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THE WEEKLY DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12,1920.
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BRIDGE BEACH COOK STOVES
HOOSIER KITCHEN CABINETS
COLE'S HOT BLAST HEATERS
WEAR-WELL (ALUMINUM) KITCHEN WEAR
J. P. DO WELL
Where Your Hardware Needs Afe Supplied Satisfactory
"THE QUALITY HOUSE"
Phone 43
McKinney, Texas
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^A'NNLNG P. R.BOMAR FARM.
K. Moffett i'leowd With Crop Out-
took—No Weevil Lit His Cotton.
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Our young farmer friend S. R.
Mutfott. of tiio New Hope community
calledl to renew for the Weekly
Ijemocrat-Gazette. He also BUbscrlb-
«d at clubbing rate for tho Semi-
Weekly Dallas News and Hollands
Magazine. Mr. Moffett is running
the big farm of P. K. Boinar. To our
way of thinking. Mr Moffett is one
•f tho best young farmers in the
eounty. However, he lias been in tho
Jtail belt two out of the past three
Crops and for that reason, haa not
4one so well during the past three
years. He states that his present
cotton crop prospect is good. Worms
sund boll weevil have ndl appeared In
his cotton yet and he hopes that hei
will eac-ape them entirely this year.
Winifred Moore Plmswl With Crop
Outlook—Own* Registered
Jerseys.
CORN GOOD, OOITON
FREIC OF INSECT PENT
Winfred Moore, whose farm is lo-
cated two and one-halt miles South-
east . of Melissa, gave our office a
business call. He is quite well pleased
with„the excellent corn crop and the
bright prospect for a gpod cotton
crop this year. He states that while
it did not rain at his farm Saturday
night, yet the section four miles East
of his place, or, around Stony ^oirit,
had a big rain that night. Mr. Moore
has nine head of registered Jersey
cattle and Is also a breeder of regis-
tered Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is a
member of the Collin County Pure-
bred Livestock Association and is
greatly interested not only in farm-
ing, but also In the development of
better livestock on every farm In the
county.
F. M. Griffin of Footo stated
worms itn<l weevil are not Injur-
ing hts to'ton as yet. He attributes
UiIh freedom from the cotton pest to
lb* fact that his community has ndt
Ji*<l so much rain as McKinney and
tmaicdiatc vicinity has had, His early
«oro iti already nuido- and Is a. good
average crop. Some, later com will
Lbm*! another good rain to make It.
.Mr. Griffin's oat crop, made a yield
of twenty-one bushels per acre this
year and his wheat ten bushels per,
acre. Mr. Griffin states that he is'
already about done breaking stubble
laud. One year with another, Mr.
Griffin makes a practice of running
me third of hits land In wheat, one-
fovith in cotton and tho balance in
cats, corn, hay and pasture. With
Jkijt farming operations, he also en-
Cages to a considerable degree In
Mire-breed livestock breeding. His
40H.-CJallies in this respect are regls-
' «er*d Short. Horn cattle, registered
Shropshire- sheep and registered
.llurac-Jersey hogs Mr. Griffin is
the oldest son of (he late J. I*.
Griffin, who was 0710 of our county's
known and most highly respect-
Mi farmers, Oircshevman, ginners and
«yUton buyers. •
GOOD CHOPS IN VALLEY
THIS YEAR
MUNOl'TTON TO VOTE ON *21,000
ROAD BOND ISSUE
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The Commissioners' Court has or-
4*rwt an election to be held In the
iPriMeeton road district on September
at at which time the vote™ -will /«c-
eept or reject a $20,000 bond Issue.
JPruieeton already hits several tulles
•C good roads. Hut the voters of tha
4Mrtct desire to extend' their trade
MrttwT by extending the good roads.
L. L. Hand, who moved from Mc-
Kinney to McAUen, Hidalgo county,
Rio Grande Irrigated valley country ot
Texas, -who Is here 011 a brief business
visit, states that so far ho and Ills fam-
ily are weli pleasant with their new
home. Mr. Hand is engaged in buy-
ing cotton and reports the cotton sea-
son down there about half over. A
good crop of cotton was raised In
that section of tho state this year.
Mr. Hand states that the grado ls:
good, but the staple short ao a rule,
most of It being the mbano variety ot
cotton. Mr. Hand owns two blocks of
land near McAllen, which soil Is
adapted to the production of corn, cot-
ton and citrus fruits. However, Mr.
Hand got down there too late this
year to plant anything scarcely but
broom corn. He has thirty acrts 'n
that crop, which Is not hardly up to
an average crop this year. Ho states
that the price of broom corn ranges
from $150.00 to $200.00 per ton at
present, which is considered Chean
About seven hundred pounds per acre
Is considered to be an avernne crop.
But this year, a yield of not, more than
an average of four or five hundred
pounds per acre will be mnde.
R. P. SCOTT MOVES STORE.
Now iMated In Merritt Brick For-
merly Occupied By Goostree &
Fryer Grocers.
R. P. Scott has moved his hardware
store on East Virginia street to a loca-
tion across the street In the R. C.
Merritt brick building. Mr. Scott Is
welj pleas-id with his new location,
where he states In his advertisement
that he is better prepared Ulan ever to
serve his trade. Mr. Scott hus been In
business in McKinney for the past five
years during which he has enjoyed a
steady growth in volume of business.
He is honest, courteous, attentive to
busineso and always anxious to please
his customers. The business of such a
merchant will naturally continue to
grow. Rhea Scott deserves to becomes
a merchant prince, because of his
worthy life and straightforward busi-
ness dealings.
Wednesday
FRISCO MAN TO BEGIN
ITCHING COTTON MONDAY
Km Gruer IXHng Nicely.
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Rosabel Greer, a patient In
0L Paul's Sanitarium at Dallas, who
••binltted to an operation for appen-
tfteitts several days ago, Is reported to
t* getting1 along nicely. rin* Is the
rtiter ot r. and Mr*. J. C.
i r of this city.
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Jack Uancy of near Frisco was a
business visitor In McKinney Satur-
day afternoon. Mr. Raney Is farming
this year. He formerly lived In Mc-
Kinney and was employed by one of
the oil companies, with a station
hero. Mr. Itaney says that he has a
fine crop this year, and that ho ha« n
pected to begin picking cotton next
Monday.
A Baby Boy.
Mr. and Mi*. Arthur White of this
city are rejoicing over the arrival of
a baby Son. Mr. White 1s on* of the
barbers in Gene *fartln*s shop, on
East i/oulsiana street. Mr*. White la
a daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Tip Sada
Jim Spurgeon of Lucas was in Mc-
Kinney this morning with a small
load of new corn which he sold for
90 cents per bushel.
Gtibe Lucas Jr. an«l wife of Denl-
son who have been visiting his moth-
er, Mrs. Gabe Lucas, in McKinney,
and Mrs. Lucas' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A, R. Brlckson, at Allen, will return
to their home In the Gate City tomor-
row.,
W. S. Campbell of the Wlnnlngkoff
community was In McKinney today.
Mr. Campbell Is marketing his onion
crop. He sold his crop at $1.00 per
bushel. He only had one acre planted
to onions and said that he had a very
poor stand and would got about sev-
enty-five bushels.
Mr. and Mrs. Weoden Franklin and
little daughter, Mary Jean, and Mr.
Mrs. Jim Goodner and pretty little
baby daughter motored over to Sul-
phur Springs today. They will re-
turn Thursday night. The Hopkins
county annual picnic Is In progress at
Sulphur Springs.
Justice of the Pence Martin Kindle,
whose Ford was sto|en last Tuesday
night a week ago, stated today that
he had not received any Information
of the whereabouts of his car. He left
his car parked In front of the Elks
Hall on North Kentucky street from
which .place It was stolen.
Morris Holder of the MUllgan com-
munity, one of tho trustees of the
school at that place, was here today
and left an order with our Job de-
partment for some printed circulars
announcing an Ice cream supper there
Friday night, August 20. Twlo® pre-
viously have tho trustees announced
a date for the creatn supper but It has
rained the occasion out each time.
CROPSSHOULD .
NOT SELL LOWER
THAN LAST YEAR
"There is no reason under the law
of supply and demand, working at the
normal, why this year's American
crops should sell at lower average prl-
ce.% than last year's crops," says Clar-
tnce Ousley, former Director of Exten-
sion and Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture, who attended the Farmers
Short Course and Farmers Congress at
College Station.
In an address to the Short Course
Mr. Ousley analyzed the figures of this
/ear's production as indicated by the
Ilureau of Crop Estimates on July 1st.
compared with last year's total yields
an reported by the Bureau. The grofts
units of yields of twenty two crops,
that is the bnles, pounds, bushels, etc.,
this year ftmount to 8,6X9,374,000. com
pared with 8,783,410,000 last year, re
veaiing a decreased volume of about
100,000,000 units of the staple crops.
Of the crops under consideration only
cotton and the fruits are likely to vary
materially from the July promise anil
these are as likely to be less as to be
more.
The surplus wheat -of the United
States, Canada, Argentina, Australia
and India Is reckoned at 417,000,000,000
nushels. The importing countries of
the world will need on the basis of
their pre war consumption 779,000,000,-
000 buRhels and on the basis of their
war time consumption, 384,000,000,000
bushels. The factor of determining
prices, therefore, Is whether the Im-
porting countries will be able to buy-
more or less this year than they
bought during war times.
The cotton figures are even more
striking. The Department of Com-
merce reports cotton exports for the
> ear ending June 30th. at 6,915,408
bales compared with 5,353,895 for the
preceding year. The cotton Statisti-
cians reports for the period ending
July 28th. Northern spinners takings
and Southern consumption at 6,614,924
compared with 5,506,817. In exports
and domestic consumption, therefore,
the year closed with takings two and a
half million bales more than was taken
In the preceding year. Mr. Hester,
Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange, estimates the world con-
sumption of American cotton for the
cotton year closing July 31st. at 12,735.-
000 bales with a carry over of 800.000
hnles less than the enrry over at this
time last year. The Bureau of Crop
Estimates puts the growing crop nt
12,519,000 bales. Thus we have in
prospect, the new crop, some 200.000
bales less than the world used last
year, with a reserve supply of 800,000
bales less. As in the case of wheat the
dicisive factor In determining commer
clal value Is the buying power of the
importing countries.
Contrary to much popular Informa-
tion Europe is "coming back." We
sold, of all exports for the last fiscal
year, nearly a billion dollars less and
we bought of Idiports over two billion
dollars more than in the preceding
year. Our exports in June were $115,
i'00,000 less than our exports in May,
while our jmports In June were $122,-
000,000 more than In May. Great Brit
an's adverse balance of trade in May
Was 25,754,000 pounds compared with
40 <95(000 pounds in April and 59,772,-
000 pounds In May, 1919. France's ad
verse balance of trade was reduced
last year to 5,894,000 francs, compared
with 7,312,000 francs. France's ex-
ports of iron and steel now are actual-
ly larger thnn her imports, because
she is working the mines of Lorraine.
Belgium Is making even greater pro-
gress than either Great Britain or
France and Italy is following a little
more slowly, but none the less surety.
The truth Is that Europe has none to
work and we must go to work or pres-
ently find ourselves losing the magnifi-
cent foreign trade which the war
thrust upon us. But the main point of
present Interest Is that the world Is In-
creasing Its buying power and there Is
every reason to believe that unless
there is an outbreak or wrfr or some
mentally cyclonic disturbance, the
world will buy more of our products in
1 he fiscal year 1921 than it bought it?
the fiscal year 1920.
So far as there Is arty reason at all
for the recent decline in farm products
especially wheat and cotton, It Is two-
fold. First, the Increased yields per
acre overcoming the shortage of de-
creased acreage and producing an ap-
pearance of abundance. Second, the
lack of transportation and the conges-
tion of farm products actually and
prospectively at the primary markets.
The problem Is one of sane, unexclted
and gradual marketing. If the hanking
and commercial Interests will do their
duty to the producing Interests there
is no good reason why the farmers
should not receive approximately as
much, if not actually more for the
crops this year than was received for
the crops last year. The only cloud
that I can see on the horizon Is the
Kusso-Polish situation and I am not
seriously nlarmed about that. I believe
tliat the civilized and Bane nations of
the world, which found courage and re-
sources during four years to resist and
overcome the greatest attempt at mili-
tary conquest In all the world's his-
tory, will not fall to resist and destroy
the attempted conquest of anarchy and
political madness.
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STRIKE DELAYS WORK ON
SEWIiR AT FARMERSVILLE
Jcmm 0<>ok(< If ore.
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JesM Cooke of Dal|0 , ..who was
reared In McKinney, Wtui greet In*
friends hore. hi* old home. H® !■ a
won ot Mr. and Mm John C. Cooke of
Fort Worth. Je«*e's many friend*
«r*r* awfully glad to see htm.
WANTED.
Business—No
Politics
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WANTED—Good oorn shucks foi
tamales. Boys and girls can make
good money all winter. For particulars
write—B. A. JUDD, Box 641, Ranger
Texas.
WANTED—Mferi or women to talc*
orders among friends and neighbor*
for the genuine guaranteed hoslory,
full line for men, v.-oinen and chil-
dren. Eliminates darning. Wo pay
60c an hour spare time or $24 a week
for full time. Experience unneces-
sary. Write Jjuternatlonul Bty
Mill, Norrlstown Pa.
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STRAYED OK STOLEN.
STRAYED OR STOLEN—Irfist Sat-
urday evening, one red pony with
white eye. Reward for return. FIAN
DEL FORA.
LOANS
rOR QUICK SERVICE In making
tnd renewing FARM LOANS with
beat ' *91100* ot on or bofor* pay-
ment, lowest rat* of Interest, bus!
a*** confidential, call on or write A
M. RUSSELL, McKinney. Texas
POULTRY.
CHICKENS AND EGQS WANTKIJ
by Dink Meador, MeKl-tnuy. Vi tus.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
PIANO TUNING—Prompt and effi-
cient service. C. W. HALL at J. T.
Couch Music Store.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SCOTT ALLISON AUTO PARKING
YARD solicits your patronage. One
block south of Public Square. Park
your cars here for Bafety and shelter
from sun or rain—SCOTT ALLISON,
PROP.
FOUND.
FOUND—Ladles black hat, feather
trimmed. Get same by paying for this
ad. Phone 308.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-—One of the best gina In
in &U Collin county; well located;
close to McKinney. See The McKin-
ney Realty Co. Phone «5.
OHRIKTII . REFERS TO CONVEN-
TION HELD AT GAINESVILLE
On Tuesday morning about twenty-
flvo or thirty men who have been
working for Contractor J. W. Cook
digging the sewer ditch, went on a
strike for shorter hours and moro
pay, according to Information gather,
and for several days this week there
has been very little progress mnde.
Most of the mon who wero working
Joined In tho strike and have been out
since. One or two of „the men re-
mained on the Job. Thursday a new
crew was put to work with the as-
surance that they would have tho
protection of the law If ihey were
molested in any way.
This I* a free country and men
have a Mght to quit a Joh whenever
they please If the pay doe* not suit
them, hut they have no right to In-
terfere with those who do want to
work, and their interference should
not bo tolerated at all.—Farmeravllle
Time*. ' I
The following has heen rccolved
with request to publish:
To the people of Collin county:
Seeing today in the Dallas Journal
u statement that at Gainesville Sat-
urday the County Convention unani-
mously disowned ' Joe Bailey as a
Democrat « td resident Of Texas, 1
wish tp say that, having known Mr.
Italley since our district was called
to Gainesville to nominate a Con-
gressman, I wish to make this state-
ment. The candidates were W. O.
Davis of Gainesville and Judge Slloa
Rare of Sherman. Judge Hare had
been serving a term before this con-
vention met. Our county was Instruct-
ed for Judge Hare. When tho con-
vention inet, 1 being a delegate then
from the west part of the county, wits
present. We were deadlocked In
the convention six days and cast 262
ballots during that time before Judge
Hare was nominated. During our
stay In (iuinesville I met many peo-
ple. One day Capt. John Bingham In-
troduced hio to Will Daugherty of
Gainesville. Mr. Daugherty asked me
if I knew that noble old man we call-
ed "Uncle John" Hoffman of tho
Lebanon community. I told him I did.
Mr. Daugherty then said he Is my
grandfather. My mother Is his
daughter. Now we wish you to take
dinner with us tomorrow. If you
feed 1110 our crowd must bo with you.
So the following day we (the Colltn
bounty delegation) all took dinner
with Mr. Daugherty. That evening
Mr. iHiuglipity asked inn jf l had met
Mr. 'W. ( , Oavls. I had not. He said,
after adjourning, will you go with me
and meet him, which I did. They
wero offlcing together. When Mr.
Daugherty and 1 went Into tho offlco
Mr. W. O. Davis wns by himself. We
had Just entered and wero Introduced
when someone called Mr. Daugherty,
leaving Mr. Davis and myself alone.
After a word or so, Mr. Davis asked
mp If t knew why the Collin county
delegation stayed with Judgo Hare so
close^, ' I told we wero Instructed
to support the Judge. Mr. l>avls ask-
ed mo why wo were against him. I
told him while he was In tho legis-
lature lie had put the Cooko county
school land on the market at RO
cents per acre and wo of Collin coun-
ty pnld $12 per acre. Well, ho said
Judge Llndsoy asked him to put tho
Cooke county school land on the
market, he had done so; that Mr.
Llndsey had helped him wlion h«
enme to Gainesville to finish his edu-
cation, so by putting the land on the
market ho paid the Judgo the old
debt
Now If a man doe* this In tho leg-
islature there Is no telling what he
would do In Congreiw. I would not
support him.
The sixth day, after tho conven-
tion closed, tho Hesperian, a paper
published at 0*in«*vlll*, came out,
stating that the delegation from Col-
lin county had nominated a republi-
can to Congress. When tho paper ap-
peared In the hall our delegate* se-
cured copies of it and were reading it.
Joe Bailey got up on the platform,
called our attention to tho statement
in the paper and tol< us that the
cltlaens of Galne*vill« nor the people
of Cooke county did not )ndor*e t)ie
statement made
V
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JoeHJhompson
RAISED AT WESTON
ColliB CouBty
HUNT COUNTY'S CliOICE
for
Stats Senator
THE RECORD:
Perkins was elected from McKin-
ney, Collin County, fn 1908; West-
brook was elected from Faniun'svllle,
Collin oount> In 1U12; Westl'*tok af-
terwurds moved to Wolfe CIt>j. Hunt
County and lie was elected fro:|i Hunt
Countj In 1916, continuing Collin's
choice. Thus Collin County has nam-
ed the State Senator eight years out,
of twelve, :is against Hunt C°Uhl>''n
four years. i'
Secretary of Stato Howard in a let-
ter on December 5, 1919, say*: "Hon.
K<l Westbrook was a resident of Far-
mersville, Collin county, when he waa
elected State Senator on November 8,
1912, for the Fifth Senatorial Dis-
trict."
With the above true fact* before
the voters of tho Fifth Senatorial I
District, I await with pleasure theirI
verdict at the
Second Primary
August 28th
(Political Advertisement)
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DEMOCRATIC NOV^fEES.
The following candidates fpr th<|
offices named were nominated at
democratic primary hetd July
1920. Thone marked • wlir go befor
the second primary, Aug. 18 192CI
to determine a choice of the majority]
For Congress, Fourth District:
SAM RAYBUKN.
Kor frtuie Senator:
. •WOODVILLK J. ROGERS,
of McKinney.
•JOE H. THOMPSON.
of Lon* Oak.
For Local Kepresentatlv*
J. H. SNEMD *-
For County Judge:
•R. L MOULDEN.
•T. O. MURRAY.
For District Clerk:
MUS. ALICE TAYl. 'J
For County Attorney:
A M (I1KRT) WOLI
Kor County Clerk:
RUFUS H OLSON BAKE.
For Sheriff:
ED BLAKEMAN.
I'or Tux Assessor:
FORREST BOARD.
For Tax Collector:
•WILL M. BURGESS.
•A. T. RAI'ER
For Superintendent of 9chool*:
W, S. SMITH.
For County Treasurer:
MoltT SHIPLEY,
For Commissioner, District No. I:
CHARLES H* MIXON,
For Commissioner Preclnnt ¥0. ti
•HOMER L. COFF0Y.
•R. B. (ED) GEREN. /I
For Commissioner Precinct. No. Is
•H. C. McLEOD.
•C. V. ADAMS. . ,
For Commissioner, Precinct'rlo. 4.
W. J, ROBB1NS.
For Justice of th* Peace Precinct J
WILLIE SUTHERLAND.
For Constable, Prwilnct No. 1:
J'lM HOLLANDWORTH.
For Public Weigher, Pr*olncl 1:
•J. T. BELL. '
JL 1 - "
showed Italley to be a man of tr
principles and ready t* defend 1
friends agajnst unjust attarV* m."
on their dimtocrncy. In the coov«
lion Italley had spokon ;u^d work
for W. O. Davis until ndjournmo
after a Alx-days struggle.
There Is not. a truer, nobler den
crat Jn the stato of T«xa* that Jo«
W, Bailey. Thoro is not a iiuin a
where |n the state who WiyjFdo 111
for the unfortunate of onr iitMe tl
he will.
When the Baptists of Allen *
striving to build tho brick chu
house of worship they reooivo'
check from Italley to help them.
Now what does all this provet
proves him a man of highest h
and principle.
TXINIH CHRIST
Allen, Texas, Aug. ,'l ?0^
W. T. Hooten, prominent
business man and Woodro
Democrat, was In th* city,
Ho Is an enthusiastic support
workor for Hon. Pat Neff f«
nor.
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