The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1926 Page: 3 of 8
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CHICKEN DINNER
SUNDAY
Good Home Cooking. Just like Moth-
er’s cooking.
Plate lunch week days. All kinds of
short orders. Tables for Ladies.
Your Business Appreciated
LANE’S CAFE
LITTLE LAY SERMON 'VALIDATION OF ROAD
WITH STRONG MORAL1 BONDS NOW URGED
MCGUYERS AND GEORGES
HOLD COOPER REUNION
Here is a story with a strong moral At this writing there is a call for
from the Hamilton Record, that ev- a session of the Legislature for Sep-
ery young man, and some older ones tember 13, 1926. The Governor
too, should read and ponder: bases the call upon the validation of
A number of men were discussing bonds supposed to have been held
another who was not present and invalid by the Supreme Court of the
| the remarks were not at all compli- United States, and to do whatever
mentary. Finally one man who had the Legislature can to stabilize the
been silent said: “Well, I know he credi of the State, and for such oth-
is not a saint, that he has not sprout- er matt -s that the Governor may
ed any wings, but one thing, I’m sure see fit to submit to the Legislature,
of, he doesn’t owe one of you a cent. It is generally understood that the
Whatever he is, he pays his debts and main purpose is to validate the $80,-
pays them cheefully.” And that end- 000,000 road district bonds, but ju<
ed the condemnatory talk. There what the Legislature will have to do
is hardly any one thing that will help to validate these bonds is-yet unde-
a young man so much in making a termined. Of course, these bonds
success, as the reputation of prompt will, and should be paid. The posi-
ly taking care of his financial obli tion we take with reference to them
gations, and nothing will injure his is the difference that starts with the
reputation more than to get his name authorities issuing the bonds. The
on the town’s dead brat list. We law authorizing these district bonds
know a young man who only last to be issued was passed in 1907, but
poor quality than on high quality wee]{ failed to secure a position he few if any bonds were issued under
peaches, since packing charges, very desired because of an in- this original act, but in 1909 the
of his record for debt law was amanded, and the issuance
BIGGER PEACHES—
BIGGER PROFITS
Cooper, Texas, Aug. 8—The mem- Grade, condition, and size are con-
bers of the McGuyei* and the George trolling factors in establishing the
families held their fourth annual re- price of peaches. Returns to the
union at the old McGuyer-George growers are relatively much less on
homestead at Charleston, near here,
Thursday. In 1867 Cornelius Me-
Guyer and Sim George settled at freight, and refrigeration are as high vestigation
Charleston, then Hopkins County, per unit in both cases. This is borught payjnB he was not living within his of bonds began by the millions,
now Delta County, and the families out by the United States Depart-
have resided there on the same horn^- ment of Agriculure in a comparison
stead since. They were brother-in- of jobbing prices received for peaches
law. i in New York in 1925.
There were 250 descendants of For the best quality Georgia El-
these two men at this reunion, whicn bertas the price was $2.59 per six-
was held under a brush arbor built basket carrier, compared with only
on the same land settled on by the $1.63 per carrier on peaches of PoorlWho have been generou3 with
McGuyer-George families seventy- quality. For the best peaches the I peop]e’s money.
two years ago. . There were
about 250 guests, and dinner
provided for the whole party.
also net returns to the grower ranged] ]jttle
was around $1.19 per carrier, or 46 per; preached to
< cent of the sale price, while for the j
income. And here we would say its In this article we are not discuss-
a pretty safe plan to not condemn a ing the value received from money
man for being a "little close,” if the these bonds brought, or whether it
man ig as punctilious about, paying was spent judiciously, and for the
his own debts, as he is on insisting purpose for which the bonds were
for what is due to him. Most of us voted. We contend that any district
have known some very generous souls selling its bonds below par and ac-
other cured interest and not getting cash
1 for them was a violation of law, and
Come To See Us!
Our Summer Sale is now over
and we are starting with a
fresh stock of Shoes.
Early Fall Patterns
Are Arriving Every Day
Be the early bird and
get the newest
Howse Shoe Co.
“We Fit the Feet”
Commerce, Texas
lay sermon is being the purchaser of the bonds in the
impress on the reader first instance knew this fact. If the
pays to be honest, even if purchaser did know it was a viola-
At 11 o’clock the Rev. W. S. Dab- poor quality the grower received only there ig n0 higher motive than that tion of the law for bonds to be sold
ney, pastor of the Methodist Church 33 cents or 20 per cent of the sale
at Cooper, preached and throughout price.
the day there were readings, singing, On the best quality of Georgia
music, games and the older members peaches of large size, New York City
of the families enjoyed reminiscences jobbing quotations from 1920 to 19-
of former days. There were a num- 25, inclusive, averaged approximate-
of policy. Over forty years ago a for less than par and accrued inter-
young man walked into a store in a est and for cash after legitimate ex-
HONEY GROVE HOLDS
AMERICAN LEGION PICNIC
BOLLWORM SITUATION
TO BE INVESTIGATED^
Honey Grove, Texas, Aug. 8.—
neighboring town and asked the pro- penses were paid, then it would be a Large crowds have attended the third
prietor how much he owed him. The violation of the law for the Legisla- annual American Legion picnic whicn
merchant had forgotten the young ture to validate the difference in had been in progress here Thursday,
man who had been out west for two price oYxthis^ unl^Wful transaction. Friday and Saturday. A carnival
ly doublethe price of peaches classed y«,ars on a cattle ranch, the young To illustrate our point so it will be company and baseball games each day
ber of the relatives who came from ^____ _ ___________ ________ _ __________ ___________ _____ ____ _ _____________ _____ __
Oklahoma, Arkansas and many parts as poor quality. Yet quantities of! man told bis name and tfce merchant understood from a practical stand- were the leading attractions. James
of Texas. inferior peaches were found on the looted at bis books and said he found point, we will say a road district is- Allred of Wichita Falls and Claude
large markets almost every day. j nothing against him. The young sued $100,000 in bonds, it sold these Pollard of Houston, candiateH for
NEWSPAPER ERRORS
There is evidently much room, says insisted be owed the merchant bonds to a contractor to build roads, Attorney General, both spoke here
the department, for better methods
of production, grading, pnd hand-
in one column of an ordinary news-
paper there are 10,000 pieces of type ling.
used. There are seven possible wrong The size of peaches has an impor-
positiong for each letter. There arc tant bearing oif the price. A package
70,000 chances to make errors and of large size peaches usually brings
thousands of possible transpositions, a considerable premium over one of
In the sentence “To be or not to be,” a smaller size. On shipments from
a million or more errors can be made Georgia in 1925 there was a differ-
by transposition alone, and yet you ence of about 35 cents per six-basket
hear people kick about the number of carrier in favor of peaches 2 to 2
errors which actually occur. The and one half inches in diameter corn-
wonder is that errors are the excep- pared with peaches 1 3-4 to 2 inches
and told him to look on his ledger and then in turn the contractor dis- Saturday afternoon,
two years back. The merchant look- posed of them at 85 cents on the dol-
ed but again found no charg®, then lar. This is an illegal transaction ac ' Doss Smith, the man who repre-
the devil entered into tfat young oerding to the holding of our own sents the Dallas Times-Herald, and
man’s soul. He said: |courier, and to validate the $15,0QP who ha* a route from Greenville via
“Well when I left here I owed you would be validating an illegal tranr,: Wolfe City and Ladonia to Hdney
twenty dollars. I have not been mak- action between the uthorities and Grove, arose exceptionally early Mon-
ing much money but I have always the puchasers of the bonds. The dis- day morning and beat it over toward
intended to pay it and I am home trict did not get one dollar of this Greenville like he had important busi-
now on a visit as I have saved up a $15,000, neither did the bond buyer ness. Fact of the business he did
little I thought I would settle it. But pay one dollar of this, and this has not stop at Greenville, but blared it
I suppose I must be mistaken. I been our contention all along, yet we oh to Dallas. Maybe his folks did
I must have paid it and forgotten it. have always stated it is doubtful not know he went to Dallas, if not,
Austin, Aug 7.—George B. Terrell
Commissioner of Agriculture, and i
E. McDonald, chief entomologist of
the agriculture department, plan to
leave here Monday for an inspection
in far western counties.
If conditions warrant, efforts like-
ly will be made to extend the quaran-
tine now in effect in counties along
the New Mexico border, Terrell said.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
tion rather than the rule in the aver- in diameter. Growers in a New Jersey with that he left the sore In en whether the legislature can do other- now they know it after reading this
age newspaper.
Buy it in Ladonia and save money.
W. A. Bradshaw
Funeral Director
Licensed Embalmer
Ambulance Service
day or night
LADONIA, TEXAS
pool in 1923 received for 2 3-4 inch, j minuteg he came back and threw a wise than to validate the $15,000. notice. Doss did not tell us why he
No. 1 Elebertas an average price of .twenty dollar gold piece across the | No honest person will say it is went to Dallas, unless he thought
$1.80 per bushel compared with 80 j counter and said: “I don’t car? what correct even though it is legal, and it there would be a rookus in the demc-
cents for No. 1 Elbertas averaging your books show, I ow" you that will certainly place many millions of cratic convention and he wanted to
2 >nches in diameter. If growers can ; money and-you came near making a dollars o findebtedness on the tax- see how it would turn out. He ar-
increase the average size of their J thief out of me, that twenty dollars payers of many districts to have this rived at Ladonia at his usual sche-
peaches by thinning and better cul-, ]00ks mighty big to me and it came amount to pay that has been brought dule, but from the best information
Dr. Pearce
VETERINARIAN
Will be in Ladonia Second Mon-
day, with headquarters at Bur-
roughs-Mallow Drug Co. Will
do all work at City Fire Station.
S. D. FRT, M. D.
rhjiiclan
Disease! of Children e Specialty
Telephone 3
Residence Phone 218
A. L.Bartley & Co.
Insurance
Ladonia,
tural methods they may increase j near being enough to cause me to(about by reason of an unlawful obtained, he would have been
their returns. A peach 2 1-2 inches iose
glad
night
FOR RENT OR SALE
, my soul.” | transaction. J to have remained over for a
in diameter has practically twice the. That young man is now one of the | When the bonds go into the hands show.
volume of a peach only 2 inches in J most successful ranchmen in West of a third party, they become per- J __
diameter. A tree would have to pro-; Texas. In talking to a friend not sonal property and can be sold for
duce twice as many 2-inch peaches as j long since about the twenty dollar any amount the holder may accept,
2 1-2-inch peaches, and the smaller debt he said: “That twenty dollars or they can be given away. The Mv howm on p.ri. „„„
fruit would probably sell for1 a lower was an I had except possibly a couple State is in no sense concerned with taining 7 rooms 2 good cisterns yard
of dollars more. I just don’t remem- them when they go beyond the first with larRe pe(.an shadp treeg ’ ^,g()
ber how I got back to my job on the and second parties to the ’ransac- nice orchard, garden, garage and
ranch, but I do remember one night tiom I other improvements. For terms see
away out there in the western plains We have been criticised to some jjra
while I was riding my pony that I extent on this position, but the tax-j
got down and knelt by a cactus bush payers of this State are burdened by
and thanked God that he sent me reason of these bonds, and they cer-
back into that store that day, the tainly should have a square deal to
price per package.
'LONG ABOUT NOW
The days are long ana dry and hot,
the cows pant in the pasture lot, the
horses sweat and fight the flies and
mankind sizzles, bakes and fries.
Geniuses produces the inventions
while talent applices them.
It is easier to renew a good resolu-
tion than a promissory note.
“Know thyself” says the philoso-
pher. Yes, but who is to introduce us
The squirrel on the other side of
the tree never comes to the hunter
who waits.
It is a great misfortune not to have-
judgment enough to keep silent at
the proper time.
Be not wise in^your own conceit
and do not mistake the conceit of
others for wisdom.
To err is human, to forgive divine-
—but it is useless to mention it to
the police judge.
It is not always a man’s worth
hat rather what he is worth that in-
terests the cruel world.
Roy
i Mrs.
. Texas.
Porter.
Tom C.
Reed, Ladonia,
Mrs. A. W. Champion, Perry Chris-
tian and family were in Hillsboro
this week attending the bedside of
Mrs. A. E. Wilson of that city who
underwent an operation.
Going without stockings isn’t ex-
pensive enough to become a fad.
It pays to trade at home..
The maiden dons her peekaboo store I left a few minutes before a the extent that the law under which
that we can easily see through and
lounges in a hammock swing, but
the house can’t do a thing.
Her mother holds a canning feet
and works all day without a rest, and
makes her husband’s hair turn gray
by buying sugar ever day.
The berry crop will soon be gone,
but early peaches will come on, and
as her heated grow she fans, the wo-
man cans and cans and cans.
Thip month the farmer cuts his oats
thief, and the store from which, after they were issued was complied w’ih.
He had sent me back, I emerged an1 The matter of such governmental
honest man. And when I got back transactions going by without notice
on my pony I looked up at the stars is becoming too numerous and too ex-
and they beamed down upon me with pensive, if however, it should become
approving rays and a nigh! bird be- necessary to pay these millions in
gan to sing a song to his mate in a order to make valid the legitimate
mesquite bush, and my eyes blurred part of all sales and bond transac-
with happiness and thankfulness that tions, we would rather commit an er-
when the greatest temptation of my ror in validating them rather than to
life came but I had the power to over repudiate any financial obligation the
come it. I have never had troul.le State has.
Easier Riding
Longer Life For Your Car
Texas
and weans his early crop of shoata, ‘ since in being honest. Put mv entire This Ijor.d situation nhorld teach
and takes his veal calves off to town career hung in balance that day v/hen the taxpayers a lesson, and impress
to find the price of calves is down.
He also cuts and rakes his hay and
J works from dawn till close of day,
The Studio I but Saturday to town he goes ana
- blows his kale for picture shows.
A. C. Evered, photographer, j The town boys loaf along the creek
High Grade Portraits, Ko- and swim and fish and pleasure seek.
daks and commercial work. The farmer b°y at early dawn gears
up the mules and plows tho corn
that merchant could
name on his hooks.’
Honey Grove. Texaxs
F. P. MOKING
Jeweler
)Vatch Inspector for Santa Fe
^,1 LAWHON-OAIN DRUt
STORE
• e a o © © c c c-
• A- M HOWSE A SON
• Photographers
• South Side Square
• Commerce, Ten*
• Always glad to see friend* *
• of Ladnaia and Vlthiity •
In after ye its the farmer boy,
grow rich 11.<1 great, will h-m em-
ploy the youth v.tc spent his time in
play, and get him for two bucks a
day.—Hillsboro (1)1.) News.
Last Monday
Monday trades day
most a fizzle. There w ?re very few
folks in town. A few horses and
**•..!*«
•• V*
not f:nd my on them the necessity of having an
organization in order that they may
| look into a contemplated debt before
Instead of standing around soda it is saddled upon them,
fountains grumbling at the hot sun-j The call of the Legislature will
shine, we should all be truly thankful cost as least $75,000, nrd is called
that we are having such wonderful solely to correct the evils already
weather for cotton. The farmers wrought by an invalid law, and to
have been praying for this weather (make good transactions performed
all the year. They stay up all night under this invalid low. Let’s begin
to sec how much their cotton has to look carefully upon all suggestive
put on during the nifcht. This is changes In the lew and our govern-
wonderfully fortunate for the farm-: ment.—Texas Tax Journal.
erg who have striven so faithfully*
Ibis year to make a crop and get ourj Once unon a time men fought
was regular second business back to a high level this thin, a o -t. But nvg’t did r.ot m-ik-*1
bi t it wrm al- fall. right; it settled nothing. It merely
Let’s quit grumbling about the proved that oro wai physically weak
weather and jo*n w^th the farmersthe other w.i’ strong. It d'd not
right or
r.oticihle c-i the rtrect:(>w. rce’ over the better pros- j prove that the winner was
aad it is supposed they were aispos: d
of in some manner.
Good monitions, like rain, which
begin at night, seldom last long.
Subtw.lLc
h
w—-v-
pect for a big yield of money crop
this fall.—Atlantic City Builder.
When two live as cheaply a* one,
they do it much more quietly.
IV::-..:.- *+••> J afit.
the loser was wrong. It does not pay
to fight things out for both will lose.
The only sans way to settle tkll
right is without a bout. Let's
together; meat man to mAh.
think it over and reason K out.—<Sx-
rhsrge
i i««e.
IVn
If your car needs overhauling
or repairing, let us do the work.
Our mechanics know how, and
besides you get longer life out
of your car.
Texhoma Gas acd Oils are Better
Service Garage
L P. SHOUP, Proprietor
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The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1926, newspaper, August 13, 1926; Ladonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth913704/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.