The Savoy Star. (Savoy, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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THE SAVOY STAR
T. E. ARTERBERRY, Prop.
SAVOY.
TEXAS
BUZZARD BREAKS -
' PREVIOUS RECORDS
MCLAUD3 SEEKS NEW PHRASE
fitter Lucinda Trie* to Help, but Ho
Falls Back on “Glad
Rags.”
“Lacinda! ”
That was brother Claude speaking,
wad the Interrogative ascension In his
■enunciation Indicated that he wanted
%o ask her a question. He always asks
lmeiada when he wants to know any-
thing.
“Lucinda," he went on, “I’ve been in-
wiled to a dinner by Algernon and I
want to tell him that of course I'll
«ome in evening dress, but I don't
. -want to say just that to him, it would
seem too formal; and I don’t exactly
want to say that I’ll come in my glad
rags, for that would seem too informal
and also It’s sort of commonplace and
worn Can’t you think of some-
thing that I could say instead of glad
xagsf
“Why, certainly,” said Lucinda;
“tell him you are coming in your glee-
some paraphernalia.’'"*
“Oh, no!” says Brother Claude, “you
know that wouldn’t do. He’d only
laagh at that.”
“Well, then,” said Lucinda, "you
might say that you will appear In
your joyous habiliments.”
“Joyous habll—dear, dear!” says
Claude. “That’s almost as bad. I don’t
want any long words in It, nothing
fancy and flowery. I want something
Jolly and pleasant and lively, not
grand and overpowering.”
“We.-, Claude.” said the patient and
ever helpful sister, “just write him
that you'll come In your merry regalia
What would you think of that?”
But that didn’t strike Claude quite
favorably, either, though he liked it
better, but he wanted something sim-
pler still, whereupon Ludlnda suggest-
sd it to him: “Make it happy togs,”
but brother Claude only groans at that
tnd says no, that won’t do, and he
says they won’t any of them do, and
be guesses he’ll have to just write
it glad rags and let it go at that.
And that is what he did.
“AME WITH A SUDDENNESS THAT
SPREAD ALARM.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
More than a Score of Deaths Re-
ported and Property Damage
Mounts to Millions.
DECATUR UTILITIES PLANT
MAY BE BOUGHT BY CITY
Decatur: At a called meeting the
City Council entered into an agree-
ment with Judge Cooper, owner ot
the Decatur Water, Light & Power
Company, whereby the city contracts
to purchase the plants, provided the
trade is ratified by a vote of the tax-
payers of the city at an election to
be called for that purpose in a short
time. The sum agreed upon was
$10,000, bin the bond issue to be sub-
mitted to the citizens will call for an
issue of $18,000 of which amount $8,'
000 is to be applied to improvements
in the plants.
Nonplussed.
Little Miss Muffet, who is really so
called by her* Bryn Mawr friends, is
of an inquiring mfnd. When she sees
things she doesn’t understand, she in-
quires about them. She has just re-
turned from the Poconos, where she
has been for August and September.
“One thing I wish to know,” she
•aid to her friend who always pre-
tends to be well Informed. “Possibly
you can tell me.”
“And what is that, my dear little
Miss Muffet?” said he. “Of course I
am always ready to tell you anything
I know.”
“Well, I’ve never stayed in the
mountains during the winter. 1 only
go there in summer, and what I’d like
to know is what do the mosquitoes
live on In my absence?"—Philadelphia
Evening Times.
Dallas, Nov. l.l^The norther
which swept over Oklahoma and Tex-
as Saturday afternoon and night Is de-
clared to have brought the coldest
weather for this date In twenty years
wherever meteorological records have
been kept in this section.
The lowest temperature so fax re-
ported was at Amarillo, where the
themometer showed ten above zero
Sunday morning, breaking all pre-
vious records.
Other places reporting extreme cold
for this season are: McAlister, Ok.,
11 above; Ada, Ok., 14; Ardmore and
Tul80, t>k., 15. Spur, Tex., 20; Durant,
Ok., 18; Wichita Falls, Tex., 20;
Brownwood, in Southwest Texas, 24,
with a drop of 64 degrees; at Bon-
ham there was a drop of 35 degrees
in an hour, with sleet; Hugo, Ok., had
a drop of 50 degrees. The ground
was frozen hard at Clarksville, in
North Texas, and water pipes were
bursted.
There was an average drop of 65
degrees throughout the northern part
of Texas, with the extreme of 71 de-
grees, Ada, Ok., going from 85 above
at 3:30 Saturday afternoon, which in
itself is a record.
Nearly a score of deaths, several
million dollars property loss and much
suffering and inconvenience resulted
from the violent change of tempera-
ture, the preceding storms and the
succeeding cold and snow that be-
set the central portion of the coun-
try Saturday and: Sunday.
After an unusually warm November
day Saturday, tornadic storms did
much damage In Wisconsin and Illin-
ois and killed a dozen people, besides
injuring more than a score, several
fatally.
A cold wave almost immediately
rolled over the wreckage of the torna-
does and extended in a few hours to
the Gulf coast and the Atlantic sea-
board. Rain turned to sleet, snapping
telegraph and telephone wires and
snow followed.
The temperature dropped in several
places more than 60 degrees In eigh-
teen hours. Several people were froz-
en to death by the sudden cold, ship-
ping on the great lakes was damaged
and several boats were cast adrift.
In some places gas almost failed. The
poor In large cities and the homelesa
in stormskept regions sneered se-
verely.
Diamonds in the Air.
, San Antonio: As a result of Satur-
day night’s windstorm, Mrs. S. P.
Robertson of Dallas lost a pair of dia-
mond earrings. With her husband
she had taken the earrings off and
tied them up in a handkerchief and
placed them on the dresser. The night
was warm and a window was left
open. While the wind was blowing
at its highest Mr. Robinson raised
the screen to adjust an awning which
was flapping. As he did so the hand-
kerchief containing the diamonds was
blown from the window'. An imme-
diate search was made in the street,
'rut to no effect.
DANGEROUS VARIETY.
just before the trouble ; Could Hardly Hear
How Could the Listener Know What Senses of Taste and Smell Were Also
His Friend Was Trying
to Say?
, If any man ever admired his wife,
that man was Howler. And when the
Factory Subscribers Increase.
Fort Worth: The subscribers to
the original loan for the Fort "W orth
Wagon Factory, $50,000 in amount, af-
ter an inspection agreed to increase
their subscriptions 100 per cent by
paying an assessment of that propor-
tion of the amounts they originally
subscribed. This assessment is bas-
ed on the condition that all of the
original subscribers agree. There were
about twenty in the party that went
out and all of those present agreed
to the assessment, with the proviso
above quoted.
Caroline—She may be a gossip, but
I believe she tells the truth.
Pauline—My dear, the truth is fre-
quently the worst form of gossip imag-
inable.
No Jury.
“Didn't you give that' man a jury
.rial?”
"Look here,” replied Broncho Bob;
“there ain’t a big lot o’ men in this
settlement. We couldn’t possibly git
12 of 'em together without startin’ a
fatal argument about somethin’ that
had nothin’ whatever to do with the
case.”
Greatly Impaired.
“I was afflicted with catarrh,” writes
Eugene Forbes, Lebanon, Kansas. “I
took several different medicines, giving
each 4 fair trial, but grew worse until
1 could hardlv hear, taste or smell. I
Fitzboodles asked Mrs. Howler to get wa8 about to jive up in despair, but con-
. . ‘—*- —J— *“ eluded to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. After
taking three bottles of tins medicine I
was cured, and have not had any return
of the disease.
up and. sing, “There is a Garden in
My Face,” the husband glowed with
pride.
No matter that she had a face like
a hippopotamus and a voice like an
elephant, he sat beaming as she sang,
and could not refrain from bending
over to his neighbor and whispering:
"Don’t you think my wife’s got a fine
voice?”
"What?” said his neighbor, who
was a little deaf.
"Don’t you think my wife’s got a
fine voice?” repeated Howler.
"What?”
“Don’t you think my wife’s got a
fine voice?” roared Howler.
“Sorry!” returned the neighbor,
shaking his head. "Can’t hear a word
you say. That awful woman over
there is making such a frightful row
singing.”
Hood’s Sarsaparilla effects radical and
permanent cures of catarrh.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsataba.
W. N. U., DALLAS, NO. 46-1911.
Wine-Fed Fowls.
M. Joubert, professor at the Agri-
cultural college at Fontainebleau,
France, claims that be has discovered
a new and simple method of making
bans lay. He feeds them with wine
In addition to their ordinary food.
The professor has not allowed his
discovery to be made known lightly.
He has been experimenting with
fowls of all kinds for several years
and finds the same result in every
ease. In each case he experimented
for the four winter months with two
sets of twelve fowls of the same
breed, adding bread soaked in wine
to the food of one of the two sets
of twelve. In every case after six
•operate trials the wine-fed hens laid
more eggs in the proportion of twenty
eggs a month or thereabout
Dynamite for Chestnuts.
A crew of men laying a water line
Si rough the Chestnut Ridfe s few
allies from Donegal had a day off
recently and decided to go nnttlng.
Not satisfied with the slow method of
dr rowing sticks at the burrs,, the men
sored holes In the trees and inserted
lynamlte. which was sat off with a
lose.
Following the explosion chestnuts
eould be found spread like a carpet
ander the trees. While the trunks
pf the trees were not shattered In all
instances, it is said moat of them will
lie. The mountaineers are up in arms
aver the work of the nutting party.—
Breen*burg correspondence Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Better So.
The professor of elocution was lb
•tructlng an ambitious young man In
the art of public speaking.
“When you have finished your lee-
tare," he said, “bow gracefully and
leave the platform on tip toe.”
“Why qn Up toe?" queried the am-
bitious young men.
“So as not to wake the audience,
replied the professor—Stray Stories.
A. & M. MESS HALL BURNED
Largest Dining Hall In Texas a Heap
of Ruins.
College Station: At an early hour
Saturday morning the big mess hall
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College was destroyed by fire. The
dining room equipment was saved, but
the kitchen equipment was lost. The
building was the largest dining hall
In the State and the dependance of
the students of the college for a place
to eat.
The fire originated In the kitchen,
where a vessel of grease on a range
caught fire while breakfast was being
prepared, and from this the hood over
the range caught, spreading rapidly.
The mess hall, which was of brick
was erected In 1897 at a cost of
$21,000, but there have been additions
to It which \nade it much more of an
investment than the original cost. It
would seat 1,100 students at a meal.
The equipment was valued at $13,545.-
10, according to the inventory pr*
-'sired May last.
Former Texas Engineer Dead.
Springzeld, 111.: William Dalton
Clark, one of the most prominent civil
engineers of the country, died at St
John Hospital in this city, aged 91
years. In 1860 he was elected City
Engineer of Davenport, Iowa, and in
January, 1869, he was appointed as-
sistant superintendent of construction
of the new Illinois State Capitol. In
May, 1872, he was appointed City En-
gineer of this city, and in November,
1882, he received the appointment of
superintendent of the Sta-te Capitol
building of Texas, being ereoted at
Austin.
Progress on Projected Greenville Line.
Greenville: A. Ralph Nicholson has
returned from Dallas and says pros-
pects for Blue Ridge interurban line
are good. He says barring unforeseen
contingencies the work of locating the
line for the Blue Rkfge, Van Alstyne
and Gainesville interurban will begin
at an early date and the dirt will be
broken by Jan. 1, with the privision
broken the line be built within six
months as far as Blue Ridge, starting
!rom Greenville.
Mysterious Death Raises Excitement.
Abilene: An Inquest has been held
over the body of Belle McFarland,
aged seventeen, who died suddenly
Wednesday night under circumstances
Indicating bichloride poisoning. She
was the prosecutor In a seduction case
from Stephens County In which a con-
viction had been secured and in
which an appeal was shortly to be
tried.
How Fido Lost Out.
‘‘My girl used to think a lot of her
pug dog, but I’ve managed to get the
edge on him since we married.’
“How did you work it?"
“Fido wouldn’t eat her cooking, and
I did."
Force of Habit.
First Suffragette — Do you think
Misg Lazybones will carry her dis-
trict?
Second Suffragette—Not If she can
get a porter to carry it.
Apicultural.
Mother—Yes, Johnny, the queen bee
is boss.
Johnny—How about the presidential
bee?
Some men have a well-seated preju-
dice against giving up their place to a
woman in a crowded car.
Tree Destroyers.
Porcupines are good climbers, and
when unable to get enough apples
wind-blown to the ground, swarm a
tree and cut down the finest bearing
limbs as quickly and neatly as a beav-
er can sever the trunk of a young
hemlock. Besides that, when other
food is scarce they nibble the bark
off young apple trees, and can destroy
a newly planted orchard in a short
time. They also are a great enemy to
the young spruce, but why they cut
them is a mystery, as it is not found
that they even eut the tenderest
shoots.
OTHER PART ALL RIGHT.
Death Bad Jest.
Among what may be called death-
bed jests, that of the Rev. James Guth-
ries of Stirling, one of the Covenanter
martyrs, deserves a high place. Lord
Guthries recalls the story in “From a
Northern Window'." Mr. Guthries was
executed at the Cross in the High
street, Edinburgh. Th.e night before
he asked for cheese for supper. His
friends wondered, for the physicians
had forbidden him to eat cheese. But
he said, with a smile, “I am now be-
yond the hazard of all earthly dis-
eases,”—Uncle Remus’ Magazine.
He—When we are married we will
live off bread and kisses, won’t vr%
darliffg?
She—Oh! I don’t like bread.
Distinction.
Senator Lotamaun—Who is this
Mcerumkerson that want a consul-
ship, and what claim has he on me
for a political Job?
Private Secretary—He says he’s the
only man who hasn’t been mentioned
as a candidate for governor of Illi-
nois.
your
Wasted Blessings.
Aunty (just arrived)—Bless
sweet heart!
Marie — You needn’t waste any of
your blessings on him, aunty.
Aunty—Him? Who?
Marie—My former sweetheart. We're
mad at each other now.—Judge.
We Get a Slap
8an Angelo Wants Woolen Mill.
San Angelo: An effort is being
made here by Reagan, Iron. Crockett,
Sutton, Schleicher and other West
Texas counties the establishment
of a $250,000 woolen mill In San An-
gelo. The plant, if projected plans
are carried out, will employ 150 peo-
ple, have a daily payroll of $300 and
a dally operating expense of $1,000.
The manufacture of violins forms
the sole Industry of a town In Saxony,
about 18,000 persons being so em-
ployed.
Big Reclamation Levee Let.
Texarkana:, The contract for levee-
ing Red River between Index, ten
miles north of here, and Garland City,
has been let. The levee will be about
Of all the world’s production of 3,-
747 tons of quicksilver last year, the
United States produced but 773 tons.
The Yoakum Commercial Club has
offered $60,000 bonus to the Palacios,
thirty-two miles long and will extend Antonio and Pecos railroad to
three feet above the record high-water | through that city,
mark. The crest will be eight fset
wide and will be sodded wkh Bermuda
grass. The work is to be started In
sixty days, and the contact calls for
its completion by March 1, 1913. .
The total cost will be a little In
excess of $300,000. The construction
of this levee will reclaim and make
safe from overflow about 170,000 acres
of some of the richest cotton land in
the world.
And now an investigator comes to
the front claiming that Bois d’Arc ap-
ples contain a fluid that will make
them wonderfully valuable In the
manufacture of rubber even If the
fluid Itself cannot be made into good
rubber.
National Biscuit Co., will open a
branch distributing house in Tyler.
Long Staple in Smith County.
Tyler: Quite a number of farmers
The city council of Beaumont has
ordered an election to determine the
issuance of $90,000 street paving and
sewer bnnds.
The big coffee trust, made up of Brazilian
growers and American importers, has been trying
various tactics to boost the price of coffee and get
more money from the people.
Always the man who is trying to dig extra
monev out of the public pocket, on a combination,
hates the man who blocks the game.
Now comes a plaintive bleat from the "exas-
perated” ones.
The Journal of Commerce lately said: “A stir-
ring circular has just been issued to the coffee
trade.” The article further says:
“The coffee world' is discussing what is to be „
the future of coffee as a result of the campaign
of miseducation carried - on by the cereal coffee
people. We have before us a letter from one of
the largest roasters in the South asking what can
be done tq counteract the work of the enemies
of coffee.
‘•The matter should have been taken up by
the Brazilian Gorit when they were completing
t
their beautiful valorization scheme.”
Red Whiskers.
“Plunkville needs a new constable.” I
‘What's the matter with the pree- j |n this county ace experimenting with
mot incumbent?”
“He has black whiskers and the
Automobile speeders kin see him hid-
ing In the shrubbery. What we want
Is a constable with whispers to match
the fall foliage.”
Fostering Care.
Howard—Is this hotel up-to-date?
Coward—Indeed tt is. They furnish
Sleeping powders with every bedroom
—Harper’s Bazar.
long staple cotton and so far, with
great success. At Whitehouse, J. A.
Edwards and W. D. Lilly have had
great success this year with this class
of cotton. Mr. Edwards planted two
acres which yielded him a bale to the
ere, and at the time staple cotton
was selling at 10c per pound he was
offered 15c for the long ^taple. W.
D. Lilly has sixty acres in of the
long staple. He expects H
close to a bale to the acre
Zav:ila County road and bridge
bonds to the amount of $23,000 have
been approved by the Attorney Gen-
eral.
The professional graduate nurses of
Dallas are arranging to publish a di-
rectory and to open headquarters In
some central location.
Edwin a I.emp, St Ixmls, and Gus-
tav Pabst, Milwaukee, two millionaire
brewers, have taken out hunting li-
censes in Texas and are now in the
Amarillo section looking for deer and
antelope.
Then the article proceeds to de-
nounce Postum and works into a
fine frenzy, because we haYe pub-
lished facts regarding the effect of
coffee on some people.
The harrowing tale goes on.
“Where a few years ago every-
body drank coffee, several cups a
day. now we find in every walk In
life people who imagine they can-
not drink It (The underscoring is
ours!) Burly blacksmiths, carpen-
ters, laborers and athletes have dis-
continued or cut down the use of
coffee; as there Is not a person
who reads this and will not be able
to find the same conditions existing
among his own circle of acquaint-
. ances. Is It not well for the Brazil-
ians to sit up and take notice?”
Isn’t it curious these “bur-
ly” strong men should pick out cof-
fee to “imagine” about? Why not
“imagine” that regular doses of
whiskey are harmful, or daily slugs
of morphine?
If “Imagination” makes the caf-
feine In coffee clog the liver, de-
press the heart, a(id steadily tear
down the nervous system, bringing
on one or more of the dozens of
types of diseases which follow
broken down nervous systems,
many people don’t know It.
But It remained for the man who
has coffee, morphine or whiskey
to sell, to have the supreme nerve
to say: “You only Imagine your
disorders. Keep on buying from
me ”
Let us continue to quote from his
article.
“Notwithstanding the enormous
Increase in population during the
past three years, coffee shows an
appalling decrease in consumption."
Then follows a tiresome lot of
statistics which wind up by show-
ing a decrease of consumption in
two years of, in round figures, two
hundred million pounds.
Here we see the cause for the at-
tacks on us and the Brazilian
sneers at Americans who prefer to
use a healthful, home-made break-
fast drink and incidentally keep the
money In America, rather than
send the millions to Brazil and pay
for an article that chemists class
among Hie drugs and not among
the foods.
Will the reader please remem-
ber, we never announce that coffee
“hurts all people.”
Some persons seem to have ex-
cess vitality enough to use coffee, [
tobacco and whiskey for years and
apparently be none the worse, but
the number is small, and when a
sensible man or woman finds an ar-
ticle acts harmfully they exercise
some degree of intelligence by
dropping it.
We quote again from the article:
“These figures are paralyzing
but correct, being taken from
I-eechs statistics, recognized as
the most reliable.”
• • • • •
This la one of the highest com-
pliments ever paid to the level-head-
ed, common sense of Americans
who cut off about two hundred mil-
lion pounds of coffee when they
found by actual experiment (In the
majority of cases) that the subtle
drug caffeine, in coffee, worked dis-
comfort atul varying forms of dis-
ease.
Some people haven’t the charac-
ter to stop a habit when they know
it Is killing them, but It is easy
to shift frqm coffee to Pcfetum, for,
when made according to directions.
It comes to table a cop of beverage,
seal brown color, which turns to
rich golden brown when cream la
added, and the taate Is very like
the milder grades of Old Gov’t Java.
Postum Is a Veritable food-drink
and highly nourishing, containing
all the parts of wheat carefully pre-
pared to which is added about tea
per cent of New Orleans molasses,
and that is absolutely all that
Postum is made of.
Thousands of visitors to the pure
food factories see the ingredients
and how prepared. Every nook
and corner is open for every visit-
or to carefully inspect. Crowda
como dally and seem to enjoy It
“There’s a Reason’
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek, Michigan
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