The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 8, 1927 Page: 2 of 8
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WENDELL W. MAYES, Publisher.
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FARMERS STATE BANK
LET METZ DO IT
CENTER,
Metz Banfacturing Co.
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But, if we in-
sist this year, there is hope that next
year when the appropriation is dis-
tributed, we will get a better deal.
At least, let’s hope so.
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capital is not need to start and
ate a cedar chest factory.
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102,900
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5,661
41,188
19,906
7,461
13,750
26,297
33,806
78,088
1,088
25,481
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5,456
30,845
11,950
3,097
16,377
3,299
4,535
23,818
18,689
46,963
26,685
62,525
44,012
8,080
15,619
8,706
61,663
9,558
40,700
33,295
42,246
9,287
23,542
4,890
33,548
53,897
21,860
8,414
15,405
9,691
36,593
10,924
4,541
29,666
2,926
28,951
25,674
12,367
11,041
4,798
36,807
WILL H. MAYES
Former Dean
24,291
12,655
4,461
16,634
23,900
4,348
28,083
26,247
20,205
61,456
27,505
2,389
15,901
34,314
9,917
26,310
15,785
12,465
32,882
6,394
43,448
10,253
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9,504
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28,223
48,130
34,165
10,267
42,616
70,366
51,548
16,866
8,120
9,711
19,345
19,951
23,061
45,255
73,126
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40,353
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40,677
34,918
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25,422
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11,210
67,641
51,136
36,508
48,636
41,489
24,205
38,245
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24,907
9,886
3,565
County
Garza
Gillespie
Goliad
Gonzales
Gray
Grayson
Gregg
Grimes
Guadalupe ....
Hale
Hall
Hamilton
Hardeman ....
Harris
Harrison
Haskell
Hays
Henderson
Hidalgo
Hill
Hockley
Hood
Hopkins
Houston
Howard
Hudspeth
Hunt
Jack
Jackson
Jasper
Jim Hogg
Jim Wells
Johnson
Jones
Karnes
Kaufman
Kendall
Kent
King
Kleberg
Knox
Lamar
Lamb
Lampasas
La Salle
Lavaca
Lee
Leon
Liberty
Limestone
Live Oak
Llano
Lubijock
Lynn
McCulloch
McLennan
Madison
Marion
Martin
Mason
Matagorda ,.w.’.
Medina
Menard
Midland
Milam
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Recommend
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or else work under compul-
; sion on the public roads.
Realshine can be had in all
colors, also kid,
Red, Green, Blue.
a realshine for every shoe.
County
Anderson
Angelina
Archer
Atascosa
Austin
Bailey
Bastrop
Baylor
Bee
Bell
Bexar
Blanco
Bosque
Bowie
Brazoria
Brazos
Briscoe
Brown
Burleson
Burnet
Caldwell
Calhoun
Calahan
Cameron
Camp
Cass
Cherokee
Childress
Clay
Coke
Coleman
Collins
Collingsworth
Colorado
Comal
Comanche
Concho
Cooke
Coryell
Cottle
Crosby
Dallas
Dawson
Delta
Denton
DeWitt
Dickens
Donley
Duval
Eastland
Elliis
El Paso
Erath
Falls
Fannin
Fayette .-
Fisher
Floyd
Foard
Fort Bend
Franklin
Freestone
Frio
Gaines
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boring places “sit up and take notice.”
Prof. Elmer H. Cook and family,
principal of Fort Smith, Arkansas
High School, are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Cook of Center for a few
days.
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THE CHAMPION
Published Wednesday Aiternoon.
AII-Tsxas Special
Gov. Dan Moody has announced
that he will be in the party that will
make the “AILTexas Special” good-
will tour to the North and East, leav-
ing Texas, June 19. This tour is not
to be a spectacular outing, but a trip
by Texas business men and capitalists
who are hoping to place Texas in the
right light in those cities they will
visit. It is sponsored by the Texas
Daily Press League, an organization
composed of newspapers in the small
cities of the State. Moody’s presence
with the party in the fifteen promi-
nent cities to be visited will add pres-
tige to the trip, for Moody has be-
come a well-known national figure.
Texas only needs to be rightly pre-
sented to the Nation to attract atten-
tion to its resources.
Entered at the postoffice, Center,
Texas, for transmission through the
mails as second class matter.
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Canning Plants.
Wherever vegetables and fruits are
grown for market there should be a
canning plant to handle that part of
Some High School Building
A few years ago a town of six or
eight thousand people that had a high
school building that cost $100,000 had
was proudly exhibited
to all visitors as a special indication
enterprise and pride. Big
The Salvation Army this week is
conducting their annual drive for
funds in Shelby county. The Army
is doing a wonderful work, and one
that should be appreciated by every-
one in the county. This year practi-
DR. V. R. HURST
DR. H. L. STEWART
Ey®, Ear, Nose and Throat
ting Glasses.
Hurst Hospital Longview
Dr. Hurst; v ill be In Center first Fri-
days. Office with Dr. J. C. Hurst.
WANTED
Either man or woman in Center
Also in other towns
,$5.00 a day easy to make every day. Backed up with a guarantee.
Work interesting and pleasant
RADIUM ORE REVITALIZERS interest every person and are sold
with a 30 day money back guarantee. This makes sales easy.
Write for booklet and proposition.
Radiumized Applicator Co.
317 N. Carroll Ave.
DALLAS, TEXAS
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Matagorda County Roads
Matagorda county citizens have
voted a $3,000,000 bond issue with
which to build a system of good roads.
The sentiment in favor of the bonds
and the roads was overwhelming.
This means that Matagorda citizens
are overwhelmingly progressive, and
that they are going to draw immense
crowds of people to that section of
the coast country. Closely following
the bond vote, comes the announce-
ment that a $700,000 hotel is to be
built at Bayside Beach, the new Mata-
gorda Bay resort, by Chicago capi-
talists who are developing the resort.
Also that the resort town is to have
a modern electric and ice and storage
plant with a roof garden on top of
the building. Twenty-four frame
cottages are already under construc-
tion there to care for the visitors.
The people who help themselves are
office considerable information re-
garding the present system of high-
way maintenance which was not
available at the time the editorial was
written. For example, it was ex-
plained that the present policy calls
for a miniriium of patching work and
maintenance as we have come to
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19,343
5,546
16,857
38,165
7,445
54,257
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38,026
45,428
69,405
13,948
49,687
9,023
42,494
53,492
16,088
25,831
89,911
71,003
26,673
5,673
26,265
48,338
28,014
8,637
55,951
5,995
12,239
3,781
8,696
24,281
46,363
84,088
42,880
76,856
549
18,226
6,719
7,958
44,995
30,168
37,987
5,657
9,955
27,789
14,210
30,969
5,279
59,652
8,205
2,962
71,019
48,956
29,500
89,645
18,145
9,083
10,114
4,857
8,478
6,287
2,753
6,078
69,546
County
Mills
Mitchell
Montague
Montgomery ...
Morris
Motley
Nacogdoches ...
Navarro
Newton
Nolan
Nueces
Palo Pinto
Panola
Parker
Pecos
Polk
Presidio ...
Rains
Red River
Refugio
Robertson
Rockwall
Runnels
Rusk
Sabine
San Augustine ..
San Jacinto
San Patricio ....
San Saba
Scurry
SHELBY
Smith
Starr
Stonewall
Swisher
Tarant
Taylor
Terry
Throckmorton ..
Titus
Tom Green
Travis
Trinity
Tyler
Upshur
Uvalde
Van Zandt
Victoria
Walker
Waller
Ward
Washington .. ..
Webb
Wharton
Wheeler
Wichita
Wilbarger
Willacy
Williamson
Wilson
Wise
Wood
Young
All other
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Texas Made Cedar Chests.
Not long ago I saw in a large furni-
ture store a nice window display of
beautiful cedar chests. I asked the
furniture dealer where they came
from and he gave me the name of a
well-known furniture manufacturing
city up North. I asked him whether
such cedar chests were being made in
Texas, and he answered that he did
not know, but saw no rason why they
should not be, and that he would pre-
fer to handle the Texas made goods
if he could get them as nicely made
and at as good price.
cedar that Texas has, much of it
ing to waste, it is surprising that
cedar chest from the North is
&old fn the State.
Neutral, (
There is
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No matter how old or un-
sightly your shoes are
REALSHINE will quickly
restore their newness and
this will afford months of
longer wear.
Number Bales Cotton Produced in
Each Texas County in 1926
Captain Walters of the Salvation
Army makess one point that is very
important at the present time, espec-
ially in East Texas. The. Salvation
Army does not send out solicitors
from time to time during the year.
All its money is raised at the annual
drives. Some other organizations
have persistently sent out solicitors in
this section of the state who in wear-
ing apparel and manners closely re-
semble those valiant lassises of the
Salvation Army. They carry tambo-
rines and make a mute appeal for
funds. Many contribute to these or-
’ ganizations liberally in the belief that
they are helping the work of the Sal-
vation Army. The organizations rep-
resented by these solicitors may be
very worthy, and the money you con-
tribute may go to some needy cause,
but it does not go to the Salvation
Army, as many who make contribu-
tions from time to time believe.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—One Year $1.50-.
Six Months $1.00; Three Months. 60c.
ADVERTISING RATES: Local readers
2 cents per word: display rates made
known upon application. All resolutions,
cards of thanks, programs and other mat-
ter not general news, will be classed as
advertising and charged for at the rate of
one cent for each word, and the sender
will be held responsible for payment of
bill.
we believe it should be. But
isn’t doing it with the present money,
and The Champion believes this con-
stitutes grounds for registering a
protest.
As we see it, it is not Mr. Rudd’s
■cault that he isn’t getting more
"maintenance money for Shelby coun-
ty. He would probably be more
pleased than anyone if the present ap-
propriation was doubled, or even in-
creased.
The fault is with Shelby county;
We have been perfectly willing to sit
by and accept what amount it was de-
cided in Austin that would do here
and then watched this pitiful sum be-
ing applied to highways that are go-
ing to waste ypar after year. We
haven’t been on the job to see that
the county gets a square deal when
the money is appropriated. We are
the ones to suffer, for, as everyone
knows, the highways have grown
worse and worse with the passing of
years.
i Engineer Maddox states that this
■county is receiving more money, in
proportion to its mileage, than other
counties in his district. This is a
matter of record and doubtless is a
correct statement of present condi-
tions. However, there is one thing
certain—we are not getting what we
need. Granting that we are getting
more in proportion to our mileage,
are we getting as much in proportion
the crop that does not find a ready
market. Many places in Texas are
avoiding waste by having such plants.
McAllen has been canning about
3,000 cans of tomatoes a week and is
prepared to put up 5,000 cans of pro-
duce a day if it becomes necessary.
Kosse is packing surplus beans, cab-
bage, pork, beef, spinach, blackber-
ries and other things. These can-
neries not only save waste, but they
give employment to people who can-
not well work in the fields.
With all the
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A great deal of
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Places That Are growing. ,
I am fairly well acquainted with al-
most every town in Texas, and find
that the towns that have a uniformly
good business and that are making
any growth worth considering are the
towns whose newspapers show active
persistent advertising on the part of
the local merchants. Good roads
make it so easy to get from one town
to another that unless merchants at-
tractively advertise their goods in the
local papers the people get in their
cars and go to those places that do
advertise them. Newspapers from
the large cities and towns can now
be circulated freely in the smaller
places. These carry the messages of
the big place merchants attractively
displayed, day in and day out, right
to the doors of the smaller cities and
towns. Unless this competition is
met through local advertising, the
business that should be kept at home
is largely going to those cities and
those stores that seek it through con-
stant advertising. Trade is being
centralized in those places that adver-
tise most for it. The only way to
meet this is through the methods used
by the growing cities—through ad-
vertising.
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of propriety in daring to make such
an inquiry.
The editorial also brought to this'maintenance of the highways in Shel- tne PeoP^e w^° attract capital and j
by county. We believe that the
county is suffering because of small
appropriations for this work, and we
! also believe that conditions will grow
' no better unless the citizens of the
county demand that they receive
i more maintenance equipment and
ex-, money. It is probable, as Mr. Mad-
pect, and a maximum of resurfacing, dox states, that no more money will
About three miles have been resur- j be available this year,
faced on the San Augustine highway,
next to the county line.
It was also stated by the division
engineer, who called at this office
Thursday, that no more money could
be expected for Shelby county main-
tenance this year. More details of
Mr. Maddox’s statement are contain-
ed elsewhere in this issue of The
Champion.
Let it be understood at the outset
that The Champion has no quarrel i cally all the funds have gone to the
with those in direct charge of mainte- ■ relief of floo-d sufferers in the Missis-
nance in Shelby county. We believe,' sippi valley. Nearly all money rais-
with many others, that Mr. Rudd is j ed in the Shelby county drive will go
efficient in his work, and given the , to this fund, the Salvation Army fig-
mcney, could put the highway sys- i uring that it will be necessary for its
tern in this county in the condition j organization to contribute toward the
should be. But he ; support of these people for at least
one year. This is one of the most
worthy organizations in existence to-
day, and should be as liberal as possi-
ble when making contributions to the
fund.
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I THE PASSING DAY
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Our Plumbing and Tin Work will compare with the best.
When we do the work you are assured of satisfaction.
to our needs?
lieves not.
During the present month, we may
be getting a few dollars more than
some of the other counties. But what
about last year, and the years before
when the highways were going to
pieces? Aren’t we due a little more
now that the highways are gone? Are
we going to get it? The division en-
gineer says not.
There are some questions of policy
which have been adopted which we
believe are not to the best interests of
the highways. Because of the need
for resurfacing, the engineers are
keeping all their forces on the San
. Augustine highway, letting others go
we going to do about our to pieces while the resurfacing is be-
That question, asked in. ing done. Twenty-five or more
trucks are on this job. It seems that
one could be spared to work at patch-
ing at least the dangerous parts of
other highways. At least when two
or three crews are used to put up
these pine poles along the highways.
But this is a question of policy, which
Texas Railroad Building.
Ten years ago many people were I
heard to say that railroad building in .
Texas was about over. They have i
another guess coming now. It be-1;
■ gins to look like there will be more
railway construction in the State in
the next ten years than in any period
in its history. Roads no woperating
are extending their lines into unde-
veloped territory. This is especially
true in the Rio Grande Valley and
the Panhandle. The Texas roads are
making money, having cleared more
than $3,000,000 dollars more the first
three months of this year than in a
similar period last year. Cities,
towns and communities with a pro-
gressive spirit, whether on lines of
new railroad construction or not, are
going to profit by all this expenditure
of capital in railroad building.
The Fields Are Calling.
There is no good reason why any
one should be idle in Texas now. Five
thousand berry pickers are needed
around Lindale, in Smith county, to a place that
save the berry crop. Tomato gather-
ers and packers are wanted wherever of town i
the tomato crop is ripening. Cotton Spring, having landed its hotel enter-
is opening in the Rio Grande Valley Pr*se> now announces that it will soon
Cantaloupes and watermelons are ■ ™^rtake t0 buM a $250,000 high
, x ! school building. With the new hotel
ready to be gathered. and shipped. and such a school building) Big
The cotton fields are sending out dis- ■ Spring will make visitors from neigh-
tress signals. Everywhere there is an
appeal for labor and the laborers are
'receiving good wages. The idler in
Texas who will not work now, does
not want to work, but should be told
in an official way that he must labor
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THE. QUESTION IS YET UNAN-
SWERED.
What are
highways?
a front page editorial in The Chani-
pion last week, remains unanswered.
As was to be more or less expected,
the asking brought to The Champion
office several groups of interested cit-
izens, some endorsing the editorial
and some, probably more, feeling that. may work out to the best interest of
the paper was exceeding the bounds 1 the county.
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The Champion has only one inter-
est in this highway question: Better
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