The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1909 Page: 4 of 10
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THE CHRONICLE
Published Every Friday by the Teague
— Printing and Publishing Company.
Subscription per year $1.00
Ed. Satterwhite Editor
FRIDAY AUGUST TJT 1009.
Some dogs in Teague wear
muzzles and some don’t. Every
dog owner in the city should
comply with the dog ordinance
without being forced to do so.
Here is a great truth from the
Timpson Times: “Times has said
and will say it again that those
who withhold a courtesy suffer
more than the one to whom the
courtesy is denied; they have
their own conscience to quiet-
arid they always lower them-
selves in the estimation of their
friends.’’
“We have got to have free raw
material if we want to be a great
manufacturing country,” said
John W. Gates upon his arrival
in New York last Monday after
a three months absence abroad.
In other words the manufacturer
must have protection against
foreign competition, but the pro-
ducer must meet this foreign
cthIipetirinTr;7 thus ^making the* 1
rich richer and the poor poorer.
Every few days we read in the
daily papers of an automobile
running into a buggy or some
other kind of vehickle, or caus-
ing teams to run away and eith-
er kill or cripple some one. If
the railroads cause such mishaps
we sue them and collect dam-
ages. The fellow who is able to
enjoy the luxury of an automo-
bile ought to be held to account
for damages just as the railroads
are and then we will have fewer
accidents.
The Kentucky Wool Growers’
association recently sold nearly
400,000 pounds of wool of the
1909 crop, which had been pooled
at Louisville. The selling was
by competitive bidding, and it is
claimed to have sold at 50 per
cent above the prevailing prices
in 1908. And if the cotton farm-
ers should pool their cotton in-
telligently, which they will final-
ly come to, the price will always
be above the speculators quota-
tions. At Kosse a few days ago
one farmer sold a lot of 185 bales
to the highest bidder and as a
result he received about three
dollars per bale above the mark-
et quotations.
At Bryan last week the Brazos
County Farmers Union held their
first annual exhibit of farm pro-
ducts. It is said to have been
one of the finest exhibits of farm
products ever shown in Texas.
Should -the Farmers Union of
Freestone county give an annual
exhibit of the various products
of the farm, awarding suitable
prizes, it would act as a great
stimulant toward a more intensi-
fied method of farming and re-
. suit in Freestone county becom-
ing more famous for its fine or-
chards, gardens, pretty farm
homes, go’od horses, cattle and
hogs. Such an exhibition would
not only encourage better farm-
ing, but would attract other peo-
ple hereto develop the thousands
of acres that are now lying idle
in Freestone county.
A MARKETING SYSTEM.:
The Dallas hleyvs commenting
on the Chronicle’s suggestion that
“the farmer needs a more profit-
able marketing system now than
he needs knowledge of how to
grow his crop,” says: .
“Whether he needs the system
more or less than a knowledge
of how to grow his crops, he cer-
tainly needs it. It is better go
have a crop burned up or drown-
ed out than to have it virtually
confiscated after it has survived
all the vicissitudes of weather.
But the fact is that farming calls
for both greater scientific knowl-
edge and a higher business tal-
ent.”
The Chronicle thoroughly be-
lieves in the doctrine of a “great-
er scientific knowledge and a
higher business talent,” which
means, of course, a scientific
knowledge of how to market a
crop profitably as well as a
knowledge of how to grow it
scientifically. At the present
time, knowledge of how to grow
the crop is in advance of a
knowledge of how to market
scientifically. Thus the farmer
needs a profiitable marketing
system now more than he needs
knowledge of how to grow his
crops.
The government, through the
agricultural departments, is
spending large sums of money
each year telling the farmers
how they should plant and culti-
vate their crops, but not a dollar
is spent toward assisting the
farmer in establishing a profita-
ble marketing system.
There has never before been
such demands for farm products,
but the absence of a proper sys-
tem of distributing his products
as the consuming world meeds
them th^ farmer is at the mercy
of the speculator, who, of course,
manipulates the markets to his
best advantage. Give the farm-
er a profitable market for his
crops and there will no trouble
about his learning the scientific
methods of growing them.
President Neill is.talking of a
twelve-million bale crop and ad-
vising farmers to hold for 15 cts.
The average farmer needs no
advice along this line, past ex-
periences having educated him.
— Kosse Cyclone.
No, the average farmer does
not need any advice about the
cotton market as long as the
gamblers and speculators con-
tinue to manipulate the market,
as they are doing today. It may
pay him to hold his cotton and it
may not, just a matter of specu-
latipn. But suppose the farmers
continue to study the question
and after advising with Presi-
dent Neill, and abide his advice,
how long would the fanners
have to hold until cotton advanc-
ed to 15c a pound, in the event
the crop does not exceed twelve
million bales? No longer than
it would’require the spinner to
use up the stock on hand. Two.
years ago the plans for 15 cent
"• First State Bank
Keeps plenty of Filtered
ICE WATER
For its customers and the public. When you
are passing stop in and cool off. Always glad
to have you stop with us.
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rThe Farmrs & Merchants State Bank
Officers
Directors
T. R- Watson, President
J. E. Watson, Active Vice-President
Dr. F. G. Traynham, Vice-President
N. A. JLucas, Vice-President
W. R. Watsoq, Cashier *
W. R. Boyd, Chairman
T. R. Watson
Dr. F. G. Traynham
D. E. Greene
J. E. Watson
N. A. Lucas
W. R. Watson
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Outside of the Good Book the best book to have in your house is a bank
book. We will give you a bank book for nothing. . . . . % .
Bring your money here, no matter how small may be the amount, we will issue the
book, keep your money safely and it will always be ready for you when you want it.
Your Deposits in this Bank Will Be Guaranteed Under the New Law.
cotton would have won out had
it not been for the unexpected
panic. Cotton has sold in the
past as high as 15 cents and
will be sure dp so in the future
if the farmers will properly ad-
vise with each other and pay
less attention to the fellow who
doesn’t believe that the farmer
has sense enough to attend to
his own business, but; must de-
pend upon the other fellow for
advice.
LETTER FROM PARADISE.
Railroad Butioew Improving.
Notwithstanding the continued
dry weather and the short crops,
the railroad shops in Teague are
putting on more men and more
trains are being handled than at
any time in the past six months.
The demand for cars is increas-
ing. In fact there have been
cars taken from the yards here
this week that have been stand-
ing idle for six months.
Public Speaking Next Tuesday.
As heretofore announced Con-
gressman Rufus Hardy, accom-
panied by two lecturers from the
Agricultural Department, will
be in Teague next Tuesday and
each will deliver an address at
the Opera House. The first will
speak in the forenoon at 10 o’-
clock and the other two will
speak in the afternoon., It is
hoped that every body in the
Teague country will be here and
hear these speeches., Monday,
Congressman Hardy and the two
gentlemen accompanying h i nf
will be in Fairfield and Wednes-
day they will be at Donie. At
each of these places good crowds
are expected.
M. B. A. Organized.
Monday J. B. Cooper of Wor-
tham, and District manager for
the Modern Brotherhood of
America, came down and that
night at the Davis Hall, organ-
ized the Teague Lodge No 2528.
There were 45 members initiated
into the order and in organizing
D. D. Peevy was elected presi-
dent and W. A. Mixon, secretary.
Hon. D. M. Reedy, of Tyler, was
present and delivered a pleasing
and interesting address.
Graveyard Working.
J. B. Richardson requests us
to announce that all interested
in the Hopewell graveyard will
meet out there on the morning
of August 27th and spend the
day cleaning off the yard. Ev-
erybody invited to go and take
dinner. <,
At Chrutikn Gknrck.
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Commuion at 11 a. m.
Preaching at 11:30 a. m. Sub-
ject: “The Seed of the King-
dom.” '
Preaching will be at the M. E.
Church at 8:30 p. m. Subject:
“The Dynamic of the Kingdom
of God.” 1
Wanted—A rain prophet, one
who can tell the truth and state
the exact minute when we will
be visited by a regular old time
gully washing and mud splash-
ing rain. Don’t all answer at
once.
Cotton is beginning to open
and Lucian Peevy has already
took the premium on the first
bale this year. All of our pock-
ets will soon begin to jingle and
even our old sacks will be full of
all kinds of money. Now laugh!
Robert Pickett’s little daugh-
ter, IRuby Fay, is seriously ill
with fever. The many friends
of the parents hope for its plti-
mate recovery.
An infant girl of Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Pickett of M^xia, died Sun-
day and was hurried in Driver
grave yard Tuesday.
Mr3. L. M. Butler and Mrs.
Bettie Carter have been sitting
up with the sick at Robt. Pick-
ett’s this week.
Ollie Beene. and family of
Teague stopped, in Paradise Mon-
day on their return from the
camp meeting at Dew, long
enough to take a drink of the
best water in Freestone county.
Sheriff Jack Lott and his sis-
ter, Miss Bulah, passed ' through
Paradise Monday en route to
Teague.
Cleaty Butler is making sor-
ghum molasses for Joe smith and
W. S. Butler this week. — This
will add & little more sweetness
to the thousand and one other
good thinks in and around Para-
dise.
; Mr. Irwin, who came to Free-
stone county last spring from
near Crockett, has made quite a
success trucking on the old Car-
roll place this year. Without
the advice or consent of anyone
he raised tomatoes, beans and
other truck and shipped i# by ex-
press to Dallas, receiving good
prices for it. He is now market-
ing Irish potatoes'in Teague at
$1.00 a busheD Mr. Irwin has
set an example that should be
followed by every farmer with-
in five miles of Teague and the
best reason in the world for it is
that there is no better truck
growing land in this or any other
state than there is in Freestone
county and that the farmers,
through the T. & B. V. Railroad,
are only a short distance from a
number of good markets. There
is bo reasonab|e excuse for every
fanner withinr a radius of five
miles of Teague not to engage
in the.trucking business.
.Prepare your land, put the
seed in the ground at the right
time, and give it one-tenth the
attention you do king Cotton and
see the results. Give the ground
a chance to help you to realize
some of the many good
old mother earth is <
cing, besides
to cast
tic. in the dir.
mineral prospectors and opera-
tors to flock around Paradise in
countless numbers. Neverthe-
less what we shall relate and if
it should cause a sudden rush of
wealth hunters, let them corne.
A few dayB since while Cleaty
and Jim Butler were boring a
well, a short distance from Par-
adise, at depth of 45 feet, the
augur clipped off a piece of min-
eral which is as nearly pure cop-
per as ever came out of the
ground. How much there is of
it, of course would require the
sinking of a shaft, your corres-
pondent has in his possession a
piece of the ore to verify the as-
sertion above as to the metal and
its purity. We do not know
that the owner of the place on
which the wfell was bored may
not desire a rush of prospectors
to his place or residence without
some further preparations to re-
ceive them. Hence it is not
given.
Among other things the good
people of Freestone county pro-
to try to raise is alligators. Joe
Smith informs us that on a re-
cent fishing trip to Cook’s Lake
some of the party captured a lot
of alligator eggs. By the time
the fisherman reached home all
the eggs were broken but one,
this Joe informal us has been
placed under one offjfm Cap-
pedye’s setting hens to hatch.
What a scattering of chickens
ther’ll be when his ‘gatorship’
comes forth to view the feathery
brood. M Quad, Jr.
Some Good Ball Playing.
J. J. SEALE, M. D.
Office in First National Bank Hl<h.
Phones: Office, 4; Residence 94.
Teague Texas
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D. K. COMPTON
The Real Estate King of Teague
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4s now .ready for business and pr
to build you houses on the Insta.w„.
Piwi. You wiil save money by call:
and seeing the home min.
Own Your (}wn Home
|L. H. Tolbert came in Monday
evening from Oakwoods with his
aggregation of fast amateur ball
players and engaged in a series
of five games with the Teague
team. Up to the time Mr. Tol-
bert’s team went up against the
Teague aggregation they had
only lost one game, but here they
met their Waterloo. They are
good players, however, and the
large crowds that witnessed the
games got their-money’s worth
In fact the last two games were
handled like professionals and
the whole town became very
much enthused. The Oakwoods
boys are a fine lot and should
they, return to Teague at any
time they will find a royal wel-
come awaiting them.
The five games resulted: Mon-
day evening 4 to 4; Tuesday
morning 10 to 11 ’ “
wodfis; Tuesday <
favor of Teague;
ning 1 to 0 in ft
and Thursday e
favor of Teague. ,
of Oak*
6 to 0 in
.y eve-
reague
to 0 in
A R.corJ Fr.ifkl
in th. direction
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One of the fastest
week ™
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tout.
93 Ptamd Watermelon.
Some weeks ago W. T. Lancas-
ter, the watermelon king’ of the
county, brought a melon to town
that weighed 81 pounds and told
us that if any one in the* county
could beat it that he woald bring
in another one that was growih£
on the same vine. Monday Mr.
Lancaster pulled this last one
and it weighed 93 pounds. If
any one in Freestone county has
grown a larger melon than this
let him speak now or hereafter
hold his peace. - t
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OFFICE HoUus SUNDAY*’
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,For Rent—Anything you
think of.-The Home Realtt
Phone 27. _
Scientific Horse Shoing
W. R. Neff, the Dallas patho-
logical horse sheer is now perma-
nently located opposite the
Teague Livery Barn, where he
is prepared to treat all diseases
of the feet in a proper and scien-
tific manner. A trial wifi con-
vince you.
Wkere I* Get Wood.
I have plenty of good wood
and will deliver it
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any kind
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Satterwhite, Ed. The Teague Chronicle. (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1909, newspaper, August 6, 1909; Teague, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1110046/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.