The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1926 Page: 4 of 4
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CIGARS
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that smoke ‘just right*
The reason our cigars smoke “just right**
is because we keep them right. Not too
dry; not too moist. "Just right.’* Coipe in
and try one! Vou will find the brand you
like smokes better when you buy it in our
store.
C. C. Cothes, Druggist
Dr. R. F. Nix
DENTIST
Special attention to extraction ol
teeth, using Block Anaesthesia
and treatment of Pyorrhea.
Office Nix Building.
Lamesa ; ; j Texas
GHOST CUT, L.E THRIVING
KETROfOJS, 10 GE JUNKED i
Midco Buiit Up Around G>*.st Steel
Plant in Missouri During
the World War.
ON THE SESQUI LAGOONS
Kansas City, Mo.—Nestling in the
hills of southern Missouri lies Midco,
a mushroom town that thrived in the
war. hut uow a “ghost city,” with only
nineteen families living there with
free rent, waiting for the crane, crow-
bar and sledge hammers of the Junk
dealer. The thriving metropolis of
1'arter county eight years ago figured
in one of the most unusual transac
tlons in America, growing out of the
World war.
The entire city, 350 houses, a great
steel plant, water works system, elec
trie light plant, motion picture show,
gymnasium and executive building of
18 rooms, streets and all Improve
merits, has been sold to the Sonkeu &
Galamba Iron and Metal company of
Kansas City as Junk.
Tire nineteen families that lire there
by virtue of the free rent are wonder
ing what the Kansas City concern will
do with the homes. Many of the build-
ings. seven and eight-room structures,
are strictly modern.
Herman Sunken of the Iron com-
pany says he is in a quandary as to
what to do with the fine homes. It
would be a crime to tear them down,
he feels. There are more than two
hundred houses.
Midco tins 294 acres of land in the
townslte. The same owners also have
a lease on 23,000 acres of timber land,
in close proximity to the town are
several iron mines which produced
metal for military uses in the war, but
are Idle now.
When the great demand for Iron
came In the World war the Mid-Oon-
tlnent Iron corporation built a huge
Iron plant and pig iron plant there
and imported the materials to build
the town.
About $4,000,000 was spent on the
plant. Workers hurried In and built
the homes and buildings. The hum of
the powerful machinery in the great
plant was heard night and day during
the war and the workers went to the
new city in great numbers. As many
as 3,000 once occupied the town. After
the war, the plant was shut down. The
population. Jobless, departed, leaving
the city in the hills deserted.
Most of the machinery In the big
steel plant Is Intact and will be re
claimed by the Iron company.
Here are Americans, visitors to the Sesqul-Centennlal international Rxpo-
sltioR in Philadelphia which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence, riding about the lagoons In an Italian craft,
a gondola, from which they view the buildings and displays from many lands.
In the distance can be seen the mammoth Sesqui Stadium- to the right Is
the signal tower of the United States Coast Guard building and exhibit, and
to the left is one of the Japanese pagodas which dot the exposition grounds.
The Grecian pavilion is one of the permanent structures on the site before
uie city government decided to build the Sesqui at the front door of the great
Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Exposition continues until December L
THE SESQUI FROM THE AIR
Religious Bodies’ Wealth
Placed at Three Billion
Washington.-The total wealth of
all religious organizations In the
United States In 1022 Is estimated at
$3,271,558,0(H) on a basis of returns re
celved by the federal commission. The
sfudy 1b part of a voluminous report
on national wealth and income made
In response to a senate resolution.
The wealth of the religious organi-
sations, Jf^is disclosed. Is slightly
more than 2 per cent of the total eat!
mated wealth of the country.
The largest single religious denoml
nation, both In property and In mem
bership. Is the Roman Catholic church
Its membership embraced 88 per cent
of the estimated entire church mem
bership of the country in 1922. The
•atlmated value of its church propertj
represented 23 per cent of the total
church property. In proportion to Its
siM, however, the Protestant Episco-
pal church Is the wealthiest of all, its
church property being estimated nt a
value of $223 a member.
There would he less discomfort Ir
human life if dull wits were never
paired with keen feelings.
h. ta k.
COFFEE
WHITE SWAN
COFFEE
WYATT ESTEP
C Us B 4 U Buy your Groceries and Feed.
We buy wlmt you sell and sell what you buy.
THE CHEAP CASH STORE
Gasoline and Oils Horse Shoeing
Cunningham’s Repair Shop
A. K. CUNNINGHAM, Prop.
Auto Repairing and Blacksmithing
Tires and Tubes
H. E. Corner Square Seminole, Texas
Language of Love
Once the property of an unhappy
queen of France, the consort of
Louis XV, a quaint old seal for the
marking of love letters is now
owned by Miss Clara II. Fishpaugh
of Cookcysville, Md. A mother-of-
pearl handle holds a framework of
gilded metal. Within the frame is
a wheel which turns freely, and on
the wheel are placed six different
semiprecious stones, with the seals
cut in them. The lady using the
seal might mark her letter with the
figure of a dove bearing a note in its
beak and the words, “Answer quick-
ly. This is cut in the amethyst
facet. Or, if she chose to use the
bloodstone, she would imprint the
figure of a bird cage, from which
the bird is escaping, and the warn-
ing that “who neglects me loses
me.”
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Eyes
Tested
Glasses
Fitted
Lenses Ground
SWART OPTICAL
CO.
015 Broadway Phone 805
LUBBOCK
THIN, nous
Virginia Lady Tell* of Taking
Cardui and Says She Ha*
Since Recovered Per*
feet Health.
Lynchburg, Va.-“I have taken
Cardui several times for a run-down
condition and have found it perfect-
ly splendid,” says Mrs. Lee T. Marsh.
715 First Street, this city.
“About ten years ago,” she ex-
plains, “I became so weak I could
not go about I looked like a skele-
ton and ... was dreadfully worried
about myself A friend suggested
Cardui and I decided to try it. . .
"I kept up the medicine until I
had taken six bottles. It regulated
and built me up. I improved greatly.
“Last year we drove up here
through the country from Florida. I
was exposed to the weather and
must have taken cold, for I became
*1* • • • I got run-down, lost flesh,...
could not sleep and had no appetite
at alL I was so nervous that I id
not know what to do.
“I thought of Cardui. I began to
take it regularly and it was not long
before I began to feel better. I took
mx bottles, one after another, and at
the finish of the last one was per-
fectly well again. Since then I have
continued gaining in weight and all
winter have been in perfect health.”
Sold by all druggists. NC-172
GGEEE?
TRADE AT HOME!
White F ace
Flour
Chaise (®L San-
born Coffee
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live to the needs of Seminole and its
adjacent trade territory.
If all the stati»Kiii(»n In Christendom
\vm> placed end to end they wouh'
••c.icli hut not en , mcemont.
An idea of the size and scope of the Seaqnl-Centennlal Internationa
exp-' ion. which will be held in Philadelphia from June 1’ to December 1 t<
*or :..er,wrote the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of America
In,l,pc!..h-uce. I given In this photograph, in the foreground Is the great
Munir pal Stadium, which seats 100.000 persons North of the Btadium car
be seen two of the vast exhibition buildings. The first is the Palace (
Agriculture and the second the Palaoe of Liberal Arts. Opposite the lattei
building Is the big auditorium, which seats 20,000 persons on a tingle floor,
T« the left of the stadium can be seen the world famous tyfra hniidin*
the Taj Mahal. ^
Dr. L. D. Richards
PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON
CALLS ANSWERED
PROMPTLY
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Seminole,
Texas
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Groceries
Courteous treat-
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•A Store That Satisfies”
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1926, newspaper, August 19, 1926; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577448/m1/4/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.