Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1924 Page: 3 of 4
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THE NEW YEAR
Brings
NEW GOODS
NEW IDEAS and
NEW EFFORTS
on our part to carry the best goods
at the least possible cost to our cus-
tomers.
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Our new Spring Shoe line is here
for the man who demands style,
comfort and fit, and you will find
this combination in the Beacon line
ON
DISPLAY
THIS
WEEK
SHOW
Hayes Clothing Co.
A MAN'S STORE
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Trespalacios
Toe Prints
(By Sam R. Smith)
If anyone has an idea that the
weather can't change its mind
suddenly, just look back to last
Saturday and Sunday. Saturday
we sat around coatless, doors and
windows open to let the warm,
balmy air in' Sunday the wind
came screaming from the North,
and we chinked up every crack
to keep the cold air out.
Last Saturday three cars were
mired down within 150 feet of
each other near the bridge here,
and if our county commissioners
had their radios tuned in they
didn't hear Caruso singing. The
vocal solos sounded more like ex-
clamation points from Dante's
Inferno, and the air smelled very
much like it does at the sulphur
mines at Gulf. Seventeen cars
and five or six wagons bogged
down in that county bog hole
last week and had to be helped
out, It is still there waiting for
eventeen more victims.
This part of the Gulf coast can
without doubt be made as rich
and productive citrus fruit and
fig producing country as can be
found, BUT, there is very grave
danger of our people going too
wild over the proposition and in
their overwrought enthusiasm
biting off more than they can
chew. We simply put this in as
a word of caution. Ten acres of
oranges taken care of and made
productive and profitable year
after year, will be a bigger draw-
ing card and produce more satis-
factory results than 1000 acres
blooming and bearing one or two
years, and thro want of care be-
gin to die out and become an eye-
sore and a black eye to our coun-
try. That happened once. Let's
see that it does not happen now.
The papers last week carried the
report that 1500 acres of fig trees
will be planted in one farm this
year. 1500 acres of figs means
lots of outlay, lots ef care and
constant attention, and we pre-
sume the parties behind that en-
terprise realize what LOTS
means, else they would not un-
dertake such a gigantic enter-
prise. Care and caution are the
two watchwords that every per-
son should tack up over every
gate entering the enclosure to
their citrus fruit and fig or-
chards, Money, and loads of it,
is necessary to successfully raise
citrus fruits. California and Flor-
ida have spent loads of money
bringing their citrus fruit acres
to their present prosperous and
wealth producing condition. We
firmly believe that Matagorda
County and other parts of the
Gulf coast is as well, if not bet-
ter adapted to the raising of cit-
rus fruits as any part of Califor-
nia or Florida, but it cannot be
done without giving the business
the SAME care, the SAME at-
tention, the SAME business
methods, and the SAME kind of
protection they give to make the
business a success in those states.
One thousand successful and con-
tented five or ten-acre citrus
fruit growers are more desirable
than 10,000 half hearted fly-by-
night fellows, who come in and
try to plant the whole country in
one season, fail and are gene,
and the country receives a ten-
year backset on account of it.
We don't want anyone to imag-
ine for a moment that we are of
the pessimistic, alarmist sort,
for we are not. We have great
faith in this country and its pos-
sibilities. Forty years of our life
has been spent in trying to build
up the communities and coun-
tries in which we have lived. Un-
wise overdoing any meritorious
proposition will take but a short
time to kill it, and will take years
for the country to recover from
the shock and makes it ten times
harded to interest people again.
We reiterate, that a judicious,
truthful presentation of the
country and its possibilities, fol-
lowed up with demonstrations
that demonstrate, will fill the
country with the best and most
desirable class of people.
Second Prize Essay
In Thrift Contest
themselves, and the wide-awake
boy and girl, man and woman, is
there to take advantage of their
opportunity. But matters in
which all of us may practice
thrift are those of health, time
and money.
People who do not care for
their bodies and who are always
in poor health are certainly not
thrifty. For they waste money
and time and cost themselves
pain and discomfort as well.
The man with an unsound body
can not go out into the world and
compete with healthy men and
expect to gain as much progress
as they. So anyone can see that
it is actually a paying business
proposition to give your body a
square deal" by allowing it
plenty of fresh air, up-building
exercise and clean, wholesome
foods, so that it can give in re-
turn a clear mind, capable of
deep, vigorous thought, and the
power to say that you are "feel
ing fine."
We must conserve our time for
its worth can actually be esti-
mated in dollars and cents. The
boy or girl who wastes time in
school is day by day turning
their ship of life into the waters
of failure. The man who wastes
his time is never a success in the
business world, and the woman
who wastes her extra hours is
never a good home builder.
And to save money is the aim
of all. Conservation of health
and time are only aids to saving
money. From money saved we
can realize material benefit for
money speaks for itself. The
Savings Bank is the execution of
a thrifty idea of a thifty people.
It is truly a blessing to the in-
dustrious and ambtious man and
woman. It is a wonderful finan-
cial garden in which we can
plant a tiny seed and watch it
grow into a home, all our own,
or the key to open the doors of
college to us. Children should
be taught the merits of the Sav-
ings Bank, for it is an incentive
to thrift. It encourages system,
the most essential principle of
all things.
To succeed then is our aim and
the tiny hinge on which the door
of success is swinging is thrift.
Since we are all creatures of
habit, let's get the thrift habit,
put a dollar in the Savings Bank
today and realize real thrift, the
secret of success in bnsiness,
contentment in the home, and
even standing in society.
Orange Trees.
Orange, grapefruit, lemon,
kumquats, limequats now for
sale by the Jewel Nursery.
Albert Law, Prop.
When you ask for insurance of A Fresh Supply of Jordon Al-
any kind you have every reason monds one pound boxe8 49 cent8i
to expect Safety, Service, Sta- Nester Drug Co.
bility. Grant & Grant cheerfully
fill these requirements.
Old Bill Has a Rich Pasture
n.
Shell Fertilizer.
For a limited time we will sell
in bulk our Lime Fertilizing
Shell, at $3.00 per ton to our
home people and farmers.
The Gulf Products Co.,
Jas. W. Sartwelle.
LODGE DIRECTORY
"Old Bill," who has been called the richest horse in the world, retired from
an active life some time ago and now grazes on a flve-acre pasture in Votings-
town, O., that is worth $200,000, fronting on some of the most expensive busi-
ness property. The owner,. Miss Hannah Kyle,, says that "Old Bill" has been
finished with Yt *VearS nobody can buy that Pr°Perty untU he is
Clock-Keeper of the Treasury
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Charles V. Buettner, who is responsible for the 875 clocks in the United
States Treasury at Washington, is shown here working on a clock that has
b«en ll#eping time for tSw &i»Kiriin«at since 1832.
By Dorothy Douglas, 11th Grade.
Success is the goal towaro
which overy worthwhile boy and
girl in America today are direct
ing their efforts. To reach i
they must recognize its print
pies of foundation, and the ve
basis on which it rests is thru
How many of them—of all of
—do recognize that foundatio
Many who fail do not realize t
importance of thrift, or the p
it plays in the materializatir
their own individual hope
dreams. They overlook
point because it is seemin
small and insignificant on<
after all, we must all b<-
to see that "it is the littl
of life that count."
There are many wa<
to exercise thrift, sr
that even the thr
could not outline
all the means of s
means are cons1
Stated meetings of
PALACIOS LODGE No.
090, A. F, & A. M.,
meets on Friday night on
or before full moon in each
month.
Stated meetings of
PALACIOS CHAPTER
NO, 135, O. E. S.
are held the first and
third Tuesday nights
at 7:30 o'clock. Visit-
ing members welcome
W. Nestes, W. M.
Mrs. Susan B. Feather, Sec'y.
Church Directory
METHODIST CHURCH.
9:45 A. M. Sunday School.
11 A. M. Preaching Service.
3 P. M, Intermediate League.
6:30 P. M. Senior League.
7:30 P. M. Preaching Service.
7 P. M. Wednesday Prayer meeting.
You are invited.
G T. Hester, P. C.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Bible School. 9:45 A. M.
Morning Service, 11:00 A, M.
Evening Service, 7:30 P. M.
Junior C. E,, .'S:30 P, M.
Inter, and Senior C. E. 6:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting, Wed. 7:30 p. m.
Visitors are cordially invited.
G. F. Gillespie, Pastor.
BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday.School 10 A, M.
Preaching 11 A. M. & 7:30 P. m.
Young People 2:30 P. M. &7 P. m.
Prayer Meeting 7 P. M.
All services will be at the church.
H. A. Echols, Pastor
Christian Church.
Sunday School at 9:45 sharp;
the Lord's Supper immediately
after. All scholars and friends
urged to attend.
Preaching every Sunday at 11
o'clock A M. by Dr. T. F. Dris-
kill.
Church of Christ.
At High School Building:—Bi
ble Study 10 to 10:45 a. m.
Preaching 10:45 to 11:45.
Lord's Supper following
vices every Lord's day. A
come to all.
ser-
wel-
' TNTY OFFICERS.
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Grant, Mrs. Earl. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1924, newspaper, January 24, 1924; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth411804/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.