El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-26
REMARKABLE GROWTH OF FL PASOI
IN TODAY'S HERALD

TILE LINES HAVE SHOWN GREAT STRENGTH
FINANCIALLY.
which never better financial shape and where great
progress been made in agriculture mining the livestock
industry and commerce.
West Texas is making fine progress, little disturbed
by drout which has afflicted other parts Of the state
and all towns in the region making satisfactory growth
New buildings and residences have been erected town lines
pushed farther out railroads constructed planned
nearly every county west of Fort Worth has voted
bonds for state highway construction which viii eventually
link FL Paso and Fort Worth and Dallas with splendid
automobile highway
All this makes a record most gratifying. The pages Of
this edition give many facts Of immediate interest to
every resident actual prospective together with com
pete detail and elaborate illustrations The whole edition
is worth careful reading Copies should be kept for refer
ence until the next edition of its kind appears and other
copies should mailed friends throughout the country
whether they have been here not what they read win
surprise them
Shoe prices are soaring and the wearers are also up in
the air.
4cOa1 shortage" is the abb of all the ianitOrs east
of the Alleghenies.
The war departments Ted-tape worm is much worse
The song cover There is said to have brought its
composer $4,000, high price entirely due to the war
It's getting a materials factory hardly daIes
start up the machinery without first calling out the fire
department.
Chicago paper tells about telephone poles in Kansas
being "uprOOted" That certainly is boost for the fer
tility of Kansas soil.
Austin has gone cover the top" with vote for prOhb
ton and FL srambng up the side Of the trench to
follow the good example.
Vienna said, after the French victory on the Italian
front, that reaction viii soon. Evidently slip
of the tongue. Vienna meant retreat, not reaction
siderable since eight machines were strapped one after
another between Columbus and Pershng base in Mexico
Many a boy in dry state has tasted, snelled or
seen liquor Wouldn't you vote for prohibition If you
thought it might keep your boy from being drunkaId
some day?
Here IS headline which appeared in The Herald re-
Gently: "Deming courts empty; no booze" That Is
long speech on prohibition boiled down to five words and
every word fact
Only two challenges to duels having out of the
last session of the chamber of deputies at Paris it was
fairly quiet meeting marked by the usual spirit Of aity
and unanimity of opinion
If anyone calls Arizona an arid unproductive state put
him on the right track The state had $4,000 under
last year and will increase the wheat acreage
alone by 5000 acres this yeaL
Those who attack senator Chamberlan's exposure Of
army deficiencies and administrative plumbers are under
the disadvantage Of having to speak IN generahes while
Mr. Chamberlain apparently has the facts and figures
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Alfonso of Spain would less danger Of overthrow
If he didn't hold the mistaken notion that he has TO sym
pathze with the central powers Just because he's Haps
burg The kings of Belgium and Rumania are Hohen
ZoIeTus.
yviT5ca+s and loaded her as animals