Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 243, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 27, 1907 Page: 2 of 7
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On Monday July 29 we arc going to quote some special prices on all Summer goods
including light weight Dress Goods Lawns Organdies Waist Silks Chiffons Voiles Ladies'
Ready-made Waists and Skirts Ladies' and Men's Oxfords Men's 2-piece suits Straw Hats
etc. including everything in Spring and Summer goods. This offer cannot fail to interest you.
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The Daily Bulletin
MAYES PRINTING COMPANY Proprietors.
Entered at the Brownwood PostoflSce as Second Class Mail Matter.
mbcription Per Month 50c
WILL H."MAYES Managing Editor.
B. F. MAYES Business Manager. C. A. TUN NELL. City Editor.
. C. C. SEITZ Daily Circulator. 23. E. KIRKPATRICK Associate Editor.
W.'.R. DULA Foreman Mech. Dept.
THE BROWNWOOD DRIVEWAY.
Nothing that is being done for Brownwood will add more to
the comfort of the people than the driveway proposed to. the new
city park upfthe river. It is now proposed to widen the road
leading out to the bridge northeast of the city until the second
slough is reached then turn up the slough following its meander-
ings until the road intersects another driveway which is to ex-
tend from the foot of East Broadway straight out to the park.
Both the roads are to be 110 feet wide. The parties who have
land adjoining have all generously donated enough to make this
driveway with the exception of Mr. W. N. Adams who is out of
town and does not understand the situation or the advantages.
He instructed his representative here to do whatever he deemed
best but Mr. Brooke Smith who is representing him did not
feel at liberty to make any permanent 'negotiations until Mr.
Adams' return. though he thinks that when he gets home and
sees what is proposed Mr. Adams will be glad to make any kind
of satisfactory arrngementfor a right of way. In the mean time
.Mr. Smith has granted a temporary right of way for the purposes
of getting a road to the reunion grounds and the driveway will be
opened the full 110 feet in width. The generosity of the citizens
in donating this beautiful drivefto the city will be repaid by the
increased attractiveness of their adjoining property for it is pro
posed to make this one of the prettiest drives in all the state. The
connecting driveways will make a belt leading into the wide
driveway already owned by the city along the banks of Pecan
river which with its beautiful shades is already one of the pret-
tiest natural roads to be found anywhere. The committees are
at work and hope to have the roads ready in fairly good shape
"by the time of the reunion nextlmonth. Another thing that is be-
4ing considered and which will probably be presented to the
commissioners court at its August meeting will be the widening
of the slough bridge at the foot of South Broadway to accommo-
date the travel. This has been needed for many years for the
marrow bridge there is a positive danger to every one who has
any occasion to use it This bridge is county property and all the
north end of the county is especially interested just as much as
Brownwood in having there a bridge to meet the requirements.
This bridge should be very wide should bo constructed to as to
force driving to the right side at all tiroes and rtoutf ftaye foot
bridges on either side. The old briige was 1aU fight when it
was built and met the demands but the country and the town
have increased in population nearly tenfold since then increasing
the travel in the same proportion.
BETTER ROADS.
The Fifty Thousand Club is jnUretting itself inlbetter roads.
The club thinks that good country roads are of as much import-
ance as railroads. The loss to the people of the country by bad
roads has been enormous. The farmers .should have the very
best facilities for getting their crops to town and the best joads
are none too good for them. At the meeting of the executive
committee Friday a movement was inaugurated to improve the
road leading from here to Rising Star and a committee of which
C. H. Jenkins is chairman was appointed to get right to work to
that end. The people of Rising Star and May will both be inter-
viewed and asked to co-operate in the work. A trip of inspection
will be made oyer the road to see what the requirements will be
and to estimate the probable cost. Mr. Jenkins is a man who
will be of vast assistance in the matter. Besides being full of
energy and interested in the welfare of the people of both the
country and the town he is an engineer of experience having
begun life in that business. His keen eye is always alert for de-
fects in road building and his suggestions in an engineering way
are always -valuable as he knows just how to build and maintain
the best rate) at the least expense. It is fortunate that he is in-
teresting himself in this matter and can give some time to. it
now. The improvement of the Rising Star road will likely be im-
raediately followed by similar work on other roads but the club
thought best to give its earliest attention to the road leading to
.the north era enof the couaty -after which others of almost if
exjuai importance win ne consiuereu.
PEANUTS OR CORN.
More and more attention should be paid to the raising of hogs
in this country. The best' feed for growing hogs is some green
pasture like alfalfa bermuda or rape supplemented with a small
amount of dry feed like corn. Peanuts make a fine substitute
for corn and on our sandy soils can be grown must abundantly
and successfully. A good corn crop in this section is twenty-five
or thirty bushels per acre and the average yield will possibly not
exceed eighteen bushels. The little Spanish peanut on soil at all
adapted to it will make never less than fifty or sixty bushels and
often much more. It is as certain a crop as can be grown and
as a finisher for hogs is worth as much bushel for bushel as corn.
The hogs can be turned into the field and made to do their own
harvesting. The Bulletin hopes to see the time come when every
farmer especially every upland farmer will have a peanut field
for his hogs and will regard the crop as necessary as a corn crop.
It will mean an increased number of hogs and a greatly increased
profit in the production of meat
WASTE ON THE FARM.
There is not a farm in this country that utilizes all the farm
products as they should be used' nor a farmer who uses his land
to the best advantage. The great trouble with all farmers is that
they try to do too much. They are not satisfied with anything
except big things and want to count their acres by the hundreds
or thousands instead of by the tens. The Bulletin believes that
the farmer who does all his own work with the assistance of his
family will be better off with forty acres of land than with a
hundred or with more. No tenant should be rented more than forty
acres of landand of tener less will do even better. The farmer
with so much land in cultivation is seldom able to till the soil as
it should be tilledfor at the seasons when it is most needed every-
thing should be done at.one time and something must of necessity
be neglected. The farmer with forty or fifty acres of good land
can keep it well improved.can see that nothing goes to waste and
can come out at the end of each year much better off than the
one who scatters his energies. In nearly every case it will pay
the farmer with more land either to sell off the surplus and in-
vest the money in something else or to arrange his place for one
good tenant to every forty acres.
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There is much more ienorance in the East about Texas than
one would imagine. In fact many Eastern people appear to
know nothing about anything beyond the block or neighborhood
in which they live. The editor of the Bulletin was being shaved
by a rather talkative barber at the Jamestown Exposition. Final
ly the barber asked where he was from. When he told the bar-
ber that he lived in Texas the reply was: "Texas must be a
good big city for I shave a great many people from there." A
few days later a party of Texans were taking an automobile ride
in Baltimore wnen one oi tnem rota we awry w tne guiue wuu
appeared in deen thoueht for a moment as if trying to locate
some thine in his memory and then soberly and in greatest earn
est said "Well it must be quite a city for I remember having
heard of it often." Neither of these men had any idea of the
blunder into which they had fallen And yet there are people in
Texas who think that all the world knows all about this satte.
Brownwood Bulletin.
If all the world knew about Texas all the world would come
hustling down here to share in our great blessings. We don't
want all the world but we do need a few more of the people in
the world down here. Editor Mayes experiences show there is
a fertile field for missionaries. Let's send some more North East
and West San Antonio Express.
The ignorance of the people of the far east regarding Texas
s indeed most astonishing. A man could deliver a free lecture
on Texas to a Boston audience and tell them that Texas is one of
the Philippine islands and half the crowd would believe it
Selfishness is an impediment to successa recurring stumb-
ing block in the way of ambition. Don't build a little hall of
'ame of your own and rat the habit of climbinar un on the main
pedestal. Get out in the open and take your chances with the
world. Fight clean lend the helping .hand and by and by every-
body will be boosting you alone. And. come to think about it
they ought to. Fort Worth Star.
Selfishness is indeed a great evil and ought to be overcome
as much as possible. Our money getting business habits and our
ways of life lead us jnto selfish ways. But it doesn'timatter how
clean a record' a man may have in the open the time will not come
when everybody will befready tolboost him along as the Star sug-
gests. The world is full of people who would rather pull anyone
down thanto give hima boost and that itself is one of the evils
of selfishness. '
The great theatrical trust appears to be defying the senti-
ment that exists against trusts generally. There has been a
recent decision that theaters are not things of trade or commerce
and are therefore not amenable to the laws prohibiting combina-
tions in restraint of trade. Consequently the greatest kind of a
trust feels entirely-free to do as it pleases. Therefore amuse-
ments havefgone sky high in prices in the Eastern cities and the
West will nave to follow in the wake. Prices have lately ad-
vanced fully fifty per cent in most of the theaters and they may
be doubled. Practically all the theaters in New York City are now
under about two managements and these also cover most of the
important cities of the country. Just what the further result of
the perfection of the great trust will be remains to be seen. The
people are all interested. Brownwood Bulletin.
Oh I that's a dead easy conundrum. While the price goes up
the quality will come down. Reckon there won't be one chorus-
girl worth looking at next fall. San Antonio Express.
Then what will the bald headed exchange man of the San
Antonio Express do for entertaniment?
From every point the farming class in this country is in bet-
ter shape now than at any period since the civil war. More peo-
ple own their own homes and little farms; more are free from the
yoke of bondage inflicted by burdensome debts; more are becom-
ing independent each year by making a comfortable living for
their families; more are waking up to the necessity of giving-
their children better educational advantages and withal pros-
nerity and contentment seem to ore vail throuerhoot the countrv.
Let progress still be our watchword. Hico News-Review.
The farmers are thinking for themselves as they have never
done before. They study their own interests. They not only
know how to grow crops but they are fast learning how to mark-
et them. Whenever the government and government in that
sense means the politicians will afford the farming interests pro-
tection against the trusts so that every time they turn around
they must not pay unjust tribute to Standard Oil and the hundreds
of other trusts patterned after this one then will the farmer in-
deed secure the well earned rewards of his own labor.
Chas. Anderson an Austin lawyer has gone over all the tax
rolls for 1906 in the comptrollers' office and says he finds that not
a single state officer rendered any cash on hand and that the
combined membership of the present legislature rendered only
$770 in cash. This would lead one to the conclusion that our law-
makers and officers are poverty-stricken or a choice set of tax
dodgers. There are a number of renters in Comanche county who
render for tax more cash than the whole ' crowd. Comanche Ex-
ponent That is indeed a bad showing but keep still Brother Adams.
The first thing you hear some legislator will be digging up the
newspaper record on money renditions. You know there are a
lot of those little representatives who are living merely to even
up with the press for making them give up their railroad passes.
The Brownwood Bulletin has invested in a linotype machine
and it will be installed for use about the first of August. The
Bulletin is the most progressive paper in this section of Texas
and is printed in one of the most progressive cities in the souths
The Leader is pleased to note the evidences of prosperity whkkj
urrouna me oujieun ana xs name biki nopes wcy may continue
to flourish. Lampasas Leader.
And the Bulletin has just the same reciprocal feeling for
Brother Vernor and the Leader and rejoices in their prosperity
and in the upbuilding of Lampasas almost as much as in the
growth of its own business and its ojrji boate town. Ltapasa
ought to become the greatest health resort in Texas and if all the
people there were as much interested in it as Brother Vernor it
would be.
If newspapers waited forscarehead stories before getting oat
an edition how long do you suppose such papers would remain la
public notice? And so it is with the merchant and .his advertis-
ing. Tell the .buying public about the little things tie household
economy urometers and money savers. Then woea ready to cat
a big melon there will be no troabk in drav&g pe buyers; for
they will be acquainted with the merchant and know his goods
and his methods. Fort Worth Star.
The duller the times get the harder every newspaper man in
the land works and the more energy he puts iato his busiiiets.
Every one in the business understands that this must be done to
keep up as nearly as possible an average paper. The same rule
should apply to the mercantile business. Hard work does won-
ders in overcoming hard times. . Advertising is really more need-
ed in dull times than at other times.
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Mayes, Will H. Daily Bulletin. (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 243, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 27, 1907, newspaper, July 27, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth345298/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.