Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 130, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 27, 1918 Page: 3 of 4
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Advance
Autumn
Modes
Here are the first of the
season's styles.
They clearly show the ten-
dency of Fashion in silhouette
fabric, color and trimming,
giving you the first sure
guide to intelligent and non-
wasteful purchasing.
St IIS in poplin, serge, broadcloth, velour, tricot me,
silvertone, and duvet de laine. Colors black, navy, brown,
taupe, .deer, Somme blue and burgundy.
Prices: $19.50, $25.00, $29.50, $35.00, $:19.50.
l)RF,SSES in serge, satin, meteor, crepe de chine,
geoigette ai.d coniliinations. Colors black, navy, taupe,
brown.'
Prices: .51t;.5o. $19.50, $25.00, $29.50, $35.00.
\\ A IS IS in crepe de chine and georgette in new and
pretty models. Colors, white, tlesh and navy.
Prices $2.95 and $0.50.
SKI UTS in plain woolens and silks as well as fancy
plaids and stripes, and models galore.
Prices: $0.50. $8 50, $9.50, $12.50.
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WESTERN PUINS
eilant Caravans Move Out of Drouth
Areas o 1 Texas, Leaving Parched
Land Possessions Behind.
raw
Three rears of drouth has placed a j
crown or thorns on the men, woman
anfl children of West T«ui and with
oul ttonny, *oiue without the vary ne-
cessities of life, without food for thalr
animals who are drawing them toward '
greener field* and richar harvest*, the i
caravans of desolation are dragging
their way Into the dtiai of Fort Worth
and Waco, and men who held high
their heads In title and ownership are
offering themselves 'for sale" that
they may sustain their women and t
children sheltered from the flaming
sun by tarpaulin* which have not felt
the moisture of the sides for so long
that the youngest o 1 the cant\«n never
uw rain.
"Heartrending" is the word that haa ;
come to Food \draluistmtor Pedon !
from the drouth at.a I^ist year the
farmers and the cattlemen Inured It
out. Surely nature herself, could not
be so cruel as to inflict upon them an
other year a scourgr of intense heat
and shriveling up of the plains; but
this year there is nothing loft to chal
lenite a ravage of li.uure as relentless
as the great guns in their devastating i
of the northern plains of Prance
I he situation is without the province
of man and dollars. Rain lmh forgot ,
ten the plains no i ouda break the in-
tensity of the blin. no reiresliatent
comes in dew, no relief advance* in a
kindly mist or fog All thai ran he
done Is to in ip the men and the wo
nun and the children as they come
iuto Fastern Ti-xit -
AUOHOL-a PBH GENT
. AV^UhlclVcjMwboafctA.
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tin^t^imdkaedB^*^
Therhy Promoting WMj®
{Jwcfalnctt and Rwtfjort*
I ncttJrOptam.Mvirphineiw
3 Millfftl Not Narcotic
4b irm
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Genuine Castoria
Always
Bears the
Signature
of
Jiclpfullicmcd)
Diarrttt*
n^l Ftwrjshncss nod
Los*ofSL«I*
irJaifini llH'tflXWi i" IwW
j '«> Simile Sijitalf*af
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M:W YORK*
Kxact 4-v of Wrapper.
The Great Nationally
Cleanser
A chipped Soap for washint the flaaat fabrtaa
of Silk, Wool Linen, Etc.
Not an experiment.
Wangemann-Reichardt Co.
H \ol4$aU Groctrn and Coffw Jtoaetera
i m
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
CASTORIA
TMC«|NT,Vfl(flli.|lN. DtwVMIimi
The Silent Exodus.
E H SplHer se, n (an of the Cattle
Raiser- \ssociatloh of Texas, report-
ed that Fort Worth Is crowded with
wagons ol "expatriates o( the plains,"
ami the same intelligence come* from
; Waco on one day alone 125 fatnlllet.
i passed through Hrownaood, mid on
another day no fsuuli^s passed
through Uoliithwuite
On August 17 Administrator Veden
. wired io Governor Hobby on the sit-
uation
j "Drouth conditions now prevailing
tn Wextern Texae most serious in his
tory of the country. Oldest Inhabi-
tants have no recollection of anything
approaching It. i'en counties in the
Brown wood district will not make an | (IJj Lieut, U A Hobson, of tlx
average of 500 bales of cotton per I
I county ai. against normal production . '*">»! Author of Air
Of 15.000 bales. Thousands of farmer* iraft in Wui did fence"
• and farm hands .nyi'sshrih seeking 1 ,
Other employment and an average of ." -olldou. Aigust 3 (by mail)
250 farmer* a day are leaving the dls I What could In more
trie t.
"There is no grain crop If we can j
Ret rains in the next 90 days, with j don power of (he ntniosporic all to
I proper State mid Federal aid, farmer*
AIRMEN TALK TO
EARTH FROM SKY
Wireless Hfanch l» Highly
Spcciatzcd Part ol
Wif Work.
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COPIES OF GAME
LAWS ARE RECEIVED
Changes Have Been Made in
State Laws; I.incense:,
Required.
County Clerk (Jreen Morgan has
received copies of the new state j
game, fish and oyster laws of the j
State of Texas, printed in convenient j
form. The hunters of the coutifv ;
are Invited to call and seen <• cop
ies of the laws.
Extracts from the laws will be In-
teresting:
Closed Season for Killing Doves.
Article 889a. From and after the
passage it shall he unlawful for any
person to kill any doves during the J
period of time embraced between the
first day of February and the first
Thir
then you'll appreciate
the subtle flavor of
FEHR'S •
Distinctive Beverage
Delightfully good as
well as remarkably
beneficial.
At hotels, restaurant*. dru t
•tore*, grocery Stores foun-
tilns, and wherever bever-
ire* are soM
Order it by the cue from
# your dealer
Central Consumers Co.
LOtTSVrUt, glNTVCSV
FEHRS
IICMT
i uay ol December ol uuy year; pro-
] voted, however, that In those conn
lies ot the Slate l.wii^ north ol the
line marking the northern bound a
ries of Shelby, Nacogdoches, Ange-
lina, Houston, l^eou, Hobiusou, Falls,
Hell, Lampasas, Man Sutia, McCul-
loch, Conciio, Tom Ureen, Irion, Ke
gan, Upton, Ward,Loving, Culberson,
Hudspeth and El Faso, it shall be
unlawful foi any person to kill any
dove during the period of time em-
braced between the first day of No-
vember and the thirty-Urst day ot
August of any yew.
Closed Season on IIuks uni Crajipie.
Article 4,000. Sec. 3: It shall be
unlawful for auy person, firm or cor-
poration, or their agents, to take,
catch, seize, entiap by any means, or
have ill their possession, auj crappie
or bass taken irom any public fresh
waters of this State from the first
day ol March to the first day of May
of any year.
Sec. 4: if an> person shall at
any time catch or take from any
public fresh water river lake, bay-
ou, lagoon, creek, pond or other
natural public artificial stream or
pond of water, within this State by
! use of any means whosoever any
I crappie or bass of less than six Inch-
es in length, he shall immediately
j return same back to such public wa-
! ter; and that unnecessary Injury to
: any such fish shall be deemed an of*
i tense under the provisions of this
! Act provided that each such fish
shall constitute a separate offense
Section 5: Any person violating
any of the provisions of this Act
| shall lie guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be
j punished by a fine in any sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
l/cmm (Jets First Mcense.
c. w. I^emm as usual, procured
the first hunter's license In the
county. Few license* have been Is-
sued so f*r-
would lie able to plant wheat anil out a,
hut they must have this aid "
Similar conditions to that In the
Urownwond section are reported to
Administrator Heden from the district
administrators at San Angolo and
Abibi IIIo, and a riK ilatlon of tlieae con-
ditions haa been wired to OovernoT
Hobby by the three administrators of
Brownwood, San Angelo and Amarlllo.
Trying to Help Them.
Administrator l i'deu is deeply con-
cerned over the situation and ha*
placed the facts before II. VV l.ewl*.
chief of the 1'nlted States employment
aervlce for Texu, at Han Antonio, aa
■well as directed latter* to his county
ftdmlnlstr&tors urging that they gtva
the extent of personal relief nee4«4;
•l*o that wherever theae unhappy
families can be pl«< ed so as to gala a
livelihood that immediate report ba
made
I. iTj iff i*i ill Ji t ill it. A A Ji JiL lAAiAii
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PENALIZATIONS BY
FEOERAL FOOD ADMIN-
ISTRATION FOR TEXAS.
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comparatively weak accumulators
hllhertii employed
Copper \V Ire Vmil.
The aerial on »u aircraft conalats
of a length of copper wire, with a
lead weight on the eud, rolled on a
■t» iin This can lie wound or uu-
wouiui al will, by the observer, but
en re must, be taken 111 unwinding,
Coi ii iIn winch I* lelt to run free,
the bad wiKhl will snap the wire
and rendf i Hie aIioI. outfit unserv
ieeable in a second Most people 1
nave .in an serinl on board ship I I
uatuial ttiuu It it the wire slielebed horlrontallv |
(hat the airuui alio fUrctta the hid between the maals.
Another form of cotnmunlcailon I
iiiaiutiiiu his crait aloft, should j between aircraft and the earth con
again employ jbiti same ethei to ear- > siats of a niessuai bug. This la n |
ry his uie*sa|i to earth. There are long. thin, brigbtly-coioixd streamer
oilier inethod/tif cutnuiunleatlon, of *ilh n little weighted pocket at one
course, but wirtlcss telegraphy is i extremit v The aviatot also fre
prodOtninaDt. I i uueiitl* "talks" by inaaus of a day
l ite wircletstt jirHdch is a vur} light signalling lamp. Tbl* Is a de
highly specmluep department of the vice lot flashing the Morse code
Koyal air force, and Its work Is of; Miiuewhal on the principle of a
liist-clasH iuiporaiice. Uu laud, its searchlight, and Is chiefly used in
chief hut not la sole function is flvlnr at low heights when Cooper
concerned with Bpultlnii lor the ar-' alliiK with the infantry during tin at
tilbrry. Hi itisli airplanes tly for ! tack Hut these, and the other
hours at u atretuh over the (Jeruiuu method* used, have rather narrow
lines; circling ctinipaialiveiy alowlj liniiialioiiw cumpArinl with wireless
over a given uret, Ihey rogiatei for i<'l>'Kia|ihy
tiie guns below until the woik of de - — ——
slrucllou haa been completed. Mrs. Ktuu III.
Far fttlow. lu the advanced posi Mis W, Kna* of New Wnbden. has
Uons of the field baUerle* are Ul« i been seriously ill lor the past few
wireless telegraphy mechanic* re-1 day*, ller condition i* Improved to-
Our Excels
Liniment
FOR THE RELIEF OF
RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA,
SPRAINS, BRUISES, WEAK JOINTS, BTC.
Useful in all coses Requiring an
External Counter-irritant
HUH YOUR TIRED, ACHING FEET WITH
THIS CLEVEREST LINIMENT
The Schirmacher Drug Co.
T. C. HAIRSTON, M.n.gor
IHHMHMBM
eel v nig cor lection* by wireloaa from , day.
of th« I Die airplanes. Their work involve*
Visitor* from Vavanota.
Messrs H*I Stoneham and P«t_N
Fayhe of Navasoti are In the city on
legal business today.
Revocation of the licence
Union Grain Company, Fort Worth, far | considerable ejio*ure to shell Ore.
failure to make adjustment on four
earn of corn handled for Kemper Mill : At sea. wirel«sa !• extuuatvoly u»ed
Elevator Company. , lu col)necUou wlU, submarine cha*-;,h,! ,"ark"t Tu"KUliy HectlpU
Taylor « Tboma*. bakerr. Fort u,.„ *vl„. are fan More cotton would proba
Cutl<>ii Item lien Ittgh Mark.
ftiitoll <ouch*d 34 1-4 cents on
Worth, discontinuance of the baking
of product* other fhan bread aad rolls
for a period of thirty days.
Herrle Steam Uakury, San Antonio,
bl.v have been marketed but for the
lng Sea planes, flying boat* and
ai i ships carry out lung patrols In co-
operation with dssiroyera. lmumd. j ' «»=.( a large number of farmers
rtenri*? oitimu uuriji j, osu auwhimi j >t,.....
dUcontinuance of baking of other prod- aiely ihe aircraft Might a U-boat, tbo I nior i hm «
uc^than bread and roll* until Oct®- | dMlroy-r, Mormtd by wiralea* left at IMt for Camp Travis
Model Bakery, San Marcos, cloaiaf of lu exact location. This method to enter th.- mlli'ai.v
A* ' " highly suc«e*sful, lor a submerged
tonlo, discontinuance of the baklAf | submarine which I*-invisible from
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Wit* ION I Olt t AMI' IMfUlK
i itpl. H. I,, turnover Has lloeii
f,uc«t at Home ot Mr. mid Mrs.
titvon Morgan.
Captain \V. I,, tlroover leit for
Cniup lltiwle lns< nlghf aftse n vl*lt
to his cousin*, Mis. tlreoii Morgan
and Miss Myrtle Ward lie bus just
returned from Tampa, Florida,
where lie spent a fill lough with bis
sister Captain (Iroover was for*
marly sfalloned with the SOVth Oav«
airy al Fort Ham Houston, but spent
llie past aU weeks at Camp Perry,
Ohio He ba* been aunt ,o Camp
Howie to organlte an artillery com
pa iiy
District ll»ard Meet*.
AHoruey W VV Mnircy Is in Aus
tin ultending a tineting of the dls
Irlet exemption bonul for the west
eru district of Tenia.
Hance at (iermanla.
Miss Orauelle Schubert gave a de-
lightfully informal dance at derma
uia Monday evening, cotnplliuentar)
to August and John Kalh, young so-
ciety hoy* of Houston, who are
guests at the home of Mr, and Mra.
Oscar Hcbuberl. (lood music was
provided and the congenial crowd
of young people spent • very happy
evening.
It<« ovet lug front TypfauM.
Frits, the little *on of Mr. and
Mr* K F. Hchrosder of Lire Oak
lllll, la recsverlng front * siege of
typhoid fever.
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POH HBNT House on Jgckson
street Iting 5*" Adv. 130-1 St.
sea level can be seen clearly from
the air, in good weather. It is a
significant fact Ibat every Herman
submarine Is lilted with an anti-air
craft gun.
Jllot* Pass TeeU.
Kvery pilot in the BrlUsb air ser-
GLAD TO TESTIFY
until October 1, and allottment ot flour
he fixed at 200 pound* a week.
Gleorge H. Ward, baker, San Mar-
cos, place of business closed for two
day* through failure to u*e prescribed
amount of *ubstltute*.
W. C. Neu*e. baker, Kyle, Texa*, die-
continuance of baking operation* for
period of one week for failure to use
prescribed amount of substitute.
City Bakery (Frank Kallue, propria- j vice must pass certain tests In wire-
tor). Ban Mar«os, place of business |(<M| before be la allowed
closed for one day >
Manhattan Cafe, San Antonio, doors , to gradual*; and In consequence at down pgjM| Jnd wou
closed voluntartly for two (lays practically ev«r» home training sU- h«d no gppetile. Then
Wolf Bakery Company. San An- ' ~7 , T; k lnd w
tonio license suajrended for 30 days, lion the air Is made musical by the wef"' * g * .
,W WW. iwr, w.«, w~ I "feMHtV ! lrMld
•uKpend«>d for 30 day*. J j inoihrf bou^nt tnc a ootuc ol
Imperial Bakery. Taylor, closed for Enormous strides have been uiade g*d | began to Improve
» period of one week
Bell Bakery Company, El Pa*«. dls-
continuance of baking product* other
than bread and roll* for a period of
kjn Watoga Lady, "A» Tt Wkal
Car4td Hag Done For Me, &•
A* To Help Othm."
Watogi, W. Va -Mra. S. W. OladweB,
ol this town, tayt: "When about 15 yean
ot age, I suffered greatly ... Sometimes
would go a month or two, and I had
terrible headache, hacks id bearing-
ast dug aad
wouiu lati
... two weeki, and waa so weakening.
during the war la the use of wire- j taking the first bottle, ao kept It up HUI
lea* telegraphy la aircraft. One of took three... I gained, and wm waO
and strong, and I owe tt all to Cardoi.
I am married now aad have 3 children
come the noise of the engine. But j ( ^ Hff# ^ to hgte g doctor for
S. C. WOP ON, WiwianfttoD*
tribotor. BrecLam, Tex-,
802, 201 K. 1W« *
BRYAN,
FOR HENT —Known aa fid Han
belt home 1 ml. south of court houee^
1 3-4 acres good rich land goes with
the place now From Janugry the
ft rat I ran furnish about nine acres
Utb the *an>e honse^
January the find, 1 will «*
other house for rent on the nut
hill with about nine an** of good
rieh land. Now Is the »me f°r
ganlens Bchon«eber-
, the chief difficulties was to over- j
^ t'V Kood Adrnimslr*tlon haa re- --—,h" "***•'"*' n"'
wh"i*^k*wi''>ob- j «WII and ingenuity con«uemd tbl* (male trouble, and )uat resort to Cardui
^SSibS i dIftrUity almost completely It Is KI need a tonic. I am glad to testify to
Ssosoon hs, r»- I not per.nis.lble to «ate Junt how It wteat tt has done tor ase, so aa to help
poru^im* "sweinT^'at: was accoiupllahed, for In theae nut-
mu4 •rf*ni*«kd to foo4«(uff)a • t#r* GemtsMf hMM not di»C^v«*r^d
- i ihe secret of various method* soe-
I eessfully usod by the British.
Itecnvering from Opemtkm.
8 Wlederker. who has been a p* I The effective range for wlrelee.
tleot at a Temple sanitarium, it re- transmitted from the air ban been
largely Increased. Not so very tong
ago the limit waa a few mltos. but
tbl* ha* now been grronUy exeeeded
| by means of the more powerful ear*
Artnmnl from Onlreaton. ! r««t provided by eleetrle generators;
Mr. and Mrs. John M. MntUa ro-j theae generator* are run of the
Monday night tnm a Aatt j neroplaaa engine to the larger m*^
covering from an operation, and la
expected to be Me to return to bis
k«m in Prairte Hill shortly.
If jnm are nervous of weak, have head*
backaches, or any of llie other
to women, wfrjr ao>
m vm r » Rccommriiiie® "f
In aae over 40 yean.
Cardui Mar- It may
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Money Never( Hunts Yon
The poor man may only liecoma rkh by first saving whfla he la
poor, do out after the money earn it gather it In—then bring tt
to this bank and I.KT US SAVE IT FOR YOU.
That will start vou on the way to Comfort- -aad Comfort and
Kirhes are close kin.
if you do it today it la done tomorrow it may be forgotten.
QIDDINQS & OIDDIlSICaS
«n*
to million bushels of potatoes mnat be
lag yours new aad aave wheat-
Make It An Electrical Summer
Remember how you bolted and awattarad last
over that old cook atova? Romember bow fM
youraelf you would perauada Friend Huabaad to-
Electrify the Horn
Now is the time to make good on that
ifi«ur« a pieaaant, comfortable raminar.
Then the queation of Fuel will be
put it all up to the power company aad
We aeil EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL FOB
HOME, and uk an opportunity to ottk* four
fortabta.
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