The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1911 Page: 7 of 8
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Blacksmithing and
—Repair Work—
I am back at my Old
Stand (in Livingston, and
would be.glad to have a
share of your work.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
CHAS. WAVERLY
W. C. STREETER & CO.
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Livingston, Texas
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House moving, boilers and en-
gines moved and set, smoke
Stacks raised.
Estimates furnished on all
kinds of wood, brick and con-
crete work.
Texas Industrial Notes.
Texas Com. Sec. Association.
Greenville has voted an $H5,000
bond issue for the improvement
of the city waterworks.
, Clay County will vote on a $200,-
000 bond issue for good roads on
August 5.
The Franklin Furniture and
Hardware company of Franklin,
Texas, has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $15,000.
Charters representing over $7,-
000,000 worth of newly organized
Texas capital Were tiled with the
secretary of state one day last
week at Austin,
The Denton Traction Company
is extending its lines for a dis-
tance of a mile and a half which
will be completed within the next
three months.
$91,000 worth of new buildings
are under construction at Pecos.
♦ /Beaumont and Great Northern ♦.
Through Freight and Passenger Service
TO ALL. POINTS.
Short and Quickest Route to
ST. LOUIS
And all Eastern and Northern Points.
We make close connection with the
I. &, 6. N. Fast Train to and From St. Louis
At Trinity.
Route your freight and purchase your tickets via.
9he 2$. & 5. % Railroad
PACIFIC EXPRESS COMPANY
Operates over this line.
For further advice call on or address
E. E. Hollingsworth, Agent,
A. E. Buck, Livingston, Texas.
G P. A., Onalaska, Texas
$5,000. IN PRIZES
The Houston Post’s Manufacturers and Merchants
$5,000. Prize Contest
Conducted By The Houston Post
We Have entered the Post Contest, and will give votes
on all Cash Purchases and paid-up accounts. For rules
and conditions see the Houston Post.
THE CITY DRUG STORE
L. A. McKinnon, Proprietor
Notice to Patrons!
A Smooth Graft.
In order that we might be. able to fill all orders
for Meats on time in the forenoon, we respectfully
ask onr customers to phone their orders in by 8:30
o’clock a. m. We want to give our customers the
very best of service but it is impossible for us to
cut meats and deliver them all on time when the
orders are not phoned until a late”' hour. Hoping
our customers will realize the situation and help
us in this way to give them better service, we are
Yours respectfully,
Tew & Brock.
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About four weeks ago a couple
of clothing drummers came into
the McGregor country and pulled
off about the smoothest grafting
scheme among our German
friends it has ever been our priv-
ilege to relate. They struck town,
hired a livery team and demand-
ed that German drivers be sent
with the outfit. They were sell-
ing imported dress goods, cloth-
ing, etc., and as a special favor,
would sell only toGennans. They
proposed to sell this imported
goods in patterns, suitable for
suits, dresses, overcoats or most
any garment wanted. The prop-
osition looked good, and as a man
was to follow and make up the
respective materials into the gar-
ments at a rediculously Jow fig-
ure thei r proposition looked espe-
cially enticing and we understand
they did a thriving business. Up
to the present their follow-up
man has failed to put in an ap-
pearance, and our German
friends are beginning to suspect
that they will be'left with a sur-
plus of dry goods on hand, in a
shape not suitable for wearing
purposes. We regret that such
a bunch of grafters are allowed
to run at large over Texas and
trust this article may come under
the,vision of someone who will be
able to locate the schemers; yet
we cannot forbear to warn our
readers against patronizing these
peddlers who go through the.
country making glowing promis-
es and guaranteeing to do certain
things. It always pays to stay
with the home merchant who is
always ready to listen to your
complaints and is ready to reme-
dy anything that does not come
up to expectations and their guar-
antee.—McGregor Mirror.
A $50,000 federal building is to
be erected at Sulphur Springs.
UNDER PROTECTION OF KING)
Fortunate British Youngster Is-to Be
Maintained and Educated at
' Monarch’s Expense.
A smart little lad, who had corns)
all alone from Newcastle, la the northj
of England, walked down the gang-!
wax of a steamer and proudly set foot;
the other day for the first time in
London. Hew a* Francis Campbell,
eight years old, chosen by the king
'from hundreds of other English hoys
to be the “king’s scholar” at the Royal
Merchant Seaman’s Orphanage at:
Snareshrook. He was met by an offi-
cial and escorted to the Essex home,
where, to use the formal phrase, “the:
king has provided for his maintenance
and education.”'
The arrival of the king’s small pro-
tege at the Merchant’s Seaman’s Or-
phanage is the sequel to' a tragedy of
poverty that often .darkens the lives
of seafaring families.
Young Campbell's father was chief
engineer of the SS. Weybrldge. Be-;
fore he had opoprtunity to make any
provision for his wife and five chil~
dren he died of pneumonia, due to ex-
posure to hard weather. The widow,,
reduced to the utmost poverty, strug-;
gled bravely in a back Street of Gates-
head-on-Tyne.
The last boy nominated by the king
to the orphanage had gone out into
the world to make his own living.)
There was a royal vacancy, and after
going carefully into the particulars of
many sad cases the king- commanded
that little Francis Campbell should be
brought from Gateshead-on-Tyne to be
given, at the king’s own expense, a
fair chance In life.
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From Panama Scrap Heap.
“That beam might have been a
Steam shovel down on the Panama
jcaual once upon a time,” said a man
the other day as he watched p. big
:beam being strung into place on the,
new municipal building. “I wouldn't,
be a bit surprised to know that mostj
of the steel work in that big building
•was originally steam'shovels, engines
lor car wheels down at the canal.
“When Uncle Sam took charge down
there.be gathered into a heap some of!
the- machinery used by the French
and sold it to a Brooklyn junk man at
auction for $11 a ton. He resold it
jtq the steel corporation for $12 a ton,
There was about 200,000 tons of 1$
and it is shipped up here. Then i$
Pennsylvania, wherd -
Length ef Life in Plgeene.
A writer In the “Field” gives same
Interesting notes on the duration of
life In certain breeds of domestic
pigeons. Such notes are of some im-
portance, for, as Prof. A. Weismann
has remarked, referring to the dura-
tion of life in birds: "There is less
exact knowledge upon this subject
than we might expect, considering
the existing number of ornithologists
and ornithological societies, with
their numerous publications.” The
examples given hy..4Jhe writer of the
above notes are a White trumpeter
cock twenty-two years, a blue crop-
per hen twenty-nine years, another
cropper thirty years. . Of turtle doves
there are numerous records of over
twenty years, while one is said to
have reached the age of thirty-seven
years. We may compare this with
the records for other species of birds
given by Weismann in the appendix
to his essay on “The Duration o(
Life.” Thus canaries in captivity at-
tain an age of from twelve to fif-
teen years, while ravens have lived
for almost one hundred. Parrots are
known to have exceeded the one hun-
dred, and a golden eagle which died
at Viehna in 1719 had been captured
one hundred and four years previous-
ly. Swans are said to have lived
three hundred years, but this must
be taken as doubtful.
Getting Near to Nature.
It was not alvAys perfectly clear
at first thought just what Ben Caldou
meant when he spoke. The best a
hearer could do was to guess at the
most obvious meaning and let it go
at that In the matter of a captive
moose, which belonged to Ben, the
doctor followed this course. The
moose was undoubtedly sick, and a
veterinary had been : mmoned to at-
tend him. Ben went out to the pen
to assist the doctor.
“Is he mortal, doc?” aeked Ben*
with extreme concern.
“Are you asking if he is sick?"
hazarded the doctor.
“Sure,” replied Ben, “only I meant
is he goin’ to die from it?’*
“It’s too soon to tell you yet,” re-
plied the doctor, “but he has pneu-
monia pretty badly.”
Ben’s eyes grew round with, sur-
prise' Pneumonia in his experience
had been confined to humankind.
“Why, doc,” be burst out, “does a
moose have features like a grown
person?”—Youth's Companion.
MERELY OBEYED THE RULES
How tho Late Tom Joknson, In Early
Life, Squirmed Out of Vary
Tight-Place.
When the late Toq^Johnson started
jtn life he drove a horse car in In-
dianapolis.
One night there was a big storm
at sleet and anow and the track* were
almost hidden, Johnson was on the
night shift, and in the storm he drove
Us car two blocks beyond a curve .be-
fore he realised the car was off the
tracks and slipping along on the lee.
He tried to pull the car back and]
felled. Thereupon he unhitched the
horses, drove them back to the barn]
and left the car where It was.
Next day the superintendent called
him. “Here, Johnson,” he said, “whatj
do you mean by driving a car off that
track and then leaving h in the
street?” !
“Why,” Johnson replied, suavely,1
“that’s in the rules for drivers andl
conductors.” 1
"In the rules for drivers and con-!
ductore?” roared the superintendent.!
“Where, I’d like to know?”
"Certainly,” replied Johnson. "Itj
says always to be polite to passengers.
Do you remember the kind of a nightj
last night was? Well, there was a'
lady on my car who didn’t have an;
umbrella and she lived two blocksl
from that curve. So I drove her
home.”—Saturday Evening Post.
NATURE’S WARNING
NOT ALTOGETHER A DEFEAT
Brlds Had Made One Reservation 8h#|
Intended to Live
Up To.
A clergyman tells the following
story: He was marrying a young
couple. All went well until he reached
-that part of the service where the
bride has to say, “I will love, honor
•and obey.”
The first part of the sentence she
would say all right, but on reaching
the word “obey" she refused to say It,
hut made some kind of noise very
like it
The clergyman again repeated 1L
but she still refused to pronounce the)
word distinctly.
The parson now became rather
vexed about this and Informed the
young lady that unless she said it oor-
rectly this time he would refuse to
marry them.
The bride, rather crestfallen, again
repeated the words, but on coming to
ths fatal word she again hesitated, but
eventually pronouhoed It distinctly.
As they were on the way to the Tee-
try she whispered to the
“Well. I shan’t shine his shoes'
Ms
Livingston People Must Recognize
and Heed It.
Kidney ills come — mysteri-
ously.
But nature always warns you.
Notice the kidney secretions. ‘
See if the color is unhealthy—
If there are settlings and sed-
iment,
Passages frequent, sc a n t y,
painful.
It’s time to use Doan’s Kidney
Pills,
To ward oft' serious diseases.
Doan's have done great work
in this locality.
Mrs. T. W. Owen, Groveton,
Texas, says: I have every rea-
son for feeling grateful to Doan’s
Kidney Pills. I suffered a great
deal from kidney complaint. The •
kidney secretions wdr^, unnatur-
al, I felt languid, lacked energy
and had a constant ache through
the small of my back. At times
I found it difficult to attend to
my housework. Doan's Kidney
Pills soon removed the pain and
lameness in my back and made
it possible for me to sleep well. I.
willingly confirm the public state-
ment I gave of Doan's Kidney
Pills in 1905, as I still hold a high
opinion of them.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents.
Foster-Milburn Co.7 Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States,
Remember the name—Doan’s
and take no other. \ .
That $300,000 Trash Heap at
Whitewright, Texas.
The Whitewright fire, which
destroyed property estimated to
be worth $800,000, started in a
trash-pile. evidence that it
was a lighted cigar or cigarette
stump, or perhaps a carelessly
thrown match, is needed to per-
fect this story of negligence.
Such additional information
ought to occasion no surprise.
This, so far as we recall, is the
biggest ash-heap that has been
evolved of a trash-pile in Texas in
several years; but it is only one
of a range of ash-heaps that are
made in Texas every year out of
trash-piles. Without knowing
what the statistics show, we ven-
ture to say that the extravagant
fire waste which Texas suffers
every year has as one of its chief
causes the careless disposition of
trash. We should say that the
people of Texas pay several hun-
dred thousand dollars annually
as a penalty for the indolence or
carelessness which allows them
to tolerate the accumulation of
trash without sufficient safeguard
agairrst its catching fire.
The Insurance rating law al-
lows a credit for the maintenance
of clean premises. There must
be, too, some primitive law, that
is, a law under which a fine may
be inflicted on those who allow
inflamable trash to accumulate
on their premises. If there is,
it ought to be enforced, and en-
forced rigorously. The negli-
gence of one man is the danger
of a whole community. Always
culpable, an accumulation of in-
flamable trash at a time like
this is a delinquence that might
well be characterized with a word
much stronger. It is the work
of only a few minutes to destroy
safely a few day’s accumulation
of useless trash, and at small ex-
pense the trash that is not use-
less can be disposed of in ways
that remove the..danfeer of its ex-
istence.— Dalla^News.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1911, newspaper, August 3, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660478/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.