The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER
FRIDAY, JUNE 8. 1911.
Construction work lias begun
on tin1 Intei'ui ban between Da!
las, VVaxabachic and Waco.
The day of log schoolhouses
and split log benches lias long
since jiast.
War is being waged against
the deadly bouse fly, and we are
daily urged by tin* newspapers
‘to swat the II.v. ”
< lood roads dovolop the fai n -
ang section; they enhance the
value of farm property, and save
the farmers money in getting to
ina rket
I Our Final Sale#1
COUPLED WITH UNUSUAL PRICE REDUCTIONS ON
I LADIES’, MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S
m MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
H WILL BE STAGED AT THE "STYLE STORE” ON
| Next Honday Morning:
I And Will Continue Through Tuesday and Wednesday
It is said that the Stone A
Webster people, owners of the
eh-ctrie street railways in North
and South Texas cities, and now/
building to Waco, contemplate
building a Iin• * from Xor'li to
South Texas.
(lood school and church build-
ings help in developing a com-
munity. Many people will not
locate in a community where
there are no church and school
buildings, and dilapidated build-
ings are almost as bad as none
at all.
Your Last Opportunity
To supply your wants in this particular line at very economic
prices. Positively the Last Chance to buy UNDER MUSLINS
at such a great saving.
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A DISCOUNT OF 33)4 to 50 %
WILL PREVAIL
We confess that we are deeply
interested in good church and
school buildings, and we hope
the time will come when every
community will have nice, neat
and comfortable buildings, and
wo expect to continue impress-
ing on our people the duty they
owe to themselves, their child-
ren and to the cause of religion
in providing suitable build-
ings.
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A few years ago, a prospect
oil well was bored near Young,
and we are told that the drill
passed through two stratas of
high grade lignite, J^ic first
strata being 30 feet thick, and
the second 25 feet. There is lig
nite in many sections of the
< iranty, and there are beds of
unusual thickness and of good
quality. Some day this lignite
v ill be mined.
The boy that is allowed to
•grow up on the streets in idle-
ness—a stranger to work—will
eventually get intd "trouble and
bring shame and disgrace on his
parents. We can’t for the life
of us, see why parents will per
mit their boys to lay around on
the streets. We have examples
of this in Fairfield, and at a time
when there is plenty of work to
do, and it is no trouble to get a
job.
Teague proposes to issue $30,-
000 worth of bonds for the pur-
pose claying, graveling and oth-
erwise improving the streets of
that city. The bonds will not in-
crease the tax rate, as it is pro-
posed to create a sinking fund
and pay the interest with the 15
cent road and bridge tax that
they now pay. Somy question
the legality of tbe question, but
it is being investigated, and
many express themselves that
it is legal and feasible.
Alexander Brothers
Che “Style Store”
Texas.
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Teague
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Bro. Tooke went toGainsville,
Thursday. He will dll his ap-
pointment here Sunday, and his
subject will be. “The 20th Cen-
tury Church.”
Through mistake, Mr. J. T.
Lott took a dose of ‘ bluestone
last Sunday, but escaped with
little ill effects.
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Mr. Duggin and daughter,
Miss Clara, were in Teague, Sat
urday.
Dr. R. B. Lillard, who has lo-
cated at Teague, visited hero
this week.
Miss Maggie Burleson has re-
turned from an extended visit to
Corsicana. ^
Mrs. Penn Hammett died at
Oakwood, Monday night, of ery-
sipelas.
Miss Mattie Moseley, of Hugo,
Okla., is here visiting home-
folks.
Miss Mary Day has returned
from Mineral Wells, and is great-
ly improved in health.
Mrs. John Phillips, Sr., of
Mexia, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. Geo. Roller.
Miss Jennie Griffith is visiting
in Teague.
J. B. Watson, Sr., went to Ft.
Worth, Monday.
R. A. Smith, of near Teague,
was here Thursday.
T. J. Gault, of
here Thursday.
Teague, was
Henry M. Johnson, of Mexia,
visited here this week.
Mrs. Marcus Await, of Stew-
ards Mill, was here Saturday.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA
As the prohibition question is
•warming up, and will overshad-
ow everything else, during June
and July, and believing a thor-
ough discussion of tbe ques
tion will prove of more interest
to our readers than anything
■else, we reverse our intention to
not publish communications on
this question in tbe Kecordkr,
and invite both sides to use a
reasonable amount of space for
this purpose. We ask contribu-
tors to not indulge in abuse, and
yon must sign your name to the
The Cow Pea.
Suggestions to EastTexas Farm-
ers About Planting Cow Peas
And Their Value to the Land
And Their Worth as a Feed
And Money Crop:
It is an established fact that
the cow pea is the best crop that
can be grown in the South for
forage and at the same time
building up poor and worn out
soils.
Any plan of farming which
tends to reduce tne productive-
ness of our soils each year is an
unwise one. If year by year we
continue to draw heavily on the
fertility of our lands without
making any arrangements for
again supplying it is a bad poli-
cy, for each succeeding crop
must necessarily grow less, and
finally the lands become so poor
that it does not longer pay to
cultivate them—we have starved
them to death.
The cow pea adds nitrogen to
the soil and improves its general
condition—as nitrogen is one of
the most expensive plant foods
that we have to supply to our
soils, when bought—the pea
gathers it from the air and
stores it up in the soil for tbe
use of the plants. The large l»ul-
bus roots which will decay in the
soil make humus which is need
ed in practically all of our soils,
and humus is a very essential
element to the soil to make it
very productive, as it aids in
storing up a larger amount of
rain water, and during the long,
hot, dry summer, when crops
suffer the greatest losses, it also
prevents the rapid escape of the
moisture.
Caw pea hay is a very fine for-
age, in fact, almost equal in nu-
trition to alfalfa in feed value.
It is easier to save sufficient
amount for farm needs than
palling fodder, and usually it is
ready to save during tbe dry j
part of the summer* and in two
where the corn rows are 6 or J
feet wide—in that event they
should be planted four weeks
earlier, or at the second plowing
of the corn, i
All oat or wheat stubble land
should be planted broadcast to
peas as soon as the land can be
broken flat and harrowed off
thoroughly.
All lands not planted in other
crops should have peas planted
now, either in the drill or broad-
cast, the earlier the safer tbe
crop.
Land planted broadcast or in
24 to 30 inca drills should im-
prove the land for the next crop
sufficient to add at least $10 in-
crease. Two tons of peavine
hay from an acre worth $10 a
ton equal $20. 15 bu., peas at $2
a bushel equal $30. Possible
increase on an acre of well grown
cow peas, $60.
So, from the above statement,
it is evident that while we grow
the crop as a catch crop, in fact
it is a fine cash crop and land
builder too.
Yours for more peas anu pros-
perity,* W. F. Procter,
State Agent for Blast Texas
Farmer Cooperative Work.
A. D. Anderson, who has been
in the livery bnsiness at Teague
for sony» time, has sold out.
L H. Withrow, of Kirven, was
here Monday.
Miss Alice Sneed visited in
Baffttio last week.
Surveyor W. W. Steward, of
Wortham, was here Monday.
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article for publication, so don’t or three dayaevery farmer could
writs anything yon we not will- save sufficient to feed his stock,
lag to hare published over your Peas sboeld be planted in tbe
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Post Oak Pinions.
Booming a country is all right
as long as people confine them-
selves within a given distance of
the truth, for instance, „ some-
thing like the distance from tbe
earth to the sun, or the present
system of boosting countries and
towns. This sounds kinder
fishy, perhaps, to those not bri-
dle-wise, but if you will ask
some man who has been innocu-
lated with this kind of serum,
who has been induced by some
of those glib-tongued real estate
agents, etc., to sacrifice his little
home and earthly possessions to
go to tbe land just one station
this side of Glory, you will find
what the result is. Lots of good,
honest, unsuspecting, unpro-
tected people—more of these
than any other—are caught in
these traps by agents of these
companies, whose president and
chief instigator is the devil. The
high handed, open, bold robber
who takes money from bim who
is able to lose it is a gentleman
and there is no comparison.
They rant about bribery, graft*
enforcement of law, oppression,
digression, intercession, etc.,
but up to this good hour have
failed to give proper expression
to the fleecing and sandbagging
of their victims in daylight. If
laws can be enforced or enacted,
this form of unnameable crime
should be severely scourged, or
as often as it does, will result in
the “unwritten law,” otherwise
shotgun settlements. Now some
brainy (?) feller may think this
smacks too much of brimstone,
but, pard, you know it is so.
But then, I suppose it’s bad form
to tell tbe truth; it may cost me
a doctor’* bill, but I’ve told it
once. A grain of truth affects
some people like a drop of nico-
tine plnoed on a cat’s tongue.
This la for the public. Yon
the sole judges of tbe evidence
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder. (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1911, newspaper, June 9, 1911; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1106196/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.