The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1926 Page: 2 of 16
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™* DEMOCRAT-VOICE
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
THE DEMOCRAT-yOICE PUB. CO.
H. H. Jackson................ Manager
J. T. Williamson............................Editor
Entered as second-class mail matter
at the postoffice in Coleman, Texas,
under act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
COLEMAN COUNTY:
One Year.—................ $150
Six Months..........—........... 80
Three Months—..............................., -50
OUTSIDE OF COLEMAN COUNTY:
One Year-................................—.$2.00
Six Months................................— 1-25
Three Months........................ -75
Voice established 1881: Democrat es-
tablished 1897, consolidated 1906. Re-
view established 1893, acquired 1899;
News established 1907, acquired 1912.
Special Representative
TEXAS PRESS WEEKLIES, INC.
, H. L. Grable. Manager
613 Mercantile Bank Building
Dallas, Texas.
TEXAV X PRESS
ASSOCIATION
TWO VIEWS THAT COINCIDE.
Recently, in a speech on the court
house lawn in this city, R. Q. Lee of
Cisco, president of the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce, told what he
did fbr his home town when the ex-
citement and confusion of an oil find
was fading. He went with Mrs. Lee
to California to study the chicken in-
dustry. A way had to be found to
nourish and sustain a town that had
«xoeriencfd a spectacular growth.
Several months previous a local man,
at a meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce, advised people of Coleman to
proceed cautiously and not forget that
agricultural products, and not oil, will
remain Coleman county’s chief reve-
nue producers. The ideas coincide
snlenSidly and embody a fact that is
established by the modem history of
oil towns. Progress should be made
with discretion and the farmers must
not be forgotten. Overload a wagon
and it crumbles beneath weight. Build
a town with erroneous reports and
disaster follows. For two years
Coleman has been experiencing a
Miss America?
Joan Alden, shown above, was
the winner of a bathing beauty con-
test at Ocean Park, near Los An-
tgeles, Calif. Many are predicting
that she will carry off the honors
as “Miss America” in the national
beauty contest at Atlantic City, N,
J„ this summer.
14,160.000 In First Government
Cotton Report, 1926-27.
New York, June 22.—The. 1926-27
cotton crop promises to be 14,160,000
bales, provided weather conditions
hereafter are normal, according to the
first of the Commerce and Finance
crop estimates for the season. The
figure is a composite of estimates*
made for each county by correspon-
dents of Commerce and Finance and
represents a radical departure from
the usual method of reporting the crop
prospect in terms of a “percentage of
normal” and guessing the yield on the
basis of that percentage. Returns
are included from 1,536 correspon-
dents in 584 out of the 645 counties
that produce the bulk of the crop.
The average date of the returns is
June 3.
In announcing the result, Theodore
H. Price, editor of Commerce and Fi-
nance, said:
“As no one can have an intimate
knowledge of the whole cotton belt,
we have been careful to make it clear
that all we wanted was an estimation
of the presently indicated crop in each
county, ‘provided weather conditions
hereafter are normal.’ Estimates
have not been received from 276 coun-
ties, in most of which the normal pro-
duction is statistically negligible. The
yield in each of these counties has
been calculated on the basis of the
estimates received from the reporting
counties in the same State, except in
the case of Texas, where the yield
of the nonreporting counties has been
figured on the basis of the estimates
received from reporting counties in
the same section of the State.”
of the apparent lack of interest. An-
! other contributing factor, perhaps, is
1 the agitation for a “Heart of Texas
SS'&to.’f -tSlCtambT Commerce” «. »b„«
oM established businesses have had.wor^ f°r the advancement of
ample time to enlarge and improve j this particular section to the ®xclu-
their buildings and increase their sion of large areas that have nothing
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stocks of merchandise to provide for
the increased demands. The little
fellow with small stocks and cheap
rent has not arrived to dissipate pre-
in common. The movement for
Heart of Texas District Originated at
San Saba. It has been endorsed lib-,
erally by papers in this entire sec-
Candidates are puzzled. Recently
a letter went from Coleman asking a
certain candidate’s position on the
“Search and Seizure Law.” A letter
a few days later advised that the
candidate was not for the repeal of
the remedial law referred to by the
writer. The writer of the letter was
cautious enough not to write search
and seizure.
Coleman was not represented at the
annual meeting of the West Tex .s
Chamber of Commerce in session iii
Amarillo Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, and was joined in the “stay
at home movement” by Other nearby
towns. There was, in this immediate
section, a lack Of free publicity that
has been lavishly donated in former
years. This perhaps was the cause
will depend entirely upon remedial
reform and changes in the original
organizatiori. It is embracing too
mueh territory in districts not strictly
west Texas.
vailing prosperity. Two good years' tion. Whether or ^ not it is created
have been allotted to Coleman and an-
other is in the making. Farmers are
now harvesting the biggest wheat and
oat crop .ever matured and cotton,
corn an®.other field crops promise
heavy yields. The fall of the present
year will probably see the* greatest
prosperity in the town’s history and
equitably divided among a reasonable
number will enable them to provide
for the lean years that lurk in the dis-
tance.
Base Ball Club Organized.
A baseball dub has been perfected
in Coleman and the first game of the
season will be played at the American
Legion Park Sunday afternoon with
Cross Plains, Eleven new uniforms
have been ordered and are expected to
arrive in time for the initial game,
and be on display at Coulson’s drug
store for several days. They will be
gray, trimmed in navy blue and the
word Coleman will appear across the
front of the shirt. Names of firms
contributing uniforms will be sewed
across the backs of the shirts.
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Announcement Fees:
County, District........................$15-00
Precinct ... ..........................$10.00
The Democrat-Voice is authorized
to make the following announce-
ments, subject to the Democratic pri-
mary election in July.
For State Senator:
WALTER C. WOODWARD.
A “hole in one”—the height of
ambition with every golfer, was
made by a Brady visitor recent-
ly without intent or purpose. It
happened at Richards park, where
the visitor, accompanied by a Brady
friend, had gone to hear the con-
cert by the John Tarleton band of
Stephenville.—Brady Standard.
Now ain't that something! The
above is an excerpt from a long front
page article in the Brady Standard
and it gives evidence that to make a
“hole in one” is considered some feat
in the McCulloch capitol. It’s noth-
ing out of the ordinary in Coleman
county. They have a golf reserve at
Anna and a banker among the
frequently makes a “hole in
an one" and he is now teach-
ing a Coleman Variety Store proprie-
tor how it is done, even without the
aid of short pants and a sack of un-
necessary sticks iij the hands of a
disinterested kid trailing behind.
For Representative 125th District:
A. L. PEARCE (Re-Election).
C. H. JENKINS
For County Judge:
C. L. SOUTH (Re-election).
I. C. ATCHLEY.
S. J. PIERATT.
Story of an Editor Who Finally
Told the Truth.
(Exchange)
A West Texas editor got tired of
being called a liar because of an oc-
casional typographical error or slight
disarrangement of the -facts publish-
ing a commonplace news item. In his
wrath he announced in bold faced type
as follows:
“A lot of peopfe in this town fall
out with the editor and brand him a
liar when the ordinary mistakes of life
show up in the paper. You haye a lit-
tle charity and fellow feeling for ev-
ery man in town but your editor. You
claim that you want facts and d—d if
I don’t give them to you. Read the
next issue of this sheet and you will
see facts with the bark off. I will ad-
mit that I have been a liar, an editor-
ial liar, ever since I have been editing
this sheet, but I have never printed a
lie in these columns except to save
somebody’s feelings from being hurt.
I am not afraid of any of you, and
I’ll be dad blamed if I won’t print the
truth from now on, or until some of
you get out of the habit of calling me
a liar every time I make some little
unavoidable typographical error. Now
watch my smoke.”
Here are some paragraphs out of
his next issue:
John Benin, the laziest man in
town made a trip to Bellevue yester-
day.
Rev. Spy preached last Sunday night
at the Christian church, His sermon
was punk and uninteresting, except
some stuff he quoted from Bob Inger-
soll, for which he failed to give Bob
any credit. He also recited a few
passages from one of William Elbert
Munsey’s sermons and had the un-
limited gall to palm it off as his own.
Tom Spradlin married Miss Cordie
Meadow last trades day at the county
seat. It isn’t generally known, but
the marriage was brought about by a
Remington shotgun manipulated by
the bride’s father. Tom concluded
that marrying was the healthiest
thing he could do until other arrange-
ments could be made.
Roger Lloyd, cashier of the state
bank at Willow Grove, died last Wed-
nesday and was buried by the Odd
Fellows at Pleasant Mount cemetery.
He had been taking this paper seven
years and hadn’t paid us a cent. We
thought that fyeing a banker he cer-
tainly would pay some time’. We will
sell the account for two bit’s worth
of groceries.
Married: Miss Susie Scruggs and
Horace Griffin, Saturday at the Meth-
odist church parsonage. The bride
was a very ordinary girl, who flirts
with every traveling man she meets
and never helped' her mother three
days in all her life. She is anything
but a beauty, resembling a gravel pit
in the face and walks like a duck. The
groom is a natural born loafer. He
never did anything in his life until his
step-father ran him off from home
last fall. He went to the county seat
and just before he starved to death ac-
cepted a job as a chamber maid in a
livery stable. 'As soon as his ma
found out where he was she went up
and got him and brought him home.
He now resides at the home of his
wife’s father, and says that he has no
definite plans for the future. Susie
will have a hard row to hoe.
Mrs. G. P. Roquemore, temporarily
residing in San Antonio, was a week-
end visitor to Coleman.
Mr. Oil Man: See us for welding
service—no jobs too large, no jobs too
small. Phone X-392. Leavell and
Owen Radiator and Welding Shop, at
BOB’S PLACE. 25-28x.
NEW. OAT BAGS AT LOW
PRICES AT WILSON GRAIN
STORE. 23-tfx.
STOBAUGH & HOR]
We frame pictures
Moore’s Studio.
artistically.
3-tfx.
H.
G.
J.
WHAT
DOES
IT
MEAN?
For Sheriff:
J. A. TRAMMELL, (re-election).
W. R. (Rat) HAMILTON.
J. M. MARTIN (of Santa Anna)
For Tax Collector:
J. C. LEWIS, (re-election).
MARLIN SMITH.
T. W. (Tom) MARTIN. ,
For Tax Assessor:
NOLAN BARMORE.
J. H. (HENRY) LIVINGSTON.
WALTER WEAVER.
CECIL A. FREEMAN.
R. H. (Henry) DUNMAN.'
L. E. COLLINS.
F. A. (Albert) MAY.
For District Clerk:
W. E. GIDEON (Re-election).
A. D. (Dad) BURDICK.
For County Clerk:
L. EMET WALKER, (Re-election).
FRED HENDERSON.
Members Notice!
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Half a billion dollars
lost in the United
States during 1925 on
BAD ACCOUNTS
contracted by people
WHO FAIL to PAY.
250,000 families com-
fortably maintained by
their creditors. All be-
cause MERCHANTS
did not CHECK UP on
CUSTOMERS before
TRUSTING them.
How many of, these
dead beats are Cole-
man Merchants sup-
porting? Check your
customers state and na-
tional paying records
through
The Coleman Retail
Merchants Assn.
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For County Treasurer:
MRS. E. K. THOMSON.
R. E. (Bob) GAINES.
For County School Superintendent:
J. H. KELLETT (Re-election).
M.
D.
S
If You Can’t
Figure It Out
Watch for Particulars
Next Week.
Stand Back!
Don’t Push!
For County Attorney:
V. RAWLINS GILLILAND.
For County Commissioner Prect. 1:
H. E. CAMPBELL.
J. W. HUNTER (Near Echo).
R. D. KINNEY, (Re-election).
G. K. REDDING.
WILL McKAUGHN.
J. C. STRICKLAND.
W. I. HELTON.
For County Commissioner, Pree. I:
TOM LANDRUM.
GEORGE PAULEY (Re-Election).
JIM SKELTON.
For County Surveyor:
J. P. CALDWELL
For Coonty Commissioner, Free. 4:
GEO. STINSON (re-election)
O. H. KELLEY.
For Public Weigher, Precinct No. It
H. M. (Shorty) BROWN
Re-election.
C. I. STARNES.
Per Public Weigher, Pree. No. 1:
D. H. COLE.
a L. GARRETT.
For Public Weigher, Precinct Ne. 6:
STANLEY WOOD, (re-eleetion).
WALTER KING.
R. A. SIMMONS
Per Constable Precinct 1:
BERRY BISHOP
T. L. STAFFORD.
Justice th^Ponoe, Pree. No. It
JOHN R. HAVENS.
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There’s nothing so refreshing, so in- ||
yigorating as a nice fruit juice drink,
chilled with our ice.
Phone 26 Brings Immediate Service.
Don’t forget the 50-lbs. Ice Free with
each refrigerator bought from Cole-
man merchants during the rest of June.
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Williamson, J. T. The Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1926, newspaper, June 25, 1926; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth724092/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Coleman Public Library.