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The Lampasas Daily Leader
THIRTEENTH YEAR
THURSDAY
LAMPASAS, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 15, 1917.
THURSDAY
NUMBER 295.
TOMORROW
and every day this week we will have on
sale in our south show window, a large
assortment of blue and white enameled
ware, consisting of
No. 8 Tea Kettles
2- quart Coffee Pots
3- quart Coffee Pots
10-quart Water Pails
12-quart Water Pails
6-quart Windsor Kettles
6-quart Windsor Sauce Pans
6-quart Lip Sauce Pans.
14-quart Dish Pans
17-quart Dish Pans
69c
Each
No phone orders taken for any of these
articles.
Fox & Mills hardware Co,
Harmony Club Entertains.
The elegant new home of Mr. and
Mrs.J. R. Key was the scene of social
enjoyment Tuesday evening, when the
Harmony Club dispensed hospitality
to its members and friends with a
most unique Valentine party.
Miss Key received at the door of
the reception hall and later the guests
passed down a receiving line com-
posed of Mesdames Key, Mills, Alfred
Ramsey and McKinney.
The attractive elegance of the
beautiful home was further intensi-
fied by the decorations of cherry col-
ored bunting and hearts which were
placed in every vantage point. The
stairway was decorated with bunt-
ing and hearts from the base to land-
ing and between the colanders and
over the hall entrance to dining room
mammoth ever-green, heart-shaped
wreaths were hung from which sus-
pended many tiny hearts and a bisque
figure of Cupid. Red Cupids with
bows and arrows decorated the drap-
eries of reception room wher^ the
guests looked on the contrasting
beauty of the dining room. On the
dining table pink colorings were em-
bodied in pink carnations and ferns,
held by a handsome cu,t glass vase,
tied with a large pink maline bow,
the receptacle ,itself lending lovely
decorative charm. Hovering about
the cut flowers and ferns were a num-
ber of dainty, pink butterflies, and
this suggestion of spring, together
with the .gaiety and brilliancy within
enabled the guests to forget the un-
favorable weather conditions without.
All the decorations were most effect-
ive amid the furnishings of this spac-
ious and commodious home.
A program consisting of “Love
Music” was rendered by Misses Bak-
er, Colbert, Lytton, Lula Key, Town-
sen. An original poem, “Cupd and
the Old Masters”, was read by Mrs.
McKinney, followed by the bridal
chorus from “The Rose Maiden,” sung
by Harmony Club. All the numbers
were heartily enjoyed^ and encored.
Next came two amusing contests,
conducted by Mrs. John Barnes, caus-
ing much fun and merriment. The
winners, Mr. B. C, Greenwood and
Mrs*. F. J. Harris, were awarded com-
ic Valentines as prizes. At the close
of the contests a delicious course of
pressed chicken with heart-shaped
sandwiches and cherry colored ice
mounted with cherries was served to
the following guests, after which fav-
ors of mistletoe, tied with tiny red
ribbon was distributed among those
present: Mr, and Mrs. Alfred, Mr,
and Mrs. John Barnes, Mr, and Mrs.
Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Mr.
and Mrs. McGee, Mr. and Mrs. Mills,
Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. H.
N. Key, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Culver,
Mesdames Fox, Guthrie, McKinney,
Ozburn, Ramseys Young, Arthur
Frazer, Thomas, Williamson, Harris,
Abney; Misses Baker, Colbert, Clyde
Walker, Erwin, Allen, Ruth, Lula and
Katie Key, Townsen, Lytton.
Out of town guests: Mr. and Mrs.
Hunt and daughter of Mssiouri; Miss
Evans of Tennessee; Miss Kearby of
Comanche.
Messrs. Wayne Bowen and H. N.
Key, Jr.
School Creek Siftings.
(By Regular Correspondent)
Dark, cloudy weather contin-
ues, but no rain yet. A good
many farmers have decided that
their fall oats are dead and are
making preparations to plant a
spring crop.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Brown are
quite sick with pneumonia.
Miss Johny Standard, who
has been visiting, homefolks re-
j turned to her work at Fort
! Worth last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brown from
' Pearl, visited Mr. Brown’s par-
; ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brown,
last week.
Dr. Raby from Gatesville and
Mr. Stratton and others from
Waco joined Lige Moore and
Bud Langford in a wolf chase
two nights last week. They had
a good many hounds and started
wolves each night but failed to
catch them. The wolves caught
five sheep for Lige Moore one
night last week.
Miss Bessie Burns, who has
been visiting relatives in Lime-
stone county, returned home
Wednesday.
Ben and Olonzo Mitchell from
West Texas are visiting rela-
tives and friends in their old
community. They used to own
what is now known as the Nuck-
les farm.
R. A. Thornal had the good
luck to trap a large wolf one
night last week.
Mrs. W. I. Brown spent Fri-
day and Saturday in Lampasas
visiting her children who reside
there.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones from Kil-
leen returned home last Satur-
day after a pleasant visit to
their daughter, Mrs. J. W. May-
field.
]\trs. Belle Thompson and lit-
tle daughter have returned
home from Temple, where they
have been visiting relatives.
Resolution Tabled.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 14.—By a
vote of 19 to 12 the senate to-
night voted to table the Johnson
resolution calling for an invest'-'
gation of Governor Ferguson’s
political life. Senators voting
to table explained that the sen-
ate had no jurisdiction.
The effect of tabling the John-
son resolution is to kill the
measure, which was under de-
bate in the senate during the en-
tire day. The resolution charg-
ed that Governor James E. Fer-
guson, among other things, has
violated supreme court decis-
ions, injected politics into the
management of the University
of Texas and that “special inter-
ests” supplied funds for the
governor’s 1914 campaign.
Governor Ferguson took the
floor this afternoon by unani-
mous consent and defied the
framers of the resolution to
show anyone of the various
charges were true.
W. B. McGee, cashier of the
First National Bank of Lampas-
as, attended the sixth district
meeting of the State Bankers’
Association held Wednesday in
Brownwood, and was elected
chairman of the district associa-
tion. Mr. McGee’s many friends
are indeed glad to hear of this
honor which was bestowed upon
him. He started at the bottom
of the ladder and has worked
his way up to the position which
he now holds with the First Na-
tional bank here.
Farmers’ Congress Gets One-
Cent Fare.
■ On the strength of a state-
ment made by John Gorham,
president of the Texas Farmers’
Congress, that no passage would
be applied for by officers and
delegates to the congress at Col-
lege Station in August, Texas
General Passenger Agents in
session at Waco authorized' a
special rate of 1 cent per mile
each way to the congress.
Verdict Found in McCulloch
Trial.
Belton, Texas, Feb. 14.—A
verdict of “not guilty” was re-
turned tonight in the case of J.
A. McCulloch, on trial for the
killing of Herchel Thomas in
Temple.
Mrs. Emil Haby is here from
Douglas, Ariz., where she has
been making her home for sev-
eral months. Mr. Haby will re-
turn in a short time and they
will again make their home in
Lampasas.
Dr. J. H. Vaughan of Liberty
Hill visited relatives here Wed-
nesday and was a guest in the
home of his cousin, C. D. Paine.
Partial Suffrage Bill.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 13.—Re-
presentative Crudgington will
introduce a bill to allow women
to vote for presidential electors
in Texas, the same as was done
in Illinois and recently adopted
in North Dakota.
Price of Potatoes High as Ap-
ples or Oranges in Denver.
Denver, Feb. 14.—Potatoes
today rival apples and oranges
in price in Denver markets. An
increase of $1.50 a hundred-
weight on best grades of the
tubers, bringing the price to
$5.50 a hundred, forced dealers,
they say, to put the retail price
up to four pounds for 25 cents.
Good eating appfes have been
selling at that figure and or-
anges are to be had at 25 cents
a dozen.
H. Hoffmann, Joe B. Massey, B.
Schwarz and Miss Margaret Schwarz
motored to Waco Thursday morning.
Daily Leader Three Months for $1
Asks for Probe of Governor’s
Official Acts.
Austin, Feb. 14.—Senator
Johnson today created a sensa-
tion in the Senate by introduc-
ing a resolution naming Senator
Dean, Hudspeth, Lattimore,
Johnson of Harris, and Buchan-
an of Scurry as a committee to
make a sweeping investigation
of the acts of Governor Fergu-
son.
The resolution charges that
the Governor violated the decis-
ions of the Supreme Court and
the provisions of the State Con-
stitution in allowing certain de-
ficiencies; that he had forced
the resignation of certain of-
ficials of state institutions and
had injected politics into the
management of such institu-
tions; that certain interests had
contributed to his campaign ex-
penses in 1914, and other
charges.
The Governor, who was pres-
ent while the resolution was
read, went before the Senate de-
fying his accusers to show that
a single one of the charges was
true. He said:
“If the charges made in this
resolution are true, I ought not
to be Governor of this State and
ought to resign. But if these
charges are not true, then the
men who made them ought to
resign from this body, and ack-
nowledge before God and man
that he is not worthy to be a
member of this body, nor to be
an American citizen.”
The Governor added that if he
were younger he would lose his
temper and take his accuser to
account in a personal encounter.
He replied to each specific
charge in detail, and was fre-
quently applauded.
We Want to Know
You and Want You
to Know Us
That the best way for you
to become agreeably ac-
quainted with us is to let us
clean, repair and press
your clothes. One trial will
convince you that our mu-
tual business acquaintance-
ship will be “worth while.”
Haines & McGregor
Tailors for Those Who Care
Phone
- 276
Iowa
Legislature in Favor
“Dry” Laws.
Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 14.—
After changing the character of
the offense from a-felony to a
misdemeanor, the Whitmore bill
prohibiting liquor advertising in
Iowa—the first of the bone dry
bills—was passed by the senate
Tuesday by a vote of 38 to 9.
It was the first test vote and
indicates passage of the dry
measures.
M. E. Riemer, V. D. M., will
lecture at the courthouse in
Lampasas, Monday night, Feb.
19, at 8 o’clock. Subject: “Is
God Preparing to Bless All Na-
tions?” Auspices I. B. S. A..
This lecture is free. X
Honor Roll.
Since our last report the fol-
lowing renewals and new sub-
scribers have remembered the
Leader. Thanks:
Cal Spivey, Lometa.
W. A. Piper, Adamsville.
Walter Garner, Grundyville.
J. C. Martin, Quanah.
H. C. Smith, Topsey.
F. C. Roye Izora.
Steve Williamson, Pidcoke.
Mrs. A. P. Tittle, Lampasas.
W. R. Hughes, Jr., San An-
tonio.
E. J. Daniels, Ogle.
Jim Pamplin, Adamsville.
E. E. Thompson, San Saba.
W. R. Payne, Chillicothe.
J. T. Young, rfd 2. —
Fight Hog Tuberculosis.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 13—
To rid the country of tuberculos-
is of hogs, a disease which is
costing millions of dollars annu-
ally, is practicable and relatively
easy. Extermination shofild be
attained without delay before
the disease, which appears to be
increasing has gained too much
headway, according to special-
ists of the Department of Agri-
culture.
The official figures show that-
9 per cent of the hogs slaughter-
ed during the fiscal year 1916 at
establishments under Federal
meat inspection were affected
with tuberculosis in some de-
gree. In the case of hogs from
certain localities, especially
some of the dairying sections,
however, over 25 per cent, or
one out of four hogs slaughtered
had the disease. In fact, so ser-
ious has hog tuberculosis be-
come in some localities, that hog
buyers for packing houses, are
avoiding regions known to be
badly infected and some packers
already are buying hogs subject
to post-mortem inspection with
the loss for tubercular hogs fall-
ing on the feeder. Other buy-
ers who do not buy subject to
post-mortem inspection protect
themselves by offering a lower
price for all hogs, in which case
the careful breeder suffers equ-
ally with the careless one.
The two principal ways of
preventing hogs from becoming
tubercular are by keeping them
away from tubercular cattle,
and by cooking or pasteurizing
all skim milk and cooking all garbage
before it is fed to the hogs.
Keep Your Clothes in
“Tip Top” Condition
A suit pressed every week
for a small amount, and cor-
rectly pressed, too. Can you
afford to be ungroomed when
so little will keep you looking
spic and span?
The Elite Tailors
Phone No. 7
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 295, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1917, newspaper, February 15, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906419/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.