El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-31
Window Wishing New Fad
Tempting Store Windows Make
People stop and Long, and Buys
Some Little Interviews.

! Tosepb II. Northman, of Everybody
! deDar+ment store. "As FL PasO grows
| to be a city of first Importance in the
! southwest the window shoppers are
/ becoming more and more factor IN IN
/ our business. We are trying 70 ScIOOL
/ our clerks in the motto UnaI a loOhSI
of today is buyer or tomorrow
! have known instances where people
have seen something in windows Tor
Z which they returned and asked SIX
months later, and we know tnaL thls
/ form of advertising pays
! 'sAt our annual meeting of the Texas
: Bank and Trust company, we set ASIDE
/ another $4,000 as a surplus 5 ss.l4 ua -
/ Orndorff. president of the Texas BaIlk
and Trust company "Inls makes our
surplus SIS, 600, which IS doing pretty
well for bank which has been IN eN-
J istence only Is months we elected our
/ directors and officers over again anu Ll-.
we are expecting the best year IN our
I history during 1914
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'eThe Christmas card promises to
solve the problem of the high cost or
Christmas shopping" said 2. H. Cur
| ran. Our trade in Christmas cards TINS
I year was greater than any Christmas
in the past and our order this year was
so great that our buyer marVeIed al
the quantity of them The fact IS,
Christmas is becoming more and more
a children's festival and the grOWnupS
are combining themselves to Christmas
cards and gifts which are practical W
had cards which sold as high as 81 this
year and there was big demand Tor
them. Our store was crowded during
the month of December, and the card
buyers were with US constantly.
'In addition to the hard luck that
Sothern and MarlOWe have met on Inelr
| Texas travels" said Frank s. Frlckle-
ton. they lost the train with their
special Romeo and Juliet scenery The
scenery was packed IN the last Irelsnt
car on the special train, and sOmeW mere
between Del Rio and FL PasO IL be-
came uncOupled and dropped off, and
its loss was not observed until the
train arrived in FL PasO. The scenery
for the production OF Romeo ana 1ullet
had to be arranged from the scenery
for Tanning of the Shrew and other
plays Of their repertoire
ct don't feel wen acquainted with
this sort of weather that has been
handed out to US by the weather man,
said sewer commissioner James W.
Hadlock, edgiug a little nearer the
steam radiator in the city hall office
TT is altogether too much of a variety
to be packed into one little day. 1t IS
like the story of the Irishman, VINO
said that spring, summer, winter cold,
hot, wet and dry weather was all hand
cd ont in one day so THAI each man
could take his choice and Oe happy
However that may be wish we could
weather. don't like these fogs.
=
ct don't suppose any other locality In
Mexico has suffered more through MILF
tary disturbances than have our col
Onies in western Chihuahua says o.
p Brown. FL PasO representative or
the once flOurishing Mormon colonies
OF Dublan, PacheCO. Chulchupa and
Juarez. "Salazar cleaned US out pretty
thoroughly last year and we thought
the limit had been reached until MAXI
mo CastillO's bandits appeared near
Dublan recently and robbed several OF
our people The COnStituuOnalist au-
thOrities at Juarez are trying to give
US protection by sending out detach-
ments to hunt down the Castillo fol-
lowers, but so far the outlaws nave
not been rounded up"
Mark my words" declared DO
litical prophet Adrian Pool is bound
to be the rings candidate for county
judge. Anyone who has had his ear to
the ground for the past two months
has heard that rumble Believe me it
viii be some rumble, too, when POOLS
candidacy is announced. Have you
kept tab on these hunting trips to
Pools ranch. say for the last three or
four SaturdayS2 Mayor Kelly was al
ways the hOnOred guest I tell You
they are grooming Pool for the county
judges job 1t has been said for some
time that Eylar would not be a ca1d1- I
date for reelection, and I am sure that
:
running there is going to be a shakeup
in the ring. and Pool will be fastened I
to 1t rs the candidate for the county
JudgeSh1D. Pool is strictly mayor Kel- Z
Tvs prOteEe in this business and IL
viii be the mayor who will saddle him
onto the ring. With Pool in the race I I
predict that we viii have an anti-ring
man for county judge after the cleo
ton"
did YOU ever put your hand under
a chair in restaurant and fail to
bring It out with a piece of chewing
gum fastened to one of your fingerST' I
asked Louis r Behr. holding Up a fin
ger to the end of which was attached I
weeks browsing Try that whenever
You go into a restaurant. It is de-
ishtful nastime. If YOU can keep from
getting peeved you viii find it anus
ing."
THE arrival here of many refugees /
from Mexico has increased the mem I
berShiD rolls at the Y. NJ. c. A." saws I
alton. Many of the younger members {
of the refugee Mexican families have I
Joined the y and we have a real refu- 4
gee class. The boys. as rule. would I
find time heavy on their hands if they f
had no diversion and they are able to I
get all they want here. The number /
Of Uncle Sans fighting men who have /
enrolled here lately as also worth mem /
Nobody has any idea how easily /
film viii take fire and how desperate ,
Il it burns. until he sees one burn" /
said J. D. Wheelan. general manager I
for Texas of the Mutual Film com
pany. who is in FL PasO as he eX-
changed stories with bunch Of friends /
in Win Winch's office at the Wigwam
last night "I took over 500 feet of
him recently Of train wreck and was
very proud Of my work 7 was prepar-
ing to have it run. when 7 laid it down
in my office to do something and laid
clsaret on top of the film roll. soon
heard n suffering and saw that the
film was on fire. I put il under q
hydraut and tried to put it out. but it
lrst continued TO sDutter and burn, I
though it did not blaze Then I nut it
into the sink and covered it with wa
ter. but it still sizzled. and il burned
completely up, under that water"
It had an experience making moving
pictures in Juarez two years ago that