The Granger News. (Granger, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GRANGER NEWS, GRANGER TEXAS, Augun 12, 1926
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A WEST TEXAS EDITOR'S
DESCRIPTION OF HIS CITY
Archer City is not exactly a city,
yet she has a lot of city thing*. Pos-
sibly many of our readers have never
been to Archer City, so for their ben-
efit we will enumerate a few of the
things she has. 8he has one of the
very finest court houses in Texas, also
a jail that is receiving $20,000 in new
inside fixtures. She has three banks
and a fine republican postoflke.
She has a printing office and t*
flock of preachers for enlightment
She has a fine three stcry Tire proof
achool building, and two butcher
shops. She has four dry goods etores
and four-hundred half-naked flap-
pers. She has three churches and
three hundred home breweries. She
has five hundrad automobiles, and a
few babies. She has as fine an elec-
tric light and power system as is
found in Texas. She has four lum-
ber yards and a few lawyers.
She has five eafts, ten republicans,
and a sewage system. She has a col-
ored supplement ci about a dozen
negroes. She has one railroad and one
dentist. She has a bakery, two bar-
ber shops, two or three ugly wonwn
and a beauty parlor. She has a lot
of rough streets, and twice as many
smooth politicians. She has two drug
stores, two hardware stores, three
doctors and an undertaker. She has
three plumbing establishments, five
garages, two bridge clubs, ^ind r. fine
racing pavillion. She has on-; con-
fectionary, two abstract plants, one
ice plant, about 1200 beautiful womca,
one first clss drunk, two feed stores,
eight hundred dogs, two grain eleva-
tors, two tailor shops, an nine loafers.
She has one telephone exchange, one
gossip club, two insurance agencies,
two jewelry stores, two real estate
offices, two shoe shops, two negro
shines, a vulcanizing plant, twenty-
three bootleggers with twenty-three
hnndred csstomers, one old maid with-
out hope, one fire truck, a good wat-
er system, one machine shop, one
domino parlor, two fuel oil stations,
one scavenger.
She has a modern picture show,
about twenty-five hundred live wire
citizens, and a cemetery. She has
nine old bachelors, and just oodles of
red hot mammas. She is a dandy
place in which to live for everybody
from the flat head jelly to the long
faced ecclesiastical patriarch.
Archer City needs a first class mod-
ern fire proof hotel. She needs pav-
ed streets. She needs—well, that's
just about all she needs just at pres-
ent—and steps are being taken to at-
tain these. Selah!—Archer County
News.
SWEET YOUNG THINGS
WEARING DOG COLLARS
Now it's dog collars.
Yes, sir, if the eyes of this report-
er have not gone wrong, that is what
he is absolutely sure he saw around
the neck of a pretty young thing. To
make absolutely sure there could be
no mistake about i*i a bystander was
asked if he could tall what the ob-
ject was, and he too said it was a
dog collar.
So, there you are. This is the latest
bit of adornment, according to fad
fanciers, for the young women. Just
how widespread the fad will be cannot
be stated, but if this one is anything
like many others which have gone
before, it will take but a few days
to see practically every one of the
younger fair sex with a leather strap
around their m?cks.
The one which attracted the atten-
tion of the reporter for this paper
was just the regulation variety. It
consisted of a leather thong with a
buckle, a name plate and a few silver
knobs studded around at regular in-
tervals. There could be no mistaking
it for the ordinary kind you will see
at any hardware store or harness
store, and the hardware dealers are
not at all mad about it. Dog collars
ordinarily are very slow sellers and a
stock purchased at the beginning of
the year is very sure to carry the
merchant through the entire twelve
months. But not so, if the young wo-
men are going to use them as part of
the finery they are going to wear,
for the demand is pretty sure to be
heavy, and if the local dealers don't
happen to have a good stock on hand
they had better take this tip and get
busy.—Lewnsville Enterprise.
JOURNALISM HEAD
RESIGNS AT BAYLOR
I to coming to Baylor College, was Lon-
I don correspondent for the United
i Press association.
He
Has Done Much to Adv
Department During His
Stay at College.
ORIGIN OF BOBBED
HAIR DISCOVERED
PRINTER WORKED IN EVERY
STATE IN UNITED STATES
BOTH CARELESS
Beiton, Aug. 7.—D. Q. Riddle, head
of the department of Journalism of
Baylor college, has resigned, and will
leave at the end of the present sum-
mer term.
Mr. Riddle has been acting head of
the department for the last two
years, and during that time has done
much to build up the department. He
has not only strengthened the depart-
ment in enrollment and the addition
to many new and practical courses,
but has arranged projects for the
journalism students which have en- j
abled them to secure a more practi- j
cal knowledge of the profession than !
they could obtain in class. During1
the past year he arranged for the i
seniors to edit tha Dallas Journal
Junior for one day during the Stats
Fair, and also made it possible for j
them to cov'.r the meeting of South- ■
ern Baptist Convention at Houston
this spring as members of the staffs
of the Houston Chrnicle and the Hous-
ton Post-Dispatch.
In addition to his teaching duties,
Professor Riddle has also acted as j
publicity director of the college. He J
has been responsible for all the ma-
terial which ha.T been sent out to va- j
rious papers over the state from the i
College News bureau. This bureau is
affiliated with the American Assocla- 1
tion of College News bureaus, whose j
convention Mr. Riddle attended at j
Perdue university, Lafayette, Indiana,
At Fort McPherson, an army post
near Atlanta, Georgia, a soldier ap-
peared before the colonel of the regi-
ment. and asked for a furlough to go
home to his sick wife. He said she was
seriously ill in a hospital and had
written him to come at once.
"I don't like to refuse you," said the
colonel, " but I received a wire from
the hospital superintendent this morn-
ing saying she was past the crisis
and for me to ignore your request."
The soldier saluted and turned to
go, but the doorway he paused and
said, "Colonel, I mean no disrespect,
sir, but I just want to say that there
are two people in this post who han-
dle the truth loosely, and I'm one of
them, sir. I'm not married."—Ex.
an army officer, of dusty old Continen-
tal Army records stored for years in
the Schuylkill Arsenal here shows
America's first shingle was worn by
the American doughboy and not by
the American flapper. <
Bobbing the hair was even made a
matter of general orders for the sol-
diers of 1776, the ancient documents
indicate. One such decree, issued at
West Point, is oddly at variance with
present day West Point traditions
which from on anything but the trim,
est of hair cuts,
"As the head dress of a soldier is
one of the first and necessary orna-
ments," it reads, "the captain com-
mands the N. C. officers and privates
| of the first regiment to have their
BUCHANAN DEFEATS ! hair cued behind not to exceed seven
HAMILTON FOR CONGRESS j inches long and close to the head.
| "The N. C. officers and privates of
Origin of bobbed hair is now defi- j Lexington, July 30.—R. W. Phillips,
nitely laid to the war—the Revolu- better known as "Kokcmo/ who set
tionary War. j type by hand in a Lexington job-
Discovery by Captain L. C. Bai#»l, ! printing offce forty years ago and
Dallas, July 30.—James P. Buchan.
an of Brenham defeated James R.
Hamilton for Congress in the 10th dis.
trict, complete returns from the nine
counties in the district showed. The
vote: Buchanan, 21,643; Hamilton,
21,282. This was the orly Congres-
sional contest that had been in doubt,
all other incumbents having been saf-
ely returned on early returns.
the second regiment to have their hair
tied behind in a bob cut close to the
head, the hair of the whole to be cut
on the top of the head short and
brushed back. The officers command-
ing companies will see this order car-
ried into effect as soon'as possible.
MARRIED
The News can supply you with good
printing.
Georgetown, Aug. 8.—Miss Grace
j King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
where he represented the southwest, j King, was married to Searcy Windsor
Mr. Riddle is a graduate of Sim- of Waco July 31, at the bride's home,
mons university and has done gra- two miles from Georgetown. Mr. ana
duate work in Columbia university. Mrs. Windsor left for a trip to San
He was formerly a member of the i Antonio and other points. They will
staff of the Dallas News, and prior [ reside in Waco.
Texas, Oklahoma and Louisana, in
the order named, produce over 95 per
cent of all the native pecans grown
in the United States and the commer-
cial sheellers are almost entirely de-
pendent for' their supplies upon the
production in the states mentioned. A
careful survey indicates that Louis-
ana and Oklahoma will have a nor-
mal crop and Texas gives promise of
having the largest crop ever recorded,
anywhere from 25 to 38 million
pounds.
WHITEHEAD SAYS
SURVEY TO BE
MADE TO STATE LINE
Includes All Territory to South San
Antonio to Border River
San Antonio, Aug. 6.—The Mis-
souri-Kansas-Texas railroad may be
extended as rar as the Rio Grande In-
stead only to a point on the Texas-
Mexico railway, it was indicated Fri-
day, when C. N. Whitehead, president
announced that the survey now going
on would last six months and would
include all territory south of here
to the border river.
"We want to find out all about that
terriory," he said. "The survey will
list six months or so."
Regarding a rumor that he would
have a definite announcement to
make before the day is over about a
plan reported complete, Mr. White-
head said no definite plans has as
yet been formulated, and that after
he meets with local business men Fri-
day the data would have to be pre-
vented to the directors of the Katy.
Should everything be • favorable, ap-
plication to the Interstate Commerce
Commission would then be made, he
said.
"In the old days we built the rail-
roads first and then talked about it,**
he said. "Now we do the talking
first."
A DARKEYS PRAYER
Oh, Lowd, give thy servant this
mawning de eye uv de eagle and de
wisdom uv de owl; connect his soul
wid de gospel telephone in the cen-
tral skies; luminate his brow wid de
light uv heaven; overflow his mind
wid rivahs uv luve foh do peepul; tur-
pintine his imagination; grease his
lips wid possum oil; loosen his tongue
arid d* sledge hammer uv Thy power;
lectrify hii brane wid de lightening
uv de word; store up u aelone in his
lungs; roll de thunder uv heaven in
his voice* fill him plum full uv dini-
mite nv Thy rtorv: 'noint him all ov-
er wH keroslne oil uf Thy salvation
and sot him on fire.—Swiped.
HE'LL FIND OUT SOON
Henpecked—I heard your mother
nay she was going to town—did you
hear her say whether I'm going
aiffir?
§
YOUR RAILROAD
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Rail
ftis&enger Service
ReauaiicaUyRdiaUe
PASSENGER trains on American railroads
transport approximately two and one-half
million passengers daily. In view of the vast
number of passengers handled, the railroad record
for regularity, punctuality and safety of service is
indeed remarkable.
} While increased use of motor vehicles has de-
creased the number of passengers who use the
trains daily for local travel, other developments in
modern life have placed upon the railroads an in-
creasing burden of responsibilty for long distance
service. It is this branch of railway service that
is most intimately related to the operation of busi-
ness on a national scope.
5 Every day thousands of business transactions, as
well as social engagements, are based on the ex-
pectation of punctual arrival of passenger trains.
And the men who are the railroads see to it
that disappointment of this public trust is reduced
to the zero point. Night and day throughout every
hour of the year, unceasingly, thousands of railroad
men are "on the job"—that business and society
may be served—that no loss, embarrassment or
inconvenience result from failure of passenger
trains to arrive on scheduled time.
5 Since 1920, the number [of railway passengers has
decreased yearly, until in 1925, fewer passengers
were handled than in 1911. It is a noteworthy fact
that this period of decrease in numbers of pass-
engers carried, marks also the period of most
steady improvement in the standards of railway
passenger service.
9 Never before in railroad history was passenger
service more punctual, comfortable, convenient,
safe, or better adjusted to the needs of the travel-
ing public. Hie present passenger problem of the
railroads is to continue the adjustment of this
service to the convenience and requirements of that
great number of citizens who rely regularly upon
the rails for passenger service.
The Katy—the pioneer railroad in its distinctive territory/
and the only line serving all the more important centers in
Oklahoma and Texas through both Kansas City and St. Louis
gateways—is proud of its record as an outstanding passenger
line. It is particularly proud of the improvements it has ac-
complished in passenger service and of its present passenger
service standards. Your co-operation in continued adjust-
ment to changing conditions is solicited.
ma
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mmm
who since that time has worked in
every state in the union, Canada and
Mexico, is in Lexington again and
says is through with roaming and is
gong to make this city his home fur
the rest of his days.
Kokomo is 72 years of age, has
never seen a horse race or bet on one
and states that he "wouldn't know a
thoroughbred from a mule except by
his ears." His hobbies are baseball
and cross-word puzzles, being parti-
cularly proficient in the latter voca-
bularly during his more than fifty
years in the printing trade, he says.
He came into Lexinton from Knox-
jville, Tenn., and now is operating
j most expertly a linotype machine in
the composing room of a local paper.
He has given up riding freight trains
on account of his age and most of his
trip was made by automobile. "I go
to filling stations and if I see I can
get a chance to talk to a motorist I
can always pick up a ride on account
of my age," he says.
"Kokomo" worked for the Atlanta
Constitution during the lifetime of
Henry W. Grady and was the Cour-
ier-Journal while Henry Wattersoh
was editor cf that paped. He read
proof on the New York Times for two
years, on the Philadelphia Public Led-
ger for a year and for some time on
the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post
and other leading papers.
Back in the days before typesetting
machines were in use, "Kokomo" took
up the printing trade and learned to
set type by hand. On his first visit
to Lexington forty years ago he set
type by hand in job-printing office
and it was not until fifteen years lat-
er that he learned to operate a mach-
ine in the office of the Macon Tele-
graph.
In talking of his varied experien-
ces throughout the country, "Koko-
mo" said:
"I was in Mexico in 1898 when the
Maine was blown up, working on a
paper owned by the British Consul.
Had it been owned by an American
the building would have been razed,
for the feeling was intense against
the "Gringos," as they called the Am-
ericans. As it was they kept us
locked up in the printing office for a
month before it was safe to venture
on the street."
Continuing in his reminiscent mood,
"Kokomo" said: "I have worked in all
parts of Canada, have never been on
the water but have been on the water
wagon. I always figured out it wat
a long way home."
While in Florida "Kokomo" worked
on the Miami Herald and the St Pet-
ersburg Times. He says he is getting
old now, however, and expects to re-
main in Lexington as he likes the city
and likes the printers here.
Several years ago "Kokomo" suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis. Other
than this and an attack of influenza
he has been in good health most of
his life and at the present time re-
tains perfect eyesight, notwithstand-
ing the many years of close eye work
i nthe printing business. His favorite
story which he tells on himself, fol-
lows:
"Getting over an attack of 'flu,' I
was delirious one night. Lying on
my bed I happened to glance toward
the door. There crawled under the
crack a regiment of soldiers, all with
bayonets fixed. They marched around
my bed but crawled, out without mo-
lesting me. Then crawled in some ell
ves, fairies, good-looking girls, all
smiling and they crawled out. Then
there came in the biggest man I ever
saw. He was 14 feet tall if an inch.
He walked over to me and said: 'Say
do you know what I am going to do
with you? I am going to break every
bone in your body.' I fooled that
scoundrel. I jumped out of the win-
dow and only broke an arm."
The News for Typewriter Ribbons.
MOODY SHORT OF MAJORITY
Error in Milam Tabulation Changes
Situation; 2000 Short
TO AND FROM TBDB Oi*Ei*T
Cameron, Aug. 7.—Attention "ha?
been directed to an error appearing
in the tabulation of votes as announ-
ced by the Texas Election Bureau as
final in the race for Governor in the
Milam county vote. An error of ft,000
votes oceura in the vote in Milam.
The official returns show that Moody
roceived only 2.411 votes, while the
t-vort as *m Wished in the state pa-
pers trtvp »i«rr> R,4tl. Milam county
v«it f0T Ferguson by n majoritv of
rn v/>t«a ov-r aU candidates. If the
tnfcnlation takes Hto account the 3,000
vnt«»s <Hven to Moodv by error, the
mslorifv of th« attorney genernl
wo"M not V «»«* hut, he would be
2,000 votes ahoH of a majority.
Boy It In Granger— it's here!
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