The Rocky News (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1923 Page: 2 of 4
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OILS OILS OILS.
When you want oil for your tractor, please remember
that we have a complete line of the genuine Gargoyle
Mobiloil. We have this oil in both BBand B grades and
it has been proven many times that there is no better
eil on the market.
We also have the lighter oils for your car in the A. Artie
and E grades.
Our repair department is surpassed by none, all work
guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Our stock of Goodyear Tires is complete and if you are
going to buy any tires you can not go wrong, when yon
buy Goodyear Tires and Tubes.
Your patronage appreciated.
Highway Garage
Hugh W. Ferree and Weslev Cowles, Mechanics
PHONE 51
NEWS
The Rocky News
TRAITOR TO ITS OWN KIND
Published Every Thursday
Rocky Publishing Co. Publisher.
James S. Camp, Editor.
R. D. Hopper, Advt Manager.
Subscription $1.00 per year
For Second Zone (150 miles or
more from Rocky) 1.50 per year.
Subscriptions are payable in,
advance, and are discontinued at
expiration.
"Entered as second-class mat*
ter at the post office at Rocky,
Oklahoma, under the act of Con*
gress of March 3, 1879.”
RETAIN OKLSS vt linu.y •
W • VI Ik
ROM OIL $ GAS CO.
A home company
Price, Quality and
Service Guaranteed
Robert Gimlirr, Mgr.
To Our Customers
We want your hauling and wish you all good luck, so
why then hire an outside TRUCK.
Rocky Transfer Co.
RO^^MILLER AND WILSON
Office Phone 102 Residence 4 on 86
C—turn— i* Yucatan At* Mu*h tu*
Sam* New m Tb*y W*. c
in th* Long Ago.
'll** inodvrn Yur-ntnn Inhurer has re-
tained the drew*. «*f his an< valor, w«*nr-
iag crude sandals, white flat-lug
trouaera, * white Jacket with a row of
pockets along the bottom aeam, and a
colored i»j*ron wound around hia
and locked in at th* waist. Th*
trvu**er» are made ®f wldt* duck,
whlia cheaper trousers, work shirts
and Jackets are made from coarse,
unbleached sheeting, locally known as
“manta crude." The apron contains
a little more than a yard of doth, and
ia made of ticking.
The working women wear white
dresses made from such materials as
bleached sheeting rambrie und long*
CJath, nnd n-mslly *?t*wn*v4 tka
armkvlc-> ...u'.H bnilem t
•Iniuped fiewaveti guts* wbWi am
made esp*clally far thin trad*. White
drill and cotton are used for suiting*
for men a clothing, bine drill principal-
ly for nulls of railway employees, dock
laborers aad Biedtaulcs, and other
articles for purposes similar t* those
of other countries.
No statistics of the Imports of cot-
ton plecegood* are available, but local
conditions tend to give It considerable
importance and volume. The natives
of Yucatan take particular pride in
the neatness and cleanliness of their
clothing, the extent to which this is
carried out being dependent- largely
on the economic condltlofla prevailing
Hi the state.
SPECIAL
AT
ELECTRIC THEATRE
Saturday Night
All Star Cast
Ir
Lone Wolf
THURSDAY NIGHT
Earle Williams
In
“Bring Him In”
COMING SOON
CARMEL MYERS IN
Breaking Through1
CLING TO ANCIENT CUSTOMS
OypsiM Teday Rigidly Observe (he
"Laws" That Have Been Their
Outdance for Centurieo.
The gypsies of Orest Britain have
some very i*ecnllar customs, which
are very rigidly observed.
No gypey regards the dog sa other
than tn unclean servant. One of thsm
licking a frying pan, the utensil was
straightway put Into the embers to
burn away the evil. Another, more
gtrict, drove a stake through the bot-
tom of n bucket from which bis dog
bad lapped a drink.
Thsre Is no gainsaying the tiue
gypsy's regard for three ancient cus-
toms. He Is terrified at the elightest
departure from proper methods and
precautions His women must not
act in the alack manner of the gajos
around them. An engaged girl, for in-
stance. must ait outside the camp
circle when suitors are announced
She is not in the market, und other
girls are.
The love story of a gypsy la a public
affair—that la according to custom,
not to any fe«r of moral la|*se. It
seems rather odd that with all these
laws the gypsies should not regard the
church marrlhge with great favor.
They look upon such as merely a
whlin—and the strictly orthodox have
a great objection to going into the
presence of corpses.
ONLY SOc
Dog Objected to Ceremony.
A woman had engaged a man-serv-
ant who was new to hla Job, and
among other things she had Instructed
him to always bring anything Into
lhe drawing-room on aalver.
A visitor called one day with a
large and ferocious-looking dog, which
was left outside- When the visitor
was about to go, however, hie hos-
tess wished to see the dog. so she
rang the bell and told the man to bring
It la.
Some minutes elapsed, but he did
not api>car. Suddenly the sound of
sagry growls, snarls and barks was
heard, e** the bell was rang again and
the man entered carrying the aalver.
bet with a look of distress on ble
face.
‘Tjirdon in*, madam." he eald. with
a deferential rough, "but I could not
indoor* the hanlmal to elt on the aal-
ver. *E knocked me down three times
and hit my leg somethin’ cruel. If the
gentleman wants im. >‘s still outside."
Clock Comparatively New
The modern clock ia a comparative-
ly new invention, nnd Is credited to a
Merman Inventor. mimed Bendy ate
Vick. A n i:W4. The fundamentals of
I*e Vick's clock were liientietil with
those of today, with the exception
that he «tid not find out th* use of the
pendulum, hut regulated his dork by
metne of halsnc* wheels. *litrlrs V
of I’rame was much intev»~’ed in this
n*-« dork and >«t!inuii<lo! I*r Vick to
c>o«r to Far*** ei*«i install a rU*i in
»!*«• large turret of h s vats'* •
Frigate Blrg le Well Deecrlbeg When
It le Called a Feathered Villain,
Bays Writer.
The frigate bird of tbe South sea is
a thief and a traitor. Figuratively
speaking, he files pretty low. He
robe the poor tea gulls of their fish,
and, not content with doing that, be
lures them and many other birds into
the bands of the natives. The greatest
ambition of a native of Nauru island,
says a writer tn the Bulletin of tbe
I'un-American Union, Is to own more
frigate birds than anyone else In bis
village. Nauru, by tbe way, is a
mere dot of land between the Marshall
and tbe Solomon Islunds. It bus a na-
tive population of some two thou-
sand persons.
Frigate birds, uninteresting and al-
ways apparently asleep on the roost,
are capable of almost human cunning
when trained as decoys to capture
other birds. On festival days In
Nauru whole villages meet to contest
tbe supremacy of their decoy birds.
Tbe king of the Island presides over
tbe tournament.
Botaatiiues when the decoys are set
free not a wild bird can be seen or
beard. Up *<*ir the decoys until loet
to sight. Then presently the screams
of wild birds rend the air, and flocks
of them apiK-ur und In the company of
the decoys approach tiie roosts that
the natives have built for them. Boon,
however, the wild birds become sus-
picious und try to soar uwuy. Then
the real labor begins. With open Mils
and widespread wings the tr.gate
birds attack their victims, bar their
way, head theta off and circle round
and shove them until they have driven
them, bullied nnd exhausted, to the
roosts.
At the end of the tournament s
count Is uiudc, and the village and tbe
Villager with the iaigesl number of
*-*»'tt75 Mt<H t* ih-tj r.sr'N v.:. oc.M’.
1' 5<»‘xe<* ►; Lbs ’• *j«2 Tfiireui-c
hRRlkij and dancing begin.
THANKS IN WRONG QUARTER
Uttl# Marie Oavc Altogether Undo*
Credit to th* Oignifiad H**d
ef th* Flock.
A nursery governess tells of tw>
children, once In her car**, who nevei
forgot to lie polite.
An amusing feature of their walk*
was Willie's trouble with ids over
shoe*. They were of a size out of all
proportion hr his feet, and hamper***
his movements greatly, lie was eon
ItnuHlIy taking headers, hut was usu
ally laughing when the go* ernes*
picked him up. Then the little fellow
would carefully brush the snow iron
the bottom of her skirt with his ret
mittens.
Marie, ns well as Willie, showed th«
instinctive courtesy of a kind nature
She had lmpre*sed on her tiie propri
ety of thanking everyone who did hei
a kindness, and Marie always tried t<
comply. 'J hey had on one occasioc
talked of the varioua farm animals,
and of how much we owed to them
At dinner Marie looked «t her egg fot
some moments without eating it, and
then slipped <|Uietly*front her chair.
“Where are you going?" she wat
naked.
“I am going to thank Mr. Itmtstei
for laying mo thla nice egg,’’ ex
plained Marie.—Exchange.
liter#**** Perfume of Flower*.
▲ process, the Invention of M. l>an
lei. profeeaor of botany at ftennes. by
which the perfume of flowers is great-
ly Increased, has been explained l*e-
fore the Academle dee Sciences in
Faria By taking two plants of1
the ssme species and grafting on*
on the other—notably a wormwood
on a chrysanthemum—he found not
only that the grafted wormwood d«*"k
veloped remarkably, but Its flowei
gave forth a perfume much more pow-
erful than that of the original plant.
Moreover the chrysanthemum had giv-
en to the wormwood flower something
of Its own perfume. The professoi
collected the seeds of the grafted
wormwood and tbe following year 06
talned from them some fine plant*
They had this peculiar feature—that
while the flowers of some of tbe planu
emitted a perfume similar to those ol
the original graft, others were abso
lutely without odor.
Ravages *f Man-Catcr*.
India Is n<*t the only country afllictet
with the man eater. In Uganda In on*
year lions killed as many aa ’JU Euro
peana, 12 Hindus and 107 native*
whMe employed In the construction ot
a railway. These tigur*** do not In
elude such natives as were not in th*
employment of the railway; a Iota
administrator estimated tbe less ot
life In their *a*e at something ovei
MO. ,
In a single year the lion* o;
Rhodesia are reported to have claim**,
lit* victims; those of West I’ortugues*
Africa amounted for tu<*re than 2rtt
people. Including three Kuropeax
hunters.
Thos* Fast Driver*.
The road being tiurruu and danger
ous, the guest was overjoyed to tin*,
his h*».t a careful driver. As they
gingerly cliinlx-d a <4**n< livr»n« iaclin,
another car »l.ot by. The guest aim
ered.
"U«*w foolish that man wua to pass
us *<t thin pr*» ipo ** "
-Wasn't l*»r
“Why did he ri»a bis life like thatT
-Jus: want*-1 tv »U>w u, tM- l.*d a
fast car.* responded the • -ireful driv
er. — 1 -tit I ”1 d i>« iiia."
And he t-rmwirt to ste^i tw it.
Save The
Pennies.
Go to Taylor’s SPECIAL, Har-
vest and Thrashing SALE, to
buy your Groceries and Hard-
ware.
To show our appreciation o f
your patronage in the past, and
soliciting your future business,
we are making some prices that
will interest all.
Red pitted Cherries,
Per gal.
89e
Brer Rabbit Syrup,
10 lb.
94c
White Karo “
H «•
59c
Red Karo
* • • 4
54c
Apples per
gal.
44c
Apricots
• 4
64c
Peaches
• 4
54c
Black Beni«:*8
4 4
69c
14 lb Pinto Beans
1.00
16 Bars of P. & G. Soap, 2
Bars Luna Soap, 1 Bar Mas-
. cot Soap, 2 Pkgs. washing
Powder, and 1-10 qt. Galv.
Pail All for $1.10
. We, will also give 12 lb Sugar
for $1.00 to each Person, pur-
chasing $10.00 worth of mdse,
at one time, exclusive of the
Sugar.,
Come in, and buy, where your
$ does its duty.
TAYLOR
The Hardware and Grocery Man.
Low Round Trip Fares
to
Summer Vacationlands
Spend your summer vacation either at the
Northern Lakes, the Atlantic Coast Resorts or
in the Mountains of the West; round-triv tick-
ets at very law fares are now on sale.
Let me tell you what your railroad and sl«epinc
car tickets will coot; make reservations, and
otherwise assist in relievinf you of the many
details incident to the trip.
H. W. Stout,
Ticket Agent, Frisco Lines
Rocky, Okla.
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