The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1927 Page: 3 of 4
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LORAINE—The people of Loraine
have organised into aCitizen's Lea-
gue the purpose of which is to pro-
mote the upbuilding of Loraine and
the surrounding country. C. E. Green
is president and Alonzo Phillips sec-
retary. Meetings are to be held semi-
monthly. The League will affiliate
with the West Texas Chamber of Com
merce.
McCAMEY—The McCamey Chamber
of Commerce is working upon a mem-
bership drive. Though the movement
has not been completed, already SO
new members have been added to the
roll. There are more than 250 paying
members in the organization at this
time.
WICHITA FALLS—The nationally
known Kraft Cheese Company will es-
tablish a large cheese factory at Wich
ita Falls. Contract with the concern
was effected through efforts of J. A.
Kemp and other workers for the "City
That Faith Built."
TRENT—Despite decrease in business
at the oil field and usual inactivity
of this season, Trent is continuing to
crow, and is preparing to take cur.'
of a big business this fall. Several
business buildings and residences a-"1
undergoing improvements or are un-
der construction.
WELLINGTON—Elaborate plans are
underway for entertainment of Pan-
handle-North Plains delegates who
will attend the district convention of
the West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce here Aujrust 25. A number of
prominent speakers have been obtain-
ed, and an interesting agricultural pro
gram provided.
SLATON—The sixth monthly lunch-
eon of the Slalon Chamber of Com-
merce was staged this week, and pro-
ved to be one of the most enthusiastic
held this year. The program was in
charge of the industrial committee of
the organization and brought to light
many phases of industrial develop-
ment in this section.
DE LEON—A record puirma.se of
fourteen carloads of fine Hereford
and other pedigreed stock of cattle
has been made in the l)e Leon terri-
tory within the last thirty days. The
purchase indicates a part of the move
merit here toward greater diversifica-
tion.
SWEETWATER—Sweetwater's hand-
some $200,000 Municipal Auditorium
has been formally opened. The Sweet
water Gold Medal Band, official music
makers for the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce this year, played at the
opening program and has been given
an official headquarters in the build-;
ing wher it will hold practice hours
Wednesday nights of every week.
GRAHAM—Major Turner E. Camp
has been officially installed as secre-
tary of the Graham Chamber of Com-
merce and has started work on a pro-
gram of progress for this placc.
BALLINGER—Twenty-five blocks of
new paving have been ordered by the
City Commission here. Work on this
project will start within thirty days.
A cost of §75,000 is represented by
this movement.
BOWIE—The Oak Grove Hatchery
has opened for business in this city
Th hatchery will do a regular com-
mercial hatching business. A number
of electric incubators having a capa
city of <5,000 eggs have been installed |
already, and larger units and incuba-
tors ar to be added latr.
WHITE DEER—Contract has been
let for 3 blocks of brick paving. A
white way system is to be installed
as soon as the paving program will
warrant the same,
LAMESA—The new Lainesa National
Bank has opened up and a good busi-
ness has been resumed.
Corn-Hog Price Ratio
H& Now Reversed
PRICES OF CORN AND OF MOOS
TBRD TO ACT AS IF THEr ARE
ON A TEETER BOARD
SIAfti ROiAUCH AGAlCAILTlMtAt KMMOATOM
LARD SURMOUNTS
COMPETITION
CHANGES IN PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
11.7 LBS / \ 15 5 LBS.
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OB Accept
No Substitutes
fl lor it
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BLACK-DRAUGHT
Purtly
Vegetable
Liver Medicine
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You can't teach an old dog new
tricks unless you are smarter than the
dog.
The last place to look for smartness
is in the smart set.
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HEAD THE STAR ADS
AVCR. I90S-/9N 1926
LARD SUBSr/TUTcS
10.5 Lt>5
9.7 LBS.
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AVCR I&09-I9I4 1926
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While the recent advance In corn
prices, coupled with the decline in
hogs, lias made the corn-hog ratio
unprofitable for feeders, the liofc situ-
ation Is unlikely to become lis tin
favorable as In 1923 and 1024, accord-
ing to the Senrs Roebuck Agricultural
Foundation. Increased market sup
plies, together with decreased export
sales of hog products, have been re
sponsible for forcing bog prices down
ward, while prospects of a small corn
crop following the moderate crop pro
duced last year at a time when feed
ing demand Is Increasing, caused the
sensational advance In corn.
At the present time, HNI pounds ot
live hogs at farm prices will only paj
for about 9 bushels of corn, compared
with IS bushels last year and tut iiv
erage of 11 bushels since 1010 since
approximately 8',i bushels of corn
are required to produce Hki pounds ot
pork. Including the cost of maintain
ing the sow, the present ratio does
not leave enough margin to covet
other costs besides feed.
I'm- a year and a Imlt'. the corn-lio^
ratio has been highly profitable, pet
haps the most profitable for any III <
period on record. While production
lias been stimulated as a result, it hit-
not acquired any sncli momentum it-
H had four years ago. Hog ;r row or-
should be able to readjust production
without the extremely low price-
which developed, when they were li
(luidattng their herds after the I: - •
peak of expansion was reached.
periods when the feeding ratio i-
pro til able for eighteen or twenty-Id':
months tend l.o alternate with stuiila
periods when it is unprofitable. This
tendency should In* kept in mind it
making plans for fall litters, as I
Indicates that mild curtailment of |.ro
ductiot) is advisable. After iinotbci
year il may be time to expand breed
ing herds once more. l'a-liters win
follow up-to-date methods ol feeding
by balancing rations or using sell
feeders, furnishing forage crops in
season, giving minerals, ami taking
sanitary precautions In order to avoid
disease losses, will lie 111 position (■>
show a profit even while prices are (>i>
a low basis, ilie ■ i; illation slates. Inc
ticient producers whose costs of uiakln
pork are Itigli will I"-'' t.i--ti• ■ \ and w.
be forced to contract their herds.
POWER FARMING TO SOLVE
PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURE
ABSTRACTS
Bad titles perfected
a specialty.
Consolidated Abstract Co.
Office Court House.
Professional
and ..
Business Cards
Cultivating a two-foot stand of cotton with a Fordson
tractor-drawn cultivator.
THE Department of Agriculture of
the State College of Pennsylvania,
is conducting the most exhaustive ex-
periments ever undertaken to develop
new and varied uses for light tractora
on American farms.
Thia development of "power farm-
ing" for greater economy in time, labor
and general operating costs, is being
conducted with the aid of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture of the Federal
Government, through the use of spe-
cial appropriations from the "Purnell
Fund" which the Government has for
luch purposes.
For several years agricultural experts
at the State College of Pennsylvania
have seen that farmers the country
over are not putting their light trac-
tors to the broadest possible range of
use. Too many of the farmers, they
have found, confine their tractor work
to plujving and harrowing, when they
might he employing these same light
tractors also fur planting and cultivat-
ing, spraying and lur the harvesting of
a wider variety of crops than have
heretofore been thought to be suitable
for tractor and tiactur equipment
work.
The ?tse wt hofsc-diawii C4uii;jmcni,
with the extra tiL'.e and luLof icq.jircvl
to handle it and the cost ol feeding
horses and mules Jut ing the compara-
tively idle winter season, is becoming
almost prohibitive to many American
farmers. Light iiaduis are becoming
cheaper and more etiicient. Manufac*
turers of larm equipment are giving
more and more attention to the adap-
tation of farm machinery to tractor
power unit-
Experiments such as are being con-
ducted on the test farms of the State
College of Pennsylvania, are heralded
as the beginning of the end for old
"Dobbin" on the future progressive
American farm.
A. A. ANNIS "
Dentist
Office over First National- Bank
Aspermont, Texas
PROMPT SERVICE
tor Coal and Ice
Hauling of all Kinds,
from the Heaviest
to the Lightest
ERNEST HERRING
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Civil Practice Only
Soecialty—Examining and Perfecting
Land Titles
OFFICE FIRST NAT'L BANK
Phone
100
or see
F. O. GIBSON
H. F. Grindstaff T. E. Knight
Grindstaff & Knight
ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW
(Civil Practice)
ASPERMONT, TEXAS
Stonewall Lodge No. 704 yv. S. FEATHERSTON
A. F. & A. M.
Regular meeting nights on Thur
• lay night on or before the full nioori
in each month. All Master Masons
are cordially invited to attend.
C. 1). ST AM EY, W. M.
M. F. WILLIAMS, Sec.
Efforts are being made to have at Subscribe for THE STAR $1.50 a ear
; least twenty counties of West Texas
i send exhibits to the Texas-Oklahoma
Fair in Wichita Falls, October 1 to (?.
Freshness is a fine quality in al-
most everything except children and
imported cheese.
MONEY
MONEY
MONEY
The family driving horse
drawbacks, hut you couldn't
into a train.
hail
run
his
him
1/intl
5 per
Trying to impart knowledge to the
iVllow who knows it all is wasted en-
ergy because he can't absorb it.
Federal
Money at
WHY PAY
See H. F. (Irindslaff,
Treas. Aspermor,t: X, F
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Hani
cent ,
MOKE?
Sec. &
L. A.
&
Per capita etilisuniplinn of lar.I Is
• in the increase, contrary to the opin-
ion of tunny who believe thut the
competition froin vegetable oil" for
frying mid shortening has made seri-
ous Inroads In the conatiinpii\e outlet
ir lard, snys the Senrs Roebuck Asr-
>ulttirnl Foundation. Folks are ent-
Infc more tuts, rather than less of one
and more of nnolher.
Thirteen a half pounds «'as
the average ipiola of lard In I'-'-'H.
compared with 11.:! pouiuls In the live
pre-war years. |)itt'lng the same peri-
od, consumption of In nl substitute*
made clilelly of cottonseed, pen nut
mid soy-bent. oils, lost a Utile ground.
The gain of W per cent In the total
output of substitutes from Immedi-
ately before the war to
iuflicient to wholly maintain the per
capita consumption of 10." pounds,
whtel wns the it vent g" In
Jtetail prices of bird are
ai much as at the high point reached
Id tl„ summer of HH'.l, and sre lower
than tit the corresponding time In 19-<l
,t p.rjr. This litis helped to Increase
the -i < of lard, which Is generally
preft-ri ci) to the substitutes.
A THING
WORTH
KNOWING
A New Suit
Not Cleaned
And Pressed
Soon Looks
Like An
OLD ONE
We Do Cleaning, Pressing
ami Repairing, antl
Keep you Looking Spic
and Span
Come and see
our New Fall
Samples
Russell & Sen tor
TAILORS
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ife
City Barber Shop
For first class barber
work.
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Ladies and childrens
work a specialty.
W. E. Pyeatt, Prop.
Stonewall County
A bstract Com pan y
) tlia I ockett. Mgr.
Office 2nd Floor
Court House
Vour business appreciated
Aspermont, Texas.
Law, Land & Insurance
Office over
First National Bank
Aspermont, Texas .
Jewelry & Victrola.s
WATCH & JEWELRY
REPAIRING
MAI I. VOI R ORDERS
IVIcMahon Jewelry Co.
HAMLIN, TEAAS
DICK'S TAILOR SHOP
CLEANING,
PRESSING
Suits made to order
New Midway and Carnival attract-
ions will be features for the Tejtas-O-
klahoma Fair at Wichita Falls, Oct-
ober 1 to fi. It will be the first trip
to the South by the Carnival company
Sub oribe for THE STAR $1.60 a « it
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NERVOUS
Louisiana Woman L's Why
She Relies On Cardui For
Her Troubles.
"When j'ist a girl,"
writes Mrs. G. W. Brltt,
of Haughton, La., "I suf-
fered quite a bit at times
.... I would be so tired
all the time that I didn't
really enjoy anything.
"I took three bottles of
Oardul and very soon, I
saw quite a difference.
"Later on In life, after
I got married, I was very
weak and nervous, before
my baby came. I remem-
bered what Cardui had
done for me when a *lrl
and sent for It again.
"I only had taken two
bottles when 1 felt so much
stronger and better.
"I am a gieat believer
In Cardui because 1 know
it did me good."
Cardui should do you
good, too. Try It.
CARDUI
A Vegetable Tonic c-tl
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P.il. Htid
only half
Dal 1 as Ne ws 6c th vj S ! A R S2 25
GULF SERVICE STATION
GAS, OIL, AIR, WATER, INFORMATION
TIRES & ACCESSORIES
TIRES CHANGED TUBES VULC ANIZED
Bring- your car and have it greased with our
High Pressure Greasing System.
Dealer - Goodyear Tires and Tubes
DRIVE IN
C. G. VIERTEL
ASPERMONT PRODUCE
GAS, OIL, TIRES, TUBES
Automobile Accessories
Bring us
POULTRY
Buy of us
Gas and
your
& EGGS
your
Oil
H. L. ORR, Prop.
Too much money makes us nuhappy ,
because we can't get it.
Why Sew when you can get
SCHOOL DRESSES for $1 to 1.75
All Fast ( olors,
Be Sure And See Our New Line Of
FELT AND VELVET HATS
Aspermont
Variety Store
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5 0 0
Federal Land Bank Loans
500
Golden opportunities are generally [
found in clouds with silver linings. |,
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New Kate on all loans closed after
Ai1. 1926. This is a net saving
of $10 per $1000 over any loan offered
b> any other lending concern in Texas.
\V. H. McC-andless, Sec'y-Treas.
Rule National Farm Loan Ass'n. Rule, Texas
Federal Land Bank Cap Stk. Loans.
$0,000,000 $137,000,000
Rule National Farm Loan Assn.
$60,000 $1,000,000
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The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1927, newspaper, August 25, 1927; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200247/m1/3/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.