Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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StephenviiIle Tribune
TWENTY-NINE YEARS
STEPHENVILLE, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY MAY 6, 1921
Bring Your Can and Get Five Gallons Good Motor Oil For $2.50—Evans Auto Supply Co.
SLUMP IN < REAM PRICES
REV. STUCKEY CONDUCTS
REVIVAL IN HOOD COUNTY
Rev. \V. A. Stuckey, pastor of
WATER WORKS TO
BE ELECTRIFIED
THE STATE HIGHWAY
Tuesday afternoon a Tribune
E
representative accompanied coun-!p
tv Judge Jones and Commissioner | =§
This week the city closed a con- J;ee ‘Mobl,®y 0,1 a Llrip eastA of i |
The drop from 32 to IK cents in
cream prices which occurred last
week was a great blQw to farmers [the First Methodist church, re-
of this station. A large number1 turned from Tolar last week
fpS: 1 SSiSjS 5HS SS-,ar east -thel*
ness-Iike manner, and produced a was well attended and much m- f pil , dlstrjhutinir
irood oualitg of cream, while a Merest manitested, Rev. Stuckey 1 . f ^
guou qu.uicj-, ... ,, , .. , , , , , water throughout the citv, which
small per cent handled their states that it could have been , iminish the cost of
cream in -uch a wav that it was more successful from a spiritual f"111 /,ea • ,inimisl? tbe cost Ol
hardly ht for the pigs on their standpoint. ITT? distributing water ^ V1 _ _......
farms It was this class which While in Tolar, Rev. Stuckey; - enJJ|Un^,in^ s a 10”’ an, sa^e dhe state. The party found crews IS
wrought destruction to the dairy talked business, religion and}?/11,?'1 ' ,°>s, 0 e i‘ •' 0 ne.,*!’fof men working on a number of|g
interests, and w hat occurred at Stephenville. He was convinced i , A .Ul ls e Lase W1 j concrete culverts, such as the one j=
the Stephenville station was true from statements given him bv j ?..? * s-'^ *•rn- , .. at the Allen farm, and a few
■' "'■«» plant .» eleitrlflecl!others ea>, 0,
j Stephenville over the new state j =
highway, going as far east
Paluxy which is spanned by a j =
splendid steel and concrete! =j
bridge. This tiridge is all com-1 =
plete except the concrete floor, ltjjf
is said to he one of the strongest j 5
and best examples of its kind in IS
of al lot her cream stations. Too people in that section that Steph-j . lJlt, l,l‘.V.11 111 others east of there, all other =
much rotten cream was finding enville is without a peer in then t.los 0 f‘int In^ an<. ,au !!® work having been abandoned be- 5
its way to the butter and iee matte.' of a shopping center and!10*4 , 1 ? e u rn ates wi ^ >e tj8"!(.HlJse the appropriations for the =
cream factories, and the unwhole-1 market tor farm products. Hei*>tlls< ,'V1 ’ a'u .!e a ,0* e ^ road had been exhausted. All the
some stuff was a loss, hence this was told that Hood county folks > ..* ’.Till .l.'-ou 'il „,u.! culverts inspected seem to have 3
vie the prime1 cause of the gene liked Stephenville and liked to ^°lW(rd.
ra! decline in the (trice of cream, business here. “From the way}
■have to be reckoned with. In oth*r J)een well c.onstrueted, and of a
wh™ tbe l>lant 18 e,fc;rt-|character which will enable them
One gallon of rotton cream will tho.^o folks down there talked to Lu.\ . .e (0s ° Pl,nJPU1^ an< c ^L to stand all sorts of heavy traffic, I §=
..... water will be reduced i,..,------, „ , m ...... i.„: =
ruin several hundreds of gallons ! me, 1 was more strongly eonvinc-
of prime cream. Those who pro- ed of the often repeated state-
duce cream should market it fre menf that Stephenville is making
i ributing
about one-half of what
costs.
.although a few of them may be =.
it now' too small to take care of water 2
........................................., . , One iMJ-horse power pump|£rom torrential rains which are
fa./cr and moil substantial prog-1!<>r ire Pr0 et lon, ant . * I characteristic of this section. The
.fvindled should bp kept immacu- j ress than any city in Central lor1M.1,r.:^U_m.V.S. jengineer who planned them evi-
KH ACCOUNT
H WITH VM
GIVES PRnH
To be able to say, “ Ihave an account
in the First State Bank” gives you
an identity in business that you can-
not afford to be without
The proper banking connection has
been the turning point in many a
successful man’s coreer.
^ ^ imentiy.
All vessels in which it
•">rp cr
.,'Vv clean, so that germs which I Texas,” was the way Mr. Stuckey IaIld <b,sf*ibutin^ wate!}. wer<: Puf* j dently was not aware of these; E§
1 t'c|, e decay and deterioration , finished his conversation with a jehasea, and will ^delivered here j jocai conditions. At the old Ben
2facturing end of the line in
•ur condition, as it is used in
, ng high grade butter, and
in making ice cream. If the
NEW PARK BOARD
The terms of office of old mem-
A
;.n something like 30 days, and th^ Stramler piace the party left the _
city will install them at its o^jo](1 roa(] nov. used and entered a I
cost and the Texas Power & j part of the highway which has 11
Light Co will then connect it* Lot vet been ed jor use owing |
wires with them. Other cities L an ungraded> very rough six =
. .......... VIC€llll. „ lliC, ____________ ___________________ recently adopting the electrift- hundred vard stretch at the rail- |
uufacturers meet heavy losses I I>ers of the city park board hav-[ca|um s> stem nd that good re- j roa(j gravei pit, which ends at the ■ =
of receiving quantities ofib'K expyaed the c ity council J»P'°S bi^ on Paluxy. This stretch 11
which the party passed over isj =
about four miles long, and a num-||
her of splendid concrete culverts | =
were in a completed condition, the i =
one crossing dry branch being an I |j
,, _ .... ,. exception. However, it lacks only i 1
Dallas, Texas, May 2. .,^ ^on^|the balustrades and the filling in ' =
i d(,t develop. In other words, j Tribune reporter
__' „ i products should reach thei
coir ‘1 -
ful 1
ft
Joh
the
ause
»or cream
necessarily they will I pointed as their successors, Ben 'tbe change. The electrification ot
J > < ■ t i t L v ♦ L/mVTi 1 1 lit n t /i h infivl/ii iim II
Willingham, Ben Bassel, Mrs. I)'.
H. Burroughs, Mrs. Bruce Cage,
and Mrs. S. I). Naylor as new
members.
/‘compelled to pay less for the as chairman, and ^ John
raw products. The writer has
heard of a number of instances
where cream has been offered for
sale in the Stephenville market
that was in such a stage of de-
composition that it could not he rujes Milk, as all know, readily
handfed, and, had it been pur- deteriorates when the vessels it is
chased and shipped the dealer j handled in are not kept sweet and
would have been liable to prose- |c]ean. Hot water is cheap, and
cution. Cream is a perishable should be fredv used,
product, and those who handle it ^ Tribune wants the cream-
should form some sort of an or* ery interests to prosper, and this
gamzation—educational in char-|. , a ,
acter—to disseminate information',18 prompted this article.
the Stephenville water works will
cost something like $5,000.
The handling cf that banking con-
nection—once started—is the “Brad-
street and Dun” of your busijt£$*
future.
Today’s the day.
An
I-S,
FARM BUREAU ENTHUSIASM
whic h will lead to better handling jWhile a large per cent of the
of this product, but it must be of
state wide scope. If only a few
get a high price, but it will stop a, approaehes to open it for. =
complete collapse, Aaron Sapiro, ,use This culvert is a splendidly
example of the bridge building | =
11 use.
noted marketing expert, told the)
Handle the produc ts in an unsani-
tary manner the trouble will not
be eliminated. There must be a
general compliance with sanitary
meeting of County Farm Bureau
presidents here in discussing the
Texas Farm Bureau Growers Co-
operative Marketing Association.
Plans to put on the cotton signf
up campaign for 1,000,000 baleA,
with the intense internal compe-
tition between cotton counties that
iexisted during the Liberty Loan
cream shipped from the Stephen-
ville station is sweet and Palat- jdrjves were laid at this meeting,
able no one will deny. That some When it was told the presidents
that each county would ie furnish-
bud cream has been shipped is al-
so undeniable.
DON’T SCRATCH
use
ooper’s Tetterem
It is guaranteed by us in cases of
ITCH
Eczema, Tetter ond other skin diseases
CROSS DRUG STORE
THE REXALL STORE
K 1 ROSS
i w rniLLirs
art. However, on this four mile 1 s
stretch there is yet much surfac- 5
ing to be done, and the gravel! j|
where it has been placed seems ig
to be rather narrow and thinly js
spread; ’Ihffsome plaees the gravel)3
is lacking. As the money has j *
been exhausted this stretch of'c—
f * !. THAT I M'
<&]iii:liRsrSTvis:B
STEP/U 'iVh
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lUHiiinimiiimiiiHfiuniiuiiiiniiiiii iiiiuiiiiiiiiitiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiimiiuiHiiiiniuiiHi
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ungraded six hundred yardl
stretch across the railroad gravel i
BARN BURNED ON 3|£
CHANDLER FARM
: ,■ A
ed a man, but that he would beipjt js verv r0Ugh, and much work} The Graham Street Garage is i A barn on the Tam Ch»ndli|Ur
powerless without the entire co-;will have to be done there before ln0w one of the business institu-jfarm, nine miles east of StepfteQ-
operation and hard work of all the ,the four-mile stretch of road can Itions of Stephenville, and appeals j ville, was destroyed by fir* about
farmers, bankers, and merchants, | he opened to the public. Within jto the public for patronage. It i9:30 p. m. recently. *, Yh® tenani^D.*^
several ot them jumped to their |the coming week likely the entire js under the management of A. R. jH. Hassler, lost all his harnelM, p
feet and exclaimed: Send the road wii lbe ready for use with | Miller, who is a very capable, wagon, a buggy, 40 bushels of oatft, yrfe
men in o e unorganized counties., the exception of the four-mile j competent, scrupulous business some corn, and all his meat. The
Just send us the contracts and wejstretch west of the big bridge on man. The home of this concern origin of the fire is a mystery. Mt,
will sign up our county 50 per cent j the Paluxy, and the greater part j jg, in the Young building on Gra- Hassler does not smoke, and no on*
orJ??ore- ... !>s in exceptionally fine con- ham street. Drop in there and get had been around the barn with fire.
There was added enthusiasm.dition. The party found a big iacquainted with Mr. Miller. You There was no insurance.
when it w-as announced that a tele-,gang 0f men p()ljring the concrete’will find him courteous and oblig-
gram had been received from a for the floor of the nine mile,
farmeis meeting in Brown county ibridge, and this bridge will be!
where 100 per cent of the attend- opened to traffic by next Monday
ance signed the cotton contract.
very likely. Preparations wTere j J. L. Gilbreath, who lives near
| Omar Harris, secretary
Johnson school house cemetery as-
Mi. Sapno explained the entire ,a]80 under headway for the corn-
contract and the financing plan to pletion of an important culvert
the meeting and urged that each east of the old Ed Starr sheep
county obtain farmers w ho will be ranch. As a summary the wrifSv ......„ ------
Iwillmg to go out in teams and sign- wiu state that when the week | surance.
|iip their neighbors. ‘‘A oil ought tends there will be seven or eight
to have .>0 teams of 3 men each aUsmall culverts and one or more
j w ork in every c ounty because this i important ones left over to be
Lesley’s creek, lost his barn, an
auto, and other minor articles in a
fire which originated when light-
ning struck it. He carried $500 in-
sociation, notified the public th*t
the burial grounds at that ptoc*-
are to be given a good working on
Friday, May 13, and wants all
terested to bring necessary to
and dinner.
■———
♦ t i
HUNGRY PEOPLE
Enjoy Good Eats !
The thrifty housewife finds eminent
satisfaction in both the quality and
quantity of food we sell for the price we
charge.
If there is a family anywhere within
reaching distance that has not tried buy-
ing from us, we ask them to give us a
few orders. We believe the results will
more than justify them. QUALITY,
QUANTITY and PRICE are a great
combination at this store.
FRANK HENSON
< M »
:thing has to go over tart if we get-built by future appropeiations, I
jour million bales by July 1, eachjand much graveling to be done,
team should have two farmers and;Very likely the county will pro-!
|a banker or merchant on it.’ (vide some way of raising funds!
I It was announced that 30 of the jto grade the bad place at the
i farmers who were most active in (railroad gravel pit west of the j
i t he organization of the 400,0001 Paluxy bridge so that the four)
jhale pool in Oklahoma have been mile stretch of new road can be!
offered to the Texas association, used by the public. This highway j
and that these will be put into 301 has become an important thor-
jdifferent counties to assist the oughfare, and hundreds of tour-j
,farmers in organizing themselves, ing cars are using it in making)
(trips to the west. It is a great;
oo ^ -AIMER K( HOOL pity that the* big sum of money
<>♦ A l HI ( KABAY , provided for its building could
not have been so expended as to
Thzere is a possibility that th* result in its completion across the
o* i Huckabay people will arrange to entire county. West of Stephen-
finance a summer school, and it is ville no bridges and culverts have
well known in Hrath loiintv that been built.
whenever Huekabu\ people make
up their minds they want a thing
iiii they go after and land it. 'They
arc all good anglers out Huckabay
ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING
’way. and know not what the word City Marshal Willingham of
oo j failure means. They all realize (Stephenville made his first arrest
on the value of school training, and for speedlaw violation Wednesday.
XT!;irv' very anxious that their sons The offense was committed at
and daughters should be started Bluff Dale by a drummer who
out in life sufficiently well trained
to care for their own business in a
business-like way, or to fill impor-
tant positions which may come to
them. They know that in these
n+ days of specialization that well-
trained men and women are needed
everywhere, and they want to help
meet the demand. Prof. J. J.
Brown, who taught their fall and
spring school, is a very capable
man, and is quite popular. They
passed through the blessed town
like a blue streak, disregarding
the warning posted in big letters
on the road sides that the speed
limit was eight miles an hour.
The local constable phoned Mr.
Willingham that the offender was
headed for Stephenville. It cost
the offender $8.70 to disregard
the Bluff Dale speed laws.
Lige Crites, prominent stock-
will look to him to perfect the or-'man and land owner, of Granbury,
ganization of the summer school, (was in tSephenville, Saturday.
What are, You Teach-
ing Your Children?
PRUDENT PARENTS ;l
will encourage thrift and the value of saving to their
children—It is one of the most important things they
should learn.
AN ACCOUNT IN THIS BANK
is proof of vour will and intentions to save. Not only
are you laying a foundation that may lead to your future
prosperity, but your association with officials of this
hank tends to create acquaintance which is of importance
when credit is needed.
A Checking Account with This Bank
Will Prove Beneficial-
You are Invited to Start it Toda^
CAGE & CROW, Bi
(Unincorporated)
MRS. JANIE CAG1
JNO. CAGE, Vice President
J. M. WAT
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, May 6, 1921, newspaper, May 6, 1921; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881976/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.