The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SCHULENBURG STICKER, SCHULENBURG, TEXAS
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J. A. Price. .Editor and Owner
Entered at the Schulenburg Post-offlce as
Second-class matter.
Subscription Rates
1 Yfear.. $2.00
6 Months I-25
3 Months 75
strictly in advance
Old Spanish Trail Is
Logged And Is Mark-
ed Through Here
Mr. Harry Locke of Los
Angeles, the noted traveler in
company with H. B. Ayers,
Managing Director of the Old
Spanish Trail arrived here Fri-
day afternoon on an inspection
and logging trip over the Trail.
Mr. Locke is making the trip
over the entire length of the
Old Spanish Trail to make an
exact log, and to note the pro-
gress of the work going on.
He is very much enthused
over the conditions he has found
in the improvement of the high-
way toward early completion.
At the present rate of con-
struction, the Old Spanish Trail
will soon be the first trans-con-
tinental highway completed.
Another gratifying condition
is the intense interest being
taken in the project by the citi-
zenship all along the line.
This object has been achieved
through the business-like plan
of organization, and the few com-
munities not yet thoroughly or-
ganized are being rapidly
brought up to it.
N The plan of organization of the
Old Spanish Trail is different
from that of any other associa-
tion of the same character, in
that it does not simply mark out
a route on paper, but it is actual-
ly devoting its time and means
to push the completion of the
project. It now has an organiz-
ing crew at work between San
Antonio and El Paso to mark the
Trail, to locate and develop camp-
sites, and building up a strong
membership. This crew will
soon be at work between San
Antonio and Houston.
The visit to Rosenberg has
proven satisfactory, in that the
citizens of Fort Bend county
will at once grade that piece of
road between Rosenberg and
East Bernard and thus finally
open that one piece of road
which has hindered traffic over
the highway. In Fayette County
there are two small sections
which have not yet been im proved
or made passable, these are at
the east and west ends of the
county. A few flours work at
each end would make these
passable.
It is to be hoped that arrange-
ments will be made very soon
to have the recent bond issue
available so that the balance of
the highway in Fayette will be
completed.
MANY INDUSTRIES
TIED TO TOBACCO
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Prohibition of Weed Would Mean
Big Financial Loss to
Allied Trades.
WHO USES THE MATCH?
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Brossmann-Glass
As a pleasant surprise to their
many friends came the an-
nouncement of the marriage of
Miss Adela Brossmann to Mr.
Horace L. Glass which occured
at La Grange last Tuesday eve-
ning at 10 o'clock, when Justice
Slack, performed a very quiet
ceremony in the presence of the
bride's sister, Miss Anna and
Mr. Richard Parma, who had
been let inon the secret.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. F". R. Brossmann of
this city, pleasant, lovable and
well known and is popular in
local social circles, while the
groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. L. Glass, well known and liv
ing southwest of town.
After a brief honeymoon which
is bei ng spc«fc at Waco and Fort
"Worth, they will ba /it home to
their many friends in Schulen-
burg.
E. L. McKinnon and J. C.
Baumgarten were Houston vis-
itors this week. v
The Smoker Mainly—Also Responsible
for Spending Hundreds of Millions
Annually for Licorice, Sugar,
Coal, Cigar Boxes, Tin
I ■ Foil, Etc. .Jx/:
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By GARRET SMITH ^
"Got a match?" " v •
How many times a day is that ques-
tion asked In these United States?
How many more times is the question
unnecessary because most pockets are
kept well supplied with the useful
little article? Anyhow, inasmuch as it
is estimated that there are 30.000,000
t tobacco users in the country, we would
guess that the answer to that question
would run into the hundreds of mil-
lions.
For if it weren't for the smokers in
these days of electric lights how many
matches would be used? A pretty
small proportion of the number of
these "sticks of blazes," produced in
the country every year. Abolish to-
bacco and the match business would bft
shot to pieces.
But the match business is only one
of a dozen or more allied industries
which derive large revenues directly or
Indirectly from the tobacco trade and
would suffer heavily if national pro-
hibition of tobacco were to go into
effect as some of our reformers would
have it. The annual sales of tobacco
products, based on retail prices, is es-
timated at $1,937,000,000. Of the cost
of producing and selling this quantity
of cigars, cigarettes and other forms
of the weed, some hundreds of million
dollars are paid out for other things
than the. raw tobacco and labor of
making it up.
$25,000,000 a Year for Boxes
For example, the tobacco trade con-
sumes each year 45,000,000 pounds of
licorice, 50,000,000 pounds of sugar,
both used in flavoring tobacco, and
650,000 tons of coal. It is estimated
that the value of wooden cigar boxes
used is $25,000,000 a year, quite an
Item to the lumber business and to
manufacturers of the boxes.
In making these boxes 550,000
pounds of nails are employed. Other
large Items used in making and pre-
paring tobacco for sale are tin and
:lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette
wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags, la-
bels, coupons, etc., involving the print-
ing trade extensively.
Then building contractors and manu-
facturers of machinery are largely in-
terested. Investments in plants and
machinery employed in manufactur-
ing tobacco are estimated at $102,000,-
000. Replacement, up-keep and inter-
est on the investment make no small
sum annually.
And let realty men note there are
approximately 325,000 tobacco farms
in the country, with a total estimated
valuation of $160,000,000. Of further in-
terest to real estate men is the fact
that there are 700,000 retail establish-
ments selling tobacco, involving a total
rental and up-keep impossible to esti-
mate, besides the large amount of of-
fice space occupied by administrative
branches of the general business.
The insurance men, too, have theii
share of the pickings. The tobacco
business pays out annually $7,000,000
in premiums in the United States.
And there are the railroads who reap
revenue from 2,210,000 tons of tobacco
products every year.
As for the advertising business,
here again It Is impossible to form
any estimate of the enormous annual
outlay.
The prohibition of tobacco would also
knock a good-sized hole in the receipts
of the United States government.
The Internal revenue receipts from
tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amount-
ed to $295,809,355.44. Customs duties
provided an additional $25,000,000 in
round figures, making the total revenue
return to the government $320,000,000.
Influence on Popular Sentiment
It is this interlocking of the tobacco
business with so many other Interests
and the vast amount of financial loss
that would be involved In the abolition
of tobacco that is one of the most se-
rious aspects of the proposal to pro-
hibit the sale of tobacco, a proposal,
however, which has little support by
public sentiment if the newspaper edi-
tors of the country are correct in their
estimate of that sentijnent.
In a poll of the editors made recently
by the Tobacco Merchants' Association
of the United States, through the Press
Service Company of New York City,
95 per cent of the 7,847 editors who
replied expressed the opinion that the
people of their communities were op-
posed to any law against tobacco. As
these editors represent some 80,000,000
readers the results form a pretty gen-
eral test of national opinion.
In their remarks accompanying their
replies many of the editors expressed
It as their opinion that the opposition
of their communities to the abolition
of tobacco was based to some extent at
least on the damage such a change
would do to the business interests of
the community. This was particularly
true in the tobacco growing states and
cenfers where there were large tobacco
plants.
But when the extent of the bu-iness
Involved In the allied Interests «f the
tobacco trade Is considered, as ibove
frFiefU* outlined. It Is clear that 'here
is hardly a flieptlon of the country that
would not fee affie^ed directly « in-
directly by abolishing tobacco.
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GLES WRITTE1 TO
E TRADING
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The following busi-
ness men invite your
consideration:
Schulz Bros.
FCessler Mercantile Co.
F. R. Brossmann
"Wolters Mercantile Co.
Keuper Bros.
H. F*. Schaefer
Sobotik: & Pratka
«J. G. HLleclcar
Helmcamp Rubber Tire Co
F^irst National Bank
Baumgarten-Matula Co.
City* Drug Store
F>aul Breymann
HIGH QRADt MERCHANDISE
BOOTS
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Mat home
See Your Local Dealer
First
In your search for bargains and savings
you can often do best right here at
home. Our local dealers frequently
undersell the catalog houses and give
you just as good values.
And many times they can give you
much better quality for the same money
you would have to send away. So
when you have selected the article you
want, go to your local merchant and
see what he has to offer.
It takes little effort
to do this and may
result in real savings
— of money, time,
trouble and disap-
pointment.
The following busi-
ness men invite -your
consideration:
Ike Lippman
Meyer Sc Gundelach
I-.. M. Herseik:
H. A. Sengelmann
Cernosek's Pharmacy
E. W. Kiehn
Ignaz Russek State Bank
Otto Brauner
G. A. Hahnke
Blaschke Bros.
Frank Caletka.
Henry Simek
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Troop B, Local
Unit Is Awarded
The Galveston Cup
The Galveston cup, highest
award at the annual encampment
for the best all around Troop
everything considered, was un-
animously awarded to the local
unit by Federal Inspector In-
structors. The Troop besides
being a credit to the community
showed wonderfulimprovements
as a military organization made
possible thru co-operation of its
commissioned and enlisted per-
sonel.
In honor of the Troop Briga-
dier General J. P. Wolters,
Senior Inspector Col. Adams
USA. and Col. Hill, commanding
the 112th Regiment, and Squad-
ron Commander Major McGee
will pay their respects to the
Troop in the near future in ap-
preciation of the splendid show-
ing made at the encampment.
The Galveston cup, now be-
longing to Troop B, is on exhi-
bition in the window of the City
Cleaning and Pressing Shop. '
The Troop herewith extends
its thanks to the local merchants
for the kind support which made
the local encampment possible,
held prior to the Annual encarnp-
mentfrom which much good re-
sulted.
Tuesday morning's Houston
Post came out with a statement
that the Galveston Cup had been
won by the Houston unit. This
was in error, as they were win-
ners of the Wolters eup. The
local unit is entitled to highest
honors, and a wire from Gen.
Wolters and the cup itself are
proof positive, both of which are
on display in a Main street win-
dow here.
Mrs. Minnie Seftenberg and
son and Milton Terne of Hous-
ton are house guests at the Max
Schwartz home. Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Bullman also arrived for a
visit there the first of the week,
frptn Dallas,
LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. Julius Schwartz and
children will leave this week for
Chicago where they will spend
the summer visiting with rela-
tives. At Memphis they will be
joined by Mr. Schwartz who will
accompany them through. He
has been spending a couple of
weeks at Hot Springs, Ark.
A letter from the editor's
family now summering in Mich-
igan with relatives, states that
corn in that section is barely
six inches high yet, showing the
vast difference in seasons'.
And at that it is very probable
that they will harvest an average
corn crop there this year, for
corn knee high by July 4th, is
considered made and safe there.
The bad rains last week, the
heaviest experienced in this
section for several years, provid-
ed an excellent opportunity to
test out the constructon of
the completed section of the
Highway west of town. It is
gratifying to know that it with-
stood the high water easily, and
the damage amounted to practi-
cally nothing. Contractor Ro-
bertson was fortunate too, with
only minor loss at the scene of
the big Navidad bridge now
under construction.
Beneker & Knesek have plans
well laid for showing the people
of Schulenburg and vicinity a
rousing good time on the 4th of
July, next Monday. All of Schu-
lenburg will not celebrate here
of course, but a good crowd
is going to be on hand for the
promised day of fun and cele-
bration. Business here will
be practically at a standstand.
Some from here will go to Hal-
lettsville, others to East Bernard,
Yoakum, Galveston, Houston,
San Antonio, or to some other
surrounding towns. So far as
the Sticker is concerned, we're
going to celebrate too. Haven't
decided how nor where, but ad-
vance notice is herewith given—
this office will be closed all day.
Mrs. Dr. Knolle of La Grange
is a guest this week at the Max
Schwartz home.
( The School Contest
Nothing further has been done
in the matter of the School
Election contest, filed in Dis-
trict Court last Thursday eve-
ning.
Attorneys Willrich, Brown
and Ragsdale have been retained
we are informed to defend the
election.
Rumors of a damage suit filed
in conjunction therewith have
been heard, but no action has as
yet been taken.
METHODIST CHURCH
Schulenburg, Sunday school
at 10.00 a.m. Communion ser-
vices by Rev. J. W. A. Witt of
Gonzales at 8:15 p. m.
/
Preyburg, Sunday school at
10:00 a.m. Services at 11:00 a.
m. /
O. C. Raeke, Pastor.
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Koniakowsky's Menthol Liniment
highly recommended for Croup, Cold in the Head,
Coughs, Catarrh, Influenza, Kidney Trouble, Colic,
Diarrhoea, and for all pains and aches.
Results are certain if used according to directions.
Every drop is sold under a guarantee or your ■ money
refunded.
Sold at all Drug Stores, and in Schulenburg by R. J.
Watzlavick and Cernosek Pharmacy.
Menthol Liniment Co.
Ellinger. Texas.
Cut your flour bill down
Use one-fourth ALLISON pre-cooked FLOUR with
your wheat Flour. It costs less, has higher food value
and goes further than the all wheat bread. Get a small
sack from your grocer today and try it. Any size from 6
pounds up. Made only by 1
The Schulenburg Oil Mill
The Newest Patterns and
designs in printed voiles,
organdies and tiscue
ginghams just arrived
Men's fine Pure Silk Hose at 60c a pair.
Come in and inspect our stock before you
buy elsewhere.
Sobotik & Pratka
On The Old Spanish Trail
Schulenburg, Texas
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Price, J. A. The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1921, newspaper, July 1, 1921; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth189722/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schulenburg Public Library.