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I UK FAIRF1KI.P FEGORDFR FAIRFIELD. TEXAS. JUNE 11. 1931.
THE COUNTY PAPER
The Fairfield Recorder
The County Paper
Texas, under Act ol March
LEE KIRGAN
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of Thanks, l cent a word
this paper.
Thursday, J
one 11. 1831.
Twice To*d Tales
Frcm The FiirfitM Recorder 25
Year* Afro.
BOOTLEG ADVERTISING
(Belton Journal!
Th> Belton Retail Merchants As-
wiation met Tuesday afternoon
i f discussing
hoot Ice adver-
ih
purpo
I
WILL THE SOUTH STILL BE
A VASSAL?
(From The Marshal! News)
There i* a growing resentment in
lie Sooth 'hat the Democratic lend
is never consider any candidate
nr the Presidency unless he lives
i the three or four wet tates cen-
■red a ouno New York. The Deni
•■on Herald puts it this way:
“In all the list of Democratic
i i evidential possibilities who have
been mentioned, not a single man
,vho is sympathetic with the booth,
r would likely give it a square
c.eal, has been named. \et this
■ the dominant Democratic section
. tid , lie. • , , .it c< tllti be elected
without if- support. ‘True ’tis pity,
but pity 'tis, ';is true.’ ”
The South has a number of men
and paintings o b* ni.u .d^ m | wh< are greater statesmen than
smith, Roosevelt or Richie. Yet
ney are not considered as presi-
dent hil possibilities by the part of
Be
the Retail Merchant
and which the adve:
te< of this organizatia
•r mvesiigtaion, beb.ev
worth the price i harged.
The membership present cundeim
eo the practici ot solicitors fore it
business men ti buy adv».itis..i
spaces on menus, school hou.-e i at
luins, bill boards, around mitioi
does i t.
ness hous< s, and othei .id
sold purely as a nu.ne
scheme, with r*o thought
advertising. Busin
value as
lie party that revolve!
around
advertise but so much a cu r-1 panl,,.any'_ Robinson of Arkan
TMIE
can
tain per cent < ! their gro :i1' • ...s is considered of great enough j
and it pointed out that i* tn a|;|„. to be the leader of his par-i
spend tin appropriation on ad-. v jn s,eni',i, and Jack Garner
v« rtising hat has no value, they j Texas is the party leader in the
get no benefit from the money thu-. ;-0Wt,,. House of Congress. Cordell
pent, and the local newspaper anil [u|] t;f Tennessee, Carter Glass of
local .ioii-ptinttng plants o ust stif- Virginia. Senator George of Geor-
fer. Thi newspaper and job print- j:l a)e Hie peers of any of the
ir.g plant; or uthei their products , t a.-'irn crowd of candidates but
i:r< considered legitimate adve-rti-ing p. South is told to stand back, that
a nd tied no endorsement by the ,,iust ha\> a candidate that can
association. j urry New York ar.d yet in 1916,
A an example of the effective- ii‘20, 1 !!24 anvl 1928 all of these
r •s-s of bootleg advertising, a solict- _ i.vailable candidates failed to carry
toi re. entl > railed o.i a merchant Empire State. Wilson, Cot
j , ,t. a e on a school curtain. I .avis and Smith all failed to carry
and being refused, told the mer- lie -tote that was said to he abso-
nant < very effort would be made, lutciy nm ary for success. The
n the particular community to turn "iection of Wilson in 1916 proved
tis trade to other stores. The mer- '.hat New York is not necessary,
hunt v ailed upon already had a Go - any one doubt f Robinson had
urge ad on th< curtain. A curtain treaded the ticket in 1928 that he
pace -eller recently called on Th would have lost Kentucky, Tenn-
fjeld Masonic Lodge held
Oja! election of officer'
last Saturday night, which resulted
us follows:
H. B. Dan . W M;1 C. Kir
ran, S. W.; E. R. Glazener, J. W.;|
S. Met own. Secretary; L. G. Saudi-;
fer, Trea- ire ; I . Johnson, Tiler. !
_
H is all ri'ht for the old timer;
i, snoi > .it th: women who are rap
dlv forging tv the front in every
1 usincs- and industry. It does no
I arm, and they can’t reconcile the
view of 10 year ago with that of
■day. Then a business woman or
a woman orator was practically un
heard of. Today you will find them
the top in literature and arts. I
the rostrum, the pulpit and in
modiv ii e. !r, this sense, you might
ay, “woman has come to slay,
and man will have to battle to j
bold his i\vn against them.
-
Old Stuff
There a>e a great many young j
’allies n the-e modern times who
deem it only necessary to have
a few parlor qualifications to fit
‘.I. i i to face the world on their
life' p utney. A pretty face an 1
giddy, giggling, girlish ways may
land the “deah hoys,” but it won't i
bold them for life. A man to make;
hi- choice will fare better to choose j
the one who can better manipulate! —
n kitchen range than a piano in | *
the parlor. j *
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— I ourtety Ilir Dalian %»»•»
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.Mr
.Ournul to sell us an ad. Being
compelled, account of our poverty .
o turn the offer down, ihe :air
solicitor informed us all of our
subscriber: in her community would
“stop their paper.” The Journal
has an ad on the curtain, hut the
solicitor had never seen it. A high-
powered grafter not so long ago
stepped in to tied die uv «i space ovi i
a nrlirror, declaring in thi <ouim
of his rernaiks that, such an ad
would increase our business at 'east
1,0 p< r cent and give us pre.-tige
in the city which we had not here-
tofore enjoyed, Il< almost convinced
Us that failure to take the space
would mean our ruin until we in-
formed him we already owned the
space he was endeavoring to peddle
us.
Thi* move of the Ritail Merch-
ants Association to put the kilr h
on all hut legitimate advertising ts
a wisi rti-ive, and will not affect any
advertising proposition with merit.
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A party of Boy Scouts had :
pleasant outing in n swimming hole
cn i ottonwood ( 'reek Friday after-
‘sic. Virginia, North Carolina,
Merida, Oklahoma and Texas? He
i ight not have carried New York
’cut neith' i did Smith. He might no!
have carried Massachusetts and
thode Island, most likely not, but
he would certainly have received
th< vote of the seven Southern
"tates that voted for Hoover,
It would look like the party could
! have learned ;• lesson from the dis-
'..ter of 1928, but Mr. Ruskob is
ii tern i"oil, if he can. to have the
party committed to liquor rcganl-
h> of the con-cqui nces. The South
furnished every electoral vote
reci ived by the Democratic candi
late in 1920, 1924 and 1928, save
hat m the 1928 election Smith car-
ried M.i .-in-in; ett - and Rhode Is-
and hut In t -even Southern
States.
Will the South he content to re-
main the va- a| of Tammany? Aft-
•r all that is said and done wc
iavc lien [Joking candidates for
12 j i ars to placate Tammany and
i amman ha - knifed every one of
hem, including one of its own
Sachems, Alfred Emanuel Smith.
I 8 -:iith had received the vote in
Those in the party wet • | Manhattan that Franklin Roosevelt
Scoutmaster J. N Vincent, Senio
Patrol Leader Roy Childs, Joe
(•havers, Joe Ed and Dickie Eu-
bank, Mack Elliott Ben Miles. John
McKi.-sack, Howard Watson, Jr.,
and George Fryer. Announcement
has been made that scout meeting
night has been chang' d from Tue -
day night until Monday night.
-o--
Never before in the history of the
Fnited State- ha- then as much
money hoarded in the hanks as
now. If the ownei - of this money
would invest and put thi: money
to work it would materially aid in
relieving the awful distress caused
by unemployment, that now pre-
vails.
----o--
did he
! ate.
would have carried
With unemployed linotype opera-
torn in practically every tow')
end city in Texa and on every
highway hunting work, high schools
and college- a-e urning out more, from auto accidents and drowning!
Two former old timers visited
Tairfield the week Murray Han-
ir, who left for San Antonio some
thirty-four years ago, and Pierre
Horner, who loft here about twenty-
live years ago. Murray operates a
large barber -hop in San Antonio,
while Pierre is a grocery nreroh-
:.nt ip. t’ov-ienna. When they moved
away they were well known and
popular young men of the town,
and the older bunch here were
delighted to meet them again.
---o--
Six people were killed in Clay
'ounty, Sunday, when a truck and
a light passenger car met on v.
bridge. All occupants of the true’:
and car were killed.
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The large number of fatuliti-’
Prairie, is visiting
C'hystal Springs, Miss.
By EDSON R. WAITE
Shawnee, Okla.
*******
Mr-. Cantrell Willard of Ward4-
is visiting relatives at *
»
*
W. T. Tyus, of Blunt, a diver Morris A Renter, advertising di-
: ifier and a very successful black-j rector of the San Diego (Califor-
i err\ grower, was here Saturday! nia) Union-Tribune, says:
with samples of berries and sue-1 “Did you ever stop to think that
coeded in
a lot of berries.
Normal at Hunt: villc,
home last week.
* MRS. STEWARD HOSTESS
* AT SLUMBER PARTY
* | __
* '
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DID YOU EVER STOP
TO THINK
Mrs. Roger Steward entertained
* group of girls at a slumber party
* Friday night. The honor guests
v Mere Margaret Coleman and Ruth
and Della Stine. The girls won'
to the band concert, then to Mrs.
Steward’s where they had much
fun. Many games were played on
placing orders for quite j n newspaper as an advertising me-1 Hie lawn and ghost stories were
ilium possesses many outstanding
dvantages?
Mi.-s Emma Richardson, who ha- “Newspaper advertising reaches
been attending the Sam Houston nearly everyone every day; almost
returned -veryone reads a newspaper. It is
i the only publication immediately! era had a good time by getting the
! associated with the life of a com-j Juris clothes and tying knots '.n
Mr.-. Mai'.ie Harrison of Dew was j munity. ; them and then hid them where they
here Tuesday. l «A newspaper contains something 'didn’t find them the next rnorn-
i 'hat everyone in the family wanlsl '*'£• About 4:00 o clock all the
R. H. Curry of Dew was in the i ,() jtnow about. It is the "greatest! F'rls went to sleep. The next more-
c’ty Wednesday. j factor in the country in moulding >ng they left declaring they had a
told- At 12:00 o’clock they had
midnight lunch consisting of chick-
<-r salad, sandwiches, punch and
delicious cake. Several girls went
to sleep after lunch, but the oth-
NOTICE
The State cf Texas, to the Sheriff
or any Constable of Freestone
County Greeting:
R. L. Williford, administrator of
the Estate of Everi* Yarbro, Ji -
leased, having filed in our County
Court his T inal Account of the con
uition of the E tate of said KveiA
Yarbro, deceased, numbered l'J
on the Probate Docket of ^ r®r
tone County, together with un ap
plication to be discharged from
aid Administration.
You are hereby commanded, that
by publication of this Writ for
twenty da.VR in a newspaper print-
'd in the County of Freestone you
give due notice to all persons in-
'crested in the Account for Final
Settlement of said Estate, to ap-
pear and contest the same if they
-eu proper so to do, on or before
he September Term 1931, of said
l ounty Court, commencing and to
t>e hidden at the Court House of
-aid County, in the town of Fair-
field, Texas, on the 1st Monday
tlie same being the 7th day in
September A. D. 1931, when said
Account and application will be
•••ted upon by -aid Court.
Given under my hand and seal
of said Court, at mv office in the
town of Fairfield, this 14th day of
May A. D. 1931.
< Seal 1 J. C. BAGGETT,
Clerk County Court Freestone
County.
By I.illard Clark, Deputy.
A True Copy, I Certify—J. R.
Sessions, Sheriff Freestone Coun-
ty. lljel
Dr. H. H. WOOLDRIDGE
DENTIST
All Work Guaranteed
Fairfield, Texas
Mrs. Miller and children are vis-
iting Mrs. Gene Campbell, at
G i eenville.
I public opinion.
| “The newspaper is the most eag
crl.v sought piece of literature go
j ing into the home. It has more in-
1 tiniacy than any other factor in
H. B. Davis*, Esq., was in Dalla- cm-s (lai)y contact.
this week on legal business. , .. .
Newspaper advertising produces
immediate action; speed dlstin-
1 guishes a newspaper’s birth, life
choid, | and function.
“Newspaper advertising tells us
where to buy; it never lets a pros-
pect get caught. If insures con-
sumers’ good-will; long sales efforts
are not required to sell the con-
■umer on a product advertised in
Mi.-s Mamie I.illurd, who has been
teaching in the Cooledge
returned home Sunday.
Carter Kirven, Jr., canipaigi
ii anager of K. Hell of Fort
Worth, has been dangerously ill at
Tort Worth but is now better.
Judge Hardy will address the
piople in the interests of hi-- can-
didacy for congress at Cotton Gin,
Friday night, June 8; at Dew,
Saturday, 2 o'clock, June 9th,
Ji,; i Bea.-ley ol Driver was here
Wednesday, and i- offering from
a -prained ankle, c • a result of the
skating link at Teague.
It is -aid there are approximately
three holders of teacher.-’ certifi-
cates for each two available
positions. Yet every two years con.
(trted effort i- made in Texas to
provide more facilities to turn out
p ore teachers at an enormous ex-
pense to the tax payers of the
state.
When we read the biographies
of the leading men in business,
.-talesman! hip, the field of educa-
tion, etc., we wonder where the
truly great would come from if the
country hoys should decide to stay
nt home.
T. C. Young's Planing Mill,
work, doors, windows, frames,
ice boxes; sharpen and repair
lawn mowers; fresh com meal
and whole wheat flour. Phone
188. 12otf
wonderful time. The girls present
vere: Margaret Coleman, Ruth and
Della Stine, Marie Tate, Carolyn
Sessions, Modene Looney, Francis
Bradley, Bennie McDonald, Aline
DeBerry, Doris Williamson, Louise
Harrison, Ora Kate Kirgan, Eliza-
beth Wood and Louise Steward. -
A Guest.
BIDS WANTED ON
REUNION PRIVILEGES
newspapers.
“Newspaper advertising is flex-i
ihle; a campaign can be started
o. er-night and can be stopped at
a moment’s notice.
“Newspaper copy can be written
to give a complete sales presenta-
tion of the product, or it can be
written with the ideu of trade name
establish ment.
“A newspaper is the closest point
ot contact to the actual sale of
merchandise; the only thing that
v ill approach it is a counter dis-
play or a window display.
“People of the United States pay
one million dollars a day to get
their newspapers.
“The only reading done by mil -
lions of people is confined to the
newspaper*.”
Women at Sweetwater are super-
sensitive. Fast week three of the
women of that city were fined for
fighting and disturbing the peace,
the trouble being caused by one
making slighting remarks about an-
other's new hat.
Freestone farmers and gardeners
lave been “digging” Irish pota-
toes the past few days. Seven'll
reported a fine yield, but little!
sale.
Privilege* and concessions for
annual Confederate reunion at
Jack’s Creek near Mcxia, July 1st
through 4th, will be let by the
committee, June 15th. Address D.
R. Gibson, Nussbaum Building,
Mexia.
Miss Estelle Mr Ilveen, teacher
in the Mcxia schools, has retuili-
cit home.
RUN DOWN and
WEAK
..... ,iM.. .
"I began tak-
ing Cardui when in
a weakened, run-down
condition,” writes Mr'.
F. S. Perrit, of Wesson,
Miss. “I took one bot-
tle, and I seemed to im-
prove so much that I
sent for six bottles. Af-
ter I had taken the six
bottles, I seemed entire-
ly well.
“Before I took Car-
dui, I was nervous, rest-
less, blue and out of
heart. I felt depressed
all the time. After I
took Cardui, all this
disappeared.
“I gave my daughter
Cardui and it helped to
relieve irregular . . .”
This mefllclnf ha* been used
by women for over 60
year*.
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............
CARDUI
Taka Thcil ford'r fflxck-Druught
far Const 1 put!wi. Indication,
and liiilo-zonchH
nnii a trade school in Dallas is
advertising for pupils with allur-
ing promises of jobs.
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Weeds and mosquitoes should not
bi permitted to thrive in this town.
One is unsightly and the other un-
sanitnry and cau.-' j illness.
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'Die tomato season opi ucd in
Fkist Texas Monday, the price be
ing 1 1-2 cent a pound.
I
in Texas should at icast aid in
relieving the unemployment situa-
tion.
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Houston takes the i ake for cold
blooded muriters and population
considered, has Chicago backed off
the board* for murders.
Deputy Sheriff Jim Wasson car-
ried two prisoners to the pen at
Huntsville, Tuesday.
Plumbing and Tin Work
Expert Workmanship in All Lines
Pipe Fitting, Valves, Septic Tanks
Sheet Metal
Ward & Sledge
Phone 247 - - Teague, Texa*
—*
You Owe it to
Y ourself—
To Buy Better Grocerie* and Save in—
Quality and Quantity
—We carry the best standard grades
of Staple and Fancy Groceries,
which assures you the highest
quality and correct quantity and
also a low price. ▼
Market Service
—In this Department you find the
best fresh Meats, Sausage, Cheese
and Lunch Meats .... and an ex-
perienced meat cutter in charge.
A Call to Our Store Brings
the Meats and Groceries
PHONE 137 FOR FREE DELIVERY
Sanitary Grocery & Market
F. H. WATSON, Proprietor
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1931, newspaper, June 11, 1931; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1106341/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.