The Hallett Herald (Hallett, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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the hallett herald
A STRONG
DEFENSE
against general weak-
ness can only be estab-
lished and maintained
by keeping the diges-
tion good and liver
and bowels active.
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS
will help wonderfully in
restoring the "inner
man" to a strong and
normal condition.
A Puzzler.
The type of youth who iudulges In
loud clothes and a hat forced back
over his earB dropped Into the dental
chair.
"I'm afraid to give him gas." tald
the dentist to his assistant.
"Why?"
"How can I tell when he's con-
scious?"—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
P,
got what he deserved
sage tea darkens gray
hair to any shade. try it1
Keep Your Locke Youthful, Dark,
Glossy and Thick With Garden
Sage and 8ulphur.
When you darken your hair with
Bage Tea and Sulphur, no one can
tell, because It's done bo naturally, so
evenly. Preparing thlB mixture,
though, at home Is mussy and trouble-
some. For 50 centa you can buy at
any drug Btore the ready-to-use tonio
called "Wyeth'B Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy." You Just dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair, taking
one email strand at a time. By morn-
ing all gray hair disappears, and, after
another application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully darkened, glossy
and luxuriant. You will also dis-
cover dandruff Is gone and hair has
■topped falling.
Gray, faded hair, though no dis-
grace, is a Blgn of old ago, and as we
all desire a youthful and attractive ap-
pearance, get busy at once with Wy-
eth's Sage and Sulphur and look years
younger. Adv.
Inequalities of Existence.
"We rest," said the distinguished
lawyer for the defense.
"An1 such is life." added Raggsy Ru-
fus, recounting the circumstances to
Plodding Pete; "we rest, and get the
dog set on us. He rests—and gits paid
fur doln' it!"
Celebration of St. Valentine's Day
Is One ot the Oldest ot
Our Customs.
8t. Valentine's day Is the outgrowth
of a pagan custom. The feaBt of Lu-
percalla, which was held on February
15 in honor of the great god Pan, was
undoubtedly Its origin. At this feast
the names of the virgin daughters of
Rome were put in a box and drawn
therefrom by the young men and
each youth was bound to offer a gift
to the maiden who fell to his lot and
to make her his partner during the
time of the feast.
This custom became allied with the
name of St. Valentine, probably only
through a coincidence in dates. St. Val-
entine was a bishop of Rome during
the third century. He was martyred
on February 14, A. D. 270. When the
saint came to be placed In the calen-
dar his name was given to the day
of his death, and this was made a
festival.
In the days of quill pens and dear
postage the transmission of valentines
through the post was an expensive
luxury. The amorous swains of that
period had to content themselves and
their Idolized fair ones with thick
sheets of gilt-edged letter paper, the
first page of each being adorned with
a gift Cupid, carefully gummed.
With the reduction of the heavy
postal charges printed valentines
gradually came Into use. They gen-
erally consisted of a gaudily colored
picture, representing a lovely couple
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
Feb. 19-20. Central Oklahoma Educa
tlonal Association. Oklahoma City.
Feb. 22-24, Breeders' Show, Oklahom
CIFeb. 22-26. OKiahoma Breeders' Sale.
Oklahoma City. ohn.
March 15-Rallway rate ca*e*, uki
h°March'*15-19—State Dental Society. Ok-
lahoma City. t «„Aioat«>r
Apr. 19-21 state trap Shost lfcAlagar
April 28-SO. ftoumern commercial con
cress. MuskocM. ,
May :i-2i—state Firemen s meeuns.
^SeptT^-Oct J—State Fair, Oklahoma
City.
Mr. Slickum—Here, children, If you
want some fun deliver these valen-
tines to the people In this row.
VMllTfll')
Now the old cranks that I directed
them to will get mad and think the
kids sent them and—
"Take It out of the kids. Haw, haw,
haw!
Important to Mother®
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOR 1 A, a Bufe and sure rornedy for
lnfauta and children, and see that It
Dears the
Signature of ^
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Caston*
Tight.
"He's close-fisted, Isn't he?"
-I should say he Is! Why, man, he
won't even give up any of his bad hab-
its."
These self-made men insist on talk-
ing shop.
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J M' V*<W • • •• ' *
4* . .*•
First Painted Valentine.
seated in a bower, with a church In
the distance, and a few lines descrlp-
tlvo of the tender sentiments of the
persons forwarding the same. The
designers of these amatory billets
seem to have entertained rather singu-
lar notions respecting the proper at-
titude of the ladies and gentlemen of
whose feelings they sought to be-
come the Interpreters. The lady was
Invariably dressed In a scarlet gown,
with a blue or green shawl; the gen-
tleman was attired In lavender trous-
ers, yellow waistcoat, blue surtout
and green or crimson cravat The ef-
fect thus obtained was, as might be
Imagined, somewhat striking; hut our
fathers and mothers were apparently
satisfied with these quaint produc-
tions. The introduction of the cheap
postage of today laid the foundation
of the present trade in valentines,
the manufacture of which now consti-
tutes an Important branch of indus-
trial activity, furnishing, directly or
Indirectly, employment to several
thousand persons of both sexes
Cheap postage is also responsible
for the Introduction of the comic val-
entine, that hideous bit of vulgarity
sold for a cent In the United States
and In Great Hrltaln for a penny or
a half penny, which still remains one
of the tribulations of the day. But
side by side with this monstrosity
grew up the pretty and fanciful cards
whose use in a modified form has been
extended also to Christmas and to
New Year's.
Oh, I say! Hold on! Can't a man
laugh on the street with being as-
saulted?"
For ttie treatment of coldi, sore throat,
etc lVan'o Mentholated Cough l>rop give
iurc relief—5c at all good Druggists.
You can't be happy unless you maks
others happy.
Other!
fearful idea
HANFORD'8
Balsam of Myrrh
For Galls, Wire
Cuts, Lameness,
Strains, Bunches,
Thrush, Old Sores,
Nail Wounds, Foot Rot
FUtula, Bleeding, Etc. Etc.
Made Since 1846. AlAbouUU f
Price 25c, 60c and $1.00
__ . OR WRITE _
AllDealers#,ya
"Gee! de awful t'ou^ht strikes me
dat maybe 1 mailed de purty valentine
to pie-face Annie an' de comic one
to tie real works."
st. valentine in year 1754
Love Plaints of Youths and Maidens
Certainly No Sillier Now Than
Then.
Some folks find everything worse
than what Is old. Among other things,
the behavior of youth Is condemned as
more thoughtless and Inconsequential
than ever before. The young girl is
called unconscionably silly in regard
to men. But just read this confession
of a young girl in 1754;
"Last Friday was St. Valentine's
day, and the night before I got five
bay leaves, and pinned four on the
corners of my pillow and the fifth to
the middle, and then If I dreamt of
my sweetheart, Betty said we should
be married before the year was out
But to make it more sure, I boiled an
egg hard, and took out the yolk and
filled it with salt; and when I went
to bed ate It, shell and all, without
speaking or drinking after It. We also
wrote our lovers' names upon bits of
paper, and rolled them up In clay, and
put them Into water; and the first that
rose was to be our valentine. Would
you think It? Mr. Blossom was my
man. 1 lay abed, and shut my eyes,
all the morning till he came to our
house, for I would not have seen an-
other man before him for all the
world."
Probably the popular Bong of today
Is the most Inane form that the alpha-
bet has ever taken. And yet in the
eighteenth century "The Cabinet of
Love; or Cupid's Repository," used to
contain this sort of thing:
The beautlea of her polished mind.
It nee.ls no lover's eye to find;
The hermit freetlng In his cell,
Might wish the gentle Flavia well
Certainly the gentle Flavia deserved
"the book." And Just listen:
Tou are the girl I delight In
Much more than haddock, smelts, or
whiting.
This may not be quite so bad as the
contemporary popular song, but It Isn't
worlds away. Possibly, after all, our
predecessors didn't have so much on
us in the line of perfection.—Collier's
Weekly.
A Valentine.
A pretty valentine is a dainty white
apron In the shape of a heart, the
band pointed In front like a girdle.
Little ruffled heart shaped pa ckets
and bib are added
The bib Is finished with a ruffle
and beading, through which pink or
blue ribbon may be run.
The MacThwalte well No. 4, neal
Ada struck gas at 1,050 feet. There i«
enough gas to supply a town of 10,00(
Inhabitants.
Robert Dutcher has been appointed
by the federal authorities an& State
Agent Bentley to be the agricultural
agent and farm demonstrator for Kaj
county.
Four loads of wheat marketed at
Lawton brought $120 per load. Local
dealers were paying $1.40 a bushel foi
wheat, the record price of wheat foi
this county.
There is no danger of insurance
companies revoking burglar insurance
on banks in Oklahoma, now that the
banking law has been signed by Gov
ernor Williams.
Selwyn Douglas, an Oklahoma City
attorney, was appointed to succeed J
M. Van Winkle, resigned, as United
States referee in bankruptcy for this
district. He assumed his new duties
immediately.
The following Oklahoma postmast
ers have been appointed by President
Wilson: Lee B. Fitzhugh, Sand
Springs; C. D. Snider, Waurika; H. E
Derwin, Guthrie, and Frederick Mc
Daniel, Bartlesville.
The postoffice at Dewar, a mining
town in Okmulgee county, was rob
bed, the robbers getting about $10C
from the office and from the genera)
store in the same building. No trace
of the robbers has been found.
According to R. E. English, federal
cotton agent for Oklahoma county.
there have been 15,327 bales of cotton
ginned in Oklahoma county prior to
January 16, 1915. There were 10.244
bales ginned prior to January 16,1914.
Mrs. Minnie Bailey, a widow living
on a farm fifteen miles southwest ol
Walters, drowned herself In a watering
tank on the farm. She had started a
fire in the purpose of getting breakfast,
a few minutes before. Despondency.
A call was sent by the congregation
of the First Christian church of Long
Beach, Calif., to Rev. G. B. Taubman ot
Tulsa, Okla., to become its pastor. It
is understood that Rev. Taubman will
accept and take charge of the pulpit
May 1.
Governor R. L. Williams received
and accepted the resignation of A. W.
Duff, formerly of Mangum, but now a
resident of St Louis, as a member of
the state board of education. His suc-
cessor was not named and no indica-
tion of who the new member will be
was given.
Four counties in Kansas, Butler,
Sedgwick. Cowley and Sumner, the
two latter bordering on Oklahoma, had
been quarantined as a result of find-
ing cases of the foot and mouth dis-
ease. Notices were sent out warning
all railroads and shippers of the new
order.
Arthur Swank, prosecuting attorney
of Logan county, has commenced two
criminal actions against the Coyle Oil
Company of Guthrie. The counts
charge the company with mixing too
many corn cobs with the commercial
feeding stufT commonly denominated
cotton seed cake.
A 4-year-old child of Mrs. Beulah
Campbell, living north of Granite, fell
into a kettle of lard which was being
rendered and only the prompt action
of the mother saved the child's life.
The child was scalded and burned
about the hands, face and feet, and
will be scarred for life.
Showers during the past week
have put the growing wheat In the
Panhandle In ideal condition. The
acreage this year Is the largest In the
history of the district. Some of the
fields of early planting are Infested
with the Hessian fly but It is thought
that the pest will do but little dam-
age.
Despondent and possessed of the
delusion that her life was a failure,
Mrs. Minnie Hazeltlne of Norman,
committed suicide by taking poison
«t the home of her daughter In Den-
ver. Mrs. Hazeltlne Is survived by
her two daughters, Luclle 17. and Ger-
trude 18, and another daughter and
son. Roy, a student In the University
of Oklahoma, besides her son who Is
In Denver.
The result of the election of officers
for District No. IT, Texas. Arkansas
and Oklahoma, of the United Minn
Workers of America, were announced
at union headquarters at McAlester.
Peter Hanraty. former mayor of Mc-
Alester, was chosen president; (1 W.
Llndsey of Haileyville. Okla.. vice-
president. and Thomas B. Douglas of
Jenny Llnd. Ark, was reelected sec-
retary-treasurer.
The
General
Says:
Why accept a doubtful
guarantee on roofing when you can
get one signed by the largest man-
ufacturer of roofing and building
papers in the world, with a saving
in cost in the long run?
tiinteed
Roofing
i* guaranteed in writing 5 yean for 1-ply,
10 year* for 2-ply. and 15 years ior 3-ply.
and the reeponaibility of our big mill*
■tandsbehlndthj*guarantee lta quality
is the highest and its price the mortreason^
able. For sale by dealer* everywhere-
General Roofing Mfg. Company
World's lary«t manufacturer! of Bod/lnfl
1 and Building Pap*rt
New York City Bo tw Ckicn# Pitub-ak
PhiUMpU AtluU CI«t U 4 Detroit
St. Louii Cmcinuti City
S*n Frincuca SMttU London Hiaborg Sydney
DEFIANCE STARCH
is constantly growing in favor because it
Does Not Stick to the Iron
and it will not injure the finest fabric. For
laundry purposes it has no equal. 16 01.
package 10c. 1-3 more starch for same money.
DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Nebraski
wanted
prioa.lorUxtUra luluu Af ey.lXyt i.MlMee^JU—.
"sized up" the statesman
Senator Took It as Compliment That
He Was "Touched" for More
Than Colleagues.
Senators Shively and Kern of Indi-
ana recently met a con stitutent
Elmwood. He saw Kern first. "I've
read about you and followed you ever
since you have been in public life,
said the Elmwood man. "I've taken
my political pabulum from you all
these years. I've voted for you every
time I had the chance. Will you lend
me a dollar?"
He got It The next day, according
to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Wash-
ington correspondent, Kern came on
the scene just as Shively was leaving
the Elmwood man. "Who is that? In-
quired Kern.
"Oh, a constituent of mine from Elm-
wood. He's been a follower of mine
throughout my political career and he
voted for me whenever he had the
chance."
"How much did he borrow?" was
Kern's cruel query.
"Fifty cents," replied Shively, with
a slight upward turn of the eyebrows.
"Well," drawled Kern, "that fellow
Is smarter than I thought he was. He
can tell the difference between a dol-
lar senator and a fifty-cent one."
Love as It la.
"I'll be true as steel," he protested.
"Common or preferred?" she quer-
ied.—Philadelphia Ledger.
The Essential Thing.
"What muBt I do, doctor, to attain
a ripe old age?"
"Live."—Boston Evening Transcript.
"I Eat
Grape-Nuts
the Year Round
and it agrees with me," writes
a doctor, "better than any
breakfast food on the market
—unless there is one 1 have
not tried."
Grape-Nuts is scientifically
prepared to agree with both
strong and weak digestions.
Long baking—about 20 hours
— partiallv pre-digesta tho
starch cells tor quick, easy
assimilation.
Besides, Grape-Nuts sup-
plies, in concentrated form,
all of the nutriment of wheat
and barley, including the in-
valuable mineral elements
often lacking in ordinary food.
Wax-sealed—crisp— ready
to eat—and economical
"There's a Reason"
for
Grape-Nuts
—•old by Grocers.
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Flynn, J. L. The Hallett Herald (Hallett, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1915, newspaper, February 11, 1915; Hallett, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc180677/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.