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THE ALBANY NEWS
Albany, Texas, Thursday, August 7,1911
©If? Albang News
Published Every Thursday
R. H. McCarty and John H. McGaughey
Pobliihen and Owneri
We're ioc Per-
mt Boosters for
Albany and grand
1 d Shackelford
County
Over 54 Year*
Continuous Serv
icn t o Shaekel
ford and Bound
in£ CountiM
News. f>on't want to miss a copy
of the old home paper.
"Please remember me to my:
friends there..
J. C. Honeycutt.
"P. S: For many years my foun- I
dation stork have been from
Shackelford coanty Hereford* and
1 wish to say they are the thriftiest,
best doing r,ittle I have ever known I
—J.C.H."
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HER EFORDS ARE FAMOUS
I OUR DEMOCRACY
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Carty •
Col'mn
was and he said that he could sell
the merchandise but they couldn't
deliver it. The government has the
factories tied up making arma
ments. Afraid of Germany but
we are not afraid of Hitler, and we
don't believe he will ever got here
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IN FROM THE RANCH
Shackelford
spreading ill
MNMIMtMlltllllMIMHMINIIueMIHHIMHIIMIMIIflH
■I i M i0iii •
LITTLE MOLLY IS OFF THE
FRONT PAGE
Well, little Molly O'Daniel is off
the front page now, and we ought
to have some news minus the
"0 Apostrophe." Miss Molly must
have had a fine pull with the press
boys—they sure did (five her
plenty of front page news. Well,
Miss Molly is a fine girl. (Jot on
the band wagon with her father,
and added color and intere t to his
political campaigns. She is now
married and gone gone to New
York for her honeymoon.
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NEW SENATOR
The governor of Texas took the
office of Senator in Wa.-hington
Monday, and is now seated in that
body as the new Senator from
Texas. O'Daniel sure has been a
warm petrel in politics in Texa
the past few years. His political
career has few parallels in t.hi■
history of Texas- just a Hour
merchant had a personality that
sure had a pull. When he entered
politics in Texas his crowds were
so large that he had to go out and
rent a farm to accommodate the
people who wanted to hear him
speak. So he took the oath of of
fice Monday as United States Sen-
ator. The Senate is the greatest
law-making body in the world. It
is the safety-valve for Democracy
—and for the whole world. During
the World War we said : "Make the
world safe for Democracy." When
we get done with this war, we be-
lieve Democracy for the world will
be made safe. Hither safe or en-
tirely destroyed we don't know
which. Sometimes we think we
have over-jumped the bounds of
neutrality hut in this instance
Hitler wrote a hook telling that he
intended to become ^he dictator <>t
the world. And of course we
couldn't sit here like England and
France did and let him over run
us. Yes, the outline in his itinei
ary South America, Centra!
America, and North America \nd
this dictator has Hitlerized the
whole world. The merchant is
afraid to buy a little stationery
afraid Hitler will get here before
he uses it up. Thus everything i-
at a standstill. A funny condition.
Talked to a drummer the other
day, and he was pretty pessimistic.
We asked him what the trouble
George Del<afosse was in from
| Valley View ranch Saturday morn-
ing bright and early. (Jeorge says
it'- getting dry out there it's get-
ting dry everywhere.
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THAT MeCARTY DAM
Well, things are moving slow out
at Lake McCarty dam. They have
a big bulldozer buried down there,
stuck in the mud at the bottom of
the core trench 20 feet below the
surface of the ground had to dis-
I mantle it to get it out. The water
i situation is at a critical stage now.
i Lake Diller is no more it was
ruined by the flood. The city is
i mow tr-ing water from the (Jeorge
dam. We presume that the water
is good. Hoy Matthews, water
superintendent., has the water ana
ly/.ed about twice a month to make
sure that it is alright.
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HACK TO PALO PINTO COUNTY
Hickok & Reynolds, who recent-
ly moved from I'alo I'into county
to Albany to drill some wells, have
moved a rig back to I'alo I'into
county and have contract for an-
other well, going down a,000 feet.
We carried the item of a deep test
on the Elliott tract of land south
of Albany last week. We under
stand that contract has been let fur
a 1,000 foot well. Well, we may
get deep oil yet we believe it is
here if we will go and get it,
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GRAND OLD SHACKELFORD
,lust keep your eye- on old
Shackelford county something i-
going to happen here directly W"
have ii Wonderful field here in thi
county, suited to all classe of
operators we get the shallow oil
and the deep oil. One thing about
this Shackelford county oil it;
lasts forever. Some wells have pro
duced 25 to M0 year-. We don't
get big gushers like they do in
other place but the oil is e\erla-1
ing.
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LETTER FROM OLD IIMKR
Below we print a letter from
■loi n Honeycutt of Sierra IU.it> •
John i a Shackelford county pro
duct born and re an d In re, the
son of a pioneer cattleman. \\ e
felt real proud when he wrote that
he got hi ta rt from lite- S1 at 1m- 1
ford county cattle none hettei n
the world. Hi letter:
"Dear Friend.--:
" Am enclo in;' herew itll > I 00
for subscription to the Albany
A fellow way over in West Vir-
ginia wanted some cattle. He wa.s
in Ohio and a fellow told him that
he could get the best cattle in the
country in Shackelford county, and
he came down and bought some
fine Shackelford county registered
cows. He didn't make much ado
about it just bought 12 brood
rows for .*12,000 and -ix heifers
for $100 each. From 'way over in
the Eastern part of the United
States the fame of
county Hereford- is
over the country.
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THAT PI.AY HOUSE
We haven't aid much about the
Hobby Nail play house lately, but
we are going to build it. There
has been so much disturbance
lately the flood, etc. that we
kinda dropped it for the present
Everything is shut down every-
one waiting until they can see what
is going to Happen.
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TOM GREEN IN TOWN
l i.,i"t JDtkL JU. A.
i nc \j.O. «ivu
it .j i "rrwfnr i >
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We're justly proud of
OUR HIGHWAYS AND Of
OUR MOTOR CARS
AND AIRPLANES.
BUT FOR. THE LONG HAUL
OR THE BIG HAUL WE MUST
HAVE OUR. RAILROADS TOO.
Indispensable in national defense,
they have been the greatest
single technological factor in
MAKING AMERICA WHAT IT IS TODAY.
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THEN -OPENING THE COUNTRY
Tom Green, youngest son
Henry Green, was in from
ranch Saturday morning,
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The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF ALBANY
"Banking Since 1883"
Watch that water pretty close,
and see that it.is not contaminated
All honor to |{oy he sure watche
our water Has it analyzed two or
three times a week, and treat it to
make it pure. We don't want any
epidemic here now.
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THAT OLD WEBB RANCH
You know, that old Webb ranch
out. there ha • been our dream -tuff
for forty years. It' hen the
dream of our new-paper life t ha *
we would have forty fainilie out
there instead of one. That i the
finest stock-farming country on
earth. It's adjacent to Uban) It
we could coloni/.e it, and put i ■
bunch of families out there, 11 ,
would make tin one of tin- line t
school town - in tin country V\ t
went out to the ranch with M
Lee, the owner, the other day. ami
we told him about our dream tuir,
but he didn't give us any enrour
agement. M lybe he will latei
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SOLDIERS ON THE MOVI
31 OF POINT-TO-POINT MILEAGE OF THE WORLD.—
56% OF WORLD'S FASTEST PASSENGER TRAINS —
AVERAGE SPEED OF FREIGHT TRAINS UP t>>7o
SINCE 1920, WITH *HOT SHOT "FREIGHTS NOW
DOING bO MILES PER HOUR..
Well acquainted with thr fi.-hintf
holes along the Clear Fork Me
\v:i born out there about Fort
O
' <#riffin
j uoner "f
net wrre
the WV ?
he
thi
v* e
•fill of ,tn
!l known
«-x cornmi-
The iVn
pioneer- of
jJust...
iBetween Friends!
RUMORED MF.E7 INC. ()l
GREA'I MF.N
I■ i uinnrcd
•': tin hill, greate
I ngland ha ever
dent
/reati
dent ,
that Winston
prime minister
had, and I'resi-
Kra nklin Roosi velt, t he
. t of United State- presi
will meet somewhere on the
it- ocean.
J. H M.
TWO — o—
('H \RLIE HARFORD ha- -ome
relief on his dutie as caretaker of
the court house and court house
lawn. During thi rainy -pring
UP I ROM (il.ADEWA I F,R
g
The -ohlier boy
Albany thi. week
Louisiana for their
envoi's.
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THE I ()N(, BA I
went through
going m er to |
ummei man
Mrs I
■id'-v, ate I
I • i , who ha
time looking
e-t Mr I
Mi l.ee SI,
W. I
up
IS
came up to join Mr.
been here for -ome
over his ranch inter-
te wa uneasy about
■ wa afra id he would
work too
Weal her,
once and
hard
I I INI
IN
luring thi. hot
ill try to get him to
me-(|uite tree every
awhile and cool off.
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NEWFOUNDLAND
and summer he's pushed the old
lawn mower many a mile. The com ,
mi'-ioner.-' court felt -orry fori
him, and recently bought a mower
with a motor on it and now the
court lion-e lawn looks like a golf,
green. Charlie is to be commend :
d for the beautiful court house1
from j lawn. Shackelford county hasI
one of the most beautiful court
hou-' in Texas built in 18H3.I
Just the other day a fellow from
California stopped at the News of-
fice and a -ked where he could get
a picture of the court house, "It's
the prettiest I've seen," he said.
I
The I;ii:- hi Red iri 'i.n • old ,
Hitler look ing dnw n In no e 11
plan wa to \s Hip Rn ia in i\ i
week Tin far lie has tailed Hut
go h, that i ome « n over thfre
in Rll 1.1 r he battle I lie I
U,inn mile imu\ with n.nnn.nnn1
men lighting
l.oiii- 15utier Long, -on of Mr
and Ml I!. S. Long, i. in New
foil 111II a n«l, helping I'ncle Sam
build naval bases.
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I AIINO HOME (iROWN
TOMATOES
IHK.I.ONI
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WOUI.ItN'l II It 1
Nin
Mi
.1 T. C
ent out t
some I101
i-krell of
the gar
■ grown tomatoi
lioog-
en a ml
Wouldn't it be flic, to C(
that Webb t 1 iich tii'l put
thirty five 01 forty familie
t he, e I II :-t ' id of li\ e or IX
hu if -, W( w I) 111(1 have liift e
twenty. Wouldn't it be nici
could build Hobby Vail ib
.' '11,0(111 (low ll 1 e I t lie I 1
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1.0IM, IO St Mont
Ion
alii
lit
out
cliool
■11 or
f we
berj
pick
ami ent 11.- a ack full. You know,
anything grown in Shackelford
county has a peculiar taste the
In t in the world. We thank, you,
Mr t ockroll. It wa 0 thought
ful, o kind.
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BACK I ROM OR ANBUR V
I'RETTY SOON milady will he
wearing cotton hose, or no hose I
at all. And there will be a dearth i
of other feminine clothing made of
ilk. Cotton, of course, 1 the sub-
stitute. I'ncle Sam ha. put the I
t|uee/.er on Japan, thus we get |
no more ilk and we ship no
more cotton and high grade oils to 1
Japan. Raw silk in the United
State. 1 being -ave<| for military
purpo o parachute etc We hav
plent\ of cotton more than w> 1
can u '■. " !he people of the I n '. 1
ed States will not lack for good
"We offer this picture as proof
or probably D. A. Johnny would
call it evidence—proof of what,
we are not sure other than bad
photography. But in view of the
publicity Felix has been getting
lately, such as having a nice write-
up in the papers and that 'pretty'
picture in the Register Monday
(how could anyone make Felix
look so sweet), it may be that all
this went to his head and he may
have been 'cutting up' a bit too
much, but then there are other
things could have gone to "his head.
Notice particularly that he is in the
custody of an officer of the law.
This really looks bad for Felix. No,
gentlemen, we call your attention
to the open-mouthed expression on
that beaming countenance. Note
the surprise and humiliation at
having his picture made while be-
ing escorted by the law. Get a
load of that hat and tie and if the
picture had been full-length you
could have seen his boots. Could
he imagine himself a cavalry gen-
eral. If so, maybe Wellington was
right when he called him 'Yoo Hoo'
McCurdy. Maybe Felix can ex-
plain this situation. Anyway he
-aid one time he thought we should
put his picture ir, the bulletin."
The story is ruined when the edi-
tor of the Rotary bulletin says,
"Seriously, we congratulate Felix
on his -election to commander of
the local Legion post. At a time
when nearly the whole world is it
war, we need men of his character
at the head of such patriotic or-
ganizations as the American Leg-
ion."
DURING OUR subscription cam-
paign that closed last Thursday we
received a lot of very nice letters,
some of which we published in thjs
column. Here are a few more:
"I certainly enjoy reading the
News and have been a subscriber
for many years.
Mrs Odelia R. Staiti,
Houston."
"Find enclosed check to extend
ubscription. While it is years
since the writer was in Albany,
till enjoy reading your paper.
Mrs. K. H. Johnson,
Twin Falls, Idaho."
"It i indeed a pleasure to re-
ceive a copy of such a fine paper
each week. A trip to Albany in
the near future is anticipated.
Mr , Era Cunningham and Jack,
Gadsden, Ala."
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SO', OF FARM PRODUCTS
MOVED TO TOWN BY CAR
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More than 50 per cent of the
I nited States agricultural produc-
tion would never get to market
without motor transportation , D.
U Rathrick, general salesmanager
of Pontine Motor Division, de-
clares.
Rathrick bases his conclusion on
records made available bv the I S.
Department of Agriculture which
show that 27 per cent of the hut
tor, per cent of the eggs, li.'i
per cent of the poultry, 10 pi
cent of the fruit and vegetables,
ti2 per cent of the cattle, iii per
cent of the' calves, tlx per cent of
the hogs, UH per cent of the heep
and lambs are moved from farm
to market by motor vehicle.
I n addit ion, Rathrick repoi t .,
farmers own more than a million
trucks one fourth of the coin,
try's total— in addition to the p.i-
;oiiger car- they own and operate
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News Wants Ads #et rrsult.*
Army Takes Over
Highways During
Troop Movements
AUSTIN. — The Army virtu-
ally "took over" a number of ma-
jor east-west Texas highways he-
ginning August 2, and State Police
Director Homer Garrison, Jr.
urged civilians to avoid using
these arteries as much as possible
during the movement of troops for
the Third Army maneuvers in East
Texas and Western Louisiana.
Colonel Garrison announced that
Highway Patrol units, some of
them equipped with two-way radio,
escorted all major convoys across
the state.
The State Police portable radio
transmitter, KTXB, a full-scale ra-
dio station mounted on a truck,
was set up at Tenaha as part of a
State Police unit which will be
maintained there throughout the
maneuvers, Garrison said. This
headquarters station, under com-
mand of Sergeant Marvin Gordon
of Tyler and staffed by a number
of Patrol units equipped with two-
way radio, will work closely with
Army officials in handling traffic
on roads within and adjacent to
the maneuver area.
Highway Patrol Chief Hill Fore-
man announced that Patrol units
under command of Capt. Jim Line
of Wichita Falls escorted Fort
Sill, Okla., troops from the state
line near Ringold to the Louisiana
border. *
From Abilene, Capt. Lloyd
Wyatt directed escorts for con-
voys using two routes out of Abi-
lene and one from Brownwood.
Captain Harry Hutchison was
in charge of escorting troops go-
ing to the maneuvers from Fort
Sam Houston, San Antonio.
Capts. E. M. Wells of Ft. Worth
and S. J. Gilbert of Dallas
worked together in helping maneu-
ver several large convoys through
the Fort Worth-Dallas area.
In the vicinities of Fairfield,
McKinney and Dallas, large col-
umns of troops s pent 11 day
marching while trucks return to
their base- to pick up additional
soldiers. In these instances, High
way Patrol forces were divided,
some units accompanying the
trucks while others remained lo
protect the pedestrian troops.
ENSE
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
lis SAII VI >1)1 It IIINI OHI( i Ilk hank
America on Guard!
Above ia a reproduction of the
Treasury Department's Defense
■SavingH Pouter, showing an exact
duplication of the original "Minute
Man" Ntatuc by famed sculptor
Daniel ( besti r French. Defense
Honda and Stamps, on sale at your
hank or post ntTice, are a vital part
of America s d< It 1, preparations.
rz
1. P. Ill'MPERS, former Albany
high chool football player and
lately of A, & M. college I where he
completed his third year on the
\ggie ha o ball team t his prine I
II. He
\b
d I'h.
chool
pearc
•' t Lr(',
lo l„
tage
chool
\\.
will
I till
lie.
we hav
d the
d
to p<
sful
'Ope
MlilKl
w; 1 .1
the actor .
- oil this big
■p going to
I>0!pit Long, 1 -\ county dork ot
Shackelford county. hack fron
t i 1 .inbu ry hi: old home Hi
went down t hero to . 111 end .1 p
in on tif the old ettloi Dolp'i
lid t hat .hldtte \\ diet Mori
Fort Worth wag the orator for the
reunion and made the speech for
thi 'iill, M ot lo I hood nl lev
as.'' Granbury is Judge Morn
old homo town II, was formerly
county judge and district attor-
ney hero. Dolph said he deliv
is doing some fine pitching in the
Toxa I • ague II, wa igned up
by the Dodgers, and out to Real,
mont, whore he is proving to be
one of their ho-1 twii'lei' . Albany
ha eball fair- are quite proud ot
"I eft;, " ii,<l a nun,bet drove down
to Fort Worth la I Wetllie -da.,
night uiii aw bin, beat 'he < 'at ,
allowing only four hit llumper
has a line future in ha .0 ball, an I
Albany i.- looking forward to hi
being called to the Majoi next
.onion. He ha boon getting some
,.i| i good publicity from sports writers
Business & Professional
DIRECTORY
SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN
CLOSES
Well, our -ubscription campaign
closed last week, and it wa one of
the most suci'e .-,fuI we eve, had.
Not only did we collect up the old
ubscription , but we got a lot of
new subscribers
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GETTING DRY
It'.- getting dry, folk... A little
dry weather t- fine for the pa turc
though makes the grass stronger.
The ,'ras ha been too juicy with
the heavy spring and early -u,n
mer rain.-.
1 HANK YOU, JOHN BENNET
John Rennet wa- down from
Stamford thi week on a little li h
>>>g bout. And knowing our fond
ness for ti-.li, he came up and hand-
ed us 1 big cat fish. Sure was fine,
John. John u a Shackelford |
ounty hoy anyway, and is pretty
a great address. After he got
through serving Shackelford coun-
ty and West Texa , he decided to
go down to Fort Worth. They all
decide to go to Fort Worth from
West Texa that is the final. W
met Judge Morri a short while at
tor he moved to Fort Worth, an I
he -aid, "Dick, I'm having 1 devil
of a time trying to bo the be.-
law vei in Fort Worth.'' He mail
good down there, and 1 now di.
tint judge. If he wasn't the bo-t
lawyer in Fort Worth, they knew
that he was there.
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MET MERRICK DAVIS
Merrick i one of t.he largest
breeders of Hereford ow m Tex
a.-. Has 1 ,.'100 pure bred cows.
o
Mr. and Mr, W. R Richardl of
Olden were guests in the home of
Mr. and Mrs, E. L. Huddleston
Saturday and Sunday.
News Want Adi get Results.
recently, and it is the concensus of
opinion among the writers that
Rump has what it takes to make a
first da.- ball player. He is
young and experienced with three
en. on with the Aggies, and
completing his first season in th<
Texa- League.
FELIX McCURDY of Gain--
ville, former uperintendent of tin
l.ono Star Gasoline plant at Mo
ran, has been getting his phj.st
ognomy in print here of late. Tin
Star I'degram announced to hi
friends Sunday that he had been
elected post commander of the
Gainesville American L e g 1 0 n,
and it that Game wile Ro
tary club took a wat at helix fo
the publicity he ha been receiving
Ry the way, he is superintendent
ot the big Lone Star plant 1!
Gaine ville. We received the fol
lowing clipping from the Gain,
ville Rotary Momentum under the!
caption, "He \,-ked Eor It," and
w th a pictun of Felix and a cop:
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