Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 254, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907 Page: 4 of 7
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MAYES PRINTING COMPANY Proprietors.
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Sntered at the Brownwood Postoffice as Second Class Mail Matter.
Subscription Per Month 50?
WILL H. MAYES Managing- Editor
a. F. MAYES Business Manager. C. A. TUNNELL. City Editor
t C. SEITZ Daily Circulator. E. E. KIRKPATRICK Associate Editor.
W. R. DULA Foreman Mech. Dept.
THE ONLY KNOCKER.
Prom the hundreds of the reports of the Texas Farmers Con-
gress contained in the newspapers of the state the only criticism
the Bulletin has seen has come from the Southwestern Parmer
a paper published at Houston and edited by Stanley Watson. Of
course the congress is hardly as perfect in all its working details
as Mr. Watson could make it but there are thousands of farmers
who can see testify to the benefits to be derived from the organi-
zation. It would at least be more becoming under the peculiar
circumstances known to those acquainted with Stanley's aspera-
tions if he cant see his way clear to boost to at least keep his
hammer in his pocket.
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE A. & M. COLLEGE-
It is gratifying to notice that some $200000 in improvements
. are to be added to the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
near Bryan. Gradually the state is coming to see the importance
-of this institution and as it does is becoming more liberal with it.
A great dealis being done there for Texas boys.and that work will
grow in importance with the facilities afforded. The little talk
that is occasionally made about moving the institution to North
Texas will never meet with public favor and friends of the insti-
tution need have no fears on that account. There is too much in-
vested at College Station for this ever to happen. There may
come a time and there should if Texas feels able to do it -when
there will be another and perhaps more than one other institu-
tion of a similar character in Texas but that is in the f uture and
"will in no wise interfere with the college the state now has. Texas
is too big to have any petty jealousies as to location of state in-
stitutions. "
WORKING THE EDITORS.
Some of the newspapers throughout the state are protesting
against the custom of the management of the Dallas Pair in mak
ing the opening day press Day. The Fair is never ready to show
its best features on the first day and as a consequence there are
many newspaper people in Texas who have never really seen a
State Pair at Dallas. They go on the first day in ohedience to the
call of the State Press Association find the grounds torn up ex-
hibitors busily at work everything in confusion and nothing re-
ally Worth seeing. They are hurried around the grounds given a
banquet and are expected to go home and enthuse their people to
go and see the fair when it is completed. The State Press associ-
ation should ask for a day after the fair is well under way and
failing to get it should stay away as an organization allowing the
members to go individually as they please. The present plan
looks too much like working the press without giving any thing m
return.
A DIFFERENCE IN FARMERS.
The present spell of weather shows better than anything else
can the difference in farmers. The cotton that has been well
cultivated is standing up well under the dry weather while that
which has been neglected shows the effect of the drouth. G. H.
Ingram who is a pretty close observer says that on a trip from
Goldthwaite to San Saba he passed through a section of country
that had a rain ten days or two weeks ago. In every case where
the cotton has been plowed since the rain and a light dust mulch
left on the top the cotton did not wilt during the hot day but
wherever the plowing had not been done it had wilted. As the
soil gets dryer this difference will be more perceptible for the
soil that is mulched will continue to draw the moisture from the
ground to the roots near the surface while that which was not
plowed will allow the moisture to escape. Yet there are farmers
who work fields side by side who either do not notice this dif-
ference' or noticing it do not care.
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Boys and Girls
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High Grade thorough work.'
Full Courses for Bachelor degrees.
Students are advanced by studies and not held
back in one thing because deficient in others.
Preparatory Department for those not ready for
College Classes.
Conservatory teachers in Music Oratory and
Art.
Last years enrollment the largest in our history.
Catalogue ready.
S. I Chandler Pres.
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WORKING PERSISTENTLY.
The newspaper that works persistently at any one thing long
enough is pretty sure to be rewarded in course of time by seeing
its hopes realized. The great trouble with most papers is that
like most people they scatter their energies most too much and
do not have enoueh to accomplish any one of the many things undertaken.
TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
.That nice broad roadway leading out to Riverside Park is
about completed. The underbrush has been cleaned away in a
part of the park and things are nearly in readiness for the great
reunion out there next week.. Suppose you take a ride out there
in the cool of the afternoon today and see what the city is doing
to make this an attractive resort for Brownwood.
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SOMETHING THAT IS NEEDED. .
The efforts to secure for Brownwood a hospital do not seem
to have met with the encouragement usually accorded such need-
ed institutions and the Bulletin therefore suggests that the
Fifty Thousand Olub take steps to induce the location of a pri
vate sanitarium or hospital here that will meet the demands. In
many places in the state these institutions have received an ex-
cellent patronage.
HAMMERING TEXAS.
The way the Tennessee and Virginia papers Jieep hammer
ing Texas indicates that those old states are losing many of their
best citizens to this state. They do their knocking pleasantly
but persistently hardly allowing an issue to get from the press
without picturing some of the horrors of life in Texas. There
ought to be some way to get those editors out of their states for a
few davs. so that they could have a chance for seeing just what
the rest of the world really looks like.
THE MOSQUITO NUISANCE.
The City Council of Brownwood should ascertain if there is any
way to abate the mosquito nuisance in Brownwood. Mosquitos
are almost intolerable in parts of the town and there is .not
a day that people do not complain of them. Individual action will
not accomplish anything unless it is made to apply to the whole
town. The heat of summer time is bad enough if the nights can
be used for recuperation but where people have to stay awake
and fight mosquitos all night -they are hardly prepared in body
or mind for the work of the day. Is anything Jgoing to be done
about it?
TOO MUCH WATER KILLS TRfiES.
The Bulletin has continually cautioned the public that too
much water is as bad as too little for hackberry trees. The best
way to care for them through the summer is to give them a thor
ough watering once" every two weeks and let them alone the rest
of the time. Continually applying water sours the ground about
the young roots and rots them causing the trees to die. There
are trees in town now that are'dying from keeping the roots
water soaked. If you have any in this condition loosen the soil
around them dig some slacked lime into the top soil put a slight
mulch of dry weeds of dry grass over the loosened soil and leave
without water for ten days or two weeks.
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Boomeranging the Texas Press.
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The Beaumont Enterprise has been rhapsodizing over the
beautiful sunrise at Beaumont and insists that its readers do
"the- lark-is-up-to-meet-the-sun" stunt and come out; and view
the orb of day as it climbs the eastern horizon.Jand the gossamer
mists vanish before it over the beautiful Nechesthe Brownwood
Bulletin decants beautifully on upon the Brownwood sunset and
invites its readers out at evening's close to see the glorious gor-
geous spectacle of the sun sinking to rest in the west as its last
radiant slariting beams fall lovingly and tenderly over the Colorado
country but none of the papers have sung of the sun as it hangs
perpendicular in the heavens nor have they asked their readers
to go with them into the streets or on the house tops to be be-
dazzled and besizzled by its burning rays. It is all very pretty
for poets and dreamers to prate of the beautiful sunrises and
gorgeous sunsets but it takes plenty of energy and backbone to
sing pf an August midday sun or to perform any sort of labor
under its perpendicular rays. East Texas Register.
The Register should remember that there is a time for
all things and that the poets and dreamers dp not flourish best
about midday in August. They should at least be given credit
for doing the early morning and closing day stunts without be
ing expected to labor overtime. They prefer to recess at noon.
Energyjand backbone are distasteful words to them because they
do not rhyme well with anything m their vocabulary. 'There
are plants that flourish under the midday sun but they are not
poets and dreamers. As the Register politely intimates it takes
sterner stuff to go up. against such propositions as we have been
lately having in Texas and there is nothing in it to become un-
duly enthused about. Lets cultivate the . esthetic and forget the
unpleasant things.
'Speaking of hard luck the Signal knows two farmers who
have had far more than their share this year. To begin with
they planted cotton three times. Finally they secured fine stands
and their crops gave promise of a fine yield. Then came the hail
and destroyed the very stalk of the cotton the first day of July
finding their fields as bare as they were in the early spring. They
then planted June corn and millet and had good hopes of raising
a plentitude of feed-stuff. . But ten days ago the army worms
swooped down upon their fields and devoured every stalk of corn
and millet. Five plantings and not a stalk of anything to show
for their work. Honev Grove Sicmal.
The Bulletin would like to know if all that hard luck was in
West Texas or did it really happen in good 'old Fannin county?
The Bulletin is inclined to think that as the editor of the Signal
speaks from 'personal knowledge it must have occurred near Honey
Grove and this goes to show that all the coons are seldom found
up one tree. This would not be mentioned but for the fact that
Fannin county papers have had many wonderful hard luck stories
about west Texas lately though none of them could be much
worse than this oae which came under .Editor Lowry's observa-
tion. Our people and especially those who once lived in Fannin
county will sympathize deeply with these people in their distress.
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Mayes, Will H. Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 254, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1907, newspaper, August 9, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth344766/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.