The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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IT IS OUR PURPOSE
to handle any business entrusted to us in
such a fair and liberal man ner as to make
the customer’s relation with this bank satis-
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factory and profitable. Aside from the
excellent facilities Qffered, this bank has
the advantage of having been established
for years and of always having made safety
its first consideration. , : : : : :
First National Bank
Livingston, Texas
CAPITAL, $50,000.00 SURPLUS, $16,000.00
The Livingston Manufacturing Co.
FURNISHES
ELECTRIC CURRENT
FOR
Lighting, Heating and Power
WE ALSO MAKE
PORE CORN CHOPS
JUST IN
A complete line of ladies, gents, and boys shoes. Come
and see them. Special bargains in mens and boys pants.
Mens shirts 25c to $2. Hosiery and. gents furnishings.
Don’t forget that we handle a full line of paints. Tobac-
cos of all kinds. Fresh fruits all the time. Black hawk
corn mills and ice cream freezers. Special price on these.
.general Line of Jewelry
Patent medicines. Special agent for genuine A. K.
Hawkes Lenses.
D. S. CHANDLER
Established 1871
The Enterprise Want Column Brings Results.
TO BE IN STYLE
and have your clothes looking neat, they should
be pressed and kept in shape.
Let us Press Your Suit
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We do Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Alterations.
Phone us, we will call for and deliver your Clothes.
phone no. is3 CITY TAILOR SHOP
T. A. FITZE, Proprietor-
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TRIUMPH OF WATER FINDING
English Expert Locates Ample Supply,
Guaging Depth Below Surface
Within Two Feet.
A very remarkable / achievement In
“■water-finding” has been carried
through at Selly Oak, Birmingham. It
was necessary to discover a supply of
water on the land belonging to the Pa-
tent Enamel works, and Mr. Chester-
man was i Hed from Hereford for the
purpose. He went over the land with
his piece of aluminum wire for about
half an hour. Then he suddenly
stopped and declared that at the place
where he stoo'd water would be found
at a depth of 250 feet. A contract was
signed by which he engaged to sink an
eight-inch artesian tube which should
produce not less than 15,000 gallons
of water a day, on the condition “No
water, no pay.” He employed hydrau-
lic boring machinery, and in fourteen
days struck water at a depth of 248
feet, and test pumping for 291’ hours
proved a yield of 30,000 gallons per
day. That the expert should have
gauged the depth within two feeet Is
considered one of the greatest triumphs
in water-finding of modern times.
ANTIDOTE FOR EACH RECIPE
What the Author of a Cook Book
Found on the Margins Left
for Notes.
The woman was the author of a
cook book that has been published at
her request' with wide margins and
occasional blank pages for notes and
additional recipes. Often she had ex-
pressed a wish' to see an old copy of
the book and find out to what use tlie
blank spaces had been put. One day
In a second-hand book store her hus-
band unearthed an old volume. No-
ticing that It had been annotated free-
ly, he bought It. After a day or two
be said:
“How about the notes in that cook
book? Were they interesting?”
“No,” she said curtly; “they didn’t
amount to anything.”
When he got a chance he looked
through the book himself. Every note
the book contained was a remedy for
dyspepsia and stomach trouble.
Watched.
"No, Herbert,” whispered the maid,
“you mustn’t put your arm around me.
'We are watched.”
Herbert looked around the dimly
lighted parlor.
I “O, yes,” he smiled. “I see there’s
a rubber plant at the other end of the
room.” ,
“’Sh! There’s another one "that you
don’t see. Johnny’s hiding th«re!”
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Ambiguous.
“Did your late employer'give you a
testimonial?” ; v
“Yes, but it doesn’t seem tondo me
any good.”
“What did he say?”
“He said I was one of the best men
his firm ever turned out.”
Uncertain.
Si—Did the cyclone that hit you last
week hurt your house much?
Hi—Dunnol I ain’t found It yeL
Pictures Spoil Cowboy.
V "Oregon ranchmen have a brand
new plaint;’it Is that the moving pic-
ture ehow is spoiling the cowboy,”
isald a westerner.
i "Film makers demand their serv-
ices and pay them handsomely for rid-
ddg bucking horses in front of the
[moving picture camera or for taking
[part in an alleged ‘western drama.’
[The cowboys like the idea.
■ “The old ranchers are sore and ill
conceal their hostility. They declare
the pictures only make onery cowboys
and 'give easterners wrong ideas of
life in the cattle country.
"As a ifiatter of fact, they say, rid-
ing bucking horses Is but a small part
of a cowboy’s life. As for the tradi-
tional western drama, where the
rancher’s daughter marries the he-
roic cowboy who foils the traditional
‘gun fighter’ of the frontier, the dwell-
ers of the range country have only
contempt.” • '
IS EXTREME OF DESOLATION
HOUSEHOLD CARES.
Unfinished Card Game, with Paste- Jax the Women of Livingston the
beards Lying Just Where the _ .
Players Left Them. Same as Elsewhere.
Hard to attend to household
duties
With a constantly aching back.
A wdman should not have $ bad
back,
And she wouldn’t if th§ kid-
Asked what sight represented to hla
mind the extreme of desolation, the
renting agent said: N
“An unfinished card game, with the
cards lying just where the players left
them. This morning I came across an
Interrupted game hearts in a fur-
nished flat that was vacated suddenly. ,
The tenants simply packed their ; neys Were well,
clothes and moved out without a word | Doan’s Kidney Pills make well
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of explanation to anybody, and as they | u-;r)npvc,
didn’t owe me a cent It wasn’t my \ '
place to run them down. j Livingston women should prof-
"They had been playing on the din- it by the following experience.
cards thrown down when the game ,as, says: For some tililG I was
was anybody’s that knew how to turn 'subject to a dull, nagging back-
Why did they stop playing in such ajache and 1 also ottered from
hurry? Why didn’t they stay to fin- ; pains in the back and top parts
ish the game, or if they couldn’t do j 0f lfty head, occasionally accom-
that, why didn’t they scrape the cards ; - . , y ,, ™hen
together and take them along? Inter- | Pametl Uizzj spens._.-v\ nen
esting questions, those, and I’d like to ; arising in the morning I felt dull
have them answered.” and languid, which no doubt was
the result of my resting so pdor-
KINDNESS IS HER STRENGTH
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Mother of Large Family Whose Love
Has Made Her Children Most
Admirable.
I know a mother of a large family of
children who has never whipped but
one of them, and that one only once,
declared Orison Swett Marden in Suc-
cess Magazine. When her first child
was born people said she was too good-
natured to bring up children; that she
Would spoil them, as, she would not
correct or discipline them; and would
do nothing but love them. But this
love has proved the great magnet
which has held the family together in
a marvelous way. None of these chil-
dren have gone astray. They have all
grown up to be manly and womanly,
and love has been wonderfully devel- 50 cents!
oped in their natures. Thfeir own af- j Foster-Milburn
fection responded to the mother’s love
and has become their strongest mo-
tive. Today all her children look upon
“mother" as the grandest figure In the
world. She has brought out the best
In them, because^she saw the best In
them. The worst did not need cor-
■ rectlng or repressing, for the best neu-
tralized it.
ly. My back was- very weak and
greatly handicapped me iri at-
tending to my housework. I used
a number of remedies, but until
I took Doan’s Kidney Pills, I re-
ceived no relief. This prepara-
tion strengthened my back, re-
moved the. pains and made my
kidneys normal. I was so pleas-
ed with the results that followed
the use of Doan's Kidney Pills
that I gave a public statement in
1905, recommending them. Iam
now pleased to confirm all I then
said.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States,
Remember the name
and take no other.
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Doante
H
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He Staked Hie Herd.
Scholarship for Sale.
We have a scholarship in the
Hill’s Business College qf Waco,
that will entitle you to an unlimi-
ted course in Bookkeeping, or
Shorthand and Typewriting.
These scholarships sell for $50.
On account of wanting to assist
some young man or yqung lady
ir^ taking a business course we
will sell this scholarship for ,$35.
among the western cattlemen In the
early days have been told, but the
story of the game "with probably the
greatest stakes is here printed for
the first time.v Two well-known cat-
tlemen of southwestern Kansas start-
ed 'to move their herds to the pas-
tures of Wyoming. Each herd con-
tained more than a thousand head of
cattle. When they came to the
crossing of the Arkansas river near
Coolidge they, found a flood on. _
They were unable to cross for twd orj
three days. To while away the time
the two men engaged in a poker game.
When the flood finally subsided so that
the cattle could proceed one of the
cattlemen said to his son, who was
helping to drive: "Just turn my herd
over to our neighbor and we will go
back home.” He had bet and lost not
only all the money he had, but all of
the herd of cattle.
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In Hock.
Young’ men with meagre salaries
evolve financial makeshifts abhorrent
to the moral and physical sensibilities
of their opulent elders. Said one
young sprig" of boarding house gen-
jtility to another who expected 'to seek
’’new quarters upon his return from a
two-months’ trip on the road:
“What are you going to do-with all
this personal truck that Is cluttering
up your room? It will cost you any-
how a dollar a month for storage.”
"Not the way I am working things,”
said the man who was going away.
“I have purposely refrained from
paying board for four weeks and the
landlady will hold my stuff. Of
course I shall square up when I come
back and get it again, and in the
meantime she will give It free stor-
age.” '
Fish Artificially Colored.
One of the strangest possible com-
mercial frauds has recently been ex-
posed by an inspector of the Pennsyl-
vania food bureau. His attention was
struck by the rich red color of some
smoked fish that was on sale In the
"delicatessen” stores of Philadelphia.
He bought some and sent it to an anal-
yst, who reported that he could dye
wool with the coloring matter extract-
ed from it. The retailers declared
their innocence, maintaining that they
had purchased the stuff-in the belief
that it was genuine smoked fish. The
object of the wholesalers Is clear, in
view of .the fact that in smoking fish
there is’a loss of 15 pounds in every
100 pounds, while in dying there is no
loss at all.
HI.&W.T
And
HOUSTON & SHREVEPORT R. R.
Collars of Milk.
Sounds queer, doesn’t It? But some-
ibody over in Europe thought of a way
(to utilize goat’s milk, and these collars
I are the result. They are said to be
quite as useful as the collars of cellu-
loid. In addition, they are less bright
I in finish, so that they are in this way
somewhat of an improvement over the
old celluloid collar.
The whey is separated from the
curds and the curds are then put
through a process which results In this
substance resembling celluloid.
Waiters, coachmen, tradesmen and
other folk on the other side of the At-
lantic use them extensively.
Another Discovery.
“Shakespeare was one of the ablest
of brokers.” ‘
“How do you make that out?”
"By the number of etofek quotation*
h^iumished.”
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FOUR TRAINS DAILY
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Between —
HOUSTON AND SHREVEPORT
ft
Oil Burning Locomotives,
Drawing Room Pullman
Sleepers on Night Trains
Connections at Houston for
West and East
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Low Summer Tourist Rates
To...
Points North, East and West
Effective June 1st to September 30
Try a Trip to Colorado
For further information call on the
local ageht or write
T' J. ANDERSON ..
Gan. Passenger Agt.
Houston, Texas
w. c. streeter:& CO.
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Livingston, "Texas
House moving, boilers and en-
gines moved and set, smoke
stacks raised.
Estimates furnished on all
kinds of wood, brick and con-
crete work.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 1911, newspaper, August 31, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth656254/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.