The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1921 Page: 3 of 8
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THE EL CAMPO CITIZEN MARCH 12, 1921
NERAL
The Story of
Our States
CHANDISE
Have a Complete Line of ,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE, SHOES
AND GROCERIES
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on display in the Priesmeyer building.
«hmll be our motto to give you the best
at the lowest possible price*
A Share of your Business Will Be Ap-
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Phone 142
A DIME A DAY
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A dime a day is not much money, is it? You throw
"ore than ten cents a day and think nothing
don’t you? Certainly, most people do.
if your mother and father had started saving
a'day when you were born, at the end of
year you would have had $37.22, and when you
se years old you would have had $116.19,
five years old $201.49, and at ten years old
d have had $445.0,4.
Start your savings account with the
LOUISE STATE BANK
GUARANTY'FUND BANK.
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St
paich Semi-annually on time deposits.
:’s South Side Garage
Is The Place.
Don’t
one
row away your old tires. Let us repair
m. All kind^ of Tire and Tube work
ly done.
Retreading a Specialty.
Work Guaranteed
CAMPO VULCANIZING COMPANY
John Engholm, Jr., Proprietor.
Res. Phone I 10
209.
TIRE SALE
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40 per cent off on Oldfield and Racing Tires.
20 per cent off on 30x3 and 30x3J/2 -
Guaranteed 6000 Mile Casings
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Across Street from Ford Motor Co.
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FOR EXCHANGE
100 acres black land, improved, well drained, for a close
in sandy land farm, stock goods or city property. 1G0
acres grazing land for small farm. Country store for -
farm or city property. „ 310.acres sod land, improved,
for farm gear town or city property 160 acres in In-
diana for Texas farm. , *
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By JONATHAN BRACE
I.—DELAWARE
DELE-
WAKE
falls thelionor
of being the
first of the
original thir-
teen states.
_ December 7,
1787, It officially adopted the Con -
stitution and thus was made a
beginning of our present Federal
government. According to the
seventh article of the Constitu-
tion, however, It was necessary
for nine states to ratify it before
It actually came into force. So
it was not until the following
Jane, by which time eight other
states had accepted the Consti-
_ tutioo, that the United States of
America _actually came into be-
ing.
The early history of Delaware
was a varied one. It started in
16SS when a small party of
Swedes settled at the mouth of
the Delaware river and called K
New Sweden. In 1655, Peter
Stuyvesant, the governor of the
Dutch oelony of New Nether-
lands, annexed this territory. But
it, did not long remain Dutch,
for In 1664 the English took
possession. When Pennsylvania
was deeded to William Penn he
desired access to the seacoast
and at his urgent request Dela-
ware was transferred to Penn’s
proprietorship. From the be-
ginning of the eighteenth cen-1
tnry, however, Delaware had Its
separate legislature, and at the
time of the Revolution It be-
came an Independent state.
Delaware, fs next to the small-
est of our states, havlug an area ;j
of only 2,370 square miles. Its
participation in presidential elec- «
tions is limited to three electors. ![
This is arranged according to
population. Each state is entitled
to the same number-of presiden-
tial electors- as it has inembers
of congress, so the Influence of
the different states in voting for
the President varies, from Dela-
ware’s three electors to
York’s 45. •>!
As to the derivation of the '
name Delaware, this was appro-
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priately given to the state from J;
the river, which in turn was j
river, which in turn was
named after^the bay and the bay’ J j
was called Delaware in honor of ];
Lord Delaware, who was gover-, J[
nor of the Virginia colony la
1610.
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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| The Story of j
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
II—PENNSYLVANIA
•p HE second
1 state to
adopt the Con-
stitution was
P ennsylvania.
Its area of
45,126 square
miles Is larger
than the combined New Eng-
land states, except Maine, with
New Jersey thrown in for good
measure. Its name means
“Penn’s Woodland” and was so
named by King Charles H, who
granted this territory to the
Quaker, William Penn, and
named it in commemoration of
Penn’a father, who had been a
distinguished admiral and on
terms of peculiar friendship and
intimacy with the royal family.
This grant was made in lieu of
116,000, which the king owed Ad-
miral Penn. On this basis it
originally cost about 92 a square
mile.
Pennsylvania has assumed
such an important place among
the states that it is often called
the Keystone state. This term
wa» probably derived originally
because her name was carved
on the keystone of the bridge
over Rock creek, between Wash-
ington and Georgetown. Later on
it was applied on account of the
groat importance of the state in
national elections. Its delega- J;
tion to congress totals 38, sec-
ond only In size to that from
New York, and Pennsylvania
accordingly has 38 presidential
electors.
William Penn first came over
lo America in 1682. The follow-
ing year he laid out the city of ;j
Philadelphia, or “Brotherly
Love,” which was named after
a biblical city in Asia Minor. As
Pennsylvania was the only col-
ony without a seacoast, Penn
obtained from the duke of York
th«> control «kg Delaware, and un-
til the Revolution these two
provinces were under the sarce
proprietary government. Quar-
rels with Maryland over bound-
aries caused a formal survey
t<> be made by fwn surveyors,
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F. W. PAUL
PLUMBER and TINNER
ElCampo, Texas
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TO THE COTTON
FARMERS OF TEXAS
In the past two weeks I have
traveled over a great portion
of South Texas, West Texas,
Central Texas and North Tex-
as and find'that the farmers
have broken all of their culti-
vated lands with a few except-
ions. These exceptions are of
a few acres which are too poor
to be cultivated, and in other
instances too wet or too dry to
be plowed at the present time.
The question arising in my
mind is, what are you going to
plant on these lands? And I
have come to the conclusion
that the only thing that you
will plant will be corn and
cotton, and cotton, and cotton,
and cotton. .
The statistics show that we
will have on hand on August
1st, twelve million bales of cot-
ton. In addition to this, from
present prospects, you will
raise twelve million bales more
The world’s requirements un-
der present financial conditions
with all of Europe in financial
distress, will not consume ov-
er twelve million bales, if that
much.
You farmers meet m your
precinct conventions and send
delegates to your county con-
ventions, from there to your
state conventions and then to
your national conventions and
you resolute and resolute and
resolute to reduce your cotton
acreage. Each one of you be-
lieve that your neighbor will
reduce his acreage in cotton.
You, in your own minds, are
going to increase your acreage.
By this method vqu are mis-
leading yourselves, your neigh-
bors, your merchants and your
bankers, for you know that you
will not reduce your acreage
as you state you will.* What
the consequences will be if you
insist on planting your full
quota of cotton, no one can tell
but you can rest assured that
from past experiences, you will
raise cotton and will be forced
to sell it for less than 7c per
pound this fall.
Now, the proposition is,
what ought you to plant in-
stead of cotton? My advice
to you is to plant corn and
corn and more corn. If you
can obtain 50c per bushel for
your corn, you will be better
off than if you raise cotton to
sell at 7c per pound. If you
can sell your com for 75c per
bushel you will be better paid
than if you raise cotton to sell
for 10c per pound. If you raise
corn at $1.00 per bushel you
will be better paid than if you
can sell your cotton for 12c
per pound. you feed your
corn to your horses and mules
and drive them to town instead
of driving Ford automobiles
and rattletraps your com will
easily be worth $1.25 to you.
If you feed your corn to hogs
and cattle, and sell your hogs
at 7c per pound your corn will
be worth 75c per bushel. If
you feed your corn to chick-
ens and turkeys and sell eggs
at above 15c per dozen and
turkeys at above 12V^c per
pound your corn will be worth
$1.00 per bushel to you.
The question is up to you,
whether you will bankrupt
yourselves, your merchant? and
your bankers by planting cot-
ton, or whether yo.i will save
yourselvtr from bankruptcy
by planting corn, and prodiu c
wli'at yon can feed ar*J eat.
Consider this quest on careful-
ly, cut your cotton acreage oyer
one-half and live in prosperity
and peace at home.
I remain your friend,
Geo. Herder, Sr.
Eagle Lage,
Stove Pipe, Galvanized and Black, Fines,
Stoves, Heaters, Stock Tubs and Tanks.
A FIRE INSURANCE POLICY
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Will not prevent the burning, but it WILL pre-
vent the years of sacrifice by supplying the
means for rebuilding at once * i
4 See me about your insurance.
C. F. HUVAR
2nd Floor First National Bank Building *
Paul,
Dealers
El Campo, Texas
P. C. OWEN
Real Estate Broker
Raw Lands a specialty
. .Office: Second Floor First National Bank Bldg.
ElCampo, Texas
Wheeler Undertaking Co.
MRS. J. E. WHEELER, ,
Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director*
Complete Funeral Furnishings.
Day Phone 104 Night Pnone 195 {
I Have taken the Agency for the' Lockhart Monument Co.
See me for Designs and Prices at my office.
El Campo
Levi Paul
Real Estate Broker
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El Campo, Texas
exas.
Mason anti Dixon, and It was
tins which became famous dur-
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ii*tf this Civil war as the Mason ||
and Dixon line, the dividing
mark between the slave and the
free states.
(©by McClure NVW.pap.-r Syndicate.)
To Stop a Cough Quick
take HAYES’ HEALING HONEY, a
cough medicine which slope the cough by
healing the inflamed and irritated tissues.
A box of GROVE S O-PEN-TRATE
SALVE for Chest Colds. Head Colds and
Cropp is enclosed with every bottle of
HAYES’ HEALING HONEY. The salve
should be rubbed on the chest and throat
of children suffering from a .Cold or Croup.
The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey in
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iUle. the throat combined with the healing effect of
Orove's O-Pen-Trate Salve through the pores of
the skin soon stops a cough.
Both remedies are packed In one carton and the
coet of the combined treatment is 55c.
Just ask your druggist for. HAYES’
HEALING HONEY.
UNITED
HOME BUILDERS
OF AMERICA
A National Loan, Protective and Investment Society
Operating under a Declaration of Trust and Agreement
and Under Department of Insurance and Banking of
the State of Texas.
HOME OFFICE
9H Main Street, DALLAS, TEXAS
A. R. ZUBER,
City Hall Local Representative
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1921, newspaper, March 18, 1921; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1009536/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.