The Seagraves Signal (Seagraves, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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THE SEAGRAVES SIGNAL
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Volume 8 Number 13
Seagraves, Gaines County, Texas, Friday, July 25, 1930
Working For Gaines County
Revival Meeting Will Start
at Loop on August 1
The revival meeting for the
Church of Christ at Loop will be-
gin on Friday night August 1st
and continue thru Sunday Aug-
ust 10th. Ed. \V. A. Bently of
Abilene wi t do the preaching.
come out and enjoy the ser-
vices with the Loop church and
heln make the meeting a Real ser-
vice in the Lord’s Work.
Two Men Captured Early Saturday Had
' Broken into Creels Filling Station
Politically Speaking
The citizensof this territory are
again promised a Small-for-Gov-
ernor speaker co be here Friday
(tonight) for a public speaking on
Main street, in addition to the
out of town orator efforts are be.
ing made to have the entire list
of county candidates here for
short talks to the voters. The
Signal carried an announcement
in last week’s issue concerning a
rally to be held here and at Loop
in the interest of Senator Small
but for unknown cause the speak-
failed to arrive and some 500 peo-
ple went home dissapointed. Lets
hope for better results tonight.
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■ Folks and Facts
■ ecaat*siau!iai>
Norman Berry, 4-H Club boy
reports a profit of $19 53 during
June on live Jersey cows.
Good Used Refrigerators
See Claude Hearne.
LOOP
The Gall of Some Merchants
(An Editorial)
HILLDALE
Mr. W. S. Wharton has install-
ed-a filling station at his home,
it is now op. n for service. He
intends 1 ater to carry cold driuks
and candy. We are all proud of
this mark of progress in our com-
munity and hope to show’ it by
patronizing him.
Those on the sick listthis week
are M. K. Allen, Sammie Kenedy
und Geo. Prindlo.
Mr. and Mrs. Knight and chil-
dren were visitors in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Yardly Sunday
Mr. A. R. Taylor, candidate
for sheriff and tax collector, vis-
ited friends and voters of this
community last week.
- "The Methodist meeting will
start here the 13th of August. It
is to be held ny Rev. Florence o!
Seagraves. Everj one is extend-
ed a cordial welcome.
Mrs. Orville Kennedy haste
turned from Lubbock where she
has been attend'ng college. To
our knowledge site is to teach in
Loop next term.
Mrs. Cunningham and W. F.
Last week we told jou of a re- i
port that Mr. L. L. Curtis was!
dead. We are glad to say that
we hav e learned that this was a
mistake. Mr. Curtis is still in
the land of the living.
Mr. SaraBickley is visiting rel-
atives near Petersburg.
John Towns of Sawyer was a
Loop visitor Sunday.
Elder H. C. Richards and wife
of Gomez spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bickley
Mr. and Mrs. John Mill, Walter
Elliott, Mr. Ruben Mills and
wife, W. F. King, Mr. and Mrs.
Ruins Mills and Dean West-
proolc and family attended the
singing convention at iAhey Sun-
day.
The Loop School Board is hay.
ing the school repaiicd.
Mr. J. H. Manning had 8 son
who lives in California visiting
him first of the week.
Mrs. John Graham of Hobbs,
New Mexico and sister, Mir.
Shank Lyles spent Tuesday with
Mrs. J. S. Biair.
Miss I lone Wiight spent Satur-
day night with Irnadore Richards
of Gomez
Mr, J. M. Fleming’s mother
returned to Lubbock last week
We are told that man at Lest is only an imitator and verily it
must be so. For example, consider the case of the merchant who
is a consistent advertiser in his local paper, one who makes up his
“specials” for the benefit of his customers and proactive ones ar
well, and tells you about it in the loonl paper. He supports every
movement for the betterment offv i community, thi hamber of
Commerce, ti e schools, the churches, he is a‘ patron of the home
bank, trades with home merchants and in short, believes in home
and home trading: Now behold the other fellow who for some one
reason or other or for no reason at all- does not “advertise” with hi
local paper but does always ‘borrow’ a copy each week to see what
his competitor has to offer as “ specials”, takes this advertised list
and makes changes on each article some two or three cents lower
and offers them to his customers as a “cutthroat” deal to his com
petit cr. This merchant probab'y is not a member of the local Cham
her of Commerce, does not support the schools or churches or bank,
and is no doubt, doing business for the sole purpose of taking every
1 dollar out of the community he can get his hands on, ask yourseL'
the question, “Which merchant deserves my patronage?”
Any merchant is entitled to a legitimate profit on his merchan-
dise and after fixing this profit he is entitled to advertise these
prices and there is no law against his competitor making lower prices
on the same merchandise, but, a competitor should use his own in-
itiative and prepare his prices in advance of the published prices o
the advertising merchant; but the merchant who cannot advertise
his own goods at his own prices certainly doo.s not deserve the
support of tho community when he merely makes capital out o'
the advertising of his competitar. This practice in Seagraves
limited we admit but the example given does exhist and really is
nothing but “cheap stuff”.
Knifing in their efforts to escape
after being routed from the Jack
Cre< 1 Filling Station, two alledg-
|j! cd burgnlars were captured early
Saturday morning after making
an effo:t to elude Deputy Sheifl
A. IT.Taylor and nightwatehman
W. ’J’. Taylor.
The nightwatehinan in making
Ronald Turner, Vocational ag-lthe usual rounds of the business
| riculture student in Seagraves j section noticed a strange autouo-
| High Schorl ®l n tQ3 t h» t his Pol-j tip. parked near the Raybon &
a.ul China sow-farrowed him nine Murray Gin at about 2 A. M.
jpiK>, seven of which were sows. Saturday morning and sensing
('ounty Agent MoFatrldgo will thut prowlers might, bo i.i town
leave Saturday for College Sta- telephoned deputy sheriff to come
(ion where he will attend the A. down as quickly a3 possible, up-
&M. Short course July 2S to Aug. on investigation by the officers
o ■ the rear door t<» the Creel station
„ ,, , was found open and some one was
Scrcy W haley of Midland waa; ^ in8idc the buildiog. otders
eiWtoHn thphdraealhia broth- iven b u ty T.ylo, *
er, Dallas F. Whaley and wife on comc out aud they came out run.
Monday. j ldng|,ut u few well directed shots
Mr. une Mr.,. Hob Ellis of Mid-1 halted o.ie of the men while the
and we:e guests in the H. C. jolMr continued his race against
Jones home last week. the fire of the officers and escap-
Frank Lord of Midland was up eJ out of t,,wn requiring several
lust Monday shaking hands will) hours before lie was overtaken
ild friauds having formerly been aiu* Placed under arrest.
a Gaines county citizThe tWo wen 8ivin« theil'
.. ^ names as Baker of Wichita Falls
Mr. and Mrs. O. 1. Daugherty aniiLeeof Hobbs, N. M. were
of Sweetwater who have been vis- laCedjn the county jail at Semi-
t.ng Mrs. Daugherty a mother, no e for Safe Ueepiug. Upon in-
Mrs. P. B. Coe r f Lr°P we e ve ajgation ^ Was learned that the
guests in the Allen M iltsburger car thoy were driving had been
tome Monday. stolen at Ranger, Texas and the
Four new names have been ad prisoners were tuken to that
ded to tne Signal family since place tor invastigation and prob.
last report. \V. T. Taylor, W, able prosecution for theft of the
B. Mosley and ftir.
S. H. Applegate are all new road*-; Imprints found on the rea*
era and we assure each of you door to the Tunnell Dry Goods
that wj are glad to h ive you join Company indicating the same
our fast growing list of subscrib- pair had made an effort to secure
era. iutrance t j this building but found
M. N. Capps of Tecumsch, Ok- *--le lock too strong to be pried
la. renews for the Signal. Mr. jl°ose- The entire stock of cas-
Capps owns property north of bigs at the filling station hud been
town and wants to keep up with removed from the rack prepara-
the progress of the conu try. thru tl,ry to carrying tliem away but
Lhe eyes of i he Signal. Thanks j *-be interuption by the officers pre-
Mr. Capps and when down this vented any loss of merchandise,
way remember the latch string j one ca3o is conclusive
hangs on the outside at the Sig- Prc0! that the salary of tonight-
nal office.
Goode wore visiting Mrs, Prindle (a iew weeks visiting her
and son Sunday.
Mr. Roy Brown will leave this
week for Abilene where he has a
job with liis brother-in-law
He .has finished working bis
crop and will leave his cows in
f^rp of his brother. Mr. Prindle
\ffil h iva charge of his horses.
' J. D, Brown turned his cows in
his sudan grass pasture nt noon
and the average production ol
each cow was one pound above
above what it usually was that
flight.
—----}
Weight of Ostrich
An oRtrlch frequently attains Die
weight of 300 pounds.
Worthy of Acclainr
If we must havs heroes and wars
wherein to make them, there ts no
war so brilliant as a war with
wrong, and no hero so fit to be
sung as he who has gained the
bloodless victory of truth and
mercy.—Horace Busbnell.
J. H-. May and family of Dim-
mitt returned home Monday after
a brief visit, in the R. F. Teague
home. Mr. May says that the
vheat crop around Dimmitt is
rather short this year on account
of the heavy hailstorms. he hav-
ing lost some seven hundred
acres.
,«on J M.
Mr. and Mrs. U. J. Hicks, of
Williams community and Mr.
Hick’s mother of Abilene attend-
ed Church at Loop Sunday.
Mrs, Mary Black and children
of Petersburg visited her parents
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bickley last
week end.
$1.84 profit pir lien in eight
month time has been made by
R. F Owens on his flock of 193
White Leghorn* hens. M,-. Ow-; H , , ........
er.s feeds his hens a commercial | f;ght heaH
j Colored fryers
Light fryers .......
N. P. Tate made a profit of ten j Stags ......
dollars on one of his registered| Old cox ......
Jersey cows during May. In • Turkeys, No. 1,
addition to running on pasture Turkeys, old toms,
the cow received he.<ari bundles, Turkeys, No. 2, .
and a grain ration made up of Capons, ......
ground ear corn, cottonseed meal Green Hides ----
Produce Prices
Thursday, July x4
These prices are furnished by
the Seagraves Produce Co. and
are subject to market changes.
ASHMORE
mash and a
mi to.
scratch ration of
Mr». J.W. Young and Mrs. Al-
pha Dickens was visiting last
week with Mrs. Dickens’ sister
who lives near Fair view.
Mr. Bert Smith and family of
Loop were visiting in the G. R
Bingham home Sunday afternoon
Mr. Albert Pennel and family
is back from Lubbock to spend
the week end at their home.
Rev Howell of Lamesa spent
the day in the Sam Bingham
home Sun ’ay.
Rev. J. P. Aslin. filled his reg-
j | ular appointu ont here Sundny.
10c j Mrs. Margrei Allen left sever
16c; b1 days ago foi her daughter’s
13c who lives in east T xas.
jr
A group of people from this
”c; community attended he singing
1 V/v.‘
I watchman is cheap insurance to
. the business men of Seagraves
Edmond Earle ^ Meredith o and(We are fortunate in having
Stravrn, Texas is visiting in the tWl) fear]e8s officers to guacd-tbe
home of his sister, Mrs. O. M. Lown ttgainit oUtlilW9.
Herring oi this city. Mr. Merc- i^ter reports coming to Sea-
dithhas recently returned from j Ki avei l8 that 0ne of the prison-
Minneapolis where lie has been a ' CsCaped fl.om the ofllcer tak-
student in musical conservatory mg lhem to Rangrtr aild no trace
under Dr. Pontis. (of him had been obtained up to
. noon Thursday.
HOME HELPERS CLUB
Get the Election Returns
at the O'Neal Drug Co.
ground oats, bran and a commer-
i cial feed.
Butterfat
Eggs
8c
6c
17-20c,
4c
28c
1214c
' convention at Lahey Sunday and
j reported they heard wonderful
| singing.
Mr. W. A. Liles and wife spent
Sunday in the Virgil Allen home.
July 2 was agHin club day for!
the Home helpers with Mrs. Bei
nie Holley as hostess. ; -
As there was no special work . . . ,
scheduled for the d»y, :our time1 Arrangemeuts have been made
was spent in chatting, d«i„R ,ar.'**.
,i turns Saturday night and they
ous contests with a general good ,
time for all. Mmes. Cutrfe 1 an I ",“h*po,“?r fr1°nt ot
Carter were cor.te t win,u-wand Neal Drug Co. builairK. Inter-
were given a pretty te. towel aud * **
* A^efreahment plate was passed 3:'er;IT 0,"‘ c™n,'v jud*e in Gail!;
to the following members: Sind, Cora, out and ,eo if
Proctor, Carter, Rouse, Holley, y“Ur '?v0,,te *'“•
Cutrell, Denton, Lonis, Weldon, -----
Willingham, Walter, Willingham,
Carson, Bigham, Miss idol a,a
Loveiady and one new member,
Mrs. Wayne Willingham.
Our next meeting will be witlr
Mrs Bruce Carson.
So Quiet It Hurts
A quiet neighborhood In which to
lire Is Just Inside your Incorat—New
Cuatle News.
Good Used Refrigerators
See Claude Hearne.
this community attegded ser
vieds
A good many of the people of i at Sunday night.
Meaning of Life
Our I.lfe Is corapawed ronnd
with Necessity; yet la the meaning
of Life Itself no other than Free-
dom, than Voluntary Force; thua
have we a warfare; In the begin-
ning, •■specially, a hard fought bat-
tle.—Thomas Carlyle.
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Rhea, W. D. The Seagraves Signal (Seagraves, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, July 25, 1930, newspaper, July 25, 1930; Seagraves, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982247/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.