Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1941 Page: 12 of 16
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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1941
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Aeeoeiation
The Dairy Day Show
Had the StephenviUe vicinity and Krath
county not been gaining rapid recogni-
tion as an increasingly progressive dairy
center, the official Dairy Day Show of
the Texas Extension Service. District 7,
would not be held here next Tuesday.
Since this is u growing dairy center,
however, one of the two Dairy Day ex-
hibitions to be held officially in this dis-
trict during the current year has been
located here and will add further to the
prestige of StephenviUe and surrounding
area as one of the leading dairy produc-
ing sections of the State.
Every merchant, as well as other citi-
zens, dairymen and farmers, owes it to
himself and those who lire backing the
show here to attend this exhibition at the
StephenviUe City Park next Tuesday. The
chief reason for this perspnal obligation
on the part of each local business and
professional man is thnt the dairy indus-
try. either directly or indirectly, affects
every citizen in StephenviUe and Erath
county.
Progress could not be made tiere if far-
mers depended completely upon peanuts.
Taken as a whole, the county could not
sustain its farm population if grains were
the only sources of cash.
But such is not the case. Erath county,
for many years now, has followed a well-
balanced program of agricultural diver-
sification. We not only raise cotton, corn,
peanuts and grain crops, but we also
have a large number of dairy cows, many
ranches stocked with beef cattle, poultry
and private farms with large flocks of
well-bred chickens and turkeys, and an
increasing number of sheep, goats and
hogs. We have all of these in addition to
the recognized cash crops.
Out of these separate industries, the
dairy industry perhaps is the greatest. A
large volume of milk and cream is sold
to StephenviUe. Dublin nnd other markets
of the county each week, in addition to
smaller sales of butter and other by-pro-
ducts of milk. There are many dairy farms
in the county, and to a large extent, the
welfare of these, along with those of the
farmer with one or more cows from which
he is selling milk or cream, goes hand in
hand with the welfare of the county as
a whole.
For the consumer must have money
with which to make purchases from the
merchants in StephenviUe, Dublin or
other towns of Erath county. And the
dairy industry has grown in this area
until it provides, for a large number of
families, the chief source of income with
which to make these purchases.
It is, therefore, an obligation on the
part of each merchant to take an interest
in the Dairy Day Show here Tuesday.
StephenviUe business and professional
men have shown they are willing to co-
operate by donating cash prizes in ad-
dition to ribbons for animals placed in
the better of several classes to be judged,
Two dairymen, Joe Hancock & Sons of
StephenviUe and Tom Hughes of Dublin,
are assisting in promoting interest in the
event by offering a registered Jersey
bull calf each as individual judging
prizes;
But business and professional men can
do more than contribute to the awards.
They can visit the show during the day.
ThiB they should do, not only as a means
of co-operating further in making the ex-
hibition a success but also because they
owe it to themselves to see the cause for
the source of income to which many of
their own sales are due.
B,
All-Out Aid For Cotton
' ETWEEN May 16 and 25. the organi-
zed merchandisers of this country are to
undertake one of the biggest and mose ef-
fective promotional campaigns in Ameri-
can retail history on behalf of a basic
crop—cotton.
National Cotton Week isn’t an ordinary
occasion. Cotton is the underlying factor
in the economies of many states. Upon
cotton, millions of American families are
dependent for their livelihood. Conditions
in the cotton market mean good times or
bad for armies of workers empoyed in
picking, handling, processing and .other-
wise dealing with cotton.
Today cotton is a distressed crop. The
great foreign markets are gone, swept
away by war. The long established gov-
ernment cotton control program has l>een
only a partial success. The crop this year
will be large, and the ordinary’ domestic
demand wil be unable to absorb it. What
this all adds up to is plain: More cotton
and cotton products must be used by
American consumers this year if the
great cotton belt is to be saved from dis-
aster.
The Cotton Wook drive will call for
varied and attention - compelling window
displays, newspaper and radio advertis-
ing, word-of-mouth promotion by em-
ployees, etc. The theme of the week will
be, For America, Buy Cottons.” and noth-
ing will be left undone that can contri-
bute to such a campaign’s success.
Cotton Week will offer the consumer
numerous good buys. Cotton is one of the
most useful and least expensive of pro-
ducts. Most of us can profitably use more
cotton than we do. During Cotton Week,
we will be shown how to help an Ameri-
can product which is the dominant eco-
nomic factor in the lives of a high per-
centage of our population.
Cotton Week will tie in with Spring
Dollar Days in StephenviUe and real bar-
gains will be offered in cotton goods, as
well as other lines, during those days.
Upward Price Trend
T
I O millions of consumers, the current
cost of living indexes are making unset-
tling reading. The price trend is definitely
upward. That doesn’t mean we are in the
midst of a great inflationary boom, and
should at once spt’nd all the money we
can lay our hands on, bbying against the
future. It does mean that the dislocations
which inevitably result from a war abroad
and a multi-million dollar super-defense
drive at home, are making the welfare of
the consumer a'definite problem. Especial-
ly is this true in the lower wage classes.
No one act or policy can solve that pro-
blem. But there is one possible and easy
policy which could be applied tomorrow—
and which would go a long way in stem-
ming the upward price t^end. That policy
is to at once remove every artificial bar-
rier against merchandising efficiency and
economy.
The so-called fair-trade laws, which are
in effect in a majority of the states, fall
into the anti-consumer group. The news-
paper PM recently carried on an investi-
gation in which it compared prices of
manufactured goods in New York, where
there is a fair-trade law, with the prices
of identical goods in states where fair-
trade laws have not been adopted. In ev-
ery instance, prices in New York were
substantially higher.
These are but examples. There are
scores of state laws which all work to the
same end—higher prices. With costs ris-
ing as an inescapable result of war and
the defense boom, such laws should be
promptly consigned to oblivion. £
One Form of Sabotage
T
1 HE Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Record
recently published a letter written home
by a young man who had been taken into
the army under the selective service act.
He said: “We give up a year of our lives,
the comforts of homes, and countless
other things for barracks, hard work and
duty from sun-up to sun-down. We do
our part and do it harder than anyone
at home, and yet its the people at home
who are doing the kicking and squawk-
ing.
/‘They kick about wages and squeal
about hours, strike, threaten to strike,
tie up machinery, nnd there you are . . .
The people wanted soldiers—millions of
them. Yet every day it’s becoming appar-
ent that many of these same people think
more of a few cents an hour than they do
of their own children and relatives.”
It is interesting to know what the young
men who are serving their country in the
army for less than a dollar a day think
of the highest paid workmen in the world
who threaten to block defense production
unless they are paid still more. How much
longer will the American people stand
for this form of sabotage?
State traffic deaths have soared to 185.
a 20 per cent increase for the last three
months, and some of us are worrying over
the possible threat of air raid tolls.—St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Cotton Textile Institute knows that bus-
iness is better in this country because
there has been a heavy increase in de-
mand for overalls and work clothes. There
should also have been a heavy increase
in the demand for strike suits.—Arkansas
Gazette.
It now appears that the big mistake of
the last decade was the failure to disbe-
lieve Hitler.—Kansas City Times.
HEALTH ADVICE
Austin, Texas, May 16.—The
approach of summer weather fore-
shadows greater prevalence of in-
testinal disorders, according to
morbidity reporta reaching the
State Health Department “Infanta
are most susceptible to the co-
called ‘summer complaint’ (di-
arrhea and enteritis), but older
persons are also affected, the aged
being more likely to contract the
disease,” states Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
Stute Health Officer.
“Symptoms of diarrhea and en-
teritis usually appear suddenly, ac-
companied by fever and severe di-
arrhea due to indentation of the
bowel (enteritis). The patient suf-
fers depletion of bodily fluids, and
the bowel discharges often contain
blood and mucus. Convulsions and
coma frequently precede fatal
cases, particularly in the infan-
tile type of summer diarrhea."
Vital statistics records of the
State Department of Health dis-
tinguish between fatalities from di-
arrhea and enteritis occurring un-
der two years of age and those
occurring among persons over two
years of age. Death records filed
in the Vital Statistics Bureau for
1940 show that 1,972 infants un-
der two years of age died of di-
arrhea and enteritis, and 663 per-
sons over two years of age were
victims of this disease.
Diarrhea and enteritis as a rule
is contracted by use of contamin-
ated food products or contact with
a. patient or carrier. Dysentery
bacilli (germs) are often found
through laboratory examination of
intestinal discharges. Laboratory
studies further demonstrate that
many patients suffering from
symptoms similar to diarrhea and
enteritis in reality have contract-
ed bacillary dysentery. This infec-
tious disease is very similar to
typhoid fever in its methods of
spread and contraction.
Prevention of diarrhea and en-
teritis is dependent upon public
health control measures, chiefly:
(1) Safeguarded food, milk, and
water supplies; (2) improvements
in sanitation, methods of excreta
disposal, and fly control; (3) scrup-
ulous personal cleanliness on the
part of all those who prepare and
serve food; (4) careful attention
to matters of infant care and home
hygiene.
IN TEXAS TOWNS
Lamar County Echo—An order
for a $200,000 county-wide bond
election was issued by the com-
missioners court in a called ses-
sion held last Saturday afternoon.
Date for the election was set for
Saturday, June 7. More than 700
Lamar County citizens had sign-
ed petitions asking for the elec-
tion. In the event the bond issue
is approved by two-thirds vote of
those participating in the election
(he funds will be used to sponsor
WPA road projects in the county.
The Federal government will grant
about $400,000 to add to this fund,
it was said.
Kerrville Mountain Sun—Bids
for the actual construction work
on the new $25,000 athletic stad-
ium will be received and opened
in the office of the superintend-
ent at Tivy High School May 16.
The first section of work consist-
ing of excavation, filling and build-
ing parking space and roadways
is rapidly nearing completion, and
little time is expected to be lost
in getting the other work under
way.
Foard County News—The Pub-
lic Construction Co. of Denton was
awarded the contract for topping
18.6 miles on U. S. Highway No.
70 from 4.2 miles east of the Foard
County line at a recent meeting
of the State Highway Commission.
At the same time low bids were
nnnouncol on nearly $200,000 worth
of highway construction and re-
pair in North Texas in connection
with a $2,000,000 program over
the State.
Menard Messenger—More than
500 persons gathered at the Gram-
mar School last night for the dedi-
cation of the new $100,000 addi-
tion to the Menard School System,
a complete new grammar school
for Menard. Every seat in the au-
ditorium was filled as citizens as-
sembled to witness the dedication
of the new building. At the close
of the program, Jamie Callan,
speaking for the school board, paid
tribute to Superintendent Parker
for the fine work he had accom-
plished in the construction of the
building, and presented him with
a handsome Waltham watch, en-
graved with their appreciation. A
watch will also be presented to W.
M. Johnson, construction superin-
tendent, for the safe and quick
way in which work was handled,
Cleburne Times-Review — Presi-
dent Roosevelt has approved the
WPA project in the amount of
$20,691 to improve Cleburne City
Park, according to a telegram re-
ceived here from State Senator
Tom Connally. The project includes
construction of a club building,
roads, walks, drives, tennis courts,
water, sewer and gas lines, in-
stalling plumbling and electric fa-
cilities, excavating, grading, sod-
ding, landscraping, planting trees
and shrubs nnd performing appur-
tenant and incidental work.
Hood County Tablet—The State
Highway Department Tuesday an-
nounced low bidders on the West
end of No. 377 from Granbury to
Tolar as follows: Hood County—
Grading, drainage structures, flex-
able base and asphalt surface treat-
ment, on U. S. Highway 377, from
the west city limits of Tolar to
the west <Mty limits of Granbury,
to M. E. Ruby and Wallace A Bow-
lin, Austin for $157,696.
Women Bowlers Hold Tournament
Thesa champion bowlers will defend their titles when the Women’s
International Bowling Congress opens Its annual tournament In Los
Angeles on May U. Mrs, Tesa Morris (left) Is all-events champion and
shares the doubles crown with Mrs. Dorothy B. Miller (center), while
Mrs. Sally Twyford (right). Is national singles titleholder.
Thirty-Two and Twenty Years Ago
***#*#•##*
In STEPHENVILLE and ERATH COUNTY
32 YEARS AGO
(Files of Empire May 14, 1909)
Dr. M. Thompson, a student of
the Fort Worth Medical School, is
now at home. ... Clark and Joel
Murray, Jim Bowers, W. B. Guth-
rie and C. A. Hunt were in Thur-
ber Friday. . . . Prof. Lee Snider is
at home this week, having closed
a very successful school at Scar-
brough.—Huckabay News.
I. A. Allard of Bluff Dale was
in town Monday.
A telegram yesterday from
Amarillo, where the convention
of Federated Women’s Clubs of
first district, is in session,
brought the news that Mrs. Lee
Young of this city had been
elected vice-president. This is
regarded as a distinguished hon-
or as the district takes in all the ,
State west of and including Fort
Worth. The honor is appreciat-
ed all the more by Mrs. Young’s
friends here because the selec-
tion was made when she was
not in attendance at the conven-
tion. Mrs. Polk Orr is the dele-
gate at Amarillo from this city.
Mrs< Marshall Ferguson is a
visitor at the meeting and has
favored the convention at inter-
vals with musical selections.
W. B. Moser has located in Jack
County.
We invite you to call at the
Farmers National bank. It is a
pleasant place and we want you to.
come here and make your self at
home. There’s a cool room and a
warm welcome. Capital $50,000—
Surplus $12,60(k—W. H. Frey, pres-
ident; Carl C. Hardin, cashier. Adv.
Several hundred citizens from
different parts of the county
met in the city hall Monday to
discuss the advisability of the
the public roads. Recommenda-
tions of the committee that the
county issuing bonds to improve
Commissioners’ Court be re-
quested to order an election to
determine whether or not bonds
amounting to $400,000 should be
issued, were adopted.
Miss Ethel Neil of Walnut
Springs is visiting Mrs. Hickman.
Mrs. Bert Watson was in Fort
Worth Tuesday.
Prof. W. G. Sears of Duffau
will go to Purves as public school
principal next term. Prof. A. C.
Johnson will go to Morgan Mill
in that capacity.
Fred Hale is off for a two weeks
vacation, during which he will visit
his mother, Mrs. M. A. Hale near
Gordon.
Mrs. I. A. Griffith of Abilene has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. W.
L. Griffith.
Tarleton commencement,
im is as follows: Gradu-'
The
program ________________
ating recital by the expression
department tomorrow evening at
8:30 in the chapel. Commence-
ment sermon at the Baptist
Church Sunday at 11 a. m. by
Dr. C. B. Williams of Waco. Ex-
pression contest Monday at 10
a. m. Art Reception Monday at
4:30 to 6:30 p. m. Expression
Recital Monday at 8:30 p. m.
Senior class exercises Tuesday
at 10 a. m. Baccalaureate ad-
dress. Presentation of diplomas,
Tuesday at 8:30 p. m., by Chas.
S. Potts of Austin.
Worth Salsbury has gone to Fort
Worth to take a job with the Wells
Fargo Express Co.
A. C. Wood of Tolar, was here
Saturday.
J. S. Brumley of Abilene, fath-
er of Mrs. R. T. Hulne, was here
this week on a visit to relatives.
Ed Starr, J. B. Hancock and J. I.
Poe were here from StephenviUe
Wednesday to attend a meeting
of the Masonic lodge. . . . Mrs.
J. M. Relsner has returned to
Fort Worth after spending sev-
eral days In Thurher as the gnest
of her brother. Will Stanton. Mr.
Relsner is an old Thurberite who
was employed at the machine
shop several years ago.—Thur-
ber News.
20 YEARS AGO
(Files of Tribune May 20, 1921)
T. B. Reese of Fort Worth, was
here on May 18 visiting Jack Wells
and other friends.
Miss Helen Jenks, after spend-
ing a delightful vacation in Ste-
phenville, will return to Wichita,
Kansas on Monday or Tuesday.
Cotton all over Erath County
is in fine growing condition, and
the stands are exceptionally
good.
Miss Annie Laurie Davis of Dal-
las is visiting her brother, Clem
Davis in this city.
Joe Fitzgerald began market-
ing his early blackberry crop this
past week.
Farmers are getting along
nicely with their crops. Some
are now chopping their cotton
and prospects are good in this
section for a good corn crop and
cotton crop. . . Farmers are
needing rain badly on grain at
present.—Clairette News.
Sam Arendell and wife return-
ed to their home in Frederick,
Oklahoma, Thursday after an ex-
tended visit here with relatives.
Clyde McDaniel had his left
wrist badly lacerated one day this
week when he accidentally rammed
his hand thorugh the glass door
of a kitchen cabinet.
C. M. Edmiston of Hamilton
has this week located in Ste-
phenville and will enter the life
insurance business. Mr. Edmis-
ton was one of most prominent
young business men of Hamil-
ton for several years going back
there to take charge of the office
of the Jordan-Spencer Lumber
Co., soon after getting out of
the army in 1919. Mrs. Edmis-
ton will be remembered in Ste-
phenville as the former Miss Lei-
la Chambers.
Miss Beryl Roquemore, the mu-
sic teacher here, returned to her
home at Morgan Mill Sunday.—
Lingleville News.
Clyde Willis was here last week
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Willis, after which he return-
ed to Boston. The young man is
in the navy, and his ship is the
North Dakota, now at Boston.
Young Willis’ vessel was in the
great naval parade near Norfolk,
which recently was reviewed by
President Harding.
W. H. Funk was here this week
on business. He left Stephen-
ville 23 years ago and is now
located at Alpine, county site of
Brewster County.
News of the appointment of
Mrs. J. Collin George of Browns-
ville, as a member of the board
of regents of A. & M. College,
was received with much pleasure
by the people of StephenviUe. Mrs.
George was reared in Hamilton, as
was also her husband. Soon after
their marriage they came to make
their home in StephenviUe, where
they lived for some time.
Rev. Ross of the Round Grove
community, preached the dedica-
tion sermon at this church last
Sunday.—Bays News.
Tarleton College orchestra ac-
cepted an invitation to play Sun-
day evening at J. Frank Norris’
church, the First Baptist, in Fort
Worth, and will leave for there
Sunday morning. D. G. Hunewell
is leader of the orchestra and
the following are members who
will respond tor the invitation:
M. L. Latham, Mrs. Ren Basset,
Kate Ballentine, Willson Davis,
8. F\ Davis, Trimble Boyett,
Vernon Head, Guy Hukel, Lucile
Neblett, Clyde Ator, Eleanor
Martin, Edith Britton. Louise
Shelton, Leaffa Randle. Mrs.
Swan Richardson and l^oti
Clark.
J.W. Clark’n Works
SERV’AL — ODD JOBS
1003 W. Pecan or Box 231
Oet your reservation now. Work
subject to change with weather.
Noland G. Williams
Attorney-at-Law
StephenviUe State Bank Bldg.
Phone 603 StephenviUe
SAY IT WITH FLO WEBS
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TEN mu BBUABLB SERVICE
ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENT.
Personal Attmtlan Giron All Oltol.
QUICK DELI VERT FHONB 141
DR. H. HAMPTON
OPTOMETRIST
Complete Optical Service
East Side of Square
Out of Town Mondays
JOHN M. WATTS
Life — Automobile — Fire
INSURANCE — LOANS
Ladies Store Bldg. Phone 186
DR. /. C. WILSON
CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC
Landreaa Bnildlnr (Dawn, tat re) (
Acreea Street from Bazler’e Stadia
Resident. Waat Frcj Street
PHONE It*
II Yean la tha Mad teal Prof aaa Ion.
Dr. J. S. Nutt
DENTIST — X-RAY
Office Over A. A P. Store
StephenvUle, Texas
Office Phone 423. Bes. Phone 419
Dr. J. C. Terrell
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
StephenviUe Hospital
Telephone 11
Dr. J. A. Whitacre
DENTIST — X-RAY
Office Over Service Drag Store
West Side Square
DR. H. H. COX
CHIROPRACTOR
Residence Office: 506 North
Lillian Avenue
Just west of John Tarleton Ath-
letic Field (or Hays Field)
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. East and
children, Malcom and Wanda of
Necessity, spent several days with
Mrs. East’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. N. Wallace. They returned to
their home Wednesday.
Dr. J. J. Mulloy
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office Over Service Drug Store
Office Phone 28. Bes. Phone 69
Office Honrs: 8-12 a.m., 2-6 p.m.
T. M. Gordon, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office S. Graham St. Opposite Olay
Lbr. Co. Bee. A Office Phone 74
Dr. A. E. Lankford
LANKFORD CLINIC and
MATERNITY HOME
185 East Long Street
Phone 207
Dr. A. O. Cragrwall
Olce Ph. 213. Besidence Ph. 299
StephenvUle, Texas
Complete X-Ray Equipment
Nifty Flower Shop
Highest Quality Flowers
Distinctive Arrangements for
All Occasions.
REASONABLE PRICES.
PHONE 488
Gatcsville Messenger—Contracts
have already been signed and plans
are well under way for Gatesville’s
1941 Rodeo and Pioneer Celebra-
tion to be held June 4, 6, 6 and 7.
Everett E. Colborn will be here
with his New York stock. From
all indications the Gatesville 1941
Rodeo will be the biggest and best
in its five year history. The pureo
for the cowboys has been increaa-
ed which will bring1 the top rank-
ing boys. Also a nice cash pui
will be offered to cowgirls Ir
Flag Race and many other
and added features.
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