The Democrat-Voice. (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1910 Page: 4 of 10
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ForTte
Writer
CClld
Bo\
get a foothold
real
was a generation or two ago. The eas-
for
never
' ^ _ u, ty arffiy of kx*t«re that win tc-
j muat blow our awn horn., complish more than all the iuon-
I Now we are daily manufactory | <,y that haa been collected for
lour, .leal, Bfan, Chops; others such purposes. It will mean an
.cotton seed meal and oil, others enthusiasm that will carry be-
taking in laundry from out file fore it the dawn of a new day
country, and so on through with for Coleman. Saint Louis, great
our manufacturing plants, so you and grand as it is, has made an
see the money ns coming to Cole- introspection and found its weak
man from other counties for our spot, now the awakening, has
products. Now here is a point: come and on every street corner
.Is It unreasonable to ask your and upon prominent places elec-
iieigiihor to buy the goods which trie signs flash, in your face Buy
y nr enterpr ses manufacture and-fit. Louis Made Goods. They
, that go to the upbuilding of your are stopping the waste every
town and county an,I not give man, woman and child is talking
your patronage ? If it is right St. Louis. They keep the money
, the,“ wl,y not y«« d* *>» right in St. Louis, and every-
' Wl hav,‘ t!le rl*ht t0 the thing is flush because the hum
9 • j merchant whom you do business of industry is heard, in every
IT is not as easv tn crf>* a fnntiigxlrl !V,th in ,,<,U,",ai1' More tHatttha quartter and the demands
I. , . 1 aS l° a *ootnola | It is a matter ot self-prse«mt- their own manufactures
*in business or to own real estate as it i,,n ,hat yon *ivo your mMi«y to cease.
the man that brings it hack to Go to work with a new motto-
, , ,, - you tomorrow. The merchant Coleman motley for Coleman peo-
iest and surest way to be prepared for the winter of life is w l,o buys the goods which are pie. Sing a new song, not for
to put money in the barik. Money in the bank goes a long jl,ladl‘ in Coleman is surely the self-hut for all. Then will dear
way towards insuring a happy Christmas and it always en- tl‘art 'stl0uid *** y01lr P»trou-,o]d Coleman, the best place on
ables Santa Claus to visit your home. You can see exam- , ’! I'1' ^’"ds you j earth take a new lease on life,
pie, ev.ry year at ,hi, time . tunhappy f.milie, who have !,, 11^ ,t°“,
no bank account. Start your barf* account at once and-to think that no merchant who'try about will blossom like a
you will always be prepaired for this event in the future.-,,S(S an artiel - made, in Dallas, rose. GUs ROBERTS
rri . 1 ifl 1 Ft- Worth ot some eastern town Manager Coleman Mill & El Co
m First National Baiik^TC^:. ..................
Capital - $100,000.00 Surplus - $115,000 , ask you to deal with him? He hove article hits , the nail with
L. E. Collins, President J. P. Morris. Vice-President , ta v s ' U''”" -V ""'J s"‘db'‘‘ hammer blows square on
R. H. Alexander Cashier c. W. Hemphill Aw’t L-ashiw j away to buy the very thing that j the head and if every Coleman
l " _ _ —......—......— i earns many Of ’IS .Oti-r daily bread, citizen will follow up the dm-ti-in,
i That is a comra«rcia] crime j its and take the prescription as giv-
' even worse, its commercial in the foregoing article Cole-
cide. a -
There was a time when it-was1
necessary to go to other cities to ; As we have said before,'Coleman
get al! o.ur necessities of life fee- 'products ought to be good en-
eauso our town was too sm&lLto ougli for Coleman people,- and
support manufactories. lint not Coleman citizens should make it
so now. We have some ns fine a point to use Coleman ptfrndets
enterprises in Coleman as there first, last and all the time. In
is in any city in Texas. other words. Keep Coleman dol-
While it is ^leccssai-y to 'talk lars in C-olemau and get all the
this to your neighbor it is abso-
lutely imperative to do more
You must frankly tell your deal-
Good
For you to make and keep is to establish yourself
with a first-class bank. The time is bound
come when y 0 u will appreciate the '
■ wisdom of our advice. There are many reason,
for this, an important one, which you may not
be familiar with, is the advantages of using your
bank as a reference and the better the bank
naturallv, the better the reference. This bank
extends to it’s patrons every possible favor, even
to the extent of giving advice in regard to busi-
ness matters. Your account is respectfully sr"
licited and vve can assure you of satisfactory ser
vice.
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The Coleman National Bank.
rntPUAiu tcv l o r
COLEMAN, TEXAS
Capital
Surplus and Undivided Profits
J. E McCord Pres W. R. McClellan, Vice-Pres
D' At' Padd'eford- Cice-pres. C. F. Dumas rlul
1.. M. Dumas, Assistant Cashier.
$60,000
$100,000
f ashier
The Cokj" Democrat-Voice hecimocitv and the
HOME ENTERPRISES.
KJBLISHED EVEKY FRIDAY
BY THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE PCBUSHIKC COMfANT
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
CASH /ft aDvANCI
wnl become one of the best
and most alive towJSij ill 'T“XS“:
It IS to your interest to get the most out of your mnnpv
you spend for DRY GOODS, come to see us we are J
ing to give you the biggest Bargain in dry goods ever of-
fered in your town for the next two weees.
and get our prices before buying.
ARMSTRONG & SON
L. F. Wade ....
Claude McClellan
One Y ir
Six Months
Editor.
Bus. Mgr
. $1:10
. 50c,
PHONE 23
DFFIT'E ON WEST MAIN STREET
outside dollars .that
jvstly secured.
can lie. Iion-
Xothing does
newspaper man so
the heart of a
much good as
to see his town going forward
with leaps and Itounds. and noth-
ing comes as near wrecking the
heart and soul as to see it stand-
ing still while opportunities are
knocking at her door. The fact
that so much of this county's
best farm land is tied up in big
pastures and is not open to sale
or settlement is holding the
town and county down as noth-
ing else can. Without the popu-
lation the country cannot he de-
t’elo{H-d and if the people can-
not Ih- developed and if hte peo-
ple cannot get homes in this eoun
ty how can we ever secure the
recent primaries for the office of
Public Weigher, and to state that
although I received the highest
number of votes of any candidate
in the race. I will not Ik* your
public weigher. In the recent
contest for that office, which was
contested by Mr. Ashford, he was
successful on account of the Dis-
trict Judge holding that the Va-
lera and Glen ('ove Ik>xcs were
Is there no way on earth that
these big land owners can he
persuaded to place ttieir agricul-
tural holdings upon the market
to actual settlers at reasonable
prices.
—<)——
Its all over hut till:
and if the shouting in
of tin' state is as weal
ing it won't he heard
--O—-
If Coleman continu
shouting
this part
as the rot-
ery far.
iprti
nng
soon
any t
No-Tsu-~Oh
Carnival
Houston
Nov. 14-19
Low Fares
Extremely low fares on short
limit tickets. Slightly high-r
fares on longer limit tickets.
For detail information see Santa
Fe agent or address
W. S. K^ensn. G. P. A Galveston
To the Dealer, the Wage Work-
er and the Consumer:
What are our relations to each
other? Let us see. The stock-
holder invests a certain amount
of money in our business and re-
ceives his prorata shqre of the
ni t earnings.- The employe ren-
ders a certain service to our bus-
iness and therefore a stipulated
wage out of tin* gross earnings.
[Now tin real_difference between e-r that he must handle the goods Coleman, Tex., Nov. 7th, 1910.,
kthe Wage earner'and-the stock- made in Coleman that he must To the Voters of Coleman Co:
holder is that the wage earner push them with his whole might I desire to make known to you
receives his portion of the gross ,u- that you will trade with the through the papers that I appre-
earnings first and is sure of a dealer that does if he sees you eiate the vote given to me in the
stated amount, while the stock-1 are' in earnest he will right a-
holde-r must wait and see wheth- bout-face. If every consumer,.ev-
er there will he any net profits ery wage earner, every business
and then only receives his share, man would start tomorow on
if there are any. Now there is such an advertising campangn
only one way the vage earner it would double the business of
ean lost*, namely: if there are not! every business in Coleman. That
enough earnings to keep lip the would mean better wages, larger
business then he may lose both i dividends and prosperity as a
wages and employment, while j continual performance, Do not
the stockholders will go withou pity the dealer who gets left,
earnings and may lose part, or There is always some one who j not entitled to vote in the race
the whole, of his investment. will tell you that they have a we ran- 1 am indeed thankful to
So we are al! partners Nwhen ( right to buy anywhere in Unit- my friends who voted for me,
it comes to fostering an enter-jed States and spend their money «id worked for me. and I would
like to have weighed your cotton,
norisense. Cain asked God “am j but this is a time when your will
I may brother’s keeper?” and was not obeyed. But in this in-
, Cain got the worst of it. Tell the j stances the commissioners court
the dealer who insists on send- had not done what they ought
ing your money to other cities to| to have done, and as a re-
sell his wares where lie spends1 Bult, the burden tell o-n me. I
iiis money. Do your buying with have no ill Avill toward anyone,
.those who liny home grown ami and my only regrets,are that the j
home raised products and never j will of tin* voters /is expressed j
let up on this determination, tli.-ii;«t the polls cannot be carried out
some" of tile Coleman merchants ’ It*can lie truthfully said in this
must i-itliar change their nietli- case that there is an officer ot
oils or dose up their business.
Buy cverytlrng in Coleman and
buy from flu- merchant who buys
from you. Stop the “leak” shou-
ld !m heralded from every house
top. Not a dollar should go out
of town that could tic spent or
invested in Crtlenmn. What wou-
ld the result. Visitors to Dallas
or Fort Worth would not come
home laden with bundles adver-
tising these town’s merchants.
MASSAGE TREATMENT
San Angelo, Texas, Nov, 5, 1910
To The Public: “
We wiah to announce that the above treatment will
continue to be given at the office of the undersigned,
which will be in charge and under supervision and direc-
tion of Dr. Jas. D. McClinton, as house physician and di-
agnostician. No Drugs or Knife.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Douglass,
Masseur and Masseuse.
30 East College Ave.
population? We ask the question P™** that goes to the upbuilding anywhere they pleaoe. That’s all
.1 11 a. nf Mill* tr»U*n nrtil ctvnntv Hv 1 »L* nAr/aoncn I'nin nohn/T flrvy]
of our town and county. By lack
of patronage we can all lose, and
i by faithful co-operation we will
| bring Mbout results that' will
he remunerative to the consum-
••r, to tin- wage earner, to the
merchant and to the banker and
to every calling will it benefit.
Jt therefore behooves the mer-
I chant and consumer and more es-
pecially the wage earner to give
their support to every business
that will go to building a great-
er Cob-man and Coleman county,
however,. I believe you are fully
alive to this feature of our rf-i-:
- 1 ' .;lld ptr.il v,' I
wish P* make more practically
your attitude toward al) Indus-
tries ;iij-ii enterprises-in Coleman,
I therefore ask the question:
Where should you trade and
Don’t Go Home Without a Can of
Texaco Axle Grease
It has no equal foe saving the axles and
preventing the wheels from squeaking.
Makes hauling easy on the horses and
gives satisfaction in every way.
FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS
____ Made Only By
The Texas Company
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the county who wins no4 elected
by the people. Yours truly.
Cary Bradford.
Blackshi:aa- Makes Assignment,
Thursday afternoon at 4:00 1\
M„ 1C JC Blaeksliear iiiad - n
voluntwry assignment of his .tail
orsliop. naming N-i-al (juk-t ^as
a-saigin.ee a-nd prineipnl creditor.
It is understood that all work
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Special Notice
Since November the first we
are selling GROCERIES to
one and all STRICKLY FOR
CASH. In doing this we will
make prices that will save you
money. Come and investigate
our stock and get our prices
CASH with small profit will be
'our motto from now on
Vaughn & Grigg
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spend y-in- money in Coleman.1
Now this is getting right down
to the individual and is a very The express companies would no|done before this oecunrwnc-e,
delicate question to handle. I as- ^ longer deiiytf goods from eat a-. and all clo-tlie-s ordored before -it, © ®
sunn- -tl at you fully agree with login houses of the Hast all over will he tuirmxbout on the Black- oOo oOo oOo oOo oOo oOo oOo 0qo oqo oqo 00<* 00° 30° °0°
no- that tin- earnings and wagrts Coleman eounty. All our money shear end of the business anil!
of our him.....nterprises since g<, into Col.....an hanks and Cole-Uhtft Mr. Quint will have <-ontrol |
they are made in Coleman shou- man stores Coleman shops, (i>le-| from that time o-n. Ample, ivi'-j
Id he spent in (oleinan. ' j man faetories. au<l the eirculntirlg i-angemon-ts iliavfe hem mai^e fori
, This is reeiproeity and you medium of Coleman would don-1 the proteotion of all creditor*|
know that reciprocity is the fotin hie, yes, treble, and there would' and all debts owing by Black
dation to all prosperity, Not on- be a wave of pro*i|K-rity such as shear will Ik- jstid kn w short
ly should jjou spend your money ; has never .been experienced he- j time. The Abilene is af-
in Coleman, but you‘should dis- fore. A Commercial club has the I fectad in the deal anil will be
criminate even among the enter-; gall to invite capital and factor- closed up *nd moved,to Coleman
priaca that are bidding for your j ie* to Coleman when you say by- —'—s-;—
earnings. ThaCis .wise and sue- your patronage’that their mon-l Many atoveal will be, put into
eessful reeipi^toity. In other jey is all you want. Let every ! Use -today and,many buhbiwi Will
words slide down the cellar <\(h>v
s*- of the mail who slides down
man in Coleman county patronizi
home first. It will mean a migh-ier
have swore porhflpa silently, ov-
fitting stove pipes.
Burton-Lingo Co
Coleman, Texas
Are Headquarters for everything carried
by an up-to-dade lumber yard. Don’t
fail to see ns when figuring on the bill.
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Wade, L. F. The Democrat-Voice. (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1910, newspaper, November 11, 1910; Coleman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth746642/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Coleman Public Library.