The Naples Monitor. (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 1927 Page: 4 of 4
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RTH /LEAGUE NOTES
County •
land rtf Daingv.
ing examining tr..
Allen in Naples Wednt.
County Treafurer R. E. Moore
and county demonstration agent
R, F. Me Swain of Daingerfield
were shaking hands' with friends'
on our ptreets Wednesday.
The Morris County National
Dank has had awnings in front
of the building and over the
large window on the side of the
building, which improved the ap-
pearance as well as making the
building more comfortable.
Home Relief Association for
men and women up to 60 years
of age. I need only a few more
to fill up the quota of 1000. Let’s,
fill it up now. Money ready im
mediately upon proof of death. I prayer meeting Wednesday night.
Write or phone me and I will: Some special rousjc was render-
/ Epworth League met Sun-
evening at 6:45 in the hase-
/tit with 02 present, 25 mem-
/rs and visitors. The junior
League and Mrs. Dill, their lead-
er were :aw visitor*. As they
are new in the work they wanted
to see how to carry on the work.
We enjoyed having these juniors
with us and we hope that their
work will be a success. Songs
No. 209 and 179 were sung. The
roll call was answered with re-
ports of number of trays, flowers
or visits to the sick. Five vislits
and one boquet were reported. A
good program was rendered.
Roma Roddy, Carlton Robison,
Myrtle Watson and Ivy Mae Robi-
son. Cleatus Dycus. Charles
Parker, and Robert Floyd favor-
ed us with some special nuisic
which was enjoyed by all.
In our questions asked by Ivy
Mae one of them was, where are
the ten commandments found?
So were told to be prepared to
My alt ten straight through next
Sunday.
The Epworth League lead
Mrs. Dol'lie Hooper and daugh-
ter Elizabeth of Dallas visited
her parental Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Archer, in Naples this week.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Walls and
Mrs. Gertrude Watls and daugh-
ter, Mias Ermadine, have return-
ed from their trip to Southern
Texas.
come to see you.
R. L. Whatley.
J. M. Hampton isl having a nice
residence erected on the highway
just east rtf Naples. This resii-
dence is on the land recently pur-
chartc?d from Frank Davis, on
which land Mr. Hampton will
soon move his saw and planing
mill machinery.
Mr. Hampton expects to put
in machinery for the manufac-
ture of basket^ crates and other
things'. He intends to build some
four or five nice residences! on
the highway for sale.
ed by Charles, Cleatus, Robert,
and Mrs. C. R. Moore at the
piano. Virginia and Alvena
Visscring sang a duet..
The League is going to have a
picnic at Alvena Vissering's to-
night (Friday). We are all to
meet at the church at 7:00 o’clock.
The girls are to bring one dozen
sandwiches and the boys fruit.
Be sure and come to
worth League Sunday night and
hring some one with you.
Leon Moore, Reporter.
W. W. Harwell is in Dallas on
business' thi! week.
A. B. Childs is in Dallas/ this
week attending a meeting of the
members of the Federal Reserve
Bank in this' district.
Save your hay with a McCor-
mick Mower and Rake.
N. M. Roberts & Co.
Miss' Trixie Huggins of Mt.
Pleasant* vi.lited JMiss Leona
Christian Sunday and Monday.
Bernard Kenndy of Dallas' waft
In Naples! the first of this week.
Mrs. Celbert Brown of Beau-
mont is visiting in Naples', the
guest of MrsJ A). G. Heard.
national bank ,n otic s', must be j Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Coker and
maintained until' Congress pro-j two little children and Miss'Pearl
vides for doing away with them, McMichaet left Monday in a car
The five types are national bank fop California where *hey will
notes, gold certificates, silver visit Mrs! Coker’s parents, Mr.
certificates, LI S. notes and and Airs. J. A. Jenkins, in Los
Federal Reserve notes. it has* Angeles. They expect to be gone
been the practice to print all a month oi ffix weeks,
these typef( in most of 11 v dc- j " ^
nominations. Thalt is' why we j tj Ui > '-4
hav<vi|n oirijulatirtn {today, for
instance’ five kinds) of $10 bills.
The redesign will do away
with much of this contusion. In
the fir^t place, the national bank
notes will no longer exist. In
the second place, silver certifi-
ORDINANCE NO. 2K
An Ordinance granting to the
St. Louis Southwdstil-n Railway
Company of Texas, its successors
and assigns, the right to con-
struct, maintain and operate a
cate* are to be used for $1 bills iside or spur track over and
only. There will he no silver |across state highway No. 1 in the]
certificates of any other denomi- city of Naples, Texas,
nation. In >th/ third place, the BE JT ORDAINED BY THE CITY
U. S. notes, which are the old C0UNCIL OF THE CITY OF
greenbacks adopted in the Civi' TEXAS:
War pefbiod, will all be merged SECTION 1. The St. Louis
into $5 bill! o! tlu' new cutrene}. igontfivvestern Railway Company
There will be but this one typelj, Texas, its successors and as-
of $5 bill. Two types will figure I jgng is hereby granted the
in the higher denominations: gold j privilege, and franchise
certificates' and Federal Reserve j(0 constrUct, lay, maintain and
notifs. The two will have the operate a certain side or spur
same portrait on their faces, al-
though the printing will differ.
Treasury experts find that,
roughly tiheije are always abou'
operate a
track over and across State
Highway No. 1, in said city of
Naples, Texas, from a point south
west along the center of a side
a billion bills in circulation. On track of the St. Louis Southwest-
AI.L OUR PAPER MONEY
TO RE MADE SMALLER
the average, tbo^s bills last a
year before they wear out and
have to be replaced. The $1 bills
naturally wear out rpos't quickly.
A billion hills would weigh
about 1.500 tons. With 300 work-
ern Railway Company of Texas
from the intqfrtui'tion of said
center line with the East Corpo-
rate limit of the town of Naples,
Texas, a distance of 51)0 ft. the
point of switch of proposed spur
Continued from page one
nary ejnvelope. So the Federal
Reserve E&nks deportild unani-
mously in favor of the new size.
At the Bureau of Engraving
and printing the change was
favored. Economy recommends
it*. Sinoe twelve notes wejve j
printed on a sheet of paper that
it
ing day* in a year, the Bureau of track which will turn out of the
Engraving and Printing must above mentioned side track with
turn out about five tons' of paper a number seven turnout to the
j money every day. This money left and extend in a northeasterly
| is promptly put up in packages!, direction on a twelve degree and
and shipped rto ba/nks These) thirty minute curve to left across
package.^ weigh twelve pounds. State Highway No. one into pro-
Each of them contains 4,000 bills'. Iperty of the Gulf Refining Com-
niauve on
Best of kodak work and quick
serivc se*d to Praytoj Studio, Mt.
Pleasant. Texas.
Judge H. F. O’Neal and R. H
Harve*y, the firm of O’Neal and
Harvey, attorneys of Atlanta,
were in Naples! Wednesday at-
tending the examining trial of
Hill is All^n, charged with mur-
der in connection with the
death of Will Mitchell.
When the new money is in circu- jpany, as is shown in
laflon /these pjackagejf wjll blue print map hereto attached,
weigh eight pounds', and ttie ex- and made a part of this Ordin—
, . , , . ... . -press charged for shipping them ance.
formerly produced but eight; it wj][ bp [e3S I SECTION 2. This Ordinance
is apparent that a saving of one- Ha,f of tbe bill!.that go nut i is granted for a term of fifty
third would be made in paper ^ bills: some *00 tons' of years and shall take effect and
the Ep- purchases. So great is the:thpm Rre #t pivsent attributed, be in force from and after its
quantity of money paper bought ^ year The wpight of the passage.
he cut by a third, The above Ordinance was duly
bringing the yearly total down to passed at a regular meeting ot
about 533 tons.
All the denominations are to be
redesigned in such manner as to
bring a degree of order that now
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every year that this saving alone ^ w.jf
would amount to close to half a
million dollars.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Palmore,
Emmet Fleming and family and
J. A, Palmore and family visit-
ed relative^ in Dallas several
day# this week. i
is lacking. The present pictures \
Miss Manoi3 Strickland is on the bills got there quite by =
home from school at Greenville, (accident. On the money there
- are many pictures of people un- •
for wholesale known to the public. The same
picture may appear on a $1 bill
and on a $20 bill This leads to \
confusion. The new program
See A. J. Davis
prices on soda water
McCor-
Save your hay with a
miek Mower and Rake.
N. M. Roberts & Co.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bryan visit-
ed their daughter, Mra. A. A.
Hummel, in Tyler Saturday, go-
ing to Dallas Sunday and rer
turning home Monday.
WILL MITCHELL WAS
SHOT FRIDAY NIGHT
Lung Troubled
&y
Constipation
"Black-Draught haa been a
family medicine with us for
fifteen years," gays Mr. F. M.
Huntley, of Neosho, Mo. "I read
about it first in the Ladies Birth-
ueiiunuiuiutoii. me puunc wuna day Almanac and what I read
learn to know its money by the1there sounded so convincing I
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bled with constipation for a long
conte.'mplait«s t»iat the pictures jl
of Presidents only shall be used. §
Each picture shall become
identified with a bill of a certain \
denomination. The public will i [
, much harder for the crooks, who a
H.llis Allen Held to Grand Jury wi„ find that they oannot chanf?e *
-$1000 Bond.
A CORRECTION f)
In giving the list of the gradu-
ating class last week the name of
Ida Mae Davifv was in some way
omitted. Miss Davis' was a
member of the original class of
1916, coming all the way through
without a skip.
Mrs. Emma DeFord and Miss-
es Ruth Brown and Glenn Mc-
Michael are visiting in Greenville.
We welcome Mrs. A. L. Cole
and aon Joe back to Naples, They
moved away some months ago,
but could not stay away.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
June 19, 1927
Fong
Prayer
Fcriptune readings
The futility of a formal Sab-
bath: L^on Moore.
The Sabbath of delight: Alvena
V'is spring.
How to keep Gospel Sabbath—(and rtriki-g
Friday night, just before one
o’clock Will Mifchell jw'as shot
in the stomack with a pistol, the
bullet; penetrating liis intestines
in five places/.
Saturday an operation was per-
formed and his intestines sewed
up, but that night he died.
From the best information
obtainable at the examining trial
Wednesday it appears that Mitch-
ell and another] party had had
trouble and the other party had
gone to Allen’s and tried to enter
the store1, whereupon Allen went
to tiie front and attempted to
persuade the other party, Loren-
za Betts, to leave, and Allen re-
ports that Betas' ' attacked him,
when he, Allen, went into his
■itorje and got his pistol, coming
out onto the front porch with the
pistol cocked, and th'at Betts left
and Mitchell came (along and
came up onto the porch and
caught him from behind, pinning
his arms to his side, and that he
managed to get his hands turn-
ed, and thal when Mitchell threw
Alien against the wall the pialtol
fitod: the bullet grazing - Allen
Mitchell in the
a “1” to a “100’’ and hope to,pass jl
thc{ bill. The IJell-tale portrait
will stand in the way. .
The picture of Washington is i Frequently I had bad headaches
ii / and pains, due to toxic poison,
to appear on all $1 bills. That1*
of Lincoln will be found on the|j
$5 biH.!, It >s probable 4hat
Jefferson will find a place on $10
bill's. The Democrats are insist-
ing on representation among the
much used low denomination
bills. /Grant may get the $20
Cleveland the $50, Roosevelt the
$100 and Wison the $1,000 bills.
These seven denominations are
the important ones;
The Governmet is now putting
out five different types of cur-
rency. They are prescribed by
law and. with the exception of the
time.
"I found Black-Draught to be
the ideal medicine for this trou-
ble. It gave me quick relief.
By taking a course of Black-
Draught I gave my system a
thorough cleansing, and 1 have
had little or no trouble since
then.
"Now, if I am becoming con-
stipated, 1 take several small
doses of Black-Draught, and am
very soon feeling fine.”
Costs only 1 cent a dose.
Denman Easterling.
Questions
Business
Business
Fong
Benediction. )
I stomach. Parties hearing tihoi
_____I ?hooling c-ny two shots were
filled, only one striking/Mitchell,
Justice of the Peace J. M
Davis held examining trial Wed-
nesday and placed Allen under
■ 1 $1000 bond to await' the action o1
f,. A, Gibson and family of the grand jury.
Tieor Omaha visited in Naples Mitchell wasj employed by J. W.
Ta'- 'lay. Dill at his spoke factory. Mr
—«--- Dill said Mitchell had been with
-T - Five room hous'ej, him since 1901 and that he had
kiirt'vn Aunt Jane McMieh- nevnj known Mitchell to be in
the City Council of Naples, Texas,
held on the 21 day of May 1927.
M. J. Mathews
City Secretary
’ W. F. Smith
Mayor
WeVe Always
“On the Job
with up-to-date, quality Mer-
chandise— the kind that will
give you satisfaction in every
particular, including price.
Just a small margin of profit
satisfies us, and enables us to
make prices tfiat will suit
your pocketbook. We do nut
put on any “catch prices”,
hut every day in the year we
make extra low prices, when
you consider quality of goods
Come to see us when in need of
Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Shoes,
Hats Caps, Ladies’ Underwear,
Men’s Work Clothes, Groceries,
and Feed.
W. N. CALLAWAY
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Approved a3 to Form:
E. B. Perkin3
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, General Attorney
I |FTATE OF TEXAS )
j ICOUNTY OF MORRIS )
I, M. J. Mathews, City Secre-
Ijtary of the city of Naples, here-
I i by certify that the above and
j j foregoing is a true and correct
| copy of an Ordinance duly pass-
[ ed by the Board of Aldermen of
{(said City and signed by the May-
or at their Regular session held
| ion the 21 day of May A. D. 1927,
j and that same so appears on re-
f cord in O-fidinance records of j
I Raid City, and being known as!
| (Ordinance No. 28.
Witness my hand and official
: eal of said City this the 25 clay
| j of May A. D. 1927.
M. J. Mathews,
City Secretary.
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SERVICE FIRST!
y TRY OUR SERVICE,
And we are sure that you will be more than pleased with it.
In fact we leave nothing undone to give our patrons just that
kirn! of service we would want to get ourselves. We are all
in business for revenue, but we always try to give you dollar
lor dollar value when you come here for your Gas, Gil and
Accessories. We truly appreciate your business whether it
be large or small and will always treat you right.
Come to see us
Lindsey Service Station
GOOD - BETTER -
BEST j
.ill ItlVIUH
lie Hi
( phono 121-2R.
< J H. Dennis.
ft V IrrtiiimM *■"> is now
a vnitpm • l.prings,
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trouble of any kind before.
Mra. Dessie Shattuck and
children and Clarence Mounce re-
turned home to Alto Sunday after
visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Watts
for a couple of weeks.
Naples Cash Store
WE PRIDE OURSELVES
UPON THE FACT THAT OUR
MERCHANDISE IS THE BEST
FOR THE MONEY—ALWAYS
COMPARISON - WILL - PROVE - IT!
Give us the once over
and be convinced.
14 lbs Sugar $1.00
Bacon, Dry Salt, per lb. .18
Crackers, 2 1-2 lb box Sunshine .40
Don’t forget we always pay top of the market for your
Chickens and Eggs—Cash or trade
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We have for Sale a Scholar-
ship in the Tyler Commercial
College. See us and save
money.
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Watts, W. R. The Naples Monitor. (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 1927, newspaper, June 17, 1927; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth713807/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.