The Champion. (Center, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 23, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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BY THE CHAMPION PRINTING CO.
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HOGS SHIPPED FROM HERE.
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Editors and
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sale, broke and
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• R. M. Gilmore,
L. G. Price, .
will save money by seeing us before placing order for cards, etc,
needed in the campaign
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Entered at the postoffice at Center, Texas,
as second-ciass mail matter.
Shelby County Hogs
Attract Attention.
A few weeks ago Mr. Jehu
Wright and others shipped to
Fort Worth a car of fat 1
The Champion had Mr. Loving to
make a picture of the hogs at the
stock pen and sent the picture to
the Texas Farm & Ranch for
publication. A brief statement
accompanied the picture which
was published in connection with
same. The statement merely
told how old the hogs were and
their estimated weight, placing
the estimate at about 250 pounds.
Following the publication of
the picture and statement in the
Farm & Ranch, The Champion
received a letter from a c-------
of Palestine, who is retiring from
the railroad employment for the
purpose of farming, and his in-
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“BELL”
Connection
Brightens Farm Life
A telephone, on a line
connected to the Bell Sys-
tem, adds much pleasure
to life on the farm.
Over the Long Dis-
tance Bell Telephone
lines, you may visit with
friends or relatives, near
or far, without leaving
home.
Have you a Telephone
connected to the Bell Sys-
tem?
THE CHAMPION.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY.
Job Printing
of the highest grade neatly and promptly done. Look over your
stationery and s e if you have enough. Our facilities have been
increased fully 100 per cent in our Job Printing D parlment.
Telephone 78 and our representative will call.
imore favorable
are now
steel between Beaumont and
Port Boliver and the heavy steel
the will soon be laid between Long-
> A <7-yak Sag
All communications should be addregs-
Au and remittances made to The (. ham-
pion Printing ."ompany. Telephone con-
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be secured through any other newspaper published in Shelby
County. TRY AN AD AND NOTE THE RESULTS. >
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TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
COMPANY.
Courtesey of Farm & Ranch
The above picture represents a shipment of hogs from
here that were raised by Jehu Wright, three miles north
of town. The bunch contained a few hogs raised by Hugh
Smith and A. L. Bryant.
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There is no questioning the. will soon De iaia oetween Long-
factthat the coming campaign j view and Beaumont, and when
for congressional honors in the this is fimshed our trains will be
’ i n ’ enabled to make better time, and
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Mr. Dies will open'we can announce, a new schedule
that will call for faster running
and somewhat hifferent hours of
arrival and departure.”
Bankrupt Sale—Hardware.
The J. E. Pittman stock of
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delivered oratorical efforts.,
X Again, Mr. Farmer, don’t plant
/ to□ much cotton.this year. Plant
lots of feed stuff and food stuff.
A good garden is worth more to
you than a week on the river
fishing. Plenty of corn and feed
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The Champion
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bank suffers as well. These are
the results as forecasted by
King, Collie & Co., H. Kemper
and others. The Champion just
prints them for the information
that they contain and that those
interested may give the matter
thought before selecting their
planting seed.
start and when I take them away
from their mother, I feed them
on shorts for a while. I find that
this keeps them growing. Then
my main feed is pasture and
green stuff. This makes them
grow. I try and never let them
get to a standstill. I plant po-
tatoes, peas and goobers for fat-
tening purposes, and as soon as
the early crop begins to mature,
I begin feeding them and keep
this up until ready for the mar-
ket. In this car that I shipped,
the car netted out at Fort Worth,
an average of 221 pounds each.
The great majority of the ship-
ment were 8 months old, though
some few of the older ones
weighed over 400 pounds. I do
not consider this a remarkable
result, for in the spring of last
year I could not get the shorts to
feed on and was otherwise handi-
capped for feed stuff. This year
I will have more than a hundred
head to look after. I have plenty
of feed, plenty of com to make
my chops and expect to have
some mighty big hogs for the
market this winter.”
Young Mules For Sale.
I have several young mules for
ipbrbke. Cash
move them,
John T. Innes,
Center, Texas.
Rt. 3, Box 90.
If you grow peas, beang, pea-
nuts and other legumes ' in gar- - -
den or field on rich or poor soil,
by all means use Farmpgerm for
best results. Particulars free. —
Ellagene Farm, Aldine, Texas.
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Cotton Seed Meal.
I have chajCeYotton seed meal
that I can sell for $34.50 per ton.
See me. E. B. Ross.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
took for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
quiry was with reference to the
breed of hogs in question, and
stated that it appeared to him
that it was a wonderful breed
hogs. would produce such results
ino-tn at the age of 8 and 10 months.
This writer thought perhaps he
had overdrawn the statement and
asked Mr. Wright if such was the
case, who replied that it was not
in the least overdrawn, and, in
fact, not as strong as it might
have been. Then we asked him
for a statement of what kind of
hogs his were, what he fed them
on, etc., to which he replied as
follows:
“My breed of hogs is of the
Poland China. The ones ship-
citizen- Ped in this car were 8 months of
age, a majority of this age, and
the remainder 10 months. I
push the pigs from the very
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second district is~ going to be
lively one. L__.----
his fireworks here Saturday and
Mr. Howth will likewise proceed
to his campaign. The issue is a
broad one; a deep one, in fact;
and the voters will have plenty
of time to figure the thing out for hardware, invoicing about $800.-
themselves. Hear the speakers; 00, wiU be so|d to the highest
read the literature, Mr. Voter, bidder at the bankrupt’s place of
and do some thinking for your- business> Timpson, Texas, at
self. Don’t allow yourself .to be about 10 a. m. on Friday, the 25
“swept off your wed day of February, 1916. Sold free
of all liens and subject to the ap-
proval of the court. Invoice now
on file. For further informa-
tion write me at Center.
J. W. Shotwell,
Receiver.
stuff in the crib; plenty of meat j IF3
and lard in the smokehouse; -
plenty of canned vegetables and
ribbon cane syrup in the pantry; :
plenty of eggs, milk and butter
on the table, and some to spare*
Remember 1913; remember 1614
and 1915. Remember the pres-.Q.
ent time. Do this remembering J
right now and then take off a 1
few more acres of cotton land
and plant it in something else.
It would appear to The Cham-1 !
pion that the farmers of the.
county would be taking a great
risk on planting half and half •.
cotton seed this year. The va,-1 i
t—- -'Xfiety has been condemned by the:
cotton exchanges, and wherever;
it is found, the class is that of
“linters.” The farmers should,
protect the local buyers this A
much. The local buyers have at I !
heart the interest of the produc-1
er. They always pay all that;
they can afford to pay and come
k out on it. If a local buyer, al-
ways borrowing money at the; ■
F bank to handle cotton with, gets :
- only a few bales of this cotton in
with a lot of long staple cotton, I _
he stands a risk of having the' ;
whole lot thrown back on him
and the result is, in many in- ■
r stances, he goes broke and the • L
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Better Schedule promised Soon.
A party of Gulf, i Colorado &
Santa Fe railroad officials, com-
posed of Superintendent J. A.
Glenn, accompanied by J. P.
Cowley, F. H, Christian, W. S.
Parker, T. M. Guantt, inade a
stop here Friday. They were on
a tour of inspection of the prop-
erty between Longview and
Beaumont. Being in charge of
Local Agent Clifford Smith,
these gentlemen made an infor-
At any rate every farmer in
Shelby county should arrange
enough hogs to serve a home con-
sumption and have at least one
to spare.
The winter oat crop of the sec-
tion of country best adapted to
the profitable growing of this
valued small grain, has been bad-
ly damaged. This means that
feed stuff will be higher. Take
this into consideration Mr. Shel-
by county farmer; prepare that
Bermuda hay me a low today.
Plant some sorghum, lots of
peas, some corn, and other feed
There is no getting around the
fact that the hog crop is the most
certain that can be planted. Get
a good stock of hogs and feed
them well and this fall you can
ship them and get the money, i vjs^ to tbe business men of
the town. Their coming had not
been announced and no effort
was made to entertain them,
though the business men and
citizens of Center were cordial to
them in every way. This writer
met them briefly and to us they
stated that their company had ‘ ‘a
warm place in their hearts for
Center, for they felt that Center
folks were their friends. ” Quot-
ing from the Longview Times-
Clarion of the day before, the
following statement was made by
Mr. Glenn: “I think we will be
able to give you people a much
' n 1M schedule. We
laying eighty-five pound
crop varieties. Then let cotton i
go down to six cents. We will
all be happy at home.
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Gilmore, R. M. & Price, L. G. The Champion. (Center, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 23, 1916, newspaper, February 23, 1916; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1288978/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.