The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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Our early fall selling of Men’s and Women’s ready-to-wear has been unprecedented in our years of
merchandising in Cumby, but we have yet many unbroken lines of coat suits, house dresses and sep-
arate skirts for women. For men we continue to show the most attractive line of custom tailored
suits ever placed on sale at this store. Most of these goods were bought early in the season, hence
we can give our customers a distinct saving on every purchase. ifs new we have if.
Suit Selling for September.
Our Suit selling for September was highly sat-
isfactory to us, but we want to smash all previ-
ous records in October sales. We have the
goods; the price is the magnet which attracts
the customer. Men and young men have at last
become convinced that to be well dressed they
must buy clothing from the store that studies to
piease.This we have been doing for years.
We Know Style
We Know Quality
We Know Patterns
All these essentials are combined in out Griffon
line of Suits that we are selling at
Ready-to-Wear and Dress Goods
In ladies Coat Suits, Dresses and Skirts the
modes of the moment are presented in a fascin-
ating way. In wroolens and serges we Jmve de-
sirable street costumes. They are C
priced at $6.50 and up to......................... I J.UU
Before you choose fall dress fabrics make it a
point to inspect our showings of Gaberdines,
Serges, Silk Poplins, etc. 44-inch Gaberdines
in the leading colors, the yard at $1 frQ HO
and up to......................................... ...............
36-inch Silk Poplins in Green, Plum, Gray, Na-
vy, Brown and .Black, all unmatch- Hfl
able values at only.............................................I •UU
Madame Grace Corsets are Worn
by Correct Dressers
$12.50 to $20.00
SHOES, HATS, and GENTS’ FURNISHINGS.
In these lines we are ready to meet every demand. In hats we are showing
the latest styles in Stetson’s and Lion Specials. In Shoes we can fit any foot,
and at a price that will please you. School Shoes for boys and girls.
Ask to See Our Line of Underwear for Men and Women.
BOLIN & BRANOM
THE MODERN DAYLIGHT STORE OF CUMBY.
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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
THE CUMBY RUSTLER
(Twenty-Fifth Year)
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Geo. M. Morton. Owner
Entered at Cumby, Texas, as Second
Class Mail Matter.
Subscription Price:'
One Year..................... $1.00
Six Months.....................50
Thrse Months................ 25
' CASH IN ADVANCE
‘FRIENDLESS” “PANIC’
“Friendless” and “panic”
were the terms used by Percy
Rockefeller, New York City, at
the annual meeting of the stock-
holders and board of directors of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad, forecasting con-
ditions in the United States after
the European war. In the course
of his remarks Mr. Rockefeller
said: “The United States will
fee a friendless Nation and the
country will face the greatest
financial disturbance of all times,
£qMowrng the close of the Euro -
pean war,” Rockefeller, who is
One of the directors of the Mil-
waukee road, said further:
“About our only hope is con-
servation, ” he declared. “We
have simply got to keep our
heads. Every nation will be
Scrambling for the gold we have
garnered from the war. They
will all be trying to get their
hamjs on it and it is going to
take some pretty fast thinking
to keep their hands off. t
“A lot of men thought this
country had reached the height
<jf its financial power a year ago,
but look at this year. It has ex-
ceeded £ur wildest dreams and
now I am prepared to look for
jtffet as many undreamed things
for future years. ”
Rockefeller also believes the
time will come when all railroads
. will electrify their lines to some
extent. ‘ ‘The Milwaukee already
haff44t miles ofIt^^Tie^saidJ
The Rustler is not a prOpheU
political, o^'otherwise, hen^e it
will.not attempt to dispute Mr.
Rockefeller’s contentions. It
may result as calamitous as he
predicts. Again, it may redound
to our great commercial advant-
age after the smoke' of battles
has cleared away and the devas-
tated countries begin rehabilita-
tion. This we cannot forecast,
but that there will be strenuous
efforts on the part of foreign na-
tions to control the world’s com-
merce, seems to be a foregone
conclusion.
The effect of the European war
fell heavily upon us, and all
have felt the burden of it. Yet
the aftermath of the war may
fcring us greater inconveniences
and hardships. We can only
hope for the best while we pur-
sue our pplicy of watchful wait-
ing.
The scarcity of labor every-
where makes it difficult for im-
provements to be made either in
town or country, and even here
in Cumby this scarcity is felt
jgensibly by those operating gins
and mills. The unprecedented
-rush of cotton to the gins forces
-them to run day and night and
often the day force is command-
eered for night work because of
lack-of competent help, and yet
/^berearea few pessimists who
Claim the country is not pros-
perous. _
The Olney Enterprise, which,
by the way, is one of the best
country papers printed in West
Texas, thinks, editorially, that
*Tf ever a law was enacted
that should be rigidly enforced-
more so than others—it is Texas’
new compulsory school attend-
ance tew. Public sentiment in
each community will be largely
responsible for the enforcement
of this measure, and The Enter-
prise feels it to be the duty of
every citizen to report offenders
to the constituted authorities.
Remember the words of Steele,
tvfco said: “Zeal for the public
good is the characteristic of a
man of honor and a gentleman,
and must take the place of pleas-
ures, profits, and all other pri-
vate gratifications.” In another
paragraph the Enterprise says:
“Over in Henrietta they started
to pave a part of the town. All
of the property owners in the
prescribed district, save two,
signed up for the paving. These
were obstinate, so the business
men just bought out the two
moss backs and went right ahead
with their paving. . That’s the
spirit that wins! If the moss-
backs won’t come overto the side
of progress, buy ’em out!”
Paper stock and all other ne-
cessities around a printing office
continue to advance in price with
no relief in sight. Country pub-
lishers are forced to buy sparingly
and utilize every scrap of blank
paper in order to get by. The
paper houses send out wreekly
price bulletins, with a prefix
attached something like this:
“These prices are subject to
change; the bond paper men-
tioned in your order has advanced
10 per cent, and that is added to
your.bill,” Again; a few days
ago the Rustler had occasion to
ask for a bid on a certain job of
printing. A Fort Worth concern
answered as follows; “Using the
same grade of paper as before,
we quote you price of 97 cents
per 1000 in 100,000 lots; 95 cents
in 200,000 lots. These prices are
made for immediate acceptance,
subject to our being able to se-
cure the stock at today’s quota-
tions.” This same work cost 65
cents per thousand one year ago.
18 Cent Cotton
Now Seems Certain
One Judge Pinkney, of Chica-
go, says that four-fifths of the
32,000 bad-child cases that have
come into the Juvenile Court dur-
ng his seven years term of office
are directly traceable to parental
neglect or incompetence. His
recommendation is to thrash the
ather when the child goes wrong.
A better way would be to foster
and encourage the spread of that
“Father and son- movement as
practised in Des Moirihs ahd oth-
er cities: Truly this great coun-
try needs an intensive cultivation
of “Better Fathers”—and moth-
ers.
Saturday was another good day
in Cumby, and the afternoon
;rade was the heaviest so far this
season, according to statements
made by our leading merchants,
^lodern merchandising—methods
brings business to a town, and
such methods are employed by
Cumby merchants.
There is not a public bath room
in Cumby, and it’s all on account
of the lack of a sewerage system.
When we build water works and
install sewerage we will have
made some advance toward mod-
ern living conditions.
Cotton is king!
All this week the cotton market
has been bullish, and with the
staple selling todav at , 18-
cent cotton in Texas now seems
almost a realization.
This bullish feature of the
market in the early part of the
week was doubtless due to the in-
formation and statistics contained
in the United States government
report made public last Monday.
The report states that ginning of
the cotton crop is breaking all
records. Announcement by the
Census Bureau that 4,062,991
bales had been ginned from this
year’s crop prior forSept. 25 dis-
closed that all former totals for
ginning to that date had been ex-
ceeded, even that of 1914, when
the country’s largest cotton crop
was grown and 3,303.752 bales
were ginned to Sept. 25. Here-
tofore the largest quantity ginned
prior to Sept. 25s was in 1911
when it was 3,676,594 bales.
Ginning to Sept. 1 this year
amounted to 850,812 bales and
from that date to Sept. 25 the
quantity ginned was 3,212,179
bales. The extreme activity in
ginning indicates that the crop
this year is much earlier than in
former years, but it is pointed
out by officials that the quantity
ginned to certain periods is no
gauge of the country’s'total pro-
duction, which this year, from all
indications thus far, is below the
average.
Ginnings prior to Sept. 25, by
States, with comparisons, gives
Texas in 1915, 1,146,953 bales as
against 1,896,520 for 1916, show-
ing an increase over the same
period last year of 749,567. The
department places the entire
crop at 11,637,000 bales.
THE LOCAL MARKET
This (Thursday) morning the
cotton market opened strong and
the staple was selling on the
streets aLl6.15 and 16.25, javith
r buyers.
Cotton seed was fetching' $40
a tpn. , ;
And this brings up reminis-
cence. Farmers today are enjoy-
ing a greater prosperity than
: they have at any time during the
present generation. In 1874-75
cotton was 18c. The highest ^pre-
vious prices were the result of
the Civil War.
At the beginning of the Civil
War in 1860 cotton was selling at
11 5*8c. In 1861 the price jump-
ed to 38c and in ’62 to 69 1 2c. In
1863 tl>e price went to 93c arid in
1864 the record price of $1 90 a
pound was reached. In 1865 the
price dropped to $1.20, in 1866 to
52c and^ kept dropping to 1875
until the market became stable
following the war.
It is now predicted that the
price will reach 20c before Christ-
mas.
The local receipts from all
Lone Star Special
Goes Into Ditch
The Lone Star Special, a Cot-
ton Belt fast train, left the track
at a point near Commerce Wed-
nesday morning and the entire
train with the exception of the
engine was ditched. There were
no fatalities and only six persons
were injured. It is declared by
trainmen in charge that none
of these were seriously hurt,
although it is agreed that their
escapd is nothing short of mir-
aculuous.
H. C. Grumpier of Sulphur
Springs was among the injured.
Hazel Kirke Won
The Love of All
The five-reel feature picture at
the Lyric Monday evening
brought vividly to mind the stage
representation of a once oopular
dramatic production. Old thea-
tre goers and readers of fiction
of years a^rne are familiar with
the story of “Hazel Kirke,” of
her unhappiness brought about
through her response to the call
of the heart, a father stricken
blind through his unyielding
spirit, and the happy ending.
Pearl White, now playing in
“The Iron Claw,” was cast as
Hazel, the idol of her old fath-
ers’* heart.
The stage settings in the pict-
ure were real. The old water
mill, grinding its grisV brought
to mind one encountered a good
many years ago in upper East
Tennessee, located on the banks
of the French Broad river The
mountain behind formed a fitting
background, and there was a
“Hazel Kirke” in that Tennes-
see scene, too, but that is anoth-
er story.
Style
These Hats Have
Lots of It
You’ll agree with us on this
point once you have seen our
excellent showing of
Gold Medal
Hats
The season’s newest fashions
are very beautifully portrayed
in these ultra-fashionable hats
for women.
Hats Trimmed to Indi-
vidual T aste.
Mrs. Mollie Smith
You Cant Afford to
Miss the
State
Fair
Dallas...
October 14 to 29
Entertainment at Liberty.
Liberty made quite a success
of the box and ice cream supper
last Saturday night. The night
was mpst too cool for comfort but
Ed. Moran and Norv Winniford
pu t on their overcoats and
buttoned them up and went after
the cold refreshments regardless.
The results met the occasion and
paid the debt on a nice organ re,-
cently installed and had money
left. Winniford, as auctioneer,
broke the record and made the
boxes and cakes bring over thirty
dollars. A big crowd was pres-
ent and all enjoyed it very much.
Farm Loans.
I represent a local insurance
company, and am prepared to
make satisfactory farm loans.
See me when in need of money.
If you have property for sale list
it with me.
Jess English.
Dies at Ruff.
D. Mills, a young married man
living near Ruff, died Monday at
3 p. m. after an operation for
appendicitis which he underwent
Saturday. His death was, in a
measure, unexpected, he haying
been sick only three days. He
was buried Tuesday afternoon at
the cemetery at Mt. Zion, Rev.
S M. McPhail of Cumby holding
the funeral services.
sources show the following:
Hester's gin, 945; Farmers gin
1160. Weighed by J. M. Young,
at cotton yard, 2912, more than
3 to 1 over the receipts for the
same period last year.
Notice.'
This is to notify all who are in-
debted to Holland Bros, that a
settlement of all notes and ac-
counts (except the new monthly
accounts) must be settled at once.
WB ARE NOT MAD, but this
means you and you too if you owe
us.
HOLLAND BROS.
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Ask Agent About Fares and
Special Trains.
-VIA-
M. K. & T.
GORDON & WISE
Barbers
Clean Towels, Sharp Razors, Ex
— pert Workmen.—-
—AGENTS FOR—
City Steam Laundry
Commerce, Texas.
Basket Leaves Every Wednesday
LOOK!
Spot cash paid for Turkeys,
chickens, eggs and butter.
Bettter Eggs, Better Price. .
A. 0. Barker
Depot Street, Rural Phone.
W. R. CATE
Physician & Surgeon,
Cumby, Texas.
Office in Berry Brothers’ Drug
Store. Office Phone Rural-No. 23
Residence, Local No. 52
When You Want A
NOTARY PUBLIC
or Expert Conveyancer, call up or come to
L. I. MERCER,
ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE
CUMBY,
TEXAS.
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The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1916, newspaper, October 6, 1916; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth770457/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.