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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
ARE YOU GOING no
BUY A PHONOGRAPH?

Because OF shortage In the sup
ply OF high grade machines-Victor,
Columbus and Edisons-we are not
able to supply the demand for these
machines. Some few are so insist
ant that they have a machine for
Christmas that they are ordering any
kind OF a machine that Is purported
to be a talking machine.
Now, with a desire only that yeu
get the value for your money, we are
urging that you wait until you can
buy a machine that vii stand the
test OF time and service, and that
will satisfy you when the new is
worn off and the supreme test OF
time is applied to the amchine.
When you buy a phonograph you
should buy as you would in buying
a piano. a machine for lifetime OF
service.
81 II. G. TOWLE
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
PERMIT GRANTED TO
FARMERS EXCHANGE

Pedmit to do business in Texas
has been granted the Farmers Elk
change, with headsuarters at Hous-
ton. d. +. Linday. president of the
odaanization, announces. The ex-
change is capt zed for S25, 900,
all of which is owned by the mem
bers of the Texas "armers Union.
Lyday says that this wiz soon be in
creased 10 100000.
The purpose of the exchange is to
store, buy and sell cotton for Texas
growers. BY storage it is hoped to
secure higher prices.
One farmer has written the ex-
change he has secured $500 moro
for his cotton through the organiza-
ton. An other says he received SIS
more per bale through the grading
system of the exchange.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
Notice of Final Account
The state of Texas

To the Sheriff or any Cons'"h'e %.
scurry County, Greeting.
A Y Leonard. administrators q.
the estate of w. NJ. Leonard deee"s'
GA having filed in our county court
her final accoun, Of the condition '.
the estate OF said W. " Leonard.
deceased together with an applioA-
tior 20 be- discharged from said adj
uirsstration. you i-e hereby com
ronded that by publication OF tn '
writ for twenty days in newspaper
REGULARLY published in the county OF
Scurry. state of Texas, you give due
notice TO all persons Interested 100
the account for final settlement OF
said estate. to file their objections
thereto. If any they have, on or be-
fore the January Term, A. d. 1920
of said County Court, commencinH
and TO he holden At the Court House
of said County, in the city OF snyder
on the 18th. day of January, y. -.
1920. when said account and applica-
tion will be considered by said court.
WITNESS. w. NJ. Curry Clerk OF
Scurry County.
Given under my hand and seal OF
said court. at nv office in S7yder'
Texas. this the 18th. day OF Nov
A. d. 1918.
W. N. CURRY
County Clerk. Scgry County. Texas
rs
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
No Relief In Sight
II. G. TOwLE

The national politicians have raj
len down so completely In correct
ing the proHteering evils that We
might as well give up the idea ana
strike out for Ourselves. So long
as there is nothing in the criminal
code to serve as a scare crow ana
the grand juries have flattened ont
without accomplishing anything the
only redress left ia to employ l't
of shyster lawyers and bring CIVIL
action instead OF criminal pros'cu-
tion against the sharks who charge
evorbitant prices. ~ this way
dealers would he .'@',;ed to pro
dnce their books and iar". 'os' show
ING wholesale costs as well as sell
mo nrices of merchandise handled
NV them. In criminal action the oe-
fondsnt cannot be compelled to pro
vide such evidence, due to the con
s,itutional provision that no accus-
ed person is required 20 bear 'e7''-
uonv against himself. TINS mas
hoe, the chief stumbling block
to successful prosecution of the
nroGteers who are squeezing the tar
ont of rs. Only last week a Denver
dry goods company was caught 'D
tho overt act of selling a PAIR OBJ
sboes for SIS that cost only 80
Field and Farm,
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

Senator Kellogg says the railroad
administration has been grossly ex-
travagant, and, further, that II has
built up a great central body which
"benumbs the incentive and enter
prise OF very railroad organization"
Both charges are probably true. The
charge that the central organization
has gathered to itself so much au-
thority and power as Ito benumb
the incentive and enterprise" OF
every subordinate organization may
be the more readily believed be-
cause that consequence is inevitable.
II Is a physiological fact, we believe
that in an obese body the head robs
the extrembies of their due of its
blood. and thus brings on a numb
ness such as Senator Kellogg says
afflicts all those who are not high
in the hierarchy of the Railroad Ad-
ministration. But whether this law
of natural organism governs an artl-
fetal body. such as the Railroad Adj
ministration. or not, there are limits
beyond which size and centraliza-
ton OF authority can he attained
without causing a condition such as
that Senator declares to exist. I'm
we have had too many
railroad corporations and too much
diffusion OF the regular power over
them. But we should come on
greater evils by going to the other
extreme. This fact Is one of the fun
damental objections to Government
al ownership Advocates of that
policy cite the experience OF other
Even II their experience
had been of kind to recommend
ownership to us, the
fact that our country is so much
larger and our railroad mileage so
much greater estop us from conclud-
ing that Il is wise for us to follow
their xample.-Dallas News.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
Citatinn BN Publication
THE STATE OF TEXAS

THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY or sCURRY
To the Sheriff or any Constable o
Scurry County, GREETING:
You are hereby commanded 10
summon 70. - Ports by making
publication Of this citation once IN
each wsch for four successive weeks
previous 10 the return day Thereof,
in some newspaper published in your
County il there be a newspaper
published therein. but II not. thea
in any newspaper published in the
80 judicial district; but IL there be
no newspaper published in said judic-
ial district. then in newspaper
published in tho nearest district TO
said 80 judicial district, to appear
at the next regular term or the Dis
trict Court OF Scurry Countg, TO be
holden at the court hor-e thereof in
Snyder. on the Fourth Monday in
December. 1918. the same being the
% day OF December, 1919, then and
there to answer a petition filed in
said Court on the 20 day of Novem-
Der, 1919, in a suit Numbered on the
docket OF said Court No. 214s.
wherein Myrtle Ports is plaintiff
and c. a. Ports Is defendant, said
petition being a suit for divorce al
leging that IN August, 1915, he &C.
A. Portis) lel; plaintill in WHOLLY
destitute condition ana has never re-
turned nor sent any resources TO
plaintiff. That two children were
born 20 this union. tO-vit: John
Carl. boy. and Elma Laruth. girl.
that plaintiff has always cared fer
and raised said Children.
Premises considered plaintiff srays
tina, defendan, be cited in the terms
OF the law and vPOn hnal hearing
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
SHORTAGE OF PAPER
MAY BE INVESTIGATED

Representative Ricketts, lRepu0-
LEAN Of Ohio introduced a resolu-
ton proposing investigation Of
every thing touching the high cost
of print paper 20 publishers
Specifically the possibility OF n
monopoly in the print paper indus
try would be investigated and the
reason for the apparent discrimina-
ton between the metropolitan and
small city papers in the distribution
of paper,
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

she have decree disolying the
bonds Of motImony and m order
for the care and custody OF the chill
dren and an order for defendant 20
pay 500 as her attorney fees and a..
costs OF suit for any and all other
relief size may be entitled in Law and
equity.
Herein fail not. but have before
said Court on the said first day O.
the next term thereof this writ, with
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
Gnmners Coo CNnstic

Mr.. Gompers says the trouble
with the industrial conference re-
Gently deceased was too many law
vers. BIG corporations had their
legal sleuths advising them. You
could hardly expect lawyers, that
live on strife TO work very hand Tor
peace.
That aame Peter the Groat could
have given Gompers q useful
suggestion. When he visited tho
London law court, saw all the heads
with white wigs. and was told that
hey were lawyers. he said, why
40 many lawyers to create trouble?
There are only two in Russia and MS
soon as | get home ! am going to
hang on> of them.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12
500 Reward. s1G0

The readers OF this paper win be
pleased to learn that there Is al least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able TO cure In all itg Stages end
that Is cat.rrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced BY constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. ilaifs
Catarrh Medicine \ taken Internally and
acts thru the Blood on The Mucous Sur
faces ~ the SvFteu thereby dcatroyinr
the foundation OF the disease. giving the
patient strength bv buildinc NJ Tic con
stftution ard ASSISTING nrfIfc 70 DOING 10
work. The pfopristor- htft - niuSi.
Catarrh Medicine th-t they Oner Oae
Hundred Dollars Tor any csse that e. iAila
10 cure send for Nst 90 Testimonials.
Adore 0 7. 7. CHENEY & CO. Toledo.
Ohio sols By al ~. Is lri. &c.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

your return thereon showing hon
yuu hu.o executed thg same.
Wi,.C. &clli, Neems. Clerk OF
hc District Court OF Scurry Coanty.
Given under my hand and seal Of
said Court. in the City Of Snyder
Texas. this the 20 day OF November,
1919.
NELLIE WEKnS
Clerk District Court. Scurry County.
Texas. 20
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

l.. y. Perirman. one OF Scul.
county's progressive farmer. and
rsnchmen. and father TO Mrs. Ray
Daniel. w.s q visitor in Post the last
part o, last week Post city Post
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

]. b. Autry was here Saturday
from Ira.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

CANIFOS--Wc have the most beau
tir,,l stock cvcr. II. G.. Towlc, jew
clcr.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-12-12

CAMEOS-We have the most bcau-
tifrl stock ever. II. G. Towle, jew
elcr.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
TINE ACT Of 1 ntMAe0a.

II any coal mining corporations made
100 per cent profits last year as Nc
Adoo accuses the income tax collector
took the most OF IL away from, them.
The normal tax on all their profits wAs
IL per cent. The additional tax on
profits in excess OF 20 per cent on
their invested capital was IS per cent.
Adding the two gives the government
u per cent of all profits earned in ex.
cess Of 90 per cent upon invested cap
!tal with a prov!so that If so per cent
OF those profits which exceeded their
average profits before the war would
give the government more money
than above rates the government
would take the 50 per cent. To accuse
coal mining corporations Of making
100 per cent upon their Investments
without acknowledging the rake Of
which the government got /. the act
OF demagog. Inverssly Il Is al ad-
mission that government fixed prices
for coal were unfair. to the people who
buy coal and three out Of four of them
have incomes less than what a coal
miner can earn. according to the Uni
ted States censua
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04

"Furt fssrrnore." advises the Burling-
ton Hawkeye. "oratory won't produce
COAL"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
ROY cANBvS rPAsDy.

Roy Candy came home from the war
with honorable but terribly disnEur-
ing wounds He loved Gertrude Civ
ems, and perhaps, when &c marched
away In uniform. she owed him. II
least she thought so and told him 40.
But when Roy came home d.sfigured
and. as she thought and said. hide
ous to look at" she refused to marry
him. Then the boy attempted suicide.
It was and is, truly enough, a trag-
edy, as Des Moines newspaper edl :
torially terms 1t. But It is less tragic
than If Candy had married the girl
and discovered too late that she
thought him hideous, that she shud :
dered at his approach and endured his
carssses with horror. Roy Candy Il to
be pitied greatly for his wrecked
dream. He - more to be consratu-
lated that a greater tragedy failed Of
contamination.
Further. there Is somewhat to be said
for the girl in question. 1t is unjust
and unw.se to insist that she should
have married the boy. II her words are
truly indicative Of her feelings toward
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04

To the Davenport Democrat There
can be no two minds on the PROPOSE
ton that the country must have coal.
and that freezing is too unplea SAINT fer
the right of 1oo,oOe,oo0 people to have
coal to burn TO be abridged by either
miners or mine owners. 1t is time for
the government to act and act with
decision" . -gf-=s
The Vinton Eagle suspects, ut will
be just like the people of the United
States to get together next year and
elect president who will adjust a
spike in the toe OF his boot and pro-
coed to kick the trouser seats Of some
OF the little swell-hesded bosses and
srafters until Washington becomes
Uncomfortable for them"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04

him H. - she saya she ssit that she
oould not narry this boy wAe deserved
the best at her hands ana at ali our
hands. she would have done q great
wrong to him. to herself and 70 socis-
" itself had she consented to do 20
from a sense OF duty and sacrifice.
No doubt there have teen number
less instances Of these tragedies. OF
men who came home with dreams to
be broken and to break dreams Of the
girls who waited TO And their tragedy
In the Inconsistency OF those for whom
they had watched and waited long
The present Incident drew attention
thru the act Of the young man. who
strove to take his own life. but there
have been others. many others.
There will be universal pity and
sympathy for Roy Candy. He deserves
It. but q woman's life 10 her own. after
ALL she has that highest right to
choose the father of her children and
20 bring them forth In Joy. There Is
neither justice nor the logic Of hui
mainly In the effort to pillory her be-
fore the state with a scarlet letter OF
condemnation on her breast.
Tragedy! There Is no such tragedy
as q loveless marriage. II forecasts
not only tragedy but shame.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04

stripping seal pit and working vein
far undersround Are two very diner.
snt things However. tho mines have
rarely failed 70 and strike-breakers
when they desired TO find them and
were protected when found. The sus-
gestion that tho operators are in ca
boots" IL given some standing by the
apathy OF tho mine owners. . 4
Rather slow putting teeth Into the
Injunction, but better late than never
IL there's any real bite to the teSth.
Senator Fall would have us take our
dolls and go home.
Downtown stores, factories and Of
flee buildings get no coal today in
Des Moines, no matter how much II
may be needed And 1t 10 a matter
OF days and hours until that condition
affects all towns and cities. Perhaps
in time the public vii; arrive at
realization Of the seriousness OF the
situation.
The man who always remarks that
he delights in "hard- snappy zero
weather best keep his remarks under
cover In these critical days.
The loss Of wages IN the mines and
the crippled industries, lack Of pro.
duction and the waste Of the strike
must be made up or lost. Prices will
not do 1t. One hundred dollars ton
couldn't buy a tive-ron load OF coal
today honestly. Coal production has
ceased. Money can't Huy It. Price
doesn't mean coal when there Is no
coal. The lost wages, the stransied
production of essentials, will stand for
long time at the elbows OF this coun-
try like the skeleton at the Egyptian
feaStS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
Mill,.rv Men !, Pre,;don,,.

For sometime all eyes OF the nation
has been on who will be the coming
man for thu republican nominee for
1920 and since the straw vote of con-
gress few days. ago the sev>Sal as
p!rants and their friends have been
on ncttles and there In disposition
in some TO sling mud. especially against
General Wood, who received more than
three times as many votes as any one
else and I notice thai some of the
friends Of other candidates are rails
ing the objections to Mr.. Wood that he
is a military man and that the people
10 not whnt a military man; now the
man thai makes these objections Is
wllfully trying 20 mislead the people
or is ignorant Of tho history Of the
United States as touching this point.
OF the twenty three men who have
been elected to the presidential chair
by the people. thirteen of them have
been military men Of note and six OF
these have been elected the second time
and each OF these, save Washington,
who was unanimously elected, was
elected by large majority, while the
seventh man. the only man who ever
got ING oANos
serving out a term Of dead presi-
dent. Theodore Roosevelt, was elected
by the largest plural vote that was
ever given a man in the United States,
receiving more than 100000 plural
vote. The thirteen military men serv-
ing seventy-six years of the 1872 years
OF the life Of this nation while the
private citizens have only served fifty
six years, the most prosperous years
OF the life Of this nation was under the
service of military men. Never in the
life Of this nation was 1t more pros
porous nor did it stand out brighter in
tn eeyes of the world than under the
late Mckinley and Roosevelt. But
legally who has a better right TO rule
an offspring than, the parent and this
nation is the legitimate. offspring OF
nIilitaryism, having been conceived by
militaryism and borne OF Its success
and nourished in the lap Of its parents
the first eight years of its life, then
going into the hands. for twelve years
of Adams and Jefferson. who were
the direct originatoTs Of the .swadIins
cloth with which It was first clothed
the Declaration OF Independepce-snd
then into the hands of James Monroe
for eight years. who was another
wheel horse Of the miIitaryism OF Tho
revolution. then, after a four-year
pause, into the hands of Andrew Jack
son, who, when its life was in danger
by notification. said. by the eternal
Gods TIL hang you higher than Haman"
and by that nipped in the bud q plot
that might have caused this nation Sc
rIous trouble. II not its life, for there
was strong men In congress at that
time who sided with Calhoun whom
Jackson forced subsequently to resign.
Suppose We had had a man at the head
OF the nation at that time who had
said. This nation is too proud to
fight" what would have been the out
come of notification? I have no fight
to make with any other candidate,
especially Governor Lowden. whom I
knew well when young man and who
was classnate with some Of my own
children In Hardin county. Iowa
have entertained both him and his
father and who can heartily support
if nominated. but let no man raise the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
rHt WAY 70 RESUME MINING.

The way to resume coal mining IL
70 resume. when Mr.. Gary had a
strike on in the steel mills he en-
ployed other men and kept the mills
going. Up to date nobody has heard
Of any coal mine operator trying TO
operate his mine which leads TO the
inevitable conclusion that the strike
and mine paralysis Is not altogether
displeaslng to the mine owner until he
is permitted by the government to
gouse the puslic for more money for
coal. II the department Of Justice is
looking for consptracies one might be
found in the complete acqu,escence Of
the mine owners to the strike OF coal
miners -.
The operators association Of Iowa
wired the government aainboyantly
promising complete cooperation but
no. a mine is started in operation and
instead the newspapers are informed
that coal mining can be done only by
skilled men who are out on strike. In
other words the public must go with
out coal until the government surrend-
ers to the coal miners union and when
the coal miner gets away with 81 per
cent raise on top Of the sic per day
which he could have been earning at
the old scale instead Of II per cent as
awarded 70 him by the cabinets arbi-
trstion the tax will be passed on to the
ultimate coal consumer and the mine
owner viii be - happy as the coal
miner himself. .'.
We read In the Presidents message
that there Is a predomina,e right and
that Is the right Of the government to
protect all Of tts people and % assert
itspower and majesies against the
challenge of any class"
He tells us brayely that no sort OF
privilege vail ever be permitted to
dominate this country. II makes little
difference what minority IL IL, whether
capital or labor or any other class"
Brave boy. Now let's see him start
the negro and Italian laborers to dig
ging coal again. Oh. for president
like Roosevelt who eppke moro softly
but always carried a big stick
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
WINTER NIGHTS

Winter has unpleasant all honest men admit when comes
whng bosom OF the blast and the blizzard comes azzns
chotes
shakes the raer and pound
dwint
ful Of gladnes sandwe n 7't
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
Topics of the Times

II Senator Newberry Is truly guilty
az charged he should be ejected from
the senate, but an indictment 10 not
conviction and the case should DE ap-
preached by public opinion as judicially
az possible. II Newberry is disquah-
fed by corruption and Ford by his
own testimony to his owu intellectual
untitness, Michigan il In bad way
for senators.
Speaking Of volunteer coal mining,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
HANDY DIRECTORY
- OF THE -
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings

MARSHALL LODGE NO. Ioe 4. =
A. ~, spec,al communication FRIDAY
Osc, s. 7:so o'clock. Third desree'
A I. Frazer, w. NJ; John w. Weis'
secretary. Y
s,oNEr CHAPTER. No. 81 r. A.
n. Monday evening, Dec. g. 1;so'
Most Excellent Master. George GREG
ory, n. p; John W. Wells. secretary
srArEo ASSEMBLY. King solo
men Council No. 20. r. . 8. NJ. NICE
DAY, Dec. es. Business session. iFA
A. Davenport, l. M: John W. "e's'
recorder.
ccnoIsvs o.. Aldemsr csmmanoer,
No. 30 X. T.. Tuesday, Dec. d, ~
Order Of the Temple. J. II. Freaer,oA'
eomanesr: Pohn w. Wells. reeoFa'''
CENTRAL CHAPTER Ne. 81 o. Z. o.
Special meeting "Wednesday evening
Dec. srd. at 1880 for initiation. MIS- -
=. schultx, W. " Mrs. Archer walton
Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04

.sint OF England. Arason and Ports-
gal
The bones wcre discovered beneath
the mosaic floor Of an ancient church
In Palestine by Australian troops dur
ing tho operations against the Turks
last year. Local records showed them
10 be the remains Of st. George OF
Cappadocia. whose legendary conflict
with the dragon Is placed somewhere
around the sixth century.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
81. George. Bones Feundy

A great controversy is raging. IN
Australia since the depositing In the
Melbourne Exhibition building OF a
caske: containing what were alleged TO
be the bones Of ST. George, the patron
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-04
The Little House..


All. It's home. dearie. home, that my
heart turns to forever
A little house, bit o. green upon a
quiet stre-s:
White curtains az the windows, and q
red bloom peering outward;
And the clicking o the kitchen tiles
TO my own happy feet.
At, It's home, dearle, home, and the
singing O. the kettle,
And q table spread at evening time
awaiting there for you
The early lamp all lighted, and the fire
burning CHEEKY
And soft wind blowing inward
from the sweet world wet O. dew.
And listen. dearie, close beside, a baby
In a cradle.
A swinging Iowa swinging low
Tm singing for him, dear)
Just little son o. loving. like the
south wind to the roses
IT'S evening time, and home time,
and he win soon be here"
Grace Noll Crowell. In Contemporary
Verse.