Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1922 Page: 1 of 7
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Stephenville Tribune
THIRTIETH YEAR
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY f>, 1922.
We Charge Any Make Battery tor $1.00. Why Pay More—Ask About it----EVANS AUTO CO.
YOU WILL DO WELL TO
TRADE WITH US
CANNED GOODS—a handy thing to have in the
house. No matter how well your cupboard is stocked, a
few cans of good things always come in handy. Just
think how handy it is to bring out a can of salmon,
sardines, tuna fish or meat for the main dish. With that
as a basis, the meal is half prepared. We have the best
canned goods.
LET US SELL YOU GROCERIES
FRANK HENSON
The House of “Appreciation, Sanitation and Service.’
Erath County Far-
mers Now Able to
Operate for Cash
In the early history of Erath
county there were no banks, and
even after the first bank was es-
tablished, it was little used as a
means of financing crops. The
credit system then was almost
universal, ana cotton was the sole
money crop, and the mortgage
system was almost universal, wer- a pll£^ ul money,
chants taking mortgages and fur-
nishing supplies. It was about
abandon their dejected appear-
ance, and to feel sorter Croesus-
like. Although the dairy interests
increased rapidly, yet its ratio of
increase was not commensurate
with the increase in the poultry
business, ajul the sums of money
received from the poultry yards
all over Erath county represents
Receipts are lost and denied. Money remitted by mail
goes astray and its receipt is forgotten
THE BEST
and indisputable evidence if money paid and received is
the canceled check
Think of the Convenience
FARMERS DAY
PROGRAM WAS
gradual readjustment would have
■ been possible.
"There is no reason why the ag-
ricultural industry should not en-
C joy the same cooperative features
as do other great industries. Rut
the dairy business look small in
comparison, and yet the two com-
that time that Judge Lee Young | have put Erath county
farmers in a condition to take
of themselves, and have j >;
GREAT SUCCESS ",is "Ml "“ver 10 ,,a“ a“
President Bizzell of A
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’itlie farmers as a class will never
farm have prosperity until cooperative
merchandising comes into effect.”
_ j Dr. Bizzell then discussed a
1 satisfactory system of credit for
By far the most interesting | farmers. Credit for farmers as
number on the program for the | he views it w ill have to lie radi-
Farmers Day held at the Tarle-j ta||v different to that for mer-
ton College farm last Tuesday, chants, because the merchant by
was the addres by President W. means of rapid transfer of goods
B. Bizzell of A. & M. ( ollege. js able to meet his obligations
Dr. Bizzell opened his address, j,| thirty or sixty days but the!
with a few remarks about the pro- farmer is dependent upon the!
gress of the college. He stated working of nature to meet his.
fhat he was ambitious to see the "t would suggest three kinds of |
college functioning loir, and that I udit for the farmer and stock-
he >* i.-fiied to (unuiiL'iid Die fine man. The short term, the inter-
spirit 1 <j> the people of this sec- mediate term and the long term
t ion of the. state in bearing with credit. Short term credit would
the official- j>t' the college 111 the enable the tanner to furnish him-
up- and downs ol its pioneering 1 >t.If with household supplies and
days. “1 realize, said Dr. Biz-1 .should be for a term of from four
ze!I. “that everything ha- not to eight months. The interfile-i
been sa* is factory in the function- diate term would give the farmer!
the eoiiege dumig it- open- a means bv which to supply Him-'
• Stitt ion, .'It with stock and farming niu-
aml should rim for front |
seven years. The last |
long term would bo
*1 in aiding the farmer
tg and paying for land
• hould be handled by the
of the community, the county and band (.ran? banks of the coun-
the state working in unified ac- try.”
tion to make the college what it Dr. Bizzell closed his lecture
should be.” with a few comments on the fu-
Krom his introductory remarks turn progress of a cooperative
the speaker 'vent immediately into plan of action by the farmers,
the discussion ol the problems stating that many people were
facing Texas farmers and stock- op either the pessimistic or the
raisers. He said he took pride optimistic extreme of the ques-
in being identified with the A. tion and said that it was his op-
& M. system of schools of Texas j inion that a happy medium of the
because the agricultural industry, two together with cooperative and
is one of the greatest in Texas, impartial procedure was the best
“Texas,” be said, “is an agricul-1 means of gaining the desired
tural state. Of the five million j state of affairs.
people in Texas, three and one ______
half million live on farms and
ranches and are actively engaged, Money Jo IllYCSt
in agricultural projects. Texasl J
has four hundred and thirty-six
thousand farms, the production j
of which exceeds the combined, That the people of Erath coun-
production of the states ot New m , |iave money to invest in safe
York, New Jersey, Penns\ lvania j sei,unties was fully exemplified
and Maryland. It is the the past week when over $12,000
est producing state in the union. J vvas invested in United States
First concern should be given, TreaMll,.y Savings Certificates,
to agriculture for upon it de-. a|1(j t his came soon after the Trt-
pends our national we| bum* published an article telling
$78,000,000 of the wealth of lex-,()j opportunity to make safe
as is invested in agricultural en-I interest-hearing investments. Two
terprises and if we are to prosper men l)OUjrht to the limit, $4000
.' on must give some concern *<», Pach, and at the end of five years
the agricultural problems <0 \out (|)e government will pay each of
state. . them $5000. (To, Knight, postmas-
“In 1910 we had a l>111 i«>n dollai jt,r recently put in an order for
cop. In April of that year prices ((>n ()f the’$800 certificates, and
begun to decline and by Novem- | |u, government thought lie was
her the value ot the agricult m al ordering too many, and only sent
products of the nation had lowei- j-]VP( aud these were sold in one
ed by $5,000,000,000. Recent!,\ I ; hour, and he had to order more,
had occasion to visit a large of t|lp SIIia|j denominations for
wholesale house to inquire about smal| investors he has a good sup-
prices of building material. I p|v an(j ,.an accommodate any one
asked the manager what steel was (| r,u.lt, San,’s citizens who wants |
going to do in the next thirty j,nmj paying investment,
days and he very readih replied
that it would take a ten per cent
decline. Upon reflection I thought iijm /v:i VV^ll MerrieL
what a wonderful thing it would nni '/M ’ *'Crri(.H
Destroyed by Fire
began writing articles urging
farmers to give their children
freedom from cotton peonage, by
going into the dairying business.
He fought a one-handed, up-hill
fight, and won, but the results of
the victory came near going for
naught a few years later when
cream was a little off one year,
and some actually sold their dairy
cows, and afterwards regretted it.
The county was then full of
mongrel breeds of chickens, the
females of which laid an egg oc-
casionally, and a chicken was
simply a chicken, and no one paid
any attention to egg production.
If a man had stood up boldly in
those days, and stated that some
hens were good layers, and others
poor ones, he would have been
crowned the prince of fools, but
gradually and almost impercept-
ibly the man with “hook lamin’ ”
got in his work, and some were
convinced that there was a dif-
( ti-e
r ade Erath one of the best coun-
t.es in Texas, and when this is
sf-id it does not mean that all who
have entered tin's business have
been successful for this is not
true. Those wh > were cautious
and frugal, and knew the value
of a dollar, and knew the poultry
and dairy business,' and gave themi
attention, and provided feed, were
successful, and had bank ac-
counts.
In conversation this week with
a business man of wide experience
und with local conditions as they
exist here and elsewhere, he stat-
ed Stephenville had become an
exceptionally good cash business
town and far ahead of towns he
knew, and he attributed this to
the dairy and poultry interests,
and stated unequivocally and
without reservation that farmers
Bay all bills, make all remittances by '•heck and avoid
disputes
THE FIRST STATE BANK
No Depositor in a State Bank in Texas Has Ever Lost a
Dollar
STEPHENVILL E, TEXAS
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Laney Well No. 2
To Be Finished
Men interested in the Laney
No. 2 east of Stephenville are
very much gratified at the turn
of events, and now feel sure of
the completion of the well as a
deep test. The well was down
_________ ______________ last week about 2300 feet, with
convinced mat mere was a air- around the town were becoming I something like 1300 feet of uri-
ference in chickens G VV Ip.iU I yearly better able to take care of cased. hole- C. H. Daniels and
was among the first to introduce themselves- and cited the fact that ass0Clates of Oklahoma made a
improved breeds. He purchased" m°rt8a&es are ,10w the exception
Black Langshans, and Jim Biggs, n°l rule, and an exami-
who then lived south of tSephen-f*‘pt.,on of mortgages filed by banks
ville, cared for them, and sold a considerable decrease,
hundreds of the so-calle dimprov- , mfluence of the canning
ed eggs. It was the beginning of|c.ul>'s an( *n.e Ul,,k of demonstra-
mie of the greatest industries in t ^10n agents is also another factor
Erath county. At that time the j 1,1 >tra,M,,|K farmers to become
Leghorn was unknown. Real|mo,e
chicken men then entered the!
business, although at that time it, !der!l's.e 'e.. ,, . . . , . ,
was common to sell six dozen! /ar f‘ !>n (dK‘ge t- < mug a >‘g
for 25 cents. The writer of hut s:lent ,iU",0)' :n. tbe hlf *rarm‘j
of bringing prosperity to farmers.
deal last week, acquiring an inter-
est in the well, and they have al-
ready taken steps to purchase
casing, and the material will be-
g;n to arrive as fast as the rail-
roads can haul it. When the cas-
ing is put in drilling will then
proceed night and day. The
self-reliant, self-sustaining. I Laney gives good promise of be-
laud better able to take care of;r(,uiing an oil well,
and the work John
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PUBLIC UTILITY IMPROVED
HEARTY SUPPORT
IS GIVEN FARMERS
DAY PROGRAMME
Hundreds of Cars Parked at Col-
lege to Carry Visitors to the
State Farm
The Farmers Short Course and
picnic given May 2 under the aus- ,
pices of John Tarleton Agricul-
tural College was one of the most
interesting and important gaTh?*^,
ings in the history of the big
college, and record crowds were
in the city to witness the various
functions.
There was a dual purpose in
the gathering, the main feature
being an inspection of the college
by the board of regents, consist-
ing of John T. Dickson of Paris,
E. T. Jones of Greenville, Mrs. J,
j C. George of Brownsville and
The Stephenville ice plant is an [Walter Booth of Sweetwater. Mr.
In Safe Securities
egg-
this article sold hundreds of doz-
ens at that price. Each year wit-
nessed the entrance into the busi- SINGING CONVENTION MA5 (U important public utility. During Hickson and 'Mr. Jones were not
ness of many bright .energetic, --- j the time Uebe Goodwin owned it atde to l,e Present.
men and women into the business, Erath County Sacred Harp he added new boilers, and other-1 The initial meeting of the day
ami eggs got to be worth the Singing Convention will meet on [wise improved the plant and it was held «t the College auditor-
astounding price of ten cents a Saturday, May (ith at 2 p. m. at. I gave him satisfactory returns ium- the lower floor being entirely
dozen, and later such men as ! the court house in tSephenville,! Then he sold it to a man who has'occu,ded by the students, and the
Link Payne, W. G. Graves, and and continue till Sunday after-) been an ice man for 25 vears gallery was filled by friends of
other real chicken men entered) noon. There will be singers herejvvho knows about all there’is to1 the College, and several hundred
the business, grew better stock. | from a distance. Everybody in-j know about the manufacture and were unable to gain admittance. •
aroused a competitive spirit, and i vited.—W. G. Crowder. sale of this important and essen-1 Those familiar with the early
better prices were paid for eggs, ---- | Hal product— a product that mod-1 struggle of this great institution,
and soon chicken raisers were get-| There are more than 300,000,000 ern man cannot very well get and knew °f the hard-fought bat-
ting around thirty cents for a
whole dozen eggs, and the poul-
try yard was supporting whole
families. Poultry owners began
to stiffen, to walk straight, to
inhabitants in Iidia, of whom
more than 220,000,000 are Hindus
and 60,000,000 are Mohammedans,
the remainder belonging to minor
tribes.
DON’T LOSE TIME!
money, let us save you both time and money by serv-
ing you with your drug needs through Uncle Sam’s
Parcel Post system. Phone or write us your needs—
VVe'SI send them right to your door.
The Poultry Season U on—Don't neglect the baby
chicks. Insects retard their growth, diseases com-
mon to poultry can be practically eliminated by time-
i u ly and judicious applications of remedies which we
have that are prepared for poultry interests.
Stephenvilie's Favorite Shopping Place
have been had the farmers been
able to have told thirty or sixty
d;tys in advance what the condi-
tion of markets would have been
in 1919. Could it have been in
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During the late rainy, cloudy
q>ell, gas collected and settled
the power of the farmers to have .iromuj the derrick of the Hill
foretold the condition of farm well, four miles southeast of
markets during the days of read-1 ThurTier, when some one wanted
, * to smoke a match was struck, and
juatment the greatest financial | jnstantly the gas caught fire, and
crisis the country has ever kno\yi
would have been averted and a
the derrick was in flames. It will
be rebuilt.
along without an abundance of it.
He uses it when he is well, and
when he is sick he cannot get
well without. The housekeeper
regards it as indispensable. It
is made trom distilled w’ater. C.
M. Dozier is the new head of this
big plant and he has associated
with him as assistant manager
another well known and popular
man, Mr. Reddell, who was at one
time connected with the plant.
The new plant is operated un-
der the name of the Central Texas
Ice and Cold Storage Co., with
plants at Stephenville, Comanche
and Gorman, with Mr. D'ozier as
president and the Stephenville
plant will begin operation about
May 10. Since the new manage-
ment took charge new' condensers
and new agitators have been in-
stalled and the Stephenville plant
now' has a capacity of twenty tons
|! Per Jay, w hich is sufficient for
j the city and all the adjacent
•l ■ country towns, and is more than
,U enough to keep the big crop of
j? candidates cool and level headed
> and prevent them from being
<1 j1 onsumed by fervent heat gener-
$ I a ted from within.
In addition to the supply manu-
factured for local consumption
Mr. Dozier plans to operate two
cold storage rooms and already
several local concerns are using
cold storage as a means of keep-
ing their products in a market-
able condition and when water-
melon season comes the public
The Cross Drugstore m
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STEPHENVILLE
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WHERE/MOST FOLKS TRADE
ties waged to conquer financial
and other obstacles, w.ere greatly
gratified with present conditions,
and the success in achieving vic-
tory.
The hundreds of intelligent,
ambitious young men and women
students who filled the lower
auditorium was in itself gratify-
ing testimony of the success
achieved,- and this*' was reflected
in the faces of J. Thomas Davis,
dean of the College, W. B. Bizzell,
president of A. & M. College of
Texas, and the regents, and these
facts were later expressed in
speeches made by the gentlemen
present and by Mrs. George. Mrs.
George had at one time been &
student in the old college before
it became a State college, and she
was familiar vdth the entire his-
tory of the early struggles of the
institution which gave her inspir-
ation to make an unusually good
talk. It was short, and to the
point, and not an unnecessary
word was injected to mar its
effectiveness. Those who heard
her commented later in most
flattering tebms of her speech. At
all times Dean Davis in interest-
ing in his style and manner of
telling w hat he knows, and on this
occasion as master of ceremonies
he acquitted himself with credit.
President Bizzell of A. .& M.
College is one of the big men of
Texas, and one who is not satis-
fied with the salary which comes
to him for services rendered. Ho
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w ill be given opportunity to serve Iis a mau °f vision, looking to the
this delicious “fruit” or Vvege- j future for his work to show its
table" on their tables in frozen ! impress on the people of Texas,
condition, and there are hundreds j therefore his whole heart and
anxiously awaiting the arrival! •I,0U! is ni the work he is doing1
of this auspicious day.
The’most beautiful woman in
the world will apoear at the
Majestic Theatre soon. Who is
she?
for the young men and women?
whose destinies are shaped hY
the college
jurisdiction,
have under ‘
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1922, newspaper, May 5, 1922; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth877704/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.