The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER
FRIDAY, SEPT. 25. 1914.
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Eleven large oil storage
tanks were struck light-
ning at Port Arthur, Texas,
early Sunday morning and de-
stroyed by fire.
The Houston Chronicle
says: “Better ‘grape-juice’
statesmanship with honorable
peace than war with its un-
speakable horrors.”
Two assault cases by
gres in Dallas in one day,
ne-
on
white women, one woman be-
ing so badly injured that her
death is expected.
The call session of the
Legislature has come to . a
close and the third call ses-
sion has convened to consider
the enactment of a State Bank
Law. The proposition of the
State entering the banking
field is one too weighty for
the editor of the Recorder to
pass judgment on with a clear
understanding qjjjvhat the re-
sult would be. If it can be
shown that a State Bank will
be of any benefit to the public
at large, naturally we would
favor it. Yet we would hesi-
tate before passing judgment,
as the benefits are doubtful,
and the creation of the pro-
posed bank means the diver-
sion of the State public school
fund and the creation of many
political jobs.
Congressman McKellear, of
Tennessee, has introduced a
bill in Congress authorizing
the Gojiycnuniijt to buy and
hold cotton in sufficient quan-
tities to maintain a price of io
cents.
Otto Koehler, a millionaire
brewer, has let the contract
for a $10,000 fence around his
residence in San Antonio. It
is to be built of iron and con-
crete and is to be decorated
with electric lights. It will
be the most elaborate fence in
the South.
Without a good corps of lo-
cal writers it is impossible for
a plaper to give all the county
nf ws. The Recorder is essen-j The Simmons Hardware
tic Jly a “county paper,’’ and Co., of St. Louis, has an-
The war revenue bill in
which this Government will
secure a revenue of $100,000,-
000, is now in shape for con-
sideration by Congress Lots
of its features will be the same
as the war bill during the
Spanish-Americau war. Many
legal documents will be taxed,
gasoline will carry 2c per gal-
lon, tobaccos and liquors will
carry an extra tax, as will
shows and many places of
amusement.
Southern Congressmen are
urging the Government to
make a loan of $500,000,000
direct to farmers at the rate of
$35 per bale. This is believed
will be of actual benefit, and
Congressman Henry suggests
that the loans be made either
through banks or the post of-
fices.
in brder to keep it thus we
in (st furnish the county news.
W ill you not help us by fur-
nishing us'with the live locals
from your neighborhood? We
will furnish stamps and sta-
tionery.
nounced that its agents will
buy 2000 bales of cotton in
Oklahoma, on the “buy a
bale” plan. This movement
is rapidly spreading in the
Northern money centers and
is resulting in strengthening
the price of the staple.
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Make this Bank
YOUR Bank
Our accommodations, conveniences and
cordial personal service will make
you feel at home with us.
Join Our Army of Depositors
The Proposed Plan
to Tax *Cotton
Open an account today and
watch it grow.
The First State Bank
OF TEAGUE
E. J. (Rome) Headlee, President.
Jim R. Chumney, Active Vice President.
I. B. Tkaweek, Vice President.
Howard P. Guntor, Cashier.
Luther W. Adamson, Asst. Cashier.'
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The Dallas News, in com-
menting on the proposed tax
on cotton production by Con-
gress, to curtail production, in
part, says:
"It is other phages of this en-
terprise of statesmanship that
better deserve our consideration.
It involves, for example, some
problems of rather practical
kind, the solution of which is
not at lpast self evident. To ac-
complish a reduction of the cot-
ton crop next year, compared
with that of this, by means of
taxation, either the actual prod-
uct must be taxed in ascending
scale to a maximum which will
achieve confiscation, or the acre-
age must be subjected to a simi-
lar tax. In either case it would
be a mulct put on labor, or, if it
accomplish its purpose, a penal-
ty visited on whomsoever, in
planting cotton, should have the
temerity to question the infalli-
bility of an omniscient Congress,
if the actual product is to be
taxed, we should be^assured
either of tod"much or too little
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cotton; too much if humble
planters should incline to defy
the ukase of Congress, and too
little if they should be terrorized
by its threat. For in the one
case they would put in a greater
acreage than that made lawful
by statute, and in the other they
would, out of abundant fear of
the penalty, put in less, so that
the only hope of escaping at
once a superabundance and a
scarcity would be in the chance
either that Congress had miscal-
culated the quantity of cotton
needed, or that the weather and
pests, intervening, had saved
the growers from the penalties
prescribed for their contumacy.
“If the other method, that of
taxing acreage above a pre-
scribed lawful maximum, shall
be adopted, then it would become
necessary, we should think, to
determine what was each plant-
er’s acreage in cotton this year.
For that information the tax
agents, police and other minions
of the ' Federal Government
would have to rely pretty much,
if not wholly, on the testimony
of each individual planter him-
self, in which event the acreage
put to cotton next year would be
determined, after all, and de- |
spite the Government’s paternal
and minatory admonition, by the
farmers themselves, who by
right and reason ought to be al-
lowed to determine. The con-
straint which such a law would
exercise over the farmers would
not be much greater than the
obedience which the farmers
might be disposed to yield to it;
which, of course, is equivalent
to saying that we should have a
statute that, though not orna-
mental, would nevertheless be
more ornamental than useful.
- “Congress may have all the
authority which these gentlemen
have discovered, even more.
Nevertheless, it is an authority
which it ought not to attempt to
exercise, nor even be tempted to
exercise, both because it involves
a pernicious and vicious princi
pie and because it would com
mit the government to a project
that is impracticable. If farmers
can not be moved hy considera-
tions of their own welfare to re-
Hay to Exchange
For Cotton
Teague Chamber of Coin-
merce is in receipt of the fol-
lowing, which they send us
for publication:
Houston, Sept. 15, 1914.
The South Texas Haymak-
ers Association proposes to
furnish, either to farmers or
dealers in northeast and west
Texas, hay on the following
comlkiens;
We will furnish No. 1 and
better prairie hay at $5.50 per
ton, f. o. b., loading points,
and accept cotton at 10c per
pound, middling basis, in pay-
ment for hay. The average
car of bay is worth about $50,
but in case of differences in
price of the bale of cotton and
that of the car of hay, the
party receiving the greater
value shall reimburse the oth-
er party for the difference.
South Texas Haymakers
Association
Per O. B. Acton.
The man above, others
that is dear to the heart of an
editor, is the one who takes
the trouble to stop him occas-
ionally and tell him a local
news item. The editor has no
way of finding out who is vis-
iting in your homefor where
your family may be visiting
unless he is told. Some peo-
ple wonder why the editor
fails to mention certain items
of local news. The reason is
plain—he" doesn’t know it.
No editor will omit a news
item for any other reason.
We pay rent on two phones
for the convenience of the
public in transacting business
with the paper, and for the
public to send in news items.
Call the office or residence.
Sheriff Burleson returned
Monday from Thornton with a
negro named Gaffney wanted
here for killing another negro
near Winkler several months
a
ago.
The Recorder wpuld urge that
our correspondents send us the
local news from their neighbor-
hoods. It is impossible to make
a county paper a success with-
out the co-operation of the coun-
try correspondent.
Stenographer Tom Watkins
is in Groesbeck this week taking
testimony iq the big anti trust
suit. His place here is supplied
by a stenographer from Hous
ton.
The Magic Washing Stick.
The Magic Washing Stick is not soap,
nor is it a washing powder, but a very
paculiar article which makes dirty
clothes clean and snowy white without
a bit of rubbing, thus doing away with
the hard work on washday. Washes
colored clothes without fading, wolens
without shrinking or hardening, and
for lace and lnce curtain* ie is simply
fine. Quartnteed perfectly harmless
strict next year’s production of VLum Johnson, the negro who
cotton to something like the ^a8 ahot by another negro, _
probable requirements, then
they will not be saved from eco-
nomic suicide by an act of Con-
gress.
Skin Disease Cured.
YoUr
your money
Hn&VfW#siU L"
oney if Hunt s Cure fails to
to return
cure
disease. rc~ItoF Eczema, Tetter
other forms of skin
for pile*, oW sore*,
fails ta cure. Give
Children
and can lie used with perfect safety on
the most delicate fabric. Price 10c
per Magic Stick or three for 35c. If
dealer can’t supply send stamps or
money order to A B Richards Co.,
Sherman, Texas. •
McGhee, several weeks ago at a
celebration near Teague, died a
few days ago on Edwards'
Ranch.
Fine full blood Duroc-Jersey
shuttle fur o«le. Apply to or
write G. B. Connell, 2i miles
north of Teagns. pllsSt.
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Cash Talk or Hard Time
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Friday
Democr
„ Red FeathfcP, best Mo., soft wheat flour, per sk $1.85
Pheasant, second grade flour, a good one* per sk $1.2fij
Cotton, seed meal, per sack..................... .$1.65
Corn meal, best cream mea', per s^ck ............ .HD
Sugaiy with $5 order or more, 14 pounds.........$l.tk)
Bacon, per pound and up____".................’ .17
Coffee, something good, per pound 15, 19 and 22 cebts
Graham flour, fresh stock, per sack.............. (.45
Domino flour, hard wheat, specially
, - for lightbread, per sack.......$1.35
Wheat, per sack of two bushels..................$2.50
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Our Flour price is just $1 per barrel under pres-
ent quotations. Above prices will last until the
present stock, which is one car of 670 sacks, is
sold. Remember that this is the Isgst cheap flour
you will see this fall.
Nothing charged to anyone at above prices. We
have a complete stock and will not be undersold
by anyone and it will be to your interest to get
our prices before you buy.
For Congress
Rufus I
For Flptorial
R. L. NA
For District l
James I
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For County A
Lex Sm
For County C
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For Tax-Colle
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For Tax Asset
Jim Me
For Sheriff
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For District C
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1914, newspaper, September 25, 1914; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109922/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.