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WEIMAR MERCURY, FRIDAY. APRIL 8, 1921. The Weimar Mercury Frfciay Moraine. April 19ei. Eatesesl tlie at Weimar.

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BKOOKS VODEB Jlta H. K. B. STATEMENT vt Ownership. Management, CSradatwn, of the Weimar Mereary, published weekly at Weimar, Texas, required fey the Act of Aagast 24, 1912.

Name of editorosanaginir editor. publisher: John H. Brooks and R. H. Yoder.

Easiness manager: R. H. Yo- cier. Owners: John H. Brooks and H.

Yoder. KQSWB bond holders, mort- gagees, and ether security feajtfers, holding one per cent er more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: ilergenthaler Linotype Co, Kew Orleans, La. John H. Brooks, B. H.

Yoder, Editors and Owners. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 1st dav of April, 1921. Ben B. Holt, A Notary Pablic and for Colorado County (My eoai'ii expires YOAKUM MAN IN CRASH. Seiner, April 4.

A. J. DostalSc. teller in the Yoakum State Bank, while ea route from Shiner to Yoakam last Eight, lest control of his car at a sharp curve and the car went through a ditch, hitting a bank and the ear. Dosta- Bk was thrown thru the windshield sac! was badly injured, feeing badly cut about the face sad eyes by glass.

He was picked ar.si brought to Shiner Hospital. The full extent of his injuries has not yet been determined. MULE PAWS BANKER. Laliag; April 4. T.

T. Brown, a prominent Luling farmer and president of the State Bank of this city, seff ered a broken leg Saturday when a mule pawed him. Mr. Brown was examining the animal when the accident happened and didn't think at first that he was hart much. An x-ay picture taken some time after the accident revealed s.

clear fracture of the smal bone below the knee. AUTO RUNS INTO BAND. Yeakura, April 4. While the band of the Wortham Shows, that have been ftere a week, were rendering a concert in the street downtown Saturday afternoon, a lady driving an aatoiaobile lost ewitrol of the car and planged right through the band. Two of the amsleiaas were knocked bat neither was very lM(Nr hurt.

The dM not TiKlWBCUBTOtaTtutelUe 1 OCX OF THE ORDINARY Happenings That Don't Happen (t) a Every Day in She Year. Mother of Twenty Dies. Lake Charles, April 2. The funeral of Mrs. M.

M. Knight, aged 64, mother of 20 children, was held at Gibson, yesterday. She is survived by 22 grandchildren. Elderly Elephant's Bones Found on Texas Bay Shore. Houston, March, 31.

The remains of a prehistoric elephant, estimated by Prof. A. C. Chandler, biologist of Rice Institute, to be over 500,000 years old, was found on the shores of Galveston Bay, at San Leon, Texas, by R. T.

Roy, Tuesday. At 86 Decides Tobacco and Coffee Bad For Him. Waxahachie, April 3. For 72 years W. F.

Price, 86 years old, living on East Marvin avenue, chewed tobacco. He recalls how, when a mere boy, he used to chew. Last year he decided that neither tobacco nor coffee were good for him. He quit both. California Litter Record Is Broken by Oklahoma.

Ponca City, April 1. A Duroc-Jersey sow on the 101 Ranch here this morning gave birth to 21 pigs, thought to be the largest litter ever recorded In this state. At feeding time the pigs are divided among other sows with pigs, and so far the whole family has enjoyed the best of health. ChUd Killed When Stick Breaks On Tire Swing. Wichita Falls, April 2.

Jennie Walker, 8 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Walker of this city is dead as the result of an accident in a swing made from automobile inner tubes suspended from a stick.

The stick broke and one end jerked down smashing the child on the head. She died 30 minutes later. Boys Call "April Fool" As Woman's Body Found. Denver, April 1. A floating object in the form of a woman clad in navy blue, thought by boy fishers in City Park lake to be an April fool became a reality when Sam Schledinger, watchman, waded into the water, while the boys yelled with glee, and brought the body to shore.

The woman was about 35 years of age. Tires Made in 1920 Would Reach Nearly Around the Earth. If the 44,065,000 tires manufactured during 1920 were piled on top of one another the tier would be 2784 miles high a distance almost as great as across the continent. Miller tire men also figure that these tires if set tread to tread in single file would reach 22,353 miles or nearly around the earth. Fall 16 Stories Fails To Kill New York Man.

New York, April 1. Peter Bildere, a carpenter, today fell 16 stories down the elevator shaft of a Broadway skyscraper and lived. Slipping from a scaffolding, he clutched an elevator cable and slid several floors before the burning of his hands forced hira to let go. Then he hit a piank protruding into the shaft and this breaking his fall somewhat landed at the bottom still conscious. He was taken to a hospital to ascertain jf he had been hurt.

Man 54 Spends Most of Life Atlanta, March Thomas Donahue has lived 54 years and has spent 18 of them outside of prison walls. Today tie begp.n serving a sentence of seven more years within a prison. He stoically heard a judge in federal court pass sentence on him for holding up a mail truck last June. He got $62,000 in Liberty bonds but was captured before lie could dispose of his loot. Jazz Note in Psalm Splits Congregation.

Springfield, Mar. 31. The congregation of the First Baptist Church is split in two armed camps today all because a "jazz" note entered the singing of a psalm. The pastor, Dr. C.

B. Miller, halted the choir in the middle of a Psalm last Sunday and warned the singers to "cut out the jazz notes." "Wait for the congregation," he admonished. R. Archie Robertson, choiris- ter, resigned today. He denied "jazzing the psalms." Cop Smells Hooch In Cabbage Truck.

New York, March 30. Patrolman Lahey knows every every nook and corner of his beat and he knows there isn't a cabbage store anywhere within the "jurisdiction" of his post. So, when early today he saw a big red truck standing by the curb loaded with crates of cabbages, he smelled hootch. And, sure enough, hidden beneath the cabbages were 150 cases of whiskey. He arrested the driver and four others at the point of his revolver.

Man Dies En Route Here After Having Cap Full Money Burnt Off Head. Fort Worth, April 2. Frank Drick of Portland, and Madras, en route to San Antonio, died yesterday from burns received here in a mysterious rooming-house fire. Police are investigating the blaze, which was confined to Drick's room. Before he died, Drick said he had been robbed of $1,700 in bank certificates and $200 in cash, some of the latter of which was recovered.

He had placed the certificates and some cash in a cap, which he wore to bed. The cap was burned entirely off his head. The recovered money was found under a rug in the room. Face and Smile Worth Jury's Verdict. Kansas City, April 1.

A boy's features and smile are worth $20,000, a jury in circuit court decided here today. The jury awarded that amount to James Godfrew, 13 years old, against the Kansas City Power and Light Co. for injuries he received when he climbed a tree to gather walnuts and came in contact with an electric wire carrying 2,300 volts. The left side of his face was burned, leaving a permanent scar. A physician testified that the "smile muscle" in the boy's cheek had been bound by the scarred tissue above it.

Blind Ox Expires When Taken From Guardian Gander. Greensboro, Mar. 31. The blind ox famous as the protege of a stately gander on the J. A.

Holcroft plantation, near here, is dead and those on the farm believe his death is due directly to enforced separation from his guardian. Recently it became necessary to transfer the ox to another pasture. The gander was unable to follow. The separation was too much for the ox and he pined and drooped, refused food and drink and finally laid The ox and gander lately at- tracted widespread attention by their friendship. Each day at regular intervals the gander would lead the ox to water by strutting ahead of him, honking loudly so that his afflicted ward could follow the sound.

If other cattle approached, the fowl would fly furiously at them and drive the intruder off. Dallas Lawyer Will Test Street Car Red Tape; Sues for Nickel. Dallas, April Suit for five cents and court costs, the total of which would amount to $2.15, was filed in Justice Court here today again the Dallas Railway Company by C. K. Bullard, a local attorney.

In his petition Bulard says he boarded a street car this morning and inadvertently dropped a dime and a penny in the fare box an excess of five cents. The car conductor refused to refund the nickel, Bullard alleges, and even declined to permit the next passenger to make the refund and square the box. Instead, Bullard said, he was handed a printed slip informing him to 'present his claim at the company's office." "I haven't time to walk all over town for a nickel," Bullard said today. "It'll be worth while just to see the car company raise that rule and make less trouble for passengers." Heart Twice Pierced" by Bullets, Kept Up Fight. Cisco, April 3.

In a shooting affray in a Main Street cafe at an early hour this morning, Lawrence Adams, 32 years old, well-known Cisco man, was killed, and Bob Hickman, an ex-Ranger, received serious wounds. Following the tragedy, Mack Harris, former policeman surrendered to officers. Although shot through the heart twice, Adams did not fall until struck over the head with a six-shooter. It is said he fired one or more shots after receiving the mortal wounds. Hickman was shot in the hip and had a finger shot off.

Harris was uninjured, and was released on bail in the sum of $2,000 shortly following the shooting. The dead man was raised in this county, and was well known. He is survived by a wife and two children. Hickman is in a local hospital, where it is said he is resting fairly well. Texas Ratlesnake Makes Farm Hand Turn Somersault.

San Antonio, Mar.31. A Texas diamond-back rattlesnake has accomplished what German drill sergeants failed to do in four years. Julius Baulscheidt, a farmer living near this city, was seated on a stool milking a cow that night. A negro farm hand yelled at him to look between his feet; Baulfcheidt obeyed and saw a big rattler. "I was in the German army four years," he said, telling about what happened next.

"There was one trick they tried to teach me but I simply could not learn it. It was to sit on a stool, throw my feet back over my head and land on them. When I saw that snake I did that trick for the first time in my life." Baulscheidt is known as the rattlesnake king. He is said to have more than 1000 defunct reptiles to his credit. Woman Throws Poisonous Acid in Face of Another.

Jerome, Mar. 31. Mrs. Clarence V. Hopkins.wife of a mining engineer, and former official of United Verde Copper Company, was rushed to the Preacott County jail this gainst her.f ollowing the throw- ing of a poisonous acid into the face of Lucile Gallagher, a school teacher here.

Mrs. Hopkins entered a restaurant where Miss Gallagher and another teacher were eating breakfast this morning.She went to the kitchen, and, according to witnesses, took the bottle of acid from her muff, poured its contents into a tumbler and went to the booth where the two teachers were seated. Mrs. Hopkins then seized Miss Gallagher by the hair, pushed her hat back and poured the acid into her eyes, rubbing it in with one hand. Her hand was severely burned in the process.

Doctors attending Miss Gallagher can not yet say whether they can save her eyesight. During the Hopkins, Miss Gallagher and another local teacher were in Washington doing war work. While there the three had a dinner and a tea party. After they returned to Jerome, Mrs. Hopkins attempted to horsewhip the other teacher, after which Mrs.

Hopkins left the city. She returned only a short time ago. Kick of Auto Crank Kills Minneapolis Man. Minneapolis, April 4. Clayton Roberts was killed here today when the crank of his automobile "kicked" striking him in the chest, throwing him against the radiator of the car, fracturing several ribs which penetrated the heart.

He died a few minutes after the accident. Hen Lays Silver Ring. Seguin, April 4. Geo. Wilke, a farmer living near Seguin, yesterday found a hen egg that had a peculiar lump on one side, and upon opening it, found a silver finger ring inside.

He could hardly believe his sight, but the find was witnessed by his brother-in- in-law, Otto Woerndell, who said he could not have believed it, had he not seen it come from the egg. The ring was the property of Will Woerndell, and bore his initials. It is of medium weight and plain. It was lost about ten years ago. HEN THAT DOES CACKLING MAY NOT BE EGG LAYER Washington, D.C., Mar.

26 The hen that did the cackling may not have laid the egg.Gov- ernment farm experts assert. They advise farmers to use trap nests in order to pin the cacklcr down to facts in the way of eggs. By holding a hen on the nest until released, the announcement said, it was possible to keep tab on the good layers, regardless of the fuss raised by some hens on false pretenses. QUICK WIT SAVES LIFE. Victoria, Texas, April 1.

Ernst, derrick man for the Guadalupe Valley Oil Company, had the index finger of his left hand badly mashed while latching a pair of elevators as the drill stem was put back in the hole. He was carried several feet above the triple board before he managed to release his straddled the pipe as it was going upward, otherwise he would have had his finger jerked off and fallen to the derrick floor 80 feet below. AGENTS TRANSFER. Waelder, 1. W.

H. Holt of Sabinal has arrived and will be checked in as station agent for the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, succeeding W. H. Rather, who has gone to Richmond as agent at that point Don't 1st ntmptiM LUCKY STRIKE cigarette Woastedj) BOYS GET BABY CHICKS. Corpus Christi, Apri Six thousand baby chicks fo the club boys of Nueces count already have been financec and it is the hope of M.

C. Jaj nes, county agricultural agen to finance at least 2,000 more The guarantors of the chicken for the boys are the Corpu Christi National Bank; Firs State Bank of Corpus Christ 1,000 each First State Bank Bishop, Robstow Chamber of Commerce, 2.00C BURNS PROVE FATAL. Crystal City, April Winnie Ivey, 12 year ol daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivej died as the result of being se verely burned three weeks age The child's clothing caught fir after some kerosine oil ha been accidentally spilled her.

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