The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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No car, regardless of price, gives more dependable service do other
car is so easy to drive and park—and no other car has ever brae
pric* d as low.
So whether you judge it on the basis of convenience, dependabffttp.
or economy—you can’t help deciding that a ForcTis the log/oel
car to own.
We have a complete showing of Ford body types—and we m
always glad to arrange convenient terms of payment.
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SELLS 1,509 DOZEN OF
EGGS FROM 153 HENS
POULTRY RAISING PAYING BUS-
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men but it would mean continuous
work. They would be busy every day
in the year, including Sundays and
h< ! 'days—Exchange.
Try our Spizzerinktum curb service
you’ll like it—Corner Drug Store.
Entered at the Pcstoffice at De Leon, Texas, as second
class mail matter under Act of Congress, Meh 4, 1879
Issued Every Friday
They are compelled to go into debt
and doubt proves to being their un-
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character of any in-
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Sign on Coryell Gate
Tresspassers will be persecuted to the full extent of
2 mean mongral dawgs which ain’t never bin ovariy
soshible with st rain gers & 1 bubbol bdrl shotgun which
ain’t loaded with no sofy pillers. Dam, ifi ain’t tar^ of
this hel raisin on my property.”
Minister “I hear. Paddie, they’ve gone dry in the
village where your brother lives.”
Paddie “Dry, mon! They’re parched. I’ve just re-
ceived a letter from Mike, an’ the postage stamp was
stuck on with a pin.” ‘ ,
My business is too dull—this is no time to advertise
(Another alibi. When business comes slowest is the
logical time to get up and push on the collar.)
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Poultry plants established on sound
business principles, and properly op-
erated, will be successful, no matter
if more or less inconveniently located.
On the other hand, the best location
cannot make up for poor management.
Poultry farms must be’ built upon
good conditions. They must grow.
Capital amount to little if "not proper-
ly used. Wealthy men invested thou-
sands in the construction of poultry
farms, hired experts and still met
with failure. The investment was too
great for the experts to cover.
But where a start is made with 50
to 100 hens and they are properly
cared for, a large plant may gradu,
ally be grown in a few years. This is
the only way to build on a firm foun-
dation. *
So many start without working*cap-
ital. They spend every available dol-
lar for stock an<l fixtures and have
nothing left to buy feed and pay other
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’delusion.)
My business is with poor people-—they do not read
advertisements. (Wrong again. In this day of cheap
reading matter everybody reads and every man is a
prospective customer, some more, some less. But no-
body is too poor to eat and wear clothes.)
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If you envy someone find out a little more about
that some one. Nine chances to one there’s a either a
nigger in their woodpile or a skeleton in their closet,
and they’d perhaps more readily exchange places with
you than you thought you would with them.
tion work going on at the Humble station, then the
gin and cotton compress are running, the compress last
year employed a hundred at one time. There is' the
peanut shelling plant and oil mill; railroad shops work-
ing a lot of men; and 'a wholesale paoduce house that
only ladt week advertised for two hundred hands to
help handle the.coming turkey season. Want a job?
Come to De Leon. Chances are that you’ll get it here.
Here are a few reasons some people give for not
advertising. Read them and see if you find them con-
sistent:
My business is too small to afford it. (Without a
doubt this man’s business will stay small.)
My business is too large to need it. (Why not en-
large and command stilt greater earning?)
My business is too young for advertising,
haps it’s not destined to ever be much older.)
My business is too well established to need it. (No
business is so well known that with effort new cus-
tomers may not be reached through well planned ad-
vertising.)
My business is too high class to permit anything
so unethical. (You poor fish! Common sense, is a more
modern and more practical guide; than ethics. Invite
people to trade with you or patronize you, or use your
service. They’ll finally forgive you for that “ethical -
.You'll want woojen and cotton blan-
kets soon—We Have Them—Steakley
& Smith.
With a flock of 153 hens, Mr. Mor -
rison of Hood county sold 1,500 dozen
eggs during the firat sLx months of
the current year. This is an average
of 117 eggs per hen. Since he is one
of L. W. Stasney’s poultry demon
strators the ration fed was mixed at
home under the instruction of the
cotinty agent. Mr. Morrison says that
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the family, bought all of the gas,
parts for the flivver and left a neat
balance at the bank besides—Exten
sion Service.
Again we say Feed Your Turkeys,
so they’ll be fat. Also read our ad on
page eight of this issue—W.W. Nance
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Three and one-eighth inches of rain has fallen in
De Leon territory since the first of September, accord-
ing to the gauge on the Free Press building.
County Agent Barton told Free Press last week
that less than ten per cent of all our peanut, farmers
planted a cover crop of rye or some other grain fol-
lowing the harvest of the nuts, in spite of the adnptted
and proven benefit to the hind. The cover crop has a
three 'fold value. It furnishes winter grazing, and also
proviqs rich humus in the soil when plowed under in
the spring, besides protecting the land from blowing
and washing, the county agent affirmed.
The other day two men called at Free Press office .
and asked if there was a chance of their getting a job ^.expenses until an income is realized,
of work in De Leon. First thought was that the chance
was pretty slim, but when the editor began to tell them
of the possibilities it really seems that things are ridt
so bad around our little city. First, there’s construe-
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Passing the Buck.
said the mother, “the baby was a
Christmas present from the angels.”
“Weil, maina” said Rupert “if we lay him away
carefully and don't use him, can’t we give him to some
body else next Christmas?”
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An Easy One
A correspondent writes asking if it is possbile to
drive a nail without hitting one’s thumb.
Quite simple. Let one’s wife hold the nail.
to three classes; egg farming, table
poultry production and general poul-
try culture. Egg production js the
start of all branches. Even with out
the commercial egg business there
must be eggs to produce the stock,
and also Xo meet the market poultry
demand. Exeprience and observation
have proved general farming to be
‘more safe than to confine operations
to a single branch. Diversified poultry
culture is just as important as diver-
sified farming. Instead of an exclu-
sive egg farm or an exclusive poul-
try meat plant, make it a combination
both. There are also side lines
that may be profitably added, such as
ducks, geese, turkeys and even squab
pigeons.
Incubators started in December and
continued running until the last of
May would produce chicks that could
be turned into profitable broilers or
roasters, or both. Other, machines run
fromYhe miildle of March to 'the mid-
dle of July would bring out ducklings
in season for the cream oT prices.
Hens could be employed during April
and May to hatch geese arid turkey
egg«-
Such farm, if propery managed,
could readily be handled by two good
The New Pay Master
Scraps and Cuttings
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This year pecan growers have learned one thing
about the better grades of pecans, at least have had
the fact demonstrated anew. It is the fact that the
western varieties do not s£and wet weather as well as
the eastern varieties. Halbert and Burkett, two distinc-
tirely western varieties, have__suffered from scab or
blight this summer and fall because of excessive moist-
ure. whereas the eastern varieties such a« Stuart, Del-
mas and Schley, originated in a part of the country
whore the rainfall is greater, withstood the blight much
better. There has tieen a great loss in the pecan crop
since mid summsr, the reason being given as the blight,
worms and a few casebearers. However, the largest
crop is being harvested just now that has been real-
ized since 1919.
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The tension is gradually tightening in the football
championship race. In this end of the district only De
Leon Bearcats on 1 Rising Star Wiidc, ts remain unde-
iViited. It would seem that some W-*t TextU cam is
i;oiug to have to tame some sort of a "i'i'. to hold rhe
district title, a B-Mre.it or a Wildca; Just which rn
of the species of cat will go up for district honors, re-
mains to -be seen when De Leon ami Rising Star lads
battle for supremacy, at Rising Star next Friday.
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A guy the Free Press solicitor approached and sug-
gested that he insert an ad, replied “I have watched
advertising and tried to see the result and it don’t do
any good.” Instead of getting sore at this man the Free
Press solicitor felt a sort of pity for him. It is not the
fact that he refused to buy advertising in the,Free
Press that he will fail. It is the attitude against ar-
veiltising generally speaking. No business, regardless
of the kind or character, will succeed without some
form of advertising. Twelve months from the date
the above mentioned man entered business somebody
else will be running his buMness and he will hare
dropped out. Advertising in connection with a business
is somewhat like saying thank you and if you please
iajyranoal contact. People usually go where they’re ~
invited, and eome back to where they are made to feel I
welcorhe. Sudden' service, a broad smjle and a hearty
Thank you, Call again! la a species of advertising hard
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A small dajry heard on every farm and especially
valley Tarms, would go well with a few good brood sows
a flock of good hens, a few turkeys, some feed, peanuts
and a little cotton. Cream alwayg finds a ready mar-
ket. So does practically everything felse to eat. Diver-
sify, live at home and be independent.
Those Dublin folks showed a distinct spirit of
friendliness when they offered to come up and play a
band concert on our streets proceeding the De Leoh-
Dublin football geme today, as a drawing card to get-
ting out a crowd. “Might get your boys a few more
dollars,” the communication said. That’s mighty fine
spirit and it should be and is appreciated and recipro-
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Scott, R. L. The DeLeon Free Press. (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 29, 1926, newspaper, October 29, 1926; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1261780/m1/2/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.