Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1920 Page: 3 of 10
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WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN
Our Christmas Club is the most attractive
plan of saving ever devised. It enables those of
small means, taose in moderate circumstances,
and even those of large interests to lay aside
money. It provides a method for accumulating
money by sytematic saving. _
HOW TO JOIN—It is Easy.
Look at the tables below and select the club
you wish to join and come into our Bank with
the first deposit. We will make you a member
of the club and give you a pass book showing the
club you have joined.
This is all there is to it. No cost or dues,
and no red tape.
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A CLUB TO FIT EVERY PURSE
INCREASING CLUB PLAN -
INCREASE your deposit lc, 2c, 5c or 10c
Put in lc, 2c, 5c or 10c the first week,
each week. In 50 weeks:
lc Club pays $12.75 5c Club ^ *
2c Club pays $25.50 j , Club **** ?127'50
WE INVITE ALL MEN, WOMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS TO JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB
' ..........£ • • . EVEN AMOUNT CLUB PLAN
Put in the SAME AMOUNT each week. In 50 Weeks:
25c Club pays $12.50
50c Club pays $25.00
$1.00 Club pays $50.00
$20.00 Club pays $1,000.00
$2.00 Club pays $100.00
$5*00 Club pays $250.00
$10.00 Club pays $500.00
WHY WE HAVE THIS CLUB
It is part of the business of our Bank to encourage thrift and to teach economy.
In no better way can we render service to all of the people of this city and commu-
nity than by giving them a definite plan for saving their money. Our Christmas Club
" To make “Savers” not “Spenders” out of our boys and gills.
To enable everyone, old and young, to become acquainted with the banking bus-
iness, so that when they have money they will know its value and how to take caie of it.
To give you a “Bank Connection” and show you how our Bank can help you m
financial matters. _____
A CLUB FOR THE BABY AND THE BIG BUSINESS MAN
All parents want their children to save money so that when they are grown up
they will have the money necessary to make their “start.”
Our Christmas Club is the ideal method for this purpose. >rf
Big business men realize that there may come a time when some READY MONEY
would come in very handy, and there is no easier way of having this ready money
than by systematic deposits in our Christmas Club. It will not injure your business
or cause any inconvenience to lay aside some money each week—and when you do
need it—you have it. Every business man knows this is true.
JOIN OUR Christmas Club Today.
YOU WILL RECEIVE FOUR PER CENT INTEREST
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The Deposits of this Bank are Guaranteed.
Member Federal Reserve Bank--With National Bank Privileges.
Bank of Commerce and Trust Company
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BANCROFT PLANTATION
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the entire acreage will be under cul-
tivation at the end- of next year.
Railway Extension to Serve Tract.
Negotiations are under way to ex-
tend the Spider Web railroad now
constructed between San Benito and
Santa Maria east through the plant-
ation. The distance of the extension
will be about seven miles, traversing
the country four and' one-half miles
south of Mercedes.
Canning Factory to Be Established.
William Doherty, vice president of
the company and the executive .of-
ficer in charge of the big develop-
ment is on the job from sun-up to
sun-down and the remarkable pro-
gress being made is a testimonial
of his efficiency. The plantation
will not be devoted exclusively to
sugar cane but big acreages of corn,
cotton and truck crops will also be
planted and a general farming bus-
iness conducted on a gigantic scale.
Mr. Doherty has now under con-
sideration the construction of a mod-
ern. canning factory which will op-
erate during the season when the
sugar mill is idle and assure all the
year round employment to a large
number of hands. The plantation is
a busy place and one must see it to
appreciate the extent of the work
now being carried on.
Fourteen tractors are employed in
plowing the land and digging the
trenches in which the seed cane is
laid. The plantation has its own
store, electric lighting plant and
modern conveniences , and bouses s
of the most prominent sugar opera-
tors in this country and Cuba is
evidencing his confidence in the
Bower Rio Grande Valley as a great
sugar producing section by backing
the proposition, with his millions and
the success of his venture now seems
assured.
THE MERCEDES RETAIL
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
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the association a telegram from Mr.
Hager was read conveying the infor-
mation that he had succeeded in lo-
cating a live wire who had the en-
dorsement and recommendation of
the officials of the state organiza-
tion and who was willing to return
with him and get on the job imme-
diately
The meeting acted promptly for the
gentleman arrived Wednesday in the
person of Mr. V. R. Wiggins for the
past two years of the development
department of the San Antonio
Light. The new secretary is an
energetic young man, thoroughly'
experienced in promotion and de-
velopment work and enters upon his
duties under circumstances which
presage success.
The work of the Merchants Deal-
ers Association will embrace that of
a commercial organization as well
and everything looking to better liv-
ing conditions and commercial devel-
opment will receive due attention.
The new organization starts off
under the most auspicious circum-
stances. The members are most en-
thusiastic and the interest manifest-
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RIGHT STOCK FOR BREEDING
Fowls Should Be Healthy and Vigor
ous for Best Success—Yearling
Hens Preferred.
For success in raising chickens it is
necessary to have healthy and vigor-
ous breeding stock, for the lack of vig-
or in the newly hatched chicks is often
traceable to weak parents. Only the
most vigorous and the best grown
birds should be put in the breeding
yards. Each bird should be full of life
and energy and free from any serious
deformity.
Yearling hens are usually better than
pullets for breeders, because hens are
more mature and do not lay so many
eggs during the early winter, and con-
seauently do not reduce their vitality
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isfactory, poultry specialists of the
United States department of agricul-
ture affirm, or a good, vigorous year-
ling or two-year-old cock may be chos-
en. The hens used for breeding pur-
poses should be given the best care
possible; they should be provided with
large runs and should not be forced
for heavy egg production during the
early winter.
DEADLY FOE OF LAZY FOWLS
ed at the meetings already held jus-
tify the prediction that important re-
considerable portion of its employees suits beneficial to the' entire com-
Wm Bancroft of New Orleans, onemunity wilt result.
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Select Only Most Vigorous and Best-
Grown Birds for Breeding Pens.
so' much before the breeding season.
Vigorous hens two to fbur years old
can often be advantageously retained
in the breeding yard.
The male bird chosen should be
young and active. An early hatched,.
When Trap Nests Are Used No
Amount of Cackling Will Deceive
Owner of Poultry Flock.
Trap nests are the deadly foe of the
lazy hen. When they are used, no
amount of cackling and appearance ot
industry can conceal the fact that she
isn’t delivering the goods. They are
the one accurate way by which the
owner of a flock can check up on the
laying ability of the individual hens.
Besides being valuable in locating
tbe drones, their use is advisable fof
the following additional reasons:
They help to make the birds tame,
thereby tending toward increased egg
production.
They furnish definite knowledge con-
cerning the egg production of indh
vidual fowls.
They furnish the most satisfactory
basis for utility or other breeding.
They show which hen lays each indi-
vidual egg, thus furnishing the essen-
tial basis for pedigree breeding.
Small Boy Rescues Baby Girl.
Coal City, Ind.—A small boy who
was let down, into a well on a rope
at the home of J. W. Free, rescued
the one-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Morris of Hymera from
drowning. The child fell into the well
when she stepped on a movable cover
in the platform. A bruise on one arm,
caused by striking a bucket which was
hanging in the well, was the only in-
jury suffered by the baby. Mr. and
Mrs. Morris were visiting at the Free
farm.
ATTENTION!
Contractors and Canal Builders
FOR SALE
Seventy-five (75) Good Mules, or any number thereof
Twenty-five Good Wagons—Army, Water Tank or Road
Twenty Fresnos
Ten Railroad Plows
Twenty.five Drag Scrapers
Twenty Tents—large and Small
Twenty Wagon Beds, for different purposes
A number of Feed and Water Troughs, Shovels,
Grub Axes and many other small tools.
Four Camp Houses 8x14 ft., on wheels.
Ten—3 year old Fillies
Six mares with colts
Several milch cows and heifers
75 head Turkeys
200 Chickens
One complete Blacksmith outfit
2 fine lots on Palm Heights
13 lots north Mercedes
All or part of this for sale and trade or will lease all
or part of this equipment or stock,
Write or see
J. C. DOLESE
Box 241 MERCEDES, Texas
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1920, newspaper, December 10, 1920; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017406/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.