The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1924 Page: 4 of 8
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rhursday, -May 22, 1924
Weekly
A NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN
DAILY NEWS
■VERY THURSDAY.
N. P. HOUX
Editor and Proprietor.
At the postoffice at Mexia,
aa ttcond class mail matter
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TRADE OUTLOOK 13 BRIGHT.
Waco News-Tribune
How about business conditions ?
Things have slowed down a bit lately
hi several of the basic industries. But
there's nothing; in the situation to
make us uneasy. All indications are
that the slow-down is temporary.
Business is a lot like a man hiking
iieross the continent. He can walk fast
Jwt so long, then he has to stop and
(Mexla Daily News)
The Southern Baptists in convention assembled at Atlanta
this past week have heard injected into their meetings the de-
bate that has unsettled Europe for many years, that between
the "Fundamentalist and Modernist". The Southern Branch of
the Presbyterian church in Assembly at fean Antonio almost at
the same time got mixed up in the same argument. The ideas
of the "Modernists" are not "modern" at all. It is true that
they have been ineffective in gaining much attention on this
side of the Atlantic until in recent months. Just at the close of
the world war, the Bolshevists and Reds decided on a campaign
in the United States in the endeavor to secure in America such
an alliance as one finds on the continent of Europe between
the socialist propoganda and there current unbelief. The Amer-
ican Legion, with its splendid program of "America for Amer-
icans" and the Ku Klux Klan rose up and said "stop." And
Russian Bolshevist leaders called off the blatant campaign they
had planned. Who knows but that the injection of these de-
bates into old Southern denominations is not an insiduous part
of a less open campaign decided upon in Red circles. Reds know
well that the nation is doomed that forgets God and every ef-
fort is doubtless today being made to undermine this country
It al-
rest. That's the real business siuta-
tion—production was on too big a jjy enemies to America, striking first at the basis of Christian
scale, so now there's a lull to "size Amerjca_the Christian Church.
things up. Large service to America and to Christianity may be done
These lulls come periodically even b
during long-range periods of prosperi- by who help to restate the old facts and unchanged truths in
terms that will make them vivid and vital to others. Men of
constructive ability . are required to grapple successfully with
such conditions, to think clearly and to guide the church safe-
ly past the rapids and shoal of disaster which must be met
bravely, fearlessly but in readiness.
"Neither ignorant and blatant infidelity nor more or less
ably reasoned skepticism and agnosticism can be ignored by
the ministry, but must be met with scholarly thoroughness and
fairness and always in the Christian spirit."
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ty. Trade goes up and down.
ways has, and it always will.
Take steel. This giant industry is
operating at about 80 per cent of
capacity, maybe 85. But in recent
months production was smashing all
records. Now the industry slows down
tc catch its breath.
Then, too, buyers are buying hand-
to-mouth, holding back for lower
prices. Makers are slowly making
concessions—small price cuts to serve
as bait. This also is a periodical and
inevitable reaction. When prices sta-
bilize, lots of orders.
Auto industry also is quieter. Buy-
LETS HAVE A TRADE TOUR
Why not a trade tour for Mexia business institutions?
This is a question thoroughly timely at present.
It should be answered by action, by getting up some morn-
ing movements by the public comes in • ing briught and early and starting out on a good will and busi-
ness building mission which should carry the Mexia party to
every community within the radius of Mexia's expanding trade
territory.
Mexia has apparently forgotten the value and the necessity
of such tours in the past few years, as no party of business
men from here has visited surrounding communities in a body
since the great oil field boom.
Mexia should wake up to the opportunity which such a
trade trip affords. Other towns and cities have demonstrated
their value. Other places, large and small, all over the country,
engage in these commercial and fraternal visits every year.
What others have found necessary and valuable, Mexia business
men, without doubt, also will find most desirable.
This is the season to make the trip.
Now is the time to go.
Other places are active, coming right into this section to
But business leaders are expecting i attract to their centers whatever trade they can from this part
good times. They're getting ready °f the state.
{or it—providing the capital to carry! Waco wil lbe here next week. Glen Rose, a town less than
work. In April 298 million dollars 2,000 people, and twelve miles from a rail road, this week en-
gaged in a tour which carried the party to Dallas and other
populous centers, where they advertised the health advantages
their community affords. Amarillo, in the Panhandle, with over
one hundred members of a business man's party, chartered a
train a few days ago and are now on a trip which has crried
them hundreds of miles from home.
Most every town in West Texas engages in extensive trade
trips annually. And no doubt but that that spirit is
many wonders for the West.
waves. The last big wave, during
January and February and March,
made the factories turn out more cars
than ever before. A lull now, but only
temporary. Place your bets on an-
other big buying movement, to start
soon.
A lot of the lessened activity in
business generally is seasonal—al-
ways comes at this time of year. That's
one resason why coal production is so
low. Spring always brings a dull
spell. Furthermore, there's a tre-
mendous over-production of coal—and
10 national strikes in sight to create
a shortage.
Judge Felix D. Robertson
CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
WILL SPEAK AT MEXIA HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
North Red River Street at Bray son
FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 23 at 8:30
The general public, especially the ladies, cordially invited and urged
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to hear Judge Robertson present his claims to the Democratic voters.
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CHATS WITH THE BOYS
Teague has a new paper just started
by the Russell Printing Company, the
first issue appearing Friday, May 16,
and if it keeps up to the standard set
at the start it is going to be a hum-
dinger. The issue before us is filled
with good reading matter and a liberal
amount of fat looking ads, and would
be a cerdit to any town. The editor,
F. B. Russell, is an experienced news-
paper man, formerly of the Trinity
County News, and is competent to
run a good, live weekly home paper.
We gladly extend the hand of fellow-
ship to him as a citizen of this section
and hope that his new paper will live
long and continue to prosper.
worth of new stocks and bonds were
ficated, compared with 305 millions in
April last year.
n the first three weeks of April
(latest figures available,) the rail-
loads of the whole country loaded
rnd moved 2,620,318 cars of revenue-
i roducing freight. This was a bit less
than in the corresponding weeks of
last year, but away ahead of 1922 and
1921. From the first of the year to
pril 20, the roads moved 142 cars of
When McAdoo shakes hands with
(he populace he uses both the right and
left. And it may have been his ability
as a left-hand shaker that brought him
the forty Texas votes.—Kosse Cyclone.
Like a fellow we once knew in Aus-
tin who played keno with both hands,
and he kept both busy. Mr. McAdoo
seems to be a good mixer, and that is
what wins in politics.
MANANA
This is a Spanish word, pronounc-
ed "Man-yan-a," languidly and lei-
surely, and is most important day
in a lazy man's life.
It is the watch word of the weary,
the slogan of the slumberer.
"Manana" serves the sluggard in-
stead of "pep." It takes the place
of the "get up and git" of the hus-
tler.
It is the day when the ne'er-do-
well gets a job and the miser sends
his wife to Palm Beach.
It is the day when the little boy
wipes his feet before coming into
the house and the little girl asks to
dry the dishes.
It is the day when you have your
most prized, yet most neglected, pos-
session, your eyes, examined to be
sure you are not endangering your
life as well as the public by driving
your car with faulty vision.
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CLOVER-ANDERSON
Mr. Charles L. Clover, secretary of
the Mexia B. P. O. Elks lodge, and
Mrs. Corinne Anderson surprised their
Wends here last Monday when they
went to Marlin where they were quiet-
They returned to Mexia
doing SO Ifiee h'm at work, probably feeling that
the sight of a Washington official at
The Mexia Manufacturers and Jobbers could do no better | work ought to be sufficiently novel to
thing at this time than to get back of this idea and see that a Uatisfy anybody.—Teague Chronicle,
well defined program is carried out over a comprehensive itin-} Those Washington fellows have been
erary covering the trade territory of this city and what ought i working all right—working the people,
Mr. Coolidge has discontinued shak-
ing hands with visitors but will per- ! ly married.
•nit them to file through his office and J the following day and it has gradually
become known that their romance has
led them to the marriage altar where
freight for every 141 a year ago in i . , , , .
D 19ft to be the trade territory. I
t ifi corresponding petriodj 8nd !«.() in , > • • • ■« • / , • ■
io2* and ill in 1021 I The secret of a happy people is in thrift. Keep them en-j
This is the long-range tendency, j f^ed- doing something worth while and getting results and)
lot only in rail traffic but in general;
business. That's what really counts
and the oil magnates.
the long-range activity, not temporary j
lulls.
Farmers are busy with their crops;
in their hearts for pessimism and ! carpenters, painters, brick masons and
doubt about what the world is coming to in a business way. |>>H others, with one exception, are busy
o | in town. The Sons of Rest stand idly
Habit clings. The old-timer who
worke his way through college is now
working his son's way through.
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wire are being recognized.
A PROGRAM OF FARM DEVELOPMENT
j by and lock upon the industrial stride
with calm indifference.—Wills Point
Chronicle.
And even the Sons of Rest keep
the hardest work a working man can
engage in.
The Mexia Chamber of Commerce could do not better thing
at present than to direct its attention to a well defined pro-
gram, designed to stimulate farm development through poul-
try raising and the production of creamery products. Quite a
few sections of Texas have entered these fields and they are
Handwriting is transmitted by tele- j finding that it distributes prosperity more generally and makes
graph so successfully in France that j for better times than any other agricultural activities. A sec- j These days are getting longer and
signatures to important papers sent by tion near here, attesting that fact, is the counties of Erath and warmer all the time, and the banks
Hamilton, about 100 miles West of Waco. Hundreds of thous- Lf the river and creeks are lined with
ands of dollars are brought into those counties annually be-1 people angling for the sly fish. Most
cause of the great crops of poultry, eggs, and creamery pro-1 „t them come home just like they went
ducts. In fact more money is derived by the farmers from these jaway, but still have hopes of catching
crops alone than Limestone and Freestone counties get out of Something the very next time they go
their cotton production. With excellent home markets and with I filing. That is all that makes a man
main lines leading from Mexia to every one of the larger cities j Relieve that life is worth living. He
they were united on their happy life's
voyage. They are being congratulated |
generously by their many friends who '
wish them much joy and success. i
The groom has resided in Mexia for
tl e past three years, all of which
period he has been active in Elks' af-
fairs and been its secretary since its
organization a little more than two
years ago.
The bride came to Mexia about a i
year ago, since which time she has i
been serving the community as a nurse j
at the Brown hospital. Through her
The South African city of Durban,
which owns the local telephone system,
will convert it into an automatic sys-
tem at a rate of 2000 telephones a
year.
Regarded as impregnable against
attacks by land or air, the Bank of
France has been supplied with a vault
having a bomb proof roof and sur-
rounded by water.
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busy—doing nothing—which is about v/insome personality, lovliness, and un-
relfish charm she has found her way
to the hearts of all who have become
acquainted with her. She formerly
resided in Mississippi.
They are at present residing in the j
Hurdleston hotel but will move soon j
SOFT CONSTRUCTION IN
SUMMER OXFORDS!
If you have ever tried to wear shoes
that feel like a metal cast on your feet, you
will know why we emphasize this important
point. Leather doesn't have to be "like a
board" to stand up—to keep shape.
It will mean a whole -lot to you to have
the coolness and comfort that you get here
in oxfords. i
The Newest Lasts and Patterns
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hers
All Sizes and Widths
$5.5$ - $8M - $WM and $12.50
GENE SINCLAIR
GOOD SHOES AND
HOSIERY
cid not steal his calf, but had stolen
$10 from him ten years ago. A $10
note was inclosed. While Romer went
about town telling the story to his
friends, some one slipped into his barn
and returned the calf.
o——
"Why, don't you run your 'Terrell
Sixteen Years Ago' column again?"
a*ks an anxious reader. AVell, sir, the
publication of that column if faith-
fully reproduced, leads to more em-
barrassing sintnt.ion* than you can
fh&ke a stick at. To the publisher, we jng ^e outset. It takes up the time of the farmer who ought
mean. For instance, it sometimes
gives away the ages of some people
who are averse to having such facts
made public. Again, it brings up
poignant memories that were best left
ur.revived. And still again, there are
readers who get these bygone events
mixed up with present day affairs.
We recall that in this column we once
stated that a "son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. So-and-So." We got n real
hot balling out until explanations could
be made.—Terrell Transcript.
Nuff sed.
H as hopes that next year will find him
| in better condition financially, phys-
is why he continues to go fishing and
hopes to land some sure enough worth-
while fish.—Kilgore Chronicle.
After all this good old world seems
to be full of optimists—fellows who
nre looking forward to something bet-
ter, whether it ever comes or not.
Come to Texas.
From the looks of his last week's
paper, it seems that Brother Houx of
the Mexia Herald has gone ;«*.o the
tgg business. The copy reaching us
contact with somebody's setting of
eggs being shipped via parcel post.—
Franklin Texan.
Or maybe some fellow had used your
copy for a napkin to wipe off his
chin after a good spring breakfast.
to their
street.
apartment on East Milam
or the State, which places may be reached in a few hours by
rail, Limestone and Freestone counties are \rell located for such
an activity. More poultry and cream products are brought to I ica]]y and in every other way. That'handsome homes.
Mexia by train and sold here than by wagon or auto.
There is no reason under the sun why poultry farms should
not prove profitable in this section, unless it be the one that
no market locally is available to serve as the distributing and
. . T sales center for poultry products to be marketed through. And
Advertising pays. John Romer, of yjjg js }nc|eeci important and a service which the Chamber of
Mechanicsburg, Pa., advertised for a | £omnlerce COuld render. It could secure a man or company for
calf that had been lost, strayed or ^ ]\jexja j-0 eT1ter this business, giving him the support of a poul-
stolen. ihe following morning he re-1 proc)uctjon program, fostered and encouraged by the Cham-
ber of Commerce.
The first thing to do is to secure the services of a Secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce who is in sympathy with
such a program and who knows how to win the respect of the
larmers of the section. ^ was covered entirely with the contents
. Jhe next thing to do would be to secure an expert in, hand- ,)f an probabIy havi come in
ing farm products, who would be willing to engage in the bus-
iness here. This would afford a local market, a distributing cen-
ter, similar to that afforded at Wmnsboro, through W. A. Na-
bors, now Railroad Commissioner of Texas. The work of Mr.
Nabors added millions of dollars of wealth to that part of East
Texas in the past few years. At present when a farmer brings
anything to town, he has to peddle it out from house to house,
or peddle it to some local store. This arrangement is discourag-
The home of Mr. and Mrs. John
Neece is going up rapidly on South
Ross Avenue. It is to be one of the
finest homes in the city and looms
now most imposingly in a section of
Mora than 80,000 people daily use
the forty-eight elevators in the Equit
building of New York.
to spend that time in production rather than in peddling. Too
a peddlar's route is so uncertain.
The third thing necessary to a program of this kind would
be to secure an ice cold storage here adequate to accomodate
the farm products brought here for sale. This is important as
a storage is required to keep the products fresh until a ship-
ment is ready.
A market here would enable every farmer in the section
to bring his eggs or whatever chickens he has to sell and find
a ready market. He might not have but a dozen eggs, but :t
would be that much and by the end of the year a neat sum
would be derived, the money distributed generally throughout
the country. It would mean that Mex:a would be the center of
agricultural activities, bringing hundreds of farmers here
every week and the entire section would be benefited.
Every farm is an industry in itself. There are thousand "
these industries within Mexia's trade territory. It is import
therefore, that every help possible be given t*- ^ustries.
Quite a bit, of work is being done on
Mexia streets at present. Red River
street, leading from East Commerce
street to the High Scool has been
greatly improved, furnishing another
drive way to the high school from the
j South part of town.
of the Texas Press Association.—Sam
Miller in Mineral Wells Index.
And just to think, we have made
lio preparations to attend that meeting.
These "entertainment" schemes should i
be published earlier in the game and
a'low "all" to take advantage of the
opportunity.
Our position simply is that the
hobbings left at the bobber shops
should bo made into wigs for the bald-
heads.—Snap Shots.
Then we could all be amply supplied
with hair. We are patiently waiting
for ours.
Albert Luker, edftor of the Grape-
land Messenger, has got himself elect-
ed mayor of his home town and in the
issue of the paper carrying the news
he has a story about one of the pou'-
You've gotten a chain letter I am
sure, for mails are flooded with them.
We discarded ours in the wastebasket
and advise others to do the same, how-
ever, advice is cheap and you can do
r.s you please.—Bryan Eagle.
Yes, we got one that said if we did
not pass it along within twenty-four
hours some bad luck would forthwith
overtake us. We didn't "pass" it, and
Batteries are usually guaranteed for one
year. It is a poor one that will not last that
long. But what will it cost you to keep it that
long. If you get a DEAD cell, you pay for the
repair.
Hot So Wi Hards
We guarantee THREAD RUBBER WIL-
LARDS TWO YEARS. If at any time it has
a dead cell it is repaired FREE.
Carter Buttery Co,
Commerce and Paris Sts., Mexia, Texas
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CAR THIEVES WORKING
IN THE POWELL FIELD
Do You Cough?
Antonio, Texas—"We
A Oodge Brothers roadster, belong-f
ng to the J. K. Hughes Developing !
Company, was stolon last night from
le Alexander lease at Powell. G. M |
Ball, lease superintendent there, has |
Pierce's
sure enough the bad luck came right j notified thr. officers in this and all!
along. Our oil well has not yet come ] adjoining counties in an effort to ap-j
in. jprehend the thicv-.-. Ui.e car was!
j ilted up with all Bcve«.= ;ries, includ- j
The News' advice to young men ing a new tire which was just pur. i
j around Teague is to stick to their jobs.' chased \VHr>"~day. A inward of 5-3 ,
By working hard e'ght hours a day i is bciti^ offered to anyone giving in-
try raisers feeding his hens on corn ' for a few years they may get to be' mi malum tint \ i'l lead to the return
mash and juniper berries and produc- boss—and
ing real e^gnog. Luker claims every hour* a ri
egg is a jag and we suggest that he E.pccia'
ship a few cases to Amarillo in June pnp?r gn
to further his campaign for president Jhow it is.
"ii they can work twelve
'"cigue News.
the:' enter the new--
iCusbcU seems to know
of the cai.
The piles tint hold th? Wool-
• th b-i'vV.g are sunk 110 lest in'
| lie ground.
I
have
< iolclcn Mcdical
Discovery i n
our family for
coughs and
bronchial troub-
le and it gave
entire satisfac-
tion. I am a prac-
tical nurse and
have found the
\'Golden Mcdical
Discovery' to be
of great benefit
to those recover-
ing from sick-
lier which had left them in a weak-
ened condition. It enriches the blood,
improve: tlv appetite and aids diges-
tion. I can conscientiously recom-
mend* this medicine."—Mrs. C. E.
Smith, 2. 0 E. Dittmar Ave.
l/o at once to your neighborhood
store and get the "Golden Medical
Discovery" in tablets or liquid.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1924, newspaper, May 22, 1924; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292419/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.