The Madisonville Meteor - And Commonwealth - (Madisonville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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mis MADimyrrvYbLts hetbo^ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1929.
NORTH ZULCH NEWS
Ferdinand Rumfield was in the
city Saturday from Elwood.
H. M. Hooper of Houston has been
m guest in R V Hibbit's home. He is
a brother of Mrs, Hibbit.
The brjsk norther that has blown
up has sent folks hurrying and
■currying for extra coats and swea-
ters. The first cold spell of the
season.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zulch went over
to Crockett last week, attended the
ball game there and came back to
Huntsville and spent the night,
George Arthur Thompson who
teaches at Midway is a frequent
yiaitor in North Zulch. We do not
know why he is in love with this
place so much, but perhaps Miss
Berry does.
Mr. and Mrs. W E Shannon visit-
ed relatives at Dobbin * Saturday
night and Sunday.
All the school children are looking
forward to Hollo'een Night. The
P T A is making arrangements for
their annual carnivaj. Mrs. Hoke
and some of the other teachers are
getting up a program also for the
occasion which prompises to be one
of real entertaining.
Mr. and Mrs. M E Andrews of;
Concord was in North Zulch Monday.
They attended the Dallas fair and
canfe back by way of Mexia, Bryan
and North Zulch.
Quite a few attended singing at
Normangee Sunday afternoon from
here. The writer being one and
three things especially we observed
while on this trip. Besides the fine
singing we heard was some water in
the rdad near Normangee from the
Saturday night rain, A car that had
aliped off in a ditch from the deep
sand bed and Narmongee's clean
streets. There as nothing that at-
tracts attention so much as cleanli-
ness.
Mr. Marion Rumfield of San
Antonio was a guest of his brother,
J D Rumfield and other relatives
Saturday night and Sunday.
Arch Broadway came in one day
last week and will stay here a while
with his parents^ He has been in
Illinois where he had been working.
Rev. John Swanwick has returned
home from his long vacation and
perhaps a complete account of his
How Is That Old Roof of Yours? I
~s! FELLOWSHIP NEWS
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have to worry about a rain
ruining your house while you
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now. We can re-roof your
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roof worries are over.
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Wooodson Lumber Company
M. Y. Vick, Mgr.
Madison ville, Texas
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Phone 182
journey will be given in this issue of
the paper.
A letter from my sister, Mrs. C.
M. Conway of Memphis, Tennessee,
says, "I am sending check to extend
my subscription on the Meteor which
is like a letter each week from home."
She, at one time, was a student ir
Madisonville High School.
McDonald's labor government is
having a lot of trouble. Labor
knows no more about government
than others. The trouble with the
government, the ones in power do not
want to be fair. There is the trouble
with the farmer question. The farm-
er has never had anything to say.
The others got together and the
farmer was never mentioned only
with promises during campaigns.
Eric Morvick, a waiter, thought
$5.60 change was a fair tip but J.
K. Marshall of Chicago had him ar-
rested for withholding it.
How to
Raise
Poultry
By Dr. L. D. UGear, V. S.
St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. LeGcar U ■ Enduate of the Ontario
Veterinary College, 1892. Thirty-.!*
years of veterinary practice on dUeaaea
of live stock and poultry. Eminent
authority on poultry and dock raising.
Nationally known poultry breeder.
Noted author and lecturer.
MAKING TURKEYS PAY
Comparative Scarcity at Times of
These Fowls When Most Wanted
Insures Profitable Market; Prob-
lem of Raising Birds Not as Diffi-
cult as Ordinarily Supposed.
(By Dr. L. D. LeGear, V. S., St. Louis)
We Have Installed In Our
Plant Every Modern Facility
and equipment
necessary for the
proper ginning of
your cotton.
We are always
every customer
and every job is
mindful that
is important,
important.
We look upon every one
who comes to our gin as
a friend, and it is our
honest aim and our sin-
cere desire to please you
with our ginning service.
Stand le Gin Cmpany
MADISONVILLE, TEXAS
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"Cans't thee provide naught but
this eternal turkey for our board,
Goodman?" quoth dame Prudence
Pennyfeather in a bit of a pet. "Me-
thinks this gloomy forest is full big
enough to have in it all birds and
beast created since the Deluge!"
Goodman Pennyfeather snatched
j up his blunderbus and retorte da bit
acidly, "Beasts and birds there are
aplenty in yon forest and hostile
Indians, too—while turkeys in plen-
ty are at our very door. Nae-the-
less, I shall try again to appease
thy impatience."
That might have happened in Pil-
grim days. Even right after the
Civil War widl turkeys were so
numerous in some parts of the coun-
try as to constitute an actual pest.
They raided grain fields with such
devastating effect that it was a prob-
lem to cope with them. Now quite
the reverse is' true.
Of course, no one is surprised to
learn that the wild turkey is pprac-
tically extinct. Oijewould think,
however, that the periodical demand
created by our great national feast
days would cause poultry . raisers
everywhere to devote a considerable
part of their time to turkey raising.
I believe the reason that such is not
the case is to be found in the oft
repeated story that turkeys can only
be raised successfully on great
ranches and that, at best, they are
so delicate and temperamental as to
make the mvery hard to handle.
For those who have hesitated to
take up turkey raising, or who have
tried and failed, I want to make a
number of recommendations. I shall
give a short digest of these recom-
mendations and will be glad to ans-
wer further questions from any one
writing me in care of this paper.
For breeding purposes use only
thoroughbreds. Select the strongest
and healthiest birds. Do not mate
more than 10 or 15 hens with one
male. Use incubators for best re-
sults. You never have to wait for
an incubator to get broody and it
will give most uniform results if
properly regulated. Use no eggs
over ten days old. Practically all
the big commercial turkey raisers
use artificial brooders. The most
up-to-date ones can be closely regu-
lated so that, barring accidents, re-
sults are fairly certain. It is always
a gamble, however, to brood young
poults with such temperamental
creatures as turkey hens.
A brooder house on skids is ideal
as it can be moved about to fresh
ground from time to time. Stake off
four temporary runs, one on each
side of the house, and rotate the
poults from one run to the other.
Leave them about a week in each
run. Between 200 and 300 poults
can be accommodated in a 12x14
brooder house. For heat, use a hard
coal stove or any other heating ar-
rangement that will maintain an
even temperature of about 80 de-
grees.
When poults are about 8 weeks
old they may be transferred to rear-
ing grounds, about an acre being set
aside for eac hl50 to 200 poults.
These grounds should be where
chickens have not been allowed to
run and should be fenced so chick-
ens cannot get in with the poults.
Feed nothing the first 24 to 36
hours; 36 to 48 hours, short grass
on the sod, tender greens and butter-
milk or sour skim-milk; 48 to 60
hours, feed eggs boiled for 30 min
utes mixed with equal quantity of
dry, stale (never mouldy) -bread
crumbs. Feed this every two hours:
removing it in 20 minutes. On the
third day feed as on the second and
continue same diet on the day fol-
lowing with addition of mash com-
posed of finely ground cornmeal
wheat bran, wheat middlings and
beef scraps in equal parts by weight
or a baby chick starter commercial
mash may be fed instead. Feed the
mash in hoppers with plenty of
gree nstuff always available. Con-
tinue this mash feed with plenty of
greens at all times. From day to
day feed a little scratch grains
gradually increasing the quantity
Scratch grains should be given spar-
ingly, however, as young turkeya do
not reqquire a great deal of such
feed. See that a good supply of
fresh clean water is always near by.
Never allow poults to drink from
stagnant pools.
When poults are about 8 weeks
old, shift to rearing grounds if
weather permits, and put on follow-
ing ration: Equal parts of corn meal,
ground oats, wheat middlings, wheat
bran and beef scraps fed in hoppers.
Give birds plenty of skim-milk to
drink. Keep shell and grit before
them at all times and never stint
on fresh green stuff of suitable
kinds. My experiments prove that
baby turkeys can be successfully
raised on feeds that are successful-
ly fed to baby chicks. If your pres-
ent method of raising your baby
chicks is successful, use the same
method with your baby turkeys
which should be successful also.
Finally, enlarge your runs from
time to time and keep moving flock
if possible to provide fresh feeding
grounds.
AUTO MANUFACTURERS HELPL
SOLVE ACCIDENT PROBLEMS
GREATEST THING IN LIFE
IS TRUE FELLOWSHIP
It is possible that a part of our
automobile accident problem is being
solved by the automobile manufac-
turers themselves. Traffic conges-
tion continues to grow, with conse-
quent increase in the driving hazard
But progress in automobile design
and equipment each year affords the
motorist greater security.
Out of the "tinny," rattling, auto-
mobiles of a few years ago has
grown the all-steel body, with its
great resistance to strain and shock.
Many other safety devices of equal
importance have been developed, In
comparison to the early motor vehi-
cles, the modern car is, in effect, 8
suit of armor around the occupants
Safety first should be the preemin-
ent feature of present-day automo-
bile construction.
The Fellowship school is progress-
ing nicely with Prof, Fred Gibbs and
Miss Daisy Belle Hale as teachers.
The Pee Dee school with Miss
Nellie Fulhberg of Madisonville and
Miss Ophelia Thornton of Trinity as
teachers gave a box supper Friday
night for the benefit of the school.
A nice sum was realized. The school
up until the present is doing good
work and we are sure that the good
work will continue.
Mr4 Pete Stewart and family were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
Parten.
Calvin Wells of Houston visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C W
Wells the past week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Rigby and
little daughter, Mavis, were guests
Saturday night and Sunday of their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J M Rigby.
Mavis remained for a few days' visit
with her grand_parents.
Prof, and Mrs. C L Phillips of
near Huntsville visited Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs, W A Phillips. Prof
Phillips is principal of the pine
Prairie school near Huntsville.
Mr. Leslie Wells and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Virvil Wells and Miss
Penny Wells were guests Sunday of
Mr. Clarence Wells and family.
Mr. and Mrs. William Beale of
Houston visited Mr. and Mrs. Jeff
Stewart this week-end.
Misses Bessie May Phillips, Avo
Rigby, and Leola Hall, Dale Minze
and J T Rigby were guests Sunday
in the Hart home.
Mr. and Mrs. C W Wells were
guests Thursday of Mr. Jules Wells
and family.
Every Wdmatt Knows
Every woman knows how easy it is
to burn or scald herself while working
in her home. Every woman knows that
these burns and scalds are painful and
sometimes very slow to heal. Every
woman should know that the pain of
burns and scalds will be quickly re-
lieved, infection positively prevented
and speedy healing assured if Liquid
Borozone is instantly applied. Get a
bottle of Liquid Borozone and keep it
handy in your medicine cabinet. Sola by
John R. Burtis.
Where Will You Be
Ten Years From Now
Will you enjoy the comfort and
happiness that financial independence
brings? Will you know the satisfac-
tion on owning your business? Or
your home? Will you have a larger
bank account then than you have
today? Will you be better situated
in life financially than you are to-
day? Ten years is not a very long
time, and it comes for certain to all
of us several times during our ca-
reers. So why not prepare for its
future? Yqur only correct answer
to the above questions is shown by
your bank account. Have you open-
ed one with us? If not, come see
us.
THE OLD RELIABLE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
A BANK OF THE PEOPLE
a
s
DESTRAYED DOLLARS
HAVE NO VALUE
What is it? To stick around?
To be useful? To do one's duty?
Yes. first and foremost to those who
are dependent on you—your imme-
diate family. It is not their fault
that you are reltted to them. Your
duy to them performed, you may de-
velop yourself as an individual. Your
personality, your individuality are
next in importance.
Is it not in a national sense high-
ly important that we formulate a na-
tional philosophy founded on the ef-
ficient individual and service for the
masses?
The concept of Americans by the
Europeans, that we are a nation of
men and women who are mere dol-
lar-chasers, is a mistaken one. We
have amassed the most dollars be-
cause we have wealth a by-product
of prpinciple, not putting dollar-
worshi pfirst.
The principle of service, better ser-
vice, more service, has become the
greatest thing in life with American
industrial leaders.
Men who have made millions are gigantic annual fire waste. Thrift,
generally plain and common as old (industry, saving, hope—fire destroys
shoes. them in the flickering of an eye. And
Dollars, represented by pproperty,
die when fire destroys. Whether the
blazze consumes a great tract of
forest or a one-car garage, it means
a permanent economic loss. The
money invested can never again work
to produce profits. It is definitely
and literally dead.
This is a direct loss. The indirect
loss, in waste of time and unem-
ployment, may be even greater. The
tax that would be paid on a destroyed
building is reassessed against other
citizens. The rates charged by in-
surance companies are determined by
the aggregate average fire loss.
Every citizen in the community pays
for every fire. Something that con-
tributed its share, large or small, to
community pays for every fire,
Something that contributed is share,
large or small, to progress and social
or industrial development, has been
totally destroyed. Instead of an
asset, it becomes an expense.
These are simble matters, but they
are seldom realized. A few minutes'
thought must bring home to every
citizen the appalling danger of our
the bill is charged against the nat-
ional pocket-book.
Where 13 is Lucky
F, E. Fite, farmer near Athens.
Texas, exhibited a boll of cotton that
had 13 locks. The cotton was grown
several years ago, he said, and he
has kept it carefully preserved. It
was of the Russell variety.
The Jews and Moslems have con-
cluded that the christians can not
have all the fun of fighting. We
had it figured out long ago that the
Jews were just common folks like the
rest of us.
A man can fool all of the women
part of the time and even some of the
women all of the time, but you can't
fool the same woman, the same way,
all the time.
JOE E. WEBB
A1_ij KINDS OF
TNSURANCE
Life, Accident, Fire, Tornado, In-
demnity, Automobile, Plate Glass.
Madisonville, Texas
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