The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1933 Page: 4 of 6
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ROCKDALE REPORTER. Thursday, June 8, 1933
;ompared with the
product*. Porto Rig
miliarly called
the staple basis of ]
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.veil as of “stewed <
was molasses, vinen
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never have had is a 2% cent piece.
MEMORY—spilled
The old coins brought back a good
many boyhood memories one of
them related to the trade dollar,
yrhich was coined by the United
States mint for purposes of trade
with China and the Orient. The
trade dollar was a little larger than
the .standard silver dollar, contain-
ing, I believe, an exact ounce of
silver or 480 grains, instead of the
412 grains of the silver dollar. The
Chinese, then as now, trade with
silver by weight instead of by the
value stamped upon the coin, and
the trade dollar came handy in set-
tling balances calling for a given
number of ounces of silver. It was
not supposed to circulate in the
■ — men would
THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
AND MESSENGER
Editor
By ilbert T. Rnd
Quite an Assignment
JOHN E. COOKE
W. H. COOKE .....
Publisher
Entered as second class matter July 19, 1902, at the postofiice at Rooa-
dale, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Thursday.
DRINK—a Wn.—
After all the fuss andi
beer, I don’t find manTSj
ing it. Of course, th|9
of beer sold; likewise a J
ale, sarsaparilla and otha
oda-pop which easteS
and classes under then]
>f "tonics.” But wh*t«
tan drinker wants
urn, whiskey, "cawn life*
call It in the South, and
England calls "hard cidy1
The real temperance I
begin after the 18th Amea
been repealed and some
'entury Father Matthew.
Gough starts a new “tf
nence” crusade.
I have always believed
is no such thing as whole
tion or reform of individu
ter by law.
KIBSCKIPTION PRICE
Member Texas Press Association
Member South Texas Press Association
Member National Editorial Association
Amy erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation (
of an; *' - 41 1 *“ *
_ person, firm or corporation which may apjwjar in the columns oi
The Reporter will be gladly corrected upon being brought to the atten-
tion of the publishers
States, but seafaring
bring them back to
ports from the Far East.
The incident which fixes the trade
dollar in my mind is that, when I
LOOKING FORWARD
w a-b uouuv ....... • . ,
a trade dollar and sent me to the
store for eleven pounds of sugar.
Pete Hopkins was having a bargain
sale of sugar. Sounds absurd to-
day. doesn't it—sugar at that pi ice?
I bought the .sugar and started
home. I stopped to play with some
other beys and set the paper sack
down on a stone. The stone w-as
wet, and when I picked up the bag
a dollar's worth of sugar spilled all
over the lot.
¥ From Files of The Reporter ♦
Twenty years ago the scholastic
census of the local school district
totaled 553. The Thorndale census
was 237.
Twenty years ago the Rockdale
Oil & Gas Oompany received drill- '
ing machinery and set it up on the
Doss farm for an oil well test.
RUM—and black strap
I went into a store in a New Eng-
land village the other day and asked
the storekeeper if he was selling
much beer. Not much, he said;
Yankee folks don't care about any-
thing with no more kick in it than
that. If 'twas rum, now—
T grinned for I remembered, as
j he knew I did, when the sign over
, i _______ ..1
Married—twenty years ago: Mr,
B. T. Cantrell and Miss Ernestine j
Kone. Mr. Ilarley Stone and Miss ,
• Ella Slrelsky. Mr. J. W. Harrell and
Miss Terry.
Attention, John Hicks, of El Paso: [
Twenty years ago your wife cele- (
Orated your 30th birthday anniver-j
1 sary by giv.ua a dinner to a number
| :>f your men friends. This indicates
j that you only lack 20 years of hav- '
1 ing reached the biblical allotment,
so watch your step.
Twenty years ago T. G. Jones,
I cashier of the Burlington State
TYPEWRITE
ADDING MAi
TO D A Y and
TOMORROW
OVERHAULING AND
FIRST CLASS WORK
by Frank Parker Stockbridge
Twenty years ago the Minerva
;>o‘l of fir- •. I b class, paid a salary of
$100 per y -ar, and applicants for the
job were to take an examination in
Rockdale.
Looking through seme old family
I papers at my farm home the other
day I came across a curious relic of
my cluldhocd. It Ls a U. S. 25-eent
! paper note, issued in 1878.
When I was a small boy this paper
fractional currency, which rejoiced
in the popular name of "shinplas-
i ier," wa
Marconi, j
rung Edl-
uuice to
them will
iy upside
the only equivalent for
I quarters and half dollars in circula-
Twenly years ago Lee Scarbrough ion_ Th5, old biI1 ^ about an inch
esrgned as a .sis I ant postmaster and: ancj a ba,j wido an<j two and a }iaif
jpen-ed i store at ILrks. |,,,,.bc<. jQn_
Twenty years ago A. A. Oifield 1 seems to me that it is only the
ra-igned a ; superintendent of the . or thase who have never
,’ockd.ile Water <te Light Co., to ac-|':U:d:ed h-stor>- vvho object to chang-
ept the management of the electri- olu m'n^y system. In my life
■al plant of the American Lignite ^me :.!le Un.ted S.ates has gone
Briquette Co, at Big Lump. • ' ;rn bimettalism to tne gold stand-
ard and off again, from greenbacks
Twenty years ago the first crates to "hard money” and back again,
: M.tano l .ima'oes came on the' from cheap dollars to high dollars
market, on May 28 and sold for $2 and back again. But a dollar has al-
ter crate. I ways been a dollar, so far as domes-
„ „ I tic trade goes. It is only when we
I ■.enly >ears ago a defective flue ]lave t0 trade with foreigners whose
nurnd quite a blaze at the Wolf m standante are different, that
(otc ■ bul tha f,re b°y-s ’saved the, the shape, material or gold content
an being principally from water. ;or equivalent of the dollar makes
----- | any real difference.
Stafford's Typewriter notions arm
arbon paper are sold under a guar
ntee The Reporter
swindle as worked successfully in
Tacoma, Wash. A couple with a
good bank account purchased ap-
proximately $2.(KM) worth of furni-
ture from a store on an installment
basis. They were to pay $200 per
month on the bill. On verifying
their account at the bank, the store
finds that they are well rated and
carry a good account. When the first
Installment fell due they presented
a $500 check, on which they wanted
to receive change of $300. As this
request, was quite unusual’, the store
called the bark and was told that
their che k was good for the amount.
This procedure was followed four
different times without the store be-
coming aware of the trick. When
the fifth installment became due it
was not paid. The store endeavored
to collect, the account, but was told
they did not, have anything further
coming, as they had been paid in
full. The store sued and lost the
cose in court because the purchas-
er brought in cancelled checks to-
taling $2,000 that had been made
cut'to the store, and there was no
nr 'dpi which the store could show
"I. al they had paid back $1200 of
tins amount This is an actual oc-
currence of a very large department
store in Tacoma, Washington. This
same "swindle” was perpetrated on
a large furniture store in Dallas
some time ago.—Clarksville Times.
COINS—need 212C-pieee
In the same collection I found
I’d forge Ren hew swell it feels
to ride on new tires all around
• No question about it, it
certainly feels great to have
the sure - gripping, long-
wearing, quick-stopping
safety of new Goodyears on
every wheel . . . And for less
than a single tire cost a few
years ago, you can buy a
whole set of Goodyear A1I-
Wcathcra now I ... So take
advantage of present low
prices while you can still get
them . . . You can buy the
world’s best-known tire, the
Goodyear All-Weather — at
prices you may never see
again.
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ODE TO A NAG
Oh, horse, you are a wondrous
thing, no horns to honk, no bells to
ring; no license buying every year
with plates to stick on front and
rear. No sparks to miss, no gears
to slip; you start yourself, no
clutch to slip. No gas bills mount-
ing every day to steal the joy of life
away.
Your inner tubes are all O. K.,
and thank the Lord they stay that
way. Your spark plugs never miss
and fuss, your motor never makes
us cuss. Your frame is good for
many a mile, your body never
changes style. Your wants are few
and easy met, you have something
on the auto yet.—Arkansas High-
ways.
tellii
. hadj
, afoot
i. was
I had
belr
anti
at t
con
TTTHAT’s the use of delay-
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Here are the best things mo-
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RIGHT - OF - AY AY BECUR ED
THROUGH LEE COUNTY
Committees have been busy se-
curing right-of-way on Federal high-
way 77, north-south, through Lee
county. Many deeds have been sign-
ed this week, and from the present
indications, the county Judge can
report at an early date the required
percentage cf rlghc-of-way to have
plans and specifications made from
Glddings to the coilnty line at
Hicks.—'Gldding* News.
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1933, newspaper, June 8, 1933; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth741851/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.