Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1914 Page: 4 of 16
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They sat upon the davenport
That served in Mother’s day,
While the happy old folks listened
To hear what he might say.
And he told her that his love for her
Was the good, old-fashioned sort,
Just like Father had told Mother
On that same old davenport.
They may talk of love in motor cars,
But, as in days of yore,
There’s nothing like a DAVENPORT,
And there’s plenty at OUR STORE.
A. F. LARNER
PAGE FOUR
aiAazvo oaoassovr
Thursday, October 8, 1914
JACKSBORO GAZETTE
Published every Thursday by
J. N. ROGERS & COMPANY.
to become a
who continues
to year.
Entered at the
Jacksboro, Texas, as
nail matter.
Postoffice at
second-class
Business office on northeast cor-
ner of Public Square, Jacksboro,
Texas.
Remit cash by Postoffice Money
Order or Bank Check at our risk,
•therwise at risk of sender.
permanent citizen!big advertised stores are actually cotton may not bring us as much
to rent from year! selling their present stock of gro- as the cotton did, but it must be
I ceries at lower prices than they made to bring us more than what
| are buying their future stocks, it would at the reduced price it
They are paying more for their | will sell for next year if we grow
It has been said that nothing is j^our an(j sugar than they are it. And it is possible to make
so pitiful and disgusting as a man asking purchasers to pay. j these other crops, with war prices,
And this applies to many lines, j bring as much as the cotton with
One great shoe manufacturer has ; peace prices.
just turned down a European or I For instance, the cash crop —
der for one million pairs of shoes j that is the crop other than the
at an increase of $1 per pair: ■ home grown living—might well
because if he filled that order he j consist of wheat in sections best
could not supply his own trade at adapted to wheat growing; of
Subscription: $1.00 a year.
being unable to see and utilize
every opportunity that comes
within his grasp for his own bet-
ter development and the upbuild-
ing of society generally. Let us
not slight our opportunities to
build up business and secure en-
terprise that will develop and
build up Jacksboro and Jack
County. .
home and so would lose the trade
that his advertising has built up.
Another great advertiser of
corn where it will grow best; of
the grain sorghums where they
will grow best; and so on. And
Telephone 71.
j The community that loses sight
-■ ........ ■■ - —'........of the importance of maintaining
In writing of the value of Ber- ■ good schools and good churches
muda grass in East Texas, Col. loses sight of its own best inter-
bread is still selling the same siz- j live stock should be grown wher-
ed loaf at the same price, al- j ever possible,
though flour increased in price A Reason for the Livestock,
the day the war was announced. Cotton, of all our crops, costs
It is a notable thing that your the least to haul from the farm
advertised “baked beans,” your to the market,—1 2-5% of its val-
R. T. Milner says: 4‘Ber- ests. It makes little difference
muda grass, bur clover and how prosperous in a financial wajj advertised cereals, your advertis-j ue, according to government fig
eventually be- j such communi ties may be they do
the prosperity not present a desirable appear-
rescue grass will
come the basis of
and wealth of East Texas. This
fact can not be doubted by any
one who knows the value of these
plants and who has watched their
development in this section. Ber-
muda had to fight its way at ev-
ery step of its advancement, the
prejudice of the cotton
against it being unalterably stub-
born and unshaken. But in spite
of that prejudice it has gone from
one triumph to another until it is
a remarkable fact that now and
then it has a friend even among
the slaves of the pne-crop idea. It
made its appearance in this coun-
try just before or during the Civ-
il War. From the very start it
was irresistible. Every device
anee to
homes.
a
people
seeking new
ed cereals, your advertised mac j ures. Corn, the field crop sec-
aroni, your advertised coups and ond in importance, costs 12 4-5%,
meats, your advertised “drugs, or about 16,000,000 last year if it
If you are depressed and mo-
rose over difficulties that come
up for solution, they will be more
farmer! Bcult to face than if you meet
them with pluck and a cheerful
spirit. '
Don’t be a vampire, expecting
bo get business through the ef-
fort of others. Get in line and
hustle to bring business to Jacks-
boro.
What the War Means to Us.
known to the farmer was resorted The European war offers the
to for its extermination. The ne-! rgeatest opportunity for the ex-
groes dreaded it almost as they J pansion of our foreign trade than
would a scourge. The faster they all other factors combined, ae-
stirred the soil the more vigorous-
ly grew and spread the Bermuda.
It encroached upon field and
meadow until soon large areas
were abandoned, and stock turn-
ed upon it as the last desperate
act of the farmer toward the de-
struction of an advancing foe.
Horses and cattle ate it and soon
grew fat, hogs thrived upon it,
every animal and fowl that eats
grass eats it ravenously. After
more than a half century of war-
fare it has made friends, but so
deep is the prejudice of some
good men against any hindrance
to the growth of cotton that they
still hate it and would destroy it
if possible.” If Bermuda grass
is helping to make east Texas
cording to Judge Elbert II. Gary,
of the United States Steel Corpo-
ration. In a recent interview to
the press he states that if we take
advantage of the unusual oppor-
tunity afforded along this line on
account of the conflict in Europe,
that we would triple our trade
with the rest of the world.
“We produce more feedstuffs
and materials for fabrics and man-
ufactured articles of various
kinds than the inhabitants of the
country require,” says Judge
Gary, “Therefore, we should con-
tinue to export large quantities
of the products of the country
for the use cf foreigners and in
return obtain large sums of mon-
the farms. The other field crops
range all the way from 9 3-5%
for wheat to say 26% for hay.
toilet accessories,” shoes, hosiery had all been hauled to town f$roir jj
and clothes, furniture, pianos and
talking machines have all main-
tained their regular prices to you
although the prices of the) raw ma-! The haulage charge on hogs was
terials that go into these things only 2 4-5% of their value, and
have long since been frightfully for dairy products and other live-
advanced. ! stock products it was largely in-
These manufacturers and these' cidental. This shows the impor-
stores are practically the onlyjtanee of marketing our field
ones who have shown their will- j crops, where possible, on the hoof,
ingness to put their avarice be-, These Things Will Have to Be
hind them and to play fair ini Remembered,
these times of stress.—Publishers | Cotton will, in all human prob-
Auxiliary. (ability, be low in price next year,
_ ___ | with no decrease in the producing
cost. Crops that are eaten—and
livestock—will be very high. The
cost of production of the food —
and feedstuffs will be no higher
than usual, and that of the live-
stock will depend absolutely on
the amount of feedstuffs we can
grow per acre.
If the farmers of Texas can
take to heart Colonel Exall’s les-
sons,—more vitally important
in our crisis than ever be-
thisl fall,;
plant cover crops for grazing in
Something Other Than Cotton
1■ *
For a Cash Crop.
\ ;V ,?V *' } * ’ V*’ ' ‘fjX ' \ - ■' I
A war, world-wide in its effects
brings to the people of the cot-
ton States the question of read-
justment. Until this year we sup-
plied the world with cotton, bar-
tering our great staple for even
the necessaries of life. Now we
find ourselves unable to buy with now
our cotton because the Eq$>pean| an^
cataclysm has deprived us of a .
market for it. Many times thejthe ***** and humus in the
truth has been printed and spo- sPrin»- se,ect their seed with
ken. that any system of farming i care> me barnyard manure and
other fertilizer, cultivate with
ey to increase the financial
prosperous it can do just as much strength of the country.”
for Jack County. This county ( The building up of our merchant iThe farmer im3st raise his
has always been one of the best marine, a change in our naviga-1meat. He must plan ahead
for raising all j tion laws, making it more expen- j en°ugh to raise everything
sive to sail a veissel under Ameri- j ea^s w^h enough
sections in Texas
kinds of livestock and every kind
of grass that tends to making
stock raising more
should be
that does not provide the farmer’f
living in products of the farm is
unsafe.
It seems, therefore, that we
must get back to the beginning
with our farming,
planting for next year must first
of all provide for the home-,
grown living, enough food for the as a^ams^ the
family and feed for the livestock.
own |
far Foreign
he
eats with enough left over of I
the soil mulch, and stay everlast-
ingly on the job, they can pro-
duce corn and grain sorghums as
cheaply as corn is produced in
Each farmer's!the Corn Belt’ and thus eithe.r
sell their crops at greater profit
or convert them into beef and
Corn Belt
States.—Industrial Congress.
Samples of Winter Suits
FIT YOUR rocket-book
HAVE YOUR SUIT CLEANED and
PRESSED RIGHT—WE USE THE
FRENCH-DRY CLEANER.
E. E. HERRING
THE TAILOR
“Where Suits that
FIT Come From. ”
Nations Want
Products.
Texas
can flag than under the colors of thin£s that he ean sel1 to Pa*v for Galveston, Tex., Oct.
profitable j other nations and increasing our[^e ^ea anf^ coffee and
grown. More teed > trade with South America are
crops, more live stock, more grain j other opportunities which should
an not quite so large an acreage be taken advantage of, according
in cotton will make Jack County j to this well known financier. ^
again one of the most, prosperous!
counties in Texas. j • * —
A Strong War Lesson On Adver-
clothes. resentativcs of
5.—Rep-
vanous foreign
After this comes the question of j governments are arriving here
cash crops. I daily for the purpose of purehas-
We can not nowr use cotton as mg Texas made .and Texas rais-
cash crop. There is enough! ed products. These purchasing
Information gathered by the j
Texas Business Men’s Association! The sub jest of the war situa-
from data by the Federal Census ^ion and advertised goods is being
states that the enumerators ask- j aptly considered in a series of
ed every farmer in Texas this j editorials by J. R. Hamilton in
question: “How long have you the Chicago Examiner. Among
lived on the farm you nowr oceu-j other striking things pointed out
py?” This question was answer- j by this expert is that advertising,
ed by 381,717 of the 417,770 farm;rather than raising the cost of crops, amounting to some $295,-
operators in this State. More living, is doing more to maintain: 000,000. This is a tremendous
our
cotton in the world now to last!agents represent both neutral and
two years, with the most of thej warring countries and are nego-
spindles of Europe idle. We can tiating with Texas firms for
raise cotton, but we can not sell | large quantities of wheat, flour
it. Therefore, we must raise some- and other feed stuffs. The En-
tiling else. j glish government, through Cana-
The change from cotton will dian representatives, recently pur
not be easy. Texas grew cotton chased a number of horses and
last year on almost half of her mules in Texas.
cultivated land, and this cotton, „_. ^ t
with the seed, was about 61 per grfti£}L guy
the field
cent of the value of
Texas Horses for
Army Service.
6.—At-
<erA/w, , |UV«|, U uuiug mun W mwuwuu|-v,vyv. " “oluvuuwuo| Fort Worth, Tex., Oct.
than 159,000 stated that they had normal conditions than any other task, involving not only new prob- taches of the British army just
occupied their farms only one, force. Mr. Hamilton declares lems for the farmer, hut making purehased severai carloads of Tex-
year or less; 99,974 from 2 to 4j“Not an advertised product on necessary a complete readjust- hor8p's and mules and are
years; 50.608 farms from 5 to 9 t)ie market has yet raised its
years and 71,691 10 years and price.”
over. The most restless class of This shows one thing; that the
ment of business and finance in
the State.
If disaster is to be avoided,
people in this State is the tenant j businesses that advertise pledge then the most profitable cropping
themselves to keep faith with the j systems for the several sections
people. They are not nameless! of the State must be worked out
like the dealers
pre-
paring to ship them to* England
at once, where they will be used
in the army.
who operates his farm on the
share basis. This is another con-
clusive fact that more farmers
When you market your crops
m raw products immediately and the campaign be- come in and subscribe for the Ga-
should own their own farms. If who have nothing to lose. They ; gun at once,—not only among the
they did they would be free to have spent their money to create (farmers, but among the bankers,
plant any kind of product that a good name and they are wise business men, landlords, and all wlth local applications, as they cnoot
would be necessary for the subsis-j enough now in this crisis to main-! those who advance money or eved-\^S&SSLSSSi£rSa ihSX? £ ‘cSi’u
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
tence of his own family. He could j tain it.
raise all kinds of food crops and
live stock, whereas in many sec-
tions of the country he is bound
by eontraA to plant cotton. Ev-
ery farmer should get a home,
even if it has to be bought at a
If ever tbs public had a good
lesson in advertising, that lesson
is being taught today.
Practically every unadvertisf-d
store has raised its prices while
it on the crop before
duced. Everybody
must thoroughly understand in
advance what to do and why, so
there will be no wavering when
the next season comes around, re-
practically every advertised store suiting in going back to cotton.
sacrifice. No one can ever expect is keeping faith. Some of these What we grow in the place of
U nwv. 7on mint take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh
lb prv-. cure Wken internally, and acta directly upon
concerned gLTftS'.TSS SJXXk “WSJ
scribed by one of the best physicians in this
country for years and la a regular prescription.
It is composed of the beat tonics known, com-
bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di-
rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients Is what pro*
duces such wonderful results In curing catarrh.
Send Ssr testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Prapa., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, price We.
TU* Hall’s Family m* foe cooattpatioo.
An Invitation
Is Hereby Extended to YOU
TO INVESTIGATE
Our FALL and WINTER Goods
as to Quality, Style and Price—
As-well-as to the Appearance.
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WEEK, WHILE ATTENDING THE BIG FALL
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1914, newspaper, October 8, 1914; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth863882/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.