The Devine News (Devine, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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The Whitfield Tailoring Company and Quicker. Work Called Far and and Y eape Better
TH-DAV A man in California writes to the
I devine Ford Company and tells them they
Published on Thursdays should feel very much exalted for
W. L. DUBOSE & SONS
ED rors AND PUBLISHERS
Subscription $1.00 PER Annum
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Entered at the Postoffice at De-
vine, Texas, as second-class matter.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world’s famine feed:
S peak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed:
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed-Horatios Bonar
the reason the Ford is the only car
mentioned in the Bible and to prove
it cites them to a passage in Isaiah
which says: "He went up into Hea
ven on high," and asks what other
car but a Ford can do that?—Moore
Model.
Pshaw! There were Fords on
the Jordan in the days of Moses and
Joshua used them to great advant-
age in the siege of Jerricho—and
they were then running ‘on high."
R Roberts has traded his two
story dwelling in west Devine and
other property to G W Hester for
the Jim Killough farmfour miles west
of town and will move to the farm
Chas Frasier and Louie Schott
were two farmers who called on us
this week.
The DuBose Land Company has
a new five room, nicely located
bungalow in Devine that must be
sold at once. You can get it at a
sacrifice and on good, easy terms—
Call at The News office
wesveuse 25425 mmamnseininin
NILULUURT we
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FARMERS’ UNION OFFICIALS *
THINK RAILROADS ARE I
ENTITLED TO MORE
REVENUE. B
_N
Products of Plow and Farmer N
Who Lives at Home Should N
Be Exempt From In- 1
crease.
Start the ---------------
New Year Right
- By having your prescriptions filled and buying your
proprietary medicines at _
The municipal campaign, for new
THURSDAY, JAN. 28,1915
Only three more days to pay your
poll tax.
About 500 bales of cotton were
shipped from Devine," so. farthis-
week
Some farmers will plant corn next
week. It will be better a month la
ter. we think.nl ,.
Alabama has returned to the Pro-
hibition column, making fifteen’dry”
states.
“Made in America” sounds good
Made in Texas sounds better. Made.
* in Devine sounds Best of AIL,
. We can change our officials in
March, if we want to (think we have
good ones now) but we cant afford
vote out the incorporation.
The minute we vote out 'the in-
corporation, the insurance key rate
goes up 13cents in Devine. There
is half your taxes, nearly.
If an officeholder is charged with
the enforcement of a. law and does
not do so he is guilty of perjury and
is incompetent or corrupt.—Mem-
phis Commercial Appeal.
If you will turn back to our last
two issues in August 1914 you
wiil ses that Mrs. A. Navsl inorder
to secures ten year franchise from
, the town of Devine, made us svery
low rates on lights. We should be
so foolish as to knock out our cor-
poration, it would nullify our trade
and kill the franchise, we suppose.
There isn’t another town in the .
state of Texas, that we know of the city officials, will soon be on. Let
size of Devine that is unincorporat- us have your announcements.
us have your announcements.
ed, except Hondo, and the mossbacks =
andtightwads of that place havekept
it voted down there. Hondo has
the benefit of county officials resid-
ing there and much better protection .
from contagious desease and "con-
tagious" people also, than Devine
would have, without the incorpor-
ation.
Booms, as a rule, are not good for
a town, but a lively progression!
with wide-a wake leaders and pro-
moters is essential to town building
The knocker serves his purpose as
a stimulation of those who would do
something,
, Our town will succeed when our
Fort Worth, Texas.—It is the M
policy of the Farmers' Union to
meet every economic issue NG
squarely and it is the duty of the N
organization to promote and a
protect the interests of the men i
who follow the plow and we shall
do so in every instance where +56
the business of the farmer is vi-l's
tally affected. The application NC
for an increase in freight rates
now before the Railroad Com- s
ATTENTION!
people quit sending or going away ”
for what they can get here. The
little that you buy may not amount '
to much, you think; but you are one
The modern soldier fights
with modern weapons, and
the business man, who is con
of a hundred, or a thousand and it
means much. 0 . '
=============== stantly on the FIRING LINE,
We must have our own factories, cannot hope for success unless
We expect to see a broom factory go
The Lion Drug Store
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Everything in the Nyal line. We guarantee every article
mission is of more importance to * st
the farmer than to any other S .. 3
class of citizens, for he pays di- 22922.2.2222:52952-32552-255255"
rectly or indirectly, tiie greater ------------------------------------------------------
portion of the freight revenues 3 - 1 7.5
and we warn to ask permission I RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
of the press to express our views .
on the subject. : Wheress, it has pleased an All-
The Fawners’ Union in con- : wise Providence to remove from us
vention assembled at Ft. Worth
last January declared, "Our rail-
road facilities * should be im-
proved and our mileage increas-
ed” and as the set of resolutions,
of which .the paragraph above
quoted is a part, was adopted
as the platform of a .majority of
' the members elected to the 34th
legislature, it fairly reflects the
will of the people as well as rep-
resents the views of the farmers
he also goes into battle fully
works and a soap factory. The and modernly equipped,
creamery ought to be started again.
Let every body "start" something A BANK ACCOUNT is ALWAYS
at ATTENTION; A PROTECTION
in. We need a laundry, bottling
and quit knocking.
MEN—Our illustrated catalogue ex- in times of PEACE---A STRENGTH
plains how we teach the barber in times of WAR.
trade in short time, mailed free.
Moler Barber College San Antonio
3t
I have five rooms to let. Close in
Mrs. F.E. Driscol.
Why pay more to have yonr clothes
cleaned and pressed when Whitfield
Tailoring Co. does it cheaper.
Adams Nation-
al Bank
of the State, and, if in the wis-
dom of the Railroad Commis-
sion, an increase in rates is nec-
essary to accomplish this result,
then an increase should be grant-
ed.
We have at present approxi-
mately 2500 miles of railroad in
Texas in the hands of receivers
and during the calendar year
1914 less than 50 miles of new
track was laid. It is quite clear
that to “improve our facilities
and increase our mileage’' there
must be an increase in net reve-
nue, which can only be obtained
by an advance in. rates or a re-
duction in expense of operation.
We leave with those who have
authority, to deal with the prob-
lem the responsibility of deter-
mining which course should be
pursued.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Dr. B. S. Halliburton, our esteemed
and beloved fellow School Board
member, and -.
Whereas, he has served Devine
and community so long and so well
in the capacity of school trustee,and
Whereas, we, his fellow board
members, knew bis very fine school
sentiment, his pure and noble devo-
tfon to public education snd the val
ue of his counsel in looking after and
directing the interests of our public
schools, be it therefore
Resolved, That we have lost in
Dr. Halliburton an able and efficient
ce-laborer, whose pure life and no
ble spirit made him a men of great
value in connection with the schools
Resolved, That we offer our heart
felt sympathy to the bereaved fami-
lyi that a copy of these resolutions
be spread upon our minutes, a copy
published in The Devine News and
a copy addressed to his bereaved
family.
Mack Kercheville
W. S. Lilly
W. M, Williamson
• - Committee,
Broom Corn Club.
The big water tank in the Mr-
Mickle lots fell' Monday. Otherwise
than damaging the tank, wasting a
thousand gellons of water and scar-
ing the blacksmith next door, no
damage was done,
tunuAn
BARGAIN DAY IN DEVINE
The way to a man’s heart
is through his pocket-book.
There is nothing that will
work on his affection more
right now than a chance to
live right at a small cost.
Let’s Have Anoth-
er Big Saturday.
The Farmer Wants a Square
Deal. Weare writing for information
We are perfectly willing that regarding broom corn seed, culture
capital invested in railroad prop- etc, ’“d may organize a broom corn
erty should ‘receive as good com- 1 T , .„
pensation as capital invested in club and put 10 a plant later. If
agriculture, which, as a general you have a few acres good corn land
iverage, is about 5 per cent per that you could spare to test out
annum, and ,we want employes broom corn, ring up The News. We
on railroads to receive as good ara working out a proposition which
wages as employes on the farm. 2 ,
who get an average of about 7 we hope to make the farmers in a
cents per hour, board and wash- conP e of weeks. If we can put in
ing, and work 13 hours per day. a 100 a day broom plant it would
The farmer should not be ex- help both the town and the country
pected to pay a better wage to Where corn sorghum and maise
capital and labor employed in mature broom corn will do well also
hauling his products to, market and requires about the same Cultiva
than he pays to these same agen- tion as corn or maize,
cies, employed on the farm, but w L Dubose & Sons
he is willing to pay them as well ------------
We do not advocate a reduction Only a few more days to get that
of wages as a solution of the poll tax receipt
present difficulty but think the P-X1
farmer is entitled to earn as much ]
for his labor as any other class ==
of industry. 3
Perhaps the regulation of ex-
penses in operating railroads 2nd
in —constructing and manufartur-
ing railroad equipment and sun.
Lies is not entirely within the
jurisdiction of the Railroad Com-
mission or the legislature, and
relief can only be obtained by
an increase in rates. If, in the
judgment of the Commission,
such a course is necessary
we want to say a few words
concerning the class of commod-
ities that should bear the burden
of increase. -
OUR LINE OF STAPLE
GROCERIES
can be relied upon as being always
pure and fresh. Housekeepers who
know and appreciate good
Coffee, Tea, Sugar
Spices
and GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS
will be thoroughly satisfied with our
goods after the first purchase.
- Lowest Cash Prices to be
Found in Town
Devine Grocer
Company
Telephone 53
Young Men! Young Women!!
What are your plans for the new year? Prepare now to ent-
er our big school, at leasg by January 1st, and make
Freight Rates Follow Lines of
Least Resistance.
The freight rates of the nation
have been built up along lines of
least resistance. The merchant
the manufacturer, the miner, the
miller, the. lumberman and the
cattleman have had their traffic
bureaus thoroughly organized
and in many instances they have
pursued the railroad without
mercy and with the power of or-
ganized tonnage they have ham-
mered the life out of the rates
(Continued on list page)
1915 the banner year of your life. A good position
is awaiting you if you will only prepare. Remember
that we have the biggest school; the best teachers; the
best equipment; the hest courses, and guarantee good
positions to our graduates or refund tuition money.
Send for catalogue and other literature. DO Ir NOW
THE DRAUGHON PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE
Corner Alamo Plaza and Crockett Street, San Antonio, Texas
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W. L. DuBose & Sons. The Devine News (Devine, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1915, newspaper, January 28, 1915; Devine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1660520/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.