The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 1928 Page: 2 of 12
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THE CHAMPION, CENTER, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1928
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fendant, and said petition alleging
thanks and That on June 3, 1925, in Shelby Coun-
Pinto Bean Crop
More than 1,0’00 acres have been
planted to pinto beans near Big
Spring in the last month.
is excellent’and promises a good yield.
Pinto beans are always sold on a good
market and it is surprising that a larg-
er acreage is not planted in Texas.
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Shelby was in the Democratic oum
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to the . manufacture of hats of all i ccmmumties securing it are
kinds. Is there any good reason why Pn holding monstei celebra.ions to
hats Tn ay not be made in Texas, both; skow Their pi ogress.
straw and woolen hats, as economical- i
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Gas Celebrations
Hamlin and Lamesa are among the
I North Texas towns that have recently
the Mexican border, but the fact that |
they are made and sold creates the
suggestion that there is no reasl
Texas, in considering industrial pos-j
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the local high school. All should as-
sist, if no other way, than by notify
ing the superintendent of all boys and
girls of your acquaintance that should
be in school but are not.
a reasonable amount
make it world-famous.
approve or not. After all, few are
in such an excellent position to advise
the voters of Texas how to cast their
ballot? in a national election than our
senior United States Senator, who hdk
spent more than 30 years—the ma-
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Published Wednesday Afternoon
Entered at the postoffice Center,
Texas, for transmisison through the
mails a§ second class matter.
WENDELL W. MAYES, Publisher
Subscription Rates: —One Year, $1.5’0
Six Months, $1.00; Three Months, 75c
Advertising Rates—Local readers 2
cents per word; display rates made
known upon application. All resolu-
tions, cards of thanks, programs and
other matter not general news, will
be classed as advertising and charged
for at the rate of one cent for each
word, and the sender will be held
responsible for payment of bill.
or milk and cream prcduc->
Republican party this year.
Sheppard is an East’ Texan,
cur United States Senator.
Selling Texas Saddles
The Kingsville Lumber Company
has a leather department in which it
madkes saddles that have become
known through the country. Recently
an order for saddles was received
from Honduras. The company has’
shipped saddles to the Canadian North
west, to Australia, to Mexico, to
South and Central America and to
the West Indies. Why shouldn’t Tex-
as supply a great part of the world
with saddles? Texas has the cattle
and produces'the hides; it has saddle
makers as expert as can be found in
the world. While we are trying to se-
cure industries that cost millions of
de liars, we are overlooking one that
needs only well organized effort and
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at once to the Interstate Commerce
Commission. They call for construc-
tion of 105 miles of road, with the use
of parts of other linefe as connecting
links. Col. R. C. Duff of Houston, has
been at work on this project for years.
The local newspaper, The Champion, is the logical place
for the bulk of your advertising because newspaper ad-
vertising is the most interesting and economical of any
type or kind.
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A merchant who uses the advertising columns of The
Champion *has complete coverage of his trade territory.
We have a circulation of 3200 and in all probability our
weekly papei is lead by as by as many as ten thousand
people.
party in the bleak days of carpel; bag
rule; the faith of the people did not
waver then. Shelby turned out to
hear the silver-tongued Dr. Butte tell
why we should not abide by the good
Democratic rule of majority choice;
and then voted with the party. And
The Champion can see no reason xw
expressing any other opinion now than
the reply sent to the Anti-Democratic
offices: that when the votes are count-
ed in November, Shelby county, as al-
ways, will cast her vote with the party
of our fathers; with the party that
has *been honored by Texas and has
o^Wed this great commonwealth of
u^^^u-never the’opportunity arose.
of capital to when the melon market is never
j crowded. Experiments have shown
that in good seasons the late melons
prove more profitable than those mar-
keted earlier in competition with the
’ regular crop.
Texas Banks Prosperous
According to the report of the
comptroller of the curency, Texas
banks are in an unusually prosperous
condition. During the past year they
lave had $25,031,000 loaned on farm
ands and $22,744,000 on real estate
Lhc'r than farm lands. They were
icnvy investors in state, county and
municipal bondfc, having $20,065,000
in this class of securities, while they
held $123,148,000 in government se-
curities. The enormous sum cf $288,-
746,000 was placed in time loans,
with $30,567,000 on demand
not secured by collateral,
banks ranked third in the country in
farm loans, California being first and
Nebraska second. The report not
only indicates the good condition cf
the banks, but shows that Texas agri-
culture and business was on a most
satisfactory basis.
secured natural gas and have held cel-
Natura.1 gas
j adds so much to the comfort of a peo-
Wheii United States Senator Morris
Sheppard comes to Center to address
the Democrats of this county, every
person in Shelby county should be out
to hear him. It makes not the least
difference whether you are a Demo-
crat or not; makes no difference if
you choose to cast your vote with the
Morris
He. is
More
than that, he is one of the outstanding
poli'ieal leaders in the nation today.
He is the author of the 18th amend-
ment, and is recognized throughout
the nation as one of the outstanding
advocates of prohibition in the United
States today. That he should come
to Center to make an address, upon
the invitation of the people of this
county, is a credit to Center and tc
Shelby county, and nene should miss
an opportunity to hear so able a
statesman, whether in this particular
instance he is advocating a course you
Harrison County Cows
Over 500 fine dairy cattle have been
brought to Harrison county in the last
few weeks and placed with farmers
interested in supplying milk to the wool and mohair will be in
Fall Watermelons
Midland farmers have planted wa-
termelons late enough in the season
to have them ripening for the market
in September and October, a time
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Lon Morris College will begin its 31st day of August A. D. 1928, in a D. 1928
fifty-:-ixth session next week. This is
the oldest and only endowed college
of East Texas.
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American Legion Convention
The eyes of the Nation will be on
Texas in October, when the Ameri-
can Legionaires will hold’their annual
convention at San Antonio. The’
State has received much national no-
tice this yeai’ from the convention of
the Women’s Federated Clubs at San1’
Antonio and the National Demecratic
Convention at Houston, as well as
from other smaller nation-wide con-
ventions, but it is doubtful if all these
combined will attract as much favor-
able attention to Texas as the gather-
ing of the veterans of the World’s
War. The ex-soldiers will come to
Texas by the thousands and most of
them will come for a tourist outing as
well as for the meetings of the Le-
gionaires. They will come to see
Texas and-to learn more about this
State of which they have had many
favorable, reports. Texas should be
ready with a glad welcome and should
be prepared to show the State at its
best.
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The Center School Board has
launched a worthy drive to get all
boys in Center who have not finished
the high school course, back in school
for the current term. Every boy, and
every girl, for that matter, who has
not completed his'school.work, should
endeavor t-6'iiTffi?e arangements to en-
ter school' right away. “Where
there’s ''^ will there’s a way,” is appli-
cable to going to sch’ool as well as to
almost everything else, and beys and
girls ’who. are willing and anxious to
receive more education generally can
' fin'd the means. Everyone is anxious
to’see the boys and girls of Center as
t ' well educated as posible, and every-
one ife willing’ to "assist in achieving
this erid- ’ kfght now, the big problem
is to locate the ’boys who have drifted
. away from school;-and then to inter-
fey ’ ' est them in completing their work at
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Into Your Fall Sales Program
Advertising is the tonic that puts PUNCH in sales. This
fall every merchant is going to need a full repertorie of
punches to put over a successful number of sales. In-
cluded in the lot should be a generous appropriation for
advertising; the final punch that knocks them all out.
- Old man “hard times” will go down for the full count of
ten if you advertise right.
jority of his adult life—in the service
ot his state in AV ashington; who is in
close touch with every issue of state
or national importance, and whose
opinion is not hasty, nor radical, but
tempered with sober thought and rare
good judgment.
Never before have the merchants of Shelby county been
confronted with such possibilities of a successful year;
evei> one has an ejqual chance, but the man who avails
.himself of our advertising service will deliver the' punch
that means a “knock-out” year.
The pity is that too many students
stop school work even when they have
finished high school. Of course, it is
net possible for parents to send their
children, in many cases, away from
Center to some college. But in many
cases where it is possible, the educa-
tion stops with graduation from the
high school. The Champion does not
hold that it is essential to financial or
business succes for a person to have
■ a college education. There are too
many examples where the man with-
out the college education is essential-
ly successful by any gauge. But it is
a well known fact that the better
equipped a person is, the better
chance he has for success. This busi-
ness of living, and keeping your head
above water throughout life is a hard
enough task with all your talents and
resources trained up to the highest
pitch. That many, succeed with hand
icaps does not mean that those who
are better equipped have better op-
portunities than they would have in-
dividually if they neglected the op-
portunity to study and improve their
minds. A college education should
be the goal of everyone who can pos-
sibly achieve it.
The Champion this week received a
query from the headquarters of the
party bolters, who would deliver Tex-
as into the Republican camp this year,
asking our opinion as to whether Shel-
., . by county would go Republican or
Democratic in the November election.
It is a peculiar situation when Texans
write to find out if such a stalwart
county as Shelby will stay by the par-
ty in a crisis, or desert it in favor of
Republicanism, which the good people
of this county have fought these many
years.
Our advertising man .will co-operate with you in every
way—if you need his assistance
Texas Made Hats
Net a great many Texans know
that there is a hat factory at Laredo ‘
that is engaged in making straw and I
plant-fibre hats. Most of these are
patterned after the Mexican sombrero
and are sold largely as novelties in
the Eastern markets and to visitors to
Persistency Wins
A few years ago most Texans
thought it necessary to go to Colora-
do or Yellowstone Park or some other
picturesque part of the country for a
summer vacation. The churches held
their summer assemblies, their young
people’s meetings and their chautau-
quas in distant states. Boys’ and
girls’ camp schools -in other states
were patronized to the exclusion of
the few camps then in Texas. When
a Presbyterian assembly was first held
at Kerrville it was poorly patronized
for the sole reason that Texans to be
comfortable in the summer. Kerr-
ville kept on with its effort to make
the’people know they could find at
Kerrville many comforts not found |
outside the State. More summer
camps were’ established; other !
churches and young people’s organiza-
tions became interested. Other places
in the Hill country, seeing what was
being done at Kerrville, began to bid
for summer visitors. Newspaper
readers, soon noticed that many Tex-1
ans were spending their summer va-
cations at the Hill country resorts and
were having as good times as those
who traveled far for pleasure. It is
now quite the proper thing for Texans
to spend their vacations in Texas, and
Kerrville is entitled to a large part
of the credit for this feeling.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to express our
appreciations to the dear people of ty, Texas, she was lawfully married
Center for every act of kindness and ' to M. A. Sellers, and they lived
comforting wqrds of sympathy, dur- gether as husband and wife until June
ing the illness and death of our dear 7, 1925, when defendant began
mother and friend, Mrs. Alonzo Har- course of cruel and harsh treatment
rison. May God’s richest blesings ■ and improper conduct toward this
rest upon each and every one.—Harri- I plaintiff. During the time she and
son Children and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. j defendant lived'together she was kind
Terry. ■ and affectionate to him, a good and
dutiful wife, attending to her domes- ’
tic affairs^ performing her duties, ob-
ligations and marital vow, but not
withstanding the kindness, the de-
fendant unmindful of his duties, obli-
gations and marital vow began to
curse and abuse plaintiff, suggested to
hei- that she have immoral relations
with other men, that she refused to
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have-ben made to finance the propos-; 1 ou_are ^ereby commanded to sum- Plaintiff further says that defend-
ed railroad from Waco to Port Arthur mon A1 SeI1^s by makmS Publics-; ant M. A. Sellers permanently aban-
and that the plans will be submitted I\on cf this Cltation once in each week j doned her on June 7, 1925, left her
— ' for four successive weeks previous to i without means of support, and has
ihe return day hereof, in some news-, never returned to this plaintiff, never
paper published in your county, if i contributed anything, for support of .
‘there be a newspaper published there-; this plaintiff. She says that prior to
in, but if not, then in any newspaper i her mariage to this defendant, M. A.
published in the 4th Judicial District;. Sellers her maiden name was Lillie
but if there be no newspaper publish-: Bailey. She asks tjiat in the event
ed in said Judicial District, then in a she is granted a divorce, that her
newspaper published in the nearest: maiden name Lillie Bailey be restored
District to said 4th Judicial Ditsrict, to her. A C*’!
I to appear at the next regular term of Herein fail not but have before said
; its aforesaid regul® term,
of bcJh ?1 I ” '•-----the Court House there this writ with your return there- Ud
, 1 • ; of, m Center, Texas, on the First on, showing hcAv you have executed
""" i Monday in November, A. D. 1928, the the same.
Given under my hand and the seal
Wool and Mohair
Reports from the ranch sections of
Texas indicate that the fall clips of
f the best stock WIth ^artwy. Hcrds J bolh she“p }
goats are increasing m Texas, and j —I ~ — ■ * — — T* — - t A 1 i 1 '
bX. TditiOnS hi>VC neVeI’bOeU|““«’’«”Sfe5thdayo£NOvember,l (
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a petition filed in said’ Court on the j as, on this the 31st day of August, A.
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suit, numbered on the docket of said CLARENCE SAMFORD.
Court No. 8602, wherein Lillie Sellerp, Clerk, District Court Shelby County,
is plaintiff, and M. A. Sellers, is de-1 Texas. ehc 5-26
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i ebraticns because of it.
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I pie and is such a powerful factor in
sibilities, should net give some study I building up of industries that also other materials to complete the
manufacture of hats of all i ecm*»unlties securing it are justified job.—Haris Hardware. '•
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i The State of Texas,
i To the Sheriff or any Constable cf
T4. . VU ; Shelby County, Greeting:
It is announced that arrangements I ■
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