The Talco Times (Talco, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1940 Page: 4 of 8
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El Paso County 15 tons.
"Figures compiled by the Game
Department reveal guano taken
from caves produces thousands of
dollars in revenue for the miners
and untold thousands in adding to
guano is used in Texas, but part is
shipped to California.”
Bats are voracious eaters, re-
searchers have found. Each night of
flight they eat from a fourth to) a
half of their weight in insects,
principally moths night-flying hard-
shelled bugs, mosquitoes and
beetles. »
“Any man wh<
of women quiet
admiration.”
Report
Red Rb
Massed motored to
*s Sunday.
FOR SALE—Blackland hay. First
year Hurley Rowden cotton seed.
Delivered. Fred Swmt, Deport, tf
\R A YEAR
here the Subscrip-
$1.90 a Year
IN ADVANCE
The P€tl<
Young was in Mt. Pl<
lay on business.
HEAVY blackland corn and prairie
hay for sale. Jess Gifford, at silo,
two miles east Deport on Jno. G.
Wright farm. tf-c
George McLemore of Mt.
ant, was in Talco on Saturday
Dave Berman made a bu
trip to Mt. Pleasant on Tuesc
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»f church services or other
berings where no admis-
irged. Where admission is
• where goods or wares of
are offered for sale the
Ivertising rates will be
O. B. Hopwood made a bu
trip to Mt. Pleasant on Tuesc
MAKE A LIST OF THE THINGS
you don’t use and.sell them immed-,
iately for cash. They can be de-
scribed briefly and economically
with Classified Ads and transform-
ed through quick turnovers into
ready money.
The Island of Trinidad contains a
pitch lake over one hundred acres
broad. In fifty years the lake has
yielded more than 5,0Q0,000 tons of
asphalt.
Mrs. John Hargrove made a
iness trip to Mt. Pleasant on
day.
>AY, MARCH 22, 1940
Mrs. H. F. Teague underwe
operation in a Paris hospital £
day.
BARGAIN — John Deere tractor,
planter, cultivator and buster—runs
and looks like new, $650.00; 1933
V-8 coupe—runs and looks like new,
$185.00. See us for used trucks and
pickups. Daffer Truck 8i Imple-
ment Co., Mt. Pleasant, Texas. 6-c
tf OR SWAT
Easter Candies
better
[living <
k> bad that only one fly
ted into the spider’s parlor,
more of them done so the
III would be a happier,
(Skier place in which to live.
Bit reminds us that the
ding season for flies is at
1 and th&t wet straw and
are are ideal places for the
>ly work to go on. Though
; flies are bom in barns and
ouses, they do not confine
! activities to those quarters
migrate to homes and take
avy toll in lives each year,
is they are such frequent
jrs to houses thit they have
y earned the name of
efly- A little elbow grease
right now may save a lot
r swatters later on. Sweat
and not swat later.
R. L. Tefteller has been plac
The Times’ mailing list as a
subscriber.
w |k Buy Pangburn’s — fresh
and in keeping with the
Easter season . . . Make
C—your Wife or Mother a
present from our supply.
/j We Have Plenty of
BORDEN’S
Ice Cream
A full line of Popular Magazines, and that up-to-
the-minute Fountain Service.
We still have our record of Expert Prescription
Service. See us.
HOPWOOD & JONES
DRUG STORE
25 Year8 in Talco
MEWS lf£M: MODERN PIONEERS TO 8E HONORED
PE8ROARV COMMEMORATING IS03H- AWNIVf
OF PATENT SYSTEh
Oakley Williams was carried
Paris hospital Tuesday for m<
treatment.
IN AND ABOUT YOUR HOME
you probably have a variety of ar-
ticles such as: Furniture, garden
tools, ice box, baby carriage, music-
al instruments, electrical appliances,
and numerous other odds and ends.
We know that there is a market for
these things and offer to turn them
into cash.
Marshall Branch of Mt. Plei
made a business trip to Talc
Wednesday.
Bats Yield Rich
Resource to Texas
In Fertilizer
EDITORIALLY
SPEAKING
Mrs. Myron Gage spent Si
with her mother, Mrs. J. W.
of Carthage.
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J. B. Osborn’s subscription fi
tQ The Times have been move
another year.
BURT LOCKHART
in Pittsburg Gazette
Add to Texas’ natural resources:
Guano, one of the world’s richest
fertilizers, produced by that eerie
little creature, the bat.
Mined in caves of a dozen counties
in this state, Guano brings about $35
a ton, according to Ray Osborne,
director of research for the State
Game Commission.
There is one huge cave in Comal
County inhabited by a million bats
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sider it more as a living companion i
than as a magazine.
“It’s as much a buddy to me as my
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“The American Boy
Mr. and Mrs. Dyson and
Faye Kelley were in Mt. Pie
oh Wednesday.
If the political machines of some
of the East Texas politicians don’t
run smooth it won’t be for the lack
of oil.
Mrs. Luther Gieger and Mr
Q. Brown visited in Mt. Pie
on Wednesday.
newspaper mirrors and re-
5 the kind of town in which
published very faithfully,
a recent visitor. If the town
ackward and non-progress-
its newspaper heralds that
to everyone, it matters not
hard its publisher may
c to conceal it. On the other
l, a live, wide-awake town
i merchants very eager to
e is written across every
( of the home town news-
ir, where various goods and
ices are dffered to those who
e to trade.
school senior.
seems to understand a boy’s prob- Unless this month is different'to
lems and considers them in such a all other March months, a lot of
sympathetic and helpful way. It hats and dirt will be gone with the
gives advice and entertaining read- wind.
ing on every subject in which a -
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scientists and men successful in bus-
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; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones and
R. E. Warner motored to Mt. I
ant on Tuesday.
SAVE NOW
Mrs. I. S. Gilbreath and Miss
Flowers visited friends in Mt. I
ant on Tuesday.
Mrs. Myrtle Gage and son,
ron, transacted business in Mt.
non on Tuesday.
I Mrs. G. L. Polinard has reti
to her home here, after treat
in a Paris hospital.
Wednesday was the first day
of spring, arriving at 12:27, ac-
cording to astronomers. The
Weather Man was kind, and
jtfiere was much digging in gar-
jdens and flower beds, and farm-
ers stirred Mother Earth at a
great rate. Insects were hum-
ming, bees buzzing around the
plum and pear blossoms, and a
carpet of green is appearing.
Easter is early this year, but we
don’t know if that has anything
to do With whether or not Jack
Ftost will make another ap-
pearance. Ten days yet to go
before Fools’ day.
Leon Friedman oT Sul
Springs, made a business tri
Talco on Tuesday.
Mrs. L. O. Holloway and Mr
A. Dean visited friends in Mt. P
*nt on Wednesday.
;i Mmes. Jabe Tidwell, Dick 1
erson and T. C. Little visited fri
in Paris on Tuesday.
You May Save 50 Cents by Taking
Advantage of Our Clubbing Offer
with the '
■<j Patsy Ruth, daughter of Mr.
Mrs. A. R. Cole, returned to
Home from aMfatts hospital, w
iiie was ill two ‘weeks with p
rtionia.
Dallas Semi-Weekly
Farm News
Fri.-Sat., March 22-23
DOUBLE FEATURE
Charles Laughton in
“JAMACA INN”
and The Three Musquiteers i
“COWBOYS FROM TEXAS
The most important guarantee to
car safety is slow driving and fast
stopping. However, if you are gen-
ing ninety-to-nothing you neednlt
worry about fast stopping. The car j
will attend to that when it hits 'a 1
telephone pole or bridge abutment
We Will Take Your Order for It and
MARY” MEANS
CIVILIZATION
at hand to give personalized
service, sell good merchandise
at fair price and above all be a
friend of his customers.”
The fact is that the small
town business man has dem-
onstrated beyond argument his
ability to do just* that The
modern, merchant goes to work
jan the face of competition,
•exerts himself still more to
please his trade—and the cus-
tomers keep right on'coming in.
The small merchant, no less
"than the big one has ideas and
.vision—and the small mer-
chant has been responsible for
many innovations which have
helped build and hold business.
It is to the cridit of the
American business man that he
has always adjusted himself to
the changing times. But it is not
BHrprising. The biggest business
this country knows, and es-
pecially those in the food mar-
Khand^ing field, have grown
llrom ,linle businesses. About
3*he Oflty capital most of their
founders had at the beginning
Was intelligence, ideas, and a
Willingness to work. The pub-
lic pays well those who serve
When the irrepressible “Lion
of Idaho” recently lay dying in
Washington, his thoughts were
not of the rulers of Nations, the
Statesmen of the world, who
had been his associates for a
third of a century.
The voice which so long had
thundered through the cor-
ridors of the Senate of the
United States was calling feebly
only for “Mary.”
“Mary” was the wife of his
young manhood. It was “Mary”
who marched by his side, spur-
ring him on to ever greater
success in his chosen field of
statesmanship. It was the self-
sacrificing wife always in the
background.
Abraham Lincoln once said
f.hat “All I am or ever expect to
be, I owe to by angel Mother.”
Perhaps could Bill Borah have
spoken as the dark messenger
Sun.-Mon., March 24-25
/ Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck in
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the farm, plowed, milked cows and
experienced all the hardships of
farm life.. - This candidatorial army
will amount to about thirty thous*-1
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they started to war. It has beet*
these devoted “Mary’s” who
have smiled bravely ' through
the tears a farewell to the son
going away to begin his career.
It has been these “Mary’s” who;
in childhood haye inculcated'
the high ideals oYvliving and
the importance of Christians
civilization in the little mind$j
of their young.
Every boy in the vision of hi*
“Mary” is destined to be Presir
dent. They don’t reach thaij
goal, but when they reach the
estate of honorable manhood
and serve their country in waf
and peace they are the bulwark,]
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Hardin, Paul. The Talco Times (Talco, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1940, newspaper, March 22, 1940; Talco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth912633/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.