Thursday, November 13, 1924
On last Tuesday evening about the time it became apparent that there had been a Republican landslide, the faithful old dock mule at the Marlin Lumber Company’s plant jumped the fence and got himself run over by the passenger train. It was a clear case of suicide. There are two versions of the cause leading up to the rash act. Both versions are orthodox, according to your political complex. The Democratic yard foreman says the mule, realizing that he was facing four more years of Republican hard times and fearing starvation, thought he might as well end it all by quickly going the suicide route. The Republican superintendent of the works testifies that he knew that the mule realized that he was facing four years of hard continuous employment under Republican prosperity; the mule so hated hard work that he killed himself to escape it.
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About the best we could do was to point with pride to our county nominees who were the cat’s whiskers when it came to courtesy and kindness to Republican voters. The result was that the local ticket succeeded in every instance. Do you think that one of them could have survived if he had called the Republicans bad names?
Nationally, it was a campaign of insult and vituperation. Locally, it was full of loving kindness.
LOCAL MENTION
On Wednesday evening, November 5, 1924, at six o’clock, Miss Jewell Elizabeth McComb and Mr. Lanty M. Hefner were united in marriage at the Methodist parsonage in Hillsboro. Miss Jewell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. McComb, of Watoga. Mr. Hefner is the son of Mrs. Nella Hefner, of Hillsboro.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Underwood, on Beaver Creek, a son, named Calvin Coolidge Underwood.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Buzzard, of Huntersville, a son.
The little two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Brill was severely scalded about the face, arms and body last Friday by upsetting a plate of hot grease.
Fine rains Saturday and Sunday extinguished forest fires, which were becoming a menace; also, water getting very low, and pastures burned. The dry weather has been general throughout the eastern United States in October.
BOBBED HAIR
Well, I think it is high time mothers (what few real mothers are left that have control over their daughters) are awakening up to the fact that bobbed hair is sweeping the country. It has been published in every newspaper and magazine how bobbed hair first started. And a few years ago, the soldier boys’ letters were published in The Times and other papers, on bobbed hair and it’s evil influence, but still they bob.
It is like a piece I read in the Pathfinder about the man who stated he was afraid to say anything to the women anymore, he said the more you talked to them on how to dress, the more they took off. And it surely is a fact. Now I don’t mean all, for we still have a few real girls yet who have not bobbed, do not use paint, lip stick or wear knee-dresses.
Boys, grab for those girls, if you want a real wife, one that is not too lazy to comb her hair. What is more disgusting than to see married women with bobbed hair? Women 30 and 40 years old, what do they mean? Are they trying to hold their husband’s affections? Bah! Bah!
No man likes such foolishness, and mark my words there is going to be a lot of bobbed haired old maids. We don’t hear of many brides with bobbed hair.
Boys are sensible. Of course, they will sport with the girls and make believe they are right out there. But, when it comes to business, they will look around for the girl that has her tresses like his mother wore when father was a young man.
When a boy wants an Airedale or Poodle, he will get one on all fours.
