The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1925 Page: 4 of 8
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THE McGREGOR MIRROR, McGREGOR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1925.
DO YOU KNOW YOUR
VISION IS NORMAL?
kfAVE YOUR EYES TESTED AND CRUXITE LENS USED
FOR THE PRESCRIPTION.
E. R. SMITH
OPTOMETRIST
JEWELRY
DRUGS
"We sell Bob White Flour.—John
& Red’s Fed Store. 46
New fast color Suitings and
Linens have just been received
at Cuenod’s.
See the New Spring Millinery
being shown now at Cuenod’s.
Fresh shipment of boxed choc-
olates to be sold in bulk.—L. C.
Yowel.
Buy your feed from an exclu-
sive feed store. — John & Red’s
Feed Store.
Jim Dixon, of Temple, spent
Sunday in McGregor with his
family.
Robert Ledbetter spent several
days first of the week visiting in
San Antonio.
1 Registered Big Bone Poland
China Gilt, for sale. Will farrow
next month.—John Grantham.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McDaniels,
of Waco, were visitors in the Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Sales home Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Pennington
spent Tuesday in Gatesville,
where they visited Mrs. Penning-
ton’s father and mother.
We guarantee Bob White
Flour to be the Best.—-John.&
Red’s Feed Store.
FOR SALE OR TRADE—Ford
Truck and a 3-inch wagon, both
in good condition.—J. B. FORD.
Offie Sales and Lucian Cuenod
returned Wednesday from an ex-
tended auto trip to south and
southwest Texas. They report a
very pleasant trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Dugger and Mr.
! and Mrs. Dan Lester and little
daughter, Willie, of Waco, were
guests last Sunday in the A. J.
Mann home.
Can you beat
Chocolates at 50c
Towel’s.
Buy the Candy from
Smith’s Drug Store.
it? The best Mrs. Richard Townsend and
per pound.— baby, Carey Ella, of Seminole,
Okla., returned home Sunday af-
ter spending a short time here
E. R. with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Carey.
1 Registered Big Bone Poland
China Gilt, for sale. Will farrow
next month.—John Grantham.
Buy something to cure the cold
at E. R. Smith’s Drug Store.
; Guaranteed fast color Linens
and Suitings for Spring have just
been received at Cuenod’s.
BOARDERS WANTED—Either
ladies or gentlemen. Apply at
this office. 46
Let us take your renewals for
papers and magazines.—L. C.
Yowel.
Miss Janie Ruth Brown spent
Sunday in Waco with her friend,
Mrs. -Richter.
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\ FOR SALE—Baled OMs, free
; of Johnson grass.—D. Bj Scott,
\ McGregor, Route M,'Box-75. 47
Guests in the W. E. Carey home
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Baker, Mrs. Luther Hering and
sons, of McGregor, Mrs. W. L.
Dedeck and son of Waco, and
Mrs. Richard Townsend and little
daughter of Seminole, Okla.
IT. Id. Hanover and Walter Rob-
ertson spent Tuesday at Whit-
ney, where W. V. Hanover and
Paul Garrett are drilling an oil
well. Both Messrs. Hanover and
Robertson say the outlook for
striking oil seems almost certain.
E. T. Hord left Monday, accom-
panied by Miss Winnie Kennedy,
for Junction, Kimble County,
Texa’s, where they will visit with
relatives for several weeks. Mr.
Hord will spend part of the time
hunting, as this country is
known for its game.
For Rent—Three real nice con-
necting unfurnished rooms, with
bath.—Mrs. Harley Brown. tf
Renew your subscription today.
Miss Frances Connally return-
ed to school at Georgetown Sun-
day. Miss Francis was one of
two students losing all her wear-
ing apparel in the fire a week ago
when the dormitory was destroy-
ed by fire.
WHAT KIND OF MONEY
WOULD SUIT YOU BEST?
How long has it been since you
were amply supplied with silver
dollars, commonly referred to as
the “American cart wheel?” It
has been paper money almost uni-
versally for quite awhile, but Un-
cle Sam wants to know if his sub-
jects would like to have a change,
that is, have the silver dollar back
again as it used to be. It appears
that the United States treasury
department has a desire to repop-
ularize this good old coin of the
realm, and it may be explained af-
ter the following fashion:
Five years ago there were 85,-
000,000 silver dollars in circula-
tion, compared with only 53,000,-
000 at the present time, and the
treasury department would be
glad to restore the missing 40,-
000,000 to the channels of trade.
The shrinkage is due to the fact
that in 1919 bar silver rose to its
peak of $1.3825 an ounce. This
made it profitable for the private
agencies to buy and melt silver
dollars for sale in the bar silver
market. Many speculators bought
many dollars. But when the price
declined to where an ounce of
silver was worth less than one
dollar, the speculators who had
been hoarding silver dollars— re-
deposited them, making and los-
ing nothing by the transaction.
Now the treasury claims that
the use of 40,000,000 in new silver
will save the government $1,000,-
000, because the paper printing
machines have been clogged with
war savings stamps, liberty bonds
and other things. Ordinarily the
paper stock of money is maintain-
ed three months ahead. But not
so now, for the stock is down to
less than a month. Hence it is
one of two things, take new silver
dollars or take old bills.
Which do you prefer? Stand
up until you are counted.—Ex.
OTHERWISE ENGAGED.
A middle-western farmer and
his wife went to Chicago on busi-
ness and while there thej^ attend-
ed the theatre several times.
One of the attractions was a
modern musical revue in which
were scenes where, following pre-
sent styles, various actresses wore
little, of any, clothes.
In one scene a woman harpist
twanged at the strings with sev-
eral maidens about her- On the
way back to the hotel, the farm-
er’s wife was reviewing the per-
formance in her mind.
“By the way,” she said, “what
was that tune the woman played
on the harp?”
“Good gosh!” her husband ex-
claimed. “Was there a harp?”
W. Y. Hanover spent the week
■tend here with his family, leaving
Monday for Whitney, where he is
interested in the drilling of an
oil well. Mr. Hanover is very en-
thusiastic over the outcome, and
says that he feels certain that oil
will be found in this territory at
an early date.
k.
The Meat of the Cocoanut
It is Here—Look for it
Due to the unprecedented demand for Fall-term credit, we are taking
this means of notifying our friends that we must have a fair share of their
Gash business at this particular time.
In making your arrangements at the bank, or wherever it may be,
keep us in mind and arrange so that we may have some of your Gash business.
If those who are financing you, with security, can not advance you
further credit, how can you expect us to do so without security?
Your past business is greatly appreciated byMs, and we solicit all fu-
ture business—that is Good Business.
-
City
Hanover-Thomason Company
Tjfoe Store
Few Wives Willing to
Give Husbands Credil
“I was lately talking to an intel-
ligent woman I have known many
years. (She didn’t have a very good
start, as her father was somewhat
tough and did all he could to dis-
grace the family.) ‘You have made
a success of your life,’ I said to
her. And then she said a very sur-
prising thing; in my entire ac-
quaintance with women I have
heard nothing equally surprising,”
says E. W. Howe in his monthly
magazine.
“ ‘My husband is entitled to the
credit,’ she replied. ‘He is an in-
telligent, steady, fair man and has
done a great deal for me. When
we were first married he was so kind
and indulgent that I rather lost my
head. I forgot that marriage is a
reciprocal contract and imposed on
him a little. He soon rebelled and
gave me a good talking to and it
cured me/
“. . . There are thousands of
such husbands, but never before has
one had proper credit from his wife,
so far as I know.”
At Popular Prices-,
WE SUGGEST HERE JUST A FEW OF :‘HE MANY
THINGS THAT YOU WILL FIND HERE AT POPULAR
PRICES. YOU WILL BE SURPRISED AT TIE NUMBER
OF USEFUL ARTICLES THAT ARE OBTAINABLE AT
SMALL GOST.
Astronomers of Stone
Age No Mere Guessers
Recent discoveries of what are
held to be -Stone age observatories
on a site only a few miles from
Glasgow demonstrate, according to
Ludovic McL. Mann, who made tin
discoveries, that the prehistoric men
of that time were able to predict aa
accurately as the astronomers of to-
day the occurrence of the more im-
portant solar and lunar phenomena
such as eclipses.
Patient research has shown that
tunnel systems embody the means
whereby the ancients recorded theii
knowledge of the movements of sun
moon and of the five planets knowr
to them—-Venus, Mars, Jupitei;
Saturn and Mercury—and that b]
means of this data carved in th<
living rock they were able to pre-
dict the incident of various astro-
nomical phenomena.
Here we offer you a boxof seven won-
derful Soaps at the very low p’ice of 35c. This
box contains: Complexion S'ap, Glycerine
Soap, Castile, Cutaneous Soaj, Shaving Soap,
Witch Hazel, and Superfine Toilet Soap, at
per box_______________________________________________________________________._
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Get a number of these -in Wash Basins
and Pudding Pans at the low >rice of 15c each.
They are small sizes but a } made of good
quality tin. Priced______________A______________________________
You will find many u$s for these small
size Pudding Pans and MirJPans. They are
made of good quality gre^snamel and sell
at 15c each. Special at.__.__kl_______________________________
Made full size of good quality Cheviot.
Double seamed. One pockit. Sizes 14 to
17. Get several today at I._______________________________
35c
15c
15c
75c
CASH VAflETY STOR
McGregor,Teias
■rw—m^BagagaBBS
Tombs of Pharaohs
The Egyptian department of th<
Metropolitan museum says the toml
of Smenkhkara (it is not' certaii]
that this is the correct reading oj
his name) has been discovered
Thirteen fifty-eight B. C. is a bettei
date for him than 1300 B. C. Hi
was not a great pharm^ nor wai
Tut-Ankh-Amen. It is true thai
the tombs of all the great pharaohs
are now known, but they were ali
plundered in antiquity, and then
is a considerable number of
pharaohs, perhaps several dozen
whose tombs have never been found,
We do not even know with certainty
the names of some of them and
those who had very short reigns in
troublous times may never have had
tombs. t
Couldn’t Stand for It
Victor Alessandro, bandmastei
for the school board, met an ac-
quaintance the other day, also a
bandmaster, who was bemoaning the
loss, of a tuba player.
“Yes, sir,” affirmed the friend
sadly, “that fellow was probably the
best performer on the tuba that ever
struck these parts. I certainly did
hate to have to fire him.”
“What made you do it, then?”
asked Mr. Alessandro.
“Well,” replied the dolorous one,
“He just would bring his lunch to
work in the bell of his horn, and it
looked so bad.”—Houston Post.
Father’s Name for It
Two little sisters were sitting on
the floor near their mother, who was
sewing. The elder of the two was
telling her sister what the pictures
were in a book at which they were
looking. When they came to the
picture of a kid, the elder sister
was puzzled and said: “What is
this a picture of, mamma?”
“That,” said the mother, “is what
your papa calls you girls some-
times.” The little girl looked
thoughtful for a moment, then
exclaimed, “Oh, I know, it’s a brat.”
—Rochester Democrat.
Two-Thirds Rule
The two-thirds rule may be re-
garded as American in its origin
and grew out of the jealous vigi-
lance with which the smaller com-
munities included in the Union of
states sought to safeguard their po-
litical rights. The Constitution,
fur example, in providing a two-
thirds vote of the senate for convic-
tion in impeachment cases secures
to a minority of the states as rep-
resented in the senate the power to
HAVE YOU TRIED
SMITH’S FLOUR?
We would be pleased to have you try
Smith’s Flour. Every day some one of
our customers praise this Flour. Every
sack is sold under a strict guarantee that
it must give satisfaction.
IF YOU HAVE EGGS OR PRODUCE, REMEMBER WE
WANT IT AND WILL PAY THE VERY HIGHEST CASH
PRICE, EITHER GIVE YOU THE MONEY OR TAKE
THEM IN TRADE.
TRY US FOR ANYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE
MORRIS GROCERY
PERHAPS A “DISTANT
HUSBAND” OF HERS.
Forest rangers are constanly re-
ceiving letters from persons seek-
ing lost relatives. A few years
ago the body of an old prospector
and trapper known in the region
as J-- S-— was found by
a ranger in one of the, national
forests in the high Sierras of Cal-
ifornia.
The body had been terribly
maided and torn by bears and
perhaps other wild animals, and
all the evidences pointed to a fight
to the death with an old mother
bear and two cubs. Nothing was
found in the man’s efforts to lead
to the location of his friends, and
absolutely nothing of his past or
home ties was found in the re-
gion.
The body was duly and official-
ly viewed by a coroner’s jury,
which decided he had been killed
in a bear fight, and he was buried
near where he was found. Nat-
urally the case got into the local
papers, from which it was widely
copied. Some weeks later the
ranger who found the body re-
ceived a letter from a woman in
a midwest state, of which the fol-
lowing is an exact copy:
Kind and Respcted Cir: I see
in the paper that a man named
J;-S-was atacted and
et up by a bare whose cubs he
| only partly et up and was he from
this place and all about the bare.
I don’t know but what he is a
distant husband of mine. My
first husband was of that name
and i suppose he was killed in tin fc
war but the name of the man the
bare it being the same i thot i
might be him after all and i
thought to know if he wasn’t kill-
ed either in the war or by the-
bare for i have been married twict
since and their ought to he a di
vorce papers got out by him Ml!
me if the bare did not eat him all
up. If it is him you will know it
by having six toes on the left foot.
He also sings base and has a
spread eagle tattooed on his front-
chest and a ankor on his right
arm which you will know him if
the bare did not eat up all these-
parts of him. If alive, don’t tell
him I am married to J-W-
was trying :to git when the she
bare came up and stopt him by
eatin him up if the mountains
near your town. What i want to
know is did it kill fun or was he
Mebbe
. f, ■Jet*'
it i am
for he never liked J-.
you had better let on as
ded but find out all you can about
him without him knowing any-
thing what it is for. That is if the-
bare did not eat him all up. If .it
did i don’t see you can do any-
thing and you needn’t take any
trouble. My respcks to your fam-
ily and please aneer back.
P. S.—Was the bare killed. Also
was he married again and did he-’
leave any property worth me lay-
ing claim to.—Exchange.
Cigars and Cigarettes for men
who enjoy real smokes, at E. R„
Smith’s Drug Store,
Renew your subscription t<
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