The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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The Fairfield Recorder
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921.
Entered hi second-class matter at
the postoffice at Fairfield, Texas, un-
der act of March 3, 1879.
After being
per business
. THAT CITY STUFF.
I City newspapers and moving
! picture films are becoming fill-
ed with sensational sex stuff.
The reason is simple. The av-
| erage city mind runs in that di-
rectipn and demands what it
wants.
The city newspaper that ca-
in the newspa-
in Freestone
Countv over 20 years, Ed Sat-jters niostl-v to the popular de-
terwhite has sold the Wortham ma"d sets the circulation, and
Journal, and we are informed • c^cuiation gets^the advertising
will move to Dallas. It is with^an(^
genuine regret that we see Mr.
Satterwhite quit Freestone
supplies the
County. He has at all times
commanded the respect and
friendship of his fellow
itors, and he has constantly
stood for the things tended
to make# this County a better
place to live. Our well wishes
go with him. The new editor
of the Journal, T. C. Spark-
man, hails from Bardwell,
and we extend him the good
hand of fellowship. His life
long regret is going to be that
he did not move to God-blessed
Freestone County sooner, and
will deem the years spent
elsewhere, as so much mis-
spent time.
advertising
dividends.
The same thing applies to
the movies.
A good, healthy,
elevating
ed-1 picture will draw a few peo-
ple, but a sensational sex or
murder film will fill the house.
Moving picture men are after
the money, and they employ
the means that they know will
produce it.
Country districts have not,, . ....
become so badly tainted withl11?1*1 Prom,s“.mUch to the pe°-
modernism. The people arejP'» I lor public measures must
more in the open, are oftener! n°*s,“n<! upon thcir menta’
If this unemployment in the
towns and cities keeps up it
will have at least one notable
effeett—we won’t have to do
so much howling over the
scarcity of farm labor as wo
have the past two or three
years, when our former farm
laborers, white and black,
were opposed to working on
the farm for fear they would
injure their $15 and $20 silk
shirts.
The opportunity that was
knocking at your door didn’t
respond when you warbled
“come in.” It expected you to
go out and grab it
For sale
‘ goete. W.
Prect. 7,’
TWO PRESIDENTS.
On the day that George
Washington, completipg his
eight years of service in the
White House, gave way to his
successor, The Auora, then onj
of the leading papers of Phila-
delphia, said:
“The man who is the source
of all the misfortunes of out
country is this day reduced to
the level with his fellow-citi-
zens, is no longer possessed, of
power to multiply evils upon
the United States If ever there
was a period for rejoicing, this
is the moment. Every heart in
union with freedom and happi-
ness of the people ought to
beat high with exultation that
the name of Washington from
this day ceases to give currency
td political iniquity and to le-
galize corruption. A new era is
now opening upon us, an era
The world champion Cleve-
land base ball team, now
training in Dallas, will play
exhibition game at Hubbard
City, the home of the Man-
ager, Tris Speaker, on March
16. All the star players who
participated in the world
champion games will take part
in the Hubbard City game.
Efforts are being made to get
up a special train to leave
Teague for Hubbard City at
9:30 a. m. returning at close of
game, Mr. Speaker has prom-
ised to come to Teague on
the following day with one or
more of his stars and appear
on the local diamond in uni-
form.
Some of our prominent fin-
anciers are advocating the
making of another huge loan
xo European governments. We
haven’t any objection to such
a course provided the said fin-
aniers make the loans from
their own private fortunes and
leave the government’s funds
and other people’s money safe-
ly in this country. An objection
we might voice, is that all the
money floating around in this
country is badly needed to as-
sist the publishers of country
newspapers in meeting the en-
ormous bills the paper hogs
are still running up on the
country weeklies
in communion with nature, and
breathe more freely of the pur-
ity of life away from the dens
of vice and iniquity.
That is the situation today,
but who can tell as to the mor-
row?
It depends upon the mental
and moral training of our young
people.
The ideas we instill in to the
minds of little children will
have much to do with the bent
of their mentality when they
reach the age of maturity.
If we implant in their minds
a healthy respect for the teach-
ings of Christianity and a de-
votion ot the cause of right and
justice, of purity in thought
and action, they may escape the
wave of viciousness that is
sweeping the adult world.
But our hope for a better fu-.
ture rests with the children of
today.
When we want to teach a
dog tricks we begin when he is
young. ,
The human race is not so far
removed from the brute crea-
tion but what the same rule
will apply.
Don’t get the mistaken idea
that you know it all You never
know what your neighbor real-
ly thinks of you.
Ellis Fogleman, the boy who
escaped from jail last week,
was turned over to the ol
by his father, and was placed
back in jail.'
For sale, fall blood Brown
Leghorn eggs.Ul.OO for 15. H.
T. Cannon, F>i|rfield. Ilm3tp
YOU AND YOUR TOWN.
Your town boosts you. Why
not do as well by the town as
it does by you?
No citizen is so powerful,
none so humble, but what the
town is an aid to him in some
way or other.
The food that he eats, the
clothes that he wears, the rec-
reation and amusement that he
enjoys, all originate in the
town, because the money with
which they are procured is
made there.
When a fellow boosts his
own town he does not stop
there. He is performing an act
that improves his own condi-
tion, for every good word and
every good deed has its elevat-
ing influence.
A few people are always
home town boosters. They ac-
complish much in the way of
community betterment, and
this improves the condition of
not only themselves, but also of
those who do no boosting at
all.
If every citizen would consti-
tute himself or herself a home
town booster the result collect-
ively would be many times as
great, and opportunities far
more numerous.
Think it over in your odd
moments.
Then get in to the boost wa-
gon and hit the pace.
or trade, 40
Craig, Con-
Streetman.
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A
and nefarious projects can no
longer be supported by a name.
“When a retrospect is taken
of the Washington administra-
tion for eight years, it is a sub-
ject of great astonishment that
a single individual could have
cankered the principles of re-
publicanism on an enlightened
people, and should have carried
on designs against the public
liberty so far as to have put in
jeopardy its very existence.”
If you buF’Hwnge the name
of Washington to Wilson this
is a perfect replica of the ut-
terances of many of the news-
papers of the present day, some
of them) we regret to say, false-
ly representing themselves as
Democratic
The criticism of Wilson is not
less unjust and unwarranted
than was that of Washington,
though, utterly broken in
health by the strain of his pub-
lic service, he may, like Wash-
ington, not live long enough
to receive justice at the hands
of those who now join the clam-
or of denunciation of him.
But he will live in history
long after those who now assail
him are forgotten. His admin-
istration has not been without
faults. He himself has not been
free of errors. But these will
count nothing against his ulti-
mate rank as one of the coun-
try’s greatest Presidents.—New
Orleans States.
See our flpur before buying.
We edrry as- good a flour as
can-be made. Prices right. San-
itary Grocery Co.^7jC
We wiH buy* your old fur-
niture and stoves or make
them like, new for. you. Walk-
er, Teague. # 2t
TRY THE OTHER TACK.
Don’t talk pessimism. It puts
similar ideas Into the minds of
other people, and such ideas
create doubt and uncertainty
and hamper the ordinary pro-
gress of commercial activity
and expansion.
If you can’t see anything
good in the future get some
other fellow to do your looking
for you until you can adjust
yourself to conditions and ac-
quire a better perspective of
affairs in general.
If a man goes out in the
morning and fells every person
he meets that he is sick, and
keeps up the fiction from day
to day it wiil grow on him until
he is really unfit for business.
It is so in the business world.
If you want to create disaster
go out and preach it until oth-
er people begin to take stock
in what you say and to see
things as you do. Then you will
soon have disaster—at least for
yourself ,
But if you want better times
go out and preach them, and
put the joy-of confidence into
other hears as well as into your
own. The response will be just
as great.
Be a sport, and act the part.
RAT EXTERMINATION
CAMPAIGN
LIVE BUSINESS
• MEN IN
FAIRFIELD
BIDS WANTED.
The Commissioners’ Court in-
vites bids up to 10 o’clock a. m.,
March 14, 1921, for the fol-
lowing property belonging to
Freestone County:
About 100 folding seats
About 100 pieces 1x4-9 lum-
ber.
About 100 pieces 1x12-8
lumber.
Lot of 2x4 lumber.
One house 14x24.
One house 14x20.
One shed about 14x20.
One new vault door.
3 old vault doors.
4 seats about 6 feet long.
One courthouse clock
bell.
One pigeon-hole filing case
wood.
Two large safes.
Six old doors (fancy), large.
5 good heavy doors.
Court reserves right to re-
ject any or all bids.
S, W. Robinson,
4m2t County Judge.
and
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Phone 137 for
and ’quick service.
Grocery Co. ^
A*?
good eats
Sanitary
MEETING OF LIVE-
STOCK ASSOCIATION
Get our Motor-Kator and
paint your own cap—ifcjs^frfte
pie. 2t
dope! Walker,
Leave your films with os for
developing and printing. San-
itary Grocery Oo. ^
Will soon have sorghum and
can? seed. Get my prices be-
fore you buy, Fairfield Gro-
cery Co.
The Freestone County Live*-
stock Association met last
Saturday and elected officers
for the ensuing year as fol-
lows:
A. P. Carter, Pres.
W. W. Steward, Vice-Pres.
E. M. Watson, Sec.-Treas.
Executive Committee:
C. M. Middleton, No. 11
J. M. Boatman, No. 2.
J. C. Evans No. 3.
Carter Sessions, No. 4.
J. S. Ivy, at large.
Motion carried that tick in-
spectors be asked to notify
people of the different com-
munities to meet them on cer-
tain days designated b y
them to clean and re-fill dip-
ping vats.
r
We hgve over 160 regular
customers using evchisively
O. W. flour- A great many
having quit higher priced
flopr for this brand. All we'ask
is ta try one sack, or ask soma-
one who has used it- Fairfield
Grocery Co. \s
For sale—Five
line* two acres of l
to soil. A.- P. MiV»
Market and Restaurant
Short Orders at Low Prices.
Fresh, Tender Beef Deliv-
ered from 8 to 11 a. m. and
4 to 6 p. m. 20c to 25c per
pound.
BOB SCOTT
The Ral Extermination com-
mittee of the Teague Chamber
of Commerce held a meeting
with County Superintendent
Hood Wednesday afternoon
and laid out the following
plans for the County cam-
paign to begin March 30, and
close April 3rd.
First prize of $15.00, sec-
ond priize of $10.00 and a
third prize of $5.00 will be
awarded to three schools of
not more than three teachers
collecting the largest number
of rat tails during the cam-
paign. All schools of the Coun-
ty of one, two or three teach-
ers are included in this class,
and may participate for the
prizes. Schools of four teach-
ers or more are planning to
adopt such means as they see
fit, these being in towns where
the situation can be taken care
of locally.
Three prizes of $10.00,
$5.00 and $2.50 will be award-
ed to the three individual
school students in the County,
collecting the largest number
respectively of rat tails. This
Is for the benefit of any stu-
dent of any school in Free,
stone County.
A Grand Prize of $25.00
will be awarded to any one of
the 43 soheiqJ=district8 *n the
County collecting the largest
number of rat tails, including
both independent and common
school districts.
No student will be restrict-
ed to any territory, all that is
required beng the d e 1 iv-
ery of the rht tails t o
his teacher. In each school
the teachers will be in charge
of the campaign, and will re-
port to the County Superin-
tendent not later than April
4th. Be prompt.
Remember, the campaign
begins March 20th and closes
April 3rd, and all reports
must be mailed to the County
Superintendent not later than
April 4th.
The awards will be made by
the Committee as soon as pos-
sible after all reports are in
and tabulated.
Slogan: Everybody kill a
rat.
The business men of a town
are judged by the columns of
the local newspaper. The bus-
iness men of Fairfield, through
their use of the local paper in
offering inducements to the
trade to come here, have not
only made a reputation for
this town as a good trading
point, at home, but their
“fame” has gone abroad. Read
What our neighbor paper, The
Oakwood Oracle, has to say:
“Whether the business men
like to admit it or not, a great
deal of country trade that
could come to Oakwood goes
to Fairfield and Buffalo. We
have no fault to find with the
merchants of those towns—
in fact, rather feel like com-
plimenting them upon the good
business knack that enables
them to go after trade in the
right way. There is something
wrong when a town as small
as Buffalo can take our trade
away from us. As for Fairfield,
we can say that it has the
livest set of business men we
ever saw in a town that size,
which is only about half the
size of Oakwood, with bank
deposits of just about half as
much.”
It- is a^ pleasure to sell a sack
of W. Q. W, flour, for We kdow
it-pleases everybody who eats
it.’ Try a. sack. Fairfield Gro-
cery Co. ~7
Food for Energy
Cod-liver oil ener-
gizes and creates a
buttress of strength
that fortifies the
whole body.
scorn
EMULSION
is cod-liver oil in its
best possible form.
If winter is claim-
ing its toll upon
your vitality, take
Scott's Emulsion.
ScoUtBwm.Bln n—fMf.N.J.
-—ALSO MAKERS OF-
KiNOlDS
(Tablets or Granolas)
™ INDIGESTION
eo-w*k
Sun
sion
woi
Kodaks, all sizes, for sale
and rent, also carry full line
of .Eastman films. Sanitary
Grocery Ce. JsF.
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FEED
All- kinds of cheap priced
feed on hand. Fairfield Gro-
cery Co. 'y °
If You Save
Success Will Inevitably Follow.
“Waste Not, Want Not.” No Truer
Words Were Ever Penned. By Sav-
ing Less than You Earn, When Op-
portunity for Profitable Investment
Comes You WiH be Ready to Take
Advantage.
Start a Savings Account With Us.
This Will Aid You in Practicing
Saving and Thrift.
Fairfield State Bank
Fairfield, Texas.
OFFICERS: T. J. Hall, PrasMaatt C. H. Wat-
•on. Viaa-Prasidant; F. E. Hill, Jr., Caahiar.
DIRECTORS! F. E. Hill,
H. Walton, T. J. Hall, F. E. 1
Sr., H. J. Canon, C.
H1U, Jr.
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1921, newspaper, March 11, 1921; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109328/m1/2/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.