The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PLANO STAR-COURIER
VOL. XLI1. NO. I
PLANO, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, FERRU U>’Y 11. l!L'l
subscription $1.50 Per Year
NOTICE
I Owing to decline in prices of
coal at the mines, we are decreas-
ing our prices accordingly—
Genuine McAlester $14.00
Illinois Nut . . . $13.50
We deliver any amount for 50
cents a load. Call 36.
Plano Hill & Ice Co.
j News 22 Years Ago,
From the Plano Star
'Governor Culberson has Just re rust'd
* • 'mmendatitm of the Hoard of Par-
of 11 ill i
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J. T. ELLIOTT LUMBER CO.
DEALER IN
All kinds of Building Material and Coal. Highest,
grades at lowest prices.
Call on us before you buy.
F. Schimelpfenig, Mgr.
to pardon Tom Varnell,
>iinty.” liven then the pardon machinery I
was of doubtful utility, as ntcs tliners re-
call Varnell was accused and convicted of I
a particularly atrocious offense against a
young woman.
• It is given out that In the tram rob-
bery near lil Paso ?30,0oa in cush ana |
$f,ii,a0a in money orders was secured by ,
tin- rubbers. ” .So lung ago as that mall
robbery was a fashion.
"A few miles from Pallas," the Plano)
Star says, "a young buck negro lias Just i
asaulteii n woman of seventy, who was |
gathering vegetables in her garden.
Wry similar to the offense near Pallas
Iasi* year for w Id, h a young negro was
hanged at (he county jail.
■Vol. William .1 Bryan." the Star says,
"has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., with hi.
rt giment, to Join the Porto ltican expedi-
tion." It will ho recalled that we were
then fighting with Spain. Col Bryan
never got across the water to the battle-
fields abroad, but shortly afterward he
consoled himself by making political bat-
tlefields of his own at home, and has been
miv fighting ever since.
The Star said:
if men are the salt of the earth, women
are undoubtedly the sugar. Sail Is nec-
i essary. sugar Is a luxury. Vicious in, u
| are saltpetre, stern men are rock salt,
| nice' men are table salt. Old maids mo
| brown sugar, good imtured matrons tie
! loaf sugar and pretty girls the pulverized
j sugar. Pass the pulverised sugar picas,'."
j Clint G ulledge T ells
Tourists How to Go
(Clint Gulledge in Carollton Chronclcle.)
Well, the new bridge just north oi
town is finished, and has been opened tol
the public, and I urn sure glad, for may-
be I won’t have to advise so many trav-
elers.
Monday a man enmo along and asked:
"Which road must I take to Frisco?" I t
told him we did not have any road l<>.
spare and besides he would have no placi j
to put it when he got to Frisco.
I Tuesday one asked: “How do you go I
] to Grapevine?” 1 told him 1 walked, hiulj
j no other way of going.
Wednesday another on, asked Can 1|
| take this road to Dallas?" 1 told him 1o
i see the Commissioners, 1 could not tell
j him.
Thursday another man . i ’W hich
way to Fort Worth’." I told’ hint west, j
Friday a man said: "Say neighbor w<
want to go to Dallas."’ All right sir. l|
don’t object, go ahead.
One man going east asked: "Is this
I the right road to Dallas? "I told him that
; was tlie left road, this way through town!
was the right hand road,
j So now that tho bridge is completed j
I 1 won’t have to take n whipping
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PRINTING That PLEASES
Anything from a Show Poster to a
Visiting Card.
Every Kind of Printing Except the
Bad Kind
the STAR-COURIER press
Plano, Texas.
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Taking the Law
On Your Neighbor
My neighbor, Johnson, plays the flute,
I hear him at it night and day; he can-
not play it. worth a hoot, and yet ho
whangs and whangs away. There ought •
to be a law, I’ve said, when much incens-
ed by music stale, whereby punk flutists]
might be lei to court, and fined, and (
placed in jail. For nowadays we all be-
: vo In shooting laws at everyjay; if I
anything should chanco to peeve, we want
a statute right away. And so I sat me1
down to think how 1 might have a stat- ]
ule framed, to cincli this fluting Johnson,
gink, and make him sorry ana ashamed. I
And as I sat 1 heard him say to some one
just beyond the hedge. "I wish that
bard woud move away—he surely keeps
my nerves on edge. Ho has a wheezy I
phonograph that plays a lot of ancient ]
slop; month after month 1 stand the gaff, j
there is no law to make, him stop. I’d play
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chords that throb and thrill, but when I
start that fat galoot turns loose his clank-
ing music mill. Now, you are learned in
law. my man. so tell what methods one
employs to get a statute that will can
that obeso poet and his noise," Long
hours I sat there, sad and mute, then
muttered with a hollow laugh, "Before I
rquolch my neighbor’s flute I'd better bust
my phonograph.—Walt Mason.
Hot Water Bottles
Kade To Withstand The
Hardest Sort of Service
A hot water bottle is put to so many uses that
its durable qualities should always be eonsid-
ered. We are offering a special lot made of
extra heavy rubber and with reinforced seams.
In addition to the comfort which a hot water
battle brings to cold feet it mav be uaed in
treating many minor ailments such as earache,
toothache, neuralgia, etc.
Every home should have a number o! these
useful bottles and now’s the time to buy.
They’re h*rked hv the manufacturer's guaran-
tee.
One Farmer Beat the
Game in Small Way
p<T
for
Th« Star-Courlar loams this week of
one farmer, at least, who has beat the
game of the price-fixers of tho crop of I
That ts W. A Reece, of Cotton-1
wood, who was here Wednesday
Last year he grew a good crop of Irish \
potatoes, and sold thirty bushels for Mi I
bushel. Mow he is buying potatoes
>r his table in th© market I i
Probably he was led to play the game
that way. because of his experience In the i
northwest, however. For a number of j
years he lived in North Dakota, who re Irish
po tabus grow almost without cultivation 1
and produ' « 600 bushels per aero. He j
figured that hi* Texas crop would eel]
higher when he dug it, than he would
have to pay in the winter when the north- I
ern or reecbed the Sooth
M". Reeae seye Imlmta farmers wouls
get rich if they oenid sell their Irish po-
tato crop at I* cent* |*er bushsl He sayt
that tlie further north n goc« tr,
plant Irish potatoes, tnc ©etter th" crop,!
and that tho farther south li" goes to!
plant sweet potatoes, the better the crop.
Tax Reports Show
Scant Farm Profits
'crybody Is now work
e tax report. One of t
revelations of these report
rences In the amounts of
a l’lano land owners as we
! ,~m< re Many who paid a
fr,»m t.-.n to *:.on last viar
mo
At*
S. M. HARRINGTON, Pharmacist
m
us
Still sellir g lumber at the 'amt
small profit that we always did.
Therefore it i? to your interest to
buy from u*.
,T. T. Elliott LfimbeT Co.
THE ICE CREAM
for All Occasions
Clubs and parties en-
tertaining will find
Crystal ice cream an |
ideal refreshment
Special orders of any ■
flavor, any color and in .«
form representing any
figure appropriate to 1
the occasion. Let us j
take your orders foren- }
tertainments.
Short Orders
CIGARETTES, CIGARS
and SOFT DRINKS
The Busy Bee
\ Pool of Farm Crops
Is Goal of Farmers
ED DINWIDDIE
Proprietor
YOU CANNOT PREVENT
LIGHTNING
But you can prevent a fire
loss due to lightning. Of
course your property is in-
jured, but is it fully protect-
ed? Have you thought of
its present value?
Get an estimate for re-
building your house and
compare it with the amount
of your fire policy. Then
come to us and we will ar-
range to have a good, relia-
ble company like the Hart-
ford Fire Insurance Com-
pany carry more of the risk.
Insure here.
JOE BRADSHAW
Insurance
Plano
Texas
DON’T MSS THE
Old Maids
Convention
To-nitfht at auditor-
ium, at 8o clock. Minty
Clevertop will give some
good reasons why some
Plano boys are not mar-
ried. Many other “old
maids” will give sug-
gestions along rnatrio-
rnonial lines. Bachelors
and widowers urged to
be present, Good music
and readings. Home
talent.
Ruth Russell Society
ADMISSION ISc & 35c
Fin n F. if, >n F- >!■
m tlm f,
ink. Vug
ALL PAST DDE ACCOUNTS
We are carrying must be
settled or adjusted
NOW
■HKI
! Those who owe these ac-
i counts will please call im-
| mediately for settlement or
\ adjustment.
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PHONE 9b
CEEY CO.
iliac, i• >',>i> ir•
LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!
Why not j^ive us a trial. You can get
the best shave in town for 15c and
tho best haircut for 25c. Why pay
more? For we want your trade.
JIM WSRDE'S TONSORIAL PARLOR
Plano, Texas
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• ill gi.'t i! Wa-
ng the - i n' pnii'i|ii' i <• 1,1 nIv in <>th*T
Wliili ••mi>ii:itl<'nlly iirn'miiinvlng ngnin.-t
lay thing savoring of pollticn In th" or-
janization, Mr Howar.l wiyn:
"A "O'nMldorablc port Ion of what th"
Annrii.'.in Farm Hup n u I i|. r.i l n ,n - In. t >■
o um-',ni|ili‘ h inn:.i <:<>mi through l"ginl.i
tion, both national nnil lal> Th" bark
ir "f Ih" Ulan n-.ilizi liial thii" mu '
Kodak Pictures That Please You.
Ten Years Experience.
Prompt Service, low prices,
j Mail your Films,
Film Packs or Negatives.
j WM. E. CARR, R. F. D. No. 4, Plano, Texas.
I Phone 2304.
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! Dallas is Tougher
Than the Oil Field:
This is our odvice to every or.e who
is planning on any building or Im-
provement.
Lumber prices or
labor is plentiful i
available
lown, way down;
i all materials are
The Day of Miracles
Has Come Again
In view of t-.c shortage of homes and
buildings everywhere a real building
boom is expected this summer. Then
the same o!d story of inefficienf labor,
shortage of materials will probably
come along with rising costs.
Come in and find out for yourself how
much less that home will cost now.
MJM U
Thirtv-aeven Plano people at
pany. Keep Plano money in P ?i
kholdera in thi* corn-
PLANO LUMBER CO.
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The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1921, newspaper, February 11, 1921; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth570416/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.