El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-26
Must Live Out of Cans
No Fresh Fruit For Ell PasO This
Winter-EXampIe of Army Dis
cipIine-LitfIe Interviews.
GLEL PAsOANs win have to live out

GGTL PASOANS will have to live out
! n, of cans this winter" said G. G.
- franklin, Of the JacHscn Stand
( ard grocery. 1.-The Texas liberia peach
! crop was only One-third long this sea-
! son. the frOsts in California put the
] crimp into the fruit and vegetable
crops out there, and We viii nave 70
/ depend upon the canned products TINS
winter for our fruit and vegetable sup
/ plies. There is an erroneous opinion
of canned goods among many people
who do not know that they are much
| cleaner and better prepared for market
than the fresh fruit Under the gov
eminent pure food law, the canned
goods must be Aof the highest quaHty'
are marked on the label ana are more
desirable in many ways than the fresh
fruit, which is often picked green We
are anticipating a heavy sale OF timed
! mending it to our trade as being
cheaper than to buy the fresh fruit and
can it
Those army officers at the post who
tell of putting Tin pans under the legs
Of their tables in the Philippines TO
keep the ants away from food, are
little late with their dope, said
Prospect avenuer Friday afternoon
AT our house the ants have been pest
all summer They come up from under
9 the house, take possession OF the k1tcn-
! en-, pantry, bathroom and even invade
the bedrooms We have made every
effort to get rid of them, using gallons
of scalding water and box after box OF
ant paste, ant powder and other pat
ent preparations. We have finally driv-
en- the ant army back 10 the kitchen,
but the smell of food IS too strong Tor
them and they viii walk through miles
of ant poison to get at it Finally We
took four empty coffee cans, placed
one under each leg of the table, filled
the cans with water and there has not
been an ant served with food at our
hOnga
cans to keep them flied with water or
the ants vii invade the tables as soon
as one becomes dry.
A fine example of the splendid train
ing an American army officer receives
was given Thursday during the enter
tary of war Garrison. Capt. A P.
Watts, of the quartermaster corps at
Fort Bliss, was member Of the COM
mittee on entertainment appointed by
the chamber of commerce. He was as
signed TO the entertainment Of Nal
Gen J. B. AleShire, chief of the quar-
termaster corps
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock Capt.
Watts'S son, Arthur, fell from a horse
on the parade ground at Fort Bliss and
broke his left leg. The news was taken
10 Capt Watts by his orderly and the
boy was taken in charge by the hos
pital corps at the post Although Capt
Watts was much worried about the con-
ditiOn Of his boy. he realized that his
for his chief must be attended to and he
carried out his part OF the plans for the
luncheon, only stopping TO telephone
the fort TO inquire how his boy was
getting along This incident was known
to few at the luncheon Thursday. but II
brought home the point which the sec
rotary of war made in his speech that
the American army had the finest body
Of trained officers in the world
Harry S Burweu, assistant secre-
tary of the chamber of commerce. fig
ures up how far he walks from home to |
his office Walking from the 1900 /
block on Boulevard to the office each 1
day" he says. Z figure that I walk /
5S7 miles year. In the five and one
& Pacific railroad here, I figured that I !
walked to Fort Worth and back five
times"
Speaking of walking, said Harris
Walthau my father, judge A NJ
Walthau, proves that the youngsters
are not the best walkers He took me
for a stroll up the side Of Mount Frank
lin the other day and had me puff1ng !
like pOrpOiSe- He was not bit tired I
was He learned to walk down in the I
Panhandle when he first studied law
Each summer he would go out and car
~ the chain for a surveying gang |
Some days they would walk 20 or 80 /
miles and not think anything of 1t"
at am growing hair" said o. A !
CIitchett- Where there used to be but /
one hair, I now have a whole family /
of them and the straight one has !
turned into many little curly ones. All I!
do is to run an electric vibrator over /
the ton OF nv Uranium once OF twice a /
day and the hair comes OUT I mean /
grows out"