The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 13, 1925 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CHAMPION, CENTER, TEXAS, MAY 13, 1925
Cash to All
For the Sweet Girl
Graduate
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$19.50
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LET US SOLVE YOUR
GIFT PROBLEMS
FOR HER GIVE
FOR HIM GIVE
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Ties
Belt and Sets
Socks
Shirts
Handkerchiefs
Underwear
Oxfords
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EVERY
DAY IS
STRAW
HAT
DAY AT
What A Difference Electric Light Makes
AND HOW MUCH LESS IT.COSTS !
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THAT’S THE PLACE
STUCKEY’S
SERVICE WITH A SMILE
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COURTEOUS SERVICE.
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is a standard
milk
is a standard
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Hosiery
Silk Underwear
Beaded Bags
Handkerchiefs
Week-end Bags
Pearl Chokers,
Scarfs
their past[patronage and
you to continue to make
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
with
Daisy Bread
Bread.
WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF THE NEWEST
TYPE LAMPS, CAREFULLY SELECTED TO OPERATE
ON THE LOCAL CIRCUIT, AND WILL BE GLAD TO
CHARGE THEM ON YOUR MONTHLY BILL.
CENTER ELECTRIC AND ICE COMPANY
M. H. Voss, Manager
MEN HERE ARE GREAT VALUES
FOR THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
A Special purchase of men and young men’s
Seersucker Suits,
at $6.95
are
at
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material, all sizes, per suit. $6.95.
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Juis Sunday school raised
r week ago and sent to the
Home at Waxahachie.
Sunday was
In one of the orchestras
kettledrum player is so
the conductor, that he has to______
three bars ahead of time to allow the
sound to travel!”—San Francisco Ar-
gonaut.
Fire Sale to close soon Hurry.
Everything goes to make ready for
new stock. Hurry.—Stripling & Arm-
strong.
Fire Sale to close soon. Hurry.
Everything goes to make ready for
new
strong.
We have been lenient in our past |
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To be charmingly frock&d is as necessary as the
diploma for happy graduation time.
Youthful frocks of silk crepes are most appro-
priate, simply trimmed by rows of fine pleats
and dainty embroideries. There are also many
lovely models in organdy made in bouffant style,
ornamented by frilly lace and satin ribbons.
Sizes, 12-14-16-18.
$16.95
Tomato Not Long Popular
Tomatoes were probably first grown
in the Sixteenth century in Peru. They
were grown in an ancient time in
Mexico, but they did not become an
economic fruit until about 100 years
ago. Up until that time (1830) they
were grown for ornament and were
called the love apple. It was not un-
til about 1870 that decided steps were
taken to improve the tomato commer-
cially. A. W. Livingston, seedsman in
Columbus, Ohio, brought out the old
variety known as Trophy. The toma-
to was grown as early as 1596 in Eng-
land, mostly in hothouses, and as early
as 1812 in Italy.
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(With acknowledgements to the advertisement of Edison
Mazda Ldmps in the Saturday Evening Post of March-
21st, 1925.)
Cajuns of Louisiana
Fond of Old Customs
The Cajun of southwestern Louisi-
ana has his own particular customs,
some of them handed down by his
•NovS Scotian ancestor^ others o?
more modern invention,
Often in naming WTnumerous chil-
dren, he will stick to a single letter.
Thus, In a family that has chosen the
letter “O,” the boys may be Odelon,
Oliver, Octave, Ovide, Optah, Otis,
Oto; the girls Octavie, Odelia, Ophelia,
Odile, Olive, Olita, Olympe, Omeah.
This system, though pleasantly allit-
must result sometimes in con-
fusion,
As Inevitable as his cup of black
coffee, is the Cajun’s use of brick
dust. This, pounded small, is scat-
tered inside, and especially upon that
shelfllke portion of his home which,
however small, he calls a gallery. In
Its it: ls ornamental, the dull red
of the dust standing out against the
dark weathered |Tay of the unpainted
planking behind?
In the better class families the
French proprieties are observed, the
young folk addressing their elders
with the formal “you” rathet than
the familiar “thou.” Religious duties
are seldom neglected. Saturday night
balls, which last through until day-
break, are ended by the dancers at-
tending mass in a body.—Adventure
Magazine.
IF YOU LIGHTED YOUR HOME TONIGHT BY OIL
AS YOU LIGHT IT WITH ELECTRICITY THE COST
WOULD BE 10 TIMES AS MUCH.
Daisy Bread
Bread.
Don’t forget to save your Daisy
Bread\wrappeTS.
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■jAQUIN NEWS.
■Bible class of the
■^school have put on
||Fe” to raise funds to
painting the church.
Wthe small amount nec-
balance is already in
md available whenever it
A cool suit jtor the hot days, made of quality
STUCKEY’S. LET US SHOW YOU
$1.95 to $7.50
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dealings with our many friends,
granting credit to lots of customers.
But now we find that under the
present circumstances we cannot
continue to do credit business.
We are compelled to go on a strict-
ly cash basis and in doing so we can
save you money on every purchase |
made at our store, 1
We are now ready to fill your pre-
scriptions with pure, fresh drugs and
our stock of drugs will soon be com-
plete, with new goods, out and out.
We thank our many friends for
we want
our store
your store. We will treat you right.
Stripling & Armstrong
“Your Druggists.”
CENTER,.TEXAS
When you buy Nunnally’s you get
the best quality nside the box. Af-
ter all there’s none like Nunnally.-r*
Jno. C. Rogers.
Misses Alice Wharton and Alice
I Helpinstill have purchased a car. The
i latter is a niece of Mrs. Wharton and
I makes her home there when not
teaching. Anyway, the friends of
Ithis worthy family are rejoicing with
I them in this new and valued posses-
sion which means so much to the
I teacher girls and their excellent
imother. Miss Octavia, teacher in
H^acogdoches High school spent last
rtwo week-ends at home on account
of the convenience of the car.
I Miss Demay Walker and Porter
aRicks were married in Center re-
gcently. The bride is the eldest child
Hulen Walker, now of Houston.
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stock. Hurry.—Stripling & Arm-
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LIGHT HAS BECOME THE LEAST EXPENSIVE OF
ALL COMFORTS. IT COSTS LESS NOW THAN
BEFORE THE WAR. THE AVERAGE FAMILY PAYS
LESS FOR LIGHT THAN FOR CREAM FOR THE
BREAKFAST COFFEE.
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Home at Waxahachie. The
atteneflnce last Sunday was 140,
collection $9.50. All goes to show the
school is, in flourishing condition.
Laurie Daugherty, formerly
Parker Motor Company is now with
Crawford & Roberts. You can get
your mechanical work done right and
reasonable here. Your patronage
appreciated.
CRAWFORD & ROBERTS.
She is a beautiful girl, while the
bride groom is an industrious young
man. They are living at present at
Connell’s Ferry.
L. M. Geno and Tom Johnson
attending District Conference
Huntington.
Mesdames Lizzie Ellis and M. M.
Carroll have been elected delegates
to District Meet of Woman’s Mission-
ary Society at San Augustine to
conVehe tn h few days.
J. K. Friddell and otheres who own
bottom land farms state the river
is rising from rains above and fears
are entertained of an overflow. The
rains are worth thousands of dollars
in our section.
Last few days of Sale, everything
goes cheap. Hurry.-—Stripling &
Armstrong.
Testing Gold
To test gold, dig the point of a knife
into It, and if it powders it is not
gold. Gold is richly yellow, but to
tell It from pyrites when in very mi-
nute flecks, turn it so that the light
catches it from various directions. I
Gold will not alter in shade, but pyrite
does. A drop^of nitric acid will cause
a fuming on pyrites, but does not af-
fect gold.
You must pan creek sands and grav-
els to find gold. It may be near sur-
face, but generally the heaviest de-
posits of placer gold are on and close
to bed rock, which may be a few feet
or many feet deep. Gold placers are
best found in a big bend in a creek,
which allows it to be deposited, or on
the upper side of a reef or ledge cross-
ing the stream. Sometimes it is a dry
deposit, up where the stream formerly
flowed, and is called a '‘bench” placer.
Gold is worth a little more than $20
per troy ounce and is paid for at mints
or smelters at the rate of about that
price after refining.—-Victor Shaw, in |
Wood as Polisher
An interesting use of rotten wood is
in the polishing of the fine parts of
the highest grade Swiss and French
watches. Formerly thig material was
more extensively employed than at
presept, being largely supplanted by
machinery ’alT3 benzine. The escape
parts and small screws are still in
large part polished by hand and rot-
ten wood. The value of the rotten
wood used annually in Switzerland for
this purpose is about $4,000, the best
quality bringing a price of $1 a pound.
What is wanted is a yellowish white
silky material, soft and spongy, in
which the growth rings are still vis-
ible.—J. S. Record, in American For-
ests and Forest Life.
THE GASOLINE TAX.
The gasoline tax has much to rec-
ommend it as a means of raising
funds to keep the roads in I good
condition, because it distributes
fairly equitably the cost among the
automobile owners according to their
usage of the roads. The man, who
is responsible for wearing out the
roads is made responsible for repair-
ing them. But like practically al!
tax measures, it has its bad features
and is unfair to certain classes of
people. For instance, a gasoline
tax forces every owner of station-
ary gasoline engines and tractors to
pay for the upkeep of roads, which
they do not use. Furthermore, if th§
gasoline tax is increased from the
present rate of 1 cent a gallon to
2 % or 3 cents a gallon, while the
license tax is reduced to an average
of $6 a car, a greater per cent of the
road money will be taken from the
the owner of the small car than was
formerly the case. Most farmers
own small cars, and farmers own
gasoline engines and tractors, but
when it is considered that thousands
of owners of city-used trucks will be
taxed to maintain roads they seldom
use, it would seem that farmers will
get none the worst of it, if a stiff
gasoline tax is imposed. At any
rate, this opinion seems to be fairly
general among the farmers because
in other states, Iowa for instance, or-
ganizations of farmers are advocat-
ing a gasoline tax.
Although there are glaring defects
and inequalities in such a tax, we be-
lieve the gasoline tax has enough
good in it to make it worth while.
While a general property tax on au-
tomobiles, a lilcense fee, and a gaso-
line tax, the automobile owner bears
a rather heavy burden, and perhaps
a burden somewhat out of propor-
tion to his interest in good roads.
But there are two things to be con-
sidered in apportioning a tax burden.
One is the “benefit derived,” while
the second is the “ability to pay.”
For instance, the rich man with
three children derives no more bene-
fit from our public school system than
, a poor man with an equal number of
so,
his
f to pay. Likewise,
far away from ■ farm land may derive as great a ben-
hftR tn nnmn in ! i____ ___j ,
mobile, yet the larger part - of the
money for road construction and
maintenance must be derived from
a tax on- the automobile, because of
its greater ability to pay.—The Pro-
gressive Farmer.
Last few days of Sale, everything
goes cheap. Hurry.—Stripling &
Armstrong.
Wanted to Be Sure
Father had promised his small
daughter that if she were very good
•she should go to a vaudeville theater
In the evening on condition that she
behaved nicely during the perform-
ance.
milk She maintained an unusually sub-
dued manner all day, and just’ before
; starting for the theater Inquired anx-
loukly:
“If there should be a joke, would
SMy jnjnd If I laugh T’
Fine Orchestra, but
Not in First Class
Many are the stories prevalent in va-
rious parts of the British empire To il-
lustrate typical American humor. They
have an idea over there that we go in
largely for size. One of the latest and
most characteristic has been wished
on to Sir Henry Wood, who relates
that at one of his concerts an enthu-
siastic admirer was present with an
American friend.
When it was all over, the English-
man, hoping it had impressed his
friend, remarked: “Magnificent or-
chestra, isn’t it?”
But the Yankee, being one of those
who always boast of the wonders of
“Amurrika” when abroad, was not giv-
ing anything away.
line, you say?” he answered.
“Well, it’s a good little band in his
way, but if you’re using ‘fine’ in a
sense of its being large, great Chris- |
top her, you should see one of our mu- i children, yet he pays, and justly
sical combinations in the States! Why, Ithe larger school tax because of
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come in ’ efit from good roads as the auto-
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The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 13, 1925, newspaper, May 13, 1925; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1328080/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.