The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 13, 1928 Page: 5 of 10
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Mr. Waldrip Says Over Twelve
Per Cent Saved At "M" Siores
f^et us make a few figures on what a email savins oo every
item you may purchase in a year's t ime ivill arnouut to.
Money in worth on an average of elgut ten per cent per year.
W ithout a doubt you can nave ten to twenty per cent on your
grocery bill by buying in an 'M" System store, for the following
common sense reasons: We do not have clerks, you wait on your-
self, we do not have a bookkeeper, he must be paid; we do not have
charge accounts, consequently you do uot.pay the bill the other
fellow beats; we do not have to borrow money to carry accounts,
there is interest that must be paid. Suppose your grocery bill
amounts to, say thirty five dollars per month (this is a small esti-
mate) and you are able to save twelve and one half per cent by
trading at the "M" System this will amount to four dollars and
thirty seven cents per month, or fifty-two dollars aud forty four
cents per year; and since money is worth at least eight per cent the
entire amount would be fifty-six dollars and sixty-three cents, or
enough to pay your average grocery bili for one and one half
months out of the year. In addition to this saving you have the
privilege of selecting j ist what you want, you are not required to
buy what you do not care to use. "M" System Stores do not
"Push" any particular items, we simply put the best the market
affords in the shelves and let you choose your favorite brands.
Why Fall Freshening Pay#
FALL FRESHENED
FALL AND WINTER PRICES-
Fluid Milk <2.71 cm.
Butter - 41.8$ lb
I
lbs.
I Milk
$2.41 cost
per cm
6822 mi
lbs. Milk
$2.71
cost
rr cwt.
KPRW * Mn
Fluid Mjlk $2.53 cwt.
Farm Butter 5ft.K' lb.
SPRING FRESl W.liED
JMRS-ROfBUCK AGRICULTURAL. FOUNDATION
Tremendous Co3t of Our Rat Population
Total Value of
THREE CROPS
$191,000,000
Cost of Maintaining
RAT POPULATION
$200,000,000
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J
BARLEY
112
MILLION
dollars
million
dollars
million dollars
STARS-HOUiW * AOHICmiUHAL rOUNDATION
COWS freshening during the spring muntlM <lo not produce milk as
economically ns Ihnse which freshen nt other seasons, and prices received
for their product average tower, tlie Kears-ltoebuck Agricultural Foundation
4H Jnt3-i!Ht.
ttecords of dairymen covering a flve-year period analyzed by the Ohio
t'ollcge of Agriculture allowed that cows In herds lu which less than 25 per
cent freshened In the months of March, April and May produced an average
of 8,1."4 pounds of milk a year at a cost of $£47 per 100 pounds. Herds In
which :ir. per cent or more freshened in the spring produced an average of
only 0.S22 pounds of nilllt at an average cost of :.i2.71 per 100 pounds.
The cost of feed and labor per cow was lower In spring freshening therd#,
but the milk production per cow and the cost of producing 100 pounds of
milk decreased as the proportion of spring-freshened cows diminished.
I'rices of dairy products tend to he higher during the fait and winter
months, when most of the product of full-freshened cows would be marketed
than during tlie spring and summer months. The price paid to producers at
country plants for standard fluid milk containing 3.5 per cent butterfat
averaged $2.71 in tlie six months from October to March, Inclusive, In the
lire years. 1022 to 102(1, inclusive, compared with $2.53 in tlie
remaining six months. The price of farm butter averaged 41.8 ceuts in the
six fall and winter months compared with 38.1 cents Id tlie six spring and
summer months.
7'IIK cosl ot maintaining the nil population oi thu United States aggregate.
$200 oou 000 a year, which Is equal to almost two dollars for every man
woman and child in the country. An excellent example of the enormity oi
ibis wanton destruction Is found In comparing it with the total ruluatioi
„f some of our principal crops. The barley, rice and rye crop last year win
worth sI'M (Kid000. If the ral population restricted its diet to these three
crops It would consume the entire production and still full ?f),000,000 slior
of satisfying lis appetite, according to the Sears lloebuck Agricultural Ifoun
dutlou in addition to this enormous deslructlon of food, the rat is a carrie.
.,f such serious diseases as bubonic plague, rabies, Infections, jaundice am
•sleeping sickness.
Farmers probably bear more than their proportionate sliure of till,
expense 1>t harboring them In barns and cribs. The Increase In the course oi
\ne year from one pair of rats allowed to survive under favorable eoiniltlom
■nay easily reach 100, since they will produce from six to ten litters n yea,
averaging'ten young per litter, and the young will breed when four month*
Fiirtns can be freed of these pests If proper steps are taken. TUes<
Iicluilc burning the trnsh which harbors them, raking refuse from under suci
Mi'iidin s >.* corn cribs piling lumber and other material h f«o! or uif>r
pvund ltd IV Im "iTcctlve pots -.IS. Cribs and rat burrows under coi
nm tic fum:anted with calcium cyanide, whlc'i can be easilj used h;.
m.y mature i crs"ii Red SquTTTls n uewlj developed polton which rats wfl
tun red'Illy when mixed with foods. It Is relatively harmless t>> other an I
,. ,'s ii is distasteful to them and it acts at no emetic wueo ta|ieu by owe
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The Interscholastic League
Financial Report.
First, I wish to say I have tried
to handle the League iu a busi
nee* like way. I have given it
the same consideration I would
tny own, personal business.
I hope you have not been die
appointed in the League work,
Let us try to have a better
League as yearB go on, and make
our county a better place in
which to live.
The report is as follows:
Receipts.... #226 31
Expenses-
Referee Boys Meet 12 50
" Co. "
5 00
Judges Board Bill 13 00
" Transportation.. 20.00
Telephone calls 4 33
Medals 82 DO
Banners 12.00
Postage and mailing... 5 15
.$ ] 55.50
Balancp $ 70.81
The Cass County Institute gave
the League $07 7(5 which has not
beeu counted in the above report.
Note: There were no banners
bought last year for the winners
of the League.
The executive committee for
this year authorized me to buy
these bauners, but as there are
three High Schools claiming the
High School Banner, I cannot
buy it until this is settled by the
last year committe.
I am buying a Rural Sbhool
bauuer for Goodson, which will
be charged to the above balance.
Wo ihesigud the contestants
regular admission the first night
of the Co Meet. The other nights
we did not charge them.
So 1 am goiog to refund their
money as I promised to do. This
refund will be charged tn thin
account also.
The Referee for girls at Co.
Meet has uot been paid, this ex
pense will also be charged to the
account.
The above statement is correct
to the best of my knowledge, if
there should be any mistakes 1
shall be glad to correct them.
I wish to thank every one who
helped us in the League and I es
ppcially thank Miss Ona Bella
Skelton, and MissYalaria White,
for their untireing serviops in
keeping the records of the Lea-
gue. Yours Trnly,
D. H.Boon.
W. M. S.
The Missionary Society met at
(he church with a good number
present. The study topic was
Religious Education. We fiud
that this is the compass of life
There was $1 05 turned in for
Skidon and $1 02 for eggs
37 visits to the sick reported
and 35 trays.
All of the Methodist ladies try
to be present next Monday. We
have some important business
to bo attended to.
NOTICE
We bpg to advise our custom-
ers that we will only be open
from 6 to 8 o'clock on Suuday
no delivery. Please come for
your meats between those hours,
Taylor Grocery Co.
The young attorney was callpd
*)y the cnurt and given his first
cane, as is the custom when de
fendants have not enough mon-
ey to retain an attorney
He was abit frustrated as he
looked ar mud for his client.
"Are all these thugs to be iti
led?" be asked.
"That," sairl the court/Ms Die
j.l'iry "
'M' SYSTEM HAS
PORTER TROUBLES
(Zcke Writes for a New Job)
Mr. W. Waldrip—
I been workin fob de VI sistum
a long time I done worked in
bout fifteen or twente of em I
noas all about beiu Pot ah in one
of em I wants to go to Cliillicotte
Texas bout next Saddity an
work for you 1 been roun de
main ofis jess bout long nuff they
is 2 strong for wantin everythiu
so' dog gone clean round dese
here M sistum stoabs an every
time day sends out some mo sis
turns they jiss tells t he new men
whats buyin eiu they can't have
itouten they gonna keep the
place sho rinff clean i been hopin
they wild fi-ryet to tell some of
em so 1 cud get me a easy job I
tieen lissen close but I aint foun
no place where one o dese m sis
turns places what doiit keep
em 2 clean. Coase I dout lak no
heavy work im to lite for heavy
work an im too heavy fob lire
work Dow n here at dis plica dey
got bout everything what you
anil* in a store an they gets it in
catz an you no im sposed to be
de potah well the other day i was
settin doun tryin to think an of
cous lak any nigger i riaohelly
went to sleep an they woke me
up an tole me to git out in the
back an help unlodesome of thirn
carz of flower and at air car of
-surp an at car of benz im sposed
to be potah an I dont lak to roll
no trux anyhow I was bout uu-
loadin the cars an i was kinda
sleepy cause i had done bin out
de nite befoul) to a ise creme fes
tival and sosial crap game an I
was sleepie i set doun ori at truk
an i kinda, dosed off an uex thing
i noed it was a earth quake an a
hipt etirt b quakeS! lettsw ut what
i tboughten it was but em other
uriloaders, jess common niggers
said i was jug* skard but im iron
oa tell you how twhs so you will
no its a cat. roun hear what one
of de ladys pets all tome, and at
cat aint no fren uv mine cause
here what he done he walked in
some uv at snrp what he spilt
and en he walked in'some uv at
flower an bout at, time a dog
roun de plase got aff<*u at cat an
de cat come teariu rite ovab my
fase an count uv him pusbin back
so hard on his feet to run at
when be run ovah mah fase his
ole claus cut a lot uv big holes
aud cuts in ttitin fase an at surp
an flower got doun in de cuts an
i wuz sneezin 2 wheu i woke up
reason i thought it wuz a earth
qualk was onus whin he run ovah
mah fase i nachelly woke up an
jumpt an whin i did i slipt on de
truk an knocked down some sax
uf flower an some uv em busted
an got all ovah me an i wuz
nocked out wen them common
niggers got five galluns of ice wa-
ter and poad it ot) me to bring
me 2 an i fel doun un broke a
plum good bottle uv gin an at
water got my cigar what i had
in my pocket all wet, it sho was
a mess an de reason i was sneezin
wen i woke up was cause dat la
dy had done put a lot uv dis here
flee pouder ou at ole cat an he
must a stoppek on mah fase
long uuff to shake his self. These
here common niggers all tirre
playin some kind a joke on me i
will tell you all bout it when i
comes up to git de job uex sad-
dity. youah fret),'
Ezikitl r Brown.
Rev. W. D Iiollingsworih,
wife and little son, from Saltillo,
spent the week end nut in I lit*
Mill Creek community. Their
daughter, Miss Gladys, wh > has
been teaching in the Mill Creek
school returned bnine with the in.
"M" SYSTEM YOUNG
TEXAN'S IDEA
By Ell. Carl too
President "M" System Mfg. Co.
Only a short time since a young
business man of Texas saw the
necessity aud corning of chain
grocery stores that was being
demanded by an all exacting
buying public. Having had years
of retail experience and possess-
ing the ability to foresee the
wants of the people along this
line, he began the experiment of
arrangement and method of sell-
ing groceries under his own sys-
tem. After two years of embryo
store operation, twelve city stor-
es were put into operation; this
put his stores beyond the experi-
mental stage. Before all arran-
gements could be made for tlx?
manufacture of these fixture#,
aud offered to t he wide awake
merchants, unsolicited orders for
the "M" system began to come
into the office of the company
that had been f irmed for the pur
pose of manufacturing this pur-
ticnlar kind of fixtures.
During the entire tim« of the
existence of the "fastest growing
system of chain stores in the JtT.
S. A." the policy has not varied
iu the least. Among those things
are to offer for sale in an "M"'
system store nothing but nation-
al advertised merchandise, fo
put nothing but quality brands
of anything on the shelves, whe-
ther it be.toothpicks or the high-
est priced fancy fruits or sacks of
flour. These stores have never
varied iu th^ir pilicy of having a
full and complete sto *k at all
times, and to tne through their
connections with the many "M"
system stores in the muster chain
all the produce it can from the
farmers of their respective trade
territory. This connection with
the hundreds of other stores in
the chain all ows local stores U>
distribute their purchases among
members in territory having no
produce offered. In fact the ma-
jority of surplus produce bought;
by the local stores is sent into
larger towns,thereby eliminating
the middleman and his profit.
Local stores draw from other lo-
calities offering something the
local territory does not provide.
This affords all "M" system sto-
res an opportunity to off*r thair
trade anything in this line at low
cost due to the fnoo that- they do
not pay profit to brokers, job-
bers or other middlemen. The
"M" system retains its own
wholesale bouses, which means
merchandise passed directly from
the factories to the shelves of
these stores Merchandise is con-
tracted for in Irtjge q nan ties and
distributed to the various "M"
store* over4he many states they
cover.
All these things combined with
the fact that these stores do not
have clerks or bookers, or solic-
itors, and have uo lost accounts,
and uo delivery, are the many
reasons they are in a position to
sell quality merchandise at a
more reasonable price.
All "M'* system stores are ex-
actly alike, even each can and
package will be found on the
same shelf in Denver as in Linden.
The arrangement of the fixtures
are such that you can see from
the front door any item you want
Everything is marked with large
plain price tags. The shelving is
painted with white enamel and
everything is absolutely clean.
The stock rootn is clean as the
front of the store. Should tho
operator of one of these storen
fail to keep up his stock and keep
everything absolutely clean, he
will lose his franchise to t!>«• use
use of the*"M" sy'stetu.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 13, 1928, newspaper, March 13, 1928; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341474/m1/5/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.