The Sulphur Springs Gazette (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1915 Page: 4 of 12
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g»e ofnfce furniture stores that al-
ways keeps an extra supply of yard-
sticks remarked to a Gazette reporter
yesterday that he had never seen such
a demand for yard-sticks, and he won-
dered why so many people were in
such -urgent need of such an article.
He remarked, “now there goes Dr.
Roberts;” he said he just had to have
a loot-stick or a yard-stick—something
tJ&at would measure eight-inChes; I
asked him what he wanted with it,
blit he only laughed and went on; I
really wonder what he wants with it.
The writer was on his way to din-
ner, took a curious notion that he’d
investigate the Doctor and his yard-
stick, and followed leisurely along be-
hind him. The Doctor stopped at
Tnunel’s store, bought a paper of pins,
went on by the Gazette office, got a
Quantity of small scraps of black and
white paper, then meandered on home,
with, the writer still trailing. When
Dr. Roberts reached home, his move-
ments were highly interesting; he
immediately began measuring the
meeds on his front lawn; he was very
careful and exact; if a weed measured
eight inches or more, he pinned a
Piece of black paper on it, if the
measurement showed the weed had
attained a growth of six or seven
laches, he pinned on a piece of red
paper. '
After watching this procedure, back-
ward and forward over the Doctor’s
large lawn, the writer's curiosity had
-to be appeased, so We walked up with
the question: “Doc., what’s going on
hare, anxhow; what’s the meaning of
the signals?” Our ingenious friend
looked up, amused, “why,” |he said,
"Don’t you know it’s a violation of a
-City Ordinance to allow weeds to grow
more than eight inches high? You
see I read the City Commission’s no-
tice that if we didn’t cut all of our
weeds of illegal height that the City
would have it done and make us pay
for it. Now, I'm strictly a law-abiding
citizen, but I also hate to pay out good
g|pney over as worthless a thing as a
bhnch of weeds; it’s too blooming hot
Uk cat them myself, so I am simply
flagging the weeds that are above, the
legal height with black flags, which
Tne«p* 'no quarter—they must die,’
and, am using the red flags to show
that there is ‘danger,’ and the weeds
bearing those red flags must; be
measured every day or so, in order
that 1 keep within the law. Under
thta method, l can instruct the City’s
representative to cut only the weeds
with the black flags, and of course
♦ho charges will be lighter, and I’ll not
be out the use of my money while
the younger crop of weeds are coming
On. I really don't see much use in
cutting ’em, nohow, because # they’ll
grow right up again. I’ll tell you it
' cast a sight of money to live in these
modern times. Why, back in Alabama,
when I was a boy, seventy-five years
ago, I remember the weeds was so
high on the public square there in
Plunketville, they’d hide a wagon load
of baled hay, and a man would often
have to hunt a half hour to find his
team, and there wasn’t nothing said
about cutting the weeds, cither. Yes, I
tell you we're living mighty fast now,
sail some of our folks have got some
mighty powerful modern ideas about
sanitation and civic pride. But, as I
said before, I’m a law-abiding citizen
and I’m either going to meet the re-
quirements of our Cfty Officials, or
leave town. Hence, I’m doing my plain
duty as a public spirited citizen; how-
ever, my sense of economy impels me
to use the signal system; I’ll be ab-
solutely in the clear under it, and
will be saving interest on my money,
until the time comes that I have to
let it go. By the way, I reckon it’s a
mighty good thing these eagles you
see on a silver dollar ain’t really
alive, because they’d all need shrouds
when they passed out of my hands;
11 used to work in a glue factory, and
' I guess I never did get all the glue
washed off my fingers, for they have a
marked tendency of sticking to every-
thing that looks like money—anything
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Canada
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Starting Thursday. August Mh, you con secure this new “regular” Burroughs Adding and Listing Machine from any of our offices m 170
Cities. (Sever before could the adding machine needs of the smallest retailer be filled by a Burroughs of such wonderful value at u price me
low. It is now possible only because of an immense factory equipped to economize through large production. And at that we believe
the demand will for many months exceed the supply, lour telephone book or your banker will tell you thq nearest Burroughs office.
Let it Stop Your Figure-Mistake Losses
Suppose you’re a grocer
and fill about 150 orders a day.
These orders average about five
items—a total ot 750 items a day
or 225,000 a year You or your
clerks have to add all these items.
You are human and all men make
(■ mistakes Here are ,
45,000 chances for mistakes
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If it’s a charge slip you can go
over the addition aftei hours—when
you’re too tued to add straight. But it
it’s a castTlsale the customer has gone
and* taken the record with nim Lou
do find mistakes m charge slip addi-
tions 11 you could know you would
surely find the
Most mistakes in cash sales
tour wholesaler employs an expert in
figures,, uses a double entry system
and an adding machine to prevent
mistakes.
Your clerks are experts at making
sales, not at adding up figures. ■ They
must rush to serve waiting customers.
1 hey are -right out in the hustle and
contusion ot the store.
Machine can’t make mistakes
Put a Burroughs on the counter where
you wrap up the goods. The machine
will print and add the figures quicker
than your clerk can set them down by
pencil. Ihe total can be printed by a
pull ot the handle, and that
Total is always correct
Hand the printed slip to the cash cus-
tomer as a proof. It shows each amount
and the correct sum. It inspires con-
fidence. You and the customer both
know it is right
One mistake prevented each day wiU
pay you a handsome return on your in-
vestment. You are now making more
than one mistake a day. W e stand ready
to prove from your own records that
you are now paying for a Burroughs in
mistakes that can easily be prevented.
Whether you’re a grocer or
Any other kind of retailer
the same thing is true. Your brain and
your time are needed to make sales,
serve customers, arrange stock and
do many other things that make for
profits. .
You can’t afford not to leave the fig-
ure work to the machine. You can’t
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afford the mistakes the Burroughs can
and does prevent.
Since you are now paying in mis-
takes the price of this Burroughs, you
ought to own it
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Land Notes Bought and <i
Extended
I represent plenty of \\
money to extend and
buy first class land j»
notes.
H. H. MILLER I
Abstracts, Real Estate
and Loans
from a copper cent up. I went to the
Dallas Fair once, and the trip cost me
a dollar and ninety-eight cents, and
you know I grieved about that need-
less expenditure of money for a
couple of months, but some of my
friends finally kinder cheered me up
by saying, ‘now, old man, you oughten
to worry too much about that trip;
every man owes it to himself to see
some of the world, and a little high
living on a trip like that is certainly
excusable, especially when you make
if the one big trip of your life.’ Well(
I pondered over it along that line, and
I was really sorry, that I didn’t eat
two hamburgers instead of just one,
inasmuch as I was over there having
such a big time anyway. But, I’m
getting a long way off of my subject;
I guess I’ve got my weeds in good
shape now, all measured and flagged.
Yes, the City Commission will find
me ready when they send their chop-
pers out, but I want to be sure to be
here and see that they don’t charge
me up for cutting weeds that are
under the legal height. No siree, they
ain’t going to stick me for no forty
or fifty cent weed bill—not all at one
time.”
The Gazette man tried to borrow
the Doctor’s yard-stick, but he main-
tained that he would need it every day,
as long as this eight-inch weed law
stands in force—or at least 'till frost
comes.
In Justice to Dr. Roberts, we feel
that we should state, by way of pa-
renthesis, that the above is merely one
of the editor's ’’pipe dreams”, In
which he simply makes the Doctor the
“goat” of his imagination.
CALOMEL
DYNAMITES
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes Into Sour Bile, Making You
Sick and You Lose a Day’s
Work.
Calomel salivates! It’s mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug-
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with your bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, consti-
pated and all knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get a 50 cent bottle
of Dodson’s Liver, Tone, which is a
harmless vegetable substitute for dan-
gerous calomel. Take a spoonful and
if it doesn’t start your liver and
straighten you up better and quicker
than nasty calomel and without mak-
ing you sick, you just go back and get
your money.
If you take calomel today you’ll
be Bick and nauseated tomorrow; be-
sides, it may salivate you, while if you
take Dodson’s Liver Tone you will
wake up feeling great, full of ambi-
tion and ready for work or play. It’s
harmless, pleasant and safe to give to
children; they like it.
FREE ADVERTISING SPACE.
Every business man in our county
should avail themselves of the op-
portunity of doing some class of ad-
vertising at our Old Settlers’ Reunion.
No charge whatever will be made for
such space, but our ‘ system will
strictly be adhered to, so if you wish
space for this occasion see us at
once and show us your plans and
let’s get together.
T. M. KERBOW.
H. W. CAMP.
A CAT HOBO. .
One of the strangest things yet
seen by so many who viewed the
sight was a common house cat ridi? g
on the trucks of a passenger coach oh
the west bound T. & P. train today.
It was a white cat, or to be exact
about a half grown kitten, and there
he sat as calm as a pig in the sun-
shine, with the coach shielding him
from the hot rays of the sun. Where
he had come from no one could tell
and where he was going he could not
tell, but there he sat just the same,
and no one bothered ‘him in Lis
reveries.
Cats are strange crer.tur"!S, and
some scientis who evidently stayed
awake at night to see, says that cats
walk about nine miles every night
and we have all heard that f-)lir.os
have nine lives, but none of us have
ever seen hobo cat before, we are
quite sure.—Bonham Favorite.
The Case of L. L. Cantelou.
The case of L. L. Cantelou, Claren-
don, Texas, is similar to that of many
others who have used Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
He says, “After trying a doctor for
several months, and using different
kinds of medicine for my wife who
had been troubled with severe bowel
complaint for several months, I bought
a 25c bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After
using the second bottle she was en-
tirely cured.” For sale by all dealers.
THE FARMERS* STATE INSTITUTE
One of the largest and most en-
thusiastic gatherings of ithe; Farmers'^
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State Institute convened itt Austin
July 27th, at the State University-
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auditorium. The meeting was called
to orfier by our Presidents the dis-
tinguished apostle of agriculture, T.
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A. McGalliard. Hon. Eg R. Cone, the
father of the institute, delivered the
opening address, followed by Judge
Nelson Philiphas, Chief Justice. The
Judge spoke of the men being worth,
while. Men that could do things, men
of vision who could see things to be
accomplished, as though his vision,
saw the millions in the by-products-
of cotton seed.
Dr. Sampson delivered the Welcome
address in behalf of the mayor who
was out of the city, assuring us that
we were welcome in our capitol and.
that the keys were at our demand,
and to feel welcome and free and at
home in our greatest institution of
the state, it being the first meeting of
the farmers upon the campus of the
state university; that those institu-
tions were ours, as we paid 76 per
cent of the maintenance of the uni-
versity.
Mr. Honeycutt, general agent for
the R.. R., entertained the meetings*
in which he showed the railroads and
the agriculturists were the greatest,
commercial allies. The railroads and
farmers are co-partners, their interest,
being identical and inseparable. The-
farmer must be educated to be a suc-
cessful fanner. The farmer cannot
succeed without organization, andl
that organization should be immune
against the politician; an organiza-
tion that the demagouge cannot en-
ter and steal the cardinal principals*
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock our
Governor, J. E. Ferguson, addressed
the institute upon the octton situa-
tion, outlining a plan to finance the
cotton crop and the Democratic party-
should prove their ability to take
care of the present crop or admit
their incompetency to master the
situation.
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It has been demonstrated that the
Farmers Institute is a great source
of education to the farmer if he wilt
avail himself of the opportunities the
department of agriculture is laboring-
hard to give the farmer. Our com-
missioner has greatly endeared himself
to the farmers of Texas. They feel
that he is the right man in the right*'
place, thoroughly convincing the peo-
ple that our department is indispen-/
sable, yet we are sorry to say that,
many of our delegates proved them-
selves very derlicit of duty by failing:
to attend the lectures, so as to gather-
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It does look like a pity to see so
much fruit and vegetables go to
waste. Never in the history of this
county were there a greater yield
of various products than at this time.
About the only thing that can be done?
since the over production, is to can
up, preserve up, jelly up, pickle up,
or in other words store away for a
“rainy day”—or dry either as to that,
for in our opinion one or the other is
constantly coming and it is only
matter of choice which it be. How-
ever on the other hand, with such an
abundant yield of the necessities of
life it seems to an ordinary thinking
person that no greater belssing do
the people, who raise such crops, de-
serve. If the man with such a crop
will put away for his own use, very
little business will he have with the
grocery stores—the fact is, he will
have his store at home and at his
own command.—Edgewood Enterprise.
the information and to be able to im-
part the same to their locals.
We are glad to say that- Hopldns-
county, as usual, made good. ' Thefe-
was a number of locals represented,
and during our stay all delegates-
were prompt in tehir attendance and
remained until adjournment of alt
meetings. *
The county was represerited by the-
following named delegates:
Dr. M. C. Sheppard and wife, Brinker-
F. E. Bromley, Brinker.
Thos. Beck, Brinker.
Milburn Hurley, Beckham.
Mrs. Irons, Beckham.
Mrs. Alexander, Beckham.
Prof. Leewright and wife, White-
Oak.
N. M. Mathes, White Oak.
H. M. Hayden, Bethel.
N. M. MATHJS.
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Disagreeable Calomel is Yielding te
Pleasant Liv-Ver-Lax
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Physicians generally agree that the
nauseating, unpleasant effects of calo-
mel are due to the undesirably viol-
ent action it has on the system. For
a long while various substitutes have
been tried, but it was only recently
that the really wonderful remedy,
LIV-VER-LAX was prepared success-
fully by L. K. Grigsby.
LIV-VER-LAX has all the good, and
none of the bad effects of calomel. It
is a necessity in every home, always
being ready to cleanse the sluggish,
liver and bile clogged system, with
no unpleasant after effects.
LIV-VER-LAX is guaranteed to give-
satisfaction, or your mtiney will be-
immediately refunded. Insist on the
original bearing the likeness of L. K.
Grigsby. For sale in 50c and $1 bot-
tles at Stirling & Son.
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Warranty Deeds, Mortgages. Ven-
dor’s Lien notes, Promissory notes—
all kinds of legal blanks at the Ga-
zette office.
No man can venture a guess as to
how much cotton will be grown in
this country. The weather, the weevil
and the frost are to be reckoned with
before the fleecy staple finds its way
to the gins. But there will be corn—
the late rains assure this. There are
lots of oats and there is a world ol!
hay, and there will be at least a fair
yield of corn. And no man can point
to the time when here was plenty of
feedstuff grown that times were very
close. A plentitude of corn, hay and
oats means fat horses, fat cows, fat
hogs, meal in the barrel and meat in
the smokehouse. And these conditions
spell prosperity.—Honey Grove Sig-
nal.
Gazette and Dallas News, $1.75.
NOTICE-1 REPAIR
Watches,
Clocks,
Jewelry,
Spectacles,
Typewriters,
Talking Machine*,
Door Locks
Guns,
Pistols,
Bicycles,
Sewnig Machines,
Or anything else that is broken.
I sharpen scissors. Give me a
trial.
A. B. BARRETT
Jeffereeii Street
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEX.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1915, newspaper, August 6, 1915; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824296/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.