Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 17, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING GO.
BEN L. BROOKS................................. ...... .......................... .......Editor
L. T. HOYT..........................:......................................................Business Manager
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Entered as second class mail matter at the Postoftice at Mercedes.,
Texas, January 23, 1914, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
MERCEDES, TEXAS, JUNE 17, 1914.
WE ENVY THE HOGS.
We have often heard it
said that sweet corn would
not do well in the Valley, but
have had the statement con-
tradicted by the actual pro-
duction of good crops of that
vegetable on several occasions.
Mr. W. B. Pummil, one of Palm
Gardens’ best farmers, was in
town Friday with with some of
the finest-looking Evergreen
sweet corn we have ever seen.
And its good qualities were not
confined to its appearance; he
left a liberal mess at the Trib-
une office, and we later made an
ample and sufficient personal
demonstration that it tasted
just as good as it looked.
Mr. Pummil informed us that
he is raising it for his hogs
and that it does even better
than field corn. Think of it!
Feeding good old Northern
sweet corn to hogs when so
many people are eating “roast-
ing ears” of field corn, and
some, perhaps, are entirely ig-
norant of the great advantage
Mr. Pummil’s hogs have over
them in this particular in-
stance.
If sweet corn grows well
enough that it pays to raise it
for hog feed, wouldn’t it be a
profitable crop to raise for a
canning factory located at Mer-
cedes? You can’t lose the can-
ning factory proposition. It
just will come up, for every
month there is a different pro-
duct that could be preserved
and used to tickle the palates
of our most fastidious and the
pocket books of our more eco-
nomical citizens, who are now
forced to pay more than they
should for canned goods in or-
der that the railroads may con-
tinue to make a profit of the
difference between what can-
ned products cost where they
are purchased and what is
paid for them a thousand miles
or so away.
Some day Mercedes will have
a canning factory, and it will be
running most of the year.
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Garland Buck, who during
the past five years published
newspapers at McAllen, Edin-
burg, San Juan and Donna, is
now editor and general mana-
ger of the Corpus Christi Daily
Democrat. The “Naples of
the Gulf” is to be congratulat-
ed upon securing Mr. Buck to
help mold the future of that
city, and if he is as important
a factor in the development of
the Corpus Christi section as
he has been in Hidalgo county,
his presence there will stimu-
late Corpus Christians to make
the most of their natural re-
- sources. Mr. Buck is a force-
' ful writer, and under his man-
agement the Democrat cannot
help but grow in popularity,
which means continued success.
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A financial report for Drain-
age District No. 1 is published
m this issue of the Tribune.
This report was furnished us
through the courtesy of Lytle
Harrison, secretary of the
board of drainage commission-
ers. It is customary in many
counties to publish regularly a
county treasurer’s report, for
which publication the newspa-
pers are paid at the regular le-
gal rate for such matter. The
Triblne, however, believes that
the report appearing in this is-
sue is of sufficient interest to
the taxpayers to justify its
publication as a matter of news.
LET’S RECIPROCATE.
The Mission and La Feria
newspapers are having a little
“set-to” because the latter
concern has obtained several
orders for job work from Mis-
sion. As we see it, a man has
a perfect right to solicit legiti-
mate business ' anywhere he
wants to, but the business
men of a town have no moral
light to give their orders to
the solicitor of an out-of-town
. concern and then expect, as
they do expect, the home news-
paper to keep on boosting the
“trade at home” proposition.
We don’t believe a solicitor for
an outside printing concern
would get very fat on the or-
ders they receive of Mercedes
business men, but of course
there are always some who be-
lieve everyone should patron-
ise home industries and busi-
ness houses but themselves.
However, the majority of our
businesse men, we are glad to
say, realize that if a printing
establishment is to be main-
tained in their town, they
must help maintain it.
There is not a busines man
in this country who will admit
to his customers that consid-
ering the real value of the
goods he has to sell, he does not
give as much for the money as
any of the large mail order
houses, and he is usually right.
But those same business men
are sometimes caught by the
cheap printing offered at
cheap prices by cheap concerns
in some other city. Sometimes
he will say to his local printer,
“If you can do this for this
price, you can have the order.”
But if a man came into his
store and showed him a price
in a mail order catalogue on a
certain article he wanted and
offered to buy it of him if he
would meet the price, would
he do it? And still there is
just about as little similarity
between a cheap job of print-
ing and a good one > as there is
between the standard brands
of articles carried by the local
merchant and the shoddy arti-
cles handled by the mail order
houses.
Then there are those who
buy their envelopes of the gov-
ernment because they can get
their imprint on them cheap-
er than the local printer can
print them, although they have
absolutely no originality—no
difference from the thousands
of other firms—and despite the
fact that they are assisting in
putting the country printer out
business in order that the gov-
ernment’s envelope printer at
Dayton, 0., may harvest more
millions . But if the men em-
ployed in the local printshop
and on the local newspaper
were to send to Sears, Roe-
buck & Co. or Romponyou Hard
or some other mail order house
for the necessities' of life be-
cause they could get them
cheaper, there would likely be a
big howl about patronizing
home institutions — and the
howl would, be justified. So is
the howl of the country printer
against the envelope graft of
the Postoffice department, and
j the chances are that the gov-
ernment envelope contract
which expires next March will
not be let again on the same
basis, for the members of con-
gress have been awakened to
the fact by the country press
that the government has no
more right to sell envelopes in
competition with th e local
METEOROLOGICAL RECORD
(U. S. Government Go-operative Ob-
server’s Report, Mercedes Station, for
the seven days ending June 15th.)
Temperature
Max. Min.
Tuesday........
Wednesday.
Thursday ....
Friday__________
Saturday.
Sunday ........
Monday. ...
Precip.
........ 88' 72 0.12
.......- 90 71 0.00
..... . 91 71 0.00
..... 90 72 0.00
........ 90 72 0.00
...... 90 72 0.00
........ 91 77 ■ 0.00
F. F. Friend,
Co-operative Observer.
printer than it has to go into
the grocery, dry’ goods, hard-
ware or drug business.
The country newspaper is
the greatest advocate of
patronising home institutions
in the world, and is continually
preaching it. And if the other
people in a community would
not only preach it but practice
it as much as the country news-
paper men do, there would be
a whole lot less money sent
from rural communities to
help enrich the large institu-
tions which pay their taxes and
help build sidewalks, streets,
churches, schools, parks, etc.,
in the large cities.
The announcement of J. H.
January as a candidate for the
office of Tax Assessor appears
in this issue of the Tribune.
Mr. January has been a resi-
dent of McAlen for over six
years, and is very popular there
He is a progressive young man
and has been engaged in farm-
ing since his residence at Mc-
Allen. He is a college gradu-
ate and well qualified for the
position to which he aspires,
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SAVING HIS ENERGY.
“Yes,” said the man just back
from the West, relates the Pathfind-
er, “when I went to Montana I did
what nearly every other tenderfoot
does—bought one of those broad,
brimmed felt hats like the ones stage
cowboys wear, and put it on at the
first opportunity.
“Mine wasn’t the only one in town
but I felt conspicuous just the same.
Some how or other I hadn’t ac-
quired the knack of wearing it. One
windy day—and, believe me, it can
blow some in B—, without half try-
ing—I walked down the main street
of the town holding on to my hat
with one hand and my coat with the
other. As I turned a corner the
wind stopped blowing- and I let go of
the hat, when a sudden gust came,
took it off my head and sent it roll-
ing like a frightened hoop down the
street.
“I started to give chase, when an-
other hatless man—he was a sure-
enough Westerner:,, too—took me by
the arm and said:.
“‘Don’t chase it, pardner; there’ll
be another one along in a minute.’ ”
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' Mr. H. N. Beakley of San An-
tonio was a busines visitor to
La Feria last wek.
Mr. R. B. Williams returned
home Friday after a pleasant
visit to his parents at Nixon,
Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. McMillan of:
Mercedes attended the McNeil-
Colvin wedding Sunday after-
noon.
L. D. Snell
vine Monday.
visited Browns-
Sunday’s religious service
was conducted by Rev. T. B.
Harrell of Mercedes.
Farmers who have alfalfa
are busy now making hay
while the sun shines. Several
car loads were shipped from
Tio Cano this week.
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WE CLOSE AT 11:00 O’CLOCK
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
ON ACCOUNT OF THE
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AT
Campacuas Beach
Everybody’s Going
Go by way of mile 7 to West then
North to mile lO, then East to the
Campacuas Bathing Beach Club House
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Brooks, Ben L. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 17, 1914, newspaper, June 17, 1914; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth634941/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.