The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1928 Page: 4 of 8
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THF. RASTR0P ADVERTISER. BASTROP. TEXAS. TUl KSDAY. JUNE 21. 11*28
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
SMITH. 0«ntr
H. A. Sl'HARV'EK. Editor
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SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE
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taltrwi m m<od«i d** m u«f ai tae Po toffic«s at Ba trop under c* of
March I,
Card* of Thank*, Re.o.uuon* of Reip ct, Announcement* and Notice*
■f tM Entertainment* to which admission i* charged, are charged for at
cave *f on* cast a word.
Church Announcement*, Club Activities, Lodge Notice* *nd all item*
fMbhc interest are earnestly solicited
Kni to insure publication. but
feat time to hand in copy—don't see
BOW EARLY
n gasoline
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the UplitH'D i
trucks and it
fr< ni the g&>
not a tax at all, in the
>ut is an investment in
f our automobile- and
the increased mileage
i)line \vi u#e."
Off she went in
and that's the la
Kvt ry publu -
annex with the -ign
"Primary Common
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paper < onsulidation
i- now the Beeville
w th George Atkin
A t ck company,
New i
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helm. .
kill- of the
holder, has
Bee-Pica-
ut the
with At-
Pieayune a^ major stock-
bought the Bee from A.
Miss ()' Brien, adventurous
explorer, returns to St. Paul.
(liHap|M)inte<l in the African
mies. She shot all knuls of
endured all kinds of hardshij
of
All copy mu t be in by ^ odnesday
th* doa* not maan for you to wait until
how LATE jr«u can turn it in, but
M. Shann n Hereafter, Beeville wilt
have to support but one new>paper,
but it will be a bigger and a l>etter
paper than the town ha'- ever hail,
and will be in better p 'sition to serve
it< peoplt creditably Both have been
V nd newspapers, but they have been
handicapped by being in competition
in a town where either of them could
have rendered better service alone.
Texas and Texans
Resume and Comment of Texas' Progress.
By Will II. Mayes
Spearman Paper Sold
The Spearman Reporter ha:
puiiha.->ii by the Nunn-Warren
terc-l- that own a number of
j handle newspapers anil that is
| stanth reaching out for more.
i new own r announce that they
rur.-it-'i Oran Kelly, the former own-
er. as ed it r, and that except for
ownership the paper will be the >ame
j '\\cellont product it has been with
the added advantage of increased cap-
ital.
been
in-
Pan-
con-
The
have
young
Minn.,
pyg-
irame,1
and
says Africa is all right for a woman,
but a little too rough for a man.
"The pygmies are darling little
creatres," says she, "but 1 hud to
teach them to act w ild." She wanted
moving pictures of them.
.Many American trirls could teach
any pygniv to act wild, and do .«o.
Fiji Islanders bushy haired, ac-
tive, gave it warm welcome to the
monoplane Southern Cross, landed at |
Suva.
Those Fijians once had an annoy-
ing habit of eating white men. This
time they only cheered them.
The flyers have beaten all records
including Lindbergh's long distant'
flight over water.
It
is f),f>.'{* null
Valuable Publicity
In an address at War- . Je>se H.
Jone- of Houston, the man most to
be credited with bringing the Demo-
cratic National convention to Texas,
stated that in hi; opinion Texas has
been on the front pag> of 1,000 news-
papers by reason f the c •nvention
oein? held in the State. His esti-
Biat. is entirely too low. Almost
every paper of any importance in
the country ha.- had a first page
st> ry of the convention and thousands
of column- have been given to what
was regarded as the impossible in
lecuring it in a Southwestern State.
But all publicity is not valuable.
Texas has had thousands of front
page stories in the past that
had a bad. rather than a good
ur city unless we have confidence
enough to do the same."
That fi?^ Waco and it tit- every
place in T'-xa I- al-o fits every
m:t!, and woman in th> State. No
place need expect t. be bigger and
better than it want to he." No per-
son need expect to be bigger and bet-
ter than h«' wan'- to be. It is not.
enough, either, merely to have a
willingness to improve; the desire
for gr wth must be intense—of tho
kind that brought Dr.. Brooks from
th" position of a railroad section
hand to the presidency of one of
Tomato Movement
It is hard for a close student of
I e\as papers to keep up with data as
to what is going on in progressive
Texas. One day I saw that the Tyler
section had shipped 30 cars of toma-
toes during the first week of the to-
mato season. I thought that was a.
fine item for this column—30 car-j
loads the first week! The next day
the daily paper- carried a statement
that the Jacksonville section had
shipped 100 carloads in two days!
You can guess whatever you please I
a- to the shipments since then. N'oth- ,
ing seem- too big for Texas.
of ocean from Oakland, California, to
Suva, Fiji Islands, via Hawaii.
The next hop, 1,700 miles will tak>*
! th<■ fliers t, Brisbane, Australia, on
\ t he way to Sydney. The world i-
! really flying.
the presidency of one of the
greatest educational institutions in
the South, from an unknown laborer
to a leadership among leaders.
have. It is bunk to expect others to in-
effect vest heavily in ourselves.
upon the State. Texas has too often
appeared unfavorably in the public studies Road Plans
eye. The only valuable publicity is [J()n r)arence 0uslev has been if|>-
the kind that creates a favorable inU.() director nf highways and
impression—any other kind is harm- f(irt.atry of tho East Texas Chamber
j of Commerce. No more unselfish, un-
The impression that Texas and j tiring, able man could have been
Texans make upon the delegates and
visitors to the National convention
when they come to the State will de-
chosen. He works both industriously
am! intelligently at whatever he un-
dertakes.
He has been making a close study
of the road system of Arkansas, a
State where roads are built and main-
] tained without property tax and
counties and districts have l>ecn re-
Millions In Road Fund
Texas ha- been making some big ,
road contracts during the first five
month- of the year, hut has by no
means exhausted it- road resources.
There i- son\e $1,000,000 still unused
in 'he Federal road fund allotted to'
Texas to be matched during the year
by State road funds. This will be the
greatest r <ad building year Texas has
had. Texas is building good roads
too, and the gaps are being filled as
never before.
The 2f>0 Fiji Islands, about eighty
of them inhabited, belong to old
grandmother Britannia. She rarely
overlooks anything.
When young people that now rend
this column get their around-the
world flying machine they may find
chances to grow up with the country
on some of those uniniiunited. unex-
plored Fiji Islands.
Crops in the cornbelt have taken
an upward turn, The Arkansas
River Valley report. "Wheat will
make thirty-five bushels to the acre."
All that is cheerful for the Re-
publican cadidate.
Nothing melts irritation on the
farms like good rains, good crops,
good prices.
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Where jj
The Drug Store
Your Needs Are Filled
-—Efficiently, Promptly
and at Very Reasonable Prices
Service :s our motto
is run on t hat principle.
jMiundetl and delivered in the
tin* lowest possible price.
our prescript ion department
Medicines are correctly coin-
shortest possible time, at
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novelt ics
lains in town
carry a full line of
\\ c aiso boast
drills, rubber good
ol the fines;! soda
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Thi- i the drug store of Service and Oualitv!
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DRUGGISTS
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BASTROP, TEXAS
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George Bernard, Shaw becoming
less important and less accurate after
seventy, declares that accumulated
money is the root of all evil.
will
im-
vis-
w'" j lieved of their outstanding road bonds
termine the value of the publicity to
come from newspaper stories. The
Houston date line to a report
mean nothing to readers, but the
pression that Texas makes upon
itorg and newspaper reporters
mean much.
Every Texan who comes in contact I a five-cent gasoline
■with a visitor to the State should feel | motor-oil tax and
a weighty sense of duty in doing
what he can to reflect credit on
Texas. He can do that only by prov-
ing himself to be a credit to the
State.
Measure of Greatness
Dr. S. P Brooks, president of Bay-
lor University, is a big man with big
ideals and a vision almost without
restriction. In a Chamber of Com-
merce talk at Waco recently, he said:
"Our city will not be bigger and bet-
ter unless we want it to be. It is
bunk to expect othe rs to invest in
The road revenues are obtained from
tax, a small
the automobile
registration fees.
The users of the highways are thus
made to pay for the roads, and Mr.
Ousley finds- that the people gener-
ally, with perhaps the exception of
some tourists, are pleased w-ith the
operation of the law. Here is how
a hanker, quoted by him, speaks of it:
"We are pleased with the new
system for two reasons. The first
is that our lands and property,
which had been taxed to the point
of near confiscation, are relieved of
all road taxation. The second is
that the five cent toll thnt we pay
Santa Fe Buys Orient
The Santa Fe Railway ha- ac-
quired 40 per cent of the stock in the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Rail-
way, and is negotiating for the re-
maining stock. The Orient has long
been crippled for lack of funds with
which to carry forward needed ex-
pansion, and the Santa Fe ownership
should insure necessary development.
in ex pens iv<
Texas Wool Crop
Texas wool is finding a read
market. Buyers are eager to get the
spring clip and the prices are satis-
factory. At some point* snearing is
delayed for lack of labor, but tho
labor shortage js now being overcome.
Without accumulated money Ni-
agara Falls woudn't b harnessed,
it he Panama Cana'. which helps
! Britain as much . s it does us,
wouldn't be dug; automobile pro-
duction wouldn't be on a quality basis
and this country woultf have, per-
haps, '.M0.000 expensive automobiles,
| instead of 24,000,000
automobiles.
Great accumulations of capital,
like great accumulations of water
going down hill, represent power.
Kliminate accumulated capital,
and you would eliminate possibilities
of higher civilization.
If the people haven't brains enough
to wath and control accumulated
capital they wouldn't have enough
control small capital.
PI. \N IN .II NE TO MEET
SEPTEMBER EXPENSES
Certain months of the year bring
heavier expenditures than others in
most families. June is often one of
these, with graduation, weddings and
vacation plans. September may be
even worse. Vacation has cost more
than was expected; school books must
be bought, and school clothes. If
children are going away to school or
college, a whole outfit is needed, in
addition to tuition fees, books and
railroad fares. September is an in-
come and sometimes a loca tax month
If you have nt ' already budgeted
your annual income, you will find it.
difficult to make ends meet during
these "peaks" of expense. It is too
late now to do much about June; but
September is 13 weeks distant, and if
you plan carefullv for those week*
you will at least, lie better off than if
•you made no plan. Suppose you
should ask the Bureau of Home Eco
what you will have. What shall In-
given up? Some expenses are un-
avoidable. Vou have doubtless al-
ready contracted to pay a certain
rent or its equivalent Your telephone
rate, insurance premiums, and other
items are fixed. Sometimes however
the grocery bill can be reduced by
buying lower pried but equally nour-
ishing foods. Perhaps you have plan-
ned too expensive a summer. You can
have a change and a good time at
lower cost if you will look about. In
stead of stocking up with new clothes,
camp or go where you can wear out
the olrf ones. Get the whole family tii
cooperate in limiting expenditures in
June, July and August to meet Sep-
tember's heavier billYou may not
do as well as you hope, but another
vear you can start in January with a
long look ahead and make adequate
provision for the peaks of expense.
There is a helpful free bulletin on
planning and recording family expen-
ditures obtainable from the United
nomics of the United States Depart- States Department of Agriculture, and
to
mer.t of Agriculture what to do. Vou
should be advised, first, to list all the]
exp< uses now expected for June, July,
August and September. Put down
everything. Perhaps you have count-
ed on a vacation and some new clothes
lor the family. Put it all down. Add
up the estimate for each month. Com-
pare the separate totals with your
monthly income or the grand tota!
I with your funds for the four months.
' Your estimate probably exceeds
for "<0 cents you can buy a very com-
prehensive account book from the
Superintendent of Documents. Gov-
ernment Printing Office. Washington,
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Salt Cleans Sinks
Sinks and drains can be kept free
of greese and odors by pouring hot
salt brine through them once or twice
a week.
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To Bastrop, and Invite
Their Patronage
: i We carry a complete line of Build-
ing Materials at the Lowest Possible
Prices. . . Let's Get Acquainted.
Getting It Here Means Satisfaction.
J. L. Wilbarger & Co.
BASTROP
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COUNTY WEEKLIES VITAL
SCHOOL FOR PARENTS
THE PYGMIES LEARN HOW
FIJI ISLANDERS
H. Z. Mitchell's "Sentinel" at Ber-
midji, Minn., wins the prize as best ;
weekly in the National tutorial con-
test. This is a good time to remind
the public in general, and national
advertisers in particular, that county
weekley newspapers are the most im-
portant organs of public opinion and
and protectors of public welfare.
And their advertising value, per
mill line, is not exceled by any publi-
cation of any kind.
The reader of a country weekly
buys everything, from shingles on
the roof to cement in the cellar floor,
and every advertiser has in him a
possible customer.
What is the matter with our child,
ren? Not much, but % great deal is
the matter with some parents.
The police an* hunting for a little
man, the parents did riot know him.
But the parents said, "Certainly.''
SAVE—for Your Own Independence
Ring the Liberty Bell on your own financial troubles
by laying aside a regular amount out of your income
every week. 1 his is the only way that you can make
sure of your future and avoid the feeling of dejx'ndenee
that comes uith unprovided old age. We earnestly
solicit new savings accounts. One dollar is enough for
the first dejKisit, and will start you on the road to thrift
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Schaefer, H. A. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1928, newspaper, June 21, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206593/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.