The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1939 Page: 12 of 46
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The Elgin Courier
CHRISTMAS, 1939
Elgin Chamber of Commerce
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A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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you and wants you to get out of his
place and make room for the next one.
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MAGNOLIA
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WE BELIEVE THAT GOOD GASO-
LINE AND THAT GOOD GULF
GASOLINE, AND THOSE GOOD
GULF LUBRICATION PRODUCTS
ARE THE BEST TO BE HAD ON THE
WHOLE AMERICAN MARKET.
J. F. METCALFE
WHOLESALE JOBBER
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Our business policy has always been, and always will be,, to
give our patrons honest values in service and merchandise.
We are grateful to you our friends, and extend every good
wish for your happiness and success.
W. M. SCHILLER
Type, Texas
We want to thank you for the business you have given us
and wish you well for the future.
W. F. CONDRON
Agent for Magnolia Products
Patronize These Magnolia Stations
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
We want to thank everybody in this section for the interest
they have shown in our merchandise, and for the good busi-
ness we have enjoyed everywhere.
We are showing hundreds of beautiful things in House Fur-
nishings, and practical things, too. Why not beautify the in-
terior of your home as a Xmas gift to the family.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
FRANKE & OLSON
Elgin, Texas
E. T. MORROW
GENERAL STORE
Littig, Texas
CHESTER SWENSON, Distributor
THOSE GOOD GULF PRODUCTS.
MAY EVERY GOOD THING BE YOURS NOW, AND
FOREVER.
The opinions of thousands of people
bear us out in this opinion—and local
preference is our best Criterion.
WE CARRY GROCERY SUNDRIES
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
BEDROOM SUITES, RUGS, HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES,
COMFORTABLE CHAIRS, ETC.
Because We believe it the best Flour
on the Market.
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Looking back through the years we can visualize the differ-
ent generations of people in this area who have patronized
us in the process of time. Grandfathers, fathers, sons, many
of whom were our close personal friends. We feel that we
are an integral part of this community, reflecting the shadows
of the past, and sensing the glow of the future.
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There is plenty of parking space and
the traffic rules are few and simple
and based on common sense. There
are no restricted areas on parking.
Come to town when you feel like it
and park your car along any street
and leave it there until you want it
again and it makes no difference if
it is the next day or the day after.
When you leave your car parked
you do not have to worry about find-
ing it there when you return and it
will not be cluttered up with a lot of
police tickets nor will it have been
rifled by thieves.
Elgin merchants invite your patron-
age on the merits of their merchan-
dising service and their willingness
to cooperate with their customers in
every respect.
People in the Elgin area are very
much like a contented family group.
Their interests are Common and their
friendships are mutual. Everybody
knows everybody else and most every-
one addresses everyone else by their
first name.
The average person in the Elgin
area trades in Elgin becaush the
people of Elgin are his friends and
neighbors and make him feel at home
when he comes to town and are sin-
cerely glad to welcome him. It is not
a cold blooded business relationship
that is found in the larger towns
where the merchant is glad to see you
because you. have a dollar to spend
and when you are through making the
purchase has no more concern for
The sun shines on no better people
than those who dwell within the fair
confines of the Elgin area. No more
friendly and hospitable group exists
upon the face of God’s great green
footstool than the rugged sons of the
Southwest who make up the citizenry
of this sterling community. A pros-
perous, industrious and kindly people
who live as good neighbors and the
latch string dangles invitingly on the
outside for the stranger who comes
into our midst and he is welcomed in
the traditional style of the Old South.
The soil is fertile and its peculiar
composition permits of a wide diver-
sity of crops. Cotton, corn and feed
crops grow readily and in abundance
in the black land of the prairie, and
the world’s finest watermelons and
cantaloupes flourish in the sandy soil
of the Colorado river watershed.
The climate is mild and heathful.
The altitude is 579 feet above sea
level and the average annual tempera-
ture is 67.4 degrees, with the coldest
January average around 50 degrees
and the July heat reaching an average
of 83 degrees. The rainfall is plenti-
ful and averages 34 inches annually
with April and May running around
three and one half inches.
Good roads enter Elgin from all
directions and lateral roads provide
'ideal communication between the rich
farm lands roundabout the city
and bring Elgin a steady flow of
trade and commerce that is unsurpass-
ed by any small city in Texas.
In Elgin the farmer finds a ready
market for the products of his fields
and in exchange he finds every mer-
icantile service offered by the larger
cities and a friendly atmosphere that
is unequalled anywhere. Practically
every line in the field of merchandis-
ing is represented here and the pro-
prietors of the business establish-
ments are alert to the requirements
of their customers.
Elgin is. not a boom town but has
enjoyed a steady and substantial
growth since its founding in 1871.
The population of the town and sur-
founding area is largely white, and
the farming sections are made up of
a large number of individually owned
farms that are intensely cultivated
and by the application of scientific
. methods have reached a high state of
productivity.
Elgin offers all the attractive fea-
tures of the larger cities and few of
the bad ones. The merchants and
business men here are a friendly lot
and most of them have been in busi-
nes for a number of years. The farm-
er coming to Elgin finds himself wel-
come on every hand. He does not
have to worry about being “bawled
out” by some hard-hearted policeman
for parking his car in the wrong place
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Sandy land farms seem to be a pre- :
mium, because they are capable of
producing a diversity of crops. It
seems that the whole theory of agri- ’
culture, has evolved into diversifica- <
tion—home canned vegetables, fruits, .
berries, meat in the smokehouse, the
little red hen, a few turkeys, a few '
calves—always a surplus to dispose
of on a ready market—is Utopia. In ,
agriculture, as in every affair of life,
the old has departed, and a new era
is in the offing.
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Here in Elgin the merchants not only
offer you the finest quality goods at
reasonable prices but they" are glad
to have you come into their places
of business at anytime and visit with
them whether you are buying or sell-
ing or just in town for a chat with
your friends, and that is part of the
reason why Elgin is the best little
city in Texas.
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PEANUTS AND POTATOES.
In this year of our Lord 1939, it
seems that those farmers in our sec-
tion who planted as a side line a
reasonable amount of these commo-
dities, are really in the money.
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Smith, J. O. The Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1939, newspaper, December 14, 1939; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1536276/m1/12/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Elgin Public Library.