The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. XIII.
SCHULENBURG, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1907.
NO. 26.
■ ■ ' BS—g
HiS EYES OPEN
]\hy There Are No Mail
Order Catalogues in
One Home.
In Time of Adversity He Got to Un-
derstand Who Were His Real
Friends—-Prosperity in Stand-
ing Together.
KABO CORSETS
Stylish Spring Footwear
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(Copyright, 1906, by Alfred C. Clark.)
"What y* got there, Sis?" inquired
Farmer Williams, as he kicked off his
felt boots and set them carefully be-
hind the stove to dry. "That's what
I thought It looked like, one of them
there Chicago catylogs, though I hain't
seen one clost fer quite a few years
back. Me an' your ma ust to buy
mighty nigh ever thing we used out
of them catylogs when we first come
to Kansas. Land sakes, I have to
laugh now sometimes when I think of
the way we would git ketched onct in
awhile. They's some cheap things ii\
them catylogs, an' then agin they's a
lot 't ain't so cheap. Y' never kin
tell till they come, an' then it's too
late to send 'em back. But as I was
a sayin', we hain't bought nothin' out
of a catylog fer a rtght smart o' years
now, an' the way it come about I had
as well tell y\. cause I don't think
y* really remember much about it.
"When we come to Kansas long in
the first of the '83'a we got along right
well. We was able to pay cash fer
what we got, and we got the money
fer. everything we sold. We was pay-
in* out on the place rfght along; crops
was purty good an* we was a feelin'
like the Lord was a smilin' on our
efforts, and the happy home we
dreamed about when we first got mar-
was in sight.
t they come a change in Kansas
la the last half of the 'SO's.
Times sot hard and kep a gittin'
tighter. Four straight years it was
so dry y' had to soak the hogs afore
they'd hold swill—though I will say
they was some extry reason on ac-
count of the swill bein' so thin—wheat
Jest died in the ground fer want of
rain, and the hot winds biled the ever-
lastin' sap out of the corn. They
wasn't no pasture, no nothing. You
can know we wa3 a feelin' purty blue
about that time, but we was young
and strong, and thought with the
chickens an' hogs we could git through
anyway.
"Then one day you got to complain-
in' and lookin' so thin it worried us.
Your ma is a middlin' good doctor,
take it all around, but nothing she
could think of done you any good.
Well, you kep' a gittin' pindlier and
pindlier, till you got so'st y' wouldn't
do nothin' but set in a chair by the
kitchen stove, wrapped in your ma's
old shawl, an' you looked so pitiful
that we made up our minds to have
the doctor, even if it took th' last
chicken on the place. Well, he come,
and after he'd looked at you awhile
an' felt your pulse, he shet his watch
up with a snap, an' says, quiet like:
'Better fix up a warm place fer her
In the front room, don't have too much
light nor any drafts to strike her.'
Then we knowed it wan't no small
sickness we had to fight, an' when we
got you fixed up in bed I follered Doc.
out on the porch an' I says: 'Well,
Doc,,' ses I, 'what's the matter with
our little girl?'
"'I don't want to skeer ye, Mr. Wil-
liams,' says he, 'hut I'm afraid she's
in for a siege of typhoid fever.'
"Well, after, he was gone I went out
in the kitchen an' told your ma, but
she says, brave as kin be: 'Well, Ezra,
if the Lord has seen fit to put that j'
much more on our load we ma-,t bear i
up an' fight it out doin' our duty the '
best we kin, l^avin' the rest to him.' ,
An' I thought so too. f'o we jest kep'
our hearts brave an' done what
seemed right t' do.
"The hardest thing was to figure out
where t' git the medicine, an' fruit,
an' dainty things your sickness called
A well fitting dress demands a well fitting
prerequisite.
Your Spring wardrobe—are you planning it
or having it made?
See how much better you'll like the dress
that your dressmaker fits over a Kabo Corset.
Not expensive either for such grace and
beauty of lines as it possesses, Prices from ^
i 50c o &1.50J
vfeuhaus
Our new stock in Ladies Oxfords
arrived, any woman can please her-
self in footwear in this store. The
most fashionable styles of oxford
ties and the daintiest things in slip-
pers are here to select from. We
will be glad to wait on you and
show j ou the correct summer styles
in comfortable footwear at popular
prices.
Dainty white canvas Bluch-
er only —
Eleanor white canvas Bluch-(
er cheap at $1.25 only..
May day Vici Pat. tip
Blucher worth $1.75 only $
Verona Pat. leather Tip QQ HH
tie worth $2.50 only UU
Satin Plain toe Blucher CO (1(1
oxford for only UU
Quaker Vici Pat. tip OC Eft
Blucher oxford for only. ....-vL wU
Quaker Plain toe Pat. (III
oxford [side lace]for only—Ow UU
Society Pat. colt tipBluch-M ft ft
er oxford for only <$v UU
TO
WOMEN
WANTING
WAISTS,
50
00
50
| |We have received our line of Spring Waists
early. We bought them at the right place
and at the Jo west prices.
These are not merely waists you know,
they are Waists that possess style and beauty.
The laces on them are daintier; the lawns and
mulls filmier and prettier. They are put to-
gether by people that know how. Price
¥
!
"Why CtrtfrrtM, llf. William*
Let Us Know What Yeu Want."
fer We hadn't been trad in' much
with the stores in Huston, buyin'
mostly from the catylog folks y' know,
an' so we didn't have any credit there
to speak of. But I went t' Foster, th'
druggist, an' I told him how things
was. I didn't have no money t' pay
fer th' medicine an* things, an' th?
prospects fer the next year was a3
joor er poorer than th' last.
" 'Why cert'nlee, Mr. Williams,' he
says, 'jest let us know what you want
an' we'll carry you along till times
come better fer you. We're all in a
tight pinch now, but if we hang t'geth-
er things is all go in' to come out right
In the end. I have tallh in th' coun
try, an' in-the i.eof'e that live here
an' nobody's sick baby is a goin' to
suffer if I kin help any.'
"Well, it was tha same thing at
Harlow's grocery, an' th' coal yard,
everywhere in th' town. 'Cert'nlee,
Mr. Williams, we'll see y' through on
this.' It made me feel mean an' small
some way, though I don't know why.
An' often when they'd put in a few
oranges or somethin' like that, sayin'
in a 'pologizin' sort of way,- 'little
somethin' fer th' sick baby, Williams,'
why somehow it made a hard lump
come up in my throat, an' I had a
queer feelin' in my eyes, kinder achy
like, y' know.
"Well, to be short about it, fer eight
weeks you kep' a gittin' v/eaker an'
weaker, an' we kep' a feelin' more 'n'
more hopeless. It was a sad Christ-
mas .in our home that year. Your ma
was jest wore out with watchln' an'
tryln' to do her work between times,
nn' I was so nigh sick with trouble an'
discouragement 't I ust to go around
:>y the barn an' jest cry like a baby.
Tint I never let on to your ma though,
ner she t' me. We tried t." encourage
each other thourrh we knowed in our
hearts 't. all 'our f'leerftil words was
lies, an' each one knowed the other
knowed it too.
"Weil, jest th' night before New
Years Doc. called us outside your
room. Oh, how my heart sunk then!
'I don't want to hold out any false
hopes to you people,' he says, 'but I
think with proper care from now on,
your little girl is goin't' git well.'
Elsie, it seemed jest like a ton of
hay had been lifted off my chest right
there. As fer your ma, why she jest
busted down an' cried as hard as she
could. After Doc. was gone We went
out to the kitchen an* kneeled down
right there an' thanked God fer the
most glorious New Year's gift he ever
give t' anybody in th' world—the
health of our baby girl. You know
your pa ain't no ranter er shouter;
yer ma bein' a Baptist has furnished
most of th* r'ligion fer our house, but
Jest then I seen how it was that they
comes times in people's lives when
they've jest got to hare somethin'
bigger an' greater than anything hu-
man t' turn to with a great joy er a
great sorrer.
"Well, It was a long time yet before
you was strong enough t' play out
doors, an' it was a hard winter. 1
burnecLevetv no si of ttafeiUM around
portuhitles. DO not he afraid 'At
business is geing to be hurt by the re-
gent exposures of wrong-deing is Jfee
commercial world."
/
I Sex: Les Burn It.
the south eighty fer firewood afore
it was over. But it seemed like we
had so much t' be thankful fer that
we was strong t' care fer any any of
th' smaller troubles that we come
acrost.
"It really hain't so bad to look back
at it now after th' trouble Is over, but
them hard years in Kansas drove
nearly all our neighbors t' give up
their land an' move away, broke in
hope's an' pocketbook. Them of us as
stayed is purty well fixed now, but
we fit fer everything we got, an' fit
hard, too. An', O, yes, about th' caty-
logs. Well after you was well an*
things begun t' take a turn fer th'
better, one night ma brought out that
Chicago book an' laid it on the kitch-
en table an' says: 'Ezry, what do you
want t' do with this?' An' I sez: 'Les
burn it.' An' your ma b«z: 'Jest what
I was thinkin', too.' An' so we did
bum it, an' what's more, we ain't
never had one in th* house since, an'
wo never Bend away fer anything we
can git at any of the stores in Huston,
'cause we want to deal with them as
has an int'rest in the country we live
in, an' in us people that live clost by.
"Why, you needn't of put yours in
th' stove, too, Elsie, I didn't mean—
yes, I don't know but what it's jest as
well y' done it after all."
Folk Denounces Mail-Order Idea.
Addressing a meeting of retail mer-
chants in Jefferson city reoently, Gov-
ernor Folk, of Missouri, said:
"We are proud of our splendid
cities, and we want to increase wealth
and population, and we also want our
country towns to grow. We wish the
city merchants to build up, but we
also desire the country merchants to
prosper. I do not believe in the mail-
order citizen. Tf a place is good
enough for a man to live in and to
make his money in, its good enough
for him to spend his money in.
"No merchant can succeed without
advertising in one way or another.
Patronize your town papers, build
them up, and they will build the towa
up In l&oreased trade, and greater pp-
a cecum case aoainst cbk
"I had a funny dream last night,"
said the young man to his father,
whose income was $19,000 an hour.
"It seemed that you had decided not
to build libraries or universities that
would serve to perpetuate your mem-
ory, but instead, had made up your
mind to withdraw from business—to
just pull out with your $620,000,000,
and let aouiebody else have the same
kind of a chance that you had when
you started, and the richest man in the.
country was worth only about $300,000.
"Then, after throwing off all these
fares you got to filling your pockets
with money and going around hunting
for people who really needed a lift, and
every little while it. seemed that you
would run across somebody who was
just about to be compelled to give up
the struggle, and you'd Igive him
enough to set him on hig feet, or, at
least to make him comfortable in hit
last hours, and then you'd stand back
and smile and seem to enjoy yourself
seeing the joy you had given to others.
Sometimes you would fairly yell with
delight at the good things you had
done, and one of these outbursts seem-
ed so real that it actually woke me
up."
"Great heavens!" the troubled mag-
nate exclaimed: "that wasn't a dream.
Your mother had an uncle that went
insane. I've always been afraid it
might crop out again, and now my
worst fears are realized. Here—Help!
Help!"—Rccord Herald.
The Gause Gazette remarks that
"the mere presence of a cotton
warehouse iu tuany Texas towns
has obtained the fair market price
for thousands of bates of cotton
that neyer passed through the
warehouses." The result shows
the value of defensive co-operation
among farmers. When the inter-
ests that have heretofone exploited
the farmer come fully to under-
stand that be is fully able to take
care of himself throughout the
twelve muuths of -the year, tbev
will plot less and bargain more.
With pleuty of warehouses in
which to store their cotton the
farmers will at least be in a posi-
tion where they can discuss the
question of price on equal term*
with those who want to do busi-
ness with them.—Houston Post.
Subscribe for the Sticker.
A CRUNK OP PfttLOSOPAY.
4, . *** . .
Knock, and the world knocks
with yon; boost, and you boost
alone; when you roast good and
load, you will find that the crowd
has a hammer as big as your own
Buy, and the gang is with you,
renig and the game it off; for the
lad with the thirst will see you
curst, if you don't proceed to
cough. Be rich Snd the gang will
praise you, be poor and they wil
pass you the ice; you're a warm
young guy when you start to buy,
you're a snob when you haven't
the price. Be Hush and youi
friends are many, go broke and
they say "ta, ta;' when your bank
account burns you will get great
returns, when it's out you will get
the ha, ha. Be igay' and the mob
will cheer you; they will shout
while your wealth eninres; show a
tearful lamp and you'll see them
all tramp, and it's back to the
woods for you. There's always a
bunch to boost you, while at your
money they glance; but you'll find
them all gone at the cold gray
dawn, when the fringe shows up
on your pants.—Exchange.
Felix Van Wagoner and mother
Mrs. R. Van Wagoner, drove in
from Oakland Friday afternoon,
Mrs. Van Wagoner returning home
the same afternoon and Felix go-
ing to Karnes City where he is in-
terested in a land deal tbat may
demand his presence there for a
week or more, Mr. Van Wagoner
war a pleasant caller on tho Her
aid, and in the course of conversa-
tion stateJ tbat Oakland had en-
joyeded an unexampled era of pros-
perity the past year, due to many
different reasons. Thejgood crop
was partlv responsible and the ro-
tirement of Neubaus Bros', of
Hackberry from business also as-
sisted. Oakland is a little town
that is excellently located and if
ever a railroad strikes that town
it will boom. Not only Weimar
and 8chulenburg will feel the re*
suits hut Halletsville will as well,
as this place gets consideaable traf-
fic from that Bectiao,—halletsvilie
3$e?al<jU
WHAT RE KICKED
Sometime since a burglar cobbed
a house near here and was after-
ward captured and identified by
the man whose bouse he bad SO
boldly entered and ransacked. At
the trial he was easily convicted,
and when it came time to impose
the sentence the judge commanded
him to stand up.
''Prisoner at the bar," said his
honor, "have yon anything to eay
before the sentence of this court is
passed upon you?
'•Yes," answered the prisoner
with a show of {indignation. "1
don't mind going to jail, but I bate
like blazes to be identified by a
man that kept his head under the
bed clothes all the time i was iu
the house,'"—Eagle Lake Head-
ight.
There is evidently a bright fu-
ture for the butter business in thia
section. More interest is being taktsn
in same daily. J. O. Boetteher of
the Boetteher company of this city,
who is making a specialty of this
busiuesi, says he is astonished ail
delighted with the result of his ef-
forts along this ^line. lie is bow
shippingjan ayerage of lOO&poond
weekly, and the quantity ia con-
stantly increasing. He says there
is no reason in the world wny
mauy of the farmers should not
obtain 20 to 25c per pound for tb*ir
butter except that not enough c*re
is taken in preparing the butter for
the market. The milk itself should
be kept entirely free frosa ajy
disagreeable order, the cream not
allowed to age, and when churned
the butter should be prepared in
nice one*pound moulds, wrapped in
specially prepared paper, and kept
away from all odors- Such butter
will bring the highest marfcet price
Several farmer*of this section are
expecting to install separators at
an early date. Mr. Boetteher in-
forms us that he will in jUI likeli-
hood establish a creamery at this
place some time soon. He is an
enthusiast on this subject, and
Weimar can expect such an enter-
prise in full operation ere the year
1907 closes. His enM>rprise is
certainly to be commended.—-Wei-
mar Mercury.
"Gentlemen of the jury," io-
terupted the attorney for the plaint-
iff,addressing the twelve Arkansas-
peers who were sitting 19 judgment
and on their respective shoulder
blades in a damage suit agaimt a
grasping corporation for killing e
cow,"if the train had been ruQQiof
as slow as it should hava been
run, if the bell had been rung as it
ought to have rang, or the whistle
had been blown as it should have
been blown,none of whioh was done
the cow would not haye been in-
jured when she was killed.''^-Kx.
Recently a church organisation
in a iittle Kansas town buiH a
church. To pay for it they were
obliged to call upon the merchants
of the community for donations.
Ths merchants responded liberal-
ly and $3000 was raised from this
source. The last man to subscribe
was John Smith the jeweler, '*1
will give you f5.00 if you will let
me add something to your snbscrp-
tion list," he said. Permission
was accorded him and he wrote at
the bottom of the list:
John Smith, jeweler ►$ 5.00
Sears, Roebuck & Co 0
Montgomery, Ward & Co... 00
The people eaw the point when
the minister read from the pulpit
the Ust of the donors to the build-
ing fund. Since the dedication of
the church there have been no mail
ordar9*seut out from that Kansaa
town.--Kansas City Jeweler.
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Winfree, Raymond. The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1907, newspaper, February 14, 1907; Schulenburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth189234/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Schulenburg Public Library.