Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1925 Page: 4 of 8
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Stephenville Tribune
PUBLISHED BVEET PEIDAT BT
CLEMENTS A HIGC8.
Clamrate ft fUgga, Sol* Owner*
mail mat-
i* postoffic* in Stephenville,
inder act of Congress of
1879.
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Any erroaeous reflection upon the
character or standing of any person
or Arm appearing in it* columns will
be gladly and promptly corrected up-
on calling the attention of the man-
agement to the article in question.
Stephenville, Texas, June 6, 1925.
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DO YOU WANT STEPHENVILLE
TO GROW?
THE STEPHENVILLE TRIBUNE, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
There ia not a town between Fort
Worth and Brownwood that can com-
pare with ours.
We are surrounded on every side by
some of the richest farm land in the
State of Texas.
Our citizenship is composed of the
best people to be found. Our business
men are all 100 per cent Americans,
who are ever ready to do their part
toward the progress of our wonderful
little city. They are not men who sit
and wait for opportunity to knock, but
have flung wide the doors and grasped
these opportunities. The result has
been our magnificent churches, which
would be a credit to a town much larg-
er than ours. Our handsome library
with it* colection of well chosen books.
Our wonderful public schools and col-
lege. We have miles of cement side-
walks, when a few years ago we had
none. We have our paved streets and
square, and an abundance of good
pure water.
People far and near seeing the won-
derful growth of Stepheijville, with its
many advantages, are coming here
daily, buying homes. We want these
people to come, and we want them to
stay, for after all it is the people that
make our towns and cities. It is our
schools and churches that draw and
hold the people, and it is thru these
same schools and churches that we
hope to maintain the high standard
of citizenship we have set for our
boys and girls, and to make them men
and women, who will be able to take
our places, when we are gone.
The curtain is drawn. We can not
see what the future will reveal. But
the present we must live and act that
we may naught conceal.
Let each step bring us higher until
the goal we reach, which will give our
boys and girls a place to learn, the
things we hope to teach.
FAST MOTOR ROUTE
OPENED TO CANADA
FROM DAWN TO HUSK
ERATH COUNTY SETTING
PACE IN AGRICULTURE;
CHICKEN INDUSTRY BIG
and wood* of Canada for summer
touring, where scenery, inspiring cli-
mate and excellent Aahing await the
traveler.
The route, running south from Win-
<»r*« 1—5E SWT c.m.po.d™,
Mahnomen. Detroit, Madena, Long
Prairie, Little Falls, St. Cloud and
Minneapolis.
' Mayors of all these cities lifted the
speed limite for the earavan and pro-
vided escorts of motorcycle police and
fire equipment to help establish the
12-hour record.
G. L. Maitland pulled his Stude-
baker Big Six away from the Winni-
peg city hall at 4:56 o'clock in the
morning. In the official car with him
were Mayor Webb, Roy Parkhill, a
world war aviator, as relief driver; A.
W. McCurdy of the Winnipeg Tribune,
and B. W. Sewell, a Minneapolis high-
way superintendent. ,
Eleven cars strung out behind Mait-
land as the cavalcade set out at 50
miles an hour for Minneapolis. 500
miles away, to establish new inter-
national history and open the new in-
ternational highway.
The caravan was held up for 05
minutes at one place where a broken
gas line in one of the cars was re-
paired. One puncture, a wait for gaso-
line and a heavy rainstorm worked
further delay hut the big Studebaker
drew up in front of Minneapolis’ city
hall to bring greetings to Brig. Gen.
George E. I .each, its mayor, at 4:01
p. m.
Out of the twelve cars starting, the
Studehaker and two others kept the
schedule. Another got in at 0 o'clock.
Three others made it by midnight.
One turned over and burned.
Actual running time of 10 hours. 30
minutes, affords an average actual
speed of 40.5 miles an hour, indicative
of the fine character of this new road-
way into Canada which is now avail-
able for American tourists as soon as
the warmer weather starts the sum-
mer trek to the woods and fields.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Summer tourist* have been given a
new and fast motor car route into the
Canadian wonderland in and near
Winnipeg by a "dawn till dusk” run
at 41 miles an hour from Winnipeg
to Minneapolis, sponsored by Domin-
ion and Minnesota officials and the
Winnipeg Tribune.
Mayor Ralph Webb of Winnipeg
personally brought Canada’s welcome
to'all America, riding, in the offioinl
leading car which set the new day-
light time record.
The 494 mile ribbon of excellent
highway, flowing over fertile plains
to the Canadian province from Minne-
apolis, now covered in a few minutes
less than 12 hours, was that known as
the Red River trail in the old days
when prairie schooners required a lit-
tle less than a month to reach the
portals of old Fort Garry.
Aside from the neighborly relations
promoted by the- trip between the
northern province and Minnesota's
cities, the feat brings to pointed at-
tention the splendid opportunity this
route provides for Americans to use
in entering the open places, the lakes
A. D.' Cozby and Miss Robbie L.
Wilson,. June 1.
Loyd Anderson and Miss Rhoda
Nelms, June 1,
Pete Lovelace and Miss Inez Kelley,
June 1.
J. G. Caudle and Mrs. Nellie Warn-
er, June 1.
T. T. Dillshaw and Miss Bethana
Aaron. May 31.
Lee Pendleton and Miss Eva White,
May 29.
E. L. Davie and Miss Emmie Will-
iams. May 28
Bowen Harwell and Miss Eldora
Hope. May 26.
D. Medford and Miss Nora Medford
May 25.
.1. W. Coppedge and Miss Jessie
Bolton. May 25.
.1. W. Morris and Miss Lemma Eb-
erhart, May 23.
.1, E. Carter and Miss Minnie Kim-
bro. May 23.
T. R. Gray and Miss Grace French,
Mnv 20.
W. R. Liles and Miss Merle Deaver,
May 19.
L. E. Mayfield ahd Miss Vera Rea-
per. May 17.
L. D. Watson and Miss Thelma
Duggin, May 16.
G. A. Moody
Green, May 16.
Frank W. Belcher and Miss Mary
Gray, May 15.
Joe T. I-awson and Miss Jennie
Dickerson, May 15.
P. R‘. Wray and Miss Bess Sheffield,
May 14.
O. L. Whitefield and Miss Lola
Biggs, May 12.
Floyd F. Driskell and Miss Beulah
Roberson, May 11.
Edwin Norton and Miss Annie
Wolfe, May 10.
W. A. Bryan and Miss Jimmie Gor-
don, May 9.
C. B. Reagan and Miss Zelma Coh-
ran. May 8.
Tullus Parks and Miss Myrtle New-
som, May 8.
J. W. Crowley and Miss Hazel
Baker, May 7.
and Miss Blanche
RECTAL DISEASES A SPECIALTY
I treat piles without pain—without the
knife or detention from work.
Hundreds of cures in Erath and adjoining, counties
, DR. A. E. LANKFORD
Office Over First State Bank
Stephenville, Texas
Day Phone 31 ' Night Phone ?01
BRINKIE TREWITT
Undertaker and Embalmer
Show Rooms and Undertaking Parlors at H. EL Hardin
Lumber Company •
FREE USE OF OUR LARGE CHAPEL
Wa are equipped with motor hearses and carry a complete
line of caskets, dresses and suits
Texaco Products
Gasoline, Kerosene, Lab Oil and Roofing
STEPHENVILLE WHOLESALE.”,
HEADQUARTERS
ARTHUR HILL. Agent Tesan Co.
Phone No. 180
f umui v^irrri|iuna
of Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Oil and gas and coal, though all
three have been found, have, after all,
contributed but a fractional part of
Erath county’s income. This truly
West Texas county is overwhelmingly
agricultural. It raises every farm
product of the West—the “spread’* of
its income from the farm is remark-
able even throughout the year. It
was a pioneer among West Texas
counties in going in for diversification
and for adopting improved methods
for increasing crop yields without in-
creasing land acreage, land lying on
hillsides has been terraced and the
yield doubled, and fertilizer haa been
spread on old and thin land with simi-
lar results. It has, besides, 25,000
head of cattle, 6,000 head of sheep
and 12,000 hogs.. The assessed prop-
erty valuation, f13,000,000, is 90 per
cent agricultural.
Erath county' last year showed its
leaning to diversified farming by re-
ducing a normal cotton crop of more
than 20,000 bales to 17,500 bales, and
by doubling its turkey and egg pro-
duction against only a normal turkey
crop for all Texas. Shipments on the
Frisco from the two principal towns
of the county, Stephenville and Dub-
lin, and excluding altogether those
made on three other railroads touch-
ing those points, were 567 cars of
which there were 41 cars of dressed
turkeys, 36 ears of eggs (by freight
and the equivalent, 400 cases per car,
in express shipments), 37 cars of live
poultry, freight and express, 26 cars
of peanuts and 427 cars of livestock.
That is a pretty sizeable figure to be
attained by two towns.
How Pink Payne graduated from
the barber’s chair to the chicken farm;
what an infertile egg association of
farmers has accomplished; how an
editor backed up his advice to sub-
scribers by doing it himself-—those
are three outstanding projects form
ing a background of Erath county’s
spreading poultry industry.
Pink Payne was a Stephenville bar-
ber for 17 years, and he was a first-
class barber and might have continued
barbering the rest of his days if he
had not bought five hens and a rooster
and started producing eggs for home
use. Nine years ago, while still bar-
bering, he started a foundation flock
of 10 white leghorns. He entered the
business in earnest only five years
ago. His original flock has grown in
that brief time to 3,600 laying hens
and his investment has risen from $20
to $15,000.
Now Payne is owner of the well
known Erath Egg Farm on the out
skirts of Stephenville. His incubator
house, laying houses and brooder
houses cover eight acres of sandy soil
—ideal poultry land. He farms for
his flock, keeping them supplied with
green stuff. His incubator capacity
is 15,000 eggs with one-third reserved
for customs hatching, and he always
runs at capacity. His own eggs from
breeding stock show 92 to 98 per cent
fertility and average 85 per cent
hatch of the fertile eggs—a truly re-
markable record. He has his own
developed strain from original Eng-
lish white leghorn stock. He is selling
2,500 baby chicks weekly at from 25
cents to $1 each. At this time there
are 3,600 birds on the farm, ranging
from baby chick age to old hens iti
their last year. Orders for everything
he has to sell are always booked far
beyond his capacity.
The Erath County Purity Egg and
Poultry Association is an association
of about 150 farmers living within a
radius of 15 miles from Stephenville.
It is said to be the most successful of
its kind in West Texas, and with no
proof to the contrary at hand, the
claim is allowed to stand here without
challenge.
The membership represents an egg-
laying union of 22,500 hens ranging
iti flocks from 50 todSOO and virtually
all highly bred stock.Nlt was organiz-
ed four years ago meanly to co-oper-
atively market infertile eggs from
May 15 to Oct. 15, hut after the trade-
mark had been established in buying
centers the association was asked to
Stamp its eggs the year round. Each
member has his-own number nnrt the
trademark is a circle, containing the
words “Erath County Purity Eggs’’
with the number of the producer in
the center of the circle.
The association is now marketing
1(10 cases weekly, or one-fourth of a
carjoad, while the yearly average out-
put will exceed 50 cases weekly. The
members arc now getting $8 per case.
They have gotten as high as $18 in
the Winter and last year an average
price of better than $11 per • case.
Their infertile stuff invariably draws
a bonus of 2 to 16 cents per dozen.
Oran Ferguson, selling agent, predicts
that this year’s price and volume of
business will hang up a new record.
At Dublin lives T. B. Sullenberger,
publisher of the Progress, one of the
pioneer West Texas weekly newspa-
pers. Sullenberger himself is virtual-
ly a newcomer to Erath county—after
compromising his health by long con-
finement in printing shops of cities he
moved out west, bought the Dublin
Progress, and commenced preaching
poultry.
He suggested that a customs hatch-
ery be installed at Dublin. The sug-
gestion wrr so good that he put in
one himself, right in his printing shop.
He has not one incubator but six,
placed amid desks, stone tables, job
presses, type cases and other appur-
tenances necessary to the newspaper
shop. He has departed from the coal
oil burner and runs' his with electric-
ity, simply hooking them on his meter,
ro incubators were bought last year
nine months of tha year, taking in
$460, a ram nearly equal to hi* origi-
nal investment. His profits are run-
ning 88 1-8 per cant already. Bee ides,
he finds time to edit an excellent
newspaper with 2,000 circulation. He
has learned throngh correspondence
with his subscribers that their re-
ceipts from turkeys, chickens, eggs
and cream are more than the sum re-
ceived for their cotton, and that was
$840,000 last year.
John Tarletqn College, Stephen-
ville’s junior A. A M., is largely re-
sponsible for the large amount of ter-
racing done in Erath county, and the
extensive use of fertiliser. Under c:
pert instruction from the college
farmers last year spread more than
100 ton* on their land at an average
cost of $4 per acre, the fertilizer cost-
ing $1.75 per 100 pounds. This year,
it is predicted, 2,000 acres will be
fertilised. In the Dublin territory
1,600 acres have been terraced since
last Fall, and 12 farm levels are in
constant uae.
The college has an all-year enroll-
ment of about 1,000, standing at 791
at this time. The effect of the agri-
cultural courses it teaches on the
farmers of the county is very great.
There are, also, three schools—Steph-
enville, Dublin and Huckabay—giving
regular agricultural courses under the
Smith-Hughes act, with actual work
in terracing, stock judging, farm man-
agement, farm shop work, horticul-
ture; while four others are doing in-
dustrial work with sewing and cook-
ing courses for girls and shop work
for boys. Three trucks are in use to
transport children of the Huckabay
and Duffau communities to and from
school. There are 10 teachers’ dor-
mitories in the county built by the
various districts. On a total popula-
tion, urban and rural, of about 30,000,
Erath county has 6,167 scholastics en-
rolled, with nearly 70 per cent in rural
schools.
Stephenvile, county seat and me-
tropolis of the county, was founded by
John M. Stephen in the early 60s and
old Dublin followed four years later.
The new Dublin, as rather loosely dis-
tinguished from the old, sprang up
when the Texas Central Railroad built
there in 1882. Dublin is excellently
served with railroads, having, in ad-
dition to the Katy (Texas Central),
the Frisco and the Jake Hamon line to
Brcckenridge. Stephenville has the
Frisco and is, besides, a teminus of
the Cotton Belt. Both towns are on
State highways, both having excellent
water, sewer and electric light sys-
tems. Dublin is planning to pave 15
blocks in the business section, while
Stephenville is now paving that por-
tion of State Highway No. 10, which
passes through the city limits. The
cost is $59,000. An election has been
ordered in a shoestring district on a
bond issue of $75,000 for a hard sur-
face road from Stephenville to Chalk
Mountain, at the Somervell county
line, meeting the Glen Rose road and
intersecting the Meridian highway.
The State Highway department lately
designated a route from Stephenville
to the Eastland county line, to hook
up with the Bankhead Highway east
and west.
Stephenville’s three banks are just
now carrying $1,500,000 in deposits
while Dublin’s deposits are just under
$1,000,000. Taking advantage of its
splendid rail facilities, Dublin has
nu aiHiriDuuon
tussle grocery
m plant, aava-
mUl and ala-
made itself an important distribution
center, with three wholw
houses, a large ice cream
ral ere as stations, on* n
vator, four poultry houses, one cold
storage house and a compress.
Note: The above appeared in Tues-
day’s Star-Telegram and was prepar-
ed by a special feature writer sent in-
to this county some two months ago.
While there are many interesting
items in connection with the commer-
cial life of Stephenvile that have been
omitted, yet the story is in detail
fairly comprehensive of Erath county.
RACE ST. CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Preparations are being rapidly
made far the revival meeting to begin
on June 17th. Evangelista Me Murry
and Shaw are men of education, effi-
ciency and consecration and uniform-
ly successful in their work.
Regular preaching by the pastor at
usual hours next Sunday. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening.
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Come
worship God.—I. H. Teel, Pastor.
FOR MONUMENTS
See U A. MEADOWS
Oeaeral RrprwenUtiv* (nr this District
Quality
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YOU GET WHAT YOU BUY FROM US
Written Guarantee with Every Job
Office ever StcrkcmrUU State Bui BTXPBBMTlUJt, TEXAS
From Factory to Cemetery. Saving you the
Service Middleman’s Profit Satisfaction
First Class Guaranteed
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of the Stephenville Slate Bank of Stephenville is to con-
duct its business to the satisfaction and profit of its cus-
tomers, ahd by every legitimate banking means to assist
in the upbuilding of this section.
If This Platform Appeals to You, We Solicit your Account
Iks Stephenville State Bask
J. W. MOSS, President JNO. M. WATTS, Ass’t. Cashier
L. W. PHILLIPS, Cashier JACK TEDDHE^Afa’i. Cashier
A GOOD BANK IN A GOOD TOWN IN A GOOD COUNTY
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this yesr, and ten more will be In-
stalled next year. They are portables
and convenient to handle. Sullenberg-
er’s present incubator capacity is on-
1,700 eggs, but he expects to finally
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To sample and advertise their pure food products. He
will also make special prices on dozen and on half dozen
lots of Pork and Beans, Ovenbaked Beans, Peanut But-
ter, Pickles, Olives, Jams, Etc. As an added induce-
ment we will give you
Double Green Stamps
on all of these goods bought at this time. If you can’t
come phone us for prices.
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His power bill is not mort than $6
per month. His incubator fee is 8
cents per egg, and it brings him $51
every three weeks. He expects to run
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 1925, newspaper, June 5, 1925; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1134964/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.