The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Ir* ■
>*i.r
1 l
m-i
THE ASPERMONT STAR Stand ud to your fodder if you
a bite, hold up your
Published Every Thursday )head if you die before night.
RICHARD H. McCARTY, Editor
Subscription.
hi f\ Year.
Entered at the Postoffice at Asper-
mont, Texas, as second-class mail
matter.
Well it is not so bad after all.
If it had kept on raining the boll
worms would have got us—see.
Four Issues One Month
Sinile and look pleasant, you
will feel better.
People always get scared be-
fore they are hurt—crop condi-
tions are not near so bad as re-
ported.
We guess that it will be Cone
' Johnson or Uncle Bill Poindexter
—neither one of them don't look
«rood to us.
We wonder when that political
farce at Austin will adjourn.
The dust devil has been doing
business in the city this week.
Oh well don't ge tout of tune
because it is ajlittle dry—It could
be worse.
This has been the hottest sum-
mer in the history of the coun-
try. And it is dry ail over the
world. It is said that it is dryer
in England than it has been in
401 vears.
Doggone don't this cold weath-
er make a fellow feel like kicking
up his heels.
Oh well hold up youa head and
look pleasant. It will be better
further on.
The cold snap made a fellow
feel his oats.
! You ought to go np to New-
man Payne's barber shop and
see the new fans installed. New-
man says that they beat electric
fans.
Miss Lorena Herring, after
spending several days with the
Misses Aycock left for her home
at Stephenyille one day last
week.
WANTED-A .RIDER AGENT
m BACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model
"Ranger" bicycle furnished by as. Our agents everywhere are making
money fast. ffrite for full particulars and special of er at once.
NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your
bicycle. We ship to anyone anywhere in the U.S. without a «■« deposit
in advance, prepaj freight, and aUow TEN DAYS* FREE TRIAL during
which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish.
If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the
bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you mil not be out en* tent.
FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is
a avivRi ■ niviiW possible to make at one small profit above
actual factory cost. You save $10 to $25 middlemen's profits by buy-
ing direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your
bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at ant
'trie until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory
ice*Jindnmarkoble special of en tO rider agents*
All 1MFII I RF ACTÍlVICIICn «'ben you receive oar beautiful catalogue
"W VVIkk BE MI VnlOnCIf aadstudyoursuperbmodelsat theicunder-
\y low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for
money than any other factory. We aresatisfled with tl.OOprollt above factory coat.
■•CtCLB DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at double our prices.
Orders tilled the day rece i red.
SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually hare
a number on band taken In trade b7 our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices
fsnclnc from S3 to *8 orSIO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free.
COlSTrRafiRslfF^ ainglo wheela, importad roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and
w M n UK; equipment of all kinds at half tlte regular retail prices.
* i A Hedgefhorn Puncture-Proof S Jg 80
III Self-healing Tires" SAMPLC PMR
H vV The regularretail price of these tires I
110.00 per pair, but to introduce iae¡
twill sell pom a sample pair for tt.Mf.cash toithordtr$4.SS
110 M0RETM9BLE FROM PUNCT0RES
NAILS, Taeks, or Class will not 1st the air out.
A hundred thousand pairs sold last year.
nrCflCfPTMif Made In all sizes. It
UMbiafflUIT. ,s Uvely and easy
riding, very durable and lined inside with
TO IMTROOUt£,OMLY
a special quality of rubber, which never be-
comes porous nd which closes up small
punctures without allowing the air to escape.
We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers
statingthat their tires have only been pumped up once
or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than
an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being
given by several layers of thin, specially prepared
fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires
is $10.00 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are
Notico tha thick rubbertrsad
"A"and puncturo strips "B"
and "D"alao rim strip "H"
to prevent rim cutting. This
tire will outlast any other
make-SOFT, ELASTIC and
EASY RIDING.
making a special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same
day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you
have examined and found them strictly as represented.
We will allow «cash discount of 5 percent (thereby making the price S4.SS per pair) if you send FULL CASH
WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk In sending us an order as the tires may be
returned at OUR expense If forany reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable
and money sent to us isas safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will And that they will ride
easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look Hner than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price.
We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want
you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer.
IF YOU Jjggjggf TIPg-Q dont buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Hedgethorn
" m Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special Introductory
price quoted above: or write foroar big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all and
kinds of tires atabout half the usual prices.
J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL
SCHOOL DAYS OF
70 YEARS AGO
Editor Home and Farm:
I have been a subscriber to
Home and Farm for a long time,
and seeing the letter from W. R.
Sanders, telling of his long ago
school days, and of the school
books used, caused my school
days of seventy years ago to
come back.
My father, the Rev. E. W.
Storv, was transferred from the
Georgia to the Alabama confer-
ence in the winter of 1839. My
father settled in what was then
Russell county, near a little place
called Opelika, having one church
one store and a school. I was
then eight years old. I went to
school there for seven, years. I
recollect going to school in
Georgia before we moved to Ala-
bama.
I commenced studying gram-
mat very young. I first studied
Pickets', then Kirk urn's, thexn
Murries' and last Smith's Eng-
lish grammar. Webster's "blue
back" speller was the one then
in use. I studied Smiley's arith-
metic. I wish I knew where I
could get one. I have my geog-
raphy, English grammar and
arithmetic that I studied sixty-
five years ago, but all are very
much dilapidated.
It has been sixty-five years
since my father moved from
Opelika. I ^ometimes think I
would like to go back, and see
whether anything was left of the
old homestead, the school house
and the split-log meeting house,
the church, graveyard and the
spring where we boys, when the
teacher called "books," would
run and wash, dipping our heads
in the trough, after playing town
ball.
Our singing master, John
Masseng^le, taught singing school
in the church. We sang at first
from "The Southern Harmony,"
then in the "Sacred Harp." In
both books were several pieces
composed by Massengale, whom
we all thought much of.
When the railroad was built
from Atlanta to Montgomery,
several years after this time, the
nearest point it ran to Opelika
was two miles. So a town was
started on the railroad and the
name Opelika was taken from
the first-named place and given
to the railroad town. It has since
grown into a large place.
Opelika is an Indian name.
When we first lived there, there
Switzer Li
f Ü
Is the place of quality and is over three times the
retail lumber company in Texas. We Wandle n<
the verv best grades of
Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lui
We also have in stock t.wo cars of Mountain Cedar Post , 1
d to 16 feet, one car of fresh cement, one car of limeN ai
of the largest stacks of glass ever seen in west Texas. ?
will always find our stock complete and when you contení/
building don't fail to see us. We will appreciate your
ness and will treat you right.
Yours truly,
J. I. FOUTS,
Ml
vpvjFOrvJrvJP1 WW WWWW
MONEYTOLOA
7 ON FARMS AND RANCHES
- i ■■ hm
We have loaned more money in Stonewall and ¿i
counties in the last twelve months than all other firms
bined. We still have a; few thousand to put out on
securities. See us, We get the money. Wcfwrite )
surance, ten of the strongest companies in America.
sell and buy land. We make abstracts, write deeds i
all kinds of notary work.
McCord Realty Comí
Over First Nat. Bank.
were a good many Indians
nearby. They were friendly to
the whites. Old Uncle Billy Wil-
liams owned a large tract of land
and much stock. The Indians
would work on halves for him.
They could not or would not talk
English except two of the men.
One was called Little Jack, the
other Rodger. Father would
get them to do work for him.
When they got through, he
would have them all of them
all come to the house, and he
would talk to Little Jack and
and Little Jack would repeat to
the rest. Rodger, who also
talked English, was a carpenter.
He was part negro, but his
mother being an Indian made
him free. The squaws thought
a great deal of my mother. One
of them namen her child Annie
for my mother.
Later Capt. Seals came to take
the Indians to Indian Territory,
being employed by the govern-
ment for that purpose. I $aw
i
them all start with' tl
and teams. One
Jim had taken one,
Willams' negro w<
>eji
and they had several
but he had to leave her i
children, as they y
born from a slave
Well. IwilLgo back 1
ago school days. Nc
Friday evening we
spell." Two of
would choose, a&4 1
careful trying tp, get
spellers. Sometimes we 1
have speeches to recite. .
member reciting*4The~ ~
on the Burning Deck."
I was eighty years old
28 and my wife sevei
November. We still live
place I bought ill 1*
children are all married
left the old homestead,
one granddaughter we ;
raised who is living wit^
have succeeded in set
sler's. Blue-Back Spel
told Smiley's Arithi
of print.
C. Story, M. D. (Uncle i
Key, Ala.
' ' "i i i ii
§*§:
$;V 7
U''
m
MPp
I-
iV
Special
During the Month of August
WE ARE OFFERING OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF
Lawns and Flaxon AT COST
J. A. CARROLL,
Aspermont, Texas
pPÜk ,,
-
;-.W;
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
McCarty, Richard H. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1911, newspaper, August 25, 1911; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth168483/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.