Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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SPRING IS TIME TO WORK
ROADS.
In the spring is the proper time
to work roads, according to experts
of the department of agriculture.
To put off the work until August
or September is a great mistake,
declare in a statement issued
which some valuable hints are
given to farmers on the subject.
i4The roads/1 says the department,
•'should be worked when the soil
Is damp, so as to make the soil
bake when it dries out. If the
roads are worked when they are
dry it takes more power to draw
the machine and besides, dry earth
and dust retain moisture and quick-
ly rut after rains. If the working
of the roads is deferred until the
latter part of the summer, when
the surface is baked dry and hard,
they are not only difficult to work,
but the work is unsatisfactory when
done. Repairs to roads should be-
made when needed and not once a
year after crops are "laid by."
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There are going to be hot things
happening this year, and if you
have not alreaey subscribed for a
county newspaper it is time that
you were. The Ledger is the lead-
ing newspeper of this county, and
will carry all of these entertaining
news items. Hand us a dollar and
let us send you the best paper that
Burleson county has ever had.
Right now is the time to plant
shade trees. Every citizens who
h « a spot where a tree might grow
it to plant one now. With
planting, a little attention,
plenty of water the first sum-
the growing of shade trees in
soil resol vos itself the simplest
of a proposition.
If you want to do something that
will help to make your street look
have.that sidewalk made
it and level. It ie not neees-
you have concrete walk
down, just have that walk
and evened up, this will
a wonderful change in the
it.
ng a newspaper is about
best things that we have
to find. If you cut a
out when the time expires
out, and if you keep
get the same for not
ie that the time
is he that
STAND UP STRAiT.
The best way to avoid consump-
tion is to stand up straight, accord
ing to the Bulletiu of the American
Medical Association. The writer
says:
"The first essential in the avoid-
ance of tuberculosis of the lungs,
or consumption, is to keep the lungs
strong, so that if the germs are
breathed they can do no harm.
One of the most important things
in keeping the lungs strong is to
keep the chest wide open so that
the lungs can be properly used.
If the body is drooped or stoops or
if the shoulders are allowed to drag
forward (round shoulders) or if the
head is carried forward instead of
well back over the shoulders the
chest must be flattened, the breath-
ing must be shallow, and the lungs,
not being freely used, become weak.
"It is in this type of chest that
tuberculosis usually begins. The
consumptive is usually narrow
chested, with drooped shoulders
and with the head craned torward.
"While the development of a
strong, well formed chest is one of
the most important factors in pre-
venting tuberculosis, the same
thing is to be desired if the disease
has once started. N >t only should
we live in the open, but we should
stand up straight and learn to
'throw a big chest', so that the
lungs can grow strong and the fresh
air taken in.
"The runner, the singer or any
one who is obliged to make sus-
tained effort is to stand and sit
with the chest high, so that the
lungs can be used to the best ad-
vantage, and if every one would
do the same thing there would be
less tuberculosis because there
would be fewer weak lungs.''
DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR?
That man who lives next door to
you-did it ever occur to you that
he may live in the same town with
you, or in the same county, at least?
It may be that his father and your
father were boyhood friends. You
might have met him somewhere be-
fore you were either one old enough
to remember much about it, and
no doubt you will meet again in
after-life.
Why don't you get acquainted?
There is somethin good in every-
body if you will only take the
trouble to cultivate their acquaint-
ance. Some day you are going to
need these friends that you are
passing up now. Better prepare
for the time when the few friends
you have around you now will be
scattered and when you will be left
alone, stranded.
Make a new acquaintance today;
cultivate his company until you
make a friend out of him. You can
do that while you are sitting around
idly ing away your spare moments
with the friends that you have now-
and it will be much more profita-
ble.
Remember that it takes money to
run a newspaper, and if your sub-
scription is due it will go to a cer-
tain extent toward helping pay
that expense. Renew at once. We
need the money.
QUAKER CITY BEHIND TIMES
Statistics Shaw That Sheee of Phlla-
delphlana Mint Frequently Laek
the Proper Polish.
Philadelphia doesn't keep its shoes
well polished. Washington and
Boston do very much better in this
particular.
A merchant who knows whereof
he calculates is authority for saying
the Hub buys a great deal more shoe
polish than does this city of inde-
pendence, and Washington surpasses
the home of the baked bean.
Even without these trade statistics
it would be apparent to any observer
that there are more busy bootblacks
in Washington and Boston than can
be seen in Philadelphia. The great
number of long, thin boot-shine
"parlors" in those towns have no
substitute here.
But Europe beats all of our towns
in keeping a perennial shine on its
shoe. That, I Imagine, is due to
the prevalence of the custom in all
hostelries of having a "boots." He
shines while you slumber, and I'm
ready to wager that you never were
able to escape from any European
inn. however small, without en-
countering the outstretched hand of
"boot ."—Philadelphia Ledger.
SURGICAL WORK MADE EASIER
Anesthetizing Machines Render Poe-
slble Operations Hitherto Scarcely
Deemed Worth Thinking Of.
Machines for administering ether,
chloroform or other anesthetics have
been devised, which make the work
of the surgeon easier and safer for
the patient. An improved machine
is being used in several eastern hos-
pitals which is motor-driven and
seems destined not onty to simplify
present methods of anesthetizing, but
to open a field to surgery which here-
tofore hgs been almost bevond the
reacn of the íeni/e. Wltü '"the new
"machine ft "is possible to maintain
normal lung pressure while the chest
cavity is being explored, a problem
solved as a mere by-product of me-
chanical anesthesis, while the patient
is freed from distress as the effect
of the drug wears away. Gas and
air, and gat and oxygen may be
given in any predetermined amount
supplied by this machine. Eminent
surgeons believe thift method of an-
esthesia has a wide and varied field.
—-Popular Mechanics.
HOPCLE88.
"Better take this patient out of
the observation ward and place him
with the incurables," said the great
alienist
"But his hallucinations were not
out of the ordinary," said the head
of the insane asylum. "Ke imagined
he was Napoleon. Why do you re-
gard his ease as hopeless?"
"He told me that he was the pres-
ident of Mexico," replied the great
alienist.
8ELF-APPRECIATION.
"King Lear is a great character,"
remarked the friend.
"Yes," answered the actor. "I sup-
pose you remember my performance
last season ?"
"No, I confess I have never seen
you in the part."
"Indeed \" was the rejoinder in a
tone of gentle surprise. "Then how
on earth did you know it was a great
character?"—Liverpool Mercury.
QUITE TRUE.
Patience—Ta fold letters and in-
sert them in envelopes I see is the
purpose of a simple hand-operated
machine patented by a Georgia man.
Patrice—But you never hear of
any man patenting any device to re-
mind 'em to mail 'em.
HABIT.
"Why has Jinks had the paths in
his suburban place all such queer
serpentine ones?"
"He had to have them that way to
suit the walk he's learned in the city
dodging autos and motorcycles."
INTERESTING FIGURES.
"I find the professor's statistics
stupid."
"I don't He told me there were
400,000,000,000 people in the world
and that I waa the prettiest gúrl in
the lot"
HIS AFFLICTION.
"Does your husband suffer with
anything like a somnolent tea-
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In Shape.
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is sometimes necessary to take a
Tonic to keep the interior depart-
ment in order.
For that Don't Caro Fooling
which sometimes comes over you
a bottle of Nyals Iron Tonic Bit-
ters is excellent.
If you want something to tickle your nose we have an ex-
celent Stock of the finest Perfumes.
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STUDEBAKER WAGONS
Is the Wagon that all the farm-
ers need for hauling their cotton
and other farm products to
market, as they are the most
substantial wagons made. We
have just received a car load of them and our prices are
reasonable.
We ateo have full stock of Deep Well Pumps,
Wind Mills, hog Proof Fencing, Corrugated Roofing, etc.
- Don't forget us for everything in
GROCERIES and HARDWARE.
A. F. GRABOW
HARDWARE GROCERIES IMPLEHENTS
Lay Your Flooring
♦ <
With lumber from this yard
and you will get a surface as
even, as a billiard table.
Every board wil match,
every tongue and groove will
fit to a hair's breadth.
It will stay level too. Our
lumber is all sessoned when
you get it, so there is no
shrinking or warping to an-
noy you afterwards. That's
a point worth considering.
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Martin-Taylor Lumber Conpany
CiMweil, Texas
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Burleson County Ledger and News-Chronicle (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1914, newspaper, February 20, 1914; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168866/m1/4/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.