The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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DELICIOUS DRINKS
Our pure ice cream and real fruit
flavors make the refreshments that
you get at our fountain really nour-
ishing food. And we try to keep our
serving dishes and receptacles as clean
and wholesome as the-best housewife
in this town keeps her kitchen.
" CUIiOM & PORTER
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rrel) -"By Jove, if you don't
, trying to make me angry,
[buy my wife a new hat, and
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s!"—Passing Show.
AFTER THE COLD FACTS
"The poor girl," remarked the
sympathetic woman, "didn't have
enough clothes on to keep her
warm-"
"Which was she?" inquired the
Miss Cayenne, "terribly poor or
awfully fashionable?"—Ex.
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Our Business Creed
We believe in the goods we are sell-
ing and in our ability to succeed.
We believe that honest goods can be
sold by honest methods.
We believe in giving value received,
and we believe that we have done so
only when we give a man the full
value of his dollar in satisfaction and
service.
We believe in working, not waiting;
in laughing, not weeping; and in the
pleasure of selling our goods.
We believe in the work we are doing;
in to-morrow and the work we will
have to do, and in the sure reward
which the future holds.
We believe in courtesy, in generosity,
and in good cheer.
E. OUARLES COMPANY
QUALITY LUMBER
ikn does not quit scratch-
f«en bugs get scarce, but
f* her efforts and finds all
pffs she needs. The success-
isiness man emulates the
1 this respect and keep* his
le of business up to a sat-
Vy average.
Now Hell Be Able To Tell 'Em
City Youth—"What's that the
calf is licking "
Cow Farmer—"That's rock
salt, my boy."
City Youth—"Go hon! I've of-
ten wondered how corn-beef was
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52.00 cash purchase from
}ur store to each and ev-
gycustomer. .
*ilk Shirts, $5.00 to $7.50
restock is complete for men
N young men's furnishings.
our stock and get our pne-
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Nunn & Hicks
ENTS* FURNISHINGS SERVICE TAILORS
. PHONE 1M MESQUITE, TEXAS
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MESQUITE, TEXAS, AUGUST 5, 1921.
VoL XL. No. 2
An Amateur's
First Story
By FREDERICK CLARKE
<€>• IMI. WM.ni N.w.p.p.r Unlol> )
latTflnrt t0 hf' deHr- tt
i«te and you lootr nil tired out."
imHi ,CwUldnt 8leep H wl"*. mother,
until I have my work done. y«u know
toraorrow U „ holiday. ,u,,| I want to
K6t everything out of the way to give
an my time to you, dear," replied Eva
Dam nee brightly.
"Always thinking of me," sighed
Dorrnuoe' 8 and an In-
valid; but her eyes were humid with
gentle affection. *
Mro. Dor ranee kissed her loyal,
thoughtful daughter, and left Eva
alone," *' *
Eva had been eompeUed to give up
a steady position so she could nurse
her mother. This had made lt neces-
sary for her ta obtain copying to do
at home. She had found a public
stenographer who'dld considerable oc-
casional work for writers and lawyers.
Eva's pleasantest copying was thnt of
*otne stories written by one Den7.ll
Vf orthlngton. One day, while Eva was
waiting for work at the office, she had
been Introduced to him by the man-
ager. They had quite a chat. She
was pleased to thus really know a
story writer, her Ideol of human Intel-
ligence. and he was Interested In the
brave, struggling, working girl.
Once he had come to the Dorrnnce
apartment. He had a hurry call for a
special article and dictated It while
Eva wrote, and their acquaintance
ripened.
The fair typist soon had the two
brief manuscripts before her com-
pleted. She placed them aside, opened
a drawer, and took from lt one-half
dozen sheets of paper. Eva read them
over.
"Oh, dear!" she murmured, "I'm a
dismal failure."
Eva's little story was simple and
Commonplace, hut was more than cred-
itable for an amateur. Her story, part-
ly done, had one page not completed.
It whs where her heroine had written
a letter to the man she loved. It ran:
"I am going awn.v because I love
you, and I tell you this only because
I am sure we shall never meet again.
Rut It will lie sweet solace for me In
the dreary future, to know that per-
haps this knowledge may bring a pass-
ing thought In your mind of a girl
far below you In social and Intellectual
position, hut able fully to understand
your noble soul, and knowing that your
genius will some day bring you great
fame, which she would be too lowly
to share, save as a hindrance to your
career."
"Den/11" wrote Eva at the trip of the
letter. Then she blushed. But why
not make her hero "Denall?" It was
an odd name, a musical name, to her
—she fluttered as she realized lt—a
dear name.
.lust then Eva noticed some writing
on the back of the manuscripts she
had copied: "Must have these by ten
o'clock tomorrow, Don't fall. D. W."
Eva got the scattered pages together
In the morning, she hired a neighbor's
hoy to carry the stories to their au-
thor. That afternoon she sat down to
rest. Her mother was asleep. Sud-
denly there was a knock at the door.
Eva answered the summons. It was
Mr. Worthlngton. Eva's face bright-
ened. Then It became puxcled. There
was something In the fervent way In
which the author shook bands with
her, an excited challenging eye glance
that puzzled her.
"I hope you found the stories all
right, Mr. Worthlngton." snld Eva. as
they were seated.
"Oh, yes—that Is—I did not look
over them," and her visitor stammered
and seemed confused. "Surely. Miss
Borrnnce, you are not going to leave
the city?"
"leave the city?" repeated Eva, be-
wildered. "I had not thought of It."
"Then—then—f Worthlngton was
acting strangely~"then the note I re-
ceived was—was not—" and he stopped
dead short, and drew from his pocket
--the unfinished page of poor Eva's
story, the 1e«er written by the fanci-
ful heroine to the fanciful hero, the
fanciful "Denill 1"
"Oh, Mr. Worthlngton!"
Eva. half crying, explained. Worth-
lngton gravely but with Interest In-
sisted on seeing the unfinished story.
"You are a long way ahead of the
first story effort," he told her. "I
shall be pleased to place It for you.
when It Is completed." Then his face
fell again, and he added: "And tt
would have made me happier still, If
what I had so fondly wished, so truly
hoped—
"That lt might be true—that the
dream of perfect happiness that
brought me here might be true? Oh.
Miss Dorrnnce—Eva—can yon not see
how much I love you I"
Her blushing face answered Denzll
Worthlngton.
"Then." he said proudly, enfolding
her with a protecting arm. "It Is to be
love, hope, work—together!'
Should the home town "knock-
er'' go to either heaven of liell.
that place will be out of luck.
■tat* of Ohio. Cltr of Toledo,
Frank j!UChsn" *
r^Vain^' builll.lt IB the CIt*
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Legislative Gossip
From State Capitol
(By John li. Davis)
Austin, Texas, August 2—The
outstanding feature of the Leg-
islature during the past week
was the fight n the House over
the matter of fixing salaries of
the professors and instructors
of the University of Texas, and
by a decisive majority on every
vote cast the salaries were re-
duced to the 1919 basis. Those
favoring retaining the salaries
at the war time level fought hard
and valiantly but they outnum-
bered two to one. Ex-students
and other ardent friends of the
University would make it appear
that the reductions proposed
would ruin the institution, but
the decreases do not put the sal-
aries back to anything like the
before the war basis. It simply
amounts to chopping off the em-
ergency increase made neces-
sary by the abnormally high
prices prevailing in the latter
part of 1919 and during the win-
ter and spring of 1920. The atti-
tude of the University faculty in
the matter of salaries as upheld
by their friends is exactly like
that of the railroad brotherhoods
to force the railroads to pay
them extraordinarily high wages
during the crest of high prices,
but now that the cost of living
is materially lower they fight to
the last ditch to keep up to the
wages up to the highest maxi-
mum.
It is evident that the Legisla-
ture is not going to accept and
enact into law all the recommen-
dations that the Governor in the
matter of law enforcement and
economy. The only one of his
rt commendations upon which
final action has been had is the
Suspended Sentence Law which
he asked to have repealed, but
the House refused to follow his
advice and passed a bill exclud-
ing certain offenders from the
benefit of the law so that those
guilty of murder, burglary, theft
and certain other., > offenses can
not obtain a suspended sentence.
There will be a hard fight on his
economy program, which rec-
commends among other things
the consolidation of the Market-
ing and Warehouse Department
with the Department of Agri-
culture, and the abolishment of
several of til? State boards. Per-
sonally. I am not a special ad-
mirer of Governor Neff and do
not think that he has handled
the situation a well as he might
have so as to get practical re-
sults. but I believe that he is
right in the greater part of his
recommendation. There arc
men in Texas whom I would
prefer as governor to Pat M.
Neff, but I want to say right now
that 1 will advise them to stay
out of the race at the next elec-
tion, f<fr if Governor Neff goes
before the people and tells them
what he tried to do, the people
will send him back and elect a
Legislature that will support • is
program.
The special committee which
was appointed during the regu-
lar session to investigate the
penitentiary system, has made
its report and as other, commit-
tees in the past, they found much
to criticize:. The report says
that many prisoners have been
illegally, severely and bruitally
mistreated; that sanitary con-
ditions are extremely bad; that
the prisoners are not fed whole-
some food as required by law;
that the medical attention re-
ceived by-them has been ineffic-
ient; that the prison commission
has not exercised proper care in
keeping supervision over farm
managers and guards; and that
a poor system of lw>okkeeping is
being used; that Prison Com-
missioners W. G., Pryot and Sam
W. D. Low purchased from Bas-
sett Blakely 260 mules and hors-
es at $150 each, aggregating the
sum of $98,000 and they were
found to be of a value of not
more than $60 per head; and
that the prison commission pur-
chased a cotton mill at Rich-
mond for $125,000 without mak-
ing proper investigation to de-
termine whether or not it had
been a paying business or to as-
certain its real value except to
take the valuation of one of the
stockholders in the company
that owned the mill. The Com-
mittee recommends remedies to
cure these defects in the man-
agement and charges that Com-
missioner Pryor has been guilty
of indifference and willful fail-
ure In the discharge of his du-
ties, and they recommend that
proceedings be instituted to re-
move him from office. As indi-
cated above, every committee
jtlmi, investigates the peniten-
tiary system find# many things
Although women practice law-
ami pay taxes in Dallas County,
no woman's name will go 011 the
list of jurors for Dallas County
during the next fiscal year. The
District Attorney's office,
through a communication wirt-
ten by Assistant District Attor-
ney William McCraw, has held
it isn't legal under the law for a
woman to be summoned as a jur-
ior. District Clerk John H.
Cullom says that settles it.
Work of preparing the jury
wheel for the new year w^s be-
gun at the District Clerk's office
Monday. Four deputies are en-
gaged in the labor. The law re-
quires that the names of jurors
shall be drawn between Aug. 1
to 15 for the year. The poll tax
lists from which the names will
toe drawn contain approximately
20,000 names, District Clerk
Cullom said.
Assistant District Attorney
McCraw in his communication
to the District Clerk said: "Ar-
ticle 5114 of the Revised Civil
Statutes prescribes that "all male
persons over the age of 21' shall
be liable for jury service. In
view of this statute you should
not include the names of any
other class of citizens."
No Women Jurors Dallas Headquarters
For Dallas County For Cotton Growers
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. i,—
With the cooperative cotton
marketing associations for four
states, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Texas and Arizona, as the first
members, the American Cotton
Growers' Exchange, which is ex-
pected to include in its member-
ship the cotton marketing asso-
ciations of the thirteen cotton
William llohenzollern, a little
short of cash, recently tried to
sell some of his Doom woodland,
the buyers proposing to cut ihe
trees down and use the grotmd
for house sites and gardens. The
Netherlands government inter-
vened with an absolute injunc-
tion against felling the Doom
municipality generously pur-
producing states, was organized! chased the land, to be preserved
here Monday at a conference of' as forest.
growers at which almost all the In such protection of tre-s
THE STAGGER TODDLE
Algy—"Parker, I'm a ruined
socially! Last night at the ball
I drank too much and staggered
into everybody."
Valet—"Scarcely that, sir. liv-
ery one's talking of you as in-
venting a new dance."—Passing
Show.
wrong. It seems that men who,
at home, are counted successful
business men and enjoy good
refutations, get into troublj
when they assume the manage-
ment of the penitentiaries and
do things, or permit things to
be done, which places them in a
bad light. At any rate, the
management of the penitentiary
syitem is one of the big prob-
lems with which every adminis-
tration is confronted.
Southern states were represent
ed. Carl Williams, Oklahoma
City, was elected chairman of
the exchange and C. O. Moser,
Dallas, Texas, secretary. Dallas
was selected as temporary head-
quarters.
Under the plan of organization
adopted here Monday will be
governed by a board of trustees
elected by the state associations
on the basis of one from each
state at large, and one additional
for each 250,000 bales of cotton
reported. It is probable that the
staple growers will be given a
trustee for each 100,000 bales
pledged. Three of the five mem-
bers of the executive committee
were selected Monday, Carl Wil-
liams, Oklahoma City; J. T. Orr,
Dallas,president of the Texas
Marketing Associaton, and W.
S. Stevens, Phoenix, Ariz., vice
president of the Arizona Pima
there is a suggestion which the
United States might well con-
sider. If the Netherlands gov-
ernment can thus prevent ;the
cutting off of private woodlond.
without raising a revolt of tine
sturdy and independent burgh-
ers, the United States, or the
separate members of this repub-
lic, ought to be able to do some-
thing to check the needle#s and
wasteful destruction of trees,
not alone in the great forest
areas which still exist in some
places, but also in and about our
cities and towns.
A case in point is presented
by one of the most famous old
highways in the suburban part
of New Jersey, which for gen-
erations has been noted for i||
fine rows of maples, elms anil
sycamores. Some time ago the
authorities decided to make side-
walk "improvements" or dubious
Cotton Growers' Association. [value, and in so doing destroyed"
Officials said the exchange. many of the finest trees, which
will coltrol about 3,000,000 bales a little painstaking by the en-
of the 1921 crop. No sales will 'gineers might have spared. Next
be handled by the exchange this I the road had to be. widened at a
year, as the various associations dangerous curve, and a dozen or
have already made arrangements
to handle their 1921 cotton, it
was said.
One of the first acts of the
new exchange was the adoption
of a resolution urging a tariff on
staple cotton.
Husband—"The doctor has or-
dered me to observe the greatest
possible quiet."
Helpmate—-"In that case, dear,
don't you think it would be an
ideal time to get back into busi-
ness "—Exchange.
more noble trees were slashH
down, nearly all of which might
have been saved without inter-
fering with the needed widening.
And now another mile or more
of the road is to be widened,
with a wholesale and entirely
unnecessary destruction of trees
which it has taken from 50 td
100 years to grow.—New York
Tribune.
It is all right to "bnry your
troubles"—but that's no reason
why you should invite everybody
to the funeral.
SPECIA
Just received shipment of Men's Soie-
sette Shirts, Champagne color with
collar attached, at $2.25, a beauty.
GINGHAM—New shipment of Amoskeg Gingham
in Plaids, 19c to 25c.
MEN'S HATS—Just from the factory, a beautiful
I line of Men's Felt Hats. Colors, brown, black and
■| belly. Price $4.50 and $5.00. '
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MEN'S SOX—A complete assortment of colors
and sizes, from 15c to $1.00.
BRING YOUR HEMSTITCHING TO HUDSON, DAVIS CO.
TOILET ARTICLES—We have almost everything
in toilet articles of the best grade.
SPECIAL—On Boys' Pants. All Pants half price
for Saturday only. Come early and get choice.
MEN'S UNDERWEAR -Union Suits from 75c to
$1.35. Two piece, per garment, 35c to $1.00.
Hudson, Davis Company
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Mesquite, Tex**.
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1921, newspaper, August 5, 1921; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400722/m1/1/?q=peddler: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.