The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1928 Page: 4 of 8
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER. BASTROP. TEXAa. THURSDAY. AUGl'ST , U«28
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J. O. SMITH. Owner H. A. SCHAEVKK. Editor
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Texas and lexansi
Resume and Comment of Texan' Progress. By \Nill H. Mayesl
« r> reKunl as unsatisfactory Con-
unn-rs in Texas cities have been
paying from S to 124 cents, which
they o ncide-r too hi^h. There in need
for some ajr«*ncy to take* a hund ill
adjusting the prices of farm products
to do away with tHt* disproportion
in prices from producer to o nsomer.
(■etting Natural (•as
Cameron i- happy that it ha.- nat- |
ural gas anil well it may Ik- if its
consumption proves as economical as
it i- convenient. Uvalde is now lay-
ing natural gas mains, San Marcos
ha? before it a proposal for natural
gas. but as that city is iretailing
water mains, and the gas mains will
have to be placed above these, the
giis franchise must await th - com-
pletion of the water plant. San Mar-
cos officials show wisdom in this
orderly proceeding. Many other places
have not been so careful. Progress
is desirable, hut progress should he
orderly and economical. Mistakes
may even !>e made in granting public
u'ility franchises to the first con-
cern- applying for them
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By Arthur Brubtna
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Election Panics
Business is easily frightened. At
least, that is true of those who lend
money, borrow money, or invest
money in industries. It is admitted
that while there may !><• slight dif-
ferences in the fundamental princi-
ples of the two leading political par-'
ties, the differences in their practical,
control of government are so slight a.-
to be almost negligible, yet every
four years business shudders at the
prospect of a change of government
political control. It becomes fright-
ened to a standstill and awaits the
result of the approaching election.
When it is over and it is found that
their money, and the farmer sells at
whatever price he can get in order
to settle with his bank. Mr. Wolfe
says that when Southern bankers and
cotton farmers lose their heads they
also lose the profits that should come,
from cotton growing.
(ioliad'- nil Seepage
I here i- no gues.-
goiiiv' to be found
seepage is injuring
niing pool, as the
like- t,, remove the
bodies after taking
it has led to plans
oil to its source, and may
uncovering u new oil field
ing where oil is
in Texas. Oil
a Goliad swim-
swimmers don't
oil from their
a plunge. But
for tracing the
result in
n Texas.
Valle> Citrus Crop
With citru- fruit shipments from
ihe I.ower Rio Grande Valley this
season reaching 2,500 car- as com-
pared with 1.300 last year, it is ex-
pected that the crop next year
approximate 4,000 or fi.OOft cars
be worth $10,000,000. Texas can
produce all the citrus fruit for which
will
and
the country moves along with a fair i it can find a profitable market, and
degree of smoothness, business pricks 'the greatest danger now confronting
up its ears, and starts on its way Texas growers is over-production. A
again. But much valuable time is late census shows that there are now
lost and nothing is gained by the 3.419,157 citrus trees in the Valley,
pause in progress. In every branch of farming, fruit and
The point I am trying to
that there is no need to wait
after the November election to
School Buildings
Donna, in the l-"Wer Rio Grande
Valley, will invent $300,000 in new
school buildings, consisting of a high
school building and several smaller
buildings. Texas, and especially South
Texas, is showing its interes* in 't-
ter education by the erection of oet-
i ter buildings, that are better equipped
j for the care and training of students.
Corpus Christi is among the larger
i South Texas cities that is noted for
its good school buildings, and it has
recently let a contract for a new
: high school to cost $219,000.
AM Kith AN BUSINESS CROWS
LABOR SAYS 50-50
()V ;R THE SAHARA SAND
WHAT MAN CAN DO
If you know how, ycu can do busi-
ness anywhere. Sear.? Roebuck, un-
der its new president, General Wood,
plans stores all over this country and
in foreign countries, with constant
expansion.
The Woolworth stores, growing
amazingly, now have eighteen stores
in (icrmany, called 25 and 50
pfennig stores, the equivalent of 5
and 10 cents.
John Henry Mears and Charles B.
I < ollyer have beaten the "Around
the world record" by several days.
They finished their journey, at
Miller Field. Staten Island, in twenty
three days.
When Jules Verne wrote his 1
"Around the World in Eighty Da 's,
men said it was an interesting sto'-y,
but never could be done. Now it is
dont. in twenty-three days. And in
years t > come, it will Ik* done in
twenty-four hour*.
Man is a very vble creature, a real
credit to his Maker. What he can
imagine, he can do.
Mr. Hoover, kindly,
says "I shall kiss no baby f(,i '
ligation." That is wise, and
the babies.
l ub-
kind to
No intelligent method
body to kiss her baby.
,. | carry in their mouth*
allow* Hny_
adult,
disease g^rme
harmless to the carriers, but dan*,/
ous to an infant in whom the ,,
tecting white corpuscles are ,n!i°
veloped.
did, Ik)W
Mr.
Hoover uiu, However, h Id o
baby while its older brother took
photograph. He likes babies
I
Ellen Terry after eighty years of
happy, successful life, t- hi her
friends they must not put on mourn-
ing, but wear gay colors, and reJoTce
in her long life, with rust at the end.
She was a sensible woman, but:
mourning is more than honor paid
to tht dead. It affords relief to
those that survive. The widow of
India, if permitted, would be burned
alive with her husband's body.
Savage widows cut and otherwise
mutilate themselves to express grief.
To many civilized w« men a long
Mrs. Brown: "I hear the
thinks your daughter has a
genius for reciting, Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Smith: "Yes; all she
he says to me,
cution just to
is a course of
finish 'er off."
ar
real
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wants,
lectro.
SORE GUMS NOW (TltAHI.K
You won't be ashamed to
again after you use Leto's |>y<
Remedy. This preparation i
and recommended by leading
tists and cannot fail to benefit
Druggists return money
I'. Krhard & Son.
it it.
smile
rrhta
Jsed
den-
you.
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American business understands
business. And when it deals in
foreign countries it buys its goods in
the foreign countries, thus keeping
evt rybodj happy while making
profits.
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On Saturday the executive com-
mittee of the Amercan Federation of
Labor will meet at Atlantic City and
decide probably, not to take sides in
thi national campaign.
Both national candidates are all
right, says Labor.
make is ' vegetable production, and allied in
start
upon that business enterprise you
have in mind. The country is going
to be safe with either party in charge,
and business will move along. What-
ever fluctuations there may be in
prices and demands will be only
temporary and will be about as likely
to occur under one administration as
another.
only
Col-
( on/ales Tomatoes
Gonzales business men have been
so pleased with the results of the
Gonzales tomato industry this year
that they are already at work on
plans for a tomato shipping plant
'there. Business should always show
I interest in its local farming and
| stand ready to co-operate in plans
that are to their mutual advantage.
That is sensible Labor, race and
religon should he kept out of politics.
Besides organized labor cannot de-
liver its men, and dees not help
declaration with no results.
Green head of the federation,
wise American.
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Hot Weather
Discomforts-
Routed by Proper Cosmetics
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elp by a M
s. Mr. I
l, is a f\
Mill!
1 discomforts of sunbui
icse 1 l< t Summer 1 )ay> if
until I "Itistries. the Texas farmer has
to fear an unprofitable market.
! lin county onion grower- are plowing
I under(their onion crops because they
| will not pay for the gathering and
j crating. California grape growers i Markin h,.k( BIockB
are leaving half their grapes on the-
vines in order to maintain prices.
Texas figs have been allowed to fall
from the trees. Marly other crops
annually go to waste. The tillers of
the soil everywhere are in need of
practical help in solving their many
marketing problems.
Cause of Cotton Slumps
M. H. Wolfe, a veteran Dallas
cotton buyer, says that he has been I ... rl. ~
watching the cotton market for 43 i ■<'xa>4 lomato ( rop
years, and that year after year the Smith county alone has shipped
farmers of the South commit finan- more than 1,000 cars of tomatoes
cial suicide by rushing their cotton ! this season. l>ast year the shipments
to market at the time of gathering, totaled 739 counties. Smith is only
He thinks the fault is not so much one of many counties growing toma-
the farmers' as the bankers' and that ; toes for carlot shipments. There are
it is brought about by the system of < at least a hundred others in Texas
short credits in practice over the | where vegetables of almost all kinds
In a city-wide beautification con-
test in San Antonio bronze tablets
are to be placed at both ends of what
has been declared the best kept block
in the city. Beautification contests
always improve the looks of an entire
I city by increasing civic and home
j pride. San Antonio's method of
awarding is inexpensive. The tablets
I should remain only so long as the
blocks are kept ahead of others in
improved appearance.
country. Much cotton farming is [ can be grown about
done on credit, with notes maturing
at the time the crop is ready for mar-
ket, The bankr become anxious for
as successfully
as in Smith county. The price paid
for tomatoes this year has ranged known t<
from 1 Va to 2 cents, which the grow- that may
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—-Repair Your Home
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Texas State Parks
The Texas State Park committee
will recommend three- park locations
in Uvalde county in the hills to ih-^
north of Sahinal. The locations are
said to be among the prettiest park
sites in the State, and Texas is now
abound in attractive -pots
be* converted into State
parks. Well kept parks, whether in
the country or the cities, are standing
invitations to tourists, as well as
places in which the "home f >lks" can
have much pride and comfort.
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An American was prowling around
u Scottish churchyard. His eyec
caught an epitaph, "Lord, she was
thin."
"Say sexton, what d'ye make of
that?" he asked.
"That's all richt, sir; the sculptor
went over near the edge of the stone
and didna leav room for the e."
Miss Katheriiie Locke, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, travelled miles and miles
over the Sahara thinking the sun
would bring back her voice she lost.
It did.
She visited the Gloul of Marakeah.
if you know who he- is, in a dwelling
3,000 ye-ais old in the Atlas Moun-
tains. The (iloul probably knows as
little about us as we know about him.
here is no need lo suffer thi
roughened skin during tl
you use the Correct Cosmetics.
Sunburn, over-exposure to win<
rulv skins are easily helped with 1 he many
types ol face powders, tulctlm
cream, astringents, etc, to be
here. Ask I S.
'ii u
ano un
vanishing
purchased
More interesting to many Ameri-
cans, Miss Locke saw at Timbuktu
pens where Americans slavers once
bought slaves from native chiefs.
Young men, playing jazz music
in night clubs now, would be arr «l?,.'d
to see these |h-ns where their ances-
tors once stopped on the way to
America. They would bless the
slave traders that brought the an
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Schaefer, H. A. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1928, newspaper, August 9, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206599/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.