The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, November 3, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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TEAGUE, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1916.
PROGRAM at the MAJESTIC THEATRE FOR NEXT WEEK.
Vol. 11. No. 15
Monday, November 6.—“The Secret of the Submarine,” No. 15. Com-
mencing Nov. 13, the greaj^serial “The Shielding Shadow.”
Tuesday, November 7.—“A Thousand Dollar Husband,” with Blanche
Sweet. And a 1-reel comedy.
Wednesday, November 8.—Fox Day.—“A Tortured Heart.” Also one of
Helen Gibson series.
Thursday, November 9.— “A Gutter Magdalene,” with beautiful Fannie
Ward. And a 1-part comedy.
Friday, November 10.— Four-reel General Program. Always worth
more than the price of admission.
Saturday, November 11.—“The Rail Rider,” with House Peters. Also a
1-reel comedy. This is a good one.
REGULAR MEETING
OF CITY COUNCIL
Application to Raise Gas Prices
Is Referred to Committe
For Investigation.
On Thursday night, Oct. 26,
the city council met in regular
session, with the entire member-
ship present The reports of
City Manager E. B. St. Clair as
Tax Collector and as City Man-
ager were received and approv-
ed. . *
A resolution was passed con-
densing the awning of the Hotel
Yoakum and the owners were
given ten days in which to make
satisfactory repairs. The awn-
ing was said to be in a danger-
ous condition and creates a
hazard to the public who travel
along this popular and crowded
sidewalk. However, no delay in
remodeling the awnings in anti-
cipated.
R. M. Carley submitted a bid
of $2.50 for pulling the fire hose
to each and every fire. It was
explained to the council that Mr.
Carley answers every fire alarm,
day and night, and really is al-
ways on as good or better time
than others. He offered himself
to cut the former city’s rate for
this service half in two, which
would materially reduce the cost
of this city necessity. He was
given a contract.
W. E. Terrell appeared before
the council representing the
Texas Pipe Line & Gas Co. in
the matter of raising the price
to consumers from 40c to 50c per
thousand cubic feet and creating
a minimum of $1.00 per month
to be paid regardless of whether
the customer used any gas or
not. After discussion by the
council and a number of citizens
present, the matter was referred
by the mayor to a committee
composed of Aldermen Watson
and Emmons and City Manager
St. Clair. On Alderman Ney-
land’s motion the Mayor was
also added to the committee.
After the regular monthly
budget of bills were allowed the
council adjourned.
Married.
Mr. R. C. Curry and Miss Ora
Glanton were married by Rev.
Wiley Graham at his residence
Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
They will make their home at
his former _ home about four
miles east of Teague and are
receiving the congratulations of
their friends.
FARMER TAKES ISSUE
WITH HENRY N. POPE
Believes Recent Attack on Wil-
son Administration Founded
on Fallacies.
Notice.
The party to whom I loaned a
book entitled “Butler’s Cavalry”
will confer a favor by returning
same to me.
W. E. Doyle.
McKinney, Texas, Oct. 31.—
Colonel E. W. Kirkpatrick of Mc-
Kinney, a successful farmer, well
known for his activities as pres-
ident of the Texas Industrial
Congress and in other progressive
movements, expressed the belief
today that the views published
m pamphlets recently issued un-
der the name of H. N. Pope aa
president of the "Association of
State Farmers’ Union Presidents,
are based on fallacies, unsupport-
ed by facts and calculated to in-
flame the minds of farmers who
do aot investigate the statements
with care.
“While I am not a member of
the F^mera Union, T am well
acquainted with its activities and
am well acquainted the men who
are leading it,” Colonel Kirkpat-
rick said. “I was a member of
the old Grange and of the Alli-
ance and I saw how they became
the tools of selfish manipulators,
ABOUT THE
Guaranty Fund
What do you really know
about the Guaranty Fund?
Do you know all you want
to know about it? If not call
at the bank and ask for one
of the booklets issued from
the department at Austin.
Do you know that every
State Bank in Texas is pro-
tected by this fund? Do you
know that only State Banks
are protected by the Guar-
anty Fund?
Ask for one of these booklets and be
posted on this important subject.
A------
and when this union cam* on I .
foresaw that it would sofcpscomef,
to be used by manipulators.
‘The membership of the Far-
mers Union is an indefinite af-
fair. When they have a con-
vention there seems to be many
members, but at other times
there are very few members.
The Association of State Farm-
ers Union Presidents is one of
those indefinite organizations
that can be organized impromptu.
‘The insinuations and attacks
made in pamphlets which I have
seen recently, entitled ‘The Far-
mers and the Adamson Law,’
‘Cereals and the Tariff,’ are. not
indorsed by the thinking class of
our Texas farmers and should
not be allowed to influence the
minds of those who read them
carelessly.* Many of the state-
ments are based upon fallacies of
reasoning, unsupported supposi-
tions and appeals to anger and
class resentment
“I regard the Underwood tariff
law as one of the most merciful
measures ever enacted. I think
the administration of Woodrow
Wilson deserves and has the
hearty indorsement of the farm-
ers generally throughout this
state and the United States.
‘The pamphlet on ‘Textile fib-
ers and the Tariff’ which bears
Mr. Pope’s name, resents the
allleged lack of protection on
cotton and yet it it also submits
statistics which show, and make
statement* that this country pro-
duces more than two-thirds of
the cotton crop of the World and
that the very grea^ majority of
the crop is exported. The pam-
complains of the lack of
the prosperity of a cotton crop at
prices in the neighborhood of
20c.
“In the pamphlet on ‘Cereals
and the Tariff, the cry is uttered
for tariff protection on wheat
and other cereals. The farmers
of this country are not in a recep-
tive frame of mind for calamity
howling when wheat is soaring
and when wheat growers’ bank
accounts are waxing fat on grain
sold throughout the markets of
the world.
"Without free trade there is
no freedom; without free trade
there is no liberty, and without
free trade there is no free and
great civilization. Wheat is de-
manded for the food of the na-
tions and it should be on the free
list
"The pamphlet on the ‘Farm-
ers and the Adamson Law’ per-
haps has the distinction of con-
taining more ridiculous state-
ments than its two companion
booklets, if that feat is possible.
Here the author of the pamphlet
—whether Mr. Pope or some
professional writer skilled in the
clever turning^of empty phrases,
know not—assuotef that the re-
sult of the Adamson law will be
to increase freight rates/ but he
does not prove it The casual
reading of the booklet leaves one
vaguely impressed with the idfea
that something is wrong without
afiy proof of what it is. Careful
perusal reveals the appeal to the
anger of the farmer without the
citation of fact.
WILL TRY WHEAT IN
FREESTONE COUNTY
E. F. Ezell ol Luna Community
Will Encourage the Small
Flouring Mill.
“The cleverly worded pam-
phlet seeks to array class against
class by painting the lot of the
‘poor farmer’ as terrible in com-
parison to the relative affluence
and ease of railway trainmen.
The writer of this wonderful
piece of literature describes in
pitiable phrases the farmer’s
women folks ‘baring their backs
to the summer sun,’ his children
denied the privilege of good
schools and churches, his work-
ing time as from sun to sun.
The writer says the trainmen
are ‘summoned to work by a call
boy,’ while the farmer is sum-
moned by the roosters crowing
for day. He declares ‘there are
farm children whose lips are
wet with mother’s milk who are
forced by family poverty to hoe
in the field or tug at the plow
from sunup to sundown.’
“These statements are un-
worthy of serious reply. But I
simply point to our farm lands
and country homes lying about
you here in Collin County. I
briefly mention the number ^of
farmers who own automobiles,
whose homes have pianos and
whose cultured daughters re-
turn from schools ip our near-by
communities to bless their homes
with their personalities. And I
would refer in passing to the
bank deposits here and through-
out the State that are swollen to
unusual proportions by the
E. F. Ezell, one of the most
progressive farmers in Freestone
county, while at the State Fair,
purchased two bushels of wheat
for planting on his farm four
miles southeast of town. He
was in Teague Saturday and had
the wheat on his wagon when he
called at the Chronicle office.
The two bushels will plant two
acres. Mr. Ezell lives on the
place on which he was born near-
ly fifty years ago. It was the
old home place and his father
once raised wheat successfully
and thrashers, E. F. says, would
come and thrash the wheat like
they do in the wheat countries
today, and the family supply of
flour would come from the wheat
raised in this way.
Incidentally, the Farm &
Ranch advises* Texas farmers to
raise their flour at home and
have it ground by community
roller mills as a remedy for the
present outrageous price of flour.
The Farm & Ranch calls at-
tention to the small quantity of
“bolted” meal purchased by
farmers from stores in compari-
son with the large quantity of
flour thus purchased from them.
The community grist mill, it is
claimed, has been the prime
factor in reducing the purchase
of meal to a minimum, and it
argues the community flour mill
would proportionately reduce the
quantity of flour necessary to be
purchased as well as the price.
In this connection T. C. Young
of Teague has tried for three or
more years to get enough co-
operation in this county to justify
the installation of a small flour-
ing mill, adequate to the needs
of the community. With enough
of such men as Mr. Ezell Mr.
Young’s proposition would gO
through successfully and prove a
boon to the community.
PEANUTS.
During the remainder of the
present week we will pay $1.00
per bushel for your peanuts.
We have pleaijuif-lj-bushel bags
on hand. H. C. McMichael.
I have a few choice farms in
Freestone County at real bar-
gains and a few that the owners
would consider some trade aa
part payment. If you are in the
market you should see me. now.
D. D. Peevy, Teague, Texas.
Is Your Money Deposited
In An Institution That
Is Conservative and
Prosperous .
This bank, as a result of having adopted
the policies of the oldest and best regulated
banks of the country, has enjoyed many years
of prosperity, during which time it has left
its earnings in a surplus fund, which has
given added strength to the bank each year.
Join the many others who are coming to
our bank daily with their deposits and estab-
lish yourself and your credit with the bank
that is large and strong enough to take care
of the requirements of its customers in times
of depression as well as in times of prosperity.
First National Bank i
TEAGUE, TEXAS
Capital .... $50,000.00
Surplus and Profits $48,000.00
Deposits . • . $325,000.oo
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Stringer, William J. The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, November 3, 1916, newspaper, November 3, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109719/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.