Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1922 Page: 8 of 20
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Honey Grove Signal
WELCOME CHRISTMAS.
many boys have killed or maimed
their playmates. A gun in ttm
J. H. LOWRY - - EDITOR
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Who is it that isn’t glad when hands of a boy is a threat against
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good old Christmas comes? If
we try to compare the feeling
that comes with the return of
Christmas with some other joy-
ful experience we find nothing
worthy of comparison with the
joys that good old Christmas
, It doesn’t always require edu-
cation or brains to make a finan-
cial success in life. We know
two or three fellows who haven’t
either and yet they inherited
fortunes,
the life of the boy himself, the
lives of his playmates and the
lives of the pretty birds that do
so much to make life endurable.
There are many other things
that will make nice presents for
your boy. For the good of the
gives. Perhaps a visit from boy and others we beseech you
mother, after a long separation, to leave off the gun.
comes nearer telling the story of
the Christmas visit.
It’s glorious to feel Christmas.
When our little ambitions, envy-
ings, jealousies and hatreds ate
put aside for the time and
Christmas eomes in to sup with
us we at! hew and better crea-
COMING TO THE
One Honey Grove woman says
she hopes old Santa will drop a
new Ford coupe in her stocking.
Having observed this good lady
during last season’s style period
we beg to assure Santa that lie
the woman’s wish
Strand Theatre
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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The worsTp^FoTtho dengue tures; we really feel divinity without any fears of over-
' A stirring within us. Truly it is
great to breathe good wishes to
is its convalescence, A doctor
may manage to cure the dengue great to uieatuc gwu r~
after a time, but we’ll be hanged mi mankind and actually dwel in
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if there’s physic enough in all the
world to cure the convalescence.
Christmas week will have^ its
knotty questions to decide, just
as all other seasons do. People
will hardly be able to answer the
question, “which is the greatest
utensil ever invented, the frying
pan, the pot or the bake oven?”
There is virtually no hope to
get Honey Grove’s public square
That’s what we do when the lieved we would before our edu
Christmas spirit works its magic
reincarnation. Thus glorified,
we breathe worship, good will
we orearne wux&mp, uavc ^0 -
and peace, and express our better Grove about two months and not
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selves in music, pictures, flowers,
gifts and visits.
It was nearly two thousand
years ago when the magazines of
vears ago wneu me — We have always preached that
the skies burst upon the hills of it pays to be good-natured and
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get jtioney vnuvc & w sang tne anmem 01 peace miu. wuuigc ,, y-i-i
enlarged. This being true, we d wip to a troubled world, but tion convinces us that the fellow
feel like the town folks ought to Christmas has not grown old, and with the illest look on his face
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crowding the hose.
Somehow we are not becoming
educated as rapidly as we be-
cational advantages became so
excellent. The Pullman cars
nave now been passing Honey
i;wo in a hundred of us can pro-
nounce the names on the cars.
old Judea and the angelic choir
sang the anthem of peace and
keep their Fords at home anc.
leave our neighbors from the
country space to park their cars.
Our idea of making a fortune
that would make John D. anc.
Henry turn pale green with envy,
is to buy, two weeks after
Christmas, all the Christmas
presents received next Monday,
hold them until December 15
1923, and place them on sale.
A Bonham man put on a bath
robe Tuesday and went out for a
walk on the streets, bare-footed.
The fellow was arrested. Bon-
ham people positively will not
stand for any person to introduce
any thing or style in that berg
that suggests bathing.
An open mind and a closed
mouth is about the best combina-
tion we can suggest as a start
for a happy, useful and pros-
perous New Year. Really, we
don’t expect the professional
politicians to make a quick grab
at the suggestion.
Unhappy the woman who has
completed all her Christmas em-
broidery, hasdiemstitched ail her
'■Christmas handkerchiefs, work-
ed all her Christmas table scarfs,
and wrapped all her Christmas
packages. She hasn’t a blamed
thing to do and the suspense of
waiting for Christmas to come
is something awful.
Thanksgiving, then Christmas,
then New Year. It souids like
an unbroken chain of joy, doesn’t
it? But note what sudden
changes come. Following these
festivals come paying taxes, a
session of the Legislature and
it can not become stale. It is as
fresh and new as when the eve-
ning star held its radiant torch
over Bethlehem’s babe. It is anc.
ever will be the annual revival of
genuine kindness, and through-
out the cycles of time it wil.
bring to earth the golden meed
of happiness.
Radio is truly a great inven
tion, but it’s getting very close
to the danger point now. An in
ventor is perfecting an attach
ment which makes it possible for
the owner of a receiving set to
hear what is going on in the
lomes of his neighbors.
In an argument woman is posi
i;ively invincible. A Honey Grove
woman won in argument against
Harold Lloyd In
happy-faced, but we are about to
change our opinion. Observa-
and the meanest disposition blaz-
ing in his eye gets the biggest
piece of steak or liver for a dime
at the meat market.
Several cities and towns will
tae™l Petition next session of the
Legislature to pass an adequate
law against the giving of worth-
less checks. The law as it stands
is worthless and every com-
munity is flooded with uncollect-
able checks. The man who gives
a check gives something that
represents money and receives
money or its equivalent. If the
check is worthless the transac-
tion is the giving of worthless
money. If a man passes counter-
feit money he subjects himself
to heavy imprisonment. Wil
some one please, tell a waiting
public the difference between
$1,800,000 worth of property
during his confinement in prison.
The conviction and sentence of a
millionaire to prison is a matter
for comment, says a Missouri
exchange, but the passing
strange thing in connection with
this case is that the Chicago mil-
lionaire still had $1,800,000 left
when he had finished his fight in
the Illinois courts and that with
used the same hat pin in all five
of the hats she has bought this
year. ___
Dallas is to have a new four-
teen story hotel. We are told
that the structure is: to be mod-
ern in every respect, with
numerous baths, sun parlors, tea
rooms, and all that. This sounds
well, but no announcement is
made of the most important
matter to hotel patrons. Can we
get a decent room for a dollar, or
must we pay four dollars for a
cot in some other man’s room?
A Paris man advertises a good
second-hand mule for sale. He
says the mule is a first-class mu-
ical instrument and would make
an acceptable Christmas present. r--r
Reminds us of the Honey Grove penty.
man who, several years ago, ad-
bill and a ten dollar check that
one knows to be worthless.
How much life insurance do
you suppose the people of the
United States carry? The sum
is so large that it makes us think
of old-time Populistic figures.
The lives of Americans are in-
sured for fifty billion dollars
There are about one hundred mil
lion of us, all told, and the aver-
age amount of insurance carried
on our lives is $500. The hopefu
feature about life insurance is
that $600,000,000 more was writ-
ten last year than during the
previous year. This is positive
evidence of substantial recovery
in the financial affairs of the
country, and another proof of
progress and returning pros-
‘Grandma’s Boy’
The picture that millions have seen all over the United
States—
A picture where laughter reigns supreme!
Each scene a scream—
Each bit a hit—
Each reel a riot—
Lloyd’s Laughs Last!
5 Reels of Joy
TAKE NOTICE—On Monday afternoon matinee every
grandmother of 50 years or over will be admitted TREE .
TT ATy/^T "n* T T rs\fv\ Come—we want you to help us enjoy “Grandma s Boy
nAROLD LLU Y U You will laugh, you will love him and go home feeling
10 years younger.
Grandmas Boy'
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Admission 15 and 25c
the popular vote. The proposal
is to do away with the electoral
college and elect by popular vote.
we cross the line, leave our little
jealousies, our ambitions that
are not laudable, our envyings
this amount of money still in his
the electoral college, and knows
of no good reason why Presi-
dents should not be chosen by
the popular vote of the people.
This is supposed to be a govern-
ment by the people, which means
not
possession his lawyers were un-
able to find any flaw in the rec-
ord upon which to hang an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
and a permanent job
Near East Commission.
session 01 tne ±jegisiauuitj cum \ n * , A
making out income tax blanks. :vertised a jack for sale and s ug-
Enjoy the present moment; this gested that the jack was t e
is the true philosophy of life.
For some weeks the Signal has
been urging and begging you to
do your Christmas shopping ear-
ly. This is the last opportunity
we will have to push the matter,
and when we implore you to do
your Christmas shopping early
w7e mean exactly what we say,
and we want you to get busy
with your shopping.
most effective and cheapest
alarm clock one could purchase.
A Bonham reporter of a Dallas
paper sent a report to the Dallas
paper that a Honey Grove man
had swallowed an egg. A Honey
Grove man hadl told the Bonham
reporter the story, and of course
the Bonham man was too dense
to understand, and so he sent the
witn your snoppmg. Saturday j wonderful story to the Dallas
night about 9 o’clock we expect P^cation. We bow men
to purchase a rubber ball, a
whisk broom and a pair of hose,
and we don’t want you in our
way.
have swallowed several eggs a
day for many years. The Bon
lam man is dense enough to fall
for the alarming item that Hon-
ey Grove people are now feasting
on groundhog.
264,260 votes for United States
Senator and George Peddy re-
ceived 130,174. Mayfield ran
about 100,000 behind the other
Democratic nominees, and Peddy
At last we have the news from
the November election. The
state is a net work of telephone
and telegraph wires, we have ra-
dios: and mail lines galore, but it
took nearly two months to get
the returns from the state elec- — — ----- , , , ,
tion. Earle Mayfield received the charges turned out to
Isn’t it strange that some men
who are so zealous of the rights of
the working man are the ones who
most bitterly resent the rights of
the working man to work or to
live unless he chooses to work and
live as they dictate? Yet right
here at home we have men who
would deny other workers the
right of a place to live and work
unless they belong to their clan.
That isn’t the kind of freedom the
founders of this government had
in mind when they declared every
man has an inalienable right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of
hapniness.—Bonham Favorite.
The world is full of strange
things, dear Favorite. Most of
us engage in big talk along some
line, but we do not want our talk
to have general application. It
is said that an eloquent preacher
once pictured the awful condition
of the heathens in Korea and
begged the young people to vol-
unteer for service in that be-
nighted land. His own daughter
came forward in response to the
The evidence adduced at the tion should
trial of the men charged with elected,
the murder of thirty or more
non-union miners at Herrin, 111.,
makes one’s blood run cold. It is
hard to believe the sworn testi-
mony. We think of the people of
America as a people in whom the
milk of kindness runs and who
are sympathetic toward the help-
less and the suffering, and we
shudder as we read of men
being shot down while begging
for their lives, and being cursed
and stamped when in the agonies
of death they plead for a drink
of water. Yet many men have
sworn that this was done. The
Herrin massacre must ever re-
main a black spot _ upon the
escutcheon of the United States,
a free country whose Constitu-
tion guarantees the highest and
the lowest life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Surely we
have cut loose from the old
moorings.
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always obtain under the present
system. There appears to be no
good reason why the states
should vote as a whole, nor why
the candidates receiving , a ma-
jority vote of the entire popula-
we can leave some. If we could
properly prepare ourselves to en-
ter the new year, we would get
away from the awful concatena-
tion, the dull routine that kills
our ideals and our dreams. It’s
time to reflect—and the
thought that comes to us now
as we think of failures and
blighted hopes is, how foolish for
men to be anxious, snappish and
miserable when God has made it
possible for all to be happy,
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not be declared courteous and friendly.
The Allies have not succeeded
in getting Armenia out from un-
der the control of Turkey. This
means a continuance of the news wm ------- - -
rf Turkish atrocities in Armenia Bolding, County Judge, at ^Bonham
Cl lurKisn atrocities m ailull m imtil o o’clock n. m., December
A Missouri exchange makes
the observation that it’s getting
easier for women to get seats in
the Legislature, but as this
change in woman’s favor comes
it gets harder for her to find
seats on trains and in street cars.
The impeachment proceedings
against Attorney General
Daugherty turned out to be a
comic opera affair. The Minne------- -
sota Congressman who brought appeal, when the pieachei ex-
The text book commission
made a change of some of the
text books for Texas schools last
week, and the change will cost
$1,500,000, which must come out
of the available school fund.
This means that the per capita
apportionment for schools must
be cut one dollar. The question
of text books has always been a
troublesome and expensive one.
It In days of old when a new teach-
er went into a community new
books had to be purchased, and
the old ones, which probably
were just as good, were thrown
away. We hoped to get rid of
this expense when the law pro-
uniform text books was
grand stand player seeking the
spot light, and when he saw that
the charge would come to
nought he sulled and quit the
case, claiming unfairness. The
democratic nominees, ana reuuy ------
about 75,000 votes ahead of the P^h of the charge w £
Republican nominees.
against William J. Burns, a de-
tective, who was appointed by
the Attorney General. Burns
had incurred the enmity of cer-
tain men on account of running
down men who dynamited a Los
Bandits robbed a Caddo bank
in broad daylight the other day,
obtaining several thousand dol-
lars in money and bonds. It is a aown men wnv ujxxaxun,^
fact that bandits can successfully Angeles newspaper building,
rob any bank, store or individual
most any day. People are not
walking aresenals and can not re-
sist the scoundrel who points
guns in their faces. There is
very little protection against the
bandit, therefore the only safe
course to pursue in dealing with
bandits is the same course that is
pursued when dealing with mad
dogs.
didn’t mean you.” And then,
you know also that many of us
cried aloud for prohibition, when
Notice to Contractors.
Sealed proposals addressed to E. A.
McMahon, County Auditor, at Bon-
ham, Texas, for the improvement of
certain highways in Fannin County
will be received at the office of A. P-
for the
The man who earns a little and
spends a little less will never
have trouble with the bill collec-
tor, but the fellow who earns a
'ot and spends a lot more is head-
ed for blowed-up-suckerdom with
machinery greased and track
sanded,
We read advertisements close
ly and find that it pays us to do
so, but we have noted some rath-
er strange features about adver-
tising. For instance: We have
never known an advertiser of a
corn cure to use the picture of a
man to show how the corn cure
dope is applied. And again, we
have never seen a fat woman ap-
pear as the model to advertise
underwear or corsets.
Texas, until 2 o’clock p. m., December -1
30th, 1922, and then publicly opened
and read.
Description of Work to be Done.
Clearing (light) 12 Sta., Grubbing
(light) 12 Sta., Earth Roadway Exca-
vation 28,513.5 Cu. Yds., Loose Rock
Excavation 546.2 Cu. Yds., Solid Rock
Excavation 1,255.3 Cu. Yds., Borrow
Excavation 19,217.1 Cu. Yds., Earth.
Overhaul 27,984.1 Sta. Yds., Channel
Excavation 925 Cu. Yds., Guard Fence
1,034 Lin. Ft., Concrete Pavement 59,-
490 Sq. Yds. Type “A” or Type “B,’^
Scarifying and Reshaping old surfac-
ing 172.53 Sta., Concrete 1:2:4 601.89
Cu. Yds., Reinforcing Steel 203,556-
Lbs., Railing Type_“C” 274 Lin. Ft.,.
Structural Excavation (wet) 56 Cu.
Yds., Structural Excavation (dry)
667 Cu. Yds.
Detailed plans and specifications of
the work may be seen for examination,
and information may be obtained at
the office of Pinckney B. Price, County
Engineer, at Honey Grove, Texas, and
at the office of the State Highway
Department, State Office Building,
Austin, Texas.
A certified or cashier’s check for
Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00)
made payable without recourse to the
order of A. P. Bolding, County Judge
of Fannin County, must accompany
each proposal, as a guarantee that the
bidder, rf successful, will enter into
contract and make bond in accordance
with requirements of the specifica-
tions. The right is reserved^ by the
party of the first part to reject any
and all proposals or to waive all tech-
nicalities.
Proposals shall be submitted in
sealed envelopes and marked “Bids for
viding
cMmed In lor^r, childTen
books, but sometimes it is very
easy for the oily tongued agent
of a publishing company to con
we only wanted a law that’would vince a commission that his
It isn’tlikely that this sugges-
tion will be heeded by many, but
we make it, nevertheless. When
you go to select a Christmas
prohibit the other fellow and
leave a few nice little places for
us to get “a nip.” And it’s so
with many who cry out for “the
rights of the working man.”
They don’t mean rights for the
man who don’t belong to their
clan to work, but the right to fix
such a man so he can’t work.
The Supreme Court of Illinois
affirmed the sentence to the pen-
itentiary of a Chicago millionaire
that had been tried and convict-
you go to select a uniiSLmrt* iwu ^ - -----. -
present for your boy, don’t make ed for violating the state espion-
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it a target or air gun. If you will
read the reports you will find
that many boys have killed them-
selves with guns in Texas this
year. You will also find that
age law. In asking for a few
days' delay, this millionaire entire
urged that the time was neces-
sary to enable him to make ar-
rangements for the care of his
„,ooks must be used, when in fact
lis books are no better than the
ones cast aside.
Many journals and public men
are advocating a change in our
manner of electing a President
and Vice President. The Consti-
tution provides for the election
of these officials by an electoral .
college, the people of the states portunity
voting for electors instead of ""
directly for President and Vice
President, the candidates re-
ceiving a majority of the popular
vote in any state receiving the
electoral vote of that
state. Under this plan several
Presidents have been chosen who
failed to receive a majority of
County.’
Just a few more days of 1922.
It seems but last week that the
bells lang the now yeai in, and Construction of Highway No. 5 in
we all entered upon a new period Honey Grove Road District, Fannin
of time, hoping for better times, - ' ”
better lives and better things.
Now we are approaching the end
and a few days hence the fires
of 1922 will turn gray and fall
from the grate of time. To
thoughtful people the close of a
year brings serious reflection.
Has the time been well spent is
a question we must all ask of
ourselves. It’s foolish to grieve
over failures, but it’s wise to find
the cause of failure, if we can.
A few days hence we the to en-
ter a new year. Are we to see in
it another chance—another op-
portunity? Not another chance
merely for gain, but another op-
for improvement of
self—this
aim of man. How great, how
glorious, if all of us would re-
solve to cast aside our excess
baggage as we enter 1923. We
are carrying so many things that
befriend us not, but only serve
to keep us from making real
progress. Suppose we could, as
Camp Fire and Scout
Christmas Tree.
The Camp Fire Girls and the
Boy Scouts will have the joy of a
Christmas tree given for their
special benefit at the Presby-
terian church Friday night of
this week. Every Camp Fire
Girl is to be remembered by the
Scouts and every Scout will be
remembered by the Camp Fire
Girls. This would be a fine op-
portunity for the citizens of
Honey Grove to show their in-
terest in the boys and girls by
making some kind of contribu-
^ tion to the work. There are
should be the great many things that could be done.
‘ ’ Ask the Scout Master or the
Camp Fire Guardian what you
can do. Parents of Scouts and
Camp Fire Girls are cordially in-
vited to the Christmas tree Fri-
day night. The tree will be in
one of the club rooms up stairs
at the Presbyterian church.
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Lowry, J. H. Honey Grove Signal (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1922, newspaper, December 22, 1922; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth637659/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Honey Grove Preservation League.