The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. [46], No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1918 Page: 5 of 8
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Dry Goods
are not going to
be any cheaper
for a long time
Cotton is selling today at 34c per pound,
with prospects of going higher.
Wool is almost impossible to get at any
price.
The last quotation on standard overalls
was $24.00 per dozen and now there are
none to be had at all.
8 oz. cotton sacking is quoted today at 35c, F. O. B.
mill and all mills sold up to capacity.
Outing cloths are quoted at 30c and 35c per yard.
None to be had for immediate delivery and only small
allotments to each merchant for Fall delivery.
Amoskeag Ginghams are 271-2c at mill and all al-
lotments for Fall practically exhausted.
Pepperel 10-4 sheetings are now 60c yd. wholesale.
Everything in the way of Dry Goods from a paper
of pins to a suit of clothes is advancing in price by
leaps and bounds.
And that isn’t the worst
Retailers can hardly get any goods at all. And
this condition is becoming more grave each day.
Practically every retailer is today selling merchan-
dise for less than it can be replaced at—if it can be
had at all.
Goods may seem high to you now—but they are
very cheap compared with what they will be this Fall.
Buy your Spring goods now—you’ll save money.
Buy your goods now for next Winter and you will
Si*ve money.
1 gave this advice a year ago and events have proven
that it was timely.
I not alone gave this advice but I acted on it myself
and that is the only reason I have such a well assorted
stock as I am selling at prices that I could not possibly
auord to make, had I not bought early before the ad-
vance.
^orTt buy anything you won t need, but
»Kat you need - BUY IT NOW.
BEN LOEWENSTHN, JR.
WHEAT SUBSTITUTE
COOKING RECIPES
In line with our promise of last
,he Reporter presents herewith
some more recipes submitted with en-
tries at Hen Loewenstein’s “Wheat
Substitute Baking Contest” last week.
Craham Sticks
Baked by Mrs. W. A. Blackburn
- graham iiour.
1 cup sugar.
Pinch salt.
Pinch Baking Powder.
1 egg, beaten in enough sweet milk
to make a stiff dough.
Flavor with nutmeg.
Roll out on floured board, cut in
strips, roll and bake in moderate oven
until light brown.
Biscuits
Baked by Josephine Cook (col.)
1 cup wheat flour.
1 cup rice flour.
tablespoon lard.
1 tablespoon baking powder.
1-2 teaspoon soda.
1-2 teaspoon salt.
1 cup sour milk.
Knead 20 minutes, bake in quick
oven.
Chocolate Cake
Baked by Mrs. E. B. Phillips
1-2 cup rice flour.
1-2 cup wheat flour.
1-4 cup cornmeal.
1-4 cup buttermilk.
1-4 cup butter.
1 cup sugar.
1 cake Bakers chocolate dissolved
in ‘1-4 cup of boiling water.
Pinch salt.
Bake in two layers and put togeth-
er with chocolate filling.
Devil’s Food Cake
Baked by Mrs. Loewenstein Jr.
1 cup rice flour.
1 cup Aunt Jemina’s Buckwheat
mixture.
1 cup cornstarch.
1 teaspoon soda.
1-2 cup compound lard.
2 cups sugar.
4 eggs.
2 blocks bitter chocolate dissolved
in 1-12 cups boiling water.
Muffin Cakes
Baked by Mrs. Joe Hirt
1-2 cup flour.
1-2 cup cornmeal.
1 nip boiled rice
2 eggs.
1-2 teaspoon soda.
1-2 teaspoon baking powder.
1 cup sour milk.
3-4 cup sugar.
War Bread
Baked by Mrs. M. G. Dipple
Soak overnight 1 yeast cake with
enough flour to make a soft batter.
Next morning mix 2 cups corn meal,
3 cups shorts, 2 cups flour, 1 table-
spoon lard and 2 tablespoons sugar.
Work until bread does not stick to
hands. Put in warm place and let
rise until double its original size.
Make into loaves and let rise again.
Bake in a moderate oven.
War Bread
Baked by Mrs. Aug. Tschoertner
Soak 1 yeast cake, mix with enough
flour to make a soft batter and let
stand over night. In the morning
mix 4 cups shorts, 2 cups war flour, 2
tablespoons lard, sugar to suit. Work
well. Let this rise in a warm place,
make into loaves, or rolls, and bake
in a moderate oven.
PEANUT TALK
C. M. Grabener was here from Sand
Grove Monday, with good crop re-
ports. Mr. Grabener is a peanut en-
thusiast and here is one reason: Last
year he planted 22 acres of corn and
peanuts—two rows of corn and one
row of peanuts. The drouth came on
and got worse as the season grew
older. The corn wilted, died and fell
down; but the peanuts went right on
growing and made a fairly good turn-
out. Off of that field Mr. Grabener
sold $165 worth of peanuts, saving
as fine n lot of hay as a cow ever ate,
and also saving planting seed for an-
other year.
Mr. Grabener says with cotton at
34c a pound it looks mighty tempting,
but he is seriously figuring on plant-
ing all his cotton land to peanuts.
Ray Jenness and Walter Baggett
were here from Tracy Monday. Ray
was boasting of the fine crop pros-
pect, while Walter was boasting of
Tracy’s fine new graveled roads.
Something to boast about, you bet.
Ray says that community will be plas
tered all over with Liberty Bonds this
fall. So mote it be.
II. Lockwood planted six acres of
Irish potatoes and says he never saw
a better prospect in his life. He re-
ports plenty of rain recently at his
farm.
Misses Ray Sessions and Alma
Barrett spent the week end with
friends in San Antonio.
Lobster Sardines
Pickles Sausage
Oysters Spaghetti
O
owioa
Goulash Kaviola
Chi!e-Con-Carne
These make up the usual
Dutch lunch — but what
will you serve to drink?
For years the host and hostess have been
asking themselves that same question—es-
pecially whenever the occasion happens to
be* one of those cozy little after-theatre or
“in-between-times” parties. New, there is
£ ready answer—
This distinctively new creation in soft
drinks is sparkling—snappy—delicious. It
is healthful with the wholesomeness of the
choicest cereals — appetizing with the bou-
quet and agreeable bitter tang which only
choice hops can impart. It is sure to “hit
the spot”—sure to encounter no prejudices.
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ANHEUSER BUSCH
ST. LOUIS
THE SHEAR COMPANY
Distributors WACO, TEXAS
DEATH NOTICE OF MRS.
JEPTHA WATSON
Dear Editor of The Reporter: By
request of the four living daughters
of Mrs. Watson, I shall endeavor to
make a statement of her illness and
death.
On Tuesday, the 5th inst., she spent
the day with her daughter, Mrs. Ruth
Ferguson, apparently well, and at
night returned to the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Nora Glover, to spend
the night. About 9:00 o’clock she
was attacked with acute indigestion
and suffered intensely; about mid-
night they called for help. Mr. Joe
Small tried to get a doctor, but could
not get one, until about noon Wednes-
day. Mr. Small with some medicines
he had. She had partially been re-
lieved. But she took a chill and fe-
ver that night and continued to grow
worse and worse, until Tuesday the
12th, just one week at about 12:30
with Dr. Eakins standing by her bed
side, she breathed her last. She also
had a light touch of pneumonia.
She made her home with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Emma Glover, but would
stay a few days with her other three
daughters, Mrs. Laura Small, Mrs.
Nora Glover and Mrs. Ruth Ferguson,
and was a source of great pleasure
and comfort to them, to have her with
them. Her walks and talks thru life
were of such a Godly nature that it
was a pleasure to be in her company.
To know her was to love her. She
studied the Bible closely and enjoyed
talking the scriptures, ever looking
forward to the coming of the Lord,
and believed the time was drawing
nigh. She would sing songs and talk
scriptures during the last hours of
her suffering.
She and her husband were for a
greater part of their lives members
ef the Christian ch,,r°b hot for sev-
eral years had united with the
Christidelphian faith, and were ever
faithful to the end.
Mr. Jeptha Watson, her husband,
died about 4 or 5 years ago. They
lieved in Sand Grove community for
quite a number of years, and was
well thought of by everybody. Mrs.
Watson was born and raised in Tex-
as, was about 70 years and a few
days old; the mother of thirteen chil-
dren, who are all dead except the four
daughters living on Edwards Prairie,
Burleson county, with whom she was
living at the time of her death. Fun-
eral services were conducted by Elder
Charley Carr, of Cameron, Christian
pastor; at Sand Grove cemetery, on
Wednesday afternoon, where she was
laid away by the side of her husband,
to sleep that peaceful sleep, until the
resurrection morn.
The four daughters wish to express
their heartfelt thanks to Mrs. Lesikar
for the beautiful wreath of flowers
she contributed for the funeral; also
to the many neighbors who assisted
and did all they could.
Thus it is that many a heart has
been caused to weep and tears to be
shed over the loss of dear old parents
and loved ones, who have crossed over
the river and gone never to return.
'Tis strange that those we lean on
most,
Those in whose laps our limbs are
nursed,
Fall into shadows, soonest lost;
Those we love first are taken first.
God gives us love, something to live,
He lends us, but when love is grown
to ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off and love is left alone.
This is the curse of time. Alas!
In grief we are not all unlearned.
Seven times thru mine own doors
death did pass.
Dear ones went who never have re-
turned.
Sleep sweetly, tenderly sleep in peace,
Sleep Holy Spirit, blessed soul,
While the stars burn, the moons in-
crease,
And the great ages onward roll.
Written by an old time friend,
SEA SHELLS.
R. L. Scarbrough has sold his mer-
cantile business at Hicks to J. S.
Armstrong, late of Chilton, and has
moved back to Rockdale and is living
in the Gaither cottage just east of
Mineral Park. Lee says he is going
to have such a big crop this year he
wont have time to sell goods.
Ugh! Calomel Sickens; Salivates!
« Please Try Dodson's Liver Tone
I am sincere f My medicine does not upset liver
Kind bowels so you lose a day’s work'.
Calomel loses you a day! You
know what calomel is. It's mer-
cury; quicksilver. Calomel is dan-
gerous. It crashes into sour bile
like dynamite, cramping and sick-
ening you. Calomel attacks the
bones and should never be put into
your system. ”
.When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need a dose of dangerous
calomel just remember that your
druggist sells for a few cents a large
bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
calomel. It is guaranteed to start
your liver without, stirring you up
inside, and can not salivate. - ,
Don’t take calomel! It makes yom
sick the next, day; it loses you a day’s
work. Dodson’s Liver Tone straight-
ens you right, up and you fee 1 great.
Give it to the children as well.
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. [46], No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1918, newspaper, April 4, 1918; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth742547/m1/5/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.