Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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Published «?erjr Thursday
I. W. DI8MUKES Publisher
One Year S1.50 Six months $1.00
Entered at the Palactos Fost Office as
second class mail matter
KNOW TEXAS
Natural (oaninghead) gasoline
becoming one of the big industries of
Texas with 1928 production valued at
$22,492,000.
The J,,860 cotton gins in Texas rep-
resent an investment of $77,000,000,
according to the Texas Cotton Gmners'
Association.
Texas quarries in 1928 sold stone,
mostly lime and granite, valued at
$2,500,000, and a number of new pro-
jects are getting into production this
year.
Sixty-nine per cent of all Texas
manufactures is found in six counties
—Jefferson, Harris, Dallas, Tarrant,
Baxar and ElPaso. The 4,065 plants
lifted in the 1927 Census Bureau re-
port, employed 11-6,783 persons and
voduced $1,206,579,962 worth of goods.
?.ATORY EXPERIMENTS
• SCOVER NEW COITON USE
i very in the Bell Telephone lab-
• i mil that washing cotton in pure
i.i'T makes as good an electric wire
iator as silk is expected to develop
a n-'V. use for Texas' great staple.
C^Ar' DEPARTMENT STORE
WERTISING IS $2,203,268
Advertising expenditures for 1928
of one of the department store chains
totaled $2,203,in local publications
alone.
"The advertising that stimulates
and produces good will can never
stop," said J. C. Penney, head of the
chain, "for, as has been rightly said,
advertising is the breath of business.
It is one of the major functions that
keeps it growing and stimulates it to
further growth."
Another recent advertising develop-
ment interesting to newspaper folks
is the anti-billboard campaign now be-
ing waged by the Standard Oil Co.,
which destroyed 1,200 of its own high-
way signs as a step toward beautify-
ing the countryside and which recent-
ly used full-page advertisements in
newspapers arguing for removal of
existing billboards and against the
erection of new ones.
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BUY A COW OR TWO
MONUMENTS
—IN—
GRANITE—MARBLE
—OR—
ART STONE
—WORK GUARANTEED—
—SEE US BEFORE BUYING—
EUREKA ART
STONE WORKS
j:OX 42 PALACIOS, TEXAS
E. E. BURTON
The dairy cow is the most economi-
cal prodacer of human food. The foods
produced by lier is the most nourishing
of all foods. T>airy products bring in
revenue every day in the year.
For every 100 pounds of food consum-
ed, the sheep produces only 2 Ms pounds
of edible food solids; a steer slightly
less than 3 pounds; a hen about 5
pounds, and a hog about 5% pounds,
and the average dairy cow 18 pounds.
There are nearly 24,000,000 dairy
cows in the United States. The annual
value of their products reach the enor-
mous figure of over $1,000,000,000.
Corn is the only crop that exceeds the
dairy products as a source of income
to the farmers of this nation.
The dairy cow brings money the
year round, each day, and gives an ad-
ditional profit in the form of a calf.
What a cow produces today is sold to-
morrow. The dairy cow distributes the
demand for labor over the entire year.
She increases the amount of pork pro-
duction and decreases its cost by pro-
viding skim milk and butter milk for
feeding pigs. She furnishes a home
market for hay, and other feed stuff
grown on the farm. From the grass
of the pasture and the roughage of the
field she creates the greatest product
of the farm and puts back into the soil
the fertility these, things have taken
from it. The main reason for the suc-
cess of the German farmers, is that
they realize the importance of the
dairy cow.
Buy a cow or two.—Kerrville Sun.
If you have any of the following b
I have the remedy no matter what your
trouble has been diagnosed: Nervousness,
stomach trouble, loss of weight, loss of sleep,
sore mouth, pains in the back and shoulders,
peculiar Birimning in the head, frothy-like
in tiu .-at, passing mucous from the
afte
w _horyetlowstin,burning
or"itching 5ki. , rash on the hands, face and
FRANCITAS
FACTS & FANCIES
BY JESSE E. CAMPBELL
GOOD-BYE, OLD SMITH PREMIER
Trying to write on this wornout mill
No longer brings a joyous thrill,
No longer helps me court the muse!
Because your poor old wornout screws
Cause grevious kinks and jiggery spots
And direful pain and smears and blots.
Yet, I hate to pass the old mill by!
It saddens—almost makes me cry.
But comes a thought, and it is true,
Old forms but pave the way to new.
And then . . . another passing thought
Reminds me old things come to naught—
And we, as struggling through life's span
Must soon give way to better man.
Almost a poem ? and then a kink
Comes in to put me on the blink—
And spoils a rhyme which might be fair!
Invites instead, an urge to swear.
Why, I'd not reclaim you if I could!
I'm going to buy an Underwood.
And yet, condemn it as I will,
I dearly love the old boat still.
For thirty years you've stood my mood
And sung with me songs bad and good.
Hence now this last refrain to you,
Who've shared my joys, my sorrows too:
Let's hope again on earth to meet,
Well oiled, more zip, and firmer feet.
Alas, I've tried, and tried and tried
To make your faulty carriage ride—
Until I'm madly, sadly sore!
It can't be done, so—au revoir.
PRODUCES PLA
IS FATAL
jES
Stanley, in his quest for Dr. Livings-
I ton in the dark continent of Africa, did
! a thing that was noj for the interest
I of the common mos(juitoe. He brought
back a plant whiel/ he said the moB-
quito swarms to, inhales the sap from
the leaves and—dies. This plant is
being introduced in Eagle Lake. It
will prove as fatal to mosquitoes in
Eagle Lake as it has in Sabine, Port
Arthur, Beaumont and Galveston and
other places, according to Phillip Bra-
dy, who is here to introduce the tree
or bush. Mr. Brady was here Saturday,
leaving for Wallis, but stated that he
would be in Eagle Lake during the
latter part of the week. He owns a
nursery near Beaumont.
The mosquitoes swarm under the
leaves of the mosquitoe plant, the
pests inject their bills into the leaves
and drink the sap and die, Brady said
while he was in the Headlight office
Saturday. "You can go out in the
morning," he continued, "and find dead
mosquitoes by the hundreds, especially
during the time that they are numer-
ous."
The bush resembles that of a tobac-
co plant, he says. It is said to grow
10 or 12 feet in a year and should live
for 10 years in this climate, Mr. Brady
said.—Eagle Lake Headlight.
You x link of PRINTING-
You Naturalhi Think of the——
TEXAS TELEPHONE
FACTS INTERESTING
There were 1,044,916,900 telephone
calls, local and ling distance, in Texas
during 1628, according to Reagan B.
Still of Tyler, president of the Texas
Independent Telephone Association.
Total for the United States was 31,-
600,000,000.
The independents operate 214,338
telephones in the state, and handled
364,374,600 local and long distance
calls last year. ,
Following announcement that the
Carnation Milk Co. will build a milk
condensery at Sulphur Spring, the
Suthwest Dairy Co. gives out a state-
ment that it will establish a modern
milk plant there, giving the county
two good-sized plants. Hopkins County
has 23,700 milk cows, according to a
recent census, which helps to explain
the desire of larger companies to es-
tablish plants in that section.
NO INDEED
bowels, eapeciaw'y alter taking purgative, burn-
ing feet, brown, rough or yellow skin, burning
V. r. EOUNTHEE. M. D.
arms resembliui? sunburn, habitual constipa-
tion, (aometiuit « alternating with diarrhoea)
rapper or metallic taste, skin sensitive to sun
heat, forgetfulncss, despondency and thoughts
that you might lose your mind, gums a fiery
red and falling away from the teeth, general
weakness with loss of energy, If you have
these symptoms and have taken all kinds of
medicine and stili sick, I especially want you
to write for my —
booklet
Miss Ressman: "Whit kind of trees
are those?"
Mrs. Newman: "Mesquite, my dear."
Miss Ressman: "Oh, is that what
these mesquitoes grow on?"
A FEW PRECAUTIONS
Mrs. Katie Carmcl Stroud, Box 479, Pitts-
burg, Texan, whose picture appears here, writes:
"In the Spring of 1927, my hands, arms and
legs broke out with something and I went to
see the doctor and he treated me for some time,
but did not do me any good. A friend of mine
told me about you and your wonderful treat-
ment. I only took two treatments and I haven't
been bothered with that sickness any more. I
can eat and drink anything I want and it docs
not hurt me. I wish everybody could know
about your wonderful treatments and know
what relief they would get after taking them."
FOR FREE DIAGNOSIS AND UTERATURE
WRITE: W. C Rountree, M. D., Austin, Texas MRS. KATIE CARMEL STHOUD
"Let me see. I have the shirt on with
the plain laundry mark. Ditto the col-
lar. I have the suit on with my tailor's
name in it, and the bill in my pocket.
I have six letters that came in the
day's mail. Also my bank book. Then
besides, Billy Magoon, who is going
to bring his brother, who is going to
bring his brother-in-law, who is going
to bring his uncle, who knows the su-
perintendent of mails, is to meet me
at the post office at 1 o'clock. So I don't
suppose I will have any trouble cash-
in that dollar-and-a-half money order."
—Life.
TEXAS
GULF SULPHUR
COMPANY
LARGEST
SULPHUR MINES
IN THE WORLD
GULF, Matagorda County, TEXAS
A PLEASANT HOPE
And I seem to hear a widely scat-
tered bunch of well loved voices say—
whoop-pee there's uncle Jesse after so
long, and now we'll get a line on things
over there, etc.
Never did like to write obituaries,
hence the "etc." is all you get just
now; but hope to presently be able to
hand you a glad message on the sub-
ject of Resurrection, decidedly more
in my line.
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SAFETY FIRST
Why get slagged or even shot for
your little wad of money when you
might so readily find in this big state,
or elsewhere, a wild and wooly wildcat
bank to quickly absorb it in one
smooth, quick, and seeitiingly painless
gulp?
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ANOTHER DETOUR
The road to true happiness may be
found after writing of all our griev-
ances aaginst folks and circumstances,
then see that it don't happen again.
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ABOUT RURAL NEWSPAPERS
Perhaps you know, perhaps you do
not, that a very high quality of Art
is called forth in the creation of a
really first class rural newspaper; and
the practiced observer sees at a glance
"which is what," just as readily as the
trained artist sees the excellence of
some rare painting. Thus it is when
we've looked over a bunch of rural
publications from all over the map,
bad, better, and best, and then pick
up the Beacon, take a cquint at its
classy make-up, super quality print-
ing, excelluence of contributed matter,
editorials, locals, the growing display
of business advertising, its air of
cleanliness etc.; we just have to sit
back on our haunches or something
and grin as we mentally shake hands
with the good old Dizzy bunch, and
congratulate them for still—as ever—
keeping a couple of jumps ahead of the
procession, and also ... If I didn't
love Palacios itself to the sky's limit,
and fully realize it's remarkable fu-
ture, believe me, I'd go much slower
on this blah blah stuff.
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THOSE HOMESPUN DAYS
Here's a little thing your grandma's
naughty mother used to join other
sweet old flapper girls in singing «r
chanting (no doubt in a spirit of pure
envy) at some daring female person
as she flared forth in a new 14 yard
silk dress, sweeping the earth in a
more or less gloriously dignified way.
ALL CHANT
Silk dress outside,
What do you think is under?
Three shifts, five petticoats,
And them as coarse as thunder.
DON'T
WORRY!
We are specialists in dupli-
cating broken lenses—just
bring us the pieces!
Expert, reasonable work.
A full line of modern
glasses that are more com-
fortable and serviceable than
the old-fashioned kind.
jno. d. bowden
CRESCENT DRUG STORE
PHONES 18 & 59
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TEXAS' CONTRIBUTION
TO GAS SUPPLY LARGE
No state is more interested in the
growth of the natural gas industry
than Texas, for no state has contrib-
uted more to making it possible, since
Texas has developed its gas produc-
tion within the past few years.
Since 1908 the consumption of na-
tural gas has climbed from 400 billlion
cubic feet a year to more than 1,600
billion—an increase of 400 per cent—
and Texas alone can take care of any
reasonable further increase, for with
an estimated daily open flow of 18,-
481,175,000 cubic feet, consumption is
averaging only about 500 million cubic
feet a day.
Industrial consumption in that per-
iod climbed from 260 to 1125 billion;
domestic from 140 to 475 billion.
A SMALL ONE
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Professional & Business Cards
FEATHER & SON
REAL ESTATE -
FIRE, TORNADO,
AUTO AND LIFE
INSURANCE
B—O—N—D—S
—NOTARY PUBLIC—
J. L. PYBUS
PLANING MILL
Manufacture all kinds of wood
Wood yard in connection with
Plant
Glass carried in stock.
PHONE 27. PALACIOS
Theodore A. Stramblad
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished On
LIGHT, ifEAT & POWER WIRING
--WRITE OR CALL ON ME. IN—
RUTHVEN BUILDING
H. C. BOYD
Licensed Optometrist
EYES TESTED FREE
If in need of glesses, I Guarantee
to please.
Office in New Building next to P. O.
drT t. f. driskill
DENTIST
Member American Academy of
Applied Dental Science
Pyorrhea, Oral Prophylaxis and
Dentistry
OFFICE HOURS: ■» «
PHONE NUMBER 96
Southwest Rooms, Ruthven Building
PALACIOS, TEXAS
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DR. A. B. CAIRNES
DENTIST
OFFICE:—UPSTAIRS IN
SMITH BUILDING
DENTAL X-RAY ^
PHONE 51
Graduate of University of Buffalo, N.Y
Post-Graduate Northwestern Univer-
sity of Chicago, Illinois.
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l?TrO
Jones wan at an amusement park
and he gave his small niece a nickel
to buy a "hot dog." When she went
over to the stand she was told that the
price was 10 cents.
"Oh," she replied. "Then I'll just
have a puppy."—Indianapolis News.
FOR—
POTATO CHIPS
FRUITS
& VEGETABLES
TRY—
BOLLING'S
FOOD SHOP
-THE MUSIC HOUSE OF TEXAS—
W. E. GOODWIN,
Manager
PHONE
8 0
BAY CITY,
Texas
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Adds Pleasure fo
INDOOR DAYS
and NIGHTS
When Winter's icy blasts cytx>$ scurrying down from the Northland
with the speed of a racing Fokker—WHAT A BLESSING ELEC-
TRICITY IS THEN.
A conveniently placed electric heater, switched on upon arising,
takes the chill from sleeping rooms and enables one to dress in
comfort. ,
At table a bubbling electric percolator sends forth the delicious
aroma of brewing coffee, and the electric waffle iron gives up itu
golden treasure.
The electric grill, the electric chafing dish, and other small appli'
ances are indispensable aids to easy, delightful entertaining, and
electricity, through the radio, releases for your benefit programs
embracing the world's best talent.
Your bills for current, naturally, are somewhat more during fall and
winter months, but the increase is limited by the "3rd Step Rate"
which gives you a preferential, decreased in rate in proportion to the
increased amount of current used.
Consult us concerning the working of the "3rd Step
Rate" in your cape, and also for suggestions as to how
to add pleasure, through electricity, to "indoor days."
Central Power.
AND
Light Cow paiy
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