Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1928 Page: 3 of 10
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THE STEPHENVILLE TRIBUNE, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
IT I S O U R P U R P O S E
HRST—To protect our depositors. SECOND—To serve this community. THIRD—To promote financial prosperity. FOURTH—To offer our people
‘ sound and safe institution in which to dposit their surplus funds.
SAFETY, SERVICE AND DEPENDABILITY
GOOD TOWN
GOOD BANK
GOOD COUNTY
THE STEPHENVILLE STATE BANK
J. W. MOSS, President
L. W. Phillips, Cashier
JNO. M. WATTS, Asst. Cashier
IURCH OF CHRIST
undred fourteen at prayer
nesday night. Intermediate
lead the service this yeek
choruses, dialogues, scrip-
ies and Bible lessons. Next
ay, April 25, the young
ill tell the gripping stories
ok of Judges. Dean Cox is
unday at 10:30, “The Dt-
i Personality of the Holy
John 15:26; and at night,
ul, Jonathan and David.”
f Samuel.
school, 9:45; Bible talk,
nmunion, 11:30. All Sun-
ing services always close
m., Young People’s train-
tudy hour.
m., Worship and Bible
ay, 4 p. m., Ladies’ Bible
r.
day nights every member
irch from the youngest to
t are given public parts,
f our services ever begin
late or close a minute late.
Iways depend on it. Never
rowd or a dull service at
;h.—We never miss a ser-
l West, Minister.
irson Bus Lines
SCHEDULES
ephenville for Fort Worth
10 :46 am. 4 00 p.m., 7 :00 p.m.
For Brownwood
M.. 10:46 A. M.. 7:00 P.M.
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SERVICE
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♦ A LOOK BEHIND AND A ♦
♦ VISION AHEAD ♦
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♦ By Ross R. Wolfe ♦
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Some one has wisely said that
you can best judge the future by
the past. To predict the future of
Stephenville and Erath county by
comparison with the past might
not be difficult except that we could
not do justice to the future. The
Texas of the past has been a coun-
try of virgin territory peopled by
Indians and those hardy pioneers
who have cleared away forests,
built homes and made the country
to blossom as the rose.
When our forefathers settled in
Erath county they found a wonder-
ful fertile soil with sufficient rain-
fall to produce from one acre 40
bushels of corn or a bale of cotton.
Erath county reached its greatest
population in 1906. The farms have
gone down in fertility and since
that date and the population of
our county has been on the decline.
We have now reached the turning
point in this condition of affairs.
The fertility of our farms is the
basic wealth of our county. We
have learned to keep our soil from
washing and eroding by terracing.
We have learned to rebuild o.ur soil
by planting legumes, by using our
animal and poultry manures and
by crop rotation. A great many
farms are becoming more produc-
tive each year.
We have learned that it pays
every farmer to equip and take the
time to have a flock of chickens, a
drove of turkeys, and a few good
milk cows. We have also found
that it pays to raise our own meat
and lard. We have learned to can
up enough meat and vegetables
with our steam pressure cookers to
take care of our needs, in fact we
are learning that when we raise
most of our living at home that we
do not have to sell very much to
prosper.
Stephenville is a thriving city of
five thousand population and com-
mands a trading radius of many
miles around. It is located on one
of the most important highways in
Texas, Highway No. 10. Good dirt
roads connect us with Hamilton on
the south to the Bankhead High-
way on the north. John Tarleton
College, the largest junior college
in the woj^d- w4th our public school
system, jgiven StephenvjJljg one of.
the best educational systems to be
found infthis part of Texas. Steph-
enville hfts plenty natural gas, and
abundanc^ of good water, and is
served by one of the big power
companies of Texas. Stephenville
has 2% miles of brick paved
streets, beautiful homes, infact it
is a modern, up to date little city
always pushing forward to the ac-
complishment of bettering its con-
dition. «
Can you visualize the future by
an imagination picture of Stephen-
ville and Erath county ten years
from today? I am predicting that
Erath county’s rural population
will increase from year to year
from now on. That poultry and
livestock, of the better type, with
rejuvenated farms, will bring
wealth to the farmer and stock-
man, that every main highway in
the county will be hard surfaced,
that rural high schools will assist
our present high schools in serving
every child in the county, that het-
ter homes with modern conveni-
ences will spring up over the coun-
ty, that Stephenville will double in
population, and Tarleton College
will have the largest enrollment of
any State institution in Texas.
Dreams do not of themselves
make forecasts come true but
honest effort and endeavor can'
make Erath county an independent
little empire, peopled with happy,
prosperous and contented people,
who will enjoy all the comforts and
many luxuries of life in this great
State of Texas.
; Us Before You Sell Your Cattle and
Hogs
WE WILL BUY YOUR EGGS
and chred meats, complete assortment of lunch
[potato chips, pickles, olives, dressings and ev-
(g for picnics and dutch lunches.
FANCY GROCERIES
“OUR AIM IS TO PLEASE YOU”
JESS FULBRIGHT& SON
MARKET AND GROCERY
PHONES 78-4
Blit RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
ONE$ 78-W3
MERCHANTS At
SALESBOOKS
50c per dozen
5c each
Books with printed
headings
Ask for Prices
STEPHENVILLE
TRIBUNE
Phone 198
Stephenville
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
MAKES TOWNS INTO CITIES
FORMER MORGAN MILL
TEACHER INQUIRES ABOUT
PUPILS OF OTHER DAYS
Editor Weekly Paper, Stephen-
ville, Texas. Dear sir: Some 37 or
38 years ago, I taught' a winter
term of school in Erath county,
near Morgan Mill postoffice. I was
then 20 years of age. I am writing
this letter for publication in your
paper if you will be so kind, in
order to see just how many of those
who attended that school are yet
living who are taking your paper,
or who may read or hear of this
letter. I will say that I should
very much appreciate a letter from
any or all of those former pupils
yet living.
I had a very large attendance at
the school, some seventy pupils if
I remember correctly, and at the
close of school we gave an “ex-
hibition” which was attended by
people for many miles around, com-
ing in buggies, wagons, horseback,
etc. The crowd was so large that
the sleepers in the floor broke
through.
I regret to state that of the pat-
rons of the school, I can remember
only the names of a few. I recall
the Ashworth’s with whom I board-
ed, the Gordons, the Cantrell's,'Bb-
gie, and that is all.
After the close-of-school -irrthe'
spring, I went to Bluff Dale where
my sister, Mrs. Jasper Davis resid-
ed. I stayed with her a few months
and went to school at Bluff Dale for
awhile. I remember the firm of
Lauderdale and Greenwood there,
also Dr. Holt. Attending the school
were two young ladies, Misses Ida
Holt and Lota Gordon and a very
bright pupil, a young man by the
name of Chandler, I think.
The following autumn, I returned
to Arkansas, and have been here in
the newspaper business at Waldron
for fourteen years.
I believe that this letter will
prove interesting to at least a few
of your older readers, and I shall
very much appreciate its publica-
tion, and if yours is not a weekly
paper, and there is no weekly pub-
lished in your town then a daily
will be just as good.
Thanking you in advance, I am
yours very kindly, J. B. Cox, Editor
Advance Reporter, Waldron, Ark.
Large volumes of trade is what
makes large cities. The Chamber
of Commerce and trade getting as-
sociations are all ready to work for
more business. One of the things
that will make Stephenville larger
is the market that they now have
for whole milk and sweet cream.
This makes it profitable for the
cow owners to increase their herds.
When they get more money all of
the community benefits thereby.
All of this seems elementary and
it is. We have noticed that the
dairy countries are more prosper-
ous. There are some very perti-
nent reasons why they are pros-
perous. First, there is an all-year
round payroll, and this payroll is a
very profitable one. It means that
the producer has something to keep
himself busy at all of the time. He
soon falls to studying his cows and
gets more interested in higher
quality cows—they are the ones
that pay a profit. The raising and
caring for high grade stock makes
for better citizens. Pride of own-
eitship, pride in oiyning record-
breaking cows soon "builds more
and more interest.
No markets, or low markets and
unprofitable agriculture made Bol-
shevik Russia. The reverse in Ste-
phenville trade territory makes for
a happy, striving, ambitious, high-
type of citizens, and these are em-
pire builders.
Norway and Sweden were once
impoverished countries. The dairy
industry brought them out. It made
them the richest countries, pet-
capita, on the globe. The right de-
velopment here will make the same
conditions for Stephenville and
Erath county.
Second. And -what is very im-
portant for the city development is
the fact that four times as many
families can live in a given com-
munity and do dairying, as there
is under the present system of
farming. Dairying is an intensive
form of agriculture. Lots of farms
near Stephenville can be divided
into five, and a far more prosper-
ous family live on each one than
now resides on the present large
farms' with low production PM
scattered endeavors. Dairying,
poultry raising and hog raising
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♦ POLITICAL ♦
i . Announcements • t
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Subject to action of the Demo- ♦
will easily make Stephenville four
times its present size. There three
are kindred interests. They must
be developed hand in hand, and
how can they grow on low markets.
With coming of the whole milk
market comes the prices based on
quality. This is the merit method,
and the one that will win.
We feel that Stephenville will
soon see a remarkable growth in
dairying, and diversified farming
of a higher type. The city will
show a corresponding growth as a
very natural consequence.
Claude—Mains have been com-
pleted at Claude for natural gas.
GROCER’S AD COST 2 PERCENT
“If you don’t tell ’em, you can’t
sell ’em."
That was the advice to the
National Retail Grocers’ associa-
tion of Fred W. Anderson, whose
merchandise store at Cozard, Neb.,
a town of 1,200, does an annual
business of $300,000.
“Every groceryman should spend
at least 2 per cent of his gross
receipts during the year for adver-
tising,” hp said. “It is so powerful
that it can change my breakfast,
my automobile, o rmy place and
and manner of living.”
Lampasas—J. R. Key, a director
of the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce, has offered to pay all
expenses of the boy or girl repre-
senting this city in the annual “My
Home Town Contest" at Fort
Worth.
Weatherford—The Weatherford
Chamber of Commerce is offering"
a scholarship to the Texas Busi-
ness College, Weatherford, in the
“My Home Town Contest” of the
West Texas Chamber of Commerce.
Memphis — A new telephone
switchboard is expected to be in
operation here by July 1.
MELON GROWERS’ MEETING
£ .—
Melon growers of the county who
want to join the local marketing
asocia'tion are requested to meet at
the court house Saturday week,
April 21, and at that time be ready
to sign up. Those who do not sign
up and go thru the season with the
season with the association cannot
hope to be received later on in the
season. Memberships are solicited,
but must be willing to come in and
stay in until the close of the season.
—Committee.
EVEN RICE HURT
GIRL’S STOMACH
“I had indigestion so bad I was
afraid to cat even rice. Adlerika has
done me so much good that now I
eat anything.”—Ardenia Howard.
Adlerika relieves stomach . gas
and sourness in TEN minutes. Act-
ing on BOTH upper and lower bow-
el, it removes old waste matter you
never thought was in your system.
Let Adlerika give your stomach
and bowels a REAL cleansing and
see how much better you will feel.
It will surprise you!—Service Drug
Store and Cross Drug Store. 2
Fort Stockton.—A modern brick
business building is under construc-
tion here by Tom Talley.
Lamesa—'The South Plains dis-
trict convention of the WTCC will
meet here May 10.
Subject to action of the Di
cratic Primary. July 28, 1928:
FOR STATE SENATOR:
CARL C. HARDIN
FRED K. STROOP
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
W. T. GRAVES (re-election)
D. C. GLENN
FOR DISTRICT JUDGE:
J. B. KEITH (Re-Election).
SAM M. RUSSELL
J. T. RAN8POT
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY:
E. L. PITTS.
FRED C. CHANDLER.
FOR DISTRICT CLERK: 4
J. L. (JIM) SAUNDERS, (Re- 4
election). ■ 4
Miss belle hollingsworth4
FOR COUNTY CLERK: 4
GEORGE B. MALONEY (Re- 4
election), 4
FOR SHERIFF: 4
WILL H. YOUNG. , 4
ROSS PEARCY. ■*
ABE OXFORD ■*
HARVE KEITH 4
M. B. (Mont) THOMAS 4
W. W. LANCASTER 4
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY:
B. E. COOK (Re-Election).
ERNEST W. BELCHER.
FOR TAX ASSESSOR:
J. A. FLANARY.
ira p. Forsyth.
COLEMAN D. NICHOLS.
ROY GF.REN.
WALTER L. ADAMS
FOR COUNTY TREASURER:
MRS. GRANVILLE FAGAN
(Re-election)
FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
J. F. WHISENANT (Re-election)^
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
MISS BLANCHE PITTMAN
FOR TAX COLLECTOR:
FRED WINN (Re-election)
FOR COMMISSIONER. Prec. 1:
H. R. (RICE) ROBERTS.
A. T. ALLISON
W. W. PAYNE
C. C. (Claud) Hi
J. Q.-<fcl^.) la:
OR COMMISSION
AILEY
,NE
FOR COMMISSIONER, Prec. I:
HUME D. ANDERSON.
FOR COMMISSIONER. Prec. 4:
JODIE B. GAITHER.
G. W. STEWART.
T. E. (Tom) WILLIAMS
J. D. MILLER
M. P. WALKER
FOR CON8TABLE, Prec. No. 1:
VERNON C. PURVIS
RAMIE A. HICKEY
JESS N. BROOKS.
J. H. ELLIOTT
FOR JUSTICE PEACE. Proe. 11
F. S. WHITE
FOR CONSTABLE PREC. No. 7
W. t. KELLY
W. E. KINO
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have made a sale.
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of DIANA
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known as
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Just received. Lots of light and combinations in straps,
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Stephenville Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1928, newspaper, April 20, 1928; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1120595/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.