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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18
LYCEUM COURSE HAS BEEN
SECURED FOR SNYDER.

The Signal learns that the Snyder
Opera House Company has booked
an exceptionally fine course OF lee
lures and other lyceum entertain
ments for this season and the man
agement Of the Opera House are
elated over the fact they have secured
such fine list OF attractions for the
Snyder people
Below we publish a list Of the
course, the first number OF which will
be presented on Wednesday. Sept
I23:
White Star Concert Company,
Seichi lkemote. Lecturer.
Thomas McClary,
Meistersingers Male Quartette.
Sorority Singing Club.
Ray Newton, Mystic Entertainer.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18
COMMISSIONERS
COURT MATTERS

The Commissioners Court Of Sour
ry County met Monday OF this week.
Present: County Judge C. r. Buch-
anan, Sheriff J. b. Boles, County
Clerk, W. T. Skinner, Commissioners
Geo. W. Brown. J. d. Letcher. t. G.
stinson and ]. e. Thomas.
The county Judge was authorized
to purchase a car OF coal from strawn
Mining Company at t275 per ton.
T. o. b. strawn.
Resignation OF Il. l.. Sewalt as
public weigher at Fluyanna was ac-
cepted and J. s Collier appointed to
the position under a $500 bond.
Ordered payment to Austin Bros.
Of $4,000 as payment on the bridge
recently completed across Rough
creek.
County Treasurer was ordered to
transfer $4,000 from Road and
Bridge fund to cash fund
order payment to J. A. staveley
Of S250.00 out Of the road and bridge
fund for a change in the Fluvanna
and Gail road
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18
CIVIC PRIDE AND SACRED DUTY

The Signal Is In receipt this week
OF an unsigned communication IN
which the writer pays the people OF
Snyder a splendid compliment as be-
ing the cleanest people and keeping
the cleanest Cits that he has seen
in extensive trhvels over the state
and says that Snyder has the best
city MarshIf OF any town he has
AreZJese compliments he pro-
EsFi9piy that Snyder has the
most sadly neglected cemetery he has
s.sr and urges the people to set a
a., every week to go out there and
- on the weeds. level up the
.r.y.. and saow a srenter degree Of
.'-pect for the dead.
The communication was not pub
n.esd because the writer failed to
sIen Il.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Snyder people are getting In the
"Buy-a- Bale" line.
Blackard Brothers were the first
to comeacross a few days ago and J..
W Templeton was a close second.
The First State Bank and Trust Com
pany placed theirs in view with the
sign we bought this bale at 10
cents Have you?'
Mr.. and Mrs. J. V. White Of the
Maxwell hotel each bought a bale
paying ten cents a pound in cash for
II.
Others have said they are in the
push and will buy bale at 10 cents
and hold It tin the market comes to
Il.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

W. D, Sims, f. A. Morrow, Ira
sturdiyant and wife. Mrs o. l.. Nor
row and others spent last week at
Paint Rock as witnesses in the case
OF Richard Paulk, charged with kill
ing Bud Autrey In the spring Of 1913.
Ttey report the Jury verdict against
the defendant Of three years to the
penitcntiary with sentence suspend
ed. Higgins 4 Hamilton Of Snyder,
represented the defendant.
The party says this country has
better crops than any they saw down
In the Paint Rock and Ballinger
country.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Ed Glen. Of the Glen Brothers meat
market narrowly escaped being Sc
verely stung by a centiped early this
week. He felt something crawling
between his shirts and in trying to
locate what It was excited the thing
which proceeded to sting him twice
Ed came out Of his shirt like streak
Of lightning and found a full grown
centIped A physician attended the
wound Immediately and no serious
results are apt to follow.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18
WORKING THE DUNN ROAD.

Since hearing early this week that
the road from Snyder to Dunn was
In bad condition the Signal learns
that the grading machines were put
to work there Monday Commissioner
Brown started his road builders on
his end OF the road and Commission
er stlnson started his men and ma
ohInery to working on that part Of
the road within his district. They
will build road rapidly and In few
days we will have a Jam up road all
the way from Dunn to Snyder.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

G. n. Richardson was here Mon
day from Dunn He says the road
from Dunn 10 Snyder is bad In some
places. while the road from Dunn to
Colorado Is good. He wonders why
the scurry county people and esPec-
tally Snyder has suffered such condi-
tiors to be and while It may not be a
pleasant thing to talk about, the fact
remains that lots ct cotton that
ought to come to Snyder will go to
Colorado.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

r Bynum called around last
Wednesday and had the Signal date
of J G. Gilmore OF Maypearl Texas,
moved forward a full notch and adds
the Dallas News to hls supply Of
reading matter This makes three
Signals Mr. Bynum is paying for and
Of course we appreciate what he is
doing for u.s.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

by proclamation Of Mayor Noble.
next Saturday. Sept 1911, is set
apart In Snyder as cleanup day.
This will be an appropriate time
90 cut the weeds and clean mp the
trash on your premises, and to get
rid 1f same.
The signal hopes that the day viii
be- appropriately and universally OBJ
served by the people OF snyder
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Mri. jim Ketner aud Mrs. Dale
warren lefl a few days ago for East
Tennessee to be with Charlie Rain
water whp was reported rapidly fail
ing and not expected to live Mr. Ket-
ner received telegram Thursday
morning from his wife, saying that
they had arrived safely and found
Charlie better.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

ID. d. Daniels is busy storing his
grain crop this week. He has recent
ly threshed $1,000 bushels OF maize
about 40 bushels per acre, and the
/, millet threshed out thirty bushels to
the acre, giving him 1900 bushels OF
mlllet seed.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

cu.ed from attendance and need not
appear.
All criminal eases have been CON
tinued for the term one suit for
tresspass to try title was on hear
ing Thursday.
This is said to be the shortest
court term and shortest session of
the grand Jury had here In many
years.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Mrs F. V. Clark entertained her
neighbors on Tuesday evening Sept.
10, with "42", honoring Mrs Guy
Paxton. After several games Of the
national pastime, delicious Ice
course was served.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Mayor j. z. Noble, c. L. Ezell and
Joe stinson took a spin one day this
week out east Of Snyder and down
toward Dunn. Mr.. Noble says there
is nothing out that way on which to
feed a spirit Of pessimism and he
wants people to quit talking hard
times. This country never before saw
such magnificent crops. II people will
go ahead, sather their crops, sell
enough feed to tide them over and
keep their cotton I'm the spinners
and speculators decide to pay we'll
for II. nd will stop discussing ca
iamfty. West Texts Will be prosper
Gus and happy, says Mr.. Noble.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

our young friend 7. A. Richard
j, 81 Dunn. who has been attending
. rommerelal college in Fort Worth
some sunday and went Fluvan-
accept a position In the
Al Of Fluvanna.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

J. l. Burrough Of the Browning
settlement was the first to bring In
q bale Of cotton this year. lie ar
rived with It early Thursday morn
ing and Mr.. A. A. Freeman from
west Of town drove In with one that
evening and as the gin was not in
readiness they ware not glnned until
Saturday
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

The protracted meeting at the
Christian church closed Wednesday
night Of last week.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Mr. W s. James of Roscoe. As
sistant General Manager OF the r. S.
Ia p. Ry. spent a couple Of hours In
our town Thursday Of last week
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Rev C.. W Watkins returned TO
his home at Jourdanton Texas.
Thursday. He Intended holding a ten
days meeting at Gail before he re-
turned, but was called back from
here on account Of some business ar
fairs Elder Watkins is an Old time
West Texas man. having once lived
on the plains. and it is @ treat for
him to spend few days among his
many friends and brethren
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Rev A. j Leach returned dea
day from Abilene pretty badly Grip
Piled mp, had am ankle spraIned and
several minor bruises bee received In
runaway by the team he was driv-
ing near Abilene early sunday morn
Ing. We are glad to know mat he
was not seriously hurt and win soon
be- able TO go about bis duties igain.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Mrs Jones Of Hamlin. mother Of
Mrs W ] Beaver. came In Thurs
day Of last week for few days
visit with her daughter and family.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

fhe war era has been ended In
lA1 Tinted States and lis drawing to-
wsrd It's close boo foreign lands. the
codvuissons through which Europe
is Nv passing ar but the death
throcs u militarism We are enter
Ing loon a new zee IN which free
dom sil be given pew interpreta-
tions and bravery 2 ''As~ forms Of
expression The q be- of the W.
Vine right of kng' 2 been discard
ed 20 no purposc - y divine right
of man does moi e mans elc.
yatIon.-w J, BryaL.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Wallace Jones, Henry Tate and j.
A. stuycly, Jr left Monday for Wax
ahachie where they will again enter
Trinity University
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

W. W Wecms was reported very
sick a couple OF days last week but
glad TO report him able TO be about
now
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Preparations are D ~
erect cotton rarahop .
a thousand bald canfr( |
il is thought n n wi ~.
benefit derived NJ this
the low price o |1IIon =
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

'hc proceeds IRE % be given 20 the
church The eyact ate TIM, d Mil
be given has not yet been annhunced
but win be- some time IN the lnttor
part of this month Miss Fianer =
sparIup mo- time In prepariq1r |Ihe.
occasion and we feel suFo |Nt will
be- successful In her unI1Ilhklnr
She has a good music i|n.. aTd has
them well trained. haviuf ~ 4 I'M
Ished her third term AS teNaher here.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1914-09-18

Prof o L. Howell aud MIn|
turned saturday from Auatn
Mr.. Howell attended tho. State
NAL and he also was a0I|'1|||
place in the State Exan|HIu. \
In which place he Sc rI01 sIx n
They viii move This NI1k TO \
leigh, where he was |1Iad nrI|
Of the high school 4 -
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

the money in Mrs. Stene's posses.
sion, they started out for a village
near the old farm, in Connecticut
where Mr.. Stone had grown up,
Mrs. Stone paid two weeks board
in advance at a farmhouse, and
then. assured that her husband was
already improved in health, started
out to look about.
In a few days she found exactly
what she wanted-an old farm
that was for rent. 1t was in bad
repair. There was a small, un.
painted house half buried in ar
overgrown apple orchard, and
there were weedy and neglected
fields but the apple trees were ir
blossom. There was a certain
coziness about the little house and
it seemed to be waterproof. There
were possibilities, also, for the en-
ergetic worker in the grass-grown
fields.
So Mrs. Stone rented the house,
the apple orchard and three OF
four acres for the summer at a
merely nominal rent. Then she re-
turned to the city, gave up her
apartment, packed her furniture
and shipped it off to the country.
With the services of a woman
of the neighborhood, she got the
big farmhouse kitchen, a small
and cheefful living room and a
bedroom in order. The rest of
the house she left as she found it,
storing such furniture as she cid
not need. Then she got a small
kitchen garden ploughed and
planted garden big enough to
supply their needs for the summer,
and from a neighboring farmer
she purchased a few chickens.
At that time, Mrs. Stone had
no definite plans for the future.
Her husband was still too i'll to
warrant such. She hoped that
they could get through the sum-
mer, with the aid of the little gar
den and the chickens, which she
intended to care for herself, and
the scanty savings they still had.
In the meantime, she trusted that
her husband would regain his
strength and that they would find
some way to get a little money.
There were some sugar naples on
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
BEADS AND RNUBAR8
By 0SB0RM MARSElALL

the little place and the syrup could
be sold for little. The apples in
the old orchard, too, might bring
in a few dollars. And she hoped,
also, that she might become SO
proficient in chicken raising be-
fore cold weather that there would
be eggs to market.
At any rate, they began the
summer bravely. Mrs. Stone cared
for the chickens, weeded the gar.
den, cooked and kept the small
house in order. Mr.. Stone took
to the verahda, and, later, to the
hammock under the apple trees
and gained strength slowly, but
surely. Once week man came
for the day to work in the garden
and to do other heavy jobs about
the place.
Mr.. Stone has always aseribed
his recovery to rhubarb. There
were twenty or thirty clumps of
rhubarb planted on either side OF
the path which led from the ram
shackle house to the equally ram
shackle barn. Like the place itself
and everything about it, this rhu-
barb had been sadly neglected.
Mrs. Stone discovered it on the
day of her arrival, when its red
shoots were pushing their way
through the uncared-for ground.
She had the ground about it care
fully cultivated, all the weeds re-
moved and some fertilizer applied,
and, then, within a few weeks
there was rhubarb ready to cut.
The Stones could not use all the
rhubarb that their little strip pro-
duced, so Mrs. Stone one day tied
some of it into bundles and sold
it to a farmer who was taking
produce. to market. 1t sold read
ily, and thereafter she made quite
a little sum in that way. She sent
eggs to market, too, and now ard
then she sent iD few vegetables
and exchanged them for milk and
butter and other supplies So she
gained certain feeling of conf
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dence in the resources of the little
farm.
The rhubarb : was cut many
times in the spring and carly sum-
mer. Then it lay fallow for a
couple of months and was ready
to cut again in the late summer.
But long before that Mr.. Stone
had regained so much strength
that he had taken over the entire
care of the little garden. BY MD
summer he regretted the small
area of the garden and began to
plan to go into the business more
extensively. He took owe: the care
of the chickens, also, and began
to talk about chopping down trees
to keep himself busy.
The rhubarb strip interested
him especially, and one day he
broached a plan to his wife.
do you know" he said, the
farmers about her don't specialize
on anything. They raise little
of this and a little of that The
trouble is more with the way the
land is worked than with the soil
itself. I believe we could turn
this into a rhubarb farm and make
money, or, at least, a living"
A rhubarb farm! Mrs. Stone
had never heard of such thing,
but she had to admit that the
rhubarb had done wonderfully
well, and she knew that in the big
cities rhubarb always sold readily
and that out of season il was even
a luxury. Why wouldn't a rhu-
barb farm succeed?
"The point is" continued Mr..
Stone, whether we can ever get
enough ahead-or credit enough
for the proper equipment. 1t
would mean a horse and a man
and the rhubarb roots and fertil-
izers and lots of other things"
Mrs. Stone thought for a min
ute. She had renewed her lease
of the farm for the winter. The
little garden had yielded potatoes,
carrots, turnips, cabbages, celery,
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and other winter vegetables for
their own use. The woodshed was
full of wood for the winter fires.
And they still had a little. money.
They could live until spring, but
they had nothing for investment.
"No, there is no money for
equipment" repeated Mr.. Stone.
well, well get some" said
Mrs. Stone. ''Yhaye an idea, too.
You see, you do all the work now
about the place-and | am going
to earn some money in another
way. And every cent we get from
the apples well use for rhubarb
plants"
And this was Mrs. Stones plan:
She had always liked to make
bead purses and she had made
many for gifts that had always
been greatly admired. 1t was one
thing she knew she could do well.
So she sent for supplies, and made
a dozen of the most attractive
bead purses and bags she could
devise. Then she sent them 70
the most expensive shops she
could think of in the town where
she had formerly lived. And
then, while she was waiting for
results, she made more of these
attractive trifes. i-
Mrs. Stones plan was a sue
cess from the first. Her bead
bags and purses sold faster than
she could make them. Any one
who has noticed the popularity of
these accessories OF wonan's
dress in the last year can under
stand that Mrs. Stone happened
to strike on veritable fad. And,
in addition to bead bags, she went
to work making wonderful head
trimming, which found a market
as quickly as the bags.
The result was that a year ago
last spring, after their first winter
in the country, Mr.. Stone, with
bead-bag money and with bor-
rowed money from a friend who
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powers. but little has been said about
the torpedo craft and submarines of the
conflicting nations.
In the war, SO far. a considerable part
has been played by torpedo boats, tor
pedo boat destroyers, and submarines.
A German submarine sent a British
cruiser to the bottom Of the North Sea
with most OF her men. A British sub
marine sunk a German cruiser. the Hela.
Torpedo boat destroyers played a large
part in the naval engagement on
Helgoland.
The following summary Of British de-
stroyer programs FOR 1905 and succeed
ing years will convey an idea of her
strength in modern 'ocean-going' ves-
sells:
1855 boats, SIS to SIS tons; speed q
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oowFisat laLl

KR. apd Mrs. Lucius Stone
M started out in married life
very comfortably and very
hopefully in a big Eastern city.
Mr.. Stone was a bank teller, and
he looked forward with youthful
enthusiasm to becoming bank
president, perhaps big power in
the financial world, some day.
Suddenly his health gave way,
Perhaps overwork in the effort to
make himself worthy of the fu-
ture he coveted undermined his
strength. At any rate, after a
month of nurses and doctors and
much worrying, the Stones listened
10 their physicians ultimatum.
"Stone," )" said the physician,
there is no hope for you if you
stay in the city. If you will get
away from aIlothis worry and live
in the open, there's no reason why
you shouldn't pull through. But
you must get right away"
To the Stones the city was life
itself. Mrs. Stone was city-bred
woman and regarded the country
only as region to be visited in the
summer time. Mr.. Stone was
country born, but he had the hatred
of farm life that is so Characters
tic of some country-born folk.
But they took the doctors de-
cree seriously. With dread and
disappointment in their hearts, they
turned their thoughts countryward.
Mrs. Stones relatives gave as
much encouragement to her as they
could. Mr.. Stones brother Of
fered to give him ten dollars a
week. which was all he could
spare, even by economizing. The
bank insisted on giving Mr.. Stone a
months salary. The encourage
ment and the salary the Stones &C
cepted with gratitude in their
hearts and on their lips. The
weekly donation from the generous
brother they declined with thanks.
They kept the months salary in
tact, together with the remnant of
their small savings. Then, with
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plications are more numerous than ex-
pected. At Wiley High School there
were Is applicants. and at Garfield High
school there were forty applicants At
Wiley High School there are seventy
eight women who wish to take a course
in cooking and sixty-two wish instruc-
tions in sewing.
Two applicants at the Wiley school
more than fifty years old, wish 10 learn
to read and write
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

come into the Mediterranean to assist the
forces of the Triple Entente there.
Neither Italy nor Austria is very strong
in torpedo craft, the former having 80 and
the latter Is completed destroyers.
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GERMAN TORPEDO BOATS
EQUAL GREAT BRIT AIMS
While Kaiser Has No Modern Boats Of This CaIiber Hi
Force Is Just as Large as that of His
Enemy-at-Sea .-

London, Oct I7.-since the war started,
there has been a great deal published
about the relative strength Of the various
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
Romances Of the Business World

that rhubarb carefully grown
means money.
The neighbors call the Stone
place rhubarb farm, but the
Stones call it a bead-bag farm.
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COUNCILMAN NIGHT PUPIL.

Two Others, Over Fifty, Want to
Learn 10 Read aud Write.
Terre Haute Ind. Oct. H-Among the
~ men and women to apply for the
privilege OF attending night school at
the Thompson building was Harry skean.,
a member of the city council. The ap-
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

was interested in the plucizy
young mans future, made an
initial payment toward the pur-
chase of the farm, bought a horse,
a stock of fertilizer and rhubarb
The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

George S. PenningiIl, of Lewiston,
Me-. put 10000 bricks into his kiln.
near his home. This is said to be
the largest kiln started in Maine the
present season. :
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roots and few other essentials,
hired a man, and ploughed enough
land to hold all the rhubarb he
could afford to buy. And last
spring he enlarged his rhubarb
farm and next spring he will en-
large it again, for he has found
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armies in the field. the navies Of the
beIiigerents and the available resources
both in men and money Of the warring