The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 25, 1922 Page: 7 of 8
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THE CHAMPION—PAGE SEVEN—JANUARY 25, 1922
Attention
Fence Buyers
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Don’t forget to see our up-to-date line of Furniture.
Fumture Co.
FURNITURE.
AND
HARDWARE
The Quality Store.
Smith Motor Co.
Center and Timpson
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every ‘ farmer
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the Year 1922
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in Dallas
Farmers State
for a heifer belonging to Mat Sam-
Bank
lions of dallars worth of both dairy
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There Are Many
Possibilities for
We have a full line of this fencing, also barbed wire, garden
wire and poultry wire.
•‘The big 40,000 pound mad elephant at Orange failed to
break this fence after pulling up the posts.”
You will find our prices right as we buy in carload lots foj
net cash.
E. G. McCORMICK
OPTOMETRIST.
Any man or woman, who tries to
create a schism between the decent
sons
sons
to be a candidatte for congress from
this district.
Runabout
$325
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Waiting For Him.
Mrs. Keown went shopping and her
a
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branded.
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my power I will return the favor.—
Duke Samford. Center Tex. ‘ „
Every peep of the downy chick calls for sanitary coops, runs,
houses, etc. Get ready for poultry raising this spring, which
is growing to be a large industry in our county.
jCARDUI HELPED
REGAIN STRENGTH
Lufkin Lawyer to Run For Congress.
Hon. I. D. Fairchilds, state senator
In the early days of this republic
about ninety-six per cent of its popu-
lation were engaged in production
and according to the latest census re-
ports, forty-eight per cent only now 1 very
devote their time to producing food
and fiber , to supply our own people
and for export. Because of improv-
ed varieties and better methods, and
too many middlemen and gamblers,
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STRAY COW.—I have in my field
light red. two year old, broad
heifer, neither marked or
Taken up through a mis-
Many People Here Saturday.
Following a ten day seige of rainy
and sloppy weather, Saturday devel-
oped some sunshine. With the pret-
ty weather many people came to
town to do necessary shopping and
attending to business matters. Cen-
ter is probably the best town in this
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EYES EXAMINED FREE
iffice over John C. Rogers
Drug Store.
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Regular
“Get'dbouf
HpHE Ford runabout is just what its name
* implies—it’s a regular “get-about”
There is no other car that will take you
there and back again, quicker, safer and
more economically.
It’s the car for the man of action—the
farmer, the merchant, the doctor, the
contractor, the collector—the car that is
useful every day of the year.
Low in the cost of maintenance, with all
of the sturdy strength, dependability and
reliability for which Ford cars are noted.
On account of the unusual demand we urge that
your orders be placed as early as possible.
Alabama Lady Was Sick For Three
Years, Suffering Pain, Nervous
and Depressed—Read Her
Own Story of Recovery.
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You should give particular attention to the purchasing of
Fencing. We warn you against the off brands of wire. The
best farm journals endorse “The Pittsburg Perfect Line” as be-
ing one of the best fence manufactured. It will stand the acid
test and is the most durable fence made.
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M DR. FRANK PEARCE
V DENTIST
■Office over Stripling & Armstrong
Drug Store. Phone Office 382
Residence Phone 387
Office Hours: 8 to 12: 1 to 5
Center, Texas.
Paint Rock, Ala.—Mrs. C. M. Stegall,
of near here, recently related the fol-
lowing interesting account of her re-
covery: “I was ih a weakened con-
dition. I was sick three years in bed,
suffering a great deal of pain, weak,
nervous, depressed. I Was so weak,
I couldn’t walk across the floor; just
had to lay and my littlq ones do the
work. I was almost dead. I tried
every thing I heard of, and a number of
doctors. Still I didn’t get any relief.
I couldn’t eat, and slept poorly. I
believe if I hadn’t heard of and taken
Cardui I would have died. I bought
six bottles, after a neighbor told me
what it did for her.
"I began to' eat and sleep, began to
gain my, strength and am now well
and strong. I haven’t had any trou-
ble since ... I sure can testify to the
good that Cardui did me. I don’t
think there is a better tonic made
and I believe it saved my life.”
For over 40 years, thousands of wo-
men have used Cardui successfully,
in the treatment of many womanly
ailments.
If you suffer as these women did*
take Cardui. It may help you, too.
At all druggists. E 85
For those who think twice before acting in financial
matters; for those who apply themselves to business
matters, or to their avocation and SAVE; to those
who live within their income, and save some of their
earnings each month, there are many possibilities for
the coming year.
The financial forecast says that this year will be one
with good business and a return to normal condi-
tions. No matter how good business is, no matter
how much one makes, unless good business judgment
is exercised by all, the good business will not result
in profit to the individual.. . There is no better way
to save than to have a bank acount, for that acts two
ways: First, the bank account gives standing and,
second, it places the owner of the account in a posi-
tion to get help when an opportunity presents itself
for an investment. 1 his bank wants the accowpf of
any person, large or tmall, and will give prontfpt and
painstaking service.
ty for the city people is impossible
without permanent prosperity for
the farmers. They know that if
all the farrpers should go on a strike
for one year, more city people would
go to the graveyards than to the vo-
ting places.
All honest or moral people are not
engaged in farming, nor are all those
average is true of city people. Hon-
est, moral people, whether they live
in cities or on the farms, are mutual-
ly interested in community prob- ,
lems, and should, and I believe will,
in future work unitedly for the best
interest of all.
Every other business of import-
ance has its organization, and farm-
ers must organize, not to fight any
other class, but to take care of their
business. Many farmers’ organiza-
tions have met with failure through
incompetency, or dishonesty of of-
ficials, or both. Failure on account
of any of these reasons does not
prove that organization is a failure
any more than divorce proves that
marriage is a failure, or suicide
proves that life is a failure. Many
organizations would have succeeded,
if the officials who were both hon-
est and competent, had received prop-
er and continuous support.
Many join organizations, and if
they fail to accomplish all they had
DR. V. R. HURST
DR. A. K. WAGES
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and Fit-
ting Glasses.
Hurst Hospital Longview
Dr. Hurst will be in Center first Fri-
days. Office with Dr. J. C. Hurst.
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Henry Gryder Barber Shop
Polley Hotel Buildifig
Capable Barbers, Modern Equipment
Hot and Cold Baths
Center, Texas
You rPatronage Solicited
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poultry products of Texas are off from his cows shortly after
valued at $43,440,000, or ten million jng there, 1.. "
dollars more than the dairy products.; to Matt Samford is
when we 1
the forty-eight per cent are produ-
cing more than the demand will take
at a profit to the producer.
When a farmer offers a product
for sale, he is told that because of
over-production the price is low,
very low, in fact below the cost of
^production, and then he is solicited
for donations of products or money
to feed the starving because of the
short crops in some other section.
The truth is, there never was, and
never will be an over-production of
food and fiber. At no time in civ-
ilization’s history have all stomachs
been filled, or all backs been cloth-
ed.
Our National Department of Agri-
culture, through bulletins gotten up
by scientific investigators, demon-
strators, agents, and in many ways,
is teaching us how to grow better
crops, combat diseases and insect
pest, and they are ably backed by the
state, county and other organiza-
tions and individuals. In production,
we have made progress, but in dis-
tribution and marketing oUr system
are rotten.
| Within the last three decades the
farmers in this country have produced
enough to buy all other products in
the United States, but theirs have
gone through so many toll-gates, and
they have left so much of their prof-
its in the waste basket of distribu- hoped for in a few weeks, refuse to
tion, and have paid so much to organ-
ized greed that many of them are
leaving the farm and saying farewell
to the soil.
Marketing is to humanity what the
blood is to the human body. It is
the life of agriculture, and it touches
every nation, tribe, kindred and peo-
ple, from the beggar to the king,
from' the garret to the throne. It is
as old as human history. Nearly
four thousand years ago, W3 '.‘.nd,
that Esau sold his birthright for a
small amount of agricultural o-
ducts and all the countries came tu
Joseph to buy corn.
Like men engaged in ever} other
business, farmers should constantly
strive to improve their methods,
management, etc. But the para-
mount question is to secure prices
for their products that will pay a
reasonable amount for labor and in-
vestment, and leave a surplus suffic-
ient to supply them with necessities 1
which they cannot produce, and all
of the conveniences, and at least a! Over in Arkansas they have
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production bors about me
and also make inquiries as
| ford, who moved to the old Brinson
1 field last fall, which heifer strayed
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The heifer that belongs
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take into consideration the heavy built, broad horns, very light
fact that Texas imports annually mil- with blue sides. Neither marked or
branded, two years old, and will soon
and poultry products, wouldn”t it be be in pen. Please tell your neigh-
a wise idea to double our production bors about me having this red heifer
and thereby eliminate the necessity
of importing millions of dollars worth
of products that we could so easily
raise ourselves?
Some one has said: “Farmers have
been regarded with good-natured
tolerance by city dwellers as being
merely an incident in the national
life.” This may have been true in
>- i the past, but today, outside of a few
.v large cities whose leading citi-
zens live by the control of the coun-
try’s money, and other grafts, city
people engaged in banking, merchan-
dising, manufacturing or ]
DEATH OF CHOICE CITIZEN.
“Father” Jones died at the home
: of his son, in the Choice community,
. Thursday morning. The remains
were buried at Short Friday, the ser-
vices being conducted by Rev. J. A.
Mull.
Mr. Jones came to Texas from
Alabama and has resided in that
community for a number of years.
He was a member Of the Missionary
Baptist church and was probably 70
years of age. He is survived by five
and two daughters, four of the
reside in the Choice community
and one in West Texas. One daugh-
ter lives in Oklahoma and the other
one resides at Neuville. Mr. Jones
was liked by all who knew him and
bore the reputation as being honor-
able and a Christian gentleman.
continue membership. Organiza-
tions cannot correct all evils, but
they can accomplish much good, and
will under right leaders. Don’t ex-
pect too/much. Don’t get mad and
quit because you find some of the
officials are dishonest and incompe-
tent. Profit by mistakes. Stay
on the job like a politician hunting
for an office. The political office-
seeker never .gets discouraged or goes
lame. He wins, or dies in the at-
tempt, and that’s what’s the matter
with our government; and the gov-
ernment is the source from which
most of our troubles come.
If the people would rise up and
enter real honest, competent, non-
office seeking men in our political ra-
ces, we would realize how foolish we
have been in not doing it sooner.
Political offices are mostly step-
ping stones for clientless lawyers to
positions with corporations that want
political influence instead of legal
ability.
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And Tehy Came to Joseph To Buy
Corn.
(Col. Frank P. Holland
Times-Herald).
Everybody is advising the farmers
1 how to run their business, and what
to do with the small pieces of money
they get for big chunks of products
needed to make speculators rich, and
keep people from starving. There-
fore I welcome the opportunity to un-
load through the columns of The Dal-
las Times-Herald, the vast store of
advice which I have on hand.
For your readers’ ’information I
will present some reliable data that
will prove interesting and may pos-
sibly point the way to a realization
of better results for those who pro-
duce the things people must have, or
starve, freeze, or be arrested for in-
1 decent exposure.
Producing the food to sustain, and
husband arriving home found himself the fiber to clothe the people of the
locked out. world is the biggest and most im-
He searched about, hoping to find portant business in which our peo-
the key hidden somewhere but failed pie are engaged,
to find it.
He then borowed the neighbor’s
getting to the end of his patience, he
found one that unolcked the door.
Inside on the kitchen table, he
found a note from his wife:
“Dear Bert— I’ve gone ;to town.
You’ll find your dinner r^ady and
the key under the mat outside.”—
'Diffqhnrp' Qhronic14Mfc?tegr^n’i4ai«M|ai
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heifer which I have described above. from Lufkin, has written Supt. R. F.
If you can hear from her, please let Davis> tha* he ha* definitely decided
me know at once and if it is ever in , to be a candidatte for congress from
,r this district. Mr. Fairchilds was a
25p>; staunch supporter of the Stephen F.
I Austin normal in the state senate
.... and one of the strong men on whom section of the state when it comes to
ready, 25= per 100. $2.00 P-1 —~' I thc
i curing an appropriation for the. trade territory considerable and
school after the repeal had been beat-'since the town has for years held the
friends here who reputation of paying high prices for
produce and at the same time selling
goifids at closer margins of profit, it
i drajws the people here in great num’
of the conveniences, and at least al Over in Arkansas they have com-
fair share of the luxuries that nv-.ke ' munity organizations known as Self-
home attractive, and life worth the Help Clubs, and they are accomplish-
struggle. j *ng wonders. As I understand it,
I wish every ‘ farmer could or the work is done by, and for all the
would learn to produce seventy-five people of the community, regardless
ner cent of the things that he needs of whether they live in city or coun-
and consumes on the farm, leaving try.
only twenty-five per cent of his la-1
bor from which the speculator or
gambler will be allowed to make a people of the country and city, is an
living, honestly or otherwise. -undesirable citizen, and working for
I wish every farmer could, or some selfish purpose. The ideal
would carry its complement of live- community is that in which all ^ood
stock. We need livestock as a mar- people of the country and city unite
ket for our feedstuff, and for the in a unanimous, ’determined effort
maintenance and upbuilding of our which has for its object the good of
soil. But Texas, I am sorry to say, all.
is far deficient in livestock, although j
we are credited with large numbers1
because of our vast area. And what!
is more deplorable, the general run
of animals are of scrub breeding.
We have 436,033 farms in Texas,
and only 26,905 purebred livestock
of any kind. We have nearly half
a million farms, yet only 6,033 report
a purebred dairy animal, and 6,006
report purebred beef animals. In
the matter of hogs we are doing bet-
ter since 22,433 report 101,740
purebreds.
Texas is credited with 844,545
dairy cows of all kinds, which pro-
duce products valued at $32,999,946
while Winconsin, a much smaller
state, where the winters are long and
spring late, has 1,795,122 cows,
which produce $180,306,599 in milk
and butter and cream. They have
five purebred cows to our one, and
the grades are five times better than !
ours. And further, there are thous-
ands of farms in Texas where there
is not a single cow, and 60,000 with-
out poultry of any kind, and on the take by Rob McWilliams, Shelbyville,
farms where they have poultry, 90
per cent of it is mongrel.
And speaking of poultry, the
nual ]
en. He has many
will be active in the support of his
Jv,' candidacy when he makes formal
nouncement.—Redland Hera/ld.
DR. W. C. WINDHAM
Center, Texas
Practice limited to diseases bf Eye,
Ear, Nose and Throat Fitting
Glasses.
Office hours: 8 to 12; 1 to 4. 5 by
appointment.
\ Office over Stripling & Armstrong,
NORRIS, SANDERS & GIBSON
Fire, Tonjido and Automobile
Insurance. Reliable Com
panies. Office rear
?/ Farmers State Bank
Center, Texas
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r0^b!!e. Tnn Nacogdoches relied much in prevent- j a trading point.
1,000, delivered. Satisfaction guaran-
teed.—R. P. Whittlesey, Tenaha,
Tex. 25 to 15p
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