The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE ENTERPRISE.
W. L. WEST, Editor.
Entered as second Class matter, October 4
1905 at the post office at Livingston, Texan,
under the Act of ’Congress of Maroh 3, 1897.
Office in Willis Building,
WeBt Side Of Court House Square
Telephone No. 39.
subscription:
(Pa.ya.bie in Advance.',
One year • S'l.OU
Six months...............50
Three months.........-V.:.......■... .25
g.,j- Oblturaries, Card of Thanks and all like-
tnatter th^t Is rot news will be charged for af
one-half regular rates.
Advertising rates made known on application
at this office.
Mr. Farmer,'what are you go-
ing to bring to the fair on Octo-
ber IS, 19 and 20? Be here with
some kind of an p:hibit; you may
get several of the prizes.
The city tax rolls have been
made up and the collector will b^
after your money soon. As soon
as this money is paid in the city
council will get busy with some
" street improvements.
Bring your cotton to Living-
ston. You will get the best mar-
ket price in this section and will
find that our merchants will sell
you goods cheaper than many of
the larger concerns of the cities.
The Livingston High Shod will
open on Monday September 11.
Have your children to enter
school on the opening day so the
teachers will have no trouble in
getting the classes .properly
graded.
all thronged with bargain hunt-
ers from all parts of the county
and fi’om several adjoining coun-
ties. It seems that competition
is already bringing more trade
to the town, which makes it bet-
ter for the old established firms
as well as the new ones. Living-
ston is the place to bring your
produce and get good bargains
from our merchants.
If anyone who does not believe
it pays to advertise could have
seen the stores Saturday of the
enterprising merchants who are
taking space in this paper, they
- would have been convinced that
advertising pays.
Add Governor Colquitt con-
gratulated Jacob on the result of
his encounter with Thos. B. Love
in (he Driskill hotel Monday
morning. No doubt he would
congratulate the antis on almost
anything they would do.
We learn that the county fair
which is to be held here on Octo-
ber 18, 19 and 20, is being talked
of all bver the county and from
all indications there will be a lar-
ger crowd and more exhibits at
the fair this year than ever be-
fore. ■** .
The Livingston Band is the
most progressive bunch that our
town has and they should be en-
couraged in every way by our
citizens. The ladies are to be
complimented for the assistance
they are giving them in their en-
tertainment tonight.
The merchant of this day and
time who fails to advertise is like
the old time merchant who tho’t
there was no use to advertise, be-
cause John, Jim and all the rest
of the community‘knew him. The
merchant who does not advertise
now soon gets lost in the shuffle.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Houston has done a great deal in
advertising the best city of the
south. They have spent $20,000
in one year advertising that city
and its wonderful opportunities.
This organization is made up of
Houston’s most progressive bus-
iness men and Secretary Adolph
Boldt is a live wire, when it comes
to boosting for Houston.
Livingston looked like a busy
'city Saturday. The stores were
A farm with bad roads is worse
off than a farm with bad water.
It is hard to understand how a
farmer, otherwise enterprising,
should be-naekward in building
roads. Travel through some of
our rural districts and you will
find farmers with blooded stock,
land highly cultivated and prem-
ises well kept, and with public
highways that bog up an empty
wagon six months in the y&ik.
Build «oads and keep up with the
procession.—C. S. A.
Too much importance can not
be attached to intelligent exploi-
tation in town building. Exploi-
tation is accomplished mainly
through the newspapers, maga-
zines and trade journals, through
booklets, pamphlets, etc., by se-
curing conventions and having
fairs and other kinds of public
gatherings. Still another very
valuable avenue is by exhibits at
different fairs. But exploitation
covers such a large scope that
further than those above enum-
erated cannot be detailed.—Ex.
Si "■■■
We call special attention of our
readers this week to the article,
“East Texas as a Hog Country,”
which was delivered by D. S.
Harrison at a recent meeting of
The Texas Swine Breeders^ As-
sociation, which met at College
Station. Every farmer should
read the article and get busy
with hog raising in this section.
It has been proven beyond a rea-
sonable doubt that East Texas is
the best hog country in the state
and many have come to realize
this fact already from the num-
ber of hog ranches that are being
established in this section.
If we don’t help each other,
who, pray, is going to Mllp us?
Subscribe as liberally as you can
when the ladies call upon you in
the name of the Civic club and its
work.—Navasota Examiner - Re-
view.
The ladies of a town can do
more good than any other organ-
ization when they organize a Civic
club for the improvement of a
town. They have town pride
and want to see the town put in
an inviting condition to strangers.
If the men of a town will lend
the financial aid to such an organ-
ization as this the ladies, you
may rest assured, will do their
part. We hope to see such an
organization for Livingston soon.
Texas is today enjoying an era
of prosperity and expansion.
Improvements areHn progress
along all lines. Its population is
increasing each year; its rail-
road mileage is being extended;
its manufactures enlarged; its
agriculture each year is opening
up to new possibilities and bring-
ing new areas into ijbs domain.
In order, however, for this
growth to continue it will be nec-
essary that the roads of the state
be improved for bad roads will
checkmate its increasing popula-
tion, impede its railroad develop-
ment, hamper the enlargements
of its manufactures and restrict
its agriculture.—C. S. A'.
Periodical commercial clu b s
are like wet weather springs.
During the rainy season they
The to4n with this kind of organ-
ization will move along in the even
tenor of its way, waiting for
something to turn up.. When
something comes its way, a big
rush is made, mass meetings
called, and everybody gets busy.
As a rule by the time the machin-
ery is put in mbtion the oppor-
tunity has passed on and the
“wise” citizen settles down to
whittling goods boxes to explain
why the town lost out. It m^kes
one~think of the blotter; as a
rule .you can never find it until
the ink gets dry.—Exchange.
The Nacogdoches Fair promis-
es to be the biggest enterprise of
its kind in East Texas this fall,
and will attract a large attend-
ance from this section, as will al-
so the Timpson Fair. The pi’o-
motfirs are leaving nothing un-
done that will contribute to the
success and grandeur of their
enterprises for which they are
to be congratulated.—Garrison
News. '
Now, Bro. Gibbs, you are very
wrong, indeed, when you say that
the Nacogdoches and Timpson
fairs promise to be the big-
gest things of their kind in East
Texas. Livingston will have a
county fair October 18,19 and 20,
and it will be just as big as any-
thing of its kind pulled off in East
Texas, and we are proud of the
distinctioii of being the only fair
not charging admission to the
fair grounds. Come to the Polk
County Fair.
OHM
A business man of our town
was lately asked if he read a cer-
tain article in the home paper,
and he said no, but somebody
told him about it. Now, thi& is
the second time this has happen-
ed, to my certain knowledge, .in
the last two months. Now, look
here; is your business so rush-
ing that you have no time, or is
the paper too shallow for you? If
it’s the latter, just please keep
quiet about it, but if it is the for-
mer hire more help, take a lay-off
and read some, for we are sure it
will do you good. We honestly
believe that the reason some bus-
ness men don't advertise more is
because they don’t read them-
selves and take it for granted
that no one else does.—Bronson
Light.
That’s true as gospel, too. If
every business man would make
it a practice every day to read
the advertisements of tho^e bus-
iness houses that do advertise,
they would soon become infused
with a desire to do likewise. In
this connection we recall that
just a few days ago a banker in
conversation with the Leader ed-
itor, referring to a certain gro-
cery merchant’s advertising in
the Leader, said: “I always read
the ads of that merchant, because
they always contain something
of interest. They are not on the
old stereotyped, cut and dried
order, but contain something that
will interest the prospective pur-
chaser.” That’s just a tip to the
merchants who claim that adver-
tisements in the newspaper are
not read.—Orange Leader.
The editor of this paper heard
a prominent man in an adjoining
town say a few days ago that he
did not think a certain business
firm in this town was very strong
until a short time ago they began
to advertise, and he began to
make inquiries about them and
found they were one of the
strongest firms in town. But
this man was ignorant of the fact
until they began to advertise.
cover each itsue, and $5,000 per
page inside each issue. For small
ads, the rate is$7 per inch—with
14 lines to the inch. The Satur
day Evening Post is paid $4,000
for the back cover, per issue; $3,-
380 for the inside cover and $2,-
800 per page inside per issue, or
for small ads $5 per inch, 14 lines
to the inch. Of course “adver-
tising does not pay”—all of those
<big firms Spend their money just
to “help the paper!”
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
9 -
The Ladieg Home Journal gets
$7,000 for the back cover page
run but in dry weather they rest, each issue; $6,000 for the inside
MORE ABOUT THOSE WEEDS.
It is a very embarrassing thing
indeed to some of our citizens
who have civic pride enough to
cut their weeds and clean up
m-,
around their premises, and see
the filthy and neglected places of
their neighbors go neglected.
Strangers -notice these things
and every citizen of the town
should have enough town pride
to keep their place in a decent
shape.
The old cemetery of the town
needs to have the weeds cut and
the ground cleaned off. It is la
very sad thing indeed to allow
the weeds to cover up the graves
of the loved ones in this place.
There should be some steps ta-
ken at once to see that this place
is cleaned off and pht in good con-
dition. We believe every citizen
of the town would subscribe lib-
erally to a fund to have this cem-
etery cleaned up if they would go
over and view the present condi-
tion of it. ' x
Let every citizen start the clean
up campaign today and let some
one get up a subscription list to
have the cemetery cleaned off.
Let’s do not delay the matter an-
other day. /
THE CROP,OUTLOOK IN
TEXAS.
Each year, about this tim#,
reports come from the cotton
fields that shedding of bolls is
taking place to an alarming de-
gree, and fears are expressed
that the crop will fall below ex
pectations.
We do not endorse the absurd
5,000,000-bale forecast published
in some Northern journals for
Texas, nor do we feel at all sure
the Texas yield for 1911 will
re^ch the 4,000,000-bale mark.
But we do feel reasonably well
assured it will be more than
3,500,000 bales. We believe the
average acre yield will be higher
than last year and the quality of
the staple as a whole above the
average for ten years past.
Cotton growers naturally re-
sent the publication of exagger-
ated forecasts, since the effect of
such forecasts is to depress
prices.
However, with an increased
acreage of fully 7 per cent over
last year, with more widely dis-
seminated and more generally
practiced knowledge of how ef-
fectively to combat the weevil
thdn ever before, and with—all
factors considered—a good aver-
age growing season, taking the
state as a whole, the Texas cot-
ton crop of 1911 should be worth
fully $300,000,000 to the growers.
The early corn crop was a par-
tial failure in considerable por-
tions of the state, owing to
drouth. But the planting of
forage crops for fall delivery and
winter feed for farm stock was
more general than ever before in
this state, and returns from this
source will come near making up
for the loss on corn.
Altogether, Texas has reason
to be well satisfied with her crop
outlook for 1911. It means an
extension of the general prosper-
ity which has been this state’s
portion since the panic of 1907.
It bespeaks also thq constantly
more general adoption of modern
thorough farming methods—the
best possible thing that cai* be-
fall a state whose prosperity
rests so largely upon agricultural
wealthT^Houston Chronicle.
i
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Bussell re-
turned to their home at Lovelady
Monday, after a short visit to
relatives and friends in the city.
They were accompanied home by
Mrs. N. P. Whisenhant and Miss
Jennie Manning, who will spend
a few weeks visiting in that city.
When in need of any kind o.f
feed, ’phone.15.
Greer Mercantile Co.
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1911, newspaper, August 24, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660433/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.