The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1928 Page: 4 of 8
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER. BASTROP. TEXAa, Till KSl'AV SKI'TKMBKi'. 4. 1H2S
THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
4. O. SMITH. Owner
H. A. SCHAEKER, Editor
RATES UK SUBSCRIPTION:
r 11.60
.60
Oue Year
Six Month*
Four Months
SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE ALWAYS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
The paper it always discontinued at Uia expiration of Unie paid.
■ t*r«l as second class matter at the Postoffice at Bastrop under ac ol
Marek 3. U70
and that it will make money for the Those machines employ*! more men
owner- and the farmers. than ever at better wages.
I Every efficient new machine ri
LockhartV Creamery cream s prosperity, <-dpec ially that if
l.ockhart has a co-operative cream- workers, by increasing man N<*hic.
erv, which has been running only a ^ "I' an ,,x '''iini H ma" w"* wort 1 ♦ •
>hort while. Because of the fact a day With a locomotive he i* worth
that it started right at cotton harvest- lin-
ing time, it is not running yet to it-- , ;—
capacity. Citizens of l.ockhart al- Ouafi. French Aran who beat
ready see one great advantage from ®'I runners of the work! in the Olvm-
it. Dairymen now -ell their milk to P'c marathon is here.
the creamerv, and instead of having Nature, producing him, seems to
a half dozen or more milk trucks have a greyhound in mind. His legti
a alnn -t as • It:n as ■.< greyhound's,
and, <|tiite tall, he weighs only 121
Any way of getting that nitrogen other people's money."
out of the air cheaply would be mar-
vclously important, to farmers espe-
cially.
Davis was charged with „l.t
money under false 1
... l>retens.s f "*
JSf
a"uru
, „ , tral High School last vea
Pineapple, you know, is Chicago s robl)in|f
ru limif ail over town and awakening
the people at early morning hours,
orderly delivery i- made by the cream- p -unds.
Cards of Thanks Resolutions of Respect, Announcements and Notice* I ery at a great saving of noise and
11 Entertainments to which admission is charged, are charged for at expen>e. The rivanierv product- may
also be bought from the gorcery store
0{ I ami meat markets
el all Entertainments
rata of on* cant a word.
Church Announcements. Club Activities, Lodge Notices snd all items
•ablic interest ere earnestly solicited. All copy must be in by Wednesday
atten te insure publication, but thie does not mean for you to wait untU
tfcat time to hand in cepy—don't see how LATE yen can turn it ia, bat
HOW EARLY
Texas and lexans
Resume and Comment of Texas' Progress. By Will II. Mayes
leaching by Contrast
The Luling Foundation Farm, which
i- the Edgar B Davis enterprise con-
ducted for the special benefit of the
farmers of Caldwell, Gonzales anil
Comal county farmer-, i- making an "
unusual live stock exhibit at the v
county fairs of tlw>-e counties thi h
fall The exhibit- consist of good i>
type- of fet«der steers, sheep and
hogs shown side by side with poor
and unprofitable types. Figures are
given out to interested purtie- show-
ing comparative value-, feeding costs,
etc. It is a '->ractical exhibit tha;
can't be forgotten and that is sure to
Ouafi is a citizen of the French Re-
public. and, although many sporting
An" ricHiis that see him run will not
know it. his ancestors of ancient
Arabia are ancestors whom our civi-
lization and its science owe a great
deal.
if they would consult" him" ' '1 w"a'th
Juldge Jarecki, of Chicago, says
that the city will enlist 10,000 men to I s,,.,,,. u..„ ,,
guard the polls in November. He Some Honor Pupi,r
doesn't want any more "pineapple"! . lia*-r,,> ktober d,—J oseph
i«'iwc«. ! r*r snttrr.s*f> >•< «■
COIJ.
prof, ssor- .
teachers at the high school v , I,n"
It pineapple only were used in the, disliked were the chief victim ""Jl"'
Chicago campaign it wouldn't be to |<ay worked alone. ® c-
bad Hut automatics machine guns
M il brass knuckles added1 to the "pine- ,1m>. ,w Wreck« Train—Just \ i L
apple ' make the way of the voter (Jlassboro, N. Y. October " <•
h" | Brisco, 10, has confessed he Dulw!*
j Hwitcli^ on the^ West Jersey and ^
aK° just to
ha
playful euphemism for an exploaive Kva^ton"" uXerTiw"^ h°mts
bomb. i * i .i_ i-; ,
wh(
I ;.rd, unless he votes with (he gang.
o ' ■ i
Can't Bead Judge's Mind.
shore Railroad a week
"see what would happen."
learned
Railroad Income Increases that port was a great economic need.
The net income of railways oper?.t: J "reign *hips are loading and un-
ing in Texas -hows an increase
make one wonder why anybody
raiso any but the best stork.
I . -e . Id A rahs w >r
ience, mathematics, aivi many litie«
len i• i11 ance-tors in England were
iiii;' in swamps and our ancestors
Ireland were running over hills
nil"! i">gs not much dressed, their
great king putting aside his cloak of
raw bull hide in the presence of a
Fi'-nch visitor, revealing a king with
nothing on him.
Many words that we use every day,
.if.i. alcohol, many terms in chemistrv
Mays Landing, N. J. October 3. 1 The result was the derailment of
James Davis, known as "Prof. Okon," passenger train, but no one was i f
| who was advertised as "master of jured.
in I Kjryptain and Fast Indian science,
,... -niritual advisor, crystal reader and
God- gifte<| seer," was sentenced to
serve three years by Judge Smathers. ini^;;'as ^u'would natural
One "f Davis handbills, shown in (ljthl,r bollo(, perco]aU.j ,
court, called "Prof. Okon a mind
reader.
o
Its Best
Alt ho decaffeinized coffee
■ver i ( mi from the Arabic.
Do you know what is in my mind 7
(I the judge.
"No," answered Davis.
"Three years in prison for taking
may bo
coffee—
. , . or hy the
drip m<'thod is the l est When br.-wed
in a drip pot. Heat fresh water to
b.lilting, pour over ground cf... 0I)f.
cup for every tablespoon of "fp, an,j
one for pot. Place pot over I . v flume
to keep it hot, but do not boil.
0f loading there from u!l seaports. Cot-
ton -hipment- are especially heavy,
Raymond S. Blunt, of Chicago, is I
culled the human time clock. 11" re-
members where he was, what hap-
pi'tied every hour, every minute i>f the . i
Is, ten years. In four months of thi
year, for instane, he spent OHR hours
in slei p, 25 hours in church 'ffi.'t hour-
at meals, 4S hours on pleasure, etc.
That's interesting, but keeping
tr.: 'k of time, hours and minutes, is
not as important as putting something
into the hours and minutes. For in-
Thomas j
messages
in change is due to more sanitary moth-j "s u' " '.tS ni'^ht be sent over tlv
same wire at the same time, was as
important to the world than all the
well regulated hours in the lives of
ten thousand other men.
Stop Butter Fat Los*
7 65 "per cent during the first stven T'leT"',' r™ The dairymen of DeWitt county
months ef 1928 n> cWnJ,IJ rhr.-ti'"that oth.^wisV would have last ye r su.-tained b.sses of fn.m '■>
Sr EST1^in"rJ^oAi.miS ■ .i!- ;«r >
spite the fact that both freight a; <! "U>ton or Gtlveston. t orpu> Chris- farni. The t,t,unty fl„. ' n^nt
passenger earnings fell off. 1 he in- 1 '*<omt • p< i .u ' • has been giving demonstrations on
crease in net income was due to , va^t area of the richest part of , mv t<) . cr^>uin st,paratm.S( m,lk
decrease in all major items ot op j uxas. cans and otner vessels clean, the re-
era ting expenses. The decrease in ^ i sll]^ being that the los.- has be.-a
passenger traffic was due to private Point Isabel Port Project largely eliminated. Last year thi
automobile and motor bus travel, and, if Government requirements are total sweet creamery wa receiving
some of the decrease in freight "e- rm.t j)V the people of the Lower Rio 125 gallons of sour dairy; thi< year .
ceipts was attributable to competr'vo Grande Valley, Point Isabel will be-' the amount of sour cream has drop- s nf^; 10 tninute in which
truck lines. j come another important Texa« port, ped to 10 or 15 gallons daily. Tho i • '/dison decided that two
Both bus and truck lines are offer- requirements are $600,000
ing quicker service in most case - cush and title to some lands at Point, ods of handling the milk
than the railroads and deliveries sit Isabel, on securing which the Govern-
destinations closer to business con rm,nt wj|] rili,ke $1,000,000 appropria- Terrell's Cotton Estimate
ters. Greater frequency of both bus tjon for port development and budget; George B. Terrell, Texas commi
and truck trips also tends to make , $150,000 annually for maintenance a> sinner of agriculture, in his late-t i "
them more popular. 'recommended by its engineers. This port, estimates the Texas cotton crop1 Gold has been the unit of value , J
will provide convenient and quick at 4,775,000 bale- and the total crop since men first found strange henv>' A
Cotton Goes By Trucks outlet for the large citru- fruit nnd at 1-1,000,000. The heavy equinoct'al 1 little yellow grains washed down by R
Much of the cotton from interos', vegetable output of the Valley and rain- will likely cause a -till fur*h« r mountain streams, thousand of years
points in Texas is now going by result in complete development of decrease in production estimate ago.
trucks to Houston, Corpus Chri-ti that part of the State. It seems Commissioner Terrell say- the c-ep Men have struggled for gold and
and other coastal shipping point*, that all that is now needed is th<; now justifies a price of 20 cent-, an 1 died weeping because they couldn't
Elgin reports that truck shipments co-operation of that section in meet- there are good reasons for beliovinj take it along, and have murdered each "J
from that point to Houston run from ing the requirements. I he is right. ( other for gold.
150 to 200 bales a day, trucks being
Drugs You II Want
for Cold Weather
r,
>
loaded with from 16 to 22 bales each, |.'a||s County Bond Issue
and making a trip every 24 hour- p|ans ^ ^ formuluted for a
Shippers say that the great advan |2>000,000 road bond issue
i Now cold science tells you, "Gold
'I' i won't always be the unit of value
lexas Crate Factories
m There are several crate factorie „„ „1I1V ¥jlllJt.
4 . . n T<,,UUV|VU.> xunu uimn .s.uu for Falls 'noo°LhCr' W,tn clTtal stwk Nitrogen will replace it. being the
tago m truck shipments ,s that when cQun this-nearly ,f f4'"'0"0 has recently been organ- foundation of our foo.l supply, and of
the cotton is loaded it j?oes rich l_i/ • • • - • • «t sun Antom^ munnfonhiwi h#- ''
through to the port without
/^OUGH medicines, cold remedies
hot water bottles, lotions for ?
chapped hands—scores of different ■
articles and home remedies needed '
for the coming winter use are fea-J
tured now at Our Store. j
1
Winter is close at hand--so be prepared |
with all Drug Necessities
. , , !UUIIt\, /\ 1 n 1%t* I'HII Ol inis Ilfill 1\ ; . . ^ 4 4*' * UIIMHIIWII <u
half—is to be used for retiring out- "7' ' ,San °w0 mami1ffVtu,'t' lifp-
' e,i!y standing district road bonds, and the }7"ta^".,a!frmt crat'" an(1
n.(i , rest for improving its State-desig- J""1 '"J ' x ^ gj'm wood. Which Every square
"tchH nated hiirhwav- of which Falls that increased production is , x- earth's surfm-e
and is not left to stand around
railway yvrds for-days, or switched ^ hihway of which Fa„,
off at sidings The railroads are go t f th t crg.
ing to have to rive quicker and bet- , ^ entire length of th.. county,
ter service, or they will eventua'ly, B .
lose most of the local freight ship
ments. The public is looking alwn, -
for better service and turns to t'le
agencies supplying it.
pected in Texas, as that amount . f
money i- not placed 111 factory equip
ment unless there is good reason to
expect profitable returns.
mile of air above the
carries twenty million
tons of nitrogen, enough to last the
world twelve years.
C. Erhard & Son!
DRUGGISTS \
^ PHONE 33 BASTBOP. T! \ \S
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Texas Pecan Crop
Buyers of Texas
are ests-
Weist Cheese Factorv
West i« to have a cheese factory,
the first to be built in that part of nuyers ot lexas ecan-
the State. West and the surround- mating the crop of native pecans at
j ing country is populated largelv by 14,000,000 pounds, for which prizes ;gj
of Corpui thrifty farmers of Bohemian descent ranging from 15 to 20 cents a p< un 1 gf
Christi is increasing at a niarvelo is and it is a safe prediction that they should be exnected. Only a ma'l
rate, proving that the development of will make a success of the enterprise percentage of Texas pecans ;ire of th
Corpus Christi Port
Business at the port
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WALLPAPER
In hew Fall Designs
We've a splendid showing of artis-
:j tic wallpaper in pleasing new fall |
| designs and attractive color arrange- f
ments. Included are papers for f
every room in the house, with va-
rious styles of borders to match.
paper shell varieties and these usual-
ly bring from f>0 cents t> $1.00 a
pound.
-0
This Week
AJo Park Bench Seat
for the Saver
Rv Arthur Brisbane
You will enjoy inspecting these new arrivals
many of thorn in the latest modernistic trend.
Come in and let us talk over your redecorat-
ing problems. You will find our prices very
reasonable .
ERIC, THE BOBOT
j BE POI.ITE TO OUAFI
,( A HUMAN TIME CLOCK
NITROGEN REPLACING GOLD
An exibition in London introduces
"Eric, the Robot," a manshaped wood-
en and metallic machine that rises to
its feet, stretches out an arrr to com-
mand silence and makes a speech.
The shiny, metalic man-machine
its slanting yellow eyes lighted by
electricity, frightens spectators.
J. L. Wilbarger & Co.
Some workers will dread the pos-
sibilities of competition by .nachine
men. But there is no danger. When
BASTROP
starve them.
Jk modern cloth-making machinery wad.
£ first used England built forts to pro-1,
V tect the machinery from enraged
^ workers, convinced that it would
If something unforeseen should happen
tomorrow and you should lose your job-
what? Would you, because of lack of finances
be forced to give up your home and pleasant
surroundings? Not if you take time by the
forelock and start saving now while earning.
---Then you will have a bank account
to care for you in time of need.
W e carry cheeking accounts on our books for every purpose
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£
$
$
For business, for home needs and all others,
and certain way to keep a perfect account of
Open an account at Our Hank TODAY.
It is a convenient
your expenditutrs
First National Bank
BASTROP
TEXAS
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THE FUMBLE FAMILY
"SORRY, Ol.n MAN!"
By DUNKiv
' V'E VASJT TH' 7 RlGUT BACK
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WOUCrr 1 DON'T GErT NO
'T&NCHUN AT ALL.BELF.IVE:
MEr IN 1 GErT TING- FED UP!
TMK- GUV V'v'MO VAlD t-iBr
sVL.ED A DOG'? UFEr*MA.D
A LOT TO Bes THANKFUL
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AM' MAVBEr 1 AIN'T
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Schaefer, H. A. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1928, newspaper, October 4, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206607/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.