Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1912 Page: 5 of 8
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A SOAKING RAIN, THE
HEAVIEST FOR YEARS
At This Season. Ground Wet to
the Rot’oiq Means Thousands
of Dollars to Jack County.
All day Monday the clouds hung
around the horizon, and as noon ap-
proached they began to gather and
thunder announced that we might
expert one of the thunder storms
that wea;her forecasters had been
predicting, but late in the afternoon
with very little warning the rain
began to fall and continued all
night, with scarcely a cessation, and
Tuesday morning until 9 or 10
o'clock. It i3 generally conceded
that Jack County has not had such
a rain for five or six years at this
season. That it means thousands
of dollars to the crops in this coua?
ty all admit. Farmers and busine®
men alike are jubilant over the
change in crop conditions brought
about by this rain.
Also there is such a splendid sea-
son in the ground farmers can now
plan for their fall plowing and sow-
ing small grain which gives addi-
tional bright prospects for this
country.
It can be said for a fact that the
drouth is now broken with such a
heavy rainfall in August.
Sou Hern Stales Cotton Corporation.
To the Jacksboro Gazette:
The idea of forming an organiza-
tion so broadly planned as *to prac-
tiaaily guarantee the alleviation
of present unsatisfactory conditions
associated with the handling i and
marketing of the cotton crop of the
South, has met with much encour-
agement and the ©o-operation giv-
en by thousands of leading growers
and business men in Georgia, Texas,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
other eotton growing states already
enrolled—who recognized in the
Southern States Cotton Corpora-
tion the “market place” where
they may meet the buyers of their
raw material with present interven-
ing interests eliminated.
For some unexplainable reason a
misunderstanding exists in certain
quarters as to the character and
purpose of this corporation and
some opposition expressed because
ti is a corporation. The latter
term, seemingly, having the same
effect upon some men that a red
flag produces upon a bull. The
corporation is purely a Southern
institution organized solely in the
interest of the owners and grow-
ers of cotton in the South; is pure-
ly co-operative, yet, incorporated
in response to sound business de-
mands, to the end that, an econom-
ic system of handling and market-
ing the South’s premier crop might
be effected.
Corporation is the method of
modern business. This corporation
is a co-operative affair. It is many
owners and growers of cotton in
their money for the good of each
other. It is not only a case of
money, but likewise of co-opera-
tion in handling and marketing and
in the betterment of the social
life, credit, good will and educa-
tion.
In order that cotton may be con-
tracted for and binding agreements
entered into for the sale and de-
livery of the product, loans nego-
ACCOUNT
COTTON CARNIVAL
Will give the following
round-trip rates to •
GALVESTON, TEXAS
VIA THE
JlHEBIflL
tiated and the business conducted
in an intelligent manner the cor-
poration becomes imperative. It
is simply a legalized association in
character and purpose similar to
that of the Fruit Growers in Cali-
fornia whose successful operations
are familiar to all acquainted wich
the history of that state.
All of the stock and participating
certificates will be owned and con-
trolled by the people in the South
ling and marketing of cotton. There
willb e fifty (50) directors, elected
by the stockholders, and apportion-
ed one to each 300,000 bales, or
fraction thereof, of cotton grown in
the year 1911—14 to Texas, 9 to
Georgia, 6 io Alabama, 5 to South
Carolina, 4 to Mississippi, 3 to Ok-
lahoma, Arkansas and North Caroli-
na and 1 each to Tennessee, Mis-
souri and Florida. These consti-
tute the board of management. In
additional to these there will be
placed not less than six shares of
stock in each county to be owned
and controlled by representative
owners or growers, which in Texas
alone, at the lowest estimate,
wou’d indicate the disbursement of
any and all profits the corporation
might earn among 900 stockholders.
The corporation will be owned and
controlled by men vitally interest-
ed in the production and disposi-
tion of the cottong rown in the
South.
The organization is not a close
corporation in the ordinarily ac-
cepted meaning for that term. Co-
operation bf this character seeks to
do for the grower what corpora-
tion has. do%e for business. How-
ever for argument’s sake suppose
that, the corporation is limited to
six stockholders itp every cotton
growing eounty in all of the cotton
growing states ia the South aud
that, the profits from operation be
limited to this number of benefi-
ciaries, what is the measure of
such profits so distributed 4a com-
parison with the larger gaia nepae-
sarily effected in the interest of
thousands of producers? When-
ever any number of stockholder^
in any county receive a profit on
their stock, the profit on the cotton
grown in that county will bf pro-
portionately greater and any time
that a stockholder in the corpora-
tion makes a dollar that dollar will
merely represent a very small per-
centage of the amount earned for
the cotton growers generally
throughout the South. Any return
enjoyed by a stockholder will be but
an expression of a much larger pos-
session on the part of owners and
growers. To illustrate: suppose
that, the organization should so
successfully conduct its affair as to
be able to pay the sixth (minimum
number of) stockholder in each
county '100 per cent on their
shares of stock, per value $100
each. Th:s would simply mean
that $600 had been added to the
wealth of the * county, whereas,
when this does occur, $20 in ex-
cess of the average price per bale,
hitherto realized will have been
netted the grower, thus adding,
wherp the county produces 10,000
or 20,000 bales, the sum of $200,-
000 or $400,000 to the wealth of
that county as a direct result, of
the corporations operation. Cer-
tainly any man or men, an associa-
tion or corporation, who effect such
a result should be entitled to a
reasonable remuneration as much
so as any officer of the Farmers’
Union or any other co-operative as-
sociation.
The marvelous development of
modern business could never have
been accomplished except as a re-
sult of the corporation which have
enabled many to work together, or
; if you please, co-operate, likewise
; a rapid development is assured in
j the handling and marketing of cot-
| ton when the proper use is made
j of the co-operative facilities offer-
! ed by the Southern States Cotton
j Corporation.
Each grower by himself, or bound
1 only by so-called brotherly love,
| will avail but llitte. United in a
| co-operative movement such as it
| is advanced by this corporation,
| these game growers can establish
| and maintain a staple value for
theri cotton and command the mar-
ket. F. H. Day.
S13J0.
On sale August 7th to 17th
inclusive. Limit to leave
Galveston August 19th. *
$13.05,
On sale August 7th and
116th. Limit to return in
10 days in addition to date of sale
but not later than August 19th.
$8.20,
of sale.
On sale August 7th and 17th
Limit two days from date
L. A. Ringgenberg,
Phone 11. Local Agent.
| Number of Children Pm- Teacher.
I
Experience and knowledge of the
j highest authority are to the effect
j that one teacher, in order to ac-
| compllsh the best results, should
not attempt to give instruction to
j more than thirty children properly
j classified in not more than three or
| four grades. In many country
! schools we find one teacher at-
j from forty to seventy-five children
j distributed in the forty or more
(classes of eight or more years or
grades of work, and devoting from
I five minutes to ten minutes to a
j class—a condition which makes
! proper instruction and personal at-
' tention to each child impossible.
Are good schools desired? If so,
j shall an intelligent effort be made
| to improve the present deplorable
| conditions?—State Superintendent
‘F. M. Bralley.
OFFICIAL ELECTION RETURNS
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The following is the official vote cast in the Primary Election throughout Jack
County, Saturday, July 27, 1912.
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For Comptroller
Barker , 1
Lane
For Attorney General
Harris
Looney
Waltha1
For State Treasurer
Adams
Aston
Edwards
McCammon ,
For Land Commissioner'
Geers
Robinson j
For Commissioner of Agricalture
Halbert . .
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Koce ,
Singleton
For Railroad Commissioner No.
Mason,
Mayfield , . ■ j :
Thomas
Wortham ‘ i
For Associate Jus: ice, long term
Craig
Phillips
Pleasants v
Speer Jm \
Townes
For Associate Justice, short term
DibreH
Hawking *
For Associate Justice, Crim. Appls.
Green
Muse
Prendergast
For Judge, Court Civil Ap. 2 Dist.
Irby Dunklin
For Superintendent Pub. Instruction
Bralley
Railroad Commissioner, full Term
Williams
Chief Justice
Brown
For Congressman, (13th District)
Stephens
For Representative, 99th District
Simpson
Wood
For District Judge 43rd District
McMurray
McKinsey
Fitzgerald
For District Clerk
Leeman
For County Judge
Nicho’son
Simpson ^ : •
For County Attorney
Blair
For County Clerk
Jones ! i
Nelms
Risch
McRoberts
For Tax Collector
Owens
Borden
For Tax Assessor
Merriman
For County Treasurer
Ramzy
For Sheriff
Thompson
McNeal
Chambers !
For Surveyor
Spiller
County Superintendent
Bock
Chairman Demo. Ex. Com.
Timmons
County Commissioner, Prect No. 1
DeShane
Files
County Commissioner, Prect. No. 2
White ,
Callaway
Rogers
County Commissioner, Prect. No. 3
Gray
Hester
County Commissioner, Prect, No 4
Hanna
Scott
Bunnell
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Justices of the Peace—
L. H. Bryant
G. E. Eubanks
J. G. Haire
Fred Whitakere
W. J. Wright
B. B. Bryson
M. A. Board
J. S. Teague
J. T. Norman
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M. D. Hutton !
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R. G. Moore
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