The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 20, 1917 Page: 4 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
J. H. ABNEY HERBERT ABNEY
J. H. Abney& Son
Owners and Publishers
Entered at the Postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Payable in Advance
One week..............................-............ 15c
One Month......................... 40c
Three Months................................ $1.00
One Year.______________________________________ $4.00
J. C. Matthews W. H. Browning
Matthews & Browning
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Lampasas, Texas
Office over Peoples National Bank
Will Practice in All Courts.
Palace Barber Shop
Everett & Berry, Proprietors]
Sanitary Barber work
and Baths
We solicit your patronage
Obituaries of less than 70 words
will be published free, all above 70
words will be charged for at regular
local advertising rates. Cards of
tfcanks, resolutions of respect, church
lodge and society notices of* events
which an admission fee will be charg-
ed, will be published only on payment
ef regular local advertising rates.
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
Ij Bcfcf Constantly Supplied With
Thedford’s Black-Draught
MeDuff, Va.—“I suffered for several
fears," says Mrs. J. B. Whittaker, oi
Ills place, "with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Hiedford’s Black-Draught, which 1 did,
tnd I found it to be the best family medi-
ine for young and old.
I keep Black-Draught on hand all the
Ane now, and when my children feel a
ittle bad, they ask me for a dose, and it
toes them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell of sick-
tess in our family, since we commenced
ising Black-Draught."
Thedford’s Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu-
ate weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
ieve Indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
teadache, sick stomach, and similar
lymptoms.
It has been in constant use for more
ban 70 years, and has benefited more
han a million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Aack-Draugnt. Price only 25c. Get a
Itekige to-day. news
French Capture 20 Towns.
Paris, March 19.—The greatest
military movement on the Franco-
Belgian front since the battle of the
Marne is still in full swing, with the
Germans in retreat on a front of
nearly one hundred miles. French
territory approximating 620 square
miles has been abandoned.
Should the expectations of many
military observers be realized, the
retreat will not stop short of the
powerfully fortified line running from
Lille to Laon, through the strong de-
fensive positions of Cambrai and St.
Quentin.
The British and French forces in
France are pressing rapidly behind
the retreating Germans all along the
front from the region of Artas to the
northeast of Soissons.
Forty more villages have been tak-
en by the British, who during Mon-
day’s operations gained ground at
various points estimated at eight
miles in depth, while twenty addition-
al villages and small towns in addi-
tion to one hundred occupied during
the last three days have been recap-
tured by the French. So rapidly has
been the advance of the French that
they have penetrated beyond the vil-
lage of Ham, twenty miles stfhthwest
of St. Quentin and beyond Chaulnes,
which lies some fifteen miles north of
the line from which the offensive was
started. These operations from the
south and southwest are menacing
the St. Quentin-Laon line and if the
rapidity of the movement is kept up
for any length of time, will menace
the town of St. Quentin itself.
THOMAS ELMORE LUCEY, POET,
ACTOR, SONG HUMOR 1ST
Don’t fail to be at the Opera House
Wednesday evening at 8:30. Tickets
on sale at Hoffmann’s and in the
hands of the Boy Scouts. School chil-
dren 25c; general admission, 35c; re-
served seats 50c. Best entertainment
of the season. adv.
The Germans in their retreat are
devastating the country, burning vil-
lages and destroying orchards and
even blowing up farm lands in which
great craters have been left by the
■ explosions. In addition bridges have
been destroyed and roads of commun-
ication cut. The inhabitants of the
places evacuated are said to^have
been left destitute.
Adamson Law Held Constitutional.
Washington, March 19.—In and
epochal decision, holding congress to
be clothed with any and all power
necessary to keep open the channels
of interstate commerce, the supreme
court today, dividing five to four, sus-
tained the Adamson law as constitu-
tional and enforceable in every fea-
ture. The immediate effect of the de-
cision will be to fix a permanent eight
hour basic day in computing wage
scales on interstate railroads, for
which a nation-wide strike twice has
been threatened, and to give, effect-
ive from Jan. 1, this year, increases
in wages to trainmen of about 25 per
cent at a cost to the railroads esti-
mated at $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a
year.
The court declared both carriers
and their employes engaged in a busi-
ness charged with public 'interest,
subject to the right of congress to
compulsorily arbitrate a dispute af-
fecting the operation of that business.
“Whatever would be the right of an
employe engaged in private business
to demand such wages as he desires,
to leave the employment if he does
not get them, and by concert of action
to agree with others to leave on the
same conditions," said the opinion,
“such rights are necessarily subject
to limitation when employment is ac-
cepted in a business charged with a
public interest and to which the pow-
er to regulate commerce by congress
applied and the resulting right to fix,
in case of disagreement and disputes,
a standard of wages as we have seen
necessarily obtained."
In delivering , the opinion, Chief
Justice White departed, at this point
from his written text to emphasize
the position of men operating trains
in a time of national emergency by
compari..?g tl em to soldier- facing an
enemy
Coming on the heels of the conces-
sion of the eight hour basic day by
fthe railroads at New York to avert
the threatened strike, today’s decis-
ion is regarded as largely supplanting
that agreement and also removing
for all time, through, the broadest in-
terpretation of congressional author-
ity outlined by the court, the proba-
bility of future transportation par-
alysis.
TODAY'S ARRIVAL
HPODAY’S express brought us one of the
most beautiful lines of Skirts ever shown
in Lampasas. We urge you to come and
see the fascinating beauty, exceptional charm
and a collection larger and more exclusive
than was ever brought to a city thrice the size.
Most fashionable and contrasting sport
colors, medium and dark combinations are
the keynote of the Spring season. You will
find them here in new Checks, Spots, Plaids,
wide Stripe effects, materials of fine quality
in guaranteed genuine Khaki-Kool, Silk
Gaberdine, Taffeta, Silk Poplin and Pussy
Willow Taffeta. Same materials and work-
manship will command more money else-
where compared with our prices.
You will be delighted with this showing of Skirts, and a
visit to this store will convince you that we are always willing
and anxious to show you the first of the season’s new goods.
Make us a visit today.
Moderately priced
$17.50 to $27.50
Senterfitt-Andrew Company
'Wliere the Cars Stop
Doings at Austin.
Austin, March 18.—In an effort to
pass as many bills and resolutions as
possible during the brief period re-
maining of the regular session of the
Thirty-fifth legislature, night ses-
sions were held Saturday by the
house and senate.
The governor stated Saturday
night that the special session will not
be called until the latter part of
April. While he has not fixed the
date, it is generally believed it will
be April 28.
The senate Saturday afternoon
passed finally the house bill provid-
ing for the establishment of the
Northwestern insane asylum, to be
situated in the western portion of the
state, the bill carrying an appropria-
tion of $400,000. This is a platform
demand, and now goes to the gover-
nor for his approval.
The senate also passed finally the
house bill providing for the establish-
ment of a negro insane asylum at
Rusk, and carrying an appropriation
of $200,000. This institution is to be
located on the state property now
operated in connection with the Rusk
penitentiary.
The senate also adopted the sen-
ate concurrent resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution
prohibiting the filing of suits for de-
linquent taxes after four years. This
resolution has yet to be passed in the
house.
Senator Dayton made an effort to
have recommitted the house bill,
which if passed would cut from three
to two months the vacation period of
the judges of the supreme court,
court of criminal appeals and the ap-
pellate courts. The constitutionality
of this measure was assailed by Sen-
ator Hudspeth, who pointed out that
the constitution allows a three
months vacation. This bill was left
pending after a motion to table the
motion to recommit had prevailed.
The house Saturday night adopted
the free conference committee report
on the wolf bounty bill, and the meas-
ure is now up to the governor, as the
senate has already adopted the re-
port. The bill carries an appropria-
tion of $200,000. The house concur-
red in the senate amendments to a
house bill taxing the site of a bowl-
ing alley instead of fixing, the tax on
each alley; also concurred in the sen-
ate amendments to the penitentiary
claim bill.
The house passed finally the fol- the border had been interrupted wit!
lowing bills: the apparent purpose of holding th{
House bill reducing the bond of tax troops in readiness for any necessarj
collectors; house bill validating title
of land sales after forfeiture for non-
payment of interest after entry of
purchaser upon the lands.
Senate bill making an appropria-
tion of $200,000 to establish the Sul
Ross State Normal at Alpine.
Senate bill permitting the attorney
general to give advice a?}(l opinions
to county auditors.
There was passed to engrossment
in the house the house joint resolu-
tion by Terrell and others proposing
an amendment to the constitution to
reduce to ninety-three the member-
ship of the house of representatives,
prescribe the basis of apportionment
and fixing the salaries, after an
amendment was adopted providing
that each member shall receive $7.50
per day for not exceeding 150 days,
and mileage to and from his home at
the actual fare by the shortest route.
Will Demobilize Troops.
duty in case of a nation-wide railway
strike.
The rescinding order was tele-
graphed to all department command-
ers early today and officials here ex-
pect that the interrupted work of
mustering out the guardsmen will be
resumed tomorrow.
Odd Fellows at Dallas.
Dallas, Texas, March 19.—Two
thousand members of the grand
lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows of Texas, and of the Rebekah
assembly and Patriarchs Militant
were here today to attend the seventy
seventh annual convention. More are
expected. The convention will last
three days.
Free Text Book Amendment.
Austin, Texas, March 19.—The
governor this afternoon signed the
joint resolution submitting the pro-
Washington, March 19.—War de- j posed amendment to the constitution
partment officials today rescinded an I providing for free text books for
order under which demobilization of school children of Texas through the
many national guard units home from j medium of a tax.
FJoorly ventilated, drafty school rooms
if are a frequent source of colds. Contact with
children who have colds is another cause.
Damp clothing and wet feet are often responsible for
that croupy cough, sore throat and tight chest
Dr. King’s New Discovery is the remedy for your
children when they catch
cold. Grown-ups like it too.
For nearly 50 years it has
been used in bronchial affec-
tions with satisfactory results.
It quickly loosens the cough
and checks the cold.
Your druggist has sold it
for years. Try it
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 20, 1917, newspaper, March 20, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905970/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.