The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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J. W. COCHRAN, Pres.
W. T. Carter, Vice PrJs.
J. E. Peters, Cashier. u. M. Brock, Ass’t Cashier.
J. C. FEAGIN, Vice-President
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First National Bank
Capital $50,000.00 Surplus $13,000.00
Livingston, Texas
■Paying by check is not only convenient but the safest method.
The return voucher is as good a receipt as the receipted bill,
and often useful when the bill is misplaced. A checking account
is valuable in many ways. We invitfc your account no matter
how small.
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/ The Livingston Manufacturing Co.
FURNISHES
ELECTRIC CURRENT
FOR
Lighting, Heating and Power
WE ALSO JAKE
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PURE CORN CHOPS
JDST IN
A complete line of ladies, gents, and boys shoes. * Come ^
and see them. Special bargains in mens and boys pants."
Mens.shirts 25c to S2. Hosiery and gents furnishings.
Don’t forget that we handle a full line of paints. Tobac-
cos of all kinds. Fresh fruits all the time. Black hawk
corn mills and ice cream freezers. Special price on these.
General Line of Jewelry
Patent medicines. Special agent for genuine A. K.
Hawkes Lenses.
D. S. CHANDLER
Established 1871
TEXAS TOWNS MUST
WAKE TO INTEREST.
During These Days of Civic Pro-
gress Every Town Must Use
Push and Energy.
These are the days of civic pro-
gress, and the town that refuses
to get fnto the line of march is in
serious danger.
It is not unwarranted prophe-
cy to say( that a town that sees
neighboring towns stepping for-
ward briskly into the current
progress and developing along
HE&WI
AND
HOUSTON & SHREVEPORT R. R.
FOUR TRAINS DAILY
Between
HOUSTON AND SHREVEPORT
Oil Burning Locomotives,
Drawing Room Pullman
Sleepers on Night Trains
Connections at Houston for
West and East
Low Summer Tourist Rates
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Points North, East and West
Effective June 1st to September 30
Try a Trip to’Colorado
For further information call on the
local agent or write
T' J. ANDERSON
Gan. Passenger' Agt.
Houston, Texas;
Singer Sewing Machines
Sold on the installment plan.
Will visit any part of Polk coun-
ane show you this machine.
Singer Sewing Machine Co.
W. M. Carroll,
Salesman and Collector
Leggett, - - - Texas.
Scholarship for Sale.
We have a scholarship in the
Hill's Business College of Waco,
that will entitle you to an. unlimi-
ted course in Bookkeeping, or
Shorthand and Typewriting.
These scholarships sell for $50.
On account of wanting to assist
some young man or young lady
in taking a business course we
will*sell this scholarship for $35.
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Want-AJs
modern, scientific lines will one
day be a back number unless it
develops similar energy.
This is the time to develop it.
A little later it may be too late,
for the town that makes the ear-
liest start will gain ground that
the belated one will find it almost
if not quite impossible to regain.
Plain words are needed to put
the situation squarely before the
people of some of our Texas
towns. ’The movement for im-
provement of towns has started
strongly, and day by day recruits
are added. Those that persist in
holding back their home towns
will find some amazing changes
in their neighbor’s towns before
long, and comparing their own
unimproved towns with these,
there will certainly and unques
tionably be regret.
At the present time two neigh-
boring towns may be equal in im-
portance. Let one get busy and
follow the procession of progress
and the other lag along as it
has done for many years and
there is bound to be a difference
between them. It is unnecessa-
ry to say which will be ahead of
the other eventually.
Putting the situation frankly
before those who have interests
of any sort whatever in a Texas
town there Is no time to be lost
in getting an unimproved town
into shape. This applies to prop-
erty owners in or near a town, to
merchants and professional men,
to those who make their living in
a town or who make their home
in it. ...... ; .
For a great many years a large
portion of the towns of Texas
have been permitted to get along
as best they could. Little or no
thought or money has been spent
upon them .and the time has come
wlien a town J^ust either get up
and bustle with others of tlie
same caliber or be left behind.
It need not hurt anyone’s feel-
ings to ■ learn the truth about a
large number of towns in Texas.
That they are thriving is ad
mitted. That many are pleasant
to live in is also a fact. But that
they need teal modern improve-
ment to keep abreast of other
towns is indisputable. They can
not hope to stand still and let oth-
ers progress without losing
something—and others are pro-
gressing, depend upon that.
Probably carelessness, easy-
goingnes s and lack of fore thou ght
are at the bottom of a situation
that is tending to leave many a
good town so far behind others
that it will some day be classed
as a back number.
For years upon years not one
hand has been raised to better
the conditions; not one dollar has
been spent, unless in some dire
emergency, to keep up the public
features of the town.
Weeds have been allowed to
grow at will. Clogged and un-
kempt gutters have been allowed
to catch water and the sun has
been permitted to dry it up.
Thoughtless businessmen have
erected awnings and signs in an
amazing and glaring medley
whenever they chose.
Sidewalks of a pattern used
during the Civil war have been
allowed to supply the town peo-
ple to this day—visitors ridicule
the town that maintains them.
No building* restrictions have
been observed; nofcooperation
has called for uniformity of build-
ing.
The sanitary laws, have been
ignored fully, and if no epidemic
of illness has resulted the climate
of Texas must be credited, not
those in charge of the town’s
welfare. ,
These may seem hard words.
They picture what thousands of
visitors look upon annually in
hundreds of Texas towns, condi-
tions that have no place in this
day of civic improvement and
that absolutely must be changed
in a town afflicted by them is to
have a chance to keep abreast of
others. 1
The day of the grass-grown
streets and the broken-plaflfeed
of the barren square and the hid-
eous signboard is fast passing
away; and the towns that cling
to these old features will one day
be compelled to follow in the rear
of those which have been given
modern advantages, and if one of
them should ever catch up it will
be because its leaders stood still,
and the improving towns show
no tendency to stand and let late
starters catch up with them.—'
Galveston News.
give special instructions in sub-
jects pertaining to business life
are doing good work in the prep-
aration of efficient workers in the
business life of the country.” J.
A. P. Howe, United States Rep-
resentative, “To my mind the
world is rapidly outgrowing the
old theory that an education con-
sists largely in practical lines of
study, and is taking up the theo-
ries that an education should fit
the student for some line of prac-
tical work in life ” Oswald West,
Governor of Oregon, “The mod-
ern business school plays a large
part in fitting young men and
women for their entrance into the
business world.” T. C. Pickett,
Representative from Iowa, “The
value, even necessity, of a prac-
tical education to young people
today is obvious that no argu-
ment should be required in sup-
port of it. ” E. F. Noel, Governor
of Mississippi, “I take pleasure
in testifying to the importance of
practical business education
and to the efficiency of a properly
conducted business school in im-
parting such knowledge/’ B. N.
Haskell, ex-Governor of Oklaho-
ma, “Speaking as one who had
no opportunity for education, I
would simply state that I consid-
■ practical business education
What Drove Him to Suicide.
A man was found dead in the
Withlacoochee river, who com-
mitted suicide under the convic-
tion that he was his own grand-
father, says an exchange. He
left the following letter:
“I married a widow with a
grown-up daughter. My father
visited our house very often, fell
iri love with my stepdaughter
and married her. So my father
became my son-in-law and my
stepdaughter my mother,because
she was my father’s wife. Some
time
afterward my wifte had
son. He was my father’s broth-
er in-law, and my uncle, for he
was the brother of my step-
mother.
“My father’s wife, i. e., my
steijdaughter,had a son. He was,
of course, my brother and in the
meantime my grandchild, for he
was the son of my daughter. My
wife was my grandmother, be-
cause she was my mother's moth-
er. I was my wife’s husband
and gi-andchild at the same time,
and as the husband of a person’s
grandmother is his grandfather,
I am my own grandfather.”
of the greatest importance.
John W. Kern, United States
Senator, “Everybody ought by
this time to understand that bus-
iness men and businesswomen
need business education on the
same principle that a doctor must
have a medical education.” Jo-
seph M. Carey, Governor of Wy-
oming, “Too muckk|innot be said
in behalf of a good commercial
education. I do not believe that
such an education can be too
highly commended.’’
Shouldn’t the above evidence
settle the question with jmu as to
what kind of an education is
needed? Write for catalogue of
America’s largest commercial
school, the one giving the most
extensive course of study, the
placing every graduate of
one
AMBITIOUS SONS
AND DAUGHTERS
Let Those Who Know Advise You.
Men at the Head of Affairs of
Our State and Nation.
Following are extracts from re-
cent letters from some of Amer-
ica’s greatest men on the value of
business education. Hon. Champ
Clark, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Washington, D.
C., says: “Since I have been
elected Speaker I have had it
more thoroughly impressed on
me than ever before that a thor-
ough business college training is
of exceeding importance. ” O. M.
Dickinson, Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C'. : “Contempo-
raneously with taking my gener-
al education, I took a course in a
business college and found it of
value to me, not only generally
but in the practice of la-fr.” R.
B. Glenn, ex-Governor of North
Carolina: “I cheerfully recom-
mend to everyone a practical bus-
iness education for their chil-
dren.” Walter L. Fisher, Secre-
tary Qepartment of Interior,
Washington, D. C.: “Colleges
bookkeeping and shorthand or
telegraphy in a good position
promptly after their course is
finished, the one that enrolls 1500
students annually from over half
the states in the Union, the school
with a National reputation, the
Tyler Commercial College, Tyler,
Texas. By the use of the famous
Byrne Simplified Shorthand and
Practical Bookkeeping and our
modern methods' we greatly re-
duce ihe time and cost of a
course. Be one of 600 who will
be with us in September.
Texas Industrial Notes.
Texas Com. Sec. Association.
Sweetwater will soon lay elev-
en blocks of asphalt paving in the
heart of the business section.
The total number of cases of
mineral water shipped out from
Mineral Wells for one month to
various places were 12,330 or
153,996 bottles.
Thompson Bros. Lumber Com-
pany of Houston has filed an
amendment with the secretary of
state increasing their capital
stock from $800,000 to $1,300,000.
The citizens of Fairview held
an election for the purpose of vot-
ing bonds to build a new school
house which carried.
Sherman is erecting another
cotton gin which will be ready
for the fall crop.
The Amarillo Mill & Elevator
Company has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $50,000.
The Macashon Grain Company
of Houston has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $10,000.
The Corsicana Cotton Mills has
organized witn a capital stock of
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West, W. L. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1911, newspaper, August 3, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth660478/m1/3/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.