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WEEKLY HERALDPublished Every Thursday by N. P. HOUX,Editor and Proprietor.SUBSCRIPTION RATES.One Year .............. 51.00Six Months..—...............-......o®Three Months .....................26Entered as saccnd-class matter Jiarch 6. 3SOS, at the postoffice at MezJa, Texas, under the act of Con-jfTGBB of March 3, 1879.ADVERTISING RATES.1 Page 1 issue .............**?•??Each Subsequent Issue . % Page 1 issueEach Subsequent issue .. *4 Page 1 iEach Subsequent issue 3.76Less Than One Quarter Page. For first insertion—per inch 20c. Each Subsequent issue—per inch 16 cents.A headline says: “Corpus Christi’s fate is unknown.” The storm may have been worse than at first thought.Another tropical storm is reported in the Carribean waters, but of small dimensions, though fierce. It is said to be moving northwestward.The Deutschland has arrived in a German port with her valuable cargo and has thus scored another triumph over the greyhounds of the ocean.A 45-foot whale was found 011 Galveston island just after the storm. Some negro fishermen discovered the monster, towed him in and put him on exhibition.Unless we get a good rain in a few days the cotton crop is going to be cut short as young cotton, will not make without a rain, and the old plant is about ■ made.The tropical storm struck the army camps in the vicinity of - Brownsville and the . boys had to abandon the tents and seek shelter, in houses near by. The damage to property was considerable, but so far as learned no lives were lost.The . storm Lock fifteen lives.. nine of them occurring on one boat,-the Pilot Boy. So far as reported only three lives were lost on land. The King ranch with a population of about 500 Mexicans, has not yet been heard from, and it was right in the path of the storm.In the big railroad strike negotiations there seems to be a hitch because the railroad managers will not give in and the employes will not give in, and the president cannot bring them together. So, there may be a rupture after all.Louis Blalock of Dallas had a party of Methodist preachers out fishing at Corpus and it was feared that they were lost, but they..are safe. Must have been some Baptists in the party. Railroad Commissioner Allison Mayfield and a party have also arrived safe at Roekport since the storm.Next Saturday we will have another election. This time to decide who will be the next United States Senator. Too many elections too close together. What we want is a sane election law that plain, ordinary every day people can understand, without calling in a Philadelphia lawyer.Chicago, August 21.—H. F. MacGregor*, republican national committeeman from Texas, told those in charge of the Western republican campaign headquarters that he believed there- was a possibility of Hughes carrying Texas in November.—Press Dispatch.Wouldn’t that make you haWe deeply sympathize with □r good friend, Col. Pat Dunn f Corpus Christi, whose ranch a Padre Island was almost iped out by the storm. This land is about one hundredmiles long by half a mile wide and is owned by Col. Dunn, and it was right in the fiercest of the storm and his loss will be heav;Th infor ■prealt; date erati Kans ladie the and migh in HGe that aban ing j draw But the i to b then-time riverTh force and chan, has 1 doini muel' felloe exch; the have will 1 of ] the sOn ional Ft. Y muni cause call, but i froni longs and is in]—Ge We backIn* laturi prohi and t Hous tion tion, hilari Fergi sion. had ; the t nise fifth ology feel i deck —DeiAm to pa;The gress desire in ore full p propr:High\ of a 1 be of if pol: it, it ed.—(Aylt; are y from have and il canno rank ing ,-t could spoils ter econo so loi that by ar so loi impos pie.—Nu:Mrs son r Dallas ter a and c in Te
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Mexia Weekly Herald
Mexia, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 24, 1916
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