The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XXXI.
NO. 16.
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WALTER ACKER
SCHOOL BURNED
GREENVILLE C. OF C.
SITUATION SERIOUS PHONE IN ENGLAND
AT DIXON
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COTTONSEED
June Caprice in In’ Walked Mary,
Mr Meat offering. Hippo Friday.
Invites offers of
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Mary exerted on thousands upon thousam
others—She will exert on you.
Every sorrow that conies to her is your sorrow,
every joy your joy.
But she turns sadness into gladness, darkness
into sun shine, hate into love.
You smile and weep when you see her. in fact
she will make dimples for your cheeks in which
to catch the tears.
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SCHOLARSHIP mj. Business Col-
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COMMERCE, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1920.
E.T.S.N. COLLEGE
, which
very small delinquent list.
The rest of the day was spent in
• routine business.
optomistic an imag nation,
the type of production MARY Pick-
ford presents in hei wonderful ‘‘Pol-
lyanna..’’ Hippo Tuesday and Wed-
nesday.
Fire, thought to have been of in-
1 cendiary orgin, destroyed the school
be in Texas in June when the I
lature convenes in special sesaii
discuss the pink bollworm situation, I
‘ ‘ The ■
Mrs. Carl Day returned to Dallas
Sunday after a visit to her father.
Squire B. Long.
DR. J.
Over I’. &
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part of
$2,500;
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The Cor-Tex O»1 Co.’s deep test
Well at Corsicana is down to a
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Lessie Davidson of Wolfe City has
accepted a position with McNatt &
Wheeler.
other i ft
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Iriilcrs say that the indications are
teeth, and
ffect. For
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picture that ft
should be,
and. in a work! where there is much
that is distressing merely because j
it- exists, there is little that is mor J
joyous than the realization of such.||
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture to I
Meet with Texas Legislature
Io June.
The East Texas State Normal col-
lege team won from the North Tex-
! as State Normal college team in the
inter-normal debate at Denton Fri-
day night. The Commerce debaters
were Breckenridge and
Others who went from
were. Miss Jack and Miss
;o the ideal condition un-
der which seed are tested by me the
seed will show a slight higher germ-
ination than will result in a field
test unless seed-bed is in good con-
dition and ground thoroughly warm.
Those planting the average late
ginned seed should use from one
and one-half to two bushels of seed
to the acre and planting should be
very shallow, followed by roller.
Because of the unpresented scarc-
ely and high price of planting seed
of good quality farmers everywhere
should make "haste slowly." instead
of rushing to the field and planting
now, it would pay well to go over
every acre of eotton land with sec-
tion harrow at least a week before
planting and go over again ahead of
the planter. In going over ground
the second time with harrow, teeth
should drag as much as possible.
An ideal seed-bed for cotton is
one that is both firm ami well pul-
verized. In past years, it is safe to
state, that #5% of poor stands or no
stands at all resulted from covering
seed too deep.
Those who plait shallow and use
the rollers rarely fail to get a good
stand. The ground is still cold and
as a general thing in very poor con-
dition, this, coupled with the poor
quality of sets! means the poorest
stand of cotton in the history of
this country.
Seventy to ninety per cent of all
early planted cotton (using the aver-
age poor seed) will have to be plant-
ed over. Good planting seed are ex-
ceedingly scarce, therefore, it be-
hooves cotton growers to use every
precaution possible tv secure at leas',
a fair stand of cotton.
The writer is a firm believer ir lias suggested, he says.
Amorirun lalonknnu rtx.
“imported
NO QUARANTINE
AGAINST COTTON
Early cotton provided conditions an-
at all favorable, and the purpose of
this article i* to call attention to ex
luting conditions and to urge the
most thoughtful considerations of
same to the end that the great farm
masses may benefit thereby.
JOHN H ERICKSON.
County Demonstration Agent.
We take this method of thank-1■
ing our friends and neighbors for f'
during
A. ELLA Rft.
M. National Bank
Commerce, Texas
Taylor-Brown
part of Ottawa County, caused con-
siderable damage Sunday night un-
roofing houses, blowing over barns be held in
and destroying zinc mills. noon.
the Christian Church
\annual pure food
lay, Thursday. Frj-
. April 28, 29. 30
mtby show and a
ict teeth with-
out pain. There is absolutely no pain
at all when I pull yotft
there is no bad after a
Painless Tooth pulling. c<’
me.
A cheap house in west
town; south front. Price
easy terms.
Good practically new 5-room house
south front. Price $2,400. Cash
$500, balance easy.
A very good 5-room box house;
half acre land; near railroad shops.
Price $1,500. Cash $250; balance
$20 per month with 8'4 interest.
A dandy little 60 acre farm to
trade for city property up to $3,500.
Balance easy.
We have some good bargains in
farm land* from $75 per acre up with •
most any kind of terms.
SPECIAL—We have a
Hon. O. C. Mulkey, vice president
of the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce, addressed the meeting. Mr
Mulkey has just been elected May<a
of Commerce, and offered his b< s' I have interests there. Sum of them Walter Acker-
efforts toward the problems coming were, J. A. Stephens, Erl Shoemake, and Mrs. G. W. Acker of this city, ity.—Greenville Banner,
before the body. F. C I ” ~
ed the benefits of advertising for the i Hill, Oscar Hanes,
business men. The meeting was a
good one and all present enjoyed hi
talk.
Worth that morning at 6:00 at
He had been in poor health 'and six thousand dollars
some time, having suffered a
nervous breakdown about the time
persons in he returned from overseas war duty,
- -I was not known here that his
was serious.
It is stated that the funeral will
in Commere, but the time
It will
different times <*
weeks. A party of about
went down Tuesday, most of whom could not well get here
have interests there. Som of them ( Walter Acker was a
a loss estimated at between five
Insurance
on the building totaled $2,400 or
about half the amount" necessary to
rebuild the school.
There was no indication as to what
i the fire started from when citizens
living near the school discovered the
conflagration at 1 o’clock this morn-
ing the building had practically been
twenty Forest Acker, is in Colorado anil he w«<s begun this morning in an effort
sooner. t« trace the start of the fire, ac-
son of Dr. cording to citizens of that commun-
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During the past few months I
have made several hundred germi-
nation tests of cotton seed which
ere to be used for planting purpos
•akand in a large majority of seed
'* germination fell below 50
pei'e'v
Greenville, April 15.—About fifty
business men attended the Tuesday
dinner of the Chamber of Commerce
and a number of Commerce men
were guests of the organization.
Clyde Littlefield, athletic director
of the High School, asked the body
to help entertain the crowd of visi-
tors who will attend the District
Inter-seholast'C meet which will be
‘A person hold- held here Friday and Saturday, and
telephone contract and intend- 4o help get homes for the visitors.
mg xo leave ihe city usually adver
tises in the newspapers the fact and
con-
fer
The County Commissioners were
in session Tuesday. The report of
Justices of the Peace T. J. O'Neal
and A. D. Puckett were accepted and
the report of County Collector, Ben
H. Holcomb was also approved. Mr.
Holcomb states that his collections
have been the closest e\er made in
the county. He has collected 99 per
farm 7 miles south of Commerce; cen* w**ich leaves a
35 acres black land; 45 acres in cul-,
tivation; reasonably good improve-I
ments; $3,500 incumbrance. Will
trade equity for city property. Price
$115 per acre.
Five-room house close in on Caddo
street for $2,000; $500 cash, bal-
ance $300 a year at 8 per cent.
A gejd 5-room house with bath
and other cnveniences; large lot; on
, Washington street. Price $3,500;
’%asy terms.
Nice little 5-room bungalow with ;
bath and all conveniences, on Locust
street, for $3,150. Can be handled
with $1,000.
Something nice near the Cqllege.
A 6-room house with all conveniences
large lot. Price $5,000; easy pay-
ments.
We have a client who wants to
trade in a fine antomobile on ■
email farm if not too far from Com-
mare*. .
JOURNAL REAL ESYAlT fO.
premiums;
transferred
premiums from $200 to $500."
Several London newspapers
conducting a campaign to separate
England’s telephone service from
the post office department; they cite
the highly efficient telephone sys-
tems of the United States as an ex-
ample of what might be accomplish-
ed in England under private owner-
ship. One newspaper declares that
one American telephone company in-
stalled more telephones in one year
than have been added to London's
system in the past forty years.
The telephone service in a certain
English city was recently in sueh a
state of disorganization, it is said,
that merchants there wired the dis-
trict manager in another city, offer-
'ing to pay his expenses if he would
come by airplane to inspect theii
service at first hand. It is common
experience in England, the papers
say, to wait for the completion of
a long distance telephone call. One
subscriber, the story goes, waited
two days—and then made the journey
by train.
One writer complains: “If a busi-
ness man in England wants a tele-
phone. he cannot have
one. he is in constant trouble with
It. either his apparatus grows per-i
•verse, or that of the man with whom |
he wishes to communicate is broken;
down—and in either case there is I
no one to put it right." Some one I
. that some i
American telephone nien should be*
to the British Isles to
organize the British telephone ser-
vice on a satisfactory basis and elim-
inate (he prevalent "telephone in-
efficiency" in England.
"The telephone is far
IJm, Wednesday, at
of Mr. IrftLjkX Bert
Mr. Ralph Taylor and Miss Mar-
garet Brown were united in mar-
rilled ffedry HagomelM^
Mrs. W. C. Erwin left today for
Teqarkana to attend the bedside of
her. husband, who underwent an
operation in a hospital there Mon .
day. She wsij accompanied by Mrs.'A
Frank Hogan. Mrs. Hogan will go|F*
on to Ben Lomond, Ark., to visit rel-
atives.
F. Euston, Joe and was about 50 years of age. He I
----M. R. Harrison, was w ell known throughout the state
Rev. T. P Burt, R. H. Mansell, Louis and was at the head of the Masonic
Hanes, A. R. Holly, W. H. Alex- home at Ft. Worth.
ander, S. P. Hart. L. B. Barnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Hill
Mr. Middlebrooks, M. N. Evans, L. of this city.
R. Cloniger, Mr. Allen. Alpert Wolfe, j -____
Roy McCallon, Eli Yarbrough, Gus
Philips, Berry Perkins.
Some of them remained down
there waiting and watching for de-
velopments. !
| The ladies oA
' will hold their
Miami. Okla., April 12.—A small show on Wedneklt
tornado which struck the northern day and Sat u rd A,
and May 1. A V--
cake and bread biking contest will
—- I connect*;!! each after-
d94wlt.' Squire Ij. B. Long.
Pity the poor Londoner! If he
wants a telephone in his office or
residence he may take his choice of
waiting a couple of years or so un-
til the supply catches up with the
demand, or he n.ay pay some luckier
possessor a bonus of several hundred
dollars to part with his telephone.
“A telephone is a prized possession
here,” says a writer recently in a
London newspaper. “ —---->-_u
ing a
ing to leave the city usually adver
from action as applied
Statsc has been removed.
"1 can receive some assurance that
commoner over the few States which have es- I
in the States.” says one London pap- j tablished quarantines will take im- |
er. “In America nearly every well- mediate steps to withdraw then*”
to-do farm or country home, even
in the remote parts of the country^
is on the telephone line." He com-
ments on the fact that the American
Telephone systems seem to have
been planned with "an eye te tRl
convenience of the pubHc,"—some
thing that was apparently overlook- their loving attention during the
Yecent sickness of our degr depart-
ed one. May God ble-ts yoT
shall never forget you.
Mrs. J. D. Roach.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Roal
Mr. aad Mm. W M. Ch;
W. T. Christian.
A message was received Thurs-1
depth day conveying the sad information _ , - ,
of 2,400 feet and the promoters and that Walter Acker died at his home house at Dixon late Tuesday night,
in Ft.
very favorable for a big oil or gas o’clock,
well, and that they are expeciting it for
to come in most any time.
A large number of j
Commerce and surrounding country but it
lave bought stock in the company condition
n d leases around the well. They are
very much in.erested and many of be held
them have been visiting the well at has not yet been arranged,
during the last few probably be Saturday, as a brother, j consumed by the flames. An investi-
Once in a while- as when a blue
moon's a-shining—we have the pri-
vilege of seeing a picture which is
both true to life and literary in;
style, and the purpose of which is
better than both. A
tells of things as they
JU
WA.SH1NGTON, April 12.—.Sec-
retary of Agriculture Meredith will
IfriB-
ii<m to
itfti
according to Governor Hobby.
Governor left for Texas yesterday ’
io take immediate steps to put into ,
force the terms of the agreement |
with the Federal Horticultural Board
which exerts a Statewide quarantine 1 k
one; if he has of Texas cotton and cotton products. iB
“A Federal quarantine against ( ™
Texas cotton and cotton products L
has been prevented and the damag-
H*g r«»ulU of such a quaniitinc > •
could have been calculated only in L
millions,” declared Governor Hobby. •
| “Several States whose purchases of
cotton from Texas are small have A
established quarantines. but the j T
danger to the commerce of Texas
from action as applied to *’ M
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