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Veteran Texas Rangers Have Kept Law For Ninety-Two Years In Their State Before Texas had an army Texas had the Rangers, writes an El Paso Texas correspondent of the Kansas City Star. This historical fact places the Texas Ranger as an individual and an institution in the minds of the people of the Lone Star state. Attnost continuously from 1833 this little army of lean.bronzcd horsemen with rifles under the thigh in the saddle scabbards, with long-bat rel ed Colts sagging low on the cartridge belts, this famous police organisa tion has kept the law over the vast reaches of a state larger than many empires.. Out doors men par excellence, hdrtehien beyond compare, steadv eyed men in whose hands the Coll ahfl Winchester became instruments handled deftly as a juggler’s toys; • grim men ready, as Captain Bill Mac Donald once said, "to charge hell with a bucket of water—if they could get the water." Such were— sure are—the Texas Rangers. Protected Pioneers. In the beginning they protected the tiny, isolated cabins of the settlers that nested on clear creeks in the rich bottoms from marauding Co manches, Lipans, Kiowas and Apaches, who swooped down upon the settlements each "light of the moon' to steal horses and lift scalps and take away p lsoners. Later, as he Indians learned that horses were too dear!,’ bought when taken from this grim breed that peo pled the frontier, the white outlaws supplantfd them as the greatest me nace of the still primitive land. And Just as they shattered the red hordes so did the Texas Rangers come quiet ly and grimly upon the trail of cat tle thieves, murderers, bunk and train robbers. By sheer necessity men learned to depend each upon himself, for his neighbors were apt to be far away. They joined the Rangers from the ranches, from the little hill-farms, from behind the counters in tiny cross roads stores. They stayed a year, two or three or five years. Then they gave place to others like them and themselves went back to civil life. Ranchers, bankers, lawmakers, governors, senators, merchants—In Texas today, wherever one turns, he finds the ex-Rangcr.. Beginning Organization And up in Colorado City, one of the old Indian fighters often wrote to companions of the days gone by; to men who had scattered to all points of the compass. From San Antonio banks, from Mississippi plantations, from skyscrapers in Dallas, from cow ranches in the Big Wend country of the Rio Grande— from all quarters and all walks of life the graying old-time Rangers rgmtnisced of their youth and of the trails over which "once in the middle they used to go riding." So to this old Ranger came the idea of a new campfire—one around which the old-timers might gather Once. more. In 1920 Major W. M. Green sent out Invitations to every ex-Ranger who had been in the service prior to 1890. "Meet with the | eld boys in Weatherford. Texas." he I wrote. And to Weatherford they |came in numbers that amazed them | all. Men of 80 and past, mere boys cf 60 or so. They relived the old times and they organized the cx | Texas Rangers’ association, electing Major Green commander. So the re I union became an annual affair, and one of the most interesting gather - | mgs in this modern time. It was Held this year in Menard, on the headwaters of the San Saba, a locality peculiarly fitted to en tertain the Old Guard, for in the '70s land 80s tills region was the battle ground of Rangers and raiding In | dians. Welcome Prepared. For two days before the reunion's beginning the little frontier town— for* frontier town it still i:;—made ready. Out on the edge of town the Baptist encampment grounds were, prepared. And from farm and ranch and country town, from cities hun dreds of miles away, from other states, they came. As in the old days, the Ranger tents gleamed w hite beneath the pe-1 can trees, so did the new encamp- ' ment spring up in the big grove, Ex pensive limousines jolted over the rutty trail and came to a halt be side Fords. And portly, dignified old men stepped out, to look curiously about them, then rush forward to fling their, arms about the should ers of booted, wide- hatted old cow men. Quavering voices rose from 20 . little groups. "Jim Gillet coming?" "I saw Joe Jackson over at Alpine; he's coming this year!" “Captain Roberts—old Cap'll Dan—is already here!" A Ford coupe stopped at the foot of a great tree. A big, gray-bearded but.erect, sturdy man got out and pushed back his wide black hat. He was Captain John Hughes. Rang cr captain of longer service than any perhaps the most widely known Ranger of today. Meet Kiowa Jones. A loan, dark, six-foot or. booted buttcnless vest hanging open, broad white Stetson low over tanned and hawk-like face, moved over to Cap tain Hughes: "I saw you in Austin in 1302. Wa ate together. I'm Kiowa Jones. Join ed Cap’n Bill MacDonald's company in '93 and stayed 20 years.” There folk of Menard county op ened their doors to the old Rangers. In every dooryard were gray fig ures. The tents on the camp-meeting grounds and the town’s rooming houses were filled. Up and down the single main street went the gnarled old fellow's, looking hard at one an other for fear of passing up an old friend not seen for 30, 40 or 50 years. Quaintly dressed women were with them, and fashionaly dressed girls. Sometimes the son brought them—a youngster who might look like a chorus advertisement. After supper the. groups formed again—on the sidewalks of the town out at the encampment. Within the memory of these survivors, both the ; old Ranger:* and the pioneer towns people, the Indians raided down in sight ol where they stood. More than one of these owned a scalp, a 'bow, arrows tipped with hoop-iron, scalping knives, moccasins, taken from a dead brave on the scene of some unnamed battle Odd Names Heard. Names fled thick and fast; names of a sort to suggest adventure, ro mance; Celery Creek, Pegleg, the Penrales, Cowhouse Creek, Coman che Springs, Old Port McKavet, Salt Creek Prairie. Then would rise the shrill clamor of their voices as all reminisced at cnce. The stories that were told! Here were 62 men of one of the most famous'organizations in the world their total combined age at least 4,300 years. Pour thousand three hundred years of high adventure re presented here by men * of 86, who looked not more than JO; men like “Wild Bill McLean,” of Winters, who had to “sneak off” from the family and come “catch ride” be cause two weeks before he had fal len into a creek and was supposed to have suffered some ill effect. Ben like Benjamin Franklin Ghol ison, whose name—an that of his brother. S. S. Gholson—is known to the old-times every where as one who “had a mania" for handling cow thieves. "Handling” meaning ev erything from capture to killing. Eighty-six year old, and straight backed, stockily powerful of figure as a younger wrestler. * Wooden Legs Baltimore Sun. There are ways and ways by which shrewd publicity agents evade the keen eyes of the copy desk and slip over news items ad vertising their products. One just appearing, however, seems to take the bakery as Well as the cake. We refer to the amazing story that a gentleman with a wooden leg con cealed the fact from his wife so suc cessfully that she thought it was flesh and bone bn til he took it off in order to give her a beating. There are wooden legs and wooden legs. Mr. Silas Wegg had one wnich greatly stirred the interest and curiosity cf Mr. Boffin, but the best that inquisitive gentleman could get out of Silas as to the merits and de merits of this adventitious aid to !c comotion was that he did not have to keep it warm. Silas had no wife and thus was dc«ied opportunity to try the serviceability of this modern weapon in upholding the authority of the head of the house. Our knowledge of wooden legs is entirely superficial, but we were cer tainly not aware that such perfec tion had been attained in the manu facture of them that they evade the keen vision of the wife of one’s bosom. Such a miracle in artificial substitutes for missing limbs great ly diminishes the tragedy of losing real ones. We must congratulate whoever has conferred this boon on humanity. Scats on the New York Stock Ex change are selling for upward of a quarter of a million dollars. This news probably will break Tex Rick ard's heart.—Seattle Times. Hnocii Steep hill ahead! Can you make it on high? Without knocking? Without that heart-rending pingk-pingk pingk of a badly-carboncd motor? You can do it easily with Esso. The giant power of this mighty fuel sends you railing to the top with a lively burst of speed. No grumbling from your motor. No knocking. Esso ends all that. Esso is the most virile motor fuel available today. Give i- it a hill-test with your own car. Judge it yourself. On sale at all “Standard” Service * j Stations and leading dealers ‘STANDARD* MOTOR OIL Holds its body longer S T A N D A R D O 1 L c ° M P A N Y ( N . J .) SHELBY LOOSES TO FAST ASHEVILLE TEAM SATURDAY (Confnuc'd from page one.) touchdown after two passes had j been broken up. With the odds 13-0 against them j the Shelby eleven battled gamely but j in vain in that last quarter. Zeno j Wall, braced up after his injury, was rushed back in the fray and the little general yanked Big Joe Sin gleton out of the line and started a desperate long passing game, but Asheville alert and with fresh men in the game caught as many of the Shelby passes as did Shelby. What a basketball game it was. Shelby would pass and Asheville would catch it. Then Estes for Asheville would shove one in the air and i either Beam or Gold would nab it. There in the middle of the field the j two teams literally passed the time j away. Finally the husky Singleton j faked a pass from punt position and | from under his own goal post scart- ! ed a long run that carried the ball near to midfield. After losing ground on intercepted passes, Shel by threatened gamely again when the feature run of the game was staged. Zeno Wall darted around his right and hesitated a moment and. about him formed the best interfer ence Shelby put up. As the young ster raced along the side line four | Shelby players ran with him. Down | and down the field they rambled, seemingly not bo be stopped, but one slip ruined the march as an Asheville player slipped in from be hind and nabbed Wall, despite the I blue wall defense on his side. In a manner of speaking that ! was the game. Yet in the last min ute there was football galore. It was impossible for Shelby to win, but that Shelby team did not seem to realize it. Time after time the Shel backs tore through the Asheville line only to be pulled down by the safe ty man. Harris Ends Fine. Then as the crowds began to w end their way out of the big stadium Capt. Ed Harris made a last bril liant dash to end his official career I ; at Shelby High in a blaze of glory. ' Asheville passed and Harris reached j ! up and nabbed the ball. Sidestepping | | and stiff-arming he came shooting down the field, crossing white line after white line as the entire Ashe ville* team tried to stop him, much | as they did the speedy Beam in the j first quarter. Finally with his cwn goal line nearing they pulled the battling Shelby captain down just as he tried to side-step the Ashe ville safety. Two more yards or an additional burst of speed, which he did not have in his tired frame; would have carried the Shelby lad over to a touchdown in his final minute of grid play. Game Features. Asheville says Shelby w>as out played in every department. Such | was net the case. With two backs lout Shelby was near helpless in the j aerial game, but in the runing at tack ar.d in line play Morris’ boys were considerably superior.. Either Beam or Harris carried ball more from scrimmage than every Ashe ville back combined. Last but not least, the light Shelby line after be ing shoved bade in the first five minutes of the game let it be known that they were not to be shoved any more and from that period on out played the Asheville line. In the sensational work, Chakales, Beam, Harris and Estes were big lights. Chakales passed, squirmed and dashed about as has no high school player against Shelby m years. In Estes he had a worthy pal who could also pass, kick and run. In simon-pure ball-toting no one ap proached the performance of the flashy Beam. A p'lay-by-play ac count of the game shows that Beam failed to gam only once and on scores of runs gained from 4 to 26 yards every clip. Close behind him was Ed Harris, and as the records go it was Harris’ greatest game. Somehow the Shelby captain seem ed to sense that it was his final state i contest play and he played his final i game, though it ended in defeat, as i a captain should play, setting the pace as well as spurring his team | mates cn. Singleton, Gold and Sparks were I the luminaries in the line although j the entire team played will except ; in its failure to measure the Ashe iville passes. , Incidentally, set it -down that if Chakales gets back in the line-up Asheville will win the western title. The line-up: Shelby Pos Asheville j Gold___le_.... Branch Hunt..It ... .„ McKenzie Wilson.— _lg-1 Moragn Grigg ... —C-- ..Anderson Glasco ... ... —rg. Fortson Singleton_rt ... ... Andrews Sparks_..re.. .. Ford Wall ..-qb- Cobb McSwain ... ...lh ... ... Osborne Harris __..-rh ....... ... Estes Beam ____tb ... ... Chakales Score by period: j Asheville ........... -0 6 0 7—13 Shelby ... .0 0 0 3—0 Subs—Asheville: Rowling for Branch, Choate for Fordtson Evans for Chakales, Payne for Evans. Staf ford for Osborne. Brookshire for An drews, Marshall for McKenzie, Hall for Morgan. Hodges for Payne. Shel by: Cline for Wall, Suttlo for Me ! Swain. Bridges for Suttle. McSwain for Cline, Wall for Bridges, Gardner for Wilson, Poston for 4 McSwain, Magness for Glasco, Delinger for Hunter. Officials: Homewood IN. C.) ref eree; Arbogast <W, <& L.) umpire; Bell iU. C.) headhnesman. Time of periods 12 minutes. , RESIDENTS FIFTY YEARS ENDS LIFE OVER REJECTION Brck, Neb.—For more than 50 years Arnold Chard thought he w;is a full-fledged American citi zen. He had no reason to doubt it. He didn't know about the quirk in naturalization laws which requires that an immi grant, in order to give his chil dren citizenship, must take out his papers before these children become of age. Having cotne to this country as a j small child with his parents from Switzerland; having grown up as an American boy, and having known no land but that of his adoption, he oelieved all requirements had been fulfilled. The fact that his father did not fake out naturalization papers until ifter Arnold had passed the age of j 21 seemed too trivial to have a bear- I mg on such an important thing as ritizenship of a man who had grown up a loyal and patriotic American, Until he was 62 the idea that he j was not really , an American never ! dawned upon this Nebraskan farm | boy. He married, reared a family of I tour childen, sent twro sons to war to fight for the United States, voted tegular;y and conscientiously, and in ’ all respects was a good citizen. But when Chard and his wife tried to come home after a visit to Europe last year they found the way barred. They found they were aliens. Then after they had finally gained permission to enter their homeland as "guests’’ they found themselves threatened with depor tation. It worried him so much that he killed himself the other day. Steal ing out behind the barn, he satur ated his clothing with gasoline and applied a match. Fatally burned be fore his wife could extinguish the flames, he died a few hours later. He was buried in a little hillside ceme tery overlooking the farm. Spurred to action by this tragedy, the immigration inspector in the Omaha office quickly lifted the de portation threat still hanging over Mrs. Chard and paroled her to one of her sons. Born in France, she had come to the United States in childhood as her husband had. When she married him she supposed she automatical ly became an American citizen. Sleeked at Ellis Island on fair rec ent rlturn from Europe, sne. too, had been admitted only* as a "visit er” Arnold Chard and his wife work ed'hard and became well-to-do in their years here together. They ac quired one of the finest farms in Nemaha county, which is in the heart of the corn belt. They had three sons and a daugh ter, and gave them all college edu cations. When the war came on and two sons enlisted. Chard did his bit at home. He gave generously to the various fund campaign and, with his wife and remaining two chil dren, devoted much time to Red Cross and other war activities. Eventually the two soldier sons came home. They told such inter esting tales of their experiences in Europe and of the sights to be seen there that the father and mother finally remembered that they them selves were born in Europe. They at length decided to take six months off after their many years of hard work on the farm and visit their birthplaces in France and Switzerland. Mr. and Mrs. Chard applied for passage and got their credentials without question. Indeed, nobody had ever questioned their citizen ship. They never had entertained a doubt about it themselves. All went well on their return trip until they reached Ellis Island. Then came a bolt from the blue. The im migration officials looked over their passports and advised them they could not enter. About The Boy Scouts Dwight L. Davis, secretary of war, says: "The Boy Scout movement com mends itself from a double view point. In its international aspect it ingrains in the youth of many na tions a tolerance and broadminded ness which will have considerable influence in the promotion of good will and peace throughout the world. Prom the national viewpoint the training afforded the Boy Scout promotes the doctrine of the strenu ous life urged by President Roose velt, the lover of boys and the ar dent-admirer of the Boy Scout movement. He urged the life which exalts useful work and mocks ig noble ease, the life which seeks to make of cur youth men healthy in body and healthy in mind. As the Bey Scout movement further ex tends its influence, the greater may be our assurance of a virile citizenry, impregnated with the spirit of re solute and fearless Americanism.” LINCOLN COTTON GINNING SHOWS INCREASE TO DATE Lincolnton.—There were 7.498 bales of cotton ginned in Lincoln county from the crop prior to Nov ember 1, 1927, as compared to 9, 071 bajes ginned up to November 1. 1926, according to the official report from the Lincoln gins. The Red Cross answers many calls; will you answer its appeal? Turkey Car Here A Turkey Car will be at the Seaboard station here on Wednesday, November 16, for the purpose of buying turkeys from Cleveland county farmers at top prices. The following prices will be paid: Turkeys (other than toms and culls) ___ 30c pound Old Tom Turkeys---25c pound Culls (crook breast and thin)_20c pound Ducks and Geese-___-12c pound Guineas------ 40c Each ! ALVIN HARDIN, COUNTY AGENT FOR ALL OF HUMANITY J. M. Best Service is for all of humanity, and aur organization is composed of capable and effici ent people who take a vital and sympathetic inter est in serving others in their sorrows. Ambulance service, Trained attendant. JOHN M. BEST COMPANY FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS. DAY PHONE 365. NIGHT & SUNDAY 64 or 364 Producing one variety of cotton in a community will simplify the mar keting of the staple and will hedp to keep the variety pure. Tcp-dress the pasture sod with an application of acid phosphate, a ton of ground limestone or a few loads of stable manure or all three. i The sweet. young thin- nu , lu* have a good looking knee but she is frank enough to let the world f judge for itself. Our extra slice of pie for this week is awarded the politician who maintains that he only desires t0 serve the people. ** where Savings are greatest * ’ When Shopping for Her Gilt Remember a Handbag If vou know the nredominatinjr color of her costurn# —so much the better! But whether you do or not, she will appreciate your selection. Many Styles! Reptilian and hand-tooled effects — pouch and envel opes. It’s a delight to select one. $1.98 to i $7.90 Luggage for Gifts Here Is an Inexpensive Set in Reptilian Leatherette Hat Piox and Ladies’ 16-inch Suit Case in good-look ing and durable reptilian leatherette; shown in various colors. Both nieces for— Separately, $1.43 Each Stylish Waverly Caps ror Men Give a VVaverly Cap for Christmas and you will give •omething sure to be most ^ acceptable. Men know the good value and smart style i >r which the name VVaverly stands. Double and twist fabric, full messaline lining, non breakable rubber visor. 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Silk and Cotton Mix* ture, $2.98 Pure Silk Taffeta, $3.98 Imported Cloth with satin finish, $4.98 j Hat Boxes 1 Of Black Enamel Every woman likes these stylish, smart and useful hat boxes. Beautifully - made, good size and light-weight; attractively lined with shirred pocket on inside ot cover. At the low price of* $3.98 Winter Underwear for Men Our 12-pound Union Suit* sell well because they wear well. Ecru ribbed, long sleeved, ankle length, cut tulL At—. 79c
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