Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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What Do Yo
COLLINS Q SMITH
Think?
Associate Editors
Friday, March 24, 1916.
A new specie has sprung up in De-
EDUCATION IN DOLLARS
k
on
you
days go gliding by, you will find your
Not only will it help him to a fuller
self unconscionsly seizing upon the
mind the able, earnest, useful person
you
you
info that particular individual.
THOUGHT IS SUPREME !
catur just the kind of a town you t
MARKET FOR PEANTS
To think
makes them inevitable.
Plant some peanuts.
Get im: alive or dead
said Coleman svrvey 537 1-2
to
move
PEANUTS AND MILK
Hay made from the peanut vines has
Being ' just as
church member hasn’t saved anyone
Don’t think flour, think Pride of Tex-
as.
They say the new
Question:
Pride of Texas Flour Sometime
Why Not Today? ‘
Lillard Milling Company
hunter was.
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I
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opportunities that
their fulfillment.
would love to be, and the thought
hold is hourly transforming you
think they are good,
straight into the goal.
move
mind
navy has a poker face
Winner or loser?
COUNTY 'MESSENGER.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
For City Marshal
W.B.EVANS
A. D REEVES
1,739 in mercantile pursuits; that the
7.067 scoutmasters are of many na-
tionalities—American. 5,651; English.
i 518; French, 14; German, 194; Greek,
For Representative
FRENCH SPENCER
For District Judge
F. O. MCKINSEY
For County Judge -
J. W. WALKER
For Sherif!
LEE MANN
For County Attorney
WILL SHULTS
M. W. BURCH
the great and splendid things J
1
ways. If you think prosperity for j
Decatur, that thought will make DeJ
catur just the kind of a town you think
it should be; because sincere thoughts I
would like to do: and then, as th
If you don't like the town and are
determined to knock, move out
a more satisfactory life in any sphere. ।
It will tit him for better, richer ser-
vice to mankind—the chief end of our
existence, the divine plan of the Cre-
ator.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
erroneous refections upon the character, standing or reputation of
A-.on lira or corporation which may appear in the columns of the
Nesssenger will be gladly corrected upon its being brought to the attention
of the publishers.
ants of human life have estimated
that every year spent in the high
school or college adds 85,000 to the
earning capacity of the boy or girl.
In other words a month in the higher
schools is worth *444, a day *22, an
3; Italian, 7; Irish, 55; Scotch, 141;
"miscenaneous," 185; no record, 299.
Say good things about your town,
patronize its industries and work for
its interest- Get rid of your selfish-
ness
if you believe in good roads, at-
tend the gathering at the courthouse,
this afternoon.
Editors and Proprietors
Mrs Marvin R Smith
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Boy Scout Work.
The wide appeal of the scout work I
is shown graphically by the analysis ‘
Try to fix firmly in your mind what
you would like to do, and then with-
out violence of direction, you will
a value almost equal to alfalfa hay
good’ assomesorryfor milk production. Hay made
The Game of Snap.
The object ft this game is to captun I
all the carda The player who first sue
ceeds in doing this by the follow ina i
rules wins the game:
Deal the cards equally among the dit
ferent players, keeping them always
face down. The player at the left ol
the dealer begins ty game by taking
off the first card of his pack and plae
log it on the table face up, and the
play continues to the left untu eact
player in turn turns up the first care
of his pack in the same manner.
There are forty cards, and any num
her of people can play IL If a playet
sees two cards alike turned up on the
table he may call out snap," and the
first one calling takes all the turned ur
cards on the table. The euccesafu
player takes all the cards won an*,
places them face downward under his
original pack and must then play his
first card upon the table.
This game continues as above unit
one of the players obtains the entire
pack. This is a very interesting game
for young children, as it heips them tc
be quick.
What are you doing toward build
ing up the institutions of your town?
Are you patronizing and boosting
its institutions: or, do you herd with
i the sore-bead, the grouch and the
j knocker?
—
When the preacher mauls you over
the head with your sins, ’fess up and
quit your devilment. Don’t swell up
and go off talking about the minister.
which reveals that of the 7,667 scout-
masters 1.645 are clergymen, 200 physi-
cians, 149 government employees, 53
newspaper men, 147 lawyers, 69 profes-
sional engineers, 235 students, 790
teachers, 175 Y. M. C. A. workers, 691
are in mechanical occupations and
if you
Man’s greatest enemy is fear. FeA
is imaginary, brought about by the
wrong kind of thought. People plod
along all their lives because they are
unable to think about their position.
Likewise a town’s progress is handi-
capped by what its people think about
it. It can never rise above what the
majority of the people think about it.
Every live being on the farm will
eat peanuts and thrive You can’t
feed cotton to anything but boll wee-
vils and worms
For Treasurer
J. C. ALEXANDER
For Supt. Public Instruction
BRANDON TRUSSELL
For Commissioner Precs I and <
J. L. JEFFRIES
W. B SPLAWN
For Public Weigher Prec. 1
J. P. DAVENPORT
J. M.TRUSSELL
For Constable of Free. No 1
CHAS. HARDWICK
WALTER WOOD.
secretary of the
For County Assessor
D. A. (Doc) SHOW N
M. L WALKER
BILL ROWLETT
GRANG ER BLE W ET1
LUTHER BELEW
JOHN CASEY
BARNIEL. BRADFORD
For District Clerk
LORY D WHITE
W. V. CUNNINGHAM
For Tax Collector
DAVE DICKSON
Don t think that Decatur is a
are always backed by action which
swered.
you will
Keep politics out of school affairs.
The man with an axe to grind has no
place on a school board
i eatur. We now have the young man
who believes he gets class and dis-
tinction when he is accused of being
a speeder.
“Damn” is not a cuss word, but
the name of a small coin once used
by the ancients, remarks the Fort
1 Worth Record. If this is true, re-
plies the Mineral Wells Index, we d
like to go back and talk over a few
incidents in the past and correct
some statensents we’ve made under
the impression that it was a perfectly
good cuss word
corner, being the southeast corner of
the Kirkman survey. thence west 970
vrs to the place of beginning contain
ing 100 acres land, the same being
fully described in deed of trust rec-
ords Vol 30, page 233, Wise county,
Texas: and levied upon as the prop- '
erty of said W J. Aiken and Nellie
Aiken. And on Tuesday, the 2nd
eay of May. 1916, at the court house
door of Wise county. in the city of
Decatur. Texas, between the hours of
10 a. m. and 4 p. m I will sell said
lots and land at public vendue, for
cash, to the highest bidder, as the
property of said W. J. Aiken and
Nellie by virtue of said levy and said
execution
And in compliance with law. I give
this notice by publication, in the Eng-
lish language, once a week for three
consecutive weeks immediately pre-
ceding said day of sale in the Wise
County Messenger, a newspaper pub-
lish'din Wise county.
Witness my hand. this 14th day of
March, 1916 ’ .1. LFE MANN, Sher-
iff. Wise County. Texas. (3-31)
Citation by Publicaiion
The State of Texas, to the Sheriff
or any Constable of Wise County
Greeting:
P T. Ragland, executor of the es-
tate of J. W. Ragland, deceased,
having filed in our county court his
final account of the condition of the
estate of said J. W. Ragland, de-
ceased, numbered 1536 on the probate
docket of Wise county, together with
an application to be discharged from
said administration. You are hereby
commanded, that by publication of
this writ for twenty in a newspaper
printed in the county of Wise you
give due notice to all persons inter-
ested in the account for final settle-
ment of skid estate, to appear and
contest the same if they see proper so
to do, on or before the April term,
1916, of said county court, commenc-
ing and to be holden at the court
house of said county, in the city of
Decatur on the first Monday in April,
1916, when said account and applica-
tion will be acted upon by said court.
Given under my hand and seal of
said court, al my oflice in the city of
Decatur this 3rd day of March, 1916.
J E BOYD, Clerk County Court,
Wise County By Carl Faith, Dep-
uty Clerk. (3-24)
Tomorrow is the last day of the
Messenger’s big contest.
week our public school will close and
five hundred boys and girls will have
no more schooling for five and one-
half months. Probably seventy-five
per cent of these children will not
have anything of consequence to do
during these months. Can we afford
it? Are we conscious of the value of
time? Do we realize that we are al-
lowing our ebidren to get into a habit
of idleness that will follow them all
the days of their lives? We ought to
have a ten-months school in Decatur.
Let's wake up to the awful waste of
time and the great value of time, and
not have this happen again
better life, but it will many times dou-
ble his earning capacity Account-
Entered at the Decatur, Texas postofice as second class mail matter
Tnat scoundrel Villa is up against
it now, and we would suggest that he
follow the example set by Davy
Croekett s coon, when it saw who th*
Our Platform
AMERICA FIRST,
for President
WOODROW WILSON.
For United States Senator
T. M. CAMPBELL.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The best investment that a father
can make for his child is to give him
an education. It will help him to
clearer thinking. to purer feeling, to
Attend the meeting at the Metho-
dist church. The sermons of Rev.
Moreland will do you good. Large
crowds are attending and much good
is being accomplished.
The Wise County Messenger seems
! to think that Chico business mean are
showing some nerve in trying to in-
terest the Southwestern Cotton Seed
Oil Company to put in a mill for the
manufacture of peanut product- here
। We had no idea, in promoting this
enterprise, that we were interfering in
the least with Decatur. Fact is it
takes an abundance of raw material
to induce factories to build. Now, if
Decatur wants to promote an enter-
prise in keeping with the exigencies
of the occasion we would suggest a
guano factory.- Chico Review
We bold that a tightening up of the
speed law in this good town would
relieve some of the pressure on the
city’s depressed till. Get it—if this
city’s laws on auto speeding, open
exhausts, filthy back alleys and ob-
structed sidewalks were enforced a
healthy boost would be given the
town’s exchequer.
j If jou are "right” you’ll not eriti-
cize your pastor. There are too
1 many in the church who believe a
I membership card is a passport to
heaven.
I stronger willing it will help him to
When is the public square to be
graded?
hour $ 75. and every minute 4 1-2
cents to each student Say, parent,
can you afford to keep your boy or
girl out of school? In one more
Preserve a right mental attitude al-
are required for
Picture in your
Sheriff’s Sale
The State of Texas, County of
Wise, by virtue of a certain execution
issued out of the honorable district
court of Wise county, on the 7th day
of March, 1916. by Lory D. White,
clerk of said court, against W. J.
Aiken and Nellie Aiken for the sum
of five hundred and sixty-one(#561.40)
dollars and forty-five cents and costs
of suit, in cause No. 3987 in said
court, styled First National bank of
Bridgeport versus W J. and Nellie
Aiken, and placed in my hands for
service I. J Lee Mann, as sheriff of
Wise county. Texas, did, on the 14th
day of March, 1916. levy on certain
real estate, situated in Wise county,
described as follows, to-wit: Lots
Nos 14 and 15 in block No. 71, in the
town of Bridgeport. Wise county,
Texas: also the following tract or
parcel of land lying and situated in
Wise county, Texas, described as
follows: Bart of the John M. Kirk-
man 640-acre survey. Bat. No. 237,
Vol. 24, described as follows, begin-
ning at the southwest corner of the
said survey, thence north 587 vrs, a
pile of rock for corner, thence east
970 vrs to the W B. lino of the R.
Coleman survey, a corner in what is
known as Round Lake, thence south
with the west boundary line of the
disloyal town that won’t support her
industries—have an attitude of frank-
ness, courage and good cheer; carry
your chin in and the crown of
your head high. And we can’t lose.
Wipe that frown off your face and
smile it hasn't forgotten how to
rain
rightly is to create. Do you think
that industries are good for a town or
community. What you think about
it will eventually make them or break
them, All things come through de-
sire, and every sincere prayer is an-
DICK COLLINS, I
MARVIN B SMITH. I
Mn. Dick Collins
The goal is Pride of Texas Flour and
guaranteed satisfaction. hat do you
think? What you think ccunts one.
straight to the goal Keep your
from the entire plant, vines and nuts
is one of the best milk .stimulating
feeds, forcing the cows to a high
yield. The hay is rich in protein,
contains a good per cent of fat, is
rich in mineral matter and is lax,a-
tive. the same as the best grade of al-
falfa hay
Hay from peanut vines, or the en-
tire plant, is very desirable to feed
to dairy cows with milo, kaffir or
sorghum, overcoming the constipat-
ing effects of these feeds and supply-
ing an abundance of protein and oil
that many feeds lack. Peanut hay
made from the entire plants, tops and
nuts, combined with milo or kaffir,
makes an ideal feed for forcing cows
' to give a high yield of milk in
those sections where these crops can
be grown, the farmer can get an in-
come of *4 to 88 per month from each
cow withoat buying a dollar’s worth
of feed during the year. The cow
' will furnish him a regular cash in-
come, whether the season be wet or
dry.
The combination of two parts of
peanuts, hay and nuts, with one part
, of kaffir heads, all ground, makes a
ration that Can scarcely be equal! d,
and under the conditions prevailing
in thousands of communities in Tex-
as, is the cheapest cow feed that can
be produced. The A & M. college
at Bryan Station is finding the use
of this feed to be giving them very
A Word Chain.
Fill each blank with a word of four
letters. The last two letters of the
first word will form the first two let
ters of the second word, the last two
of the second are the first two of the
third, and so on:
The storm drew —, while o'er the plain
' The helpless cattle rushed in vain.
Across this---so vast
Midnight auto rides with Budweiser
: refreshments are not calculated to
j produce that cheery feeling “the
morning after.” Old stagers ean
' throw off the effects beautifully with
a morning s morning of nigger gin
or some colic cure; but young wo-
men who are just taking on the gait
find the effects annoying
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Brotherly love will do away with
factional strife.
The human foot shall tread at lasL
--- day you live, let night see more
Of kindness added to your store.
With wood to ---and trees to trim.
There’s work galore for Jack and Jim.
Will gave his sister. so they say.
An --- ring on Christmas day.
Though Annie's -- makes a stir,
Jeanette's soprano I prefer.
She did not like the---of voice
in which he said. "Come, take youz !
choice!"
Answer. — Near. area, each. chop I
opal. alto. tone.
high results in producing a large
volume of milk and butter fat, and
they advocate the farmer producing
these crops for feeding milk animals
wherever it is possible to grow them.
In baa been found in other demon-
strations, that the results are most
satisfactory and when cows are plac-
ed on this feed, that an increase is at
once shown in the milk yield.
The farmer that has land adapted
to growing peanuts can make no mis-
take in tying to this crop, for, in ad-
dition to its being the cheapest crop
grown for cows, the production of
pigs to fallen on the nuts will bring
in a good return and is a most pro-
tilable feeding operation
This crop is next to alfalfa in pro-
tein and when grow ng is restoring
nitrogen to the soil.
The development of the peanut in-
dustry has been phenomenal in Tex-
as, and while the marketing of the
nut crop has proven to be most pro-
fitable, there can be no question of a
higher return from feeding the crop
and marketing it in the form of but-
ler fat. This, too, brings about a
marketing of some of the crop evsry
two or three days, and creates a re-
gular cash income to meet the every-
dav expenses arising on the farm
The uncertainty of the oil mill man
as to whether there will be a sufficient
production of peanuts in his trade
radius to warrant preparation for
crushing, and the uncertainty of the
farmer, on the other hand, as to a
local market for his crop are operat-
ing to hold back peanut planting in
some sections of the state.
With a view of removing this un-
certainty the Texas Industrial con-
congress recently addressed an in-
quiry to the cottonseed oil mills, ask-
ing if they are preparing to crush
this year’s crop and what quantity
of nuts each expects to handle. Out
of f orty-seven mills that have made
immediate reply, twenty-seven state
that they will be in the market for
nuts in quantities ranging from
10,000 to 406,060 bushels. A mill at
Houston will hand e 2,000,000 bushels
if it can get them As compared with
the marketed production of forty
thousand acres (estimated ) last year,
there is now in sight as shown by re-
sponses from one-fifth the mills in
Texas a market for the production of
more than seven hundred and fifty
thousand acres This calculation is
low, as it does not include oil mills
in Henderson and Rusk counties that
are preparing to handle the total
yield in those counties, mills in Tar-
rant. Limestone, Wood and Waller
that will take all the nuts grown in
their sections, northose in Kaufman,
Falls Wichita. Dallas, Red River,
Jones and Jackson counties that will
prepare to crush if the farmers plant
a sufficient acreage to make the busi-
ness worth while. The minimum
quantity indicated as being worth
considering is given as ten thousand
bushels, or the nuts from three hun-
dred acres.
The Texas Industrial congress is
distributing a bulletin on the peanut
that deals with the culture of the
crop, and suggests a growers' associ-
ation as one way of meeting the
crushers’ uncertainty about prepar-
ing to handle the nuts and thereby
establishing a local market. There
should be little difficulty in securing
seed for planting following last year h
great crop, as any responsible seed
bouse in any city in Texas bas them
at reasonable prices or will get them
for their customers.
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