The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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TORNADOES AND THEIR '61 lives, Iowa with 29, and in Nebras-
DESTRUCT1VE METHODS ka only four persons were killed by
I these storms in the five-year period.
Tornadoes, the most violent kind
«f storm known to American, are
liable to occur anywhere from the
^rsort regions of Arizona to eastern
New Jersey and Maryland, according
to official records of the IN eather
Bureau, and they constitute a real
ttMkugh somewhat rare menace to life
and property which will increase as
the country becomes more thickly
settled- The South i* by no means
in mo ree from them, whili* Minnesota,
Illinois, and Ohio have suffered some
appalling disasters from them in re-
cent years .
A black cloud in the western sky
which suddenly sets up a whirling
motion and developes a funnel-shap-
ed tail that begins to bore earth-
ward. a roar ‘like that of a thousand
The Lorain, Ohio, storm which held
the attention of the entire nation,
killed 83 persons and damaged pro-
perty to the extent of thirteen mil-
lion dollars. All this damage was
wrought in a few minutes and almost
w.ith no warning. Such disasters are
possible in dozens of other states if
the paths of these storms chance to
cross cities.
Virtually the only safeguard for
life in these storms is to get under-
ground and in a place where there
is shelter from flying bricks, stones,
and timbers. The cyclone cellar of
the West, in use on many farms as
a convenient storage for fruits and
vegetables, is still the best retreat
when the funnel-shaped cloud shows
up above the horizon. Next to it
THE WOES OF A CANDIDATE
warn. « v.—v w. ----------- -r -----
railroad trains crossing a trestle,’ and ^ probably the best refuge is the south-
almost irresistable twisting
then an
wind that explodes frame buildings
like egg shells and fills the air with
3 barrage of timbers and debris
and the monster has passed on, leav-
ing a sickening path of death and de-
struction in its wake.
It is not surprising that these are
the most dreaded of all storms that
strike inland, or that ‘cyclonic cellars’
are still recognized places of refuge.
It used to be popularly assumed
that cyclones were indigenous to the
plains region, and Kansas especially,
but Government statistics, gathered
west comer of the basement of a
frame building, crouching close to
the wall.
Tornadoes usually come from the
southwest and if a building is biown
off its foundation debris is not likely
to fall in the windward side of the
basement, but may fill the opposite
side with timbers that have almost
the velocity of a projectile from a
gun when they strike. A person
caught in the open directly in the
path of an approaching tornado is
advisable to run toward the north-
west, as this takes him at right angles
«eer a long period of years, show the to the storm and toward the side
‘Kansas cyclone’ has received much where the wind is less violent. If
undue publicity. there is no escape from the path of
The Monthly Weather Review, an] a storm before it strikes, the best
ifficial publication of the United thing to do is to lie flat on the ground
States Weather Bureau, contained an
article a few years ago giving the
location of all known tornadoes in
the country over a sixteen year period
and these show that when relative
areas are considered, Illinois had ten
per cent more tornadoes than Kansas
and New Jersey nine per cent more
while Maryland and Massachusetts
were more infested by these destruc-
tive storms than Missouri and Iowa.
In the five-year period ending with
1922, the latest for which published
reports are available, there were -145
tornadoes reported to the Weather
Bureau. These took a toll of 1,537
lhunvan lives and resulted in property
•damage of $45,422,300. The greatest
Boss of life and the most extensive
•destruction of property occured in the
more thickly settled states of the
middle West.
Illinois headed the list with a total
damage of more than seven million
dollars, while Minnesota came second
with five million dollars and Indi-
ana third with four million dollars.
Strangely enough, several south-
ern states, suffered the greatest loss
of life, in' Mississippi 178 persons
were killed, in Arkansas 135, and in
Alabama 134. The more scarcely
aettled western states fared better.
Kansas escaped with a loss of but
in a ditch or other depression if pos
sible.
Not much can be said for the
chances of escape for one caught in
the congested district of a city in
the path of a tornado. Brick and
stone walls are liable to crumble un-
der the terrific force of the rotary
winds or be blown away by the ex-
plosive effects of the partial vacuum
in the center of the vortex and bury
their victims beneath them
Probably the best thing to do if
a person is caught in a brick or stone
building when a tornado strikes id1
to stand close to an inside partition.
Outside walls are more likely to be
blown down than those of the interior
of a building and the latter may help
support sections of floor or roof that
may fall.
Freak^soof tornado damage and mi-
raculous escapes from such storms
are almost past belief.—Exchange.
Lost Prairie and Sweat Box played
a hot game of baseball Friday, the
score being 9 to 0 in favor of Lost
Prairie.
B. A. Jenkins made seveial trips
to Commerce last week.
Buy it in Ladonia and save money.
The way of the candidate for State
office in Texas is hard. He must
travel the length and breadth of this
great State in the hottest days of
the usually hot Texas Summer. He
must accomodate himself to the mode
of transportation that is most ac-
cessible; he must suffer ihe iniou-
veniences of inadequate accommoda-
tions and he must deliver three to
four speeches a day if he would get
his “message" to the voters. And
all too frequently he has as hls only
reward in the end such a solace as
he may extract from his defeat. Many
a poor defeated candidate, no douh:,
has asked himself why he ever ran
for office and perhaps even the suc-
cessful ones have wondered if the
office were worth the price.
Lynch Davidson, perhaps, is ask-
ing himself such questions at this
time. He has been on the stump at
intervals for the past three months
and almost continuously for the pask
30 days. He has been speaking in
the large towns and in the villages
and crossroad hamlets. He has been
traveling by train and by auto, and
so far as the mass of voters are con-
cerned he has been meeting with but
indifferent response. True, he had
made some of his excursions in his
own limousine with his colored chauf-
feur in livery, but while this has no
doubt added to his physical com-
fort it may cost him votes among
persons who hesitate to vote for any
man of wealth or any man of suf-
ficient means to own a limousine and
employ a chauffeur. In this instance
it’s a case of “being damned if you
do and damned if you don’t,” for
two year ago when he campaigned
in a flivver there were many who
thought his use of such a pretense
to attract the vote of the hoi poiloi.
Perhaps these things, and the in
different reception with which his
campaign efforts have met, have
made Mr. Davidson wonder many
times why he entered the race and
why he remains in it. Many of his
friends and some of his most ardent
supporters of two years ago have
wondered the same thing. They have
pointed out to him that the state of
public mind and the development of
the campaign are such that Fergu-
sonism and the removal of the Fer-
gusons from office have become the
dominant issue; that whatever poli-
tical ambition he may cherish can
better be attained by withdrawal and
support of Dan Moody at tnis time
than by staying in the ince and go-
ing down to defeat. But Mr. David-
son presists; and persisting, he is left
only the comfort of crying out
against the injustices of po'iticc and
the refusal of the public to listen to
him seriously when their minds are
o nother ci ndidates an 1 their deter-
mination directed toward ridding the
State of Ferguson'sm.—Fort Worth
Star Telegram.
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PARIS MAN DIES
MEH VCAN NEWS
Everyone Knew That Some Day
A Better Oil Stove Would
j Be Developed
THAT day is here. The stove is here. It’s the
JL NESCO, the oil cook stove that cooks with gas.
This beautiful new-<lay stove brings all the cool comfort and
convenience of gas-cooking to home* without ga*. LJ»ing
ordinary kerosene fuel, it make* and burn* it* own ga*. No
priming. No wick trimming. f
MFQm Oil Cook Stove
r..lV A. J With thsBlv* Gar Contact Ram*
Miss Blanche Kent of Greenville,
spent the week end with her mother
Mrs. Hettie Darwin.
Mr. and rMs. R. H. Roderick went
to Sulphur Springs Wednesday of
last week, where they reported fruits
were fine. .___—
Miss Roberta Bishop entertained
young people Tuesday night, June
15. Refreshments were served to
many happy young people. Those
present were:
Miss Pearl Edwards, Katy May
Helton, Maud Hoskins, Fama Roder-
ick, Lillie D. Hoskins, Minta Milsap
of Me Andy, Texas; Lillian and Mil-
dred Wilkerson, Edge- Kent, Robert
Edwards, Halley Massey. R. D. Roder-
ick, Mrs. Cannon, Mrs. Walter James,
and Mrs. E. F. Eden. This enter-
tainment was given honoring Miss
Bishop’s sixtieth birthday.
Mr. Edgar Kent, mother and
brother. Miss Fama Roderick and Mr.
Roberts Edwards motored Muss
Blanche Kent to Greenville Sunday
afternoon.
M,r. and Mrs. Jim Bishop and
family were visitors of Mr. and Mrs
Frank Bishop of Ladonia Sunday.
Cupid.
Paris. Texas, June 20.—W. C.
Davis, 35 years old, was shot ami
almost instantly killed near hi< he me j
here Sunday and W. v\ Wehli. his j
next-door neighbor, N in jail, charg-
ed with murder in connection with,
the shooting. No explanation was
given.
Davis sustained two wounds, said
to have been inflicted by a double
barreled shotgun.
Davis is survived by hi- wife and
two children. He had l.vecl here only
a few months. Webb is married and
has two children.
FIRST BALES OF 1926
COTTON NOT SALABLE
I
The NESCO light* like an ordinary oil stove but in a few
moment* the true blue ga* flame develop*—hotter, smokeless.
Bootless, odorless — ana with the intense heat ao necessary
for quick and satisfactory cooking results; a heat that fry*,
bakes, boil* and broils with the *peed of a gas range but
•rich oil stove economy. You’ll get 24 hour* per burner on a
-gallon of kerosene. •»— ■
So intense is the heat that a fly swatter held over a NESCO
Oil Stove burner at the cooking level glow* red hot in an
instant. This wonderful NESCO burner is enthusiastically
endorsed by thousands upon thousands of housewives. Over
a million are in use. * __ __
There is a NESCO Stove for every kitchen and for every
purse. Each is substantially built, handsome in appearance,
and will harmonize nicely with any kitchen.
Come in and let us show you a model
suitable for your cooking requirement*.
FOR SALE BY
i
Union Produce Co.
Houston, June 21.—The first bale
of the new cotton crop, raised near
Donna and shipped to Houston, where
it arrived Saturday morning, will not
be sold at auction on the floor of
the Houston Cotton Exchange.
While the classification committee
of the exchange, after passing on the
bale Monday, found it to be the first
bale of new growth cotton, declared
it to be “mixed, gin cut and therefore
not merchantable under the rules of
our exchange.”
For that reason it will not be sold
at auction, as is customary. The re-
port of the committee indicates that
the cotton is of mixed grade and that
some of it a* least was not matured
and therefore “gin cut.”
FERTILIZE
FOR
Better Crops!
We have a supply of high grade
ready mixed Fertilizers and can
alsofurnish straight Acid Phos-
phate which, when mixed with
cotton seed meal, is well adapt-
ed to much of our soil.
Come to see us. We may be
able to give you some informa-
tion about Fertilizer, whether
you want to buy now or not.
■»■> — — — — — — —— ——»—•«
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Ladonia Cotton Oil Co.
jipillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllM
OF GUNSHOTS
TO JAIL CHIROPRACTOR
FOR COURT CONTEMPT
Greenville, June 19.—W. L. John-
son, chiropractor of Greenville has*
been held in contempt of court by
Judge Newman Phillips of 2nd dis-
SUNDAY SCHOOL
FOR CHILDREN WITH
WHOOPING COUGH
McKinney, Texas, June 1H.—A
Whooping cough Sunday school class
may be unusual and out of the ordin-
trict court on charges of violating any, hut such a class exists in Mc-
HEALTH COMMANDMENTS
Dr. Henry Proctor, of Brooklyn,
who is the pastor of a Congregational
eheurch, gave his congregation ten
commandments for health. They are
worth reading. Here they are:
1. Honor your parents by having
a thorough physical exmination ev-
ery birthday; for an ounce of pre-
vention is worth a ton of cure.
2. Honor your friends by taking a
daily bath; for cleanliness is a part
of godliness
3. Hon j • y>ir family by having
your life insured; for life insurance
guarantees the co ope ratio i of the
insurer in the pro'org tti >a of the
life of the insured.
4. Honor your physician by avoid-
ing patent medicines; for the most of
the nostrums are humbugs.
5. Honor your stomach by having
your teeth carefully examined by a
dentist at regular intervals; for bad
teeth are an abomination to the sys-
tem.
6. Honor your digestion by being
careful your diet; for many a man
digs his grave with his teeth.
7. Honor your lungs by breathing
fresh air; for ventilation is a means
of grace.
8. Honor your nerve* by taking
plenty of rest and sleep; for they who
work all day and play all night pro-
mote the brevity of their lives by
burning the cndle at both ends.
9. Honor your country by obeying
the law; for it is a mark of good citi-
zenship to obey a law whether he
likes it or not.
10. Honor your God by chastity in
word, thought and deed; for the race
that wishes eternity mu3t exalt ma-
il ii injunction restraining him from] Kinney at the hirst Methodist SUn-
“practicing medicine without a li- day school every Sunday morning,
cense.” Mrs. Julius Purnell, superintendent
Following a hearing yesterday, <>f the primary department, conducts
Judge Phillips announced that he a class on the steps of the First
would issue an order remanding the ; Methodist church each Sunday morn-
defendant to jail without hail, “until ing at 8:30 o’clock for the children
he had purged himself of contempt of the church who have whooping
of court.” cough. The class is filling an im-
Upon plea of counsel, the order port ant need, since the little tots have
was held in abeyance until Monday, the opportunity to keep up their rec-
June 28. J ord of atendance and receive a gold
Johnson was enjoined from prac- attendance pin at the end of the
ticing medicine without a ^icenjie year,
two years ago.
Miss Laura Hunt spent last week
Miss Frances Whitley was in Wolfe in Commerce with her sister, Mrs.
City last week. . T. F. Poe.
Bennie Riley and Bill Biggerstaff Miss Opal Doherty was in Wolfe
were in Wolfe City last week. City last Tuesday.
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The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1926, newspaper, June 25, 1926; Ladonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913236/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.