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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
New Construction

The following new building is re-
ported by the San Antonio Builder
. Exchange:
Bids have been opened for the con-
struction of st. Patrick's church to be
located at the corner Of Van Ness and
Willow streets. 1t will cost approx
mately $4,000. Emmett 7. Jackson
lis the architect.
Bids were opened recently by Judge
McCloskey for re-surfacing a portion of
I the Fredericksburg road.
= plans are being prepared for a two
story tile and stucco residence for
Edwin Phillips TO be located in Fort
& Worth Atlee b. & Robert NJ. Ayres
are architects.
Ralph Cameron is preparing plans
for a one-story tile and stuccO building
for the Guaranty State bank of Karnes
6 City, the estimated cost is $4,000.
Beverly w. Spillman has completed
4 plans and specifications for a residence
10 be constructed for DIR. +. A. Barber
Material is tile and stuccO.
Plans have been completed for the
Jesse Oppenheimer residence to be
heated in Terrell Hills. Type is two
stories Of brick. Provision is made for
slate roof.
~ Plans and specifications for addition
"a 10 the water plant of Fort Stockton
have been completed by the Terrell
Bartlett engineers.
n Approximately $4,000 worth Of re
q modelling work is being done on the W
P M. Blanks residence at Lockhart
Ralph II. Cameron is the architect.
W.. G. Thrailkill has the contrac
for the construction of the d. J
Strauss residence. Type is two-story
tile and stucco.
The construction of an intake nipt
line approximately four and one-hal
miles long and a water purificatioI
plant at Elgin, by n. A. Saigh com
many for a total cost Of S4J,5O0. i
announced. The city of Elgin will
also construct a sanitary sewer system
which viii cost approximately $4,000
Bids were opened recently for tn
CONSTRUCTION of brick store building
for r. e. Kelly to be located on Rive
avenue. J. NJ. Oldham has the cor
frnct. Estimated cost is 5000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

MODERN conveniences are so generally used now
AVA adays that it seems almost beyond belief that
anything so commonplace hot water for domestic
was once unknown! Yet digging into history and
tradition reveals that artificial heating of water
had to be discovered! An American Indian legend
records it thus:
destroying his camp fire prevent enemies
finding his trail, kicked hot stones into pool of water.
The Missed striking the and the sound
excited the curiosity of the 1t amused him. He
kicked other into the but they caused
splash. He then knew that the stones be hot
cause the Kissing!
He showed fellows the trick by dropping hot stones
into enrthen pot full Of They chucked at the
peculiar noise and became chidishly interested
In his ignorance, happened plunge his hand
into the Instantly startled danced about,
yelling in pain. recognized being like
from fire He knew that meat BEGAN
p1aable by roasting Natural curiosity led him to
the kind Of heat for cooking In this way according
to the legend, the first for hot water found!
For hundreds of years dropping hot stones into q
pot filled with water was perhaps, the only way to
heat water. Later, men learned how to make pots
that would bear the direct heat of the fire The pot
eventually set upon a stove, as succeeding genera
tons improved their cooking methods. Today, hot
water flows pentifuly at turn of faucet.
Now you can have hot water quick-in kitchen,
laundry bed room and bath roonl-anywhere in the
house! You depriving yourself of of the
homes cheapest comforts unless you have adequate
modern hot water service Ask any of the Plumbing
Dealers below to show you how. you can enjoy the
benefits of hot water for every need at moderate
cost 49, =
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Ralph Cameron is preparing plans
for a one-story tile and stuccO building
for the Guaranty State bank of Karnes
City, the estimated cost is $4,000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

= Plans are being prepared for a two
sfory tile and stucco residence for
Edwin Phillips TO be located in Fort
Worth. Atlee b. & Robert NJ. Ayres
are architects.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Bids were opened recently by Judge
for re-surfacing portion of
the Fredericksburg road.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Beverly w. SpiIlman has completed
plans and specifications for a residence
10 be constructed for DR.. +. A. Barber.
Material is tile and stucco.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Bids were opened recently for the
construction of brick store building
for r. z. Kelly to be Located on River
avenue. J. NJ. Oldham has the con.
tract. Estimated cost is 5000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Plans have been completed for the
Jesse Oppenheimer residence to be
heated in Terrell Hills. Type is two
stories Of brick. Provision is made for
elate roof.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

w. G. Thrailkill has the contract
for the construction of the d. J..
Strauss residence. Type is two-story
tile and stucco.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

81 Plans and specifications for addition
10 the water plant of Fort Stockton
have been completed by the Terrell
Bartlett engineers.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Approximately $4,000 worth Of re-
modelling work is being done on the W.
M. Blanks residence at Lockhart.
Ralph II. Cameron is the architect.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

Another reason cited by the tax
commissioner against such compromise
is the fact that his office is making
good progress in the collection OF back
taxes. Through the sending out of no
tees and threats to file suits. he said.
h. has been able to collect thousands
of dollars N back taxes and bring the
delinQuencies down to rather recent
date. He feels sure that through the
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

they must be %justifable to me, Jen-
ME-"
"Good night" said Jennie CURLY,
, and left him.
Jennie, l am obliged to admit, gave
scant attention to the new career Upon
which her old sweetheart seemed to
be entering. She was in politics, and
was playing the game as became the
daughter of a local politician. Col.
Albert Woodruff ven South with the
army as a corporal in 1861, and came
back a lieutenant. His title of colonel
was conferred by appointment as a
member of the staff of the governor,
long years ago, when he was county
auditor. He was not a rich man, as |
may have suggested, but a well-to-do
farmer, whose wife did her w work
much Of the time, not because the
colonel could not afford to hire "help,"
but for the reason that 'hired girls"
were hard to get.
The colonel, having seer the glory
of the coming of the Lord in the
triumph of his side in the great war,
was inclined to think that all reform
had ceased, and was a political stand
patter-a very honest and sincere one.
Moreover, he was influential enough
so that when Mr.. Cummins or Mr..
Dolliver came into the county on DO
litical errands, Colonel Woodruff had
always been called into conference. He
was of the old New England type, be-
lieved very much in heredity, very
much in the theory that whatever is
is right, in so far as it has secured
money or power.
A very respectable, honest, Ameri-
can tory was the colonel, fond of his
political sway, and rather soured by
the fact that it was passing from him.
He had now broken with Cummins and
Dolliver as he had done years ago
with Weaver and later with Larrabee
and this breach was very important
to him, whether they were greatly con-
cerned about it or not.
Such being her family history, Jen-
ME was something of a politician her
self. She was in no way surprised
when approached by party managers
on the subject of accepting the nomi-
nation for county superintendent of
schools. Colonel Woodruff could de-
liver some delegates to his daughter,
though he rather SHE'D ut the pro-
p0sal at first, but on thinking it over,
warmed somewhat to the notion of
having a Woodruff on the county pay
roll once more.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

far as going to the city this morning
is concerned. But not in any other
way.
For l didn't catch a boat or a
train and | didn't do any work and
I'm back before it is nighttime,
$50 you see it is quite different"
"Yes, l see,' said Cecropia.
But / went to the city. and how
strange it was. l flew up and it
seemed to me that the sky was hidden.
| wondered for a time if they had a
sky in the ethyl
Eyes, Cecropia, laugh if you will.
| actually wondered If there was a
sky in the city.
There were such high buildings.
Dear me, Cecropia, they were high!
"They were much higher than trees
and as for bushes-well, bushes would
get lost in the city. completely lost,
Cecropia."
Dear me-" said Cecropia, "how
very strange"
Every strange indeed" said the
Cabbage Butterfly. "You are right.
1t is very strange in the city.
"But / found at last there was a
sky In the city. Yes, it was over the
city just as it is over the country.
"But, leaf me, Cecropia. I flew so
high up and all saw were windows
of apartments and things like that.
ut was quite exciting and interest
So 49, - =, wI1ao fo- - b1,t
terfy to live in.
II heard on my way home that there
were nice parks where butterflies
would find bushes, but l didn't hap
pen to see any.
"And then. too. I wouldn't leave
the country for anything. Some might,
but not l..
"Still 1t was fun to see so many diff
ferent sights and to have adventured
into the big city with its buildings aid
its people.
Dear me, Cecropia, there are lots
of people in the CITY,"
"As many as a hundred or SOP
asked Cecropia.
"But I believe there are more than
a hundred people in the city"
II fancy you must be right" said
Cecropia.
well" said the Cabbage Butterfly.
Il must rest now for I'm beginning
to feel quite tired"
"T should think you would feel
tired" said Cecropia. but I'm glad
you went, for it has been interesting.
to hear Of such a visit"
Eyes. it's all right to visit the city.
Dnt | like the country for my home"
ended the Cabbage Butterfly.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
CHAPTER IV-Continued.

But, true TO his belief in honest,
thorough work, like a general prepar-
ing for battle, he examined his field of
operations. His manner of doing this
seemed to prove to Colonel Woodruff,
who watched it with keen interest as
something new in the world, that Jim
Irwin was possibly a Brown Mouse.
But the colonel knew only a part of
Jim's performances. He saw Jim
clothed in slickers, walking through
transforms to the houses in the Wood
ruff district, as greedy for every mo-
ment of rain as a haymaker for shine (;
and he knew hat Jim made a great
many evening calls.
But he did not know that Jim was
making what our sociologists call a
survey. For that matter, neither did
Jim for books on sociology cost more
than % cents a volume, and Jim had
never seen one. However, it was a
survey. To be sure, he had long
known everybody in the district, save
the Simmses-and he was now a friend
of all that exotic race; but there is
knowing and knowing.
He now had notebooks full of facts
about people and their farms. He
knew how many acres each family pos
sessed, and what sort of farming each
or mixed. He knew about the mort
cages, and the debts. He knew
whether the family atmosphere was
happy and cOntented, or the reverse.
He knew which bows and girls were
maynard and insubordinate. He made
a record of the advancement in their
studies of all the children, and what
they liked to read. He knew their
favorite amusements. He talked with
their mothers and sisters-not about
the school, to any extent, but on the
weather, the horses, the automobiles,
the silo-flling machinery and the
profits of farming.
Really, though Jennie Woodruff did
not see how such doings related to
school work, Jim Twins school was
running full blast in the homes of the
district and the minds of many pupils,
weeks and weeks before hat day
when he called them to order on the
Monday specified in his contract as
the first day of school.
Con Bonner, who came to see the
opening, voiced the sentiments of the
older people when he condemned the
school as disorderly. To be sure,
there were more pupils enrolled than
had ever entered on a first day in the
whole history of the school, and it was
hard to accommodate them all. But
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have ycn ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is PLAINTIFF article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says, "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many Of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy has SO large a
sale"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success Of DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact,
SO many people claim, that it fulflls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney.
liver and bladder ailments, ~corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric acid
which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root by parcel post. Address DIR.
Kilner & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, and
enclose ten cents; also mention this paper.
Large and medium size bottles for sale at
Ill drug Observation-Disclosures.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

che directors criticism was leveled
against the free-and-easy air of the
children. Most of them had brought
seed corr and a good-sized corn show
was on view. There was much argu-
ment as to the merits of the various
entries. Instead of a language lesson
from the textbook, Jim had given
them an exercise based On an examina-
ton of the ears Of corn.
The number exercises of the little
chaps had been worked out with ears
and kernels Of corn. One class in
arithmetic calculated the percentage
of inferior kernels at tip and butt to
the full-sized grains in the middle of
che ear.
All the time, Jim Irwin, awkward
and uncouth, clad in his n-one-too-good
Sunday suit and trying to hide behind
his Lincolnian smile the fact that he
w1a pretty badly frightened and much
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

embarrassed, passed among them, get
ting them enrolled, setting them tt
work, wasting much time and labor
ing like a heavy-laden barge in a sea.
way.
"That feller'll never do" said Bon
aer to Bronson next day. "Looks like
a tramp in the schoolroom."
"Wearin' his best, l guess" said
Bronson.
Half the kids call him 'Jim,'" said
Bonner.
That's all right with me-" replied
Bronson.
The room was as noisy as a eau
Gus" was Bonner's next Indictment,
''and the flure was all over corn like
a hog-pin."
'Oh! l don't suppose he can get
away with it," assented Bronson dis
gustedly, but that boy of mine is as
tickled as a colt with the whole thing.
Says he's goin' regular this winter
That's because Jim don't keep no
order" said Bonner. He let's Newt do
as he pleases.'
First time he's ever pleased to do
anything but deviltry," protested Bron-
o N. 'Oh, l suppose Jim'll fall down,
and Well have to fire him-but l wish
we could git a good teacher that would
git hold of Newt the way he seems
to!"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

1T would be correlated with rural
life. 1t would get education out Of the
things the farmers and farmers wives
are interested in as a part Of their
Ives
Jennie looked serious, after smoth-
ering a laugh.
"Jim," said she, you're going to
have a hard enough time to succeed
in the Woodruff school, if you confine
yourself to methods that have been
tested, and found good"
But the old methods" urged Jim.
shave been tested and found bad
Shall l keep to them?"
"They have made the American peo-
pie what they are" said Jennie. Don't
be unpatriotic, jim
"They have educated our farm chill
dren for the Cities" said Jim. This
county is losing population-and It's
the rest county in the world"
"Pessimism never WINS" said Jen-
ME.
Neither does blindness" answered
Jim. st is losing tie farms their
dwellers, and swelling the cities with
a p~roletariat."
For some time, now, Jim had ceased
to hold Jennie's hand and their sweet
heart days had never seemed farther
away.
"Jim," said Jennie, ~ may be elect.
ed to a position in which l shall be
obliged to pass on your acts as teach
er-ia IN official way, l mean. l hope
they will be ju%stifiable."
Jim smiled his slowest and saddest
smile.
IF they're not, I'll not ask you to
condone them" said he. But first
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
PLACE BLAME ON CLIMATE
May Be Responsible for
Europe's Troubles.

French naval experts have discov-
cred as a result of naval maneuvers
that a hostile fleet can reach the
French coast without difficulty when
of the Channel fog, and they conclude
that coast d~efenses should be made
more. rather than less. effective. The
climatic argument for preparedness is
often advanced, and it may he IL
good one. A French visitor once re-
marked that the American climate
makes Americans optimistic and cheer
full. Is the climate. after all. a chief
cause of Europe's troubIes?-BaIti-
more Sun.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
E]0Dddd!ys
&96EveMn8
Fairy Tale =
BUTTERFLY AND MOTH
WWAARY GRAHAM BONNER
--eorMoAI " vls1:gn nsx;gAsIi UNION -

"Hello, C%ecropia," said the Cabbage
Butterfly to the big Moth, I've got
some news to tell you"
do tell me the news" said the big
moth, whose name. as the Cabbage
Butterfly had said, al Cecropia,
How do you happen to be awake at
this time of day?" asked the Cabbage
Butterfly. Il thought you moths liked
TO rest and nap in the daytime and
fly about by night"
1--WE do" said the Cecropia, "but the
day seemed a lovely one and / like
this seaside place where | am. The
air was warm and sunny and
thought | might spend the day in
DOING and taking little snoozes rather
than in actually sleeping"
II see, | see," said the Cabbage But
terfy. well, at any rate I'm glad
to have found you awake. | will feel
sleepy when nighttime comes, espe-
cially after my adventures"
Adventures" said Cecropia. $50
you've had adventures?'
"T've been to the city," said the
Cabbage Butterfly. land this is morn
ing, too"
Dear me- said Cecropia, you're
like a business man. I hear them
talking on the porches at night and
they speak Of catching a boat or a
train so they can go to the city In
the morning and work At their bust
ness"
WELL" said the Cabbage Butterfly.
I'm like a business man perhaps as
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
JENNIE IN POLITICS

SYNOPSIS-Jennie Woodruff
refuses to marry Jim Irwin.
young farm hand, because of his
financial condition and poor pros
poets. He is intellectually above
his station, and has advanced
ideas concerning the possibilities
of schooI teaching and farming,
for which he is ridiculed by
many. In short, Jim is an off OK.
He flocks by himself and reads
books and has a philosophy of
his own. But there are latent
powers in him unsupported even
by himself and Opportunity
comes knocking at his door. Jim
is nominated for school teacher,
as a joke. The joke results in
his election. He visits his
scholars.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
A Healthy Climate

You mast 90 To the nealtmest
n~eighborhood you can find" said the
eminent specialist to Mr.. Forsytle.
'And when you get there you must
stay there for six months and have
a thoroughly good rest"
In due course Mr.. Forsythe arrived
at the seaside own he had selected
and inquired of one of the old inhab-
itanrs if it was u really healthy neigh
borhood.
"Well, you see me-" said the old
man, who was a fine specimen of
health and vigor. wien | came here
! couldn't walk across the ROOF and
hadn't the strength TO utter d single
word. | had scarcely a hair on my
head and l had to be lifted on and
off the bed"
"Ah. you give me hope" said the
invalid. How long have you been
here?"
Il was born here was the reply
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
Name OF %CrabappIe.

The name crabapple appears TO be
of Scandinavian origin. and akin to
the Swedish "krabbaple,' says Nature
Magazine. Skeat offers the explana-
ton that the Swedish word is related
70 the name "krabba," as applied TO
the sea creature. He adds that appli-
cation of the word to the fruit was
perhaps "from some notion OF pinch
ing. In allusion to the extreme o
ness Of the taste" of the c~rabapple.
In this he finds resemblance to the
~"pinching" action Of the claws Of the
crustacean-
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
TONGUE TWisTERS

Poor papa's pouter pigeon pouted
perpetually.
Pleasant peoples portraits please
policemen.
Lazy Lulu Long lost Lily Lees lus-
cious ~lollypops.
Larry Long lit Lilah's luminous Ian
teri %leisurely.
Little Lucy Lester learns long les
sons laboriously.
Eugenia easily explained every ex-
ample.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
school, but ! don't e any pros
pect-"
GRO BE CoNTINUED.)
Comprehensive Appeal.

A street car conductor called ont
shrilly to the passengers standing in
the aisles: "Will thin in front PLACE
to move up, so that thin behind can
take the places Of thin in front an
lave room for thin who are nayther / n
front nor behind?"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
Surprise in Sight.

81 don't know what we are coming
to- "All the better. You'll have a
nice surprise when we get to it
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27
House and Its Owner,

My precept to all who build is, that
the owner should be an ornam ent to
the house, and not the house TO the
Owner.-Cicero.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

Frankness about oneself is regarded
with establishment by some natures.
They never reciprocate.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-09-27

Dreamers won't work; so they'd
better entertain.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-08

Mine No. l. German workers have
been ordered TO operate coke ovens for
the French and refused. The French
fixed list of punishmeIits for those
refusing 10 work and intimated that
they might expel the miners with
their wives and babies from their
homes and also expel them from the
occupied territory entirely. These pro-
visions are so sweeping and vague
that it now can be said that no in
dustrial workmen in the whole Ruhr
district can be sure in the morning
that he will not be thrown out of his
house before night.
imprisonment for five years may
be inflicted for a comparatively trit-
ling offense. These appear to be those
sanctions under conSidera ton "
which Poincarc mentioned in his re-
Gently published note, but il the work
men still refuse to submit. as al!
unionized miners in occupied mines
have hitherto. then the French may
be obliged TO import their own work
ers. This must be a slow painful pro