The West Weekly News. (West, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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We Have Plenty of Money
FOR GOOD FARM LOANS
OF $1,000.00 AND OVER
SIMMONS-READ COMPANY
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Hillsboro, Texas
v II F UfECT NEWS West now has two mails per j The News has by far the
' * f " * ' I* "*____day—Thanks to the Katy’s most I largest pay roll of any paper
| excellent!?) train schedule. j ever published in West and every
I dollar of the money finds its way
Published Weekly
The West Printing Company
INCOKtMRMlD
DIRECTORS:
I. ». SCHILLER 1. LEM JONES
L. 4. SULAK EARNEST NEMECEK
CLAUDE MILLER C. P. ZAPALAC
H. B. TERRELL_
OFFICERS:
J. R SCHILLER. Ptt«.dcnt
J. LEM JONES. Vice Frcidfill_
H. B. TERRELL, EDITOR AND MCR.
MSS EULA HURLOCK, sec. and was.
W. L. STEWART Fornnin_
Subscription $1 Per Yeir in Advance
into the cash drawer of our busi-
ness men, for we believe in pat-
ronizing home poople.
Butter from the Elgin Cream-
ery is selling at 45 cents aud it’s
not half as good as the butter 1
mother used to make.
.......... ......... Occasionally we see “Just a
Don’t worry about the people. I Newspaper man,” that worries
They are able to take care of i all day and dreams all night of
themselves on any and all oc-, the terrible wrongs committed
elisions despite the wailing of t>y the “professional politician,”
the demagogue.
The county demonstration
j farms of Texas are proving to be
local experiment stations of
vast benefit to the farmers of
each county who will observe
the methods used on these
Entered AS second class matter October 8. 1909, j farms,
at the poslotfice at West. Texas.
and we wonder whether he loves
the people more or the politician
less. “C.”
The demonstration farms
bring better methods of farming
not only to the man who wants
to learn, but forces upon the man
who is satisfied with his own
When it is seen that the demon- methods the truth that science
All ads will be run until ordered out, if not ^trntion farmer gets results and made important discoveries
— i***’1- —- are obtained on neighboring in apiculture that he must know
ocr.vie.tinn io i.mmtiit or fall behind in the race with
SPF.CIAL NOTICE—ah church notice* tAnns, conviction is broujirni to
the man who does employ such
none
farms, conviction is brought to
admission fee is charged, the Illinds Of the UlOSt Skeptical
that there are better methods of
farming than the old way.
ti event* where an
•I entertainment* tri the name of charity charj-
img for admiaaion. all card* of thanks, revolutions
elreepect and other notice* of a like character,
anil be charged for at our regular rate*. All
aelacea m regard to religioua service* and timtUr
events will be published free.
methods.
Plant more corn.
Use the split log drag.
Clean up day Tuesday
ary 30. Get busy.
Janu-
Oceasionaily you find “just a
newspaper man” who feels that
the people are so ignorant that
they don’t know how to conduct
their own affairs, and that it de-
volves upon him to continually
remind them that they are about
to be ground to pieces by the
"machine.”
Your premises need a clean-
Only one state in the Union ex-
ceeds Texas in rice production.
up. Join your neighbor to make- This is Louisiana, which in 1911
Conditions better. produced 11,693,000 bushels,
........I comfiared with Texas, 8,174,000
An improper use of road funds
will only discourage future ap-
propriations. In order to give
the tax-payers their money’s
worth, public highways should
be scientifically constructed. No
public road should be built unless
it is first properly laid out then
constructed under the super-
vision of some competent man.
This is merely a business pro-
position. If an individual under-
takes an enterprise he is going
to see that it is worked out on
economical lines. What applies
Don’t worry about your com- bushels, Louisiana's product- to the individual should apply to
petitor. He is probably able to ion per acre, however, is consid- the public.
take care of himself. . erable less than that of Texas. —---------
t. ' ................... as the former state’s yield was If weonderstand Mr. Welters’
Mayor Wilie did the proper | ;!1 - F,ushels as against 34.3 position correctly, he is in favor
thing when he ordered a general
clean-up day for West.
If you attend to your own
■business as you should you will
have less time to meddle with
other people’s affairs.
bushels for Texas, an excess in
favor of the latter of 2.8 bushels
an acre, or 9 per cent. The Lone
Star farmer also received one
cent more per bushel for his
product in 1911 than did the
Louisiana planter.
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EVERY HOUSEWIFE
IN WEST
Appreciates the high quality and moder-
ate prices of our Groceries if she has
ever traded here, but if she has never
given us an order we’re ready right now
to please her. We’re dead anxious for
these “try out” orders—that’s the w-ay
we won most of our many well pleased
patrons. We’ll win you the same way
if you'll give us a “try out.”.......
White Crest and Magnolia
FLOUR
ARE STILL LEADERS . . DON'T FORGET THIS
R.L. BAILEY
Staple and Fancy Groceries
PHONE 125
of a Legislature being bound by
a plurality vote in the July pri-
mary on the question of selecting
a United States Senator, but
j when it comes to the submission
of a State wide prohibition amen-
dment he thinks each legislator
: should reflect the will of the peo-
ple of his district.—Waxahachie
Light.
One instance is the action of a
1 political party, while, in the
other you are tampering with
the most sacred document ever
j bequeathed to the people of Tex-
as, the constitution, which plain-
| ly says how it can be amended.
Hon.R.L.Henry urges the dem-
I ocrats of Texas to get in behind
: the State executive committee
and compel a Presidential pri-
mary. It being evident that the
I “bosses” and the “organs” fear
the people's verdict, the matter
I resolves itself into a contest be-
tween the machine and the mas-
j ses, with small prospect of the
masses getting what they want;
The Texas machine works with
j precision and seldom yields to
outside influence.' G o v e r n or
I Colquitt can compel a Preslden-
j tial primary; wall he do it?—Waco
i Times-Herald.
Isn’t it about time for us to
! quit such silly twaddle as the
above. It has been the tiabit of
some editors and some politi-
cians to always refer to those
who differ with them as “the
j bosses” and themselves as re-
presenting “the masses.” Of
I course “the masses” have never
i demanded any such tiling as a
j presidential primary, and Bro.
| Robinson knows it as well as we.
| Then why go on with a lot of
| palaver like the above? And com-
J ing down to the truth of the mat-
j ter, are not all democrats per-
mitted to come into the demo-
crotic conventions and elect their
delegates and instruct them as
to their choice for president?
Seems to us that has always been
the policy of the democratic par-
ty, why then such rantings from
certain quarters?—H a m i 11 on
Herald.
ASK PROHIBITION LEGIS-
LATORS
Jake Wolters wants a single
primary, but knows as well as
anybody that he can never get
to the United States Senate at
the hands of the Texas legisla-
ture. He would enjoy the novel
experience of receiving the pri-
mary nomination and having the
legislature to select some other
man. . In fact Jacob glories in
being made a martyr.—Kosse
Cyclone.
And why is it that Jake can
not be elected “at the hands of
the Texas legislature”? Isn’t
he n good democrat? And if so
and Jake can get the endorse-
ment of the people in a primary,
what's the matter with the legis-
lature: -West News,
Bro. Terrell can answer this
question equally ns well as the
Cyclone man, but if he insists on
seeing in print reasons why a
prohibition legislature would not
elect Jake to the United States
senate he can probably get defi-
nite information from legislators
that are prohibitionists, or per-
haps good Brother Rankin can
enlighten him.—Kosse Cyclone.
THE HOME
Of Quality Groceries
WMiiajainsAmi au n an ■■m Hgagruramr r..i
The greatest enemy to their
business with which the newspa-
per men have to contend is their
own fraternity. There are men
in the newspaper business who
do not know what their own
business is paying them and
seldom stop to consider the cost
of production. Some of them
have a mistaken idea, and this
number is in the majority, that
if they can fill their papers with
advertising regardless of the
price charged they are making
money and putting their compe-
titor out of business. They may
be putting their ccompetitor out
of business but they are at the
same time injuring their own
business and working themselves
to death without increasing
their bank account. The news-
paper business is the highest
calling in the world and the
newspaper man should have as
high financial standing as any
other business concern, but we
are sorry to say that the great
majority of them have a very
poor rating, besides many of
them have their goods come "C.
O. D. ” Who is to blame for this?
Nobody in the world but the
newspaper men themselves. In-
stead of sticking together and
getting something for their ad-
vertising and build up a busi-
ness that is a credit to them and
the town, they spend more time
knocking each other. The mer-
chant does not think any more
of them because they are willing
to sell their advertising space
at a price where there is no prof-
it to the publisher. Advertising
rates in this town and in the ma-
jority of towns in Texas are
lower than the cost of produc-
tion. Rapid advance in price
has been made during the last
two or three years in everything
that goes to make a weekly news-
papers and yet the publishers
have not increased their adver-
tising rates to meet these ad-
vances. When the wholesale
merchants increase the price of
a certain line of goods to a retail
merchant, they do not long con-
tinue selling that line of goods at
the same old price, but immedi-
ately place a price on the goods
where they will bring a nice rev-
enue above the wholesale cost,
and there is no good reason why
the newspaper man should not
do likewise, and the only reason
they do not few of them have
enough courage and business
ability to conduct their business
in a profitable manner. Until
they have a better understanding
among themselves and quit
fighting each other in an under-
handed way, just so long will
their financial rating be as it is
today.—Milam County Enter-
prise.
.Take Wolters gives it out tiiat
as soon as he opens his campaign
which will be early in March,
that he will turn his attention to
Morris Sheppard, as the Boy
Orator seems to be looking for a
scrap. This means lively times
in Texas this year. Pay your
pojl tax if you want to partici-1
pite.
WE KEEP
A Grocery Store
But We Don’t Keep
GROCERIES!
THEY ARE NOT INTEND-
ED TO BE KEPT
We Sell Them, Sell Them Fresh
ZAPALAC
Grocery Company
Phone No. I WEST, TEXAS
To Our Customers:
We have moved our Tailor Shop the building
next to the City Bakery and have opened a
first-clas new Tailor Shop under the firm name
of Celman & Salik and we are better prepared
to serve you. We will be pleased to meet our
old as well as new customers. We guarantee
first-class service.
Large Assortment of Winter and Spring Goods
No. 14.It
Celman & Salik
111
Central Texas Loan & Investment Co.
WEST, TEXAS
CAPITAL - - - $100,000.00
W. M. SLEEPER. President W. R. GLASGOW, Vice-President
B. H. SCHROEDER, Gen ] Manager
Farm Loans
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Terrell, H. B. The West Weekly News. (West, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1912, newspaper, January 26, 1912; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth588784/m1/2/?q=music: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting West Public Library.