Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1912 Page: 2 of 16
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JACKSBORO GAZETTE
Published every Thursday by
J. N. ROGERS & COMPANY.
Entered at the Postoffice at
Jacksboro, Texas, as second-class
nail matter.
Business office on northeast cor-
ner of Public Square, Jacksboro,
Texas.
Remit cash by Postoffice Money
Order or Bank Check at our risk,
ctherwise at risk of sender.
Subscription: $1.00 a year.
Telephone 71.
WHAT BECOMES OF THE
TOWN THAT IS AFRAID
v TO BOOST.
In a newspaper discussion now
being carried on by several pa-
rown, and then it is only by cour- j Attention of farmers is called
esy that they are permitted to go to the article from the Jermyn
on private premises, and not be- News about the distribution of
cause the owners of land want hogs to farmers in the Jermyn
people thete, in fact they do not and Bryson country. Perhaps
want them for various reasons, be- like arrangements could be made
cause often the cattle in the past-
ures are injured, the birds
are
for farmers in other parts of the
county. This is a great opportu-
kiiled, the gates left open and va- nity for Jack County farmers to
nous other troubles arise from get hogs, and there certainly will
the public using private pastures be money in raising hogs when
for pleasure resorts. Jacksboro the present shortage is so great
needs its own pleasure ground, not only in Texas but in Oklaho-
Those whose call comes loudest ma as well,
for a park open at all times to
the public are the
families of small
land
the bridge down
catur crossing wou> i make
one of the most beau-
tiful locations for a park in Nortl
Texas. No doubt but this land
of Europe we are a steadily di-
minishing factor, and the result
is seen in the prices there. While
the population of this country in-
creased 21 per cent between the
last two censuses, the aggregate
acreage of all the cereal crops in-
creased only 3.5 per cent.
‘ ‘ There is only one possible
source of relief from this threat-
ening situation, and that is by
raising the productiveness of our
lands through more intelligent
and scientific culture. There is
no known limit to the possibilities
of nature, and our average pro-
duction is far below the results of
the best practice. The average
yield of corn per acre in this
[ country has never reached 30
npmw , , . . bushels but once, and that was in
utuu" paper people regret their going .
to the De-!fr0^that place. 0872. The .mportant question is,
women with The ^essrs_ Proctor have sold
children who Bridgeport Index to Mr.
need the fresh air and exercise in;Frank Wanace of the Chico Re-
a place of safety and where there view. Messrs Pnoctor made of
are trees for shade. The strip of j.be jndex a good paper and new’s-
on Los Creek below
City Building Notes.
A commercial club is
could be secured if there was a 1 door the city.
united effort on the part of the
town to secure it. Some one
pers of the Plains country they'should take the lead in this im-1 A g neral habit ot wasted op.;
elucidate some points that are of :portant matter. This strip of land port„nities m„imH a general con
special interest to all towns west as a c ty park would give Jacks-
of Fort Worth, Jacksboro among ; boro about the biggest boost that
them. The Colorado Record does it could receive. A town without
not believe in boosting a town. It j a park is next to a town without
claims that West Texas has been good schools and churches,
greatly injured by being boosted,
if we have gained nothing in the
cultivation of corn in the last for-
ty years, how fast will be possi-
the front! b^e *° revolutionize farming meth-
ods in the future?
“It is interesting to note that
in many States the bankers
‘through their State
have taken up. this
how to increase the
associations
question of
productive-
to which opinion many papers
take exception, and declare that
Fort Worth has taken up the
bo7stm7iAimpl7hoWin7upThe ol making the city beau-
good points and advantages of a
place, that there is a very great
tiful as well as a great center for
i commerce. The Record says: “A
A road like a chain is only as
good as its weakest link.
dition of want. „ , , ,
„ ., , , , t ness of the farms, and have or-
Capital does not roam around. . , „ ’ . „ ,
, , , ganized t r a campaign of eduea-
promiscuously. ft makes a bee- . , . „_____, „
line for prosperity centers.
A considerable part of the lives ,
of great men is devoted to the
Man-Tailored to YOUR
Measure at Reasonable Prices
welfare of their community.
The handiwork of man should
be exploited through the brain
work of m n—join the commer-
I tion, making it the chief work of
the associations. The Illinois As-
sociation has enlisted the co-oper-
ation of the agricultural depart-
ment of the State University. The
Minnesota and Iowa associations
have enlisted upon a similar cam-
paign; and the object is so prac-
movement is now being agitated' cial organization and boost your J jV 7 JViT
difference between boosting and oemg a0it<±iea (^ jtieal and praiseworthy that the
booming a place, and that it is \ y b autifying of Fort: US!^^S"^ ^ bankers of all the States may well
the booming, which it seems, in . . . u up oy tne, town g0 vou follow their example. It gives a
plain language ia nothing more ^1^ for’th? i^rovW^‘of mayTe properly™qu“ped Vg°« the meetings of
nor less than plain liemg, that in- , p ® 01 , ’ , the associations, brmgmg the
jured the west. It iS calling a thetstr3et8> “»>?** «*« sidewalks! your share of th» season s pro- ^ ^ ^ frieBdly
prairie schooner drawn by two UD! on,;’ assessing building re-jCe^s r°m e oun 1 u ciops. cooperation with the largest body
of producers, and gives great
i promise of increasing the wealth
poor old horses with a family and strictions and solving of the many For city building,
M v aJ-U _____„ll___ a 1 a n . i T\ IflOcnnt rr.i* n I I nAyvirM a
other problems that confront the pleasant for all commercial trav-
their small belongings, immi-
grants arriving by the carloads;
it is
sweeps across the country a won ,. ,. , , , , J ___....—,
derful rain. This is what some of chltf who, was appointed on the , to J-our <»m™rc,al club, but each ^ hjg State the Texas In
the papers claim has injured “V beauhW commission by the should be a comm.ttee of ^ ,g conductin
- - -- - ®tate Archtiects’ Association, one to render all ass.stance poss,- edui!ational campaign for
ttiiAYux u uuc taiwaua city beautifier. ‘The need of a elers> business men, and visitors,
^eaUinH’'^erv sandstorm^that city beaut5ful commission,' says both men and women who visit
Ug 7 * B. G. Leake, the Fort Worth ar- y°ur city. Do not leave all this
of the community.”
Referring to the last paragraph
quoted above, it may be noted
operating with the efforts of the
in n substantial way.
West Texas. The Lubbock Ava- ^ . * an educational campaign tor m-
lanche takes item by item to show ^ met ^ere ^ast November, • ® 0 • y a 1D8,lfn in % creasing agricultural production
with good sensible boosting what .Can ® 8een on every side. There i m ese pcop e, ey wi .g mee^ng wj^h much suc-
other towns have won, and what Iar y a straight street in the , a e a muc arger m eres m cegg an^ Texas banks are eo-
Coiorado has lost and how her Clt^ the ^dewalks are irregular, your city than they otherwise j
territory has been sliced away be- ^bJocks are uneven- ^e being would do, and will prove a walk- ^
cause the people were afraid to 200 feet wide and some 600 feet mg advertlseme»t for your corn-
boost. Says the Avalanche: (Wide; building restrictions are no1 munity.
W8s°the ^radL^polntlortnthe in that it can not be ad- The commissioners court at San
country west of there to the State marred one little shanty | vertised too much if It has merit Saha has ordered an election to
line and including all the Lub 1 amonS the other beautiful Tiouses. > it- Boost your town as you i vote on the issuance of bonds to
bock t„ru7 r „„mbcr „f hi; The park board haa accompUahed would your bnalncas.
The High Cost of Living.
This subject is a fruitful one
for discussion by all, and in a let-
merchants grew rich by reason of a great deal toward beautifying
their immense ranch trade. They can n°t be expected
believed that it would always be do ad‘ ^ e need a separate
such, that they would always con- orSanization of good live citizens
trol the situation and were not carr-^ on W0I>k- ^ would
willing to spend any of their ea- j su”8est that this organization be ter sent out by the Texas Indus-
sily earned money to improve the composed of one representative; trial Congress, extracts from a
town. Opportunity after oppor- from t;le cit^ government, one! letter by F. A. Vanderlip, presi-
tunity knocked at the door, but from each ward, one from the art dent of the National City Bank
these same men signalled them to; d?Parfment of the public library, j ol vVw York, are quoted as fol-
go away. Their presence was not °,ne ^rom the architects associa-1 lows:
wanted. After towns near by tion, one from the Federation of | “The best news in the papers
took advantage of these cast-off womens’ clubs, one from the these days is that about the crops
opportunities and are today reap- school board and one from each It commands attention among bes-
ing' benefits from them that'mighl the newspapers. This eommis-J iness men to the exclusion of j
have been Colorado’s. Sweetwa- fion sboulcl have monthly meet-: presidential prospects, the doings'
ter got the Orient. Colorado and discuss ways and means!of Congress or the foreign dis- j
irrigate 36,000 acres in San Saba‘
Valley.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell
and completely derail ire the whole system when
entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip-
tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they
will do Is ten fold to the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O., contains no mer-
cury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. It Is taken Internally, and made In Toledo.
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney * Co. Testimonials free.
Pold by Drucslsta. Price. 75c. per bottle.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
could have had it. Roscoe got the , ^or
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Rail- jwor^*
way. Colorado could have had j —
it. The Santa Fe road went
carrying on
Every worthy enterprise that
this: patches. The country needs a!
j bump r crop. It would help ey-j
J cry body. It would turn the food j
market downward and relieve th-1
tension in industrial circles where j
* | | YVUXLU
through Snyder and Sweetwater will be for the town s progre88 t
and we are of the opinion that‘should be encouraged -™,itlie lllgh cost of hvm® has beca
Colorado, had she not been suf- j way possible. There
fering with that awful disease extended all efforts for the pres- ,. ,
non-progressiveness, that she ent trade> that can be brought guaranty of full tonnage, and put
- 7 ;in^‘uiin^ a11 wage
should be ,,
! t would give - the
agreements, i
railways a j
could have induced the Santa Fe
to cross the T. & P. there. As a
result of this long spell of sick- more prosperous. And w7hile this
“™> the "eieM’ormg towns built is b(,in„ at.complished we Bhould
out, as by ever-increasing trade
the town will grow more and
uhw confidence into every branch
of production and trade. One
great crop, happily, is already
made, and that is hay. A year
up a good business each cutting iook enongh the £uture o£ “»* this time nearly the entire
on a slice of Colorado’s pie un- the lown to be K.ady at al| timeg
til 5he now has a trade territory
of 8 mihs square with
pects of relief in sight.
seiz * the opportunity of locat-
no pros- , jng factories, large or small, Fae-
,tjries established in a communi-
— ty lend a growing influence
country was suffering from
drought. The hay crop of 1911
was the smallest the country has
produced since 1695, being but
47,000,000 tons, as compared with
an avtrage of 63,0(0,000 tons in
Jacksboro need, a park. This ~e “ a t0™ ■ P»P^t.on or bwf ^ s?a90n the iaW is
hot summer has helped to impress along these line, hurtful Wfc tQ the ay and /he ben.
the need of a park more and mort *D< '7^ ,q ’.’’i . " ’ * ln® ° efits will be realized throughout
on the people. Nowhere at all to aship "V° ^ S< ” the year. As far back as 1889 the
go for1 recreation exeept along the 1 • , acreage in hay was greater than
hot dusty streets and roads. If -
a little picnic party /desires an Good roads are the greatest 000,000 tons.
last year, and the crop was 66
out ng they are compelled to ask factors toward bringing in
sj uc one who owns land near by higher civilization.
a “As a pxirveyor of food sup-
. pli s to th? irnpo”ting countries
SUMMER TOURIST
Tickets on Sale Daily
until September 30th,
Limit to October 31st
Kansas City, St. Louis,
Chicago, and many
other important points
VIA THE
Coats
$10.00
and up
Dresses
$13.00
and up
Our new fashion
portfolio has ar-
rived. In it are
illustrated over
76 styles in over
300 new fabrics.
Suits
$14.00
and up
At these prices no
woman can afford
not to wear Man-
tailored Garments
made to her meas-
ure.
ifl
Skirts
$5.00
and up
Fit and Satisfaction Guaranteed
MEN’S MADE-TO-MEASURE CLOTHES
THE INTERNATIONAL TAILORING COMPANY of New
York and Chicago is by long odds the largest house in the world
d voted to merchant tailoring. They occupy a floor space of
270,000 square feet and all devoted to the making of men’s made-
to-measure clothes. Mere size is nothing in itself—the thing that
really counts is the merit that makes for bigness. For no house
can grow without public support aud public support is impossible
to obtain unless you do something worthy to receive it. And
hey have.
They have the biggest range of fabrics and prices, which en-
ables us to cater to every man, no matter what his tastes may
be.
And value for value, fabric for fabric, the prices are
than any house in the country. This is not a mere emi
ment, but a fact which can be proven beyond all doubt
the line for yourself.
And that’s what we want yon to do. We want you to come to
our store and examine our claims at first hand. The proof of the
pudding lies in the eating thereof.
&
urn
Note the Perfect Fit
The ELASTICITY
and the reinforced heels and toes.
All are characteristic of
Iron Clad Hosiery
but the picture Joes not show the fine textun
not the silky finish nor the “special twist1
which gives such wonderful strength
and durability to
Iron Clads.
We recommend
them and guarantee
aatisfaction, and
would be pleased to
show you the goods.
Not
Iron
but lots
of hard
wear in
them
Clearance Sale Prices
L. A. Ringgenberg,
Phone 11. Local Agent.
While the merchandise lasts the prices former-]
ly quoted in this paper will hold good.
Reduced prices on all low cut footwear for]
Men, Women and Children.
From 1-third to 1-half off on all Ladies’ and
Misses’ Skirts, Ladies’ Summer Dresses. Choice of
any Dress in the House for $2.00.
A few Ken’s Suits and Boys’ Knickerbocker Suits
at Clearance Sale Prices.
New Goods
We are receiving New Goods Every week.
We Promise You Fair Dealings
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1912, newspaper, September 5, 1912; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth731073/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.