Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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Sheriff* Üak
Strowe's
Variety
A Plain
Understanding
By Irving L. McGtlvray
(Copyright, 1912, by Aaaociated Literary
Prcaa.)
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Best and finest of
everthin£ in the way
of lee Cream, Cold
Djtoks, Confections
and Novelties.
Next door lo Postoffice
Miss Senada Smith left Sunday
for Bellville where hIih will again
teach school.
-lust received a car of red,
rust proof, seed out . VuHor
Nix.
Mis.s Mal ie Huitín returned to
Somei ville where «lie will teaeli
school f 11 ih year.
Wilton Houston ami fatni y
have returned iron viMting rela-
tives in ('ulvyrt and Hcarne.
Lost—A five dollar bill l y lit-
tle Arnold VVotipkn between their
home and \V. J. Harris' resi-
dence. Return to tins otHce and
get reward
Miss pearl llaynes of ('larks-
ville, Tennessee, i the guest of
C.ipt. M L. Womack and family.
FOR 8ALK—One fine, thirteen
months old, full blooded .lorsey
bull. Apply to -Iesse Autrey.
Mi§-i (iliulys Porter of the Hix
community left Tuesday for
Helton where she entered Huylor
Female ( 'dirge.
Appendicitis Book Free!
Tilt- Adler i-ka book, telling hmv vuh
can EASILY «Hard ¡iKiiin.t appendi-
citi*, «nil how ><)>i can ri'hfVf eoiisti-
potiOn <u" lías on tlio Htmuaeh IN
STANT1.V, is "th-reil tro this w> ok b\
Stone A Hitchco.'k.
Elijah Daker, farmer, rather prided
liimuelf on his straightforward way.
If be said no, it meant no; if he said
job, he would stick to It. He was a
widower with three children that
needed a mother's care. He had for
a year past "kinder admitted to him-
self* that he would marry again if
he found tho right woman, but be
luidn't found her the day the tin ped-
dler came along and sold him throe
pans and a wash dish and jocularly
•said: •* f
"If I was a widower, I'd get mar-
ried again."
"You might not be able to find
her," Elijah replied.
"It wouldn't lake me over an hour.
She lives bnck here about four miles.
1 slopped ut her buuse when 1 came
along."
"Who is Bhe?"
"Widder Jones, with two children.
She's a right up-and-down woman.
She says to her hin d man or children
do this or do that, und they do it. I
told her she ought to marry agin."
"And what did she say?"
"Said a husband wasn't bo darned
cany to find."
"I gui'ss It's so on botb sides,"
slghorl Klljah. "What gets me in tho
matter Is the timo lost in falling tn
love, courting and then waiting for
tho wedding. When a fellow's got
work (-uough for three men and only
title pair of hands to do it with, how's
he going to fool away six months'
time?"
"Mi' can't do It." replied the ped-
dler. "He may do It the first time,
but not the second. He sees thai tho
game ain't worth the candle."
"Mut women export to be courted."
"Yes, mostly; but widder don't ex-
pect so much as (m1h. This Widder
Jones would tell you in an hour
w-e
'Do You Swtar and Chaw Tobacco?"
whether she'd marry you or not. Yes,
in half that time. You could tell jest
h* quick If you wanted her. I'm first
cousin to Cupid myself, and I believe
In moonlight nights, turtle doves,
shady d< lis nnd whippoot wills, but
you see 1 ain't u widower cooking my
own meals, and I ain't pleased for
time Drive ov«i-r there and have a
talk with Mrs. Jones. In this world
v.c don't want to skip many good
I IlltlgK."
"She gets around lively, does she*"
( ask« d the farmer, 'hough trying not
.. ; to betray too much Interest.
I irpenters an' just pa tingj • jrBt Hft if 8jje |ia<] springs under
the timshinii touches on a nice I her."
1 "Think she's a good cook?"
Iievv resident mi for John I'.i.locU "H« r children arc fat and healthy."
Mis> Alma Porter left Satur-
day for Richmond to spend the
winter with her sister and attend
school tin re.
tight as drums. Horses, cattle, iheep,
bogs sad poultry. Three children, as
you sss, and they are ss healthy ss
rabbits. Don't have to lick one once
a week."
"That's party good," replied tho
widow as abe touched the pencil to
her tongue. "I've got a hundred
acres here, and you can aee what
shape everything's In. All going
right and $200 In the bank."
Elijah atood up to look about him,
and he felt hla heart warming
toward the widow as be sat down
again.
"And your age?" asked Mrs. Jonea.
"Forty-eight."
"Mine is forty-seven, and pfelther
of us use hair-dye. Do you awear
and chaw tobacco?"
"I do."
"Glad to hear It. A man who Is
too good can pass me by. I had JuBt
as lief you'd swear once In awhile. I
aay 'darn it!' when things go wrong.
Let's see? You want good cooking?"
"Purty fair."
"Do you snore In your sleep?"
"Nobody's ever complained."
"Same here. Do you get mad
easy?"
"Not unless I step on the blade of
a hoe and the handle flies up and
gives me a whack. Then I take it
out on a hog or a cow."
"About the same as me. Do you
build the kitchen Are winter morn-
ings ?"
"Every morning the year 'round."
"Thai'B decent In a husband. Think
you could get along with my chil-
dren? I reckon I could with yours."
"Londs, yes!"
"If you should come in and find
me spanking one of them—?"
"I'd take it that they needed it.
I've been n widower most three years,
and I cun't get the knack of spanking
a young'un yet. It Is a knack, ain't
it?"
"Por sure. No man has ever got It
vet. Come here, Mary. I'm going to
spnnk you."
"Put I ain't done nothing!' whim-
pered the child.
"No. hut It's just to show Mr. Baker
how It's done."
"Couldn't be beat!" said Elijah as
the shanking was finished.
"And now," paid the widow as she
took up her pencil ugaln, "do you
believe in the Hlble?"
"Every durned word of it!"
"Jonah and the whale?"
"Yes."
"Loaves and fishes?"
"Yes." •
"Dan'l and the lions?"
"The same. I'd just as quick dis-
pute the family almanac as the
Bible."
"Then we shan't have any disputes
over that," replied the woman. "Is
the world round or flat?"
"Round."
"Do you believ« in the groundhog?"
"I most solemnly do. I've seen him
come out of hla hole on a sunshiny
day In February and make winter
hang on for three months longer.
Anything more?"
"Mr Baker," replied the widow, as
she row up. "I kinder feel that I'm in
love with you."
"Same here."
"And as we are both busy personB
with mighty little time to lose—"
"I'll go for a preacher now."
"Y es, you might as well."
And people point them out today,
after they have been married five
years, and say:
"S'posen they had wasted a whole
year in sparking and lost two cropB of
corn and "taters!"
Ill
IId well.
Furniture ' 'ompatiy
'She may be extravagant."
"She don't look it. Everything
— i plain but neat."
"Well, I'll see about. It. Much
W o still have ¡i R-i-ort 1 ohlt..
moni ef beautiful patterns in If the peddler hadn't given the*
wallpaper ano they uro hein« j [nrmer matter for serious thought he
' ' _ had at lenrt aroused his curiosity,
sold at !"•"< discount. < aldwel! ln ,j,rr(.
or four days It got the
better of him. and one day lie put on
his best cloihcs, had the children
wash up and don Sunday attire, and
all piled Into the wagon nnd drove
off.
The Widow Jones was killing 'ho
btmn on her garden potatoes when
Elijah drove up. lie hadn't got out
of the wagon y t when the woman
came to the gate and nuked:
"Ain't you making a mlst-nko,
Ft r;' ncer?"
"You ale the Widder Joins, 1 take
ii ?"
"The fitne."
"Then I'm right :o far. Can I un-
fjrville Iiivil'1 i the next it: -t .n.. Io;ul ,h(, children?"
to in that tin iviiiK little "Why, yes. This Is no orphan
asylum, but they are welcome."
city and the mailer was loll to a | "| wanted you to get a close view
of them and hear 'eta talk. Nono of
them stutter or at tour.'-".' tied. Your
' v>"it1 • *'u:t over there seem to bo all
j right."
In • wrong with them,
r'r •• 1.- fd s •? T>1 <! you i ..y
> ... \.a ' Schema thorn""
* ' ! lil :.:<t r. 1 livo four
H.ite • >. <' • -• a "
The Teachers Institute for
white teachers closed one of the
most successful mectiujrs in the
history of institutes in this
county. The mMbiiiIhuoo wns
pood and all the teachers dM
jjood work. The Institute*, have
always heen held here, but Som
vote of the t.-achers, and Sinner
V i lit KOt tl UC\ i institute.
Appendicitis.
Bewildering Namea.
Women who do only a small amount
of buying are likely to feel oppressed,
when they do undertake to make Bome
modest purchases, by their ignorance
of the names of the various articles
of merchandise shown to them. It is
only necessary, however, to know
something of the origins of the com-
plicated nomenclature of trade to he
convinced that an Inability to mnster
It need not he taken as a ign of
mental weakness. The I'pholsterer
tellsofa modernised oriental rug which
was named by putting a lot of fanciful
• ames Into a hat and then drawing
one from the collection. Another rug
has acquired a name with a particular-
ly nice oriental sound; but it is the
name of a people that has not lonprr
any distinctive existence, nnd had
nothing whatever to do with either the
making or designing of the rug. When
mimes are so easy to get it is not
strange that < very mat'Tlal, color and
mode has numbers of them sufficient
to create utter bewilderment In the
mltidt. of the Initiated.
THE STATE OK TEXAS I
County ot UurltoMMi f Bv Vi TUKotun
exec in Inn and order of u!o U* .eel uul >>( I lie
Uoiioi able District Court of liexur utility,
oathf uih day of Augunt 1UI.. u> ttiu Clerk
in theeuseiif i'runk K liav. vurau .
.1. N. (Jroeiibeucb, J. N. UroualM i-ch, Ji. L. .
Winters. J. K. Williams and J. m. u.c«, N
ll-MIH mil to mo. an Sheriff, directud nnd de-
livered, I will procura to bel 1, whtilu the
hour |iri- crll>cd by law for S . riff > iea.
oil the lli'att TuimIuy III Oetolier A. O. UU. Ii
iM>lim the first (1st) day of «aid moult,, ue
fore the Court liou>e door of nnld llui leu >n
County, In the city of Caldwell, the follow-
ing described property, to-wlt:
And, Whereas, on the sanie day, luler-
venor. Mrs. M. E. Williams, recovered n
Judutnent uuulnst J. K. Will lams und J. M
Oice, nnd each of them, the sum of gúit.TU.
with six pi r cent interest from said date, uno
uil costs of suit, together with a foreclosure
of her second lien ou the following described
property to-wlt:
In the County of Burleson, State of Texas,
und being described as sil acres of oind. be
ing a part of the Aimer Smith League, be-
ing lot No. I, in the suh-dlvision of a truel
of .il* ucies us per tiiul of record in lie- lleeu
liecorusof Hurleaou County. Vol. ü. pp í.mi-
1UÍ . and which more fully described said tut
a res l>y metes und bounds.
Also block No. 4 of said sub-illvlsli.n of I*.
acres of said Abuer Smit h I.cukuc In Uur-
lesoli County, coutulnlllg HI acres to which
said volume 41 up. -M' til records ef Burleson
Coiiety. Texas, relerenee Is here madu for
lurtes and bounds ot said j r« perty.
As said lien of plaintiff existed ou tl,c IHilt
day oi May. IMia. mid the said lien of Inter
venor existed on Ihe Vtii dny of April, lltle,
and Hist said property be sold as uudci
execution in salisfaction of salil judgments
'I'llKiti Kiilia, You are hereby commuiidco
■ hat von proceed to sel/i' and sell the above
de ■ rib> d property, us under e\ecutlou. and
that i' ii apply llie proceeds thereor. Ilrst.
t <e .urn of «h...ili due plaint Itt'. together wit..
Interest that may be due I hereon itud all
■ "■i "I ml, and you tiiil place Ooi pu --
i-h.u-' i oi purchasers of - u ii I pi perty In
iior>-''.sion liieii-.it within •' days from date
of >.ili ; and second, the -urn of >CI.;u due
t In' I nit i veuor. Uigether with Interest alio
cost ami the leniaindi r. If any, lit; paid to
.1 M. Dice, and if said property shall not si It
tor i iimiyli tu ¡jay oif ihe jiidgmeut due
iiialniUT. Interi st nnd cost of >ult. and On'
tnrllu i cost of executing this writ; then of
i In' joods aau chattels, lands and ti i.euients
of i he ald J. .N. Cioesbeek, .1. N lirocsbecek.
Jr.. I- s. Winters. J. E. Williams anil J M
Dice, you will cuuseto be made any balance
of said sum of money then renia'.nln^ un-
paid. And If said properly shall not sell for
enoiigh to satisfy and pay otr the juditineut
in favor of inter veuor Mrs. M.E.H II limns with
interest and costs and the further costs of
etccutltia this writ; then of the goods and
chat i«ls. lands and ti'iieiuents of t he said .1.
K Williams and J. M. Dice anil of I'iU'h of
t lien., y ou will cause to be made any halance
of >aid sum of oiotiey liten rem.lining un-
paid.
It ii further ordered, adjudged and de-
creed that as bet ween said defendants eac!t
is liable In the order named: 1st, J. M. Dice
■Juil. .1. K. Wllllmns: lr«l. .1. N. t>roesbee,'k
.1 r : ttli I.. S. Winters; ."itii. J. N. Uro sbeeck;
and should auv of said dcfi'iidunts be re-
i|ttlred to pay aiiythlng on tIn* judgments
h< r< Inliefore rendered, then sahl defendant
or lie (endaiits shall have and are hereojr
given judgment over against any olln-r de-
femlaut or defendants whose name or numtts
are preceding In the uImivc enumeration.
l,evled on the property of J. N. Uroes-
beei'.l., .1. N. liroeslHH'ck, Jr.. 1.. S. Winters.
J E, Willlan s. and J. M. Dice, to satisfy a
judgment auiotiiiting to 1st. .¿llOl.tti with In-
teresl tln-rcon at the rate of H per cent per
milium from lite lilth day of April. A. I),
lili.', ¿tul. *.ISI.Ttl In favor of the Invornor
Mrs. M. E W 111 in tus against tin; defendants
J. I- Williams a.id .1. M. Dice, with tl per
cent Interest tin leon from the tilth day of
April. IIMJ, and co-ts of suit.
Ulvett under my hand this Ttli day of Sep-
tember. A. D. Iltlü.
L. W. II ENS LEE.
Sheriff ltni'ieson 'minty, Texas
LOrALTY OF THE ELEPHANT
LIVELY SPE
Disliked by Hla Horse.
Of all domestic nnlmnls, the hor^o
s proli.ibiy llio most gentle, but there
1 are exceptions.
i A California man had In his stable a
I.no thoroughbred horse, of which he
n ado quite a pet. One day he went
inl't tho stable, und, stopping to pat
ids f;;\orito steed, ho was stirpri. ul
; when Ihe horno, with a violent pluoro
b;v\o the halter and came at him with
o|M ii mouth. At first he thought It |
wiii in fun, but he soon realised his |
i mistake, and hastily climbed up a lad- |
dor and >oiled for help.
< >n tho arrival of hlr> son. tho horse !
v i !• ti '< t ti c i tall and lni"i <dlate-
It rt'M- oetl Its former ü« nll> tic, s to
,¡1 j l'.ti it "i t)\\ litT.
Remarkable Instance of Faithfulneae
Which la Only One of Many
Placed on Record.
Tito elephant is said to ho tho most
intelligent of all animals; certainly
few four-footed creatures lmve served
mart so ably nnd faithfully. How
ennmseotis nnd loyal ihev can he is
strikingly shown by an incident rt
Inted Jiv Mr. II. Perry Robinson, in
hir hook, "Of Distinguished Ani-
mals."
A native Mahratta prince was rn-
grigod in a fierce battle with his ono-
juie.«, and the struggle raged furi-
ously about tho standard-hearing ele-
phant. At the moment when it was
ordered to halt, its mahout was
killed. Tlie Mahratta forces were
horno hack; hut still the elephant
stood firm, and the standard contin-
ued to flv.
Accordingly the soldiers of liie
prince, unwilling to be outdone in
courage by an elephant, rallied, and
in turn drove tho enemy hack till the
t |o of hall! ' swept past Ihe rooted
elephant and left it. towering colos-
sal among the slain.
The th'ht wa« won. nnd then they
would have had 1 lie elephant move
from the Inn tie-field : hut it wailed
for the dead man's voice. For three
days and nights it remained wlure
it had boon tr>M fn remain, nnd nei-
ther bribe nor threat Mould move it.
Final] v I hot 111 m (ho hmno v■illrvro
t! v ■ N -1
•oi !',
Ir-d mil.
!l!i
.1 t ■
\JI1 fit' i
1.1 III
huotíthorn b u'a, t"
«onipuuiidcil a Adlc
l,r>'
• it, ,
a I
>11• i r ni", "i ou
coi no etc , ,i- | hnvo no tltn to court."
¡1,-a the Cei'nu.iij "Samo here. Sit down ou the door-
,t , t. ,, u t„. . ,ir si '|) und lot mo get pencil und paper.
, i , en-fit N N' -.v, then, what sorter farm you
v ; , ' «ot.?
i "t!r«'d artl twenty iteres, and
Especially the BtnedlcU.
"All men nre liars."
"Prove It."
"Hnsn't every mnn some time
Teiiomcntly declared that he wouldn't
i t and aomcthlng or other aud then
• 1 H
?• !¡<v, i1 • ■ ' tv to tlie
fluid, fiif ■ d .i! and
with llu; .-hiiit'ivd iliiiil.- harness
clanging lit t>neh stately stride,
swung slowly ii' >n ■ the road behuvt
the I'ov. • V-c ('..i • ; !<: •!.
now and then a.re relished
&1I of them—and here they
72 in. by 90 in. Bed Sheets
for
16 button long Gloves
for
$1.50 Ladies' Waist
for
Pure Silk Ladies' Hose
at
$1.00 Kid Gloves, different colors
for
25 cent Suitings
at
$2.50 American Lady Oxfords
for
Utility Dres« Ginghams
for
75c Pure Wool Serges
for
8 l-2c Dress Lawns
at
25c Gingham Cook Aprons
at
50c Beauro Scarfs
25c Talcom Powders
at
75 cent Knee Pants at
Up to $2.50 samples in Ladies* Waists
at
25c Pure Silk Fancy Ribbons
at
15c Lace Bandings
to close out
Handsome New Collars at Special Prices.
LEVINSON'S
THE STORE IT PAYS TO VISIT
Piwetz Building Caldwell, Texas
Presents His Popular
Players
30- PEOPLE -30
COMMENCING
MONDAY, September
9
th
Ghange of program each evening
Vaudeville between each act
©PENIN6 BILL "A Wise Fool"
Band aad Orchestra
OHL MY BACK!
lft>\v uifiiiy jipMplp siiU'tT from ti pain iu the
li.u'k or side? How many know what is good
for it? How to stop it? Tlic <|iiiekcst and
s.'ii'tvst rtdief follows after rubbing in
Severa's
T In! A O r\
I i ri rt u
OIL
) celitd.
Refuse substitutes
insist on Severa's
jfe,
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