The Troup Banner (Troup, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927 Page: 2 of 8
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The Troup Banner
HENRY EDWARDS & SON
Publishers
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; Entered at the postoffice at Troup,
Texas, as second-class mail matter
under Act of Congress of March 8,
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No" 5 F Angea
DISTINCTIONS
• The Banner has been awarded •
• the A. H. Belo 4k Company Lov- •
• Eg Cups, in all contests it has •
• ever entered, for being “The Beet •
• All-round Weekly Newspaper in *
• Texas.” It was awarded First •
• Prize in the First Annual Exhibit *
• (1924) of weekly newspapers fos- •
• tered by ths Texas Rural Writ- •
: ers’Conference. :
• •••••••••
, Special Representative
TEXAS PRESS WEEKLIES, INC.
H. L. Grable. Manager
518 Mercantile Bank Building
Dallas, Texas
TEXAS PEL PRESS
ASSOCIATION
LAST 45 YEARS COVERS GREAT-
EST ERA OF PROGRESS
WORLD HAS KNOWN
It was just 45 years ago this fall
when the first public electric light
and power plant in the world came in-
to use. That was the kindling of a
torch that has lighted the way for the
greatest progress the human race ever
has known.
• When the first electric light was
snapped on, noboddy had ever ridden
in a motor car. Street cars were
trundled along over cobblestone pave-
ment by plodding horses. Streets were
dimly lighted in the biggiest cities
by fluttering gas jets, or in the small-
er towns by kerosene lamps on the
corner posts. There were no snap-
shots, movies, radio, airplanes, or
skyscrapers. Telephones were hardly
in common use.
Not all of these great improve-
ments have come about as the direct
result of the electric light, but nobody
could estimate the influence of elec-
tricity in "bringing about our magical
era. It would be safe to declare that
the progress of the electric lighted
age has surpassed that of all the cen-
turies before, and yet the man who
invented the incandescent lamp and
the electrical generator which sup-
plies it with energy, still lives and
Works.—Utility News.
A HIGH PRIVILEGE AND DUTY
OF CITIZENSHIP
Service as a juror or grand juror
implies one of the highest privileges
of citizenship. We doubt if any offi-
cial of the commonwealth, not even
those to whose offices are attached
high official emoluments and great
honors, renders a more important ser-
vice to his country than those who are
called to serve as jurors. These, in
fact, are officials of the Government,
called to aid in the administration of
justice—and that is a more important
function of government than is per-
formed by those elected officials whose
duties are mainly or wholly clerical.
--The privilege of trial by jury is a
privilege for which our forbears in
England and in the Colonies braved
. the wrath of kings—and dared to die
—in order that they might secure it
and transmit it to their children. We
all esteem this peculisr feature and
privilege of our Government too
lightly. District Court is soon to con-
vene in this county. Those who are
summoned to serve as jurors ought to
regard it not as a service to be light-
ly evaded—and every citizen who can
ought to be present to hear what
Judge Warren may say respecting this
great privilege and obligation of citi
zenship. *
If the press of this country would
$ devote to agricultural and industrial
development even one tenth of the
space they give to sport events and
school athletics, what do you suppose
.would be the guage of our progress
and prosperity within the next five
If you have built castles in the air
your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the
foundations under them.—Thoreau. :
TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS COST-
ING 5 TIMES AS MUCH AS
IN 1910
Public school expenditures in Tex-
as were 556,000,000 last year which
is five times what they were in 1910.
And yet the school term in the rural
schools where no special tax is levied
were shorter than in 1910. The people
put up the money but it seems we
can't get it to the right spot Every
legislature tries to remedy the matter
by special appropriations for rural
school aid but the next legislature
will be asked for more and more but
the school term is not increased.—
The Marshall Morning News.
KEEP ON PLANTING
Experience is the harvest of life,
and every harvest is the result of a
sowing. The experience which young
people most crave is that of success
in some service for which they are
naturally fitted. And they wish it at
once—immediately. Youth wishes to
touch a magic button and command
success without apprenticeship. But
nothing ripens that is not first plant-
ed, and the very desires, the imps
tience, the dreams, the ambitions of
youth, are by way of a planting which
shall come to fruition—sometimes af-
ter these desires are abandoned and
forgotten. For the sown seed goes
on growing whether we remember it
or not The wisdom of life is to keep
on planting.—Dearborn Independent.:
WHY LET COTTON ROT?
Travelling along a highway last
week in an adjoining county our Edi-
tor noted within the distance of about
fifteen to twenty miles approximately
150 bales of cotton that had been
brought from the gins and dumped
out in the farm yards. Not one bale
of this cotton was under sheds, or
otherwise protected from the weather.
We do not recall that one bale of it
was placed upon poles, logs, or other
means that kept it off the ground."
It has always been a mystery to
us why a farmer would work hard to
make a crop of cotton, which never
sells for more than a normal profit
above his labor, and then let it rot—or
at least sustain damage ranging any-
where from #5.00 per bale up to #25
per bale, or more, from exposure to
the weather and depredations from
livestock.
If the farmer has five bales of cot-
ton thus exposed and that cotton sus-
tains a damage of four cents per
pound, the effects on his property
values is the same as if he were to
burn one of the bales and properly
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—Fifty thousand successful men and women began their careers here.
The reputation of this institution insures your success.
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THE TROUP BANNER
protect the remaining four. No far-
mer would deliberately burn a bale of
his cotton-—but many of them will let
weather exposure and livestock dam-
age it to a greater extent.
THE NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW
Guy V. McNallie, Pete Cole and P.
H. Walser were among those from this
immediate section who attended the
National Dairy Show held at Memphis
last week. This is the first time that
this great show has been held in the
South. These gentlemen say that it
was attended by very many from all
parts of the South and that Texas had
a quota in attendance as large in pro-
portion as any of the other states.
They believe that this particular show
will give an impetus to the dairy in-
dustry in the South that will mean
virtually the coming of a new industry
and the utilisation of natural resour-
ces which have lain dormant, except
in a few* isolated areas. The reports
in the daily press indicate as much. _____. .____. ___-
It is stated that an effort will most! parents.
The new shoot suddenly bursts thru
the ground in the spring and then
grows a foot or more a day. As the
cane shoots skyward the leaves,
branches and branchlets unfold, pro-
ducing a striking and beautiful effect.
In spite of its rapid growth, it has
been found that after attaining full
size the plants may require three to
five years to fully harden and ripen.
The Texas ’Forest Service explains
likely be made to secure the meeting
of the National Dairy Show at Dallas
in 1929, probably in connection with
the State Fair of Texas. That is a
consumation devoutly to be hoped for.
As we see it, the greatest era of in-
dustrial and agricultural development
that the Nation, or any section of it,
has ever known is dawning upon the
South. As we see it, Texas, East Tex-
as in particular, is destined to have a
large portion in that development. :
SUPPORTERS OF GOV. AL SMITH
ARE NOT FOOLING ANYBODY
There is a vacancy from the Denver,
Colorado, Congressional district and
the Democrats met in convention to
nominate a candidate. The convention
first endorsed Gov. Al Smith for
President. Then a man was nominated
for congress on a platform favoring
the repeal of the 18th Amendment as
soon as that could be done, and in the
meantime the repeal of the Volstead
Act was demanded. It was said that
no less than eleven ex-brewers and ex-
distillers were delegates to the con-
vention. The action of the convention
in coming out flat-footed for what the
delegates favored was rather unfortu-
nate for Gov. Al Smith, whose friends
just now are trying to make the dry
South believe that Al is in favor of
the enforcement of the prohibition
laws. But this Denver crowd not only
favored New York’s nullifying Gov-
ernor for the nation’s chief execu-
tive, but told why they favored him.—
The Marshall Morning News.
Texas has vast fortunes in oil.
... Address------
“Men Are something like mules.
Their great accomplishments take
place when they stop kicking and pull
together.” :
BAMBOO MAY BECOME
TEXAS TIMBER CROP
Probabilities that bamboo may be
included successfully among the tim-
ber crops of Texas are seen by B. T.
Galloway of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture. The bamboo, a
tree-like plant, is said to thrive in
most localities where deep, well-drain-
ed soil is available, and where temper-
atures do not fall below 10 to 15 de-
grees above zero. The national de-
partment of agriculture has recom-
mended bamboo for culture in most of
the cotton states of the South.
Describing bamboo culture, Gallo-
way states that when a grove is ful-
ly established, magnificent stems
shoot up to a height of 60 to 70 feet,
furnishing poles four to five inches in
diameter at the base. The plants, be
explained, have the remarkable fac-
ulty of reaching their full size in a
short time, usually in two to four
weeks, depending on the age of the
TRADE AT
CLARK’S STORE
2 1-2 Miles Southeast of Troup
(FORMERLY R. W. COOK’S STORE)
We carry a full and complete line of GROCERIES, PATENT MEDI-
CINE, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HARDWARE, HARNESS PARTS, FARM
IMPLEMENTS, in fact a complete and full line of GENERAL MERCHAN-
DISE. Also GAS, OILS and AUTO ACCESSORIES.
We know our prices are lower, as our expenses are less. We invite
the general public and especially the people of Troup to visit our store, as
we know we can save you money on your purchases.
We expect to stay in business here. We expect to make this store grow
and keep it growing, by giving you Absolutely high Class Merchandise at
LOWER PRICES
We shall appreciate your patronage;a trial
is all we ask
Clark s Store
• E.LCLARK, Prop.
We Will Buy Your County Produce at the Highest Market Prices.
PICTORIAL
NEWS
WE ARE NOW RECEIVING THE PICTORIAL NEWS SERVICE OF
INTERESTING STATE AND NATIONAL EVENTS.
THESE NEWS BULLETINS, ILLUSTRATED WITH APPROPRIATE
PICTURES, ARE ON DISPLAY AT OUR BANK BUILDING AND AT
LOWERY'S STORE.
THESE ITEMS AND PICTURES WILL BE CHANGED EVERY FEW
DAYS-NOTICE THEM, THEY’LL INTEREST YOU.
that, aside from its beauty, timber
bamboo has commercial value and is
convenient on the farm for line fen-
cee, fence posts, trellises, water-car-
rying pipes, baskets, crates, poultry
coops and houses, and light ladders.
Commercial uses include fish rods,
furniture making, curtain and rug
rods, and many other purposes.
High grade Men's Furnishings,
popular prices, at Stein’s on North
Spring, “Where the rents are low".
—Tyler.
SERVICE and COURTESY
-With-
SUPERIOR GROCERIES
AND LOW PRICES
THAT’S US
Phone 90
Elliott & Nesbitt
OCTOBER 27, 1927
TAKE YOUR GLASSES HOME
WITH YOU WHEN I FIT THEM
In most cases you can take your
glasses home with you when you have
them fitted here. You can see Mid
know whet you get. I have been fit-
ting glasses in Tyler for seven years
and have thousands of pleased pa-
tients. For the best in glasses see me
Dr. Skinner, North Side Square, bljl.
Moleskin Pants, good quality |1.95,
at Stein's on North Spring—Tyler.
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The Troup Banner (Troup, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1927, newspaper, October 27, 1927; Troup, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1703045/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.