Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1920 Page: 8 of 8
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To make it doubly interesting, we are making our January Clearance Sale prices on top of these great price-reductions, thus giving
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The prices under the bargain pots will be kept burning all through December, which will make every day in December a Bargain
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THE COTTON SITUATION
So long as even a small ra-
selling.
not be bothered.
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A few are still trying to sow wheat.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cox were in Decatur
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the winter!
Mtsses Glen and Josephine Halsell
visited in Fort Worth Monday
Fleeting
life.
Rest is nek quitting the busy
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There is but one way to stop the
continued decline in the price of spot
Quality and prices •
will appeal to people
good judgment—
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Saturday.
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Mr. and Mrs C. D. Cates left Wed-
nesday afternoon for Austin and San
Antonio.
The health of our community is rea-
sonably good.
Mrs. Lee Thomas of near Denton,
is- here visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Cryer.
Arch Lambert has returned from
West Texas and Oklahoma, where he
has been at work
community, was a visitor of Hous-
ton. Leake Sunday night.
Miss May Archer is expected <•>
spend the holidays visiting in Deca
tur.
A large crowd er joyed a party giv-
en by Mr. and Mrs. Gus Patton on
Saturday night.
sphere.
"Tis the brook’s motien clear without
strife;
A LANDSLIDE IN DRY GOODS, WOMEN’S SUITS, WOMEN’S COATS, CHILDREN’S COATS, READY-TO-WEAR, MEN’S AND
BOYS’ CLOTHING, OVERCOATS, UNDERWEAR, HATS, CAPS, GLOVES, SHOES, BOOTEES AND HOSIERY VALUES!
cannot check declines if the owners
of cotton persist in feeding the sta-
ple to the market.
We urge every farmer in the South
Prof and Mrs. Smith were Decatu
visitors Saturday.
’Tis loving and serving the highest
and best;
’Tis onward, unswerving, and this is
true rest.
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Gus Donald has returned from an
• extended tour.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
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Buy Your Xmas Gifts
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Hughes explained that the contem-
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The popular young lawyers. Fort
A Walker, attended court in Green-
wood Wednesday.
prices, so long as farmers are con-
i- stantly feeding the staple into the lo-
cal markets.
The sellers of cotton at these pric-
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i tion of cotton is daily fed to the lo-
cal market.', just so long will the
present limited demand be met, and
bearish speculators be enabled to
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Guinn Williams, W. C. Milligan.
Chas. Stokes, A. L. Alland. W. V.
Patton, W. W. Brown, Jas. W. Smith.
H. E. Man and G. S. Blewett are In
Waco attending the Masonic Grand
lodge and Grand Chapter as repre
sentatives from Decatur lodges. X
them the great
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vr t Ward one of Springtown
most enterprising business men and
brother of President J. L. Ward of
Decatur Baptist College, spent last.
Monaav in the city. We hear it in-
timated that Mr. Ward may locate
here in the near future. He is well
•known to all bur people, having been
countv clerk df this county from 1881
to 1888, and we feel sure he and
his estimable family would receive a
hearty welame.m
Kellum was in Decatur
used to bj
thelmmmi
to the
sha; is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Flor-
promise that we can go to her.
Ma' God bless everyone who was
so kind and loving to us and to
those who placed such beautiful
flowers to her memory. MR. AND
MRS S D. HANDLEY AND FAMI-
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J, E. Swepston has begun his
school at Foster, near Audubon.
Our school is progressing nicely sions of lon: and.to secure neces.
with Mr Smith and Mrs. Parrish as sary funds to purchase Imperatively
wunr needed supplies on the farm, and for
teacners the gathering of the crop. Every
Only a few of us attended first bale of cotton sold is a gift offered
Monday at Decatur on account of the to.therapaciousmaw.ofthecsneeuz
ocean after
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and stand firm against every pres-
sure from without. There is abse-
lately no question that cotton valqes
will reach higher levels a little later
on. No matter how severe a storm
may be, it is always short lived, the
sunshine will return. All over the
South the farmers are now deter-
minedly holding their cotton. Texas
and Oklahoma, which sold heavily
early in the season, have joined in
the movement and practically none
is being sold now by farmers. Less
than eleven per cent of the Alaba-
ma crop has been marketted and the
other southeastern state are doing al-
most as wem.
The whole nation is becoming
aroused over the unholy artificial de-
leader in any great battle can whip
the enemy unless every man does his
full duty and makes every sacrafice
required.
There must be unity of action and
co-operative effort in this fight, un-
less the South is willing to enslave
itself to foreign spinners and specu-
lators. The sale of cotton at these
prices will enrich the spinners, im-
poverishing the cotton growers, mer-
chants and bankers of the South
The American Cotton Association
can and will lead this movement to
success, if those for whom its hard-
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‘these splend
Mr Wilhite and family of Oak es are not only breaking themselyes
Grove visited Mr. and Mrs. Patton financially, but they are contributing
„ , to the financial wreck and ruin of the
sundaz —o entire south.
Mr and Mrs. A J. Kellum were Stop selling—refuse to market 2
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Taylor single bale. Use the warehouse re-
q d v ceipt as a medium of exchange, in
Suudaz* the liquidation of credits, for exten-
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Homer Moore of the Sweetwater est efforts are being made, will raly
to the battle cry, hold their cotton
The raising of telephone rates is
contagious, it would appear from the
records in the federal court.
Hardly had Judge Wilson finished
handing down his final decision in
the injunction proceedings brought
by the Daiias Telephone Company
against the city or Dallas, Friday
afternoon, when A. C. Hughes, who
owns the Alvord system, appeared
with a plea for similar action in Fort
Worth.
Hughes, through his attorney,
Stanley Boykin, in an application fil-
ed with the court, alleges that the
present rates charged in Alvord do
not allow him a seasonable return
on his investment. Despite this, the '
city refuses to allow him to raise
them and threatens to enjoin him
if de does so. Subscribers threaten
keep their throttle hold on prices.
If every bale of cotton now in the to refuse the present ruinous prices
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We have gone through our entire stock and slashed prices to the bone. Now is you chance to supply your needs at rock-bottom pric-
es—just at the time you need them most! '
The Lillard Banking Company will
soon be made a national bank witn
$75,000 capital and surplus. Appli-
cation has already been made and as
soon as the necessary arrangements
can be perfected, the business will
be conducted in the name of the City-
National Bank The directors will
consist of S. A. Lillard, H. L. Ward.
J. F. Ward, J. S. Lane and E. L. Lil-
lard. The directors are all success-
ful business men with ample means
and the success of the enterprise
from the beginning is assured.
South were locked up in a warehouse
or on the farm, for even a period of
ten days, the short sellers would run
to cover and prices would begin io
advance. No power on earth can
check the present decline in cotton
force the bear operators to deliver
the tissue paper contracts they are
dealing in, to those who are buying
on the exchanges,
AMERICAN COTTON ASS’N.
SOME GOODS AT COST—SOME AT LESS THAN COST- SOME AT LESS THAN HA LF PRICE—AT
BRGAIN.
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Misses Laura Reynolds and Willie
Lewis spent an enjoyable day with
Miss Letha Cox last Sunday.
clarify the situation, open the mar-
kets of the world and through in-
creased demand push prices back to
a normal basis. But these factors
lively 'possum hunt last Tuesday
night' Gordon Thomason. Cliff D.
—•— i Cates. E. P. Gibson. T. B. Yarbrough,
Jim Tankersley came in TuesdasV|George Flannigan, Rob Simmons,
from Childress to spend the Xmas Jack Cates. Press Terrell. W. H. At-
1 wood. Guy Waggoner, Mrs. Ras Saur-
1 lev and Misses Buna Waggoner. Ele,
Shelton Rogers, little son of Mr tra Waggoner. Josephine Halsell.
and Mrs. A. D. Rogers, happened to/Glen Halsell. Gorda Bussey. Jessie
the sad accident of creaking his arm Collins, Ada Cates. Inez Lindley. Ed-
Tuesday. na Earheart, Maude Riley, Hertha
—o— Saufley. and a colored contingent
T B Yarbrough, Mrs Furd Hal- The catch was not very heavy, but
sell and Miss Glen Halsell took in they made so much notse that not -
the “ M id-Sum mer Night’s Dream at 11 al game will be scarce for some
Fort Worth opera house Monday ti At ten o’clock lunch was serv-
ed old all returned to their homes
wi pleasant recollections of the
ev ring’s hunt.
to refuse to pay higher rates and to .
enter suit against him. .. ... no
The present rates are $2.50 for Rest is the fitting »f self to ones
business phones and $1.50 for resi-
dence phones. Hughes would like to
charge $4 and $2.50. He asks that
the city of Alvord, its mayor and I
aldermen, and G. H. Redwine, a cit-
izen. be enjoined from interfering
with his schedule and from annoying
him with suits.
Judge Wilson ordered the defend
ants to appear at ten o'clock on
December 13. to show cause why a
temporary injunction should not be
issued.
To you who have been waiting’ for lower prices—here they are! We have taken our medicine and have made tremendous cuts on ev-
ery article in the house and for the rest of the year we are going to give to the people of Decatur and Wise county the best bargains
they have seen in many moons! We had no idea any such prices could be made during 1 920, but the price-adjusting time is here and
we have met it with a smile!
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New Christmas goods
ly at E. W. Bass & Cot
ory. cut hlass, jewelry
verwar eMzazaid
for his cotton. Stop selling and
night.
J W. Walker. Justice of the Peace
of Precinct No. X. was a Decatur vi
itor Wednesday. While here he fit
ted himself up with stationery for ----
his office at the Messenger job office. . ords fail to express our heart- j
—•— felt thanks to all who were so kirn’ ' Friday.
Marriage licenses:—C. L. Golden in the sad hours when our little an- j
,td Niss Daisey Cartwright; M. H gel Elaine, was called from this
Portwood and Miss Nannie Castles; word to her heavenly home where
D. D. House and Mias Willie Pol- 1 ther are no sorrows, no sickness, no
son: S. C. Shannon and Mis M. Piparting.
Cartner; J. S. Harper and Miss Ad- I v miss her every hour, for she
die Godby: J. R Higdon and Miss was always smiling and playing; and
Maggie Alexandet : F. G. Hill and
Miss Fannie George; J. M. Wil-
liams and Mrs. Mattie Given.
KI-MOID5
(Tablets or Granules)
For INDIGESTION
Take dry on toneue or
with hot or coldwatee.
QUICK RELIEF!
flat ion in the values of farm com- ■ '
modities. Plans are being rapidly' □
whipped into shape that will tend to Tm
HAI TOM’S
MAIN AND SIXTH STS.
FORT WORT
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photographer, is building an elegant
new fiveroom residence adjoining his
photograph gallery. Mr. Bunnell pre
sented a Messenger representative
with a photograph taken by his lit-
tle daughter, Grace, a few days ago
in the open air, that shows wonder-
ful ability for a child of her age. In
fact, it would take a more artistic
eye than ours to see anything wrong
with the picture, whatever. Miss
Grace displays wonderful artistic
skill.
MAIN AT SIXTH #77.
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1920, newspaper, December 10, 1920; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1582173/m1/8/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .