Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, June 10, 1929 Page: 4 of 4
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MT. PLEASAKY DAILY TIMES. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929.
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G. wTcBOSS, Editor.
NE\. MONEY
JUMPING OVER THE HEDGE
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Entered at the postoffice at Mt. Pleas-
ant, Texas, as secondclass mail matter
■AIJ obituaries, resolutions of respect,
sards of thanks, etc., will be charged
for at regular rates.
ODD QUIRKS OF THE LAW
Nearly 9,000,000 bills, greenbacks “You boys must stop jumping over
and yellowbacks, issued by the Unit- Mrs. Blank’s private hedge. The
ed States government and scattered branches are tender and brittle and
among banks, business houses and you will spoil the appearance of her
people throughout the country on or pretty yard. 1 have told you before
near July 1, will be able to go into but when mother is not looking you do
permanent retirement at the discre- whatever you please.”
lion of their holders. ■ These were the words of a Marshall
This does not mean that Uncle Sam mother the other day. Most mothers
has decided to call in all his paper have been confronted with situations
money and issue in its place gold and similar to this one. Are the boys to
silver, but that on that date he will blame, or their elders, or society in
replace 1,500 tons of money, which general?
! would fill 400 boxcars, with a new When the policeman is not in sight
! series of standardized notes, one-third we step on the gas and go as fast as
_ less in size and weight and occupying our foolish judgment dictates, re-
... „ + one-third less space in storage and gardless of state or city laws. If
There are some things about judi- * * , ... ,
. , , ... . , , j. , ii,0 handling.. men want to make money vithou
cial procedure that are hard for the . ® , .
layman to understand and the final lhls stupendous task ot replace- earning it,
outcome of some criminal cases
Incomprehensible. In Texas there is
a notorious gun bandit, once sentenced tcn‘ where the L'nitod States
they
notes or borrow
ma'
counterfeit
j cv run bill',
payment and
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JUNE BRIDES TAKE NOTICE
The marriage bug seem sto have struck
Mt. Pleasant, and I am willing to do my
part to help him along.
Any June bride in the county or town
letting me know two days before hand, I
will give them a shampoo and curl abso-
lutely free, with my best wishes.
Phone 48
This stupendous task of
,e ment is being done by the bureau
printing and engraving at Washing- with nr intention
mine take- money __________
to death, saved by 'commutation''of ment manufactures its paper money, their employer. , | --------- ----------------
sentence to life imprisonment, escap- Th® is workin^ daY and ni«ht. Mos* of as do whatever we pic-ase ; DAIRYMAN
, on.i ..I.,/»n.i under lull force to have this new is- regardless of law, and leel no shame ‘Mil Hr,KIN ask . .
trial during the past week for rob- f»e ^adY 011 time’ and,is turning out in recounting successful efforts ^ to j HAS
VAUGHAN’S BEAUTY PARLOR
Mrs. Vaughan, Prop.
GRISHAM S ICE
recounting successful efforts to
berv with hrearms committeed dm- the lar*est order in its histwy- 11 evade the ,aw“not a1' of tus“buut to°
ing the brief period of freedom-and is Poncing six tons of the new , many. Some of us boast ol buying
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. money every 24 hours' Ei*ht hund- j intoxicants and sometime brag on
CREAM JINGLES
Naturally, if he ever serves this sen- ,eu and fifty-seven million pieces or
tence it will have to be concurrently fresh- crisP currency are being stored
with his life term. Why go to the in the vaults of the treasury to be
trouble and expense of another crim- distributed soon to every state in the
irt&l trial to contfct a man who al- union' Son,e of this currency already
ready is under life sentence, and
vtfhose previous death sentence had
been commuted. True, Governor
'Moody1 Said after this criminal’s pris-
on break that he regretted the com-
mutation could not be revoked, but turned from the
has been received by Texas banks and
is now being displayed.
The suggestion of the smaller v-?
er money for the United States first
came from Americans <. h, have re-
Philippine Islands
-- ! The following have been accepted
I The latest issue of the Southern in Grisham’s Jingle Cont st. All
our bootlegger I Dairyman, published at Shreveport, whose jingles are printed will re-
Boys and men should be taught that!had a lengthy article on the work of ceive a quart of Grisham’s Angel
authority must be observed. We'of the Titus County Council of Agri- Food Ice Cream free, and the best
cannot have a stable country if each | culture, enumerating several of its one will get a prize of $5.00.
one does his own will till restrained accomplishments,
by force. We may work for the re-
peal of laws and be good citizens but
why should ar'jury be expected to re- and had become accustomed to the
turn a death penalty in a case of less sm&Uer sixe currency in use thebe,
serious character than the one in which they found far more conven-
whieh the death sentence had been ’ent to handle.
imposed I Extreme care is being used in the
All this brings to mind another P™»ting and engraving of the new
celebrated case in another state PaPer money to Prevent counterfeit
wherein a man was under both death in*' The faces wiI1 ^present the
sentence and life imprisonment sen- hi8'hlV specialized and artistic work
tence. As might have been expect- of some haIf do*en different expert
ed the criminal’s counsel argued that engravers and the character of the en-
he should be permitted to serve the is such that it is almost im-
life term before imposition of the Possdde to match,
death sentence. Solution was reach- *on£er will there be any yel-
ed by letting him begin the life term, lowbacks and the repetition of differ-
completion of which was coincident ent denominations. All bills will be
with his execution. engraved in green and black.
There are too many “whys” in the While an ,mmense savin* 13 forLe-
law that puzzle the ordinary man— seen government officials in the
Texarkana Gazette. | *>*per and ink used, and the printing
j and handling of the new paper mon-
(ey, a question which has arisen and
Wahl Lifetime Foun-! ”m“”',yet be f°Ivefis *he ,chaI,E'
. _ . mg of the national bank notes to con-
tain Pens, regular price uAm with the new style.
$5.00, special $3,48.-! Tbe bureau of engraving and print-
Wilhite & Porter Drug
Co.
WANT ADS
ing has a set of engraved plates for
each denomination ordered by the na-
| tional banks throughout the country.
■ There ’ aggregate more than 10,000
j platgs, and the re-engraving of all of
| them would take many years to ac-
complish and cost nearly $1,000,000,
;: The only solutions that remain open
i ara the extremely expensive process-
es of re-engraving all the plates, the
35 cents a gaU^Tphone 975 F 3. , elimination of the national bank cur-
-Mrs. W. M. Ferguson. 8-2d after 19V°’ or the i8su'**of*
i universal bank note upon which the
name of the bank can be imprinted.—
BLACKBERRIES FOR SALE
LOST—Two solid white bird dog
puppies, two months old. Notify
Howard Boddie.
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EGGS AND AIGS
FOR RENT—Two Southeast bed- :
rooms. Cull 83 or 346-W,—Mrs. C. L. j -
Oliver. 8-6-pd Coming upon a football which the
---- j son of the house had brought home
TRADE—Notes or from school, the rooster promptly
ows, yearlings or j called all the hens around him.
R. Hart. 8-3d-3w “Now, ladies,” he said diplomatical-
---j]y, “I don’t want to appear ungrate-
FOR RENT—A first class store', ful or raise any unnecessary fuss, but
now occupied by A. K. Mattingly, j 1 do want you to see what’s being
Can give possesion July 1st,—See J.ldonc in other yards.”—-Frisco Em-
M. Badt. 6-tf ploye’s Magazine.
tYANTEI) TO
real estate for (
brood mares.—J.
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Paris 4 Mt. Pleasant Bailway Co,
R. W. WORTHAM, Receiver
THE RAILROAD BUILT TO SERVE vott loutE YOUR
FREIGHT VTA THIS LINE OF PERSONAL TOUCH.. . The Schedules
of our connecting lines at Paris enable us to give you good service
to and from all points. Your patronage will be appreciated.
we cannot violate laws or cause oth-
ers to do so without being an an-
archist. That is a hard* word but an-
archy means doing away with the
law. So long as a law stands, a pa-
triotic. citizen will observe it just as
boys will do their jumping elsewhere
if they respect their mother.
The article carried G is for Grisham,
two illustrations. Titus County is
receiving more favorable publicity
from the big papers of the South at
present than almost any other county
of the State. r .
RED TAPE
Whenever there is a new adminis-
’ tration, the catchwords of the govem-
Church and Sunday Schools incul- ment are broadcast anew. One of
cate principles of right and wrong.
They are working along fundamental
lines for the benefit of the commun-
ity. Every good citizen should sup-
port such institutions with his time
and money. Not any particular
Grisham’s Angel Food Ice Cream is
pure cream, 1 say,
“Possibly one exception,” the richest
in Texas today,
Who said that? And how can they
prove it to me?
Grisham said it, you eat it, then you
shall see.
It’s made here at home, we want it
well knowri,
So boost it up, stranger, wherever
you roam.
have a few faults, the objections will It’s a Mt. Pleasant product, we want
probably say something about too it to pay.
much red tape. Here’s hoping Grisham’s Ice Cream
If a legal process is slow it is said is with us to stay.
—Mrs. F. F. Costello.
these is “red tape.” If by any chance
the Hoover administration seems to
church or denomination but any re- to bo caused by red tape. When a
ligious organization that is teaching government procedure takes months--
right standards of living whether it be! or years, red tape is responsible l’or After the creaes have been damp-
in cathedral, synagogue or the humb-;the delay. Solemn official formality, ened trousers are pressed without heat
lest little brown churc h in the vale. I of long drawn out litigation or any by a new frame that can be hung in a
Every church is a bulwark against'of the petty and numerous details of . wardrobe or closet,
lawlessness.—Marshall News. [administration; there are red tape.
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THE COMPLIMENT [“red tape” have acquired such a pe-
- I culiar meariing ? According to Web-
Cooper: “Honestly, now, you would | ster, the reason is that red tape has
never have thought this car of mine been “used in public offices for ty-
was one 1 had bought second-hand,! ing up documents, etc.” Time is con-
would you?” jsumed in tying up such papers—and
Coles: “Never in my life. I! oftentimes more than documents are
thought you had made it yourself.”— tide up in political methods—hence,
Answers. ' red tape!—Ex.
An eight cylinder automobile motor j bbes burning in a potteiy in
invented by a resident of Brooklyn, bulham, London, were lirst lighted
N. Y., lacks connecting rods, wrist 2,ri^ years a^0, kdns *n use ^°~
pins and crank cams. , c!aY are ver-v littIe different from
___ those in use 250 years ago.
The number of telephones in the
Irish 1* ree State has increased to There are more than 21000 officers
nearly 25,000 and a rural system is in and men employed on London’s Fire j
process of formation. Brigade.
A lighthouse with a 2,750,000 ean-
dlepower lamp, visible for 80 kilome-
ters, has been erected near Prague to
guide aviators at night.
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The Janissaries, famous Turkish
army corps, was instituted in the lat-
ter half of the fourteenth century.
Mrs. Gus Blackard of Paris. Tenn.,
is a guest of her sister,, Mrs. J. C.
Brown.
V^ill Sellers of Little Rock is here^
visiting relatives this week.
$3.00 Bill Folds, spe
cial price $2.19.—Wil-
hite & Porter Drug Co.
•THAT LITTLE GAME”
| ROSERT E. WILLIAMS • COMMERCIAL AGENT j
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Cross, G. W. Mount Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, June 10, 1929, newspaper, June 10, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth783667/m1/4/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.