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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-01
MALAKOFF.

Malakoff, Texas, Oct. 3O.--Sunday
school at First Baptist church was
good. Second Baptist church had
service excellent. Pastor G. Davis
was at himself and preached a great
sermon. Prof. w. T. Jackson and
NJ. w. Williams, made trip to Fort
Worth and Tyler, last week with Miss
Fl. L. Williams who went to East
Texas Academy
All schools will open Monday. Prof
Jackson states that he is having
trouble in securing book covers. We
are looking forward for a big Thanks
giving.
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Card of Thanks.

We wish to express our thanks to
our many friends for kindness shown
us during the illness and death of
our dear father and uncle, Mr. G. w.
Wheeler, who departed this life Mon
day' Oct. 10th and especially to the
Crawford Undertaking Company for
their patience and untiring service
we also tender our heartfelt thanks
to the friends for the beautiful floral
offerings and the Fred Douglass
school for sweet words of sympathy.
Respectfully.
Mrs. R. NJ. Wheeler ucker, DIR.
Mrs. A. e. Overton, Neice.
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KEITYS.

Keltys, Texas. Oct. 30.-Sunday
school was well attended. all officers
and teachers present. DR.. o. L. Lat
.timore spent Friday in this city. Mrs.
Easter Ramsey Minnie Wade, Estella
Denmon and Grille Rocks from Nor
rill visited their friends and rela-
tives Sunday, quite crowd attended
the funeral of Mrs. Maona Banks.
Rev. Polk of Alto visited his son,
Mrs. Ella Williams and son Willie
McGown visited their friends and
relatives in Nacogdoches for a few
days Mr.. Tommy Wallace was call
ed to the bed side of his son, Phil
Wallace at Kirville. Mr.. Ed Mallory,
Rev. G. w. Collins are on the sick
list. Mrs. Emma Green has just re-
turned from business trip from
Houston and Conroe. Mr.. William
Austin returned to his home in Wa
co, Saturday.
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YOUNG MEMS COMMERCIAL CLUB

Why not buy from your own stores?
We have planned to incorporate a
grocery business and will establish
a grocery store in each section Of
the city. Plan of operation-shares
will be placed on the market at ten
dollars each and will be ready for
operation when $4,000, the capital
stock shall have been paid in full.
The club is open for membership
and meets every Monday night at
Crawford's Chapel, S18 Good street.
For further information see J. H.
Jones, president or C. A. Henderson,
secretary. 11-1-2t
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Elder L. H. Crawford of the Christian
church is constantly growing in the
eyes of the denomination. He is just
back from Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he attended the National Convention
of his church. The doctor preached
in First church while there. He will
preach for Rev. A. F. Johnson, at
Warren Chapel, Sunday. Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Mckinney served a three course din
ner Thursday to her sisters-in-law,
Madams T. w. and w. D. Pratt.
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JEFFERSON.

Jefferson, Texas, Oct 3O.-Sunday
was the best service day at all of
the churches that we have had in
many Sundays and as whole the
attendance was good.
Prof. ]. E. Johnson of Palestine.
Texas, State Deputy of the Amer
lean Woodmen made his visit to
Jefferson Camp in the same old way
with great success, with many new
logs to roll last Saturday night, and
had hasty call to Avinger, Texas,
on Sunday, where he and clerk of
Jefferson camp was met by Prof.
Moore from there they was carried
to the Mt. Moriah Baptist church and
met with large attendent and Mr..
Clarence Turner, the Superintendent
had on big rally.
Avinger will have a Camp for the
State Deputy j. e. Robinson let on
the NJ. X. & T., for there this morn
ing and will organize tonight with
the assistance of the Commander l..
w. Love and clerk of jefferson Camp.
Big Cypress river rose a foot last
night, and many of our low land far
mers are having to move out again,
"hiiS yCI bhC llNCI uOI SOl UdCh
in her banks, 1t is reported that
there is ten feet of water up the
river to come down and some of it
has reached here before night it
will be hard to tell how fast it may
rise.
The daughter Of Rachel Eubanks
was buried at Cedar cemetery at
five o'clock. the funeral service was
held at the Union Baptist church,
and conducted by Rev. w. w. Webb,
seventeen $1,000 was raised to her
sister Eubanks to help fray the ex-
pense Of Beaulah, her daughter. She
leaves to mourn a mother, one sis
ter and one brother.
Enon Baptist church with Rev. A.
Long, pastor took a text. Matt. 26th
chapter and the latter part of the
25th verse. Thy Art Permitted to
Speak for ThyseIf." Theme: I am
glad Of the opportunity. Collection
was $4,000.
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LAYTON.

Lawton, Texas, Oct. 30.-The city
was visited with a hard rain all
day. Mr.. Moore had very bad &C
cident Thursday night hunting an
o'possum. Mr.. Moore falling above
Is feet Of bluff in about 10 feet
of water which probably saved his
life, but his shoulder was knocked
out of place.
Let us do business with our own
race instead of the other race.
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SOME TOWNS IN TEXAS

at both churches, Sunday. Rev. L. H.
HearVy was at his post also Rev. G..
Z. Patterson. Mr.. Frank Smith and
wife and Mr.. Andrew Smith and wife
were called to the bed side of their
sister, Mrs. Dicey Allen Sunday.
MT. Fred jackson is very sick, his
sister was called to bed side.
M. l.. Jones, from Denison was
mere Sunday. Mr.. Jno. Harris was
here Sunday visiting friends, Mrs.
Pearl Branch and Mrs. Cora were
here from Leonard Saturday.
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GOOD NEWS! GOOD NEWS!
FOR ALL THE NINE. C. J. WALK,
ER'S AGENTS..

Write R. s. Jenkins, sending your
address-Good news for you.
All persons who want to take the
best hair culturing and beauty MAX
ing course with a diploma and
complete outfit will if you want to
make money write me at once
quick-Supply Station.
r. s. JENKINS, P. o. Box rs
Phone Lamar 1899 Fl. Worth.
or MADAME M. r. JENKINS,
1904 Flora st. Phone H. ,2913
Dallas, Texas.
10-11-4t
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Payne Chapel A. M. +. Church.

Rev. b. f. Boggers. Pastor.
The Sunday school opened at $3.50
a. M, teachers and large Sunday
school audience on time. Rev. Bog
gers preached to a nice crowd at
ii a. M. and also at 1880 p. M, the
A. c. e. League and Sunday school
are hot beds for African Methodism
The Junior Choir under the leader
ship of Mrs. Boggers is taking on new
life. The New Payne Chapel will
soon be on the way.
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Central Texas College News.

Philmatheon Society organized Fri
day night, oath. The following off,
Ger was elected Mr.. f. Harrell.
president, Pearl Croft, secretary, ct
al. The student body is still in
creasing. Every one is looking to-
ward a early foot ball game.
L. MONTGOMERY, Reporter.
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"D.O-U.G.L.E.S.S"

The Championship Negro penman
of Texas. See for yourself by
sending rs cents for one dozen cards.
Lessons in-"PENMANSHIP-by mail.
JESSE J. DOUGLASS,
Stephenville, Texas.
Box 317. 11-1-1t
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WHITEWRIGHT.

White Wright, Texas. Oct. 3d.
Mrs. Dicey Allen is back from the
Sanitarium and is doing nicely. Mr..
Will Wright and two children are
on the sick list. Services were good
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J. c. PHILLIPS, A. b, WITH Ma
TIONAL RHPUTR.

Elocutionist, dramatist, poet, 30
cial uplift, welfare and religious
worker and lecturer. Open for en-
gagements in California. Nebraska,
Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico,
Texas, Arizona and Oregon. write
for particulars.
Serves in colleges, churches spec
ial programs, associations and or
ganized literary societies.
Residence 1904 State Street, phone
Haskell 1857, Dallas. Texas.
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Moving Picture Show For Sale
All modern equipment, growing town
fine location. Write or phone-W. ".
Walton, Pill Juliette St.. H. 4814, or
Geo. N. Mitchell, Wonderful Theatre,
Denton, Texas, % East Mckinney
rstreet. 11-1-1t
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CLASSIFIED "ADS."
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Washington, D. C. 11-1-4t
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LOst-Sarah Austen, mother; Char
ley Austen, brother, last heard of
were in Kirk, Okla. Information
leading to persons gladly received.
George Austen, Whitewright, Texas.
11-1-2t
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PROF. J. c. PHILLIPS A. b.
Announces the following dates:
Tulsa, Okla, Oct. "a.
Ardmore, Oct. 81 to Nov. S.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 3.
Topeka, Kans., Nov. and 8.
Coffeyville, Nov. 20 and 80.
11-1-1t
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DIR. p. M. STANDARDIZATION and
Surgeon. ONCE Pythian Temple
Room 210. Office hours: to IL a. m. /;
8 to p. M; to 9 p. m. Office phone,
Main 42S2, Residence 1908 State St.,
phone Main 3081.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-11-15
CTO BE CONTINUED
WHERE BEDS ARE UNKNOWN
Residents of Merida, Yucatan, Enjoy
Repose in Hammocks Which May
Be Slung Anywhere.

In Merida. Yucatan. the majority OF
the people do not use beds, in fact
very few of them have even seen one.
They sleep in hammOcks. which are
swung across the rooms at night and
with no fuss of bedmaking; the per-
son just goes TO bed and is gently
rocked to sleep by any passing breeze.
The climate is so hot that it is only
during the months of January and
February that a light sheet may be
required as covering.
These hammocks are usually made
by the mother of the family. writes
Lilly dec. Osborn. in st. Nicholas. and
consist of thread. more or less fine.
woven together on great frames with
a kind of shuttle or needle. Some of
the designs are wonderfully intricate
and the colOrs beautifully blended.
saw one very large one. made In the
cOlors of the United States flag, which
was to be sent up 10 the United States
for a gift. 1t was certainly n work of
art. made of the very finest mercerized
thread and yet the hammock could
easily support weight of 300 pounds.
A servant always brings his or her
own hammock, which is very conven-
lent.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-11-15

gagged in the profOundest thinking of
his life. No business plans which had
ever absorbed him could compare in
mOmentOuSneSS with the plans that
absorbed him now, for he had To plan
how 10 enter the unknown country
where he was not even sure of being
recognized as an AmberSOn-not sure
of anything, except that Isabel would
help him if she could. The Major was
occupied with the first really impor-
tant matter that had taken his atten-
ton since he came hCme invalided, af.
ter the Gettysburg campaign, and
went into business, and he realized
that everything which had worried
him or delighted him during this life
time between then and today-all his
buying and building and trading and
banking-that it all was trifling and
waste beside what concerned him now.
Meanwhile. the life of the little be.
reft group still forlornly centering up
on him began to pick up again, as life
will, and To emerge from its own peri
cd of daZedneSs. 1t was not Isabel's
father but her son who was really
dazed.
CTO BE CONTINUED
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Joy in Conquest.

Lies master-key does for It's pos
SCISSOR what is impossible to those who
do not have it. No future is too for
Kidding for men Of the right mental
fiber to fear. Weaklings falter and
turn back. Men of talent turned TO
right channels delight in meeting what
has brought failure to the many. II
offers to them chance 10 try the real
IL hard things. They alone test the
skill and prove the mettle. Such men
bring wealth out Of defeat. and re-
jOice in the struggle. It's no won
der they step forward and try what
has brought failure to others. It's the
mental sense of conquest that crowns
effort with success and makes man
King in the world. It's your right
Exchange.
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The entire machine Is mounted I
truck wheels TO make ii easy 10 nv
to the trees or logs. and frsn cut I
cut on a log Without stopping ne q
CINE. For moving on the road n
truck wheels are placed parable W
the Skids and the rig hauled srii1|
ahead. The wheels turn on VI
way spindle. You do not have u N
them off, but can change direeda 4
wheel travel by merely taking m 1
pin.
The Ottawa can be fitted fer NJ
ing down trees. II cuts levd vi
surface of ground, thereby eesting .
the timber and leaving NJ gun
sticking up. An automatic n1n
clutch stops the saw In case Of uaes
resistance. Two men can fan laV|
to fifty trees a day in ordinary un's
The whole outfit is compact, anF|
durable against a lifetime u nf
wear. 1t sells for a low price ana
fully guaranteed for reliable spe,]
ton in the hands Of every one We n
trees to cut down and logs to Ven "
Full information and low neM'|
price to you can be had Simply m u
dressing the Ottawa Mfg. osF|
2724 Wood ST., Ottawa, Kansas
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CHAPTER XIX.

set her" was correct; but the time
came-and it came in the spring of
the next year-when il was no longer
a question of Georges letting his
mother come home. He had to bring
her, and TO bring her quickly if she
was to see her father again; and Am
berson had been right: her danger of
never seeing him again lay not in the
Majors feebleness of heart but in her
own. AS it was George telegraphed
his uncle to have wheeled chair at
the station, for the journey had been
disastrous. and to this hybrid vehicle,
placed close TO the car platform, her
son carried her in his arms when she
arrived. She was unable to speak,
but patted her brothers and Fanny's
hands and looked Every sweet" Fanny
found the desperate courage to tell
her. She was lifted from the chair
into a carriage, and seemed a little
stronger as they drove home; for once
she took her hand from Georges and
waved it feebly toward the carriage
window.
Changed" she whispered. $50
changed"
You mean the town" Anderson
said. "YOu mean the old place is
changed, don't you, dear?"
She smiled and moved her Inns ::
Yes"
It'll change TO happier place. old
dear" he said. now that you're back
in it. and going to get well again."
But she only looked at him visit
fully. her eyes little fatigued.
When the carriage stopped her son
carried her into the house and up the
stairs to her own room, where q nurse
was waiting; and he came out a mo-
ment later. as the doctor went i'm. Ar
the end of the hall q stricken group
was clustered: ANDERSON and Fanny
and the Major. George, deathly pale
and speechless, took his grandfather's
hand, but the old gentleman did not
seem TO notice his action.
"When are they going to let me SEQ
my daughter?" he asked querulouslv.
They told me 10 keep out of the way
while they carried her in, because II
might upset her. l wish they'd LET me
60 in and speak 20 my daughter. /
think she wants TO see me-"
He was right-presently the doctor
came out and beckOned to him, and the
Major shufiled forward, leaning on
shaking cane; his figure. after all its
years Of proud sOldierliness. had
grown STOPPING at last. and his I'M
trimmed white hair struggled over the
back of his collar. He looked old
old and Invested of the world-as he
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IL was the voice of the nurse speaking
to Fanny Minafer. and the next mo.
ment Fanny appeared in the duorwa!
making contOrted efforts To speak.
Anderson said weakly: docs she
want uS-to come in?"
But Fanny found her voice. and Ut
tered long. loud cry. She threw her
arms about George, ana sobhed in an
agony of loss and compassion:
"She loved you" she walled. "She
loved you! She loved you! Oh, how
she did love YOU"
Isabel had just left them.
Major Anderson remained dry-eyed
through the time that followed: he
knew that this separation from his
daughter would he short; that the
separation which had preceded it was
the long one. He worked at his
ledgerS no more under his old gas
drop-light. but would sit all evening
staring into the ire, In his bedroom.
and not speaking unless someone ask
ed him Il question. He seemed almost
unaware of what went on around him.
and those who We're with him thought
him dazed by Isabcl's death, guessing
that he was lost in "reminiscences and
vague dreams. probably his mind is
full of pictures of his youth. or the
Civil war, and the days when he and
mother were young married people
and all of us children were jolly little
things-and the city was a small town
with one cObhled street and the Others
just dirt roads with board sidewalks"
This was George AmberSOn'S cOniec-
ture. and the others agreed; but they
were mistaken. The Major was en-
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lie was loud in praise of the house
after Eugene arrived. and gave them
no account of his journey until they
had retired from the dinner table To
Eugene's library, a gray and shadowy
room, where their coffee was brought.
Then. equipped with a cigar. which
seemed TO occupy his attention, Am
sister and her son.
Il found Isabel as well as usual,
he said, only I'm afraid AS usual
isn't particularly well. Sydney and
Amelia had been up to Paris in the
spring, but she hadn't seen them.
Somebody told her they were there.
it seems. They'd left Florence and
were living in Rome; Amelia's become
Catholic and is said to give great
sums to charity and to go about with
the gentry in consequence, but sgd
ney's ailing and lives in wheel chair
most of the time. Ii struck me Isabel
ought 10 be doing the same thing"
He paused, bestowing minute care
upon the removal Of the little band
from his cigar; and as he seemed to
have concluded his narrative Eugene
spoke out of the shadow beyond a
heavily shaded lamp: What do you
mean by that?" he asked quietly.
'Oh, she's cheerful enough" said
Anderson, still not looking mt either
his young hostess or her father. AT
least" he said, "She manages to seem
so. I'm afraid she hasn't been really
well for several years. OF course she
makes nothing of it, but it seemed
rather serious to me when | noticed
she had to stop and rest twice To
get UP one short flight of stairs in
their twO-flOor apartment. told her
| thought she ought to make George
let her come home"
LET herT" Eugene repeated in
low voice. Does she want to-"
"She doesn't urge it. George seems
TO like the life therein his grand.
gloomy and peculiar way; and of
course she'll never change about be-
quite a swell. But in spite of anything
she said, rather than because, know
she does indeed want to come. She'd
like to be>with father, of course: and
| think she'S-well, she minated one
day that she feared it might even hap
pen that she wouldn't get to see him
again. At the time | thought she re-
ferred to his age and feebleneSs, but
on the boat coming home | remem-
bered the little look of usefulness,
yet of resignation. with which she
said it. and il struck me all at once
that I'd been mistaken: L saw she was
really thinking of her own state of
health"
81 see" Eugene said. his voice even
lower than ii had been before. "And
you say he wOnS Set Der come home?"
ANDERSON laughed, but still contin-
ued to be interested in his cigar. ooh.
/ dent think he uses force, He's very
gentle with her. | doubt if the sub
ject is mentioned between them. and
yet-and yet, knowing my interesting
nephew as you do, wouldn't you think
that was about the way to put it,"
knowing him as | dO-yes," said
Eugene slowly. Yes, l should think
that was about tie way TO put it,"
A murmur out of the shadows be-
yond nina faint sound, musical and
feminine. yet expressive of a notable
intpnSitV Sppmpd IN Indicate fhor
Lucy was of the same opinion.
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The Time for Il

1--WE ran over an old frisss o'
other night"
"Was he glad to see your -
Indeed he was. when We w
far enough out from under = ""
mobile"
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Ones Too nany Sometimes

''If we had two heads" remarked
the man on the Har. wed have more
trouble getting them to track than I've
have with our feet."-Toledo Blade.
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George" would dO-when she and her
son came home. They'll find things
pretty changed. I'm afraid" Fanny
said. IF they ever do come home ?"
-
Anderson went over the next sum-
mer and joined his sister and nephew
in Paris. where they were living. Elsa
bel does want TO come home" he told
Fanny gravely on the day of his re-
turn in October. "She's wanted 10 for
a long while-and she ought to come
while she can stand the journey"
And he amplified this statement. leav-
ing Fanny looking startled and solemn
when Lucy came by to drive him out
to dinner at the new house Eugene
had just completed.
Evening star., 1919-09-28

ed change in attitude, almost a friend
~ warmness sometimes. Once at the
,Comlsche-Opera. where the operetta
"schwarzwaldmaeder was having a
lengthy run, this question was asked
by woman at the hat-oheck counter.
She fairly beamed upon us when we
replied, though, she was ready to be
quite otherwise impolite, I am sure,
had we been Britishers. She, not un-
like many an average Berllner, was
cunning" for something to eat that
was grown or made in the U. s. A. For
eating then was the sole topic Of
thought. conversation and dreams.
Gen. Harries and his aids. this night
when the Berlin mission Of Americans
came into being, went to the TIotel.
Adlon, where the genial proprietor.
Herr Adlon,. has always been fast
and fair friend OF the American tray
eler. He had his chance on one oc-
casion at least to prove his friendship,
and did SO splendidly when he ha-
rangued a. mob of hecklers who
threatened to storm his hostelry and
= It.
The generals initial work In going
to Berlin with his small staff was TO
supervise the. repatriation. OF the
American prisoners whom we had
every reason to believe were detained
in Germany through sickness. wounds
and other causes. His first weeks
there Were, concerned almost ekclu-
sively with this iwork--a thorough
Checking up process on the American
prisoners. I. s>,} ~. r. .f X; " :.
Lieut.: g. .hI. Gailmard Of Atlanta, Ca,
personal aid, to GEN. Harries, ono Of,
the Berlin pioneers. later told me
something of the experiences had by
their little band during the f,rst hard
weeks Of getting acquainted with
tine Pruss!an capital. y
They had lived, as we all later learn
cd to live, in the Hotel Adlon like
"birds in q gilded cage" as ono Of the
personnel learned to call us.
Unlike the famous orders that pre-
vailed in the Army Of Occupation
where there was a strict ban on ARA
.ternisinE' with the German popula-
tion, this emergency required q slight
" different attitude. We, were allowed
to ''be coutteous." OF course. there was
splitting OF hairs and many q hue
mdfous argument developed among"
the mission members as to how this
order No. was to be interpreted--the
difference Fhetween fraternizing and
being courteous.
+ Albeit. tho Berlin situation left the
Individual, American to use his good