The Daily Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 175, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 23, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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Renfro’s Ice Cream
bafaMgtkart Rf* art prepared to tafply jm witk
gifts frasi tbs nicest 1m ererskewn a tkis dty, Dia-
■aads. Rings, Bracelets and Diamond iaValKeres for
Girls, Wstdies, Fobs, Tie Clasps, Scarfpins and Rings
far Rots. See oar stack before buying- A pleasure to
Armstrong Jewelry Company
•*^0s OKI Here"
Brews wood la happy to bo classed
among tha fortunate tows* of this
section of the state.
Tha Latnpssas Leader calls the at-
tention oMta readera to the fact that
sow, while the roads are soft. Is the
best time tor nslag the road drags.
The Leader farther suggests that It
would pay the connty handsomely to
hire men and teams and aee'that o\-
every family la tb.-e trade territory,
a campaign that frill not ceaae until
the desired results hare been achlev-
etf-n persistent, aggressive campaign
laded « It We have "meney-makiag sary to urge yon to act at
sidcratlooa la this llberSl-miaded op- tha application tor regtotral
to those of the Northers Pacific and no uncement
SOUTHERN CfEORQIA RAILROAD LAND DKVKLOPINO BUREAU,
COLORADO BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. a
IRE DAILY BULLETIN
BY THE
Kayes Pristine Csmpaaj ^
Office of Publication
SOS Brown, Cor. Brown and Lee Sts.
SATURDAY, KAY It, 1M4.
htered at the Poetofflce, Brownwood,
Texas, as second class mall mattsr.
it cants per month; $0.00 per Year
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HOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. r-
Subscribers falling to receive their
paper will confer a favor on the man-
agement by reporting same to the of-
flee by • o’clock each morning, when
• copy of the paper will be sent by
Special delivery.
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-w, A SERIOUS SITUATION.
I _ Tb. D.H, Bulletin h» mor. tlun
once ^suggested to the merchants of
Brownwood that taelr trade territory
was being encroached upon by mall
order houses and that the dull times
experienced by some of them was not
so much the result of adverse condi-
tions as they were due to the 'Ia\
that the merchants were ‘not display-
ing the right sort of persistence in
going after this business. Drummers’
for foreign grocery houses have gone
through the country] soliciting orders,
;T and following these/ visits the Bulle-
tin has seen them unload and distrib-
ute three or four carloads of gro-
ceries here to people, who, if the mat-
ter was properly presented to them,
would Just as soon give their trade
to Brownwood merchants. That the
merchants are apparently Indifferent
about getting this trade is shown by
the following. There are not lees
thus twenty-five grocery stores In
all dependant on the
~ *4rade they get for their existence, end
all perhaps able to compete with any
prices made by ■alsemcn'who travel
through the country representing for-
eign houses. in the last issue of the
Weekly Bulletin however, there was
jus one grocery concern in Brown-
wood that solicited the patronage of:
i
Brownwood merchants are not getting
their share of the business that right-
fully belongs to them, s tabulated
statement of the number of parcel
post packages received by the people
living on the six rural routes out of
Brownwood from April 15 to May 15,
shows a total of more than twenty-
six thousand packages, an average of
one thousand daily for each week day
in the month. Of this number Brown-
wood sent out sixty four packages, or
just two for each week day In the
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month. These figures are on file at
the Brownwood postoffice and they
reveal a situation which Is serious so
far aa Brownwood business and the
prosperity of the country generally
Immediate section, asked the execu-
tive committee of the commercial club
to endorse Its plans. ▲ petition to
that effect was presented the execu-
tive committee, but nothing came of
it and the enterprise Is still plugging
along dong the best It can, but not
getting any suppor^or encouragement
from the Commercial Club, in other
■ towns similar enterprises *are recog-
nised as being of great value and the
commercial organisations are glad of
an opportunity to lend n helping
hand. \ **•’• ■/
The Bulletin has no fight to make
against any one, or against any insti-
tution, and what is said here is not
said for n selfish purpose, but we have
.the interest of the town at heart and
the anxious to see every concern m
it prosper. That they can not pros-
per without the patronage of the
people in the country we know, and
further we know that the business of
"the people In the country can not be
bad except by persistent advertising
in the local newspapers. Advertising
on bill boards is all right, dad so is
advertising on opera bouse curtains
and moving picture slides, and in col,
lege journals, and directories and
oounty, named after a former official
of the Frisco railway. The cltlxens
have n real or funded grievance at I
the Frisco, and so strong In their
resentment tout (hey want tbs name
town changed. The Inst Issue
Arrow says that when the name
Is mentioned to the traveling
public, the question Is often askc
whether it is a patent medicine or n
new disease.
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The Zephyr people have been look-
ing forward for n long time to the
day when they will have a new depot
and it now seems that they are to
have their hop3s realised shortly. The
old depot Is being removed this week
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preparatory to putting n new on?
where the old one stood. As the Bul-
letin has had frequent occasion to
say, the Santa Fe never doea things
by halves and Zephyr may therefore
expect n model little station adequate
for all needs for years to come.
are concerned. The mail order bouses . hand billa aad fences and rocks. Any
are draining the country of its cash j Mrt 0f advertising is | better tbih
and are returning not n single cent in none, but when these mediums strt>~
taxes or license, in county improve- 1 tract from the amount to be spent
ments, in good roads. In schools, with the local newspaper a grave mle-
cburcbes or anything else that goes to
make up a bJ$py prosperous com-
munity. The merchants say that they
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The Bulletin haa heard it frequent-
ly suggested within recent days that
Brownwood ought by nil means to
set apart a day for cleaning up the
cemetery. In spots the weeds have
grown tb enormous heights, and in
order that the grounds may be pre-
r
sen table, these weeds should be de-
stroyed. It will take considerable
work to put parts of the cemetery la
.Banta Anna is fortunate In having
an abundant water supply. A big
lake located /nlfb<> mountains near
town has a sufficient supply, accord-
^ ilag to the News, to Inst the town two
l,r 7 ■ years without another drop of rain.
From thla lake water is pumped to e
reservoir highersp, giving n splendid
gravity pressure, sufficient for all
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purposes. The town that haa a good
water supply Is Indeed fortunate.
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Aiioctfttw la
of the shrewd-
tbat will use eve^y legitimate
to win back the business that is be- bi!*
Ing lost to the town. the Mer- «y road In the cqUnty Is dragged. “It
chants Association devote just a lit-(Fill do go<d If the matter is
tie lees time to looking after cerditeI'***« tbe »•« dries aa it to
, toe readers of that papar through ltej«>d P*7 attention to the eaah;»ot tben p,l*bl* ■nd not n*ro‘i’1
advertising columns. And in yester-1 business that is slipping out of their!Wbere 11 la placed ^
I day’s Dally Bulletin not a' single one bands. Let them go after the matter tbe drags now the rough placet to
f of to. twenty-five or more grocer.;with the Idea of putting to. mall or-j** road, will to made vmooth. toe
In Brownwood with possibly one exJder booses out of business and much|hole', fl"od tb« m,,d and wbcn
eeption carried n line of advertising.1 food will hsve been accompllahedlor 016 ar* dry a**ln they wl" **
Is It any wonder that the mail order!the members of the association. for practically level |yom side to side.'
houses get the business, when the toe town and for the country general-|Th* Leaders ,dea win likewise apply
local grocers display so much indlf- l7« (
ference, and so little enterprise? Tha Brownwood has a strong Commer-
mail order, houses are denied toe use cial Club. Its membership embraces j***® toe roads of Brown
better.
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The Comanche Vanguard Is willing
to admit the truth, especially when
by so doing their may be a chance for
bettering conditions. The Vanguard
says “Comanche County haa the best
roads in tbe state, but they are cov-
ered about a foot deep with sand.1
take is made The newspaper la the )good .hape, but It ought to be done,
medium to use to reach the people and the sooner tbe mater is given st-
and through the medium of newspa-1 tentfcm
don’t advertise, don’t go after business,' p^-g oaly can the mall order houses
because there is no money in the
country, yet every one of those twen-.
ty-six thousand packages received on
this rural routes out of Brownwood
had to be paid for whenfoe order waa
made. If they ^averaged only fifty
cento each the total n $11,000, which
la gone to make wealthy
rich concern. In a year at this rata
Brownwood merchants will have lost
more than $150/100 worth of business
that could have been theirs if the
proper effort had beta exerted. > 7
"Wist to the remedy?
There to a Merchants
Brownwood, composed of tha
eat business men in the town. Lot
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advertising campaign tost will reach
Leads all others for WholesomeneM, Quality
and Purity, according to'a recent teat.
a
The Official Report I
Renfro’s 20.4% Butter
Fat Almost three times
as hjgh as the State Re-
quirement.
The ice, cream of other manufacturers resulted
in the following order:
18.4% Butter Fat
17.4% Butter Fat
16.6% Butter Fat
13 % Butter fat
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The above tests show that we are serving the1
best cream that can'Tie made at our fountains.
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We solicit your fountain business and or-
ders fpr home use. We deliver anywhere in the
city in any quantity.
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SpedalJFor Saturday and Sunday:
Strawberry, Chocolate and Vanilla Ice
and|Clierry Ice.
Renfro’s Drug Stores
.1 2IS Baker St ad S—Ikiri Betel BUg.
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to Brown county. What to good* for
roads in Lampasas county will like-
ly. Our Commissioners should
the matter attention at ones.
Last week the Bulletin contained an
editorial which copied a
of the columns of Ci* local paper* practically every business concern In
and they are therefore forced to re-;the town. Instead of advertising the
sort to tbe more expensive method of town far and wide and endeavoring to
issuing catalogues and mailing them locate n«Tw enterprises, its efforts
to prospective customers. But they,should be concentrated oo advertising
find it pays them handsomely. They j Brownwood aa a good trading point tion from a wholesale house to certain
go after the bwjlneee and they get it. for people In thla territory. Instead merchants in Brownwood with ret-
Too often the local merchant to con-! of’Cryfig to induce new ooncerns to Irenes to the value of advertising In
tent ttTopen hto more in the morning come to Brownwood the enterprises the local newspapers. The letter was
and If somebody comes In and buys that are already here should be en- convincing, conclusive, for It gave
well and good; if no one eouraged and teetered
! their efforts to bund
in it to the mtotortnne at the
end there the
and aided in . facts, comparing tha
up institutions tees ‘
that will he a credit to the town.
Not long ago a local industry,
with fifty-six
of theirs
who did not
In advertise and showing that the elgh-
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ende. He apparently does nof know
the value of advertising or If he does j the effort to give the people of the teen advertisers did nearly twice as
to too laxy or Indifferent to pot hto town an enterprise of which all mech business as the fifty-six who
knowledge into see.
As evidence of the tact that the
might be proud and which would ad- did np$ use the newspapers. The Bul-
verttoe Brownwood throughout this letiu has tbe names of the merchants
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receisjeg that commonteation In
Brownwood, and though It waa from
lone of the moat successful wholesale
houses in the United States, the sug-
gestion, so far as the Bulletin can
learn, has not borne fruit. A few of
the list are regular patrons of the
newspapers but others are not and
the Bulletin firm)? believes that It to
to. their own hurt that they do not
take advantage of the opportunities
them tor increasing their
business, by advertising In foe local
papers.
awui m uevy wiw muu. ■
k AGRICULTURAL LAND OPENING! I
You will not he required to leave y^or present sur-
roundings new. All we ask of those to whom we
grant tracts to that they plant, or arrange to have
planted, a crop of one of the above-mentioned pro-
ducts within three years, after which we will have It
operated (harvested and replanted) for grantees. In
consideration of 15 per cent of the net profits .de-
rived from the sale of the crops, thereby allowing
the grantee to pursue hto or her present occupation
until such time as they determine just what the
yield of their-neres amounts tc. Consider what this
may mean aa a source of Income, when statistics
show that the yield of one acre of celery amounted
tn $14*5-45, tad that one sere of wall-cared for pa-
ces t. In full bearing, should net Its owners as high
as $M0.*0 per year. We are of the opinion that aft-
er ft to proven by actual results obtained tn operat-
ing foe land that they will need no further urging,
and waste no time In locating in this land of plen-
ty. We also require grantees to occupy the land
within ten yuan, or sell It to pome one who will
occupy It; otherwise tt reverts back to the* grantor.
Tha land included la this openlag It located di-
rectly on and adjoining the 'Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic Railroad, about twenty-five miles west
of Brunswick, a thriving city if fifteen thousand,
having direct steamship service to New York and
Boston, and exoelleut railroad transportation facil-
ities to all points. The average temperature for six
mouths of the year, from April to October, to 77 de-
grees; the climate to moot healthful, delightful, and
invigorating, and there to aa ample rainfall of 51
POX HUTU ALLY BENEFICIAL
we expect to benefit thereby, oo well aa the
who will receive foe tracts.
We have also planned to develop what to
to ^e the beat equipped, moo
commercial form and orchard tot
consist of six thousand acres, and win be ^
In this opening. All who register and ruoefvu
will get the benefit of the experiments and
fie methods in vogue thereon. While we are ar-
ranging to prevent over-registration, we will avoid
many disappointments, such as occurred In other
land openings conducted by the United States Gov-
ernment and railroads, by granting those who rogfo-
ter tn excess of foe number of tracts to be gruaifoi,
an lntarest In this commercial form and orchard
enterprise, in the hope that they may later locate
In one of our town sites.
Exemfoolfoo ef the tani wfH ihimfslj ho per-
mitted. and the opening. vUl'he heid~at Brawntown!
Wayne Oounty. Georgia, one of foe f Mono of the
A. & A A. Railroad, white to located on this prop-
erty. sad will occur m soon after foe closing of
registration* aa arrsugemmta can be made.
The present of those registered will net he nec-
essary at Browntown on foe opening day,
they wish to attend, for there will ho no
sbowh anyone. It will bo Boodentad by o
tee selected for foe purpose, and
will be notified of what they have
soon aa poosibla.
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