The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1, Friday, September 6, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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and NEWS
R. F. Cates, Editor and Owner
TTSifnfor? ns Rppnnd-class mat
ter at the post office at Bartlett,
Texas, under th act of March
3, 1879.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 6th 1918
Yes, there are a few slackers in
Bartlett Just as well come out of
the weeds. Your Uncle Sammie has
your number.
The drouth didn't get quite all the
weeds in town. Some portions, both
business and residence look like pov-
erty was right on us. For goodness
and the sake of civic righteousness,
cut the weeds.
Enthusiasm in tho coming Hog
Show in Bartlett on September 28,
is growing and a large crowd is ex-
pected here on that day to see one
of the prettiest lot of hogs ever
shown in Texas. Tell your friends
about it.
v Wo know a perfectly good woman
a church-goer and all that sort of
thing who wouldn't cheat any one out
of a penny. But this same woman
borrows eggs frc-m tho neighbors
when eggs are 60' cents a dozen and
pays the eggs back, egg for egg,
when eggs aro 30 cents a dozen.
A McLennan county soldier, son of
a former postmaster of Moody, has
Written hist pntyher: "Whon, God
made this old world Ho was partial to
France. It is a paradise and a whole
family will live here on a spot of
prottod at)t as large as our garden."
Thte U a hint to the war gardeners.
Just as an inducement to the early buyers for the next
1 0 days we will give a discount of 1 5 per cent on every gar-
ment priced over $15.00. Just 100 coats to select from,
nearly every one different; the new seasons most fashion-
able materials, Velours, Bolivias, Cashmere Velours and
Crystal Cloths lined with plain and fancy linings.
The Coat Suits are made of all the favored materials
and colors, some plain tailored, others with large fur col-
lars. You can buy your Coat Suit in the next 1 0 days at
a saving of 1 5 per cent.
Just a few words to the catalogue Buyers, before you
order your waist, skirt, dress or coat, bring in your cata-
logue and we will convince you that we can fill your order
at less than catlogue prices.
It is a little use for the editor to
waste his lungs and sprain his spine
intrying to boom a town when the
citizens all stand around with their
hands in their pockets and indiffer
ently wait for something to turn up.
If the capitalists or business men do
not put their shoulders to the wheel
and do a little boosting it is useless
for tho editor to try to boom things.
He can write "boom" ntricies till he
gets bald headed but if the citizens
themselves do not take ibold and
push the town will forever stick in
the mud. Of what use is it the lo
cal paper to suggest improvement and
new enterprises if tho suggestion are
never acted upon? One man cannot
boom a town. It requires the con-
certed action of the citizens. When
one man shoulders a town and at-
tempts to carry it there are always
a lot of cranky kickers ready to
jump on top of tho load. Unity of
action is what counts, and until the
citizens of a town realize this, there
will be little doing. We want this
town to be a better town than it is;
and it could easily be made better
and bigger if all the business men
would unite in their efforts along
that line and bost instead of knock.
Elgin Courier.
The schools of Texas will not lack
teachers this fall if strenuous work
upon the part of the United States
Employment Service can preent it
Tp meet the shortage of teachers in
Texas, Mr. II. W. Lewis, Federal Di
rector of the Employment Service,
has determined upon the organization
of a Teachers' Division, and ha3 ap-
pointed Mr. J. A. Redfleld to bo Ex-
aminer of that division with head-
in San Antonio. It will be Mr. Red-
fields duty to see that the jobless
teacher and tho )tcacherless Texas
school are brought together. Teach-
ers desiring positions and superinten-
dents or trustees seeking teachers
will have their needs supplied by com-
municating with him. All kinds of
positions will be filled from tho kind-
orgarden to the university, and wheth-
er in city, village or country. As
with all departments of the U. S.
Employment Service, there will bo no
charge for the service either to em-
ployer or employee.
There is hardly any oxcuse for an
able-bodied man to be Idle these days '
Besides, tho government work, the
farmers in South Toxas aro badly in
neod of laborers. )
BARTLETT, TEXAS j - J
There are people who seem to have
despaired of the future. Eerything,
they say, is on tho down grade. One
man says this war of inexplicable
cruelties and inhuman outrages has
wrecked his faith. Another sees every
humane moement retarded a half a
century. Another insists that after
the war social and industrial revolu-
tions await ub ready to make every
last thing first and every first thing
last Still another declares the pro-
gress ofthe world has been set back
a hundred years.
It's the way you look at it And
the way you look at it depends much
upon your knowledge of the past and
your inner vision of what are the
great realities. If this world to you
is only like a ship drifting without
chart or compass upon a shoreless
sea at the mercy of every wind that
blows and tide that runs, than such
an experience as this through whi"'i
it is just now passing means only a
battered hull, torn cordage, tattered
sails almost wreck, and generations
will be needed to make it look again
even respectable. But if the world
never has rolled on through all the
sea of time, hit or miss, if in spite of
all that looks to the contrary there
have been chart and compass aboard,
and some ono at the helm who has
known what he was about, if this be
true, and multitudes are confident
the facts warrant the conviction that
it is true, then our ship no matter
what the storm or how long the night
has not lost her course.
Let us rest assured that the moral
forces of the world have been and al-
ways will be tho all-conouering for-
cpi. It is a better world that is to be.
Mnnv a hoarv wrontr will be found to
to have been trnmnlcd to to its death
on the frightful fields of this sad war.
Manv an ancient evil entrenched in
humnn customs and conventions,
social, politicnl. re"io"S wi'l be
Wnwrn to ntoms ow nil the human ex-
nlrmivps flmic on bv thp front cn-
flipt nra exht"sterl n"d justice, truth-
Viupinriitv. and nil the virtues thnt
Veen tem comwii". will command
ve rewoncp of rn-nWi'l ns hcp be-
forp. It is for tnts bpMor world to
bo hnf onr noblest nnd bravest nre
trlndlv lavinf down theirlives. It is
ours to stand behind them not onlv
with onr service nnd our monev, but
with this nnwavennir faith that thoy
fight a winning battle.
Pay Up.
Lobs than 30 days to pay what
you owo tho firm of Harlan & Blair
for medical sorvlces. Wo need this
monoy, and at the high price of cot-
ton thero is no reason why you
should not pay us, too.
Harlan & Blair.
Ladies Silk Dreises, Silk and Georgette .Combinations
i aronette Satin, and Silk and Cotton Jerseys priced from
$12.50 to $37.50
Skirts in the new materials as well as Staples, Satin,
Tricolette, Navy and Black Serge, a splendid assortment
of styles and sizes from $5.00 to $ 1 3.50
Shoes for the entire family at very moderate prices. .
We are now showing an extensive line of Georgette
Blouses for fall, prices ranging from $3.95 to $1 2.50
We take Libert3r Bonds in trade. ;J
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Administrator Peden Addresses The
Housewives of Texas.
To the Housewives of Texas:
At the approach of the second year
of my service as Federal Food Admin-
istrator for Texas, I wish to thank
you for your hearty co-operation in
the cause of food conservation. The
splendid results achieved justify the
sacrifice you made in conforming to
the noval and frequently difficult de-
mands which the war has placed upon
the dinner table. I have no doubt
that you will continue as civilian sol-
dier to comply faithfully with the
rules and requests of the Food Ad-
ministration, by wasting no food
whatever and by saving as much as
Sossible of the essentials, for our
rave boys and allies across the
Atlantic.
There is still another service, a ser-
vice of great value that you can ren-
der to our country at this time. It
is highly important that prices be held
down as low as legitimate business
can bear. Profiteering is a familiar
vulture in every War. Selfish grel
is always ready to take advantage 'f
its opportunity. For this reason the
United States Food Administration
will punish dealers who charge for
licensed commodities more than a rea-
sonable advance over the cost of the
particular article. I am happy to be
able to say that the largest number
o dealers have not offended against
this rule. But some have offended
and more will offend if the guilty nre
not detected and punished, until wild
speculation and profiteering will upset
business and increase the cost of liv-
ing to an insufferable degree.
To meet this condition, the Food
Administratibn hag created Price
Interpreting Committee, composed of
representatives of the wholesale and
retail trade and of consumers.
These committees will fix nnd publish
at intervals maximum prices at which
commodities should be sould by re-
tailers. The minimum price is to bo
paid by the customer who pays cash
nnd carries the purchase home. The
maximum price is to be pajd by tho
customer who buys on credit or when
tho merchant makes delivery. ANY
DEALER CHARGING MORE THAN
THE MAXIMU MPRICE IS PROFIT-
EERING. The profiteer wilj be punished, even
to the extent of being prevented from
handling licensed commobities during
the period of tho war. But the Food
Administration cannot regulate profits
by punishing profiteering unless in-
formeld of violations. Upon you
must I largely depend for reports of
such offenses. With your help I can
and will keep profiteering down and
even prevent it entirely. As a pub-
lic official, entrusted with tho serious
work of loading Texas, in carrying
out the foqd program of war activities
I am now most earnestly asking you,
collectively and individually, to vol-
untarily accept tho position of honor-
ary agents of tho Food Administra-
tion with following dutioa. Carefully
read and familiarize yourselves with
To Our Friends and
Customers
We want to thank you for the business that
you have given us in the past, and we want to
continue to serve you in this future.
Those who owe us either by note or account
will kindly settle same at the earliest date possible.
Wemake this appeal on account of having to
carry-over so much of last year's sales.
Help us so that we can help you.
BARTLETT, 1TEXAS.
the published prices of tho Price In-
terpreting Committees of your com-
m unity; check your pjurchases by
such lists, never pay exceeding the
maximum price fixed by tho cammit-
tee, and report to the local Food Ad-
ministrator or t omy office the facts
concerning any excessive price charg-
ed or demanded by nny retailer of you
or o fany person within your know-
ledge. I realize that my request imposes
an added and n disagreeable task upon
tho Army of Texas women. But it is
a task which you alone can perform
and I am sure that you who have so
I cheerfully given your brothers and
sons to the cause of victory or death,
will not withold from that cause this
further contribution of war service.
Respectfully,
E. A. PEDEN
Federal Food Administrator of Toxas.
Attention at The Crescent
Saturday, Sept. 7th "Her Sister",
with Olive Tell. See this fine pic-
ture. Thursday, Sept 12th Wm. S. nart
intho great western picture a "spec-
ial" "Wolves of tho Rail".
Sept. 19tH "Punella" with Marguite
Clark, a wonderful picture it's great
come to seo it sure.
We specialize on GOOD Fruit.
Prico always right Tho Gersbach-
Wacker Co.
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A. R. GROSSE, Mgr.
FOR MOTHER'S SAKE.
This is from the letter of a Toxaaj
boy over there:
" The wine is set out to tho boys
. . . . but for myself I haven't
tasted it sinco I enlisted and there
isn't nny danger in starting it now.
It for no other reason, just for my
mother's sake, I'm letting it alone."
Oh, tho saving love, tho redeem-
ing love, the steadying lovo of moth-
er! It beats army regulations. It
gets into the sould of the body ort tho
man tho girl orho woman and
tempations loso their power. "For
my mother's sake', I'm letting it
alone." Can you think of anything
finer than that? Doesn't it at onco '
link us on to heaven ? Waco Times-
Herald.
BELL COUNTY BOYS TO
CAMP BOWIE, TEXAS.
The following men were called by
tho local board to report on Sept. 3, to
entrain to Camp Bowie, at 12:17 p. m.
Four out this number will go.
Charley E. Bunn, Nolanvillo.
Q. A. Ellis Jr., Belton.
Raymond E. Mosely, Holland.
Oscar Lange, Bartlett
Jabe Walter Jones,, Killeon.
Bonjamine J. C. Bilos, Nolanvillo,'
Gilos W. Steagall, Youngport.
Fred Martin, Belton.
Georgo C. Lisenbe, Belton.
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Cates, R. F. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 13, Ed. 1, Friday, September 6, 1918, newspaper, September 6, 1918; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49091/m1/2/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.