The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1913 Page: 4 of 12
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The Annual Fall Business Announcement
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and Trade Invitation from Rockdale Busi-
ness Men to the People of Milam County:
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At this season of the year it is customary for the live
towns and the live merchants to extend to their trade territory
residents greetings and an invitation to renew and increase
business relations.
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The business men of Rockdale whose names are hereto attached take this op-
portunity of extending through the Reporter the usual cordial invitation to visit
them, and wish to impress it upon the minds of the farmers that Rockdale is
his fall offering exceptional advantages as a trading point.
In the first place the printed record as shown through the county papers each
week proves that Rockdale is paying and has paid all the season the best prices
for cotton of any town in Milam county. This is a fact easily proven by refer-
ence to the county press.
In the next place it is a fact that Rockdale has exceptional gin, cotton yard and
oil mill facilities and advantages. Three big up-to-date gins insures a quick
disposal of all seed cotton, no rush ever being too heavy for quick handling.
The farmer will experience the least delay and the best ginning service, while
our oil mill is a big one, buys all the seed in sight and pays the limit.
In the third place Rockdale merchants are showing the largest and most complete stocks
in Milam county, and are quoting prices that have attracted the widest sort of attention.
You can buy your supplies cheaper in Rockdale than elsewhere. A perusal of the
regular run of advertisements in The Reporter each week will suffice to prove this. Rock-
dale's old slogan, “More money for your produce, more goods for your
money,” was never so true as this fall. Our merchants have stocked heavily, and
realizing the shortness of the cotton crop are making prices that will bring trade. In this
connection we also call attention to our two big wholesale grocery houses. These firms are
always heavily stocked, and local retail merchants have the added benefit of their immedi-
ate proximity.
Rockdale also offers exceptional banking facilities. Three banks are here, all well equipped,
ably managed and heavily capitalized, ready and willing to lend their financial aid to the
furtherance of any legitimate business proposition. These banks make the handling of the
cotton crop a matter of ease, and they join heartily in the general trade invitation hereby
extended.
Another thing: Rockdale business men have gone down in their pockets this summer and
dug up more than $1500 which has been expended on the improvement of roads leading to
town so that our farmers might have better roads to travel over with their heavy loads.
Rockdale, if she were able, would make a pike out of every road in the district for the
benefit of the farmer, for we realize that he is our stay and we are, after all, dependent
upon him for support. Right here we would also call attention to the fact that Rockdale
has always supplied an abundance of pure water for man and beast. All through the
recent long drouth four big public watering troughs have constantly overflowed, day and
night for the benefit of the farmers' teams. Rockdale appreciates her farmers. Rockdale
stands by her trade.
Come to Rockdale. Sell your cotton here. Buy your supplies here. We want your business
and are bidding for it with the best goods, lowest prices and highest grades, together with
the best accommodations to be had in Milam county.
MAKE MONEY BY SELLING IN ROCKDALE:
SAVE MONEY BY BUYING IN ROCKDALE.
SIGNATURES
Modern Dry Goods Co.
Merchants
Farmers Union Warehouse Co.,
Gen'I Merchandise, Ginning, Yarding.
Scarbrough & Hicks Co., Merchants.
Rockdale Mercantile Co.,
* General Merchandise.
The Sanitary Grocery,
H. & L. Hudson, Props.
Citizens State Bank,
A. E. Perry, Cashier.
Henne & Meyer Co.,
Hardware, Furniture, Implements, Etc.
First National Bank,
J. E. Longmoor, Cashier.
Coffield Hardware Co.,
Hardware, Vehicles, Furniture, Etc.
Rockdale State Bank,
W. L. Baird, Cashier.
Perry & Quebe, Druggists.
W. E. Gaither Co.,
Lands, Loans, Insurance.
Leonard Isaacs.
Hodge & Baldridge, Druggists.
Lewis & Perry,
The Home of Quality Groceries.
W. E. Schubert,
Harness, Saddles, Leather Goods.
T. B. Kemp & Son,
High Class Groceries.
Hill & Company,
Jewelry, Books, Stationery.
H. Lockwood,
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me rioneer Lumber Man ot Milam County*
Rockdale Oil Co.,
Cottonseed Products.
Bay Lumber Co.,
G. M. Edmundson, Manager.
Aubrey Rodgers,
The Old Reliable Tinner.
W. D. Bagley & Co.
Lumber, Shingles, Lime, Etc.
The Business Men of Rockdale
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1913, newspaper, September 25, 1913; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth742887/m1/4/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.