Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 16, 1914 Page: 4 of 16
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
BY THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO.
L. T. HOYT ...
BEN L. BROOKS
Editor and Manager
----Associate Editor
Entered as second class mail matter at the postoffice at Mercedes, Texas,
January .23, 1914, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription $1.50 per Year in Advance
MERCEDES, TEXAS, DECEMBER 16, 1914
BE LOYAL TO BOTH
We clip the following from
San Benito Light:
the
Denial of reports that he had urg-
ed, at the meting of the San Benito
Unit last Saturday afternoon, that
Unit members should take the offi-
cial organ of the Unit Marketing Sys-
tem in preference to the San Benito
Light, was made Wednesday by Col.
Alba Heywood. In his statement he
also said that “every man should
support his local home paper,” and
that he realized that the Light has
“done more than any other paper in
the cause of the Unit Marketing
System and that no other paper is
It is not only the duty of every per-
son to subscribe for his local paper
but he should also give his patron-
age to the merchants who advertise
in it. They are the ones who are the
real live, wide awake and progres-
sive citizens of your town; they are
the ones who, by supporting your
newspaper, are helping your commu-
nity along the road which leads to
development and prosperity; they are
the only ones who are asking for
your trade and they are the only ones
who should receive it. 'If you would
help your town, support its news-
paper and if you wish to really sup-
port your newspaper you must pat-
ronize its advertisers. We do not
think, however, that any member of
When you are down in the mouth
just think of Jonah. He came out
all right. (The editor made it Noah
—he must have been thinking of the
weather.—Ye Op.)
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Talk about sweet potatoes. Albert
Kalbfleisch brought three potatoes in-
to the Tribune office yesterday which
tipped the scales at fifteen pounds
or an average of five pounds each.
They were sound, clean and almost
as big as your head. One of them
would make a meal for a whole
family. Mr. Kalbfleisch grew about
an acre of these potatoes in a por-
tion of his orange orchard between
the rows of trees and they are all
of immense size and quality.
LOST—One pair auto chains between
Mercedes and Santa Maria. Re-
turn to Sterling Auto Co. for re-
ward. 46-lp
CLASSIFIED
For Sale, Rent or Exchange
You have something to sell or exchange. Someone in the Valley
wants it but doesn’t know you have it. Tell them through Tribune
Classified Ads. One cent per word per insertion. Minimum 25c.
FOR SALE
IF YOU HATE ANYTHING for sale
or exchange try a want ad in
this column
a better friend of the farmer.”
What is shown by Col. Heywood’s the Unit Marketing System is too
statement to have been a misunder-
standing, arose at the barbecue last
Saturday afternoon at his home. In
making a plea for members of the
Unit to subscribe to the official or-
gan he was understood by some to
have advised members to take the
official organ in preference to the
home paper if -they could not sub-
scribe to both.
“While every member should take
the official organ for Unit Marketing
System dope, every man should sup-
port his local home paper,” is what
he did say, according to his state-
ment. This statement, .written and
signed by Col. Heywood, follows:
“I was either misunderstood or
have been misquoted in what I said
about the official organ and the San
Benito Light at the Unit meeting
last Saturday and I ask space to
make my position clear.
I made a strong talk first for the
names of non-members to be sent
to the official organ, because it was
the way to reach the outsiders with
£be Unit Marketing System dope,
without expense to the System.
Second, for the members to sub-
scribe for it permanently, because,
being the official organ it was the
only medium through which to reach
all members in the Valley.
Someone in the audience suggested
■that some people could not take both
the official organ and the San Benito
Light. I was quoted as saying that
jhe should take the official organ
anyway, and not the Light, or words
to that effect I made no such
statement. What I said was: AVhile
every member should take the offi-
cial organ for official Unit Marketing
System dope, every man should sup-
port his • local home paper.
Nobody realizes the value of the
Light more than I do; nobody rea-
lizes better than I do that it is the
best paper in Texas in any town of
the size of San Benito.
Nobody realizes better than I do
that it has done more than any
other paper in the cause of the Unit
Marketing System, and that no other
paper is a better friend of the farm-
er.
We worked to make the Light the
official organ, but we did not get it
by majority rule and that is 0. K.
poor to also subscribe for your of-
ficial organ The fact is, ylu can not
afford not to become a subscriber.
The information which you will re-
ceive from its columns may mean a
saving of hundreds of dollars a year
to you. The Unit Marketing System
itself offers the only solution to your
marketing difiiiculties and opens the
only safe road to- real prosperity.
The Tribune will use every effort
to promote the interests of the Sys-
tem and its members. It’s efforts
will not be confined to any one town
but will cover the entire Valley. Its
columns are open to you free and we
urge you to use them* and tell your
farmer friends and brothers of your
experiences and the results of your
experiments so that they may profit
by them. The policy of the offiicers
of your Marketing System is to take
you absolutely into their confidence.
The real facts, the real marketing
conditions, without exaggeration or
coloring, will be given to ' you
through the columns of this paper.
Arrangements have been made to have
a report of the meetings of each Unit
throughout the Valley and we will
endeavor to have our column^ full of
articles of interest and value to the
farmers of the Vailey. By all means
support your home paper but it may
mean false economy for you to neg-
lect to subscribe for your official
organ also.
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Editor Lott and Editor Jeffries, pub-
lishers of the Mission Citizen and
the Mission Times respectively, have
made an arrangement by which but
one paper will hereafter be publish-
ed. The Citizen will be discontinued
and Mr. Lott will have charge of the
jnechanical work and job printing
of the Times.
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Mercedes, and in fact every town
in the Valley, should have a Society
of Goodfellows to see that the poor
and needy are taken care of this
Christmas. It is all right to send
shiploads of presents to the Chil-
dren of war stricken Belgium, but
we must not forget that there are
many children in our midst whom
Santa Claus may forget to call upon
' unless we bestir ourselves in their
behalf Goodfellow societies have
FOR SALE—Cheap. 200 Gulf Coast
kerosene orchard heaters and can-
vas, used one season. Address Deyo
& Ray, Lyford, Texas. J 46-2
Best for Kidneys—Says Doctor
Dr. J. T. R. Neal, Greenville, So.
Car., says that in his 30 years of ex-
perience he has found no prepara-
tion for the kidneys equal to Foley
Kidney Pills. In 50c and $1.00 sizes.
Best you can buy for backache,
rheumatism, kidney and bladder ail-
ments. For sale by all dealers.
with Mr. Stephenson, but I think: .
,. ^ ; been organized all over the country
every man on the San Benito tract?. , ,, ,
, ,, : this year and the example they are
should patronize his home paper, ■ ,
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both from a business and a patriotic ,
. . , . t ...i , effort to bring Christmas cheer to as
standpoint, and I think every member
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of the Unit System m the whole Val-;
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Unit Marketing System dope. j
This is my platform, and I stand
on it.
ALBA HEYWOOD.
The public in general, especially the
ladies, are invited to call at my
place in Brownsville and allow us
to show the many useful things that
we have for the holidays. We take
some pride in our Yuletide selections
and it will be a pleasure to have
you call.
,TNO. E. RUTLEDGE
1015 Elizabeth Street
FOR SALE—One good driving mare,
with best qualities for family use,
easy to keep in condition. Well
worth $250, will take $150 for im-
mediate sale; will trade for cattle
or hogs. Address B. H. Hooks,
Donna, Texas.
IF YOU HATE ANYTHING for sale
or exchange try a want ad in
this column
FOR SALE—At a bargain, 20, 40 or
80 acres, improved on Mercedes
canal, close in. Would consider part
trade. Write owner, F. A. Goetz,
Mercedes, Texas 41-tf
FOR SALE—Grafanola in perfect
condition. Cost $50. Fifty disc
records with it cost $50. Will sell the
machine and records for $65 or will
trade for corn. Inquire Tribune of-
fice. 43-tf
FOR RENT
FOR RENT—House close to school.
Four rooms with bath and sleeping
porch. $5.50 per month. Apply at
Tribune office.
EXTRA FANCY Klondike strawberry
plants, 35c per 100, $2.50 per
1000, f. o. b. Alvin. 5000 fine Sat-
suma orange trees at war prices,
also Buff Rock chickens. W. E.
Ayers, Alvin, Texas. 43-3
LOST—On road leading from pump-
ing plant on river to Mercedes on
Saturday last, a small folding bank
check book containing a pass on St.
L. B| & M. R. R., a receipt for
Masonic dues, two official telegraph
number cards. A reward will be
given for return to Tribune office
or to David W. Warner, Brownsville.
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FOR RENT—Three farms with houses,
IV Lingenbrink. 38-tf
FOR EXCHANGE
WANTED—To exchange valuable
property in the city of San An-
tonio for a Lower Rio Grande aVl-
ley farm. Write with description and
price. X, care Tribune office. 42-tf
STEER YOUR AUTO
In this direction when you are in
need of supplies. Our collection of
articles for auto use embraces every-
thing you can possibly need from
goggles to foot warmers. We think
you had better come anyway whether
you need anything or not. We have
some novelties you ought to see and
perhaps to have. Nothing like be-
ing up to date, don’t you know.
STERLING AUTO GO.
MERCEDES, TEXAS
LA CONNA CAMP IV. 0. IV. NO. 250
Regular meeting
on first and third
Thursdays of each
month at 8:00 p. m.
D. H. MYERS, C. C.
Visiting members
always welcome.
Attest: D. F. RUE, Clerk.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat-
ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there-
by destroying the foundation of the dis-
ease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow-
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY & .CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
We do not believe that Col. Hey-
wood nor anyone else has ever ad-
vised anyone to withdraw’ his support
from his local newspaper. Certainly
The Tribune has never thought of
such a thing. In our editorial an-
nouncing that The Tribune had been
selected as the official organ of the
Unit Marketing System and asking
the support and assistance of the
members of the System so that we
might be enabled to make it the
most benefit to them, we used the
following alnguage:
“Neither do we mean that you
should not support your local news-
paper. It is conceded that the local
paper is of greater benefit and con-
tributes more to the progress and
development of a community than
any other agency and the man who
is not a subscriber to it is so lacking
in public enterprise that he can
hardly be of any real benefit to the
town in which he lives.”
Certainly that language is sus-
ceptible to but one interpretation
and we meant every word of it.
We will go even a step farther.
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Hidalgo Guarantee Abstract Co |
ABSTRACTS ABSTRACTS ABSTRACTS
EDINBURG, TEXAS
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Get Ready
Christmas
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FOR SALE—The best burro in the
Rio Grande Valley. Used to children
and has a very musical bass voice.
Will sell cheap if taken at once.
Inquire at Tribune office.
TO EXCHANGE—A $13,000 business
building in an eastern Nebraska
county seat, well rented, in good re-
pair, to exchange for improved irri-
gated land in Rio Grande Valley up
to $10,000 in value. Send complete
description in first letter as to im-
provements, lay of land, legal num-
bers, encumbrance if any, etc. Ad-
dress Box 341, Geneva, Neb. 44-3
LUTHERAN
Ebenezer Evangelic Lutheran^
church, located on Third street near
the electric light plant, will hold
services every Sunday morning; Sun-
day school at 9 o’clock and preach-
ing at 10. A cordial invitation is
extended to all to attend.
FOR SALE OR TRADE—Two 2-row
corn and cotton planters, first class
condition. Will take pigs or Jersey
heifer. What have you got? Apply
G. H. Byrnes, three-fourths mile east
of La Feria. 45-2
FOR SALE—4 horse power gasoline
engine in good condition cheap if
sold at once. Inquire at Tribune
office.
FOR SALE—One John Deere riding
6-shovel cultivator, $22.50; one
planet, jr., seeder and cultivator,
$6.50; one new ground 12-blade cul-
tivator, $11.50; one Fainbanks Morse
4 h. p. engine, price on application.
These implements are nearly as good
as new; sale price half of cost.— E.
E. Evans. tf
FOR SALE OR TRADE—A nice five
room house with bath and fire
place, also good barn. Will trade for
a good pair of mules and take easy
payment vendor lien notes for bal-
ance. Box 17, Mercedes, Tex. 45-tf
FOR SALE
Grape fruit grown on the Ever-
green farm at Stephen’s Cash Gro-
cery and at Fitch & Lee’s confec-
tionery store. 43-tf
FOR SALE OR TRADE—40 acres
on Mercedes canal; black level
land 2 miles from Heidelberg; big
bargain; will take part trade. Ad-
dress L, Tribune. 46-tf
WANTED
WANTED—A live correspondent in
each town in the Valley to repre-
sent The Tribune. Write us for
particulars.
MISCELLANEOUS
CHOICE, SELECTED EGYPTIAN
wheat seed for planting. Nothing
better for silage. The best crop to
follow your corn. Price $3.00 per
bushel. You will pay $3.50 per
bushel anywhere else. Almeda Jer-
sey Farm, Donna, Texas.
BUYING CORN—We are now buying
corn and will pay cash, all market
will justify.—Rio Grande Grain Co.
SEED CORN—E. L. Rotkrock of
Mercedes, lias a few bushels of
extra well selected Tuxpan seed corn
for sale. 43-4
METHODIST CHURCH
Regular preaching services at this
church December 27, January 10 and
beginning with January 24 and last-
ing over January 31, there will be
ten days of special evangelistic ser-
vices. The earnest cooperation of
every Christian person is most heart-
ily requested.—Wm. J. Brient, Pastor.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Preaching services every Sabbath,
except the third, at 11 a. m. and
7:30 p. m„, Sabbath school 9:45
every Sabbath, Christian Endeavor,
6:30 p. m. every Sabbath. A hearty
welcome awaits you at all of these
services.—Samuel M Glasgow, Pastor..
Immanuel Lutheran Church (MIss-
ouri Synod;) on Second street, one'
block west of city park, has regular
preaching service every Sunday at
9:45 a. m. Young people’s meet-
ing every last Sunday of month at
8:00 p. m.—M. W. Pott, Pastor.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Fuller Swift o,f Carthage, Mo>.,
will occupy the pulpit in the Bap-
tist church next Sunday morning and
evening Rev. Swift comes highly
recommended as a cultured preach-
er and all should avail themselves;
of this opportunity to hear him. The
members of the Baptist church are
especially urged to attend and hear-,
this minister as he has expressed a
strong desire to> locate among us.
Hogs Are Cer-
tain Producers
of Wealth : :
^ The greatest opportunity ever afforded
our farmers to make money on food
stuffs lies at present in the raising of hogs.
The war has affected the prosperity of
nearly everyone except those who pro-
duce food Stuffs.
4 Therefore in order to be happy, healthy,
wealthy and wise it is necessary to have
a good cow or two followed by some hogs.
4 We urge co-operation along the above
lines among our farmer customers.
FOR SERVICE AND ACCOMODATION
THE HIDALGO
COUNTY BANK
AT YOUR SERVICE—MERCEDES, TEXAS
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 16, 1914, newspaper, December 16, 1914; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth635019/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.