The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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Our Business Continues to Grow
Last week shows us a net gain of 12 per cent over
the week before. We feel Very grateful to all*those
who Contributed to our success, by giving us then-
trade, and we sincerely hope that they feel that they
have, at least, been fairly dealt with. To those who
have not as yet gteeri us a trial, we wish to suggest
that both of us unloosing money, and hope you will
Get the Habit
Of Trading at The
Store of Quality
We are opening and will have in the future, a com-
plete line of Shelf Hardware. See us for prices.
A complete line of imported d* |T AA
Mexican hats from 15c to vU'Vv
A beautiful line of ladies’ trimmed hats
Prices to suit the trade.
A large asortment of Ladies’ A AA
shirt waists from 75c to ..............
Ladies’ tailored wash suits iC AA
from $3,75 to..............................rU«UU
We are showing a complete stock of new seasonable Stetson hats. See our Staple line
of hats. Have you seen our line of fancy dress goods, laces, embroidery, buttons, rib-
bons, braids? You haven’t? Well! Well! You are the looser. You will find our prices
correct on all staple, dry goods, notions, groceries, etc. r "
We sell the New Vassar, 5 drawer drop head, ball bearing, sowing, machine for only
$18.98. Let us show it to you. *
Hickman & Fain
PERSONAL MENTION.
20 and 25 Per Cent
DISCOUNT
On all Patent Medicines
We endeavor to give our patrons the kind of ser-
vice and the kind of goods the desire. We seek too,
to conserve their interests in every way.
it 31011 appreciate prompt, courteous attention,
high quality and reasonable prices we are quite sure
to hold your trade for many years. Give us a trial
anyway. ~ —
CAPITOL PHARMACY,
•‘THE DRUG SWORE OF QUALITY”
Peebles & McKee, Preps.
We Have It!
.....win'..............
U Anything in the General
Merchandise line; Watches, Jew-
elry, Cuttlery. Etc. We have
anything you want and at the right
price. H Are you thinking of
painting your house or furniture?
Figure with us on paints—we can (
save you money.-
D. S. CHANDLER
Established 1871
Hawkes Crystal Lenses
Cures Blood, Skin Diseas-
es, Eczema, Greatest
Blood Purifier Free.
If your blood is impure, thin,
diseased, hot or full of humors,
if you have blood poison, cancer,
carbuncles, eating sores, scrof
ula, eczema, itching, rising and
bumps, swelling or superating
sores, scabby, pimple skin,
ulcers, bone pains, catarrh, rheu-
matism, or any blood or skin
disease, take Botanic Blood
Balm (B. B. B.) Soon all sores
heal, aches and pains stop and
the blood is made pure and rich.
Druggists or by express $1 per
large bottle. Sample free by
writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta,
Ga., B. B. B. is especially ad-
vised for chronic, deep-seated
cases of blood or skin diseases,
as it cures after all else fails.
Sold in Livingston, Texas, by
City Drug Store; call ol- write.
J. R. Cherry of Mt. Rose wa.<>
in the city Saturday.
,»,„«Ni"'OrJJelk of Kirby ville visited
relatives in the cityflast weeK.
Roy Sawyer left Monday to
accept a position at Voth.
J.D.Gebottof Onalaska, was
in the city Saturday.
W. H. Brock made a business
trip to Shepherd Saturday.
W. S. Bartlett of Onalaska was
in the city Sunday.
L.....F: P.afolinKon of New Willard
was among the visitors here Sun-
day.
J .W. Angell of Onalaska was
in the city Friday.
B. A. Collins, who is working
with* the Thompson & Tucker Co.
at Trinity, was in the city Friday.
A. C. Watts and Dick McKin-
non of Nettie were in the city
Saturday on business.
T. J. McKinnon, who is selling
real estate in Southwest Texas
spent Sunday with his family.
J. W. Cochran attended the
Layman’s convention which was
held at Houston Saturday.
Miss-Bettie Kinard of West
Texas was visiting in the city
this week.
J. E. Hill .Jr., made a trip to
Austin last .week in the interest
of the new school building that
is to be started soon.
1 Miss Willie Esperson left last
week for Houston, where she
goes to take a course in short-
hand and typewriting in one of'
the business colleges of that
city.
R. P. Johnson of Charity was
in the city Monday on business.
Mr. Johnson says he expects to
contest for some of the farm
products at the county fair this
year.
Notice.
Having left-for New Orleans to
take a special course in medicine
I have left all .my accounts with
T. H. Wilson for collection. I
will be absent for six weeks, and
am taking this course in order to
better prepare myself more fully
in all lines of the medical profes-
sion. W. G. Pullen.
Don’t Buy
Marble or Monumental work till
you see or write N F. Belk,
Groveton, Texas, who represents
One of the largest concerns in
the South. Material and work-
manship the best while prices
are" right. Upon notice will vis-
it any part of Polk county.
Barred Plymoth Rock eggs
from Thqmpson’s strain.
Box 0, Livingston, Texas.
€”1* ADT DirilT Beg-in the year by subscribing for
51AM JUuHA apd advertising CT A Y RIGHT
your business in your home paper and^*«*
Buy a box of K-N-O-X-A Cold
Tablets and note the results
Bad colds disappear. For sale
by L. A. McKinnon.
Planting More Hogs.'
Loui siana and Mississippi plan-
ters in the region about Natchez
have decided to plant more hogs
and less cotton, and a meat
packing company is to establish
a plant in Natchez to take care of
the surplus hogs from the farms.
Mississippi and Louisiana
planters have heretofore been in
the habit of buying their pork
and bacon in town instead of
raising it on the farm, and it has
usually taken about all they got
from the sale of theis cotton to
pay for the bread and meat they
bought from the grocer.
This was not good business
policy at any time or under any
circumstances and it. is especial-
ly bad business policy now when
bread and meat are so dear and
the market price of cotton so
uncertain. The establishment of
a packing plant at Natchez will be
an inducement for farmers in
that surrounding country to
raise more hogs, and if the farm-
ers will greatly increase the hog
raising industry it will be fm in-
ducement to the packers to
establish additiohal plants or to
enlarge their facilaties for taking
care of the surplus. There is
money in hogs. There can be no
question about that, because the
demand exceeds the supply, and
the market price is away up. No
great amount of care is needed
in raising^hogs after the pigs are
old enough to root for them-
selves.
In eight months after the
litter they may be made ready
for market at a comparatively
small cost of finishing up. The
skim milk, which has heretofore
gone to waste, mixed with a little
corn meal in the proportion of
one pound to 4 or 3 of milk makes
j an ideal feed for pigs, both be-
fore and immediately after wean-
ing time. Grass, herbs and, a
peanut.patch will, do the remain-
der of the work except to finish
them off during the last two or
three weeks bn xqiel and they A
should weigh, say about October,
23t) pounds, which, at 8 cents,
would return to the farmes $20 a
head. There is no probability %
that hog production will catch f
up with the demand for at least
three years to come, and prices
next fall will be as high as they
areiiftw, With an increase',l
acreage and the outlook for a
favorable season the price of
cotton will not be so high next
season as this. Mississippi and
Louisiana are to he congratulat-
ed on the very sensible idea of
crop (Jiversiticat ion which Texas
is adopting, but not with the
energy the situation "demands.
If the farmers in Southwest
Texas should emulate the exam-
p'e of those of Mississippi and
Lousiana by going into the hog
raising industry on such a large
scale San Antonio would have
little difficulty in securing the
location of a packing plant which
would furnish a market for all
that could be supplied “and in the
meantime the farmers would
find their hogs in active demand
both m the local market and
from the packeriesat Fort Worth
and elsewhere.
The same amount of labor and
expense involved in the growing
and picking a bale of cotton
would be sufficient for the rais-
ing of several hogs, and at $20 a
head the return-would be hand-
some.
Eagle Pass News-Guide: That
new style of headdress the ladies
are wearing—where they fix
th'fir hair by tying it down right
in front and arranging the back
to look like a Maverick County
eggplant, may be pretty, but it
is a fact beyond the possibility
of cotradiction that any lady who
is pretty with her hair fixed that
way would be prettier with it
fixed any other way.
No use, no use. You can’t do a
thing with the girls by appealing
to them to oppose their pesonal
preferences to the popular mode.
When thq fashion calls for
scrambled hair, scrambled hair
is what the girls must and will
have. Do not struggle against
the inevitable. Accept the fash-
ions and the girls as they come,
and be thankful that, bad as the
former may be the latter are
perennially dear. — Galveston
News.
Yes, let the girls keep up the
fashion. What is.the matter with
the editor at Eagle Pass, is he an
old bachelor, or has some pretty
damsel of that town turned him
down? No man would censure
the poor1 defenseless woman in
this manner unless he had some
good cause.
day, Feb. 28th, at 4 P. ^
The official board is *
Notice.
The first Quarterly Conferenc e
of the current year will be held
at the Methodist Church, Mon-
^fjjtouested
to be present. '
W. B. Crawford of Joaquin,
Texas, District Leader of the
Laymans Missionary movi/neui,
will speak at the church on Sun-',
day at
Everybody, and especially the
men, are requested to be present.
Mr. Crawford is an eloquent,
inspiring speaker and will de-
light his hearers.
Iiespectfully,
H. B. Smith.
Best Yellow and White Seed
Corn at Gerlach’s. *
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1910, newspaper, February 24, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660087/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.