'"^MpCANIZING AND ACCESSORIES
{•"3GOLF REFINING (Supreme) OIL
child^t'1 idol Oil, qt. 30c; half gallon, 55c; three qts. 80c; four
hannao° ■HHH| |i.oo. Also gallon and half gallon cans.
esquite, ————
w. C OWARD FOUR (Hand Made) TIRES, 5,000 Miks
dan aufT
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FIRESTONE TIRES AND TUBES
■FEDERAL TIRES AND TUBES
NORWALK RED TUBES
Business is
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MHwvith Government Suggestion our Busu
Conducted on a STRICTLY CASH BASIS
Ooi^e Rros. Authorized Service Station
Dr.
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WE HAVE WHAT YOU WANT
this column the sketch of John
Keefe's life in the war, as only
he himself could tell it, which
was very interesting. I am going
to give you a brief sketch of my
twenty months in the war.
On the fourteenth day of June,
1917, not many minutes after
mid-day. I passed the Statute of
Liberty, bound for what I always
understood was Sunny France,
but the nmn who said that it was
sunny was born and lived in the
swamps of some dark and un-
known land and one day drifted
away to France, where, for fif-
teen minutes the sun was out. so
he called it Sunny France.
On the 26th day of June, 1917,
with the first convoy of Ameri-
can troops, we pulled into St.
Nazaire. We stayed there days
land days and then went toTrev-
lerray, France. It was there we
{underwent the training that won
us untold victories. We were in
structed by the famous 52nd Al-
phine troops, who were later sent
to the States. In this village we
were destined to stay some time
and to undergo the most rigid of
trench warfare instructions.
Very well do I remember this
little village and surrounding
country for many miles where 1
spent many weary hours. My
first experience in the trench wa-
in November, 1917. I do not re-
member the exact date, but as
near as 1 can remember it was
near the twelfth. It was the
Luneville sector and was a great
cut at the time—I thought it was
hell. W e spent 20 days there and
then came back to the little vil-
lage of Treverray; stayed until
February, when we again went
to the trenches where 1 stayed
until the war was over. This
time we were sent to the Toul
sector. At this place 1 did not
spend many hours in the front
line as I was with the trench
mortars. We fired at night at
machine gun nests and such tar-
gets as orders directed. About
four or five o'clock in the morn-
ing we pulled back to Beaumont
where we slept in dug outs—
such as they were—full of lice
and dark, oh. my! And the rats
—sometimes in the night you
would wake up and such a noise
that you would think Jerry was
giving us greetings, but it hap-
pened to be only rats and more
rats. In the first week of March
we were relieved by the 26th di-
vision and it was here hell was
started right. We hiked to a rest
camp about ten kilometers from
Toul, here we stayed a week-
then we boarded a train and trav-
eled across France. Finally one
morning we landed at a small
French village, we tarted out hik-
ing and at a town by the name
of Abbineville 1 left my com-
pany and, with a section of the
stokes, went up to Rollencourt
with the 2nd battalion of the 28th
infantry which was in reserve for
the 16th and 18th infantry. It
was here that we lost a good of-
ficer. I read a piece in the Sat-
urday Evening Post, written by
lrvin S. Cobb, of his death. He
was at the time of the outbreak
of the war a second lieutenant
in the American army but re-
signed his commission and en-
listed in the Canadian army and
rose to the rank of major and
was then transferred back to the
American army and was assign-
ed to our division.
The 15th of May we left the
reserve position and rejoined
our regiment and took over the
front lines with the village of
Cantigny to our front. Wc stay-
ed in the lines eight days, went i
back to the village of Frossy,
stayed there four days. The
night of the 26th of May Homer
Blevins was killed. On the
night of the 27th of May I went
into the lines. On the morning
of the 28th, the best attack pulled
off by the American army took
place. The old reliable 28th U. S.
Infantry, backed by the best ar-
tillery Uncle Sam owns, went ov-
er the top at 6:45 and reached
our objective in due time. But
m oil game," was the advice Geo.
W. Kiddle gave members of the
Jovian League at their meeting
the other day.
"Only four investments out of
every 100 yield a return of 100
er, the regular session of the
Thirty-Sixth Legislature will
have passed into history, as final
adjournment will take placc to-
morrow night, Wednesday,
March 19.
The work of this Legislature
has certainly been of a construc
REDUCE YOUR COTTON acreage
cents on the dollar, and only one tive character, as many measures
investment in 50 yields any prof-j0f faf-reaching importance have
it," he said. jbecn written into the statutes of
"If we were to lose $100 each : the state, and as I have hereto-
in oil it would be a good invest- j fore stated. I believe that M";st
ment, for it would help develop of them arc good. Among the
the mineral resources of Texas.measures not heretofore men-
he said. "Even when a dry well tioned is the bill to limit the
is brought in it is not an absolute ! amount of money candidates may
loss, for it furnishes data for spend in their campaigns and th
geogolists and enables them bet- act requiring ability to read and 1 s'tr<ircjtv
ter to make future calculations, speak the English language as a s<" L tV'
Austin, Texas, March 17, 1919.
—The more I study conditions in
the South, and the more I see of
world conditions; delay in sign-
ing the peace terms; failure to
allow cotton to move freely to
neutral -and allied countries; the
appointment of boards to ration
cotton and other products, and
various other things which in one
way or another affect cotton;
and the more I see of the supply
of food stuff absorbed and be-
coming scarcer, the more I see
the necessity of reducing our cot-
ton acreage and increasing our
food and feed crops.
Herbert Hoover now predicts
that in place of wheat prices de-
clining when the government re-
leases its authority over it, they
likely
low, might we not be able to sell
corn or other feed crops for more
than we could sell cotton? If
we had to buy feed, coula the cot-
ton at a low price, buy the feed
at a high price ?
Many people do not know the
farmers of the South controlled
speculation during 1917, and to
an extent in 1918, by controlling
the supply of cotton for sale, or
holding the cotton for the price
named, but they did. The so
called "high prices" were not by
chance or some mysterious war
conditions, but by the intelligent
action of the producers in an or-
ganization fostered and maintain-
ed by the Departments of Agri-
culture of the several cotton
states. This organization is not
to advance, because"of j strong enough to carry a bumper
Corn is now at the 1 crop of cotton and control prices.
"It is advisable to invest in oil
to a small extent. This produc-
tion is one of the greatest of
America's commodities. All in-
ihigh notch in price, largely be-
(cause the acreage in corn has
On the action of the Legisla- j |)t;cll greatly reduced to sow
voting qualification.
ture today and tomorrow rests
the fate of many measures of
dustries" are coming to use it. ] importance. So many of such
However, we should no ,mt into bills have been disposed of in the
it more than we can afford Vj last few days and others will be
lose, for the changes are that we!either killed or finally passed in
will. !the short time remaining, that I
"It is an outstanding irait of shall not attempt at this timee to
the American people to want toitfive any detailed information
take a chance. This is an admir- ! concerning such measures but
able trait in a way. for it has en- will, in subsequent issues of this
a I. ltd us to enrich out count rv by paper, outline some of the most
•xploring its r«iv>ur«.rs
important of our new laws.
Almost by the time this is
printed, and before the paper
reaches its readers. 1 will be back
at home and mighty glad of it.
wheat in the great wheat and
i corn states, with this reduction in
corn acreage, we may reasonably
i suppose corn prices, as well as
other feed stuff, will be abnormal
ly high another year.
The South is not a first class
corn growing section, though
when the ground is full of water
at the begining of the season as
how, she seldom- if ever, fails toi. , ^ ^ ^
make good corn, even if planted j to,not J? Up ,n
1 i forts to reduce the acrea
: -ingmg forth the fvasure to be
found in the earth.
"In contemplating an invest-
ment in oil we must consider the
character of the inn w are to deal I
with. We want to deal not only j W hen the bowels become irregular
with honest men, but also capa- >'ou ar<? uncomfortable and the long-
ble men. Many :vman is honest, " ,hf's , co"dltion cxis,s th,e 7°rs.c
, t -, I.VOU feel. You can Ret rid of this
but he will lose in the oil game j ,njscry qm'ckkly by using HERBINE.
unless he knows how to proceed Take a dose on going to bed and see
The Departments of Agriculture
have not the funds to make the
organization strong enough by
fall, to carry the load of a bump-
er crop. We hope for peace to
be signed soon and all restric-
tions against the free movement
of cotton removed; but we do
not know whether or when this
will be, and it is dangerous to
risk the possible results of a
bumper cotton crop.
For the above reasons. I appeal
to the farmers,, merchants and
their ef-
acrea^e 33 1-3
I per cent.
Do not permit selfish
■ mm' ' If
and how to conserve his resourc-
es.
"Texas is destined to be one of
t lie great oil cenfe*rs of the
world. More thari 1000 oil cor-
how fine you feel next day,. Sold by
Cullotn & Porter.
The garbage wagon will be
at your house March 24. Clean
a month late.
While 1 do not believe it more >. „ . „ . . • - ,
than a possibility for the South to '"tet^ tonstand.,the re-
produce more cotton in 1919 than the Sta.te Organization ,s over-
th- world will need in 1920. that ^nv^red a Wg crop and com-
possibility might happen as it did ^H^^mbhng and the pr.ee re-
in I'M 1 and 1914. I f it should- wc duced' what-wi11 become of your
must remember that since our
prices of cotton are made bv bet-
ting the price up or down, that a
short supply if properly controll-
ed, will be bet abnormally high;!
and if a reasonably full supply is
made and not controlled, the
business? With your organiza-
tion destroyed, what will become
of the cotton growing industry?
| I have tried as briefly as possi-
Ible, to point out the conditions
and the "safety first" course to
(pursue. Think over them, weigh
I them, and act as your better
porations have sprung into ljeing.;1'' your premises now and have jp
since the opening of the Ranger j traf 1,1 boxes "r sack and sitting ^
price will be bet abnormally low.,. , ,.
If then, we produce a full sup-! JudKment dictates.
opening
fields."—Dallas News.
in the street.
ply of cotton and have not a j
strong organization to control it,
and the price is bet abnrmally
W. B. Yeary.
Cotton Specialist, Department of
\griculture of Texas.
$100 Rewui j, $100
Th« readers of till* pttpor will b«
plcaaed to learn that thaw la at leaat one
dreaded dlaeaae that science lias been
able to care In ull It* *ta«ea. and that la
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure la the only
pntltlvc euro now known to tha meuli*!
fruternlty. Catarrh beln* a constitutional
disease, require* a constitutional treat-
ment. Hall * Catarrh Cure I* taUen In-
ternally, actlnir directly upon the blood
and mucoua surfaces of the system, there-
by r*e*troylnR the foundation of the dis-
cus.-. and bIvIiik the patient strength by
Imlldlnit up the constitution and assisting
nature In dolnic Its work. The proprietors
have so much faith In ll« currvtlve pow-
era that they offer One Hundred Dollars
that It falls to curs. Send
itlmonlats. i _
J. CHKNBT a CO., Toledo. O.
this was not all. In the two fol
>wing days, eight times the Ger-|j
mans came back at us with the
most horrible of barrages I ever
saw but our line was solid and
didn't move one inch. Though
only a small place on the map, it
was a hotter place than Hades
for a few days. Five days after
the attack wc went back to Fros-
sy and stayed four days and
again we took these lines and
held them for twenty-nine days,
during which time it was not so
had. as our casualties were few
tnd far between.
On the 4th of July I paraded in
Paris where I had a very good
time. But on the 18th of July it
was over the top on the Marne.
This was some hot believe me,
but as we have always done, we
gained our objective and were
relieved by the Scotch troops,
who carried it farther. We left
here and went back to the camp
by Toul. stayed here a few days
and took over a quiet sector just
a few kilometers to the right of
the toul sector. Here all was
well and we stayed three or four
weeks, and then came the St.
Mchiel. This was the most mis-
erable of my experience in
France. The night we went into
position it was dark, raining and
' cold, and as I had lost my rain
coat I was thoroughly ,wet and
the times I fell down were in-
numerable. We attacked at five
in the morning and met live re-
sistance. Leaving there we went
back to Rollencourt, a few kilo-
meters to the right of Beaumont-
then we went into the Argonne
Forest. I was with them for
about the first 100 yards of at-
tack when I was wounded and
went to the rear to Base Hos-
pital No. 61. 1 had the good luck
to meet a nurse from Dallas. Her
name was Miss Christian. She
w.Ys with the Baptist Sanitarium
until her departure for France.
1 was in the hospital at the time
of the signing of the armistice.
I rejoined my company about 100
kilometers from Verdun on the
March to Germany. Crossed the
Moselle river the first of Decem-
ber and on the 13th crossed the
Rhine and two days hiking land-
ed me in the wonderful little city
of Mendt, 20 kilometers north-
east of Coblenz. where 1 cxpect
to be until Christmas, then per-
haps I will come home.
I will close with good wishes
to all.
Marlin M. Davis.
Hdq. Co., 28th Jnf. 1st Div.
WEEK OF
■
Habitual Constipation Cared
In 14 to 2t Days
"LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" to • speciaUy-
l-ici :ir dSvnipTonic-Laxative forHabiiual
Constipation. It relieves promptly but
should be taken regularly for M to 21 <
SPECIALS
jC* VERY day in the week we will
have goods at special prices. It
will be to your interest to visit Hud-
son, Davis & Co. March 24 to 29 and
get the benefit of 'special low prices.
O. N. T. THREAD, SIX SPOOLS FOR 25c
MONDAY SPECIAL
We will sell 9 4 bleached sheeting, 70'c
value, while it lasts at 55c. Take advan-
tage ot this low price. Come early.
TUESDAY SPECIAL
An extra fine quality bleached domestic,
"Advertiser" 30c grade, Tuesday special
24c. This means a saving to you.
WEDNESDAY SPECIAL
Every piece ot 35c and 40c gingham in
stock, Monday only, 30c. Make this week
your sewing week and make this saving.
THURSDAY SPECIAL ~"
Children's 35c and 40c hose, black and
white, sizes 5 1 -2 to 9, while they last for
Thursday only 25c.
Friday—Men's Blue Overalls for only , $U5
Saturday—12.50 Slid $3.50 Latftos' SHppirs $1.00
HUDSON, DAVIS&C07
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