The Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 23, 1922 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHAMPION
R. M. Gilmore, Publisher.
Subscription, per year.. $1.50
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Judge John B. Burns
well as Mr. Dillon and Mr. Taylor,
combined
being of
METZ SAYS
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Will
Farmers State Bank
Remedy on a guar-
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Center, Texas
OF FRIENDLY CO-OPERATION CONSTITUTES
THE CHIEF AIMS OF THIS INSTITUTION. /
WE BELIEVE IN THIS COMMUNITY; WE HAVE FAITH
IN THE FARMER, THE MERCHANT, THE WAGE EARNER,
AND WE ARE WILLING TO BACK UP OUR FAITH WITH
THE FULLEST MEASURE OF CO-OPERATION AND SER-
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VICE THAT A BANK CAN OFFER.
Entered at the postoffice at Center,
Texas as second-class mail matter.
of the roads.
matter with Engineer
Superintendent Carroll
Taylor.
Among things that
All communications should be ad-
dressed and remittances made to The
Champion, Center, Texas.
of land, has
In Center.
lore
it.
■R. C. Owens.
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METZ M’F’G. COMPANY
TINNERS AND PLUMBERS
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k Community-wide Policy
Center,
FOR SALE: Que
five room housejo;
Goes at bargain.-^
23-30c
whether
wrong, is worth
QUR FEET.
/Blue Star for all
i as hard or soft
reaty feet or ecze-
id all skin diseases,
ezema, Ringworm,
Sores and Sores on
>‘t stain you clothes
pleasant odor,—J. C. Rog-
Died at His Home This City Wednesday, August 16
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and a correct answer required if it
takes the whole tefm.—R. T. Milner*
in Rusk County News. 1
WEAVER/
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TO AID Y<
We recommend
American republic is signally neg- foot trouble, sucj
corns, bunions, s1
of this page, how many can tell ma of the\eet; a?
what the Bill of Rights is? Next fall such as Itch, E
when our schools open this questionPoison Oak, Old .
should be given to each and every stu- children,
dent in school wh| is able to read, and has a
and a correct answer required if it ers.
fashioned variety, and a
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Polley Hotel Bufldii
Nacogdoches, j Capable Barbers, Modeflh E
Hot and Cold Batl
Center, Texas
You rPatronage Solicited
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people visited instead of <
when there were real kitchens where 1 and "guidance of
Building Material11
When in the market , for building material let
us bid on your bill. We are in position to
save you money on .Composition Roofing,
Heart Cedar Shingles, Trime, Cement, Wire
and Nails, Doors and Windows, Wall Paper,
Brick, Gravel and Sand, Beaver Board, Metal
Ceiling, Galvanized Shingles, Corrugated
Iron, and many other ifems used in building.
Also manufacturers agents for School Desks
and Supplies, and the famous Berloy Steel
Filing Equipment.
Remember we still handle the famous
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domestic labratories where the con-
tents of paper bags and tin cans are
converted into hasty family meals.
In fact, the little gift left on our
desk, typifies, we believe, that which
Miss Margie Neal has sought to ex-
press in her “Stranger Teas.”
Texas has a strong membership in Womanhood.
Just this word of advice to those
who seem to have the habit of visit-
ing the church while religious ser-
vices are in progress for other pur-
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Light
Crust Flour
and all kinds of Groceries and Feed. Call us
fresh fruits now in season; and,
as an extra-dessert treat, serve
Kellogg’s with fresh fruit and
plenty of cream!
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are sold
only in the RED and. GREEN
package bearing the signature of
W. K. Kellogg, originator of Corn
Flakes. None are genuine with-
out it!
<£*45.
Mr. Boog-Scott, chairman of the ■
Livestock Sanitary Commision who
was in the ’city last week said he
could tell a great deal about the citi-
zenship of a county by the effort
it put into tick eradication. Some
counties have a great deal of trouble.
Vats -{ire.^blown up and the law vio-
lated which makes prosecution neces-
sary. Other counties take up the
work with determination and elimi-
nate their ticks within a year or so.
Where the commission experiences
difficulties the counties have a long
and expensive proposition on their
hands. Where the proper spirit of
co-operation is manifested the tax
*'Say—would you look at that Barney beating it
home with two big packages of Kellogg’s Corn k
Flakes! Betcha, Bill, that Barney is trainin’ on \
Kellogg’s and we better get him on our team,
all right! Gee, maybe he ain’t runnin’ some
speedy. Bet he is a record-smashin’ boy—eh?"
Such appetizing,nourishing food
, for the hotdays— /
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f CORN FLAKES
theyre so easy to digest!
Cut down on heavy food! You’ll feel a lot
better and get away from that drowsy, sluggish
feeling. Eat lighter foods. Kellogg’s Corn
Flakes are ideal, for they are not only delicious in
flavor and appetizing crispness, but nourish and.
sustain! Kellogg’s digest easily and rest the
stomach and help keep your head clear and your
body cool.
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are wonderful with th^
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Little O’Bryan Ross, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Ross, recently suffer-
ed the accident of getting his arm , Center, Texas,
broken. It is said of him that he
4tood the pain of setting the limb
without shedding a tear or otherwise
complaining.
people that want
meetings.
We want at this time to contribute
our small mite in helping you carry
on the good vzork you are doing and
enclose Teh Dollars for you.
Our wishes for you an?, the good
people are, that you may all live to
ripe old age carying on the good
Faithfully yours,
THE KLV KLUX
CENTER.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 13.—Ed-
ward Kuttner, aged 51, manager of
the Kempner theatre here and well
known in theatrical circles in the
south, died today as the result of
hemorrhage, while fishing in a lake
near here. The attack, it is declared,
was brought on by excitement when
' * * " , He was
stricken while in a boat and died be-
what is the Bill of Rights?” Pro- fore he could be taken to a nearby
found silence reigned over that au- clubhouse.
dience. Not one could tell him what
it meant. We might conclude that
our study of government in this free
year, that is to January 1, 1923, that
the state highway department would
take over the highways and keep
them in order at no expense to the
county.
Those having the upkeep of the
highways in charge feljojtod over
the expressions of the •^^’ineers,
since they have had to economize on
funds and this has been an unusally I sion states the records will show
hard year on roads on account of so 1
much heavy rains and much of the > properiyi
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of rebuilding the shoulders to the and aU dip all their cattle, that
road. The highways have been' they wiU withdraw from the county
^^j^^usands and thousands of and which win mean that cattle can^
dollars to the county in this short no,fc be shippe(j from the county with-
time and their value grows each day. I Qut and jnspection and the inspection
The inspectors will return here with- j wdj haVe to----+1.^. tiff-
in a few months and no doubt some
effort will be made to have the two
places that were washed off during
the recent spring floods replated with
gravel. Except these two places the monGy loaned
4 ^r-rrr^ ttc* ill GT1 "f” O 1 . 1
go through the winter, provided of j January iong before he can get mon-
course, 1
and this will have to be done sone-
way else they will go to pieces.
from any form of
as Itch, Eczema,
rm, Dandruff, Old
Don’t be misled about your Plumbing fix-
tures and Sewer. He knows how it’s done
and if it don’t stand up he will b/rhere to
correct it=-don’t that sound re^tfnable ?
After spending some fifty thous-
and dollars getting the cattle dipping
project under way, as the Optimist
sees it, Shelby county would make a
great mistake to abandon the work
| just now. If we quit now, we de-
stroy all future market for our sur-
INSPECT pius cattle by reason of the quaran-
us,
engineers, representing the and it would result in the loss of a
our Lord and Savior.
As a reminder to all the people
that we stand for all that is good,
and everlastingly believing in uphold-
ing the constitution of the United
States of America; seperation of
church and State; Free speech; Free
Public Schools; White Supremacy,
| and for the protection of our pure
come from them ;v that
I they will be in no hurry about, the
matter. In the meantime many citi-
zens have large sums of money in-
vested in cattle. The banks have
J on cattle and the small
highways are in good condition to ' i,orrower> who has to have money in
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that the dragging is continued 1 ^y on crGpj win that next
j i gpring he cannot borrow money on a
cow or cows as has been the custom
in the past, if the county is under a
quarantine.
These are matters that all should
think about before it is too late. This
writer has no further interest in the
mater than for the good of the citi-
zens of the county and is merely
sounding this note of warning now
that those who are handling the mat-
ter may be reminded of the danger
that confront them in case they cease
dipping at this time. As we under-
stand it, if the dipping is continued
for the remainder of this season, that
much of the county will be released
and will not have to dip except oc-
casionally in the future. That part
payer has but a minimum expense to
pay. The people of Nacogdoches
county are in the midst of freeing
the county of ticks and thus far have
displayed a very good spirit in the
matter. A few people are found
who are not whole hearteedly enter-
ing into the work. Such are handi-
capping their communities and should
be made to see the matter in a dif-
ferent light.—Redland Herald.
a
work.
KNIGHTS OF
KLAN, CENTER, TEXAS.
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. | CAREFUL, YOU FISHERMEN OF
WHAT IS THE BILL OF RIGHTS?
Not long since a prominent lawyer
of Eastern Texas went out one day to
address the plain people. He had an
audience that filled the house to its
fullest capacity. . His subject was
the Bill of Rights. In order to have
a good start he propounded the ques-
tion as follows: “Is there any one,
male or female, in this large and in-, Mr. Kuttner landed a fish,
telligent audience who can tell me sL—1—
CENTER KU KLUX KLAN VISIT
SARDIS CHURCH.
The following communication has
been furnished this paper with re-
quest to publish:
Center, Texas, August 17, 1922.
To Rev. S. C. Irvin, Shelbyville, Tex-
as. Dear Sir:—We as members of
, 'the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan of
day this week, some anonymous do- i Center Klan No. 70 desire at this
ner left a vase of flowers of an old time to express to - you and all the
homely jar' good people of the community
era! years, me county nas <urea.uy , relish, home made and sealed with wherever you hold services, our' sin-
spent at least fifty thousand dollars wax, “like grandma used to make.” ' cere and lasting thanks for the ever-
' the program and a representative was something so “old timey,” I lasting good that you are all doing,
of the Live Stock Sanitary Commis- smacking of the days “when neigh-! for We fully believe as you do that
i states that the records will show bors was as dear as a relation,” when • nothing worth while can be accom-
not over 75 per cent of the cattle
— „ iprupcixy, or regularly, dipped. They
expense of the upkeep has been that gay Uldess tbe law is enforced and all
. The quick-
finished with it, the quick-
er it will be off our hands.
Regardless of the fact
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formed the road superintendent, as anything or is not worth anything,
well as Mr. Dillon and Mr. Taylor,1 tbe prorgam> being of a combined
that if the county could finance the gtate and natiOnal affair, makes it
matter of $100 per mile for another comprjsory and the time will come,
if not now, in the near future, when
the requirements will be stricter and
the penalty heavier.
This, county has been dipping—
some dipping and some not—for sev-
eral years. The county has already
A!j» makers of KELLOGG’S KRUMBLES and KELLOGG’S. BRAN, cooked and krumMeJ
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Equipment,
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county latter part of last week. They preserve our outside market privi-
drove leisurely over all the mileage of lege, and have healthier, better cat-
the county, making a thorough log tie as well.—Tenaha Optimist,
of the roads as they found them. | "■
Just what their written report will the CATTLE DIPPING QUESTION
be they did not indicate, but they. Right now the cattle dipping pro-
did express pleasure at the condition posjtion is receiving more or less at-
of the roads. They discussed the tention in this county. The question
Dillon, Road is not aiOne in this county but in all
and Judge of the East Texas counties.. The
, but one of
It is just now getting
The trouble-
some things that are confronting the
her Historical Association the object.
of which is to preservve to posterity
the historical treasures of this com-
monwealth. But more precious than
flags that lead her armies, or guns p*og~g than th^ w°rship of our Master,
that shot her enemies, is the spirit of we thklk it would be better that you
that people who made “southern hos- stay at home and not disturb the good
pitalty” a tradition. people that want to attend these
If Miss Neal, even though it be
within the bumble environs of Car-
thage, has started something which
may lead to the preservation of that
spirit of kindliness, of neighborliness
and hospitality that has encouraged
the stranger to make Texas his per-;
manent abode, she will have done
more for her native state than could
ever be accomplished by the combin-
ed efforts of historical associations,
or chambers of commerce.—Carthage ,
Register.
SENTIMENT
During the editor’s absence one
Don’t fail to see about any kind of Henry Gryder Bari
fund your money.—J. 0. ROGERS^ property you want ^ear the Normal
School Building
Everything I have i^ow for sale at a
milk—Allen Fou7 'Tenaha,“£ bargain.—Zeno Cox, Nacogdoches
2. 16-23p. Texas. 2-3 lc
HIGHWAY ENGINEERS 1
ROAD.S IN COUNTY. I tine that would operate against
up-keep department of the state and considerable sum of money to farm-
federal highway commissions, visti- ers of the country each year, while
ed and inspected the highways of this with it a short while longer we can
county latter part of last week. They
Texas
j matter is not a new one,
they wanted nation-wide. I'. ’
to know of the road superintendent to us in its last form,
was how much per mile has been ex-
pended on the highways for this fis- citizens of Shelby county now have
cal year, and where they secured the confronted other sections as the mat-
money. Mr. Carroll furnished the ter of destroying the tick has closed
information and the amount figured' up. So, we are not alone in the
to something like $135.00 per mile matter. But it might be timely to
expended as upkeep for a year. The 1 say here that in the other places the
money used is secured from the auto-' matter has been put over and it will
mobile license fund and rebate mon- have to be put over here,
ey received for over charge on freight we are 1
rates, which came from the highway
fund. The engineers approved this j
method of securing the funds and in- Hipping is right
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I of the county where the dipping, for
any reason, has not been carried on,
will have to dip until the territory
is cleaned, but in the meantime they
can sell their cattle and ship them
under certain conditions.
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^•^feTOP ti|at itching.
If you suffei
skin disease sue
Tetter, Ringw
Sores or Sores on children, or any
other skin diaga a we will sell you a
jar of Blue St:
antee that if not satisfied we will re-
calling, ■ plished in this world without the help
aproned mothers presided instead of I
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